US11489612B2
To provide a light wavelength separation device and a light wavelength separation method that can be flexibly adapted for various channel intervals of a wavelength-division multiplexed (WDM) signal, a light wavelength separation circuit is provided with: an optical coupler which splits a wavelength-multiplexed optical signal in which optical signals of a plurality of channels are multiplexed; a band-pass filter which is arranged for each of output ports of the optical coupler, separates optical signals included in the wavelength-multiplexed optical signal inputted from the output ports of the optical coupler into channels of which the central frequencies are not adjacent to each other, and outputs the separated optical signals from respectively different output ports; and an optical switch which selects one of paths of the optical signals inputted from the output ports of each band-pass filter.
US11489604B2
The present disclosure discloses a system including a controller and a plurality of radio heads communicatively coupled to the controller. The controller transmits a synchronization signal to each of the radio heads to synchronize the local clocks in the radio heads to a master clock in the controller. The controller also transmits packets to the radio heads. Each of the radio heads includes a deframer. For a radio head, upon detecting that a received packet from the controller includes an error, the deframer alters the received packet to maintain the synchronization between the controller and the radio head and transmits data contained within the altered packet.
US11489600B2
In the measurement device 1, a reception sensitivity test control unit 18 ends throughput measurement of a CC using a throughput measurement unit 18b in a case where an end determination unit 18c1 determines that any of a plurality of CCs has reached a measurement end condition, and calculates a total status obtained by integrating a determination result for each CC using a total status calculation unit 18c2 by performing each “PASS” or “FAIL” determination for a remaining CC. Since an output level variable setting unit 18d performs a process of setting a next output level for the CC that has not reached the measurement end condition based on the total status, a control is performed to continue a reception sensitivity test until all CCs reach a measurement end condition.
US11489597B2
The present invention relates to a method for optimizing performance of a multi-span optical fiber network. Each span has an associated optical transmission fiber connected to an associated optical amplifier. Gain and output power of the associated optical amplifier are respectively controlled independently. An amplifier noise figure respectively depends on the gain of the associated optical amplifier, with each associated optical amplifier further connected to launch optical signals into a remainder of a corresponding optical transmission line. The method includes the steps of for each span, computing the amplifier noise figure and a non-linear noise generated in the span based on information about the span and using the computed amplifier noise figure and the computed non-linear noise to compute an optimum launch power, and optimizing performance of the multi-span optical fiber network based on the computed optimum launch powers of all spans.
US11489596B2
An image collection chip, an object imaging recognition device and an object imaging recognition method are provided. In each set of the pixel confirmation modules of the chip, each modulation unit and each sensing unit are correspondingly provided up and down on the optical modulation layer and the image sensing layer respectively; each modulation unit is provided with at least one modulation subunit, and each of the modulation subunits is provided with several modulation holes penetrating into the optical modulation layer; and the respective modulation holes in a same modulation subunit are arranged into a two-dimensional graphic structure having a specific pattern.
US11489595B2
The disclosed systems, structures, and methods are directed to a single-stage frequency-domain equalization (FDEQ) structure implemented on a processor, comprising a data preprocessing unit configured to concatenate received data samples in time-domain digital signals, transform the concatenated data samples in the time-domain digital signals to frequency-domain digital signals, and an adaptive equalizer comprising 2×2 multiple-input multiple output (MIMO) configured to compensate for non-time-varying fixed impairments and time-varying adaptive impairments in the frequency-domain digital signals.
US11489593B2
An optical and electrical hybrid beamforming transmitter, receiver, and signal processing method are provided. The transmitter includes, but is not limited to, two photoelectric converters, two adjusting circuits, and an antenna array. The photoelectric converter converts an optical signal into an initial electric signal, respectively. The adjusting circuit is coupled to the photoelectric converter, and are adapted for delaying the initial electric signal according to an expected beam pattern formed by the antenna array, respectively, to output an adjusted electric signal. The antenna array includes two antennas that are coupled to the adjusting circuit. The antenna radiates electromagnetic wave according to the adjusted electric signal. Accordingly, a phase of the signal may be adjusted, and the number of the elements may be reduced.
US11489592B2
Systems and methods for forming a verified secure wireless connection are disclosed. One system includes a first device with a first transceiver and a second device with a second transceiver. The second device does not include a display or any other means for providing high resolution visible light information. The system also includes a visible light signal source on the second device. The first and second devices store computer-readable instructions to initialize a secure wireless connection using the first transceiver and the second transceiver. The second device also stores computer-readable instructions to generate a visible light signal using the visible light source. The first device stores computer-readable instructions to verify the secure wireless connection using the visible light signal.
US11489587B2
Apparatuses, methods, and systems for coordinated access to a wireless link through data profiles are disclosed. One method includes receiving through the wireless link, by each hub associated with a base station, one or more data profiles from a network management element, receiving, by each hub, data from data sources associated with the hub, controlling, by each hub, a timing of communication of the data for each of the data sources from the hub to the base station through the wireless satellite link based on the one or more data profiles, monitoring reporting times of different data sources of different hubs over time, allocating preamble codes to each of the data sources, wherein different preamble codes are allocated to different data sources of different hubs that report within a margin of time of each other, and inserting the allocated preamble codes into packets of each of the data sources.
US11489584B2
A network for providing high speed data communications may include multiple terrestrial transmission stations that are located within overlapping communications range and a mobile receiver station. The terrestrial transmission stations provide a continuous and uninterrupted high speed data communications link with the mobile receiver station employing a wireless radio access network protocol.
US11489582B2
An origination device transmits a “received data signal” to a signal forwarding device. The “received data signal” comprises a first set of data. The origination device also transmits at least one “received control signal” to the signal forwarding device and to a destination device. The at least one “received control signal” comprises a first set of control information and a second set of control information. The first and second sets of control information are both associated with the first set of data. The first set of control information contains instructions pertaining to the signal forwarding device processing the first set of data. The second set of control information contains instructions pertaining to the destination device processing the first set of data. The signal forwarding device transmits a “forwarded signal” to the destination device. The “forwarded signal” contains forwarded data, based on the first set of data.
US11489577B2
The present disclosure comprises a method performed by a wireless device, wherein the wireless device is configured to communicate, using a set of beams, with a network node of a wireless communication system. The method comprises receiving, on one or more receive beams, one or more downlink, DL, signals from the network node. The method comprises determining one or more DL measurement parameters based on the received one or more DL signals. The method comprises determining whether the one or more DL measurement parameters satisfy a criterion. The method comprises, when it is determined that at least one of the one or more DL measurement parameters does not satisfy a criterion, indicating to the network node a beam reciprocity parameter, wherein the beam reciprocity parameter indicates a qualitative measure of one or more transmission beams of the wireless device.
US11489573B2
A repeater for transmitting millimeter wave signals. A transceiver communicates with a plurality of remote locations over millimeter wave communications links. The of transceiver comprises a patch antenna array including a plurality of patch antennas. The plurality of patch antennas include a transmitter array portion in a first orientation for transmitting signals and a receiver array portion in a second orientation for receiving signals. The receiver array portion is vertically separated from the transmitter array portion by a predetermined distance. The first and second orientations and the predetermined distance vertically separating the transmitter array portion from the receiver array portion limit interference between the transmitted signals and the received signals. Transceiver circuitry transmits the millimeter wave signals with at least a first millimeter wave transceiver at first one of the plurality of remote locations and a second millimeter wave transceiver at a second one of the plurality of remote locations.
US11489570B2
Aspects of the disclosure include an apparatus at base station side in a wireless communication system for multi-user superposition transmission. The apparatus includes a superposition control unit and an indication generation unit. The superposition control unit is configured to insert, into a data stream of each user equipment in a group of user equipment comprising a plurality of user equipment, a demodulation reference signal corresponding to the data stream, and superpose demodulation reference signals corresponding to data streams of respective user equipment. The indication generation unit is configured to generate, for at least a first user equipment among the plurality of user equipment, an indication regarding a demodulation reference signal corresponding to a data stream of other user equipment among the plurality of user equipment, to assist the first user equipment in demodulating data transmitted in the multi-user superposition transmission.
US11489569B2
Aspects presented herein enable updating the codebook configuration upon the changing of the cover or case of the UE. The apparatus applies a first codebook from a plurality of preconfigured codebooks. The apparatus detects a change of a cover state of the UE, wherein the change alters a transmission beam pattern at the UE. The apparatus applies a second codebook from the plurality of preconfigured codebooks based on the change of the cover state.
US11489564B2
According to a communication method of the present disclosure, a responder, after the end of transmission sector sweep (TXSS), receives from an initiator a first feedback frame including a BF training type FIELD indicating whether or not to implement a beam forming training (BFT) of a single user multi-input multi-output (SU-MIMO). If the BF training type FIELD indicates that a BFT of the SU-MIMO is to be implemented, the responder transmits to the initiator a second feedback frame based on the result of the TXSS and including a signal to noise ratio (SNR) and a sector identifier (ID) order. The initiator implements the BFT of the SU-MIMO between the initiator and the responder on the basis of the SNR and the sector ID order.
US11489555B2
Wireless power transfer systems, disclosed, include one or more circuits to facilitate high power transfer at high frequencies. Such wireless power transfer systems include a damping circuit, configured to dampen a wireless power signal such that communications fidelity is upheld at high power. The damping circuit includes at least a damping transistor that is configured to receive, from the transmitter controller, a damping signal for switching the transistor to control damping during transmission of amplitude shift keying (ASK) wireless data signals. Utilizing such systems enables wireless power transfer at high frequency, such as 13.56 MHz, at voltages over 1 Watt, while maintaining fidelity of in-band communications associated with the higher power wireless power signal.
US11489544B2
A circuit for generating an N-bit cyclic redundancy code of a k-bit digit d, the code based on a reconfigurable generator polynomial P of degree N, the circuit including a dynamic table comprising a multiplication sub-table storing products resulting from multiplication by the polynomial P of each element definable over k bits, in the order of the scalar values of the k-bit elements; a division sub-table storing quotients resulting from Euclidean division by the polynomial P of each k-bit element shifted by N bits to the left, in the order of the scalar values of the k-bit elements; and a group of first multiplexers, each multiplexer connected to be indexed by a respective cell of the division table to transmit the contents of a corresponding cell of the multiplication table to an output of the dynamic table, of same rank as the respective cell of the division table.
US11489540B2
A receiver having analog-to-digital converters (ADC) is disclosed. The ADCs may be reconfigured based on the insertion loss mode of the receiver. For example, different portions of a plurality of time-interleaved successive approximation (SAR) ADC slices included in at least one sub-ADC of each time-interleaved ADC may be enabled depending on which of a plurality of insertion loss modes is selected for operation of the receiver.
US11489537B2
A system may include ADC circuitry. To test the performance of the ADC circuitry, the system may include ADC testing circuitry coupled to the ADC circuitry. In particular, the ADC testing circuitry may include reference voltage generation circuitry configured to generate reference voltages serving as test voltages for the ADC circuitry. The ADC circuitry may be coupled to a test input for receiving the test voltages via switching circuitry and may be coupled to a main data input for receiving system data via the switching circuitry. Testing may occur during an idling time period of the system and when the switching circuitry couples the test input to the ADC circuitry. Test input voltages corresponding to one or more stages in the ADC circuitry may be provided to the ADC circuitry, and corresponding output values from the ADC circuitry may be compared to an expected value and/or expected threshold values.
US11489535B1
Body text indent—does not have paragraph numbering turned on. Not needed in the Abstract. An integrated circuit device includes a digital sine wave generator configured to produce portions of a digital sine wave, a combiner circuit configured to output each of the portions of the digital sine wave combined with a respective calibration code during operation in a post-production dynamic test mode, a digital to analog converter (DAC) configured to output an analog sine wave based on the output of the combiner circuit, and a test analog to digital converter (ADC) including an input terminal directly connected to the output of the DAC, and configured to generate a second digital sine wave based on the analog sine wave.
US11489534B1
Digital-to-analog converter (DAC) architecture, comprising: a matrix DAC array comprising a plurality of cells arranged in a first dimension and a second dimension, each cell comprising a local decoder configured to transition the cell between at least two states; and decoding circuitry configured to: receive a digital input signal; and control the plurality of local decoders based on a received digital input signal, wherein each incremental change in the digital input signal results in a transition of a single cell of the plurality of cells such that the plurality of cells transition in sequence, the sequence of transitions of the plurality of cells defining a path through the DAC array; wherein when the path proceeds in the first dimension, the path proceeds to an adjacent cell of the plurality of cells at least 50% of the time; and wherein when the path proceeds in the second dimension, the path proceeds to an adjacent cell of the plurality of cells at least 50% of the time.
US11489522B2
A circuit arrangement comprises: a primary coil and a secondary coil, which are inductively coupled, but galvanically isolated from one another; a first voltage divider which is connected between a first terminal and a second terminal of the secondary coil and which has a center tap connected to a ground node; a second voltage divider, which is connected between the first terminal and the second terminal of the secondary coil; and an active circuit, which is connected to the first terminal and the second terminal of the secondary coil, a center tap of the second voltage divider and to the ground node. The active circuit is configured to provide a current path between the first terminal of the secondary coil and the ground node and between the second terminal of the secondary coil and the ground node depending on a voltage at the center tap of the second voltage divider.
US11489520B2
A power switching circuit includes a first switch circuit, a second switch circuit, a control circuit, and a driver circuit. The first switch circuit receives a first power voltage and coupled to an output terminal. The first switch circuit includes a first P-type transistor and a second P-type transistor coupled in series. The second switch circuit receives a second power voltage and coupled to the output terminal. The second switch circuit includes a third P-type transistor and a fourth P-type transistor coupled in series. The control circuit generates a control signal according to an output voltage at the output terminal, a power state signal, and one of the first power voltage and the second power voltage. The driver circuit generates a first driving signal or a second driving signal according to the control signal to control the first switch circuit or the second switch circuit.
US11489519B2
An analog switch includes an input terminal, an output terminal, a common gate, and a common source. The switch includes a current source which has a first input coupled to a first voltage supply, a control input coupled to receive a gate boost signal, and an output coupled to the common gate. The current source supplies a boost gate current to the common gate during a boost period and supplies a reduced gate current during a second period different than the boost period. The switch includes a clamp circuit which has a first terminal coupled to the common gate, a second terminal coupled to the common source, and a third terminal. The switch includes a Vgs detection circuit which provides the gate boost signal responsive to a conduction of current through the clamp circuit.
US11489515B2
A circuit includes a filter, a first inverter, and a second inverter. The filter is coupled to an input of the first inverter. The second inverter includes an input and an output. The input of the second inverter is coupled to the output of the first inverter. The output of the second inverter is coupled to the input of the first inverter. The filter includes a notch filter and a bandpass filter.
US11489514B2
A radio-frequency filter includes a series-arm circuit on a circuit path that connects a first input/output terminal and a second input/output terminal. A parallel-arm circuit is connected to a node on the path and ground. The series-arm circuit includes a first impedance element, a first switch element connected to the first impedance element, and a series-arm resonator connected in parallel to the first impedance element and the first switch element. The parallel-arm circuit includes a first parallel-arm resonator, and a first switch circuit connected in series to the first parallel-arm resonator, the first switch circuit includes a second switch element. The first and second switch elements and the second switch elements include one or more transistors, and a gate width of the transistors included in the second switch element is larger than that of at least one of the transistors included in the first switch element.
US11489513B2
Multi-mode surface acoustic wave filters are disclosed. A multi-mode surface acoustic wave filter can include a plurality of interdigital transducer electrodes that are longitudinally coupled to each other and acoustic reflectors on opposing sides of the plurality of interdigital transducer electrodes. The acoustic reflectors include acoustic reflector fingers arranged to suppress a spurious response due to shear horizontal mode of the multi-mode surface acoustic wave filter. For example, the acoustic reflector fingers can include stepped lengths and/or slanted pitches to suppress the spurious response due to shear horizontal mode.
US11489508B2
A wearable device and method for operating the same are provided. The wearable device includes an antenna element, a first matching circuit, a second matching circuit, and a switch element. The first matching circuit has a first impedance value. The second matching circuit has a second impedance value different from the first impedance value. The switch element is configured to determine whether the antenna element is electrically connected with the first matching circuit or the second matching circuit.
US11489499B1
A switch circuit provides a first output signal and a second output signal for switching between ternary modulation and quaternary modulation for a target device. A first output signal is provided from one of a first signal, a second signal and a ground signal according to an input signal and a duty signal, wherein the first signal is generated through performing a one-bit left-shift operation for the input signal, and the second signal is generated through adding the input signal and the duty signal. A second output signal is provided from one of a third signal, a fourth signal and the ground signal according to the input signal and the duty signal, wherein the third signal is generated through subtracting the input signal from the duty signal, and the fourth signal is generated through performing a two's-complement transformation and the one-bit left-shift operation for the input signal.
US11489494B2
A dynamic amplifier includes an amplifier configured to differentially amplify first and second input signals to generate first and second output signals, a bias circuit, and a variable impedance circuit. The bias circuit is connected between a first power node configured to supply a first source voltage and the amplifier, and configured to apply bias to the amplifier. The variable impedance circuit is connected between the amplifier and a second power node configured to supply a second source voltage that is lower than the first source voltage. The variable impedance circuit is configured to adjust amplification gain of the amplifier, by adjusting impedance based on a magnitude of one among the first and second input signals and the first and second output signals.
US11489492B2
A semiconductor device 1 includes: a first oscillator 11_RC1 configured to operate at a detected voltage, the first oscillator having first temperature dependency; a second oscillator 11_RC4 configured to operate at the detected voltage, the second oscillator having second temperature dependency; a count unit configured to count an output of the first oscillator and an output of the second oscillator, the output of the first oscillator and the output of the second oscillator being supplied to the count unit; an arithmetic unit configured to calculate a count value CNT (T1) of the first oscillator and a count value CNT (T4) of the second oscillator, the count values of the first and second oscillators being counted by the count unit; and a determining unit configured to compare an output of the arithmetic unit with a threshold value to output a detected result signal corresponding to a result of the comparison.
US11489488B2
A bifacial solar module with enhanced power output including first and second transparent support layers, a plurality of electrically interconnected bifacial solar cells arranged between the transparent support layers with gaps between one or more of the interconnected solar cells and edges of the first and second transparent support layers, the bifacial solar cells having a first side directly exposed to solar radiation and a second side opposite the first. The bifacial solar module further includes one or more micro-structured reflective tapes positioned coincidentally with the gaps and attached to a surface of the second support layer such that light passing through the second support layer is reflected back into the second support layer at angles such that light reflecting from the tape is absorbed by either the first or second side of the bifacial solar cells.
US11489483B2
Disclosed are novel forms of operable and fixed windows capable of at least one or more of: producing an electrical current utilizing a transparent or semi-transparent solar collecting coating or film on a pane, and selectively changing one or more of opacity and tint of one or more electrochromatic layers in the window. Some embodiments also disclose a robust scaffold assembly utilized to enclose the perimeter of the substrate and one or more transparent solar cells or electrochromatic layers, or transparent solar cells and electrochromatic layers. Various structural and electrical configurations are disclosed to satisfy the kinematic demands of operable windows. Wired and wireless configurations of the windows are contemplated as are self-powered versions whereby the transparent solar collector or wireless power powers the electrochromatic function. Also disclosed are self-powered and self-contained glaze units with wireless control or control from user interface controls on an indoor facing pane.
US11489481B2
An apparatus and method for mounting a solar panel array on a surface is disclosed. The solar panel array includes a plurality of solar panel modules and a hybrid solar panel module mounting assembly. The hybrid solar panel module mounting assembly includes a component of a rail-based mounting system and a component of a rail-less mounting system. At least one of the plurality of solar panel modules is mounted on the component of the rail-based mounting system and at least one of the plurality of solar panel modules is mounted on the component of the rail-less mounting system.
US11489474B2
In a driving device for a rotating electric machine, a first inverter unit blocks and allows, for each winding of multi-phase windings of the rotating electric machine, current conduction on one side of the winding and a second inverter unit blocks and allows current conduction on the other side of the winding. A plurality of second switching elements forming the second inverter unit each have a lower ON resistance than a plurality of first switching elements forming the first inverter unit. A controller is configured to switch on and off the respective first switching elements at a switching frequency higher than an electric fundamental frequency and switch on and off the respective second switching elements at a switching frequency lower than the switching frequency at which to switch on and off the first switching elements.
US11489463B2
A portion of ankle movement can be harnessed into stored energy that can be released for various purposes, such as to assist in movement or to charge a battery. This harnessing can be achieved in various manners. In one example manner, an offset pulley component can transfer ankle movement to a generator in a shoe insole. In another example manner, a slider can cause a brace arch to match an ankle arch such that the movement is appropriately harnessed.
US11489453B2
The invention relates to a method for producing a power module (1) and a power module (1), in particular for a medium or high voltage converter (2), comprising at least one power semiconductor module (3), at least one energy storage module (5), at least one cooling device (7), at least two busbars (10), wherein the cooling device (7) is configured to be electrically conductive and is connected to a protective housing (19) shielding at least the power semiconductor module (3) from the environment, which protective housing (19) has at least one insertion opening (20) for inserting and fastening a connecting element (15), and an electrically conductive connecting element (15) is arranged at a predefinable connection position (16) between at least the cooling device (7) and one of the busbars (10) for forming a defined charge-reversal path (17).
US11489442B2
Various embodiments according to the present invention relate to a power conversion device and method, the device comprising: a converter; a capacitor unit including a plurality of capacitors for storing input voltage input thereto; a switch unit connected to the capacitor unit and including a plurality of switches for selectively connecting at least one capacitor among the plurality of capacitors to the converter; and a controller connected to the capacitor unit and the switch unit, wherein the controller determines at least one capacitor satisfying a specified condition, among the plurality of capacitors, sets at least one switch among the plurality of switches to be turned on, the at least one switch corresponding to the at least one capacitor, and sets at least another switch among the plurality of switches except for the at least one switch, to be turned off, so that the at least one capacitor and the converter are electrically connected and configured to allow at least partial voltage of the input voltage, stored in the at least one capacitor, to be supplied to the converter. Therefore, a power conversion device, disposed on a circuit on which the plurality of capacitors (or cells) is connected in series to a power supply unit, can establish selective connection by using the switch unit, so as to adjust input voltage and provide the adjusted input voltage to the converter, and can reduce switching loss of the power conversion device. Various other embodiments are possible.
US11489438B2
A power conversion device is provided. The power conversion device includes a bulk capacitor, a current limiting resistor in series with the bulk capacitor, and an inrush current control device configured to bypass the current limiting resistor when activated. The power conversion device also includes a bypass device in parallel with the current limiting resistor, configured to provide a low-resistance path to the bulk capacitor during a power surge.
US11489428B2
A stator module for electromagnetically driving a rotor of a planar drive system comprises a connection module to provide drive energy. A power module has a current-generating unit to generate a drive current, which drives the rotor, from the drive energy. A stator unit has a coil conductor, to which the drive current can be applied, for generating a magnetic field which drives the rotor. A sensor module comprises a position-detecting unit to detect a position of the rotor over the sensor unit. The sensor module is arranged in a module housing. The stator unit and power module are arranged on a top side of the module housing and the connection module is arranged on a bottom side. The current-generating unit and the connection module are connected via a drive energy line. The drive energy line passes through the module housing in a manner electrically insulated from the sensor module.
US11489426B2
An actuator may include a movable body; a support body; a connecting body; and a magnetic driving circuit. The magnetic driving circuit may include an air-core coil provided in a first member, and a first permanent magnet provided in a second member so as to face the coil on a first side in a first direction. The magnetic driving circuit may cause the movable body to vibrate with respect to the support body in a second direction which intersects with the first direction. The first member may include a coil holder including a plate part through which a coil placement hole is formed, a first plate that overlaps the coil placement hole and the plate part, and an adhesive layer. The coil may include a first holding portion that engages the first plate to hold the first plate.
US11489424B2
A squirrel-cage induction rotating electrical machine comprises: a solid rotor, a stator, and bearings. The solid rotor includes a shaft part, a columnar-shaped rotor core part integrally formed with the shaft part and having rotor slots formed therein, and a plurality of conductor bars passing through the respective rotor slots and coupled together at both axial ends outside the rotor core part. The stator includes a cylindrical stator core provided radially outside the rotor core part, and stator windings passing through a plurality of respective stator slots which are formed in the radially inner surface of the stator core. An outer wall and an inner wall of each rotor slot are tilted at a predetermined angle or more with respect to a plane including a rotation axis of the shaft part.
US11489413B2
A temperature sensor in a rotating electric machine is disposed or installed on a surface of a temperature detection object. The temperature detection object, i.e., an installation portion, has a thickness. The temperature sensor has an inner case housing a detector element. The inner case is made of resin. The inner case has a thickness. A temperature detecting device has an outer case housing the temperature sensor. The outer case is made of resin. A linear expansion coefficient of the outer case is, within a certain temperature range including a threshold temperature for a protection of the rotating electric machine, is smaller than an average of linear expansion coefficients of the installation portion and the inner case.
US11489398B2
The water channel structure for connecting a controller to a motor includes a controller main housing and a motor body that are connected and fastened to each other. A water-cooling plate is fastened in the controller main housing. A water inlet and a water outlet are respectively provided at two ends of the controller main housing. A heat dissipation water channel communicating the water inlet with the water outlet inside the controller main housing is formed in the water-cooling plate. A motor water channel is provided inside the motor body. A transition water joint is provided at the water outlet of the controller main housing. The transition water joint is directly connected to a water inlet of the motor water channel.
US11489393B2
A stator assembly of a hairpin winding motor capable of improving the performance of the winding motor and the insulation performance of a hairpin coil, and includes a stator core through which a plurality of slots pass in a circumferential direction; and a plurality of hairpin coils respectively fastened to and interconnected with the slots to form a coil winding. The hairpin coil includes a head portion bent in a U shape and exposed to the outside of the stator core, and a pair of leg portions configured to extend in parallel from both ends of the head portion to be inserted into a specific slot and the slot spaced apart from the specific slot by one pole pitch and of which end portions are exposed to the outside of the stator core.
US11489390B2
A stator assembly includes an annular body extending about a central axis and a plurality of stator teeth extending axially from the annular body and spaced circumferentially about the annular body. The stator assembly includes at least one conduction coil and at least one bobbin configured to support the at least one conduction coil. The at least one bobbin is coupled to a first stator tooth such that the at least one conduction coil extends about the first stator tooth. The stator assembly further includes at least one insulation member configured to couple to a second stator tooth and extend into a slot between the second stator tooth and the at least one conduction coil. The at least one insulation member includes an end wall configured to cover the distal end of the second stator tooth when the at least one insulation member is coupled to the second stator tooth.
US11489389B2
A stator for an electric machine includes a plurality of pins, which are arranged on concentric circles at different distances to a stator center in slots in the stator, and each concentric circle forms a layer. In each case four pins in different layers are serially connected to one another and form a winding, a first pin of the winding is located in a first slot in the 4n−3 layer, wherein n is an integer, a second pin of the winding is located in a second slot in the 4n−2 layer, wherein the second slot has a first radial distance to the first slot in a first circumferential direction of the stator, a third pin of the winding is located in the first slot in the 4n layer, and a fourth pin of the winding is located in the second slot in the 4n−1 layer.
US11489387B2
A coil includes: a series of turns constituted by a first turn to an n-th turn of a conductive wire having a polygonal cross-section, where n is an integer equal to or larger than 3, and the conductive wire is wound in a spiral shape and is stacked in a direction from downward toward upward; and an insulating member disposed on either an upper surface or a lower surface of an i-th turn, where i is an integer satisfying 1≤i≤n.
US11489376B2
A stator is formed by laminating electrical steel sheets punched into a predetermined shape. The stator includes split cores that are punched out from the electrical steel sheets to have an annular shape. A first group of the split cores adjacent to each other in the circumferential direction have the same rolling direction, and a second group of the split cores adjacent to each other in the circumferential direction have different rolling directions.
US11489375B2
A single phase permanent magnet motor includes a stator and a rotor. The stator includes a stator corer and windings. The stator corer includes a yoke portion and stator teeth. Each stator tooth includes a winding portion and a pole shoe connected to an end of the winding portion. Each pole shoe includes a pole face. The pole face defines a first positioning notch at a middle thereof. Each of the pole faces further defines at least one second positioning notch. Said at least one second positioning notches in one of pole shoe are located at the same side of the first positioning notch of the corresponding one pole shoe. The first and second positioning notches are configured such that an initial position of the rotor received in the space of the stator is offset from a dead point position.
US11489371B2
A wireless charging device in communication with an electronic device is provided. The wireless charging device includes a charging circuit configured to communicate with the electronic device at a first frequency that is included in a frequency band of the electronic device and supple power received from an external power source to the electronic device depending on a communication result at the first frequency, and a control circuit configured to convert the first frequency, based on a response of the electronic device to a first connection signal that is transmitted from the charging circuit to the electronic device.
US11489361B2
The present disclosure includes a system including a power supply unit that provides an output power and a supply status indicating whether the power supply unit is receiving input power. An electronic circuit is coupled to the power supply unit to receive the output power and a standby control circuit controls turning on and off the power supply unit. A power harvesting circuit generates standby power from the supply status and provides the standby power to power the standby control circuit.
US11489360B2
A wireless charging circuit, a wireless charging method, a wireless charging system and a mobile terminal are provided. The wireless charging circuit includes: an acquisition unit that acquires voltage information of a battery in the mobile terminal; a charging control unit that obtains the voltage information of the battery, and determine current information of the battery according to the voltage information during a charging process of the battery; a first communication unit that transmits the voltage information and the current information of the battery to an external wireless charging device; a receiving unit that generates a charging Direct Current (DC) by inducing an electrical signal generated by the external wireless charging device according to the voltage information and the current information of the battery; and a switching unit configured to, when the switching unit is an on state, input the charging DC into the battery through the acquisition unit.
US11489356B2
One embodiment is a system comprising a medium voltage direct current (MVDC) link electrically coupling a first AC-DC converter and a second AC-DC converter. The first AC-DC converter is electrically coupled with a first alternating current (AC) feeder. The second AC-DC converter electrically coupled with a second AC feeder. A battery charger electrically coupled with the MVDC link via a converterless connection. A first electronic controller is operatively coupled with the first AC-DC converter. A second electronic controller is operatively coupled with the second AC-DC converter. During operation of the battery charger to charge a battery the first electronic controller is configured to control power flow between the first AC feeder and the second AC feeder and the second electronic controller is configured to control the voltage of the MVDC link.
US11489346B2
A vehicle has a battery including a plurality of cells connected in series, and a battery management integrated circuit including a plurality of inputs each being directly electrically connected to a terminal of one of the cells via an electrical path that includes a fuse and a resistor connected in series. The battery management integrated circuit further includes a top input directly electrically connected to a positive output of the battery and configured to receive power from the battery that is defined by a current having a magnitude that is at least an order of magnitude greater than current received by the inputs and a voltage equal to a sum of voltages of all the cells. The battery management integrated circuit is configured to calculate a voltage difference between one of the inputs and an adjacent one of the inputs to determine a voltage of a top cell of the battery cells and to correct the voltage of the top cell to form a corrected voltage as a sum of the voltage of the top cell and a calculated voltage drop across the fuse in the electrical path between the top cell and the one of the inputs. The vehicle further has a controller programmed to balance the cells according to the corrected voltage of the top cell.
US11489343B2
Systems and methods are described for managing charging and discharging of battery packs. In one or more aspects, a system and method are provided to minimize overcharging of battery cells of specific battery chemistries while still enabling fast charging cycles. In other aspects, a buck converter may be used to reduce a voltage of power used to charge the cells. In further aspects, a fast overcurrent protection circuit is described to address situations involving internal short circuits of a battery cell or battery pack. In yet further aspects, a bypass circuit is provided in series-connected battery packs to improve the charging of undercharged battery packs while also increasing the efficiency of the overall charging process. In other aspects, a circuit is provided that permits a controller to determine a configuration of battery packs. In yet further aspects, a system may determine a discharge current for a collection of battery packs based on each battery pack's state of health (SOH) and forward that determination to an external device.
US11489341B2
A power conversion system includes: a power converter connected between a DC power source and an AC power source; an AC switch connected between the power converter and the AC power source; an AC capacitor connected on the power converter side relative to the AC switch, on an output side of the power converter; and a control device configured to, in a state in which the AC switch is open, recognize a voltage of the AC capacitor and control the power converter to bring an output voltage of the power converter close to a voltage of the AC power source from the voltage of the AC capacitor gradually or in a step-by-step manner, and then close the AC switch. The power conversion system can suppress overcurrent at a time of start-up of a power converter and inrush current at a time of interconnection to an AC power source.
