US11924837B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may select a first resource, of a plurality of resources, for transmission of a request to initiate a beam failure recovery procedure. The UE may determine that another transmission is scheduled contemporaneously with the transmission of the request to initiate the beam failure recovery procedure using the first resource and is to be transmitted using the first resource. The UE may select a second resource for transmission of the request to initiate the beam failure recovery procedure based at least in part on the determination that the other transmission is scheduled contemporaneously with the transmission of the request to initiate the beam failure recovery procedure and is to be transmitted using the first resource. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11924834B2
Provided are a control channel monitoring method and apparatus, an information element transmission method and apparatus, a device, and a storage medium Whether H first-type control channel elements include the same control channel information can be determined according to signaling information and/or a preset rule, where H is a positive integer greater than or equal to 2; and a control channel is monitored according to a determination result.
US11924830B2
A network device sends a first physical channel to user equipment on resources of one or more candidate physical channels. Correspondingly, the user equipment monitors one or more candidate physical channels in a candidate physical channel set, to receive the first physical channel on the resources of the one or more candidate physical channels. A payload of the first physical channel includes control information and a transport block, the control information includes first information, the first information is used to indicate an acknowledgment resource to the user equipment, and the acknowledgment resource is a resource used by the user equipment to send acknowledgment information to the network device. After receiving the first physical channel, the user equipment sends the acknowledgment information to the network device on the acknowledgment resource; and correspondingly, the network device receives the acknowledgment information on the acknowledgment resource.
US11924829B2
A signal reception apparatus and method and a communications system. As the starting position of the time domain resource section used for receiving signals is determined according to the predefined or preconfigured reference time domain resource section, time domain resources on which receiving beams determined by the network device and the terminal equipment are based are uniform, thereby avoiding mismatch of the network device and the terminal equipment in receiving and transmitting beams and ensuring transmission reliability of the system.
US11924828B2
A user equipment may receive a configuration that indicates a density of demodulation reference signal (DMRS) resource elements and a set of locations of the DMRS resource elements in one or more resource element groups associated with a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH); receive an indication of a change to at least one of the density of the DMRS resource elements or the set of locations of the DMRS resource elements, resulting in at least one of a modified density of the DMRS resource elements or a modified set of locations of the DMRS resource elements; and monitor for downlink control information in a search space associated with the PDCCH based at least in part on the at least one of the modified density of the DMRS resource elements or the modified set of locations of the DMRS resource elements.
US11924825B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication in a shared spectrum. In some aspects, a user equipment may receive an indication of a set of starting offsets for an uplink communication, wherein the set of starting offsets includes at least one negative starting offset relative to a start of a slot or a mini-slot in which the uplink communication is configured to start; select a starting offset from the set of starting offsets; and transmit the uplink communication, wherein the uplink communication starts at a time indicated by the selected starting offset. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11924822B2
A method for concurrent execution of multiple protocols using a single radio of a wireless communication device is provided that includes receiving, in a radio command scheduler, a first radio command from a first protocol stack of a plurality of protocol states executing on the wireless communication device, determining a scheduling policy for the first radio command based on a current state of each protocol stack of the plurality of protocol stacks, and scheduling the first radio command in a radio command queue for the radio based on the scheduling policy, wherein the radio command scheduler uses the radio command queue to schedule radio commands received from the plurality of protocol stacks.
US11924821B1
Systems, methods, and non-transitory media are provided for timing half-duplex transmissions in a wireless communication system. An example method can include receiving, by a user terminal (UT), a radio frame transmitted by a satellite to a group of UTs; identifying an offset delay defined in the radio frame for scheduling transmissions between the satellite and each UT in the group of UTs, the offset delay providing non-overlapping time intervals for receive, process, and transmit operations at each UT; determining, based on the offset delay and a time when the radio frame was received by the UT, a time for transmitting an uplink radio burst to the satellite, wherein the uplink radio burst transmitted at the time is estimated to arrive at the satellite within a same radio frame interval as uplink radio bursts from other UTs; and transmitting, to the satellite, the uplink radio burst at the time.
