US11857016B2
A head covering garment comprising two exterior components and a stretchable band. The garment is formed by folding a rectangular stretchable material in half and sewing side edges, except for a small portion which is left unattached, to create a stretchable band. Next, at least two exterior components are then sewn to the top and bottom edge portions of the stretchable material. The exterior components and the stretchable material are pulled through the opening left at the unattached portion in the stretchable material and the opening is finally sewn to form the finished garment. The additional versions of the head covering garment comprise of an opening in the stretchable band, a slip proof material, a storage strap, and a hairline treatment strip insert.
US11857010B2
An earpod holder for a configurable garment can include a button portion having a button surface that is connected to a button guide surface. The button guide surface can include a button aperture that can pass through the button guide surface and a button retention slot that can be formed on the button guide surface. The earpod holder further can include a body portion having sidewalls that can surround a body portion void that can be configured to accept the button guide surface. The body portion can include a front body portion aperture that passes through a front side of the sidewalls into the body portion void and a rear body aperture that can pass through a rear side of the sidewalls into the body portion void. The earpod holder further can include a sleeve retainer that can be configured to engage a sleeve that can hold an earpod.
US11857009B2
A liner includes a fabric body that covers at least a hip area and an abdomen area of a wearer or the hip area and buttocks area of a wearer. The fabric body having several regions that include at least a first region and a second region. The first region and the second region each having a different modulus than another of the several regions. The first region is an abdominal region or a buttocks region. The second region is selected from the following group of regions, namely a first abdominal border region, a second abdominal border region, a buttocks region if the buttocks region is not the first region, a bottom buttocks surrounding region, a top buttocks surrounding region, a side buttocks surrounding region, a side hip region, a waist whittler region, a waist transition region, a super waist whittler region, an abdominal region if the abdominal region is not the first region and any combination thereof.
US11857000B2
A women's undergarment item including two cups in a front portion, optionally separated by a center gore, two wings in a back portion, a sleeve attached to one of the wings and to a cup edge via an elastic material, and two straps joining each of the wings to one of the cups, wherein the straps are configured to support an edge of the sleeve that begins on one of the cups and ends in one of the wings, is provided.
US11856999B2
A sports garment includes a cup portion that receives and conforms to a user's breasts, a base portion disposed along a bottom edge of the cup portion, a first strap portion disposed along a first side edge of the base portion, and a second strap portion disposed along a second side edge of the base portion. The first and second strap portions each include a shoulder strap that may be removably coupled to the cup portion to adjust the tension of the sports garment and a side strap that may be removably coupled to a front surface of the base portion to adjust the tension of the sports garment. The first and second side straps may flex between an open position and a wrapped position.
US11856989B2
An atomizing structural member includes an atomizing core assembly and a heating element; the atomizing core assembly includes an atomizing portion and a liquid guiding portion, the heating element is embedded in the atomizing portion, and the atomizing portion is an article of porous material; the liquid guiding portion is arranged to be in contact with the atomizing portion, and the liquid guiding portion is used to deliver an atomizing medium to the atomizing portion; the atomizing portion has an inner wall and an outer wall, the inner wall forms a first atomizing face and a first air channel that delivers aerosol generated from the first atomizing face, the outer wall forms a second atomizing face, and the liquid guiding portion is provided with at least one opening to form a second air channel that delivers the aerosol generated from the second atomizing face.
US11856976B2
Heating systems utilizing radio frequency (RF) energy and methods for using the same to rapidly and uniformly heat packaged articles moving through the system on one or more convey lines. These systems may be useful for a variety of processes, including the pasteurization or sterilization of packaged foodstuffs.
US11856968B2
The present invention relates to a process-economic method for the disconnection/detachment of constituents consisting of water-soluble and dissolved compounds comprising proteins and/or carbohydrates and/or flavorings and/or colorant agents and/or fats and/or toxins; —optionally water-soluble and undissolved compounds comprising starch; —solid matter comprising cellulose-based fibers and/or lignin-rich shells; of a protein-containing biogenic starting material.
US11856965B2
An air-stable edible solid foam product includes at least one sweetener. In some embodiments, the air-stable edible solid foam is free of a whipping agent, and the foaming occurs by vacuum expansion. In some embodiments, the air-stable edible foam product includes at least one proteinaceous whipping agent derived from a plant source and the foaming occurs by whipping. A method of enhancing a beverage includes contacting a solid foam beverage enhancer including at least one sweetener and at least one flavoring agent to the beverage and disintegrating the solid foam beverage enhancer in the beverage within a predetermined period of time. Methods of making an air-stable edible solid foam product are also disclosed.
US11856956B2
The present invention relates to a composition comprising a) recombinant exosporium-producing Bacillus cells that express a fusion protein comprising: (i) at least one plant growth stimulating protein or peptide and (ii) a targeting sequence that localizes the fusion protein to the exosporium of the Bacillus cells; and b) at least one particular insecticide disclosed herein in a synergistically effective amount. Furthermore, the present invention relates to the use of this composition as well as a method for enhancing plant growth, promoting plant health, and/or reducing overall damage of plants and plant parts.
US11856943B2
A control system for an agricultural utility vehicle includes a distributor linkage for applying fertilizer, plant protection agents, or seed, the distributor linkage having a center part and two lateral extension arms. The center part is arranged so that it can be moved along a vertical axis to adjust the height of the distributor linkage. At least three sensors for determining the distance between the center part and a respective extension arm to the ground are assigned to the distributor linkage, and the system includes a data processing unit such that signals from the sensors are processed as actual values to generate an actuating signal for a hydraulic device is generated for adaptation to a target distance.
US11856940B1
A moated system for repelling insects. The moated system is a two-part system including a first body having a lip extending substantially perpendicularly along a rim, wherein the rim encloses a central area. A moat channel forms the second body and extends about a lower side of the rim, wherein the moat channel can be filled with liquid to prevent ants from crawling into the central area. A filling port having a funnel is disposed through the upper side of the rim and is positioned directly over the moat channel. The funnel extends into the moat channel to prevent the moat channel from overflowing. In some embodiments, the two-part system is in a configuration of servingware or a pet dish having an interior compartment, wherein other embodiments, the two-part system is utilized along a perimeter of a tabletop to prevent insects from accessing an upper surface thereof.
US11856938B1
A robotic rover that is configured to monitor a property is disclosed. In one aspect, the rover includes a sensor that is configured to generate sensor data. The rover further includes a processor that is configured to analyze the sensor data. The processor is further configured to determine that an unwanted animal is located at the property. The processor is further configured to generate an instruction to navigate the drone towards the unwanted animal. The rover further includes a motor that is configured to navigate the drone towards the unwanted animal in response to the instruction to navigate the drone towards the unwanted animal. The processor is further configured to generate an instruction to activate a device that is configured to encourage the unwanted animal to leave the property.
US11856921B1
The present invention is a therapeutic pad that is wearable by an animal to provide treatment for injury or pain without hampering mobility. Therapeutic pad includes a jacket/wrap, a pocket and at least one of a heating pack and/or a cooling pack. Jacket is made of flexible material, wearable by animal and made of various shapes to fit on different body parts of animal Jacket/wrap can be provided with fasteners that can easy wearing of jacket/wrap by animal Pocket can be provided anywhere on jacket/wrap and can be permanently or temporarily connected with jacket/wrap or can be an integral cavity of jacket/wrap. Heating pack and/or a cooling pack is provided within pocket. Heating pack and/or a cooling pack provides therapeutic treatment on affected area(s) for reducing swelling and/or pain.
US11856920B1
The present invention comprises a novel fishing tackle storage device and method formed by combining at least one connector and one collar, when operably assembled, efficiently supports and stores fishing tackle, and may be carried and positioned in a receptacle. In preferred embodiments, the various elements of the device, each configured, and when operably assembled form a fishing tackle storage device capable of both internal and external fishing tackle storage. The preferred embodiments of the aforementioned device includes the importance of apertures, caps, plugs, adhesives, methods of attachment, and their role in applications of internally and externally storing fishing tackle and its accessibility. Also included in these embodiments is the importance of the materials which make up their composition to accept and store fishing tackle effectively.
US11856919B2
A fish hook apparatus including a head member, a shank, a bend section, a point element, and securing elements and a method for producing a controllable action in a bait are provided. The head member is defined by a top nose element, opposing side walls, and a bottom end. The head member includes a channel with openings at the top nose element and an opposing side wall for passing a fishing line. A securing element, coupled to the bottom end of the head member, secures a head of the bait. Another securing element, coupled to any location of the bait, secures one end of the fishing line exiting from the head member to the bait. Controllably tugging the fishing line curls the secured bait backwards towards the head member and springs the secured bait forwards to produce a controllable action, for example, a worm-like action in the bait.
US11856917B2
A soybean cultivar designated 02220303 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 02220303, to the plants of soybean cultivar 02220303, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 02220303, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 02220303. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 02220303. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 02220303, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar 02220303 with another soybean cultivar.
US11856914B2
A soybean cultivar designated 01140108 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 01140108, to the plants of soybean cultivar 01140108, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 01140108, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 01140108. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 01140108. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 01140108, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar 01140108 with another soybean cultivar.
US11856905B2
Provided is a canola variety designated 18GG0453L and seed, plants and plant parts thereof produced from a cross of inbred varieties. Methods for producing a canola variety comprise crossing canola variety 18GG0453L with another canola plant. Methods for producing a canola plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into 18GG0453L through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the canola seed, plant and plant part produced thereby are described. Canola variety, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, plant parts and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of canola variety are disclosed.
US11856902B2
Facility layouts and configurations for an automated crop production system for controlled environment agriculture. In particular implementations, the core of the facility comprises a controlled growth environment and a central processing system. The controlled growth environment includes systems for exposing crops housed in modules, such as grow towers, to controlled environmental conditions. The central processing system may include various stations and functionality both for preparing crop-bearing modules to be inserted in the controlled growth environment, for harvesting crops from the crop-bearing modules after they have been extracted from the controlled growth environment, and for cleaning or washing crop-bearing modules for re-use. The controlled growth environment may include vertical farming structure having vertical grow towers and associated conveyance mechanisms for moving the vertical grow towers along one or more grow lines. The conveyance mechanisms may include a return transfer mechanism that creates a return or u-shaped path for each grow line.
US11856900B2
A method of delivering a consumable to an irrigation area may include determining application characteristics for applying the consumable to the irrigation area based on irrigation area characteristics of the irrigation area, generating an irrigation schedule for the irrigation area based on consumable characteristics of the consumable and the application characteristics, and transmitting the irrigation schedule to a local control to selectively activate one or more water outlets to the irrigation area based on the irrigation schedule.
US11856895B2
A bale binding mechanism is configured to wrap twine around a bale of severed crop material. The bale binding mechanism broadly includes a baling needle, a twine tensioner, and a sensor. A baler chassis presents a baling chamber in which the bale is formed. The baling needle is shiftable up and down relative to the baling chamber, with the needle being shiftable to advance twine upwardly along an end of the bale. The twine tensioner is configured to maintain tension on a tensioned twine section extending between the twine tensioner and the needle, with the tensioned twine section defining a twine feed axis. The twine tensioner includes a tension device that restricts upward advancement of the tensioned twine section. The twine tensioner also includes a shiftable guide element. The guide element is shiftable into and out of a twine feed position associated with upward advancement of the twine section, with the guide element operable to define an offset twine section offset from the twine feed axis in the twine feed position. The sensor is operably associated with the guide element to sense guide element movement corresponding to a twine over-tension condition, with the bale binding mechanism restricting twine from being passed out of the twine tensioner in response to the sensed twine over-tension condition.
US11856892B2
An attachment for an industrial or farm vehicle is designed to engage, carry and unroll a round hay bale. The attachment can be adjusted to interact with hay bales of various lengths. The attachment includes a support structure with features to attach to the vehicle. A first end of a first arm is pivotably connected proximate a first end of the support structure. A first end of a second arm is pivotably connected proximate the first end of the support structure. A spacing link is pivotably connected to second ends of the first and second arms. A first hay bale spear is attached to the spacing link. A third arm has a first end pivotably connected proximate a second end of the support structure. A second hale bay spear is attached proximate to a second end of the third arm and faces toward the first hay bale spear.
US11856889B2
A harvesting machine includes a header configured to gather harvested material into the harvesting machine during a harvesting operation, a conveyance subsystem configured to convey the harvested material from the harvesting machine to a receiving vehicle during the harvesting operation, an image capture system comprising at least one optical sensor, and a control system configured to determine a position of the receiving vehicle relative to the harvesting machine, determine an image magnification factor based on the determined position, and display, on a display device, an image of a portion of the receiving vehicle based on the image magnification factor.
US11856884B2
A header includes: a header frame; a cutter carried by the header frame; a roll disposed rearwardly of the cutter and configured to convey cut crop material rearwardly in a crop flow stream; a swath gate coupled to the header frame and movable between a spreading position and a converging position; a spreader coupled to the swath gate and configured to laterally spread the crop flow stream as the crop flow stream flows across the spreader; and a converger coupled to the swath gate and configured to converge the crop flow stream toward a centerline of the swath gate as the crop flow stream flows across the converger. The spreader and the converger are configured to not be in the crop flow stream at the same time, depending on the position of the swath gate.
US11864475B2
Methods, systems, and devices for a memory device with laterally formed memory cells are described. A material stack that includes a conductive layer between multiple dielectric layers may be formed, where the conductive layer and dielectric layers may form a channel in a sidewall of the material stack. The channel may be filled with one or more materials, where a first side of an outermost material of the one or more materials may be exposed. An opening may be formed in the material stack that exposes a second side of at least one material of the one or more materials. The opening may be used to replace a portion of the at least one material with a chalcogenide material where the electrode materials may be formed before replacing the portion of the at least one material with the chalcogenide material.
US11864469B2
A method for fabricating semiconductor device includes the steps of: forming a first inter-metal dielectric (IMD) layer on a substrate; forming a metal interconnection in the first IMD layer; forming a bottom electrode layer and a pinned layer on the first IMD layer; forming a sacrificial layer on the pinned layer; patterning the sacrificial layer, the pinned layer, and the bottom electrode layer to form a first magnetic tunneling junction (MTJ); forming a second IMD layer around the first MTJ; removing the sacrificial layer to form a recess; forming a barrier layer and a free layer in the recess; forming a top electrode layer on the free layer; and patterning the top electrode layer and the free layer to form a second MTJ.
US11864466B2
In a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, a magnetic random access memory (MRAM) cell structure is formed. The MRAM cell structure includes a bottom electrode, a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) stack and a top electrode. A first insulating cover layer is formed over the MRAM cell structure. A second insulating cover layer is formed over the first insulating cover layer. An interlayer dielectric (ILD) layer is formed. A contact opening in the ILD layer is formed, thereby exposing the second insulating cover layer. A part of the second insulating cover layer and a part of the first insulating cover layer are removed, thereby exposing the top electrode. A conductive layer is formed in the opening contacting the top electrode. The second insulating cover layer has an oxygen getter property.
US11864457B2
In a display device including a flexible display panel, the risk of disconnection of a wiring due to bending is reduced. A display panel includes a display function layer including display elements and a wiring on one major surface of a base material having flexibility. The display panel includes, on the one major surface of the base material, an organic-film-covered wiring area where the surface of the wiring is covered with an organic planarization film that is an organic insulating film in direct contact with the wiring. The display panel includes, in the plane thereof, a display area where the display elements are arranged and a component mounting area that is a peripheral area located outside the display area. As the organic-film-covered wiring area, a curved area is provided in the peripheral area.
US11864453B2
Provided is a mask including a mask frame including a base part in which cell openings are defined, and a coating part surrounding edges of the cell openings, covering at least a portion of an upper surface of the base part, and including a materials that is different from that of the base part, and unit masks on the mask frame, respectively corresponding to the cell openings, including a material that is different from that of the coating part, and in which openings are defined.
US11864451B2
An organic light emitting display device includes a substrate, a light emitting structure, a first conductive pattern, and a functional module. The substrate has an opening region, a peripheral region surrounding the opening region, and a display region surrounding the peripheral region, and includes a first groove, which has an enlarged lower portion, formed in the peripheral region and an opening formed in the opening region. The light emitting structure is in the display region on the substrate. The first conductive pattern overlaps the first groove in the peripheral region on the substrate. The functional module is in the opening of the substrate.
US11864448B2
The organic light-emitting diode (OLED) device of the present invention includes a display panel; a touch control structure disposed on the display panel and including: a first touch control layer and a second touch control layer, which are electrically connected to each other; and a fingerprint identification structure disposed on a same layer as the second touch control layer.
US11864442B2
A display panel and manufacturing method thereof are provided. The display panel includes a substrate, a first electrode, a hole injection layer, a hole transport layer, an electron blocking layer, an organic electroluminescent layer, a hole blocking layer, an electron transport layer, an electron injection layer, and a second electrode arranged sequentially. The electron blocking layer corresponding to a green sub-pixel region of the organic electroluminescent layer is made of a p-type green light host material. Accordingly, the present invention effectively simplifies a manufacturing process, adjusts and balances charge carriers, and improves device performance.
US11864440B2
An electroluminescent display device includes a substrate having an emission area and a transparent portion, the emission area including a sub-pixel, and the transparent portion being adjacent to the sub-pixel; a first electrode in the emission area and over the substrate; a transparent connection pattern in the transparent portion and over the substrate, the transparent connection pattern being spaced apart from the first electrode; a first bank covering an edge of the first electrode and exposing the transparent connection pattern in the transparent portion; and a second bank on the first bank and covering the transparent connection pattern in the transparent portion, wherein the second bank includes a transparent conductive material.
US11864426B2
An array substrate, a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device are provided. The array substrate includes: a base substrate; a light-emitting functional layer including a first light-emitting functional portion and a second light-emitting functional portion adjacent to each other; and a photo spacer (PS), the PS is located between the first light-emitting functional portion and the second light-emitting functional portion, the PS includes a plurality of protrusions protruded in a direction away from the base substrate and a first recess located between adjacent protrusions.
US11864424B2
A pixel comprises a pixel circuit connected to gate and data lines, and a light emitting diode having a first electrode connected to the pixel circuit, wherein the pixel circuit may include a driving thin film transistor connected to the first electrode of the light emitting diode, a first capacitor formed in a horizontal direction between a gate electrode and a source electrode of the driving thin film transistor, and a second capacitor formed in a vertical direction between the gate electrode of the driving thin film transistor and the first electrode of the light emitting diode.
US11864423B2
A thin film transistor substrate includes: a substrate, a first electrode disposed on the substrate, a bank disposed on the substrate and having an inclined surface inclined at an angle with respect to the substrate, a second electrode disposed on the bank, an active pattern electrically connected to the first electrode and the second electrode, disposed on the inclined surface, and including a first conductive region and a second conductive region in which impurities are doped, and a channel region between the first conductive region and the second conductive region, and a gate electrode overlapping at least a portion of the channel region of the active pattern. The inclined surface extends in a first direction in a plan view. The first conductive region, the channel region, and the second conductive region are sequentially disposed on the inclined surface along a second direction that crosses the first direction.
US11864409B2
A light-emitting unit (140) is formed over a first surface (102) of a substrate (100). A first terminal (112) and a second terminal (132) are formed on the first surface (102) of the substrate (100), and are electrically connected to the light-emitting unit (140). A sealing layer (200) is formed over the first surface (102) of the substrate (100), and seals the light-emitting unit (140). In addition, the sealing layer (200) does not cover the first terminal (112) and the second terminal (132). A cover layer (210) is formed over the sealing layer (200), and is formed of a material different from that of the cover layer (210). In at least a portion of a region located next to the first terminal (112) and a region located next to the second terminal (132), a portion of an end of the cover layer (210) protrudes from the sealing layer (200).
US11864408B2
In non-limiting example embodiments, an electroluminescent device may include a lower structure including an emission area, and an encapsulation structure located on the lower structure. The lower structure may include a window. The window may be a light transmitting region or a notch. The light transmitting region may be spaced apart from the emission area and completely or partially surrounded by the emission area in a plan view. The notch may be formed at one side of the lower structure and recessed inward in a plan view such that one side of the emission area substantially conforms to the notch.
US11864400B2
Provided are an organic light-emitting device and an electronic apparatus including the same. The organic light-emitting device includes: a first electrode; a second electrode facing the first electrode; and an organic layer between the first electrode and the second electrode and including an emission layer, wherein the emission layer includes a first host and a first dopant, and the first host and the first dopant each satisfy Equations 1-1 and 1-2. In Equations 1-1 and 1-2, T1(H1)onset, T1(D1)onset, T1(H1)max, and T1(D1)max are understood by referring to the description provided herein. T1(H1)onset≥T1(D1)onset Equation 1-1 T1(H1)max≤T1(D1)max. Equation 1-2
US11864391B2
A magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM) includes a first transistor and a second transistor on a substrate, a source line coupled to a first source/drain region of the first transistor, and a first metal interconnection coupled to a second source/drain region of the first transistor. Preferably, the first metal interconnection is extended to overlap the first transistor and the second transistor and the first metal interconnection further includes a first end coupled to the second source/drain region of the first transistor and a second end coupled to a magnetic tunneling junction (MTJ).
US11864390B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory device includes the following structure. A memory array is provided on a first-direction side of a substrate. The first direction intersects the substrate. The first peripheral circuit is provided between the substrate and the memory array. The second peripheral circuit is provided between the substrate and the memory array and on a second-direction side of the first peripheral circuit. The second direction intersects the first direction. The sense amplifier is provided between the substrate and the memory array and between the first and second peripheral circuits. A second-direction length of the second peripheral circuit is smaller than half a second-direction length of the sense amplifier.
US11864380B2
Some embodiments include an integrated assembly having a memory array region which includes channel material pillars extending through a stack of alternating conductive and insulative levels. A second region is adjacent the memory array region. A conductive expanse is within the memory array region and electrically coupled with the channel material of the channel material pillars. A panel extends across the memory array region and the second region. The panel separates one memory block region from another. The panel has a first portion over the conductive expanse, and has a second portion adjacent the first portion. The panel has a bottom surface. A first segment of the bottom surface is adjacent an upper surface of the conductive expanse. A segment of the bottom surface within the second portion is elevationally offset relative to the first segment. Some embodiments include methods of forming integrated assemblies.
US11864367B2
Bonded semiconductor devices having processor and NAND flash memory and methods for forming the same
First semiconductor structures are formed on a first wafer. At least one of the first semiconductor structures includes a processor, an array of SRAM cells, and a first bonding layer including first bonding contacts. Second semiconductor structures are formed on a second wafer. At least one of the second semiconductor structures includes an array of NAND memory cells and a second bonding layer including second bonding contacts. The first wafer and the second wafer are bonded in a face-to-face manner, such that the at least one of the first semiconductor structures is bonded to the at least one of the second semiconductor structures. The first bonding contacts of the first semiconductor structure are in contact with the second bonding contacts of the second semiconductor structure at a bonding interface. The bonded first and second wafers are diced into dies. At least one of the dies includes the bonded first and second semiconductor structures.
US11864363B2
The present application provides a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes a panel main body and a heat dissipation layer disposed on one side of the panel main body. The panel main body includes a first body portion. The heat dissipation layer includes a first heat dissipation portion corresponding to the first body portion. A surface of the first heat dissipation portion on one side away from the panel main body is a non-flat surface, so that a contact area of the heat dissipation layer with an outside of the display panel is increased, to avoid display abnormalities on the display panel due to poor heat dissipation.
US11864361B2
The device has a first support element forming a first thermal dissipation surface and carrying a first power component; a second support element forming a second thermal dissipation surface and carrying a second power component, a first contacting element superimposed to the first power component; a second contacting element superimposed to the second power component; a plurality of leads electrically coupled with the power components through the first and/or the second support elements; and a thermally conductive body arranged between the first and the second contacting elements. The first and the second support elements and the first and the second contacting elements are formed by electrically insulating and thermally conductive multilayers.
US11864352B1
A novel and useful system wiring apparatus and related techniques that address the need to feed power and electronic signals to and from a sample board between the cold, low pressure region in a vacuum chamber and outside room temperature and atmospheric pressure. The wiring apparatus balances electrical resistance with the thermal conductivity of the power and signal conductors. Printed flexible cables are used having an annular sealing region which together with O-rings provide vacuum sealing while allowing electrical signals to pass between integrated circuit(s) inside the vacuum chamber and equipment outside the chamber. A thermal anchor is placed along the printed flexible cable to maintain a desired temperature along the cable. The printed flexible circuits are multilayer with two outer layers serving as an RF shield while two inner layers comprise the signal lines which typically require shielding, electrical isolation from each other and from external electromagnetic fields.
US11864348B2
A thermal management unit includes a heat sink, which includes a base portion having a first side and a second side opposite the first side. The heat sink also includes a first protrusion structure and a second protrusion structure. The first protrusion structure protrudes from the first side of the base portion, and the first protrusion structure includes a plurality of fins. The second protrusion structure protrudes from the second side of the base portion, and the second protrusion structure includes a plurality of ribs.
US11864347B2
A heat sink assembly for use with at least one heat-emitting component where the heat sink assembly includes a first phase change material conductively coupled to the at least one heat-emitting component and changing phase at a first temperature and a second phase change material conductively coupled to the first phase change material and changing phase at a second temperature, which is greater than the first temperature.
US11864342B2
The present disclosure provides a fan module and a case including the fan module. The fan module includes a fan, a fan bracket and a traction structure. The fan bracket includes: a fixed bottom plate for carrying and fixing the fan; and a connection structure, connected to the fixed bottom plate and used for being connected to a case through plugging. The traction structure is mounted on the fan bracket, and is used for pulling the fan bracket from the inside of the case to the outside of the case. In the present disclosure, the fan module is plugged into the case, and is pulled to the outside of the case from the inside of the case through a traction interface. In this way, the fan maintenance is implemented without disassembling the case or cutting off the power, the maintenance efficiency is improved, and the maintenance cost is reduced.
US11864336B2
A casing assembly includes a carrier, a pivotable component, and a handle, where the carrier has a positioning slot with a fixing end, the pivotable component is pivotably disposed on the carrier, the handle is movably disposed on the pivotable component and pivotably connected to the carrier via the pivotable component, the handle has an engagement element selectively inserted into the positioning slot and engaged with the fixing end.
US11864335B2
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to systems, devices, lockable enclosures, and methods for data centers. In one example, a lockable enclosure for a data drive is provided. The lockable enclosure includes a housing configured to retain a first data drive and a latch contained within the housing and configured to receive a second data drive, wherein the latch is configured to move within the housing for dispensing the first data drive from the housing while the second data drive remains secured therein.
US11864332B2
Disclosed are a control box and a display device including the same. The control box includes a case providing an inner accommodation space and having an opening formed in the upper surface thereof, a first plate supported by the lower surface of the case, a second plate located on the first plate so as to be spaced apart from the first plate, a third plate located on the second plate so as to be spaced apart from the second plate, a rotary plate covering the opening in the case and rotatably mounted to the third plate, and a transceiver located inside the case and coupled to the rotary plate. The display device includes a head including a display panel, and the head exchanges information with the transceiver.
US11864330B2
A thermally isolating mounting boss for mechanically and electrically coupling a PCB to a chassis while thermally isolating the PCB from the chassis comprises a base section with a base surface coupled to the chassis and an isolation section comprising a plurality of pillars for thermally isolating the PCB from the chassis. A connector maintains the PCB in contact with the plurality of pillars, wherein the connector and the plurality of pillars form grounding circuits. The small cross-section area of each pillar and the cross-section area of the connector have increased thermal resistance to thermally isolate the PCB from the chassis. The pillars may extend from the base section or may be arranged radially outward of the base section.
US11864329B2
A method for manufacturing a fan-out chip packaging structure with decreased use of a crack-inducing hot-soldering process includes a first carrier plate with first and a second outer wiring layers. Two first conductive posts are formed on the first outer wiring layer, one end of each post is electrically connected to the first outer wiring layer. A receiving groove is formed between first conductive posts, and a sidewall of each post is surrounded by a first insulating layer. An embedded component is laid in the receiving groove and a second carrier plate is formed on the first insulating layer, wherein the second carrier plate carries third and fourth outer wiring layers. A first outer component is connected to the second outer wiring layer, and a second outer component is connected to the fourth outer wiring layer.
US11864328B2
An FPC connection structure including: several strands of FPC conductor patterns coated with an insulating film; and FPC terminals each extending from one end portion of each of the FPC conductor patterns and provided in a flat type to enable spot welding on a substrate terminal unit provided on the printed circuit board.
US11864324B2
The mounting system includes a mounting device, having a mounting loading section from which components can be picked up and a buffer loading section from which components cannot be picked up, and a moving work device for collecting or loading feeders. Further, this mounting system includes a moving work management device configured to create, in the production of a mounting target, pre-arrangement information, based on a production plan including multiple pieces of mounting condition information, which causes the moving work device to load the standby feeder to be used from the next time onward to the buffer loading section in an order corresponding to the arrangement positions of the feeders from the next time onward.
US11864320B2
An image display and a combined-type circuit carrying and controlling module thereof are provided. The combined-type circuit carrying and controlling module includes a first circuit substrate structure, a control substrate structure, a second circuit substrate structure, an insulative connection structure and a conductive connection structure. The first circuit substrate structure includes a first carrier substrate, a first circuit layout layer and a plurality of first conductive penetration bodies. The control substrate structure includes a circuit substrate and a circuit control chip. The second circuit substrate structure includes a second carrier substrate and a second circuit layout layer. The insulative connection structure is connected between the first carrier substrate and the second carrier substrate. The conductive connection structure is electrically connected between the first circuit layout layer and the second circuit layout layer.
US11864315B2
A vertical interconnection structure of a multi-layer substrate includes a first via pad disposed in a first layer of metal interconnect of the multi-layer substrate; a second via pad disposed in a second layer of metal interconnect of the multi-layer substrate; a signal via electrically connecting the first via pad to the second via pad; a non-circular first ground plane disposed in the first layer of metal interconnect of the multi-layer substrate and surrounding the first via pad; and a non-circular first ground pullback region between the first via pad and the non-circular first ground plane for electrically isolating the first via pad from the non-circular first ground plane.
US11864312B2
According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a printed circuit board includes: an insulating base film; and a plurality of wiring portions formed on a surface of the base film, wherein the wiring portions include a seed layer that is directly or indirectly layered on the surface of the base film and a metal layer that is layered on the seed layer, wherein the base film has a wiring area including the plurality of wiring portions and a non-wiring area not including the wiring portions, wherein the plurality of wiring portions include at least one outermost boundary wiring portion and a plurality of inner wiring portions other than the outermost boundary wiring portion, wherein the outermost boundary wiring portion is formed on an outermost side of the base film in the wiring area and at a boundary between the wiring area and the non-wiring area, wherein an average width of the outermost boundary wiring portion is 30 μm or more, wherein an average width of the inner wiring portions is 20 μm or less, and wherein an average aspect ratio of the inner wiring portions is 1.5 or more.
US11864307B2
A printed circuit board includes a first substrate portion including a plurality of first insulating layers, a plurality of first wiring layers respectively disposed on the plurality of first insulating layers, and a plurality of first adhesive layers respectively disposed between the plurality of first insulating layers to respectively cover the plurality of first wiring layers; and a second substrate portion disposed on the first substrate portion, and including a plurality of second insulating layers, a plurality of second wiring layers respectively disposed on the plurality of second insulating layers, and a plurality of second adhesive layers respectively disposed between the plurality of second insulating layers to respectively cover the plurality of second wiring layers.
US11864306B2
A component carrier includes i) a first layer stack having a first electrically conductive layer structure and/or at least one first electrically insulating layer structure, ii) a component embedded in the first layer stack, iii) a second layer stack having at least one second electrically conductive layer structure and/or at least one second electrically insulating layer structure, and iv) a thermally conductive block embedded in the second layer stack. Hereby, the first layer stack and the second layer stack are connected with each other so that a thermal path from the embedded component via the thermally conductive block up to an exterior surface of the component carrier has a minimum thermal conductivity of at least 7 W/mK, in particular at least 40 W/mK. Further, a method of manufacturing the component carrier is described.
US11864304B2
An electronic device may include electrical components and other components mounted within an interior of a housing. The device may have a display on a front face of the device and may have a glass layer that forms part of the housing on a rear face of the device. The glass layer may be provided with regions having different appearances. The regions may be textured, may have coatings such as thin-film interference filter coatings formed from stacks of dielectric material having alternating indices of refraction, may have metal coating layers, and/or may have ink coating layers. Textured surfaces may be formed on thin glass layers and polymer films that are coupled to the glass layer. A glass layer may be formed from a pair of coupled glass layers. The coupled layers may have one or more recesses or other structures to visually distinguish different regions of the glass layer.