US11489332B2
Exemplary protection circuitry for wireless power systems can include a battery disconnect circuit, a load dump protection circuit, and/or a coil disconnect circuit. One or more of these protection circuits may be employed by a wireless power receiver. Further, one or more of these protection circuits may enable a wireless power receiver to be able to protect itself independently from a wireless power transmitter, thereby increasing safety of the wireless power system.
US11489327B2
A cable management device includes a first arm and a first connection element. The first arm has a first end portion and a second end portion. The first connection element is pivotally connected to the second end portion of the first arm. One of the first arm and the first connection element is arranged with an engaging feature, and the other one of the first arm and the first connection element is arranged with a corresponding feature. The engaging feature has a connecting portion, a flexible portion, an engaging portion and a contacting portion. When the first arm pivots relative to the first connection element from a first position to a second position by a predetermined angle, the first arm is capable of being kept at the second position relative to the first connection element by cooperation between the engaging feature and the corresponding feature.
US11489325B2
Methods and devices for reducing stress and for increasing the load-bearing capacity of cable racks supporting electrical power and communication conduits and cables having increased versatility for conduit and cable sizes and quantities. Underground devices including rack arms for these applications are desirably made from plastic or composite materials. Rack arms desirably include openings for tying down the conduits and cables atop the arms. While non-metallic materials are designed to withstand environmental stresses, they typically have strength and rigidity properties less than the metallic structures previously used in such applications. Non-metallic rack arms with such openings may be reinforced locally with a stress attenuator or with ribs to increase their load-bearing and buckling capacity and to reduce their stress, strain and deflection under load. A stress attenuator may be made by increasing the in-molded thickness of the web in areas adjacent to or surrounding the tie-down openings.
US11489324B2
The present invention concerns an extension frame (1, 7, 18, 27) comprising a flange (2, 8, 19, 29, 31) and a box (3, 9, 20). The flange (2, 8, 19, 29, 31) is placed at one end of the box (3, 9, 20). A through opening is formed going through the centre of the box (3, 9, 20) and through the flange (2, 8, 19, 29, 31). A number of holes (4, 5, 10, 11, 21, 22, 33, 34) are provided going through walls of the box (3, 9, 20). Further, a system comprising two extension frames (1, 7, 18, 27) are formed. The two extension frames (1, 7, 18, 27) are placed on opposite sides of a through opening of a partition. A sealing devices (25) for cables or pipes is placed in said through opening of the partition.
US11489317B2
An electrical/electronics power distribution cabinet is disclosed which includes internal components enabling the cabinet to be quickly and easily reconfigured for allowing all cabling to exit an upper end of the cabinet or a lower end of the cabinet. The cabinet includes fully isolated top and bottom panelboard circuit breaker areas and a movable internal wall portion that helps to form an isolated compartment to route electrical cabling within the interior area of the cabinet, while keeping the cabling associated with the two panelboard circuit breaker areas fully separate from one another. This enables access to one of the top or bottom panelboard circuit breaker areas for service or reconfiguration without the need to access the other.
US11489313B2
An apparatus includes a wavelength-tunable laser and an electronic controller. The electronic controller is configured to control the wavelength-tunable laser such that an output wavelength of the wavelength-tunable laser performs a zigzag in time. The wavelength-tunable laser is capable of rapidly and densely scanning wavelengths across a broad spectral range.
US11489306B2
A terminal-equipped electric wire manufacturing method includes: an electric wire installation step of inserting a core-wire exposed part between inner wall surfaces of piece parts of a core-wire connection body, the core-wire exposed part having a core-wire diameter smaller than an interval between the inner wall surfaces of the piece parts; a melting step of melting the core-wire exposed part and the core-wire connection body by emitting a laser beam to the core-wire exposed part and the core-wire connection body from a free end side of each piece part; and a fixation step of fixing the core-wire exposed part and the core-wire connection body thus melted, with the emission of the laser beam stopped.
US11489304B2
An electrical junction box comprises an electrically conductive housing and at least one cable end wherein an everted braided shield section of the cable end is received in a retainer section of the housing and an electrically conductive adhesive is provided.
US11489301B2
An electrical connection module and a power supply integration structure of a connection interface of the electrical connection module are disclosed. The electrical connection module includes a connection body and a terminal structure. The connection body has a jack communicating with the inside of the connection body for installing the terminal structure in the connection body to communicate with the jack. The terminal structure includes multiple terminals arranged in two rows. Each row has one or more power terminals. The power terminal in one row is defined as a positive pin, the power terminal of the other row is defined as a negative pin. An end of the power terminal in each row is electrically connected to a conductive part respectively. The electrical connection module is disposed across a power guide base, and the conductive part is in contact with the power guide base to for the power integration.
US11489297B2
An electrical connection mount extending along an axial direction and comprising a movable element that can move along the axial direction between a contact position and an insulated position, wherein the movable element is configured to come into contact with at least one complementary contact of a complementary electrical connection mount in the contact position while the movable element is configured to be remote from the at least one complementary contact of the complementary electrical connection mount in the insulated position, the electrical connection mount comprising a displacement mechanism configured to move the movable element between the contact position and the insulated position when the electrical connection mount and the complementary electrical connection mount are engaged with each other and rotated relative to each other around the axial direction.
US11489296B2
A power supply includes a cover body, a metal plate, a metal clip, a circuit board and a housing. The metal plate is partially disposed in a first space of the cover body. The metal clip is disposed in the first space and electrically connected to the metal plate, and includes an upper spring piece, a lower spring piece and a connecting piece. The connecting piece has a fixing portion corresponding to a gap between the upper and lower spring pieces. The circuit board includes an input portion and an output portion. The input portion is disposed in the gap, and has a protruding part for engaging with the fixing portion. The housing includes an output interface and an opening communicating with an accommodating space of the housing. The cover body is connected to the opening. The output interface is electrically connected to the output portion.
US11489295B2
An electrical connector assembly having a housing and a cover assembly. The housing defines a cable receiving cavity and includes a conductive connector shield extending within a portion of the cavity. The cover assembly has a back cover that includes an end wall that mates with the housing adjacent to the cable receiving cavity; a cable support wall extending from the end wall and defining a cable passage extending through the end wall, with the cable support wall configured to receive a shielded cable therein; and a conductive spring clip fixed to the cable support wall and having a first leg configured to be biased into contact with a conductive ferrule of the shielded cable and a second leg, on an opposed side of the cable support wall, spring biased into contact with the connector shield.
US11489285B1
The present disclosure provides an adapter assembly. Portion of the main body of the plug adapter is penetrated through the opening and exposed to the exterior of the accommodation space. Each protrusion is penetrated through the concave and exposed to the exterior of the accommodation space. Each protrusion exposed to the exterior of the accommodation space is connected with the position-limiting portion through the rotation of the plug adapter. Each fastening element is plugged into the first hole and the second hole. The plug adapter is fastened to the casing through the fastening element and the connection between the protrusion and the position-limiting portion. The adapter assembly includes two impact bearing points. One is formed by the fastening element, and the other is formed by the connection between the protrusion and the position-limiting portion. The stability and the waterproof capability of the adapter assembly are enhanced.
US11489284B2
A connector is disclosed for mating with a counter-connector. The connector comprises a sleeve defining a recess and being adapted to receive the counter-connector at least partially. The connector further comprises one or more contact pins located in the recess and extending along a mating direction of the connector. Further, a connector system is discloses comprising a connector and a counter-connector. Further, a retainer is disclosure for use in a connector or a connector system.
US11489283B2
An electrical connector assembly includes a first connector, and a second connector docked with the first connector. The first connector includes a first insulating housing, a plurality of first signal terminals disposed in the first insulating housing, and a plurality of first power terminals disposed in the first insulating housing. Extension directions of the plurality of the first power terminals are multiple directions. The second connector includes a second insulating housing, a plurality of second signal terminals disposed in the second insulating housing, and a plurality of second power terminals disposed in the second insulating housing. Extension directions of the plurality of the second power terminals are multiple directions. The plurality of the first signal terminals are corresponding to the plurality of the second signal terminals. The plurality of the second power terminals correspondingly contact with the plurality of the first power terminals.
US11489282B2
This module for electrically connecting conductors comprises an electrically insulating body comprising means for removably fastening the body in a cavity of a sub-mount and means for mechanically fastening and electrically connecting conductors. It includes, for each conductor, an electrically conductive insert inserted into the body and comprising releasable means for mechanically fastening and electrically connecting the conductors and in that the electrical connection tabs of the module are secured to the insert.
US11489278B2
An electrical connector comprising a plug arranged and designed to connect to a receptacle. The plug includes an electrically-insulating body, a conductor ring, and a conductive member connected to the plug conductor ring. The receptacle includes an electrically-insulating body, a conductor ring having an axial inner bore and an annular groove facing radially inward, a conductive member connected to the receptacle conductor ring, and an electrically-conductive contact having a generally annular profile, at least a portion of the electrically-conductive contact received in and contacting the annular groove and at least a portion of the electrically-conductive contact not received in the annular groove. Upon insertion of the plug into the receptacle and substantially radially aligning the plug and receptacle conductor rings, the electrically-conductive contact is elastically deformed and provides electrical contact between the plug conductor ring and the receptacle conductor ring.
US11489274B2
A quick release connecting device includes an actuating retainer and a fixing member movably assembled to the actuating retainer. The fixing member includes a pivot portion and a pivot member movably mounted to the pivot portion; and the pivot member is coupled with a second object. The fixing member includes a limiting section and the pivot member includes a corresponding limiting section, such that the limiting section and the corresponding limiting section limit or stop each other at a specific location when the fixing member is moved or rotated. With these arrangements, the quick release connecting device can be applied to conveniently and repeatedly connect and separate a circuit board, a drawer, or a window to and from a corresponding rack, chassis, cabinet or window frame.
US11489266B2
A unit cell can be used for a metasurface, metamaterial, or beamforming antenna. The unit cell includes a metal layer attached to a substrate. The metal layer defines an iris opening for the unit cell. One or more tunable capacitance devices are positioned within or across the iris opening. Each tunable capacitance device is to tune resonance frequency of the unit cell. Mass transfer technologies or self-assembly processes may be used to position the tunable capacitance devices.
US11489265B2
The present invention discloses a reconfigurable wideband phase-switched screen (PSS) based on an artificial magnetic conductor (AMC). Gap capacitance between patches is controlled by changing the capacitance of varactors, so that periodic units have a plurality of continuous frequency points. A phase difference between two adjacent frequency bands is 143°-217°, so that the periodic structure absorbs incident electromagnetic waves in a wide frequency band, and the broadband PSS is implemented with a relative bandwidth of 45.2%. The AMC structure according to the present invention is simple in structure and easy to process, with a thickness less than one twentieth of the working wavelength, and greatly reduces size and costs.
US11489243B2
A dielectric having a first main surface and a second main surface facing each other, a main line provided on a side of the first main surface in contact with the dielectric, and a sub line provided on the side of the first main surface in contact with the dielectric are included, the dielectric has a first portion in contact with the main line and a second portion in contact with the sub line, and when the first main surface is viewed in a plan view, between the first portion and the second portion, a third portion having a relative dielectric constant changing along a direction intersecting with the main line and the sub line is located.
US11489241B2
The present invention relates to a transmission line having improved bending durability, which includes a strip structure or a micro-strip structure that is divided into a base part and a bending part that is bent and unfolded based on the base part, wherein the base part and the bending part include a signal line configured to extend in a length direction so as to transmit a high frequency signal, a first dielectric of which an upper surface or a lower surface is provided with the signal line formed thereon, and a second dielectric formed above the first dielectric; and the second dielectric is coupled to the first dielectric in the base part and separated from the first dielectric in the bending part.
US11489240B2
A high-frequency switch circuit includes a first switch configured to electrify or cut off connection between an antenna terminal and an input terminal, and a second switch configured to electrify or cut off connection between the antenna terminal and an output terminal. The first switch has a transmission line connecting the antenna terminal and the input terminal; a diode having an anode connected to a first node between the transmission line and the input terminal, and a cathode connected to a second node; and a capacitor connected to the second node and a first power supply voltage. A first control terminal is connected to the first node via a first resistor and a first inductor. The first switch further includes a charging/discharging circuit connected to a second power supply voltage and the first control terminal and charging and discharging the capacitor from the second node.
US11489235B2
A battery module includes a module case formed with a hollow structure; a cell stack disposed inside the module case and including secondary battery cells stacked in one direction; and a bus bar frame having a plurality of bus bars for electrically connecting the secondary battery cells and a sensing member for sensing voltage of the secondary battery cells, which are installed at predetermined locations thereof, the bus bar frame being installed around the cell stack and disposed to be inserted into the module case integrally with the cell stack. The bus bar frame includes a horizontal frame disposed in a length direction of the cell stack; and a pair of vertical frames coupled to both ends of the horizontal frame by hinges and disposed in a height direction at a front surface and a rear surface of the cell stack.
US11489232B2
A method for manufacturing a separator, including the steps of: (S1) preparing a pre-dispersion including inorganic particles dispersed in a pre-dispersion solvent and a first binder polymer dissolved in the pre-dispersion solvent; (S2) conducting a preliminary milling of the pre-dispersion; (S3) preparing a binder polymer solution including a second binder polymer dissolved in a binder polymer solution solvent; (S4) mixing the pre-dispersion with the binder polymer solution and carrying out a secondary milling to obtain a slurry for forming a porous coating layer; and (S5) applying the slurry to at least one surface of a porous polymer substrate, followed by drying, is disclosed. A separator obtained by the method and an electrochemical device including the same are also disclosed. According to the present disclosure, it is possible to provide a separator having a uniform surface and showing improved adhesion.
US11489230B2
The present disclosure relates to the technical field of energy storage devices, and in particular, to a battery module and a battery pack. The battery module includes: a plurality of battery cells stacked in sequence, the plurality of battery cells being provided with vents; and a circuit board arranged above the plurality of battery cells. The circuit board is provided with a temperature sensing device, and a position of each of the temperature sensing device corresponds to positions of the vents. The temperature sensing device is connected to a battery management system to form a circuit, and the circuit is disconnected when any one of the vents is blasted.
US11489226B2
A battery pack for an electric work vehicle includes: a box-shaped housing; a transport wheel provided to the housing; a transport handle; a bracket fixed to the housing; a swing shaft for swingably connecting the transport handle and the bracket, between a vertical posture in which the transport handle extends upward from the housing and a horizontal posture in which the transport handle lies above the housing; and a vertical socket for receiving a base end part of the transport handle of the vertical posture to resist a torque of the transport handle caused during an operation.
US11489223B2
A case for a secondary battery includes: a body plate including a bottom portion, first side portions bent and extended from the bottom portion in opposite directions, and extending portions bent from at least one selected from the bottom portion and the first side portions to then be extended; and second side portions coupled to the extending portions. A secondary battery includes an electrode assembly; the case accommodating the electrode assembly; and a cap assembly coupled to the case to seal the case.
US11489218B2
A battery pack includes: a first secondary battery cell and a second secondary battery cell each having a cylindrical shape and connected in series and/or in parallel with each other; a housing case; and a longitudinal partition plate having a thermal insulation property, and disposed at an interface between the first secondary battery cell and the second secondary battery cell housed in the internal space of the housing case. The longitudinal partition plate constitutes a first thermal insulator that projects from a side facing the side surface of the cylindrical shape of the first secondary battery cell, and constitutes a second thermal insulator that projects from a side facing the side surface of the cylindrical shape of the second secondary battery cell.
US11489212B2
A method of controlling a plurality of batteries and an electronic device to which the same is applied. The electronic device includes a housing and a plurality of batteries. The electronic device also includes a power management module, a plurality of current limiting ICs, and a processor operationally connected to the plurality of batteries, the power management module and the plurality of current limiting ICs. The processor is configured to sense a sum of the currents flowing into the plurality of batteries or a voltage of the power management module, perform a primary end of reducing a magnitude of the sum of the currents flowing into the plurality of batteries, sense the currents or voltages of the plurality of batteries, and perform a secondary end of blocking a current flowing into a battery.
US11489207B2
A vehicle battery charger and a vehicle battery charging system are described and illustrated, and can include a controller enabling a user to enter a time of day at which the vehicle battery charger or system begins and/or ends charging of the vehicle battery. The vehicle battery charger can be separate from the vehicle, can be at least partially integrated into the vehicle, can include a transmitter and/or a receiver capable of communication with a controller that is remote from the vehicle and vehicle charger, and can be controlled by a user or another party (e.g., a power utility) to control battery charging based upon a time of day, cost of power, or other factors.
US11489206B2
An electrochemical cell is provided which includes a cathode, an anode, an electrolyte separator, and an anode current collector located on the anode. The anode is a three-dimensional (3D) porous anode including ionically conducting electrolyte strands and pores which extend through the anode from the anode current collector to the electrolyte separator. The anode also includes electronically conducting networks extending on sidewall surfaces of the pores from the anode current collector to the electrolyte separator.
US11489205B2
The present disclosure discloses a primary lithium battery comprising a reactive solid cathode, a liquid electrolyte, a separator, and a lithium anode. The liquid electrolyte is ionic conductive and is configured to undergo a series coupling reaction after solid phase reaction of the reactive solid cathode and the lithium anode. The liquid electrolyte comprises a solvent and an electrolyte salt, and a concentration of the electrolyte salt in the liquid electrolyte is 0.1-3 mol/L. The solvent comprises a sulfite ester type compound and an organic solvent, and a concentration of the sulfite ester type compound in the organic solvent is 5 wt % to 90 wt %.
US11489201B2
The present disclosure is directed to a phosphorus-modified ionic liquid compound, the synthesis thereof and an electrochemical cell electrolyte containing the phosphorus-modified ionic liquid compound.
US11489178B2
A method for determining the starting state of a fuel-cell system is provided having cathode and anode chambers separated by a membrane-electrode assembly, comprising the steps of initially introducing hydrogen into the anode chamber, measuring the voltage and evaluating whether at least a threshold value has been reached immediately after the start of the introduction of hydrogen into the anode chamber, and determining the starting state as a function of whether the threshold value has been reached.
US11489173B2
The present invention relates to a fuel cell and a fuel cell stack comprising the same, and according to one aspect of the present invention, there is provided a fuel cell comprising a membrane-electrode assembly having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface, wherein an anode electrode and a cathode electrode are each disposed on the first surface; an end plate disposed apart at a predetermined interval on the second surface; a first gas diffusion layer disposed on the anode electrode; a second gas diffusion layer disposed on the cathode electrode; a first separating plate disposed on the first gas diffusion layer and having a plurality of flow channels; and a second separating plate disposed on the second gas diffusion layer and having a plurality of flow channels.
US11489171B2
This disclosure provides a manufacturing method for manufacturing a fuel cell separator. The manufacturing method includes: providing a material sheet including a fiber sheet, carbon particles, and a resin, the carbon particles and the resin being applied to the fiber sheet; and pressing the material sheet into a recess-projection shape by which a gas circulation passage is to be formed, and forming a top portion and a shift portion. In the pressing of the material sheet, the material sheet is pressed such that a draft of the top portion is higher than a draft of the shift portion.
US11489168B2
A sodium-ion battery comprising a biochar-based anode layer, an NaNiO2 cathode layer, and an metakaolin solid electrolyte pellets layer.
US11489155B2
An anode for an energy storage device includes a current collector having a metal layer; and a metal oxide layer provided in a first pattern overlaying the metal layer. The anode further includes a patterned lithium storage structure having a continuous porous lithium storage layer selectively overlaying at least a portion of the first pattern of metal oxide. A method of making an anode for use in an energy storage device includes providing a current collector having a metal layer and a metal oxide layer provided in a first pattern overlaying the metal layer. A continuous porous lithium storage layer is selectively formed by chemical vapor deposition by exposing the current collector to at least one lithium storage material precursor gas.
US11489152B2
Provided is a sulfur-carbon material composite body which, when used for an electrode of a secondary battery, is unlikely to degrade cycle characteristics at the time of charging and discharging of the secondary battery. Disclosed is a sulfur-carbon material composite body including a first carbon material having a graphene layered structure; a spacer at least partially disposed between graphene layers of the first carbon material or at an end of the first carbon material; and sulfur or a sulfur-containing compound at least partially disposed between the graphene layers of the first carbon material or at the end of the first carbon material.
US11489149B2
An aspect of the present invention is an electrode which includes an active material layer, and an insulating layer layered on a surface of the active material layer, in which the insulating layer contains a filler and a first binder, and a content of the first binder in the insulating layer is 8% by mass or more. Another aspect of the present invention is an electrode which includes an active material layer, and an insulating layer layered on a surface of the active material layer, in which the insulating layer is a dry coating product containing a filler and a binder. Still another aspect of the present invention is a method for manufacturing an electrode, which includes the steps of forming an active material layer, and laminating an insulator containing a filler and a binder on a surface of the active material layer to form an insulating layer, in which the insulator does not contain a solvent.
US11489142B2
Provided is an organic electroluminescent display device, including a substrate, an organic light-emitting device on the substrate, and an encapsulation layer formed on the organic light-emitting device and the substrate. The encapsulation layer includes an inorganic layer and a polymer organic layer alternatingly stacked with an intermediate layer formed of a first organic monomer between the inorganic layer and the polymer organic layer, and one surface of the intermediate layer is bonded to the inorganic layer through bonding sites on a surface of the inorganic layer and another surface of the intermediate layer is bonded to the organic layer by polymerization.
US11489141B2
A flexible display device includes a polarizing plate disposed on a display panel; a cover glass attached to the polarizing plate with an adhesive layer interposed therebetween; a back plate disposed on a rear surface of the display panel; and a fixing tape disposed on an edge of a rear surface of the cover glass, wherein the adhesive layer protrudes more than the display panel, the polarizing plate, and the back plate at corner regions of the flexible display device. Thus, the flexible display device provides effects of improving product quality by improving waterproof performance and minimizing chemical contamination.
US11489125B2
An organic electroluminescence device of an embodiment includes a first electrode, a second electrode provided on the first electrode, and a plurality of organic material layers provided between the first electrode and the second electrode, wherein at least one organic material layer among the plurality of organic material layers include a monoamine compound, and the monoamine compound includes a core structure including two condensed rings which are combined to form a spiro structure, where each condensed ring has a condensed structure of three or more pentagonal or hexagonal rings. High emission efficiency may be achieved.
US11489121B1
An organic electroluminescence device includes an anode, a cathode, a first emitting layer and a second emitting layer that are interposed between the anode and the cathode and are in a direct contact with each other, and a first electron transporting layer between the cathode and the first emitting layer and the second emitting layer being in a direct contact with each other. The first emitting layer contains a first compound represented by a formula (1) as a first host material, the first compound having at least one group represented by a formula (11). The second emitting layer contains a second compound represented by a formula (2) as a second host material. The first electron transporting layer contains a third compound represented by a formula (3).
US11489118B2
A resistive random access memory (RRAM) device and a method for constructing the device is described. A capping layer structure is provided over a bottom contact where the capping layer includes a recess situated over the bottom contact. A first portion of the recess is filled with a lower electrode such that the width of the recess defines the width of the lower electrode. A second portion of the recess is filled with a high-K layer so that a bottom surface of the high-K layer has a stepped profile. A top electrode is formed on the high-K layer and a top contact is formed on the top electrode. The width of the high-K layer is greater than the width of the lower electrode to prevent shorting between the top contact and the lower electrode of the RRAM device.
US11489112B2
An apparatus, includes an interconnect, including a conductive material, above a substrate and a resistive random access memory (RRAM) device coupled to the interconnect. The RRAM device includes an electrode structure above the interconnect, where an upper portion of the electrode structure has a first width. The RRAM device further includes a switching layer on the electrode structure, where the switching layer has the first width and an oxygen exchange layer, having a second width less than the first width, on a portion of the switching layer. The RRAM device further includes a top electrode above the oxygen exchange layer, where the top electrode has the second width and an encapsulation layer on a portion of the switching layer, where the switching layer extends along a sidewall of the oxygen exchange layer.
US11489091B2
A semiconductor light emitting device includes a light extraction layer having a light extraction surface. The light extraction layer includes: a plurality of cone-shaped parts formed in an array on the light extraction surface, and a plurality of granular parts formed both on a side part of the cone-shaped part and in a space between adjacent cone-shaped parts. A method of manufacturing the semiconductor light emitting device includes: forming a mask having an array pattern on the light extraction layer; and etching the mask and the light extraction layer from above the mask. The etching includes first dry-etching performed until an entirety of the mask is removed and second dry-etching performed to further dry-etch the light extraction layer after the mask is removed.
US11489090B1
The present disclosure describes epitaxial oxide field effect transistors (FETs). In some embodiments, a FET comprises: a substrate comprising an oxide material; an epitaxial semiconductor layer on the substrate; a gate layer on the epitaxial semiconductor layer; and electrical contacts. In some cases, the epitaxial semiconductor layer can comprise a superlattice comprising a first and a second set of layers comprising oxide materials with a first and second bandgap. The gate layer can comprise an oxide material with a third bandgap, wherein the third bandgap is wider than the first bandgap. In some cases, the epitaxial semiconductor layer can comprise a second oxide material with a first bandgap, wherein the second oxide material comprises single crystal AxB1-xOn, wherein 0
US11489083B2
A solar cell panel can include a plurality of solar cells; and a diode member connected to the plurality of solar cells, the diode member being formed of a solar cell unit disposed within the solar cell panel under at least a portion of one of the plurality of solar cells at a non-light-incident region.
US11489072B2
A MOSFET includes a substrate having a body region of a first conductivity type. A main field effect transistor (mainFET) and a mirror device are formed in the substrate. The mainFET includes first gate trenches, first source regions of a second conductivity type adjacent to the first gate trenches, and first body implant regions of the first conductivity type extending into the body region adjacent to and interposed between the first source regions. The mirror device includes second gate trenches, second source regions of the second conductivity type adjacent to the second gate trenches, second body implant regions of the first conductivity type extending into the body region adjacent to and interposed between the second source regions, and link elements of the first conductivity type interconnecting pairs of the second body implant regions.
US11489071B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate of a first conductivity type, having an active portion and a gate pad portion; a first semiconductor layer of the first conductivity type; and a second semiconductor layer of a second conductivity type. The active portion has first semiconductor regions of the first conductivity type, first trenches, gate insulating films, first gate electrodes, an interlayer insulating film, and second semiconductor regions of the second conductivity type. The gate pad portion has at least one second trench, an insulating film 9b, at least one second gate electrode, at least one fourth semiconductor region of the second conductivity type, and a gate electrode pad. Between the gate electrode pad and the semiconductor substrate, a polycrystalline silicon film is provided.
US11489068B2
An HEMT device, comprising: a semiconductor body including a heterojunction structure; a dielectric layer on the semiconductor body; a gate electrode; a drain electrode, facing a first side of the gate electrode; and a source electrode, facing a second side opposite to the first side of the gate electrode; an auxiliary channel layer, which extends over the heterojunction structure between the gate electrode and the drain electrode, in electrical contact with the drain electrode and at a distance from the gate electrode, and forming an additional conductive path for charge carriers that flow between the source electrode and the drain electrode.
US11489058B2
A semiconductor structure is disclosed. The semiconductor structure includes: a substrate; an active area including a channel region sandwiched between two source/drain regions; an insulation region surrounding the active area from a top view; and a dielectric layer disposed over and in contact with an interface between the insulation region and the source/drain regions. A method of manufacturing the same is also disclosed.
US11489056B2
The present disclosure describes a semiconductor device that includes a substrate and a first transistor on the substrate. The first transistor includes a first gate structure and the first gate structure includes a gate dielectric layer and a first work function layer on the gate dielectric layer. The first gate structure also includes a capping layer on the first work function layer. The semiconductor device also includes a second transistor on the substrate, in which the second transistor includes a second gate structure. The second gate structure includes the gate dielectric layer and a second work function layer on the gate dielectric layer. The second gate structure also includes the first work function layer on the second work function layer and the silicon capping layer on the first work function layer.
US11489053B2
In an embodiment, a device includes: a gate electrode; a epitaxial source/drain region adjacent the gate electrode; one or more inter-layer dielectric (ILD) layers over the epitaxial source/drain region; a first source/drain contact extending through the ILD layers, the first source/drain contact connected to the epitaxial source/drain region; a contact spacer surrounding the first source/drain contact; and a void disposed between the contact spacer and the ILD layers.
US11489049B2
Some embodiments include a method of forming an integrated assembly. A first stack is formed over a conductive structure. The first stack includes a second layer between first and third layers. The first and third layers are conductive. A first opening is formed through the first stack. A sacrificial material is formed within the first opening. A second stack is formed over the first stack. The second stack has alternating first and second levels. A second opening is formed through the second stack and through the sacrificial material. First semiconductor material is formed within the second opening. A third opening is formed through the second stack, through the third layer, and to the second layer. The second layer is removed, forming a conduit. Second semiconductor material is formed within the conduit. Dopant is out-diffused from the second semiconductor material into the first semiconductor material. Some embodiments include integrated assemblies.
US11489048B2
A method for forming a high-electron mobility transistor is disclosed. A substrate is provided. A buffer layer is formed over the substrate. A GaN channel layer is formed over the buffer layer. An AlGaN layer is formed over the GaN channel layer. A GaN source layer and a GaN drain layer are formed on the AlGaN layer within a source region and a drain region, respectively. A gate recess is formed in the AlGaN layer between the source region and the drain region. A p-GaN gate layer is then formed in and on the gate recess.
US11489040B2
A silicon carbide semiconductor device includes: a silicon carbide layer of a first conductive type including a defect region in which a crystal defect exists; a plurality of well regions of a second conductive type formed on the silicon carbide layer; source regions of the first conductive type formed in the well regions; gate oxide films formed on the silicon carbide layer, the well regions and the source regions; gate electrodes formed on the gate oxide films; and a source electrode electrically connected to the well regions and the source regions, wherein the source region is not formed in the defect region.
US11489039B2
A semiconductor device includes a capacitor. The capacitor includes a first electrode and a second electrode disposed in a first metal layer. The first electrode has a first end and a second end, and the first electrode has a spiral pattern extending outwards from the first end to the second end. The first electrode and the second electrode have a substantially equal spacing therebetween.
US11489036B2
A display panel includes: a substrate including a component area, and a display area surrounding the component area, the component area including a first area, and a second area surrounding the first area; a plurality of first display elements at the display area; a plurality of pixel groups spaced from each other in an island shape at the first area, each of the plurality of pixel groups including a plurality of second display elements; a plurality of transmission areas adjacent to the plurality of pixel groups at the first area; and a plurality of first wirings extending in a first direction and electrically connected to the plurality of first display elements, the plurality of first wirings detouring around the first area at the second area.
US11489030B2
Disclosed is a display device that is capable of being driven with low power consumption. A first thin-film transistor including a polycrystalline semiconductor layer and a second thin-film transistor including an oxide semiconductor layer are disposed in an active area, thereby reducing power consumption. At least one opening formed in a bending area is formed to have the same depth as any one of contact holes formed in the active area, thereby making it possible to form the opening and the contact holes through the same process and consequently simplifying the process of manufacturing the device. Since a high potential supply line and a low potential supply line overlap each other with a protective film formed of an inorganic insulation material interposed therebetween, short-circuiting of the high potential supply line and the low potential supply line may be prevented.
US11489024B2
A display device comprises a substrate including display and peripheral areas, a semiconductor element, a pixel structure, and a plurality of dummy patterns. The semiconductor element is disposed in the display area on the substrate, and the pixel structure is disposed on the semiconductor element. The dummy patterns which have stacked structure are disposed in the peripheral area on the substrate, and contain a material identical to a material constituting the semiconductor element. The dummy patterns are arranged in a grid shape in different layers, and each of the dummy patterns includes a central portion and an edge portion surrounding the central portion. The edge portions of dummy patterns which are adjacent to each other in the different layers among the dummy patterns are overlapped each other in a direction from the substrate to the pixel structure.
US11489023B2
A display apparatus includes: a base substrate including a display area, an opening area, and an opening peripheral area between the opening area and the display area, wherein the display area surrounds the opening area, and the opening peripheral area has an annular shape; a conductive pattern disposed on the base substrate in the opening peripheral area and having an annular shape; and a light emitting layer disposed on the base substrate and in a portion of the opening peripheral area, and including an organic material, and wherein the light emitting layer is not formed at a portion of opening peripheral area that is adjacent to the opening area.
