US11444053B2
The present disclosure is directed to a compact vertical oven for reflow of solder bumps for backend processes in semiconductor wafer assembly and packaging. This disclosure describes a vertical oven which uses a plurality of wafers (e.g., an example value is 50-100 wafers) in a batch with controlled injection of the reducing agent (e.g. formic acid), resulting in a process largely free of contamination. This disclosure describes controlled formic acid flow through a vertical system using laminar flow technology in a sub-atmospheric pressure environment, which is not currently available in the industry. The efficacy of the process depends on effective formic acid vapor delivery, integrated temperature control during heating and cooling, and careful design of the vapor flow path with exhaust. Zone-dependent reaction dynamics managed by vapor delivery process, two-steps temperature ramp control, and controlled cooling process and formic acid content ensures the effective reaction without any flux.
US11444048B2
In one instance, a semiconductor package includes a lead frame and a semiconductor die mounted to the lead frame via a plurality of bumps that are shaped or tapered. Each of the plurality of bumps includes a first end connected to the semiconductor die and an opposing, second end connected to the lead frame. The first end has an end surface area A1. The second end has an end surface area A2. The end surface area A1 of the first end is less than the end surface area A2 of the second end. Other aspects are disclosed.
US11444047B2
A semiconductor device disclosed herein may include: a semiconductor element including an electrode on a surface of the semiconductor element; and a terminal bonded to the electrode via a bonding material, wherein the electrode may include a protrusion portion that protrudes toward the terminal and is in contact with the bonding material.
US11444037B2
Semiconductor devices having metallization structures including crack-inhibiting structures, and associated systems and methods, are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a metallization structure formed over a semiconductor substrate. The metallization structure can include a bond pad electrically coupled to the semiconductor substrate via one or more layers of conductive material, and an insulating material—such as a low-κ dielectric material—at least partially around the conductive material. The metallization structure can further include a crack-inhibiting structure positioned beneath the bond pad between the bond pad and the semiconductor substrate. The crack-inhibiting structure can include a barrier member extending vertically from the bond pad toward the semiconductor substrate and configured to inhibit crack propagation through the insulating material.
US11444017B2
In an embodiment, a semiconductor package includes a semiconductor device embedded in an insulating layer, a contact pad having an area, and a vertical redistribution structure including substantially parallel vertical paths arranged in the insulating layer and extending perpendicular to the area of the contact pad. The substantially vertical paths are non-uniformly distributed over the area of the contact pad.
US11444012B2
In a described example, an apparatus includes a package substrate with a split die pad having a slot between a die mount portion and a wire bonding portion; a first end of the wire bonding portion coupled to the die mount portion at one end of the slot; a second end of the wire bonding portion coupled to a first lead on the package substrate. At least one semiconductor die is mounted on the die mount portion; a first end of a first wire bond is bonded to a first bond pad on the at least one semiconductor die; a second end of the first wire bond is bonded to the wire bonding portion; and mold compound covers the at least one semiconductor die, the die mount portion, the wire bonding portion, and fills the slot.
US11444009B2
A semiconductor device includes: a first transistor provided with an electron transit layer made of a nitride semiconductor, a first gate electrode, a first source electrode, and a first drain electrode; and a second transistor that includes a second gate electrode, a second source electrode, and a second drain electrode. The first gate electrode and the second drain electrode are electrically connected to each other, while the first source electrode and the second source electrode are not electrically connected to each other.
US11444001B1
A thermoelectric semiconductor device includes a heat dissipating semiconductor module and a stack of flash memory dies mounted on a substrate. The heat dissipating module comprises a first semiconductor die such as a controller, and a second semiconductor die such as a thermoelectric semiconductor die to cool the first semiconductor die during operation. The thermoelectric semiconductor die may be mounted to the controller die at the wafer level.
US11444000B2
A charger includes a thermal conductive plate for heat dissipation, and a transistor. The transistor includes a drain terminal of a first pulsating voltage level, and a source terminal of a second pulsating voltage level. The second pulsating voltage level is lower than the first pulsating voltage level. The source terminal is disposed closer to the thermal conductive plate than the drain terminal.
US11443999B2
The present disclosure relates to a thermally enhanced package, which includes a carrier, a thinned die over the carrier, a mold compound, and a heat extractor. The thinned die includes a device layer over the carrier and a dielectric layer over the device layer. The mold compound resides over the carrier, surrounds the thinned die, and extends beyond a top surface of the thinned die to define an opening within the mold compound and over the thinned die. The top surface of the thinned die is at a bottom of the opening. At least a portion of the heat extractor is inserted into the opening and in thermal contact with the thinned die. Herein the heat extractor is formed of a metal or an alloy.
US11443997B2
A semiconductor package and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. The semiconductor package includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and a barrier structure. The first substrate has a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The second substrate has a first surface facing the second surface of the first substrate. The first substrate electrically bonds to the second substrate through a conductive terminal disposed between the second surface of the first substrate and the first surface of the second substrate. The barrier structure is disposed adjacent to the first surface of the first substrate.
US11443987B2
A method includes providing a structure having transistors, an isolation structure over the transistors, metal plugs through the isolation structure and connecting to the transistors, and a trench with the isolation structure and the metal plugs as sidewalls. The method further includes forming a dielectric liner on the sidewalls of the trench and over the isolation structure and the metal plugs. The dielectric liner is thicker at an opening portion of the trench than at another portion of the trench so that an air gap is formed inside the trench and the air gap is surrounded by the dielectric liner. The method further includes depositing a sacrificial layer over the dielectric liner and over the air gap and performing CMP to remove the sacrificial layer and to recess the dielectric liner until the isolation structure and the metal plugs are exposed. The air gap remains inside the trench.
US11443971B2
A 3D semiconductor device, the device including: a first level including a plurality of first single crystal transistors and a first metal layer, where the first transistors include forming memory control circuits; a second level including a plurality of second transistors; a third level including a plurality of third transistors, where the second level is above the first level, and where the third level is above the second level; a second metal layer above the third level; and a third metal layer above the second metal layer, where the second transistors are aligned to the first transistors with less than 140 nm alignment error, where the second level includes a plurality of first memory cells, where the third level includes a plurality of second memory cells, and where the memory control circuits are designed to adjust a memory write voltage according to the device specific process parameters.
US11443969B2
The present invention refers to a substrate holder loading device to be used in a clean room and a clean room treatment device containing such substrate holder loading device. Furthermore, the present invention refers to a method of loading a substrate holder with a first substrate, more preferably with a first and a second substrate.
US11443966B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods are provided for predicting or determining irregular processing parameters during processing of a semiconductor wafer in a semiconductor processing apparatus, such as an etching apparatus. A semiconductor processing apparatus includes a load port that is configured to receive a semiconductor wafer. A process chamber is coupled to the load port, and a fan is configured to selectively vary a flow of fluid in the process chamber. One or more sensors are provided in the process chamber and are configured to sense one or more processing parameters in the process chamber. A controller is coupled to the one or more sensors and to the fan, and the controller is configured to control the fan to vary the flow of fluid in the process chamber based on the sensed one or more processing parameters.
US11443956B2
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes steps of forming a protective film on a semiconductor substrate, forming a resist film on the protective film such that the resist film includes a region where the resist film becomes thicker from a drain electrode to a source electrode, forming a first opening in the resist film by irradiating the resist film in the region with an electron beam and developing the resist film, forming a second opening that exposes an upper surface of the semiconductor substrate by removing the protective film using the resist film in which the first opening is formed as a mask, forming a third opening in the resist film by further developing the resist film after forming the second opening, the third opening being formed by expanding the first opening toward the drain electrode, and forming a gate electrode in the second and the third openings.
US11443944B2
A method of growing semiconductor layers may include: growing a first semiconductor layer on a surface of a substrate at which a crystal layer is exposed, wherein the first semiconductor layer is different from the crystal layer in at least one of a material and a crystal structure; cutting the first semiconductor layer such that a cut surface of the first semiconductor layer extends from a front surface of the first semiconductor layer to a rear surface of the first semiconductor layer; and growing a second semiconductor layer on the cut surface of the first semiconductor layer, wherein the second semiconductor layer has a material and a crystal structure that are same as those of the first semiconductor layer.
US11443942B2
Described herein is a method for growing indium nitride (InN) materials by growing hexagonal and/or cubic InN using a pulsed growth method at a temperature lower than 300° C. Also described is a material comprising InN in a face-centered cubic lattice crystalline structure having an NaCl type phase.
US11443939B2
A spin-on glass (SOG) depositing system includes a suck back (SB) valve arranged to receive SOG. The SOG depositing system further includes a SOG dispenser having a nozzle, the SOG dispenser coupled with the SB valve for receiving SOG. The SOG depositing system further includes a detector positioned to detect SOG outside the nozzle. The SOG depositing system further includes an SB valve controller coupled with the detector for receiving one or more signals from the detector and coupled with the SB valve for controlling operation of the SB valve, wherein the SB valve controller is configured to pause sensing by the detector based on the sensed amount of SOG outside the nozzle being outside at least one operating parameter.
US11443936B2
A method of cleaning a surface of a substrate uses alcohol and water treatments. The method may include applying an alcohol treatment on a surface of the substrate with the alcohol treatment configured to provide surface reduction and applying a water treatment to the surface of the substrate with the water treatment configured to enhance selectivity of at least a portion of the surface for a subsequent barrier layer process by removing alcohol from the at least a portion of the surface. The water treatment may be performed simultaneously with the alcohol treatment or performed after the alcohol treatment. The water treatment may include vaporized water or water injected into a plasma to produce hydrogen or oxygen radicals.
US11443928B2
An etching apparatus and an etching method thereof are provided. An end point detector detects a light intensity at a specific wavelength for light generated when an etching process is performed on a material to be processed, and generates an end point detection signal. The material to be processed includes a material layer and at least one mask layer formed on the material layer. A control device determines an etching completion time of the mask layer according to the end point detection signal, calculates a thickness of the mask layer according to the etching completion time, and adjusts an etching time of the material layer according to the thickness of the mask layer.
US11443925B2
A substrate support for use in a plasma processing chamber includes a substrate support body, a lifter pin and a lift mechanism. The substrate support body has a pin through-hole and the pin through-hole has a female-threaded inner wall. The lifter pin has a base segment, an intermediate segment, and a leading segment. The lifter pin is inserted into the pin through-hole, the intermediate segment is male-threaded, and the male-threaded intermediate segment is screwable to the female-threaded inner wall. The lift mechanism is configured to vertically move the lifter pin relative to the substrate support body.
US11443921B2
The present disclosure provides an apparatus including a chamber body and a lid defining a volume therein. The apparatus includes a substrate support disposed in the volume opposite the lid. The substrate support includes a support body disposed on a stem, and a ground plate disposed between the support body and the stem. A top flange is coupled to a lower peripheral surface the ground plate and a bottom flange is coupled to a bottom of the chamber body. The bottom flange and the top flange is coupled to one another with a plurality of straps, each of the straps having a first end coupled to the bottom flange and a second end coupled to the top flange.
US11443920B2
A plasma processing apparatus includes a plasma generation unit for converting a processing gas into plasma by an inductive coupling. The plasma generation unit includes a first high frequency antenna formed of a vortex coil having open opposite ends and, at a central portion of a line between the open ends, a supply point of a high frequency power and a grounding point grounded through a capacitor; a second high frequency antenna formed of a planar vortex coil disposed between first and second high frequency antenna elements of the first high frequency antenna; and an impedance adjustment unit for adjusting a resonant frequency of a circuit viewed from a high frequency power supply toward the first high frequency antenna which is configured to have two resonant frequencies depending on adjustment of the impedance adjustment unit when the frequency of the high frequency power is changed.
US11443913B2
An X-ray radiator and an X-ray assembly are disclosed. The X-ray radiator according to an embodiment has an evacuated X-ray tube housing, mounted to be rotatable about a rotation axis, the X-ray tube housing including an anode and an electron source. The anode is arranged within the X-ray tube housing non-rotatably relative to the X-ray tube housing and is configured to generate X-ray radiation via electrons impacting upon a focal spot of the anode, the electron source being mounted substantially stationary within the X-ray tube housing relative to the rotation axis. The electron source has a main emitter and at least one subsidiary emitter for emitting electrons. The electron emission of the main emitter and/or of the at least one subsidiary emitter is controllable such that a spatial movement of the focal spot due to a movement of the electron source is reduced.
US11443909B2
Liquid arc extinguish chamber for direct current breaking, direct current breaker and method thereof
The present disclosure discloses a liquid arc extinguish chamber for direct current breaking. The liquid arc extinguish chamber for direct current breaking includes a cavity, a fixed contact and a moving contact. A liquid medium is sealed in the cavity. The fixed contact is hermetically fixed in the cavity. One end of the fixed contact is fixed in the cavity, and the other end of the fixed contact is connected with an outlet terminal A1. The moving contact is movably sealed in the cavity. One end of the moving contact may adjacently abut against or be in contact with the fixed contact, and the other end of the moving contact is connected with an outlet terminal A2.
US11443902B2
A capacitor has an anode with one or more active layers that each includes fused particles positioned on a current collector. The current collector includes tunnels that extend from a first face of the current collector to a second face of the current collector.
US11443895B2
A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a laminate including a dielectric ceramic layer and first and second electrode layers laminated in a lamination direction, and first and second external electrodes respectively connected to the first and second internal electrode layers. The laminate includes a central layer portion, a peripheral layer portion sandwiching the central layer portion, and a side margin sandwiching the central layer portion and the peripheral layer portion. The first and second internal electrode layers and the first and second external electrodes include Ni. In a cross section including the lamination direction and a width direction, a Ni content of the peripheral layer portion is larger at a surface portion than at a central portion in a thickness direction, and a Ni content of the side margin is larger at a surface portion than at a central portion in a thickness direction of the side margin.
US11443883B2
A reactor device includes a coil, a magnetic core having the coil thereon, a case accommodating the coil and the magnetic core, a cooling plate fixed to the case, an insulating sheet disposed between the coil and the cooling plate, a compressible graphite sheet disposed between the coil and the cooling plate, and a screw to fix the cooling plate to the case. The case has a screw hole and an opening provided therein. The screw passes through the screw hole to fix the cooling plate to the case. The coil contacts the insulating sheet through the opening of the case. The graphite sheet contacts the cooling plate. The reactor has high cooling performance and reliability.
US11443875B2
A wire harness manufacturing system includes a display unit, a wire cutting machine that draws an electric wire from a wire feed reel and cuts the electric wire to a predetermined length, a control unit that directs the display unit to display a wire laying image and wire work identification information for identifying a work regarding each electric wire, the wire laying image including a plurality of wire images showing the plurality of electric wire in the laid state and the wire work identification information being displayed in the vicinity of the corresponding wire image, and a memory unit that stores the wire laying image and work instruction information so as to correspond to the wire work identification information, the work instruction information including cut length of the electric wire. The control unit sends the cut length information to the wire cutting machine.
US11443873B2
Disclosed is an electrically-conductive film, comprising a support layer, an electrically-conductive area, a lead, and a bridging part. The support layer comprises a first side and a second side in an opposite arrangement. The support layer is recessively provided with a first groove and a second groove not in communication with each other. The first groove is filled with an electrically-conductive material to form an electrically-conductive area. The second groove is filled with an electrically-conductive material to form a lead. The bridging part is provided on the first side; the bridging part is electrically connected to the electrically-conductive area and to the lead. With the bridging part connected to the electrically-conductive area and to the lead, the connection is of increased reliability, and the electrical conductivity is increased. In addition, also disclosed is a preparation method for the electrically-conductive film.
US11443872B2
An automotive communications cable includes a cable jacket, a pair of twisted conductors disposed within the cable jacket, and two or more insulating strands disposed within the cable jacket. The two or more insulating strands include a central insulating strand disposed between a first conductor in the pair of twisted conductors and a second conductor in the pair of twisted conductors.
US11443868B2
The invention provides a system for containing irradiated particles, the system having a housing having a closed upstream end and an open downstream end; an axially disposed tunnel extending from the downstream end to the upstream end, wherein longitudinally extending regions of the tunnel define a plurality of threaded surfaces; a sample cup positioned within the tunnel and proximal to the closed upstream end; threaded plugs matingly received by the threaded surfaces so as to provide at least one seal between the sample cup and the atmosphere external of the housing; and a plurality of deformable substrates disposed between the plugs.
US11443866B2
The present disclosure relates in general to nuclear medicine and generators for the production of radiopharmaceuticals for medical use. In particular, present disclosure relates to a generator column that resists high heat such as depyrogenation and sterilization. This allows some steps of the preparation of the column to be performed in a non-sterile environment. This also allows the generator column to be reusable. The present disclosure further describes methods for the preparation of a generator where a parent radioisotope is charged on the column matrix before or after the matrix is loaded in the column.
US11443858B2
Provided herein is a neutron moderation module and a thermal-neutron nuclear micro-reactor.
US11443857B2
A zirconium alloy cladding tube for use in a water cooled nuclear reactor under normal operating conditions and under high temperature oxidation conditions is described. The cladding tube has a coating uniformly deposited thereon. The coating, which may be up to 300 microns thick, is selected from the group consisting of chromium, a chromium-based alloy, and combinations thereof.
US11443849B2
Concerted processing of a multiplicity of local apparatus status messages from dialysis apparatuses can be performed to enhance the quality of patient care delivered using the dialysis apparatuses. Typically, the dialysis apparatuses are operated in a group. A control agent, as described herein, performs a central calculation of prioritised warning messages for the group of dialysis apparatuses. The prioritisation is calculated in a concerted calculation according to a preconfigured system of rules.
US11443847B2
A system and method determines efficiency data of a technician performing a Medical Data Acquisition Procedure (MDAP), using a Medical Data Acquisition System (MDAS). The method includes receiving timing data including Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) metadata obtained during the MDAP by the MDAS. The DICOM metadata includes time duration information relating to each of a plurality of stages of the MDAP. The method includes determining the efficiency data of the technician as a function of the timing data and predetermined efficiency data defined for the MDAP using the MDAS.
US11443846B2
A method can include receiving, at a server, preoperative image data of a patient's bone, and accessing, at the server, a database of three-dimensional model data. A patient specific three-dimensional model of the patient's bone can be generated, at the server. A preoperative surgical plan can be generated at the server, which can include comparing aspects of the preoperative surgical plan with predetermined reliability criteria. An interactive user interface for use by a surgeon to review the preoperative surgical plan can be provided, from the server, to a user device. Approval of the preoperative surgical plan can be received, at the server, via the interactive user interface. Postoperative image data of the patient's bone can be received at the server. A postoperative outcome study report can be generated, at the server, and can include a comparison of the preoperative surgical plan with the postoperative image data.
US11443840B1
A medication container for validating self-administration of prescription medication by a patient wherein the prescription medication is administered over a series of timed dosages. A machine-readable optical code label such as a QR Code is affixed to an interior surface of a medication container containing the medication such as the interior of the bottle cap. The container must be open to electronically read the optical code label. The label contains data associated with the medication and is read by a software application installed on a smartphone. The software receives the label-embedded data and a timestamp to validate the patient is self-administering the medication consistent with the series of timed dosages.
US11443838B1
Systems and methods for storing and accessing healthcare data in blockchain managed digital filing cabinets are disclosed. The system can receive and store patient healthcare data from sources such as wearable devices, an implant, patient devices, healthcare provider devices, databases, cloud storage accounts, healthcare databases, or digital filing cabinets. The system can convert the healthcare into non-fungible tokens on a blockchain to protect the healthcare data from being accessed by nefarious actors. The system can manage access to the healthcare data based on authentication rules.
US11443836B2
A system and method for recording patient notes by a physician. In one embodiment, the system includes a server comprising: a database; an input module, a display module; and an adaptive notes generation module in the server in communication with the database, the input module and the display module, the adaptive notes generation module receiving input data from the input module and the database and in response to the input data from the input module and the database, automatically generating a plurality of notes and note options. In one embodiment, the method includes the steps of: providing an input screen; inputting data; accessing a database to obtain patient data in response to data input to the input screen; and generating domain specific notes and note options in response to patient data and input to the input screen.
US11443834B2
The invention relates to an automatic conformation analysis method for quasi-drug organic molecules. The method includes: extracting a group of fragments from an input molecule, wherein there are primarily three types of fragments: a flexible bond fragment, a ring isomerism fragment and a conformation isomerism fragment; carrying out knowledge-based conformation recommendation; carrying out conformation recommendation based on force field scanning; verifying, by QM, the generated conformations, wherein if the verification succeeds, it indicates that the recommended conformations are valid; or otherwise, the force field is corrected; collecting conformation lists of the fragments; and combining and optimizing conformation parameters of the fragments through a genetic algorithm, and finding out a set of optimal conformations. The invention integrates the advantages of a knowledge-based method and the advantages of a computation method, so that accurate conformation recommendations can be acquired.
US11443832B2
The present disclosure provides methods, systems, and computer program products that use deep learning models to classify candidate mutations detected in sequencing data, particularly suboptimal sequencing data. The methods, systems, and programs provide for increased efficiency, accuracy, and speed in identifying mutations from a wide range of sequencing data.
US11443827B2
A memory device includes a syndrome generating circuit and a plurality of latch circuits. The syndrome generating circuit includes a plurality of input terminals and plurality of logic circuits. The latch circuits are coupled to the syndrome generating circuit and are configured to set the input terminals of the syndrome generating circuit to a predetermined logic state according to a pre-charge reset signal. The latch circuits are configured to provide a plurality of data bits to the input terminals of the syndrome generating circuit after the input terminals of the syndrome generating circuit are set to the predetermined logic state. The syndrome generating circuit is configured to generate a syndrome bit based on the data bits by the logic circuits, wherein the syndrome bit indicates a presence of an error bit among the data bits.
US11443826B2
Systems and methods presented herein provide for testing degradation in a storage device. In one embodiment, a storage controller is operable to test individual portions of a first of the plurality of storage areas of the storage device by: analyzing individual portions of the first storage area; determining that one or more of the individual portions of the first storage area have failed; and retire the failed one or more portions of the first storage area. The storage controller is further operable to write to the first storage area using an error correction code (ECC), and to test the remaining portions of the first storage area to determine whether the first storage area should be retired in response to writing to the first storage area.
US11443821B2
The present disclosure relates to an apparatus comprising a non-volatile memory architecture configured to be coupled to a System-on-Chip (SoC) device. The non-volatile memory device coupled to the SoC having a structurally independent structure linked to the SoC includes a plurality of sub arrays forming a matrix of memory cells with associated decoding and sensing circuitry, sense amplifiers coupled to a corresponding sub array, a data buffer comprising a plurality of JTAG cells coupled to outputs of the sense amplifiers; and a scan-chain connecting together the JTAG cells of the data buffer.
US11443812B2
A method is described that includes performing a first erase operation on a set of memory cells of a memory device using an erase voltage, which is set to a first voltage value and adjusting the erase voltage to a second voltage value based on feedback from performance of at least the first erase operation. The method further includes performing a second erase operation on the set of memory cells using the erase voltage, which is set to the second voltage value. In this configuration, the erase voltage set to the second voltage value is an initial voltage applied to the set of memory cells to perform erase operations such that each subsequent erase operation on the set of memory cells following the first erase operation uses an erase voltage that is equal to or greater than the second voltage value when erasing the first set of memory cells.
US11443808B2
A semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell array, a peripheral circuit, a current sensing circuit, and control logic. The memory cell array includes a plurality of memory cells. The peripheral circuit performs a program operation on selected memory cells connected to a selected word line among the plurality of memory cells. The current sensing circuit generates a pass signal or a fail signal by performing a current sensing operation on the selected memory cells. The control logic receives the pass signal or the fail signal and controls an operation of the peripheral circuit and the current sensing circuit. The control logic controls the current sensing circuit and the peripheral circuit to perform the current sensing operation and an operation of applying a program pulse to the selected word line based on a program progress state of the selected memory cells.
US11443803B2
A method includes: applying a first signal to memory cells in a memory device, to adjust resistance values of the memory cells; after applying the first signal, applying a second signal to the memory cells other than a first memory cell in the memory cells, to further adjust the resistance values of the memory cells other than the first memory cell. A memory device is also disclosed herein.
US11443802B2
An adaptive memory management and control circuitry (AMMC) to provide extended test, performance, and power optimizing capabilities for a resistive memory is disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a resistive memory comprises a resistive memory array and an Adaptive Memory Management and Control circuitry (AMMC) that is coupled to the resistive memory array. The AMMC is configured with extended test, reliability, performance and power optimizing capabilities for the resistive memory.
US11443796B2
A novel memory device is provided. The memory device includes a plurality of memory cells, and one memory cell includes a first transistor and a second transistor. One of a source and a drain of the first transistor is electrically connected to a gate of the second transistor through a node SN. Data written through the first transistor is retained at the node SN. When an OS transistor is used as the first transistor, formation of a storage capacitor is not needed. A region with a low dielectric constant is provided outside the memory cell, whereby noise from the outside is reduced and stable operation is achieved.
US11443795B2
A SRAM system having an address scheme and/or wire control layout. By preferentially accessing a defined address range mapped to SRAM array blocks located near a controller, significant power savings can be realized. In one embodiment, the address scheme determines a range physically closer to a central control location. In another embodiment, the wire control layout reduces number and length of active wires, further reducing power consumption.
US11443787B2
A semiconductor memory device according to an embodiment includes: a row decoder and a memory cell array including a first block. The first block includes: a first region, a second region adjacent to the first region in the first direction, and a third region configured to connect the first region and the second region. The memory cell array further includes: a first insulating layer buried in a first trench between the first region and the second region and in contact with the third region; a first contact plug provided in the first insulating layer and electrically connected to the row decoder; and a first interconnect configured to connect a selection gate line and the first contact plug.
US11443786B2
A memory circuit includes: memory cells each including a storage transistor corresponding to a predetermined configuration; and a tracking circuit configured to elapse a variable waiting period during which a voltage on a first node decreases from a first level to a second level, the tracking circuit including a first finger circuit coupled between a first node of a tracking bit line and a reference voltage node, the first finger circuit including a first set of first tracking cells, each first tracking cell including a first shadow transistor corresponding to the predetermined configuration, gate terminals of the first shadow transistors being coupled with a tracking word line; and a second finger circuit coupled between the first node and the reference voltage node; and a first switch configured to adjust the variable waiting period by selectively coupling the second finger circuit in parallel with the first finger circuit.
US11443778B1
A system includes a charge pump to charge wordlines of a memory array, a pump regulator coupled including a level detector, and dynamic clock logic coupled between the level detector and an oscillator. The logic provides clock signals to the charge pump and is to perform operations including: detecting that the charge pump has entered a recovery period; causing the oscillator to output, to the charge pump during a first time period of the recovery period, a first clock signal comprising a lower frequency than output during a time period preceding the recovery period; detecting that a voltage level from the level detector satisfies a trip point criterion; and causing the oscillator to output, to the charge pump during a second time period of the recovery period and responsive to the detecting, a second clock signal comprising a higher frequency than output during the time period preceding the recovery period.
US11443774B2
A structure for facilitating hard disk maintenance comprises a housing, a hard disk bracket, a hard disk backplane, a hard disk, and a hard disk mounting assembly. The hard disk bracket is provided at a front end and a rear end of the housing. The hard disk backplane connects to a bottom of the housing and the hard disk mounting assembly. The hard disk mounting assembly connects to the hard disk bracket. The hard disk backplane is further provided with a hard disk interface, and the hard disk is also connected to the hard disk interface.
US11443773B2
An approach for defining, capturing, assembling, and displaying customized video content is provided. In an embodiment, a method comprises: receiving, by a server computer, a video frame sequence that includes one or more video frames; applying, by the server computer, one or more filters to the one or more video frames to generate a video data file that captures geometry of a customizable object depicted in the one or more video frames; generating, by the server computer, customization instructions for customizing appearance of the customizable object; transmitting, from the server computer to a client computer, the video data file and the customization instructions to cause the client computer to execute the customization instructions with respect to the video data file to render a customized object, and to overlay the customized object over the customizable object in the video frame sequence.
US11443768B2
A content recording apparatus includes an obtaining unit which obtains a content having a variable-length packet structure, an encrypter which generates encrypted data by encrypting the content, and a recorder which records the encrypted data in a block unit having a fixed length in a recording medium. The encrypted data includes an invalidated region unnecessary for reproduction of the content. The recorder records a size of the invalidated region in the recording medium.
US11443766B2
Provided are a magnetic tape including: a non-magnetic support; and a magnetic layer including ferromagnetic powder and a binding agent on the non-magnetic support, in which a total thickness of the magnetic tape is equal to or smaller than 5.30 μm, the magnetic layer has a servo pattern, a center line average surface roughness Ra measured on a surface of the magnetic layer is equal to or smaller than 1.8 nm, and an absolute value ΔN of a difference between a refractive index Nxy of the magnetic layer, measured in an in-plane direction and a refractive index Nz of the magnetic layer, measured in a thickness direction is 0.25 to 0.40, a magnetic tape cartridge and a magnetic tape apparatus including this magnetic tape, a magnetic tape cartridge and a magnetic tape apparatus including this magnetic tape.
US11443765B2
A write head includes an input coupler configured to receive light excited by a light source. A waveguide core is configured to receive light from the input coupler at a fundamental transverse electric (TE00) mode. The waveguide core has a first straight portion. The waveguide core has a mode converter portion comprising a branched portion extending from the first straight portion. The mode converter portion is configured to convert the light to a higher-order (TE10) mode, the mode converter portion spaced apart from the input coupler. The waveguide core has a second straight portion between the mode converter portion and a media-facing surface. The write head has a near-field transducer at the media-facing surface, the near-field transducer receiving the light at the TE10 mode from the waveguide and directing surface plasmons to a recording medium in response thereto.
US11443764B1
An apparatus includes a slider configured for heat-assisted magnetic recording. The slider includes an input coupler configured to receive light excited by a light source. The slider includes a waveguide core tapering along a light propagation direction from a first cross-sectional width to a second cross-sectional width, the waveguide configured to provide a surface plasmon-enhanced near-field radiation pattern proximate an output end in response to the received light. One or more cladding layers surround the waveguide core. At least one strip of plasmonic material is disposed between the waveguide core and at least one of the one or more cladding layers.
US11443756B2
Provided are methods and systems for enhancing speech when corrupted by transient noise (e.g., keyboard typing noise). The methods and systems utilize a reference microphone input signal for the transient noise in a signal restoration process used for the voice part of the signal. A robust Bayesian statistical model is used to regress the voice microphone on the reference microphone, which allows for direct inference about the desired voice signal while marginalizing the unwanted power spectral values of the voice and transient noise. Also provided is a straightforward and efficient Expectation-maximization (EM) procedure for fast enhancement of the corrupted signal. The methods and systems are designed to operate easily in real-time on standard hardware, and have very low latency so that there is no irritating delay in speaker response.
US11443755B1
Systems and techniques for automated voice assistant personality selector are described herein. A task may be identified that is to be completed by a user of a voice-enabled virtual assistant. A response may be output in connection with the task using a default personality for the voice-enabled virtual assistant selected based on the task. A task completion checkpoint may be determined for the task. It may be identified that the task completion checkpoint has not been reached. A personality profile of the user may be compared to personality data of a set of voice-enabled virtual assistant profiles corresponding to respective members of a set of available voice personalities for the voice-enabled virtual assistant. An escalation personality may be selected for the voice-enabled virtual assistant based the comparison and the task. Commands for facilitating user completion of the task may be transmitted via the voice-enabled virtual assistant using the selected escalation personality.
US11443754B2
Audio decoder device for decoding a bitstream, the audio decoder device including: a predictive decoder for producing a decoded audio frame from the bitstream, wherein the predictive decoder includes a parameter decoder for producing one or more audio parameters for the decoded audio frame from the bitstream and wherein the predictive decoder includes a synthesis filter device for producing the decoded audio frame by synthesizing the one or more audio parameters for the decoded audio frame; a memory device including one or more memories, wherein each of the memories is configured to store a memory state for the decoded audio frame, wherein the memory state for the decoded audio frame of the one or more memories is used by the synthesis filter device for synthesizing the one or more audio parameters for the decoded audio frame; and a memory state resampling device configured to determine the memory state for synthesizing the one or more audio parameters for the decoded audio frame, which has a sampling rate, for one or more of the memories by resampling a preceding memory state for synthesizing one or more audio parameters for a preceding decoded audio frame, which has a preceding sampling rate being different from the sampling rate of the decoded audio frame, for one or more of the memories and to store the memory state for synthesizing of the one or more audio parameters for the decoded audio frame for one or more of the memories into the respective memory.