US11924819B2
Methods and systems for determining transmission power levels according to signal types and RF exposure limits. An example method generally includes determining a first transmission power for transmitting a first type of uplink (UL) signal, determining a second transmission power for transmitting a second type of UL signal based on the first transmission power, and transmitting at least one of the first UL signal according to the first transmission power or the second UL signal according to the second transmission power.
US11924817B2
A method performed by a communications device, the method comprising allocating a fraction of the data for transmitting to a first infrastructure equipment using a first carrier frequency, allocating a remainder of the data for transmitting to a second infrastructure equipment using a second carrier frequency, transmitting the fraction of data using the first carrier frequency and the remainder of data using the second carrier frequency, determining an attribute associated with communicating the data from the communications device to the first infrastructure equipment using the first carrier frequency based upon signals received from the first infrastructure equipment, modifying the fraction based on at least the determined attribute, and transmitting the data using at least one of the first and second carrier frequencies according to the modified fraction.
US11924815B2
A bandwidth resource switching method and apparatus are provided. When a network device sends bandwidth resource indication information to a terminal by using downlink control information, the network device may impose some constraints on uplink transmission mode-related configuration information or SRS-related configuration information on an indicated bandwidth resource, and other indication information carried in the downlink control information, so that no ambiguity occurs when the terminal parses the bandwidth resource indication information. Alternatively, when a side of a terminal receives bandwidth resource indication information sent by a network device by using downlink control information, the terminal parses, in an unambiguous interpretation manner, configuration information on a bandwidth resource indicated by the bandwidth resource indication information in the downlink control information. According to the application, a BWP is smoothly switched to perform uplink transmission, uplink transmission efficiency can be improved, and system robustness can be improved.
US11924812B2
This disclosure provides methods, devices and systems for generating enhanced trigger frames. Some implementations more specifically relate to trigger frame designs that support gains in data throughput achievable in accordance with the IEEE 802.11be amendment, and future generations, of the IEEE 802.11 standard. In some implementations, an enhanced trigger frame may be used to solicit a non-legacy trigger-based (TB) physical layer protocol convergence protocol (PLCP) protocol data unit (PPDU) from one or more wireless stations (STAs). In some implementations, the enhanced trigger frame may be configurable to support multiple versions of the IEEE 802.11 standard. For example, an enhanced trigger frame may be configured in accordance with a legacy trigger frame format or a non-legacy trigger frame format. Thus, when configured in accordance with the legacy trigger frame format, the enhanced trigger frame can also be used to a legacy TB PPDU from one or more STAs.
US11924806B2
Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for user equipment (UE) idle mode operations. In embodiments, a UE wakes up more than once during a Discontinuous Reception (DRX) cycle. Inter-frequency measurement requirements may be relaxed based on DRX cycle length. Some embodiments include radiofrequency (RF) circuitry warm-up overhead reduction by on-duration separation with RF circuitry switching pattern adaption. Some embodiments include and RF circuitry warm-up overhead reduction by adaptive synchronization signal block (SSB) reference symbol down-selection. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US11924779B2
Embodiments herein relates to a method performed by a UE for handling communication in a wireless communications network. The UE transmits a first indication in a PHR of a serving cell to a radio network node, wherein the first indication indicates presence of a first type of PH of a first carrier in the PHR of the serving cell, and wherein the first type is referring to an uplink RS transmission power. The PHR of the serving cell further comprises a second indication indicating presence of a PH of a second type of a second carrier of the serving cell, wherein the second type is referring to a user data transmission power.
US11924766B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A method for wireless communication at a user equipment (UE) may include: receiving a multicast bandwidth part configuration for multicast communications between a base station and the UE, where the multicast bandwidth part configuration includes a maximum number of multiple-input, multiple-output layers to be used for the multicast communications; establishing a multicast link with the base station for multicast communications; determining to use a reduced number of antennas for multicast reception than the number of antennas used for unicast reception, or determining that the UE is able to decode the multicast communications prior to a remaining portion of the multicast communications; and receiving the multicast communications via the reduced number of antennas, or reducing the radio frequency power prior to completion of a number of repetitions or retransmissions of the multicast communications.