US11489021B2
A color conversion substrate includes a base including a first light transmitting region and a light shielding region around the first light transmitting region; a first color filter on the base in the first light transmitting region; a first wavelength conversion pattern in a first microcavity on the first color filter including a first wavelength shifter; and a light shielding member on the base and in the light shielding region. The first microcavity includes an open side, and the light shielding member directly contacts the first wavelength conversion pattern at the open side of the first microcavity.
US11489002B2
A display apparatus including a display substrate, a plurality of light emitting devices disposed on the display substrate, a light blocking layer disposed between the light emitting devices, and a transparent layer covering the light emitting devices and the light blocking layer, in which the light emitting device includes a first LED sub-unit, a second LED sub-unit disposed on the first LED sub-unit, and a third LED sub-unit disposed on the second LED sub-unit, and the third LED sub-unit is disposed closer to an upper surface of the light emitting device than the first LED sub-unit.
US11488998B2
A semiconductor apparatus configured to decrease occurrence of exfoliation between a conductor layer and an insulator layer is provided. A first region containing silicon and copper is disposed between a first conductor portion and a first insulator portion. A second region containing silicon and copper is disposed between a second conductor portion and a second insulator portion. The first region has a maximum nitrogen concentration higher than that of the second region.
US11488993B2
A semiconductor device includes: a photodiode formed in a substrate; and at least one transistor having a gate feature that comprises a first portion and a second portion coupled to an end of the first portion, the first portion disposed above and extending along a major surface of the substrate and the second portion extending from the major surface of the substrate into the substrate, wherein the photodiode and the at least one transistor at least partially form a pixel.
US11488990B2
An active matrix substrate includes a thin film transistor that includes a gate electrode, a first inorganic insulating film that covers the gate electrode, a second inorganic insulating film that is disposed on the first inorganic insulating film and that has an opening overlapping the gate electrode, a source electrode and a drain electrode disposed on the second inorganic insulating film, and a semiconductor layer that overlaps the gate electrode in an opening of the first inorganic insulating film and that covers the source electrode and the drain electrode. Regarding a surface of the first inorganic insulating film in a first region overlapping the opening of the first inorganic insulating film and a surface in a second region other than the first region, the surfaces being arranged nearer to the second inorganic insulating film, the surface in the first region is lower than the surface in the second region.
US11488972B2
In one embodiment, a semiconductor storage device includes a substrate, a stacked film including a plurality of first insulating layers and a plurality of electrode layers that are alternately provided on the substrate, and a second insulating layer provided on the stacked film. The device further includes a plurality of pillar portions, each of which including a first insulator, a charge storage layer, a second insulator, a first semiconductor layer and a third insulator that are sequentially provided in the stacked film and the second insulating layer. Furthermore, a width of the second insulating layer sandwiched between the pillar portions is narrower than a width of the stacked film sandwiched between the pillar portions, in at least a portion of the second insulating layer.
US11488968B2
An IC structure comprises a substrate, a first SRAM cell, and a second SRAM cell. The first SRAM cell is formed over the substrate and comprises a first N-type transistor. The second SRAM cell is formed over the substrate and comprises a second N-type transistor. A gate structure of first N-type transistor of the first SRAM cell has a different work function metal composition than a gate structure of the second N-type transistor of the second SRAM cell.
US11488965B2
An SRAM memory device includes a substrate, a first transistor, a second transistor, a metal interconnect structure, and a capacitor. The metal interconnect structure is formed on the first and second transistors. The capacitor is disposed in the metal interconnect structure and coupled between the first transistor and the second transistor. The capacitor includes a lower metal layer, a first electrode layer, a dielectric layer, a second electrode layer, and an upper metal layer from bottom to top. The lower metal layer is coupled to a source node of the first transistor and a source node of the second transistor. The lower metal layer and an n-th metal layer in the metal interconnect structure are formed of a same material, wherein n≥1; the upper metal layer and an m-th metal layer in the metal interconnect structure are formed of a same material, wherein m≥n+1.
US11488952B2
A semiconductor device according to some embodiments of the disclosure may include a fin type active pattern extending in a first direction, a plurality of gate structures on the fin type active pattern and extending in a second direction different from the first direction, a plurality of inter-contact insulation patterns on respective ones of the plurality of gate structures, a plurality of interlayer insulation layers on side surfaces of the plurality of gate structures, and a plurality of contact plugs respectively between pairs of the plurality of gate structures. The fin type active pattern may include a plurality of source/drains. Lower ends of the plurality of contact plugs may contact the plurality of source/drains. The plurality of gate structures may each include a first gate metal, a second gate metal, a gate capping layer, a gate insulation layer, a first spacer, and a second spacer.
US11488951B2
Provided is a semiconductor device, comprising: a semiconductor substrate; a transistor portion including an emitter region on the top of the semiconductor substrate; a diode portion including a cathode region on the bottom of the semiconductor substrate and a second conductivity type overlap region in a region other than the cathode region and arranged alongside to the transistor portion a preset arrangement direction on the top of the semiconductor substrate; and an interlayer dielectric film provided between the semiconductor substrate and an emitter electrode and including a contact hole for connecting the emitter electrode and the diode portion. The overlap region is provided to have a first length between the end of the emitter region and the end of the cathode region and a second length, which is shorter than the first length, between the end of the contact hole and the end of the cathode region.
US11488943B2
An example of a pixel module comprises a module substrate having light emitters disposed on a light-emitter surface and a controller disposed on a controller surface opposed to the light-emitter surface. At least one module electrode is electrically connected to the controller and at least one module electrode is electrically connected to each light emitter. An example of a pixel-module wafer comprises a module source wafer comprising sacrificial portions and module anchors, each sacrificial portion laterally separated from an adjacent sacrificial portion by a module anchor and a pixel module disposed entirely over each sacrificial portion. At least one module tether physically connects each of the pixel modules to at least one of the module anchors. An example of a pixel-module display comprises a display substrate, pixel modules disposed on the display substrate and display electrodes disposed on the display substrate, each display electrode electrically connected to a module electrode.
US11488941B2
A light-emitting device is provided, including a light-emitting unit and an optical layer. The light-emitting unit includes a light-emitting chip and an encapsulation disposed thereon. The optical layer is disposed on the light-emitting unit, the optical layer having a first region overlapping the light-emitting chip in a top view direction of the light-emitting device and a second region not overlapping the light-emitting chip in the top view direction of the light-emitting device, wherein the transmittance of the first region is less than the transmittance of the second region.
US11488936B2
A chip package assembly and method for fabricating the same are provided which utilize a plurality of electrically floating extra-die heat transfer posts for improved thermal management. In one example, a chip package assembly is provided that includes a substrate, a first integrated circuit (IC) die, and a first plurality of electrically floating extra-die conductive posts. The substrate has a first surface and an opposing second surface. The first integrated circuit (IC) die has a first surface and an opposing second surface. The second surface of the first IC die is mounted to the first surface of the substrate. The first plurality of electrically floating extra-die conductive posts extend from the first surface of the first IC die to provide a heat transfer path away from the first IC die.
US11488932B2
A semiconductor device includes a standardized carrier. A semiconductor wafer includes a plurality of semiconductor die and a base semiconductor material. The semiconductor wafer is singulated through a first portion of the base semiconductor material to separate the semiconductor die. The semiconductor die are disposed over the standardized carrier. A size of the standardized carrier is independent from a size of the semiconductor die. An encapsulant is deposited over the standardized carrier and around the semiconductor die. An interconnect structure is formed over the semiconductor die while leaving the encapsulant devoid of the interconnect structure. The semiconductor device is singulated through the encapsulant. Encapsulant remains disposed on a side of the semiconductor die. Alternatively, the semiconductor device is singulated through a second portion of the base semiconductor and through the encapsulant to remove the second portion of the base semiconductor and encapsulant from the side of the semiconductor die.
US11488931B2
Disclosed is a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device that includes securing a lower surface of a wafer to a supporting surface of a carrier substrate formed of copper or other metal having good thermal conductance. Further semiconductor processing for packaging can include forming an RDL on the wafer, etching scribe channels through the wafer, and coating the wafer with encapsulant. After dicing, the metal carrier remains in contact with and supporting the lower surface of the wafer, and the remainder of the wafer remains coated by the encapsulant.
US11488924B2
A semiconductor element bonding substrate according to the present invention includes an insulating plate, and a metal pattern bonded to a main surface of the insulating plate. A main surface of the metal pattern on an opposite side of the insulating plate includes a bonding region to which a semiconductor element is bonded by a solder. The metal pattern includes at least one concave part located in the main surface. The at least one concave part is located closer to an edge of the bonding region in relation to a center part of the bonding region in the bonding region.
US11488911B2
A flip-chip package substrate is provided. A strengthening structure is provided on one side of a circuit structure to increase the rigidity of the flip-chip package substrate. When the flip-chip package substrate is used in large-scale packaging, the flip-chip package substrate can have good rigidity, so that the electronic package can be prevented from warping.
US11488907B2
The present application discloses a semiconductor device and a method for fabricating the semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a substrate, a first conductive layer positioned above the substrate, a bottom conductive layer positioned above the first conductive layer and electrically coupled to the first conductive layer, a programmable insulating layer positioned on the bottom conductive layer, a top conductive layer positioned on the programmable insulating layer, and a redistribution structure positioned above the first conductive layer and electrically coupled to the first conductive layer. The bottom conductive layer, the programmable insulating layer, and the top conductive layer together configure a programmable unit.
US11488905B2
The present disclosure provides a semiconductor device structure with a manganese-containing conductive plug and a method for forming the semiconductor device structure. The semiconductor device structure includes a first conductive layer disposed over a semiconductor substrate, and a dielectric layer disposed over the first conductive layer. The semiconductor device structure also includes a first conductive plug penetrating through the dielectric layer and in a pattern-dense region, and a lining layer covering the dielectric layer and the first conductive plug. The lining layer and the first conductive plug include manganese. The semiconductor device structure further includes a second conductive plug penetrating through the lining layer and the dielectric layer and in a pattern-loose region. The second conductive plug is separated from the dielectric layer by a portion of the lining layer. In addition, the semiconductor device structure includes a second conductive layer covering the lining layer and the second conductive plug.
US11488902B2
A method of forming an interposer includes providing a first interposer substrate including a first bulk material having a plurality of first through silicon vias (TSVs) extending through the first bulk material. A second interposer substrate is provided and includes a second bulk material having a plurality of second TSVs extending through the second bulk material, and a wiring plane formed on the second bulk material such that the wiring plane is electrically connected to at least one of the second TSVs. The method further includes joining the first interposer substrate to the second interposer substrate such that the wiring plane is provided as an interface wiring plane between the first and second bulk materials which electrically connects at least one of the first TSVs to at least one of the second TSVs.
US11488891B2
A method of preparing a semiconductor substrate with metal bumps on both sides of the substrate. The method includes depositing a first-side UBM layer on a first surface of the semiconductor substrate. The method includes forming a plurality of first-side metal bumps on the first surface of the semiconductor substrate after the first-side UBM layer is deposited. The method includes forming a second-side UBM layer on a second side of the semiconductor substrate. The method includes forming a plurality of second-side metal bumps on the second surface of the semiconductor substrate after the second-side UBM layer is deposited. The method includes removing exposed first-side UBM layer and exposed second-side UBM layer after the plurality of first-side metal bumps and the plurality of second-side metal bumps are formed. The method includes reflowing the plurality of first-side metal bumps and the plurality of second side metal bumps.
US11488887B1
In one example, a method includes providing a first side of a semiconductor substrate with a plurality of transistors, etching a second side of the substrate, opposite the first side, with a pattern of trenches, the trenches having a pre-defined depth and width, and providing the etched semiconductor substrate in a package. In one example, the predefined depth and width of the trenches is such so as to increase the surface area of the second side of the substrate by at least 20 percent. In one example, the method also includes providing a layer of a thermal interface material (TIM) on the second side of the substrate, including to fill at least a portion of the trenches.
US11488878B2
Embodiments of mechanisms for testing a die package with multiple packaged dies on a package substrate use an interconnect substrate to provide electrical connections between dies and the package substrate and to provide probing structures (or pads). Testing structures, including daisy-chain structures, with metal lines to connect bonding structures connected to signals, power source, and/or grounding structures are connected to probing structures on the interconnect substrate. The testing structures enable determining the quality of bonding and/or functionalities of packaged dies bonded. After electrical testing is completed, the metal lines connecting the probing structures and the bonding structures are severed to allow proper function of devices in the die package. The mechanisms for forming test structures with probing pads on interconnect substrate and severing connecting metal lines after testing could reduce manufacturing cost.
US11488877B2
A semiconductor device including a test structure includes a semiconductor substrate and a plurality of test structures on the semiconductor substrate. The test structures include respective lower active regions extending from the semiconductor substrate in a vertical direction and having different widths, and upper active regions extending from respective lower active regions in the vertical direction. Each of the lower active regions includes first regions and second regions. The first regions overlap the upper active regions and are between the second regions, and the second regions include outer regions and inner regions between the outer regions. The outer regions, located in the lower active regions having different widths, have different widths.
US11488873B2
A method includes depositing a first conductive layer over a gate dielectric layer; depositing a first work function tuning layer over the first conductive layer; selectively removing the first work function tuning layer from over a first region of the first conductive layer; doping the first work function tuning layer with a dopant; and after doping the first work function tuning layer performing a first treatment process to etch the first region of the first conductive layer and a second region of the first work function tuning layer. The first treatment process etches the first conductive layer at a greater rate than the first work function tuning layer.
US11488869B2
The present disclosure is directed to method for the fabrication of spacer structures between source/drain epitaxial structures and metal gate structures in nanostructure transistors. The method includes forming a fin structure with alternating first and second nanostructure elements on a substrate. The method also includes etching edge portions of the first nanostructure elements in the fin structure to form spacer cavities, and depositing a spacer layer on the fin structure to fill the spacer cavities. Further, treating the spacer layer with a microwave-generated plasma to form an oxygen concentration gradient within the spacer layer outside the spacer cavities and removing, with an etching process, the treated portion of the spacer layer. During the etching process, a removal rate of the etching process for the treated portion of the spacer layer is based on an oxygen concentration within the oxygen concentration gradient.
US11488868B2
The present disclosure relates to a FinFET structure and a method of manufacturing the same. The FinFET structure includes a first fin and a second fin. The first fin is over a first base and has a first channel region. The first channel region has a first channel length. The second fin is over a second base and has a second channel region. The second channel region has a second channel length. The second channel length is different from the first channel length.
US11488863B2
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a plurality of memory elements on a first interconnect level, and forming an etch stop layer on the plurality of memory elements. A dielectric layer is formed on the etch stop layer, and a portion of the dielectric over the plurality of memory elements is removed to expose a portion of the etch stop layer. The method further includes removing the exposed portion of the etch stop layer. The removing of the portion of the dielectric layer and of the exposed portion of the etch stop layer forms a trench. A metallization layer is formed in the trench on the plurality of memory elements, wherein the metallization layer is part of a second interconnect level.
US11488855B2
A semiconductor device and a method of forming the same are provided. The method includes forming a trench in a substrate. A liner layer is formed along sidewalls and a bottom of the trench. A silicon-rich layer is formed over the liner layer. Forming the silicon-rich layer includes flowing a first silicon precursor into a process chamber for a first time interval, and flowing a second silicon precursor and a first oxygen precursor into the process chamber for a second time interval. The second time interval is different from the first time interval. The method further includes forming a dielectric layer over the silicon-rich layer.
US11488846B2
A substrate processing method includes supplying a water-soluble polymer solution to a surface of a substrate having, on a surface of the substrate, a resist film on which no pattern is formed, after an immersion exposure process, hydrophilizing a surface of the resist film using the supplied water-soluble polymer solution, supplying, after the hydrophilizing, a cleaning liquid to the surface of the substrate while rotating the substrate to remove the water-soluble polymer solution that has not contributed to the hydrophilizing, and drying the substrate supplied with the cleaning liquid, wherein the water-soluble polymer solution has a pH value that allows an acid concentration in the resist film to fall within a permissible range.
US11488840B2
A method of manufacturing a wafer-to-wafer interconnection structure includes forming a first etching stop layer with at least two portions on a first surface of a first substrate, and forming a void in one portion of the first etching stop layer. A second etching stop layer is formed on a first surface of a second substrate, and then the first surfaces of the first substrate and the second substrate are bonded, wherein the second etching stop layer is aligned to the void. By using the first and the second etching stop layers as etching stop layers, a first opening is formed from a second surface of the first substrate into the first substrate, and a second opening is formed through the void to the second substrate. A first TSV (through silicon via) is formed in the first opening, and a second TSV is formed in the second opening.
US11488831B2
A method for treating a substrate includes arranging a substrate in a processing chamber. At least one of a vaporized solvent and a gas mixture including the solvent is supplied to the processing chamber to form a conformal liquid layer of the solvent on exposed surfaces of the substrate. The at least one of the vaporized solvent and the gas mixture is removed from the processing chamber. A reactive gas including a halogen species is supplied to the processing chamber. The conformal liquid layer adsorbs the reactive gas to form a reactive liquid layer that etches the exposed surfaces of the substrate.
US11488827B2
A laser irradiation apparatus includes: a laser generation apparatus configured to generate first laser light for performing heat treatment of an object to be processed; a measurement-laser emission unit configured to emit linearly-polarized second laser light toward an irradiation area on the object to be processed to which the first laser light is applied; a first polarizing plate configured to let, of the whole reflected light of the second laser light reflected by the object to be processed, a part of the reflected light that has a first polarization direction pass therethrough; and a measurement-laser detection unit configured to detect the reflected light that has passed through the first polarizing plate.
US11488824B2
A resist underlayer film for a resist pattern formation by developing a resist with organic solvent after exposure of resist. Method for manufacturing a semiconductor includes: applying onto a substrate a resist underlayer film forming composition including hydrolyzable silanes, hydrolysis products of hydrolyzable silanes, hydrolysis-condensation products of hydrolyzable silanes, or a combination thereof. Hydrolyzable silanes being silane of Formulas (1), (2) and (3). Silane of Formulas (1), (2) and (3) in total silanes in a ratio % by mole of 45-90:6-20:0-35; baking the applied resist underlayer film forming composition to form a resist underlayer film; applying a composition to form a resist film; exposing the resist film to light; developing the resist film after exposure, with organic solvent to obtain patterned resist film; and etching the resist underlayer film by using the patterned resist film and processing the substrate using the patterned resist underlayer film; wherein Si(R1)4 Formula (1) R2[Si(R3)3] Formula (2) R4[Si(R5)3]b Formula (3).
US11488808B2
In a plasma processing apparatus, a mounting table includes a heater for adjusting a temperature of a mounting surface mounting thereon a consumable part consumed by plasma processing. A heater control unit controls a supply power to the heater such that the heater reaches a setting temperature. A measurement unit measures, while controlling the supply power to the heater such that the temperature of the heater becomes constant, the supply powers in a non-ignition state where plasma is not ignited and in a transient state where the supply power is decreased after the plasma is ignited. A parameter calculation unit calculates a thickness of the consumable part by performing fitting with a calculation model, which has the thickness of the consumable part as a parameter and calculates the supply power in the transient state, by using the measured supply powers in the non-ignition state and in the transient state.
US11488807B2
An apparatus for plasma processing includes a chamber, a lower electrode on which a substrate is placed in the chamber, an edge ring disposed around the lower electrode, an upper electrode facing the lower electrode in the chamber, a member disposed around the upper electrode, a gas supply section configured to supply a process gas to a space between the member and the lower electrode, and a power supply for applying radio frequency power to the lower electrode or the upper electrode to generate a plasma of the process gas. The member includes an inner member and an outer member positioned outside the inner member, and the outer member is disposed outside the edge ring in a radial direction. At least part of the outer member is movable in a vertical direction.
US11488806B2
Embodiments of process kits for use in a process chamber are provided herein. In some embodiments, a process kit includes a slit door having an arcuate profile and including a first plate coupled to a second plate, wherein the first plate is configured to be coupled to an actuator, and wherein the second plate has a processing volume facing surface that includes silicon.
US11488799B1
A heater for a hollow cathode and a method for manufacturing the heater for the hollow cathode are provided. An example heater includes a tube and a thickening located at an edge of the tube. The tube has a side wall of a predetermined thickness and a cut in the side wall. The thickening is configured for attaching two electrical current leads. The tube and the thickening are made of a carbon fiber composite.
US11488787B2
An ultracapacitor that includes an energy storage cell immersed in an electrolyte and disposed within an hermetically sealed housing, the cell electrically coupled to a positive contact and a negative contact, wherein the ultracapacitor has a gel or polymer based electrolyte and is configured to output electrical energy at temperatures between about −40° C. and about 250° C. Methods of fabrication and use are provided.
US11488785B2
The present invention relates to a vacuum capacitor (1, 30) comprising an enclosure (9) to contain a vacuum dielectric medium, a first electrode (12) and a second electrode (13) separated by said vacuum dielectric medium, the enclosure (9) comprising a first conductive collar (2) in electrical contact with the first electrode (12) and a second conductive collar (3) in electrical contact with the second electrode (13), the first conductive collar (2) and the second conductive collar (3) being separated by an insulating element (4) of the enclosure (9), wherein the enclosure (9) exhibits at least one protruding edge (6), said protruding edge (6) being in electrical contact with the closest of the first conductive collar (2) or the second conductive collar (3), wherein the vacuum capacitor (1, 30) comprises at least one protection means (7, 37) covering on the outside of the vacuum enclosure the protruding edge (6), wherein the protection means (7, 37) is made at least partially of an elastomer, wherein at least the outer surface (7b, 37b) of the protection means (7, 37) is electrically conductive and is at the same electrical potential as the closest conductive collar to the protruding edge (6), and wherein the outer surface (7b, 37b) of the protection means (7, 37) has a radius of curvature greater than the radius of curvature of the protruding edge (6).
US11488774B2
Systems and methods for forming insulation on magnet wire are provided. An extruder that includes one or more rotating screws may receive a plurality of ingredients for a polymeric insulation material and process the plurality of ingredients to facilitate polymerization of the polymeric insulation material within the extruder. An application assembly in fluid communication with the extruder may apply the polymeric insulation material onto a wire. A curing device may then cure the polymeric insulation material.
US11488771B2
An adapter is provided and having a circuit board, primary components and secondary components installed on the circuit board, a shielding plate disposed between the primary components and the secondary components, and a transformer installed on the circuit board. The transformer has a bobbin, an iron core set assembled with the bobbin, at least one movable pin, at least one first winding, and at least one second winding. The movable pin is able to be positioned at an upper position for allowing the iron core set to be assembled with the bobbin or for allowing the first winding and the second winding to be wound onto the winding portion, and the movable pin is able to be positioned at a lower position when the transformer is installed onto the circuit board. Thereby, the adapter can be assembled in an automated process with improved assembly efficiency and high production yields.
US11488767B2
A coil component includes a body having a first surface and a second surface, both side surfaces, and both end surfaces connecting the first surface to the second surface and opposing each other, a plurality of coil portions embedded in the body and spaced apart from each other, first to fourth side electrodes connected to the plurality of coil portions and exposed to the both side surfaces, respectively, and first to fourth external electrodes disposed on the first surface and connected to the first to fourth side electrodes, respectively. A length of an edge of each of the first to fourth external electrodes, contacting the first surface and one of the both side surfaces, is greater than a length of an edge of a respective one of the first to fourth side electrodes, contacting the first surface and one of the both side surfaces.
US11488766B2
A gradient coil having a coil body made from a cured casting compound and at least one cooler embedded in the casting compound, serving to conduct a fluid coolant, wherein the cooler and the casting compound do not adhere to each other.
US11488756B2
An optical member supporting device is described that includes, in an XYZ rectangular coordinate system, spherical bodies, a first holding portion and a second holding portion, an optical member held by the first holding portion or the second holding portion, first yokes protruding from the first holding portion facing the second holding portion, and second yokes protruding from the second holding portion facing the first holding portion and opposed to the first yokes in a predetermined direction in the X-Y direction. The first holding portion and second holding portion extend in an X-Y direction and are opposed in a Z direction with the spherical body interposed therebetween. The second holding portion includes a second magnet and the first yokes and the second yokes are opposed to the second magnet in the Z direction.
US11488755B2
An electromagnetic actuating device includes a sleeve, an armature situated radially inside the sleeve, and an electromagnetic coil situated radially outside the sleeve, the armature having a first armature end face on one end and a second armature end face on the opposite end. The sleeve has a channel on or in the sleeve wall, which extends in the longitudinal direction of the sleeve and forms a fluid connection between the armature end faces.
US11488754B2
The present invention discloses a superconducting bulk cooling apparatus and cooling method for a high-temperature superconducting magnetic levitation vehicle. The superconducting bulk cooling apparatus for the high-temperature superconducting magnetic levitation vehicle includes a refrigerating machine, a vacuum box and a Dewar tank. A condensing tank is arranged in the vacuum box, and the condensing tank is communicated with the Dewar tank through a nitrogen siphon pipe and a liquid nitrogen return pipe; a heat exchanger connected with the refrigerating machine is arranged in the condensing tank; and a flexible isolation pipe for thermally insulating and isolating the nitrogen siphon pipe and the liquid nitrogen return pipe is connected between the vacuum box and the Dewar tank. The present invention pumps the phase-change nitrogen out of the Dewar tank through a siphoning effect, so that the immersion cooling of high-temperature superconducting bulks is separated from the re-condensation of the nitrogen.
US11488743B2
The present application discloses a flexible flat cable and a display panel. The flexible flat cable includes a substrate, a first terminal and a second terminal. The substrate is insulating, and the first terminal and the second terminal are disposed at the first end and the second end of the substrate respectively, and are coupled with each other by a capacitor assembly.
US11488738B2
Disclosed is a radio-protective shield including: a wall made from transparent material, with a peripheral edge of a first face of the wall made from transparent material coming to bear against a bearing face of a counter-frame via a seal; a fastening frame provided with bearing a bearing against a peripheral edge of a second face of the wall made from transparent material, which bearing includes a longitudinal bearing structure including a contact surface in contact with the peripheral edge. The radio-protective shield further includes a securing element securing the counter-frame and the fastening frame together. The bearing includes an elastic return capable of applying pressure against the longitudinal bearing structure towards the wall made from transparent material.
US11488737B2
A system for externally cooling a radiation shielded cask containing heat-emitting high level radioactive waste such as spent nuclear fuel. The system includes the cask defining an internal cavity configured to hold an unshielded canister containing the spent nuclear fuel. An annular cooling water header extends circumferentially around the entire circumference of the cylindrical sidewall of the cask. The header comprises plural dispensing outlets which direct cooling water onto the cask, thereby wetting the entire sidewall of the cask. The cooling water provides an external heat sink for absorbing the heat emitted through the external wall surface of the cask generated by the spent nuclear fuel. In various embodiments, the cooling water header may have a continuous annular structure, or be formed by two or more header segments. The header may be supported directly from the cask by detachably mounted brackets.
US11488736B2
A hazardous material storage system includes a drillhole extending into the Earth and including an entry at least proximate a terranean surface. The drillhole includes a substantially vertical portion, a curved portion, and a horizontal portion that includes a hazardous waste repository formed within a first portion of the horizontal portion of the drillhole, the hazardous waste repository vertically isolated, by a rock formation, from a subterranean zone that includes mobile water, and a safety runway formed within a second portion of the horizontal portion exclusive of the hazardous waste repository and adjacent the curved portion, the safety runway defined by a particular length.
US11488732B2
Provided is a secondary shutdown structure of a nuclear reactor, which uses sliding doors, and more particularly, to a secondary shutdown structure of a nuclear reactor, which uses sliding doors and is capable of shutting down a nuclear reactor reliably with a simple structure without using a boric acid solution.
US11488727B2
An immutable system of records for achieving compliance in IoT/Control systems in order to thereby provide the regulator with a centralized immutable system of records, is disclosed herein. A blockchain based immutable record management module configured in association with a plurality of control systems associated with a plurality of devices/systems in a heavily regulated industry environment wherein the blockchain based immutable record management module receives and manages a plurality of immutable records from plurality of control systems associated with a plurality of devices/systems in a heavily regulated industry environment. The blockchain based immutable record management module further securely presents the immutable records to the regulators in order thereby enable the industry to inject undisputed facts to the regulators or the regulation authorities.
US11488723B1
A method for generating synthetic training records for use in training a model to predict low-incidence events. A synthetic training record is generated from a minority-class training record by substituting a different value for a feature in the minority-class training record, where the probability of the different value occurring in the minority-class training record exceeds a probability threshold. Also disclosed are a non-transitory storage medium comprising minority-class training records and synthetic training records and a method of training a machine-leaning model using training records augmented with synthetic training records. An exemplary synthetic training records is a synthetic medical record for use in training a model to predict drug overdoses.
US11488710B2
A method for controlling operation of a medical device in a medical system having a medical device, a communication device including a remote control for the medical device, and a safety device adapted for data communication with the communication device. Input data is provided and processed by a first calculation to thereby provide a first calculation result. The input data is processed by a second calculation executed separately from first calculation to thereby provide a second calculation result. The first and second calculation results are compared. When the first and second calculation results are found equal, remote control of the medical device by a medical device application running on the communication device is allowed. When the first and second calculation results are found not equal, the medical device application running on the communication device for remote control of the medical device is prevented.
US11488709B2
A device for providing drug verification may work in conjunction with drug delivery devices such as medical pumps to provide a chemical and concentration analysis of drugs being delivered forming a signature that can be compared to a signature associated with the proper drug, reducing errors in medicine delivery and ensuring proper use of medicines throughout their lifecycle.
US11488707B2
Automated modular physical health testing systems and associated devices and methods are disclosed herein. A modular system configured in accordance with embodiments of the present technology can include, for example, a housing, a communications hub, and a plurality of physical health testing devices. The housing integrates the communications hub and stores the plurality of physical health testing devices. The physical health testing devices are in wired and/or wireless communication with the communications hub. Each physical health testing device is configured to generate physical health data of a user and to transmit generated physical health data to the communication hub and/or a user's mobile device. The modular physical health testing system provides an automated physical exam that can be performed at user's homes or other convenient locations.
US11488694B2
A method for predicting a patient outcome from a caretaker episode includes receiving a current episode snapshot of the caretaker episode comprising multi-modal data of the patient from an electronic health records (EHR) system, the multi-modal data including one or more available data modalities and one or more missing data modalities. The multi-modal data is applied as input to an embedding model having a submodel for each of the data modalities. A first embedding is generated for each of the available data modalities. A second embedding is generated for each of the missing data modalities using corresponding embeddings of neighbors in an episode snapshot graph. The first and second embeddings are combined to obtain a complete embedding. The patient outcome is predicted based on the complete embedding for the current episode snapshot using a machine learning component which has been trained using patient outcomes of the historical episode snapshots.
US11488687B2
A system and method for estimation of functional potential of pathways in genomes/meta-genomes is provided. Initially seed modules are identified and a multi-dimensional tag map is created. Further, pathway annotation is done using a novel 6Q annotation step. Hidden Markov Model (HMM) based search augmented with an analysis of gene context is used to refine the modules using a graph theory based approach. The method uses the multidimensional module tag map to build a backend knowledge base and use the same for an iterative literature search to verify the clustered organization of genes within a pathway. Finally, a score is assigned to compute the contribution of each pathway within the genome/meta-genome.
US11488684B1
A read threshold voltage can vary over time due to process variation, data retention issues, and program disturb conditions. A storage system can calibrate the read threshold voltage using data from a decoded codeword read from a wordline in the memory. For example, the storage system can use the data instead of syndrome weight in a bit error rate estimate scan (BES). As another example, the storage system can use the data to generate a bit error rate distribution, which can be used instead of a cell voltage distribution histogram. Using these techniques can help reduce latency and power consumption, increase throughput, and improve quality of service.
US11488681B2
An example apparatus includes a memory comprising a plurality of managed units corresponding to respective groups of resistance variable memory cells and a controller coupled to the memory. The controller is configured to cause performance of a cleaning operation on a selected group of the memory cells and generation of error correction code (ECC) parity data. The controller may be further configured to cause performance of a write operation on the selected group of cells to write an inverted state of at least one data value to the selected group of cells and write an inverted state of at least one of the ECC parity data to the selected group of cells.
US11488673B2
After a predetermined period of time in a life cycle of a flash memory device, a plurality of reliability values corresponding to a plurality of reads of one or more of the plurality of memory cells are generated; each of the reads using a variation of a predetermined read level voltage. An offset voltage is then identified, offset from the read level voltage. The offset voltage corresponds to a zero crossing point in the range of the reliability values. Once the offset voltage is identified, the read level voltage is set to a calibrated voltage based on the offset voltage.