US11443753B2
There is disclosed inter alia an apparatus comprising means for receiving an audio format comprising a plurality of individual audio signal streams and metadata, wherein the metadata comprises a dependency field associated with each of the plurality of individual audio signal streams; means for determining that a dependency field associated with a first individual audio signal stream of the plurality of individual audio signal streams indicates that the first individual audio signal stream is related to a second individual audio signal stream of the plurality of individual audio signal streams; and means for encoding the first and second individual audio signal streams as a combined multichannel audio signal by an audio encoder.
US11443752B2
An audio decoder for providing a decoded audio information includes a arithmetic decoder for providing a plurality of decoded spectral values on the basis of an arithmetically-encoded representation of the spectral values and a frequency-domain-to-time-domain converter for providing a time-domain audio representation using the decoded spectral values. The arithmetic decoder is configured to select a mapping rule describing a mapping of a code value onto a symbol code in dependence on a context state. The arithmetic decoder is configured to determine or modify the current context state in dependence on a plurality of previously-decoded spectral values. The arithmetic decoder is configured to detect a group of a plurality of previously-decoded spectral values, which fulfill, individually or taken together, a predetermined condition regarding their magnitudes, and to determine the current context state in dependence on a result of the detection. An audio encoder uses similar principles.
US11443747B2
Disclosed herein is an artificial intelligence apparatus for recognizing speech of a user including a microphone and a processor configured to obtain, via the microphone, speech data including speech of a user, determine a frequency weight for each word using a speech recognition log, generate a speech recognition result corresponding to the speech data using the frequency weight, and perform control corresponding to the speech recognition result.
US11443746B2
A personalized sound management system for an acoustic space includes at least one transducer, a data communication system, one or more processors operatively coupled to the data communication system and the at least one transducer, and a medium coupled to the one or more processors. The processors access a database of sonic signatures and display a plurality of personalized sound management applications that perform at least one or more tasks among identifying a sonic signature, calculating a sound pressure level, storing metadata related to a sonic signature, monitoring sound pressure level dosage levels, switching to an ear canal microphone in a noisy environment, recording a user's voice, storing the user's voice in a memory of an earpiece device, or storing the user's voice in a memory of a server system, or converting received text received in texts or emails to voice using text to speech conversion. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11443745B2
Included are: an apparatus function information acquiring unit for acquiring apparatus function information in which a target apparatus and one or more target functions to be executed by the target apparatus, which are determined on the basis of uttered speech, are associated with each other; a procedure determining unit for determining one or more manual operations for executing the one or more target functions and an order of the one or more manual operations on the basis of the apparatus function information acquired by the apparatus function information acquiring unit; and an operation command transmission controlling unit for sequentially transmitting, to the target apparatus, operation commands for outputting operation response output control information corresponding to each of the one or more manual operations in accordance with the order of the one or more manual operations determined by the procedure determining unit.
US11443741B2
A natural language processing (NLP) apparatus includes a housing, a built-in voice input interface; a built-in data communication interface configured to establish data communication with multiple types of appliances; a built-in NLP module, and a built-in control device. A first voice input is received through the built-in voice input interface; if the target appliance is a first appliance of a first appliance type, the first voice input is processed using a first NLP model of the built-in NLP module to obtain a first machine command, and the first machine command is sent via the built-in data communication interface to the first appliance; and if the target appliance is a second appliance of a second appliance type, the first voice input is processed using a second NLP model of the built-in NLP module, and the second machine command is sent via the built-in data communication interface to the second appliance.
US11443740B1
Techniques for performing tests by a speech processing system are described. A speech processing system may apply a hash function to a group of user identifiers, a content provider identifier, and time data to segment the group of user identifiers into non-holdout, holdout control, and holdout treatment groups. A non-holdout group represents users not subject to a test for a duration of time. A holdout control group represents users subject to a test for the duration of time, but which do not receive unresponsive content during the duration of time. A holdout treatment group represents users subject to a test and which receive unresponsive content over the duration of time. User activity of the holdout control and holdout treatment groups may be compared to measure an effectiveness of the unresponsive content. The measured effectiveness may be used to determine a ranking of the content provider at runtime.
US11443737B2
An audio source such as a display device configured to present AV content can present the video and send the audio in different languages to the respective devices of different listeners. For example, a device/TV/source can send audio in different languages to connected headphones/smartglasses with speakers/devices/sink. Furthermore, machine learning may be employed both to recognize listeners and correlate them to likely languages and to mimic voices in the played-back audio. Or, the source AV display device may send language in only the selected language of the display device to each listener device, with each receiving listener device converting the audio to the preferred language of the respective listener on the fly.
US11443723B2
A musical instrument holder clip includes a first holding unit and a second holding unit. The first holding unit includes a main body and a clamping member that extends movably into the main body, and is operable to generate a clamping force adapted for clamping a microphone between the main body and the clamping member. The second holding unit includes a first holding member adapted for abutting against an outer surface of a bell wall of a wind instrument, and a second holding member adapted for abutting against an inner surface of the bell wall of the wind instrument. The first holding member and the second holding member cooperatively define a holding space adapted for receiving the bell wall of the wind instrument therebetween.
US11443722B2
A foldable stringed instrument, for example in the form of a travel guitar that folds mid-neck to assume a reduced profile is described. The mid-neck folding is accomplished in a symmetrical manner about a three-part hinge located in the neck to configure the travel guitar into a reduced profile. The bridge assembly can be translated longitudinally relative to the head of the guitar to allow sufficient detensioning of the guitar strings to enable an upper portion of the neck to be folded away from a lower portion of the neck and/or body to assume a reduced profile. To deploy the travel guitar for playing, the upper portion of the neck is unfolded into alignment with the lower portion of the neck and/or body, and the bridge assembly translated longitudinally relative to the head and locked in position to allow the guitar to be tuned for playing.
US11443711B2
A timing controller includes a detecting circuit, a control circuit, and a compensation circuit. The timing controller reads the compensation values according to the variance between refreshing frequencies and compensate the second basic value in the white balance data driving table based on the first basic value accordingly. This could efficiently improve the grey voltage difference between after and before switching the refreshing frequency. This could efficiently improve the flicker issue.
US11443710B2
A display interface device capable of reducing power consumption is disclosed. In the display interface device, a timing controller configured to compare input pixel data in horizontal line units and operate in a low power mode according to a result of comparison between an input time of horizontal lines having the same pixel data and a reference time in the horizontal line units. The timing controller operates in any one of a first low power mode for transmitting a training pattern and a second low power mode including a first duration during which data transmission and reception are stopped and a second duration during which the training pattern is transmitted, according to the result of comparison between the input time of horizontal lines having the same pixel data and the reference time.
US11443704B1
A backlight dimming method for backlighting an LCD panel having a variable refresh rate with an LED module, the variable refresh rate having a maximum refresh rate, the LED module having at least one LED sub-zone, the LED sub-zone including a plurality of LEDs, and the method including: using a controller to generate a secondary synchronizing signal having a frequency higher than the maximum refresh rate; and using the controller to update dimming values for the at least one LED sub-zone at one or more pulses of the secondary synchronizing signal with current dimming data after the controller has received the current dimming data from a scaler.
US11443703B2
A device for driving a backlight assembly of a display device includes: a block division unit for dividing the input image into plural blocks and a duty cycle determination unit. The duty cycle determination unit is used for: generating a histogram of gray levels of pixels of each block; obtaining a high gray level and a median gray level of each block according to the histogram; obtaining a high gray quantity based on the high gray level and a median gray quantity of the median gray level of each block according to the histogram; obtaining a weight value of each block according to the high gray level, the high gray quantity, the median gray quantity, and a lookup table; and calculating a duty cycle of a driving signal of each block according to the weight value, the high gray level, and the median gray level.
US11443694B2
A pixel circuit, a method for driving the same, a display panel and a display device are provided. The pixel circuit includes: a driving sub-circuit, a first light-emission controlling sub-circuit, a second light-emission controlling sub-circuit, an anode potential controlling sub-circuit, all of which operate in cooperation so that the pixel circuit drives a light-emitting element to emit light, where the second light-emission controlling sub-circuit provides voltage output by the driving sub-circuit to an anode of the light-emitting element in a light-emission period, and the anode potential controlling sub-circuit provides a signal of a first voltage signal terminal to the anode of the light-emitting element in a non-light-emission period.
US11443686B2
A display screen including display circuits, each display circuit including a light-emitting diode, a controllable current source powering the light-emitting diode, and a control circuit capable of supplying a pulse-width modulated signal for controlling the current source from a periodic signal. The display screen further includes first electrodes coupled to the control circuits, a circuit for supplying a selection signal successively on each first electrode, and an oscillating circuit or oscillating circuits capable of supplying the periodic signals, the periodic signals being non-synchronous with the display circuit selection signals.
US11443679B1
A display device and a display method are provided. The display device includes a board, a sensing circuit, and a feedback control circuit. The board includes a display array formed by a plurality of pixels. The sensing circuit includes a test pixel and a light sensor. The light sensor receives light emitted by the test pixel to generate a corresponding sensing signal. The feedback control circuit receives the sensing signal and generates a pulse width adjusting signal to adjust a pulse width at which the pixels are operated for display.
US11443676B1
The disclosed system modifies luminance of a display associated with a selective screen. The display provides a camera with an image having resolution higher than the resolution of the display by presenting multiple images while the selective screen enables light from different portions of the multiple images to reach the camera. The resulting luminance of the recorded image is lower than a combination of luminance values of the multiple images. The processor obtains a criterion indicating a property of the input image where image detail is unnecessary. The processor detects a region of the input image satisfying the criterion, and determines a region of the selective screen corresponding to the region of the input image. The processor increases the luminance of the display by disabling the region of the selective screen corresponding to the region of the input image.
US11443674B2
A display device having a gate driver, which may reduce a leakage current of a TFT and power consumption, is disclosed. Each stage of the gate driver comprises an output portion including a pull-up transistor outputting a corresponding clock of a plurality of clocks as a gate signal in response to control of a Q node, and a pull-down transistor outputting a first gate-off voltage as an off-voltage of a gate signal in response to control of a QB node; a controller charging and discharging the Q node and charging and discharging the QB node to be in an opposite state of the Q node; and a back bias circuit having a back bias node capacitance-coupled with the Q node and generating a second gate-off voltage lower than the first gate-off voltage to apply the second gate-off voltage to the back bias node for an off-period of the Q node, wherein the back bias circuit may apply the back gate bias voltage to light shielding layers of some transistors, which are turned off for the off-period of the Q node, among transistors constituting the output portion and the controller, through the back bias node, thereby reducing or minimizing a leakage current of the corresponding transistors.
US11443673B2
An electro-optical device includes an electro-optical panel including first to n-th (n is an integer of 2 or greater) data line blocks with each data line block including a first data line group and a second data line group, a first circuit device, and a second circuit device. The first circuit device drives, in an i-th phase of phase development drive, the first data line group of an i-th data line block of the first to n-th data line blocks, and the second circuit device drives, in the i-th phase of the phase development drive, the second data line group of the i-th data line block of the first to n-th data line blocks.
US11443666B2
A drive circuit for adjusting a voltage required for aging detection using a feedback circuit comprises a drive chip (100), a detection signal generation circuit (200), and a feedback circuit (300). The drive chip (100) is configured to output a working voltage. The detection signal generation circuit (200) is configured to generate a detection control signal for aging detection according to a received trigger signal. The feedback circuit (300) is configured to receive the detection control signal output by the detection signal generation circuit (200) and the working voltage provided by the drive chip (100) and to generate a feedback voltage according to the detection control signal and the working voltage and output the feedback voltage to the drive chip (100), such that the drive chip (100) adjusts, according to the feedback voltage, the working voltage to a voltage required for aging detection. A display panel is also provided.
US11443665B2
A switching circuit is signally-connected to an initial trigger signal, a detection circuit and the GOA circuit. Upon a low voltage level of a low potential signal, the switching circuit is turned on to transmit the initial trigger signal to the GOA circuit so that the LCD panel works normally. Upon a high voltage level of the low potential signal, the switching circuit is turned off so that the GOA circuit does not conduct the initial trigger signal to protect the LCD panel from burn-out.
US11443664B1
There is disclosed a transformative display that, in a first configuration, appears as a first scene. A mechanism is provided to cause elements of the display to move from the first configuration to a second configuration, displaying a second, different scene. The elements are in the form of panels that fit into recesses in a platform in the first configuration. These panels may include features that extend above the surface of the platform to form other elements of the first scene. When the display moves to the second configuration, the panels swing upward from the platform, creating elements of the second scene. In the second configuration, features extending from the panels meet to other elements of the second scene.
US11443659B2
A display apparatus includes a flexible panel including a first non-bending area, a second non-bending area spaced apart from the first non-bending area, and a bending area between the first non-bending area and the second non-bending area, a circuit film having an opening at a first end of thereof and disposed on the second non-bending area of the flexible panel, an anisotropic conductive film disposed between the flexible panel and the circuit film, and a protective layer disposed on the bending area and covering at least a portion of the first end of the circuit film.
US11443655B2
A foldable article having a sliceform removably secured to one or more panels of the foldable article. A tab having a retaining portion may extend from at least one of the one or more panels of the foldable article. The tab may pass through an opening in the sliceform and the retaining portion may be wider than the width of the opening. The retaining member may be manipulated to pass through the opening to removably secure the sliceform to, and/or detach the sliceform from, the foldable article.
US11443654B2
Disclosed embodiments provide a computer-implemented technique for selection and/or modification of surgical simulation scenarios based on patient similarity cohort identification. Prior to undergoing surgery, medical information of a patient, including genomic, physiological, and/or environmental data, is used to identify a patient cohort. The patient cohort represents a statistically significant sample size of similar patients, and complications that may have arose during similar surgical procedures to the procedure planned for the patient. Relevant scenarios are identified based on the patient cohort. These scenarios are then input to a surgical simulation system. The surgical simulation system may be implemented by virtual reality, augmented reality, and/or physical workpieces used for surgical practice and training. This can increase the probability of a successful outcome for the patient, and furthermore save costs by reducing the risk of malpractice lawsuits, thereby potentially lowering overall healthcare costs.
US11443653B2
A method for skill learning is implemented using a system including a wearable device to be worn by a user, a storage unit, and a processor communicating with the wearable device and the storage unit. The storage unit stores a plurality of virtual reality modules in the storage unit, each of the virtual reality modules containing interactive data associated with learning a skill. The method includes: accessing the storage unit to load a selected one of the virtual reality modules; and controlling the wearable device to present the interactive data contained in the selected one of the virtual reality modules to the user in the form of a virtual environment.
US11443638B2
A formation monitoring system for a plurality of aircraft flying in formation is disclosed. The system includes a display for a leader aircraft configured to display a current position of one or more aircraft of the plurality of aircraft. The system further includes a controller for the leader aircraft configured to at least one of receive a current position signal from one or more aircraft of the plurality of aircraft, calculate the current position of the one or more aircraft of the plurality of aircraft, or calculate a target position of the one or more aircraft of the plurality of aircraft. The system further includes a transmitter configured to transmit the target position signal to the one or more aircraft of the plurality of aircraft.
US11443623B1
A crash severity prediction tool for use with a vehicle. The vehicle is equipped with a native crash severity prediction application and includes a user interface configured to receive a user destination, a GPS unit configured to generate location coordinates of the vehicle and a display configured to show a road map depicting roadways between a user start location and the user destination. The native crash severity computer application is communicably connected to a cloud based crash severity prediction computer application configured to receive the location coordinates and the road map. The cloud based application includes a trained artificial neural network (ANN) configured to predict a crash severity level based on real time weather conditions, light conditions, road surface conditions, and day of the week. A crash severity index is transmitted to the native crash severity prediction application and is rendered on a vehicle display.
US11443621B2
A method and apparatus for adjusting channelization of a traffic intersection are proposed. The specific implementation of the method is: obtaining a first traffic characteristic of vehicles at each of a plurality of target positions in a process of vehicles in a target traveling direction traveling through the traffic intersection from upstream to downstream in a preset first time period; generating first traffic change information of the traffic intersection based on the first traffic characteristic at each of the plurality of target positions; and in response to that the first traffic change information satisfies a preset first change distribution, generating channelization adjustment information for non-motorized vehicle lanes of the traffic intersection.
US11443610B2
A method for managing smart alarms in an electrical system includes processing electrical measurement data from or derived from energy-related signals captured or derived by at least one intelligent electronic device of a monitoring and control system to identify at least one of power events in the electrical system, or alarms triggered in response to any identified power events. Information related to the identified power events and the identified alarms may be aggregated, and relevant event and/or alarm management groups and/or relevant event and/or alarm periods may be identified from the aggregated information. One or more actions may be triggered, avoided or avoid triggering in response to the identified event management groups and/or the identified event and/or alarm periods. Systems for managing smart alarms are also provided herein.
US11443607B2
The techniques and systems described herein determine whether a computing device is within a particular range to communicate with a monitoring device. If the computing device is within the particular range, the computing device is configured to communicate with the monitoring device via a primary monitoring communication mode (e.g., a radio frequency RF channel). If the computing device is outside the particular range, the computing device is configured to communicate with the monitoring device via a secondary monitoring communication mode (e.g., a Wi-Fi channel or a mobile telephone network MTN channel). The computing device receives, from the monitoring device via the primary monitoring communication mode or the secondary monitoring communication mode, monitoring information associated with a monitored subject (e.g., a baby) or associated with an area in which the monitored subject is located (e.g., a room of a residential dwelling).
US11443603B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for the detection, following a trigger event, of a device that may be sending and/or receiving signals within a space associated with a wireless network. A wireless signal receiver may be activated and may identify the device by detecting transmissions from the device, such as WiFi, Bluetooth, cellular or other wireless transmissions. The wireless signal receiver may extract, without connecting the device to a local network, information from the transmission that may identify the device. The wireless signal receiver may send the information to an alarm monitor and may be placed in a dormant state.
US11443600B2
Described are systems and methods for providing instructions in response to an emergency. An emergency alert system may receive indication of an emergency situation in a building. In response, the emergency alert system may determine personalized emergency response instructions for an occupant of the building based on the location and type of emergency. The emergency alert system may present the personalized emergency response instructions to the occupant and monitor the progress of the occupant in following the instructions. Some aspects relate to performing emergency response drills and monitoring performance of occupants participating in drills.
US11443597B2
A urinal-based multiplayer gaming system is provided. The system includes a plurality of urinals, each including a respective urine sensing system, each urine sensing system configured to sense, when active, a urine stream attribute of urine collected at that urinal. A common display is viewable from each of the plurality of urinals. A processing system is configured to: execute a computer-implemented game responsive to urine stream attributes received from the active urine sensing systems; and render game graphics on the common display during execution of the computer-implemented game, wherein the game graphics include, for each of the active urine sensing systems, a corresponding graphical component.
US11443575B1
A system for providing gamification of a destination such as a theme park where guests use a venue app with an optional electronic ticket that allows for both self-serve access into the destination and tracking of individual guests throughout various access points. An extended range ID such as an RFID is provided to the guest either in the electronic ticket or in a wearable. Using combinations of RFID readers, pressure sensors and cameras the system tracks guests down the ride seat and tracks the movements of guided, free-floating and free-ranging vehicles. Using the combination of guest and vehicle tracking information along with information provided by a destination gaming system, the destination guest experience is customized including various effects for rides and attractions. Spot cameras are placed at tracked locations such as rides seats, where images are captured in response to either external triggers generated by the system or guest indications.
US11443572B2
A lockset including a bolt mechanism, an exterior assembly, an interior assembly, a driving tailpiece, and a driven tailpiece. The bolt assembly includes a bolt having an extended position and a retracted position. The exterior assembly includes a rotatable exterior manual actuator. The interior assembly includes a clutch having a coupling state and a decoupling state. The driving tailpiece is connected between the exterior manual actuator and the clutch. The driven tailpiece is connected between the clutch and the bolt mechanism such that rotation of the driven tailpiece actuates the bolt assembly. In the coupling state, the clutch couples the driving tailpiece with the driven tailpiece such that the exterior manual actuator is operable to actuate the bolt assembly. In the decoupling state, the clutch decouples the driving tailpiece from the driven tailpiece such that the exterior manual actuator is inoperable to actuate the bolt assembly.
US11443570B2
According to an aspect, a helmet system includes a communication interface configured to receive a plurality of aircraft data, a memory system configured to store the aircraft data, and a processing system operably coupled to the communication interface and the memory system. The processing system is configured to format the aircraft data into a plurality of time sequential records, store the time sequential records in the memory system, and manage storage within the memory system as a circular buffer.
US11443566B2
A system includes an electronic control unit (ECU) including a processor that determines that the ECU has been communicably connected to a vehicle communication system. The processor sends a provisioning message, via the communication system, to a remote server, responsive to connection to the vehicle communication system. The message includes a vehicle identifier provided by an element of the vehicle system and signed with a unique security key specific to the ECU. The processor is also receives a confirmation response from the remote server and enables further communication for the ECU responsive to the confirmation response.
US11443559B2
A system for remote identification of users. The system uses deep learning techniques for authenticating a user from an identification document, using automated verification of identification documents and detection that a live person identified by the document is present. Liveness of a user indicated by the identification document may be determined with a deep learning model trained for identification of facial spoofing attacks. The deep learning model may be trained using training data extracted from facial feature locations of training images.
US11443556B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method, a device, and a program product for keystroke pattern analysis. The method includes: acquiring keystroke information of a user on an electronic device, wherein the keystroke information indicates a sequence of characters that are typed sequentially and time information related to the typing of corresponding characters in the sequence of characters; encoding corresponding characters in the sequence of characters respectively into vectorized representations to obtain a sequence of vectorized representations, wherein different characters are encoded into different vectorized representations; superimposing the time information related to the typing of corresponding characters in the sequence of characters respectively to corresponding vectorized representations in the sequence of vectorized representations to obtain a sequence of time-based vectorized representations; and verifying a keystroke pattern of the user by extracting keystroke behavior features from the sequence of time-based vectorized representations.
US11443542B2
A fingerprint recognition method is provided. The method includes obtaining a plurality of fingerprint images by sensing a finger of a user, respectively calculating geometric center points corresponding to the fingerprint images, and calculating positions and offsets of the fingerprint images according to the geometric center points. The method also includes filling signals in the fingerprint images into a part of pixels in a pixel array according to the positions and the offsets of the fingerprint images, and obtaining signals of other pixels in the pixel array by inputting the signals filled in the part of pixels in the pixel array into an artificial intelligence engine. The method further includes generating a candidate fingerprint image and recognizing a user based on the candidate fingerprint image.
US11443538B2
In medical writing, manual process of creating, updating and maintaining documents is expensive, time consuming. This disclosure provides a method of an automatic medical document writing by receiving, a plurality of input documents as an input; processing, the inputted plurality of documents by extracting into an at least one section to generate a list of sections; classifying, at least one category corresponding to the at least one section to generate a summary set; generating, at least one of a local context and a global context based on the summary set; parsing, at least one sentence based on the generated local context and global context to generate at least one sequence of the plurality of sentences; processing, the at least one sequence of the plurality of sentence to generate a queue of the at least one sequence; validating, the queue of the at least one sequence to obtain a combined summary set.
US11443537B2
Disclosed is an electronic apparatus. The disclosed electronic apparatus may include at least one processor and at least one memory, in which the memory may include at least one instruction, which, when executed, causes the processor to: identify a feature of at least one object included in a first image, identify a feature of at least one object included in a second image acquired by applying the first image to a first neural network, determine an image processing method based on the identification, and acquire a plurality of third images based on the determined image processing method.
US11443531B1
In some embodiments, a method can include executing a first machine learning model to detect at least one lane in each image from a first set of images. The method can further include determining an estimate location of a vehicle for each image, based on localization data captured using at least one localization sensor disposed at the vehicle. The method can further include selecting lane geometry data for each image, from a map and based on the estimate location of the vehicle. The method can further include executing a localization model to generate a set of offset values for the first set of images based on the lane geometry data and the at least one lane in each image. The method can further include selecting a second set of images from the first set of images based on the set of offset values and a previously-determined offset threshold.
US11443529B2
A method and apparatus for detecting surroundings around a vehicle may include the step of periodically scanning the surroundings in a first detection region by a laser scanner. The method may also include detecting the surroundings in a second detection region by an optical camera. The first detection region and the second detection region may at least overlap each other. An optical sensor in the camera may be exposed at least twice within one period of the laser scanner. A first exposure time for a first exposure of the at least two exposures of the optical sensor may be chosen and synchronized with the laser scanner so that the first exposure occurs within a first time window, in which the laser scanner scans the first detection region.
US11443513B2
A system and method for distributed surveillance of an area to monitor a process and visual effects of the process. Exemplary methods include, among others, asset effectiveness, issue identification and prioritization, workflow optimization, monitoring, estimation, verification, compliance, presentation, and/or identification for a given process. Such application may include, but are not limited to, manufacturing, quality control, supply chain management, and safety compliance.
US11443507B2
An electronic device for identifying an external object, based on related information and a method of operating the same are provided. The electronic device includes a memory configured to store an object list and object image learning data, and at least one processor. The at least one processor may be configured to acquire an image including a specific object, update the object list, based on user purchase history information, collect image data relating to the object, based on the updated object list to update the object image learning data, learn an object classification model, based on the updated object list and the updated object image learning data, and identify the specific object by the learned object classification model.
US11443489B2
In a method modifying a user's virtual environment, a banking module retrieves and analyzes context data associated with the user. The banking module applies user and location parameters to determine whether at least one of an avatar modification and an environment modification is available for rendering. Responsive to determining that the avatar selection is not available for rendering, determining whether the avatar is accessible to the user. Responsive to determining that avatar is not accessible to the user, presenting the avatar selection for redemption.
US11443486B2
An arrangement for obtaining body measurements of a person includes a garment configured to be form fitted to the person, a reference target, and a handheld digital camera. A surface of the garment includes a plurality of first fiducials which are photogrammetrically analyzable. The reference target includes a plurality of second fiducials that are photogrammetrically analyzable. The plurality of second fiducials on the reference target facilitate producing a 3D model true to scale and in a recognized orientation to a surface on which the person is standing. The handheld digital camera acquires a plurality of successive images of the garment and reference target as the digital camera is moved around the person. A computer processes the plurality images by methods of photogrammetry to produce a 3D model of the body. A portable stabilization device may be held by the person to reduce movement and control arm spacing during image acquisition.
US11443485B2
A rendering device includes at least one memory and at least one processor. The at least one processor acquires information about projection data in a 2D space from information about a region of a 3D model; stores the information about the projection data in association with the information about the region in the at least one memory; and generates the projection data based on the information about the projection data. The associated information includes information associating an identifier given to a part of regions obtained by dividing the 3D model with information about a position where the part of the regions is projected in the 2D space.
US11443484B2
Techniques performed by a data processing system for reconstructing a three-dimensional (3D) model of the face of a human subject herein include obtaining source data comprising a two-dimensional (2D) image, three-dimensional (3D) image, or depth information representing a face of a human subject. Reconstructing the 3D model of the face also includes generating a 3D model of the face of the human subject based on the source data by analyzing the source data to produce a coarse 3D model of the face of the human subject, and refining the coarse 3D model through free form deformation to produce a fitted 3D model. The coarse 3D model may be a 3D Morphable Model (3DMM), and the coarse 3D model may be refined through free-form deformation in which the deformation of the mesh is limited by applying an as-rigid-as-possible (ARAP) deformation constraint.
US11443480B2
Method for remote clothing selection includes determination of anthropometric dimensional parameters of a user, automatic assessment of correspondence of a garment to the shape and body measurements of a user, determination and provision of recommendations to a user on the selection of a particular garment and, optionally, visualization of a garment on a digital avatar of this user in the virtual fitting room, including optional change of his/her pose. The invention provides an increase in the efficiency of remote clothing selection by a user, an improvement in user's experience of remote purchase, an increase in user satisfaction and, ultimately, an increase in online sales of clothing and a decrease in the proportion of clothing returned after a purchase due to unsatisfactory matching to the shape and measurements of user's body.
US11443478B2
To make it possible to obtain a natural virtual viewpoint image in which a structure or the like existing within an image capturing scene is represented three-dimensionally so as to be the same as a real one while suppressing a network load at the time of transmission of multi-viewpoint image data. The generation device according to the present invention generates a virtual viewpoint image based on three-dimensional shape data corresponding to an object, three-dimensional shape data corresponding to a structure, background data corresponding to a background different at least from the object and the structure, and information indicating a virtual viewpoint.
US11443477B2
An illustrative image processing system identifies a component of a three-dimensional (3D) object that is to be presented to a user. The image processing system then generates a set of two-dimensional (2D) images depicting the component of the 3D object from a set of vantage points tailored to the component. The image processing system incorporates one or more 2D images of this set of 2D images within a 2D atlas image associated with the 3D object. The image processing system provides the 2D atlas image to a volumetric rendering device configured to render, based on the 2D atlas image, a volumetric representation of the 3D object for presentation to the user. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed.
US11443470B2
Systems and methods for simulating animation of an object are provided. Such systems and methods include capturing a first sequence of images of the object with a camera while in an activated lighting apparatus, importing the first sequence of images into a first stage video file having a preconfigured size and masked off such that the first surface appears over a first background, and incorporating the first stage video file into a template of a three-dimensional (3D) model by aligning the first surface with a video mask of the template such that the video mask obscures the first background of the first stage video file and superimposes a location of the first surface in the first stage video file onto a virtual surface of the 3D model.
US11443465B2
A method is provided for gathering probe data and using the gathered data to create map intersection turn paths. Methods may include: receiving probe data from a plurality of probes passing through an intersection; identifying a turn maneuver of the intersection including an incoming road link and an outgoing road link; generating a curve of the turn maneuver based on a geometry of the intersection and a scaling factor; filtering the probe data based on the generated curve to obtain remaining probe data; fitting a spline to the remaining probe data to generate a turn path representative of the turn maneuver; and providing for guidance of a vehicle based on the spline of the turn path. Embodiments including apparatuses and computer program products for creating map intersection turn paths are also provided.
US11443453B2
An electronic device: obtains a plurality of sets of images; synthesizes a three-dimensional point cloud for each of the plurality of sets of images; constructs planes using the respective three-dimensional point clouds; and generates a merged set of quadtrees characterizing a merged set of planes across the three-dimensional point clouds.
US11443449B2
Three-dimensional (3D) imaging systems and methods are described for implementing virtual grading of package walls in commercial trailer loading. The 3D imaging systems and methods comprise capturing, by a 3D-depth camera, 3D image data of a vehicle storage area. A package wall is determined, based on the set of 3D image data and by a 3D data analytics application (app) executing on one or more processors communicatively coupled to the 3D-depth camera, a package wall within the vehicle storage area. A wall grade is assigned to the package wall, where the package wall is defined within the set of 3D image data by a plurality of packages each having a similar depth dimension, and wherein the package wall has a wall height.
US11443447B2
A camera system. In some embodiments, the camera system includes a first laser, a camera, and a processing circuit connected to the first laser and to the camera. The first laser may be steerable, and the camera may include a pixel including a photodetector and a pixel circuit, the pixel circuit including a first time-measuring circuit.
US11443443B2
A method aligns a first panoramic image and a second panoramic image in a navigation procedure. The method includes using a computer vision algorithm for extracting features that are present in the panoramic images and use the extracted features to prepare a first feature vector for the first panoramic image and a second feature vector for the second panoramic image. The first and the second feature vectors are compared and matches in both the first and the second feature vectors that are above a determined threshold are identified. For the identified matches in each of the first and the second feature vectors for each of the two images, the perspective angle between a reference point of the respective image and the features according to the identified matches are determined. Finally, a difference between the determined perspective angles for a part of the identified matches in the panoramic images is determined.