US11924763B2
A wireless device (14) is configured for use in a wireless communication system (10). The wireless device (14) is configured to determine a wake-up signal, WUS, group (11-1) to which the wireless device (14) belongs, based on a third function (f3) of a device identifier (14A) for the wireless device (14). The third function (f3) is different than a first function (f1) of the device identifier (14A) based on which a paging frame (3) of the wireless device (14) is determined and/or is different than a second function (f2) of the device identifier (14A) based on which a paging narrowband or carrier (9) of the wireless device (14) is determined. The wireless device (14) is also configured to monitor for a WUS (18) that indicates wireless devices in the determined WUS group (11-1) to which the wireless device (14) belongs are to wake up.
US11924759B2
Disclosed herein is a method of a communication device operating in a wireless communication network for managing power consumption of the device. The device is configured to operate according to first, second and third operational states for communication with a network node associated with the communication network. The method comprises receiving from the network node an instruction to transit to a decided operational state when leaving the first operational state, the decided operational state being one of the second or third operational state; obtaining information of a first network configuration applied by the network node for the second operational state and information of a second network configuration applied by the network node for the third operational state; determining to operate according to the second operational state or the third operational state based on the obtained information; and transit to the determined operational state when leaving the first operational state regardless of the decided operational state.
US11924758B2
An example of the present disclosure provides a wakeup method, including: determining user equipment (UE) to be waked up; sending a wakeup signal block to the UE, wherein the wakeup signal block includes a wakeup signal and a physical channel, the physical channel is used to transmit assistance information and the assistance information is used to assist the UE in receiving or sending a signal.
US11924748B2
Disclosed is a method for handling cell selection in a multiple radio access technology dual connectivity (MR-DC) system, including scanning, by a user equipment (UE), at least one frequency, identifying, by the UE, a first cell supporting an MR-DC based on the scanned at least one frequency, and camping, by the UE, to the identified first cell.
US11924746B2
The present disclosure relates to a communication system and method, in a system providing mobile communication services to terminals, in which the system supports a plurality of network slices, and if the use of some of the network slices is only authorized in a specific application group, the use of resources of the network slices by applications for which the use of the network slices is not authorized is effectively prevented, thus satisfying user experience and needs of the specific network slices.
US11924745B2
The invention relates to a wireless access telecommunications system comprising at least an SA-cell with which a terminal in an active mode is configured to have a data connection and an LA-cell on which the terminal in an idle mode is configured to camp. A method for the terminal to at least obtain LA-cell system information and SA-cell system information includes, when the terminal is in the active mode and an SA-cell radio interface of the terminal is enabled, the terminal receiving at least a part of the SA-cell system information for the terminal from the SA-cell via the SA-cell radio interface. The method further includes enabling an LA-cell radio interface of the terminal during one or more of a plurality of LA time periods and receiving at least a part of the LA-cell system information for the terminal from the LA-cell via the LA-cell radio interface.
US11924735B2
A method, performed by a first node (111). The method is for handling access to a communications network (100) in a multi-hop deployment. The first node receives (305), from a fourth node (114), information. The information indicates a recommendation on which node within radio range to connect to, out of a plurality of candidate parent nodes (120). The plurality comprises a first set (121) and a second set (122) of candidate parent nodes. A third node (113) is enabled to be a donor node in the first set (121). A sixth node (116) is enabled to be a donor node in the second set (122). The first node also determines (307), out of the plurality, a second node (112) to establish a connection with. The determining (307) is based on the received information. The first node then initiates (308) establishment of a connection or re-connection to the network via the second node (112), as first-hop.
US11924734B2
A cloud-based network management system (NMS) stores path data from network devices operating as network gateways for an enterprise network, the path data collected by each network device of the plurality of network devices. The NMS determines, for a logical path within a specified time window, a wireless signal quality and a link quality based at least in part on the path data. The NMS, in response to determining that the logical path is of a poor link quality, determine a correlation between a poor wireless quality and the poor link quality. The NMS may output a notification that indicates the correlation between the poor wireless quality and the poor link quality of the logical path.