US11488668B2
Provided is a semiconductor device capable of reducing its area, operating at a high speed, or reducing its power consumption. A circuit 50 is used as a memory circuit with a function of performing an arithmetic operation. One of a circuit 80 and a circuit 90 has a region overlapping with at least part of the other of the circuit 80 and the circuit 90. Accordingly, the circuit 50 can perform the arithmetic operation that is essentially performed in the circuit 60; thus, a burden of the arithmetic operation on the circuit 60 can be reduced. Moreover, the number of times of data transmission and reception between the circuits 50 and 60 can be reduced. Furthermore, the circuit 50 functioning as a memory circuit can have a function of performing an arithmetic operation while the increase in the area of the circuit 50 is suppressed.
US11488666B2
An integrated circuit comprises a memory device including at least one memory point having a volatile memory cell and a single non-volatile memory cell coupled together to a common node, and a single selection transistor coupled between the common node and a single bit line. A first output of the volatile memory cell is coupled to the common node, and a second output of the volatile memory cell, complementary to the first output, is not connected to any node outside the volatile memory cell.
US11488664B2
Distributing multiply-accumulate currents across segment mirrors by providing a circuit including an array of resistive elements, the array including rows and columns and first stage current mirrors, each of the first stage current mirrors being electrically coupled to a segment, wherein the segment comprises a columnar subset of the resistive elements, providing, by the array, a vector of current outputs equal to an analog vector-matrix product between a vector of voltage inputs to the array and a matrix of analog resistive weights within the array, wherein the voltage inputs encode a vector of analog input values, wherein each row of resistive elements corresponds to a specific voltage input, determining a score for each of the rows, determining a ranking of the rows of the array according to the score of each row, and mapping each row to a segment according to the ranking.
US11488663B2
Memory devices have an array of elements in two or more dimensions. The memory devices use multiple access lines arranged in a grid to access the memory devices. Memory cells are located at intersections of the access lines in the grid. Drivers are used for each access line and configured to transmit a corresponding signal to respective memory cells of the plurality of memory cells via a corresponding access line. The memory devices also include compensation circuitry configured to determine which driving access lines driving a target memory cell of the plurality of memory cells has the most distance between the target memory cell and a respective driver. The plurality of access lines comprise the driving access lines. The compensation circuitry also is configured to output compensation values to adjust the voltages of the driving access lines based on a polarity of the voltage of the longer driving access line.
US11488658B2
Methods and apparatuses having an improved write assist scheme are presented. An apparatus includes a power supply node configured to provide power from a power supply to one memory cell to store data; a bitline configured to provide write data to the one memory cell in a write operation; and a discharge circuit configured to selectively discharge the power supply node to the bitline, based on the write data. A method to write into a memory cell with a write assist scheme includes providing power from a power supply to one memory cell via a power supply node, to store data; providing write data to the one memory cell via a bitline in a write operation; and discharging, selectively based on the write data, the power supply node to the bitline.
US11488653B2
An electronic device and a semiconductor package structure are provided. The electronic device includes a plurality of semiconductor dies stacked vertically over each other and a power supply system. The plurality of semiconductor dies are stacked over the power supply system, and the power supply system includes: a voltage generating circuit configured to generate at least one voltage; and a die enabling circuit configured to generate a die enable signal according to the at least one voltage. The at least one voltage is provided to the plurality of semiconductor dies through a power interconnecting structure, and the die enable signal is configured to enable synchronous input of the at least one voltage to the plurality of semiconductor dies.
US11488652B2
A semiconductor memory device can appropriately control operation timing, based on changes in the environment (for example, power supply voltage and temperature, etc.) when in use. The semiconductor memory device includes a temperature sensor 18 that detects the temperature of the semiconductor memory device, a voltage detection portion (composed of a ring oscillator 14 and a counter 15) that detects the power supply voltage of the semiconductor memory device, and a control portion 10 that controls the operation timing in the semiconductor memory device to meet specific conditions, according to the temperature detected by the temperature sensor 18 after the power is applied and the voltage detected by the voltage detection portion after the power is applied.
US11488646B2
An encoder includes an encoding unit configured to receive 2n-bit read data and to generate 2m-bit read data, and an output driver configured to input m-bit first read data of the 2m-bit read data, to transmit voltage and/or current a first number of times corresponding to a number of first bits indicating a first state included in the m-bit first read data or to transmit current corresponding to the number of first bits during an activation period of a clock signal, and to transmit the voltage and/or the current a second number of times corresponding to a number of second bits indicating the first state included in m-bit second read data of the 2m-bit read data or to transmit current corresponding to the number of second bits during a deactivation period of the clock signal, wherein n is at least 2 and m is at least 3.
US11488645B2
Disclosed are methods for reading data from a storage buffer. One such method may include retrieving a first set of data during a first period of time. The method may also include delaying data retrieval during a second period of time after the first period of time. The method may include outputting at least a portion of the first set of data during the first period of time and the second period of time. The first period of time is substantially similar to the second period of time.
US11488638B1
An apparatus is provided for the simultaneous transferring of multiple storage devices from a chassis to reduce service time and associated server temperature fluctuations. The storage transfer device may be mounted to a chassis with a multitude of electronic devices, e.g., a JBOD with HDDs, above the devices to be removed. The storage device may then be manipulated to mechanically unlatch the devices from the chassis and simultaneously attach the devices to the transfer device. The devices may then be disconnected and withdrawn from the chassis and pulled into the storage transfer device. The devices may be re-installed later using the storage device and the reverse process.
US11488637B2
According to one embodiment, a disk device includes a recording medium of a disk form, a magnetic head, a housing, and a first protective member made of a resin. The recording medium includes a recording layer. The magnetic head is configured to read/write information from/to the recording medium. The housing includes a base provided with an inner chamber in which the recording medium and the magnetic head are accommodated, a cover that covers the inner chamber, and a welded part at which the base and the cover are welded to each other. The first protective member is located outside the housing, to cover at least part of the welded part.
US11488632B2
Systems and methods are provided for advancing through video content. The systems and methods include generating playback of a video associated with subtitles comprising a sequence of subtitle segments; receiving a user request to advance playback of the video from a first video play position corresponding to a first subtitle segment of the sequence of subtitle segments; identifying a second subtitle segment of the sequence of subtitle segments that is adjacent to the first subtitle segment in the sequence of subtitle segments; and in response to receiving the user request to advance playback of the video, advancing playback of the video from the first video play position to a second video play position based on a subtitle segment play position associated with the second subtitle segment.
US11488625B2
A data storage device is disclosed comprising at least one head configured to access a magnetic tape comprising a plurality of servo frames each comprising a plurality of servo bursts. A first servo burst is read using the head to generate a read signal which is sampled to generate signal samples. A first matched filter matched to the first servo burst is used to generate filtered samples in response to the signal samples, and at least part of the filtered samples are interpolated to generate interpolated samples. The interpolated samples are processed to generate a position error signal (PES), and a position of the head relative to the magnetic tape is controlled based on the PES.
US11488621B1
Aspects of the disclosure include methods, apparatuses, and non-transitory computer-readable storage mediums for estimating a complexity of an audio render program. One apparatus includes processing circuitry that performs a first measurement on a consumption of a resource by running a first plurality of instances of the audio render program on an audio evaluation platform. The processing circuitry performs a second measurement on the consumption of the resource by running a second plurality of instances of the audio render program on the audio evaluation platform. A first number of the first plurality of instances is different from a second number of the second plurality of instances. The processing circuitry estimates the complexity of the audio render program based on the first measurement, the second measurement, the first number of the first plurality of instances, and the second number of the second plurality of the instances.
US11488619B2
An adaptive dynamic audio hum extractor eliminates line frequency hum components and associated higher harmonics from an audio signal. An audio signal containing line frequency hum can be processed by providing dynamically controlled notch filters at the fundamental line frequency and additional harmonic multiples of the fundamental frequency. The audio signal is detected to provide dynamic control of the depth of the notch filters. Alternatively, an audio signal containing hum can be processed by dividing the spectrum into at least two frequency bands, an unaltered high band combined with a dynamically processed low band. The adaptive dynamically controlled notch filters vary the depth of the notches in relation to the envelope or time averaged level of the bandwidth limited audio signal. This allows masking of the hum components with higher levels of audio, thereby providing transparency devoid of audio path notches.
US11488618B2
Different embodiments on hearing enhancement enhancing a user's hearing. For example, a system can include an interface unit with a directional speaker and a microphone. The microphone captures input audio signals that are transformed into ultrasonic signals. The speaker transmits the ultrasonic signals, which are transformed into output audio signals by interaction with air. At least part of the output audio signals is modified to enhance the hearing of the user. Based on the system, the user's ear remains free from any inserted objects and thus is free from annoying occlusion effects. Compared to existing hearing aids, the system is relatively inexpensive. In another embodiment, the system can also be used as a phone. In another embodiment, the system can also access audio signals from other portable or non-portable instruments, wired or wirelessly, such as from home entertainment units, phones, microphones at a conference or speakers at a movie theater.
US11488612B2
The present technology can receive audio segments from sources within one or more conference room, and can create audio fingerprints from the sources. The audio fingerprints are optimized for audio in conference room environments, which include distortions from room impulse responses, and various encoding used by telecommunication networks. In some embodiments, when two audio segments are matched, a user equipment can be instructed to mute its speakers to avoid feedback. In some embodiments, when two audio segments are matched, a user equipment can be given instructions to join a conference taking place in the room in when the audio segment originated.
US11488610B2
An audio decoder for providing at least four bandwidth-extended channel signals on the basis of an encoded representation provides first and second downmix signals on the basis of a jointly encoded representation of the first and second downmix signals using a multi-channel decoding and provides at least first and second audio channel signals on the basis of the first downmix signal using a multi-channel decoding, and provides at least third and fourth audio channel signals on the basis of the second downmix signal using a multi-channel decoding. It performs a multi-channel bandwidth extension on the basis of the first and third audio channel signals, to obtain first and third bandwidth-extended channel signals, and performs a multi-channel bandwidth extension on the basis of the second and fourth audio channel signals, to obtain second and fourth bandwidth extended channel signals. An audio encoder uses a related concept.
US11488608B2
A computer-implemented technique is presented for profiling an unknown speaker. A DNN-based frame selection allows the system to select the relevant frames necessary to provide a reliable speaker characteristic estimation. A frame selection module selects those frames that contain relevant information for estimating a given speaker characteristic and thereby contributes to the accuracy and the low latency of the system. Real-time speaker characteristics estimation allows the system to estimate the speaker characteristics from a speech segment of accumulated selected frames at any given time. The frame level processing contributes to the low latency as it is not necessary to wait for the whole speech utterance to predict a speaker characteristic but rather a speaker characteristic is estimated from only a few reliable frames. Different stopping criteria also contribute to the accuracy and the low latency of the system.
US11488606B2
An audio system receives an audio signal from a digital microphone, which has an analog-digital converter with a controllable sampling rate. In response to a determination that a predetermined trigger phrase is not detected in the decimated audio signal, the sampling rate of the analog-digital converter in the digital microphone is controlled such that the audio signal has a first sample rate. In response to a determination that the predetermined trigger phrase is detected in the decimated signal, the sampling rate of the analog-digital converter in the digital microphone is controlled such that the audio signal has a second sample rate higher than the first sample rate, and the audio signal is applied to a spoof detection circuit, to determine whether the received signal contains live speech or replayed speech.
US11488605B2
An automated speaker verification (ASV) system incorporates a first deep neural network to extract deep acoustic features, such as deep CQCC features, from a received voice sample. The deep acoustic features are processed by a second deep neural network that classifies the deep acoustic features according to a determined likelihood of including a spoofing condition. A binary classifier then classifies the voice sample as being genuine or spoofed.
US11488599B2
The present disclosure provides method and apparatus for processing a message. A statement sentence message and a message processing parameter associated with a user's session message are obtained. One or more first statement sentence nodes that are semantic-matched with the statement sentence message are determined in the knowledge map. One or more second statement sentence nodes corresponding to the message processing parameters are obtained from the knowledge map, based on the node relationship properties of the first statement sentence nodes. A response is generated based at least in part on statement sentences of the one or more second statement sentence nodes. The generated response is provided to the user.
US11488598B2
The present disclosure relates to a display device. The display device includes a display; a signal receiver configured to receive a user's voice signal through at least one of a plurality of devices; and a processor configured to: display an image of at least one of a plurality of programs on the display by executing the plurality of programs, identify a program corresponding to a device receiving the voice signal among the plurality of programs based on matching information set by the user regarding a mutual correspondence between the plurality of programs and the plurality of devices, in response to the user's voice signal received through any one of the plurality of devices, and control the identified program to operate according to a user command corresponding to the received voice signal. Thereby, it is possible to control a control target program to a user's intention according to a voice command even if a user who inputs the voice command does not separately designate the control target program.
US11488589B1
Techniques for processing a voice initiated request by a web server are presented. The techniques may include receiving, by a web server, request data representing a voice command to a user device, the request data including an identification of a requested webpage; determining, by the web server, that a response to the request data will continue a voice interaction; and providing, by the web server and to the user device, data for a voice enabled webpage associated with the requested webpage, where the data for the voice enabled webpage is configured to invoke a voice interface for the user device.
US11488588B2
In a control system including a printing apparatus and a server system, the server system includes a transmission unit that, if a voice instruction received by a voice control device is a query regarding the printing apparatus, transmits information concerning the printing apparatus without performing processing of content used for print processing, and a specification unit that, if the received voice instruction is a print instruction for printing the content and includes a print setting value corresponding to a first item but not a print setting value corresponding to a second item, specifies content corresponding to the print instruction, a print setting value corresponding to the first item, and a preset, predetermined print setting value for the second item. The printing apparatus includes a print control unit that performs print processing based on the content, the print setting value corresponding to the first item, and the specified predetermined print setting value.
US11488587B2
Disclosed is a regional-features-based speech recognition method, including learning speech features by region using speech data classified by region category, and recognizing input speech using an acoustic model and a language model generated through classification of a region category for the input speech and the learning. A user may use a dialect recognition service that is improved using learning based on artificial intelligence (AI) and enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB), ultra-reliable and low latency communications (URLLC), and massive machine-type communications (mMTC) techniques of 5G mobile communication.
US11488586B1
Disclosed is a system for speech recognition text enhancement fusing multi-modal semantic invariance, the system includes an acoustic feature extraction module, an acoustic down-sampling module, an acoustic feature extraction module, an acoustic down-sampling module, an encoder and a decoder fusing multi-modal semantic invariance; the acoustic feature extraction module is configured for frame-dividing processing of speech data, dividing the speech data into short-term audio frames with a fixed length, extracting thank acoustic features from the short-term audio frames, and inputting the acoustic features into the acoustic down-sampling module for down-sampling to obtain an acoustic representation; inputting the speech data into an existing speech recognition module to obtain input text data, and inputting the input text data into the encoder to obtain an input text encoded representation; inputting the acoustic representation and the input text encoded representation into the decoder to fuse.
US11488585B2
A method, computer system, and a computer program product for discussion relevance feedback associated with an electronic meeting is provided. The method may include determining a meeting topic associated with the electronic meeting and receiving audio data recording the vocal interactions of one or more meeting attendees. The method may further include generating a textual representation of the received audio data and then identifying a current discussion topic based on the generated textual representation. The method may further include determining a semantic distance between the identified current discussion topic and the determined meeting topic and generating discussion relevance feedback based on the determined semantic distance.
US11488584B2
A method for voice recognition (VR)-based task allocation and hotword detection function control for within a wireless network having a hands-free (HF) node, e.g., a motor vehicle or telematics unit thereof, and an audio gateway (AG) node such as a wireless device, includes detecting, via a first wireless chipset of the HF node, a second wireless chipset of the AG node. The wireless chipsets include respective VR engines responsive to a corresponding hotword. The method includes establishing a Bluetooth or other wireless connection between the wireless chipsets in response to detecting the second wireless chipset. The method may include automatically transmitting a disable command signal to the second wireless chipset, via the first wireless chipset, to thereby disable a hotword detection function of the second wireless chipset. The method may be recorded on a computer readable medium as instructions executable by a processor.
US11488580B2
It is an aspect of the present disclosure to provide a dialogue system capable of providing an extended function to the user by registering a new vocabulary that matches the user's preference and by changing the pre-stored conversation pattern.
US11488574B2
The implementation of modal processors, which involve the parallel combination resonant filters, may be costly for applications such as artificial reverberation that can require thousands of modes. In one embodiment, the input signal is decomposed into a plurality of subbands, the outputs of which are downsampled. In each downsampled band, resonant filters are applied at the downsampled sampling rate, and their output is upsampled and filtered to form the band output. In these and other embodiments, a feature of responses of the mode filters have been optimized to minimize an aspect of a residual error after a point in time.
US11488572B2
An ANC system includes an AD converter which performs AD conversion on an external noise signal, an ANC signal generator which generates an ANC signal for canceling a noise component arriving at the ears of a user based on an output signal of the AD converter, and a level detector which detects a level of the output signal and causes the ANC signal generator to power down in response to the level. The level detector measures a time for which the level is equal to or less than a predetermined first threshold value, causes the ANC signal generator or a portion of blocks of the AD converter to power down after the measured time exceeds a predetermined value, and causes the ANC signal generator or a portion of blocks of the AD converter to return from the power down when the level exceeds a predetermined second threshold value.
US11488556B2
This application provides a drive circuitry for a display panel and a display device. The drive circuitry includes a drive circuit board, a power chip, a driving chip, a detection circuit, and a control circuit. The detection circuit detects a logic voltage at a logic signal receiving terminal and outputs a control signal. The power terminal of the driving chip is coupled to the power chip through the control circuit. The control circuit controls to turn on or turn off the coupling between the power chip and the driving chip according to the control signal.
US11488554B2
Systems and methods are provided for generating an overdrive look-up table (LUT) for response time compensation of a display device are described. In some embodiments, an Information Handling System (IHS) may include a controller and a memory coupled to the controller, the memory having program instructions stored thereon that, upon execution, cause the controller to generate a Look-up Table (LUT) of alternate grey levels selected to implement Response Time Compensation (RTC) in a Liquid Crystal Display (LCD), where at least one of the alternate grey levels is calculated, at least in part, by taking into account a frame rate of a video stream.
US11488553B2
This application discloses a display panel and a display device. The display panel (101) includes a first substrate (110), which includes a plurality of pixels (111). Each of the pixels (111) includes a plurality of sub-pixels of different colors. The sub-pixels of each color include a first sub-pixel (122) and a second sub-pixel (123). The aperture ratio of the first sub-pixel (122) is smaller than the aperture ratio of the second sub-pixel (123).
US11488550B2
The present application discloses a display panel and a display apparatus. The display panel includes: a first substrate, pixels, data lines, and scan lines. The pixels include first pixels and second pixels. The first pixels each include a first primary pixel and first secondary pixel, and the second pixels each include a second primary pixel and a second secondary pixel. The first primary pixel and the first secondary pixel are connected to an nth row of scan line and an nth row of data line, and the second primary pixel and the second secondary pixel are connected to the nth row of scan line and the nth row of data line. The first secondary pixel is connected to a first pull-down circuit, and the second secondary pixel is connected to a second pull-down circuit.
US11488538B1
A display is provided that includes an array of display pixels that receive data signals from display driver circuitry and that receive control signals from gate driver circuitry. The gate driver circuitry may include a chain of row driver circuits. Each row driver circuit may include a scan driver circuit and a scan inverter circuit. An enable transistor may be interposed between the scan driver circuit and the scan inverter circuit and may be selectively disabled to decouple the scan inverter circuit from the scan driver circuit to allow the scan inverter circuit to operate independent from the scan driver circuit. The scan inverter circuit may include a transistor that receives a scan pulse signal from the scan driver circuit and may further include additional transistors connected in a negative feedback configuration to reduce a drain-to-source voltage across the transistor to reduce leakage across the transistor during blanking times.
US11488535B2
A pixel driving circuit, a method of driving the same, and a display panel are provided. The pixel driving circuit includes a scanning line, a data line, an organic light emitting diode, a first control switch, a second control switch, and a storage electric capacity. The scanning line drives a control end of the second control switch. An input end of the second control switch is connected to the data line. An output end of the second control switch drives a control end of the first control switch. A first power source signal drives an input end of the first control switch. The organic light emitting diode is coupled between an output end of the first control switch and a second power source signal. The storage electric capacity is coupled between a first reference signal and the control end of the first control switch.
US11488505B2
An embodiment is disclosed that makes it possible to reduce the area of a digital-to-analog converter circuit by interpolating one reference voltage and generating a plurality of gamma voltages.
US11488504B2
Driving circuit, method for determining connection information of driving circuit and display device
A driving circuit includes a gamma chip configured to provide a plurality of initial binding point voltages; the gamma chip including a first type of output terminals and a second type of output terminals, currents corresponding to the initial binding point voltages outputted by the first type of output terminals being less than a preset driving current; and currents corresponding to the initial binding point voltages outputted by the second type of output terminals being greater than the preset driving current; and a data driving chip including a processor and a plurality of operational amplifiers.
US11488497B2
The invention concerns a linerless self-adhesive material obtained starting from a self-adhesive material with a liner, by means of a process that comprises the delamination of the liner from a self-adhesive layer, activation of the liner or self-adhesive layer, transferral of the liner over the self-adhesive layer and re-lamination of the two components so as to produce the linerless self-adhesive material. The liner or the self-adhesive layer is coated with a thermo-adhesive that allows for permanent lamination of the liner located on the self-adhesive layer.
US11488490B2
The system and method herein provide immersive training using virtual reality technologies used to provide any desired type of immersive training. The training may focus on sexual harassment issues. Some training may focus on the “feeling” of the situation, and it has been found that virtual reality environments described herein provide a particularly effective way of training on the feeling of the situation and related issues in the sexual harassment context.
US11488484B2
Described is a system comprising (a) a UAS registry including a plurality of UAS accounts, (b) a plurality of UAS registration computing systems operable to create UAS accounts for the UAS registry, (c) a plurality of USS computing systems that each provide service to one of a plurality of service areas within an airspace, wherein each USS computing system is operable to: (i) receive, from UAS operators, operation data for UASs operating in the service area served by the USS computing system, (ii) receive, from the other USS computing systems for the airspace, operation data for UASs operating in the other service areas served the other USS computing systems, (iii) combine the operation data received from the UAS operators, with the operation data received from the other USS computing systems, to maintain an airspace-wide UAS database, and (iv) provide a publicly accessible application interface based on the UAS database.
US11488480B1
Aspects presented herein may enable vehicle UE(s) to transmit warning message(s) to one or more pedestrian UEs without receiving P2V transmissions from the one or more pedestrian UEs. In one aspect, a first UE determines one or more configuration parameters for a plurality of second UEs, the one or more configuration parameters including an identification parameter, the identification parameter being associated with a time period. The first UE determines, based on the identification parameter for at least one second UE of the plurality of second UEs, whether to transmit a warning message to the at least one second UE. The first UE transmits, based on determining to transmit the warning message, the warning message to the at least one second UE, the warning message including an ID for the at least one second UE, the ID for the at least one second UE being based on the identification parameter.
US11488475B2
A vehicle flow monitoring system for detecting both a car count and direction of movement of vehicles passing a point of interest. The vehicle flow monitoring system generally includes a car counter which may include a microcontroller and a pair of distance sensors. Each of the distance sensors is oriented toward a unique point of interest. Each of the distance sensors includes a threshold distance reading which is used to detect whether a vehicle has passed underneath the car counter. The system may determine direction of travel of the vehicle based on which of the distance sensors is passed by the vehicle first. The microcontroller may assign an Event ID to each time a vehicle passes each of the sensors, with the Event ID being used to identify when and if the vehicle should be counted, or whether a non-vehicle object has passed the car counter.
US11488474B2
Generating parking area statistics for identifying parking areas within a geographic region. Navigation support for reaching a top-ranked parking area according to collected parking area data, user preferences, parking feedback, and real-time traffic conditions. Selection of a top-ranked parking area and monitoring progress during a parking event improve future identification and ranking of parking areas.
US11488473B2
An object of the present disclosure is to enable an emergency vehicle to travel more smoothly to a destination. An information processing apparatus sets a special lane for traveling of an emergency vehicle on a road on a scheduled travel route along which the emergency vehicle travels to reach a destination. Furthermore, the information processing apparatus transmits a display command to display the special lane to a display apparatus that displays information along a lane on a road surface of the road on the scheduled travel route.
US11488471B2
The present disclosure relates to identifying vehicles using wireless device identifiers. In accordance with aspects of the present disclosure, a system for identifying vehicles in a parking structure includes a camera configured to capture images of an area in the parking structure where the camera captures an image containing one or more vehicle(s), a detector configured to scan for wireless device identifiers in the area, and a processing system including an electronic storage. The processing system is configured to execute instructions to access the image containing the vehicle(s) in the area and access one or more wireless device identifier(s) scanned by the detector in the area, process the image containing the vehicle(s) to extract one or more license plate identifier(s) corresponding to the vehicle(s), and store in the electronic storage at least one record associating the license plate identifier(s) with the wireless device identifier(s).
US11488467B1
An object detection, tracking and alert system for use in connection with a waste collection vehicle is provided. The system can determine if an external moving object in the surrounding environment of the waste collection vehicle, such as another vehicle or a bicycle, is moving directly towards the waste collection vehicle, and then send one or more alerts to the driver and/or riders on the waste collection vehicle as well as any other waste collection vehicles in the surrounding area.
US11488461B1
System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to improving the safety of a vehicle in relation to occurrences of smoke and fire. In one embodiment, a method includes acquiring, from a radar of a subject vehicle, radar data about a passenger cabin of the subject vehicle. The method includes determining a current state of the passenger cabin according to the radar data. The method includes, responsive to identifying that the current state indicates smoke is present within the passenger cabin, controlling the subject vehicle to generate a response to the smoke.
US11488457B2
Methods and systems for providing an availability status associated with a facility. One system includes a visual indicator associated with a facility subsystem of the facility and a sensor configured to detect data associated with the facility subsystem. The system also includes a controller communicatively coupled to the visual indicator and the sensor. The controller is configured to receive a data from the sensor. The controller is also configured to determine a current availability status associated with the facility subsystem based on the data received from the sensor. The controller is also configured to control the visual indicator to indicate the current availability status associated with the facility subsystem.
US11488455B1
A mechanized store uses a mobile device to authenticate the user. Items removed from one or more displays of the mechanized store by the user are tracked and a list of items removed by the user is updated. The list of items removed is linked with an account of the user.
US11488454B2
In some implementations, a transaction device may include a display screen, at least one photosensitive sensor configured to detect a luminance of a viewing surface of the display screen, and one or more processors. The one or more processors may be configured to monitor an output of the at least one photosensitive sensor, determine that the output is indicative of an obstruction on the display screen based on the output indicating a change to the luminance of the viewing surface of the display screen, and disable one or more operations of the transaction device based on determining that the output is indicative of the obstruction on the display screen.
US11488449B1
A system and method for awarding secondary prizes, such as relative to wagering events presented at gaming machines and gaming tables, is provided. A player receives a different number of opportunities, such as prize entries, for wagers placed on different wagering events having different house advantages, and preferably where each prize entry has its own win/lose outcome.
US11488440B2
A system, apparatus, and method for electronically transferring value using a portable electronic device. In one embodiment, a method for transferring funds to or from play a portable electronic device to facilitate playing a game of chance on a portable electronic device.
US11488438B2
Gaming systems and methods for providing a random symbol set determination for configuration for subsequent random symbol determinations.
US11488436B2
Computerized locker banks and related computing systems, according to various embodiments, are adapted to track consignee-specific and non-consignee-specific data regarding the pickup of parcels from particular locker banks (or other alternate delivery locations) and to use that information to forecast inventories for the particular locker banks over time. For example, the system may use this information, and/or other suitable information, to generate a set of projected inventories for a particular locker bank for each sequential two-hour block of time on a particular day. This information may be used to determine which locker bank to route a particular parcel to. This may be especially useful in the context of “not-in-one” deliveries in which a delivery driver unsuccessfully attempts to deliver a parcel to a consignee's primary delivery address and the parcel is re-routed to a locker bank or other alternative delivery location for later pickup by the consignee.
US11488431B2
A key information management device includes: a key information distribution unit configured to distribute key information to a company that provides a delivery service that allows an inside of a vehicle, a building, or a facility used by a user to be designated as a delivery destination of a package, key information being used by a delivery person of the company to unlock a specified entrance of the vehicle, the building, or the facility; and a determination unit configured to determine whether or not the delivery person who delivers the package has reached within a specified range of the vehicle, the building, or the facility, wherein the key information distribution unit is configured to distribute the key information to the company when the determination unit determines that the delivery person has reached within the specified range of the vehicle, the building, or the facility.
US11488430B2
Disclosed is a system that uses a window as a microphone as a replacement for keyless entry to a vehicle. The system includes a window which acts as a microphone using a piezoelectric transducer that captures resonance on an outside surface of the vehicle window when pressure waves (e.g., voice commands or taps) impact it. To recognize this sound, a transducer controller amplifies vibrations from the window tap or spoken commands. The system may include a low-power mode that listens for input while the vehicle is off. In a second, high-power mode, the system may detect a tapping event, which may prompt a transition to a wake-up state. The system may associate a number and timing of taps with unique user keys, similar to key selections of numbers on a keypad. The system may also recognize verbal PIN code input using the piezoelectric transducer microphone.
US11488429B2
Access control electronics tor wireless locks comprise one or more battery operated radios that receive access control codes. The wireless accessed locks locate the electronic components, circuits, sensors and antennas and many of the lock components away from the container being secured and closer to the operator/user. The disclosed access control electronics combine a proximity detection circuit comprising sensor pads and a capacitive sensing circuit and one or more short-range radio frequency antennas for reading RFID devices. The proximity sensor pads are in close proximity with the antennas, without the antennas interfering with the proximity sensing process, and the sensor pads to not attenuate the signals between the RFID devices and the antennas after the RFID devices are detected.
US11488428B2
It is provided a method for enabling distribution of a mobile key for obtaining access to a physical space. The method is performed in a mobile key agent and comprises the steps of: receiving a booking signal from a booking agent, the booking signal being associated with a booking of physical space, wherein the booking signal comprises a property identifier, an allocation time, and a name of the user; obtaining a system booking reference associated with the booking of physical space; providing the system booking reference to the booking agent; establishing contact with the mobile key repository, yielding an identifier of the mobile key repository; receiving a space allocation message comprising an identifier of a physical space and the system booking reference; and transmitting a key allocation command to an electronic access control system associated with the property, the key allocation command comprising the identifier of the mobile key repository, the identifier of the physical space and the allocation time.
US11488425B2
The invention relates to a system for representing vibrations for a vehicle, comprising a vehicle seat with an upper part and a lower part, which are mounted movably relative to each other by means of a vibration device, wherein at least a first sensor, which is adapted to detect at least one first characteristic of a first acceleration of the upper part relative to the lower part, is arranged on the upper part, and wherein at least one second sensor, which is adapted to detect at least one second characteristic of a second acceleration of the lower part relative to a subsurface of the vehicle, is arranged on the lower part, wherein a display device is arranged with a first section and a second section, in each case exhibiting a complete division into at least two, preferably three segments, wherein the size ratios of the at least two segments to one another can be updated depending on a current value of the at least one first characteristic or the at least one second characteristic.
US11488424B2
An example operation includes one or more of obtaining, by a moving vehicle, a first data including one or more of at least one first video and at least one first image of a moving transport, analyzing the first data, by the moving vehicle, to determine an initial issue, querying, by the moving vehicle, a server for a second data based on the analyzing, wherein the second data is one or more of at least one second video and at least one second image of the moving transport at a previous time, verifying, by the moving vehicle, an issue exists based on a delta above a threshold between the first data and the second data, and sending, by the moving vehicle, the verified issue to the server.
US11488419B2
Implementations of the present disclosure include receiving a color image and an IR image, the IR image taken contemporaneously with the color image, providing a set of facial landmarks depicted in the color image, determining a depth value for each facial landmark in the set of color landmarks, depth values being provided from the IR image, determining an average depth difference based on at least a sub-set of facial landmarks in the set of facial landmarks, comparing the average depth difference to a difference threshold to provide a comparison, and selectively authenticating the person based on the comparison.