US11443440B2
A computer-implemented method of selecting a sequence of images of a user's eye for an eye tracking application wherein each image is captured when a stationary stimulus point is displayed to the user, the method comprising: for a plurality of different pairs of the images: comparing the pair of images with each other to determine an image-score that represents a degree of difference between the compared images; and calculating a sequence-score based on the image-scores for the plurality of pairs of images.
US11443428B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for performing probabilistic segmentation in anatomical image analysis, using a computer system. One method includes receiving a plurality of images of an anatomical structure; receiving one or more geometric labels of the anatomical structure; generating a parameterized representation of the anatomical structure based on the one or more geometric labels and the received plurality of images; mapping a region of the parameterized representation to a geometric parameter of the anatomical structure; receiving an image of a patient's anatomy; and generating a probability distribution for a patient-specific segmentation boundary of the patient's anatomy, based on the mapping of the region of the parameterized representation of the anatomical structure to the geometric parameter of the anatomical structure.
US11443427B2
In some embodiments, spinal disc degeneracy is diagnosed according to a decay variance map generated by determining a variance in T2 decay over time within each pixel or pixel subset of an MRI image. A region of interest may be defined as including nucleus pulposus (NP) and annulus fibrosus (AF) areas, and excluding cartilaginous endplate (EP) areas of a disc. A decay variance for a pixel or groups of pixels is calculated by determining ratios between consecutive intensity values of the T2 signal, determining differences between consecutive ratios, and summing the absolute values of the determined differences. Decay variance mapping may be used to diagnose degeneracy in other tissues, such as in joints.
US11443426B2
Techniques are provided for determining a cell count within a whole slide pathology image. The image is segmented using a global threshold value to define a tissue area. A plurality of patches comprising the tissue area are selected. Stain intensity vectors are determined within the plurality of patches to generate a stain intensity image. The stain intensity image is iteratively segmented to generate a cell mask using a local threshold value that is and gradually reduced after each iteration. A chamfer distance transform is applied to the cell mask to generate a distance map. Cell seeds are determined on the distance map. Cell segments are determined using a watershed transformation, and a whole cell count is calculated for the plurality of patches based on the cell segments. A client device may be configured for real-time cell counting based on the whole cell count.
US11443424B2
An artificial intelligence system for analyzing imagery, the system comprising a computing device, the computing device designed and configured to receive a plurality of photographs related to a human subject; analyze the plurality of photographs to identify a conditional indicator contained within the plurality of photographs; generate a classification algorithm utilizing the conditional indicator, wherein the classification algorithm utilizes the conditional indicator as an input and outputs a conditional profile; and determine a conditional status of the human subject utilizing the conditional profile.
US11443414B2
A method of optimising an image signal processor (ISP), which is to be used to process sensor image data generating output image data. The method may include obtaining sensor image data; processing the sensor image data according to one or more ISP settings to produce output image data; producing quality metric data associated with the output image data and optimising the one or more ISP settings based on the quality metric data.
US11443411B2
A system and method for correcting image distortion is provided. The system and method remaps pixel position of distorted images using a combination of radial distortion correction and tangential distortion correction lookup tables consuming less physical memory. The solution conserves both memory and memory access bandwidth. The radial distortion correction lookup table is formed by taking advantage of radial distortion being generally symmetric about a determined optical center of the camera lens. This symmetry allows for use of a quarter LUT for correction in all quadrants of a distorted image. In addition, tangential distortion can be corrected in a symmetric manner that saves memory space as well.
US11443403B2
An image captured using an image sensor is processed to determine control statistics and to produce an altered image which can be output for display or further processing at an image capture device, and the image is then processed according to the control statistics to produce a processed image which can be output for display or further processing at the image capture device or at another device. The altered image may have a lower resolution than the processed image. The image may be stored in a buffer. For example, the image may be retrieved from the buffer to produce the altered image, and again retrieved from the buffer to produce the processed image. The altered image may replace the image within the buffer. For example, the processed image may be produced to represent the altered image at a higher resolution.
US11443388B2
The systems and methods may transmit a plurality of locationing pulse requests from a mobile device in a vehicle to an audio system of the vehicle during a period of operation of the vehicle. The audio system may have an array of speakers disposed inside the vehicle, and the locationing pulse requests may include a request to emit a locationing pulse from the array of speakers. The systems and methods may further receive the locationing pulse at a microphone of the mobile device; and determine, based upon receiving the locationing pulse, that the vehicle was in service of a TNC company, or otherwise operating as a TNC vehicle, during the period of operation based upon passengers entering and leaving the vehicle during the period of operation. Insurance covering the operation of the vehicle for TNC use may be verified, and/or alternatively, offered to facilitate insuring TNC vehicle operation.
US11443383B2
A method and system for processing requests for vehicular data, including receiving a vehicle request for a vehicle parameter from a client system (e.g., third party application); verifying client access to the vehicle parameter; determining one or more parameter values for the requested vehicle parameter; and transmitting the one or more parameter values to the client system.
US11443382B1
Systems and methods for providing persistent state are described herein. One or more embodiments include verifying access information provided by a user of a first device in connection with a user initiated transaction session, maintaining a current state of the transaction session in a persistent store, establishing a session key corresponding to the transaction session, providing the session key to the user, and providing the user access to the current state of the transaction session via a second device in response to validation of the session key received from the second device.
US11443380B2
In an intelligent system for providing and recording personalized context-specific financial advice, a method may comprise receiving, from a client device, a request for advice regarding a hierarchical portfolio of assets owned by an investor. The method may further comprise generating, based on the output of a neural network machine learning model, artificial intelligence suggestions for changing the hierarchical portfolio, assembling the AI suggestions and suggestion locations into an actionable artificial intelligence view of the hierarchical portfolio, and transmitting the AI view to the client device. The method may further comprise making a cryptocurrency payment related to service fees associated with the AI view via a blockchain network. The method may further comprise submitting placed transactions associated with the AI suggestions to an electronic trading platform, generating a revised hierarchical portfolio, and recording the AI view on a blockchain, thereby establishing or maintaining a portable financial record for the investor.
US11443377B1
The disclosed embodiments relate to a user interface which enables a trader to acquire a synthetic variance swap position, comprising a plurality of options contracts on an underlier, such as an underlying futures contract, in single action thereby avoiding slippage risk. Furthermore, the disclosed user interface allows a trader to acquire a synthetic log variance position, a synthetic simple variance position and/or a “convexity lock” position. A convexity lock position comprises a set of options contracts which, in combination with a synthetic log variance position results in a portfolio having an equivalent synthetic simple variance position, and in combination with a synthetic simple variance position, results in a portfolio having an equivalent synthetic log variance position.
US11443375B1
An order management system comprises a middle tier and a computer-based automatic rule code generation system. The middle tier comprises a state transition engine that manages rule-based state transitions of trade orders for financial products from one state to a next state in progressions of the trade orders. The computer-based automatic rule code generation system: (i) receives a human-readable state transition file that specifies one or more state transition rules and a corresponding condition for each of the one or more state transition rules; and (ii) generates, at compile time, a configuration file that comprises rule code for the one or more state transition rules from the state transition file. The state transition engine runs the rule code in the configuration file at runtime to manage the state transitions for the trade orders.
US11443370B2
Due diligence of documents is faster and simpler. An electronic mortgage application, for example, often contains or references a collection of many separate electronic documents. Electronic data representing an original version of an electronic document and its current version may be hashed to generate digital signatures. Any auditor may then quickly conduct the due diligence by comparing the digital signatures. If the digital signatures match, then the due diligence reveals that the electronic document has not changed since its creation. However, if the digital signatures do not match, then the electronic document has changed since its creation. The auditor may thus flag the electronic document for additional due diligence. Regardless, a result of the due diligence may be incorporated into one or more blockchains.
US11443363B2
A system and method include providing product location information to a user; prompting a user to provide check digits; receiving a subset of digits from a set of digits associated with a product that are used for a purpose different than for check digits; and comparing the subset of digits to product check digits to confirm the user has located the product.
US11443358B2
Disclosed is an invention for methods, processes and systems that, among its enabling features and benefits, enhance retrieval of relevant information over a communication network. For instance, methods, processes and systems for performing annotation of digital information are provided. One method includes searching for items of interest using a search engine. Once the URIs associated with the item of interest are identified, a plurality of attributes are provided that may be associated with each URI. A user may provide the values for the attributes or the system may suggest values for the attributes based on information associated with each URI. Once the attributes and values are assigned, the annotated URI along with the attributes and values is stored. Another method provides for sharing of the annotated information. A user may communicate annotated information to an external storage system for sharing with other users having access to the external storage system. Another method provides for automatic updates of the annotation entries by periodically fetching the digital information associated with each URI and updating the values associated with each attribute. In addition, a system, method or process may provide a more reliable, inclusive, or otherwise effective way of collecting or identifying quality reviews for products, services, and sellers. Furthermore, a system, method or process may enable or otherwise enhance generation of actionable information for online shopping or comparative shopping. Furthermore, according to one embodiment, an interface or protocol that a computer uses to communicate with other computers is associated with a subject matter context. User-level contents or digital resources received across that interface or protocol are then associated with that subject matter context, and the computer may respond accordingly. For instance, a computer may associate a given network port with a subject matter context of shopping, and treat all digital resource requests received on that port as applying to only a shopping subject matter context. A web server may also listen on a network port associated with a subject matter context, thereby contextualizing the overall nature of the web site that the web server hosts.
US11443356B2
Systems and methods for controlling sales permissions pertaining to sales activities by users of an online game are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: store information on electronic storage related to the users of the online game; execute an instance of the online game and implement the instance of the online game; receive supervisory input from a supervisory user; receive user input to request or initiate a sale; determine whether the request is in accordance with the one or more sales permissions; effectuate a performance of the sale of one or more particular virtual items, responsive to a determination that the request is permitted; and effectuate presentation of a notification to the user that conveys the user lacks permission, responsive to a determination that the request is not permitted under the one or more sales permissions.
US11443345B2
An approach for generating a modified software application by leveraging a customized advertisement between application owner and application vendor. The approach includes identifying a software application from a software application store repository and retrieving information from the software application store repository associated with the software application. The approach creates a requirement based on the retrieved information and identifying one or more vendor based on the requirement. After creating the targeted advertisement aimed at an application owner based on the identified vendor then the approach launches the advertisement campaign. The approach receives the notification from the application owner based on the advertisement to engage the identified vendor and modifies the software application based on the requirement.
US11443315B2
A method and system of using a vehicle mounted camera device to authenticate a user during an interaction is disclosed. The method includes receiving interaction data regarding an interaction between a user operating a communication device and an access device, the user being near other candidate users. The method then includes determining one or more match indicators, the match indicators generated by comparing different sample biometric templates of the user with different enrolled biometric templates. At least one of the different biometric sample templates may be an image-based biometric template and at least one may be a voice print biometric template. Then the method includes identifying the user based on at least the match indicator associated with the voice print biometric template. The method then includes, if the match indicators are positive match indicators, initiating a process on behalf of the user.
US11443312B2
Methods, systems, and apparatuses are described herein for the direct sharing and use of transaction data separately from transaction authorization processes. Transaction metadata associated with a transaction may be received and validated. Authorization information corresponding to the transaction may be received. The degree to which the transaction metadata is tested may be based on a predicted time of receipt of the authorization information. The transaction metadata and authorization information may be correlated. A computing device may determine whether to authorize the financial transaction based on the authorization information and the correlated transaction metadata. All or portions of the transaction metadata may be provided to one or more users after the transaction has been authorized or denied.
US11443311B2
A method for facilitating payment transactions for offline merchants through a third party service provider includes: receiving, by processing server, a confirmation message for a payment transaction from a computing device including a merchant identifier, consumer identifier, and transaction amount; generating, by the processing server, a notification message including the merchant identifier, consumer identifier, and transaction amount; encrypting, by the processing server, the notification message using a public key of a first cryptographic key pair; transmitting, by the processing server, the encrypted notification message to the computing device; receiving, by an encryption device, the encrypted notification message from the computing device; decrypting, by the encryption device, the encrypted notification message using a private key of the first cryptographic key pair; and displaying, by a display interfaced with the encryption device, a confirmation message including the consumer identifier included in the decrypted notification message.
US11443303B2
Techniques for routing to content within a mesh network based on a blockchain are provided. An electronic device can receive data from a mesh network to establish the device as a node on the mesh network. The established node can generate a cryptocurrency wallet that can be loaded with an amount of cryptocurrency. A blockchain can store searchable transactions related to content stored within the mesh network. The established node can search the blockchain to locate content and can transmit a request for certain content. The established node may issue a payment to a node hosting the requested content and/or to any intermediate nodes facilitating the established node's access to the content.
US11443298B2
A system for updating a stored value card comprising a transaction device for receiving a request to update the stored value card; a transaction manager arranged in data communication with the transaction device; the transaction manager operable to process the request to update the stored value card; a clearing house arranged to receive processed request from the transaction manager and create a pending transaction status; and a stored value updater network operable to receive the stored value card and thereafter retrieve an identifier of the stored value card; the stored value updater network further operable to retrieve the pending transaction status from the clearing house; wherein upon successful verification of the pending transaction status and the stored value card, the stored value updater network updates the stored value card.
US11443294B2
A web server device is configured for communicating with a user device over a network via a web page. The web server device can detect a series of commands received from the user device. The web server device can match the series of commands to a workflow associated with a particular type of action. The web server device can, based on the particular type of action, select a particular database device from which to obtain data for executing the particular type of action. The web server device can generate, using data obtained from the particular database device, information for a user interface that is displayable by the user device for guiding a user via the web page to input information needed for the particular type of action.
US11443293B2
The present invention relates to the method and the system for initializing secure network access for POS terminals. Said system comprises a terminal backend system and a POS terminal. The POS terminal is provided with: a security module, which was preloaded with a terminal default public key certificate, a private key file, and a CA public key certificate of the terminal backend system in the setting of leaving the factory; a transaction module, which is used for performing the acquiring operation with the following core trading module; and a parameter initializing module, which is used for implementing network access. The terminal backend system is provided with: a core trading module, which determines whether an acquiring transaction is able to be executed based on the transaction unique identifier sent from the POS terminal, and completes the acquiring operation with the above transaction module in the case that the acquiring transaction is able to be executed; and a terminal certificate issuing module, which is used for generating a terminal transaction certificate and returning said terminal transaction certificate to said POS terminal. According to the present invention, remotely and securely initializing network access for POS terminals can be achieved.
US11443287B2
A computing platform may communicate with a device agent to receive digital system maintenance reporting, which may include information regarding steps taken to resolve issues of a digital system during a troubleshooting process. The computing platform may analyze the steps taken, and determine whether the steps resolved the troubleshooting. The computing platform may filter ineffective steps, and store steps associated with successful solutions in one or more distributed databases. The computing platform may receive information identifying a problem faced by a different system. The computing platform may analyze the distributed database to identify similar steps that successfully resolved the problem in the past, and mitigate the problem using the similar successful steps.
US11443279B2
One or more servers (70) are configured to periodically format (90, 92) and send (94) payments (26) to a payee. According to an exemplary embodiment, the payments (26) include a consolidated financial instrument (73) and at least one explanation of explanation of benefit (75) associated with the consolidated financial instrument. The consolidated financial instrument (73) transfers accumulated monies without co-mingling funds in compliance with ERISA regulations. According to an exemplary embodiment, the at least one associated explanation of benefit (75) includes a patient identification, a payer identification, a service provider identification, a date of service, a service identification, a patient obligation, and an amount paid. Acceptance of the payment to each payee is recorded (100) in a data store (102).
US11443278B2
A method for generating a blockchain warehouse receipt includes: obtaining item registration information provided by a first user; generating a blockchain warehouse receipt including basic type fields according to the item registration information by invoking a first smart contract, the basic type fields including a warehouse receipt type field, a warehouse receipt ID field, a generation time field, a state field, a category field, a property owner field, a quantity field, and a weight field; and storing the blockchain warehouse receipt in a blockchain network.
US11443275B1
This disclosure describes techniques for determining whether a transaction may be finalized with a user that exits a facility. To do so, the inventory management system may first determine whether the inventory management is to resolve any events prior to finalizing the transaction. In some instances, the inventory management system may refrain from finalizing a transaction with a user that exits the facility if the user is associated with a low-confidence result/event, if the user remains a candidate user for an unresolved event, or if a global-blocking event is in place at the time of the user's exit. In some instances, meanwhile, the transaction with a user may be finalized upon the user's exit of the facility if the user is associated with high-confidence events/results, is not associated with any low-confidence events/results, is not a candidate user for an unresolved event, and if no global-blocking event is in place at the time of exit.
US11443274B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for managing secure transactions between electronic devices and service providers. In one embodiment, an administration entity system may receive device order data from an electronic device, wherein the received device order data is indicative of an order for an item of value of a service provider system to be stored on the electronic device, transmit administration order data to the service provider system based on the received device order data, wherein the administration order data is indicative of the order for the item of value, receive service provider fulfillment data from the service provider system based on the transmitted administration order data, wherein the service provider fulfillment data includes the item of value, and transmit administration fulfillment data to the electronic device based on the received service provider fulfillment data, wherein the administration fulfillment data includes the item of value.
US11443270B2
A system includes a processor configured to detect a condition corresponding to low vehicle fluid. The processor is further configured to determine whether replacement fluid is available for on-site delivery to a vehicle location within a predefined time period. The processor is additionally configured to offer the fluid for sale to a user through a vehicle HMI, responsive to on-site delivery availability and, responsive to the user agreeing to purchase the fluid, instructing dispatch of a delivery entity to deliver the fluid.
US11443255B2
The disclosed embodiments provide a system for performing activity-based inference of title preferences. During operation, the system determines features and labels related to first title preferences for jobs sought by a first set of candidates. Next, the system inputs the features and the labels as training data for a machine learning model. The system then applies the machine learning model to additional features for a second set of candidates to produce predictions of second title preferences for the second set of candidates. Finally, the system stores the predictions in association with the second set of candidates.
US11443254B1
An apparatus for sharing information in a space comprising a first two dimensional outer emissive surface, a first two dimensional inner emissive surface, a support structure resting on and extending upward from the support floor, the support structure supporting the first outer emissive surface with a first outer surface bottom edge at a work surface height, a first outer surface top edge at a ridge height above the work surface height and supporting the first inner emissive surface with a first inner surface bottom edge at a valley height below the work surface height, a first inner surface top edge at a height above the work surface height, the first inner emissive surface spaced behind the first outer emissive surface by at least twelve inches to form a space between the first outer emissive surface and the first inner emissive surfaces.
US11443250B1
The disclosed embodiments relate to the electronic communication of messages via a communications network reflective of substantially continuously updated data in an electronic transaction processing system. The disclosed embodiments conserver electronic communications resources, e.g. bandwidth, while preserving real time delivery of critical data via selective or conditional publication and transmission of messages.
US11443238B2
A computer system is accessible to a database storing learning data to generate a prediction model, the learning data includes input data and teacher data, the computer system: performs first learning to set an extraction criterion for extracting the learning data including the input data similar to prediction target data in a case of being input the prediction target data; extract the learning data from the first database based on the extraction criterion and generate a dataset; perform second learning to generate a prediction model using the dataset; generate a decision logic showing a prediction logic of the prediction model; and output information to present the decision logic.
US11443232B1
Techniques for active learning-based data labeling are described. An active learning-based data labeling service enables a user to build and manage large, high accuracy datasets for use in various machine learning systems. Machine learning may be used to automate annotation and management of the datasets, increasing efficiency of labeling tasks and reducing the time required to perform labeling. Embodiments utilize active learning techniques to reduce the amount of a dataset that requires manual labeling. As subsets of the dataset are labeled, this label data is used to train a model which can then identify additional objects in the dataset without manual intervention. The label data can be added to an augmented manifest, the augmented manifest can be used to filter the dataset to perform further labeling jobs on the same or different subsets of the dataset.
US11443228B2
Embodiments for efficient machine and deep learning hyperparameter tuning in a distributed computing system. Runtime metrics of each training iteration are collected to identify candidate jobs to merge during an execution phase. The candidate jobs are grouped into job groups, and the job groups containing the candidate jobs are merged together subsequent to each iteration boundary for execution during the execution phase.
US11443226B2
A computer-implemented method applies labels to unlabeled public data for use by a global model. One or more processors train one or more local machine learning models with local private data to create one or more trained models. Processor(s) generate a label for each of the local private data using the one or more trained models, where each label describes the local private data, and then apply the label to unlabeled public data to create labeled public data. One or more processors then input the labeled public data into a global model that uses the public data.
US11443225B2
Systems and methods for intelligently providing users with supporting information based on big-data analyses of a data set. Machine-learning algorithms may be executed using the data set to identify correlations between data objects of the data set. The correlations can be used to recommend supporting information to a user. A user interface can be provided to enable a user to initiate a process associated with an event. In response to receiving the input, the system can identify variables associated with the request. Based on these variables, the system can retrieve output data of the machine-learning algorithms to identify the supporting information for the user.
US11443219B2
A model estimation system estimates a model of a system represented by an ordinary differential equation with all coefficients being non-zero, and with which input data and a state at each time can be obtained. When an order of the ordinary differential equation and input data and a state at multiple past times in the system are inputted, a model expression construction unit constructs an expression representing a model by using a first matrix that is a matrix according to the order and has only some elements as unknown elements and a second matrix that is a matrix according to the order and has only some one element as an unknown element. A model estimation unit uses input data and a state at multiple past times, to estimate the model by learning unknown elements of the first matrix and the unknown element of the second matrix.
US11443216B2
A system, computer program product, and method are provided to conduct gap probability mapping to predict presence and location of one or more gaps in a corpus. A probabilistic model is formed to represent inter-corpora associations of objects, which the model leverages to process query submissions. As queries are received and processed, the model creates an adjustment. Subject to evaluation, confidence of the adjustment is evaluated, and a response correlated to the confidence is returned.
US11443205B2
A self-managing database system includes a metrics collector to collect metrics data from one or more databases of a computing system and an anomaly detector to analyze the metrics data and detect one or more anomalies. The system includes a causal inference engine to mark one or more nodes in a knowledge representation corresponding to the metrics data for the one or more anomalies and to determine a root cause with a highest probability of causing the one or more anomalies using the knowledge representation. The system includes a self-healing engine, to take at least one remedial action for the one or more databases in response to determination of the root cause.
US11443203B1
Disclosed herein are systems and methods to efficiently execute predictions models to identify future values associated with various nodes. The systems and methods described herein retrieve a set of nodes and execute various clustering algorithms in order to segment the nodes into different clusters. The systems and methods described herein also describe generating one or more prediction models, such as time-series models, for each cluster of nodes. When a node with unknown/limited data and attributes is identified, the methods and systems described herein first identify a cluster most similar the new node, identify a corresponding prediction model, and execute the identified prediction model to calculate future attribute of the new node.
US11443202B2
The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods that include a machine-learned label embedding model that generates feature-based label embeddings for labels in real-time, in furtherance, for example, of selection of labels relative to a particular entity. In particular, one example computing system includes both a machine-learned entity embedding model configured to receive and process entity feature data descriptive of an entity to generate an entity embedding for the entity and a machine-learned label embedding model configured to receive and process first label feature data associated with a first label to generate a first label embedding for the first label.
US11443200B2
Described are a system, method, and computer program product for optimizing a predictive condition classification model and automatically enacting reactive measures based thereon. The method includes receiving event data representative of a plurality of events. The method also includes receiving the predictive condition classification model configured to categorize each event as satisfying a condition or not. The predictive condition classification model is configured to order the plurality of events by likelihood of satisfying the condition. The method includes generating a performance evaluation dataset and plotting data configured to cause a visual display to represent at least two model performance metrics of the performance evaluation dataset on a same output plot. The method includes automatically rejecting a top percent of the plurality of events for suspected satisfaction of the condition, determined at least partially from a customized rejection algorithm or a preset rejection algorithm.
US11443199B2
An apparatus, a program-stored storage medium and a method with an inference engine can execute inference using a minimum ruleset in various applications. The apparatus includes: a machine learning engine being a classifying-type engine configured to include adapted-to-category learning models each generated by using each adapted-to-category set of teacher data, the adapted-to-category set being obtained by classifying teacher data for each category, and to use the learning models to output a category data corresponding to the inputted object data; a ruleset selector configured to select, from rulesets each prepared for each category and stored in a rule base, a ruleset corresponding to the category data outputted from the machine learning engine; and a rule engine configured to execute inference to the inputted object data by using the ruleset selected by the ruleset selector, and to output the inference result.
US11443191B2
A parameter synchronization method is implemented in a computing device. The parameter synchronization method includes importing a deep learning training task of a preset model into a server communicatively coupled to the computing device, recording a preset number of iterative processes during the deep learning training, dividing each iterative process into a number of phases according to time, determining whether a time ratio of an H2D phase, a D2H phase, and a CPU phase in each iterative process is greater than a preset value, and confirming the server to use a copy mode for performing parameter synchronization when the time ratio of the H2D, D2H, and CPU phases is determined to be greater than the preset value.
US11443179B2
The disclosure presents herein a method to train a classifier in a machine learning using more than one simultaneous sample to address class imbalance problem in any discriminative classifier. A modified representation of the training dataset is obtained by simultaneously considering features based representations of more than one sample. A modification to an architecture of a classifier is needed into handling the modified date representation of the more than one samples. The modification of the classifier directs same number of units in the input layer as to accept the plurality of simultaneous samples in the training dataset. The output layer will consist of units equal to twice the considered number of classes in the classification task, therefore, the output layer herein will have four units for two-class classification task. The disclosure herein can be implemented to resolve the problem of learning from low resourced data.
US11443176B2
Mechanisms are provided for acceleration of convolutional neural networks on analog arrays. Input ports receive image signals from frames in an input image. Input memory arrays store the image signals received from the input ports into a respective input memory location to create a plurality of image sub-regions in input memory arrays. A distributor associated each of a set of analog array tiles in an analog array to a part of image sub-regions of the input memory arrays, so that one or more of a set of analog memory components is associated with the image signals in a distribution order to create a respective output signal. An assembler stores each of the respective output signals into one of a set of memory outputs in an output order that is determined by the distribution order.
US11443169B2
A computer implemented method for adapting a model for recognition processing to a target-domain is disclosed. The method includes preparing a first distribution in relation to a part of the model, in which the first distribution is derived from data of a training-domain for the model. The method also includes obtaining a second distribution in relation to the part of the model by using data of the target-domain. The method further includes tuning one or more parameters of the part of the model so that difference between the first and the second distributions becomes small.
US11443161B2
A method and apparatus for robot gesture generation is described. Generally speaking, a concept corresponding to a utterance to be spoken by a robot is determined (204). After a concept is determined or selected, a symbolic representation of a gesture that corresponds to the determined concept is retrieved from a predetermined gesture library (206). Subsequently, the symbolic representation is provided to cause the robot to perform the gesture (208). In such way, a more natural, comprehensive and effective communication between human and robots may be achieved.
US11443152B1
A printing system is disclosed. The printing system includes at least one physical memory device to store calibration logic and one or more processors coupled with the at least one physical memory device to execute the calibration logic to perform uniformity compensation of a plurality of secondary colors printed by pel forming elements, each of the pel forming elements associated with one of a plurality of primary colors, including generating a uniformity compensated first primary color transfer function for each of the pel forming elements associated with a first primary color and a uniformity compensated second color transfer function for each of the pel forming elements associated with a second primary color, generating an updated uniformity compensated first primary color transfer function for each of the pel forming elements associated with the first primary color and a uniformity compensated third primary color transfer function for each of the pel forming elements associated with a third primary color and generating an updated uniformity compensated second primary color transfer function for each of the pel forming elements associated with the second primary color and an updated uniformity compensated third primary color transfer function for each of the pel forming elements associated with a third primary color.
US11443140B2
Systems and methods for automated custom training of a scoring model are disclosed herein. The method include: receiving a plurality of responses received from a plurality of students in response to providing of a prompt; identifying an evaluation model relevant to the provided prompt, which evaluation model can be a machine learning model trained to output a score relevant to at least portions of a response; generating a training indicator that provides a graphical depiction of the degree to which the identified evaluation model is trained; determining a training status of the model; receiving at least one evaluation input when the model is identified as insufficiently trained; updating training of the evaluation model based on the at least one received evaluation input; and controlling the training indicator to reflect the degree to which the evaluation model is trained subsequent to the updating of the training of the evaluation model.
US11443134B2
A method of performing a convolutional operation in a convolutional neural network includes: obtaining input activation data quantized with a first bit from an input image; obtaining weight data quantized with a second bit representing a value of a parameter learned through the convolutional neural network; binarizing each of the input activation data and the weight data to obtain a binarization input activation vector and a binarization weight vector; performing an inner operation of the input activation data and weight data based on a binary operation with respect to the binarization input activation vector and the binarization weight vector and distance vectors having the same length as each of the first bit and the second bit, respectively; and storing a result obtained by the inner operation as output activation data.
US11443116B2
An electronic apparatus is provided. The electronic apparatus includes a memory configured to store an entity identification model, and a processor configured to control the electronic apparatus to: identify a plurality of entities included in an input sentence input based on the entity identification model, acquire a search result corresponding to the plurality of entities, and correct and provide the input sentence based on the search result based on the plurality of entities not corresponding to the search result, wherein the entity identification model may be acquired by learning through an artificial intelligence algorithm to extract a plurality of sample entities included in each of a plurality of sample dialogues. At least a part of a method for identifying an entity from a dialogue may use an artificial intelligence model learned according to at least one of machine learning, a neural network, deep learning algorithm, or the like.
US11443115B2
One embodiment provides a method that includes receiving adjusted labeled data based on emotional tone factors. Words are analyzed using a tone latent Dirichlet allocation (T-LDA) model that models tone intensity using the emotional tone factors and integrating the adjusted labeled data. Representative words are provided for each emotional tone factor based on using the T-LDA model. The representative words are obtained using the T-LDA model based on determining posterior probabilities and adjusting the posterior probabilities based on an auxiliary topic.
US11443092B2
A method, apparatus, and/or computer program product can perform an analog defect simulation on an electronic device. The method, apparatus, and/or computer program product can generate a defect catalog which identifies a defect class relating to a defect and a modeling parameter that is associated with the defect class. The method, apparatus, and/or computer program product can receive a weight formula that identifies a weight for the defect class in relation to the modeling parameter. The method, apparatus, and/or computer program product can call a defect weight function to return the weight from the defect weight formula. The method, apparatus, and/or computer program product can perform the analog defect simulation on the electronic device. The method, apparatus, and/or computer program product can determine a simulation statistic relating to the analog defect simulation utilizing the weight.
US11443081B2
In a part procurement system including a control device performing procurement of a part required by a customer, to the control device, customer's requirements information about the procured part inputted via a data input device, and at least BOM information that is part table information, CAD information that is computer-aided design information and part compatibility information, which are stored in a file server, are inputted; and the control device extracts candidate parts including candidates for the part required by the customer and alternatives for the part, based on the BOM information, the CAD information and the part compatibility information that have been inputted, and outputs a signal for displaying the extracted candidate parts on a display device.
US11443073B2
An integrated circuit includes a comparator circuit that generates a control signal based on a comparison between a threshold voltage and a supply voltage. The integrated circuit also includes a clock signal generation circuit that generates a clock signal and that receives the control signal. The clock signal generation circuit decreases a frequency of the clock signal to a reduced frequency in response to the control signal indicating that the supply voltage has decreased below the threshold voltage. The integrated circuit also includes a secure device manager circuit that has a timing circuit. The clock signal is provided to a clock input of the timing circuit. The timing circuit receives supply current from the supply voltage. The secure device manager circuit performs a security function for the integrated circuit using the timing circuit in response to the clock signal with the reduced frequency.
US11443072B2
A peripheral device package for use in a host computing device has a plurality of compute elements and a plurality of resources shared by the plurality of compute elements. A datastructure is stored in a hidden memory of the peripheral device package. The data structure holds metadata about ownership of resources of the peripheral device package by a plurality of user runtime processes of the host computing device which use the compute elements. At least one of the user runtime processes is a secure user runtime process. The peripheral device package has a command processor configured to use the datastructure to enforce isolation of the resources used by the secure user runtime process.