US11924731B2
Exemplary embodiments are disclosed of telematics or telecommunication control units (TCUs) modules that includes a TCU and one or more sensor arrays (e.g., mmWave sensors, temperature sensors, ambient light sensors, biometric sensors, cameras, proximity sensors, WiFi, touch sensors, microphones, etc.) for monitoring vehicle interiors (e.g., monitoring health conditions of occupants within a vehicle passenger interior, etc.). In exemplary embodiments, sensors may be combined or integrated with (e.g., embedded within, placed on TCU printed circuit board (PCB), directly connected with, mounted along a bottom or side of, etc.) the TCU.
US11924730B2
Methods, systems, and devices for operating emergency prevention sensor systems are described. Devices can include a plurality of components including a sensor component, a processor, and memory. In an example, a method can include receiving at a processor signaling from a plurality of environmental sensing devices, each having at least one biodegradable component, in an area of concern, wherein the area of concern corresponds to a particular set of coordinates in a database, determining environmental characteristics of an emergency associated with the area of concern based, at least in part, on the signaling, and determining a preventive action based on the determined characteristics. In another example, a number of components of the sensing devices are biodegradable.
US11924723B2
Embodiments disclosed herein provide for a method including configuring a self-learning safety sign to: establish vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communications with a two-wheeler equipped with a V2X transceiver and positioned at a ride point and/or ridden along a common and divergent route according to a setup stage for the safety sign; receive ride parameters in the V2X communications from the two-wheeler associated with the positioning and/or riding of the two-wheeler; and analyze the received ride parameters to create a ride model for determining a future route to be taken by any two-wheeler in V2X communication with the safety sign.
US11924714B2
A base station comprising a processor, a wireless interface, and a communication interface are configured to receive broadcast or multicast data using shared delivery with the shared delivery broadcast or multicast data being received by a plurality of base stations. Further, the wireless interface configured to transmit the broadcast or multicast data to a plurality of user equipments (UEs) and based on acknowledgement feedback, the broadcast or multicast data is selectively retransmitted using unicast or multicast or broadcast.
US11924713B2
Systems and methods for providing timely location estimates when a user equipment initiates a call to an emergency number are disclosed. The system enables a user equipment to send the earliest available location that the user equipment can come up with, after detecting an emergency message (e.g., detecting a 911 digit string). This can be done by sending the current location of the user equipment via HTTPS protocol to a telecommunications service provider node (e.g., an end point in GMLC). In this manner, the system avoids a major overhaul of the existing 3GPP E911 location standard while allowing timely compliance of the NG911 mandate.
US11924710B2
Embodiments are disclosed for selecting locations for transmitting emergency beacons. In an embodiment, a method comprises: determining a current location of a mobile device in a geographic area; configuring a transmitter of the mobile device for device-to-device (D2D) communication; determining one or more candidate transmit locations for D2D communication, wherein each candidate transmit location is determined based at least in part on its elevation, proximity to a D2D device density location that is within a maximum communication distance from the candidate transmit location, and an availability of a trail or path to the candidate transmit location; receiving input selecting a particular candidate transmit location from the one or more candidate transmit locations; in accordance with the input, determining a route from the current location of the mobile device to the particular candidate transmit location; and presenting the route through an output device.
US11924707B2
Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a first UE and a second UE perform a ranging procedure which includes communication of one or more ranging signals between the first UE and the second UE. The first UE obtains sensor data via a set of sensors coupled to the first UE, and transmits the sensor data to the second UE in association with the ranging procedure. The second UE determines a distance between the first UE and the second UE based on ranging measurement data associated with the one or more ranging signals and the sensor data.