US11488418B2
Estimating a three-dimensional (3D) pose of an object, such as a hand or body (human, animal, robot, etc.), from a 2D image is necessary for human-computer interaction. A hand pose can be represented by a set of points in 3D space, called keypoints. Two coordinates (x,y) represent spatial displacement and a third coordinate represents a depth of every point with respect to the camera. A monocular camera is used to capture an image of the 3D pose, but does not capture depth information. A neural network architecture is configured to generate a depth value for each keypoint in the captured image, even when portions of the pose are occluded, or the orientation of the object is ambiguous. Generation of the depth values enables estimation of the 3D pose of the object.
US11488414B1
An optical fingerprint sensor with spoof detection using polarization includes a plurality of lenses; an image sensor including a pixel array that includes a plurality of first photodiodes; a line between a center of a light-sensitive surface of each first photodiode and an optical center of each lens forms an optical axis of a plurality of optical axes; at least one apertured baffle-layer positioned between the image sensor and the plurality of lenses and each having a respective plurality of aperture stops, each aperture stop being center-aligned with the optical axis; a plurality of second photodiodes intercalated with the plurality of first photodiodes, wherein each second photodiode is configured to detect light having passed through lens and at least one aperture stop not aligned along optical axis; and at least one polarizing element positioned to polarize electromagnetic energy impinging the plurality of second photodiodes.
US11488410B2
Embodiments of this disclosure provide an apparatus and method. As target detection is performed in the detected pedestrian area by directly using the deep learning model, various article belonging to a pedestrian can be accurately detected in an input image.
US11488409B2
An entertainment device safety system includes a video camera configured to capture video of an entertainment device and a user of the entertainment device and a video analytic module to perform real-time video processing of the captured video to generate non-video data from video. A computer receives the video and the non-video data from the video camera analyzes the video or the non-video data to determine a user position in relation to the entertainment device. The user position is compared to a user position rule to determine whether the user position violates the user position rule. A notification is transmitted in response to a determination that the user position violates the user position rule.
US11488406B2
Systems, processes and methods for detecting rotated or angled text in an image based on global text geometry estimations are provided. A method includes, at an electronic device with memory and one or more processors, receiving an image including a plurality of pixels (802); determining, based on the image, one or more pixels of the plurality of pixels included in the image that contain text (804); identifying, based on the one or more pixels that contain text, a plurality of components in the image (810); determining a subset of components based on the plurality of components (814); determining, based on the pixels that contain text of the subset of components, one or more candidate text angles (816); determining a global text angle based on the determined one or more candidate text angles (824); and determining a first plurality of bounding boxes based on the global text angle (830).
US11488398B2
An apparatus includes an interface and a processor. The interface may be configured to receive video frames corresponding to an interior of a vehicle. The processor may be configured to perform video operations on the video frames to detect objects in the video frames, detect a driver based on the objects detected in the video frames, detect a use of an electronic device by the driver and generate a notification signal. The notification signal may be configured to warn the driver about using the electronic device in the vehicle. The notification signal may be generated if the use of the electronic device is unauthorized. The processor may comprise a dedicated hardware module configured to perform feature detection to calculate descriptors for determining a likelihood that pixels of the video frames belong to the objects that correspond to the use of the electronic device by the driver.
US11488395B2
Systems and methods for vehicular navigation are disclosed herein. One embodiment receives, from one or more sensors, sensor data pertaining to a roadway section that is proximate to a vehicle; generates segmented sensor data to identify, in the roadway section, one or more boundary lines of one or more lanes; determines, from the sensor data, a direction of travel associated with at least one of the one or more lanes; applies a graphical model to the segmented sensor data to generate an output that includes a set of discrete points corresponding to the one or more boundary lines; generates an objective map of the roadway section from the set of discrete points; and uses the objective map to assist the vehicle in navigating the roadway section.
US11488390B2
A map generation device that detects a pre-specified target object based on image information obtained by imaging from each of a plurality of vehicles; estimates position information that is an absolute position of the detected target object, the position information being estimated based on a relative position of the detected target object and each vehicle imaging the image information in which the target object is detected, and position information that is an absolute position of each vehicle at a time of imaging the target object; and integrates matching target objects included in a plurality of estimated target objects, the matching target objects being integrated based on the position information of the respective target objects and the image information of the images in which the respective target objects are included, and a number and positions of the target objects being specified.
US11488382B2
Various user-presence/absence recognition techniques based on deep learning are provided. More specifically, these user-presence/absence recognition techniques include building/training a CNN-based image recognition model including a user-presence/absence classifier based on training images collected from the user-seating area of a surgeon console under various clinically-relevant conditions/cases. The trained user-presence/absence classifier can then be used during teleoperation/surgical procedures to monitor/track users in the user-seating area of the surgeon console, and continuously classify the real-time video images of the user-seating area as either a user-presence state or a user-absence state. In some embodiments, the user-presence/absence classifier can be used to detect a user-switching event at the surgeon console when a second user is detected to have entered the user-seating area after a first user is detected to have exited the user-seating area. If the second user is identified as a new user, the disclosed techniques can trigger a recalibration procedure for the new user.
US11488380B2
A multi-view interactive digital media representation (MVIDMR) of an object can be generated from live images of an object captured from a camera. Selectable tags can be placed at locations on the object in the MVIDMR. When the selectable tags are selected, media content can be output which shows details of the object at location where the selectable tag is placed. A machine learning algorithm can be used to automatically recognize landmarks on the object in the frames of the MVIDMR and a structure from motion calculation can be used to determine 3-D positions associated with the landmarks. A 3-D skeleton associated with the object can be assembled from the 3-D positions and projected into the frames associated with the MVIDMR. The 3-D skeleton can be used to determine the selectable tag locations in the frames of the MVIDMR of the object.
US11488379B2
In at least one embodiment, a computer-program product embodied in a non-transitory computer readable medium that is programmed to detect a performance threshold for one or more cameras is provided. The computer-program product includes instructions to capture a plurality of images from one or more cameras to compare an object within each captured image to a predetermined object to determine whether the object has been correctly identified and instructions to extract the object from each captured image. The computer-program product includes instructions to apply at least one gradient to each extracted object to generate a plurality of gradient images. The computer-program product includes instructions to compare the extracted object to the predetermined object and to determine whether the extracted object that is modified by the at least one gradient has been correctly identified. The computer-program product includes instructions to establish a performance threshold for the one or more cameras.
US11488370B2
An exemplary device can process can generated an augmented reality display of a Wi-Fi coverage map. A mobile device can connect to one or more access points of a wireless network in a physical environment. A camera of the mobile device can be used to capture a live rendering of the physical environment. The mobile device can capture and store current and previous positions in the physical environment. The mobile device can generate a virtual path graphic by linking the current positions and the plurality of previous positions of the mobile device in the physical environment. The augmented reality display is generated by overlaying the virtual path graphic onto the live rendering of the physical environment. The augmented reality interface is output to a display of the mobile device.
US11488367B2
A method for intervention in a radioactive zone includes production of a digital model representing the three-dimensional topography of the radioactive zone (1); and intervention of the at least one operator in the radioactive zone (1). The intervention step includes repeated measurement of the radioactive radiation intensity by a portable detector (3), and determination of the spatial coordinates of the portable detector (3) at the time of the measurement; recording of a plurality of said measurements and the corresponding spatial coordinates in the digital model; materialisation of the recorded measurements in an augmented reality device (5) worn by the at least one operator, by a plurality of discrete holographie symbols (7).
US11488364B2
Augmented reality (AR) telepresence systems and methods are disclosed for obtaining a 3D model of a physical location from a 3D-capture system comprising one or more 3D depth sensors disposed throughout the physical location, generating a truncated 3D model of the physical location, the truncated 3D model corresponding to the intersection of the generated 3D model and a field of view of a user terminal camera at the physical location, and transmitting the truncated 3D model to a remote location.
US11488361B1
The disclosed wearable may include (1) a plurality of electrodes dimensioned to interface with a skin surface of a user of an artificial reality system, wherein the electrodes are spaced a known distance from one another, (2) a signal generator communicatively coupled to one of the electrodes, wherein the signal generator injects a test signal into the skin surface of the user via the one of the electrodes, (3) at least one sensor communicatively coupled to another one of the electrodes, wherein the sensor measures the test signal as received by the another one of the electrodes, and (4) at least one processing device communicatively coupled to the sensor, wherein the processing device determines a current impedance of the skin surface based at least in part on the known distance and the measurement of the test signal. Various other systems and methods are also disclosed.
US11488360B1
Disclosed are editing tools for manipulating a three-dimensional (“3D”) data file or point cloud. An editing application may generate a visualization of the 3D data file or point cloud, and a user may invoke an editing tool over a particular region of the visualization that is rendered based on the positional and non-positional values of a first data point set and a second data point set from the 3D data file or point cloud. The editing tool may differentiate the first data point set from the second data point set based on unique commonality in the positional and/or non-positional values of the first data point set, and may edit less than all of the particular region by adjusting one or more of the positional and/or non-positional values of the first data point set while retaining the positional and non-positional values of the second data point set.
US11488356B2
This disclosure includes technologies for deformation of 3D shapes using meta-handles. The disclosed 3D conditional generative system takes control points with biharmonic coordinates as deformation handles for a shape to train a network to learn a set of meta-handles for the shape. Further, each deformation axis of the latent space of deformation is explicitly associated with a meta-handle from a set of disentangled meta-handles, and the disentangled meta-handles factorize plausible deformations of the shape. Advantageously, an intuitive deformation of the shape may be generated by manipulating coefficients of the meta-handles, e.g., via a user interface.
US11488354B2
To enable both an increase in reproducibility for reproduction of a shape of an object and suppression of an increase in data amount. An information processing apparatus including: an acquisition unit that acquires first information associated with a result of estimation of a shape of an object on a real space and second information associated with a result of estimation of a geometrical feature of the object; and a correction unit that corrects the first information on the basis of the second information.
US11488351B2
Particular techniques for generating synthetic images and/or for training machine learning model(s) based on the generated synthetic images. For example, training a machine learning model based on training instances that each include a generated synthetic image, and ground truth label(s) for the generated synthetic image. After training of the machine learning model is complete, the trained machine learning model can be deployed on one or more robots and/or one or more computing devices.
US11488347B2
A method may include providing geometry data and attribute information of the model in one or more data structures on a data storage device and performing a rendering process for providing a visualization of the model on the display for each of the multitude of viewpoints. The rendering process may include rendering a multitude of like 3D arrays in a single draw call, each array comprising at least eight voxels, removing voxels that are not to be visualized by folding vertices to a centre of the array, computing a distortion on a mapping from voxel space to attribute volume space in dependence on the removed voxels, assigning attributes to the voxels of the multitude of arrays using distorted values for retrieving attribute values from attribute volume space, the attributes being assigned to the remaining voxels according to the computed distortion, and visualizing the voxels of the multitude of arrays.
US11488341B2
A method for providing imagery to a user on a display includes receiving eye tracking data, and defining a first tile using the eye tracking data. The first tile has dimensions determined using the eye tracking data. The method also includes defining multiple additional tiles to fill a surrounding area of the display. The method also includes providing a portion of an image using the first tile at a first image quality and providing another portion of the image at a second image quality using at least one of the multiple additional tiles.
US11488340B2
Determining the rendering of user interface (UI) elements, referred to as views, based upon styleable transitions between possible states of a view. Transitions may include animation, such as to smoothly enter a view into or exit a view out of a scene over a number of rendering frames. Transitions also may be applied to view state changes related to a UI element, such as to indicate hovered over, focused, listening (for speech), selected and/or pressed. View state changes also may be animated.
US11488339B2
A system and method for triggering animated paralingual behavior from dialogue. The method including: receiving a corpus of dialogue including a plurality of samples, each sample including dialogue with aligned sequences of phonemes or sub-phonemes; extracting properties of measured quantities for each sample; generating a statistical profile by statistically classifying the extracted properties as a function of each sequence of phonemes or sub-phonemes; receiving a stream of phonemes or sub-phonemes and triggering paralingual behavior when the properties of any of the phonemes or sub-phonemes deviate from the statistical profile beyond a predetermined threshold; outputting the triggered paralingual behavior for animation.
US11488328B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for implementing automatic data format detection techniques are disclosed. A graphics engine receives data of indeterminate format and the graphics engine predicts an organization of the data. As part of the prediction, the graphics engine predicts the pixel depth (i.e., bytes per pixel (BPP)) and format separately. The graphics engine folds the data along pixel and channel boundaries to help in determining the pixel depth and format. The graphics engine scores modes against each other to generate different predictions for different formats. Then, the graphics engine generates scores for the predictions to determine which mode has a highest correlation with the input data. Next, the graphics engine chooses the format which attains the best score among the scores that were generated for the different modes. Then, the graphics engine compresses the unknown data using the chosen format with the best score.
US11488320B2
A pose estimation method includes obtains an event stream from an event-based vision sensor configured to capture a target object to which light-emitting devices flickering at a predetermined first frequency are attached, obtains a polarity change period of at least one pixel based on the event stream, generates an image frame sequence using at least one target pixel having a polarity change period corresponding to the first frequency, among the at least one pixel, extracts a feature sequence including feature vectors corresponding to the at least one target pixel, from the image frame sequence, and estimates a pose sequence of the target object by applying the feature sequence to a deep neural network (DNN) model.
US11488316B2
An optical system is provided. The optical system includes an image generator configured to output image signals for configuring a virtual image, and an infrared (IR) image signal, a multipath optical element configured to guide the beams, a diffraction grating configured to diffract parts of the output beams and transmit other parts of the output beams, an outcoupler configured to allow the diffracted beams to exit the multipath optical element, a first camera configured to sense a pattern of reflection of an IR beam exiting the outcoupler, an IR filter diffraction element, a second camera configured to sense a pattern of reflection of the IR beam projected toward the real world, and a processor configured to determine a line of sight of a user based on the pattern sensed by the first camera, and to determine depth information of the object based on the pattern sensed by the second camera.
US11488313B2
An imaging device and a method for generating a motion-compensated image or video are provided. The imaging device has a data acquisition facility for acquiring image data of a target object. The imaging device is configured to acquire, using a registration facility, a posture of an inertial measurement unit and, on the basis thereof, to carry out a registration between coordinate systems of the inertial measurement unit and the image data. The imaging device is further configured to acquire motion data from the inertial measurement unit arranged on the target object and, by processing the motion data, to generate the motion-compensated image or video.
US11488310B1
Techniques for applying one or more machine learning models to a sub-region less than all of an image scene are described. An example is receiving first sub-region from an image; analyzing the received first sub-region of the image using the indicated least one machine learning model to perform the analyzing of the first sub-region of the scene; and outputting a result of the analyzing.
US11488305B2
A learning model provided in a segmentation device is a learning model which is generated using training data such that segmentation data of a biologically important region is output when data of a constituent maxillofacial region is input.
US11488294B2
Provided are a method for detecting display screen quality, an apparatus, an electronic device and a storage medium. The method includes: receiving a quality detection request sent by a console deployed on a display screen production line, the quality detection request including a display screen image collected by an image collecting device on the display screen production line; inputting the display screen image into a defect detection model to obtain a defect detection result, the defect detection model being obtained by training historical defective display screen images using a structure of deep convolutional neural networks and an object detection algorithm; and determining, according to the defect detection result, a defect on a display screen corresponding to the display screen image, a defect category corresponding to the defect, and a position corresponding to the defect.
US11488292B2
A fluorescence imaging system is configured to generate a video image onto a display. The system includes a light source for emitting infrared light and white light, an infrared image sensor for capturing infrared image data, and a white light image sensor for capturing white light image data. Data processing hardware performs operations that include filtering the infrared image data with a first digital finite impulse response (FIR) filter configured to produce a magnitude response of zero at a horizontal Nyquist frequency and a vertical Nyquist frequency. The operations also include filtering the infrared image data with a second digital FIR filter configured with a phase response to spatially align the white light image data with the infrared image data. The operations also include combining the white light image data and the infrared image data into combined image data and transmitting the combined image data to the display.
US11488288B1
Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for processing a blurred image. The method for processing a blurred image includes the steps of generating a first input feature map and a second input feature map with a feature distribution for blur removal from the blurred image, generating a prediction feature map from the first input feature map by using a self-spatial feature transform (SSFT) module which transforms the feature distribution for blur removal into a feature distribution for face recognition without external information, and generating a deblurred image based on the second input feature map and the prediction feature map.
US11488287B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide a method for denoising an image. The method can include receiving an acquired image from an image acquisition system, and processing the acquired image with a nonlinear diffusion coefficient based filter having a diffusion coefficient that is calculated using gradient vector orientation information in the acquired image.
US11488285B2
Some embodiments relate to sharpening segments of an image differently based on content in the image. Content based sharpening is performed by a content image processing circuit that receives luminance values of an image and a content map. The content map identifies categories of content in segments of the image. Based on one or more of the identified categories of content, the circuit determines a content factor associated with a pixel. The content factor may also be based on a texture and/or chroma values. A texture value indicates a likelihood of a category of content and is based on detected edges in the image. A chroma value indicates a likelihood of a category of content and is based on color information of the image. The circuit receives the content factor and applies it to a version of the luminance value of the pixel to generate a sharpened version of the luminance value.
US11488282B2
An adaptive template image for registering a PET or a SPECT image includes a template image model including variability of values for each voxel in a template image according to one or more control parameters.
US11488280B2
A recording medium recording an appearance frequency calculation program for causing an information processing apparatus to execute processing includes: construction processing of constructing thread groups each including threads; acquisition processing in which the thread group acquires a data group including a same number of pieces of data as a number of threads constituting the thread group, each thread being responsible for one piece of data of the data group; and addition processing in which the thread adds one to a first storage area that stores an appearance frequency of a first numerical value, and a duplication number indicating a number of duplication is added to the first storage area when the own thread is a representative thread that is present alone in the thread group that is responsible for the data of the first numerical value when the first numerical value is duplicated in the data group.
US11488279B2
An image processing apparatus includes an image acquisition unit configured to acquire a plurality of temporally different images each of which has degraded by a turbulence, a parameter acquisition unit configured to acquire a learned network parameter, and a measurement unit configured to measure a turbulence strength from the plurality of images using the network parameter and a neural network.
US11488268B2
A system for documenting a state of a building, comprising a first measuring system to determine actual data of the building, and at least one server having a memory for storing a digital model of the building, the server providing the digital model to the first measuring system and providing a blockchain of blocks, each block comprising a timestamp, hash data of a previous block and change data related to changes of the model, wherein a current block comprises current change data related to a latest change and task data related to tasks to be performed at the building hat have to be met. The first measuring system is adapted to interpret the task data, perform a measuring task, generate measurement data obtained by performing the measuring task, and to generate a new block of the blockchain, wherein the server is adapted to verify an admissibility of the new block.
US11488258B2
Computer-readable media, systems and methods may improve security, authorization, and auditability of documents. For example, computer systems for serving documents may be improved to provide secure access and control through challenges that are validated with self-executing on-chain document license contracts that enforce entitlements that specify users and their authorized document actions. Such entitlements may be generated by the user who created the document. As such, a user may retain over authorizations and document actions that are permissible with respect to the document even after the user has transferred a copy of the document. Furthermore, the computer systems may be improved to write an on-chain audit log of document actions, providing an immutable record of the document actions.
US11488257B2
Methods and systems of applying retroactive adjustments to financial data. An example method includes: receiving one or more adjustment records associated with a financial account; saving a snapshot of the financial account, the snapshot comprising a plurality of transaction records reflecting previously processed transactions associated with the financial account; merging the adjustment records and the transaction records to produce a plurality of adjusted transaction records; processing adjusted transaction records to produce an updated state of the financial account; comparing the saved snapshot to the updated state of the financial account to produce one or more adjustment events; and processing the adjustment events using one or more event processing rules.
US11488253B1
A computer system for determining personalized loss event valuations is provided. The computer system includes one processor in communication with at least one memory device, and the at least one processor is programmed to: (i) receive user data from the user computer device, wherein the user data include data related to a user's personal information and personal property, (ii) utilize a trained machine learning model to determine a first loss valuation associated with a first loss event based at least in part upon the user data, (iii) utilize the trained machine learning model to determine a second loss valuation associated with a second loss event based at least in part upon the user data, wherein the first loss event and the second loss event are different loss events, and/or (iv) generate a loss event policy that includes the first loss valuation and the second loss valuation.
US11488252B1
Systems and methods receive vehicle operating information from an onboard vehicle system, wherein the vehicle operating information includes data indicative of a first amount of time an operator is in active control of the vehicle to the system during a period, and wherein the vehicle operating information includes data indicative of a second amount of time that the vehicle operates autonomously during the period. The systems and methods thereafter calculate an insurance rate for a subsequent period based on both the first amount of time the vehicle operator is in active control of the vehicle and the second amount of time the vehicle is operated autonomously.
US11488250B2
To participate in a health incentive program, a customer of a health-related business such as a health insurance company or medical group entity may use a physiological measurement device to report health-related activity to the business. However, a customer may report fraudulent activity to the business by allowing another party to use the physiological measurement device. In embodiments, an electronic device, a collection and validation server, and a physiological measurement device may execute methods to ensure that the user of the physiological measurement device has identified themselves properly to the business. In embodiments, the electronic device and the physiological measurement device may produce sets of physiological measurement data that are compared to determine that a user of the electronic device is the same as the user of the physiological measurement device. The electronic device may produce a set of physiological measurement data using video and image processing techniques.
US11488248B2
Systems for and methods of evaluating messaging, comprising, receiving, via at least one server device, one or more messages, and said at least one server device processing at least one of the one or more messages by grading content included in said at least one message, applying a weighting factor to said at least one message according to said grading, thereby determining a weighted message count for said at least one message, aggregating the weighted message count for said at least one message, and initiating an action if the aggregated weighted message count meets or exceeds a predetermined count threshold.
US11488246B2
Systems are provided for compressing portfolios of open option positions. Market participants may provide constraints, such as net delta and gamma values within a specific tolerance. A compression engine uses a linear, integer and/or linear-quadratic programming solver to analyze portfolios of multiple market participants and identify multilateral option spread trades that result in portfolios that are compressed subject to the constraints.
US11488235B2
Examples include a HUD that (i) identifies a fulfillment route comprising item entries, each comprising an item identifier and item location corresponding to a location within a given environment, (ii) presents a visualization corresponding to a first item entry that includes an indication of a first item location, (iii) based on a first sound and/or visual input, verifies that there is an instance of a first item identified in the first item entry, (iv) based on the verification, presents a placement visualization representing item receptacles in the given environment and a placement indication identifying a target item receptacle that is to receive the first item, (v) based on a second sound and/or visual input, determines that the target item receptacle received the first item, and (vi) based on the determination, presents a second visualization corresponding to a second item entry that includes an indication of a second item location.
US11488232B2
A system of routing a purchase order may include a purchase order identification unit configured to identifying a purchase order format associated with a client. The system may also include a routing control unit. The routing control unit may be configured to determine purchase order data based on the purchase order and the purchase order format. The routing control unit may be configured to generate a processed purchase order based on the purchase order data. The routing control unit may be configured to supplement the processed purchase order with additional purchase order data associated with the client. The routing control unit may be configured to apply purchase order security. The routing control unit may be configured to communicate, to a vendor, the processed purchase order.
US11488222B2
The disclosed embodiments provide systems and methods for purchasing items using an e-commerce shopping assistant. In one embodiment, the system includes a processor to perform operations for receiving an electronic message comprising a web address from a user's mobile device via SMS, accessing a web page using the web address, identifying an item for purchase based on the content of the web page, retrieving the user's account information based on an identifier of the mobile device, wherein the account information comprises user preferences and user profile information, identifying merchants from which to purchase the identified item, selecting a merchant from the identified merchants based on the user preferences, configuring the purchase transaction based on the user preferences and the user profile information, and completing the purchase transaction at a merchant system of the selected merchant.
US11488219B2
An online delivery ecosystem enabling buyers/delivery personnel to purchase grocery, restaurants, and other prepared foods on behalf of customers and check out using a mobile application, bypassing traditional person checkout systems, and storing this transaction information to blockchain based systems as immutable systems of record.
US11488216B2
A method of displaying an HLL (high, low, last) type symbol representative of changes in price during a time period in which a highest price occurred at a first time within the time period, and a lowest price occurred at a second time within the time period, the method includes receiving a last price corresponding to a third time within the time period, comparing the last price to the highest price and the lowest price, in response to the comparing step, updating the highest price with the last price and updating the highest price to correspond to the third time if the last price is greater than or equal to the highest price and updating the lowest price with the last price and updating the lowest price to correspond to the third time if the last price is less than or equal to the lowest price, generating, by a charting engine, the HLL type symbol by drawing a spatiotemporal relationship between the highest price, the lowest price, and the last price in accordance with a selected symbol rendering method, wherein a height of the HLL type symbol indicates a difference between the highest price and the lowest price and a width of the HLL type symbol indicates a difference between the third time and an earlier of when the highest price occurred and the lowest price occurred, and displaying, by the charting engine, the generated HLL type symbol at a particular position.
US11488212B2
A server apparatus and the like that improve operation efficiency of a marketplace for trading products are provided. The server apparatus includes a communication interface, and a controller configured to transmit and receive information to and from another apparatus via the communication interface. The controller calculates a time required until sale of a product at a display position based on a temporal change in captured images of the display position where the product is displayed until the product is sold, determines an exhibition fee for the display position based on the time required, informs a terminal apparatus of an exhibitor of the exhibition fee, and urges the exhibitor to exhibit the product for sale at the display position.
US11488211B1
The present invention involves a web site advertising placement system and method which identifies web sites unaffiliated with the advertiser and related to a topic being advertised to provide advertising links that refer to unaffiliated web sites.
US11488204B2
A marketing campaign management system that includes a campaign platform that categorizes intended recipient profiles corresponding to intended recipients of marketing campaign messages based on their levels of fatigue. Recipient profiles categorized as “saturated” are then sub-segmented to determine their relative levels of fatigue or saturation. The intended recipient profiles that are most fatigued are removed from a recipients list such that they will not be sent any campaigns until after a rest state has been completed. A transitional safe state ensures that the intended recipient profiles inserted back into the list are not immediately removed once again.
US11488199B2
A display system may include a display, a first server transmitting first content to the display device, a second server receiving the first content from the first server, and a camera transmitting second content obtained by capturing images on the display, to the second server. The second server may be configured to determine whether a rate at which the first content coincides with the second content is greater than or equal to a specified value, by comparing the first content with the second content. The second server measures a first time period during which a region of the captured images corresponding to the first content coincides with the second content at a rate which is greater than or equal to the specified value. Advertising costs are calculated based on the measured first time period.
US11488191B2
Embodiments herein describe a reverse auction application which can collect and display bids for a product or service to a user. The reverse auction application can also gather information about the user such as user preferences, brand loyalty, user characteristics, and the like. This information is provided to suppliers when requesting bids. The suppliers can use this information to then generate customized bids for the user. That is, unlike typical reverse auctions where bidders only compete over price, the bidders can use the user information provided by the reverse auction application to add incentives, offer combination orders, or offer additional services in their bids, as well as determine an optimum price.
US11488189B2
Aspects identify an item that is offered for sale at a retailer location in association with a sales promotion, in response to determining that a mobile device of a user is within a threshold location proximity to the retailer location. Embodiments determine an in-game virtual reward value for awarding to the user within a virtual game that is executing on the mobile device as a function of gaming profile data of the user; and present an offer to the user within the virtual game to award the determined in-game virtual reward value to the user in consideration for an engagement by the user with the identified item that meets a term of the sales promotion.
US11488186B2
Systems as described herein may include making recommendations for patterned purchases. Transaction information for a user that is associated with a plurality of merchants in a geographic location may be received. Frequencies of visits and transaction patterns associated with the plurality of merchants may be determined. Risk factors and a success rate that the user to complete shopping successfully may be determined. In a variety of embodiments, after detecting that the success rate falls below a threshold value, a recommendation for the user to shop at an alternative merchant and alternative time/date may be presented to the user.
US11488184B2
Merchant transaction data for a group of merchants, category transaction data for the group of merchants, and merchant location data for the group of merchants may be obtained for a first time period and a second time period. The merchant transaction data may include a first set of parameters. The category transaction data may include a second set of parameters, and the location data may include a third set of parameters. Additional data during the first time period and the second time period may also be obtained. The additional data may include a fourth set of parameters. The merchant transaction data, the category transaction data, the merchant location data, and the additional data may be analyzed using a machine learning program to generate a set of key parameters to predict merchant performance. A first list of merchants that are predicted to grow may be generated using the key parameters.
US11488181B2
Embodiments for using a mixed internet of things (IoT) device network to improve user satisfaction by a processor. A collaboration of data associated with a user captured from a plurality of types of IoT devices in the IoT network may be gathered. The collaboration of data may be used to determine a level of satisfaction of the user according to a knowledge domain describing a plurality of satisfaction factors and levels in the service based industry such that the collaboration of data is associated with one or more of the plurality of satisfaction factors and levels.
US11488174B2
A device with one or more processors, memory, and two or more communication capabilities obtains, from a payment module, an authorization request via a first communication capability (e.g., Bluetooth). The device sends, to a server, the authorization request via a second communication capability distinct from the first communication capability (e.g., cellular or WiFi technology). In response to sending the authorization request, the device obtains, from the server, authorization information via the second communication capability. After obtaining the authorization information, the device detects a trigger condition to perform a transaction with a payment accepting unit associated with the payment module. In response to detecting the trigger condition, the device sends, to the payment module, at least a portion of the authorization information via the first communication capability.
US11488168B1
A financial system receives a transaction request and transmits a one-time passcode to a consumer associated with the transaction request. Transmission of the one-time passcode is typically via a first channel. If the system determines that the one-time passcode was not delivered, a second channel is utilized. Depending upon the success of delivering the one-time passcode, more than one type of communication channel can be used.
US11488163B2
Systems and methods are disclosed to provide dynamic application selection based on contextual data of a transaction. A portable device may include multiple applications with which a transaction may be processed. These applications may be associated with a variety of priorities. The portable device may provide a list of these applications to an access device from which one application may be selected.
US11488158B2
A transaction platform including at least one or more public, public-private and/or private distributed ledgers or blockchains that together enable the secure effectuation and recordation of one or more transactions while maintaining transaction party confidentiality. The private distributed ledgers or blockchains are able to store, maintain and provide information about the parties related to the transactions which the distributed blockchains or databases are able to utilize in order to securely and quickly validate, execute and record the transactions in a manner that is GDPR and other data privacy law complaint.
US11488157B2
An information processing method, a server, a mobile terminal, and a storage medium, to trigger value transfer through chat information, and improve a conversion rate of a social platform are discussed. An embodiment provides an information processing method. The method may include receiving, by a server, a value packet transmitting instruction, the value packet transmitting instruction being transmitted after a key word extracted from chat information by a first mobile terminal is matched with a key word library. The method may further include transmitting, by the server, value packet transfer information to a second mobile terminal.
US11488150B2
A method for authenticating a consumer. The method includes receiving an authorization request message associated with a consumer conducting a transaction with a portable consumer device. A challenge message is sent to the consumer, where the challenge message is dynamic or semi-dynamic. A challenge response message is received from the consumer, and an authorization response message is sent to the consumer. The authorization response message indicates whether or not the transaction is authorized.
US11488147B2
The Computationally Efficient Transfer Processing, Auditing, and Search Apparatuses, Methods and Systems (“SOCOACT”) transforms smart contract request, crypto currency deposit request, crypto collateral deposit request, crypto currency transfer request, crypto collateral transfer request inputs via SOCOACT components into transaction confirmation outputs. Also, SOCOACT transforms transaction record inputs via SOCOACT components into matrix and list tuple outputs for computationally efficient auditing. A blockchain transaction data auditing apparatus comprises a blockchain recordation component, a matrix Conversion component, and a bloom filter component. The blockchain recordation component receives a plurality of transaction records for each of a plurality of transactions, each transaction record comprising a source address, a destination address, a transaction amount and a timestamp of a transaction; the source address comprising a source wallet address corresponding to a source digital wallet, and the destination address comprising a destination wallet address corresponding to a destination virtual currency wallet; verifies that the transaction amount is available in the source virtual currency wallet; and when the transaction amount is available, cryptographically records the transaction in a blockchain comprising a plurality of hashes of transaction records. The Bloom Filter component receives the source address and the destination address, hashes the source address using a Bloom Filter to generate a source wallet address, and hashes the destination address using the Bloom Filter to generate a destination wallet address. The Matrix Conversion component adds the source wallet address as a first row and a column entry to a stored distance matrix representing the plurality of transactions, adds the destination wallet address as a second row and column entry to the stored distance matrix representing the plurality of transactions, adds the transaction amount and the timestamp as an entry to the row corresponding to the source wallet address and the column corresponding to the destination wallet address; and generate a list representation of the matrix, where each entry in the list comprises a tuple having the source wallet address, the destination wallet address, the transaction amount and the timestamp.