US11443067B2
Techniques are disclosed relating to installing and operating applications in a server-based application workspace. A computer system, while operating the server-based application workspace, may store subscription information indicating a user that is a developer for a particular application package, and one or more users that are subscribers for the particular application package. The computer system may further store lock data for the particular application package that indicates user permissions to edit at least one application component for the particular application package. Based on the lock data, the computer system may permit the developer to edit the at least one application component of the particular application package, and deny requests from the one or more users to edit the at least one application component.
US11443062B2
The disclosure relates to a computed-implemented method, a computer program, and a computer system for selectively verifying personal data. The method comprises receiving, by an identity application of a client device, personal data of a user. The method further comprises computing, via a cryptographic hash function, one or more cryptographic hashes from elements of the personal data. The method further comprises storing the cryptographic hashes, an internal identifier and a timestamp as an entry in a distributed database. The internal identifier is unique within the distributed database. The method further comprises receiving a user request from the user. The method further comprises selecting one or more of the elements of personal data for verification. The method further comprises requesting verification of the selected elements of personal data. The method further comprises determining an authorization indication in response to the verification request. When the authorization indication indicates that the verification request has been allowed, the method further comprises verifying the selected elements of personal data using cryptographic hashes from the entry in the distributed database.
US11443052B2
A system is provided for controlling access to data stored in a cloud-based storage service. Data associated with a user account is stored at the cloud-based storage service. A first request to cause a portion of the data to be associated with a heightened authentication protocol is received. In response, the portion of the data is caused to require the heightened authentication protocol for access. A second request for a file that is stored in the area that is associated with the heightened authentication protocol is received. The second request is authenticated based on the heightened authentication protocol. In response to authenticating the second request, permission is granted to access the file. In response to a failure to authenticate the second request, access to the file is denied, while access to files stored in other areas associated with the user account is allowed.
US11443047B2
Systems and methods are provided for use in authenticating a software artifact, including target applications for a payment network. One exemplary computer-implemented method includes retrieving metadata and a stage log for an artifact from a stage of a pipeline, the metadata including a result of the stage. A keyword count is generated of the stage log, and a checksum for the stage log is generated based on a hashing function. A stage record is compiled for the artifact and the stage. The stage record includes the checksum, a representation of the keyword count, and the result, but not the stage log. The stage record is stored in at least two different data structures. The artifact is authenticated based on the stage records for the artifact in each of the at least two data structures, prior to releasing the artifact into production.
US11443040B2
A method, computer program product, and a system where a secure interface control determines whether an instance of a secure guest image can execute based on metadata. The secure interface control (“SC”) obtains metadata linked to an image of a secure guest of an owner and managed by the hypervisor that includes control(s) that indicates whether the hypervisor is permitted to execute an instance of a secure guest generated with the image in the computing system based on system setting(s) in the computing system. The SC intercepts a command by the hypervisor to initiate the instance. The SC determines the presence or the absence of system setting(s) in the computing system. The SC determines if the hypervisor is permitted to execute the instance. If so, the SC enables initiation of the instance by the hypervisor. If not, the SC ignores the command.
US11443039B2
A controller computing system, including a plurality of controllers, each controller configured to i) calculate a respective output based on a current set point and ii) output a timer signal; a cyber security manager (CSM) computing module configured to: output a nominal signal indicating that the current set point is a non-malicious set point when the CSM computing module receives each of the timer signals from each of the plurality of controllers; and output a reset signal indicating that the current set point is a malicious set point when the CSM computing module receives less than each of the timer signals from the plurality of controllers.
US11443035B2
There is disclosed in one example a computing apparatus, including: a hardware platform including at least a processor and a memory; and a security agent including instructions encoded in the memory to instruct the processor to: monitor a user's operation of the computing apparatus over time, including determining whether a selected behavior is a security risk; provide a risk analysis of the user's operation based at least in part on the monitoring; select a scan sensitivity based at least in part on the risk analysis; and scan, with the selected sensitivity, one or more objects on the computing apparatus to determine if the one or more objects are a threat.
US11443021B2
An unlocking processing method can be applied to a terminal, and include: in response to detecting a touch operation on a hot zone for a spot of the terminal, determining a direction of a signal generated by the touch operation among a plurality of directions; determining a threshold according to the direction, wherein at least two of the plurality of directions each corresponds to a respective different threshold; and reporting a request for lighting up the spot in the hot zone, in response to that a coverage of the signal exceeds the threshold.
US11443019B2
A method of unlocking an electronic device with fingerprints is provided. The method includes: detecting a first contact parameter between an object and a touch screen of the electronic device; in response to determining that the first contact parameter meets a first preset condition to awaken a fingerprint recognition function of the electronic device, detecting a second contact parameter between the object and the touch screen; and awakening the fingerprint recognition function; in response to determining that the second contact parameter meets a second preset condition to perform the fingerprint recognition function, collecting fingerprint information of the object with a fingerprint sensor configured in the touch screen; and in response to determining that the fingerprint information matches pre-stored reference fingerprint information, unlocking the electronic device.
US11443018B2
An example hardware accelerator for a computer system includes a programmable device and further includes kernel logic configured in a programmable fabric of the programmable device, and an intellectual property (IP) checker circuit in the kernel logic. The IP checker circuit is configured to obtain a device identifier (ID) of the programmable device and a signed whitelist, the signed whitelist including a list of device IDs and a signature, verify the signature of the signed whitelist, compare the device ID against the list of device IDs, and selectively assert or deassert an enable of the kernel logic in response to presence or absence, respectively, of the device ID in the list of device IDs and verification of the signature.
US11443016B2
A pre-key is combined with non-pre key data to render a content key useful for decrypting content, such as audio-video content. This other, non-pre key data may be anything that, for example, an ATSC 3.0 source such as a Broadcaster would like to authenticate into the content. For example, the data that is XOR'd with pre-key information may include various fields such as the Broadcaster designated market area (DMA), a copyright notice, the identification of the content to be decrypted, the user's group ID (subscriber group), etc.
US11443009B2
An information processing system includes at least one information processing apparatus that communicate with a first service for supporting to create a home page and a second service for creating an analysis result by analyzing information related to browsing of the home page via a network, a home page information reception unit that receives home page configuration information concerning a configuration of the home page from the first service, an analysis result reception unit that receives an analysis result from the second service, an improvement information creation unit that creates improvement information for improving the home page based on the home page configuration information and the analysis result, and a communication unit that sends the improvement information created by the improvement information creation unit to a user terminal operated by a user.
US11443007B2
A method and system receives at a server a search request and processes the search request to determine a context of the search request, then determines, based on the context, a network route to an application server having the closest geographic proximity, with respect to the server, to the most relevant database associated with the context.
US11443005B2
Methods, systems, and computer program products are described herein for unsupervised clustering of browser history using web navigational activities. For example, correlation scores are calculated that indicate correlations between web pages indicated in a browsing history of a user. Moreover, the correlation scores are calculated based on web navigational activities determined from the browsing history. In addition, the web pages are clustered into a plurality of clusters based on the correlation scores and the clusters are ranked for relevancy to the user based on a relevancy algorithm. The relevancy algorithm determines a likelihood that a user will access a corresponding web page for each web page of a cluster. A cluster having a greatest ranking is identified and an indication of a web page of the identified cluster as a suggested web page to revisit is provided to a user.
US11443000B2
A method may include receiving a search phrase including a first word. In response to receiving the search phrase, a database may be queried to retrieve an item description matching the search phrase. The first item description may match the search phrase by including a second word that matches the first word in the search phrase. A semantic role for the first word included in the search phrase may be determined based on a semantic role of the second word included in the item description. An analytics result associated with the search phrase may be generated based on the semantic role of first word included in the search phrase. Related systems and articles of manufacture, including computer program products, are also provided.
US11442992B1
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a query from a user from a client system associated with the user, accessing a knowledge graph comprising a plurality of nodes and edges connecting the nodes, wherein each node corresponds to an entity and each edge corresponds to a relationship between the entities corresponding to the connected nodes, determining one or more initial entities associated with the query based on the query, selecting one or more candidate nodes by a conversational reasoning model from the knowledge graph corresponding to one or more candidate entities, respectively, wherein each candidate node is selected based on the nodes corresponding to the initial entities, dialog states associated with the query, and a context associated with the query, generating a response based on the initial entities and the candidate entities, and sending instructions for presenting the response to the client system in response to the query.
US11442990B2
A system and method for transforming input data in a data graph is structured in such a way that it does not destroy embedded contextual data yet also keeps the number of edges in the data graph sufficiently small in number that computation with respect to the data in the data graph is feasible with existing computational resources on extremely large graph sets. Incoming data is represented as a collection of “cliques” rather than placing each data object into its own node in the graph database. Maintaining the clique structure though the graph build pipeline dramatically reduces the exponential increase in the number of edges in the graph, while also maintaining all of the contextual data presented on the input record.
US11442983B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for contextually disambiguating queries are disclosed. In an aspect, a method includes receiving an image being presented on a display of a computing device and a transcription of an utterance spoken by a user of the computing device, identifying a particular sub-image that is included in the image, and based on performing image recognition on the particular sub-image, determining one or more first labels that indicate a context of the particular sub-image. The method also includes, based on performing text recognition on a portion of the image other than the particular sub-image, determining one or more second labels that indicate the context of the particular sub-image, based on the transcription, the first labels, and the second labels, generating a search query, and providing, for output, the search query.
US11442974B2
Responsive to a selection of a well (e.g., offset well), information coupled to the well may be obtained. Information coupled to the well may include structured information and unstructured information. A merged view of the obtained information may be presented. The merged view may provide a view of the structured information and the unstructured information organized according to a predefined presentation format and may facilitate analysis of the well (e.g., analysis of the offset well in planning a new well).
US11442969B2
To facilitate efficient entity resolution, systems and methods include a first dataset is received from a first database associated with a first entity and a second dataset is received from a second database associated with a second entity. A geo-grid is mapped to a geographical area covering the first entity data records and the second entity data records. A grid matching area in the geo-grid is generated for each first entity data record based on latitude data and longitude data of each first entity data record. Candidate matching records are determined from the second entity data records based on respective grid matching areas. Actual matching records are determined from the candidate matching records based on a threshold for a trigram similarity between each candidate matching record and the respective first entity data record. The actual matching records are associated with the respective first entity data record in the first database.
US11442958B2
Systems and methods for performing data protection operations including replication operations. A replication operation may automatically learn and predict when a replication system will need to switch modes, such as to a protective mode or to a fast-forward mode. The replication operation ensures that the data is replicated in a manner that optimizes the ability to retain data needed to perform point in time recovery operations while prioritizing the replication operation of new data.
US11442949B2
Various examples are directed to systems and methods for searching application rules. A rule management system may access application rule data describing a first application rule and generate a first textual summary of the first application rule. The rule management system may encode the first textual summary to generate a first rule vector. The rule management system may receive a application rule query. The application rule query may include a query description. The rule management system may encode the query description to generate a first query vector and select the first application rule as responsive to the application rule query using the first rule vector and the first query vector. The rule management system may return the first application rule in response to the application rule query.
US11442948B2
Systems, methods, and apparatus include computer programs encoded on a computer-readable storage medium, including a system for ranking videos. Videos are identified that have been presented at client devices. For each video, session start data is identified that specifies a lead video that initiated presentation to a user during a presentation session. For each lead video, presentation times over multiple user sessions are determined, a scaled presentation time is obtained, user sessions for which the lead video initiated presentation of videos are identified, and an aggregate video presentation time attributable to the lead video is determined. For each given video, a presentation score is determined based on a scaled presentation time of the lead video relative to a sum of the aggregate video presentation times for the lead videos. The videos are ranked based on the presentation scores. A user interface is updated to present the ranked videos.
US11442947B2
A query is received that requests issues relevant to a user. Thereafter, a plurality of issues responsive to the query are retrieved. The retrieved issues are ranked using a first machine learning model to result in a first subset of the retrieved issues. The first subset of the retrieved issues are then ranked using a second, different machine learning model to result in a second subset of the retrieved issues which are a subset of the first subset of the retrieved issues. Data can then be provided which is responsive the query and includes at least a portion of the second subset of the retrieved issues. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described.
US11442940B2
Embodiments of the disclosure are drawn to apparatuses, systems, methods, and memories that are capable of performing pattern matching operations within a memory device. The pattern matching operations may be performed on data stored within the memory based on a pattern stored in a register. The result of the pattern matching operation may be provided by the memory. The data on which the pattern matching operation is performed may not be output from the memory during the pattern matching operation.
US11442936B2
Concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to automated control loop searching (“ACLS”). According to one aspect disclosed herein, an ACLS system can create a search model that provides high-level information regarding what the ACLS system should search for when a search pattern is detected within data that is output from execution of a control loop. The ACLS system can activate a control loop system that executes the control loop to yield the data as output. The ACLS system can detect the search pattern within data, and in response, the ACLS system can execute, based upon the search model, a search of the data. The ACLS system can collect search results of the search and select additional data from the search results.
US11442933B2
An approach for implementing function semantic based partition-wise SQL execution and partition pruning in a data processing system is provided. The system receives a query directed to a range-partitioned table and determines if operation key(s) of the query include(s) function(s) over the table partitioning key(s). If so, the system obtains a set of values corresponding to each partition by evaluating the function(s) on a low bound and/or a high bound table partitioning key value corresponding to the partition. The system may then compare the sets of values corresponding to different partitions and determine whether to aggregate results obtained by executing the query over the partitions based on the comparison. The system may also determine whether to prune any partitions from processing based on a set of correlations between the set of values for each partition and predicate(s) of the query including function(s) over the table partitioning key(s).
US11442930B2
The present application discloses a method for data aggregation, the method includes: acquiring original data to be aggregated and dividing the original data into at least one first data set; determining whether each of the at least one first data set has a corresponding historical aggregation record; when there is at least one second data set with a historical aggregation record in the at least one first data set, acquiring a historical aggregation result corresponding to each second data set to obtain at least one first aggregation result; performing aggregation on each third data set without a historical aggregation record to obtain at least one second aggregation result; and determining a third aggregation result of the original data according to the at least one first aggregation result and the at least one second aggregation result, and determining a data tag of the original data according to the third aggregation result.
US11442926B2
A method for storing driving record data based on a blockchain comprises generating and storing driving record information associated with a driving of a vehicle; detecting occurrence of a predetermined event to the vehicle; if the occurrence of the event is detected, extracting driving record information related to the event from the stored driving record information; converting the extracted driving record information into transaction data; and transmitting the converted transaction data to a consortium blockchain network system.
US11442923B1
Systems and methods for processing data service requests are disclosed. The system may receive a data service request comprising a unique process code and a data input. The system may parse the data service request to determine the unique process code. The system may retrieve a data operation sequence based on the unique process code. The data operation sequence may comprise an ordered list of executable operations. The system may generate an operation service request based on a first executable operation and the data input. The system may execute the operation service request.
US11442918B2
The present embodiments relate to systems and methods for using a blockchain to record information related to processes and services in the vehicle industry. The systems and methods may include (1) receiving an indication of vehicle being involved a vehicle collision and a vehicle VIN; (2) accessing, at a memory, a loss history blockchain associated with the vehicle using the VIN as a key; (3) receiving vehicle sensor data generated or collected prior to, during, and/or after the vehicle collision; (4) creating a block to add to the loss history blockchain that includes the vehicle sensor data, or otherwise updating the loss history blockchain with the vehicle sensor data associated with the vehicle collision; (5) analyzing the vehicle sensor data to reconstruct the vehicle collision; and/or (6) updating the loss history blockchain to include and/or indicate the reconstructed vehicle collision by including the created block.
US11442909B2
A data analytics system. The data analytics system includes a communication processor configured to communicate with one or more remote electronic devices, and one or more electronic processors electrically coupled to the communication processor. The one or more electronic processors are configured to receive a first data from the one or more electronic devices, generate a determination including a first confidence level based on the first data, identify additional data which would increase the first confidence level; request the additional data, receive responses including the additional data, and generate a second confidence level of based on the second data.
US11442908B2
The disclosure describes a method for database migration including: identifying, during an uptime of a source database system, one or more increments between a back-up copy of the source database system and the source database system, the source database system comprising: one or more datafiles encoding data objects, and tablespace data encoding table/index data, restoring, in parallel and during the uptime of the source database system, the one or more datafiles from the back-up copy to a target database system that uses a different endian format; in response to determining that a downtime for the source database system has arrived, sequentially performing, during a downtime of the source database system: setting the tablespace data to read only; recovering datafiles on the target database system in accordance with the one or more increments; and setting the tablespace data to read and write; and activating the target database system to go live.
US11442907B2
Techniques and solutions are described for converting data models between formats, such as between a conceptual data model and a physical data model for a database system, or between a conceptual data model and artefacts to be implemented in the database system. The conceptual data model is annotated with annotations that allow the physical data model or database artefacts to be automatically generated from the conceptual data model. The annotations can reflect relationships between entity types in the physical data model, such as inheritance relationships, header/item relationships, or one-to-one cardinality relationships. Annotations can also indicate attributes that should be added to entity types in the conceptual data model, such as attributes for versioning or data governance, that may not be used in the conceptual data model. Annotations can be used to determine how entity types in the conceptual data model will be denormalized in the physical data model.
US11442906B2
In general, various aspects of the present invention provide methods, apparatuses, systems, computing devices, computing entities, and/or the like for generating and managing custom attributes and corresponding values for domain objects defined within microservices. In accordance with various aspects, a method is provided that comprises: receiving a custom attribute request for a domain object defined in a microservice that comprises a domain object identifier, a custom attribute to add to the domain object, and a value type for the custom attribute; identifying, based on the domain object identifier and the value type, a custom value table for the domain object that comprises placeholder fields; identifying a placeholder field that is available in the custom value table; and storing a record in the attribute schema table for the domain object and the custom attribute comprising mapping data that maps the custom attribute to the placeholder field for the custom value table.
US11442894B2
Methods, non-transitory machine readable media, and computing devices that provide file backup catalogs with improved scalability are disclosed. With this technology, a sequence number is incremented and an entry for a snapshot associated with obtained metadata for the snapshot is generated. The snapshot entry comprises a snapshot identifier for the snapshot and the incremented sequence number. A current version flag is then set in another entry for a file associated with a create event identified in the metadata. The file entry includes a file identifier for the file, a create attribute comprising the incremented sequence number, and a delete attribute. The file and snapshot entries are then inserted into indice(s) in a catalog database. Based on the schema of the indice(s), this technology provides a lightweight, elegant, and highly scalable catalog that more efficiently facilitates full path global file search and restore functionality with reduced resource utilization.
US11442888B2
Disclosed are a serial communication apparatus and a serial communication method. The serial communication apparatus comprises a radio frequency front-end module and a radio frequency device, a first input interface and a second input interface of the radio frequency front-end module being correspondingly connected to output interfaces of a main control module, a first output interface of the radio frequency front-end module being connected to a first input interface of the at least one radio frequency device via a first signal bus, a second output interface of the radio frequency front-end module being connected to a second input interface of the at least one radio frequency device via a second signal bus. The present invention satisfies requirements for convenient and rapid unidirectional communication between various chips of the radio frequency front-end module and inside the chips, reduces communication complexity, and increases transmission efficiency.
US11442886B2
A communication apparatus is disclosed with a communication controller that has a host-side communication interface for communicating with a host and a plurality of slave-side communication interfaces. Each slave-side communication interface has a plurality of electrical pins that are configurable to define a communication port that implements a selected communication protocol thereon. Each pin is in electrical communication with a slave socket having a predetermined layout. Each slave socket is configured to receive a protocol adapter that corresponds to the selected communication protocol and that is configured to facilitate communication between an external slave device and the relevant communication port.
US11442877B2
An electrical circuit device includes a signal bus comprising a plurality of parallel signal paths and a calibration circuit, operatively coupled with the signal bus. The calibration circuit can perform operations including determining a representative duty cycle for a plurality of signals transferred via the plurality of parallel signal paths, the plurality of signals comprising a plurality of duty cycles and comparing the representative duty cycle for the plurality of signals transferred via the plurality of parallel signal paths to a reference value to determine a comparison result. The calibration circuit can perform further operations including adjusting, based on the comparison result, a trim value associated with the plurality of duty cycles of the plurality of signals to compensate for distortion in the plurality of duty cycles and calibrating the plurality of duty cycles of the plurality of signals using the adjusted trim value.
US11442876B2
In one embodiment, an apparatus includes an arbitration circuit with virtual link state machines to virtualize link states associated with multiple communication protocol stacks. The apparatus further includes a physical circuit coupled to the arbitration circuit and to interface with a physical link, where the physical circuit, in response to a retraining of the physical link, is to cause a plurality of the virtual link state machines to synchronize with corresponding virtual link state machines associated with a second side of the physical link, and where at least one of the communication protocol stacks is to remain in a low power state during the retraining and the synchronization. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US11442871B2
A remove operation and an add-to-front operation may be currently performed with respect to nodes in an Least Recently Used (LRU) queue. A remove operation for a node may proceed if a lock can be obtained on the node to be removed and a predecessor node. During the remove operation, an add-to-front operation may proceed if a lock can be obtained on a dummy node that precedes the current front node of the LRU queue.
US11442867B2
A request to access data at an address is received from a host system. A tag associated with the address is determined to not be found in first entries in a first content-addressable memory (CAM) or in second entries in a second CAM. Responsive to determining that the tag is not found in the first entries or in the second entries, a particular entry of the first entries that each includes valid data is selected. A determination is made whether the particular entry satisfies a condition indicating that content in the particular entry is to be stored in the second CAM. The content is associated with other data stored in the cache. Responsive to determining that the condition is satisfied, the content of the particular entry is stored in one of the second entries to maintain the data in the cache.
US11442862B2
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for performing fair prefetching. An embodiment operates by splitting a data vector into a first subrange and a second subrange. The embodiment performs a first chance prefetch operation on the first subrange based on a fixed number of pages, thereby loading a set of pages of the first subrange into a main memory. The embodiment performs the first chance prefetch operation on the second subrange based on the fixed number of pages, thereby loading a first set of pages of the second subrange into the main memory. The embodiment performs a second chance prefetch operation on the second subrange based on the performing the first chance prefetch operation on the second subrange, thereby loading a second set of pages of the second subrange into the main memory. The embodiment then executes the query.
US11442859B2
The embodiments disclosed herein relate to computing a transportation plan for transporting goods from one place to another across a number of shipments and that satisfy multiple shipment orders. The transportation plan may specify a transportation channel that includes one or more segments selected from service provider rate offerings that may include a means of transportation, starting location, destination location, and cost of the segment. An actionable transportation plan may be computed based on current transportation planning data. Alternative plans may be computed for a variety of scenarios in which hypothetical changes are introduced to the transportation planning data. Any combination of an actionable transportation plan and alternative plans may be computed concurrently with computations sharing a common cache of production data.
US11442855B2
A cache memory circuit that evicts cache lines based on which cache lines are storing background data patterns is disclosed. The cache memory circuit can store multiple cache lines and, in response to receiving a request to store a new cache line, can select a particular one of previously stored cache lines. The selection may be performed based on data patterns included in the previously stored cache lines. The cache memory circuit can also perform accesses where the internal storage arrays are not activated in response to determining data in the location specified by the requested address is background data. In systems employing virtual addresses, a translation lookaside buffer can track the location of background data in the cache memory circuit.
US11442853B2
According to one embodiment, a memory system includes a nonvolatile semiconductor memory device, controller, memory, wireless communication function section, and extension register. The controller controls the nonvolatile semiconductor memory device. The memory is serving as a work area of the controller. The wireless communication module has a wireless communication function. The extension register is provided in the memory. The controller processes a first command to read data from the extension register, and a second command to write data to the extension register. The extension register records, an information specifying the type of the wireless communication function in a specific page, and an address information indicating a region on the extension register to which the wireless communication function is assigned.
US11442848B1
Automated patch compatibility testing systems, methods, and computer program products are disclosed. The automated compatibility testing systems, methods, and computer program products disclosed herein enable an entity to check the functionality of applications following patches applied to an original image so that the enterprise can determine how its target computing systems will react to such patches before those patches are actually installed/deployed to the target computing systems. The automated compatibility testing systems, methods, and computer program products disclosed herein helps enterprises ensure that patches do not adversely impact the target computing systems and the operations thereof, and enable the enterprise to operate with minimal disruptions, stay current with patches, and take proactive and informed business decisions in managing the enterprise's computer infrastructure.
US11442844B1
An integrated circuit includes a high-speed interface configured to communicate with a host system for debugging and a debug hub coupled to the high-speed interface. The debug hub is configured to receive a debug command from the host system as memory mapped data. The integrated circuit also includes a plurality of debug cores coupled to the debug hub. Each debug core is coupled to the debug hub by channels. The debug hub is configured to translate the debug command to a data stream and provide the data stream to a target debug core of the plurality of debug cores based on an address specified by the debug command.
US11442841B2
A server includes one or more processors configured to determine relationships between one or more executable files, one or more library files, and one or more application programming interfaces (APIs) of a first application, and compare the determined relationships of the first application to determined relationships between one or more executable files, one or more library files, and one or more APIs of a second application. An indication of a matching status between the first and second applications is provided based on the compare.
US11442839B2
Techniques for runtime metrics based test ordering in a computer system are described herein. An aspect includes determining a first runtime metric associated with a first module based on the execution of a first test case. Another aspect includes determining a second runtime metric associated with a second module based on the execution of a second test case. Another aspect includes comparing the first runtime metric and the second runtime metric. Another aspect includes determining an order of a plurality of test cases based on the comparison of the first runtime metric and the second runtime metric. Another aspect includes executing the plurality of test cases in the determined order.
US11442837B2
Systems and methods for monitoring a robotic process automation (RPA) system are provided. Job execution data for one or more jobs in the RPA system is determined based on logs of the RPA system. The job execution data for the one or more jobs in the RPA system is caused to be displayed in substantially real time.
US11442836B2
A system and method is disclosed for the combined analysis of transaction execution monitoring data and a topology model created from infrastructure monitoring data of computing systems involved in the execution of the monitored transactions. Monitored communication activities of transactions are analyzed to identify intermediate processing nodes between sender and receiver side and to enrich transaction monitoring data with data describing those intermediate processing nodes. The topology model may also be improved by the combined analysis, as functionality and services provided by elements of the topology model may be derived by the involvement of those elements in the execution of monitored transactions. The result of the combined analysis is used by an automated anomaly detection and causality estimation system. The combined analysis may also reveal entities of a monitored environment that are used by transaction executions but which are not monitored.
US11442832B2
Examples described herein relate to a system including a first management system having a primary memory including a free memory, a used memory, and a loosely reserved memory, where the loosely reserved memory comprises cache memory having a reclaimable memory; and a processing resource coupled to the primary memory. The processing resource may monitor an amount of the used memory and an amount of an available memory during runtime of the first management system. Further, the processing resource may enable a synchronized reboot of the first management system if the amount of the used memory is greater than a memory exhaustion first threshold or the amount of the available memory is less than a memory exhaustion second threshold, wherein the memory exhaustion first threshold and the memory exhaustion second threshold are determined based on usage of the reclaimable memory and a number of major page faults.
US11442828B2
A method comprising: prior to performing a planned i-th data movement in a distributed data system comprising a plurality of storage sites, generating (i) a first map of current locations of data item replicas following an immediately-preceding (i−1)-th data movement, (b) a first timestamp associated with a completion of said (i−1)-th data movement, and (c) a second map of expected locations of data item replicas following said i-th data movement; implementing said i-th data movement; generating, upon performing said i-th data movement, a second timestamp associated with a completion of said i-th data movement, wherein said second timestamp is indexed as i; and if a failure occurs with respect to at least one of said storage sites during said i-th data movement, determining a completion status of said i-th data movement, based on a comparison between said indexing of said second map and said indexing of said second timestamp.
US11442820B2
Systems and methods for reconstructing unified data in an electronic storage network are provided which may include the identification and use of metadata stored centrally within the system. The metadata may be generated by a group of storage operation cells during storage operations within the network. The unified metadata is used to reconstruct data throughout the storage operation cells that may be missing, deleted or corrupt.
US11442818B2
Data replication groups may be used to store data in a distributed computing environment. A data replication group may include a set of nodes executing a consensus protocol to maintain data durably. In order to increase efficiency and performance of the data replication group leadership and/or fitness information may be determined for each node of the set of nodes executing the consensus protocol. The fitness information may be based at least in part on information associated with computing resource in the distributed computing environment and one or more constraints on assignment of a role of master node in the data replication group. The master node may be responsible for advancing the data replication group.
US11442812B2
If processing of a first event in response to a stream event is not normally ended due to an occurrence of an exception or a timeout, the processing is executed repeatedly during a predetermined period of time from an occurrence of the first event. Then, after the predetermined period of time passes, an error notification is issued while processing of a second event that has occurred during the predetermined period of time is executed only once.
US11442809B1
User data units are received at a memory controller to be written to a RAID strip in non-volatile memory. A first parity value is calculated for the user data units using a first parity calculation. A second parity value different from the first parity value is also calculated for the plurality of user data units using a second parity calculation. The first parity value is stored in a first parity data unit in the non-volatile memory and the second parity value is stored in a second parity data unit in the non-volatile memory. Recovery from a failure of up to two data units thus enabled by recalculating the value of the failed data units based on one or more of the first parity data unit, the second parity data unit, and the values of other user data units of the plurality of data units.
US11442806B2
A vehicle display apparatus has a display and a control unit. The control unit detects whether or not an error recognizable by users of the vehicle has occurred in an image on the display on the basis of the result of matching between a first error detection code, which is generated on the basis of image data transmitted to a display drive unit, and a second error detection code, which is generated on the basis of the image data received by the display drive unit, to determine whether notification is required or not, and provides notification on deterioration in the reliability of the image on the display by controlling light-emitting elements and sound output units provided on the vehicle display apparatus or by way of a superordinate device.
US11442804B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for detecting anomalies in text content of data objects even when a format of the data and/or data object is unknown. These may include receiving a first data object that corresponds to a first application service and that includes first text content. An anomaly classifier may be trained based on an artificial neural network by using a natural language processing algorithm on respective text content of at least a portion of each of a plurality of data objects corresponding to the first computing service. Each of the plurality of data objects may be labeled as belonging a category. The trained anomaly classifier may identify one or more text character sequences in the first text content of the first data object as anomalous and output identifying information indicating the one or more anomalous text character sequences in the first text content of the first data object.
US11442802B2
A system with an interactive user interface for users to view and interact with sanitized log data received from a plurality of hosts, such as those associated with various services of an organization. The system may receive from hosts log files and/or metadata that have been filtered by agents executing on the respective hosts to remove or anonymize any sensitive or confidential information prior to transmission to the system. In some embodiments the system does further filtering of the sanitized data. Received sanitized data is parsed, indexed, and/or otherwise processed for optimal searching, and stored in a log pipeline. The system causes display of an electronic visualization interface comprising a dynamic electronic search configured to receive an indication of various log search criteria, such as an error or trace identifier, that are used to identify matching log files meeting the provided criteria, such as log files associated with services executed on different hosts.
US11442799B2
A method of retrieving printer error logs from a printer or a multi-function printer with a printer memory buffer and internal non-volatile storage involves receiving a print error. A processor determines if a print error is a fatal error or a non-fatal error. On condition the print error is a non-fatal error, the event log located in the printer memory buffer is printed using the printer or the multi-function printer. On condition the print error is a fatal error, the processor determines if there is enough storage capacity to save the fatal error into the internal non-volatile storage. On condition there is enough storage capacity, the processor saves the event log into the internal non-volatile storage. The user is then instructed to power cycle the printer or the multi-function printer.
US11442797B2
Systems and methods for providing referrer data to an application are provided. One method includes receiving a first set of data packets indicating a command to navigate from a first resource to a second resource. The first set of data packets identifies the first resource and secondary referrer data associated with the first resource or a first content item on the first resource. The method includes rendering the second resource and a second content item provided within the second resource. The method includes receiving a selection of the second content item. The method includes generating a second set of data packets including the secondary referrer data and primary referrer data associated with the second resource or the second content item. The method includes transmitting the second set of data packets to a server, receiving a deeplink generated by the server, and rendering a content interface using the deeplink.