US11864294B2
A device is configured to provide assistance during extravehicular activity. The device obtains and operates on first data indicative of one or more objects in a detection space. The device is configured to process the first data for determination of one or more properties for the object(s); evaluate, based on the one or more properties, the object(s) in relation to a set of rules to determine one or more user instructions, and cause an illumination arrangement to provide the one or more user instructions by selective projection of the light in relation to the one or more objects. The device thereby reduces the reliance on cognitive processing by user(s) to take decisions on how to proceed in a situation, and instead the cognitive processing of information about the surroundings in relation to the task at hand is offloaded to the device.
US11864288B2
Self-identifying solid-state transducer (SST) modules and associated systems and methods are disclosed herein. In several embodiments, for example, an SST system can include a driver and at least one SST module electrically coupled to the driver. Each SST module can include an SST and a sense resistor. The sense resistors of each SST module can have at least substantially similar resistance values. The SSTs of the SST modules can be coupled in parallel across an SST channel to the driver, and the sense resistors of the SST modules can be coupled in parallel across a sense channel to the driver. The driver can be configured to measure a sense resistance across the sense resistors and deliver a current across the SSTs based on the sense resistance.
US11864283B2
A temperature monitor and control system for a pixel array includes a first driver connected to a first pixel connected to bus by a first switch, a second driver connected to a second pixel connected to a bus by a second switch, and a control block including connection to the first and second switches. The control block turns on the first switch and turns off the second switch, measures bus voltage, determines an LED forward voltage shift of the first pixel and corresponding temperature shift for the first pixel based on the determined forward voltage shift, and adjusts a driving current for first pixel based on the determined temperature shift.
US11864277B2
Session Communication Proxies (SCPs) generate SCP status information and/or SCP location information. A source network function selects one of the SCPs based on the SCP status information and/or the SCP location information. The source network function transfers data to the selected one of the SCPs. The selected one of the SCPs receives the data, selects a target network function, and transfers the data to the target network function. In some examples, a Network Repository Function (NRF) prioritizes the SCPs based on the SCP status information and/or the SCP location information, and the source network function selects the one of the SCPs based on the SCP prioritization.
US11864274B2
A configuration for an originating wireless device to transmit one or more MAC-CEs, where each of the one or more MAC-CEs include information related to the number of MAC-CEs transmitted. The apparatus transmits at least one of a plurality of related MAC-CEs to a second wireless device based on a determination of at least a first path of a plurality of paths to transmit the at least one of the plurality of related MAC-CEs. The at least one of the plurality of related MAC-CEs indicates a number of the plurality of related MAC-CEs transmitted by the first wireless device. The apparatus monitors for a response MAC-CE from the second wireless device based on a transmission of the at least one of the plurality of related MAC-CEs. The response MAC-CE corresponds to an activation of the MAC-CE transmitted to the second wireless device.
US11864270B2
According to some embodiments, a method performed by a network node of incrementally obtaining wireless device capability information comprises: receiving a context setup request for a wireless device from an access and mobility management function (AMF); determining the context setup request does not include device capability information relevant to the network node; transmitting a device capability enquiry to the wireless device; receiving a user UE-ModelId from the wireless device; determining the network node does not have stored device capability information associated with the UE-ModelId; transmitting a device capability enquiry that include a capability filter to the wireless device; receiving a subset of device capabilities identified by the first capability filter from the wireless device; and updating stored device capability information associated with the UE-ModelId with the subset of device capabilities.
US11864267B2
This Application describes mechanisms to transfer cellular service plans and associated credentials efficiently between wireless devices. Information regarding transferability of cellular services for SIMs/eSIMs to a wireless device are obtained from locally stored or remotely accessible cellular service information and/or associated mobile network operator (MNO) information. Access to network-based servers to determine transferability and/or to effect transfer can use non-cellular connections when available. Transferability information can be presented to a user to narrow selection of cellular service plans to transfer.
US11864259B2
A user equipment, apparatus, and method receives from a base station, a message for transitioning a user equipment from a Radio Resource Control (RRC) connected state to a RRC inactive state, starts a timer included in the message, transitioning to a RRC idle state from the RRC inactive state after the timer expires, discards a cell reselection priority included in the message in response to transitioning to the RRC idle state, and applies another cell reselection priority acquired from a serving cell.
US11864247B2
A method of operating a core access and mobility management function (AMF) node configured to operate in a communications network includes receiving a protocol data unit (PDU) session request from user equipment (UE). The PDU session request includes a requested data network name (DNN). The method also includes determining if a trigger has been activated. The method further includes receiving a manipulated DNN or replacement DNN for the requested DNN in response to the trigger being activated.
US11864245B2
This application discloses a physical random access channel (PRACH) resource processing method and an apparatus, to resolve a PRACH resource interference problem in a new radio NR system. The method in embodiments of this application includes: receiving, by a first access device, first information from a second access device, where the first information includes at least one of PRACH resource information of beam failure recovery (BFR), PRACH resource information of on-demand system information (OSI), and PRACH resource information of an uplink (UL) carrier; and performing, by the first access device, processing based on the first information.
US11864244B2
The present disclosure relates to a wireless communication system. Specifically, provided is a method and an apparatus for supporting same, the method comprising the steps of: obtaining random access procedure-related message A, message A including a physical random access channel (PRACH) preamble and a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH); transmitting message A; and receiving random access procedure-related message B as a response to message A, wherein the PUSCH comprises a demodulation reference signal (DM-RS), and PRACH preamble is mapped to (i) one or more DM-RS ports and (ii) one or more DM-RS sequences on the basis of indices of respective (i) one or more DM-RS ports and indices of respective (ii) one or more DM-RS sequences.
US11864240B2
A method of operating a base station in a wireless telecommunications system to support a first random access procedure for a first terminal device of a first type and a second random access procedure for a second terminal device of a second type, wherein a message size for an uplink message of the second random access procedure is greater than a message size for a corresponding uplink message of the first random access procedure.
US11864238B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may receive, from a base station, a random access configuration indicating synchronization signal block (SSB)-to-random access channel (RACH) occasion mapping information, wherein the SSB-to-RACH occasion mapping information is associated with a first set of RACH occasions and a second set of RACH occasions, select a RACH occasion based at least in part on the SSB-to-RACH occasion mapping information, and transmit, to the base station, a physical RACH communication using the RACH occasion based at least in part on selecting the RACH occasion. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11864218B1
The disclosed technology provides a system and method for determining an uplink (UL) waveform for a mobile device to use for UL transmission in carrier aggregation or dual connectivity modes, where the UL waveform is selected to eliminate or minimize the deleterious effects of intermodulation distortion (IMD). The system identifies frequency bands scheduled for use by the mobile device for concurrent UL transmissions and for DL transmissions and determines if the combination of frequency bands can lead to high IMD. If the combination can lead to high IMD, the system can instruct the mobile device to switch to a Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT)-spread Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) (DFT-s-OFDM) waveform for UL transmissions; if the combination would not likely lead to high IMD, the system can instruct the mobile device to switch to a Cyclic Prefix OFDM (CP-OFDM) waveform for the UL transmissions.
US11864212B2
Methods, systems, and devices related to related to digital wireless communication, and more specifically, to techniques related to transmitting pre-configured dedicates resources for data transmission. In one exemplary aspect, a method for wireless communication includes transmitting a pre-configured transmission resource information indicating a time domain location to a core network node. The method also includes receiving transmission data from the core network node at the time domain location indicated in the pre-configured transmission resource information. In another exemplary aspect, a method for wireless communication includes connecting a communication node to a core network node. The method also includes receiving transmission data including a pre-configured transmission resource information at a time domain location from the core network node.
US11864210B2
This disclosure provides systems, methods, and devices for wireless communication that support mechanisms for semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) and hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback skipping for user equipment (UE)-initiated transmissions. A UE configured for extended reality (XR) operations and an SPS configuration including a plurality of SPS occasions, each SPS occasion configured with at least one downlink resource and at least one uplink resource, collects pose information related to at least one SPS occasion. The UE determines, based on the pose information, to skip at least one SPS occasion. The UE sends an indication of the determination to skip the at least one SPS occasion to a base station. The indication is transmitted in a preconfigured uplink resource or may be piggybacked in an uplink transmission. The base station may reallocate the resources configured for the at least one SPS occasion based on receiving the indication.
US11864193B2
Disclosed is a method for sending a control channel. The method includes: a first communication node determining second transmission parameter information about the control channel according to at least one of first control information or first parameter information and sending the control channel to a second communication node according to the second transmission parameter information. The first parameter information includes at least one of the following information: information about a demodulation reference signal corresponding to the first control information, information about a demodulation reference signal of a data channel corresponding to the control channel, information about a type of second control information transmitted on the control channel, and information about a channel coding rate corresponding to the first control information. The first control information is sent by the second communication node to the first communication node and the second control information is sent by the first communication node to the first communication node. The second control information is on the control channel. Further disclosed are a device for sending a control channel, a method for receiving a control channel and a device for receiving a control channel.
US11864188B2
The present disclosure relates to a communication technique for converging, with an IoT technology, a 5G communication system for supporting a higher data transfer rate than 4G systems, and a system therefor. The present disclosure may be applied to 5G communication technology and IoT related technology-based intelligent services (for example, smart homes, smart buildings, smart cities, smart cars or connected cars, health care, digital education, retail, security and safety related services, etc.). The present invention relates to a scheduling method and apparatus for uplink data transmission and downlink data reception.
US11864185B2
A wireless device may communicate via a primary cell comprising a primary control channel, and via a secondary cell comprising a secondary control channel, and may signal a scheduling request for the transmission of information via either of the control channels. A scheduling request prohibit timer may be started for the transmission via either of the control channels.
US11864182B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may multiplex one or more demodulation reference signals (DMRSs) with data or uplink control information in each symbol of one or more physical uplink communications. The UE may transmit the symbols of the one or more physical uplink communications. The physical uplink communications may include physical uplink repetitions. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11864181B2
One embodiment relates to a sidelink terminal device which transmits a PSCCH in a wireless communications system, the device comprising: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory, wherein the processor transmits a PSCCH by using at least some resources among PSCCH candidate resources associated with PSSCH candidate resources, and the resources for transmitting the PSCCH include a number Z of sequential resource blocks (RBs) and also include the center frequency of the PSCCH candidate resources on the frequency axis.
US11864177B2
A method for performing a beam failure recovery procedure in a wireless communication system according to an embodiment of the present disclosure, the method performed by a user equipment (UE) includes receiving configuration information related to the BFR, receiving a downlink reference signal (DL RS) based on the configuration information, detecting a beam failure based on measurement for the DL RS, and transmitting a request message for the BFR. The request message for the BFR is transmitted based on a PUCCH resource related to a scheduling request (SR). 1) The PUCCH resource related to the SR is one of a plurality of PUCCH resources configured for the beam failure recovery, and 2) the beam failure is based on being related to one or more cells: the PUCCH resource related to the SR is a specific PUCCH resource determined based on a preconfigured criterion among the plurality of PUCCH resources.
US11864168B2
The disclosure provides a method and a device in a User Equipment (UE) and a base station for wireless communication. The UE receives a first signaling, receives a first radio signal in a first time window, and then transmits a feedback on the first radio signal in a second time window. The first signaling is used for determining time-domain resources occupied by the first radio signal; a first time-domain deviation is a deviation in time domain between the second time window and the first time window; when the first signaling carries a first identifier, the first time-domain deviation is one of K1 first-type candidate deviation(s), and K1 is a positive integer; when the first signaling carries a second identifier, the first time-domain deviation is one of K2 second-type candidate deviation(s), and K2 is a positive integer.
US11864165B2
A method of transmitting a frame by a station (STA) in a wireless LAN system supporting an HE PPDU (high efficiency physical layer protocol data unit) according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: setting a first duration field included in an HE-SIG A field; and transmitting a frame including the HE-SIG A field and a MAC header, wherein the first duration field is set to indicate a TXOP (transmission opportunity) value using a smaller number of bits than a second duration field included in the MAC header, and a granularity of a time unit used for indicating the TXOP value in the first duration field is set to be different from a granularity of a time unit used in the second duration field.
US11864160B2
Presented in one embodiment of the present invention is a method by which a first terminal communicates with a second terminal in a wireless communication system, comprising the steps of: allowing the first terminal to receive control information from a base station; allowing the first terminal to select a transmission resource on the basis of the control information; and allowing the first terminal to communicate with a second terminal on the basis of the transmission resource, wherein the control information is transmitted to the first terminal and the second terminal by the base station, and the control information includes information for preventing a transmission resource selection collision between the first terminal and the second terminal. The first terminal is capable of communicating with at least one of another UE, a UE related to an autonomous driving vehicle, a base station or a network.
US11864152B2
Systems and methods of determining a location of a mobile computing device associated with a real-time locating system are provided. For instance, a mobile computing device can determine a first location of the mobile computing device. The mobile computing device can then receive acoustic-contextual data that is correlated with the first location of the mobile computing device. The acoustic-contextual data can include data associated with one or more transmitting devices, and data associated with an environment proximate the one or more transmitting devices. The mobile computing device can receive one or more signals from at least one of the one or more transmitting devices, and can determine a more accurate second location of the mobile computing device based at least in part on the acoustic-contextual data and the one or more received signals.
US11864150B2
A method and network node for uplink coordinated multipoint positioning are disclosed. According to one aspect, a method includes employing a coordinated multipoint function to decode data from a WD using signals received from the WD by the network node and from signals received from the WD by a plurality of cooperating network nodes. The method further includes converting the decoded WD data signal into a time domain reference signal and convert the signals received from the plurality of cooperating network nodes into time domain neighbour signals. The method also includes cross-correlating the time domain reference signal with the time domain neighbour signals to determine a time difference of arrival for each of the plurality of time domain neighbour signals. The method also includes calculating a position of the WD based on the time differences of arrival and based on locations of the cooperating network nodes.
US11864149B2
This disclosure combines the Attach and Tracking Area Update procedures into one new mobility procedure: the Registration procedure. One advantage of the proposed Registration procedure is that, if the new SHF is unable to obtain UE data from the old SHF the new SHF will nevertheless register the UE so that the UE does not have to perform another registration procedure (e.g., an Attach procedure).
US11864148B2
A method includes receiving, by an equipment identity register application in the target mobile network, an International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) of a user equipment (UE) associated with the subscriber and a Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) identifier (ID) identifying an inactive SIM card inserted into the UE or an inactive electronic SIM (eSIM) profile installed at the UE, determining that the UE is attempting to attach to the target mobile network for a first time based on the IMEI and the SIM ID, adding an event to an event queue of the target mobile network, and processing the event by accessing subscriber data stored at the source mobile network to validate that the IMEI of the UE is indicated in the subscriber data stored at the source mobile network, wherein the subscriber data includes a subscriber account indicated by the IMEI of the UE.
US11864140B2
A system and method are provided for enhanced multi-way time transfer for time synchronization between at least one slave node and one master node. A slave node sends a first message to the master node to launch a time synchronization between the slave node and the master node. Upon receiving the first message, the master node adds a receiving time on a master clock to the first message to form a second message. The master node sends the second message back to the slave node and the slave node adds a receiving time on the slave clock to the second message to form an updated message. The slave node performs a time adjustment to the slave clock based on the updated message, thereby synchronizing time between the slave node and the master node.
US11864137B2
An apparatus for synchronizing end nodes in a vehicle has an emitter for emitting a synchronization signal to the end nodes and a receiver for receiving one or more response signals from the end nodes. The synchronization signal is adapted to address a subset or all of the end nodes to enable a synchronized action of the addressed end nodes and/or to trigger a generation of one or more response signals in response to the received synchronization signal.
US11864135B2
The present invention relates to a wireless communication system and particularly to a method and a device therefor, the method comprising the steps of: detecting an SSB, the SSB comprising 15 kHz-granularity-based offset information; determining, on the basis of the 15 kHz-granularity-based offset information, a subcarrier offset used to identify the frequency position of a CORESET linked to the SSB; and monitoring, on the basis of the subcarrier offset, the CORESET linked to the SSB.
US11864121B2
A communication method is provided, including: determining, by a first device, a relative power ratio between a phase tracking reference signal (PTRS) and a data channel; determining, by the first device, a transmit power of the PTRS based on the relative power ratio of the PTRS to the data channel; and sending, by the first device, the PTRS to a second device by using the transmit power of the PTRS.
US11864120B2
Embodiments are presented herein of apparatuses, systems, and methods for a user equipment device (UE) to perform power control for uplink (UL) reference signals (RS). A UE may determine spatial configuration for UL RS based on another communication. A UE may determine an updated pathloss within a reduced implementation following an update of downlink (DL) RS. A UE may reset a power control factor in response to receiving an update.
US11864118B2
An apparatus for powering a low power communication module via a debug interface is provided. By way of example, a wireless communication device includes a low power communication module, an inverting power supply coupled to the low power communication module, a comparator coupled to the inverting power supply, and an input buffer including a capacitor and a diode. The input buffer is coupled to the comparator and is configured to store energy from a transmission signal line of a debug interface of another device. The comparator is configured to enable the inverting power supply to supply power when an amount of energy stored reaches a minimum threshold and switch off the power supply if a power demand is not sustainable or runs the TX line above a predetermined minimum space voltage.
US11864106B2
In accordance with an aspect of the disclosure, an electronic device comprises a wireless communication circuit; and at least one processor operatively connected to the wireless communication circuit, wherein the at least one processor is configured to: establish a communication channel with an external electronic device by using the wireless communication circuit; determine a duration of a data communication time period based on a frame rate of content, wherein the data communication time period comprises an active time period and a sleep time period; control the wireless communication circuit to enter an active state during the active time period; communicate data with the external electronic device through the communication channel during the active time period; and control the wireless communication circuit to enter a sleep state in a sleep time period.
US11864093B2
A method for communicating delegated NF discovery results between SCPs and using the delegated NF discovery results for alternate SBI service request routing includes receiving, at a first SCP and from a consumer NF instance, an SBI service request. The method further includes determining that delegated NF discovery is required, and, in response, performing delegated NF discovery on behalf of the consumer NF instance. The method further includes receiving an NF discovery response including delegated NF discovery results. The method further includes sending the SBI service request including the delegated NF discovery results to a second SCP. The method further includes receiving, at a second SCP, the SBI service request including the delegated NF discovery results, forwarding the SBI service request towards a first producer NF instance selected by the first SCP, detecting failure of routing or processing of the SBI service request, and using the delegated NF discovery results for alternate routing of the SBI service request.
US11864092B2
Techniques for performance measurements related to application triggering and short message service (SMS) over non-access stratum (NAS) including obtaining raw performance measurements from one or more network functions in a wireless communication network, the one or more network functions including at least one of a network exposure function (NEF) or an access and mobility management function (AMF), and generating performance measurements for the one or more network functions based on the raw performance measurements.
US11864084B2
Vehicles can employ onboard telematic monitoring devices to collect vehicle and operation data, such as for improved vehicle fleet management. Such telematic monitoring devices are dependent on power from a vehicle, such that data collection and communication can be interrupted if a telematic monitoring device is disconnected or has a poor connection. The present disclosure relates to battery devices, which provide power to telematic monitoring devices as needed in order to maintain data collection and communication, or other more limited functionality. The present disclosure also relates to systems including battery devices, and methods for operating battery devices. The present disclosure also relates to detecting temperature of batteries, as well as emergency input and messages for telematic monitoring systems.
US11864083B2
A method of tracking at least one emergency service provider is disclosed. An electronic history is compiled that includes at least one identifier of a service provider, at least one identifier of an event to which the service provider responded, and GPS data identifying the geographic location of the service provider at each time interval within the duration of the event. A user interface within which is displayed a first identifier of a first event is generated to a display device. A selection of the event identifier is received from a user. In response to the selection of the identifier, an aerial view of a geographic region within which the first event took place is generated. At least one icon is displayed in the aerial view representing the service provider at the geographic location corresponding to at least one time interval during the event.
US11864077B2
A first connection is established between a meeting server and a first endpoint device associated with a user. At least one multimedia stream for an online collaborative session is provided from the meeting server to the first endpoint device. The meeting server obtains an indication that a first strength of a first short-range wireless communication connection between an audio device and the first endpoint device is less than a second strength of a second short-range wireless communication connection between the audio device and a second endpoint device associated with the user. A second connection is established between the meeting server and the second endpoint device. The at least one multimedia stream is provided from the meeting server to the second endpoint device via the second connection in response to obtaining the indication.
US11864073B2
A method for enabling a V2V communications link between a trailer and a first tow vehicle including receiving a towing system activation control signal, transmitting a tow vehicle request, receiving a first tow vehicle response including a first tow vehicle location and a first tow vehicle identifier, determining a first distance between the first tow vehicle and the trailer, and enabling the V2V communications link in response to the first distance being less than a threshold distance.
US11864071B2
An electronic device includes an indoor positioning tag and an indoor positioner. The indoor positioning tag includes a gravity sensor. The indoor positioning tag determines whether to start to transmit a wireless signal according to the acceleration magnitude, the acceleration direction, and the duration of acceleration change detected by the gravity sensor, and adjusts the frequency of the transmission interval of the wireless signal.
US11864054B1
A first request to establish the trusted relationship via the online gaming platform between the first user account and other user accounts of the gaming platform is received. A second request to establish the trusted relationship between the second user account and other user accounts of the gaming platform is received. Whether the first client device corresponding to the first user account is within a defined physical range with respect to the second client device corresponding to the second user account is estimated. Responsive to estimating that the first client device is within the defined physical range with respect to the second client device, the trusted relationship between the first user account and the second user account via the online gaming platform is established and additional functionality that enables the first user account and the second user account to interact via the online gaming platform is enabled.
US11864052B2
In some implementations, methods for selecting a set of beacons that are to be monitored by a mobile device may be employed. Specifically, an optimal set of beacons to monitor may be provided to a mobile device depending on particular groups of beacons that are in proximity to the mobile device, the distance from the mobile device to each of the particular groups of beacons, and the mobile device's position/movements as provided by a tracking service such as GPS. These techniques may ensure that the mobile device is not blind to the closest and/or most relevant beacons.
US11864051B2
Certain embodiments are directed to systems and methods for monitoring and/or managing a device with respect to a rule or set of rules and/or altering the functionality of the device in response. In one embodiment, a method includes monitoring a mobile user's equipment with respect to a rule. The method also includes applying at least one consequence to the mobile user equipment when the rule is at least one of followed or violated. The at least one consequence comprises at least one of a reward or a punishment. The at least one consequence pertains to use of the mobile user equipment.
US11864050B2
A system includes a user equipment (UE) traveling at least at a predetermined velocity. The UE is in RRC_INACTIVE state since time T. The system further includes at least a first base station and a second base station. The first base station receives an RRC_INACTIVE state message from the UE. The RRC_INACTIVE state message includes a location and a velocity of the UE, and a time-lapse, which is an elapsed duration since T. In response to a paging message from a core network, the first base station predicts a location of the UE. In response to the UE being within range of the first base station, the first base station sends the paging message to the UE. In response to the UE being within range of the second base station, the first base station sends a request to the second base station to send the paging message to the UE.
US11864047B2
A method performed by a base station includes generating a request for resource status information, sending the generated request to a neighboring base station, receiving one or more resource status update messages from the neighboring base station in response to the requested resource status information, and performing load balancing operations in dependence upon the received one or more resource status update messages.
US11864037B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide a technique for a user equipment (UE) to signal UE assistance information (UAI) to setup or release a cell group (CG). For example, the technique may be executed to generate the UAI, which may indicate whether the CG such as a secondary cell group (SCG) should be setup or released for the UE when operating in a multiple radio dual connectivity (MR-DC) mode. The UE assistance information may be transmitted to a base station (BS).
US11864035B2
A method for a handover procedure comprises establishing a connection with a source network node of a first core network; receiving a radio resource control (RRC) message including an information element, wherein the information element indicates a second core network associated with a target network node; applying security parameters based on the second core network indicated in the information element; and performing a handover toward the target network node using the applied security parameters. The method provides an indication in RRC connection reconfiguration procedure to indicate the UE the core network of the target network node, so that the UE may recognize that this is an inter-system handover and apply corresponding security parameters for performing the handover without additional signaling.
US11864001B2
An adaptive fifth generation (5G) communications system includes an adaptive 5G tower; a first adaptive 5G site coupled by a dedicated link with the adaptive 5G tower; and a second adaptive 5G site coupled by a direct link with the first adaptive 5G site. The direct link may be established by the first adaptive 5G site and couples the second adaptive 5G site with the adaptive 5G tower. Data signals may be communicated between the adaptive 5G tower and the second adaptive 5G site via the direct link and the dedicated link. Usage of the direct link is accounted for in a blockchain master ledger. The blockchain master ledger corresponds to an adaptive 5G model and may be separately maintained by each of the adaptive 5G tower, the first adaptive 5G site, and the second adaptive 5G site. The master ledger may include relay, processing, path, power, and transaction layers.
US11863992B2
Sequences to synchronize devices and related methods are disclosed herein including an access address generator to cryptographically generate a first bit sequence, an access address selector to read a first portion of the first bit sequence and read a second portion of the first bit sequence, the second portion different than the first portion, an access address analyzer to identify a first access address from a first section of the first portion based on a first criteria, the first criteria a function of a first autocorrelation function and identify a second access address from a second section of the second portion based on a second criteria, the second criteria a function of a second autocorrelation function.
US11863989B2
A system and method for resisting quantum perturbation threats to quantum communication devices, especially to a quantum cyber security technology for sensing external perturbations to a quantum communication device and for performing perturbation-bias correction in a non-Hermitian system. Through observing and analyzing on a resonant model, such technology not only senses suspicious potential variation which may make potential energy related to a quantum computing device be changed, but also enhances to implement a correction policy coupling to an information-correction sub-system. Meanwhile it patterns the detected perturbation threats with relative permeability so as to provide early protection on a quantum communication device for resisting a risky perturbation threat.
US11863978B2
This disclosure provides methods, devices and systems that facilitate mobility of wireless communication devices configured for multi-link operation (MLO). Particular aspects more specifically relate to facilitating fast basic service set (BSS) transitions by wireless communication devices that support MLO. For example, some aspects provide support for station (STA) multi-link device (MLD) roaming between access point (AP) MLDs, from an AP MLD to a non-MLO AP, or from a non-MLO AP to an AP MLD. In some aspects, a STA MLD may be configured to use a medium access control (MAC) service access point address (MAC-SAP address) of the AP MLD when re-associating or communicating with a legacy AP or with an AP MLD. In such aspects, the MAC-SAP address may be used by all STAs of the non-AP MLD for fast BSS transitions.
US11863973B2
A method of buffering application data operable at a delivery control server is provided. Related systems and computer program products are also provided.
US11863965B2
Examples of the disclosure describe systems and methods for presenting an audio signal to a user of a wearable head device. In an example, a received first input audio signal is processed to generate a left output audio signal and a right output audio signal presented to ears of the user. Processing the first input audio signal comprises applying a delay process to the first input audio signal to generate a left audio signal and a right audio signal; adjusting gains of the left audio signal and the right audio signal; applying head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) to the left and right audio signals to generate the left and right output audio signals. Applying the delay process to the first input audio signal comprises applying an interaural time delay (ITD) to the first input audio signal, the ITD determined based on the source location.
US11863962B2
An apparatus for generating an enhanced sound field description has: a sound field generator for generating at least two sound field layer descriptions indicating sound fields with respect to at least one reference location; and a meta data generator for generating meta data relating to spatial information of the sound fields, wherein the sound field descriptions and the meta data constitute the enhanced sound field description. The meta data can be a geometrical information for each layer such as a representative distance to the reference location.
US11863961B2
A method performed by an electronic device in a room. The method performs an enrollment process in which a spatial profile of a location of an artificial sound source is created and performs an identification process that determines whether a sound event within the room is produced by the artificial sound source by 1) capturing the sound event using a microphone array and 2) determining a likelihood that the sound event occurred at the location of the artificial sound source.
US11863960B2
Described herein is a system for recalibrating an audio configuration for mobile or moving devices. The system may configure a multi-device output group to generate synchronous output audio using multiple devices. For example, the output group may include a first device generating a first portion of output audio corresponding to a first channel and a second device generating a second portion of the output audio corresponding to a second channel. If the second device detects motion and/or movement indicating a change in its location, the system may recalibrate the output group to continue generating the output audio without the second device. For example, the first device or a new device can generate the second portion of the output audio instead of the second device. When the second device returns, the system can recalibrate the output group to include the second device again.
US11863954B2
The present disclosure generally relates to user interfaces for electronic audio devices. In some examples, the operating mode of the device changes to various states of sound transparency.
US11863948B1
An acoustic signal processing system and method includes classification technology to classify a relationship between at least two sound components of a received sound signal. The exemplary sound components are ambient noise and localized noise. The classification technology dynamically determines a classification value that represents the relationship between the sound components and processes the sound signal in accordance with the acoustic signal classification to modify the sound signal. In at least one embodiment, dynamic classification of the relationship between sound components in a sound signal and responsive signal processing improve performance of systems, such as an active noise cancellation (ANC) system, by, for example, attenuating at least one of the sound components and/or enhancing at least one of the sound components. In an ANC system context, the sound components generally include noise components such as ambient noise and noise localized to a microphone.
US11863939B2
An exemplary system includes a memory storing instructions and a processor communicatively coupled to the memory and configured to execute the instructions to determine that an audio streaming session is to be initiated in which an audio signal is streamed to a hearing device, provide, based on the determining that the audio streaming session is to be initiated, an option for a user to select an ambient sound attenuation setting for use by the hearing device during the audio streaming session, detect a selection by the user of the option; and direct, based on the user selecting the option, the hearing device to initiate the audio streaming session and attenuate, in accordance with the ambient sound attenuation setting, ambient sound during the audio streaming session.
US11863934B2
The present invention provides a MEMS microphone, including a substrate and a capacitive structure. The capacitive structure includes a back plate and a vibration diaphragm. The vibration diaphragm includes a main body and a plurality of supporting structures for supporting the main body. Each supporting structure includes a supporting beam and two spring structures. Each spring structure includes at least two beam arms extending along the extension direction of the peripheral edge of the main body, and the beam arm closest to the main body is spaced apart from the main body. The sensitivity of the MEMS microphone in the present invention is higher.
US11863924B2
A cage tower speaker system for outdoor vehicles and watercraft is disclosed. The cage tower speaker system includes a driver cage tower speaker and a dummy cage tower speaker. The driver cage tower speaker includes an outer housing, an amplifier, a speaker assembly, a removable rechargeable battery, and a mounting bracket. The outer housing includes a frontal opening, a rear opening, a rear wall, an exterior surface, and a plurality of membranes. The outer housing, the frontal opening, and the rear wall form an interior sound space surrounding the speaker assembly. The exterior surface extends from the frontal opening to the rear opening and surrounds the interior sound space. Each of the plurality of membranes are coupled to the exterior surface and the interior sound space.
US11863920B2
The present disclosure provides a method and an Internet of Things system for gas usage safety warning based on a smart gas, the method is performed by a smart gas safety management platform of an Internet of Things system for gas usage safety warning based on a smart gas, comprising: based on gas usage data, determining a gas monitoring object from at least one gas device; determining initial objects based on the gas monitoring object and a gas usage threshold; determining a target object based on historical gas data of the initial objects; and sending gas usage safety warning information to a gas user corresponding to the target object.
US11863913B2
A multiplexed light field projector device and a multiplexed light field display to output a light field image is described. The projector has a projector base with a projection optical system configured to output light rays to form a projected image, a collimating optical system configured for collimation of the projected image light rays to form a second projected image, which is directed to a display optical system to produce a light field image. Light field projector devices or alternative projector devices may be used individually or in combination with one or more other projectors which can be arranged to form a multiplexed direct projection light field display. The arrangement of projector devices may have an individual or shared display optical system.
US11863911B2
An imaging system of the present disclosure includes an event detection device that detects, as an event, that a luminance change of a pixel that photoelectrically converts incident light exceeds a predetermined threshold, an imaging device that captures an image at a fixed frame rate, and a control section that controls the event detection device and the imaging device, and is mounted on and used in a moving body. Then, the control section performs control to acquire image information of a region including the event by the imaging device in response to the event detection device detecting the event. Furthermore, an object recognition system of the present disclosure detects an event by the event detection device under the control of the control section, acquires image information of a region including the event by the imaging device, and performs object recognition based on the acquired image information.
US11863903B2
A flexure assembly operable to control variation of the displacement between a detector and a lensing arrangement along the optical axis of a camera so as to vary camera focus, and a camera incorporating such a flexure assembly. In some embodiments, the flexure assembly provides for precise control of linear displacement along the optical axis and minimal displacement along other axes or modes. A flexure assembly can additionally be relatively lightweight in construction. In some embodiments, the flexure assembly comprises one or more flexure elements adapted to permit movement along a movement axis and resist movement along axes other than the movement axis. In some embodiments, the movement axis of the or each flexure element is aligned with the optical axis of a corresponding lensing assembly.