US11488146B1
Disclosed are various embodiments for closing pre-authorization amounts on a virtual token account. In one example, among others, a computing device is configured to generate a virtual token that is associated with a parent transaction account. An authorization request is received for a virtual token transaction, which is associated with the virtual token. A transaction request amount is compared to a virtual token balance of the virtual token. The authorization request for the virtual token transaction is authorized based on the comparison between the transaction request amount and the virtual token balance. The computing device determines not to expire the virtual token based on a comparison between the settlement variance and the virtual token balance. The settlement variance is adjusted based on the virtual token balance being within a threshold of the settlement variance.
US11488145B2
A method for processing cryptographic currency transactions through user-based blockchain ledgers includes: receiving, by blockchain node in a blockchain network, a new cryptographic currency transaction from a first computing device including unspent transaction outputs, a sender public key, receiver public key, destination address, and cryptographic currency amount; identifying, by the blockchain node, a sending blockchain associated with the sender public key including the unspent transaction outputs; validating, by the blockchain node, the sending blockchain by generating a hash value using the sending blockchain and comparing the generated hash value to a historic sender hash value associated with the sender public key; generating, by the blockchain node, a new sender hash value by hashing a combination of the sending blockchain and the new cryptographic currency transaction; and transmitting, by the blockchain node, the generated new sender hash value to a plurality of additional nodes in the blockchain network.
US11488144B2
A computer-implemented method to participate in a token transfer process for transferring a first quantity of token from a sender node to a recipient node using a blockchain is disclosed. The token transfer process includes a plurality of participating nodes and execution of a set of indirect token transactions between multiple pairs of the participating nodes. The method is implemented at a participating node and includes: obtaining a subset of the set of indirect token transactions, the subset including only those transactions for which the participating node is either an input node or an output node, wherein the set of indirect token transactions is generated based on the first quantity of tokens and a predefined number of transaction rounds in the token transfer process; for each indirect token transaction in the subset, collaborating with a respective second participating node included in the indirect token transaction to generate a commitment channel for the indirect token transaction between the participating node and the second participating node; and collaborating with all other participating nodes in executing the indirect token transactions of the subset using the generated commitment channels.
US11488137B2
A computerized method (200) of performing a purchase and an associated communication system are disclosed. A customer mobile computing device (CMCD) communicates (210) with a server computing device (SCD) to generate an order for the purchase. The server computing device (SCD) communicates (220) with a payment processor computing device (PPCD) to perform a first part of a payment transaction for the purchase, wherein the first part of the payment transaction involves reserving funds for the purchase. A merchant computing device (MCD) performs (230) a digital handshake procedure with the customer mobile computing device (CMCD). The digital handshake procedure involves short-range wireless data communication to verify spatial proximity between the customer mobile computing device (CMCD) and the merchant computing device (MCD). When spatial proximity has been verified, the merchant computing device (MCD) communicates (240) with the server computing device (SCD) to accept the order. The server computing device (SCD) communicates (250) with the payment processor computing device (PPCD) to perform a second part of the payment transaction, wherein the second part of the payment transaction involves capturing funds for the purchase.
US11488136B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for using an online resource to manage credentials on an electronic device are provided. In one example embodiment, a method, at an electronic device, includes, inter alia, receiving account data via an online resource, accessing commerce credential status data from a secure element of the electronic device, providing initial credential management option data via the online resource based on the received account data and based on the accessed commerce credential status data, in response to the providing, receiving a selection of an initial credential management option via the online resource, and changing the status of a credential on the secure element based on the received selection. Additional embodiments are also provided.
US11488134B2
Format-preserving encryption and decryption processes are provided. The encryption and decryption processes may use a block cipher. A string that is to be encrypted or decrypted may be converted to a unique binary value. The block cipher may operate on the binary value. If the output of the block cipher that is produced is not representative of a string that is in the same format as the original string, the block cipher may be applied again. The block cipher may be repeatedly applied in this way during format-preserving encryption operations and during format-preserving decryption operations until a format-compliant output is produced. Selective access may be provided to portions of a string that have been encrypted using format-preserving encryption.
US11488127B2
Implementations described herein relate to methods, systems, and computer-readable media to assign an attribution weight to an agent node. In some implementations, a method includes receiving a plurality of transaction data records, determining a crediting profile associated with each transaction data record, creating a plurality of clusters of transaction data records, assigning each of the plurality of clusters of transaction data records to a respective processor of a plurality of processors, loading rules associated with a respective crediting profile into a memory associated with the corresponding processor, and for each cluster of transaction data records, determining a match of one or more rules from a set of rule, selecting a rule from the determined one or more rules, and assigning the attribution weight to the at least one agent node based on the selected rule.
US11488125B2
The AUTOMOBILE MOBILE-INTERACTION PLATFORM APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS (“AMIP”) The AMIP transforms cloud-based wallet and automobile settings into transaction and automobile outputs. In some embodiments, a user may request to connect an electronic wallet account to an automobile interface. Once the user's credentials have been authenticated, the automobile interface may request and receive from a remote server automobile-related and payment-method-related settings. The automobile interface may then configure its settings according to the received information.
US11488123B2
A system and method for payment notification using blockchain. The system and method relate to real-time monitoring and updating of a list of accounts that have not satisfied a minimum payment amount due. The real-time monitoring and updating of the list occurs through the use of a blockchain monitoring payment information by a user to the account. The blockchain is continually updated every time a payment is made. A notification system receives each update and is aware, in real-time, whether a user has satisfied a minimum payment amount due and thus whether an account is current or in need of a collections notification.
US11488117B2
Systems and methods are provided for automating the process of determining non-reusable parts associated with replacement or repair of a primary part of a vehicle involved in a collision event. The primary parts to be repaired may be indicated in repair estimate record. Notably, replacement of some primary parts may require replacement of certain non-reusable parts (NRPs) that were not damaged during the collision event and are not identified as such. The method determines which NRPs are required to be replaced when repairing the primary damaged part by using repair documents specifying repair instructions for repairing the primary part. Further, the repair estimate record is updated to include the information related to the primary pars and their associated NRPs.
US11488115B1
Technology is described for a request to reserve a meeting location during a defined time period. The request may include attribute criteria for the meeting location. Candidate meeting locations may be identified that satisfy the attribute criteria specified in the request. The candidate meeting locations may be available to hold a meeting during the defined time period. A fragmentation score that would result from holding the meeting in individual candidate meeting locations during the defined time period may be determined. A target meeting location may be selected from the candidate meeting locations based in part on the fragmentation score for the individual candidate meeting locations. A fragmentation score of the target meeting location may represent less fragmentation than fragmentation scores for other candidate meeting locations.
US11488113B1
Provided are methods and apparatuses configured to programmatically generate and provide calendar digests of relevant group-based communication content to a client device associated with one or more event occurrence data structures.
US11488111B2
A computer system and method for managing access to a resume database. For each skill or experience-related phrase in a resume, the system computes a term of experience based on an experience range associated with a contextual use of the phrase in the resume. The term of experience for a phrase that occurs multiple times in the resume is the summation of the term of experience for each occurrence of the phrase associated with a different contextual use. The system stores each phrase and the term of experience in a parsed resume. The resume database also stores job descriptions that include required phrases and a required term of experience for each required phrase. The job descriptions also store a required level of education or field of specialization, and a required salary range. A recruiter searches the resume database to find matching resumes that satisfy a job description.
US11488104B2
Systems and methods of constructing and managing virtual planograms are presented. Contemplated systems allow for construction of a virtual planogram, which can be used to present consumers virtual inventory items as being available for purchase via a display device. The display device can include an electronic billboard within an establishment, a mall for example, or include a user's smart device, a cell phone or tablet for example.
US11488101B2
A computer-implemented method includes periodically receiving a batch product presentation message comprising at least one of a presentation minimum for a plurality of products in a retail store and the facing quantity for a plurality of products in the retail store. A stream of product presentation messages is formed from the batch product presentation message. For each product presentation message, content of the product presentation message is used to identify a respective quantity of a product that is to be moved to the sales floor.
US11488095B2
Data content delivery and validation in a computer environment may provide a file system in the computer environment, the file system subdivided into unique folder locations per content type, each of the unique folder locations representing a content type folder. The file system is monitored for changes to a content type folder. An occurrence of a manifest file in the content type folder may be detected, the occurrence of the manifest file ensuring that all files in a package of files associated with the manifest file have arrived. Content of the manifest file may be analyzed to check validity of the files. A content package registry may be queried to determine a base job for processing a given content type associated with the package of files, and the base job may be run to process the package of files.
US11488090B2
A product exchange system comprising a controller and a memory coupled to the controller. The controller is configured to: provide an application programing interface configured to receive a delivery request from a first user for delivery of an item, wherein the delivery request includes an identifier of a second user, and wherein the API is configured not to receive a physical address of the second user; in response to receiving the delivery request, access a data storage system that stores an association between the identifier and the second user, and further stores one or more permission settings associated with the second user defining delivery requests to allow in response to receipt of the identifier from the first user or in response to receipt of one of the item and product characteristic; and, in response to receipt of the delivery request, tests the permission settings.
US11488087B2
According to one embodiment, a remanufacturing support server includes processor. The processor is configured to: acquire specification data representing required performance of a battery product; set an allowable range of a degradation state of a secondary battery to be used in the battery product; acquire diagnostic data indicating a diagnostic result of a degradation state of a secondary battery mounted on a vehicle, the diagnostic result of the degradation state of the secondary battery falling within the allowable range as the battery product; and provide an outside with a remanufacturing plan relating to the battery product based on the diagnostic data.
US11488083B2
Weather data, asset variable values, and failure data may be received. A correlation factor may be generated by comparing the weather data and the asset variable values. One or more weather variables may be selected based on the correlation factor. A predicted asset variable value may be determined based on the weather data and the selected weather variables. The weather data and the predicted asset variable values may be compared to predict a failure probability for a first asset segment.
US11488079B2
A data engine may establish and maintain dynamic item subsets of items received from the item-tracking platforms. Users may define and customize the dynamic item subsets using a client application. The data engine may determine aggregated data about the dynamic item subsets for presentation in a graphical user interface of a client application executing on or otherwise accessible by the client devices.
US11488078B2
A time slot scheduling system is provided. Employees are divided into bid groups and a bidding session is created for a group of time slots in which preference time windows are specified for each employee in the bid group(s) of the bid to input their time slot preferences, and a bidding time window is specified for each employee in the bid group(s) of the bid to select their time slots among the vacant time slots in the bidding session.
US11488070B2
In one embodiment, a method includes accessing a set of training objects associated with an object-classification, identifying, from comments associated with the training objects, by an initial object-classifier algorithm configured to classify objects as associated with an object-classification by comparing comments associated with each object to one or more features, a first set of features, each feature having a corresponding text expression and a feature score indicating a correlation value between the feature and the object-classification, adding the first set of features to the algorithm to generate a revised object-classifier algorithm, accessing a set of test objects, classifying one or more of the test objects as associated with the object-classification, identifying, from comments associated with the classified test objects, a second set of features having feature scores greater than a threshold feature score, and adding the second set of features to the revised algorithm to generate a final object-classifier algorithm.
US11488065B2
Provided are methods for iteratively refining a training data set which may include training a first predictive model based on a first set of user profiles; determining a classification for each user profile of a second set of user profiles; determining a performance score for the first predictive model; determining to update the first predictive model based on the performance score for the first predictive model; determining a classification for each user profile of the first set of user profiles using the first predictive model; and selecting at least one user profile of the first set of user profiles to include in a removal set of user profiles. In some non-limiting embodiments or aspects, the method may include removing each user profile included in the removal set of user profiles from the first set of user profiles. Systems and computer program products are also provided.
US11488058B2
In various example embodiments, a vector modeling system is configured to access a set of data distributed across client devices and stored in a structured format. The vector modeling system determines vector parameters and vector templates suitable for the set of data and transforms the set of data from the structured format into a second format including one or more vectors based on one or more transformation strategies. The vector modeling system stores the transformed data and performs machine learning analysis on the vector.
US11488051B2
The present disclosure relates to a compiling method (50) for converting an input quantum circuit into an output quantum circuit compliant with predetermined constraints of a quantum computer, said input quantum circuit being composed of quantum gates to be applied to a set of qubits, said quantum gates arranged successively in an execution order, wherein said method comprises, for each quantum gate of the input quantum circuit processed according to the execution order: if the processed quantum gate corresponds to an operator of a set of synthesizable operators: (S53) update the synthesizable accumulated operator to include the operator corresponding to the quantum gate, otherwise: a) (S54) synthesize a partial quantum sub-circuit partially implementing the current synthesizable accumulated operator and modify accordingly the synthesizable accumulated operator, and b) (S55) append the partial quantum sub-circuit to the output quantum circuit.
US11488050B2
Techniques regarding error detection in one or more generated signals based on one or more signal-to-noise ratios are provided. For example, one or more embodiments described herein can include a system, which can include a memory that can store computer executable components. The system can also include a processor, operably coupled to the memory, and that can execute the computer executable components stored in the memory. The computer executable components can include a signal analysis component that can determine a signal-to-noise ratio associated with a generated signal, wherein the signal-to-noise ratio incorporates a signal value based on a reference signal and a noise value based on a difference between the reference signal and an acquired signal.
US11488038B2
A method for monitoring a primary variable is carried out in a device having access to a set of sensors. The method includes the steps of receiving, from a network service, a series of forecasted values for the primary variable, each forecasted value being associated with one of a series of future time points; for at least one of the future time points, predicting a value for the primary variable using data of at least one secondary variable captured by a subset of the set of sensors, comparing the predicted value to the forecasted value associated with the future time point, and switching to a different subset of the set of sensors, if the predicted value deviates from the forecasted value with more than a specified threshold value.
US11488021B2
Described herein are neural network-based systems, methods and instrumentalities associated with image segmentation that may be implementing using an encoder neural network and a decoder neural network. The encoder network may be configured to receive a medical image comprising a visual representation of an anatomical structure and generate a latent representation of the medical image indicating a plurality of features of the medical image. The latent representation may be used by the decoder network to generate a mask for segmenting the anatomical structure from the medical image. The decoder network may be pre-trained to learn a shape prior associated with the anatomical structure and once trained, the decoder network may be used to constrain an output of the encoder network during training of the encoder network.
US11488019B2
A method of pruning a batch normalization layer from a pre-trained deep neural network model is proposed. The pre-trained deep neural network model is inputted as a candidate model. The candidate model is pruned by removing the at least one batch normalization layer from the candidate model to form a pruned candidate model only when the at least one batch normalization layer is connected to and adjacent to a corresponding linear operation layer. The corresponding linear operation layer may be at least one of a convolution layer, a dense layer, a depthwise convolution layer, and a group convolution layer. Weights of the corresponding linear operation layer are adjusted to compensate for the removal of the at least one batch normalization. The pruned candidate model is then output and utilized for inference.
US11487992B2
A neural network circuit that uses a ramp function as an activation function includes a memory device in which memristors serving as memory elements are connected in a matrix. The neural network circuit further includes I-V conversion amplification circuits for converting currents flowing via the memory elements into voltages, a differential amplifier circuit for performing a differential operation on outputs of two I-V conversion amplification circuits, an A-D converter for performing an A-D conversion on a result of the differential operation, and an output determine that, by referring to input signals of the differential amplifier circuit, determines whether an output signal value of the differential amplifier circuit belongs to an active region or an inactive region. Based on a determination result, the input determiner switches over the differential amplifier circuit and the A-D converter between an operating state and a standby state.
US11487991B2
A classification system is provided for classifying text-based business summaries, referred to herein as “summaries,” against a hierarchical industry classification structure. The classification system includes a word-based sub classifier that uses a neural network to generate a vector space for each summary in a training set, where each summary in the training set is known to correspond to a particular industry classification in the hierarchical industry classification structure. Weight values in the hidden layer of a neural network used by the word-based sub classifier are changed to improve the predictive capabilities of the neural network in the business summary classification context. Embodiments include increasing representation in the training set for underrepresented parent industry classifications and attributes of the hierarchical industry classification structure, such as distances between industry classifications and whether industry classifications are in the same subgraph. The completion of training of the word-based sub classifier is based upon whether a performance metric, such as an hF1 score, satisfies one or more early stopping criteria. The classification system also includes a category-based sub classifier and a meta classifier.
US11487984B2
A contactlessly readable tag includes a metal pattern layer, a conductive layer, and at least one intermediate layer. The intermediate layer has a relative permittivity of 0 or more and 2.5 or less and is provided between the metal pattern layer and the conductive layer. The metal pattern layer includes a metal part whose arrangement pattern corresponds to identification information. The identification information is configured to be identified based on information on an electromagnetic wave that is reflected by the contactlessly readable tag in response to irradiation of the contactlessly readable tag with an electromagnetic wave. The metal pattern layer is provided closer to a reading surface of the contactlessly readable tag than at least one of the intermediate layer.
US11487975B2
Disclosed is an electronic apparatus comprising, a memory configured to store instructions; and at least one processor connected to the memory, and configured to detect at least one object of a first-class object or a second-class object included in a target image by the electronic apparatus using an artificial intelligent algorithm to apply the target image to a learned neural network model, and identify and apply an image-quality processing method to be individually applied to at least one detected object, the neural network model is set to detect an object included in an image, as trained based on learning data such as an image, a class to which the image belongs, information about the first-class object included in the image, and information about the second-class object included in the image.
US11487969B2
Privacy-preserving federated learning apparatuses, systems, computer program products, and methods are provided that generate an updated global model based on a set of client models while maintaining privacy regarding the data values embodying each client model and the updated global model. In this regard, masked client models are utilized, which cryptographically obfuscate data values embodying the client model while still enabling combination, or “aggregation,” of the masked client models to generate a masked updated global model. The masked updated global model similarly includes obfuscated data values embodying the updated global model, but may be unmasked to reveal the true values of the updated global model for use. Some embodiments utilize specific steps for communication between environments, systems, devices, and/or the like, to ensure the masked models can only be unmasked by intended entities.
US11487968B2
Systems and methods for more accurate and robust determination of subject characteristics from an image of the subject. One or more machine learning models receive as input an image of a subject, and output both facial landmarks and associated confidence values. Confidence values represent the degrees to which portions of the subject's face corresponding to those landmarks are occluded, i.e., the amount of uncertainty in the position of each landmark location. These landmark points and their associated confidence values, and/or associated information, may then be input to another set of one or more machine learning models which may output any facial analysis quantity or quantities, such as the subject's gaze direction, head pose, drowsiness state, cognitive load, or distraction state.
US11487962B2
The invention provides a decision-making method of comprehensive alumina production indexes based on a multi-scale deep convolutional network. The method mainly consists of several sub-models: a multi-scale deep splicing convolutional neural network prediction sub-model reflecting the influence of bottom-layer production process indexes on the comprehensive alumina production indexes, a full connecting neural network prediction sub-model reflecting the influence of upper-layer dispatching indexes on the comprehensive alumina production indexes, a full connecting neural network prediction sub-model reflecting the influence of the comprehensive alumina production indexes at a past time on current comprehensive alumina production indexes, and a multi-scale information neural network integrated model for collaborative optimization of sub-model parameters. According to the method, through an integrated prediction model structure, a memory capacity of a superficial-layer network and a feature extraction capacity of a deep-layer network, a precise decision-making for the comprehensive alumina production indexes is realized.
US11487961B2
Provided is an optical code that retains compatibility with existing optical codes and is used for recording information different from the information recorded under prescribed conditions. Also provided are a method and a device for reading the optical code. The optical code includes a plurality of light color modules of a light color and a plurality of dark color modules of a dark color to record first data. At least the light color modules or the dark color modules are made up of a first module and a second module having different reflectance for light of a predetermined wavelength. Second data is recorded in a pattern of the first and second modules.
US11487951B2
A method for fitness assistance to a user in a conversation session, comprising: receiving, in the conversation session, at least one message, wherein the conversation session is between the user and an electronic conversational agent (1210); updating, based on the conversation session and one or more factors associated with the at least one message, a fitness intention associated with the user (1220); extracting, based on one or more factors associated with the at least one message, fitness information associated with the user (1230); obtaining at least one response, through applying a set of rules on the fitness information and the fitness intention (1240); generating, according to the at least one response, a response message including a fitness suggestion to the user (1250); and providing the response message including the fitness suggestion to the user (1260).
US11487948B2
An autonomous automated intent mining system extracts intents from stored conversations in a text-based chat corpus for use in an AI-driven dialog system. The intent mining system includes an intelligent pre-processor for extracting the conversation data from a computer memory and operating on the conversation data to identify relevant utterances. The system additionally includes a representation processor for operating on the identified relevant utterances to create a numerical representation. The system also includes a clustering processor for generating clusters of utterances and classifying each of the identified relevant utterances into a cluster based on the numerical representation of each utterance. Each generated cluster represents a unique intent for use in the AI-driven dialog system.
US11487942B1
Techniques for entity and relationship detect from unstructured text as a service are described. A service may receive a request to identify entities within a provided unstructured text element, and the service may segment and tokenize the unstructured text and send the result to multiple services implementing multiple deep machine learning models trained to identify particular entities. The service may send additional requests to an additional service or services implementing additional deep machine learning models to identify relationships between detected attributes and ones of the detected entities. The outputs from all services can be analyzed and consolidated into a single result that identifies the entities, any attributes of the entities, and confidence scores indicating the confidence in each detected entity.
US11487939B2
Embodiments described herein provide a provide a fully unsupervised model for text compression. Specifically, the unsupervised model is configured to identify an optimal deletion path for each input sequence of texts (e.g., a sentence) and words from the input sequence are gradually deleted along the deletion path. To identify the optimal deletion path, the unsupervised model may adopt a pretrained bidirectional language model (BERT) to score each candidate deletion based on the average perplexity of the resulting sentence and performs a simple greedy look-ahead tree search to select the best deletion for each step.
US11487933B2
Disclosed techniques provide just-in-time error detection and correction within a multi-edit session. The multi-edit session may have a scope definition across a subset of devices within a network, each device having a set of network configuration parameters. The system may be implemented, in part, by obtaining a restricted grammar language (RGL) rule set derived from devices on the network within and outside of the edit scope. After detecting an indication of an edit to configuration information, the techniques may compare the edit (e.g., unsaved or saved change) to the RGL. Based on detection of a suspect entry, information may be presented to a user of the multi-edit session. The information may include suggestions or corrections relative to user edits (e.g., just-in-time). The suggestions or corrections may be derived using the RGL based on consistency of the proposed edit with respect to information utilized to generate the RGL.
US11487932B2
A system of building an enhanced data orchestration (EDO) enterprise service bus. The system also comprises an EDO builder application stored in the at least one non-transitory memory that when executed by the at least one processor, presents a visual interface that responds to drag and drop command inputs that build a sequence of data stream processes, presents a command input that when activated causes a properties dialog box to be presented that promotes a user defining data from a data stream to be passed in to a selected data stream process and defining data to be output by the selected data stream process, and builds an EDO enterprise service bus application based on pre-trained ML models, based on a base enterprise service bus application, based on the drag and drop command inputs, and based on user definitions of data provided through the properties dialog box.
US11487931B1
According to one embodiment, a method, computer system, and computer program product for webpage replay is provided. The embodiment may include acquiring one or more commands each indicating changes of at least one virtual Document Object Model (DOM) node of a virtual DOM of a webpage corresponding to a timestamp for a session. The embodiment may include determining one or more virtual DOM differentials corresponding to respective timestamps for the session based on the one or more commands and a first data dictionary. The first data dictionary is created based on a base virtual DOM of the webpage including a plurality of virtual DOM nodes. The embodiment may include generating one or more patched virtual DOMs of the webpage corresponding to respective timestamps for the session. The embodiment may include replaying the webpage for the session based on the base virtual DOM and the patched virtual DOMs.
US11487922B2
A method for automatically reducing the dimensionality of a mathematical representation of a controlled application system is provided. The method includes receiving, at a control system, data corresponding to control action and system state variables relating to the controlled application system, fitting a constrained reinforcement learning (CRL) model to the controlled application system based on the data, and automatically identifying a subset of the system state variables by selecting control action variables of interest and identifying system state variables that drive the CRL model to recommend each control action variable of interest. The method also includes automatically performing state space dimensionality reduction of the CRL model using the subset of system state variables, estimating a transition probability matrix for a constrained Markov decision process (CMDP) model of the controlled application system, and formulating the CMDP model as a linear programming (LP) problem using the transition probability matrix and several costs.
US11487920B2
A computer generates a computer model based on the output data of a finite element analysis (FEA) performed on a structure that has experienced a break up event. The output data is processed to generate a debris model. The debris model comprises data defining the structure, as well as any fragments or pieces of debris caused by forces exerted on the structure during the break up event. The debris model can then be utilized as input data to generate other computer models.
US11487915B2
A method of integrated modeling using multiple subsurface models includes receiving multiple sets of input values associated with a hydrocarbon formation of the Earth. The method also includes receiving a network model that includes one or more assets configured to distribute a flow of hydrocarbons from the hydrocarbon formation to a processing facility. The method further includes generating the multiple subsurface models based on the multiple sets of input values, wherein each subsurface model comprises a set of input values of the multiple sets of input values, and wherein each subsurface model represents a production of the flow of hydrocarbons from the hydrocarbon formation. The method also includes applying the multiple subsurface models to the network model to generate an integrated model comprising multiple production rates of hydrocarbons via the one or more assets over time. The method further includes identifying at least one asset to adjust based on the integrated model.
US11487908B2
A memory controller, which manages a memory device, receives a memory command. The memory controller determines whether the memory command is encrypted. Upon determining that the memory command is encrypted, the memory controller performs a decryption function corresponding to the memory command. Conditioned on the performance of the decryption function resulting in a successful decryption of the memory command, the memory controller performs an operation on a memory location corresponding to a memory address included in the memory command.
US11487907B2
Multi-mode interfaces having secure alternate modes are disclosed. An example method includes exposing to a device, during a first alternate mode negotiation session, an availability of a first secure alternate mode on a host, authenticating the device to the host using the first secure alternate mode, and responsive to the device being authenticated, exposing to the device a second secure alternate mode.
US11487897B2
In some aspects, a computing system can receive a request for a processing operation that involves a query. The computing system can extract a query parameter indicating an entity or information type. The computing system can parse, using the query parameter, an obfuscated dataset that is generated by electronically transforming (i) first sensitive information into first obfuscated data using an obfuscation key and (ii) second sensitive information into second obfuscated data using the obfuscation key. The sensitive information is unreadable in the obfuscated data. The computing system can match the query parameter to the first obfuscated data and the second obfuscated data based on a relationship between the first obfuscated data and the second obfuscated data. The relationship is independent of a meaning of the first and second sensitive information. The computing system can performing the processing operation using the first and second obfuscated data.
US11487896B2
The present disclosure describes techniques that facilitate a Secure Data Processing (SDP) Network that is configured isolating sensitive data from exposure to a client workstation and a connected web server and application server. Specifically, a secure communications server of the SDP network is described that can interact with a secure input device or a secure plug-in component at the client workstation to receive a set of data associated with the sensitive data. The set of data may correspond to devalued data received via a secure input device or the set of data may be received as sensitive data via a hosted webpage invoked by the secure communications server. The secure communications server may establish a secure communications path with a tokenization server for receipt of a token that represents the sensitive data. The token may then be used by at least the application server to initiate the transaction.
US11487892B2
A financial data secure sharing method, a device and a system based on a cloud server include steps of: logging-in with a terminal through a data access sharing interface provided by the cloud server to obtain a financial data sharing authority for a financial data sharing party; filling-in and uploading financial data according to a data sharing upload format provided by the cloud server; performing a unified format conversion on the financial data, so as to generate unified-format financial data; selecting an encryption method for the unified-format financial data; processing the unified-format financial data with encryption authentication, and obtaining an encryption authentication result; and storing the encryption authentication result in a memory of the cloud server based on a preset storage structure, and providing data sharing to a corresponding user through the data access sharing interface. The financial data can be shared according to the user identity authority.
US11487891B2
The present invention generally relates to mental performance monitoring of brain activity that implements computing using blockchain and artificial intelligence technologies. Specifically, this invention relates to creating a blockchain from data obtained from a mental performance monitoring device that measures in real-time the mental activity and applying artificial intelligence machine-learning for pattern recognition of ‘best performance’ envelope to raise work efficiency, certify cognitive biometric status, detect cerebral microemboli, perform motor, sensory, facial, object and color processing tasks. The invention generally provides a mental status categorization that is implemented using a computer method for accessing, developing and maintaining a decentralized database through a peer-to-peer review network, to preserve the original state of ‘best mental performance’ envelope data inputs while applying artificial intelligence in a neural network model for pattern recognition of the changing mental states for use in cognitive biometrics, memory assessment, facial recognition, object recognition, language processing, odor recognition, color processing, psychomotor function, cognitive user preferences, task-difficulty, autonomy decision-making levels, and prediction of future actions. The system matches peer-to-peer clusters in a neural network of humans and human-robotic assembly for optimization of efficiency in task performance. The present invention could be applied to assist medical diagnosis through machine-learned models.
US11487890B2
This disclosure relates to systems, methods, and computer-readable media for identifying an asset privacy management trigger on an end-user device related to a third-party application. In response to identifying the asset privacy management trigger, a privacy selection interface to enable a user to select a limited asset access option is displayed. In response to the limited asset access option being selected, an asset selection interface is displayed, where the asset selection interface is configured to define a sub-set of assets of the end-user device as authorized for the third-party application based on user selection. In response to a subsequent request to access assets of the end-user device by the third-party application, the third-party application is able to access only the defined sub-set of assets. For different third-party applications or scenarios, the asset privacy management triggers and asset sub-set definitions may vary.
US11487885B2
Methods, systems, and devices for enabling and validating data encryption are described. A data storage system (e.g., including a database and validation server) may receive an encryption request indicating a data object or data field. Prior to performing encryption, the validation server may perform one or more validations to determine whether the system supports encrypting the indicated data. The validation server may identify any formula fields that directly or indirectly (e.g., via other formula fields) reference the data object or field, and may determine whether each of these formula fields is encryption compatible. In some cases, the validation process may involve synchronously executing a first set of validators, marking the data as pending encryption, and asynchronously executing a second set of validators. Based on the results of the validation process, the system may or may not encrypt the indicated data, and may transmit an indication of the validation results.
US11487883B2
A system, method, and computer-readable medium are disclosed for performing a security operation. The security operation includes: monitoring an entity, the monitoring observing at least one electronically-observable data source; deriving an observable based upon the monitoring of the electronically-observable data source; identifying a security related activity of the entity, the security related activity being based upon the observable derived from the electronic data source, the security related activity being of analytic utility; converting the security related activity to entity behavior catalog data, the entity behavior catalog providing an inventory of entity behaviors; accessing an entity behavior catalog based upon the entity behavior catalog data; inferring a security vulnerability scenario from the observable derived based upon the monitoring; and performing a security operation via a security system, the security operation using the security vulnerability scenario and the entity behavior catalog data stored within the entity behavior catalog based upon the security related activity.
US11487880B2
Methods, systems, and apparatuses are provided for inferring security incidents from observational data. For example, alerts generated with respect to a set of entities by a first alert generator are received, association scores are calculated for pairs of alerts, the alerts are formed into clusters based on the association scores, and a security incident model is formed based on the clusters. The security incident model may define sequences of alerts corresponding to security incidents. Furthermore, the security incident model may be used to determine a match between additional alerts and a sequence of alerts in the security incident model and identify the additional alerts as a security incident corresponding to the sequence of alerts in the security incident model.
US11487872B2
In example implementations, an apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes an input sensor, a memory, a comparator, and a processor. The processor is communicatively coupled to the input sensor, the memory, and the comparator to control operation of the input sensor, the memory, and the comparator. The input sensor is to measure a bus signal of a computing device. The memory is to store the bus signal that is measured and a reference bus signal. The comparator is to compare the bus signal that is measured to the reference bus signal to detect a hardware security attack.
US11487870B1
The logging techniques described herein can enable using logging tools without having to use different methods for sandbox implementations and push out the log data to storage without problems. The log data is treated as sensitive data and is protected according to the defined security policies. Further, the results may be compressed and encrypted.