US11442788B2
Example implementations relate to locating cloud system resources. A system can comprise a processor and a non-transitory memory resource storing machine readable instructions to receive a global positioning system (GPS) coordinate for hardware resources positioned at a plurality of geographic locations, tag resources stored at each of the plurality of geographic locations with a corresponding GPS coordinate, and determine a corresponding geographic location of a portion of the tagged resources based on extracted GPS coordinates for the portion of the tagged resources.
US11442786B2
The present disclosure provides a computation method and product thereof. The computation method adopts a fusion method to perform machine learning computations. Technical effects of the present disclosure include fewer computations and less power consumption.
US11442757B2
A simulation method and a simulation system are provided. The simulation system may be divided into an execution model and a processor model based on a JIT emulation engine. The execution model can call the JIT emulation engine to execute instructions, and obtain influence of instructions on a processor architectural status. The processor model may simulate an internal process of a target processor and determine whether to start/end a speculation. The execution model and the processor model may interact through a specific protocol. After the speculation is started, the simulation method may store an application running scene when the speculation is started, and redirect influence of speculation instructions on a memory to a memory snapshot. After the speculation is ended, the simulation method may also restore the application running scene to a status before the speculation is started, and cancel influence of the speculation instructions on the memory.
US11442752B2
A central management interface is provided for a plurality of different storage clusters of different storage domains. An indication of one of the plurality of different storage clusters is received. A native user interface version of the indicated storage cluster is determined. The determined native user interface version is loaded to provide a native management interface of the indicated storage cluster within a user interface context of the central management interface.
US11442750B2
Various embodiments for providing a user interface test and validation system are described herein. An embodiment operates by determining user interface (UI) settings and metadata, and fetching data corresponding to the metadata. A plurality of test procedures corresponding to the UI element are identified. A plurality of states to be present in a rendering of the UI element based on the plurality of test procedures, the metadata, and the data are identified. A rendering of the UI element is validated against the plurality of states. A test report is provided based on the validating.
US11442738B2
An execution method comprises the following operations: —every time an instruction to be protected of a preceding basic block is loaded, constructing a new value of a signature of this preceding basic block from the value of this instruction to be protected and the preceding value of the signature. The method further includes loading an initialization vector contained in a subsequent basic block and calculating, from said loaded initialization vector, a value reached for signing the preceding basic block. The method also includes comparing the constructed value of the signature with the expected value of this signature, and—only if these values do not match, triggering the signaling of a fault during the execution of the machine code.
US11442731B2
A data processor includes an execution unit that executes instructions to perform data processing operations, a register file operable to store data values for use by and produced by the execution unit, and a buffer intermediate between the register file for providing data values from the register file to the execution unit for use when executing an instruction, and to receive output data values from the execution unit for writing to the register file. Instructions to be executed by the execution unit of the data processor have associated buffer eviction priority indications representative of a priority for eviction from the buffer of an output data value that will be generated when executing the instruction. The buffer eviction priority indications are then used when selecting data values to evict from the buffer.
US11442727B2
An electronic device includes a processor, a branch predictor in the processor, and a predictor controller in the processor. The branch predictor includes multiple prediction functional blocks, each prediction functional block configured for generating predictions for control transfer instructions (CTIs) in program code based on respective prediction information, the branch predictor configured to select, from among predictions generated by the prediction functional blocks for each CTI, a selected prediction to be used for that CTI. The predictor controller keeps a record of prediction functional blocks from which the branch predictor previously selected predictions for CTIs. The predictor controller uses information from the record for controlling which prediction functional blocks are used by the branch predictor for generating predictions for CTIs.
US11442725B1
Disclosed are various embodiments for the refactoring of local calls to network calls during software modernization. First and second application components are identified based on analysis of a computing application. A local call from the first application component to a process of the second application component is identified, and an independently deployable microservice is created from the computing application. The independently deployable subunit comprises the second application component having a network endpoint. The independently deployable microservice is deployed such that the process is accessible to the first application component via the network endpoint. The local call is programmatically refactored into a network call from the first application component to the process of the second application component.
US11442722B2
A first data tree and a second data tree may be accessed. The first data tree may include a first set of directory nodes and a first set of file nodes, and the second data tree may include a second set of directory nodes and a second set of file nodes. The first data tree may be converted into a first data tree file, and the second data tree may be converted into a second data tree file. A delta for the first data tree and the second data tree may be generated based on a comparison of the first data tree file and the second data tree file.
US11442710B2
Described herein is a computer implemented method for managing a repository that includes one or more component packages and a repository configuration file listing repository dependencies. Each component package has a package configuration file listing package dependencies. The method including the steps of: parsing the repository configuration file; aliasing a package dependency listed in the repository configuration file with at least two repository dependency aliases; parsing a package configuration file; and linking each repository dependency alias to a package dependency listed in the package configuration file.
US11442708B2
Techniques for compiling source code include generating object code by processing source code corresponding to a portion of a software program. The source code includes an instruction, native to a program language, for a memory location access. Based at least in part on processing the source code, the compiler generates second object code that, when executed by one or more processors, configures the one or more processors to determine to implement the memory location access using first database access transaction operations or to implement the memory location access using second database access transaction operations. The compiler may generate third object code that configures the one or more processors to implement the memory location access using the first database access transaction operations or to implement the memory location access using the second database access transaction operations, based at least in part based on the determining.
US11442707B2
Aspects described herein may be used with local spreadsheet applications, web, and/or cloud-based spreadsheet solutions, to create complex custom software applications. Spreadsheets themselves lack the conceptual framework to be used as a platform tool to build custom or complex software applications. Using the methods and systems described herein using low-code/no-code techniques, a designer can create custom and/or complex software applications using one or more spreadsheets as the underlying blueprints for the software application. The resultant software application may be static/read-only, or may be interactive to allow users to dynamically add, delete, edit, or otherwise amend application data, e.g., via one or more online web pages or via a mobile application. Data transfer may be one-way or bi-directional between the blueprint spreadsheets and the resultant software application, thereby allowing amended data to be transferred from the software application back into spreadsheet form.
US11442704B2
Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in content generating, hosting and/or providing systems supported by or configured with devices, servers and/or platforms. The disclosed systems and methods provide a novel low-code/no-code software development framework that enables the creation of software (e.g., applications) through graphical user interfaces and configurations instead of traditional hand-coded programming. A low code (LC) model enables developers of varied experience levels to create applications using a visual user interface in combination with model-driven logic. Similarly, a no-code model enables the development of applications without and coding on the client-side. The disclosed LCNC framework, therefore, reduces the amount of traditional hand coding, enables accelerated delivery of business applications.
US11442703B2
This disclosure describes techniques and mechanisms for using a domain-specific language (DSL) to express and compile serverless network functions, and optimizing the deployment location for the serverless network functions on network devices. In some examples, the serverless network functions may be expressed entirely in the DSL (e.g., via a text-based editor, a graphics-based editor, etc.), where the DSL is a computer language specialized to a particular domain, such as a network function domain. In additional examples, the serverless network functions may be expressed and compiled using a DSL in combination with a general-purpose language (GSL). Once the serverless network function have been expressed and/or compiled, the techniques of this disclosure further include determining an optimized network component on which the serverless network function is to execute, and deploying the serverless function to the optimized network component.
US11442701B2
Methods, apparatus, and processor-readable storage media for filtering security controls are provided herein. An example computer-implemented method includes obtaining information pertaining to a software project and a target market of the software project; and identifying, based on the obtained information, at least one security control to be implemented in the software project, from among a plurality of security controls, in order to satisfy at least a threshold level of security defined for the software project, wherein the threshold level of security is based at least in part on one or more security standards related to the target market.
US11442700B2
A system includes an addressable memory array, one or more processing cores, and an accelerator framework coupled to the addressable memory. The accelerator framework includes a Multiply ACcumulate (MAC) hardware accelerator cluster. The MAC hardware accelerator cluster has a binary-to-residual converter, which, in operation, converts binary inputs to a residual number system. Converting a binary input to the residual number system includes a reduction modulo 2m and a reduction modulo 2m−1, where m is a positive integer. A plurality of MAC hardware accelerators perform modulo 2m multiply-and-accumulate operations and modulo 2m−1 multiply-and-accumulate operations using the converted binary input. A residual-to-binary converter generates a binary output based on the output of the MAC hardware accelerators.
US11442698B2
Random number generators include a thermal optical source and detector configured to produce random numbers based on quantum-optical intensity fluctuations. An optical flux is detected, and signals proportional to optical intensity and a delayed optical intensity are combined. The combined signals can be electrical signals or optical signals, and the optical source is selected so as to have low coherence over a predetermined range of delay times. Balanced optical detectors can be used to reduce common mode noise, and in some examples, the optical flux is directed to only one of a pair of balanced detectors.
US11442693B2
A method including, detecting interaction between the user and an audio-object via local tracking, determining an audio-object state modification based on the local tracking, and performing an audio-object interaction based on the audio-object state modification.
US11442690B2
Example systems and techniques disclosed herein facilitate interoperability between different media playback systems referred to herein as a virtual line-in (VLI) media playback system and a native playback system. When a VLI session is created by a VLI sender, a first native playback device can join a VLI group as a VLI receiver. As a VLI receiver, the first native playback device receives audio content and playback commands from the VLI sender to facilitate synchronous playback with other VLI receivers. At the same time, this native playback device can concurrently operate as a native domain group coordinator of a native domain synchrony group. As the native domain group coordinator, the native playback device translates VLI domain audio, control, and timing signals into the native domain and distributes such signals to native domain group members. In this way, the native domain group members can synchronize their playback with the VLI group.
US11442689B2
Examples of dynamic bonding of playback devices are disclosed. A disclosed example first playback device includes a shared device identifier to determine that a second playback device is sharable between a first bonded zone and a second bonded zone, the first bonded zone comprising the first playback device, the second bonded zone comprising a second playback device; a device manager to cause the shared playback device to join the first bonded zone; and an adjuster to change a first audio parameter of the first playback device in accordance with the joining of the shared playback device in the first bonded zone, wherein at least one of the shared device identifier, the device manager, or the adjuster is implemented via a processor.
US11442678B2
System and methods for printing a multi-media document from an image file are provided. The method includes a printing device receiving a data holding image file. A processor of the printing device parses and extracts document data for printing the multi-media document from the data holding image file. The processor processes the document data to receive instruction data for one or more printing operation components of the printing device. The method also includes sending the instruction data to one or more printer operation components of the printing device. Also, the method includes each of the one or more printer operation components performing a printer operation onto a multi-media document.
US11442676B2
In one example, a printing system includes a print engine and a print engine controller operatively connected to the print engine to print, on a single substrate web, graphics for multiple different layouts of corrugated boxes to be lined with the web and machine readable images representing corrugator control information for making the multiple different layouts.
US11442670B2
Systems and methods for bypassing a print dialog box that indicates a print confirmation, a prompt message, or a page preview, by employing a background print applet. The systems and methods may include detecting a print content to be printed by a printer, identifying one or more features of the print content, and determining one or more print settings based on the identified one or more features. The systems and methods may further include initiating the print content to be printed by the printer based on the determined print settings, whereby initiating the print content includes bypassing the print dialog box.
US11442668B2
A service management device includes a memory, and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to acquire respective execution times of programs that implement a service, identify a first volume having a largest influence on a response time of the service based on the respective execution times of the programs, where the first volume being any one of volumes of a storage device, and at least one of the programs writing and reading data to and from the storage device, and set a priority of writing and reading of data to and from the first volume higher than priorities of writing and reading of data to and from a remaining volume of the volumes.
US11442666B2
A storage system has a memory with primary and secondary blocks. Data is stored redundantly in the primary and secondary memory blocks but in a different programming order. For example, data is programmed in the first memory block starting at a first wordline and ending at a last wordline, while data is programmed in the second memory block starting at the last wordline and ending at the first wordline.
US11442664B2
Provided herein may be a memory system and a method of operating the same. The method of operating a memory system may include receiving a first program command, and performing an operation corresponding to the first program command, receiving a second program command while performing the operation corresponding to the first program command, delaying setting of a queue status register for the second program command by a first wait time, receiving a third read command before the first wait time elapses, and setting the queue status register for the third read command before setting the queue status register for the second program command.
US11442660B2
Systems and methods for scheduling storage management tasks over predicted user tasks in a distributed storage system. A method commences upon receiving a set of historical stimulus records that characterize management tasks that are run in the storage system. A corresponding set of historical response records comprising system metrics associated with execution of the system tasks is also received. A learning model is formed from the stimulus records and the response records and formatted to be used as a predictor. A set of forecasted user tasks is input as new stimulus records to the predictor to determine a set of forecasted system metrics that would result from running the forecasted user tasks. Management tasks are selected so as not to impact the forecasted user tasks. Management tasks can be selected based on non-contentions resource usage between historical management task resource usage and predictions of resource usage by the user tasks.
US11442656B2
An indication that one or more program operations have been interrupted as a result of a read operation can be received at a first controller component associated with a memory sub-system. Context data associated with interrupted program operations can be received at the first controller component. A control sequence based on the context data can be generated at the first controller component. The control sequence can indicate how a second controller component associated with the memory sub-system interacts with a memory component of the memory sub-system to perform the read operation and to resume the interrupted program operations. The control sequence can further specify one or more additional operations that are associated with copying data of the interrupted program operations between first and second memory locations of the memory component. The control sequence can be provided to the second controller component.
US11442651B2
Techniques rebuild data in a storage array group. Such techniques involve: in response to determining that a first storage device of a plurality of storage devices comprised in the storage array group is in a non-working state, generating a write record of the first storage device, the write record indicating whether a write operation occurs for each of a plurality of storage areas in the first storage device during the non-working state; in response to determining that the first storage device returns from the non-working state to a working state, determining, based on the write record, whether a target storage area in need of execution of data rebuilding is present in the first storage device; and controlling, based on the determining, the data rebuilding to be executed on the target storage area.
US11442649B2
A method according to one embodiment includes identifying a request to migrate data associated with a volume from a source storage pool to a destination storage pool, identifying volume segment table (VST) entries corresponding to rank extents within the source storage pool containing the data, allocating and synchronizing small VSTs for the identified VST entries within the volume, allocating one or more rank extents within the destination storage pool, transferring the data associated with the volume from the rank extents within the source storage pool containing the data to the one or more rank extents in the one or more ranks of the destination storage pool, updating the small VSTs to correspond to the transferred data in the one or more rank extents in the one or more ranks of the destination storage pool, and freeing the data from the one or more rank extents within the source storage pool.
US11442645B2
A method for storage cluster expansion is provided. The method includes distributing user data throughout a storage cluster as directed by each of a plurality of authorities in the storage cluster. Each of the plurality of authorities has a plurality of wards, and each of the plurality of wards has ownership of a range of the user data. The method includes splitting one of the plurality of authorities, as a parent authority, into at least two child authorities and assigning a first subset of the plurality of wards of the parent authority to one of the at least two child authorities, and a second subset of the plurality of wards of the parent authority to another one of the at least two child authorities.
US11442639B2
Techniques manage stripes in a storage system. In accordance with such techniques, in the storage system including a plurality of storage devices, a device correlation of a storage device in the plurality of storage devices is determined according to a request for creating a stripe in the storage system. The device correlation indicates distribution of a set of stripes created in the storage system between the storage device and other storage devices than the storage device. One storage device is selected from the plurality of storage devices based on the determined device correlation. One extent in the selected storage device is added to the stripe. As such, all extents in the stripe can be distributed as evenly as possible in the plurality of storage devices in the storage system, thus ensuring load balancing of the storage system and more effective management of the stripes in the storage system.
US11442621B2
A computing device detects a press of a global shortcut key simultaneously with a first press and release of a modifier key. In response thereto, an operation is initiated in a non-default display region. The operation might be displaying a user interface element in the non-default display region. The computing device can also detect a second press and release of the modifier key simultaneously with the press of the global shortcut key. In response thereto, the operation can be initiated in a second display region, such as a default display region. The second press and release of the modifier key can be detected within a predetermined period of time following the detection of the first press and release of the modifier key. The operation might be simultaneously initiated in multiple display regions, such as sharing a region that encompasses the non-default display region and one or more other display regions.
US11442619B2
A computing device includes a memory for storing vector graphics including information about graphic objects including locations of the graphic objects, a display for displaying a representation of the vector graphics and a surface or pointing device for detecting an indication of a change in the vector graphics. In response to detecting the indication, the computing device is configured to automatically change a geometry of at least one other graphic object connected to at least one other graphic object at one or more locations of the at least one graphic object, the change includes a change in at least one location of the at least one graphic object, and at least one location of the at least one other graphic object is unchanged, and automatically change at least a portion of the representation, and the display is configured to display at least a portion of the changed representation.
US11442611B2
A display apparatus includes a display, a single physical button and a processor configured to control the display to display a guide user interface (UI), a selection UI and a plurality of menu items, based on a user input received via the single physical button being identified as a short click input, move the selection UI from one menu item among the plurality of menu items to another menu item among the plurality of menu items, based on the user input being identified as a long press input, select the one menu item and execute a control function corresponding to the selected one menu item, and based on an execution of the control function, control the display to display a setting UI indicating a current setting value of the control function.
US11442610B2
Embodiments of this application disclose a virtual item adjustment method performed at a computing device having a touchscreen. The method including: displaying a virtual object presenting interface on the touchscreen, the virtual object presenting interface comprising a first virtual object and a second virtual object, the first virtual object and the second virtual object being two virtual objects respectively controlled by two different user accounts; receiving a slide operation signal on the touchscreen, the slide operation signal having a start position on the second virtual object and an end position on the first virtual object; and adjusting a virtual item of the first virtual object according to a virtual item of the second virtual object. The embodiments of this application implement the function of adjusting a virtual item of a virtual object only through a slide operation. Therefore, the operation simpler and more efficient.
US11442609B1
A graphical user interface for setting speed and direction of video playback may include a timeline representation of video duration. Playback speed and playback direction from a selected point of the video may be determined based on user interaction with the graphical user interface. An extent of the video duration to which the selected playback speed and selected playback direction is applied may be determined based on movement of the timeline representation.
US11442596B1
A mapping system presents geographically relevant images. The images may be relevant to a search entered by the user, directions requested by the user, or any other factor relevant to the user's relationship to the displayed map. Moreover, the images may change in response to user actions or other factors, wherein new images “bubble up” as user context changes. The mapping system may display geographically relevant images by way of an information card presented in response to a user interacting with a point on a digital map. The user may interact with any of the geographically relevant images, causing an indicator of the map location associated with the image to be presented. Alternatively or additionally, a user interaction with a geographically relevant image may cause an interactive panoramic presentation of street-level imagery to be presented.
US11442585B2
A touch display module includes a display panel and a touch sensing layer. The touch sensing layer is embedded in the display panel and includes a plurality of sensing electrode groups. The sensing electrode groups are sequentially arranged along a first axial direction. One of the sensing electrode groups includes a first electrode block, a second electrode block, and a third electrode block spaced apart from each other. The first electrode block is located at a same side of the second electrode block and the third electrode block in the first axial direction and is located between the second electrode block and the third electrode block in a second axial direction perpendicular to the first axial direction.
US11442579B2
A method for accidental touch prediction using machine learning (ML) classification is provided. The method includes determining, by an electronic device, a mutual data index of a sensor data using a first ML model. Further, the method includes recognizing whether the sensor data corresponds to an object touch or a non-object touch based on the mutual data index. Further, the method includes performing, by the electronic device, one of detecting that the electronic device is in a pocket mode and providing an object touch notification on a touch screen of the electronic device in response to determining that the sensor data corresponds to the object touch, and recognizing whether the sensor data corresponds to an accidental touch or a non-accidental touch using at least one second ML model based on touch data in response to determining that the sensor data corresponds to the non-object touch.
US11442577B2
A touch sensitive processing method applicable to a touch panel is provided. The touch panel includes sequentially a third electrode layer, a flexible dielectric layer, and at least one touch electrode layer. The third electrode layer includes multiple parallel third electrodes. The at least one touch electrode layer includes first electrodes in parallel to a first axis and second electrodes in parallel to a second axis. Each of the first electrodes intersects with the second electrodes to form multiple intersections. The touch sensitive processing method comprises: performing self-capacitance detection via the third electrodes to retrieve an approximating event, performing mutual-capacitance detection via the first electrodes and the second electrodes to retrieve a touching event, and reporting the approximating event to a host if the touching event is detected, or reporting the touching event if it is detected.
US11442571B2
A touch surface device, comprising at least: an element comprising a first face forming the touch surface and a second face opposite to the first face; an acoustic wave sensor including at least one portion of piezoelectric material disposed between two electrodes, the portion of piezoelectric material and both electrodes being structured by forming surface wavinesses as wrinkles, the sensor being secured to the second face of the element such that apexes or valleys of the wrinkles are in contact with the second face of the element; an electronic circuit coupled to the electrodes of the sensor and configured to identify, from an electric signal intended to be outputted from the electrodes of the sensor, at least one touch gesture made on the touch surface.
US11442568B2
A sensor device is provided and includes electrodes each including first parts and a second part connected to the first parts, the first parts each extending in a first direction, the second part extending in a second direction different from the first direction; and a lead line including a third part connected to the second part and a fourth part connected to the third part, the third part extending in the first direction, the fourth part extending in a third direction different from the first direction, wherein the electrodes are arranged in the second direction, the second part is located between the lead line and the first parts, and the third part is located between the second part and the fourth part.
US11442566B2
A display panel and a display device are provided. The display panel includes a touch unit. The touch unit includes first detection electrode groups arranged along a first direction, second detection electrode groups arranged along a second direction, and bridges including a first bridge. The first direction intersects the second direction. Each of the plurality of first detection electrode groups includes a first detection electrode sub-block and a second detection electrode sub-block that are adjacent to each other along the first direction. The first detection electrode sub-block includes a first main portion, and the second detection electrode sub-block includes a second main portion and a first branching portion. The first branching portion extends toward the first main portion, and the first bridge is configured to electrically connect the first branching portion and the first main portion.
US11442564B2
The present disclosure relates to the technical field of display devices, and discloses a touch display device and a fabrication method thereof, and terminal equipment. The touch display device includes: a cover plate; a mold frame, including a bottom and an extended part, wherein the bottom and the extended part define a groove; adhesive, located at the end part of the extended part; a touch display module, located in the groove and including a display panel and a touch panel located at the side, facing the cover plate, of the display panel; and a touch flexible printed circuit board, bound to a side edge of the side, facing away from the display panel, of the touch panel and bent to the side, facing away from the touch panel, of the display panel, wherein the touch flexible printed circuit board is provided with a plurality of through holes at the area other than the binding position. The touch display device has the advantage that the size of the border is effectively reduced, thereby providing a feasible technical solution for fabricating full-screen terminals.
US11442563B2
An improved portable media device and methods for operating a media device are disclosed. According to one aspect, the portable media device can also function as a solid-state drive for data storage. The form factor of the portable media device can be hand-held or smaller, such that it is highly portable. The portable media device can use one or more status indicators. The portable media device can also include a peripheral bus connector, a rechargeable battery, and one or more input devices. According to another aspect, the portable media device has the capability to store media device status information in persistent memory before powering down. Thereafter, when the portable media device is again powered up, the stored media player status information can be retrieved and utilized. According to still another aspect, the portable media device can form and/or traverse a media asset playlist in an efficient manner.
US11442558B2
According to various embodiments, there is provided an input device including a height sensor structure configured to provide a height output indicative of whether a gap between the input device and a reference surface is larger than a threshold value; a control circuit configured to control tracking of a movement of the input device in a plane defined by the reference surface, based on the height output; a motion detector configured to provide a detector output indicative of a direction of an at least substantially vertical motion of the input device; and an adjustment circuit configured to adjust the threshold value based on the detector output.
US11442549B1
Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that enable more intuitive and efficient selection and positioning of visual effects. In some implementations, a visual effect is selected and a surface of a physical element is identified for application of the visual effect based on tracking one or more positions or gestures of a user's hand.
US11442541B1
A method for color-based calibration for eye-tracking includes presenting a calibration image to an eyebox area via a waveguide of a head mounted display (HMD). An estimated pupil center location of an eye is determined with an eye-tracking system. Next, user input is received in response to the calibration image. The user input includes an indication of a perceived color nonuniformity of the calibration image. The estimated pupil center location is then adjusted based on the user input.
US11442539B2
One implementation involves a device receiving a stream of pixel events output by an event camera. The device derives an input image by accumulating pixel events for multiple event camera pixels. The device generates a gaze characteristic using the derived input image as input to a neural network trained to determine the gaze characteristic. The neural network is configured in multiple stages. The first stage of the neural network is configured to determine an initial gaze characteristic, e.g., an initial pupil center, using reduced resolution input(s). The second stage of the neural network is configured to determine adjustments to the initial gaze characteristic using location-focused input(s), e.g., using only a small input image centered around the initial pupil center. The determinations at each stage are thus efficiently made using relatively compact neural network configurations. The device tracks a gaze of the eye based on the gaze characteristic.
US11442537B2
Methods and apparatus for glint-assisted gaze tracking in a VR/AR head-mounted display (HMD). Images of a user's eyes captured by gaze tracking cameras may be analyzed to detect glints (reflections on the cornea of light sources that illuminate the user's eyes) and the pupil. The glints are matched to particular ones of the light sources. The glint-light source matches are used to determine the cornea center of the eye, and the pupil center is determined. The optical axis of the eye is reconstructed from the cornea center and the pupil center, and the visual axis is then reconstructed from the optical axis and a 3D model of the user's eye. The point of gaze on the display is then determined based on the visual axis and a 3D model of the HMD.
US11442532B2
Methods and systems for filtering content include identifying content for presenting in a rendering space defined by one or more mechanisms of a head mounted display (HMD), wherein the content is interactive, streaming content. A rating score for the content is identified. The content is dynamically adjusted to selectively filter a portion of the content based on a user profile of the user, rating score of the content, and ongoing interactions detected at the content. The adjusted content is formatted for rendering on the HMD. The formatted content is automatically transmitted to the HMD for rendering, in response to the request.
US11442529B2
In one embodiment, an apparatus comprises: a plurality of intellectual property (IP) circuits, each of the plurality of IP circuits including a configuration register to store a dynamic current budget; and a power controller coupled to the plurality of IP circuits, the power controller including a dynamic current sharing control circuit to receive current throttling hint information regarding a workload to be executed on at least some of the plurality of IP circuits and generate the dynamic current budget for each of the plurality of IP circuits based at least in part thereon. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US11442513B1
The systems and methods manage thermal states of a device through user configuration of a client application on the device. The systems and methods set thermal thresholds associated with the device. The systems and methods infer the thermal thresholds from information gathered by a client application running on the device. The systems and methods implement a stored policy associated with a violation of one of the thermal thresholds by one of the monitored thermal states.
US11442507B2
A mobile electronic device includes a main framework, a back cover, a door cover, a functional module and a stop element. The back cover covers the main framework and has an expansion window. The door cover covers the expansion window. The functional module is disposed on an inner side of the door cover and electrically connected to a motherboard in the main framework. An operation interface corresponding in position to an outer side of the door cover is disposed on one side of the functional module. One side and the other side of the functional module oppose each other. The stop element is disposed on the inner side of the door cover, abuts against the other side of the functional module, and thus prevents the functional module from retracting under an external force. Therefore, the mobile electronic device is insusceptible to a collision and a fall.
US11442503B2
An electronic device such as a wearable electronic device may have a band. The band may form a stand-alone device or a strap for a wristwatch unit or other device. Electrical components may be mounted on flexible printed circuit substrates. A substrate may be encapsulated by elastomeric polymer material or other material forming the band. The elastomeric polymer material may form cavities that receive the electrical components. Components such as light-emitting diodes may be mounted to the flexible printed circuit substrates so that the light-emitting diodes are located in the cavities. Reflective sidewalls in the cavities may reflect light from the light-emitting diodes outwardly through a thinned portion of the band. Light-diffusing material in the cavities may be formed from clear polymer with light-scattering particles.
US11442492B2
An apparatus and method to protect unauthorized change to a reference clock for a processor. The apparatus comprises: a first oscillator to generate a first clock; a second oscillator to generate a second clock; a third oscillator to generate a third clock; a first counter to count frequency of the first clock with respect to a fourth clock; a second counter to count frequency of the second clock with respect to the fourth clock; a third counter to count frequency of the third clock with respect to the fourth clock; and a circuitry to compare frequencies of the first, second, and third clocks with one another. The oscillators can be embedded in an interposer or package. These oscillators include one or more of: LC oscillator, micro electro-mechanical system (MEMs) based resonator, or ring oscillator.
US11442491B2
A dynamic power monitor for monitoring a power of a block in an integrated circuit is provided. The dynamic power monitor includes an input buffer configured to store first state values corresponding to internal signals of the block according to a first cycle of a clock signal; a power calculator configured to identify first power classification values corresponding to the block according to the first cycle, based on the first state values; and a filter configured to identify a first filtered value of the first power classification values.
US11442490B1
Examples of clock generators with very low duty cycle distortion (DCD) are provided. A clock source and driver generate a main clock signal and a complementary clock signal that are input to a chopper circuit, which also receives complementary chopper control signals from a non-overlapping generator circuit. The chopper circuit is controlled to pass the main clock signal as a first output signal when the chopper circuit is in a first state, and pass the complementary clock signal as a second output signal when the chopper circuit is in a third state. In a second state, which occurs during each of the falling edges of the main clock signal, the chopper circuit holds the previous state, and does not transmit the falling edges of the main clock signal. The rising edges of the main clock signal is used to derive the rising and falling edges of the output signals.
US11442489B2
A joystick has a lever and a housing. The lever is pivotable around a pivot axis. The joystick has a support plate carrying at least one sensor. The sensor has at least one coil generating a magnetic field. An eddy current is induced into the coil. At least one metal flag is movable relative to the coil. The motion of the metal flag coincides with the tilting motion of the lever.
US11442480B2
A power supply circuit in which an increase in a leakage current can be suppressed is provided. In a power supply circuit in which a main LDO unit outputs a first internal voltage during a normal operation and a sub LDO unit outputs a sleep voltage during a sleep operation, the sleep voltage is applied to a drain of a transistor, and an external voltage higher than the sleep voltage is applied to a gate and a back gate thereof.
US11442477B2
An attachable, detachable pressure reducing regulator for use with a primary high-pressure gas source, wherein the high-pressure chamber of said regulator includes a secondary gas IN portal, with a one-way valve, through which the primary container source may be refilled from an external gas source, via the high-pressure chamber of the said regulator, either independently of or concurrently during its use as a pressure reducing regulator.
US11442472B1
A system for automated flight plan reporting for an electric aircraft, the system including a flight controller coupled to the electric aircraft configured to receive a digital datum from a remote device, generate a plan adjustment datum as a function of the digital datum, and transmit the plan adjustment datum to a pilot display, a pilot display coupled to the electric aircraft, wherein the pilot display is configured to receive the plan adjustment datum from the flight controller, display the plan adjustment datum to a user; and receive a confirmation datum from the user.
US11442465B2
A robot cleaner is provided. A robot cleaner includes a cleaner main body, a battery configured to supply a power, a memory configured to store floor material information corresponding to each of a plurality of subspaces configuring a space, and a processor configured to identify a cleaning mode corresponding to each of the plurality of subspaces based on the floor material information corresponding to each of the plurality of subspaces, identify an order of priority of each of the plurality of subspaces based on the identified cleaning mode and a remaining amount of power, and set a movement path of the robot cleaner based on the identified order of priority.
US11442463B1
An autonomous mobile device moves through a physical space using simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) techniques. SLAM processes images from cameras to determine localization and trajectory of the device based on features that are assumed to be stationary. SLAM performance is improved by removing moving features from consideration. A first position of a feature at a first time and data from an inertial sensor are used to determine a predicted position at a second time. The predicted position is compared to a second position of the feature at the second time. This comparison takes into consideration an assumed Gaussian error distribution of how the positions are determined. If the predicted position differs from the second position by less than a threshold value, the feature may be determined to be stationary. The stationary features are then processed using SLAM to determine the localization and trajectory information.