US11924706B2
A method, a computer program product, and a computer system manage notification settings on a user device within premises. The method includes determining a notification rule to be enforced on the premises for the notification settings to be set on the user device while within the premises. The method includes determining a location and a defined surrounding within the premises for managing the notification settings on the user device, the notification rule being based on the defined surrounding. The method includes determining a user device location of the user device within the premises. The method includes determining whether the user device location is within the defined surrounding. The method includes, as a result of the user device location being within the defined surrounding, transmitting instructions indicative of the notification rule to the user device to set the notification settings on the user device based on the notification rule.
US11924704B2
Embodiments include conditional mobility methods performed by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless network. Such methods include receiving, from a network node via a serving cell, a conditional mobility configuration related to a plurality of mobility procedures, of different types, towards one or more candidate target entities. The conditional mobility configuration includes one or more triggering conditions for the plurality of mobility procedures. Such methods include monitoring for the triggering conditions based on measurements of radio signals associated with the candidate target entities and/or the serving cell. Such methods include, based on detecting a particular triggering condition, performing a particular mobility procedure towards a particular candidate target entity, wherein the particular candidate target entity and/or the particular mobility procedure is selected based on a selection rule. Other embodiments include complementary methods performed by a network node, and UEs and network nodes configured to perform such methods.
US11924702B2
Methods and techniques are described for efficiently supporting periodic and triggered location services for a user equipment (UE) in a Fifth Generation wireless network. A serving core network (CN) node, such as an AMF, receives a request for periodic or triggered location for the UE from another CN entity, such as a GMLC, and transfers the request to a location server, such as an LMF, which initiates and establishes the periodic and triggered location session with the UE. The serving CN node then releases all resources for the location request. The UE monitors for periodic or trigger events and reports each event to a location server which forwards an event report, optionally containing a UE location, to an external client via a CN entity, such as GMLC. The event reporting can be efficient because a serving CN node is not materially involved.
US11924701B2
A method and apparatus for support of energy efficient operation of a wireless device, e.g., a user equipment (UE), in a 5th generation new radio access technology (5G NR) is provided. A source node acquires information related to power consumption of a wireless device and transmits a message for initiation of handover. The message includes information related to energy efficiency of the wireless device. The information related to energy efficiency is based on the information related to power consumption of the wireless device. The target node performs admission control and/or resource allocation for the wireless device based on the information related to energy efficiency of the wireless device.
US11924700B2
Aspects of the present disclosure provide apparatus, methods, processing systems, and computer readable mediums for enabling L1 (physical layer) and L2 (medium access control (MAC) layer) inter-cell mobility. In some examples, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a network entity, at least one of physical layer signaling or MAC layer signaling comprising information for a selected cell. The UE may performing an inter-cell mobility procedure in accordance with the information for the selected cell.
US11924693B2
Methods and systems for resume request followed by release and redirect are herein provided. According to one aspect, a method performed by a User Equipment for communicating within a telecommunications network comprises: while in a Radio Resource Control (RRC) INACTIVE state, sending, to a base station, a request to resume communication, and, without entering an RRC CONNECED state, receiving, from the base station, an instruction to release and redirect; and in response to receiving the instruction to release and redirect, performing cell selection in a Radio Access Technology and attempting to establish or resume communication with the selected cell.
US11924687B2
Embodiments are directed towards systems and methods for user plane function (UPF) and network slice load balancing within a 5G network. Example embodiments include systems and methods for load balancing based on current UPF load and thresholds that depend on UPF capacity; UPF load balancing using predicted throughput of new UE on the network based on network data analytics; UPF load balancing based on special considerations for low latency traffic; UPF load balancing supporting multiple slices, maintaining several load-thresholds for each UPF and each slice depending on the UPF and network slice capacity; and UPF load balancing using predicted central processing unit (CPU) utilization and/or predicted memory utilization of new UE on the network based on network data analytics.