US11487869B2
An apparatus, method, and computer program product are provided for encrypting a function symbol with relocation. The apparatus includes a compiler module, a static linker module, and an encryptor module. The compiler module inserts sequences of instructions to decrypt function symbols to be randomized at runtime before indirect function calls. The compiler module inserts an instruction sequence at compile time to encrypt an operand register that receives a local function symbol in position-independent code (PIC), where a call or store instruction uses the register as an operand. The static linker module inserts an encoding section at link time. The encoding section includes two columns representing the sizes of function symbols in bits or bytes and the locations storing the function symbols to be encrypted at runtime. The encryptor module encrypts at runtime the function symbols whose sizes and stored memory locations are identified in the encoding section.
US11487868B2
A super-shield system for protecting a computer from malicious software uses a whitelist to determine if a program is safe to run. As new malicious software is created, inadvertent attempts at execution of executables including such malicious software is prevented being that the new malicious software are not listed in the whitelist. When attempts are made to run unknown software, the executable is forwarded to a server where further analysis is performed to determine if the executable contains suspect code (e.g., malicious software).
US11487863B2
A system and method for providing multifactor authentication. A disclosed method includes receiving a request at a server to launch a new session for an application on a client device, generating a plurality of codes, each of the plurality of codes associated with a respective identifier, and forwarding the plurality of codes via a short messaging service (SMS) message to a user associated with the client device. The method further includes sending the respective identifier associated with a given code of the plurality of codes to the application and receiving a submitted code entered into the application from the client device. Once received, the method compares the submitted code with the given code associated with the respective identifier and authenticates the user in response to the submitted code matching the given code.
US11487858B2
Embodiments of the invention are directed to a method. The method may include transmitting, by a first device, an encrypted first biometric template generated from a first biometric sample of a user of the first device to a second device, wherein the second device inputs the encrypted first biometric template and a second biometric template generated from a second biometric sample of the user into a function to generate an encoded output. The first device may receive the encoded output from the second device, and may decode the encoded output to recover the encrypted first biometric template and the second biometric template of the user. Upon determining a match result between first and second biometric templates, the first device may transmit unique data to the second device.
US11487857B2
A fog/edge server machine for authenticating a user in an edge computing model is disclosed using a data spectrum table and spectrum hash values to improve performance, efficiency, and/or security. The edge computing model may include, in some examples, a secure Internet of Things (IoT) and/or mobile-based authentication system. Illustrative embodiments of a spectrum table stored at fog/edge server, a spectrum data array and spectrum hash value generated and stored in memory at the fog/edge sever, and a large, data table stored at an application server are disclosed herein to show continuous/subsequent authentication of the user with attributes/values/inputs collected by one or more edge devices during post-login activities/interactions to re-authenticate/maintain the authentication.
US11487855B2
An authentication device includes: a wearing position determination unit that determines a wearing position, the wearing position being a position at which a wearable article comprising a sensor is being worn on a body; and an authentication unit that performs authentication by using biometric information of the body, the biometric information being detected by the sensor at the wearing position.
US11487854B2
Provided is a method of protecting an application from reverse engineering. The method includes registering, in an electronic device, a handler capable of being called as a preset fault is generated in the application, after the handler is registered, executing a protection code for generating the preset fault in the application, determining whether an environment where the application is executed is an abnormal environment, based on whether the handler has been called as the protection code is executed, and performing an operation for protecting the application, based on a result of the determination.
US11487846B2
Embodiments relate to a neural processor circuit including a plurality of neural engine circuits, a data buffer, and a kernel fetcher circuit. At least one of the neural engine circuits is configured to receive matrix elements of a matrix as at least the portion of the input data from the data buffer over multiple processing cycles. The at least one neural engine circuit further receives vector elements of a vector from the kernel fetcher circuit, wherein each of the vector elements is extracted as a corresponding kernel to the at least one neural engine circuit in each of the processing cycles. The at least one neural engine circuit performs multiplication between the matrix and the vector as a convolution operation to produce at least one output channel of the output data.
US11487844B2
A system and method for detecting webpage zones of interest. A method includes receiving at least one webpage analysis request, wherein the received at least one webpage analysis request includes at least one webpage in a website; identifying, in the at least one webpage, at least one zone, wherein the at least one zone is a content element of a webpage; classifying the at least one zone into a category of interest, wherein the classification is based on a trained machine learning model configured to classify DOM elements of the least one webpage, and wherein a category of interest is a category determined based on a functionality of the website; and storing the classification by indicating the category of interest for each zone.
US11487843B2
In one aspect, the present disclosure relates to a method for reducing fraud in computer networks, the method including receiving, from each of a plurality of user devices, a request to block an ad displayed within a web browser installed on the user device, the request comprising image data and a forwarding URL associated with the ad; storing crowdsourced ad blocking data based on the received requests to block ads; receiving a request for a list of blocked ads; generating a list of blocked ads based on analyzing the crowdsourced ad blocking data, wherein analyzing the crowdsourced ad blocking data comprises identifying ads blocked by at least a threshold number of users; and sending the list of blocked ads to a first user device, the first user device comprising a browser extension configured to prevent ads within the list of blocked ads from being rendered in a browser.
US11487826B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for collecting data from a number of vehicles, in which at least one data collection device of a respective vehicle can be configured to read, store and transmit information recorded by respective vehicle sensors to a server. The at least one data collection device of a respective vehicle can also be configured by means of a control command to generate and transmit to a server a data set using selected values from a number of selected vehicle sensors, and in which the control command is generated by a central control device and is transmitted to the at least one data collection device.
US11487822B2
Techniques for inserting and extracting geolocation data using spatial indexing in a key value database are provided. In an embodiment, a system is provided for generating one or more geohashes for a geometry object, wherein the one or more geohashes comprises encoded bits that are stored as keys in a key value database. In one example, the system comprises a geometry indexing component that generates a spatial index, wherein the spatial index is based on a total number of the encoded bits generated for the one or more geohashes. In one example, the system comprises a geometry storing component that stores the geometry object and the one or more geohashes in the key value database using the spatial index to allow for faster retrieval of the geometry object. The advantage is that properly inserted and indexed spatial data can be quickly retrieved.
US11487819B2
A database management system stores an entry in a journal. The journal, upon storage of the entry, comprises an ordered plurality of leaf nodes and a hierarchy of interior nodes based upon the leaf nodes. A node in the ordered plurality of nodes comprises a hash value computed based on the hash of a corresponding entry and a hash of a prior leaf node. A cryptographic proof of the entry comprises successive application of a hash operator to one or more hashes of the leaf nodes.
US11487815B2
An electronic device includes circuitry, firmware, and software that determines identification information associated with a first performer-of-interest at a live event and retrieves a first set of audio tracks from a plurality of audio tracks based on the determined identification information. The circuitry receives a first audio segment associated with the first performer-of-interest from an audio capturing device. The circuitry compares a first audio characteristic of the first audio segment with a second audio characteristic of a first audio portion of each of the first set of audio tracks. The circuitry determines a first audio track based on the comparison between the first audio characteristic and the second audio characteristic. The circuitry identifies a start position of the first audio track based on the first audio segment associated with the first audio track. The circuitry controls a display of the first lyrics information of the first audio track.
US11487813B2
Systems and methods are provided for filtering at least one media content catalog based on criteria for a station library to generate a first list of candidate tracks for the station library, combining a similarity score and a popularity score for each track of the first list of candidate tracks to generate a total score for each track of the first list of candidate tracks, generating a list of top ranked tracks for the first genre, and returning the list of top ranked tracks of the first genre as part of the station library.
US11487805B2
A method for indexing objects in a computerized system having an index, comprising identifying in the computerized system an at least one indexed object that meets an at least one criterion related to contents of the at least one indexed object, detecting an at least one non-indexed object having a property similar to an at least one property of the at least one indexed object that was identified, and indexing the at least one non-indexed object in the index, wherein the method is performed by the computerized system, and an apparatus for performing the same.
US11487797B2
An apparatus comprises a processing device configured to receive a query to extract information from a document, and to perform two or more iterations of utilizing a machine learning-based information extraction model to extract portions of unstructured text data from the document. In each iteration, a portion of the unstructured text data extracted from the document and an associated relevance score are output. In a first iteration, the query and document are input while in subsequent iterations the query and modified versions of the document are input, the modified versions having previously-extracted portions of the unstructured text data removed therefrom. The processing device is also configured to generate a response to the query comprising a subset of the portions of the unstructured text data extracted from the document determined to have associated relevance scores exceeding a threshold relevance score and at least a threshold level of similarity to the query.
US11487794B2
In various embodiments described herein, a visualization system receives message requests from client devices, wherein the message requests comprise at least location data that identifies a location of a client device, and media content, wherein the media content includes at least one of image data, audio data, and video data. In response to receiving the message requests that comprise the media content, the visualization system analyzes and parses the media content to detect one or more tags embedded within the media content. In response to detecting the tag, the visualization system identifies a campaign or account referenced by or associated with the tag. Based on the identification of the campaign based on the tag within the media content, the visualization system determines a distribution of the campaign based on the location data from the message request.
US11487790B2
A device and method are described for a universal analytical data mart and data structure for same. The analytical data mart (ADM) associated data structure is designed to allow data from disparate sources to be integrated, enabling streamlined business intelligence, reporting and ad hoc analysis. Conceptually, the ADM enables analytics and business intelligence from multiple frames of reference including people, such as parties and actors including individuals and organizations, places, such as addresses with geographic information at various levels of view, objects, such as insured properties, automobiles and machinery, and events, milestones which happen at points in time and provide analytical/business value.
US11487788B1
Described herein are techniques for improving transfer of metadata from a metadata database to a database stored in a data system, such as a data warehouse. The metadata may be written into the metadata database with a version stamp, which is monotonic increasing register value, and a partition identifier, which can be generated using attribute values of the metadata. A plurality of readers can scan the metadata database based on version stamp and partition identifier values to export the metadata to a cloud storage location. From the cloud storage location, the exported data can be auto ingested into the database, which includes a journal and snapshot table.
US11487778B1
Provided herein are systems and methods for configuring managed event tables. A system includes at least one hardware processor coupled to a memory and configured to collect using an event table instance within a sandbox process, log data generated by a UDF during execution of the UDF code. The log data is provided from the sandbox process to an execution node process of the execution node. The log data is formatted using the execution node process, to generate formatted log data. The formatting is based on a configuration of a managed event table that is external to the execution node. The at least one hardware processor further causes ingestion of the formatted log data from the execution node process into the managed event table.
US11487775B2
A computer server may receive an indication of a selected potential relationship and retrieve, from a use case configuration data store, an electronic record for that relationship. The first entity may then construct computer system configurations in accordance with use case parameters. The computer server may be used to evaluate the constructed computer system configurations, and an entity score result for the first entity may be stored into the use case configuration data store. The computer server may also retrieve, from a quality function deployment data store, an electronic record associated with the first entity and update a uniform scoring matrix by assigning weighted score values for the first entity in connection with a set of platform capabilities. An entity selection tool may be executed to automatically select a recommended entity based on the score results and scoring matrixes, and an indication of the recommended entity may be transmitted.
US11487772B2
The present disclosure provides a multi-party data joint query method, a device, a server and a storage medium. The multi-party data joint query method executed by a manager includes: analyzing a multi-party joint query sentence to obtain a logical execution plan; processing the logical execution plan according to providers of respective nodes in the logical execution plan to obtain a physical execution plan of each provider; and generating a query instruction of each provider according to the physical execution plan of each provider, and sending the query instruction to respective provider. The query instruction is configured to instruct the providers to perform a query cooperatively.
US11487764B2
An input stream of events is processed to obtain an output stream of events. Consecutive events are selected from the input stream using a sliding window to obtain sliding window events, then a function is applied thereto to obtain an output result value. Operations of: outputting the output result value in the output stream; splitting the sliding window events into filter-complying events and pending events; applying the function on the pending events to obtain preliminary value(s); selecting, from the input stream, a second plurality of events; adding the second plurality of events to the sliding window events; removing, from the sliding window events, the filter-complying events to obtain a new set of sliding window events; and applying the function to the second plurality of events and the preliminary value(s) to obtain a new output result value, are then iteratively performed.
US11487752B2
In some implementations, a system can optimize offline map data updates. For example, a server device in the system can determine a metric for identifying map data objects based on attributes of the map data objects. The server device can then generate a quadtree that stores the map data objects in nodes of the quadtree based on the metric. When processing an update to the map data stored at the server device, the server device can generate update data describing the updates for each node in the quadtree based on a binary difference algorithm and/or a semantic difference algorithm. The server device can select the algorithm based on which algorithm results in the smallest compressed size of the update data.
US11487748B2
An in-vehicle processing device includes: a signal input unit that generates input data based on an input signal from outside; a processing unit that executes arithmetic processing for calculating output data based on the input data; a signal output unit that generates an output signal based on the output data to output the output signal to the outside; and a storage unit that stores application software for causing the processing unit to execute the arithmetic processing. The application software includes: a data management layer for managing object data which is a collection of data corresponding to a given target element on the storage unit; a data adaptation layer for generating the object data based on the input data to output the generated object data to the data management layer; and a data operation layer for acquiring the object data from the data management layer to calculate the output data based on the acquired object data.
US11487742B2
Techniques and solutions are described for determining whether an update to be sent to a production database system from a quality database system will provide consistent table relationships if applied at the production database system. These consistency checks can be carried out without transmitting entire table records from the quality system to the production system, which can reduce network traffic. These consistency checks can also reduce performance impacts at the production system, as test condition generation can be carried out at the quality database system. A consistency check method can include the quality database system determining values of updated or added records of a first table that should be consistent with a second table. The test conditions cause the production database system to execute a test to determine whether the values are present in the production system. Consistency violations can be remedied before the update is applied.
US11487739B2
A computer system is provided for monitoring and detecting changes in a data generating processes, which may be under a multi-dimensional and unsupervised setting. A target dataset is split into paired subgroups by a separator and one or more detectors are applied to detect changes, anomalies, inconsistencies, and the like between the paired subgroups. Metrics may be generated by the detector(s), which are then passed to an evaluating system.
US11487736B2
Disclosed are computer-implemented methods, non-transitory computer-readable media, and systems or processing blockchain transactions. One computer-implemented method includes receiving a number of blockchain transactions to be executed by a blockchain node. The blockchain node allocates one or more threads and one or more coroutines for processing the number of blockchain transactions based on whether the number of blockchain transactions are CPU-bound or I/O-bound. The blockchain node executes the number of blockchain transactions using the one or more threads and one or more coroutines, generates a blockchain block including the number of blockchain transactions, and adds the blockchain block to the blockchain.
US11487718B2
Disclosed are systems, apparatus, methods, and computer readable media for suppressing network feed activities using an information feed in an on-demand database service environment. In one embodiment, a message is received, including data indicative of a user action. An entity associated with the user action is identified, where the entity is a type of record stored in a database. A type of the entity is identified. It is determined whether the entity type is a prohibited entity type. When the entity type is not a prohibited entity type, the message data is saved to one or more tables in the database. The tables are configured to store feed items of an information feed capable of being displayed on a device. When the entity type is a prohibited entity type, the saving of the message data, to the one or more tables in the database configured to store the feed items, is prohibited.
US11487714B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for data replication in a data analysis system (100). A source database system (101) of the data analysis system (100) comprises a transaction log (106) storing log records generated by database transactions. The method comprises in response to determining (303) that a received log record is generated by a database transaction that rolls back a change of another database transaction whose log records are buffered in at least one record buffer, data indicative of a log record generated by the other database transaction buffering (305) in the compensation buffer tag data. The tag data may be used (311) for replicating to a target database system of the data analysis system buffered log records of the record buffer which are not marked as compensation records.
US11487709B2
Embodiments of the present invention are directed toward systems, methods, and computer storage media for using a neural network language model to identify semantic relationships between file storage specifications for replication requests. By treating file storage specifications (or at least a portion thereof) as “words” in the language model, replication vectors can be determined based on the file storage specifications. Instead of determining the relationship of the file storage specifications based on ordering within a document, the relationship can be based on proximity of the replication requests in a replication session. When a replication request is received from a user, the replication vectors can be used to determine a semantic similarity between the received replication request and one or more additional replication requests.
US11487706B2
A method, computer program product, and computer system for creating, by a computing device, a child leaf of a snapshot associated with a parent leaf of a volume. At least one entry associated with one of the parent leaf and the child leaf may be added to a delta log. Only delta changes are written to the child leaf. One of a first destaging technique and a second destaging technique may be used for the child leaf.
US11487687B2
Device for a user station of a serial bus system and method for communication in a serial bus system
A device for a serial bus system. The device has a receiver receiving a signal from a bus of the bus system. For a message exchanged between user stations of the bus system, a recessive bus state is overwritable by a dominant bus state and the recessive bus state is generated differently in the first communication phase than in the second communication phase. The receiver generates a digital signal based on the received signal, and the signal being output to a communication control unit for evaluating the data contained in the digital signal. The receiver uses a first and second reception threshold for generating the digital signal in the second communication phase, the second reception threshold having a voltage value lower than that of the first reception threshold or higher than the highest voltage value which, during normal operation, is established on the bus for a dominant bus.
US11487686B2
A method for integrating a further bus subscriber into a bus system, and a bus system, having a master module and subscribers disposed in series, includes the temporally consecutive method steps: in a first method step, the further bus subscriber transmits a data packet to the master module in order to log in to the master module, in a second method step, a bus subscriber disposed between the further bus subscriber and the master module stops the data packet and checks whether the bus system has already received a release, in a third method step, the first bus subscriber forwards the data packet to the master module if the bus system has not yet received a release, or in a third, in particular an alternative, method step, if the bus system has already received a release, the bus subscriber stores the data packet and waits until the release of the bus system is revoked and after the release has been revoked, forwards the stored data packet to the master module.
US11487682B1
A priority queue sorting system including a priority queue and a message storage. The priority queue includes multiple priority blocks that are cascaded in order from a lowest priority block to a highest priority block. Each priority block includes a register block storing an address and an identifier, compare circuitry that compares a new identifier with the stored identifier for determining relative priority, and select circuitry that determines whether to keep or shift and replace the stored address and identifier within the priority queue based on the relative priority. The message storage stores message payloads, each pointed to by a corresponding stored address of a corresponding priority block. Each priority block contains its own compare and select circuitry and determines a keep, shift, or store operation. Thus, sorting is independent of the length of the priority queue thereby achieving deterministic sorting latency that is independent of the queue length.
US11487679B2
A semiconductor memory system includes a first semiconductor memory die and a second semiconductor memory die. The first semiconductor memory die includes a primary data interface to receive an input data stream during write operations and to deserialize the input data stream into a first plurality of data streams, and also includes a secondary data interface, coupled to the primary data interface, to transmit the first plurality of data streams. The second semiconductor memory die includes a secondary data interface, coupled to the secondary data interface of the first semiconductor memory die, to receive the first plurality of data streams.
US11487673B2
A system for managing virtual memory. The system includes a first processing unit configured to execute a first operation that references a first virtual memory address. The system also includes a first memory management unit (MMU) associated with the first processing unit and configured to generate a first page fault upon determining that a first page table that is stored in a first memory unit associated with the first processing unit does not include a mapping corresponding to the first virtual memory address. The system further includes a first copy engine associated with the first processing unit. The first copy engine is configured to read a first command queue to determine a first mapping that corresponds to the first virtual memory address and is included in a first page state directory. The first copy engine is also configured to update the first page table to include the first mapping.
US11487668B2
Described are methods and systems for improved cardinality estimation. A method may include obtaining a data-query, obtaining a row, generating a hash value, determining a cardinality of leading zeros in the hash value, identifying a bucket with respect to the hash value, including a bucket identifier and the cardinality of leading zeros in a representation, determining the approximate unique count, and outputting the approximate unique count as results data responsive to the portion of the data-query.
US11487667B1
A cache subsystem is disclosed. The cache subsystem includes a cache configured to store information in cache lines arranged in a plurality of ways. A requestor circuit generates a request to access a particular cache line in the cache. A prediction circuit is configured to generate a prediction of which of the ways includes the particular cache line. A comparison circuit verifies the prediction by comparing a particular address tag associated with the particular cache line to a cache tag corresponding to a predicted one of the ways. Responsive to determining that the prediction was correct, a confirmation indication is stored indicating the correct prediction. For a subsequent request for the particular cache line, the cache is configured to forego a verification of the prediction that the particular cache line is included in the one of the ways based on the confirmation indication.
US11487659B2
A data storage system includes a first memory, a second memory, and a memory controller. The memory controller transmits a first data segment from the first memory to the second memory according to an initial address, adds a first interval value to the initial address to generate a succeeding address, and updates a stream number. When the stream number has not reached a target stream number, the memory controller transmits second data segment from the first memory to the second memory according to the succeeding address, and updates the stream number. When the stream number has reached the target stream number, the memory controller sets the stream number to an initial value, adds an offset value to the initial address to update the succeeding address, and transmits a third data segment from the first memory to the second memory according to the updated succeeding address.
US11487656B1
This disclosure provides for improvements in managing multi-drive, multi-die or multi-plane NAND flash memory. In one embodiment, the host directly assigns physical addresses and performs logical-to-physical address translation in a manner that reduces or eliminates the need for a memory controller to handle these functions, and initiates functions such as wear leveling in a manner that avoids competition with host data accesses. A memory controller optionally educates the host on array composition, capabilities and addressing restrictions. Host software can therefore interleave write and read requests across dies in a manner unencumbered by memory controller address translation. For multi-plane designs, the host writes related data in a manner consistent with multi-plane device addressing limitations. The host is therefore able to “plan ahead” in a manner supporting host issuance of true multi-plane read commands.
US11487652B2
Devices and techniques are disclosed herein for providing L2P information to a host device from a storage system, the L2P information comprising changed L2P region and associated subregion information, to-be-loaded L2P region and associated subregion information, and invalid L2P region and associated subregion information.
US11487645B2
A code base is parsed to identify methods having changes in a code base since a last code commit. Thereafter, a call graph is traversed to identify test cases implicated by the identified methods having changes in the code base. The call graph can be a directed call graph comprising a plurality of connected nodes in which a first subset of the connected nodes are method nodes representing each method in the code base in which unidirectional edges connecting method nodes correspond to invocations by a calling method to a callee method, and in which a second subset of the connected nodes are test case nodes representing each of a plurality of available test cases to test the code base. The test case nodes are each coupled to one or more method nodes by unidirectional edges that correspond to the test case coverage of the method.
US11487643B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for implementing a debugger for integrated scripting applications. One of the methods includes generating a modified script from an original script, the modified script being written in a scripting language and having a respective breakpoint inquiry command for a plurality of original commands from the original script, wherein each breakpoint inquiry command calls a breakpoint inquiry function with a unique identifier assigned to a corresponding original command. The modified script is executed including calling the breakpoint inquiry function before the plurality of original commands from the original script. If a particular call to the breakpoint inquiry function corresponds to a set breakpoint, execution of the modified script is stopped and updated debugging information is provided to a debug client configured to generate a user interface presentation of the updated debugging information.
US11487635B2
Techniques are provided for metadata management for enabling automated switchover. An initial quorum vote may be performed before a node executes an operation associated with metadata comprising operational information and switchover information. After the initial quorum vote is performed, the node executes the operation upon one or more mailbox storage devices. Once the operation has executed, a final quorum vote is performed. The final quorum vote and the initial quorum vote are compared to determine whether the operation is to be designated as successful or failed, and whether any additional actions are to be performed.
US11487623B2
A remote management system includes a device management service having multiple instances that performs parallel distributed processing through the instances and a worker service having multiple instances that performs parallel distributed processing through the instances. Each instance of the device management service acquires the status of processing related to the recovery of the relevant instance from counter information, and stores the status of the processing related to the recovery of the relevant instance in the counter information when having performed the processing. Each instance of the worker service acquires the status of processing related to the recovery of an instance of the device management service from the counter information, and stores the status of the processing related to the recovery of the instance of the device management service in the counter information when having performed the processing.
US11487619B2
A first node group including at least three nodes is predefined in a distributed storage system. Each node of the first node group is configured to send data blocks stored in storage devices managed by the node to other nodes belonging to the first node group. A first node is configured to receive data blocks from two or more other nodes in the first node group. The first node is configured to create a redundant code using a combination of data blocks received from the two or more other nodes and store the created redundant code to a storage device different from storage devices holding the data blocks used to create the redundant code. Combinations of data blocks used to create at least two redundant codes in redundant codes created by the first node are different in combination of logical addresses of constituent data blocks.
US11487616B2
In described examples, a processor system includes a processor core that generates memory write requests, and a cache memory with a memory controller having a memory pipeline. The cache memory has cache lines of length L. The cache memory has a minimum write length that is less than a cache line length of the cache memory. The memory pipeline determines whether the data payload includes a first chunk and ECC syndrome that correspond to a partial write and are writable by a first cache write operation, and a second chunk and ECC syndrome that correspond to a full write operation that can be performed separately from the first cache write operation. The memory pipeline performs an RMW operation to store the first chunk and ECC syndrome in the cache memory, and performs the full write operation to store the second chunk and ECC syndrome in the cache memory.
US11487615B2
A semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell array, an error correction code (ECC) engine, a scrubbing control circuit and a control logic circuit. The memory cell array includes memory cell rows, and each of the memory cell rows including volatile memory cells. The scrubbing control circuit generates scrubbing addresses for performing a normal scrubbing operation on the memory cell rows with a first period based on refresh row addresses for refreshing the memory cell rows. The control logic circuit controls the ECC engine the scrubbing control circuit to distribute a scrubbing operation on weak codewords dynamically within the refresh operation such that a dynamic allocated scrubbing (DAS) operation is performed with a second period smaller than the first period. An error bit is detected in each of the weak codewords during the normal scrubbing operation or normal read operation on at least one of the memory cell rows.
US11487614B2
A semiconductor storing apparatus capable of shortening a ECC processing time of a readout operation is provided, including a flash memory includes: a memory cell array; a page buffer/sense circuit holding data read out from a selected page of the memory cell array; an error correcting code circuit receiving data from the page buffer/sense circuit and holding error address information of the data; an output circuit selecting data from the page buffer/sense circuit based on a column address, and outputting the selected data to a data bus; and an error correction part correcting data of the data bus based on the error address information.
US11487613B2
A method for accessing a memory module includes; encoding first data of a first partial burst length to generate first parities and first cyclic redundancy codes, encoding second data of a second partial burst length to generate second parities and second cyclic redundancy codes, writing the first data and the second data to first memory devices, and writing the first parities, the first cyclic redundancy codes, the second parities, and the second cyclic redundancy codes to a second memory device and a third memory device.
US11487606B2
Methods, apparatus, and processor-readable storage media for automated alert augmentation for deployments of software-defined storage are provided herein. An example computer-implemented method includes obtaining an alert from at least one software-defined storage device; determining one or more items of additional information pertaining to one or more of the alert and the at least one software-defined storage device; augmenting the alert based at least in part on the one or more determined items of additional information; generating a modified version of the augmented alert by incorporating, into the augmented alert, dependency information pertaining to the at least one software-defined storage device and one or more additional software-defined storage devices; and performing one or more automated actions based at least in part on the modified version of the augmented alert.
US11487593B2
A barrier synchronization system, a parallel information processing apparatus, and the like are described in the embodiments. In an example, provided is a solution to reduce latency time and improve processing speed in barrier synchronization. The parallel information processing apparatus includes: a completion information storage configured to store completion information, wherein the completion information includes information relating to completion of processing of an own apparatus and information relating to completion of processing of a lower information processing apparatus located in the tree structure; and a control circuit configured to, in response to a determination result indicating that a current status amounts to a given condition, instruct a specified information processing apparatus to forcibly suspend processing, the specified information processing apparatus being an apparatus that has not yet completed processing before all of the plurality of information processing apparatuses have completed the processing.
US11487578B2
Methods and systems for dynamically scheduling data processing are disclosed. An example method includes: identifying a data model to be built, the data model being associated with a data model definition defining input data to be used in building that data model; determining a size of the input data; obtaining an expected access time for the data model; estimating a total time required for building the data model based on the size of the input data and the definition of the data model; determining a time to start building the data model based on the expected access time for the data model and the estimated total time required to build the data model; and scheduling the building of the data model to start at the determined time.
US11487573B2
Methods and systems for automating execution of a workflow by integrating security applications of a distributed system into the workflow are provided. In embodiments, a system includes an application server in a first cloud, configured to receive a trigger to execute the workflow. The workflow includes tasks to be executed in a device of a second cloud. The application server sends a request to process the task to a task queue module. The task queue module places the task request in a queue, and a worker hosted in the device of the second cloud retrieves the task request from the queue and processes the task request by invoking a plugin. The plugin interacts with a security application of the device of the second cloud to execute the task, which yields task results. The task results are provided to the application server, via the worker and the task queue module.
US11487572B1
A method for migrating a virtual desktop may include provisioning a first virtual machine to host the virtual desktop. The first virtual machine may be provisioned to include a first operating system disk and a first identity disk. A snapshot of the first operating system disk may be generated. The virtual desktop may be migrated to a second virtual machine by at least replacing a second operating system disk of the second virtual machine with the first operating system disk. The first identity disk of the first virtual machine and a second identity disk of the second virtual machine may remain unchanged by the migration. Related systems and articles of manufacture are also provided.
US11487566B2
A method for migrating a virtual machine (VM) includes establishing a first connection to a first cloud computing system executing a first VM, and establishing a second connection to a second cloud computing system managed by a second cloud provider, which is different form the first cloud provider. The method further includes instantiating a second VM designated as a destination VM in the second cloud computing system, and installing a migration agent on each of the first VM and the second VM. The migration agents execute a migration process of the first VM to the second VM by (1) iteratively copying guest data from the first VM to the second VM until a switchover criteria of the migration operation is met, and (2) copying a remainder of guest data from the first VM to the second VM when the switchover criteria is met.
US11487562B2
A network-based virtual computing resource provider may offer virtual compute instances that implement rolling resource credits for scheduling virtual computing resources. Work requests for a virtual compute instance may be received at a virtualization manager. A resource credit balance may be determined for the virtual compute instance. The resource credit balance may accumulate resource credits in rolling fashion, carrying over unused credits from previous time periods. Resource credits may then be applied when generating scheduling instructions to provide to a physical resource to perform the work requests, such as a physical CPU in order to increase the utilization of the resource according to the number of credits applied. Applied resource credits may then be deducted from the credit balance.
US11487561B1
According to an embodiment, a system and method are provided for constructing an accurate view of memory and events on a simulation platform. The system memory view can be used with a debug and analysis tool to provide post-processing debug, including searching forward and backward in capture time of the stored memory view to analyze the events of the simulation. The memory is constructed by capturing and storing each memory execution transaction, bus transaction, and register transaction during simulation. Changes in simulation platform hardware state may also be captured and stored in a hardware state database, including switches between process threads detected during the simulation that may update a simulator register. The captured events provide observability into the OS processes, the hardware, and the embedded software of the simulation platform.
US11487560B2
A system and method for sharing information amongst user display devices, such as cell phones, smart phones, tablet computers, or other devices with an electronically controllable screen or display, in a peer to peer (P2P) network, to display one image or video across the totality of all of the display devices, regardless of where the display devices are positioned or how they are oriented relative to each other, and a system and method for identifying the exact position and orientation of each display device.
US11487554B2
The present invention relates to a data processing method, including the steps of intercepting a signal within a communications channel between a predefined peripheral device for a computing system and an application executing on the computing system and processing the signal and performing one or more actions in response to the processing. At least one action affects onward transmission of one or more signals within the communications channel. A data processing system is also described.
US11487551B2
In certain embodiments, a method includes starting an application as a first process within a user space of an operating system. The application instantiates a key-value store library associated with the operating system. The method also includes managing, by a block device service running within the user space, one or more first data blocks of a persistent storage device allocated to the key-value store library. In addition, the method includes receiving, by a kernel of the operating system, a system call request comprising an access request generated by the key-value store library. The method further includes granting, by the block device service, and in response to the access request, the key-value store library access to the one or more first data blocks through an inter process communication channel between the application and the block device service via the kernel.
US11487548B2
A non-volatile memory apparatus and corresponding method of operation are provided. The apparatus includes non-volatile memory cells in an integrated circuit device along with a microcontroller in communication with the non-volatile memory cells. The microcontroller is configured to receive a memory operation command and in response, determine a condition value of one of a plurality of conditions associated with the memory operation command and whether the one of the plurality of conditions is dynamic. In parallel, the microcontroller determines and outputs an output value using the condition value. The microcontroller then determines whether the one the plurality of conditions has changed. If the one of the plurality of conditions is dynamic and has changed, the microcontroller determines an updated condition value and in parallel, compares the condition value and the updated condition value and determines and outputs an updated output value using the updated condition value and the comparison.