US11442456B2
An apparatus for determining a lane change path of an autonomous vehicle is provided. The apparatus includes a learning device configured to learn lane change paths corresponding to a lane change strategy of the autonomous vehicle, and a controller configured to interwork with the learning device to extract at least two lane change paths corresponding to the lane change strategy among a plurality of lane change paths in a drivable area of the autonomous vehicle and determine a final lane change path based on properties of the extracted lane change paths.
US11442453B2
An information processing apparatus manages operation of an autonomous vehicle that delivers a package. The information processing apparatus includes a control section that before the autonomous vehicle arrives at a basic delivery destination that is an original delivery destination of the package, acquires a location, at a planned delivery time of the package, of a user that receives the package, and where the location is different from the basic delivery destination, transmits an instruction for delivering the package to the location to the autonomous vehicle.
US11442451B2
Systems and methods for generating driving recommendations are disclosed herein. One embodiment divides automatically a roadway into a plurality of lane-level cells; generates a graph network that represents the plurality of lane-level cells; gathers information pertaining to one or more detected road agents; projects onto the graph network the gathered information pertaining to the one or more detected road agents to update a current status of the plurality of lane-level cells; processes the graph network based on the updated current status of the plurality of lane-level cells to predict a future status of the plurality of lane-level cells, the predicted future status including at least occupancy, by a detected road agent, of the respective lane-level cells in the plurality of lane-level cells; and generates a driving recommendation based, at least in part, on the predicted future status of the plurality of lane-level cells.
US11442443B2
An acquisition unit is configured to acquire measurement values of a target device. A likelihood calculation unit is configured to calculate an occurrence likelihood for each of a plurality of phenomena that are liable to occur to the target device based on the measurement values acquired by the acquisition unit. A table storage unit is configured to store a table in which the plurality of phenomena and occurrence causes of abnormalities of the target device are associated to each other. As estimation unit is configured to estimate the occurrence causes based on the occurrence likelihood and the table.
US11442437B2
Systems and methods presented herein provide for multivariable model predictive control of a multistep plant. In one embodiment, a model predictive controller (MPC) includes a model of the multistep plant. The MPC is operable to linearize at least two steps of the multistep plant into cycle steps based on the model, to process an output signal from the multistep plant, and to independently control the cycle steps based on the output signal to optimize an output of the multistep plant.
US11442432B2
Method for data transmission within an industrial communication network, wherein selected datagrams are transmitted within predetermined time intervals, which are synchronized at all network nodes, where a number of network nodes from the respective source network node to the respective target network node is determined for forwarding the selected datagrams in each case, and where the selected datagrams are transmitted during first periodic time intervals having a first protection interval length in the event of a determined number of network nodes corresponding to at least one predefined threshold value and, in contrast thereto, if a determined number lies below the threshold value, then the selected datagrams are transmitted during second periodic time intervals having a second protection interval length, which is shorter than the first protection interval length.
US11442429B2
A system for detection of an anomaly in a discrete manufacturing process (DMP) with human-robot teams executing a task. Receive signals including robot, worker and DMP signals. Predict a sequence of events (SOEs) from DMP signals. Determine whether the predicted SOEs in the DMP signals is inconsistent with a behavior of operation of the DMP described in a DMP model, and if the predicted SOEs from DMP signals is inconsistent with the behavior, then an alarm is to be signaled. Input worker data into a Human Performance (HP) model, to obtain a state of the worker based on previously learned boundaries of human state. The state of the HW is then input into the HRI model and the DMP model to determine a classification of anomaly or no anomaly. Update a Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) model to obtain a control action of a robot or a type of an anomaly alarm.
US11442423B2
Embodiments are directed to providing a user interface (UI) that streamlines and simplifies the process of monitoring critical power-generation module (PGM) parameters after a PGM assembly is shutdown. The UI displays, in real-time, indicators corresponding to one or more post-shutdown PGM parameters. The UI provides indications of whether the post-shutdown PGM parameters meet post-shutdown criteria of the PGM assembly. When a post-shutdown PGM parameter does not meet the post-shutdown criteria, a user alert is provided to the user. A protocol may additionally be provided to the user. In some embodiments, the protocol may enable the user to return the PGM assembly to a condition that satisfies the post-shutdown criteria. The protocol may be a safety protocol and/or an asset protection protocol.
US11442422B1
Some aspects include a schedule development method for a robotic floor-cleaning device that recognizes patterns in user input to automatically devise a work schedule.
US11442421B2
An adapter for connecting an embedded system to a control computer having a standard interface, in particular a network interface, a first subcircuit, and a second subcircuit, the first subcircuit being designed to communicate with the control computer via the standard interface by means of a standard protocol, preferably XCP. The first subcircuit is designed to convert a protocol functionality requested in the standard protocol via the standard interface, out of a set of supported protocol functionalities into the call for one or more elementary functions out of a defined overall set of elementary functions. The first subcircuit is connected to the second subcircuit via an internal interface, wherein the second subcircuit has a programmable computing module which is configured to provide at least one elementary function out of the overall set of elementary functions which can be called up via the internal interface by means of a call.
US11442417B2
A control system comprises a memory storing a sequence of sensor data received from one or more sensors. The control system has a processor which processes the sensor data to compute a sequence of derived sensor data values. An autoencoder receives the sequence of derived sensor data values and computes a forward prediction of the sequence of derived sensor data values, the autoencoder having been trained imposing a relationship on positions of the derived sensor data values encoded in a latent space of the autoencoder. A processor initiates control of an apparatus using the forward prediction.
US11442412B2
An exterior member that is favorably manufactured, a case having the exterior member and a timepiece having the case are provided. The exterior member includes an exterior main body section in which a first resin layer is provided on one side of a sheet member formed of carbon fiber and a cutout recess section from which a portion of the sheet member is exposed is provided in the first resin layer on the one side of the sheet member, and a protection member which covers the cutout recess section of the first resin layer. Accordingly, the exterior member is favorably manufactured with its strength being increased.
US11442411B2
A timepiece, in particular a pocket watch, that includes a case delimited by a middle, the timepiece further including at least one cover covering a device for displaying information, as well as a device for controlling the opening of the at least one cover, this control device including a ring pendant and a command transmission member, the ring pendant arranged such that it is pushed in a rectilinear manner a first time towards the middle into a first abutment position, then such that it is rotated in a first direction into a second abutment position, then such that it is pushed in a rectilinear manner a second time towards the middle so as to cause the cover to open by an action on the command transmission member.
US11442405B2
A drum unit for a cartridge includes a cylindrical photosensitive drum having an axis L1 and a coupling member operatively connected to the photosensitive drum. The coupling member includes a first member having a cylindrical portion, a part of the first member being positioned inside of the photosensitive drum and a part of the first member being positioned outside of the photosensitive drum. The coupling member also includes a second member operatively connected to first member, the second member including a plurality of arm portions that are movable relative to the first member, with at least a part of each of the arm portions being positioned inside of the photosensitive drum and inside of the first member.
US11442396B2
A cleaning blade includes a blade member including a ridgeline portion. The ridgeline portion contains polyrotaxane. A sheet conveyance roller includes a core and a surface layer. The surface layer contains polyrotaxane.
US11442393B2
Described herein is a process for heat transfer printing, the process comprising: electrostatically printing a transparent release composition onto a transfer material to form a release layer disposed on the transfer material; electrostatically printing an electrostatic ink composition on the release layer to form an image layer disposed on the release layer; contacting a thermoplastic film with the image layer; contacting the thermoplastic film with a target substrate under conditions such that the thermoplastic film adheres to the target substrate and the release layer is softened; and separating the target substrate and the transfer material such that the thermoplastic film, image layer and release layer are transferred to the target substrate. A heat transferrable printed image is also described herein.
US11442388B2
In an image forming apparatus, an image processing unit converts image data based on a plurality of conversion conditions corresponding to a plurality of positions in a predetermined direction. A controller controls an image forming unit to form an image based on the image data converted by the image processing unit, and controls the image forming unit to form a plurality of pattern images including first, second and third pattern images. The controller controls a reading unit to read the plurality of pattern images on the sheet, generates correction conditions corresponding to the plurality of positions in the predetermined direction based on a reading result of the reading unit, and generates the plurality of conversion conditions based on the reading result and the correction conditions corresponding to the plurality of positions in the predetermined direction.
US11442386B2
A heating device includes a heating unit that heats a member to be heated, which is transported, as a result of a contact portion of the heating unit being in contact with the member to be heated, a heat pipe that contacts with a portion of the heating unit different from the contact portion in such a manner as to extend in a widthwise direction crossing a transport direction of the member to be heated and that includes a crimped portion formed at a first end of the heat pipe, and a power-supply connection unit that is disposed on a second end side of the heat pipe and that is connected to a wiring line through which power is supplied to the heating unit.
US11442385B2
The heater including a substrate, a first heat generation member, a second heat generation member having a length substantially a same in a longitudinal direction as a length of the first heat generation member, a third heat generation member having a length shorter than lengths of the first heat generation member and the second heat generation member in the longitudinal direction, and a fourth heat generation member having a length shorter than length of the third heat generation member in the longitudinal direction, wherein the first heat generation member, the second heat generation member, the third heat generation member and the fourth heat generation member are arranged on the substrate.
US11442381B2
An image forming apparatus includes: an image carrier that carries an image; a developing device that develops a latent image formed on the image carrier into a visible image formed of powder; an intermediate transfer body to which the visible image is transferred from the image carrier and that temporarily transports the visible image; a transfer device that transfers the visible image on the image carrier to the intermediate transfer body; a first cleaning device that cleans the image carrier by collecting powder that remains on the image carrier; a first collection container that receives the powder collected by the first cleaning device; a second cleaning device that cleans the intermediate transfer body by collecting powder that remains on the intermediate transfer body; a second collection container that receives the powder collected by the second cleaning device; a feeding device that supplies a transfer-process bias to the transfer device; and a changing unit that changes the transfer-process bias supplied by the feeding device when a waste powder image is formed on the image carrier, the transfer-process bias being changed so as to adjust amounts of powder in the waste powder image received by the first collection container and the second collection container.
US11442357B2
Provided is a mask blank, including a phase shift film. The phase shift film has a structure where a first layer and a second layer are stacked in this order from a side of the transparent substrate. The first layer is provided in contact with a surface of the transparent substrate. Refractive indexes n1 and n2 of the first layer and the second layer, respectively, at a wavelength of an exposure light of an ArF excimer laser satisfy the relation n1
US11442352B2
The present invention provides a lighting system, including at least one light source, a depolarization element and a light homogenization element. The at least one light source is configured to provide at least one light beam. The depolarization element is disposed on a transmission path of the at least one light beam. The depolarization element includes a first optical element, and the first optical element is provided with a first optical axis. The light homogenization element is configured to allow the at least one light beam to pass to form an illuminating light beam. The incident direction where the at least one light beam is transmitted to the first optical element is not parallel to the first light axis. The depolarization element is located between the at least one light source and the light homogenization element. In addition, projection apparatus is also provided.
US11442348B2
Wavelength conversion element, phosphor wheel, light source device, and projection display apparatus
A wavelength conversion element includes a first phosphor region and a second phosphor region. The second phosphor region is disposed in a thickness direction of the first phosphor region and has a phosphor particle with a particle size different from a particle size of a phosphor particle positioned in the first phosphor region.
US11442343B2
A gimbal load mounting assembly includes a first seating body, a second seating body configured to slidably connect with the first seating body, and a fastener. The first seating body is configured to connect with a gimbal frame and slide in a first direction. The second seating body is configured to mount a load and is slidable on the first seating body in a second direction. The fastener is configured to connect with the first seating body and to lock a mounting location of the first seating body relative to the gimbal frame and a mounting location of the second seating body relative to the first seating body.
US11442342B2
Recording indicators for devices with cameras that provide protection from tampering so that the recording indicators cannot be easily disabled or masked. Recording indicators that are integrated in a device's camera and that emit visible light through the camera lens aperture are described. In addition, modular accessories are described that the user has to attach to the device to enable recording; the presence of the modular attachment indicates to persons in the environment that they may be being recorded.
US11442335B2
A laser light source for producing incoherent laser beams, in particular for speckle-free imaging and/or projection, with at least two different wavelengths, preferably with three different wavelengths, includes: at least two optical devices, in particular at least two optical parametric oscillators, which each have a nonlinear optical medium for respectively producing a signal beam and an idler beam, and a superposition device configured to respectively superpose either the signal beam or the idler beam of each of the at least two optical devices for producing an incoherent laser beam with the at least two different wavelengths. A laser projector for producing an image, in particular a speckle-free image, on a projection surface, can include such a laser light source.
US11442331B2
A mobile communication apparatus, an optical assembly, and an aperture module thereof are provided. The aperture module includes a first liquid crystal (LC) aperture unit and a second LC aperture unit. The first LC aperture unit includes a first LC layer and two first transparent electrode layers disposed on two sides of the first LC layer. At least one of the first transparent electrode layers has a first opening. The second LC aperture unit includes a second LC layer and two second transparent electrode layers disposed on two sides of the second LC layer. At least one of the second transparent electrode layers has a second opening having a central axis overlapped with that of the first opening. The aperture module is configured to control each of the first switch region and the second switch region to be at a light permeable state or a light shield state.
US11442328B2
Provided is an optical device including a first wavelength variable interference filter in which a first reflective film and a second reflective film face each other with a first gap in between; a second wavelength variable interference filter in which a third reflective film and a fourth reflective film face each other with a second gap in between; and a first substrate having a transmissive property, which has a first surface and a second surface which is opposite in direction to the first surface, in which the second reflective film is provided on the first surface of the first substrate, and in which the third reflective film is provided on the second surface of the first substrate.
US11442324B2
The present disclosure includes an effective optical region within a transmittance variable region, and sets the transmittance variable region and the effective optical region so that a shortest distances from a periphery of the transmittance variable region to a periphery of the effective optical region, d1 and d2, are 7.5% or more and 25% or less of a length of the transmittance variable region on a straight line including the shortest distances, L1, in a vertical direction.
US11442299B2
Disclosed are a display module, a display device and a viewing-angle switching method. The display module includes a backlight module, a display panel, a lower polarizer sheet, a viewing-angle switching element and a transparent cover plate; the viewing-angle switching element and the transparent cover plate are arranged between the display panel and the lower polarizer sheet, and the transparent cover plate is arranged on a side of the viewing-angle switching element that is close to the lower polarizer sheet; the backlight module is configured to supply light that meets a preset condition, the viewing-angle switching element is configured to switch viewing-angle modes of the display module; the viewing-angle modes include; a first viewing-angle mode and a second viewing-angle mode; and a viewing-angle range of the first viewing-angle mode is smaller than a viewing angle range of the second viewing-angle mode.
US11442297B2
A structure is provided and includes (i) a substrate having a surface, the surface comprising a ternary or quaternary oxide having a first lattice parameter, the first lattice parameter being a lattice parameter of the ternary or quaternary oxide as it is present at the surface; and (ii) a layer of a perovskite oxide on the ternary or quaternary oxide, the perovskite oxide having a second lattice parameter, the second lattice parameter being a native lattice parameter of the perovskite oxide, wherein the first lattice parameter is larger than the second lattice parameter. A method for forming a perovskite oxide with an a-axis orientation is also provided.
US11442273B2
A display and method for providing an image to an eye of a viewer is provided. The display comprises at least two projector assemblies. Each projector assembly comprises a light-guide optical element (LOE), and an image projector arrangement for generating a partial image and being deployed to introduce the partial image into the LOE for coupling out towards the eye of the viewer. The at least two projector assemblies cooperate to display the image to the eye of the viewer with partial overlap. The display further comprises a controller associated with the image projector arrangements and configured to reduce a pixel intensity of selected pixels in a region of partial overlap between the first and second part of the image so as to enhance a perceived uniformity of the image.
US11442259B2
An optical microscope according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes: a light source; a first scanner to scan a spot position of a light beam on a sample; an objective lens to focus the light beam deflected by the first scanner and cause the light beam to be made incident on the sample; a spectroscope including a slit on an incident side which an outgoing light emitted from an area on the sample onto which the light beam has been illuminated enters; a detector configured to detect an outgoing light from the spectroscope; and a first relay optical system including a first off-axis parabolic mirror that is arranged in an optical path from the first scanner to the objective lens and reflects the light beam deflected by the first scanner and a second off-axis parabolic mirror that reflects the light beam reflected in the first off-axis parabolic mirror.
US11442258B2
Optical systems and apparatuses configured for enabling substantially simultaneous observation of a plurality of points in an array from a common reference point. Without the optical systems and apparatuses disclosed herein, less than all of the plurality of points can be observed substantially simultaneously from the common reference point.
US11442255B2
Wide angle lens for imaging objects disposed away from the optical axis towards the periphery of the field of view.
US11442251B2
An optical lens assembly and an imaging device including the optical lens assembly are disclosed. The optical lens assembly may include, sequentially from an object side to an image side along an optical axis, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens and a sixth lens. The first lens may have a negative refractive power; the second lens may have a positive refractive power; the third lens may have a positive refractive power; the fourth lens may have a negative refractive power, an object-side surface thereof is a convex surface and an image-side surface thereof is a concave surface; the fifth lens may have a positive refractive power, and both of an object-side surface and an image-side surface thereof are convex surfaces; and the sixth lens may have a negative refractive power.
US11442246B2
The present disclosure discloses a camera optical lens. The camera optical lens including, in an order from an object side to an image side, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, and a sixth lens. The camera optical lens further satisfies following conditions: 1.10≤f1/f≤3.00; and 3.50≤R7/d7≤6.50; where f denotes a focal length of the optical camera lens; f1 denotes a focal length of the first lens; R7 denotes a curvature radius of an object side surface of the fourth lens and d7 denotes an on-axis thickness of the fourth lens. The camera optical lens can achieve a high performance while obtaining a low TTL.
US11442240B2
A lens module of enhanced stability and strength when mounted to an image-capturing device includes a voice coil motor. The voice coil motor includes a casing and a first connection plate connected to the casing. The first connection plate defines at least one first mounting hole. An electronic device using the lens module is also provided.
US11442234B2
A device may be provided comprising at least one optoelectronic component and at least one optical waveguide, which are configured to transfer light between the optoelectronic component and the optical waveguide, wherein the optical waveguide contains at least one first longitudinal portion in which at least one Bragg grating is introduced, which has a grating constant which is variable along the longitudinal extent of said Bragg grating, and the optoelectronic component is arranged at a lateral distance from the optical waveguide. Alternatively or in addition, a method may be provided for transferring light between at least one optoelectronic component and at least one optical waveguide.
US11442233B2
The present disclosure is directed to a lockable optical connector. The connector includes an adapter member, an inner frame member, an outer frame member, an annular compression member, and a lock member. The inner frame member non-rotatably couples to the adapter member. The outer frame member retains the coupling between the inner frame member and the adapter member and physically couples to the adapter member, to provide a first locking mechanism. The annular compression member is disposed proximate the outer frame member and the locking member couples to the external surface of the inner frame member, compressing the annular compression member against the outer frame member to provide a second locking mechanism. A sealing element may be disposed between the outer frame member and the adapter member and a sealing element may be disposed between the outer frame member and the inner frame member to provide a weather-proof and water-tight lockable optical connector.
US11442229B2
An optical waveguide in which a grating coupler is formed, a first pattern region arranged to surround the grating coupler, and a second pattern region arranged to surround the grating coupler are included. The first pattern region and the second pattern region are arranged adjacently. In a periphery of the grating coupler, the first pattern region is formed in a region continuous in a circumferential direction. Similarly, in the periphery of the grating coupler, the second pattern region is formed in a region continuous in the circumferential direction.
US11442225B2
With a wavelength conversion device based on a nonlinear optical effect, when arrayed waveguides including an intended nonlinear waveguide are fabricated, unwanted slab waveguides are inevitably formed. The slab waveguides can cause an erroneous measurement in the selection of a waveguide having desired characteristics from the arrayed waveguides. The erroneous measurement can lead to redoing steps for fabricating the wavelength conversion device and a decrease in the yield and inhibit the evaluation of the characteristics in selection of the waveguide and the subsequent fabrication of the wavelength conversion device from being efficiently performed. A wavelength conversion device according to the present invention includes a plurality of waveguides formed on a substrate, and a plurality of slab waveguides that are arranged substantially in parallel with and spaced apart from the plurality of waveguides, and a guided light attenuator is formed in each of the slab waveguides. The guided light attenuators allow efficient selection of a waveguide having desired optical characteristics from the plurality of waveguides. The light attenuation by the guided light attenuators can be changed in steps for fabricating the wavelength conversion device.
US11442219B2
A lighting system may include a light guide to receive light from a light source; and a reflector plate including a frustrum structure formed on the surface of the reflector plate to receive refracted light from the light guide.
US11442212B2
Disclosed is an optical fiber illumination apparatus configured for ensuring high light efficiency and uniform luminosity when displaying an illumination pattern with flexible optical fibers in fiber optic lighting.
US11442205B2
An optical prism that includes an interlock structure that precisely couples to a complementary structure of a refractive lens. For precision, the interlock structure may be formed at the same time and using the same technique as the optical surface of the prism. The interlock structure provides high accuracy when assembling a folded lens system by precisely aligning the object side optical surface of the lens with the image side optical surface of the prism so that the optical axis is centered in the lens. The prism may have refractive power. A portion of the object side surface may be coated with an opaque material to provide an aperture stop at that surface.
US11442201B2
A flexible display cover substrate is provided, including a transparent polyimide film and a device protective layer. The device protective layer is formed by a hard coating layer disposed on at least one side of the transparent polyimide film, and the hard coating layer is composed of three or more reactive functional group compounds, an initiator, an elastic oligomer, a nano inorganic modified particle, and a fluorescent pigment. The flexible display cover substrate of the invention, after being folded by a radius of curvature of 1 mm, does not cause cracks on the surface of the hard coating layer or break the substrate, and the yellow index YI of the flexible display cover substrate is less than 2.0.
US11442200B2
A low-reflection coated glass sheet of the present invention includes a glass sheet and a low-reflection coating. The low-reflection coating is formed on at least a portion of one principal surface of the glass sheet and contains a binder containing silica as a main component, fine silica particles bound by the binder, and fine titania particles bound by the binder. The low-reflection coating satisfies the following relationships: 30 mass %
US11442194B2
A system for locating an underground utility line using a beacon positioned within a downhole tool. The beacon comprises a magnetic sensor formed from one or more ferrite rods. The rods are arranged such that no rod is orthogonal to the longitudinal axis of the beacon housing. The magnetic sensor detects the presence of an underground utility line and sends a signal to an above-ground tracker indicating that a line has been detected. An above-ground locator may be used to determine the position of the line relative the beacon, so that the downhole tool may be steered away from the line.
US11442193B2
A downhole tool may comprise a tool body that is a structural support for the downhole tool, an upper arm attached at one end to the tool body, a pad attached at an opposite end of the upper arm, a lower arm attached at one end to a sliding block and attached to the pad at an opposite end of the lower arm, and a passive arm connected to the lower arm and the tool body. A method may comprise disposing a downhole tool into a borehole, applying a force to a passive arm, applying a second force from the passive arm to the lower arm in response to the force applied to the passive arm, and moving the lower arm and the passive arm in a longitudinal direction along an axis of the downhole tool.
US11442181B2
A gel forming composition for radiation dosimetry, and a high sensitivity and high safety radiation dosimeter using a gel formed from the composition. A gel forming composition for radiation dosimetry comprising a gelator and a compound of Formula (1): (wherein R1 is a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, an optionally substituted C1-12 alkyl group, etc.; and R2 and R3 are each independently a hydrogen atom, an optionally substituted C1-12 alkyl group, an optionally substituted monovalent C6-12 aromatic group, or R2 and R3 form a 4- to 8-membered ring together with a carbon atom to which R2 and R3 are bonded, and the 4-to 8-membered ring may have 0 to 3 nitrogen atoms, oxygen atoms, or sulfur atoms as a ring atom, provided that R2 and R3 are not simultaneously a hydrogen atom).
US11442175B2
A method for determining the position of a receiving device, wherein, by the receiving device, a GNSS signal is received that is formed in accordance with a signal transmitted from a satellite of a global satellite navigation system, wherein code data and phase information of the GNSS signal are determined and a plausibility check is carried out between the code data and phase information to detect whether the GNSS signal is a manipulating signal.
US11442173B2
A time synchronization system an input interface configured to receive pseudorange measurements from a set of antennas of at least one Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receiving system that operates the antennas at known positions according to a clock with an unknown time bias to receive signals from satellites in sight of the antennas and an output interface configured to output the determined time bias. The time synchronization system also includes a processor configured to compare the pseudorange measurements of different antennas to produce an antenna-specific clock offset for each of the antennas, correct the pseudorange measurements of the antennas according to the antenna-specific clock offsets of corresponding antennas to produce corrected pseudorange measurements, and determine the time bias of the clock using the corrected pseudorange measurements.
US11442167B2
An autonomous vehicle having a sensor and a sensor having a plurality of light transmitters and a plurality of light receivers that are arranged in a common housing, with the optical axes of the light transmitters and light receivers being arranged in parallel or in fan form in different angle directions having angular intervals, whereby a protected field is formed, and having a control and evaluation unit for monitoring and evaluating the protected field, wherein a camera is connected to the control and evaluation unit, with camera images of the camera being evaluated by the control and evaluation unit.
US11442166B2
A measurement configuration of a remote sensing device for use in implementing a remote sensing measurement campaign is improved. One method includes adjusting a scan geometry configuration of the remote sensing device during the measurement campaign based on measurement data acquired in a previous scan geometry configuration. In another method, the remote sensing device is configured in a scan geometry configuration having a plurality of scan geometries, and following acquisition of a measurement data set by the remote sensing device at a first time interval, one of the scan geometries indicative of an improved or optimal scan geometry at the first time interval is selected. The remote sensing device forms part of a remote sensing system and includes an optical source emitting a probe as a light beam along different lines of sight. The remote sensing device includes or is operatively associated with a receiver for detecting the reflected probe.
US11442163B2
A real-time aircraft bird congestion indicator system for measuring congestion in an airspace between aircraft and birds uses one or more radars to continuously survey an airspace around an airport or aerodrome and continuously generate aircraft tracks and bird tracks in the airspace. A congestion processor connected to the radar(s) receives the aircraft and bird tracks and processes them to periodically generate a congestion indicator that measures the congestion in the airspace. A display processor connected to the congestion processor receives the congestion indicator which is updated periodically by the congestion processor and displays the congestion indicator to a user, generates an alert if the congestion indicator falls outside set operating limits, and/or sends the congestion indicator or alert to another system.
US11442154B2
The invention is a system that enables passive sonar identification of underwater items by making use of lift bags and/or flags, having distinctive sequences of bands of sonar-signal-reflecting materials, wherein the lift items are partially inflated so as to present a predictable orientation with respect to the floor of a body of water and its surface.
US11442150B2
In one embodiment, a lidar system includes a light source configured to emit a pulse of light and a scanner configured to direct the emitted pulse of light into a field of regard of the lidar system. The lidar system also includes a receiver configured to receive a portion of the emitted pulse of light scattered by a target located a distance from the lidar system. The receiver includes a digital micromirror device (DMD) that includes a two-dimensional array of electrically addressable micromirrors, where a portion of the micromirrors are configured to be set to an active-on state to direct the received pulse of light to a detector array. The detector array includes a two-dimensional array of detector elements, where the detector array is configured to detect the received pulse of light and produce an electrical signal corresponding to the received pulse of light.
US11442149B2
A light detection and ranging (“LIDAR”) system includes a coherent light source that generates a frequency modulated optical signal comprising a series of optical chirps. A scanning assembly transmits the series of optical chirps in a scan pattern across a scanning region, and receives a plurality of reflected optical chirps corresponding to the transmitted optical chirps that have reflected off one or more objects located within the scanning region. A photodetector mixes the reflected optical chirps with a local oscillation (LO) reference signal comprising a series of LO reference chirps. An electronic data analysis assembly processes digital data derived from the reflected optical chirps and the LO reference chirps mixed at the photodetector to generate distance data and optionally velocity data associated with each of the reflected optical chirps.
US11442146B2
A side looking occupancy sensor is incorporated in a conventional wall switch mounted into a switch box adjacent to a door. The side-looking proximity sensor preferably is mountable to either side of the doorjamb to make the side-looking proximity sensor face the door opening. During operation, the side-looking sensor monitors the door movement or senses the passage of a person for indication that a person is entering or leaving the space. Entry and exit determination is made based on activation of the side-looking sensor.
US11442140B1
In some examples, a system includes at least three receivers configured to receive a surveillance packet from another vehicle at respective arrival times. The system includes a first receiver configured to receive a surveillance packet from the other vehicle at a first time. The system also includes a second receiver configured to receive the surveillance packet from the other vehicle at a second time. The system further include a third receiver configured to receive the surveillance packet from the other vehicle at a third time. In addition, the system includes processing circuitry configured to determine a location of the ownship vehicle based on the received surveillance packet and the respective arrival times.
US11442138B2
A method is disclosed for estimating a position of a plurality of transmitting nodes. The method comprises installing a telecommunication application in each of the plurality of transmitting nodes; transmitting a plurality of data packets; generating a plurality of transmission quality coefficients using the plurality of data packets; determining a corresponding plurality of transmission scores; estimating a distance between each pair of transmitting nodes, wherein the estimating of the distance between each pair of transmitting nodes is performed using a corresponding transmission score and a lookup table; generating an estimation of a position of the plurality of transmitting nodes using the plurality of estimated distances; providing the generated estimation.
US11442137B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for determining locations of wireless nodes in a network architecture are disclosed herein. In one example, a system includes a first wireless node having a wireless device with one or more processing units and RF circuitry for transmitting and receiving communications in the wireless network architecture including a first RF signal having a first packet. A second wireless node having a wireless device with a transmitter and a receiver enables bi-directional communications with the first wireless node in the wireless network architecture including a second RF signal with a second packet. The one or more processing units of the first wireless node are configured to execute instructions to determine a round trip time estimate of the first and second packets, to determine channel state information (CSI) of the first and second wireless nodes, and to calibrate hardware to determine hardware delays of the first and second wireless nodes.
US11442134B1
A system for location of animals and/or objects in an environment includes a signal processing and signal generation system consisting of electromagnetic tags on animals (or other objects) in an environment (typically a three dimension outdoor natural environment) where the animals or objects are physically present at arbitrary locations, and an electro-magnetic signal generating, signal receiving, and signal processing system that can move through or in relation to the environment. The system can compute the location and identity of the animals or objects based on signals received from their associated tags, including the calculated location of the ID tags, which function as “Reader-Locators.” The calculated location is enhanced by information about the environment provided by maps, satellite photos, GPS, GIS and/or other data specific to the probability of the location of the animals or objects within certain regions of the environment. The system includes a physical and electromagnetic modeling operation that is interactive with the environmental information derived from the actual environment, either historically or in “real-time” as the monitoring process occurs.
US11442133B2
A method for estimating the geographical position of a terminal of interest, among a panel of terminals of a wireless communication system. For each terminal of the panel, a time signature including values measured for each terminal during a predetermined observation period is determined. Values of similarity between the time signatures of the terminals of the panel is calculated, a similarity value calculated for two terminals representing the probability of the terminals being moved together or having been located at the same place during the observation period. Various terminals of the panel are partitioned into different groups depending on the similarity values. The geographical position of the terminal of interest is estimated as a function of the available geolocation data for at least one other terminal of the group to which the terminal of interest belongs.
US11442127B2
The present disclosure provides a method of DDCE-MRF. The method can include: a) introducing two or more contrast agents to a region of interest (ROI) of a subject, the two or more contrast agents having different relaxivities; b) measuring a T1 relaxation time and a T2 relaxation time for locations within the ROI using magnetic resonance fingerprinting (MRF); c) determining, using equations that relate the different relaxivities, the T1 relaxation time, the T2 relaxation time, and concentrations of the two or more contrast agents, the concentrations of the two or more contrast agents for each of the locations within the ROI; and d) producing an image depicting the ROI based, at least in part, on the concentrations of the two or more contrast agents.