US11863902B2
Responsive to a zoom command when presenting a first video, a second video is combined with the first video and presented. The first and second videos are generated from substantially the same camera location as each other at substantially the same time with substantially the same resolution. However, the second video is generated by a physical or virtual lens having a field of view (FOV) smaller than the FOV of a physical or virtual lens used in generating the first video. The technique gives the appearance of zooming without loss of resolution.
US11863900B2
In an image generation apparatus, an image acquisition unit is configured to acquire, from at least one camera operable to capture an image of surroundings of a vehicle, a captured image. A bird's-eye view image generation unit is configured to generate a bird's-eye view image from the captured image. A three-dimensional object recognition unit is configured to recognize a three-dimensional object in the captured image. A superimposition-image acquisition unit is configured to acquire a superimposition image that represents the three-dimensional object recognized by the three-dimensional object recognition unit, by performing a process depending on a type of the three-dimensional object recognized by the three-dimensional object recognition unit. A superimposition unit is configured to superimpose, onto the bird's-eye view image, the superimposition image acquired by the superimposition-image acquisition unit, at a position where the three-dimensional object is present in the bird's-eye view image.
US11863899B2
The disclosure discloses a CMOS image sensor, which includes a plurality of image sensor units and a resistance-to-digital converting unit. Each image sensor unit includes a pixel unit and a resistive random access memory unit connected to the pixel unit, the pixel unit is configured to convert a received optical signal into an analog signal and the resistive random access memory unit is configured to convert the analog electrical signal into a resistance value. The resistance-to-digital converting unit is connected to the plurality of the image sensor units, and is configured to convert the resistance value into a digital signal. The resistive random access memory unit is adopted in the present disclosure to replace a transistor device and is configured to convert resistance information of the resistive random access memory unit into a digital signal and output. Thus, digital quantization of image information is completed.
US11863890B2
A pixel circuit comprising: a light-sensing element; a first transistor having its control node coupled to a sense node and its source coupled to a readout path of the pixel circuit; and a reset voltage correction circuit comprising: a first switch configured to selectively couple an input node of the reset voltage correction circuit to a correction node, the input node being connected to the sense node or to the source of the first transistor, the correction node being coupled by a capacitance to the sense node; and a second switch configured to selectively couple the correction node to a reset voltage.
US11863888B2
Flare compensation includes obtaining a dark corner intensity differences profile between a first and a second image based on a relative illumination of an area outside a first image circle of the first image and a second image circle of the second image. The dark corner intensity differences profile is obtained for a luminance (Y) component. A flare profile is obtained using an intensity differences profile and the dark corner intensity differences profile. The intensity differences profile is obtained for the Y component along a stitch line between the first image and the second image. The flare profile of the Y component is converted to an RGB flare profile. The first image is modified based on the RGB flare profile to obtain a processed first image.
US11863876B2
A computational pixel imaging device that includes an array of pixel integrated circuits for event-based detection and imaging. Each pixel may include a digital counter that accumulates a digital number, which indicates whether a change is detected by the pixel. The counter may count in one direction for a portion of an exposure and count in an opposite direction for another portion of the exposure. The imaging device may be configured to collect and transmit key frames at a lower rate, and collect and transmit delta or event frames at a higher rate. The key frames may include a full image of a scene, captured by the pixel array. The delta frames may include sparse data, captured by pixels that have detected meaningful changes in received light intensity. High speed, low transmission bandwidth motion image video can be reconstructed using the key frames and the delta frames.
US11863860B2
Systems, methods, and instructions on non-transitory computer readable media for automatically sending images to designated recipients based on context selection criteria (e.g., one or more of location, content, or quality). The system includes a camera and a user interface to trigger the camera to capture an image. The method includes identifying context selection criteria, identifying designated recipients, receiving the image captured by the camera, determining image data for the captured image, comparing the determined image data to the identified context selection criteria to identify a match, and sending the captured image to the set of designated recipients responsive to the identified match.
US11863847B2
Systems and methods are described herein for a media guidance application that facilitates presenting, to a user, media assets that match a search expression by generating for display media asset identifiers corresponding to media assets that are scheduled for transmission to a plurality of users during a specific time interval. The media asset identifiers corresponding to media assets that match the search expression are distinguished from media asset identifiers that correspond to media assets that do not match the search expression. Furthermore, media asset identifiers corresponding to media assets that match the search expression are distinguished from each other based on an attribute of each media asset that matches the search expression.
US11863842B2
A method and apparatus for processing an audio and video. The method includes: acquiring a target processing request including a target audio and video data stream; determining a target audio and video pipeline corresponding to the target processing request; the audio and video pipeline being constituted based on a plurality of functional components arranged in a chain structure, and the functional components being uniformly dispatched input data and recovered output data by a preset data stream dispatching module; and calling the target audio and video pipeline to continuously process the target audio and video data stream, and continuously outputting a processed audio and video data stream obtained after processing.
US11863839B2
A method for delivering media to a playback device including outputting first test media to be viewed by a first user. The method further includes receiving a first user input related to a first perception of the first test media by the first user and indicating a first personalized quality of experience of the first user with respect to the first test media. The method further includes generating a first personalized sensitivity profile including one or more viewing characteristics of the first user based on the first user input, and determining, based at least in part on the first personalized sensitivity profile, a first media parameter. The first media parameter is determined in order to increase an efficiency of media delivery to the first playback device over a network while preserving the first personalized quality of experience of the first user.
US11863838B2
A server may receive metadata associated with specific content in a transport signal stream from a content information service. The metadata may identify a point in time of the transport signal stream. The server may instruct an encoder to insert a marker into the transport signal stream corresponding to the point in time of the transport signal stream. The marker may indicate control of a trick mode to be enforced by a delivery platform subsequent to the point in time of the transport signal stream. The server may record the marker in a data store associated with the server.
US11863821B2
Example local devices disclosed herein include memory including a set of reference fingerprints corresponding to media, the set of reference fingerprints from a remote device different from the local device and one or more processor circuits to execute machine readable instructions to generate a monitored fingerprint of the media presented at a location and compare the monitored fingerprint to at least some of the set of reference fingerprints from the remote device. Additionally, the one or more processor circuits are to determine an amount of time that has passed since the media started and after a match between the monitored fingerprint and one or more reference fingerprints of the set of reference fingerprints, cause transmission of audience measurement information to identify the media, the audience measurement information including data indicative of the amount of time that has passed since the media started.
US11863820B2
Example device meters disclosed herein include a signature reporter to report, to a data processor, media signatures of a first type to monitor media presented by a media device Disclosed example device meters also include a signature generator to (i) generate the media signatures of the first type, (ii) generate media signatures of a second type, different from the first type, to continue monitoring the media presented by the media device after receipt, from the data processor, of an indication that a first media signature of the first type is associated with first reference media, and (iii) in response to detection at the device meter of a change in a source of the media presented by the media device, revert to generation of the media signatures of the first type to monitor the media presented by the media device.
US11863818B2
Multiple different versions of media content are contained in a single package of audio-video media content, using compression algorithms that reduce storage and bandwidth required for storing multiple full-resolution versions of the media. Portions of individual frames are replaced during playback so that only the pixels that differ between versions need to be stored.
US11863817B2
A method and system for controlling implementation of dynamic content modification. The disclosure provides for using at least one steganographically-encoded timestamp in a media stream transmitted to a media client as a basis to determine a transmission delay for media-stream transmission to the media client, and for providing the determined transmission delay as a basis to facilitate control over whether to have the media client implement dynamic content modification. In addition, the disclosure provides for receiving respectively from each of various media clients a report indicating transmission delay determined for the media client based on such steganographically-encoded timestamp data, and using the transmission delays for the media clients to establish a dynamic-content-modification footprint that could be used to control whether, where, and to what extent dynamic content modification will be applied.
US11863813B2
This present disclosure describes a system and methods for interactive filters in live streaming multimedia. At least one method includes a user playing video games on a computer, using streaming software to combine all or part of their computer session with their local camera feed, using streaming software to encode and stream the encoded video to one or more streaming services, streaming services displaying the video stream to one or more viewers, said viewers interacting with the video via the streaming service, the user's streaming software retrieving data about viewer interactions, the streaming software using a computer vision algorithm to detect the position of an object in the user's camera feed, such as the user's face or hands, the streaming software retrieving animation code, the streaming software using the detected position of the detected object to generate a graphical image that aligns with and follows the detected object in the local camera feed, the streaming software adding the graphical image to the video stream in direct response to viewer interactions, and said graphical image being inserted into the video stream prior to the video being published for viewers to consume by the streaming service.
US11863812B2
The present invention is intended to permit both real-time display of a picture represented by a non-compressed video signal on a television and display of a picture represented by a compressed video signal at any desired time by simultaneously transmitting the compressed video signal and non-compressed video signal via one interface. An STB packetizes a compressed video signal, and multiplexes the compressed video signal and a blanking signal combined with a non-compressed video signal. Thus, both the video signals are transmitted simultaneously. A picture represented by the non-compressed video signal is displayed on a television in real time. The compressed video signal is stored in a storage medium incorporated in the television, read at any user's desired time, and decoded so that a picture represented by the compressed video signal can be viewed at the user's desired time.
US11863810B1
A method for media content streaming includes: determining, from a plurality of media content items, multiple predicted media content items and multiple playback positions, based on history data of a user; transcoding a portion of each of the multiple predicted media content items to generate multiple passive adaptive streamlets for each of the multiple predicted media content items at different bitrates; receiving a command to start playback of a first predicted media content item selected from the multiple predicted media content items; outputting a first passive adaptive streamlet selected from the multiple passive adaptive streamlets of the first predicted media content item; while outputting the first passive adaptive streamlet, requesting, receiving, and transcoding a second portion of the first predicted media content item to generate an active adaptive streamlet of the first predicted media content item; immediately following outputting the first passive adaptive streamlet, outputting the active adaptive streamlet.
US11863806B2
Systems and methods are described to address shortcomings in conventional systems by correcting an erroneous term in on-screen caption text for a media asset. In some aspects, the systems and methods identify the erroneous term in a text segment of the on-screen caption text, and identify one or more video frames of the media asset corresponding to the text segment. The systems and methods further identify a contextual term related to the erroneous term from the one or more video frames. By accessing a knowledge graph, the systems and methods identify a candidate correction based on the contextual term and a portion of the text segment. Lastly, the systems and methods replaces the erroneous term with the candidate correction.
US11863804B2
This invention provides a means to identify unknown media programming using the audio component of said programming. The invention extracts audio information from the media received by consumer electronic devices such as smart TVs and TV set-top boxes then conveys said information to a remote server means which will in turn identify said audio information of unknown identity by way of testing against a database of known audio segment information. The system identifies unknown media programming in real-time such that time-sensitive services may be offered such as interactive television applications providing contextually related information or television advertisement substitution. Other uses include tracking media consumption among many other services.
US11863803B2
The present disclosure relates to the field of network live streaming, and provides a live streaming interface interaction method and apparatus, an electronic device, and a computer-readable medium. The method comprises: displaying, on a live streaming interface, a first function control and a second function control used for indicating the same function state; receiving an interactive operation acting on the live streaming interface, and switching the function state of the first function control and the second function control when it is determined that the interactive operation meets a preset condition; and respectively displaying corresponding guide animations on display positions corresponding to the first function control and the second function control, so as to prompt a user to perform the next interactive operation.
US11863800B2
The embodiments disclose a method including capturing video footage of a youth sports event using at least one video camera with a mobile application installed, transmitting to at least one network server with internet and WI-FI connectivity mobile application multi-camera live-streaming video camera captured game footage, recording on at least one database coupled to the network server at least one video camera mobile application multi-camera live-streaming video camera captured game footage, using at least one network computer coupled to at least one network server configured for processing and displaying multi-camera live-streaming video camera captured game footage for live video streaming game broadcast on a plurality of subscribed viewer digital devices, and mixing advertising into the processed multi-camera live-streaming video camera captured game footage broadcast using the at least one network computer.
US11863794B2
A method includes performing a conversion between a video including a video picture and a bitstream of the video according to a rule, wherein the video picture including a subpicture, a tile, and a slice, and wherein the rule specifies that, due to the subpicture including the slice that is partitioned from the tile, the conversion is performed by refraining from counting a height of the subpicture using a number of tiles of the video picture.
US11863788B2
An encoder for encoding images includes at least one processor configured transform a given input pixel of an input image having (x, y) coordinates in a Cartesian coordinate system into a given transformed pixel of a transformed image having (ρ, θ) coordinates in a log-polar coordinate system, using a log-polar transformation in which a radial distance (ρ) of the given transformed pixel is a logarithm of a distance of the given input pixel from an origin in the Cartesian coordinate system, and an angular distance (θ) of the given transformed pixel is a sum of an arctangent of a slope of a line connecting the given input pixel to the origin and a function of the radial distance, encode the transformed image, by employing a compression algorithm, into an encoded image, and send the encoded image to a display apparatus for subsequent decoding thereat.
US11863785B2
An encoder includes circuitry and memory connected to the circuitry. In operation, the circuitry: corrects a base motion vector using a correction value for correcting the base motion vector in a predetermined direction; and encodes a current partition to be encoded in an image of a video, using the base motion vector corrected. The correction value is specified by a first parameter and a second parameter, the first parameter indicating a table to be selected from among a plurality of tables each including values, the second parameter indicating one of the values included in the table to be selected indicated by the first parameter. In each of the plurality of tables, a smaller value among the values is assigned a smaller index. Each of the plurality of tables includes a different minimum value among the values.
US11863782B2
Motion compensation requires a significant amount of memory bandwidth, especially for smaller prediction unit sizes. The worst case bandwidth requirements can occur when bi-predicted 4×8 or 8×4 PUs are used. To reduce the memory bandwidth requirements for such smaller PUs, methods are provided for restricting inter-coded PUs of small block sizes to be coded only in a uni-predictive mode, i.e., forward prediction or backward prediction. More specifically, PUs of specified restricted sizes in bi-predicted slices (B slices) are forced to be uni-predicted.
US11863769B2
A system configured to perform scalable video encoding is provided. The system includes a memory; and a processing unit, wherein the processing unit is configured to: receive inter-layer data and a current picture, wherein the current picture has a base layer; upsample the inter-layer data to generate residual data and reconstruction data, wherein the inter-layer data includes a base mode flag; and encode the current picture to an enhanced layer using the upsampled inter-layer data based on a block type of the base layer and the base mode flag.
US11863767B2
An example device for retrieving media data, the device comprising: a memory configured to store scene data and image data; and one or more processors implemented in circuitry and configured to: receive data for a bitstream indicating that the bitstream includes one or more overlay images, the overlay images comprising either a single static image to be presented with scene data that remains constant while being presented frame-by-frame with frames of the scene data or an image sequence that repeats with a regular periodicity while being presented frame-by-frame with the frames of the scene data; receive the one or more overlay images from the bitstream; receive the scene data including one or more scene images; and present the scene images and the overlay images.
US11863763B2
Although wedgelet-based partitioning seems to represent a better tradeoff between side information rate on the one hand and achievable variety in partitioning possibilities on the other hand, compared to contour partitioning, the ability to alleviate the constraints of the partitioning to the extent that the partitions have to be wedgelet partitions, enables applying relatively uncomplex statistical analysis onto overlaid spatially sampled texture information in order to derive a good predictor for the bi-segmentation in a depth/disparity map. Thus, in accordance with a first aspect it is exactly the increase of the freedom which alleviates the signaling overhead provided that co-located texture information in form of a picture is present. Another aspect pertains the possibility to save side information rate involved with signaling a respective coding mode supporting irregular partitioning.
US11863760B2
Disclosed is a video signal processing method and device for encoding or decoding a video signal. More specifically, disclosed are a video signal processing method and a video signal processing device for performing the method, the method comprising: obtaining reference line information indicating a reference line for intra prediction of a current block among a plurality of reference lines comprising neighboring samples of the current block; determining, on the basis of the reference line information, an intra prediction mode for the current block among a plurality of intra prediction modes constituting an intra prediction mode set; and decoding the current block on the basis of a plurality of reference samples on the reference line according to the reference line information and the determined intra prediction mode.
US11863757B2
The techniques described herein relate to methods, apparatus, and computer readable media configured to encode or decode video data. A current block of video data is coded using affine prediction. A first set of candidates of a candidate list for the current block is generated, including determining one or more inherited candidates and deriving one or more constructed candidates. After generating the first set of candidates, it is determined whether the candidate list is full. Upon determining the candidate list is not full, the candidate list is filled by generating a second set of candidates of the candidate list, including one or more of generating one or more zero motion vector candidates, generating one or more additional derived candidates based on the plurality of associated neighboring blocks of the current block, and generating a temporal motion vector candidate based on a temporal collocated picture.
US11863752B2
A video coder may code a block of video data using an intra prediction mode determined from a most probable mode list. The video coder may construct a general most probable mode list containing N entries, wherein the N entries of the general most probable mode list are intra prediction modes, and wherein a planar mode is an ordinal first entry in the general most probable mode list, construct a primary most probable mode list from a first Np entries in the general most probable mode list, where Np is less than N, and construct a secondary most probable mode list from a remaining (N−Np) entries in the general most probable mode list. The video coder may then determine a current intra prediction mode for a current block of video data using the primary most probable mode list or the secondary most probable mode list.
US11863744B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for video encoding/decoding. In some examples, an apparatus for video decoding includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry receives coded information of a current coding tree unit (CTU) from a coded video bitstream, and determines a context model for a split flag associated with a current block within the current CTU at least partially based on split information of a corresponding block in a reference CTU for the current CTU. Then, the processing circuitry determines the split flag based on the context model, and decodes the current block based on the split flag that is determined based on the context model.
US11863743B2
A decoder comprises circuitry and memory. The circuitry, using the memory, in operation, determines a number of first pixels and a number of second pixels used in a deblocking filter process, wherein the first pixels are located at an upper side of a block boundary and the second pixels are located at a lower side of the block boundary, and performs the deblocking filter process on the block boundary. The number of the first pixels and the number of the second pixels are selected from among candidates, wherein the candidates include at least 4 and M larger than 4. Response to a location of the block boundary being a predetermined location, the number of the first pixels used in the deblocking filter process is limited to be 4.
US11863740B2
An image decoding method and an image decoding apparatus is provided. The method comprises recovering a first motion vector corresponding to a first decoding reference picture based on the entropy decoded bit stream, calculating a second motion vector corresponding to a second decoding reference picture by scaling the first motion vector based on a first temporal distance between the current picture and the first decoding reference picture and a second temporal distance between the current picture and the second decoding reference picture, generating a prediction block relating to a current block in the current picture, based on the calculated second motion vector, generating a residual block relating to the current block through a residual data decoding process based on the entropy decoded bit stream, and recovering the current block based on the prediction block and the residual block.
US11863734B2
The invention relates to a TOF camera system comprising several cameras, at least one of the cameras being a TOF camera, wherein the cameras are assembled on a common substrate and are imaging the same scene simultaneously and wherein at least two cameras are driven by different driving parameters.
US11863723B2
A document determination system includes a server device that stores identification information in association with document information, a printer that prints a document image corresponding to the document information and a code image indicating the identification information on a print medium to generate a normal printed matter, and a scanner that reads a print image printed on a printed matter including the normal printed matter and a copied printed matter obtained by copying the normal printed matter. The printer prints the code image in a preset end region of the print medium. The server device determines whether the printed matter is the normal printed matter based on the code image included in the print image read by the scanner.
US11863722B2
A conductive member includes a connection portion which is to be electrically connected to a cutaway portion of a metal plate. The connection portion includes a first arm portion extending from one end to another end and configured to come into contact with one face of two faces opposed to each other of the cutaway portion, a first bent portion connected to the another end of the first arm portion and bent extending from the another end toward the one end, a second bent portion connected to the first bent portion and bent getting closer toward the first arm portion as getting away from the first bent portion, and a third bent portion connected to the second bent portion and bent getting away from the first arm portion as getting away from the second bent portion so as to come into contact with another face of the two faces.
US11863712B1
Multiple cameras within a vehicle, such as placed at multiple locations inside and/or outside a bus or semi-truck and trailer, may be chained together to provide a consolidated video stream that may be recorded and/or transmitted wirelessly to a cloud storage device. Rather that each of the cameras independently recording and/or streaming video content, each camera may be configured to deserialize an input video to identify video streams from separate cameras (e.g., such as based on associate virtual channel identifiers) and reserialize its own video stream with the other video streams in the received input. The serialized video stream is then transmitted to a next camera in the daisy chain and/or a video storage device.
US11863709B2
This Application describes mechanisms to provide priority levels for call connection requests and/or messages from a sending device to a receiving device. The receiving device is configured to allow prioritized notification alerts for incoming call connection requests and/or for incoming messages from a sending device to override a silent or do not disturb mode for one or more contacts based on i) a priority level provided with the call connection request or message and ii) a priority setting for the sending device or a set of devices associated with a user of the sending device.
US11863707B2
A system and method for managing virtual queues with user-level targeted interactions. A cloud-based queue service manages a plurality of queues hosted by one or more entities. The queue service is in constant communication with the entities providing queue management, queue analysis, and queue recommendations. The queue service is likewise in direct communication with queued persons. Sending periodic updates such as targeted interactions in the form of products, services, and callback opportunities based on analysis of entity data, user-specific data, and data associated with all persons or groups at a given location, both physical or virtual.
US11863697B2
Provided is an electronic device including: a housing; a camera module oriented in a first direction inside the housing; a camera window arranged in front of the camera module in the first direction; a cover including an opening into which the camera window is insertable, the cover coupled to the housing; and a window frame supporting the camera window and mounted on the cover. The window frame includes: a frame body including a support portion arranged in the opening and supporting the camera window, and a mounting portion extending from the support portion in a second direction that is perpendicular to the first direction and overlapped by the cover in the first direction; a retention member retaining a first gap between the mounting portion and the cover in the first direction; and a waterproof body configured to be elastically deformed while arranged between the mounting portion and the cover.
US11863692B2
A digital certificate processing method includes: receiving a distribution request for a digital certificate, wherein the digital certificate does not contain validity period information; acquiring a verification result for the digital certificate; and according to the verification result, recording the digital certificate which has passed verification to a blockchain.
US11863682B2
Methods and systems are described for performing multifactor authentication. An authentication code may be encrypted in optical indica. Optionally, Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), Rivest-Shamir-Adleman (RSA), DES (Data Encryption Standard), and/or a hashing function may be utilized to encrypt the authentication code. An image of the authentication code may be captured from a device having a display using a digital camera. The image may be in a compressed format and transmitted over a network to an image analysis system. The image analysis system may decode the optical indicia to obtain the encoded authentication data and may perform decryption on the decoded data. If a hashing function is utilized to encrypt the authentication data, the encoded authentication data may be compared to a hash of stored authentication data. If needed, the image analysis system may perform image enhancement prior to performing decoding, including contrast enhancement, deblurring, and/or image rotation. Image enhancement may be performed using a neural network. The authentication data and location data associated with the digital camera may be utilized to authenticate the device.
US11863668B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus for transmitting qubits encoding quantum information with reduced risk of interception from an eavesdropper. In one aspect, a method includes encoding quantum information into an information qubit; encrypting the information qubit, comprising performing i) a parity operation on the information qubit and a parity control qubit and ii) a phase operation on the information qubit and a phase control qubit; performing, by a sender party, a sequence of one or more quantum logic gates on the phase control qubit; sending the information qubit, parity control qubit, and phase control qubit to a recipient party; and sending data identifying the sequence of one or more quantum logic gates to the recipient party, wherein the recipient party obtains the quantum information encoded into the information qubit using the information qubit, parity control qubit, phase control qubit, and data identifying the sequence of one or more quantum logic gates.
US11863666B2
A method comprises registering, by a first device having a public key, with a gateway server by providing a proof of work based on the first device public key and encrypting and decrypting data using cryptographic information transmitted via the gateway server between other devices similarly registered.
US11863663B2
There is provided mechanisms for initial network authentication between a communications device and a network. A method is performed by the communications device. The communications device comprises an identity module supporting remote subscription profile download. The identity module comprises credentials for remote subscription profile download. The method comprises performing a first message exchange with an authentication server. The first message exchange comprises an identity module challenge obtained from the identity module being transmitted to the authentication server from the communications device. The method comprises receiving a second message from the authentication server. The second message comprises an ephemeral public key of the authentication server, an authentication server challenge and an authentication server signature. The authentication server signature is based on the ephemeral public key of the authentication server, the authentication server challenge, and the identity module challenge and follows a format used for handling remote subscription profile download to the identity module. The method comprises transmitting a third message towards the authentication server. The third message comprises an ephemeral public key of the communications device and an identity module signature. The identity module signature is based on the identity module credentials used for remote subscription profile download and is based on the ephemeral public key of the communications device and the authentication server challenge and follows the format used for remote subscription profile download to the identity module. The method comprises generating a master session key (MSK) from a shared secret established using the ephemeral public key of the authentication server and a private key corresponding to the ephemeral public key of the communications device. The MSK is for use when establishing secure communication between the communications device and the network.
US11863660B2
A transport stack may control identity information that may be owned by a user. An information record of the identity information may be stored on a distributed ledger. Transactors may request a viewing-share for the identity information to support transactions with the user. The transport stack may generate a grant record when a transactor is provided with a viewing-share of the identity information. The grant record may be stored on the distributed ledger. The distributed ledger may provide a verifiable record of the identity information content and history of viewing-share grants.
US11863652B2
The present disclosure provides a method for filtering a redundant data packet at a node in a Bluetooth Mesh network. The method comprises the following steps: providing a deduplication filtering cache for storing a combined field value of one or more specified fields of each of one or more Bluetooth Mesh data packets received by the node; upon receipt of a Bluetooth Mesh data packet by the node, comparing a combined field value of one or more specified fields of the data packet with each combined field value stored in the deduplication filtering cache, so as to determine whether the received Bluetooth Mesh data packet is a redundant data packet. Compared with the prior art, the method of the present disclosure may help to determine whether the data packet is the redundant data packet without decrypting the encrypted fields and de-obfuscating the obfuscated fields, which greatly simplifies the processing flow.
US11863641B1
A central database system provides predictive web navigation using machine learning and clustering to guide a user to a web page. After tracking a number of web pages viewed by various users on one or more web domains and the orders in which these web pages are viewed, the central database system can train a model to predict which web page a user is likely to view next. If the user is lost while navigating, the central database system may guide the user to the predicted web page. In one example of guidance, the central database system presents a web element with a hyperlink to the predicted web page. For example, the central database system can modify a web page that the lost user is presently viewing to include an iframe with a recommendation to travel to a different web page.
US11863635B2
Disclosed are techniques for processing user profiles using data structures that are specialized for processing by a GPU. More particularly, the disclosed techniques relate to systems and methods for evaluating characteristics of user profiles to determine whether to offload certain user profiles to the GPU for processing or to process the user profiles locally by one or more central processing units (CPUs). Processing user profiles may include comparing the interest tags included in the user profiles with logic trees, for example, logic trees representing marketing campaigns, to identify user profiles that match the campaigns.
US11863634B2
Aspects of the present disclosure include systems and methods for profile switching by the computing device. In an example, a computing device may include a memory storing instructions and a processor communicatively coupled with the memory and configured to execute the instructions. The processor may receive a request to initiate a new instance of a website. The processor may also determine a domain name of the website in response to the request. The processor may also determine a first user profile from a plurality of user profiles that corresponds to the domain name based on profile information corresponding to one or more of profile history data, profile favorites data, or administrative settings data. The processor may also launch the new instance of the website in a browser according to the first user profile.
US11863626B2
A system may receive published messages over an uplink channel. The system may, via channel control logic (CCL), delegate the messages to one or more subject-domain downlink channels (SDDCHs). The CCL may determine to create new SDDCHs to facilitate accurate placement of messages within defined subject-domains corresponding to the various SDDCHs.
US11863625B2
Technology is disclosed for bridging clouds of computing devices for compute and data storage. The technology can receive a virtual routing table (VRT), wherein the VRT indicates an association with a virtual local area network (VLAN) and defines neighbors for each route wherein at least one neighbor is defined for each of the two different cloud service providers, wherein the route definition creates a private transitive network between the neighbors; receive from a first node a first message destined for a second node; determine that the first message employs the route specified by the VRT; forward the first message to the second node; receive from a third node a second message destined for the second node; determine that the second message does not employ the route specified by the VRT; and fail to forward the second message to the second node.
US11863624B2
A specialized network (“merchant”) node to facilitate fast distribution of blockchain transactions over a network of interconnected nodes, as subset of which are merchant nodes interconnected by an overlay network. The merchant node includes a memory storing an assigned portion of a distributed mempool structured as a distributed hash table, the distributed mempool containing pending transactions awaiting confirmation. The merchant node operates by receiving a transaction, including a transaction identifier; hashing the new transaction identifier to obtain a key; determining, using the key, whether the transaction is stored in the distributed mempool or not and, if not, then storing the transaction in the distributed mempool as a pending transaction; and sending the transaction to a set of nodes other than merchant nodes using peer-to-peer connections. The invention may be used in conjunction with the Bitcoin blockchain or an alternative.
US11863617B1
Systems and methods for data storage and data streaming in decentralized, self-organized networks are provided. A plurality of computing devices are disposed in a unidirectional communication ring having a plurality of serially-connected spikes. Each spike includes n computing devices, and n×p connections directly connecting each of the n computing devices to p downstream computing devices. Each computing device is configured to request and receive an inventory of the plurality of computing devices; select a computing device from the plurality of computing devices; transmit a join request comprising the inventory to the selected computing device; and request reorganizing the unidirectional communication ring in response to the receipt of the transmitted join request after propagation through each of the plurality of spikes of the unidirectional communication ring.
US11863612B2
A network edge computing method includes receiving, by an edge data node, a service request at least processed by network edge computation scheduling; and routing, according to a service port involved in the service request, the service request to a container of the edge data node, to be processed by the container.
US11863602B2
A communication platform can leverage a network-based computing system to enable applications to exchange data with one or more applications via channels. In some examples, a first application may post messages to the channel and a second application may listen to the posted messages to identify an event based on one or more of the messages. Responsive to detecting an event, the second application may notify a user, create a new channel, add a user to a channel, or the like, and/or the second application may take an action to remediate an issue. The first application and the second application and users added to the channel may be associated with a same or different organizations.
US11863596B2
A head-worn device system includes one or more cameras, one or more display devices and one or more processors. The system also includes a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, configure the system to perform operations to initiate or join a joint visual computing session. The method may comprise receiving user input to initiate a joint session of a visual computing experience, monitoring for short-range data transmissions including data indicating the existence of a current session of the visual computing experience, and based on determining that a current session is in process, providing a user input option to join the current session of the visual computing experience.
US11863590B2
Inferential analysis includes: assessing risk of a cyber security failure in a computer network of an entity, using a computer agent configured to collect information from at least one accessible Internet elements, automatically determining, based on the assessed risk, a change or a setting to at least one element of policy criteria of a cyber security policy; and automatically recommending, based on the assessed risk, a computer network change to reduce the assessed risk.
US11863588B2
Dynamically tailored trust for secure application-server networking and advanced enterprise security is provided. A system can individually assess the security posture of each application connecting to the Internet from each client device in an enterprise. For each application, the system tailors a security mode of the Internet connection based on the security posture of the application. Assessment of the security posture of an application is a comprehensive inventory of the security of the application, the security of the device hosting the application, the rights and security of the user, security attributes of the intended service or website being accessed, the security of the communication channel, and so forth. A network-based controller communicates with an agent running within a secure boot mode of each client device to select a security mode for application-service connection, including lean-trust direct access to the Internet, secure VPN-like access, or no access to the Internet.
US11863583B2
Described herein are systems and methods for enhancing an interface for an information technology (IT) environment. In one implementation, an incident service causes display of a first version of a course of action and obtains input indicative of a request for a new action in the course of action. The incident service further determines suggested actions based at least one the input and causes display of the suggested actions. Once displayed, the incident service obtains input indicative of a selection of at least one action from the suggested actions, and causes display input indicative of a selection of at least one action from the suggested actions.
US11863582B2
A virtualized gateway for applications in a zero trust network access environment is managed from a cloud-based threat management facility for an enterprise network. In order to facilitate creation of a new, centrally managed gateway, a one-time passcode for registration of the gateway to the threat management facility is encoded onto a virtual disk and distributed to a host platform along with a base gateway image for the gateway. This advantageously permits the new gateway to boot and securely register with the threat management facility without further administrative intervention.
US11863573B2
Techniques are disclosed relate to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media for improved cybersecurity intelligence using custom trigger events. One system may include a non-transitory memory configured to store at least threat model data; and one or more hardware processors coupled to the non-transitory memory and configured to read instructions from the non-transitory memory to cause the system to perform operations comprising: receiving, over a communications network, the at least one custom trigger event for a threat model which identifies a cybersecurity threat; determining whether the cybersecurity threat triggers the performance of the orchestrated response based on the custom trigger event; and launching, when the cybersecurity threat triggers the performance of the orchestrated response, a first application and a second application of the plurality of applications of the orchestrated response.