US11924684B2
An electronic apparatus includes a sub-system that receives, from a wireless LAN module, incoming data including wireless LAN packets according to plural communication methods and a main system including a processor that process the incoming data. The sub-system includes an interface circuit and a sub-processor. The interface circuit acquires a data length of each of the wireless LAN packets from a header of the wireless LAN packet. Based on MAC addresses included in the wireless LAN packet, the interface circuit identifies a communication method of the wireless LAN packet. Based on the data length and the communication method of the wireless LAN packet, the interface circuit transfers the wireless LAN packet to one of different storage areas respectively corresponding to the communication methods. The sub-processor transfers the wireless LAN packet from the one of the different storage areas to the main system.
US11924672B2
It is provided a communication system comprising: at least one IoT terminal; a base station apparatus to which the IoT terminal is to be coupled; an edge server selectively receives user plane packets transmitted and received by the base station apparatus; and a cloud server selectively receives user plane packets transmitted and received by one of the base station apparatus and the edge server, wherein at least one of the IoT terminal, the edge server, or the cloud server has arranged therein a first middleware formed of software, and wherein the first middleware receives an instruction on a policy which is set based on a result of analyzing traffic of packets transported in the communication system; receives by proxy an instruction to transmit packets from an application; adjusts timings to transmit the packets in accordance with the instructed policy; and relays a transmission instruction to a communication module.
US11924670B2
A method is provided by a central-unit-control plane (CU-CP) of a network node for exchanging information with a central-unit user plane (CU-UP) of the network node to manage Quality of Service (QoS) flows for the optimization of radio resources. The method includes transmitting, to the CU-UP, a request for flow information for at least one QoS flow and receiving, from the CU-UP of the network node, the flow information for the at least one QoS flow. Based on the flow information for the at least one QoS flow, at least one action is taken.
US11924667B2
In a wireless communication terminal in a wireless communication system for performing a control not to transmit signals, or to transmit signals with a reduction in a transmission power by a part of radio resources for a downlink signal in a cell provided by a base station, the terminal receives control information in generating a report related to a measurement result of the cell provided by the base station, monitors a state of a radio link with an own cell, and performs measurement on reception of the downlink signal. If an instruction for restricting the measurement to a part of the radio resources is included in the control information from the base station after the radio link failure occurs, the terminal generates and transmits a radio link failure report including the measurement result in the radio resources as instructed when the radio link failure occurs.
US11924659B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described in which a user equipment (UE) may be configured to monitor a set of beams, and may request an update to a monitoring configuration based on a position of the UE, an orientation of the UE, a rate of change of the position or orientation, or any combinations thereof. In some cases, the position or orientation information of the UE may include information for a current time period, predictive information for one or more future time periods, other information, or any combinations thereof. The UE may transmit a beam monitoring request to a base station for an updated monitoring configuration, such as a subset of a set of configured beams or an identified scan angle to be monitored by the UE.
US11924656B2
A computer-implemented method for setting RF transmit power of a wireless device includes obtaining power response data for a power detector of the wireless device, the power response data providing a relationship between power detector readings from the power detector and measured transmit power of a transmitter of the wireless device; identifying a target power detector reading value corresponding to a target transmit power based at least in part on the power response data; initializing a transmitter gain of the transmitter to an initial transmitter gain value; obtaining a power detector reading value from the power detector; determining that a difference between the power detector reading value and the target power detector reading value is greater than a tolerance margin; and adjusting a transmitter gain value of the transmitter in a direction of the difference between the power detector reading value and the target power detector reading value.
US11924655B2
Systems and methods are provided for dynamically adjusting a 4G LTE reference signal power level to match a 5G New Radio (NR) coverage footprint to avoid voice over 4G fallback failures for 5G subscribers. Initially, a subscriber making a voice call while in NR coverage may be directed to fall back to LTE in a process known as voice over evolved packet system fallback (VoEPSFB). If the LTE signal strength is worse due to non-optimal settings of the LTE reference signal, the subscriber experiences call setup failure. After the call setup failure, the UE transitions back to the gNodeB. Since the gNodeB knows the UE attempted to fall back to LTE (as well as how soon the UE transitioned back to the gNodeB), a notification is triggered that instructs the LTE base station to increase its reference signal power level.