US11442125B2
Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) radio frequency (RF) coil configured to operate in at least one of a transmit mode or a receive mode. A first birdcage coil includes a pair of first-birdcage end rings and at least four first-birdcage rungs circumferentially arranged along the first-birdcage end rings. A second birdcage coil including a pair of second-birdcage end rings and at least four second-birdcage rungs circumferentially arranged along the second-birdcage end rings. The first and second birdcage coils neighbor and are spaced by a first non-zero distance along an axis. The axis is surrounded by the first-birdcage end rings and the second-birdcage end rings, and the first non-zero distance is greater than individual lengths of the first and second birdcage coils along the axis.
US11442116B2
A detection circuit, including a first connecting terminal, an SPI bus, and a security component, is provided. The first connecting terminal is configured to be detachably connected to the main board. The security component is coupled to the first connecting terminal and the SPI bus. The security component forms a first loop with the main board, and is configured to detect a loop state of the first loop. The security component locks the SPI bus when the first loop is being detected by the security component to be disconnected.
US11442112B2
A method for determining at least one aging state of a first plurality of electrical energy store units. The method includes: a) ascertaining the number of balancing operations already carried out between the first plurality of electrical energy store units within a predefined first time interval and/or the total converted energy quantity during a balancing operation between the first plurality of electrical energy store units and/or a first measure of dispersion of a particular state of charge-characterizing parameter of the first plurality of electrical energy store units; b) determining the at least one aging state of the first plurality of electrical energy store units as a function of the number of balancing operations already carried out and/or as a function of the total converted energy quantity during a balancing operation and/or as a function of the first measure of dispersion.
US11442099B2
The present application discloses a testing device of array substrates and a testing method. The testing device of array substrates includes: a machine and testing interfaces, the testing interfaces being disposed on the machine; and testers disposed above the machine. There are at least two sets of testers, and the testers synchronously operate according to a preset scheme.
US11442098B2
Example automatic test equipment (ATE) includes a first test instrument to receive a waveform from a device under test, where the waveform is based on test signals sent from the ATE to the DUT; circuitry to generate digital pulses based on the waveform; and a second test instrument to receive the digital pulses over at least two digital pins and to process the digital pulses to test the DUT.
US11442088B2
Sampling timings at a plurality of measurement points at which waveform data of a power line is sampled are easily synchronized to each other. A measurement device includes: a sampling unit configured to sample a waveform of at least one of a voltage and a current at a measurement point of a power line at a predetermined sampling timing; a processing unit configured to execute processing of the waveform sampled by the sampling unit; a time information acquisition unit configured to acquire time information from a time information provision device that is communicatively connected through a network; and an adjustment unit configured to adjust a processing timing of the processing on the basis of the time information acquired by the time information acquisition unit.
US11442086B2
A detector of microwave radiation includes a signal input and a detector output. An absorber element of ohmic conductivity is coupled to said signal input through a first length of superconductor. A variable impedance element, the impedance of which is configured to change as a function of temperature, is coupled to the detector output through a second length of superconductor. The detector also includes a heating input and a heating element coupled to the heating input through a third length of superconductor. The absorber element, the variable impedance element, and the heating element are coupled to each other through superconductor sections of lengths shorter than any of said first, second, and third lengths of superconductor.
US11442073B2
Disclosed are methods and systems for measuring serotonin in a sample using liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry.
US11442068B2
The invention provides methods, kits and reagents for diagnosing fibromyalgia (FM) in an individual by determining whether the levels of one or more cytokines in the individual are altered, as compared to control levels. The altered level(s) or patterns of expression of the cytokines measured in the affected individual compared to the level from the control is predictive/indicative of FM in the individual.
US11442067B2
The invention relates to peptide mass fingerprinting technique for the proteins such as Human insulin and insulin analogs. The insulin analogues can vary at least by one amino acid, which is elusive to distinguish by currently available analytical methods. The invention further allows sequence confirmation of the peptide wherein the run time of the method is forty minutes. This method could be applied for molecules up to 50 kDa.
US11442065B2
The invention provides that OSTERIX (a.k.a. SP7) is a marker for gastrointestinal stem cells and that OSTERIX is expressed widely and at elevated levels in human gastrointestinal tumors.
US11442063B2
Provided herein are compounds that are broad-spectrum protein kinase binding agents, detectable tracers comprising such compounds, and method of use thereof for the detection of protein kinases.
US11442062B2
A compound is provided which is effectively adsorbed to a substrate surface, such as an immune reaction vessel, has extremely high protein adsorption inhibitory effect that inhibits non-specific adsorption of protein or the like, and has excellent washability to retain the inhibitory effect before and after washing operation of the substrate. Also provided are a protein adsorption inhibitor using the compound, a phosphorylcholine-modified substrate, and a method for inhibiting protein adsorption. The compound is a phosphorylcholine group-containing polyethylene glycol derivative represented by formula (1). The method for inhibiting protein adsorption of the present invention includes the step of forming an adsorbed layer of the derivative on a substrate surface.
US11442060B2
The invention relates to the field of medical diagnostics. Provided are methods and kits for determining the health status of a subject, for early detection of tissue damage, for early diagnosis and monitoring of a disease, and/or for evaluation of treatment effectiveness in a subject using circulating tissue macrophages (CTM) as a mirror of disrupted tissue homeostasis and disease.
US11442058B2
The present invention relates to a use of leucine-zipper protein for diagnosis or treatment of fatty liver. According to the present invention, it could be confirmed that a particular fragment present at the leucine-zipper protein, especially, the N-terminal region thereof, plays an important role in the lipid metabolism in liver tissue by regulating transcriptional activity of Apolipoprotein A4, and therefore, the protein of the present invention or a fragment thereof can be utilized as a target for diagnosis, prevention, or treatment of fatty liver.
US11442046B2
The present invention relates to reagents suitable in the mass spectrometric determination of analyte molecules such as carbohydrates as well as adducts of such reagents and analyte molecules and applications of said reagents and adducts. Further, the present invention relates to methods for the mass spectrometric determination of analyte molecules.
US11442044B2
Embodiments are disclosed for characterizing and quantifying composite laminate structures. The embodiments take a composite laminate of unknown ply stack composition and sequence and determine various information about the individual plies, such as ply stack, orientation, microstructure, and type. The embodiments can distinguish between weave types that may exhibit similar planar stiffness behaviors, but would produce different failure mechanisms. Individual ply information may then be used to derive the laminate bulk properties from externally provided constitutive properties of the fiber and matrix, including extensional stiffness, bending-extension coupling stiffness, bending stiffness, and the like. The laminate bulk properties may then be used to generate a probabilistic failure envelope for the composite laminate. In some embodiments, ply stack type and sequence may also be determined for a curved composite laminate using the disclosed embodiments by adding a rotational stage.
US11442036B2
A sensor element includes an element main body in which a flow portion of a measurement-object gas is disposed, a measurement electrode disposed in the flow portion of a measurement-object gas, a measurement electrode lead having a first portion that is connected to the measurement electrode and that is disposed in the flow portion of a measurement-object gas and a second portion that is connected to the first portion and that is embedded in the element main body, a hermetic layer that is part of the element main body and that surrounds an end region of the second portion including the border with the first portion; and a lead insulating layer that is part of the element main body and that surrounds at least part of the second portion excluding the end region.
US11442031B2
An apparatus for selecting products on the basis of their composition via X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy includes an X-ray source that emits an X-ray beam towards a product sample, and a particle detector for receiving an X-ray beam diffused by the product sample and generating a signal received that can be analysed to determine a chemical composition of the product sample and selecting a type of product corresponding to said chemical composition of the product sample. The apparatus includes a first vacuum chamber located between an output of the apparatus facing the product sample and the X-ray source, and a second vacuum chamber located between the output of the apparatus facing the product sample and the detector. The apparatus also includes an optical module with polycapillary lens located downstream of the X-ray source, which is configured for focusing the X-ray beam and is associated in a vacuum-tight way to the first vacuum chamber.
US11442030B2
An imaging process for industrial equipment is described using gamma-ray or X-ray profiling techniques and tomographic image reconstruction, wherein (a) a radiation emission subsystem with at least one radiation source emits that passes through an industrial equipment to be analyzed by imaging; (b) a radiation detection subsystem with at least one radiation detector detects the energy of the radiation emitted by the radiation emission subsystem that has passed through said industrial equipment; (c) processing and imaging means receive and evaluate the radiation samples detected by the radiation detection subsystem and generate a tomogram of the analyzed region, selecting the radiation samples detected with an energy value within a range of values corresponding to a maximum defined scattering angle of the radiation emitted by the radiation source, and generating a tomographic reconstruction of images of the industrial equipment based on these selected radiation samples.
US11442026B2
Disclosed is a method of making a crack structure on a substrate, the crack structure being usable as a tunnelling junction structure in a nanogap device, including the controlled fracture or release of a patterned layer under built-in stress, thereby forming elements separated by nanogaps or crack-junctions. The width of the crack-defined nanogap is controlled by locally release-etching the film at a notched bridge patterned in the film. The built-in stress contributes to forming the crack and defining of the width of the crack-defined nanogap. Further, by design of the length of the bridge in a range between sub-μπι to >25μαι, the separation between the elements, defined by the width of the crack-defined nanogaps, can be controlled for each individual crack structure from <2 nm to >100 nm. The nanogaps can be used for tunneling devices in combination with nanopores for DNA, RNA or peptides sequencing.
US11442025B1
An interferometer and an imager may include a tunable light source, a beam splitter, a digital imager, and a processor system. The tunable light source may be configured to emit a beam. The beam splitter may be configured to direct the beam toward a sample with a floor surface and a raised surface feature. The digital imager may be configured to receive a reflected beam and to generate an image based on the reflected beam. The reflected beam may be a coherent addition of a first reflection of the beam off a reference plate and a second reflection of the beam off the raised surface feature and third reflection of the beam off the floor surface. The processor system may be coupled to the digital imager and may be configured to determine a distance between the reference surface and the feature surface based on the image. A second digital imager may also be configured to receive a reflected beam and scattered beam to generate a two-dimensional grayscale image of the surface based on these beams and may also be configured to receive fluorescent light generated by the incident light to generate a two-dimensional gray scale an image of the surface based on fluorescent emission.
US11442017B2
An inspection apparatus is provided that comprises an optical target including a solid host material and a fluorescing material embedded in the solid host material. The solid host material has a predetermined phonon energy HOSTPE. The fluorescing material exhibits a select ground energy level and a target excitation (TE) energy level separated from the ground energy level by a first energy gap corresponding to a fluorescence emission wavelength of interest. The fluorescing material has a next lower lying (NLL) energy level relative to the TE energy level. The NLL energy level is spaced a second energy gap FMEG2 below the TE energy level, wherein a ratio of the FMEG2/HOSTPE is three or more.
US11442012B2
An assay device is disclosed comprising a housing and a test portion, electronic circuitry and an optical assembly each a least partially located in the housing. The test portion comprises one or more test zones adapted to receive an analyte and a fluorescent label associated with the analyte, the fluorescent label being excitable by excitation light and adapted to emit emission light upon excitation by excitation light. The electronic circuitry comprises one or more light sources and one or more light detectors. The optical assembly comprises one or more excitation light guides adapted to guide excitation light from the one or more light sources to the one or more test zones, and/or one or more emission light guides adapted to guide emission light from the one or more test zone to the one or more light detectors.
US11442005B2
An extractive gas analyser system includes a supply channel, a measuring channel connected thereto between first and second ends, an analysing unit comprising an optical arrangement for analysing gaseous material in the measuring channel, which optical arrangement comprises first and second optical units arranged respectively at first and second ends of the measuring channel, a barrier arrangement near each end of the measuring channel and comprising a barrier gas inlet and outlet arranged in opposing manner across said measuring channel, each in connection with a gas source and provided with a nozzle opening directed toward the opposing outlet, said barrier arrangement arranged to provide pressurized gas creating a barrier gas curtain between the barrier gas inlet and outlet to force least a part of the gaseous material from the supply channel into the measuring channel and out through the outlet and thereby separate the gaseous material from said optical units.
US11441997B2
The present disclosure relates to quality control for point-of-care medical diagnostic systems. In various embodiments, the system includes an on-board storage containing a synthetic quality control material, a plurality of sub-systems having a plurality of operating parameters and including a material analyzer, a database storing quality control results that include results of the material analyzer analyzing the synthetic quality control material over time, one or more processors, and at least one memory storing instructions which, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the system to, automatically without user intervention: generate a control chart based on the quality control results, determine that a parameter of the plurality of operating parameters is out-of-tolerance based on the control chart, and adjust at least one of the plurality of sub-systems without user intervention to bring the out-of-tolerance parameter to within tolerance.
US11441982B2
The disclosure provides a variable dip fault slip simulation test method, which relates to the technical field of indoor simulation test of underground engineering. The variable dip fault slip simulation test method of the disclosure adopts a sample device and a loading device, which includes the following steps: Step 1. sample preparation; Step 2. sample assembly; Step 3. loading preparation; Step 4. sample loading. The variable dip fault slip simulation test method of the disclosure can prepare rock like samples with different dip interfaces, simulate the slip failure process of faults with different dip angles, as well as the normal dip slip and reverse dip slip of faults, facilitate the operation of slip simulation test, and collect test data automatically and accurately.
US11441981B2
Disclosed are a testing device and a testing method for adhesive strength of an inner hole coating. A pull rod of the testing device for the adhesive strength of the inner hole coating may apply an axial tension to the inner hole coating via a guide ring and an assisting assembly, and may also apply radial pressure to the inner hole coating via a tapered surface and the assisting assembly. And the press rod may apply a radial tension to the inner hole coating via the pull hook and the assisting assembly. The testing method for the adhesive strength of the inner hole coating adopts the above-mentioned testing device for adhesive strength of an inner hole coating, a tensile adhesive strength test and a shear adhesive strength test may be performed on a same device.
US11441972B2
The invention relates to a receptacle device (6) for receiving a drive axle (4) of a motor vehicle for a test bench (2). In order to achieve a load distribution that is more realistic in comparison to the prior art, according to the invention the receptacle device (6) has at least one external unit (18) for connection to the test bench (2) and at least one inner unit (20), enclosed at least in part by the outer unit (18), wherein the inner unit (20) is translationally fixed relative to the outer unit (18) and is designed to be flexibly rotatable about at least one axis, and wherein the inner unit (20) has a recess (40) suitable for receiving the drive axle (4).
US11441970B2
A measurement apparatus (10) for measuring a wavefront aberration of an imaging optical system (12) includes (i) a measurement wave generating module (24) which generates a measurement wave (26) radiated onto the optical system and which includes an illumination system (30) illuminating a mask plane (14) with an illumination radiation (32), as well as coherence structures (36) arranged in the mask plane, and (ii) a wavefront measurement module (28) which measures the measurement wave after passing through the optical system and determines from the measurement result, with an evaluation device (46), a deviation of the wavefront of the measurement wave from a desired wavefront. The evaluation device (46) determines an influence of an intensity distribution (70) of the illumination radiation in the region of the mask plane on the measurement result and, when determining the deviation of the wavefront, utilizes the influence of the intensity distribution.
US11441968B2
A sealed cooling system includes a coolant tank having a liquid space configured to hold liquid coolant, and a gas space configured to hold gas. A temperature sensor detects the temperature of the liquid coolant. A pressure sensor detects the pressure in the coolant tank. A processor compares the pressure in the coolant tank to predicted pressure in the coolant tank as a function of liquid coolant temperature. The processor determines and outputs a signal indicative of a leak in the sealed cooling system if the pressure in the coolant tank deviates from the predicted pressure in the coolant tank according to predetermined criteria.
US11441959B2
A pressure indicator includes a body, a piston, first and second biasing elements, and a rotatable disc. The piston is disposed at least partially in a bore of the body at a first longitudinal axial position relative to the body when pressure of fluid acting on the base is below a threshold pressure. The first biasing element is disposed between a base of the piston and a shoulder of the body, wherein a force of the first biasing element is overcome by pressure of fluid acting on the base at or above the threshold pressure, thereby allowing the piston to move to a second longitudinal axial position. The rotatable disc has a first rotational position when the piston is in the first axial position. The second biasing element is configured to urge the disc to a second rotational position when the piston is in the second axial position.
US11441954B2
A device, system and method for measuring the temperature at the center of a normal hotspot and the heat escape time in superconducting filament or nanowire toward the substrate. The device includes structured layers; a superconducting filament is implemented as an active layer where an electrical current pulse or single photon radiation generates a hot spot; a sensitive semiconductor layer of germanium serves as a temperature sensor (thermometer); and a thin layer of insulating silicon oxide is intercalated between the superconducting layer and the germanium having a thickness in the range of 2-10 nm and width 5-100 μm. This device provides a direct measurement of the temperature at the center of a hot spot and determination of the heat escape time toward a substrate; and can be used to determine the sensitivity of a superconducting single photon detector device to a next upcoming photon.
US11441951B2
Apparatus and methods are disclosed for highly accurate remote measurement of sea surface skin temperature. Thermal band 8 to 14 micron images of the surface of the ocean taken by a downward looking infrared camera are processed to determine the optimum segments of the image to utilize. The influence of contaminating reflection of the downwelling flux from the sky and other error sources are removed and from the data and/or otherwise corrected for making sea surface temperature accuracy within several tenths of a degree possible.
US11441946B2
A processing apparatus combines a plurality of images based on a plurality of object images formed on an imaging plane of an image sensor by a plurality of lens units and to generate a combined image, and includes at least one processor or circuit that serves as an acquisition task configured to acquire information on a center position of each of the plurality of object images on the imaging plane, information on a correspondence relationship between the center position and positions of the plurality of images in the combined image, and conversion information for converting a first coordinate system in the imaging plane into a second coordinate system in the combined image, the conversion information being generated based on a correction function for correcting the plurality of object images, and a processing task configured to generate the combined image using the conversion information.
US11441943B2
The present invention provides a proximity sensing device, which comprises an ambient light calibration digital-to-analog converter and at least one crosstalk calibration digital-to-analog converters. The proximity sensing device is able to quickly generate calibration parameters for the interference caused by the ambient list and crosstalk caused by different reflection, to calibrate the sensed signals to avoid wrong judgments.
US11441934B2
A multichannel flow tube (300) for a vibratory meter (5), and a method of manufacturing the multichannel flow tube are provided. The multichannel flow tube comprises a tube perimeter wall (304), a first channel division (302b), and a first support structure (308a). The first channel division is enclosed within and coupled to the tube perimeter wall, forming a first channel (306b) and a second channel (306c). The first support structure is coupled to the tube perimeter wall and the first channel division.
US11441933B2
The present application discloses a signal processing circuit (100), coupled to a first transducer (102) and a second transducer (104), wherein there is a distance greater than zero between the first transducer and the second transducer, and a fluid having a flow velocity flows sequentially through the first transducer and the second transducer; the signal processing circuit includes: a first transmitter (106), coupled to the first transducer; a first receiver (108), coupled to the first transducer; a second transmitter (110), coupled to the second transducer; a second receiver (112), coupled to the second transducer; and a control unit (114), coupled to the first transmitter, the first receiver, the second transmitter and the second receiver. The present application further provides a related chip, a flow meter and a method.
US11441929B2
Systems and methods for sensing an amount of a liquid in a container are provided. A conduit is provided that has a length positioned relative to a portion of the container where a level of the liquid in the container changes when liquid is added to the container or liquid is removed from the container. The conduit is in fluid communication with the container to therefore allow an amount of the liquid to enter the conduit that is proportional to the amount of the liquid in the container. An outlet is provided along with a valve. The valve is in fluid communication with the conduit and the outlet, where the valve is selectable to allow the amount of liquid in the conduit to pass to the outlet, the amount of liquid passing to the outlet proportional to the amount of liquid in the container.
US11441923B2
A method for distributing navigation map data to a plurality of work machines which are part of a network of work machines and perform work orders in this network, wherein the navigation map data are needed in the work machines to carry out the work orders, and work orders are planned on the basis of navigation map data, includes detecting work orders for work machines, which work orders exist in the network and were planned on the basis of old navigation map data. The method includes checking the work orders which exist in the network in order to determine whether these work orders can be carried out with new navigation map data, and terminating work orders which cannot be carried out with new navigation map data. The new navigation map data is then installed.
US11441919B2
A navigation system includes a user interface for detecting touch input. The system uses touch input to determine if a driver or passenger is operating the navigation system. If the system determines that the driver is operating the system, then an action is initiated (e.g., the user interface is locked down, a warning is provided). The navigation system allows a passenger in the vehicle to operate the navigation system while the vehicle is in motion. In an aspect, additional or other sensors (e.g., seat sensor, seat belt sensor, infrared sensor) can be used to detect whether a driver or passenger is operating the navigation system while the vehicle is in motion.
US11441912B2
Technologies disclosed herein facilitate identification of a trip route from an origin of a user to a desired destination of the user, wherein the trip route includes multiple transportation modalities, at least one of which is an autonomous vehicle (AV), and dispatching of the AV to a pickup location for the user in connection with providing transportation to the user along a portion of the identified trip route.
US11441910B2
When a self-driving vehicle that transfers an object to a predetermined location is left at the predetermined location without the object in the vehicle, a vehicle control apparatus determines a moving destination among a plurality of standby places, based on the current location of the vehicle, the locations of the plurality of standby places, and vehicle-demand prediction information, and instructs the vehicle to move to the determined moving destination.
US11441907B2
In a locator device, a dead reckoning part calculates a position of a subject vehicle by dead reckoning. A pseudorange smoothing part smooths a pseudorange between a GNSS satellite and a position of the subject vehicle using a carrier wave phase of the GNSS satellite. A GNSS receiver positioning error evaluation part evaluates reliability of the position of the subject vehicle calculated by the multi-GNSS receiver. A GNSS positioning part (Kalman Filter (KF) method) calculates a position of the subject vehicle from a smoothed value of the pseudorange, a positioning augmentation signal, and an orbit of the GNSS satellite. A complex positioning part (KF method) calculates an error in the dead reckoning from the position of the subject vehicle calculated by the GNSS positioning part (KF method), and corrects the position of the subject vehicle calculated by the dead reckoning part based on the error in the dead reckoning.
US11441906B2
A device implementing a system for estimating device location includes at least one processor configured to receive a first and second set of signals, each set corresponding to location data and being received based on a sampling interval. The at least one processor is configured to, for each sampling period defined by the sampling interval, obtain sensor data corresponding to device motion during the sampling period, determine an orientation of the device relative to that of the vehicle based on the sensor data, calculate a non-holonomic constraint based on the orientation of the device relative to that of the vehicle such that the non-holonomic constraint is iteratively updated, and estimate a device state based on the non-holonomic constraint.
US11441905B2
An inertial navigation device that includes a processor that is configured to: assume a vertical velocity and a lateral velocity of a vehicle to be 0, and estimate a roll angle, a pitch angle and an azimuth angle, which are attitude angles of the vehicle, based on angular velocities and accelerations detected by the inertial measurement device, a longitudinal velocity detected by a vehicle velocity sensor, and an initial value of the azimuth angle of the vehicle, and assume the vertical velocity of the vehicle to be 0, and estimate a current position of the vehicle based on the estimated attitude angles, the angular velocities and the accelerations detected by the inertial measurement device, the longitudinal velocity detected by the vehicle velocity sensor, a steering angle detected by a steering angle sensor, and an initial value of a position of the vehicle.
US11441899B2
The present disclosure relates to a tracking system for tracking the position and/or orientation of an object in an environment, the tracking system including: at least one camera mounted to the object; a plurality of spaced apart targets, at least some of said targets viewable by the at least one camera; and, one or more electronic processing devices configured to: determine target position data indicative of the relative spatial position of the targets; receive image data indicative of an image from the at least one camera, said image including at least some of the targets; process the image data to: identify one or more targets in the image; determine pixel array coordinates corresponding to a position of the one or more targets in the image; and, use the processed image data to determine the position and/or orientation of the object by triangulation.
US11441896B2
Provided is an inter-reflection detection apparatus including: an irradiation unit configured to emit light having variable-frequency sinusoidal patterns; an image acquisition unit configured to acquire an image of an object irradiated with the light from the irradiation unit; a phase determination unit configured to determine a phase at each position in the image; and a detection unit configured to detect a region in which inter-reflection occurs. The detection unit is configured to determine a phase difference between a phase acquired from an image generated by irradiation of a low-frequency sinusoidal pattern and a phase acquired from an image generated by irradiation of a high-frequency sinusoidal pattern for a plurality of combinations of low-frequency waves and high-frequency waves, and determine that inter-reflection occurs in a region in which the phase difference for any one of the plurality of combinations is equal or more than a threshold.
US11441890B2
Aspects of the present disclosure describe systems, methods and structures that perform linear-grammetry and calibration by simultaneous multilateration using only edge distance estimates via two-way ranging.
US11441889B2
Described herein are an apparatus, system, and method for detecting light. An apparatus can include means for modulating an input beam of light wherein the input beam of light is obtained from an optical coherence tomography arrangement; means for dispersing the modulated beam of light; and means for detecting the dispersed beam of light and converting the detected beam of light into an electrical output signal. An apparatus can include a modulator configured to spatially modulate light; a dispersing element configured to disperse modulated light, and a detector configured to detect dispersed light and convert the detected light into electrical output signals. A method can include spatially modulating a beam of light, dispersing the modulated beam of light, detecting the dispersed beam of light, converting the detecting beam of light into electrical output signals, and providing a three-dimensional image of at least a part of an object.
US11441873B1
Known “good” reference lines are provided for scope leveling using a reference device support platform attached to a rifle such that the reference device support platform first surface is parallel to rifle's horizontal bore center line and perpendicular to rifle's vertical bore center line. An alignment reference device, such as a laser leveling device, is then placed on the reference device support platform. When the alignment reference device is so placed, a horizontal axis of the alignment reference device will be parallel to the rifle's horizontal bore center line and a vertical axis of the alignment reference device will be perpendicular to the rifle's horizontal bore center line. Consequently, when vertical and/or horizontal reference lines are generated by the alignment reference device they are known “good” reference lines to be lined up with the scope's stadia lines.
US11441872B2
A novel and improved rotating stock butt and rotating sight apparatus that applies to a shoulder fired firearm where the firing mechanism and the sight apparatus is elevated above the stock butt when in a horizontal shooting position. This system comprises a cooperation between the rotating stock butt and the rotating sight apparatus that allows the firing mechanism and the barrel of the firearm to be off set to either the right or to the left of the stock butt while the sight of the rotating sight apparatus can be rotated and secured at the top center of the firearm barrel, allowing the shooter minimal head movement in the gun mount.
US11441871B1
A concealment holster assembly, capable of being worn in multiple positions, includes a unitary shell, a belt attachment body, a forward belt loop, and a rearward belt loop. The unitary shell is capable of holstering a firearm and has a front side portion, inside portion, and outside portion. The belt attachment body is couplable to the unitary shell and is of unitary construction and includes a complementary shell portion, a forward flange, and a rearward flange. The forward flange and rearward flanges are angled inward. A forward belt loop and rearward belt loop are couplable to the forward and rearward flanges, respectively, to cause the belt attachment body, when worn on a belt, to flex inward toward a body of a wearer and increase concealment of the concealment holster and a firearm when the firearm is holstered.
US11441868B2
A launching and/or catching toy kit has a football and at least one associated slingshot. The football includes a generally elongated spheroidal body, a support non-movably attached to the body, a tail, and a first and a second elastic band hook oppositely disposed. The slingshot is configured to launch the football from a first user to a second user. The slingshot includes a handle and a pair of prongs connected and/or extending from the handle top. At least one elastic band is connected to each prong. Each of the at least one elastic bands are releasably captured by their respective first or second elastic band hook on the football during launching by the first user. When two slingshots are available, the users can shoot and catch the football between each other allowing for a game of catch.
US11441863B1
A universal firearm tracking system includes a tracking module enclosed in a housing; a cable attached to the housing configured to attach the housing to a firearm; and a hanging tamper-proof warning label connected to a bottom of the housing by a wire. The tracking module includes GPS tracking and RFID Tags.
US11441852B2
Coating compositions are provided that eject droplets of condensed fluid from a surface. The coatings include a nanostructured coating layer and in some embodiments, also include a hydrophobic layer deposited thereon. The coating materials eject droplets from the surface in the presence of non-condensing gases such as air and may be deployed under conditions of supersaturation of the condensed fluid to be ejected. A heat exchanger design utilizing the coating is described herein.
US11441851B2
The invention concerns a device for distribution of a refrigerant fluid in a header of a heat exchanger comprising at least two conduits (12, 13), an external conduit (12) and an internal conduit (13), with the internal conduit accommodated in the external conduit in such a manner as to form a volume (14) for communication between the internal conduit and the external conduit, the external conduit comprising spraying orifices (120) each having an axis (120A) intersecting a principal lengthwise axis (12A) of the external conduit, the internal conduit comprising at least one communication orifice having an axis intersecting a principal lengthwise axis of the internal conduit. According to the invention, the internal conduit (13) comprises a portion (16) of reduced thickness formed by removal of material from an external face of the internal conduit (13), the external face facing toward the external conduit (12).
US11441847B2
An evaporative cooling system having a heat conducting device, the heat conducting device being capable of coupling to a heating element to be cooled and the heat conducting device comprising a first medium; a heat dissipating device having one or more heat dissipating outlets; and an evaporator disposed in the heat dissipating device and arranged in relation to the heat conducting device that is arranged at least partially outside the heat dissipating device. The heat dissipating device comprises a second medium, and the evaporator is configured to receive heat from the heat conducting device to heat the second medium of the heat dissipating device and discharge the heat from the one or more heat dissipating outlets of the heat dissipating device.
US11441840B2
Plant for the production of argon by cryogenic distillation, comprising an argon separation column, means for sending a gas containing argon and oxygen to the argon separation column, means for extracting a fluid enriched in argon at the top of the argon separation column, means for extracting a liquid enriched in oxygen at the bottom of the argon separation column and at least two storage tanks, positioned one above the other, each storage tank being connected to two different intermediate levels of the argon separation column by two pipes, the two storage tanks being contiguous.
US11441835B1
A containment system for a refrigerator includes a storage bin and a support arm. The storage bin is secured to an internal panel of a refrigerator door. The support arm is secured to the interior panel at a position above the storage bin. The support arm is configured to transition between a retracted position that is adjacent to a back surface of the internal panel and an advanced position that is spaced apart from the back surface. The support arm in the advanced position is configured to engage a food container that is positioned in the storage bin such that the food container is disposed between the support arm and the back surface.
US11441825B2
A cooling system includes a dual plate structure having a porous material disposed between the plates such that the porous material is sealed from ambient at a pressure less than ambient. A cooling device is thermally coupled to a mobile device supported by the structure and actively removes heat from the mobile device.
US11441823B2
The invention relates to an adsorption heat pump, having an adsorber device, comprising a solid adsorbent, an evaporator, a condenser or an evaporator/condenser and an operating medium in an operating circuit, wherein the operating circuit has a gaseous half-circuit between the evaporator, the adsorber device and the condenser or the evaporator/condenser and the adsorber device, in which gaseous half-circuit the operating medium is gaseous, and a liquid half-circuit which is configured between the evaporator and the condenser and in which the operating medium is liquid, wherein the liquid half-circuit contains a liquid functional medium which can be mixed with the operating medium and lowers the vapor pressure of the operating medium, with a vapor pressure at 25° C. of below 0.2 mbar. In a method for operating an absorption heat pump with an operating circuit comprising an adsorber, an evaporator and a condenser or an evaporator/condenser and an operating medium which is circulated between the adsorber, the evaporator and the condenser, the operating medium is mixed, when running through the operating circuit, within the liquid half-circuit with a liquid functional medium which lowers the vapor pressure, and the operating medium is separated from the functional medium before the transfer into the gaseous half-circuit of the operating circuit.