US11863559B2
A request for access to a user's account is made to an authenticator. The authenticator sends a request for access to the user associated with the user's account. In response to user authorization, the authenticator sends an access link to a service engineer. The service engineer access the link to access the user's account with limited and restricted access. When a remote service session associated with the activated access link is terminated, the authenticator sends a termination of session notice to the user.
US11863550B2
Apparatuses, methods, systems, and program products are disclosed for data aggregation using a limited-use code. An apparatus includes a message module configured to intercept a message comprising a limited-use code. A message may be sent from a third-party server and intended for a user of a hardware device. A limited-use code may be used to verify an identity of a user for access to a third-party server. An apparatus includes a parse module configured to parse a message to determine a limited-use code. An apparatus includes a submission module configured to provide a limited-use code to a third-party server without user input. An apparatus includes an authorization module configured to prompt a user for authorization prior to intercepting a message, parsing the message for a limited-use code, and providing the limited-use code to a third-party server without user input.
US11863529B2
A method for use with a public cloud network is disclosed. The method includes setting up at least one virtual machine, at least one private cloud call-back server (PCCBS) and at least one smart device client on the side of the PCCBS to provide cloud based web services, and at least one private cloud routing server (PCRS) and at least one smart device client on the side of the PCRS in a client server relationship. The virtual machine and PCCBS usually reside in a hyperscale data center, while the PCRS resides in the client's remote premises. An internet platform owner that maintains the virtual machine, offers to a subscriber to host the PCCBS in the virtual machine, constructs and deploys a community pair of peer-to-peer communication relationship between at least one PCCBS Device Client and a PCRS Device Client.
US11863510B2
A method and system for delivering notifications to electronic devices is disclosed. The method includes receiving, by an electronic device, one or more settings, the settings including an instruction to search for available notification services. The method further includes searching, in response to the instruction, for available notification services, and subscribing to at least one notification service discovered as a result of the search. The method further includes displaying, by the electronic device, notification messages received from the at least one notification service.
US11863501B2
A method, an apparatus, and a computer program for wireless communication that allows for greater scheduling flexibility of physical resources are disclosed. A UE determines a time division duplex (TDD) frame structure for a plurality of frames, where the plurality of frames include a plurality of uplink (UL) subframes and a plurality of downlink (DL) subframes. The UE determines whether a control signaling instance is scheduled during an UL subframe of the plurality of UL subframes, wherein the control signaling instance is scheduled periodically and the control signaling includes at least one of a random access channel, an uplink control channel, a sounding reference signal (SRS), or a scheduling request (SR). The UE communicates the control signaling instance if the control signaling instance is scheduled during an UL subframe.
US11863492B2
A communications method, and apparatus are provided, to reduce a transmission latency when a plurality of HARQ-ACKs are transmitted in one time unit. The method includes: determining, in N groups of time-frequency resources based on the grouping relationship, the ith group of time-frequency resources corresponding to a first parameter related to the first DCI, receiving first DCI, and determining a first uplink channel that carries a first HARQ-ACK on a first time-frequency resource in the ith group of time-frequency resources, where the grouping relationship represents a correspondence between a first parameter and N groups of time-frequency resources, the N groups of time-frequency resources are obtained by grouping time-frequency resources in one time unit, each group of time-frequency resources corresponds to one or more first parameters, and the first parameter is related to DCI, a time-frequency resource in each group of time-frequency resources is for an uplink channel carries a HARQ-ACK.
US11863486B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide, among other implementations, sequence determining methods. One example method provides a sequence group, and one sequence group number is corresponding to at least two sequences, where one sequence is used for mapping to consecutive subcarriers, and at least one other sequence is used for mapping to equally-spaced subcarriers. In some embodiments of the present disclosure, as high as possible cross-correlation between a sending signal obtained after equally-spaced mapping is performed on a sequence in a sequence group can be determined, and a sending signal obtained after continuous mapping is performed on another sequence in the group.
US11863483B2
Systems and methods for Semi-Persistent Sounding Reference Signal (SP SRS) resource activation or deactivation are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method of operation of a wireless device in a cellular communications network comprises receiving, from a network node, a Medium Access Control (MAC) Control Element (CE). The MAC CE comprises an indication of a SP SRS resource set to be activated or deactivated and information that indicates a spatial relation for the SP SRS resource set to be activated or deactivated. In this manner, a MAC CE for SP SRS resource set activation or deactivation is provided in a manner that gives spatial relation information in an efficient and flexible manner.
US11863482B2
First aperiodic zero power channel state information reference signal configuration information of a serving cell can be transmitted. Second aperiodic zero power channel state information reference signal configuration information of the serving cell can be transmitted. Downlink control information can be transmitted in a subframe of the serving cell. The downlink control information can include an aperiodic zero power channel state information reference signal indicator bit field that indicates a selection of one of at least the first aperiodic zero power channel state information reference signal configuration, the second aperiodic zero power channel state information reference signal configuration, and no aperiodic zero power channel state information reference signal in the subframe.
US11863481B2
The disclosure provides a method and a device in a User Equipment (UE) and a base station for wireless communication. The UE receives a target radio signal, transmits a first radio signal in a first time resource pool, and monitors a first signaling in a second time resource pool in a first frequency domain resource; a channel measurement for the target radio signal is used for triggering a transmitting of the first radio signal; the first signaling is transmitted employing a first antenna port group, the first radio signal is used for determining a second antenna port group, and the first antenna port group is different from the second antenna port group; the first signaling is a physical layer signaling. By designing the first signaling, the disclosure achieves a more efficient beam management on unlicensed spectrum, thus improves the overall transmission efficiency and performance of system.
US11863476B2
Disclosed are a method for transmitting and receiving channel state information between a terminal and a base station in a wireless communication system and an apparatus supporting same. According to an embodiment applicable to the present invention, a terminal may receive, from a base station, configuration information related to a first channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) resource for measurement, measure channel state information using a CSI-RS transmitted from a neighbor cell on the basis of the configuration information, and transmit the measured channel state information to the base station.
US11863469B2
Embodiments for implementing an enhanced network stack framework in a computing environment. A plurality of network buffers coherently attached between one or more applications and a network interface may be shared while bypassing one or more drivers and an operating systems using an application buffer, a circular buffer and a queuing and pooling operation.
US11863468B2
An Ethernet Physical layer (PHY) device includes a PHY interface and PHY circuitry. The PHY interface is configured to connect to a physical link. The PHY circuitry is configured to generate layer-1 frames that carry data for transmission to a peer Ethernet PHY device, to insert among the layer-1 frames one or more management frames that are separate from the layer-1 frames and that are configured to control a General-Purpose Input-Output (GPIO) port associated with the peer Ethernet PHY device, to transmit the layer-1 frames and the inserted management frames, via the PHY interface, to the peer Ethernet PHY device over the physical link, for controlling one or more operations of the GPIO port associated with the peer Ethernet PHY device, and to receive, via the PHY interface, one or more verifications acknowledging that the one or more management frames were received successfully at the peer Ethernet PHY device.
US11863451B2
There is provided a method and apparatus to generate temporal congestion signals. The method is used by a device and includes receiving a packet which includes a request for network state information and generating one or more temporal congestion signals. The method also including adding the temporal congestion signals to the packet and transmitting the packet including the temporal congestion signals. The temporal congestion signals can include one or more of a line busyness signal, which measures the duration of a busy period of the device, and a line idleness signal, which measures the duration of an idle period of the device.
US11863450B1
A method comprises: at a network device configured to be connected to a network and having control and data planes, and interfaces configured for network operations in the network: upon receiving, from a controller, instructions to form a local twin of the network device that is a virtual replica of the network device to be used for test purposes, creating the local twin and configuring the local twin to include virtual control and data planes, and virtual interfaces, which are virtual replicas of, and operate independently from, the control and data planes, and the interfaces, of the network device, respectively; and hosting the local twin on physical resources of the network device such that the local twin is configured for virtual network operations on the network device that replicate, but are independent from, the network operations.
US11863447B2
This application discloses a route processing method and a network device. The network device obtains a route prefix and autonomous system information associated with the obtained route prefix, where the associated autonomous system information includes to-be-verified autonomous system information. The network device verifies whether there is a match item in a route origin information base, where the match item includes the obtained route prefix and the to-be-verified autonomous system information; and determines, based on a verification result, whether to send the obtained route prefix. The network device verifies the autonomous system information associated with the to-be-sent route prefix before sending the route prefix. This reduces a possibility that the network device sends route information carrying incorrect autonomous system information, and reduces a possibility of causing an abnormal network flow direction.
US11863438B2
This application discloses a routing information sending method and apparatus. The method includes: receiving, by a first network node, routing information sent by a second network node, and determining the routing information corresponds to a tenant identifier; and then determining, by the first network node, that a third network node belongs to a tenant corresponding to the tenant identifier, and sending the routing information to the third network node in response to determining that the third network node belongs to the tenant corresponding to the tenant identifier.
US11863421B2
A method and system for a VPN setup in which one of the peers' outgoing traffic is dynamically rerouted to exit VPN servers based on infrastructure or user requirements without losing the initial connection state or leaking unencrypted network traffic is described. One exemplary embodiment describes a method for a client to change their routing to multiple server locations. Another exemplary embodiment describes a method for the entry VPN servers to reroute traffic based on strategic traffic analysis.
US11863412B2
A packet information analysis method and a network traffic monitoring device are disclosed. The method includes the following. Network flow data including a plurality of network packets is obtained. An index parameter is generated according to packet information (e.g., header information) of the first network packet among the network flow. A target mapping model is determined from a plurality of candidate mapping models according to the index parameter. The index parameter is between a first sampling point and a second sampling point of the target mapping model. An interpolation mapping value is obtained according to the index parameter, the first sampling point, the second sampling point, and the target mapping model. An evaluation value is obtained according to the interpolation mapping value. The evaluation value reflects a distribution status of a monitoring item in the network traffic flows.
US11863406B2
Methods and apparatus are disclosed for programming reconfigurable logic devices such as FPGAs in a networked server environment. In one example, a system hosting a network service providing field programmable gate array (FPGA) services includes a network service provider configured to receive a request to implement application logic in a plurality of FPGAs, allocate a computing instance comprising the FPGAs in responses to receiving the request, produce configuration information for programming the FPGAs, and send the configuration information to an allocated computing instance. The system further includes a computing host that is allocated by the network service provider as a computing instance which includes memory, processors configured to execute computer-executable instructions stored in the memory, and the programmed FPGAs.
US11863399B2
In order to enable stabilizing control of communication in a communication network, a system according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes: an obtaining means for obtaining work-related information related to human work in network operation; and a training means for training a machine learning based controller for controlling communication in a communication network, based on the work-related information.
US11863388B1
Energy-aware configurations can be utilized to operate a network based on sustainability-related metrics. In many embodiments, a suitable device includes a processor, a memory commutatively coupled to the processor, a plurality of elements, a communication port, and an energy-aware topology logic configured to collect topology data from one or more network devices, wherein each of the one or more network devices include a plurality of elements. The energy-aware topology logic can receive power source data and power usage data related to plurality of elements and generate an element energy coefficient (EEC) for a plurality of elements. Subsequently, the energy-aware topology logic can also generate an energy-aware configuration for at least one of the one or more network devices, and then pass the generated energy-aware configuration to the at least one network device, wherein the energy-aware configuration is configured to steer traffic based on at least one sustainability-related metric.
US11863385B2
The invention is notably directed to a method, computer program product, and computer system for running software inside containers. The method relies on a computerized system that includes a composable disaggregated infrastructure, in addition to general-purpose hardware. The computerized system is configured to dynamically allocate computerized resources, which include both general resources and specialized resources. The former are enabled by the general-purpose hardware, while the latter are enabled by specialized network-attached hardware components of the composable disaggregated infrastructure. The method maintains a table capturing specializations of the specialized network-attached hardware components. At runtime, software is run inside each container by executing corresponding functions. A first subset of the functions are executed using the general resources, whereas a second subset of the functions are executed using the specialized resources, by offloading the second subset of functions to respective components of the specialized network-attached hardware components, in accordance with the specializations.
US11863367B2
Multimedia codecs (compression methods), based only on FFT (Fast Fourier Transform) have been recently proposed. These codecs use the largest points (foreground) and the most energetic bands (background). Medium quality versions are based on the largest local peaks only. The phases can be ignored with the largest local peaks or in the background. Alternatively, sine and cosine amplitudes can be used. This invention describes methods for giving utility to the reintroduced phases, in particular: local peaks are grouped to have a very narrow bandwidth, with the phases containing the displacements of these peaks, and we transport data and the points of the foreground in the phases of the background. High speed communications are supported using techniques similar to OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing). These processes are intended to be used in particular with connected objects and in the physical layers of computer networks.
US11863359B1
Technologies to improve throughput in wireless multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) and single-input-single-output (SISO) systems are described. A first device includes a baseband processor with an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) circuitry that uses a digital multi-carrier modulation scheme that defines a set of data subcarriers, a set of pilot subcarriers, and a direct current (DC) subcarrier to communicate data in a wireless channel between the first device and a second device. The baseband processor also includes subcarrier pre-equalization logic that receives, from the second device, feedback data indicative of a frequency selective fading characteristic of the wireless channel and adjusts a first amplitude value of a subset of the set of data subcarriers to a second amplitude value. Adjusting the first amplitude value to the second amplitude value reduces the frequency selective fading characteristic of the wireless channel.
US11863357B2
Examples described herein relate to determining whether a device can re-train settings of one or more components of another device. Some examples include conducting link re-training by: receiving, by a receiver in a first device, signals over a lane from a transmitter in a second device, the signals comprising a first communication identifying capability to re-train a link; transmitting, from the first device, a second communication including one or more components of a second device with capability to be adjusted and a request to modify one or more parameters of the one or more components; and receiving, at the first device, a third communication identifying a status of re-training. In some examples, the one or more components comprise an equalizer and the one or more parameters comprises at least one tap setting. In some examples, the one or more parameters comprise a precursor, main cursor or post-cursor equalization setting.
US11863354B2
A method includes receiving, by a first user device in a wireless network, an indication of availability of a pre-trained model that estimates a channel between a second user device and a network node; receiving, by the first user device, information relating to the pre-trained model; determining, by the first user device, channel estimation information based at least on the information relating to the pre-trained model; and performing at least one of the following: transmitting, by the first user device, a report to the network node including the channel estimation information; or receiving data, by the first user device from the network node, based on the channel estimation information.
US11863353B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a device, method, apparatus and computer readable storage medium for channel estimation in a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) system. The MIMO system comprises a receiver configured with a plurality of receiving antennas and a transmitter configured with a plurality of transmitting antennas. In example embodiments, a plurality of data symbols are detected based on channel estimation from a plurality of signals received by the plurality of receiving antenna from the plurality of transmitting antennas. The plurality of detected data symbols are adjusted based on a set of constellation points for a modulation mode used by the transmitter and associated with the plurality of signals. The channel estimation is updated based on the plurality of adjusted data symbols.
US11863349B2
Embodiments of a device and method are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method for network segmentation of a network deployed at a customer site involves establishing a tunnel between a network device of the network deployed at the customer site and a network port of a switch of the network deployed at the customer site, when a wired device is plugged into the network port of the switch, transmitting network traffic between the wired device and the network device through the tunnel, facilitating a security operation regarding the wired device, and based on a result of the security operation, performing a network segmentation operation regarding the wired device.
US11863336B2
Techniques for conducting a virtual event are described. One example method includes displaying, on a display screen of a computing device, a plurality of icons, each icon representing a different virtual event participant, wherein the plurality of icons includes a first icon representing a virtual event participant associated with the computing device; receiving, from an input device of the computing device, input representing a direction of movement for the first icon; and in response to receiving the input, moving the first icon on the display screen in the direction represented by the input.
US11863334B2
Various embodiments of an apparatus, method(s), system(s) and computer program product(s) described herein are directed to a Folder Engine. The Folder Engine detects a hover action initiated by a recipient user account proximate to a folder created by the recipient user account. Based on detecting the hover action, the Folder Engine displays one or more notifications that correspond to one or more online chats selected by the recipient user account to be organized in the folder. The Folder Engine receives a selection from the recipient user account of a first notification that corresponds to a first online chat within the folder. Based on the selection of the first notification, the Folder Engine initiates access of the first online chat by the recipient user account.
US11863329B2
According to an aspect, a transmitting device determines, for each of a plurality of transmissions, whether user data to be transmitted within a time transmission interval, TTT, will be closest in time to a DMRS transmitted before the user data or after the user data. If before the user data, all HARQ ACK/NACK data for the transmission is mapped to the earliest in time SC-FDMA symbol carrying user data in the transmission, and to pre-DFT symbols closest in time to the DMRS transmitted before the user data. If after the user data, all HARQ ACK/NACK data for the transmission is mapped to the last in time SC-FDMA symbol carrying user data in the transmission, and to pre-DFT symbols closest in time to the DMRS transmitted after the user data. SC-FDMA signals are formed from user data and control information for the transmission, based on the mapping.
US11863317B2
Data can be sent from a sender to a receiver with reliability of transmission encoding data blocks into packets each having a packet header and a packet payload, a block size, a global packet sequence number that uniquely identifies the packet relative to other packets of the data, a block identifier of the data block, and an encoding identifier. The sender determines from feedback from the receiver whether packets are lost and sends repair packets as needed.
US11863314B1
The present disclosure describes systems and methods for the granular, interference aware selection of modulation and coding schemes (MCS) per-sub-band, per-stream, and in some examples, per-user. In some examples, channel condition metrics regarding wireless communication conditions, including interference conditions, from a communication node of a wireless access system may be received. Based at least on the received channel condition metrics indicative of interference, a multidimensional interference margin generator may determine a per-sub-band per-stream margin. A modulation and coding scheme may be selected based on the per-sub-band per-stream margin. In some examples, the selected modulation and coding scheme may be transmitted to various modulators/demodulators, encoders/decoders, and/or other communication nodes within the wireless access system. In some examples, a scheduler may select an allocation based at least on the per-sub-band per-stream margin.
US11863304B2
A side-channel attack countermeasure that leverages implementation diversity and dynamic partial reconfiguration as mechanisms to reduce correlation in the power traces measured during a differential power analysis (DPA) attack. The technique changes the underlying hardware implementation of any encryption algorithm using dynamic partial reconfiguration (DPR) to resist side-channel-based attacks.
US11863300B2
A system and method determine a clock drift and a clock variance of each node in plural nodes of a time-sensitive Ethernet network. An accumulated clock offset along a time-sensitive network path in the time-sensitive network is determined based on the clock drifts and the clock variances. A guard band having a dynamic size is determined based on the accumulated clock offset. The times at which Ethernet frames are communicated through the nodes are restricted by communicating the guard band with the dynamic size to one or more of the nodes.
US11863295B2
Techniques are provided for identifying and monitoring connections in an optical system. A plurality of optical ports is configured to receive a plurality of optical links that couple with one or more remote optical devices. At least one light source generates identification (ID) signals. At least one optical element configured to direct the ID signals into transmission paths from the source optical device to the remote optical device/s over the plurality of optical links. The remote optical device/s include one or more optical elements that direct the ID signals through a set of WDM filters and returns the ID signals. At least one optical element directs returned ID signals to an optical channel monitor. At least one microprocessor configured to execute control instructions to generate the ID signals and process one or more outputs of the optical channel monitor in response to the returned ID signals to identify the plurality of optical links.
US11863285B2
One embodiment provides a method providing a maximum diversity scheme for improving coverage area and diversity performance of a media system. The method comprises, at an antenna module of the media system, wirelessly receiving, via a receiver antenna of the antenna module, broadband radio frequency (RF) signals from a transmitter of the media system, instantaneously converting, via a converter circuitry of the antenna module, the broadband RF signals into one or more digital baseband components, generating, via a processor unit of the antenna module, a single digital data stream by applying diversity processing to the digital baseband components, and outputting the single digital data stream over a network cable to another device of the media system.
US11863281B2
Apparatus, methods, and computer-readable media for facilitating cross-carrier beam association are disclosed herein. An example method for wireless communication at a UE includes receiving, from a base station, an indication of a cross-carrier beam association associated with a first carrier and a second carrier different than the first carrier. The example method also includes determining an association between a first set of beams of the first carrier and a second set of beams of the second carrier based on the indication of the cross-carrier beam association. Additionally, the example method includes receiving on the first set of beams and the second set of beams based on the determined cross-carrier beam association.
US11863267B2
The present invention relates to a multi-antenna channel estimation apparatus and method for performing beamforming in a communication system in which only single channel estimation is possible, and relates to a channel estimation apparatus and method for beamforming in which the transmitter generates pilot signals based on the Zadoff-Chu sequence and transmits the generated pilot signals to the receiver, the receiver estimates a channel based on the pilot signal, and feeds back information for beamforming to the transmitter based on the estimated channel information, and it is configured to enable beamforming by converting and setting the signal phase for each antenna according to the feedback received from the transmitter.
US11863261B2
This base station comprises: a control unit that allocates, on the basis of a doppler shift estimated using an uplink reference signal, a downlink reference signal common to a plurality of beams; and a transmission unit that transmits the common downlink reference signal via the plurality of beams. According to this base station communication method, the base station allocates, on the basis of a doppler shift estimated using an uplink reference signal, a downlink reference signal common to a plurality of beams, and transmits the common downlink reference signal via the plurality of beams.
US11863260B2
5G communication method based on change in shape of electronic device and electronic device therefor
An electronic device may include a housing of which a shape is changeable, a plurality of antenna modules positioned inside the housing and including at least one antenna array, and at least one processor operatively connected to the plurality of antenna modules. The electronic device may detect a change in the shape of the housing and perform communication using a first beam book and/or a second beam book based at least on the change in the shape of the housing. In addition to the above, various embodiments identified through the specification are possible.
US11863252B2
Embodiments of this application disclose terminal device capability transmission methods, apparatuses, and systems. In an implementation, a terminal device transmits capability information to a network device, the capability information indicates a maximum quantity of ports of reference signals for channel state information (CSI) measurement supported by a terminal device in a time-domain unit, wherein the time-domain unit is one slot, and the capability information is determined based on a capability of the terminal device.
US11863249B2
A system for wireless communications includes an antenna and a controller, the antenna configured to transmit electrical data signals, the electrical data signals including an encoded message signal. The encoded message signal including one or more encoded message words. The controller is configured to encode one or more message words, of a message signal, into one or more encoded message words of the encoded message signal, based on a coding format. The coding format correlates each of a plurality of correlated ratios with one of a plurality of format words. Each of the plurality of correlated ratios is a ratio of a duty cycle of a pulse to a respective period associated with one or both of the duty cycle and the pulse. Each of the one or more encoded message words are encoded as one of the plurality of correlated ratios.
US11863226B2
The present disclosure provides a communication device and an operating method. The communication device includes an antenna, a transmission processor, a radio frequency chain, and a reception processor. The transmission processor is configured to output a second transmission input signal with the same average power as the average power of a first transmission input signal and a second amplitude greater than a first amplitude of the first transmission input signal. The RF chain is configured to output an RF output signal to be transmitted through the antenna, based on a transmission input signal, and to output a reception input signal based on a signal received through the antenna. The reception processor is configured to check an out-of-band blocker by detecting a peaked frequency spectrum based on the reception input signal and to adjust a reception characteristic parameter of the RF chain based on an amplitude of the peaked frequency spectrum.
US11863225B2
An electronic device may include wireless circuitry. The wireless circuitry may include a quadratic phase generator for outputting a perfectly interpolated constant amplitude zero autocorrelation (CAZAC) sequence for a transmit path. The quadratic phase generator may include a numerically controlled oscillator, a switch controlled based on a value output from the numerically controlled oscillator, a first integrator stage, and a second integrator stage connected in series with the first integrator stage. The numerically controlled oscillator may receive as inputs a chirp count and a word length. The switch may be configured to switchably feed one of two input values that are a function of the chirp count and the word length to the first integrator stage. The quadratic phase generator may output full-bandwidth chirps or reduced-bandwidth chirps. Bandwidth reduction can be achieved by scaling the two input values of the switches.
US11863215B2
A high-frequency front end module includes a primary antenna terminal and a secondary antenna terminal, a first multiplexer and a second multiplexer, a switch circuit, and a first amplifier and a second amplifier. The first multiplexer has a first transmission filter and a first reception filter. The second multiplexer has a second transmission filter and a second reception filter. The switch circuit exclusively switches connection between the primary antenna terminal and the first multiplexer and connection between the primary antenna terminal and the second multiplexer, and exclusively switches connection between the secondary antenna terminal and the first multiplexer and connection between the secondary antenna terminal and the second multiplexer.
US11863213B2
A method for configuring a multi-mode antenna system is provided. The method includes obtaining channel selection data indicating the antenna system is tuned to a first channel of a plurality of channels. The method includes configuring the antenna system in at least one operating mode of a plurality of operating modes, with each operating mode of the plurality of operating modes having a distinct radiation pattern. The method includes obtaining data indicative of a channel quality indicator for the at least one operating mode. The method includes determining a selected operating mode for the multi-mode antenna system for the first channel of the plurality of channels based, at least in part, on the data indicative of the channel quality indicator. The method includes configuring the antenna system in the selected operating mode when the multi-mode antenna system is tuned to the first channel.
US11863209B2
A method of integrated circuit includes: providing a non-volatile memory circuit for securely and permanently recording and protecting key data content having Y bits; providing a programmable memory circuit for storing user configuration data content having X bits greater than Y bits; converting the user configuration data content having X bits into user configuration key content having Y bits; comparing the user configuration key content having Y bits with the key data content having Y bits; selecting fallback configuration data content having X bits as output data when the user configuration key content does not match the key data content; selecting the user configuration data content having X bits as the output data when the user configuration key content matches the key data content; and receiving the output data of the decision circuit and performing at least one corresponding capability operation according to the output data.
US11863203B2
A method and an apparatus for transmitting broadcast signals thereof are disclosed. The apparatus for transmitting broadcast signals comprises an encoder for encoding service data, a mapper for mapping the encoded service data into a plurality of OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex) symbols to build at least one signal frame, a frequency interleaver for frequency interleaving data in the at least one signal frame by using a different interleaving-seed which is used for every OFDM symbol pair comprised of two sequential OFDM symbols, a modulator for modulating the frequency interleaved data by an OFDM scheme and a transmitter for transmitting the broadcast signals having the modulated data, wherein the different interleaving-seed is generated based on a cyclic shifting value and wherein an interleaving seed is variable based on an FFT size of the modulating.
US11863186B2
This disclosure describes circuits and techniques for identifying potential problems with control signals for power switches. More specifically, this disclosure describes the use of registers, e.g., volatile or non-volatile storage elements, configured to count the rising and/or falling edges of pulse modulation (PM) signals within driver circuits or other control circuits. By counting the edges of PM signals within driver circuits, signaling problems can be identified based on mismatch between different counters. The techniques may be used by a driver circuit to detect circuit problems, or readout of the registers can be done after device failure, in order to help identify whether signaling problems may have caused the device failure.
US11863185B2
The present embodiment relates to an oscillator circuit, a semiconductor integrated circuit device and a method for frequency correction of an oscillator circuit, and more particularly, to an oscillator circuit, a semiconductor integrated circuit device and a method for frequency correction of an oscillator circuit capable of stably maintaining an output frequency of a clock signal even when a temperature of the semiconductor integrated circuit device changes.
US11863182B2
A table-based state machine is improved by reducing critical dependence path. In one aspect, all current states for a given input are read from a state table circuit, and the next state and output are then selected therefrom by an output multiplexer based on the current state, removing dependence on the current state from the table read, and allowing the read(s) to be pipelined. In a further aspect, multiple input units are configured to operate on multiple inputs in parallel, with each input unit propagating its state table circuit for its current input to the next downstream input unit. Each downstream input unit is configured to use the propagated state table circuit to provide the state table circuit reads to the proper output multiplexer input. The number of possible output states for a given input may be dynamically reduced, reducing the size of the output multiplexer selecting the next state.
US11863178B2
A method, system, and related component for detecting properness of a PG pin power-on timing sequence are provided. The method comprises: obtaining a pull-up level of a PG pin of a VR chip (S101); determining a value of a pull-up resistor of the PG pin, as a first resistance, when a current injected into the VR chip by using the pull-up level is equal to a maximum withstand current of the VR chip (S102); obtaining an equivalent resistance to ground when the PG pin is at a low level, and calculating, based on the equivalent resistance to ground, a value of the pull-up resistor of the PG pin, as a second resistance, when an output voltage of the PG pin is equal to a preset interference voltage limit value (S103); and outputting first prompt information when it is determined that an actual resistance of the pull-up resistor is lower than the first resistance or the second resistance (S104). The foregoing solution is applied, to determine whether a power-on timing sequence of PG pins in a VR chip is proper, thereby avoiding an incorrect action of a subsequent circuit.
US11863177B2
In an example driver circuit, one of two current sources coupled between a supply voltage and one output node is disabled during a driver disable time period (tpz) while the other continues to operate during a pre-charge monopulse time period (td) within tpz. A third current source on the other side of the driver circuit and coupled to ground is also disabled during tpz. During td, the following components are enabled: a charge current source coupled between the supply voltage and a second output node; a pair of current switches respectively coupled to the output nodes; and a pair of pull-down switches respectively coupled to control terminals of the current switches. After tpz, during a compensation time period (tcomp), the current sources enabled during td are disabled and a compensation current source is enabled. After tcomp, the compensation current source is disabled.
US11863173B2
A system includes a housing, a sensing electrode disposed within the housing, and a connecting electrode. The system also includes a capacitive sensing circuit galvanically connected to the connecting electrode at a first port, but not to the sensing electrode. The capacitive sensing circuit is configured to determine a first capacitance between the first port and a ground. The first capacitance includes a variable capacitance between the connecting electrode and a person when the person is touching the housing.
US11863172B2
A single live line switch circuit includes a single live line connecting end, a switch unit, two wire channels, an on-state power obtaining circuit, an off-state power obtaining circuit, and an energy storage element. The single live line connecting end is connected to an external single live line. The on-state power obtaining circuit is connected to the single live line connecting end. The switch unit includes a fixed connecting end and a movable connecting end, and the fixed connecting end is connected to the on-state power obtaining circuit. The two wire channels are provided with a first connecting end and a second connecting end, respectively, and the movable connecting end of the switch unit is in contact with the first connecting end or the second connecting end. A control method of the single live line switch circuit is provided.
US11863171B2
According to one embodiment, electronic circuitry includes a semiconductor switching element; and a driving circuit configured to supply a current to a control terminal of the semiconductor switching element and to adjust a magnitude of the current supplied to the control terminal based on a voltage at the control terminal.
US11863170B1
An equalizer circuit includes: a main stage circuit including: a main stage differential pair; and a main stage degeneration resistance; a replica stage circuit including: a replica stage differential pair matching the main stage differential pair; and a replica stage degeneration resistance matching the main stage degeneration resistance and disconnected from the replica stage differential pair; equalizer inputs connected to: gate electrodes of the main stage differential pair; and gate electrodes of the replica stage differential pair; and equalizer outputs connected to: a main stage positive output and a main stage negative output connected to drain electrodes of the main stage differential pair; and a replica stage positive output and a replica stage negative output connected to drain electrodes of the replica stage differential pair, the replica stage positive output connected to the main stage negative output and the replica stage negative output connected to the main stage positive output.
US11863163B1
A digital high-speed hybrid load pull test system comprises a slide screw automatic passive tuner, a digital active forward injection loop in a closed loop transmission configuration, calibration and tuning algorithms. The forward active injection loop comprises at least one adjustable coupler, a digital electronic tuner and feedback power amplifier; the passive tuner comprises one or more metallic tuning probes, used to create passive reflection factors. Small signal calibration of the passive and active tuners create a global calibration data base, used to pre-tune in the area of the target impedance and final high power (nonlinear) tuning employs a in-situ signal power wave search and measurement for digital impedances around the small signal pattern. The system provides for high speed low injected power tuning with maximum reflection factor at DUT reference plane reaching unity.
US11863157B2
There is provided a vibrator device including: a vibrator element; a semiconductor substrate having a first surface on which the vibrator element is disposed and a second surface positioned on an opposite side of the first surface; a fractional N-PLL circuit disposed at the second surface; a wiring that is disposed at the first surface and electrically couples the vibrator element and the fractional N-PLL circuit; and an output terminal that is disposed at the second surface side of the semiconductor substrate, is electrically coupled to the fractional N-PLL circuit, and outputs a signal from the fractional N-PLL circuit, in which the output terminal does not overlap the wiring in a plan view along a thickness direction of the semiconductor substrate.
US11863156B2
A surface acoustic wave device comprises a substrate and an interdigital transducer (IDT) electrode disposed on the substrate. The IDT electrode includes a lower electrode layer having a lower surface in contact with an upper surface of the substrate and an upper electrode layer having a lower surface defining a base in contact with an upper surface of the lower electrode layer. Side surfaces of the lower electrode layer are substantially perpendicular to the upper surface of the substrate. Side surfaces of the upper electrode layer are disposed at an acute angle relative to the upper surface of the substrate.