US11487546B2
Computing systems, for example, multi-tenant systems deploy software artifacts in data centers created in a cloud platform using a cloud platform infrastructure language that is cloud platform independent. The system receives an artifact version map that identifies versions of software artifacts for datacenter entities. The system generates a master pipeline for deploying services on a target cloud platform. The master pipeline includes a change management stage comprising instructions for interacting with a change management system. The execution of the change management stage of a pipeline provides a status of deployment of one or more services to the change management system. The details recorded can be used for auditing, for example, to determine why certain change in the configuration of services of the datacenter was made.
US11487541B2
Embodiments of systems, apparatuses, and methods for chained fused multiply add. In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a decoder to decode a single instruction having an opcode, a destination field representing a destination operand, a first source field representing a plurality of packed data source operands of a first type that have packed data elements of a first size, a second source field representing a plurality of packed data source operands that have packed data elements of a second size, and a field for a memory location that stores a scalar value. A register file having a plurality of packed data registers includes registers for the plurality of packed data source operands that have packed data elements of a first size, the source operands that have packed data elements of a second size, and the destination operand. Execution circuitry executes the decoded single instruction to perform iterations of packed fused multiply accumulate operations by multiplying packed data elements of the sources of the first type by sub-elements of the scalar value, and adding results of these multiplications to an initial value in a first iteration and a result from a previous iteration in subsequent iterations.
US11487538B1
A software library recommendation engine provides an analysis and aggregate dashboard comparison of metrics denoting maintainability trends in a plurality of libraries from a publicly available software repository. Maintainability trends include regularity and magnitude of changes (commits), resolution of user inquiries for issues, problems and bugs, and an estimation of core contributors for estimating inertia and longevity of a plurality of candidate libraries under consideration for a particular usage. Usage metrics coalesce and summarize usage data of libraries under consideration for comparison, and a dashboard of computed metrics provides an indication of trends that indicate reliability or longevity to mitigate vulnerability of the library user from dependence on the collaborative intent of the library author and contributors.
US11487535B2
A method of ranking a plurality of parts of a software code is disclosed for identification of one or more candidate parts of the software code for alteration. The software code is associated with a change history register indicative of previous alterations of the parts of the software code. The method includes (for each of the plurality of parts of the software code) determining a plurality of constituent metrics of the part of the software code by parsing the change history register and the software code determining an alteration recency metric for the part of the software code based on the time indications of the change history register, and scaling one or more of the constituent metrics based on the alteration recency metric.
US11487530B2
A request to update a software container image within a container registry hosted by a computing resource service provider is received from an entity associated with a customer account with the computing resource service provider, where the container registry is a scalable distributed data storage service. The software container image is stored in the container registry in association with the customer account. A layer of the software container image stored in the container registry is scanned for a reference identifier associated with a security vulnerability as a result of said scan finding the reference identifier within the software container image, notice is provided to the entity indicating that the security vulnerability was found. Software within the software container image is updated based at least in part on the vulnerability scan; and the update software is deployed.
US11487527B1
According to some embodiments, a system and method are provided comprising two or more components; a cross-feature toggle module; a cross-feature toggle processor in communication with the cross-feature toggle module and operative to execute processor-executable process steps to cause the system to: receive a request to execute an application; determine a new feature element is present; determine a cross-feature toggle is present, wherein the feature toggle includes an active state and an inactive state; determine whether the cross-feature toggle is in an active state for each of a respective two or more components; in a case the cross-feature toggle is in the active state for each of the two or more components, execute the application with the new feature element; and in a case the cross-feature toggle is in the active state for less than all of the two or more components, execute the application without the new feature element. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11487523B2
A method for hot updating machine emulator including requesting specified memory which is used to store the virtual machine memory address and virtual machine status information and is not released when updating a machine emulator; restoring the virtual machine status information from the specified memory after the machine emulator is updated. Thus, the techniques of the present disclosure accelerate recovery speed and shorten updating time.
US11487522B1
Training and/or utilization of a neural decompiler that can be used to generate, from a lower-level compiled representation, a target source code snippet in a target programming language. In some implementations, the lower-level compiled representation is generated by compiling a base source code snippet that is in a base programming language, thereby enabling translation of the base programming language (e.g., C++) to a target programming language (e.g., Python). In some of those implementations, output(s) from the neural decompiler indicate canonical representation(s) of variables. Technique(s) can be used to match those canonical representation(s) to variable(s) of the base source code snippet. In some implementations, multiple candidate target source code snippets are generated using the neural decompiler, and a subset (e.g., one) is selected based on evaluation(s).
US11487520B2
Embodiments disclosed herein relate to methods and systems for transliterating reasoning graphs and using the same to determine insights.
US11487516B2
Methods and systems are described for cross-cloud call detection. The system may include detecting an instruction configured to call a resource. The instruction may include a name indicative of the resource and one or more values. The resource is configured to construct code using the one or more values. The system may determine the resource is incompatible with a service based on at least the name and the one or more values of the instruction. A conversion of source code is halted when the resource is incompatible with the service.
US11487512B2
Technologies are described herein for generating a service application. A service application generator can be used to generate a service application upon receiving a prompt to generate the service application. The service application generator can interface with a user or other entity to determine information used to build a service application.
US11487503B2
The present invention discloses an interactive control method executed during instant video communication between a user and one or more other users. The method comprises: monitoring video information collected by a camera during the instant video communication between the user and the one or more other users; performing recognition on the video information after acquiring the video information, to acquire user behavior data inputted by the user in a preset manner; determining whether the user behavior data comprises preset trigger information; when it is determined that the user behavior data comprises the preset trigger information, further determining whether the user behavior data comprises a preset gesture action; and when it is determined that the user behavior data comprises the preset gesture action, determining an operation instruction corresponding to the preset gesture action in a preset operation instruction set, and performing an event corresponding to the operation instruction.
US11487501B2
An audio control system can control interactions with an application or device using keywords spoken by a user of the device. The audio control system can use machine learning models (e.g., a neural network model) trained to recognize one or more keywords. Which machine learning model is activated can depend on the active location in the application or device. Responsive to detecting keywords, different actions are performed by the device, such as navigation to a pre-specified area of the application.
US11487492B2
Aspects of a mobile device integrated visual enhancement system are described herein. The aspects may include a wearable display headset that includes one or more display modules and a mobile device communicatively connected with the wearable display headset. The mobile device may include a first screen, a display detection module configured to detect the one or more display modules and receive display parameters from the wearable display headset, and a content delivery module configured to deliver visual content on the one or more detected display modules in accordance with the display parameters.
US11487483B2
An information apparatus comprises a controller including a processor and a memory, and the controller is configured to: obtain information of a printer; search, using the obtained information, for extension software for extending functions of a printer driver that generates a print command to be sent to the printer; install extension software found by the searching; and activate the installed extension software so that print options to be used for the printer driver to generate a print job to be sent to the printer are displayed.
US11487480B2
A method of displaying preset information according to an embodiment may include: storing plural pieces of preset information including first preset information and second preset information; obtaining, from a target file that is to be processed and includes first association information associated with the first preset information, the first association information; and displaying one or more pieces of preset information out of the plural pieces of preset information that are stored, while preferentially displaying, based on the obtained first association information, the first preset information associated with the first association information with respect to the second preset information.
US11487478B2
According to one embodiment, when a command executed in a nonvolatile memory is an erase/program command and when a cumulative weight value satisfies a condition that a first input is selected as an input of high priority, a memory system suspends execution of the erase/program command by transmitting a suspend command to the nonvolatile memory. The memory system repeats executing an operation of starting the execution of one read command of the first input and an operation of updating the cumulative weight by using the weight associated with the read command until read command no longer exists in the first input or until the condition that the cumulative weight is larger than the first value is not satisfied, and resumes the execution of the suspended erase/program command.
US11487465B2
One embodiment provides a system which facilitates data movement. The system allocates, in a volatile memory of a first storage drive, a first region to be accessed directly by a second storage drive or a first NIC. The first storage drive, the second storage drive, and the first NIC are associated with a first server. The system stores data in the first region. Responsive to receiving a first request from the second storage drive to read the data, the system transmits, by the first storage drive to the second storage drive, the data stored in the first region while bypassing a system memory of the first server. Responsive to receiving, from a third storage drive associated with a second server, a second request to read the data, the system retrieves, by the first NIC, the data stored in the first region while bypassing the system memory of the first server.
US11487457B2
In an approach to automatically reclassifying files in an HSM system, responsive to occurrence of a recall to move a file on a hierarchical storage system from a secondary storage to a primary storage, whether stub metadata exists for the file is determined. Responsive to determining that stub metadata exists for the file, whether reclassification of the file is necessary is determined based on the stub metadata. Responsive to determining that the reclassification of the file is necessary, the file is reclassified, where the reclassification uses a latest classification model, and further where the stub metadata is updated with results of the reclassification. The file is migrated from the primary storage to the secondary storage based on the stub metadata.
US11487449B2
A storage system and method for improving utilization of a communication channel between a host and the storage system are provided. In one embodiment, a host sends a request for workload pattern information to the data storage device, and the data storage device provides the requested workload pattern information to the host. Based on that workload pattern information, the host queues commands to be sent to the data storage device to improve utilization of the communication channel between the host and the data storage device. Other embodiments are provided.
US11487440B1
Disclosed is an evaluation system for evaluating a resource operation of an information system by a user. The evaluation system includes one or more arithmetic units, and one or more storage devices. The one or more storage devices are configured to store risk management information for managing an erroneous operation risk evaluation index relating to the resource operation of the information system. The one or more arithmetic units are configured to: receive operation information indicating a first resource operation designated by a first user, and evaluate an erroneous operation risk of the first resource operation based on the first resource operation and the risk management information.
US11487439B1
Storage devices include a memory array which stores host data received from a host computing device. During normal operations, the storage device may encounter a fatal error which can halt functionality. To restore functionality without system disconnection or third-party interventions, the storage device can store recovery data within a host memory buffer prior to encountering a fatal error. The recovery data can be replay protected memory data and/or firmware recovery data that can be written to the host memory buffer upon power on or during a firmware update. When a fatal error occurs, the recovery data can be accessed to try and rebuild file and mapping systems to restore full operation of the storage device. When full operational restoration is not possible, host data can at least be copied from the storage device prior to utilizing firmware recovery data to restore the storage device to an erased but functional state.
US11487438B1
Systems, methods, and computer readable storage mediums for discovering volumes which are good candidates for space reclamation. A storage subsystem identifies the file system storage capacity for a given volume from the file system metadata of the given volume. Then, the storage subsystem compares the file system capacity of the given volume to the allocated capacity on the storage subsystem. If the allocated capacity is greater than the file system capacity by a given threshold, the storage subsystem marks the given volume as a candidate for space reclamation and generates an alert to the user to reclaim the space of the given volume.
US11487416B2
A method and system are provided. The method includes providing an actionable business entity operating model. The method further includes extending the actionable business entity operating model to drive user interface behavior on a user interface device having at least a display device, by extending class and property meta classes of the actionable business entity operating model to include user interface behavior semantics. The extending step includes configuring the user interface behavior semantics to be responsive to an operation state of the actionable business entity operating model.
US11487411B2
Systems and methods for operating a graphical user interface with a dynamically sized group pill includes receiving a first indication of an opening of a context related to a first type of action in a graphical user interface. The group pill is expanded to an expanded size based at least in part on receiving the first indication. When a second indication of a closing of the context is received, the group pill is collapsed to a collapsed size displaying less information than the expanded size.
US11487409B2
[Problem] To propose an application corresponding to a situation of each user and improve user convenience in starting use of the application. [Solution] Provided is an information processing apparatus including: a display control unit configured to display, on a display screen, execution information related to execution of at least one application specified on the basis of a predetermined determination result; and a processing control unit configured to execute first processing in a case where the at least one application is specified, and execute second processing on the basis of a response of a user to the displayed execution information.
US11487407B1
The technology disclosed herein includes a user interface for viewing and combining media items into a video. An example method includes presenting a user interface that displays media items in a first portion of the user interface; receiving user input in the first portion that comprises a selection of a first media item; upon receiving the user input, adding the first media item to a set of selected media items and updating the user interface to comprise a control element and a second portion, wherein the first and second portions are concurrently displayed and are each scrollable along a different axis, and the second portion displays image content of the set and the control element enables a user to initiate the creation of the video based on the set of selected media items; and creating the video based on video content of the set of selected media items.
US11487404B2
An electronic device includes a touch-sensitive display and one or more programs stored in memory for execution by one or more processors. The one or more programs include instructions for displaying a first application view that corresponds to a first application in a plurality of concurrently open applications. The one or more programs include instructions for detecting a first input, and in response, concurrently displaying a group of open application icons that correspond to at least some of the plurality of concurrently open applications with at least a portion of the first application view. The open application icons are displayed in accordance with a predetermined sequence of the open applications. The one or more programs include instructions for detecting a first gesture distinct from the first input, and in response, displaying a second application view that corresponds to a second application adjacent to the first application in the predetermined sequence.
US11487402B2
An electronic device having a display and a touch-sensitive surface displays, in a user interface, image(s) from a media item corresponding to a sequence of images in a display mode. In response to an input, the device displays an editing user interface that changes which images are included in the media item when the media item is displayed in the display mode, including concurrently displaying: an area display images in the sequence of images; another distinct area including representations of images in the sequence of images, a user-adjustable begin-trim affordance indicating a first boundary for playback through the sequence of images, and a user-adjustable end-trim affordance indicating a second boundary for playback through the sequence of images. The device further adjusts the media item, exits the editing user interface in response to an input, and displays the edited media item in the display mode in the user interface.
US11487401B2
A method and test system are provided for selectively emphasizing waveforms on a display of the test system. The method includes presenting a graphical user interface (GUI) on the display of the test system; receiving through the GUI a selection of channels to be viewed on the display; receiving through the GUI an indication enabling a waveform emphasis feature; receiving through the GUI an indication of a cycle time; and displaying through the GUI multiple waveforms, respectively produced by the selected channels, by sequentially emphasizing each waveform of the multiple waveforms for the cycle time as a viewable waveform, while de-emphasizing each remaining waveforms of the multiple waveforms in relation to the emphasized waveform for the cycle time.
US11487395B2
A touch sensor according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a substrate layer, sensing electrodes formed on the substrate layer, at least one device hole penetrating through at least one of the sensing electrodes, a barrier wall pattern formed along a periphery of the device hole, and an extension pattern disposed in the device hole to be connected to the barrier wall pattern. Defects caused by an external static electricity in the device hole can be prevented by the barrier wall pattern and the extension pattern.
US11487393B2
A method for preparing stacking structure includes providing a substrate; disposing a metallic layer and a silver nanowire layer on the substrate; applying flexographic printing technology to print an anti-etching layer on a surface of the metallic layer or the silver nanowire layer so that the anti-etching layer partially covers the metallic layer or the silver nanowire layer; applying an etching technology to remove a part of the metallic layer or the silver nanowire layer that is not covered by the anti-etching layer and the metallic layer or the silver nanowire layer disposed therebelow with an etching liquid so that the metallic layer comprises: metallic wires; a metallic grid; and a metallic plate; and removing the anti-etching layer. A stacking structure comprises: the substrate; the metallic layer; and the silver nanowire layer. The method for preparing stacking structure and the stacking structure can be applied to a touch sensor.
US11487373B2
A display device featuring a touch detection and a fingerprint imaging functions is provided. A display device includes a light-emitting element and a light-receiving element. The light-emitting element includes a first pixel electrode, a light-emitting layer, and a common electrode, and the light-receiving element includes a second pixel electrode, an active layer, and the common electrode. The first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode are provided on the same plane. The common electrode overlaps with the first pixel electrode with the light-emitting layer therebetween, and overlaps with the second pixel electrode with the active layer therebetween. A first conductive layer, a second conductive layer, and an insulating layer are provided above the common electrode. The insulating layer is provided above the first conductive layer, and the second conductive layer is provided above the insulating layer. The light-receiving element has a function of receiving light emitted from the light-emitting element.
US11487371B2
The present embodiments relate to a touch technology and, more particularly, to a touch display device, which includes multiple first electrodes embedded in a display panel, at least one second electrode positioned outside the display panel, and a touch force sensing gap existing between the multiple first electrodes and the at least one second electrode, a method for driving the same, and a driving circuit for driving the multiple first electrodes and the at least one second electrode. The present embodiments, as described above, make it possible to sense not only a touch position, but also a touch force, with which the user presses the screen during a touch.
US11487365B2
An electronic apparatus that comprises at least a repositioning mechanism wherein at least one of said repositioning mechanisms alternately repositions for use and disuse at least an input device such that user can transition from using at least one of said input devices to using at least another one of said input devices even while both palms remain continuously engaged to their locations.
US11487364B2
Systems and processes for operating an intelligent automated assistant are provided. An example process includes detecting input representing motion of an electronic device and sampling an audio input with a microphone of the electronic device. The example process further includes determining, based on the audio input and the input representing motion of the electronic device, whether to initiate a virtual assistant session. In accordance with a determination to initiate the virtual assistant session, the example process includes initiating the virtual assistant session. In accordance with a determination not to initiate the virtual assistant session, the example process includes forgoing initiating the virtual assistant session.
US11487360B1
A gaze tracking method includes the following steps. Firstly, a to-be-analyzed facial image is captured. Then, whether the to-be-analyzed facial image conforms to a customized 3D face model is determined If not, a customized 3D face model of the to-be-analyzed facial image is created. If yes, an eye area image of the to-be-analyzed facial image is obtained. Then, according to the customized 3D face model and the to-be-analyzed facial image, head posture information is obtained. Then, an eye camera coordinate value referenced to a camera coordinate system is obtained. Then, the eye camera coordinate value is converted into an eye frame coordinate value referenced to a display frame coordinate system. Then, according to the eye frame coordinate value, the head posture information and an eyeball radius, an eyeball center point coordinate value is obtained, and accordingly a gaze coordinate value is obtained.
US11487357B2
In one embodiment, a computing system may determine a first region and a second region of an image based on gaze data of a user. The second region of the image may be displayed with lower image resolution. The system may access a first pixel value associated with the first region of the image and cause a first source driver circuit to generate a first pixel signal. The first pixel signal may be configured to control a luminance of a first number of pixels of the display. The system may access a second pixel value associated with the second region of the image and cause a second source driver circuit to generate a second pixel signal. The second pixel signal may be configured to control a second number of pixels, which is larger than the first number and may include a longer pulse duration than the first pixel signal.
US11487350B2
In accordance with certain implementations of the present approach, a reduced, element-by-element, data set is transmitted between a robot having a sensor suite and a control system remote from the robot that is configured to display a representation of the environment local to the robot. Such a scheme may be useful in allowing a human operator remote from the robot to perform an inspection using the robot while the robot is on-site with an asset and the operator is off-site. In accordance with the present approach, an accurate representation of the environment in which the robot is situated is provided for the operator to interact with.
US11487346B2
Methods, systems, and devices for grouping power supplies for a power saving mode are described to configure a memory device with groups of internal power supplies whose voltage levels may be successively modified according to a group order signaled by an on-die timer. For example, when the memory device enters a deep sleep mode, respective voltage levels of a first group of internal power supplies may be modified to respective external power supply voltage levels at a first time, respective voltage levels of a second group of internal power supplies may be modified to respective external power supply voltage levels at a second time, and so on. When the memory device exits the deep sleep mode, the groups of internal voltage supplies may be modified from the respective external power supply voltage levels to respective operational voltage levels in a group order that is opposite to the entry group order.
US11487338B2
The invention provides a voltage-following series power supply circuit, comprising a power supply end and a ground end; a power supply module comprising an input end connected to the power supply end, and an output end for providing a power supply to two or more to-be-powered chips, the power supply module and the to-be-powered chips connected in series between the power supply end and the ground end; and at least one auxiliary power supply module for supplying an auxiliary power supply to the to-be-powered chips, wherein a voltage following module is further connected between the power supply end and the auxiliary power supply module for adjusting a voltage of the auxiliary power supply.
US11487337B2
Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus, comprising: a memory configured to store program code; and electric circuitry including a processor, the processor being configured to read and operate according to the program code, the electronic circuitry configured to: set a plurality of candidate values of a parameter tunable in a computer system; trial each of the plurality of set candidate values of the parameter to the computer system for a predetermined period of time or a predetermined number of times and to calculate a reward in the computer system; select, when a trial satisfies a predetermined termination criterion, a candidate value of the parameter for which the maximum reward is calculated among the candidate values of the parameter and apply the selected candidate value of the parameter to the computer system; and re-set candidate values of the parameter based on the selected candidate value of the parameter to repeat.
US11487336B2
A method, a device, and an integrated circuit utilizes a temperature restricted mode. The method includes determining a temperature of the device. When the temperature is below a first threshold, the method includes enabling a first mode comprising select network operations. When the temperature is above a brick threshold, the method includes enabling a second mode comprising disabling the select network operations. When the temperature is above the first threshold and below the brick threshold, the method includes enabling a third mode comprising modifying at least one of the select network operations.
US11487333B2
An electronic device and a framework assembly for the same are provided. The electronic device includes a base structure, an antenna module and a first decorative board. The base structure has a first surface and a second surface corresponding in position to the first surface. The base structure includes a base body, a receiving slot disposed on the base body, and a first positioning portion disposed on the receiving slot. The antenna module is disposed in the receiving slot of the base structure and includes a mount element and an antenna disposed on the mount element. The mount element includes a second positioning portion corresponding in position to the first positioning portion. The first decorative board is disposed on the first surface of the base structure.
US11487329B2
A portable information device is described. The portable information device includes a first chassis, a second chassis, a display, and a flexible sheet-shaped member. The display includes a folding region located between the first and second chassis. The sheet-shaped member is attached to a first fixed point located at a position offset from a center of the folding region to a side of the first chassis, and is also attached to a second fixed point located at a position offset from the center of the folding region to a side of the second chassis. In addition, the sheet-shaped member includes a first strength changing section in which a flexural strength decreases gradually from the first fixed point towards a first inflection point, and a second strength changing section in which the flexural strength decreases gradually from the second fixed point towards a second inflection point.
US11487325B2
A dock for a portable electronic device includes a base and an arm movably supported on the base. The arm has a ratchet gear set and a distal end configured to engage the portable electronic device to secure the portable electronic device to the base. The dock further includes a ratchet pawl positioned within the base. The ratchet pawl is movable between a first position, in which the ratchet pawl engages the ratchet gear set to inhibit movement of the arm relative to the base, and a second position, in which the ratchet pawl disengages the ratchet gear set to allow movement of the arm relative to the base. The dock further includes an electronic actuator operable to actuate the ratchet pawl from the first position to the second position.
US11487319B2
An image display device has an image display unit including a display for displaying images and a backlight arranged behind the display to illuminate the display. The image display device includes an opening formed behind the image display unit, an optical sensor which detects light passing through the opening, and a sensor holder which holds the optical sensor, and the opening includes a protruding diaphragm and a passage hole.
US11487315B1
A method and a system for impact detection in a stationary vehicle are provided. The method includes putting a telematics device into a sleep mode, performing at least one micro wakeup, determining at least one value from at least one sensor during the micro wakeup. The method also includes storing the at least one value, returning to sleep mode, and waking up from the sleep mode. The method further includes sending the at least one value over a network interface to a telematics server. The telematics device which carries out the method has a controller, memory, and network interface. An accident impact profile may be recorded during the micro wakeups and sent during a wakeup duration for analysis by the telematics server.
US11487299B2
The disclosure relates to method and system for localizing an autonomous ground vehicle (AGV). In an example, the method includes receiving a line drawing corresponding to a two-dimensional (2D) camera scene captured by a camera mounted on the AGV, determining a plurality of ground-touching corner edges based on a plurality of horizontal edges and a plurality of vertical edges in the line drawing, determining a plurality of three-dimensional (3D) points corresponding to a plurality of 2D points in each of the plurality of ground-touching corner edges based on a mapping relationship between an angular orientation of a ground touching edge of an object in real-world and in camera scene and a set of intrinsic parameters of the camera, generating 2D occupancy data by plotting the plurality of 3D points in a 2D plane, and determining a location of the AGV based on the 2D occupancy data and the mapping relationship.
US11487298B2
An image processing device includes a search processor and an image region setting unit. The search processor sets a plurality of processing regions in a frame image, and calculates a vehicle degree with respect to each of the processing regions. The vehicle degree is a degree of vehicle likeliness of an image in a relevant one of the processing regions. The image region setting unit performs, on the basis of corner coordinates of four corners of each of the processing regions, weighted average calculation weighted with the vehicle degree with respect to each of the processing regions, to calculate corner coordinates of four corners of a vehicle image region including an image of a target vehicle, in the frame image.
US11487297B2
The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method of travel control, a device and a storage medium. In some exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure, a self-mobile device collects three-dimensional environment information on a travel path of itself in the travel process, identifies an obstacle area and a type thereof existing on the travel path of the self-mobile device based on the three-dimensional environment information, and the self-mobile device adopts different travel controls in a targeted manner for different types of the area, such that the obstacle avoidance performance of the self-mobile device is improved by adopting the method of the travel control in the present disclosure.
US11487296B2
A system for deterministic trajectory selection based on uncertainty estimation includes a set of one or more computing systems. A method for deterministic trajectory selection includes receiving a set of inputs; determining a set of outputs; determining uncertainty parameters associated with any or all of the set of inputs and/or any or all of the set of outputs; and evaluating the uncertainty parameters and optionally triggering a process and/or action in response.
US11487295B2
The invention relates to a method for abstracting a data record, wherein the data record is provided for machine learning at least one function, comprising the following steps: Training a complex neural network structure comprising different neural networks in the at least one function by way of machine learning based on the data record by means of a machine learning control apparatus, wherein the neural networks and the complex neural network structure are optimized with respect to maximum representativity of the data record, providing the trained complex neural network structure in the form of a data-record-specific knowledge module so that knowledge contained in the data record can be further used in a manner compliant with data protection. The invention further relates to an associated device.
US11487292B2
The disclosure relates to method and system for generating trajectory plan for autonomous ground vehicles (AGV). The method includes assessing an upcoming goal position for an AGV with respect to a current position of the AGV to establish a need for preparing a trajectory plan for a critical segment of the path. The method further includes determining, upon establishing the need, a next free road region based on a hint next rest pose along the critical segment, generating a trajectory sub-plan corresponding to the next free road region by iteratively determining a set of intermediate poses between the current rest pose and the hint next rest pose, and generating the trajectory plan for the critical segment of the path by iteratively generating the trajectory sub-plans between the current rest pose and the final goal pose.
US11487287B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to arranging a pick up and drop off locations between a driverless vehicle and a passenger. As an example, a method of doing so may include receiving a request for a vehicle from a client computing device, wherein the request identifies a first location. Pre-stored map information and the first location are used to identify a recommended point according to a set of heuristics. Each heuristic of the set of heuristics has a ranking such that the recommended point corresponds to a location that satisfies at least one of the heuristics having a first rank and such that no other location satisfies any other heuristic of the set of heuristics having a higher rank than the first rank. The pre-stored map information identifying a plurality of pre-determined locations for the vehicle to stop, and the recommended point is one of the plurality of pre-determined locations. The recommended point is then provided the client computing device for display on a display of the client computing device with a map.
US11487283B1
An electric aircraft comprises a single passenger seat, vertical takeoff and landing capable rotorcraft with an amphibious undercarriage for ground or water landing and takeoff. An electrical power system includes an independent battery for each motor with quick-swap mechanism to enable drained batteries to be easily removed for external charging and swapped for a charged replacement battery. A ballistic recovery system may be deployed to safely land the aircraft in the event of an emergency and may be manually deployed in response to the passenger activating a deployment mechanism integrated into handles within the cockpit. An on-board flight control system includes an automated flight controller that places constraints on flight maneuvers, and a manual flight controller provides a passenger with a limited level of control over the flight.
US11487278B2
A plant control and monitoring device includes a communication card having a first wireless communication chip on which a first unique ID is recorded, a CPU card having a second wireless communication chip on which a second unique ID is recorded, an input card having a third wireless communication chip on which a third unique ID is recorded, and a power supply unit having a fourth wireless communication chip on which a fourth unique ID is recorded. The first wireless communication chip reads out a unique ID from the second wireless communication chip or the fourth wireless communication chip, and transmits a read out unique ID to a maintenance tool through a control network. In a plant control and monitoring system, when the maintenance tool receives a unique ID transmitted through the control network, the maintenance tool collates the received unique ID with an ID database.
US11487264B2
The invention relates to a control system for automatically monitoring machine tasks and workflows performed by agriculture, mining or construction machines, comprising a computer for enabling a user to configure sensors and actuators and for reading sensor and actuator signals as sensor values and actuator statuses, a hardware interface for connecting the computer to an installed sensor and actuator network having a plurality of sensors and actuators, and a software configuration tool with a software interface, wherein the software interface enables a user to enter configuration instructions for instructing the computer, to configure a user-specifically customizable transformed sensor based on amending a sensor value and/or actuator status of a sensor and/or actuator of the sensor and actuator network and machine task based on logically linking sensor values, transformed sensor values and actuator statuses, wherein the user-specific customizability is enabled by providing a selectability, linkability and conditionability of sensor values, transformed sensor values and actuator statuses as variables, wherein at least two variables are logically linked and wherein at least one variable is conditioned based on using relational operators.
US11487262B2
A method for protecting a pump unit comprising a variable-speed fluid-conveying device, particularly a centrifugal pump, a drive and a control system, is provided, with protection in the event of cyber attacks. Signals relating to the speed and/or speed regulation of the fluid-conveying device are detected and then evaluated to detect a maliciously effected, anomalous operation of the pump unit characteristic of a cyber attack. At least one nominal variable and at least one actual variable derived from the analyzed signal are compared. Subsequently, a unit transmits signals to components of the pump unit in order to control the operation of the fluid-conveying device in a state in which the fluid-conveying device is protected from current and/or other cyber attacks.
US11487243B2
A holographic imaging device is disclosed. In one aspect, the holographic imaging device comprises an imaging unit comprising at least two light sources, wherein the imaging unit is configured to illuminate an object by emitting at least two light beams with the at least two light sources. A first and second light beams have different wave-vectors and wavelengths. The holographic imaging device further comprises a processing unit configured to obtain at least two holograms of the object by controlling the imaging unit to sequentially illuminate the object with respectively the first light beam and the second light beam, construct at least two 2D image slices based on the at least two holograms, wherein each 2D image slice is constructed at a determined depth within the object volume, and generate a three-dimensional image of the object based on a combination of the 2D image slices.
US11487242B2
An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus body including a main contact, and a main guide, and a cartridge including a memory contact, a moving unit moving into and out of the apparatus body in a first direction and including a frame to which the cartridge is attached, first and second protrusions protruding in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction from the end surface of the frame, an intermediate contact being in electrical contact with the memory contact, an unit contact being in electrical contact with the main contact, and a line conductor, the first protrusion being supported by the main guide of the apparatus body, the second protrusion being located above the first protrusion. At least part of the line conductor connecting the intermediate contact and the unit contact is located in a recess formed by the first protrusion, the second protrusion, and the end surface.
US11487240B2
A photosensitive member unit includes a photosensitive member, a transfer roller, a mounting portion capable of mounting a development unit including a development roller, a first gear and a second gear each provided at one end of the photosensitive member in an axial direction of the photosensitive member, and a third gear provided at one end of the transfer roller in an axial direction of the photosensitive member and configured to engage with the second gear. The first gear, the second gear, and the third gear are helical gears. A direction in which helical teeth of the first gear are inclined is opposite to a direction in which helical teeth of the second gear are inclined, and the direction in which the helical teeth of the first gear are inclined matches a direction in which helical teeth of the third gear are inclined.
US11487239B2
A developer supply container is detachably mountable to a developer receiving apparatus, the developer receiving apparatus including a developer receiving portion provided with a receiving port for receiving a developer and including a portion-to-be-engaged of displacing integrally with the developer receiving portion. The developer supply container includes a discharging portion provided with a shutter opening for discharging the developer accommodated in the developer accommodating portion, and an engaging portion. The engaging portion engages with the portion-to-be-engaged with a mounting operation of the developer supply container to displace the developer receiving portion so as to bring the receiving opening into fluid communication with the shutter opening. The engaging portion includes a curved portion having an angle relative to a mounting direction of the developer supply container, the angle decreasing with approach toward an upstream side in the mounting direction.