US11441820B2
A method of mitigating refrigerant leaks within a refrigeration system that includes: detecting a leak of a refrigerant from a refrigeration system; closing a first valve to inhibit a fluid flow of the refrigerant between an evaporator and a condenser fluidly connected to the evaporator; and operating a compressor to direct another fluid flow of the refrigerant from the evaporator to the compressor.
US11441812B2
An air conditioning indoor unit includes: a main body that includes: a top side; a bottom side; a side part that connects the top side to the bottom side; and an intake surface on the side part; a blow-out panel that covers the bottom side of the main body and that includes a blow-out port; an axial fan inside the main body; a heat exchanger inside the intake surface; and an electric component under the axial fan. The axial fan has an axial direction orthogonal to the top side, and an intake side and a blow-out side when the axial fan is in rotation. The blow-out side is disposed on a lower side of the axial fan and faces the blow-out panel. The heat exchanger surrounds the axial fan.
US11441810B2
A modular fire-rated conduit or duct assembly suitable for applications such as ventilation systems in a multi-floor or multi-room building. According to an embodiment, the modular fire-rated conduit assembly comprises two or more duct or conduit sections, each of the duct sections includes an inner duct liner and an outer casing, and a plurality of casing spacers configured to form a thermal insulating cavity between at least a portion of space between the inner duct liner and the outer casing, and the thermal insulating cavity is configured to receive a thermal material, a first exterior flange connector is attached to one end of each of the inner duct liners, a second exterior flange connector attached to another end of each of the inner duct liners, the first and the second exterior flange connectors are configured to form an assembly junction for coupling respective ends of the duct or conduit sections to form a connected run of the conduit or duct sections, and a joint connection end is formed between the exterior flange connector and the outer casing, and the joint connection end is configured to receive a joint insulating material, and further includes a return configured to receive a connection edge of a joint cover, and the joint cover is configured to encapsulate the joint connection ends of adjacent duct sections modules.
US11441807B2
An air conditioner includes a controller that controls a driving unit of the air conditioner. The controller includes a determination unit that determines necessity of a contaminant reduction operation of the air conditioner based on whether the air conditioner is in a non-cooling operation period, and a setting unit that sets a condensation operation condition for forming condensed water on a surface of an indoor heat exchanger of the air conditioner. The controller performs the contaminant reduction operation of the air conditioner based on a necessity determination result of the determination unit in accordance with the condensation operation condition set by the setting unit.
US11441805B2
Various embodiments of smart thermostats are presented herein. A smart thermostat can include a thermostat housing defining a rounded front aperture and having a sidewall. The smart thermostat can include a capacitive touch strip that senses a plurality of gestures. The smart thermostat can include an electronic display. The electronic display may be caused to display icons arranged in a graphical arc. The smart thermostat may include a reflective cover positioned such that the electronic display is viewed through the reflective cover.
US11441801B2
A humidifier device includes an output device, an atomizer enclosure having a first opening that is operable to be open and closed and a second opening, an atomizer within the atomizer enclosure configured to produce moisture and to output the moisture through the second opening of the atomizer enclosure, a humidity sensor configured to sense humidity levels, and control circuitry configured to control the atomizer and to determine whether the humidity levels sensed by the humidity sensor are indicative of the first opening of the atomizer enclosure being open. The output device is configured to, in response to determining that the humidity levels sensed by the humidity sensor are indicative of the first opening of the atomizer enclosure is open, output an alert indicative of the first opening of the atomizer enclosure being open.
US11441798B1
An apparatus, system, and methods for measuring environmental parameters are disclosed. The apparatus, system and methods can be used for a variety of applications, including HVAC air balancing and building commissioning. The system includes a variety of wireless sensing modules and wearable modules for control. display, and storage. Parameters measured include air and water temperature, pressure. velocity, and flow. Also included are sensors for light intensity, CO concentrations, and CO2 concentrations.
US11441797B1
Embodiments of the current disclosure include air pretreatment devices suitable for pretreatment of air received by air handler units. The air pretreatment devices can include an air intake configured to capture the outside air. A cooling coil system can process changes in the dry bulb and dew point temperatures of the captured outside air. The pretreated air can then be passed via an air outtake to the air handler. The cooling coil system can be coupled to at least a chilled water intake and a chilled water return line. Finally, a single water valve control unit located on either the chilled water intake or chilled water return line can be adjusted to direct a change in the dry bulb temperature and dew point temperature within the cooling coil system.
US11441796B2
In a construction method of an air conditioning system, the respective rooms are provided with air intake sections 9a to 9d, 18a to 18d which spout air sent from blowers 40a to 40d, 41a to 41d, an exhaust section 52 which forms discharged air current directed from the respective rooms toward the return compartment is provided between the respective rooms and the return compartment, and the plurality of blowers 40a to 40d, 41a to 41d and at least one air conditioner are disposed in the return compartment. Air discharged from the plurality of rooms in the building 1 by the air conditioner 30b operated by the return compartment is adjusted in temperature and moisture in the return compartment, and wind is sent into the plurality of rooms in the building 1 by the blowers 40a to 40d, 41a to 41d, and air conditioning in the building 1 can be performed.
US11441795B2
An electric control box (100) for an air conditioner and an air conditioner with the same are provided. The electric control box includes a housing (1); a cooling fin (2) running through the housing (1) and having a part located inside the housing (1) and another part located outside the housing (1); an inner water-guiding part (3) located inside the housing (1) and below the cooling fin (2); an outer water-guiding part (4) located outside the housing (1) and below the inner water-guiding part (3), the inner water-guiding part (3) and the outer water-guiding part (4) defining a water guide passage (a) configured to guide water (b) inside the housing (1) to the outside of the housing (1).
US11441794B2
A gas-side stop valve on the gas refrigerant side and a liquid-side stop valve on the liquid refrigerant side are provided in a package of an outdoor unit. A gas-side filter on the gas refrigerant side is mounted on the indoor unit side relative to the gas-side stop valve and inside the package of the outdoor unit. A liquid-side filter 9 on the liquid refrigerant side is mounted on the indoor unit side relative to the liquid-side stop valve and inside the package of the outdoor unit. As a result, it is not necessary to ensure a place for mounting the gas-side filter and the liquid-side filter at the time of installation on site and the workability can be improved.
US11441792B2
A window air conditioner includes a casing including an outdoor part and an indoor part spaced apart from each other. A receiving groove is formed between the outdoor part and the indoor part. The window air conditioner further includes a first positioning portion provided at a side wall of the receiving groove and a fastening device mounted at the casing. The fastening device includes a plurality of second positioning portions spaced apart from each other in a direction from the indoor part to the outdoor part. The fastening device is configured to switch between a locked state and an unlocked state. In the locked state, the fastening device extends into the receiving groove and one of the plurality of second positioning portions cooperates with the first positioning portion to fix a position of the fastening device. In the unlocked state, the fastening device is outside the receiving groove.
US11441777B2
Combustor assemblies are provided. For example, a combustor assembly includes a combustor liner defining a combustion chamber and an annular combustor dome positioned at a forward end of the combustor liner that defines a plurality of dome apertures. The combustor assembly further includes an annular heat shield positioned between the combustor dome and the combustion chamber, a plurality of adapters positioned forward of the heat shield, and a plurality of collars. The heat shield defines a plurality of heat shield apertures that are aligned with the dome apertures. One adapter is attached to the combustor dome at each dome aperture, and the adapters are. One collar extends through each heat shield aperture to couple the heat shield to the combustor dome. Further, ceramic matrix composite (CMC) heat shields are provided that may include an annular body defining a plurality of heat shield apertures, as well as inner and outer wings.
US11441776B2
Trigger devices for igniting an exothermic reaction is provided. The trigger devices may be flint type trigger devices and electronic type trigger devices. The flint type trigger device has a housing with a spark opening on a rear wall of the housing. A mold mounting assembly is secured to an exterior of the rear wall of the housing. A motor assembly is secured to the inside of the rear wall of the housing. The motor assembly has a flint wheel attached to a shaft of a motor, where the flint wheel is located adjacent the spark opening. A flint assembly is positioned within the housing such that a flint of the flint assembly is in contact with the flint wheel. A controller positioned within the housing is configured to selectively activate the motor to cause the flint wheel to rotate against the flint to create one or more sparks that are ejected from the spark opening.
US11441775B2
A compact heat recovery unit which includes separate and distinct thermal cores housed in their own channels. Each thermal core and its respective channel is moved at intervals. When a thermal core and its channel is inserted into a high temperature fluid flow, the thermal core absorbs the heat. When this heated thermal core and its channel is then later inserted into a low temperature fluid flow, the low temperature fluid is preheated by the heated thermal core. This operation is repeated with at least two independent thermal cores and their respective channels to maintain substantially continual pre-heating of received low temperature fluid. Similarly, the compact heat recovery unit can be used in a cooling application where pre-cooling of received higher temperature fluid is executed.
US11441769B1
The present invention discloses a multifunctional outdoor waterproof wall lamp including a waterproof lamp. The top end of the waterproof lamp is provided with a second connecting hole, and a multifunctional sensor is attached to the top end of the waterproof lamp. With a sensor adjustment switch and a sensor mode switch, usage modes of the device may be adjusted and switched well; with a socket, the device may be formed with an external power socket which is convenient for the surrounding people to use, the applicable scenarios are more diverse and more convenient, the connection between products and the lamp is simple, and the compatibility is strong, which is convenient for replacing waterproof lamps of various types; and with a waterproof cover, a good waterproof function can be realized, and after a product is preset, it can be directly powered on and used without repeated switching, thus realizing individual demand and energy saving, firm product structure, smart product structure, less visible screws and aesthetic appearance, and realizing multifunctional integration of smart lamps and sockets, convenient installation and long service life.
US11441763B2
A lighting apparatus includes a limit switch, a wiring box, a base holder and a light source module. The wiring box is for disposing the limit switch and for receiving a power wire connected to an external power. The base holder having a terminal connector electrically connected to the wiring box. The base holder has an opening for inserting a lever of the limit switch. The light source module is installed into the base holder. The light source module triggers the lever of the limit switch to turn on power supply to the light source module via the power wire and the terminal connector.
US11441759B2
The present disclosure discloses a lighting device and a ceiling light, the lighting device includes: a chassis, at least one lighting module, a drive power supply, and a first mounting component; the lighting module and the drive power supply are arranged on the chassis; the first mounting component is configured to mount the lighting module and the drive power supply on the chassis in a covering mode, the first mounting component includes a main body unit, at least one first accommodating part, and at least one second accommodating part, the first accommodating part and the second accommodating part are both arranged on the main body unit; and one end of the lighting module is electrically connected in the first accommodating part, one end of the drive power supply is connected in the second accommodating part, and the drive power supply supplies power to the lighting module.
US11441748B2
To improve design of a lighting device. A lighting device includes optically transparent glass plates provided on side faces and placed on an optical path of light emitted from a light source, where some or all of the optically transparent glass plates contain an optically transparent battery adapted to drive the light source; and an optically transparent glass plate that contains a transparent conductive film by being provided on a bottom face, wherein the optically transparent battery is placed in contact with a pair of transparent conductive film layers, which are connected to the light source. The pair of transparent conductive film layers are formed in a pair of parallel linear grooves formed in a surface of the optically transparent glass plate on the bottom face, and a tabular positive tab and negative tab of the optically transparent battery fit in respective ones of the pair of grooves.
US11441730B2
An apparatus for cooling a high heat-generating vehicle component includes an air compressor assembly operable in a heat-generating mode, in which the air compressor assembly has a relatively low capability to absorb heat energy from a coolant that has passed through a high heat-generating vehicle component. The coolant may be passed through a heat exchanger submerged in an oil reservoir of the air compressor assembly to facilitate the heat exchange. The air compressor assembly can also be operated in a non-heat-generating mode, in which the air compressor assembly has a relatively higher capability to absorb heat energy from the coolant that has passed through the high heat-generating vehicle component.
US11441729B2
The present invention relates to a device for recovering, separating and purifying oil mist in a minimum quantity lubricant (MQL) grinding process, comprising: an air separating mechanism, which comprises a pipeline and a fan fixedly connected with one end of the pipeline, wherein the fan is used for forming negative pressure in the pipeline, at least one conical filter mesh mechanism is arranged in the pipeline, and a tip of the conical filter mesh mechanism faces one side of an air inlet direction of the pipeline; and a filtering and recovering mechanism, which is connected with the pipeline and comprises a tank body, a filtering mechanism and a recovering mechanism, wherein the tank body is connected with the pipeline by a connecting part, and the filtering mechanism is connected with the recovering mechanism.
US11441719B2
A method of heating an inner pipe of a set of coaxial pipes, wherein the inner pipe is heated by induction using an electromagnetic induction coil (5) surrounding the outer pipe coaxially, the coil passing electrical power at a frequency lower than 100 Hz optimized for maximum energy efficiency of Joule effect heating of the inner pipe. A device (8) is also provided for induction heating an inner pipe of coaxial pipes, the device has a) an induction heater having at least one electromagnetic induction coil (5) coaxially surrounding the outer pipe of the coaxial pipes, and b) a raising device (9) for raising a portion (1-2) of coaxial pipes (1) above the sea bed (13) together with the induction coil(s) (5) surrounding it.
US11441716B2
A resin pipe joint (1, 11) includes a tubular joint body portion (2, 12) defining an internal flow path (P) the internal flow path being configured to allow a fluid to flow therein; and two or more welding end portions (3-3c, 13a, 13b) respectively provided at two or more opening portions (A1-A3) of the internal flow path (P), each of the welding end portions being configured to be welded to an abutting welding end portion of other resin piping member, wherein the internal flow path (P) comprises: one of a branched point (Bp) that branches the internal flow path (P) into two or more portions; a curved point (Cp) that bends the internal flow path (P); and an internal diameter transition point (Tp) that changes an internal diameter of the internal flow path, in mid-way of the internal flow path, and wherein a length (Lh) from the branched point (Bp), the curved point (Cp) or the inner diameter transition point (Tp) to an end face of the welding end portion (3-3c, 13a, 13b) is shorter than half of a straight distance (SD, SD1-SD4) between two points adjacent to each other, the two points being selected from the group consisting of branched points (Bp), curved points (Cp) and inner diameter transition points (Tp) of piping to be formed using the resin pipe joints (1, 11).
US11441715B1
A ratchet clamp with automatic fail safe preferably includes a first clamp half, a second clamp half, a ratchet arm and a locking ratchet device. The first and second clamp halves include a substantially semi-circular shape and a V-shaped cross section. One end of the first clamp half is pivotal secured to one end of the second clamp half. The ratchet arm includes a plurality of teeth. The locking ratchet device includes a ratchet lever and a lock pawl. The ratchet arm extends from an opposing end of the first clamp half. The locking ratchet device extends from an opposing end of the second clamp half. The ratchet arm is inserted into the locking ratchet device. The ratchet lever is lifted to tighten the clamp around flanges of two pipes. The lock pawl is used to lock a position of the ratchet arm relative to the locking ratchet device.
US11441706B2
Woven irrigation tubing comprising a woven, extrusion coated & laminated tube formed of a high density polyethylene (HDPE) outer layer, a low density polyethylene (LDPE) middle layer and a linear low density polyethylene (LLDPE) inner layer. The finished tubing is treated for ultraviolet resistance. The tubing is tied off at a distal end with a proximal end connected to a pressurized irrigation source. Watering holes are created in the tubing at spaced intervals and the resulting water streams are directed into parallel plowed furrows. The tubing is completely recyclable. The tubing is formed by manufacturing tape for the woven outer tubing cover, stretching the tape along its length to strengthen it, weaving the outer layer from the tape, flattening the woven outer layer, extrusion coating each surface of the outer layer with LDPE, laminating the LLDPE inner layer to the LDPE, reversing and winding the tubing for storage and distribution.
US11441702B1
The disclosed computer-implemented method may include a fluidic device comprising a chamber, an inlet port coupled to the chamber and configured to convey fluid to the chamber, and an outlet port coupled to the chamber and configured to convey the fluid from the chamber. The fluidic device may also have a restricting region that (1) is dimensioned to restrict a flow of the fluid through the outlet port when the pressure in the chamber is below a threshold level and (2) is configured to move in a manner that allows a flow rate of the fluid through the outlet port to increase when pressure in the chamber reaches the threshold level.
US11441701B2
A microfluidic valve may include a firing chamber having an orifice, a first portion of a liquid conduit connected to the firing chamber at a first port, a second portion of the liquid conduit connected to the firing chamber at a second port and a thermal resistor. The thermal resistor is to form a bubble within the firing chamber to expel liquid from the firing chamber through the orifice such that a first meniscus forms across the first port and a second meniscus forms across the second port to interrupt liquid flow between the first portion and the second portion of the liquid conduit.
US11441695B1
A safety opening/closing valve for easy checking of an opened/closed state thereof includes: a ball valve part having a rotating shaft part configured to open and close a flow path of the ball valve part by rotating; a housing part having an upper surface and having a plurality of gear teeth vertically formed along the inner circumference of an inner space of the housing part; a rotating part arranged in the housing part such that the rotating part rotates relative to the central axis of the housing part; at least three satellite gear parts mounted rotatably to the upper portion of the rotating part while being in engagement with gear teeth formed at the inner circumference of the housing part; a driving part including a sun gear part provided as a bar shape and inserted through an open central area of a top surface of the housing part.
US11441684B2
A mechanical seal that includes a holder assembly having a fastener-receiving aperture formed therein and having a pair of grooves disposed on either side of the fastener-receiving aperture. A sealing cover element is disposed over the fastener-receiving aperture and has opposed leg portions that seat within the groove.
US11441683B2
A stuffing box assembly for a fluid end of a hydraulic fluid pump includes a stuffing box unit having a plunger bore configured to receive a plunger of the hydraulic fluid pump and a plurality of seals. The plunger bore extends from a first axial end of the stuffing box unit to a second axial end of the stuffing box unit. The plunger bore includes a first portion configured to receive the plurality of seals and a second portion extending between the first portion and the second axial end. The stuffing box assembly further includes a sensor coupled to the stuffing box unit and configured to determine a fluid pressure within the second portion of the stuffing box unit.
US11441678B2
A vehicle parking lock mechanism includes a parking gear, a parking pawl, a lock member, and a support member. The parking pawl is meshed with the parking gear to hinder rotation of the parking gear. The lock member moves the parking pawl closer to the parking gear via a cam mechanism as the lock member is moved toward the locked position, to establish a parking locked state in which rotation of the parking gear is hindered by the parking pawl. The support member is provided with a guide portion guiding movement between a locked position and an unlocked position. The cam mechanism moves the parking pawl closer to the parking gear to be meshed therewith. A stopper is disposed on the lock member, to be engaged with the support member by taking a projecting posture in which the stopper projects toward the support member in the parking locked state.
US11441675B2
The present disclosure provides an inhibitor integrated actuator shift control device capable of controlling a position of a gear shift by improving control performance and durability through position control of a brushless direct current (BLDC) motor by an inductive sensor, forming a metallic uneven portion on an output shaft flange part of a reducer, and detecting a variation amount in induced current due to the metallic uneven portion.
US11441669B2
A hydraulic controlling system including: a cooling and lubricating oil line and a main controlling oil line; an oil-liquid storage; a first pump, wherein an inlet of the first pump is connected to the oil-liquid storage and an outlet of the first pump is connected to the main controlling oil line; a second pump, wherein an inlet of the second pump is connected to the oil-liquid storage and an outlet of the second pump selectively communicates with the cooling and lubricating oil line or the main controlling oil line; and a gearbox-gear-shifting oil line including a gear-shifting-pressure regulating valve, a plurality of gear-shifting-flow-rate controlling valves and a plurality of gear-shifting selector valves. The gear-shifting-flow-rate controlling valves are connected to the main controlling oil line via the gear-shifting-pressure regulating valve. At least some of the gear-shifting-flow-rate controlling valves are connected to a gear-shifting executing piston via the gear-shifting selector valves.
US11441659B2
A thrust washer and a differential containing a thrust washer. The differential has a housing, a spider and one or more spider gears. The thrust washer includes a body having an annular shape and a width configured to approximately match with a width of the one or more spider gears. The thrust washer is further configured to engage with the spider to prevent or reduce the thrust washer from rotating relative to the housing when the thrust washer is installed in the differential.
US11441655B2
A torque sensing assembly of a differential of an axle assembly is shown in the present disclosure. The differential may include a differential housing portion, a drive pinion positioned within the differential housing portion, a ring gear, a carrier, a differential pinion, a first side gear, a second side gear, a first bearing, a first bearing support, and the torque sensing assembly. The first bearing is coupled to the differential housing portion and rotatable with the carrier. The first bearing support is coupled to the differential housing portion and used to support the first bearing. The torque sensing assembly is coupled to the first bearing support and operable to measure a strain thereof resulted from a separation force created between the drive pinion and ring gear.
US11441651B2
A transmission includes an input shaft coupled to a prime mover, a countershaft, main shaft, and an output shaft, with gears between the countershaft and the main shaft. A shift actuator selectively couples the input shaft to the main shaft by rotatably coupling gears between the countershaft and the main shaft. The shift actuator is mounted on an exterior wall of a housing including the countershaft and the main shaft. An integrated actuator housing is operationally coupled to the shift actuator and a linear clutch actuator. The linear clutch actuator is a self-adjusting actuator, and the transmission includes a self-adjusting clutch.
US11441643B2
A gear assembly includes a planetary gear set having a sun gear, planet gears, and a ring gear. The planet gears are respectively rotatably mounted by a bearing on a respective planetary pin. The respective planetary pin is connected to a planetary carrier. Tilting pads arranged radially circumferentially with respect to the planetary pin are provided on sides of the planetary carrier facing the planet gears. The planetary carrier has, on sides facing the planet gears, recesses arranged radially circumferentially with respect to the planetary pin and corresponding to the tilting pads. The recesses are configured to receive at least part of the tilting pads.
US11441640B2
A balanced speed reducer of a dual-ring gear variable-line-speed planetary row includes a dual-ring gear variable-line-speed planetary row, an input end (6), an output end (7), a locking end (8), and auxiliary devices such as bearings. The dual-ring gear planetary row includes a left ring gear (1), a right ring gear (2), and a planet carrier (3). A left planetary gear (4) and a right planetary gear (5) that are connected on each planetary gear shaft have the same rotation speed. The left planetary gear (4) meshes with the left ring gear (1), and the right planetary gear (5) meshes with the right ring gear (2). The number of gear sets is not less than two. A teeth number combination and a number of gear sets are set according to a range specifying parameter and following a principle of matching the teeth number combination with the number of gear sets. A rule for manufacturing and assembling planetary gears is executed. A regulation on gear reference circle radii is executed. By connecting the planetary carrier (3) to the input end (6), connecting one ring gear to the output end (7), and connecting the other ring gear to the locking end (8), a speed reducer that has a corresponding left transmission ratio and right transmission ratio, can be actually assembled and provides balanced operation is formed.
US11441639B2
Vehicles that are relatively heavy and/or configured to transport heavy loads may utilize a powertrain comprising an electric machine capable of operating at high speeds and a multispeed transmission to propel the vehicle. An interface module is configured to modulate torque between the electric machine and the multispeed transmission allowing the electric machine to smoothly match speed as the multispeed transmission shifts between gears. The interface module facilitates efficient, predictable, and reliable modulation of torque between an input and an output of the powertrain of the vehicle.
US11441635B2
A liquid filled bushing assembly includes an inner tubular member (11), an outer tubular member (12) disposed in a coaxial relation to the inner tubular member, and an elastic member (13) interposed between the inner tubular member and the outer tubular member, wherein not only the stiffness of the liquid filled bushing assembly in the lateral directions can be freely selected but also the stiffness of the liquid filled bushing assembly in the rotational direction and/or the axial direction can be freely selected.
US11441629B2
Various residual braking torque indication devices, systems, and methods are described. The devices, systems, and methods can include a sensorized brake pad. An output signal of the sensorized brake pad can be processed to provide an indication of a residual braking torque. The residual braking torque indicator can be calibrated to reference data to provide an actual measurement of the residual braking torque.
US11441627B2
A brake application device (1) for a disc brake (2) of commercial vehicles comprising an actuating spindle (3) with, axially of the actuating spindle (3), a pressure plate (4) arranged on the actuating spindle (3), and the pressure plate (4) having an annular groove (6) radially for receiving a boot (5). A heat shield (7) is at least partially disposed between the pressure plate head (4a) and the boot (5) at a spacing (X). An insulating layer (8) may be present between the heat shield (7) and the pressure plate head (4a). The heat shield (7) may be a metal ring (10) encapsulated in or coated with an elastomer (9a). The heat shield (7) may alternatively be formed of plastic or silicone.
US11441626B2
Provided is an electric linear motion actuator that enables size reduction and cost reduction while increasing the instantaneous output of an electric motor. A control device (2) of the electric linear motion actuator includes: a motor driver (24) configured to control power supplied to a coil (4b) of an electric motor (4); a power storage unit (21) connected to a power supply device (3) and the motor driver (24); a current flow direction restriction unit (20) disposed between the power supply device (3) and the power storage unit (21), which causes current to pass only in a direction in which power is supplied from the power supply device (3); and a step-up unit (19) configured to step up voltage of the power supply device (3) and provide the stepped-up voltage to the power storage unit (21).
US11441623B2
A vehicle braking system includes a controller that receives signals from sensors associated with vehicle disc brakes, which allow detection of a parameter indicative of a degree of noise generated from each disc brake. When noise generation is detected, the controller activates a noise attenuation function of a first type if the vehicle is braking, and of a second type if the vehicle is not braking. The first type involves reducing actuating pressure of a fluid actuator associated with the disc brake for which noise generation is detected. The second type involves temporarily activating, while the vehicle is running and not braking, the fluid actuator associated with the disc brake which is generating noise. The controller also receives signals indicative of vehicle operating parameters which allow conditions to be defined in which priority is given to vehicle safety, and in which the noise attenuation function is excluded.
US11441613B2
The invention is concerned with an oil consumer system having at least one rotating component and at least one oil supply from an oil tank, wherein the oil consumer system has an oil return to a first tank and an oil supply via at least one second tank.
US11441602B2
A bearing structure includes: a shaft provided with a turbine impeller; a pair of rolling bearings accommodated in a bearing hole and each including: an inner ring provided to the shaft; and an outer ring having a damper portion formed on an outer periphery of the outer ring; an opposing surface opposed to, from a turbine impeller side, a lateral surface of the outer ring of the rolling bearing provided on the turbine impeller side; and a first oil supply groove formed in the opposing surface and opposed to at least the damper portion and the lateral surface of the outer ring.
US11441601B1
A rotor bearing system includes an inner bearing component and an outer bearing component. One of the bearing components includes at least three protrusions sized to form a close running proximity to the remaining component. A bearing gap between the inner bearing component and the outer bearing component is sized to exclude the entry of red blood cells between the bearing components during operation of the rotor bearing system and causing the bearing to operate in an elasto-hydrodynamic regime of mixed- or boundary-lubrication.
US11441596B2
The present disclosure provides descriptions of configurations for bonding washers used to facilitate the electrical bonding of metal structures. The bonding washer includes an electrically conductive body and at least one piercing member extending from a bottom surface of the body. An extended member extends from the electrically conductive body in a direction away from the bottom surface of the body.
US11441588B1
An equipment mounting system for mounting equipment to a support structure is described. An equipment mounting system including: (i) a mounting plate having defined therein a plate aperture of a particular shape; (ii) a bolt having a shaft portion including a threaded portion and a non-threaded portion that is of a complementary shape that complements the particular shape of the plate aperture; and (iii) a washer having defined therein a scored aperture that includes multiple radially extending scorings. In an assembled configuration of the mounting plate, the bolt and the washer, the plate aperture of the particular shape aligns with the scoring aperture such that both of the plate aperture and the scoring aperture receive the non-threaded portion of the complementary shape, and the particular shape of the mounting plate engages with the complementary shape of the bolt to prevent rotational displacement of the bolt around the mounting plate.
US11441587B2
A two-piece clip for securing an element to another element includes a first component having a head and a shaft extending from the head along a shaft axis having a point. At least one protrusion is provided on the shaft, having a contact surface facing the head, and the head having a contact surface facing the protrusion. The clip further includes a second component having a support surface facing the contact surface of the head, and a contact surface facing the protrusion. The contact surface of the head is supported on the support surface of the second component.
US11441583B2
A hydraulic thruster system for providing an axial force. In one embodiment, the system comprises a pump, a motor for driving the pump, and a hydraulic thruster comprising: a cylinder comprising a plurality of cylinder pistons; a shaft comprising a plurality of shaft pistons; a plurality of first pressure chambers; and a plurality of second pressure chambers, wherein the plurality of shaft pistons are positioned inside the cylinder, between the cylinder pistons to form the plurality of first and a second pressure chambers, wherein the shaft further comprises a first fluid passage connected to the pump and to the first pressure chambers, and a second fluid passage connected to the pump and to the second pressure chambers, and wherein the pump may pump fluid into the first pressure chambers and suction fluid from the second pressure chambers providing an axial force between the shaft and the cylinder.
US11441581B2
In a hydraulic system, such as for a tractor or other agricultural vehicle, a main supply pump supplies fluid to a steering system through a steering circuit and a second pump supplies fluid to a cooling fan motor. The second pump is connected with the steering circuit to provide a second a source of fluid to the steering system when the main supply pump is unable to meet demand. A prioritization valve regulates the flow of fluid from the second pump to the motor. The second pump acts as a secondary pump for the steering system and drives a cooling fan.
US11441577B2
A multi-stage pump includes a first set of pump stages directing fluid in a first direction from a first end of the multi-stage pump to a diffuser casing disposed at a central portion of the multi-stage pump. A second set of pump stages directs the fluid expelled from the diffuser casing in a second direction, opposite to the first direction, from a second end of the multi-stage pump to the diffuser casing. The diffuser casing receives the fluid from the first set of pump stages and directs the fluid toward the second end of the multi-stage pump and receives the fluid from the second set of pump stages and directs the fluid in a radial direction with respect to a longitudinal axis of the multi-stage pump.
US11441574B2
A blower and method of manufacturing a blower for a heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and refrigeration (HVACR) unit is disclosed. The blower includes a plurality of blower sections. Each section includes a first shroud, a second shroud spaced from the first shroud in a direction of a longitudinal axis of the blower, and a blade. The blade is formed such that a first end of the blade is joined with the first shroud and a second end of the blade is joined with the second shroud. A band is secured to the plurality of blower sections.
US11441571B2
A sealing system includes: a double mechanical seal having a pump-side sealing mechanism (10, 12) and an atmospheric-side sealing mechanism (11, 13); a pump mechanism (19) driven by a rotational shaft (1); a first medium circulation line (30) for circulating a fluid barrier-and-cooling medium between a first chamber (22a) and a second chamber (22b), the first medium circulation line (30) being coupled to the first chamber (22a) and the second chamber (22b), the fluid barrier-and-cooling medium being different from a fluid handled by the centrifugal pump; a heat exchanger (21) and a shut-off valve (28) attached to the first medium circulation line (30); a second medium circulation line (31) bypassing the shut-off valve (28); and a medium pressurizing pump (45) and an on-off valve (23) attached to the second medium circulation line (31).
US11441567B2
A pump for liquids is provided, comprising a pump chamber in which a bucket wheel is mounted on a bearing so that it can rotate, and an electric motor with a stator and a rotor. The stator has stator laminations and coils, and is coated with plastic in some parts and an electric/electronic activation device. The pump is intended to have a long service life and at the same time require as little installation space as possible. This is achieved by the stator laminations of the stator being at least in part electroplated.
US11441563B2
A rotary piston compressor/pump/blower includes a housing spatially limiting a working chamber, an intake connection for guiding fluid into the working chamber, a pressure connection for guiding the fluid out of the working chamber, and a rotor assembly having a first rotor rotatably arranged in a first working sub-chamber and a second rotor cooperating with the first rotor and rotatably arranged in a second working sub-chamber. The rotary piston compressor/pump/blower also includes a ventilation channel, formed in the housing and connected to the working chamber via a ventilation channel opening, for the temporally limited introducing of air into the working chamber, wherein the ventilation channel opening is open at least in sections, in particular completely open, in a compression phase.