US11863155B2
A surface acoustic wave element includes a substrate including a LiNbO3 piezoelectric single crystal, a first dielectric layer provided on the substrate, and an IDT electrode provided on the first dielectric layer, and propagates a high-frequency signal on the substrate using a Rayleigh wave.
US11863152B2
An elastic wave device includes a supporting substrate, a high-acoustic-velocity film stacked on the supporting substrate and in which an acoustic velocity of a bulk wave propagating therein is higher than an acoustic velocity of an elastic wave propagating in a piezoelectric film, a low-acoustic-velocity film stacked on the high-acoustic-velocity film and in which an acoustic velocity of a bulk wave propagating therein is lower than an acoustic velocity of a bulk wave propagating in the piezoelectric film, the piezoelectric film is stacked on the low-acoustic-velocity film, and an IDT electrode stacked on a surface of the piezoelectric film.
US11863151B2
A multiplexer includes a first filter circuit including a pass band that is a first frequency band, a second filter circuit including a pass band that is a second frequency band, and an additional circuit. The first filter circuit includes a first terminal connected to a common terminal and a second terminal connected to a first input/output terminal. The second filter circuit includes a third terminal connected to the common terminal and a fourth terminal connected to a second input/output terminal. The additional circuit is connected to the fourth terminal and one of the first and second terminals and includes a series-arm circuit on a series-arm path connecting the fourth terminal to the one of the terminals and a parallel-arm circuit on a parallel-arm path connecting the series-arm path to the ground. The parallel-arm circuit includes only an inductor, a capacitor, or an LC parallel-arm resonant circuit in series with the parallel-arm path.
US11863150B2
An electronic component includes a stack and first to fourth inductors. The second inductor is disposed after the first inductor in a −Y direction. The third inductor and the fourth inductor are disposed after the first inductor and the second inductor, respectively, in a −X direction. Two or more through hole columns are connected in parallel to a part near each end of a conductor layer portion in each of the first inductor and the fourth inductor in a longitudinal direction. One through hole column is connected to a part near each end of a conductor layer portion in each of the second inductor and the third inductor in a longitudinal direction.
US11863149B2
A signal transmitter includes a plurality of driver slices. Each of the driver slices includes a driving circuit, a plurality of first transistors, and a plurality of second transistors. The driving circuit receives an input signal and outputting an output signal. The first transistors provide a first impedance according to signals on gate terminals of the first transistors. The second transistors provide a second impedance according to signals on gate terminals of the second transistors. Each of the gate terminals of the first transistors and the second transistors is selectively coupled to a bias voltage which controls the corresponding first transistor or second transistor to operate in a triode region, or coupled to a predetermined voltage which controls the corresponding first transistor or second transistor to behave as a switch.
US11863145B1
Automatic gain control (AGC) may be accomplished in a radio frequency (RF) amplifier in a hybrid fiber-coaxial (HFC) network using a wideband RF tuner to select multiple pilot channels (e.g., frequencies in lower and upper portions of an RF signals spectrum) for use in measuring power and determining a correction to be applied to the RF amplifier. The power of the pilot channel or channels may be measured, for example, using a received signal strength indicator (RSSI) from the wideband RF tuner or using a power detector circuit. Using the wideband RF tuner allows selectable gain and/or tilt control across a wideband spectrum, such as a channel spectrum of a CATV downstream RF signal, to maintain stable RF output levels of the amplifier as RF input levels vary. The RF amplifier may be a line extender amplifier used in a CATV HFC network to amplify a wideband RF spectrum of up to 1.8 GHz.
US11863142B2
Methods and apparatus to determine automated gain control parameters for an automated gain control protocol are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a first tuner to amplify an audio signal. Disclosed example apparatus also include a second tuner to amplify the audio signal. Disclosed example apparatus also include a first controller to tune the first tuner to apply a first gain representative of a first range of gains to the audio signal to determine a first amplified audio signal and tune the second tuner to apply a second gain representative a second range of gains to the audio signal to determine a second amplified audio signal, the second range of gains lower than the first range of gains. Disclosed example apparatus also include a second controller to select the first range of gains to be utilized in an automated gain control protocol when the first gain results in clipping of the first amplified audio signal and the second gain does not result in clipping of the second amplified audio signal.
US11863122B2
The performance of photosensitive devices over time may be tested by configuring a photosensitive device test system that includes a light source plate that exposes photosensitive devices within a container to a specified light intensity. The light intensity may be adjusted by a programmable power source according to one or more thresholds. A test may last for a set duration with performance measurements being taken at predetermined intervals throughout the duration. Feedback from the photosensitive device test system may be recorded to determine whether to increase light intensity, to stop testing, to continue testing, and whether one or more environmental conditions should be altered. Measurements may be sent to a client for analysis and display to a user.
US11863119B2
A solar panel bracket with a water conducting function for carrying a plurality of solar photovoltaic panels, comprising: a plurality of first brackets, each of the first brackets is arranged in parallel with each other, each of the first brackets has a first water conducting groove; a plurality of second brackets, each of the second brackets is arranged in parallel with each other, each of the second brackets has a second water conducting groove, the second brackets and the first brackets are arranged perpendicular to each other, and the second brackets and the first brackets surround to form a plurality of square spaces, the solar photovoltaic panels are arranged on the square spaces; and a plurality of third water conducting groove groups, each of the third water conducting groove groups is disposed on the side of each of the first brackets, and each of the third water conducting groove group has a third water conducting groove, and the second water conducting grooves communicate with the third water conducting grooves.
US11863115B2
A solar panel mounting system for forming a solar array includes longitudinal support rails mounted to a support structure such as a roof. A first solar panel disposed on the rails has a peripheral frame including a locking frame member with deformable clamping portion configured for slideably receiving a peripheral frame portion of an adjacent second solar panel. A pair of captive T-bolt sets passing through the clamping portion include T-bolts having locking heads and nuts frictionally engaged with the T-bolts to rotate the T-bolts. The heads are each inserted and rotationally locked into fastening channels of respective support rails. The second solar panel is inserted into the first panel clamping portion and the nuts are fully tightened producing a clamping action which locks the first and second panels together. Power/control cables may be routed inside covered cable compartments on rears of the panels for protection against rodent damage.
US11863114B2
Provided is a method of generating a converter control signal for a generator side converter portion, in particular of a wind turbine, being coupled to a generator, in particular a permanent magnet synchronous machine, the method including: deriving at least one harmonic torque reference, in particular based on a harmonic torque demand and/or a torque indicating feedback signal; deriving at least one harmonic flux reference, in particular based on a harmonic stator voltage demand and/or a stator voltage indicating feedback signal; adding all of the at least one harmonic torque reference to a fundamental torque reference and subtracting an estimated generator torque to derive a torque error; adding all of the at least one harmonic flux reference to a fundamental flux reference and subtracting an estimated generator flux to derive a flux error; and deriving the converter control signal based on the torque error and the flux error.
US11863103B2
A motor drive unit for driving a motor of a motorized window treatment may comprise software-based and hardware-based implementations of a process for detecting and resolving a stall condition in the motor, where the hardware-based implementation is configured to reduce power delivered to the motor if the software-based implementation has not first reduced the power to the motor. A control circuit may detect a stall condition of the motor, and reduce the power delivered to the motor after a first period of time from first detecting the stall condition. The motor drive unit may comprise a stall prevention circuit configured to reduce the power delivered to the motor after a second period of time (e.g., longer than the first period of time) from determining that a rotational sensing circuit is not generating a sensor signal while the control circuit is generating a drive signal to rotate the motor.
US11863101B2
A driving apparatus includes: an inverter unit generating a three-phase alternating-current voltage from a direct-current voltage in accordance with a drive signal based on a voltage command and outputting the three-phase alternating-current voltage to a permanent-magnet motor, the permanent-magnet motor including a permanent magnet; a current detection unit detecting a motor current flowing through the permanent-magnet motor; and a control unit generating the voltage command to control an operation of the inverter unit and estimating a temperature of the permanent magnet to perform a protection operation on the inverter unit on the basis of the motor current and an overcurrent protection threshold. The control unit sets the overcurrent protection threshold on the basis of a magnet temperature estimated value of the permanent magnet and any one of a control computation period of the control unit, an output voltage frequency of the inverter unit, and a carrier frequency based on the output voltage frequency of the inverter unit.
US11863092B2
A control device includes: an angular velocity detection unit that detects an angular velocity of a motor; a vibration component removal unit that removes a vibration component in a predetermined band from the angular velocity detected by the angular velocity detection unit by filtering; and a current command calculation unit that calculates a current command value of a drive current for driving the motor according to a torque command value and the angular velocity from which the vibration component has been removed by the vibration component removal unit.
US11863084B2
A multi-output AC/DC adapter can include a main power stage that receives power from an AC power source and delivers an intermediate output voltage, a plurality of regulator stages each comprising a chopper circuit that receives the intermediate output voltage and produces a regulated output DC voltage for one of the multiple outputs, and a controller. The main power stage can be a flyback converter, and the intermediate output voltage can be derived from a secondary winding of a flyback transformer of the flyback converter. The controller can provide a voltage reference signal and a feedback signal to the feedback loop of the main power stage, and the feedback signal can be an output voltage of one of the regulator stages. The controller can also provide a voltage reference signal to the controller of each of the regulator stages.
US11863078B2
Devices and methods for DC-to-DC conversion. The device includes a first transformer having a first winding at a primary side and a second winding at a secondary side. The device also includes a second transformer having a third winding at a primary side and a fourth winding at a secondary side. The device includes a controller configured to control a first current in the first winding of the first transformer and a second current in the third winding of the second transformer to flow in a first pattern, and to control the first current and the second current to flow in a second pattern.
US11863077B2
A power supply system includes an input stage comprising first and second input switches to provide a primary current responsive first and second input switching signals. A transformer generates a secondary current responsive to the primary current. An output stage comprises an output, a first output switch, a second output switch and a clamping switch. The output stage can be configured to generate an output voltage at the output by rectifying the secondary current responsive to respective first and second output switching signals. The clamping switch can be configured to close responsive to a clamp switching signal during an activation dead-time between closing the first input switch and the second input switch. The system further includes a switching controller configured to generate the first and second input switching signals and the first and second output switching signals based on the output voltage, and to generate the clamp switching signal.
US11863068B2
A driving device comprises a first transistor (B13), a second transistor (B14), and a resistance element. The first transistor (B13) has one terminal receiving a pulsed current and a control terminal connected to the one terminal. The second transistor (B14) has one terminal connected to at least one load, the other terminal connected to a reference potential together with the other terminal of the first transistor (B13), and a control terminal connected to the control terminal of the first transistor (B13). The resistance element is connected between the control terminal of the first transistor (B13) and the other terminal of the first transistor (B13).
US11863061B2
A switch includes a first terminal, a second terminal, and a third terminal. The switch includes an output node coupled to the second terminal and the third terminal. The switch includes a contactor coupled to the first terminal and movable between at least a first position and a second position. The first terminal is coupled to the second terminal when the contactor is in the first position. The first terminal is coupled to the third terminal when the contactor is in the second position. When the contactor is in the first position, the switch is configured to provide direct current power at the output node. When the contactor is in the second position, the switch is configured to provide alternating current power at the output node.
US11863047B2
An electric work machine, such as a lawn mower includes a motor case (22) fixed inside a main-body housing (10). A brushless motor (21) is housed inside the motor case (22) and includes a stator (23) having a stator core (40), coils (45), and upper and lower insulators (42, 43), and a rotor (24) disposed inward of the stator (23) and having a rotary shaft (25). A spindle (17) is driven by the rotary shaft (25). The motor case (22) holds the stator (23) and axially supports the rotary shaft (25) via bearings (68, 76). One or more insulating members, such as an insulating cap (67) and/or a resin layer (78), provide electrical insulation between the stator core (40) and the rotary shaft (25).
US11863032B2
An electric machine system described herein comprises a first electric machine rotor, a first gear and a second gear. The first gear is connected to the first electric machine rotor and to a first input/output shaft. The second gear is connected to the first electric machine rotor and to a second input/output shaft. The first electric machine rotor is disposed between the first gear and the second gear.
US11863024B2
The invention relates to a drive device (1) having an annular stator unit (10), an annular rotor unit (30) and a base plate (50). The stator unit (10) has at least three coils (11) having coil cores (12) and coil bobbins (13). The rotor unit (30) has a bearing unit (31), the coils (11) forming a receiving space (14) in the stator unit (10). According to the invention, the coil cores (12) and the bearing unit (31) stand on the base plate (50). The invention also relates to a spin window (100) having such a drive device (1), a pane (110) being arranged on the rotor unit (30).
US11863022B2
A motor includes a rotor magnet, a stator, and a magnetic sensor. The rotor magnet includes magnetized portions in a Halbach array, and having radially magnetized portions whose magnetization direction is a radial direction and non-radially magnetized portions. In first and second radially magnetized portions, magnetic poles on both sides in the radial direction are arranged opposite to magnetic poles on both sides in the radial direction of the first radially magnetized portion. The first and second radially magnetized portions are alternately arranged along a circumferential direction with at least one non-radially magnetized portion therebetween. The magnetic sensor is located on the other side in the radial direction with respect to the rotor magnet. A non-magnetized portion is in an axial portion of the rotor magnet where a magnetic field is detected by the magnetic sensor, and located between the first and second radially magnetized portions in the circumferential direction.
US11863012B2
An objective of the present invention is to provide a power supply system which enables stabilization of power supply voltages of multiple areas and/or redundancy to be achieved with low costs. A power supply system includes a main battery for providing power and a sub-battery which is separate from the main battery and provides power. The power supply system further includes switching boxes in first to fourth areas as a plurality of power supply areas configured to be supplied with power from the main battery and sub-battery, the switching boxes switching on/off states of power supplies into the first to fourth areas from the main battery and from the sub-battery. Furthermore, the power supply system includes a control section for switching control of the on/off states for the switching boxes.
US11863010B2
A power continuity unit includes a battery pack, a power converter, and a housing assembly. The battery pack includes a plurality of battery cells with monitoring devices that monitor the voltage of the associated battery cell and trim excess voltage. During daytime, the power converter converts a portion of the direct current (DC) power it receives from an alternative energy device into alternating current (AC) power and directs it to a user, while the remainder is stored in the battery pack. During nighttime, the power converter converts DC power it receives from the battery pack into alternating current (AC) power and directs it to the user. The housing assembly provides structural support and protection to the battery pack; its configuration depends on the type of battery cell being used.
US11863008B2
Transmission mounted electrical charging system with dual mode load and engine off motive load power
A system includes a PTO device that selectively couples to a driveline of a vehicle, a motor/generator electrically coupled to an electrical power storage system, and a shared load selectively powered by one of the driveline or the motor/generator. The PTO device further includes a coupling actuator that couples the shared load to the motor/generator at a first selected ratio in a first position, and couples the shared load to the driveline at a second selected ratio in a second position.
US11863005B2
Methods, systems, and devices for power electronics-based (PE-based) battery management. A system may include a set of battery strings, where each battery string may include a set of battery modules, and where each battery module may include a set of battery cells. The system may also include a set of power converters, where each power converter may be coupled with at least one battery string. A power electronics-based (PE-based) BMS may provide one or more battery management functions for at least one corresponding battery string while also monitoring or controlling a corresponding power converter.
US11863003B2
A power converting device, such as one used in an energy storage apparatus, comprises a first input terminal to receive a first DC voltage from a battery, a second input terminal to receive a second DC voltage from a power generation device, a switching module including a plurality of upper arm switching elements and a plurality of lower arm switching elements, and to output DC voltage to a DC link by switching the first DC voltage or the second DC voltage, and, a DC link capacitor disposed at the DC link, wherein at least some of the plurality of lower arm switching elements of the switching module operate in a power generation mode of the power generation device, and at least some of the plurality of upper arm switching elements of the switching module operate in a charging mode of the battery.
US11862981B2
A photovoltaic system includes an inverter, a controller, and at least two converters. An input terminal of each of the at least two converters are connected to a corresponding photovoltaic module, and output terminals of the at least two converters are connected in series and connected to an input terminal of the inverter. The controller is configured to set a voltage limiting value of at least one of the at least two converters, so that an output voltage of the at least one converter is less than or equal to the voltage limiting value when the converter works in a voltage limiting mode. The voltage limiting value of the at least one converter is proportional to an open circuit voltage of the photovoltaic module connected to an input terminal of the converter. Open circuit voltages of different photovoltaic modules vary with different parameters or models of the photovoltaic modules.
US11862975B2
A method for transferring power between medium voltage feeders via a direct current link in a power distribution network includes setting an iteration step value for each of a set of power reference quantities of the link, setting an initial value of each reference quantity, iteratively changing values of each reference quantity, and selecting one changed value of the set by: changing a present value of each reference quantity with the set iteration step value into a new value, measuring a total active power at a substation of the power distribution network for each new value, and selecting the new value that provides the lowest measured total active power at the substation. A next iteration is performed with the selected new value as present value for the one of the set of power reference quantities and with the present value for the other of the set of power reference quantities.
US11862966B2
According to an embodiment, a surge protector includes a capacitor, a switch, and a first transistor. The capacitor charges based on an input power to the surge protector. The switch turns on when the capacitor is charged to a charge threshold. The surge protector outputs the input power when the switch is turned on. The first transistor turns on when a voltage of the input power exceeds a first input voltage threshold such that the capacitor discharges to below the charge threshold and such that the switch turns off. The surge protector stops outputting the input power when the switch is turned off.
US11862964B2
A circuit to protect an overvoltage in a universal serial bus (USB) device include an overvoltage protection (OVP) switch connected to a pin of a USB receptacle and a switch controller to turn off the OVP switch when an overvoltage is detected such that power between the pin and the USB device is interrupted. The switch controller supplies a control signal to the OVP switch such that the OVP switch has a first on-resistance when the USB device is operating in a normal mode and no overvoltage is detected, and has a second on-resistance, higher than the first on-resistance, when the USB device is operating in a low-power mode and no overvoltage is detected.
US11862962B2
A controllable main breaker includes a main breaker sized to fit within an existing panel slot of an electrical panel. The main breaker comprises a trigger to open the main breaker in response to a thermal fault or overcurrent event. The controllable main breaker further includes an auxiliary shell sized to fit within at least one adjacent breaker slot. The auxiliary shell includes a controllable actuator that mechanically opens the main breaker.
US11862952B2
A watertight electrical compartment for use in an irrigation device can include a compartment body having a chamber and a sealing section configured to mate with one or more sealing rings. A sealing cap can mate with the sealing section and/or the sealing rings to seal the chamber. A cap retainer can be advanced over at least a portion of the sealing cap. One of the compartment body and cap retainer can have internal threads to be screwed onto external threads of the other one of the compartment body and cap retainer. The cap retainer can also have a stopping feature to keep the sealing cap in its sealed position. The watertight electrical compartment can be used in a wireless flow sensor assembly, a battery operated irrigation controller, and/or a battery-operated central controller device, to provide irrigation control, and/or sensor information, without the need for AC power.
US11862951B2
A cable channel for receiving at least one cable includes a first cable housing and a second cable housing. The first cable housing includes a first connector and the second cable housing includes a first mating connector releasably connected to the first connector arranging the first and second cable housings together.
US11862946B2
A bus bar system having at least one bus bar which is accommodated in a contact-protection housing in a contact-protection manner and in an accessible manner via contacting passages for electrical devices and/or device adapters, the contact-protection housing having a lower part and an upper part which is detachably fixed on the lower part and between which the at least one bus bar is held, wherein the upper part has, on its side facing the lower part, a plurality of plug-in receptacles extending from the latter into the lower part, and the lower part has at least one slide with at least one latching pawl which can be adjusted between a locking position, in which the at least one latching pawl engages in the plug-in receptacle, and a release position, in which the at least one latching pawl is positioned in front of the plug-in receptacle. A corresponding method is further described.
US11862937B1
Optical devices having a structured active region configured for selected wavelengths of light emissions are disclosed.
US11862921B2
A connector insert device for automatic switching of connector fixture includes terminal fixing portions clipping a wire, a wire storage portion storing groups of wires, transferring portions configured to store the wire clipped by the terminal fixing portion in the wire storage portion through a conveying portion, a connector fixing portion storing connectors, and an insert portion inserting the groups of wires in the wire storage portion into the connector fixing portion through the conveying portion. Each terminal fixing portion includes a terminal fixing base, a terminal clipping base, and a terminal gripper. The terminal clipping base is rotatably connected with the terminal fixing base through a terminal connecting shaft. The terminal gripper is connected with the terminal clipping base. The terminal fixing portion rotates the wire to a predetermined angle. The transferring portions clip the wire and places the wire in the wire storage portion.
US11862918B2
The present invention provides an electric wire joining structure (80), an electric wire joining method, and a terminal (1), each of which allows a reduction in burden on an operator. The present invention includes: one or more electric wires (10); a terminal (1) including one or more insertion holes (7) for the respective one or more electric wires (10), the one or more electric wires (10) being inserted into the respective insertion holes (7); and a joining part (20) formed by thermal spraying, the joining part (20) joining the one or more electric wires (10) to the terminal (1) on a side on which the one or more electric wires (10) have passed through the respective one or more insertion holes (7).
US11862907B2
A connector with cable is provided with a cable including a wire, a sheath and a braided member interposed between the wire and the sheath, the braided member being formed by braiding conductive wire materials, the braided member being provided with a folded portion formed by folding the braided member exposed from an end of the sheath toward the sheath, a sleeve made of metal and externally fit to an outer surface of the sheath inside the folded portion in a radial direction of the cable, a shield member made of metal and including a barrel for sandwiching the folded portion between the sleeve and the barrel while being crimped to an outer surface of the folded portion, and a housing covered with the shield member. A sleeve-side protrusion projecting radially outwardly of the cable is formed on a rear end part of the sleeve.
US11862906B2
An electrical outlet receptacle including a circuit board defining a first plane and a solenoid having a central axis perpendicular to the first plane. The electrical outlet receptacle further including a reset plunger with a portion extending through the first end of the solenoid and axially movable therein, and an armature movable axially along the portion of the reset plunger extending through the solenoid. Wherein the armature includes a slanted projection configured to contact a cam surface of a slide mechanism and provide the downward force on the cam surface.
US11862899B2
The present disclosure provides a connector assembly. The connector assembly includes a wire-end connector. The wire-end connector includes a wafer, a shield plate and a twin-ax cable. The wafer includes a frame and a terminal group. The terminal group is supported by the frame. The terminal group includes a signal terminal pair and a ground plate. The ground plate includes a ground terminal on both sides of the signal terminal pair. The shield plate is electrically connected to the ground plate. The shield plate includes an opening that penetrates the shield plate. The twin-ax cable includes a pair of conductors and a ground portion. The pair of conductors extend into the opening of the shield plate and are electrically connected to the signal terminal pair. The ground portion electrically connects at least one of the shield plate and the ground plate.
US11862898B2
A shielding shell used to at least partially surround signal terminals includes a first side wall, a second side wall and a third side wall. The second side wall connects the first side wall and the third side wall. The first side wall and the third side wall are disposed face to face. An end of at least one of the first side wall, the second side wall and the third side wall includes a deflection portion bent inwardly. The deflection portion is used to guide insertion of the shielding shell into a mating connector. As a result, a better shielding effect on the signal terminals can be provided. Besides, it is easy to guide insertion of the shielding shell into the mating connector.
US11862896B2
A connector assembly for a mobile device includes a bottom plate adapted to be operably coupled with a mobile device, a connector region being operably coupled with the bottom plate, and at least one alignment member operably coupled with the back plate. The connector region is configurable in at least a first arrangement and a second arrangement. The at least one alignment member is positioned adjacent to the connector region. Further, the at least one alignment region aligns with the connector region and frictionally receives an accessory device. In the first arrangement, the connector region includes at least one charging pad. In the second arrangement, the connector region includes at least one data port.
US11862891B2
A connector in the present disclosure is a connector 10 provided with an inner conductor 20 and an inner housing 30. The inner housing 30 is formed by assembling a first housing 31 and at least one second housing 42 with each other. The first housing 31 includes a first side wall 34 and the second housing 42 includes a second side wall 46. The second side wall 46 is arranged from a protection wall 43 to overlap the first side wall 34. The first and second side walls 34, 46 include a slide mechanism 50. The slide mechanism 50 includes a fitting portion 36 on either one of the first and second side walls 34, 46 and a fitting hole 47 in the other side wall. The fitting hole 47 is formed to be longer in a front-rear direction than the fitting portion 36.
US11862890B2
The present disclosure provides a connection terminal and a connector capable of suppressing an increase in manufacturing cost. A vehicle-side terminal 50 includes a terminal connecting portion 51 to be electrically connected to a charger-side terminal, a wire connecting portion 55 to be electrically connected to a wire, and an intermediate portion 56 provided between the terminal connecting portion 51 and the wire connecting portion 55. The terminal connecting portion 51 has a hollow cylindrical shape. The terminal connecting portion 51 includes a first slit 52X, 53X extending over an entire length in an axial direction of the terminal connecting portion 51. The intermediate portion 56 has a rectangular tube shape. The intermediate portion 56 includes a second slit 56X extending over an entire length in an axial direction of the intermediate portion 56.
US11862874B2
An antenna structure includes a main radiator element, a parasitic radiator element, a feeder and at least one first high-impedance member. The parasitic radiator element is disposed in parallel with the main radiator element. The feeder is configured to electrically or electromagnetically couple the main radiator element. The at least one first high-impedance member directly contacts the parasitic radiator element and is configured to be electrically grounded.
US11862866B2
An antenna module includes a first, a second, a third radiators, and a ground radiator. The first radiator includes a first section and a second section. The second radiator is connected to the first radiator, and includes a third section and a fourth section connected to each other. The fourth section includes a feed end. The third radiator is connected to the third section of the second radiator. The ground radiator is connected to the third radiator. The first, the second, the third, and the ground radiator are sequentially connected in a bent manner to form a stepped shape. The first section of the first radiator and the fourth section of the second radiator jointly resonate at a low frequency band, and the second section of the first radiator, the second radiator, the third radiator, and the ground radiator jointly resonate at a high frequency band.
US11862863B2
Examples disclosed herein relate to an antenna calibration method for a beam steering radar. A first set of input voltages is determined for a plurality of phase shifters coupled to a plurality of antenna elements in an antenna array in the beam steering radar, the voltages to control phases of signals for transmission by the antenna array. A first set of input voltages is applied to the antenna array. Radiating signals resulting from the first set of input voltages are measured. Voltage and phase values for the plurality of phase shifters are iteratively optimized to determine voltage and phase value pairs that result in a desired gain for the antenna array. The voltage and phase value pairs are stored in a look-up-table in the beam steering radar.
US11862857B2
An antenna system includes: a first patch antenna element that is electrically conductive; a first energy coupler configured to convey first energy to, or receive the first energy from, the first patch antenna element, the first energy being in a first frequency band; a second patch antenna element at least partially overlapping the first patch antenna element, the second patch antenna element comprising a plurality of physically separate portions that are each electrically conductive; and a second energy coupler connected to a first subset of the plurality of physically separate portions, the first subset comprising less than all of the plurality of physically separate portions, the second energy coupler configured to convey second energy to, or receive the second energy from, the first subset, the second energy being in a second frequency band that is higher than the first frequency band.
US11862853B2
The invention provides for a broad band directional antenna (10) comprising a ground plane (12) having an axis (14) extending perpendicularly to the ground plane, an active radiator (13) which is axially spaced from the ground plane, a metamaterial ground plane assembly (16) and a conductive pillar (28.1) between the first conductive wall and the ground plane. The metamaterial ground plane assembly comprises a metamaterial ground plane (17), a first conductive wall (20) adjacent a periphery of the metamaterial ground plane, the first conductive wall having a bottom (22) and atop (24) and a second wall (26) comprising two mutually insulated conductive wall parts (26.1, 26.2) located spaced from and outside of the first conductive wall. The bottom of the first conductive wall is located between the ground plane and the metamaterial ground plane and the top of the first conductive wall is located beyond the active radiator.
US11862851B2
An antenna device, including a case assembly, a first waveguide assembly, and a second waveguide assembly, is provided. A cavity is defined by an interior of the case assembly, and a first side of the case assembly has a slot penetrating the case assembly. At least part of the first waveguide assembly is located within the cavity and is connected to the first side. A projection of the first waveguide assembly to the first side is symmetrically located on two sides of the slot. The second waveguide assembly is located outside the case assembly, is close to the first side, and is connected to the slot. The second waveguide assembly is suitable for transmitting an antenna signal to the cavity through the slot and the first waveguide assembly. The antenna signal resonates in the cavity and radiates outward from a second side of the cavity opposite to the first side.
US11862845B2
An electronic device includes a display panel including an antenna. The antenna includes a first antenna portion. A second antenna portion is spaced apart from the first antenna portion in a first direction. A plurality of intermediate antenna portions is disposed between the first antenna portion and the second antenna portion and is electrically connected to the first antenna portion and the second antenna portion. The first antenna portion includes a first pattern portion and a first line portion having a first width in a second direction crossing the first direction. The second antenna portion includes a second pattern portion and a second line portion having a second width in the second direction that is larger than the first width.
US11862839B2
An example mount may include a strap (or any other type of clamping mechanism) engaging with an external surface of an antenna. The strap may be connected to a strap base with a canted wall also engaging with the external surface of the antenna. The engagement of the canted wall may be through an abutment of the canted wall against the corresponding external surface of the antenna at a single point or along a single line. Because the entirety of the canted wall does not have to be flush with the corresponding external surface of the antenna, the mount can couple to any kind of antenna form factor, such as curved antennas and antennas with imperfections and protrusions.
US11862836B2
A radio unit for unsynchronized Time Division Duplex (TDD) multi-band operation in a wireless communication system. The radio unit comprises a first resonator arrangement comprising one or more resonators tuned for operating at a first frequency band. A first terminal of the first resonator arrangement is coupled to an antenna element. The radio unit further comprises a second resonator arrangement comprising one or more resonators tuned for operating at a second frequency band. A first terminal of the second resonator arrangement is coupled to the antenna element. The radio unit further comprises a tunable resonator arrangement comprising at least four tunable resonators. The at least four tunable resonators in the tunable resonator arrangement are tuned according to different operating modes.
US11862835B2
The present invention discloses a dielectric filter with multilayer resonator, including a dielectric block, a plurality of multilayer resonator formed in the dielectric block, wherein each multilayer resonator is in a column shape extending in a first direction into the dielectric block and is formed of multiple metal layers paralleling and overlapping each other in a second direction, and vias extend in the second direction and connecting the metal layers in each multilayer resonator, and a ground electrode connected to the ground terminal of each multilayer resonator.
US11862833B2
A coupling assembly is provided. More specifically, the coupling assembly is configured to form a quick, preferably mechanical and electromagnetic, connection between two devices such as a radio and antenna. The coupling assembly has interchangeable portions can be easily adjusted or adapted to swap parts such as waveguides having different sizes and dimensions while maintaining a standard connection portion that can be used with the different sized and shaped parts, thereby reducing manufacturing costs and increasing the efficiency of field installations.
US11862830B2
The present disclosure provides a membrane electrode assembly (MEA) with high-efficiency water and heat management for a direct ethanol fuel cell (DEFC), and a fabrication method therefor, and belongs to the technical field of fuel cells. In the MEA for a DEFC in the present disclosure, a cathode catalyst layer is designed to be convex and ordered and an anode catalyst layer is designed to be concave and ordered, which is conducive to the timely discharge of the generated heat. The MEA for a DEFC can be fabricated by gradually fabricating each layer of the MEA on an inner surface and an outer surface of a proton-exchange membrane (PEM) or by step-by-step dip coating on an anode support tube. The present disclosure can effectively improve the working capacity of the cell.
US11862828B2
In accordance with the principles of the present invention, a system and method for the management of the power applied to electrolytic cell is provided. The power management consists a constant current regulation, H-bridge control by pulse width modulation (PWM), and dimming control of the applied current to the electrolytic cell. The constant current regulation is an analog control that maintains the applied current at a user-defined current setpoint. The time scale of constant current regulation ranges from tenth of microseconds to milliseconds. The PWM control of the H-bridge allows for the instant adjustment of the electrolytic production output by turning the cell on and off; the time scale of the PWM control ranges from tenths of milliseconds to seconds. The dimming control allows the change of the applied constant current; the time scale of the dimming control ranges from milliseconds to hours and longer.
US11862815B2
Provided is an air electrode/separator assembly including: a hydroxide ion conductive dense separator; an interface layer containing a hydroxide ion conductive material and an electron conductive material and covering one side of the hydroxide ion conductive dense separator; and an air electrode layer provided on the interface layer and including an outermost catalyst layer composed of a porous current collector and a layered double hydroxide (LDH) covering a surface thereof. The outermost catalyst layer has a porosity of 60% or more.