US11924653B2
This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to high throughput (HT) control information. A device may determine a frame comprising HT control information. The device may determine to extend a size of the HT control information. The device may cause to generate a management or data frame for sending to a first station device of one or more station devices, the management or data frame comprising extended high throughput (HT) control information, define a new control identification (ID) associated with the extended HT control information, and cause to send the management or data frame to the first station device.
US11924632B2
There is disclosed a method for a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system, receiving pending network slice selection assistance information (NSSAI) including one or more single NSSAIs (S-NSSAIs), and applying the received pending NSSAI to at least one second public land mobile network (PLMN) in a registration area, wherein the UE is assigned to the registration area comprising two or more tracking areas (TAs) including at least a first set of TAs belonging to a first public land mobile network (PLMN) to which the UE is registered.
US11924630B2
The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatus for flexible, security context management during AMF changes. One aspect of the disclosure is a mechanism for achieving backward security during AMF changes in idle mode. Instead of passing the current NAS key to the target AMF, the source AMF derives a new NAS key, provides the new NAS key to the target AMF, along with a key change indication indicating that the NAS key has changed. The target AMF sends the key change indication to the user equipment.
US11924629B2
An anchor key generation method, device, and system, where the method includes generating, by a unified data management network element (UDM), an intermediate key based on a cipher key (CK), an integrity key (IK), and indication information regarding an operator; sending, by the UDM, the intermediate key to an authentication server function (AUSF); receiving, by the AUSF, the intermediate key; generating, by the AUSF, an anchor key based on the intermediate key; sending, by the AUSF, the anchor key to a security anchor function (SEAF); and generating, by the SEAF, a key (Kamf) based on the anchor key, where the Kamf is used to derive a 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) key.
US11924627B2
An apparatus including circuitry configured for: defining at least one ambience audio representation, the ambience audio representation includes at least one respective diffuse background audio signal and at least one parameter, the at least one parameter associated with the at least one respective diffuse background audio signal and further associated with at least one frequency range or at least one part of the frequency range, at least one time period or at least one part of the time period and a directional range for a defined position within an audio field, wherein the at least one ambience component representation is configured to be used in rendering an ambiance audio signal by a 6-degrees-of-freedom or enhanced 3-degrees-of-freedom Tenderer by processing, based on the at least one ambience audio representation and a listener position and/or direction, the respective diffuse background audio signal.
US11924624B2
A method, computer program product, and computing system for selecting a reference audio acquisition device from a plurality of audio acquisition devices of an audio recording system. Audio encounter information of the reference microphone may be encoded, thus defining encoded reference audio encounter information. A plurality of acoustic relative transfer functions between the reference microphone and the plurality of audio acquisition devices of the audio recording system may be generated. The encoded reference audio encounter information and a representation of the plurality of acoustic relative transfer functions may be transmitted.
US11924621B2
A loudspeaker includes a diaphragm having a front surface facing in a forward direction for producing sound to be radiated outwardly from the loudspeaker in the forward direction and a back surface facing in a backward direction that is opposite to the forward direction; a magnet unit configured to provide magnetic field in a magnetic gap. The magnetic gap is located between a first portion of the magnet unit located radially inwards of the magnetic gap with respect to a longitudinal axis of the loudspeaker and a second portion of the magnet unit located radially outwards of the magnetic gap with respect to the longitudinal axis of the loudspeaker. A voice coil is configured to sit in the magnetic gap when the diaphragm is in a rest position.
US11924619B2
An apparatus and method of rendering audio. A binaural signal is split on an amplitude weighting basis into a front binaural signal and a rear binaural signal, based on perceived position information of the audio. In this manner, the front-back differentiation of the binaural signal is improved.
US11924617B2
A method for projecting a screen includes: receiving multimedia screen projection information of a plurality of screen projection terminals; displaying an image of multimedia projected by the plurality of screen projection terminals based on the multimedia screen projection information, and simultaneously playing an audio of the multimedia projected by at most one screen projection terminal; and feeding play state information of the audio of the multimedia projected by the screen projection terminal back to each of the screen projection terminals, such that the screen projection terminal enters a corresponding audio play mode.