US11862814B2
A method for producing a microporous material comprising the steps of: providing an ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE); providing a filler; providing a processing plasticizer; adding the filler to the UHMWPE in a mixture being in the range of from about 1:9 to about 15:1 filler to UHMWPE by weight; adding the processing plasticizer to the mixture; extruding the mixture to form a sheet from the mixture; calendering the sheet; extracting the processing plasticizer from the sheet to produce a matrix comprising UHMWPE and the filler distributed throughout the matrix; stretching the microporous material in at least one direction to a stretch ratio of at least about 1.5 to produce a stretched microporous matrix; and subsequently calendering the stretched microporous matrix to produce a microporous material which exhibits improved physical and dimensional stability properties over the stretched microporous matrix.
US11862811B2
A functional separator capable of improving the capacity and lifetime of a battery by coating a material capable of reducing lithium polysulfide on the surface of the separator, a method for manufacturing the same, and a lithium secondary battery including the same. The functional separator includes a base separator and a polyethylene oxide-conductive carbon composite layer present on the surface of the base separator.
US11862810B2
Disclosed herein is a separator for an electrochemical element, comprising a fibrous structure, wherein the fibrous structure has a first fibrous layer part in which short fibers and/or pulp-like fibers are intertwined with each other, and a second fibrous layer part; some of the short fibers and/or the pulp-like fibers constituting the first fibrous layer part penetrates the second fibrous layer part; and a pore diameter distribution of the fibrous structure satisfies the following formula: 0 μm
US11862806B2
The present disclosure provides a button cell and an electronic device. In the button cell, a conductive member covers an opening of a top cover, and the top cover is connected to the conductive member. A cell is placed in an accommodating cavity of a bottom shell. A first tab is welded to an inner bottom wall of the bottom shell, and then the top cover having the conductive member is connected to the bottom shell in a sealed manner, with a second tab on the cell being electrically connected to the conductive member. Finally, an electrolyte solution is injected into the accommodating cavity. After the electrolyte solution is injected, a sealing member covers the liquid injection port, and the sealing member is connected to the liquid injection port in a sealed manner.
US11862796B2
A method of producing a positive-electrode active material for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery is provided. The method includes obtaining a precipitate containing nickel and manganese from a solution containing nickel and manganese, heat-treating the resulting precipitate at a temperature of from 850° C. to less than 1100° C. to obtain a first heat-treated product, mixing the first heat-treated product and a lithium compound, and heat-treating the resulting lithium-containing mixture at a temperature of from 550° C. to 1000° C. to obtain a second heat-treated product. The second heat-treated product contains a group of lithium transition metal composite oxide particles having an average particle diameter DSEM of from 0.5 μm to less than 3 μm and D50/DSEM of 1 to 2.5. The lithium transition metal composite oxide particles have a spinel structure based on nickel and manganese.
US11862780B2
A power generating system comprised of a hydrogen fuel cell and rechargeable battery connected together in series to be used as a load following system without the use of a DC-DC converter. The hydrogen fuel cell's cathode air compressor is driven off of the output of this power generation system. This is made possible by the following innovations: A novel way to wire the systems in series with the use of switches and bypass diodes, a method to limit the system output voltage so that we do not exceed the maximum voltage of downstream components, and an isolated DC-DC converter to charge the rechargeable battery with the hydrogen fuel cell.
US11862768B2
The embodiments of the present application provide a winding type electrode assembly including a positive electrode plate and a negative electrode plate; the positive electrode plate includes a first positive winding end portion and a positive winding middle section; the negative electrode plate includes a first portion and a second portion; and an active material layer of the negative electrode plate exceeds an active material layer of the positive electrode plate, and a difference between a maximum width of a negative active material layer of the first portion and a minimum width of a positive active material layer of the first positive winding end portion is larger than a difference between a maximum width of a negative active material layer of the second portion and a minimum width of a positive active material layer of the positive winding middle section.
US11862762B2
A flat-shaped winding electrode body in which a positive electrode plate and a negative electrode plate are wound with a separator interposed therebetween includes a positive electrode tab portion and a negative electrode tab portion at one end in a direction in which a winding axis of the winding electrode body extends. Two pieces of the flat-shaped winding electrode body are housed in a prismatic outer body so that the winding axis of each piece is disposed in a direction perpendicular to a sealing plate, and the positive electrode tab portion and the negative electrode tab portion are located on one end of the winding electrode body closer to the sealing plate than the other end.
US11862756B2
Systems and methods for improved light emitting efficiency of a solid state transducer (SST), for example light emitting diodes (LED), are disclosed. One embodiment of an SST die in accordance with the technology includes a reflective material disposed over electrical connectors on a front side of the die. The reflective material has a higher reflectivity than a base material of the connectors such that light traveling toward the connectors reflects back out of the device.
US11862750B2
In some embodiments, a semiconductor structure includes a first conductivity type region comprising a first superlattice, and an i-type active region adjacent to the first conductivity type region comprising an i-type superlattice. The first conductivity type region can be a p-type region or an n-type region. The first superlattice can be comprised of a plurality of first unit cells comprising a first set of single crystal layers, and the i-type superlattice can be comprised of a plurality of i-type unit cells comprising a second set of single crystal layers. An average alloy content of the plurality of the first unit cells and the i-type unit cells can be constant along a growth direction. A combined thickness of the second set single crystal layers can be thicker than a combined thickness of the first set of single crystal layers.
US11862736B2
Multi-dimensional photonic integrated circuits are provided, including a substrate having a first side and a second side, a multi-dimensional package having multi-dimensional planes, and one or more optical components connected to the first side and the second side of the substrate and on the multi-dimensional planes of the multi-dimensional package. The multi-dimensional planes include one or more horizontal sides and one or more vertical sides. One or more of the optical components are mounted on at least one of the horizontal sides of the multi-dimensional package and one or more of the optical components are mounted on at least one of the vertical sides of the multi-dimensional package. Hybrid systems of conventional multi-dimensional integrated circuits and multi-dimensional photonic integrated circuits also are provided.
US11862730B2
Described is a thin film transistor which comprises: a dielectric comprising a dielectric material; a first structure adjacent to the dielectric, the first structure comprising a first material; a second structure adjacent to the first structure, the second structure comprising a second material wherein the second material is doped; a second dielectric adjacent to the second structure; a gate comprising a metal adjacent to the second dielectric; a spacer partially adjacent to the gate and the second dielectric; and a contact adjacent to the spacer.
US11862724B1
Compact radiation-hardened NMOS transistors permitting close spacing for high circuit density can be fabricated using modern commercial foundry processes incorporating lightly-doped drain (LDD) and silicidation techniques. Radiation-induced leakage currents in parasitic field oxide transistors are reduced by spacing diffusions away from field oxide edges under the gate, forming gap regions from which n-type dopants and silicide formation are excluded using blocking patterns in the layout. P-type implants along these field oxide edges further increase radiation tolerance. Dimensions can be tailored to permit tradeoffs between radiation tolerance, breakdown voltage, and circuit density. Compact layouts for series-connected NMOS transistors are provided and applied to high-density rad-hard circuits. Methods for fabricating devices having these features are also provided, requiring minimal adaptation of standard processes. These designs and processes allow a mix of integrated circuits having differing levels of tolerance to total ionizing dose on the same semiconductor wafer.
US11862722B2
Semiconductor device structures and methods for manufacturing the same are provided. The semiconductor device structure includes a substrate, a first nitride semiconductor layer, a second nitride semiconductor layer, a barrier layer, a third nitride semiconductor layer and a gate structure. The first nitride semiconductor layer is disposed on the substrate. The second nitride semiconductor layer is disposed on the first nitride semiconductor layer and has a bandgap greater than that of the first nitride semiconductor layer. The barrier layer is disposed on the second nitride semiconductor layer and has a bandgap greater than that of the second nitride semiconductor layer. The third nitride semiconductor layer is doped with impurity and disposed on the barrier layer. The gate structure is disposed on the third nitride semiconductor layer.
US11862717B2
Embodiments of the disclosure provide a lateral bipolar transistor structure with a superlattice layer and methods to form the same. The bipolar transistor structure may have a semiconductor layer of a first single crystal semiconductor material over an insulator layer. The semiconductor layer includes an intrinsic base region having a first doping type. An emitter/collector (E/C) region may be adjacent the intrinsic base region and may have a second doping type opposite the first doping type. A superlattice layer is on the E/C region of the semiconductor layer. A raised E/C terminal, including a single crystal semiconductor material, is on the superlattice layer. The superlattice layer separates the E/C region from the raised E/C terminal.
US11862710B2
A semiconductor device includes a first source/drain region on an upper surface of a semiconductor substrate that extends along a first direction to define a length and a second direction opposite the first direction to define a width. A channel region extends vertically in a direction perpendicular to the first and second directions from a first end contacting the first source/drain region to an opposing second end contacting a second source/drain region. A gate surrounds a channel portion of the channel region, and a first doped source/drain extension region is located between the first source/drain region and the channel portion. The first doped source/drain extension region has a thickness extending along the vertical direction. A second doped source/drain extension region is located between the second source/drain region and the channel portion. The second doped source/drain extension region has a thickness extending along the vertical direction that matches the first thickness.
US11862704B2
Provided are electronic devices and methods of manufacturing the same. An electronic device may include a substrate, a gate electrode on the substrate, a ferroelectric layer between the substrate and the gate electrode, and a carbon layer between the substrate and the ferroelectric layer. The carbon layer may have an sp2 bonding structure.
US11862703B2
Gate-all-around integrated circuit structures having dual nanowire/nanoribbon channel structures, and methods of fabricating gate-all-around integrated circuit structures having dual nanowire/nanoribbon channel structures, are described. For example, an integrated circuit structure includes a first vertical arrangement of nanowires above a substrate. A dielectric cap is over the first vertical arrangement of nanowires. A second vertical arrangement of nanowires is above the substrate. Individual ones of the second vertical arrangement of nanowires are laterally staggered with individual ones of the first vertical arrangement of nanowires and the dielectric cap.
US11862698B2
A semiconductor device of embodiments includes a first electrode, a second electrode, a first semiconductor region, a second semiconductor region, a third semiconductor region, a conductive portion, a first insulating portion, a gate electrode, a second insulating portion, and a third insulating portion. The first to third semiconductor regions are provided between the first electrode and the second electrode. The conductive portion includes a first conductive portion and a second conductive portion on the second electrode side and having a lower impurity concentration than the first conductive portion. The first insulating portion is provided between the first conductive portion and the first semiconductor region. The gate electrode is provided between the second semiconductor region and the second conductive portion. The second insulating portion is provided between the second conductive portion and the gate electrode. The third insulating portion is provided between the second semiconductor region and the gate electrode.
US11862697B2
A method for manufacturing a buried gate and a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device are disclosed. The method for manufacturing the buried gate includes that: a trench is provided on an active region of a substrate; a gate structure is filled in a bottom of the trench, and a trench sidewall above the gate structure is exposed; an epitaxial layer is grown on the exposed trench sidewall with an epitaxial growth process, in which the epitaxial layer does not close the trench; and an isolation layer is filled in the trench.
US11862692B2
A transistor device includes field plate contacts that electrically connect a final metallization layer to field electrodes in underlying trenches, and mesa contacts that electrically connect the final metallization layer to semiconductor mesas confined by the trenches. Each field plate contact is divided into field plate contact segments that are separated from one another. Each mesa contact is divided into mesa contact segments that are separated from one another. In a first area adjacent to an end of the trenches, a first line that runs perpendicular to the trenches intersects a first field plate contact segment of the field plate contacts and a first mesa contact segment of the mesa contacts. In a second area spaced inward from the first area, a second line that runs perpendicular to the trenches intersects a second field plate contact segment of the field plate contacts and a second mesa contact segment of the mesa contacts.
US11862690B2
In a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, underlying structures comprising gate electrodes and source/drain epitaxial layers are formed, one or more layers are formed over the underlying structures, a hard mask layer is formed over the one or more layers, one or more first resist layers are formed over the hard mask layer, a first photo resist pattern is formed over the one or more first resist layers, a width of the first photo resist pattern is adjusted, the one or more first resist layers are patterned by using the first photo resist pattern as an etching mask, thereby forming a first hard mask pattern, and the hard mask layer is patterned by using the first hard mask pattern, thereby forming a second hard mask pattern.
US11862688B2
Integrated power modules according to the present technology may include a printed circuit board characterized by a first surface and a second surface. The integrated power modules may include one or more surface-mounted components coupled with the first surface of the printed circuit board. The integrated power modules may include a heat-transfer substrate. The integrated power modules may include one or more gallium nitride transistors coupled between and soldered to each of the second surface of the printed circuit board and the heat-transfer substrate. The integrated power modules may include one or more spacers coupled between and soldered to each of the printed circuit board and the heat-transfer substrate.
US11862685B2
The wafer having a retardation distribution measured with a light having a wavelength of 520 nm, wherein an average value of the retardation is 38 nm or less, wherein the wafer comprises a micropipe, and wherein a density of the micropipe is 1.5/cm2 or less, is disclosed.
US11862682B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate including an active region in a first direction, a plurality of channel layers on the active region and disposed in a direction perpendicular to an upper surface of the substrate, a gate electrode respectively surrounding the plurality of channel layers, and a source/drain structure respectively disposed on both sides of the gate electrode in the first direction and connected to each of the plurality of channel layers. The gate electrode extends in a second direction crossing the first direction. The gate electrode includes an overlapped portion in a region of the gate electrode on an uppermost channel layer of the plurality of channel layers. The overlapped portion of the gate electrode overlaps the source/drain structure in the first direction and has a side surface inclined toward the upper surface of the substrate.
US11862681B2
The structure of a semiconductor device with different gate structures configured to provide ultra-low threshold voltages and a method of fabricating the semiconductor device are disclosed. The method includes forming first and second nanostructured channel regions in first and second nanostructured layers, respectively, and forming first and second gate-all-around (GAA) structures surrounding the first and second nanostructured channel regions, respectively. The forming the first and second GAA structures includes selectively forming an Al-based n-type work function metal layer and a Si-based capping layer on the first nanostructured channel regions, depositing a bi-layer of Al-free p-type work function metal layers on the first and second nanostructured channel regions, depositing a fluorine blocking layer on the bi-layer of Al-free p-type work function layers, and depositing a gate metal fill layer on the fluorine blocking layer.
US11862680B2
An electrostatic discharge protection structure for a nitride-based device having an active region, an electrostatic discharge protection region outside the active region for forming the electrostatic discharge protection structure, and a field plate formed in the active region is provided. The electrostatic discharge protection structure includes a channel layer, and a barrier layer, a first p-type nitride layer and a metal layer formed on the channel layer in such order. The metal layer is electrically connected to the field plate in the active region. A nitride-based device having the electrostatic discharge protection structure and a method for manufacturing a nitride-based device is also disclosed.
US11862670B2
A semiconductor device includes a drift region, a dielectric film, and an anti-type doping layer. The drift region has a first type conductivity. The anti-type doping layer is located between the drift region and the dielectric film, and has a second type conductivity opposite to the first type conductivity so as to change a current path of a current in the drift region, to thereby prevent the current from being influenced by the dielectric film. A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device and a method for reducing an influence of a dielectric film are also disclosed.
US11862665B2
A method of forming a semiconductor structure including a metal-insulator-metal (MIM) capacitor includes: forming a stack structure over a substrate, wherein the stack structure includes a plurality of electrode material layers and a plurality of insulating material layers alternately stacked over the substrate; forming a mask layer on the stack structure; and performing a patterning process on the stack structure, so as to form the MIM capacitor comprising alternately stacked electrodes and insulating layers. Performing the patterning process includes: performing a first etching process to remove a first portion of the stack structure exposed by the mask layer; performing a first trimming process on the mask layer to remove a portion of the mask layer, and a first trimmed mask layer is formed; and performing a second etching process to remove a second portion of the stack structure exposed by the first trimmed mask layer.
US11862663B2
A display panel and a display device are provided. The display panel includes a first display area and a second display area corresponding to a position of an electronic component, wherein a light transmittance of the second display area is greater than a light transmittance of the first display area. A plurality of pixel units are disposed in the second display area, a ratio of a number of the first sub-pixels to the second sub-pixels and the third sub-pixels is 1:1:2 in each of the pixel units of the second display area, and by providing pixels with larger intervals in the second display area, a light transmittance above the electronic component is increased.
US11862662B2
Provided is an imaging device (1) including: an imaging element (10); and a semiconductor element (20, 30) provided to be opposed to the imaging element and electrically coupled to the imaging element. The semiconductor element includes: a wiring region (20A, 30A) provided in a middle portion and a peripheral region (20B, 30B) outside the wiring region; a wiring layer (22, 32) having a wiring line in the wiring region; a semiconductor substrate (21, 31) opposed to the imaging element with the wiring layer interposed therebetween and having a first surface (Sa, Sc) and a second surface (Sb, Sd) in order from a side of the wiring layer; and a polishing adjustment section (23, 33) including a material that is lower in polishing rate than a constituent material of the semiconductor substrate, the polishing adjustment section being disposed in at least a portion of the peripheral region and provided in a thickness direction of the semiconductor substrate from the second surface.
US11862661B2
A manufacturing method of an image pickup apparatus includes: fabricating a plurality of image pickup members each having a light-receiving surface on which a transparent plate is disposed and a plurality of spacers; measuring thicknesses of the transparent plates and the spacers; classifying the image pickup members into first groups depending on the thicknesses of the transparent plates; classifying the spacers into second groups depending on the thicknesses, selecting a combination of any one of the first groups and any one of the second groups such that a sum of the thickness of each of the transparent plates and the thickness of each of the spacers is within a predetermined range with a focusing length of optical members as a center; fabricating stacked bodies by stacking the image pickup members and the spacers in the selected combination; and disposing the optical members on the spacers in the stacked bodies.
US11862660B2
An image sensor having pixels that include two patterned semiconductor layers. The top patterned semiconductor layer contains the photoelectric elements of pixels having substantially 100% fill-factor. The bottom patterned semiconductor layer contains transistors for detecting, resetting, amplifying and transmitting signals charges received from the photoelectric elements. The top and bottom patterned semiconductor layers may be separated from each other by an interlayer insulating layer that may include metal interconnections for conducting signals between devices formed in the patterned semiconductor layers and from external devices.
US11862648B2
An optoelectronic device is disclosed, comprising: a photodiode array including a plurality of first photodiodes, each first photodiode including a respective n+ region and a respective n-well region; a guide array disposed over the photodiode array, the guide array including a plurality of guide members separated from one another by a layer of light-blocking material, the guide members being aligned with the n+ regions of the first photodiodes, such that each guide member is disposed over a different respective n+ region, and the layer of light-blocking material being aligned with the n-well regions of the first photodiodes; and a filter array disposed over the guide array, the filter array including a plurality of bandpass filters, each bandpass filter being aligned with a different one of the plurality of guide members, each bandpass filter having a different transmission band.
US11862646B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a display substrate, a touch display panel and a display panel. The display substrate has a display region and a pin region on a side of the display region. The display substrate includes: a base substrate; and at least one first signal line and at least one second signal line both on a side of the base substrate and both extending to the display region from the pin region. The display substrate further includes a DC conductive structure connected to a constant DC voltage. The DC conductive structure is between the at least one first signal line and the at least one second signal line. Each of the at least one first signal line and the at least one second signal line is spaced apart from the DC conductive structure.
US11862645B2
A display device includes a substrate that includes a display area and a pad area, and a plurality of data pads that are provided on the pad area of the substrate and arranged along a first direction and a second direction, where the plurality of data pads includes a first data pad, a second data pad that is disposed adjacent to the first data pad along the first direction, a third data pad that is disposed adjacent to the first data pad along the second direction, and a fourth data pad that is disposed adjacent to the second data pad along the second direction, and the first data pad and the second connection wire are respectively disposed in different layers.
US11862643B2
It is an object to manufacture a highly reliable display device using a thin film transistor having favorable electric characteristics and high reliability as a switching element. In a bottom gate thin film transistor including an amorphous oxide semiconductor, an oxide conductive layer having a crystal region is formed between an oxide semiconductor layer which has been dehydrated or dehydrogenated by heat treatment and each of a source electrode layer and a drain electrode layer which are formed using a metal material. Accordingly, contact resistance between the oxide semiconductor layer and each of the source electrode layer and the drain electrode layer can be reduced; thus, a thin film transistor having favorable electric characteristics and a highly reliable display device using the thin film transistor can be provided.
US11862637B2
An integrated circuit device includes a first power rail, a first active area extending in a first direction, and a plurality of gates contacting the first active area and extending in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. A first transistor includes the first active area and a first one of the gates. The first transistor has a first threshold voltage (VT). A second transistor includes the first active area and a second one of the gates. The second transistor has a second VT different than the first VT. A tie-off transistor is positioned between the first transistor and the second transistor, and includes the first active area and a third one of the gates, wherein the third gate is connected to the first power rail.
US11862629B2
According to an embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a first electrically conductive portion, a first semiconductor chip of a reverse-conducting insulated gate bipolar transistor, a second electrically conductive portion, a third electrically conductive portion, a second semiconductor chip of an insulated gate bipolar transistor, and a fourth electrically conductive portion. The first semiconductor chip includes a first electrode and a second electrode. The first electrode is electrically connected to the first electrically conductive portion. The second electrically conductive portion is electrically connected to the second electrode. The third electrically conductive portion is electrically connected to the first electrically conductive portion. The second semiconductor chip includes a third electrode and a fourth electrode. The third electrode is electrically connected to the third electrically conductive portion. The fourth electrically conductive portion is electrically connected to the fourth electrode and the second electrically conductive portion.
US11862619B2
Techniques for a patch to couple one or more surface dies to an interposer or motherboard are provided. In an example, the patch can include multiple embedded dies. In an example, a microelectronic device can be formed to include a patch on an interposer, where the patch can include multiple embedded dies and each die can have a different thickness.
US11862617B2
A display panel includes a plurality of sub-panels tiled in sequence along a first direction. The sub-panels have a first edge and a second edge in the first direction. The sub-panels include a column of first pixels closest to the first edge, a column of second pixels closest to the second edge, and a plurality of columns of third pixels between the column of first pixels and the column of second pixels. A sum of a distance between effective display bodies in the first pixels and the first edge and a distance between effective display bodies in the second pixels and the second edge is smaller than a spacing between effective display bodies in two adjacent columns of the third pixels.
US11862616B2
A light emitting device includes a short wavelength light emitting portion, a long wavelength light emitting portion, and a coupling layer combining the short wavelength emitting portion and the long wavelength light emitting portion. Each of the short wavelength light emitting portion and the long wavelength light emitting portion includes a first conductivity type semiconductor layer, an active layer, and a second conductivity type semiconductor layer. The active layer of the long wavelength light emitting portion contains more Indium (In) than the active layer of the short wavelength light emitting portion, and the short wavelength light emitting portion emits light of a shorter wavelength than that of light emitted from the long wavelength light emitting portion.
US11862609B2
A semiconductor die includes a first semiconductor substrate; a first interconnect structure disposed on a front side of the first semiconductor substrate; a first through-substrate via (TSV) structure extending through the first semiconductor substrate; and a first fuse structure disposed between and electrically connecting the TSV structure and the first interconnect structure.
US11862606B2
A package includes a corner, a device die, a plurality of redistribution lines underlying the device die, and a plurality of metal pads electrically coupled to the plurality of redistribution lines. The plurality of metal pads includes a corner metal pad closest to the corner, wherein the corner metal pad is a center-facing pad having a bird-beak direction substantially pointing to a center of the package. The plurality of metal pads further includes a metal pad farther away from the corner than the corner metal pad, wherein the metal pad is a non-center-facing pad having a bird-beak direction pointing away from the center of the package.
US11862605B2
A package and a method of forming the same are provided. A method includes forming a first die structure. The first die structure includes a die stack and a stacked dummy structure bonded to a carrier. A second die structure is formed. The second die structure includes a first integrated circuit die. The first die structure is bonded to the second die structure by bonding a topmost integrated circuit die of the die stack to the first integrated circuit die. The topmost integrated circuit die of the die stack is a farthest integrated circuit die of the die stack from the carrier. A singulation process is performed on the first die structure to form a plurality of individual die structures. The singulation process singulates the stacked dummy structure into a plurality of individual stacked dummy structures.
US11862602B2
A microelectronic assembly may include a semiconductor wafer having first and second surfaces extending in first and second directions, the semiconductor wafer having network nodes connected to one another via local adjacent connections each extending in only one of the first and second directions, and an interconnection structure comprising a low-loss dielectric material and having first and second opposite surfaces extending in third and fourth directions each oriented at an oblique angle relative to the first and second directions, the interconnection structure having local oblique connections each extending in only one of the third and fourth directions. The semiconductor wafer may be directly bonded to the interconnection structure such that each of the network nodes is connected with at least one of the other network nodes, without use of conductive bonding material, through at least one of the local adjacent connections and at least one of the local oblique connections.
US11862595B2
The present disclosure provides a packaging method for a fan-out wafer-level packaging structure, including: providing two or more semiconductor chips, and bonding the semiconductor chips to a bonding layer; packaging the semiconductor chips by a plastic packaging layer; removing the bonding layer, and forming a redistribution layer on the semiconductor chips, so as to achieve interconnection between the semiconductor chips, where the redistribution layer includes one or more redistribution sublayers stacked in sequence, and a method for forming each redistribution sublayer includes: forming a dielectric layer on the semiconductor chips; forming vias in the dielectric layer by photolithography; baking the dielectric layer having the vias formed therein, wherein the warpage of the dielectric layer around the vias is mitigated; curing the dielectric layer; and forming on the dielectric layer a patterned metal distribution layer corresponding to the vias; and forming metal bumps on the redistribution layer.
US11862587B2
A semiconductor package structure and a method of manufacturing the semiconductor package structure are disclosed. The semiconductor package structure includes a first semiconductor device having an active surface, a redistribution structure in electrical connection with the first semiconductor device, and a second semiconductor device bonded to the active surface of the first semiconductor device, and disposed between the first semiconductor device and the redistribution structure.
US11862573B2
Disclosed is a three-dimensional memory device. In one embodiment, a device is disclosed comprising a source plate; plugs fabricated fabricated on or partially formed in the source plate; a stack formed on the substrate and plugs comprising alternating insulating layers and conductive layers and channel-material strings of memory cells extending through the insulating layers and conductive layers; a first set of pillars extending through the stack formed by a process including etching the alternating insulating layers and conductive layers and depositing a pillar material therein, wherein each pillar in the first set of pillars terminates atop a respective plug in the plurality of plugs; and a second set of pillars extending through the stack formed by a process including etching the alternating insulating layers and conductive layers and depositing a pillar material therein, wherein each pillar in the second set of pillars terminates in the source plate.
US11862572B2
A semiconductor device has a first package layer. A first shielding layer is formed over the first package layer. The first shielding layer is patterned to form a redistribution layer. An electrical component is disposed over the redistribution layer. An encapsulant is deposited over the electrical component. A second shielding layer is formed over the encapsulant. The second shielding layer is patterned. The patterning of the first shielding layer and second shielding layer can be done with a laser. The second shielding layer can be patterned to form an antenna.
US11862570B2
There is provided a semiconductor package capable of preventing damage to an interposer to improve reliability. The semiconductor package includes a first substrate including a first insulating layer and first conductive patterns, an interposer disposed on a top surface of the first substrate and including a second insulating layer and second conductive patterns, first connecting members in contact with the top surface of the first substrate and a bottom surface of the interposer, and supporting members including solder parts, which are in contact with the top surface of the first substrate and the bottom surface of the interposer, and core parts, which are disposed in the solder parts and include a different material from the solder parts. The first connecting members electrically connect the first conductive patterns and the second conductive patterns, and the supporting members do not electrically connect the first conductive patterns and the second conductive patterns.
US11862566B2
A semiconductor device, in which a cell array region and an extension region are arranged along a first direction, and in which contact regions and through regions are alternately arranged along the first direction in the extension region, including: a mold structure including a plurality of first insulating patterns and a plurality of gate electrodes, which are alternately stacked on a first substrate; a channel structure penetrating the mold structure in the cell array region to intersect the plurality of gate electrodes; respective gate contacts that are on the mold structure in the contact regions and are connected to each of the gate electrodes; and a plurality of second insulating patterns, the second insulating patterns being stacked alternately with the first insulating patterns in the mold structure in the through regions, the plurality of second insulating patterns including a different material from the plurality of first insulating patterns.
US11862564B2
A multi-layer line structure including a substrate, a lower layer Cu line located on the substrate, an upper layer Cu line located on an insulating layer including an inorganic film located on the lower layer Cu line and an organic resin film located on the inorganic film, and a via connection part located in a via connection hole running in an up-down direction through the insulating layer in an area where the lower layer Cu line and the upper layer Cu line overlap each other is provided. The via connection part includes a barrier conductive layer located on a part of the lower layer Cu line exposed to a bottom part of the via connection hole and on an inner wall of the via connection hole.
US11862551B2
An interposer, including a redistribution layer structure, first conductive terminals, and second conductive terminals, is provided. The first conductive terminals are disposed on a first surface and are electrically connected to the second conductive terminals. An orthographic projection area of the first conductive terminals on the redistribution layer structure is inside a circuit range outline. There is a first pitch between the adjacent first conductive terminals. The second conductive terminals are disposed on a second surface. An orthographic projection area of a first part of the second conductive terminals on the redistribution layer structure is inside the circuit range outline. An orthographic projection area of a second part of the second conductive terminals on the redistribution layer structure is outside the circuit range outline. There is a second pitch between the adjacent second conductive terminals. The second pitch is greater than the first pitch. A semiconductor package is also provided.
US11862541B2
A molded semiconductor package includes a mold compound, a plurality of leads each having a first end embedded in the mold compound and a second end protruding from a side face of the mold compound, and a semiconductor die embedded in the mold compound and electrically connected, within the mold compound, to the plurality of leads. The second end of each lead of the plurality of leads has a bottom surface facing in a same direction as a bottom main surface of the mold compound. Each lead of the plurality of leads has a negative standoff relative to the bottom main surface of the mold compound.
US11862536B2
High power transistors, such as high power gallium nitride (GaN) transistors, are described. These high power transistors have larger total gate widths than conventional high power transistors by arranging multiple linear arrays of contacts in parallel. Thereby, the total gate width and the power rating of a high power transistor may be increased without elongating the die of the high power transistor. Accordingly, the die of the high power transistor may be mounted in a smaller circuit package relative to conventional dies with the same power rating.
US11862534B2
An adjustable heat exchanger includes a fan assembly, a heatsink assembly, a semiconductor chilling plate and a conduction cooling unit connected in sequence, the conduction cooling unit includes a main conduction cooling plate and a conduction cooling which includes at least one conduction cooling sub-fin. The main conduction cooling plate is connected to the semiconductor chilling plate, the conduction cooling fin is movably connected to an outer peripheral wall of the main conduction cooling plate, the conduction cooling fin extends outward along the center of the main conduction cooling plate, and the conduction cooling fin and the main conduction cooling plate jointly form a contact surface for adapting to a heat-dispersing surface. The present heat exchanger can adapt to hot surfaces with different curved surface radians and form a surrounded fixed structure with the hot surface to make the conduction cooling unit well-contact surfaces with different radians.
US11862527B2
An integrated circuit includes an oxide layer over a substrate; a layer of semiconductor material over the oxide layer and which includes a P-well, an N-well, and a channel of a transistor; and a thermal substrate contact extending through the layer of semiconductor material and the oxide layer, and against a top surface of the substrate. A thermal substrate contact increases the ability to remove heat produced from the integrated circuit transistors out of the integrated circuit. A thermal substrate contact which traverses the oxide layer over a substrate provides a secondary path for heat out of an integrated circuit (or, alternatively, out of a substrate through the integrated circuit) to cool the integrated circuit.
US11862501B2
An electrostatic chuck includes a plurality of ceramic substrates each having a step formed at a peripheral edge portion of one surface, the ceramic substrates being arranged adjacent to each other so that the steps face each other, electrodes each embedded in each of the plurality of ceramic substrates, and a filling portion that fills a groove portion formed by the facing steps of the adjacent ceramic substrates.
US11862499B2
Implementations disclosed describe an integrated sensor controller comprising a sensor circuit and a logic circuit. The sensor circuit includes a light source driver to generate a driving signal, a demultiplexer to produce, using the driving signal, a plurality of output driving signals to be delivered to one of a plurality of sensors, and an amplifier to: receive a first signal from a first sensor, the first signal being associated with a first event representative of a position of a substrate within a device manufacturing machine, and generate a second signal. The sensor circuit further includes an analog-to-digital converter to receive the second signal and generate a third signal. The logic circuit includes a memory device and a processing device coupled to the memory device, the processing device to obtain based on the third signal, information about the position of the substrate.
US11862496B2
A substrate processing control method in a substrate processing apparatus, includes: acquiring a data set for each substrate sequentially subjected to first and second processes at first and second levels, the data set including information specifying the first level at which the first process has been performed, information specifying the second level at which the second process has been performed and information about a characteristic amount relating to characteristics of the substrate; calculating information including an expected value of the characteristic amount, and level deviations of the first and second levels to the expected value based on the data set; and correcting the first parameter at the first level or the second parameter at the second level based on the calculated information.
US11862495B2
The present invention relates to a monitor wafer measuring method and measuring apparatus. The monitor wafer measuring method comprises the following steps: fixing a product wafer, the product wafer having several alignment marks and product measuring sites corresponding respectively to the alignment marks; determining the product measuring sites according to the alignment marks; and placing a monitor wafer, a projection of the monitor wafer in a vertical direction being aligned with and coinciding with the product wafer. The present application can reduce or even eliminate positional errors of the monitor wafer during a measurement process, such that product-level measuring position accuracy can be achieved for the monitor wafer and further, the measuring machine itself and process changes can be monitored in a better way.
US11862494B2
A crane monitoring system includes a first detection apparatus, a processing apparatus and a second detection apparatus. The first detection apparatus is configured to detect a position of a crane, to send a first detection signal when the crane is located above a Front Opening Unified Pod (FOUP) load port of a semiconductor processing device, and to send a second detection signal when the crane leaves a space above the FOUP load port. The processing apparatus is configured to generate a start control signal responsive to receiving the first detection signal, and to generate a stop control signal responsive to receiving the second detection signal. The second detection apparatus is configured to start a detection of whether there is a foreign matter between the crane and the FOUP load port after receiving the start control signal, and to stop the detection after receiving the stop control signal.
US11862486B2
A substrate processing apparatus includes a substrate holding unit 31 configured to hold a substrate W; an outer nozzle 45 configured to discharge a processing liquid toward a surface of the substrate from a position at an outside of an outer edge of the substrate held by the substrate holding unit such that at least a central portion of the surface of the substrate is covered with a liquid film of the discharged processing liquid; and an actuator 46 (90) configured to change a height position or a discharge angle of the outer nozzle.
US11862483B2
A substrate processing method includes performing a liquid processing, detecting a temperature, generating temperature distribution information and determining whether a result of the liquid processing is good or bad. The liquid processing is performed on a substrate by using a processing unit. A temperature of a central portion of the substrate and a temperature of an edge portion of the substrate in the liquid processing are detected by using multiple sensors provided in the processing unit. The temperature distribution information indicating an in-surface temperature distribution of the substrate in the liquid processing is generated based on one or more parameter values defining a processing condition for the liquid processing and the temperature of the central portion of the substrate and the temperature of the edge portion of the substrate. Whether the result of the liquid processing is good or bad is determined based on the temperature distribution information.
US11862482B2
A bonding tool includes a gas supply line that may extend directly between valves associated with one or more gas supply tanks and a processing chamber such that gas supply line is uninterrupted without any intervening valves or other types of structures that might otherwise cause a pressure buildup in the gas supply line between the processing chamber and the valves associated with the one or more gas supply tanks. The pressure in the gas supply line may be maintained at or near the pressure in the processing chamber so that gas provided to the processing chamber through the gas supply line does not cause a pressure imbalance in the processing chamber, which might otherwise cause early or premature contact between semiconductor substrates that are to be bonded in the processing chamber.
US11862475B2
A semiconductor processing system includes a remote plasma source (RPS), a faceplate, and an output manifold positioned between the RPS and the faceplate. The output manifold is characterized by a plurality of purge outlets that are fluidly coupled with a purge gas source and a plurality of deposition outlets that are fluidly coupled with a deposition gas source. A delivery tube extends between and fluidly couples the RPS and the faceplate. The delivery tube is characterized by a generally cylindrical sidewall that defines an upper plurality of apertures that are arranged in a radial pattern. Each of the upper apertures is fluidly coupled with one of the purge outlets. The generally cylindrical sidewall defines a lower plurality of apertures that are arranged in a radial pattern and below the upper plurality of apertures. Each of the lower apertures is fluidly coupled with one of the deposition outlets.
US11862470B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a silica particle having excellent polishing characteristics and storage stability, a method for producing the silica particle, a silica sol containing the silica particles, and a polishing composition containing the silica sol. Another object of the present invention is to provide a polishing method, a method for producing a semiconductor wafer, and a method for producing a semiconductor device, which are excellent in productivity of an object to be polished. The silica particle in the present invention satisfies formula (1): y≥4.2 where a d value measured by wide-angle X-ray scattering is y Å.
US11862465B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device including operations of forming a first hard mask over an underlying layer on a substrate by a photolithographic and etching method, forming a sidewall spacer pattern having a first sidewall portion and a second sidewall portion on opposing sides of the first hard mask, etching the first sidewall portion, etching the first hard mask and leaving the second sidewall portion bridging a gap of the etched first hard mask, and processing the underlying layer using the second hard mask.
US11862464B2
A second band-like mask material layer having a first band-like mask material layer of a same planar shape on its top is formed on a mask material layer on a semiconductor layer. Then, fourth band-like mask material layers having third band-like mask material layers of same planar shape on their top are formed on both side surfaces of the first and second band-like mask material layers. Sixth band-like mask material layers having fifth band-like mask material layers of same planar shape on their top are formed on the outside thereof. Then, an orthogonal band-like mask material layer is formed on the first band-like mask material layer, in a direction orthogonal to a direction in which the first band-like mask material layer extends. Semiconductor pillars are formed on overlapping areas of this orthogonal band-like mask material layer and the second and sixth band-like mask material layers by etching the semiconductor layer. Then, a pillar-shaped semiconductor device is formed with these semiconductor pillars being channels.
US11862458B2
Exemplary processing methods may include forming a plasma of a silicon-containing precursor. The methods may include depositing a flowable film on a semiconductor substrate with plasma effluents of the silicon-containing precursor. The processing region may be at least partially defined between a faceplate and a substrate support on which the semiconductor substrate is seated. A bias power may be applied to the substrate support from a bias power source. The methods may include forming a plasma of a hydrogen-containing precursor within the processing region of the semiconductor processing chamber. The methods may include etching the flowable film from a sidewall of the feature within the semiconductor substrate with plasma effluents of the hydrogen-containing precursor. The methods may include densifying remaining flowable film within the feature defined within the semiconductor substrate with plasma effluents of the hydrogen-containing precursor.
US11862457B2
A wafer cleaning apparatus, a method of cleaning wafer and a method of fabricating a semiconductor device are provided. The method of fabricating the semiconductor device includes disposing a wafer on a rotatable chuck, irradiating a lower surface of the wafer with a laser to heat the wafer, and supplying a chemical to an upper surface of the wafer to clean the wafer, wherein the laser penetrates an optical system including an aspheric lens array, the laser penetrates a calibration window, which includes a first window structure including a first light projection window including first and second regions different from each other, a first coating layer covering the first region of the first light projection window, and a second coating layer covering the second region of the first light projection window, and the first coating layer and the second coating layer have different light transmissivities from each other.
US11862455B2
A chip-scale package type light emitting diode includes a first conductivity type semiconductor layer, a mesa, a second conductivity type semiconductor layer, a transparent conductive oxide layer, a dielectric layer, a lower insulation layer, a first pad metal layer, and a second pad metal layer, an upper insulation layer. The upper insulation layer covers the first pad metal layer and the second pad metal layer, and includes a first opening exposing the first pad metal layer and a second opening exposing the second pad metal layer. The openings of the dielectric layer include openings that have different sizes from one another.
US11862448B2
A CDMS may include an ion source to generate ions from a sample, a mass spectrometer to separate the generated ions as a function of ion mass-to-charge ratio, an electrostatic linear ion trap (ELIT) having a charge detection cylinder disposed between first and second ion mirrors, wherein ions exiting the mass spectrometer are supplied to the ELIT, a charge generator for generating free charges, a field free region between the charge generator and the charge detection cylinder, and a processor configured to control the charge generator, with no ions in the charge detection cylinder, to generate a target number of free charges and cause the target number of free charges to travel across the field-free region and into contact with the charge detection cylinder to deposit the target number of free charges thereon and thereby calibrate or reset the charge detection cylinder to a corresponding target charge level.
US11862445B2
An imaging mass spectrometer includes: a storage configured to acquire and store data constituting a first imaging graphic indicating an ion intensity distribution in a specific one or plurality of m/z or m/z ranges based on data obtained by mass spectrometry for a sample; a Raman imaging data acquisition unit configured to acquire and store data constituting one or plurality of second imaging graphics obtained by Raman analysis that is a type different from mass spectrometry for the sample; a signal intensity normalization processor configured to perform data conversion processing of normalizing signal intensity in one or plurality of first and second imaging graphics; an adjustment processor configured to perform data processing of aligning spatial resolutions of the one or plurality of first and second imaging graphics; and a statistical analysis processor configured to execute statistical analysis processing on images and to classify the first and second imaging graphics.
US11862444B2
An electrically conductive, oxidic target material includes a proportion of substoichiometric molybdenum oxide phases of at least 60% by volume, an MoO2 phase in a proportion of 2-20% by volume, and optionally an MoO3 phase in a proportion of 0-20% by volume. The substoichiometric molybdenum oxide phase proportion is formed by one or more substoichiometric MoO3-y phase(s), where y is in each case in a range from 0.05 to 0.25. A process for producing the target material and a process for using the target material are also provided.
US11862443B2
A sputtering target comprising a target material, wherein a sputtering face of the target material has a ramp provided to reduce a thickness of the target material at a position where erosion concentrates most intensively during sputtering.
US11862437B2
According to one embodiment, an edge ring is provided which includes a first movable portion provided along an outer circumference of a support portion having an upper surface capable of holding a semiconductor substrate thereon, the first movable portion being movable in a direction perpendicular to the upper surface; a second movable portion provided along an outer circumference of the first movable portion, the second movable portion being movable in the direction; and a driving portion capable of moving the first movable portion in the direction by way of the second movable portion.
US11862419B2
A vacuum interrupter has a toroidal portion at one or both ends that achieves higher dielectric levels and hence higher interruption levels.
US11862415B2
A keyswitch device which is provided with a support mechanism which supports a keytop in a movable manner, and a membrane sheet which has a plurality of upper electrodes and a plurality of lower electrodes which respectively correspond to the plurality of the upper electrodes and which form contact pairs with the corresponding upper electrodes. A plurality of contact pairs are arranged for a single keytop. The rubber cup pushes the plurality of contact pairs which are arranged for the single keytop.
US11862397B2
A ceramic electronic device includes a multilayer structure in which each of a plurality of dielectric layers including Ba and Ti and each of a plurality of internal electrode layers including Ni and Sn are alternately stacked. A discontinuity is formed in at least one of the plurality of internal electrode layers, the discontinuity being a break in a cross section including a stacking direction of the multilayer structure. An Sn high concentration portion, of which an Sn concentration is higher than an average Sn concentration of the one of the internal electrode layers, is formed on a part of a surface of the at least one of the internal electrode layers, the part of the surface being exposed to the discontinuity.
US11862396B1
A light harvesting supercapacitor and a method of preparing the light harvesting supercapacitor is disclosed. The light harvesting supercapacitor includes a transparent conducting substrate, an active layer including TiO2 nanoparticles and polyaniline (PAM) nanoparticles disposed on the transparent conducting substrate, an electrolyte layer including a solid separator soaked with an electrolyte comprising polyvinyl alcohol and at least one ionic material selected from the group consisting of phosphoric acid, sulfuric acid, hydrochloric acid, hydrobromic acid, hydroiodic acid, an alkali metal phosphate salt, an alkali metal sulfate salt, an alkali metal hydroxide, an alkali metal halide, and a mixture of a halogen and an alkali metal halide disposed on the active layer, a carbon electrode disposed on the electrolyte layer, and a metal layer disposed on the activated carbon electrode. The light harvesting supercapacitor of the present disclosure can be used in a photovoltaic device.
US11862395B2
An energy bank includes a plurality of integrated energy storage devices including a plurality of supercapacitors, a plurality of batteries and a plurality of metal shells. Each of the integrated energy storage devices includes a supercapacitor, a battery surrounding the supercapacitor and a metal shell surrounding the battery. The battery forms a shell around an exterior surface of the supercapacitor. The battery includes a first anode, a first cathode, and an electrolyte disposed between the first anode and the first cathode. The supercapacitor includes a second anode, a second cathode, and a separator disposed between the second anode and the second cathode.
US11862385B2
An electromagnetic device includes a substrate, magnetic cores, transmission line layers, and conductive members. The substrate is provided with annular receiving grooves for accommodating the magnetic cores; the substrate is divided into a central portion and a peripheral portion; inner and outer via holes are respectively formed on the central portion and the peripheral portion, respectively; the transmission line layers each including wire patterns are respectively provided on opposite sides of the substrate; and the conductive members are sequentially connected to the wire patterns on both sides of the substrate to form a transformer and/or a filter; the electromagnetic device has a first side provided with a slot and a second side parallel to the transmission line layers; and first conductive pins electrically connected to the at least one transmission line layers are provided on at least one of the side wall surrounding the slot and a second side.
US11862365B2
A resistor component includes a substrate having a first surface and a second surface, opposing each other; an external electrode disposed outside of the substrate; a resistive layer disposed on the first surface of the substrate, connected to the external electrode, and including an alloy of a first metal and a second metal; and a first protective layer disposed on the resistive layer and including any one of the first and second metals.
US11862362B2
A multi-phase submarine power cable including: a plurality of power cores arranged in a stranded configuration, and a curvature sensor including: an elastic elongated member, and a plurality of Fibre Bragg Grating, FBG, fibres, each FBG fibre extending axially along the elongated member at a radial distance from the centre of the elongated member; wherein the elongated member extends between the stranded power cores along a central axis of the multi-phase submarine power cable.
US11862358B2
A busbar for use in mechanically and electrically connecting components in a device or system. The busbar includes a plurality of conductors arranged to provide two opposed end portions and an intermediate portion, wherein each of the conductors has a plurality of intermediate extents that traverse the intermediate portion. The intermediate portion including: (A) an unfused segment where no intermediate extents of the conductors are fused together to form a single consolidated conductor, and (B) a fused segment that includes (i) a partial solidification zone where a majority of the intermediate extents of the conductors are fused together to form a partially solidified region that provides a single consolidated conductor, (ii) a full solidification zone where all of intermediate extents of the conductors are fused together to form a fully solidified region that provides a single consolidated conductor, and (iii) an unsolidified region where all of the intermediate extents of the conductors are not fused together.
US11862350B2
Disclosed is an apparatus, system, and method for monitoring a position of a control rod disposed in a nuclear reactor vessel in a radioactive environment. A data processing unit located outside a containment structure includes a processor and a memory storing executable instructions. A nuclear reactor vessel includes a plurality of control rods proximate to the control rod and a coil stack of a plurality of control rod position indicator coils. A data cabinet mounted on the nuclear reactor vessel head inside the containment structure includes an analog multiplexer and a communication circuit. The processor executes the instructions to select a control rod position indicator coil through the analog multiplexer, pass a signal from the control rod position indicator coil through the analog multiplexer, receive the signal from the analog multiplexer through the communication circuit, and determine a position of the control rod based on the received signal.
US11862346B1
A classification method and system for medical conditions based on the concept of subtypes, which are classes of patients whose medical fact patterns as analyzed in an N-dimensional space places them closer to other patients belonging to the same subtype than to patients who belong to different subtypes and, who share similar likelihood of certain specified outcomes. A computer system processes patient data for a plurality of patients from a set of patients called a cohort. The computer system processes the patient data for the cohort to group patients into sub-cohorts of similar patients, i.e., each sub-cohort includes patients who have similar medical fact patterns in their patient data. Patients in different sub-cohorts generally, but not necessarily, have significant differences in their patient data. The computer system generates quantitative definitions, describing the patients in the sub-cohorts.
US11862343B2
A medication risk mitigation method utilizing three interventions: a prospective intervention performed by a prescriber, a concurrent intervention performed by a pharmacist and a retroactive intervention performed by a pharmacist. At each intervention, the system of the instant invention utilizes a computer program to compare each prescribed medication to a series of intrinsic and extrinsic data sources in order to identify potential contraindications and, if necessary, modify a prescription. The system also permits secure messaging between prescribers and pharmacists, each with access to the computer program, so as to facilitate communication and reduce medication risks. The system of this invention also permits modeling for hypothetical medication modifications based on the same intrinsic and extrinsic data sources.
US11862338B2
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for accessing a data structure including a subject identifier identifying a subject and a subject connectivity value derived from at least one of a scan or test provided to the subject, the subject connectivity value representing a magnitude of a connection associated with at least one sub-processing region of a nervous system of the subject; comparing the subject connectivity value to a connectivity threshold value to determine a classification of the subject; determining that the subject connectivity value exceeds the connectivity threshold value, storing in the data structure, an association between the subject identifier and a first classification value corresponding to a first classification or determining that the subject connectivity value is less than the connectivity threshold value, and storing in the data structure, an association between the subject identifier and a second classification value corresponding to a second classification.
US11862334B2
Systems and methods for monitoring athletic performances include determining “flight time,” e.g., the amount of time both feet are off the ground, and optionally “flight time” resulting from different types of activities, such as jogging, running, sprinting, jumping, etc. “Flight time” may help a player or coach better understand the effort the athlete is putting out, compare efforts of two or more players, gauge the athlete's performance change over time, and/or identify conditioning needs and/or areas for improvement. Such systems and methods also may generate and display various athletic performance metrics, such as: instantaneous flight time; average flight time; cumulative flight time during an athletic performance or other time period; instantaneous jump height; average jump height; cumulative jump height during an athletic performance or other time period; and comparisons of any flight time and/or jump height metric(s) of one player against another player and/or against himself/herself; etc.
US11862330B2
Contemplated systems and methods provide an integration platform to facilitate the exchange of information between RFID tagged objects and non-RFID systems. In especially preferred aspects, RFID tagged objects include patients, personnel, and assets of a healthcare facility, while preferred non-RFID systems include asset management systems, timekeeping systems, electronic medical records systems, and hospital and pharmacy information systems. Contemplated systems and methods will apply rules to associate RFID information with events, which will then be correlated with appropriate steps that can be effected in a varied and automated manner. In further preferred aspects, RFID technology is employed to upgrade patient telemetry to provide positional information the hospital system.
US11862323B2
The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for preparing nutrition, health, and/or wellness recommendations for an animal. The systems and methods involve collecting data from the animal, analyzing the data, and providing the nutrition, health, and/or wellness recommendation based upon the analyzed data.
US11862322B2
A system and method for generating a dynamic weighted combination includes a computing device configured to gain a nourishment metric, determine a nourishment vector as a function of the nourishment metric, generate a nourishment programs relating to a plurality of aliments as a function of the nourishment vector, determine a quantitative signature as a function of the nourishment programs, and generate a dynamic weighted combination as a function of the quantitative signature, wherein generating further comprises identifying, for each dynamic weighted combination, a degree of refinement according to the refinement criterion, comparing the degree of refinement for each dynamic weighted combination to the degree of refinement for at least one other dynamic weighted combination, and generate a dynamic weighted combination as a function of the comparison.
US11862315B2
A method includes receiving at least one data object and identifying, for a first aspect of the at least one data object, text strings of free form textual information having a first text string type. The method also includes generating updated free form textual information by removing the at least one text string having the first text string type. The method also includes generating one or more feature vectors based on the updated free form textual information using at least one of a unigram, a bigram, and a trigram. The method also includes using an artificial intelligence engine that uses at least one machine learning model configured to provide, using the one or more feature vectors, an output that includes at least one prediction indicating at least one resource domain and a weight value indicating a probability that the at least one resource domain corresponds to the free form textual information.
US11862294B2
A memory subsystem architecture that includes clock signal routing architecture to split a clock signal to support two register clock driver (RCD) devices. The clock signal routing architecture may include clock signal splitter circuit that enables contemporaneous provision of a common clock signal to the two register clock driver devices. The clock signal splitter circuit may have three legs: a first leg to receive the clock signal from an external bus, and two similar legs to route the clock signal to the RCD devices.
US11862290B2
A memory chip stores a characterization parameter for characterizing a process corner of the memory chip, the memory chip further has a reference voltage with an adjustable value, the value of the reference voltage is adjustable based on the characterization parameter, and the memory chip adjusts, based on the reference voltage, a delay from reading out data from a memory cell to outputting the data through a data port.
US11862288B2
A semiconductor storage device includes a first input driver configured to receive a first signal from a memory controller, a second input driver configured to receive a chip enable signal from the memory controller, and a first control circuit. The first control circuit is configured to set the semiconductor storage device in an enabled state or a disabled state depending on whether or not the first signal which is received during a time period that starts with assertion of the chip enable signal and is prior to receipt of a command sequence, corresponds to a first chip address.
US11862283B2
A sense amplifier includes a first switch unit, a second switch unit, and an amplifier-latch module. A first port of the amplifier-latch module is electrically connected, via the first switch unit, to a bit line connected with a storage unit, and a second port of the amplifier-latch module is electrically connected to a reference voltage signal via the second switch unit. The amplifier-latch module is configured to amplify a signal in a sensing amplification phase. The first switch unit is configured to transmit a voltage on the bit line to the first port before the sensing amplification phase. The second switch unit is configured to transmit the reference voltage signal to the second port before the sensing amplification phase, and disconnect an electrical connection between the reference voltage signal and the second port in the sensing amplification phase.
US11862282B2
A memory performing logic functions has two single transistor static ram memory (STSRAM) with drain, source, and gate terminal which can be written, read, and when read, generates an output current. The STSRAMs have drain and source connected in parallel, and when read, generate a current provided to a current comparator amplifier (CCA) which is compared to a reference current Iref to generate an output which is at least one of a logical AND, logical NAND, logical OR, logical NOR, or logical exclusive OR (XOR).
US11862256B2
A non-volatile storage apparatus that comprises a plurality of planes of non-volatile memory cells is capable of concurrently programming memory cells in multiple planes. In order to screen for failure of the programming process in a subset of planes, the completion of programming of a fastest plane to a particular data state is used as a trigger to test for program failure of other planes to a different data state. In one embodiment, the test for program failure of other planes to the different data state comprises determining if the memory cells of the other planes that are targeted for programming to the different data state have successfully completed verification of programming for the different data state. The programming process is stopped for those planes that fail the test.
US11862241B2
A variable resistive memory device includes a memory cell, a first current-applying block, a second current-applying block and a mode setting circuit. The memory cell includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and a memory layer, the memory layer interposed between the first electrode and the second electrode. The first current-applying block is configured to flow a first current to the first electrode that flows from the first electrode to the second electrode. The second current-applying block is configured to flow a second current to the second electrode that flows from the second electrode to the first electrode. The mode setting circuit is configured to selectively provide any one of the first electrode of the first current-applying block and the second electrode of the second current-applying block with a first voltage. When the memory cell is selected, the selected current-applying block, among the first current-applying block and the second current-applying block, is driven. When the first current-applying block is selected, a second voltage is applied to the second electrode. When the second current-applying block is selected, the second voltage is applied to the first electrode. The first voltage has a voltage level by a threshold voltage higher than the second voltage.
US11862240B2
Embodiments of the disclosure provide a circuit structure and related method to provide a radiation resistant memory cell. A circuit structure may include a first latch having an input node and an output node. A second latch has an input node and an output node, in which the output node of the second latch is coupled to the input node of the first latch, and the input node of the second latch is coupled to the output node of the first latch. A read/write (R/W) circuit includes a plurality of transistors coupling a word line, a bit line, and an inverted bit line to at least two outputs. One of the at least two outputs is coupled to the input node of the first latch and another of the outputs is coupled to the input node of the second latch.
US11862239B2
A bit line sense circuit and a memory are disclosed in the present application. The bit line sense circuit includes: L storage unit groups, each storage unit group including H bit lines, both L and H being positive integers greater than or equal to 2; and M sense amplifier groups, configured to write or read storage data to or from the bit lines in the storage unit groups and electrically connected to the L storage unit groups, M being an integer multiple of L or L being an integer multiple of M. Two adjacent bit lines of the H bit lines are connected to the different sense amplifier groups.
US11862237B2
A memory includes a bank, the bank includes a plurality of sections, each of the plurality of section includes a plurality of word lines, a plurality of bit lines, and a plurality of storage units arranged in an array, and each of the plurality of storage units is connected to one of the plurality of word lines and one of the plurality of bit lines; the bank is configured to: in a preset mode, in response to a control signal, activate each of a plurality of word lines in at least one target section of the bank, pull up or pull down a level of each of a plurality of bit lines in the target section, and pull a complementary bit line of each of the plurality of bit lines in the target section to a level opposite to a level of the plurality of bit lines.
US11862235B2
A stacked semiconductor device is disclosed that includes a plurality of semiconductor dies. Each die has oppositely disposed first and second surfaces, with pads formed on each of the surfaces. A plurality of through-vias connect respective pads on the first surface to respective pads on the second surface. The through-vias include a first group of through-vias coupled to respective I/O circuitry on the semiconductor die and a second group of through-vias not coupled to I/O circuitry on the semiconductor die. The plurality of semiconductor dies are stacked such that the first group of through-vias in a first one of the plurality of semiconductor dies are aligned with respective ones of at least a portion of the second group of through-vias in a second one of the plurality of semiconductor dies.
US11862232B2
A circuit and method for data transmission, and a storage apparatus are provided. A mode register decoding module is configured to generate a mode register unselected enable signal, a mode register read enable signal, or a mode register write enable signal according to received mode register address information, a mode register read control signal, or a mode register write control signal. A mode register read-write module is configured to: cache data on data line according to mode register write enable signal in write state, and output selected data and unselected data after setting the unselected data to zero according to the mode register read enable signal and the mode register unselected enable signal in a read state. The logic gate module is configured to calculate an OR value of the data outputted by each mode register read-write module in the read state and output a calculation result.
US11862230B2
A non-volatile memory device includes a plurality of word lines and a control circuit. The control circuit is configured to apply a first word line pre-pulse signal of a plurality of word line pre-pulse signals to a first group of the plurality of word lines, apply a second word line pre-pulse signal of the plurality of word line pre-pulse signals to a second group of the plurality of word lines during a pre-charge period, and apply a third word line pre-pulse signal of the plurality of word lines pre-pulse signals to a third group of the plurality of word lines during the pre-charge period. A voltage level of the second word line pre-pulse signal is greater than that of the first word line pre-pulse signal, and a voltage level of the third word line pre-pulse signal is greater than that of the second word line pre-pulse signal.
US11862215B2
Systems, methods, and apparatus related to spike current suppression in a memory array. In one approach, a memory device includes a memory array having a cross-point memory architecture. The memory array has access lines (e.g., word lines and/or bit lines) configured to access memory cells of the memory array. Each access line is formed of a conductive material (e.g., tungsten). The access line includes one or more resistive layers (e.g., tungsten silicon nitride) each having a resistivity greater than the resistivity of the conductive material used to form the access line. The resistive layers are formed overlying or underlying at least a portion of the memory cells. A driver is electrically connected to the access line using a via. The driver generates a voltage on the access line to access the memory cells.
US11862214B2
The magnetic tape includes a non-magnetic support, and a magnetic layer containing a ferromagnetic powder, in which an edge portion Ra which is an arithmetic average roughness Ra measured at an edge portion of a surface of the magnetic layer is 1.50 nm or less, a central portion Ra which is an arithmetic average roughness Ra measured at a central portion of the surface of the magnetic layer is 0.30 nm to 1.30 nm, and a Ra ratio (central portion Ra/edge portion Ra) is 0.75 to 0.95.
US11862207B2
The present disclosure generally relates to data storage devices, and more specifically, to a magnetic media drive employing a magnetic recording head. The head includes a main pole, a trailing shield, and a MAMR stack including at least one magnetic layer. The magnetic layer has a surface facing the main pole, and the surface has a first side at a media facing surface (MFS) and a second side opposite the first side. The length of the second side is substantially less than the length of the first side. By reducing the length of the second side, the area to be switched at a location recessed from the MFS is reduced as a current flowing from the main pole to the trailing shield or from the trailing shield to the main pole. With the reduced area of the magnetic layer, the overall switch time of the magnetic layer is decreased.
US11862206B2
According to one embodiment, a magnetic recording/reproducing device includes a plurality of magnetic recording medium each including a recording surface, a plurality of assisted magnetic recording heads each provided with the recording surface in order to perform assisted recording, and an assisting amount adjustment part connected to the assisted magnetic recording heads in order to adjust an assisting amount of each assisted magnetic recording head corresponding to a recording capacity of the recording surface.
US11862202B2
Various illustrative aspects are directed to a data storage device comprising a disk and a spindle motor configured to rotate the disk wherein the spindle motor is powered by a drive voltage generated in response to a host voltage. The data storage device includes a head configured to be actuated over the disk by a head actuator and control circuitry comprising an isolation field effect transistor (ISOFET) configured to prevent a reverse current from flowing from the drive voltage to the host voltage when the host voltage falls below a threshold. The control circuitry sets a turnoff current level at which the ISOFET is directed to turn off to prevent the reverse current from flowing determines a drain-source on resistance Rdson of the ISOFET, and calculates a voltage turnoff threshold at which the ISOFET is turned off from the turnoff current level and the determined Rdson.
US11862194B1
A data storage system comprises: a head configured to produce a signal representing data stored on a storage medium; an estimator configured to determine an estimated signal comprising a superposition of an estimated linear portion of a partial-response equalizer output and an estimated nonlinear portion of the signal; a bank of noise whitening filters configured for filtering a difference between the signal and the estimated signal; a branch metric calculator configured to calculate branch metrics based on the filtered signal; and an adaptive data-dependent noise-predictive maximum likelihood sequence detector configured to generate an output stream representing the data based on the one or more branch metrics.
US11862192B2
The disclosure provides technology for enhancing the ability of a computing device to detect when a user has discontinued reading a text source. An example method includes receiving audio data comprising a spoken word associated with a text source, wherein the audio data comprises a first duration and a second duration; comparing the audio data with data of the text source, wherein the first duration of the audio data corresponds with the data of the text source; calculating, by a processing device, a correspondence measure between the second duration of the audio data and the data of the text source; and responsive to determining the correspondence measure satisfies a threshold, transmitting a signal to cease comparing audio data with the data of the text source.
US11862191B2
A system, method and computer product for training a neural network system. The method comprises applying an audio signal to the neural network system, the audio signal including a vocal component and a non-vocal component. The method also comprises comparing an output of the neural network system to a target signal, and adjusting at least one parameter of the neural network system to reduce a result of the comparing, for training the neural network system to estimate one of the vocal component and the non-vocal component. In one example embodiment, the system comprises a U-Net architecture. After training, the system can estimate vocal or instrumental components of an audio signal, depending on which type of component the system is trained to estimate.
US11862184B2
An apparatus for processing an encoded audio signal, which includes a sequence of access units, each access unit including a core signal with a first spectral width and parameters describing a spectrum above the first spectral width, has a demultiplexer generating, from an access unit of the encoded audio signal, the core signal and a set of the parameters, an upsampler upsampling the core signal of the access unit and outputting a first upsampled spectrum and a timely consecutive second upsampled spectrum, the first upsampled spectrum and the second upsampled spectrum, both, having a same content as the core signal and having a second spectral width being greater than the first spectral width of the core spectrum, a parameter converter converting parameters of the set of parameters of the access unit to obtain converted parameters, and a spectral gap filling processor processing the first upsampled spectrum and the second upsampled spectrum using the converted parameters.
US11862179B2
A system may receive a communication from a user, which may include a vocal sample. The system may transform the vocal sample from a wavelength domain into a frequency domain. The system may determine a divergence of one or more amplitude values of the transformed frequency domain from a predetermined frequency distribution. According to some embodiments, the predetermined frequency distribution may be a Benford's distribution. When the divergence exceeds a predetermined threshold, the system may execute one or more security measures. The one or more security measures may include (i) transferring the user from an automated operator to a human operator, (ii) requiring second factor authentication from the user, and/or (iii) denying a user-initiated request.
US11862175B2
One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for user identification and authorization are provided. In an example, a voice command to perform an action is detected. A voice profile associated with a user is identified based upon voice characteristics of the voice command. In response to determining that the voice profile is not linked to an account associated with the action, the user is prompted for an identifier associated with a device for creating the account through the device. In response to receiving the identifier from the user, the identifier is utilized to facilitate creation of the account through the device.
US11862173B2
In an embodiment, an integrated circuit may include one or more CPUs, a memory controller, and a circuit configured to remain powered on when the rest of the SOC is powered down. The circuit may be configured to receive audio samples from a microphone, and match those audio samples against a predetermined pattern to detect a possible command from a user of the device that includes the SOC. In response to detecting the predetermined pattern, the circuit may cause the memory controller to power up so that audio samples may be stored in the memory to which the memory controller is coupled. The circuit may also cause the CPUs to be powered on and initialized, and the operating system (OS) may boot. During the time that the CPUs are initializing and the OS is booting, the circuit and the memory may be capturing the audio samples.
US11862171B2
An apparatus includes a processor to: receive, from a requesting device, a request to perform speech-to-text conversion of a speech data set; within a first thread of a thread pool, perform a first pause detection technique to identify a first set of likely sentence pauses; within a second thread of the thread pool, perform a second pause detection technique to identify a second set of likely sentence pauses; perform a speaker diarization technique to identify a set of likely speaker changes; divide the speech data set into data segments representing speech segments based on a combination of at least the first set of likely sentence pauses, the second set of likely sentence pauses, and the set of likely speaker changes; use at least an acoustic model with each data segment to identify likely speech sounds; and generate a transcript based, at least in part, on the identified likely speech sounds.
US11862169B2
Providing speech-to-text (STT) transcription by a user endpoint device includes initiating an audio communication between an enterprise server and the user endpoint device, the audio communication comprising a voice interaction between a user associated with the user endpoint device and an agent associated with an agent device to which the enterprise server routes the audio communication; performing a first STT of at least a portion of the voice interaction to produce a first transcribed speech in a first language; concurrent with performing the first STT, performing, by the user endpoint device, a second STT of the at least the portion of the voice interaction to produce a second transcribed speech in a second language different than the first language, and transmitting the at least the portion of the voice interaction and at least the first transcribed speech from the user endpoint device to the enterprise server.
US11862164B2
Methods and systems for natural language processing/understanding of voice conversations are provided. Using natural language processing, a clinical condition is extracted from a voice conversation. A clinical ontology identifies clinical concepts associated with the clinical conditions. The clinical concepts are classified for documentation. The clinical concepts are searched and validated from within an individual's longitudinal record.
US11862163B2
A method of controlling a battery-powered remote controller to decrease a duty cycle to allow continued operations despite the quantity of the battery is bad determines a drop in voltage of the battery in standby mode as voltage of the battery is being read. When receiving a command to activate a voice function, determining whether the drop in voltage in standby mode is greater than or equal to a preset value. If yes, the method then determines whether the drop in voltage falls in a preset range. If yes, the method regulates a duty cycle of the pulse signal activating the voice function, and activates the voice function as required. A remote controller and a non-transitory storage medium are also provided.
US11862158B2
A method for controlling a device includes: collecting audio data where the device is located; determining whether each target frame of the audio data is a first type signal; in response to the target frame of the audio data being the first type signal, determining an acoustic event type represented by the first type signal; and controlling the device to execute control instructions corresponding to the acoustic event type.
US11862137B2
A vibration reducing device is attached to a structure and blocks sound transmitted through the structure. The vibration reducing device includes a unit structure having a target frequency band, the unit structure including a plurality of unit cells, each formed of an acoustic meta-material and having a different target frequency, the unit cells being connected through first bridges; and a predetermined number of unit structures being connected through second bridges and attached to the structure, where each of the unit cells comprises: a mass portion of which a size is set according to the target frequency; a base frame formed as a quadrangular frame, the mass portion being eccentrically disposed in the base frame; and a support portion that connects the mass portion and the base frame, the support portion having a size that is set according to the target frequency.
US11862133B2
One or more embodiments of a device for securing guitar modulators is shown. The device includes a face, a bracket, and a base. The face defines a hole that extends completely through the face with a first length in a first direction and a first width in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, wherein the first length is greater than the first width. The bracket connects under the face and extends in the first direction parallel to the hole and is configured to allow a grommet to slide along the bracket in the first direction. The base is configured to support the face.
US11862132B2
A musical device includes a frame including a plurality of receptacles for receiving three-dimensional parts each having a face capable of swapping between at least two orientations in the receptacle; each part including an indexing element of the orientation of the part among at least two orientations, a plurality of detectors, each detector being associated with a receptacle to determine orientation of the part by detecting an indexing element in its receptacle, at least one audio system, inserting at least two parts into their respective receptacles triggering the sound diffusion by the audio system of at least two given music tracks simultaneously based on each of the orientations of said parts determined; the device further including a calculation system to ensure synchronization of the music tracks, soundly diffused simultaneously.
US11862125B2
On an electronic device which includes a display device comprising a display driving circuit, a processor, and a memory a method for changing a refresh rate of the display device includes: changing at least one of a first parameter, a second parameter, or a third parameter in response to identifying the occurrence of at least one of a scan rate change request or a change in scan rate change restriction, and applying the changed parameter among the first parameter, the second parameter, and the third parameter. The first parameter is the frequency of a first synchronization signal generated in the display driving circuit, the second parameter is the increase or decrease in a blank area to substitute for a portion of active video area in frame information, and the third parameter is the frequency of a second synchronization signal for rendering.
US11862122B2
The disclosure provides a display device and another display device. The display device includes a display panel. The display panel has a functional display area. The functional display area includes a pixel. The pixel includes a white pixel and multiple display pixels. The display pixels surround at least a part of the white pixel, and the white pixel includes a pixel electrode. The another display device includes another display panel. The another display panel has a functional display area, and the functional display area includes a pixel and a signal line. The pixel includes a white pixel and multiple display pixels. The signal line includes a branch, and the branch is electrically connected to one of the display pixels. The display device and the another display device of the disclosure is capable of reducing the problem of diffraction or having a better optical sensing effect.
US11862120B1
The present disclosure relates to a method for calculating a chromaticity value of a white screen of a display device. The method for calculating the chromaticity value of the white screen of the display device of the present disclosure can calculate a corresponding chromaticity value of the white screen, when aperture ratios of a first sub-pixel, a second sub-pixel, and a third sub-pixel of the display device are adjusted. Then, the aperture ratios of the first sub-pixel, the second sub-pixel, and the third sub-pixel of the display device can be adjusted, so as to meet user demand for chromaticity of the white screen, ameliorate a color cast problem of current display devices, and improve a display effect of the display device.
US11862119B2
According to an aspect, a display device includes a display panel configured to display an image; and a light source configured to emit light to the display panel. The light source includes a first light source configured to emit light in a first primary color, a second light source configured to emit light in a second primary color, and a third light source configured to emit light in a third primary color. A frame period that is a display period of one frame image includes a predetermined number of subframe periods, the predetermined number is four or greater, and color reproduction of the one frame image is performed by a combination of colors that are output in the predetermined number of subframe periods. An output order of colors of the subframe periods is an order of colors in a clockwise direction or in a counterclockwise direction in a hue circle.
US11862115B2
A circuit device is used in a display apparatus. The display apparatus includes a display panel and a backlight including a plurality of light sources. The plurality of light sources are respectively provided corresponding to a plurality of areas of the display panel. The circuit device includes a light amount abnormality detection circuit, a dimming circuit, and a color correction circuit. The light amount abnormality detection circuit detects a light amount abnormality of the light source. The dimming circuit performs light amount compensation processing of compensating for a light amount of an area corresponding to an abnormal light source by adjusting a light amount of a light source other than the abnormal light source that is a light source in which the light amount abnormality is detected. The color correction circuit performs color correction according to the adjusted light amount on image data of an area corresponding to an adjustment target light source that is the light source whose light amount is adjusted.
US11862111B1
A semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes: an offset compensation circuit configured to obtain first data including first low-order bit data, second low-order bit data and high-order bit data, select two compensation values from among a plurality of compensation values based on the first low-order bit data, identify a final compensation value by interpolating the two compensation values based on the second low-order bit data, and compensate the final compensation value to generate second data; and a source driver configured to interpolate and output two gamma voltages from among a plurality of gamma voltages based on the second data.
US11862096B2
Disclosed is a display device including a display panel including a plurality of pixels and a voltage generator providing an anode initialization voltage to the pixels. The display panel is divided into a first display area operating at a first operating frequency and a second display area operating at a second operating frequency. While pixels, which correspond to the first display area, from among the plurality of pixels are driven, the anode initialization voltage has a first voltage level. While pixels in the second display area from among the plurality of pixels are driven, the anode initialization voltage has a second voltage level different from the first voltage level.
US11862085B2
A pixel circuit includes sub-pixel circuits each including a reset sub-circuit, a driving sub-circuit, and a light-emitting device. The reset sub-circuit is configured to input a voltage provided by an initial voltage terminal to the driving sub-circuit under control of a signal from a first reset control terminal. The driving sub-circuit is configured to control a driving current flowing through the light-emitting device according to a data signal output by a data terminal. The sub-pixel circuits include first and second sub-pixel circuits that are located in two adjacent columns, and connected to a same data terminal. A first reset control terminal and a writing control terminal of the first sub-pixel circuit are connected to first and second scanning signal terminals. A first reset control terminal and a writing control terminal of the second sub-pixel circuit are connected to second and third scanning signal terminals.
US11862082B2
An image display device includes a display panel, a space portion, an illuminator, a controller, and an illuminance sensor. The display panel is switchable between an image display mode in which an image is displayed and a transmissive mode in which the display panel is in a transmissive state where a back side of the display panel is visible in a front view. The space portion and the illuminator are provided behind the display panel. The illuminator emits illumination light to the space portion. The controller controls the illuminator. The illuminance sensor detects an ambient illuminance of the image display device. The controller performs illumination control for causing the illuminator to emit illumination light with a brightness that is in accordance with a result of detection by the illuminance sensor when the display panel is operating in the transmissive mode.
US11862066B2
A graphics processing unit (GPU) instructs a display control module to capture content and display captured content in response to the refresh rate of a display exceeding a frame generation rate of the GPU. Rather than re-transmit the same frame multiple times, the GPU instructs the display control module to replay a previously-transmitted frame. During a refresh cycle in which the display control module is replaying captured content, the GPU omits accessing memory to retrieve and resend the frame that is being replayed, and instead sends only invalid data and GPU timing information so that the display control module remains synchronized with the GPU.
US11862061B2
The present disclosure provides a shift register, a gate driving circuit and a display panel. The shift register includes a transistor, which includes a gate electrode, a gate insulating layer, an active layer, a first electrode and a second electrode; the first and second electrode are of comb-shaped structures; the first electrode includes first and second comb tooth portions arranged at intervals, and a first comb handle portion connecting the first and second comb tooth portions; and comb tooth electrodes of the first comb tooth portions have a different length from those of the second comb tooth portions; the second electrode includes third and fourth comb tooth portions arranged at intervals, and a second comb handle portion connecting the third and fourth comb tooth portions; the first and third comb tooth portions form an inter-digital structure, the second and fourth comb tooth portions form an inter-digital structure.
US11862057B2
A display device comprises: pixels connected to a power line to which a pixel driving voltage is supplied; data lines that extend in a first direction and are connected to the pixels, the data lines applying data voltages of an image to the pixels; gate lines that are connected to the pixels and extend in a second direction, the gate lines applying gate signals to the pixels; a data driver configured to supply the data voltages to the data lines during a display mode, and to supply sensing data to the data lines during a sensing mode; a gate driver configured to supply the gate signals to the gate lines; and a sensing circuit configured to sense current flowing through the power line that is connected to a subset of pixels from the pixels during the sensing mode, the subset of pixels arranged along the first direction.
US11862056B2
An optical compensation system based on artificial intelligence according to embodiments of the present disclosure may include a measuring device configured to measure optical characteristics of a display panel, and output measurement result data of the optical characteristics, and an artificial intelligence-based optical compensation controller configured to predict and generate optical compensation result data corresponding to the measurement result data of the optical characteristics based on an artificial intelligence neural network using previous optical compensation result data for at least one other display panel, and store the predicted and generated optical compensation result data in a memory corresponding to the display panel.
US11862053B2
A display method is provided. The display method includes: obtaining information of a target display array on a display device, the target display array including a first number of display units arranged; obtaining target pulse sequences that characterize dynamic spatiotemporal information; determining display state information of each display unit in the first number of display units from a spatiotemporal relationship between the target pulse sequences and the target display array; and causing visualization of pulse signals in the target pulse sequences on the display device based on the display state information of each display unit in the first number of display units.
US11862050B2
A flexible display device includes a base film, a display panel on the base film, a protective film on a surface of the display panel away from the base film, and an adhesive layer. An area of the protective film is less than that of the display panel. The adhesive layer and the protective film has an overlapping portion. The adhesive layer has a thickness and Young's modulus between 10 and 500 μm and between 0.1 and 10 GPa, respectively. A side edge of the base film, a side edge of the display panel, and a side edge of the adhesive layer are substantially aligned.
US11862046B2
A plant label has a substrate and a permanent adhesive layer on a release liner. An identifier portion of the substrate and a tag portion of the substrate are defined by a detach line that enables the tag portion to be detached from the identifier portion. The tag portion has an adhesive deadener on the permanent adhesive layer, a strip of the permanent adhesive layer of the detachable portion free of adhesive deadener, and a tab having only adhesive deadener on the permanent adhesive layer that enables the tag portion to be detached from the identifier portion and from a container to which the label is affixed.
US11862040B2
The present disclosure addresses unresolved problem of monopoly in content authoring, creation of dependency loop by providing a single, scalable, one-stop knowledge platform offering high degree of customization by multiple users and leveraging emerging technologies for rapid end-to-end game or learning solutions development. Embodiment of the present disclosure provides methods and systems for providing customized game-based learning and assessment framework. The present disclosure provides a mechanism to configure custom content into a readymade learning and assessment platform. The framework proposed in the present disclosure is custom built to support scalable architecture of a modular digital learning platform, and its functionalities. The system of the present disclosure allows content creators to author custom content to create immersive learning experience that could range from Spatial three-dimensional (3D) technologies, Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) or games at one place.
US11862029B2
Autoland systems and processes for landing an aircraft without pilot intervention are described. In implementations, the autoland system includes a memory operable to store one or more modules and at least one processor coupled to the memory. The processor is operable to execute the one or more modules to identify a plurality of potential destinations for an aircraft; calculate a merit for each potential destination identified; select a destination based upon the merit; and create a route from a current position of the aircraft to an approach fix associated with the destination that accounts for the terrain characteristic(s) and/or obstacle characteristic(s). The processor can also cause the aircraft to traverse the route, determine a final approach segment associated with the route; identify terrain characteristic(s) and/or obstacle characteristic(s) associated with the final approach segment; and determine an adjusted final approach segment accounting for the terrain characteristic(s) and/or obstacle characteristic(s).
US11862016B1
A multi-intelligence federated reinforcement learning (FRL)-based vehicle-road cooperative control system and method at the complex intersection use a vehicle-road cooperative control framework based on the Road Side Unit (RSU) static processing module and the vehicle-based dynamic processing module. The historical road information is supplied by the proposed RSU module. The Federated Twin Delayed Deep Deterministic policy gradient (FTD3) algorithm is proposed to connect the federated learning (FL) module and the reinforcement learning (RL) module. The FTD3 algorithm transmits only neural network parameters instead of vehicle samples to protect privacy. Firstly, FTD3 selects only specific networks for aggregation to reduce the communication cost. Secondly, FTD3 realizes the deep combination of FL and RL by aggregating target critic networks with smaller Q-values. Thirdly, RSU neural network participates in aggregation rather than training, and only shared global model parameters are used.
US11861999B2
Various embodiments described herein provide for detection of a particular object within a scene depicted by image data by using a coarse-to-fine approach/strategy based on one or more relationships of objects depicted within the scene.
US11861997B2
A method includes supporting, by a support, a bag containing one or more items of an order and detecting, by a sensor coupled to an end of the support, a weight of the bag and the one or more items when the bag is suspended on the support such that the weight of the bag and the one or more items is exerted on the support. The method also includes comparing, by a hardware processor, the detected weight to an expected weight of the order and communicating, by the hardware processor, an alert when the expected weight is unequal to the detected weight.
US11861996B2
A device that is configured to track an asset is disclosed. In one aspect, the device includes a radio module that generates proximity data that indicates a distance between the computing device and the device. The device includes a processor that compares the distance between the computing device and the device to a distance threshold. The processor determines that the distance between the computing device and the device satisfies the distance threshold. The processor arms the device. The device includes a motion sensor that generates motion data. The processor compares the motion data to a motion threshold. The processor determines that the motion data satisfies the motion threshold. The processor activates an alarm state.
US11861995B2
Devices, systems, and methods for intrusion-detection for use with a fence comprising a gate-section have been developed and are herein described. The present disclosure relates to and describes a gate-connector system for an intrusion-detecting-fence system. A intrusion-detecting cable is run from a fence to a gate section. On each side of the gate section, the cable is terminated into a junction-box and connected to a shorter cable-plug assembly that terminates in a weatherproof, pull-apart connector. The cable-plug assemblies from each side of the gate section are connected together to complete a circuit. With the intrusion-detecting cable extending onto the gate, intrusion-protection is provided on the gate section as well as on the fence. A gate at the gate section can easily be opened by unplugging the connectors.
US11861991B2
A piece of electronic equipment including a first subsystem such as a touch-sensitive tablet and a second subsystem such as a payment terminal. The first sub-system embeds a first operating system for managing the power consumption of the first subsystem. The second subsystem embeds a specific and secure operating system capable of executing payment transactions. Since the two subsystems execute two different operating systems, an operating state of one of the subsystems may not allow the required service to be implemented if this requires the use of resources implemented by both of the two subsystems. Thus the first and second subsystems exchange data relating to their respective operating state and, where appropriate, change their current operating state as a function of the data relating to an operating state of the other subsystem thus exchanged.
US11861979B2
In one embodiment, a system to authorize a mobile electronic device to play games of chance includes a gaming system manager and a docking station. The docking station can be configured to: (i) detect whether the mobile electronic device is connected to a receiver of the docking station; (ii) receive device information from the mobile electronic device if it is detected that the mobile electronic device is connected to the receiver; (iii) determine whether a game of chance can be played on the mobile electronic device based on the received device information; (iv) authorize the mobile electronic device to play the game of chance; and (v) transmit gaming data to the mobile electronic device if it is determined that the game of chance can be played on the mobile electronic device and if the mobile electronic device is authorized.
US11861973B2
A video gaming machine provides partial symbols that match other partial symbols across adjacent horizontal frames. Matches of two melding frames provides absolute payouts, multipliers, bonus events and the like.
US11861972B2
A gaming machine is described herein. The gaming machine includes a game control unit programmed to display a game screen on the display unit and initiate an instance of the game. The game screen includes a grid including a plurality of cells arranged in a plurality of columns. Each column is associated with a corresponding symbol and includes a predefined number of cells. The game control unit initiates an instance of the game by populating a subset of cells within each column with a plurality of awards, randomly determining, for each corresponding column, a number of corresponding symbols to be displayed in a stack of corresponding symbols, and displaying each stack of corresponding symbols within each corresponding column. The game control unit then determines each cell of the subset of cells being displayed with a corresponding symbol and a corresponding award, and provides each corresponding award to the player.
US11861965B2
The present invention includes a coin sorting part in which a plurality of coin sorting holes are formed in a circumferential direction and a coin separation plate on which a coin guide portion for guiding the coins to the coin sorting part is formed, a bad coin discharge unit installed in the coin guide portion of the coin separation unit and configured to detect whether the coin moving to be sorted is a bad coin and sort the bad coin, a coin supply unit configured to supply the coins to be sorted and moved along the coin guide portion, and a coin transfer unit elastically pressed against the coin separation unit and configured to move the coin input from the coin supply unit to the coin guide portion and the coin sorting holes in a state in which the coins are pressed against the coin separation plate.
US11861955B1
A unified asset monitoring portal may be provided by a computing system that is configured to receive asset data from each of a plurality of assets. The asset data may include vehicle data associated with a first plurality of vehicles, trailer data associated with a second plurality of trailers, and/or industrial data associated with a third plurality of industrial equipment. Each of the vehicle data, trailer data, and industrial data may include at least some unique sensor data types.
US11861952B2
A driving support device is provided which can evaluate the driving skill of a driver, and improve the driving skill of the driver. A driving support device 11 includes: a peripheral information acquisition unit 40; an outside-world detection unit 201; a driving status detection unit 202; a driving evaluation unit 203 which decides a driving evaluation indicating the driving skill of the driver of the vehicle 1, based on the outside-world detection result of detecting the predetermined target and the driving status; a voice output device 91 which notifies the driver of the driving evaluation result indicating the result of driving evaluation; and a notification control unit 204 which notifies the driver by way of the notification unit of the outside-world detection result or driving status based on the driving evaluation result, when the driving evaluation improves.
US11861940B2
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for recognizing human emotion in images or video. A method for recognizing perceived human emotion may include receiving a raw input. The raw input may be processed to generate input data corresponding to at least one context. Features from the raw input data may be extracted to obtain a plurality of feature vectors and inputs. The plurality of feature vectors and the inputs may be transmitted to a respective neural network. At least some of the plurality of feature vectors may be fused to obtain a feature encoding. Additional feature encodings may be computed from the plurality of feature vectors via the respective neural network. A multi-label emotion classification of a primary agent may be performed in the raw input based on the feature encoding and the additional feature encodings.
US11861938B2
A method for adding biometric authentication training data into databases performed by a biometric authentication data classification device includes: extracting first biometric characteristic information from at least one candidate biometric training data for biometric authentication using an artificial neural network model; calculating an overall similarity between the first biometric characteristic information and second biometric characteristic information extracted from a performance test database of which a biometric authentication performance is lower than a threshold level, the performance test database being selected among performance test databases for the biometric authentication; and adding the at least one candidate biometric training data into one of the biometric authentication training database and the performance test database based on the calculated overall similarity.
US11861917B2
Method and system for detecting vehicle occupant actions are disclosed. For example, the method includes receiving, by one or more processors, previously classified image data from a previously classified image database, the previously classified image data representing driver postures that are rotated and scaled to be standardized for a range of different drivers and different locations of a vehicle interior sensor within a given vehicle, wherein the previously classified image data is representative of previously classified vehicle occupant actions; receiving, by the one or more processors, current image data from the vehicle interior sensor subsequent to the vehicle interior sensor being registered within the given vehicle, wherein the current image data is representative of current vehicle occupant actions; and determining, by the one or more processors, a vehicle occupant action based at least in part upon a comparison of the current image data and the previously classified image data.
US11861914B2
An object recognition method uses a sensor configured to acquire a position of an object existing in a surrounding environment as point clouds including a plurality of detection points in a top view. The method includes: grouping point clouds according to a proximity; determining, when performing polygon approximation on the grouped point clouds, whether at least part of the detection points constituting the grouped point clouds are located in a blind zone of an approximate polygon acquired by the polygon approximation with respect to the sensor; recognizing the grouped point clouds as point clouds corresponding to plural objects when it is determined that the detection points are located in the blind zone with respect to the sensor; and recognizing the grouped point clouds as point clouds corresponding to a single object of the approximate polygon when it is determined that the detection points are not located in the blind zone.
US11861907B2
Methods, systems and apparatuses may provide for technology that selects a player from a plurality of players based on an automated analysis of two-dimensional (2D) video data associated with a plurality of cameras, wherein the selected player is nearest to a projectile depicted in the 2D video data. The technology may also track a location of the selected player over a subsequent plurality of frames in the 2D video data and estimate a location of the projectile based on the location of the selected player over the subsequent plurality of frames.
US11861896B1
Autonomous aerial navigation in low-light and no-light conditions includes using night mode obstacle avoidance intelligence, training, and mechanisms for vision-based unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) navigation to enable autonomous flight operations of a UAV in low-light and no-light environments using infrared data.
US11861894B1
A target custody platform comprising a data acquisition engine, a data analysis engine, a machine learning engine, and a data presentation layer configured to task a plurality of satellites for imagery data wherein the imagery data and metadata is used in conjunction with other types of data including identification data and weather data as inputs into a one or more machine and/or deep learning algorithms configured to predict a the likelihood a target of interest will travel along a project path.
US11861892B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for tracking objects in a physical environment using visual sensors onboard an autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). In certain embodiments, images of the physical environment captured by the onboard visual sensors are processed to extract semantic information about detected objects. Processing of the captured images may involve applying machine learning techniques such as a deep convolutional neural network to extract semantic cues regarding objects detected in the images. The object tracking can be utilized, for example, to facilitate autonomous navigation by the UAV or to generate and display augmentative information regarding tracked objects to users.
US11861883B2
Provided is an information processing apparatus including: an output control unit that controls display of information regarding an erroneous recognition target different from a predetermined recognition target, the erroneous recognition target being specified as having a possibility of erroneous recognition on the basis of a result of recognition processing on at least one piece of specifying data by a recognizer generated for recognizing the predetermined recognition target and a result of clustering processing on a target recognized by the recognition processing. The recognizer is generated by learning based on at least one piece of learning data. The at least one piece of learning data includes the predetermined recognition target and is data in substantially the same context. The specifying data is data in substantially the same context as the context of the at least one piece of learning data.
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The method for property typicality determination can include: determining a property, determining attribute values for the property, determining a reference population for the property, determining reference population attribute values, determining a typicality metric for the property, and optionally determining an influential attribute.
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A method is provided that includes receiving points of an image in which objects are depicted. The method includes performing a greedy nearest-neighbor (GNN) cluster analysis of the image to group the points of the image. The GNN cluster analysis includes grouping the points into a plurality of local GNN clusters, from a greedy analysis using a k-d tree in which the points are organized. The plurality of local GNN clusters are then extended into a plurality of global GNN clusters. This evaluating similarity of the local GNN clusters, merging the local GNN clusters into a global GNN cluster when each of the defined similarity criteria is evaluated to true, and passing the local GNN clusters as global GNN clusters when any of the defined similarity criteria is evaluated to false. The method then includes detecting the objects depicted in the image based on the global GNN clusters.
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A three-dimensional data encoding method includes: determining whether a first valid node count is greater than or equal to a first threshold value predetermined, the first valid node count being a total number of valid nodes that are nodes each including a three-dimensional point, the valid nodes being included in first nodes belonging to a layer higher than a layer of a current node in an N-ary tree structure of three-dimensional points included in point cloud data, N being an integer greater than or equal to 2; and, when the first valid node count is greater than or equal to the first threshold value, performing first encoding on attribute information of the current node, the first encoding including a prediction process in which second nodes are used, the second nodes including a parent node of the current node and belonging to a same layer as the parent node.
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A method and a device for determining a device parameter of a hearing device to be worn at the ear of a user, the method comprising: obtaining image data of one or more images, the image data including first image data of a first image of the outer human ear at a first angle; identifying, based on the first image data, a first anatomical landmark and a second anatomical landmark of the outer human ear using a processor; identifying the position of the first anatomical landmark and the second anatomical landmark in the first image; determining the device parameter of the hearing device based on the first anatomical landmark and the second anatomical landmark; and outputting the device parameter.
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Systems and methods for determining a target region of interest (ROI) for image registration is provided. The methods may include obtaining a target image of a subject including a target portion of the subject and obtaining feature information related to a movement of one or more feature portions of the subject. The methods may further include identifying, from the one or more feature portions, one or more reference portions of the subject based on the feature information. A position of the target portion of the subject is unrelated to a movement of the one or more reference portions. The methods may further include determining, in the target image, the target ROI based on corresponding feature information related to the one or more reference portions.
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Method for displaying super-resolution video of at least one-moving object without image artifacts, including the procedures of acquiring microscanned images of at least one moving object, a first and second subset of the images respectively forming a first and second data set, for each data set, analyzing at least a portion of the sub-set of the images for spatial and temporal information, determining a respective movement indication of the moving object according to the spatial and temporal information, in parallel to the procedure of analyzing, forming a respective super-resolution image from each data set and designating a respective bounded area surrounding the moving object, and repeatedly displaying each super-resolution image outside the bounded area a plurality of times at a video frame rate and displaying during those times within the respective bounded area, a plurality of consecutive microscanned images of the moving object at the video frame rate.
US11861841B2
A technology is provided whereby a lane can be correctly estimated without relying on lane markers. A shape indicating a road region is extracted from image data obtained by capturing images in the progression direction of a vehicle 6 and, on the basis of information indicating the shape, the angle of inclination for one contour line, the center-of-gravity coordinates for a diagram indicating the shape of the road region, the angle between two consecutive contour lines across one vertex of the diagram indicating the shape, and the area of the diagram indicating the shape are calculated as feature values for the shape of the road region. In addition, the lane in which the vehicle 6 is traveling can be estimated by determining whether or not the calculated feature values are included in a threshold value range preset for each lane.
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According to some embodiments, an imaging processing method for extracting a plurality of planar surfaces from a depth map includes computing a depth change indication map (DCI) from a depth map in accordance with a smoothness threshold. The imaging processing method further includes recursively extracting a plurality of planar region from the depth map, wherein the size of each planar region is dynamically adjusted according to the DCI. The imaging processing method further includes clustering the extracted planar regions into a plurality of groups in accordance with a distance function; and growing each group to generate pixel-wise segmentation results and inlier points statistics simultaneously.
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The present disclosure provides a deep learning based medical image detection method and apparatus, a computer-readable medium, and an electronic device. The method includes: acquiring a to-be-detected medical image comprising a plurality of slices; for each slice in the to-be-detected medical image: extracting N basic feature maps of the slice by a deep neural network, N being an integer greater than 1, merging features of the N basic feature maps by the deep neural network, to obtain M enhanced feature maps, M being an integer greater than 1, and respectively performing a hierarchically dilated convolutions operation on the M enhanced feature maps by the deep neural network, to generate a superposed feature map of each enhanced feature map; and predicting position information of a region of interest and a confidence score thereof in the to-be-detected medical image by the deep neural network based on the superposed feature map.
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Systems and methods for quantifying a shift of an anatomical object of a patient are provided. A 3D medical image of an anatomical object of a patient is received. An initial location of landmarks on the anatomical object in the 3D medical image is determined using a first machine learning network. A 2D slice depicting the initial location of the landmarks is extracted from the 3D medical image. The initial location of the landmarks in the 2D slice is refined using a second machine learning network. A shift of the anatomical object is quantified based on the refined location of the landmarks in the 2D slice. The quantified shift of the anatomical object is output.
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At the time of superimposing and aligning a stained image and a mass spectrometric (MS) image obtained for the same sample, an image display processor displays, on the superimposed images, grid lines (62) at the spacing corresponding to an operation of a grid spacing adjustment slider (63). When an operator depresses an image deformation range “SET” button (64), specifies an arbitrary area on the superimposed images with a mouse, and then depresses a “SELECT” button (65), an image deformation range specification receiving section determines an image deformation range. When the operator selects an intersection (grid point) of the grid lines (62) within the image deformation range and performs an operation of moving the intersection point to an arbitrary position, an image deformation processor deforms an image included in the image deformation range in accordance with the operation. The image deformation range can be set irrespective of the grid-line spacing, so that it is possible to perform accurate image deformation in accordance with the amount and range of deformation for each site on the image, and improve work efficiency.
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An overlay metrology system may include a controller for receiving metrology data associated with a plurality of overlay targets on one or more samples; generating a reference metric for at least some of the plurality of overlay targets based on the metrology data, where the reference metric is associated with one or more properties of the respective overlay targets that contributes to overlay error; classifying the plurality of overlay targets into one or more groups based on the reference metrics calculated for the plurality of overlay targets; generating a reference image for at least some of the one or more groups; generating corrected metrology data using the associated reference image for at least some of the one or more groups; and generating overlay measurements for the plurality of overlay targets based on the corrected metrology data.
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Stock management for wood and lumber products requires measuring and counting items individually on a continuous basis; considering a single lumber package alone can contain hundreds of pieces, it is a tedious task that is error prone when done manually. The invention provides a technology solution that involves taking a picture of products using a smart-phone, or a tablet's built-in camera, processing said picture data to detect individual items using Artificial Intelligence Object Detection methods, and utilizing special algorithms to measure and compute unit volume to present the user a detailed description, measure, count, and a summary. This process helps identify and take stock counts faster and with higher accuracy.
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A system and method for calibrating a machine vision system on the undercarriage of a rail vehicle while the rail vehicle is in the field is presented. The system enables operators to calibrate the machine vision system without having to remove the machine vision system from the undercarriage of the rail vehicle. The system can capture, by a camera of an image capturing module, a first image of a target. The image capturing module and a drum can be attached to a fixture and the target can be attached to the drum. The system can also determine a number of lateral pixels in a lateral pitch distance of the image of the target, determining a lateral object pixel size based on the number of lateral pixels, and determining a drum encoder rate based on the lateral object pixel size. The drum encoder rate can be programmed into a drum encoder.
US11861818B2
A defect inspection system is disclosed. According to certain embodiments, the system includes a memory storing instructions implemented as a plurality of modules. Each of the plurality of modules is configured to detect defects having a different property. The system also includes a controller configured to cause the computer system to: receive inspection data representing an image of a wafer; input the inspection data to a first module of the plurality of modules, the first module outputs a first set of points of interests (POIs) having a first property; input the first set of POIs to a second module of the plurality of modules, the second module output a second set of POIs having the second property; and report that the second set of POIs as defects having both the first property and the second property.