US11924613B2
Disclosed herein are method, system, and computer program product embodiments for performing the continuous tuning of received audio input from an earpiece, wherein the audio input is independently altered in the frequency domain for output to an earpiece worn by a user based on tuning profiles chosen by the user, or in combination with power conservation tuning profile auto-switching modes, including a time only and location only mode, switching tuning profiles based on data analyzed from various electronic sensors, for an optimal experience.
US11924610B2
A method for manufacturing a MEMS sound transducer for generating and/or detecting sound waves in the audible wavelength range and/or in the ultrasonic range, includes arranging at least one piezoelectric element on a support substrate. A diaphragm is formed on the at least one piezoelectric element. In forming the diaphragm, a flowable and curable polymer, which forms the diaphragm after curing, is at least partially cast around the at least one piezoelectric element. The invention further relates to the MEMS sound transducer formed by the method.
US11924606B2
Systems and methods for determining the incident angle of an acoustic wave are presented herein. One embodiment receives an acoustic wave at N transducers, where N is a natural number greater than or equal to 2; solves a set of N coupled differential equations modeling a set of N virtual coupled acoustic resonators using N coupled analog circuits, wherein each of the N coupled analog circuits receives an output signal from a unique one of the N transducers and outputs a voltage signal; and analyzes the N voltage signals output by the N coupled analog circuits to produce an estimate of the incident angle of the acoustic wave.
US11924604B2
The present disclosure provides a speaker adapter, and a dual core speaker assembly. The speaker adapter includes: a main body, symmetrically provided with two mounting portions at both sides for matching with speakers respectively; a bottom base, extending from and around the main body, for supporting the main body; and an inner cavity formed within the main body.
US11924602B2
A sound output device includes a device main frame in which at least a speaker is disposed, and an attachment aid member that is joined to the device main frame. In the sound output device, the attachment aid member includes an annular support portion at least a part of which is inserted into a cavum concha, and the annular support portion includes a contact portion that comes into contact with a part of an ear in the cavum concha while being elastically deformed. With this arrangement, the contact portion of the annular support portion inserted into the cavum concha comes into contact with a part of the ear in the cavum concha while being elastically deformed. Accordingly, it is possible to attach the sound output device to the ear, using the attachment aid member, regardless of the size and the shape of the ear.
US11924598B2
An audio headset may include at least one headset earpiece including a speaker. The audio headset may include a removable ear cushion removably attached to the at least one headset ear piece. The audio headset may be configured to recognize a type of the removable ear cushion.
US11924595B2
An electronic device may include: a housing including a front plate oriented in a first direction, a rear plate oriented in a second direction opposite the first direction, and a side member enclosing at least a part of a space between the front plate and the rear plate. The electronic device further including a display disposed to be visible through the front plate; a printed circuit board disposed between the display and the rear plate; a support structure having a first face oriented in the first direction and supporting the display and a second face oriented in the second direction and supporting the printed circuit board; a conductive member disposed between the support structure and the rear plate; and a sealing structure disposed between the conductive member and the rear plate, the sealing structure extending along a periphery of the conductive member and formed in a closed curve shape.
US11924575B1
The applicant proposes a method and an apparatus to realize a faster, easier and more precise multispectral digitalization of films. The proposed method and apparatus ensure quality control of the multispectral film digitization using sensors and can correct the digital images for film shrinkage and deformation. This can allow for efficient digitization of films which can enable an effective automatization of the mass safeguarding of archived films. The proposed film digitizer apparatus can comprise a novel and improved light source module, which comprise a light assembly that can allow for better illumination of the film and shorter required exposure time that can lead to lower acquisition time for each of the various wavelength image acquisitions for each film image. Monitoring of the spectral distribution and/or the temperature of the light sources can ensure quality control of the digitalization.
US11924570B2
An image sensor includes a pixel array including a plurality of pixels; and processing circuitry, wherein each of the plurality of pixels includes: a photodiode; a floating diffusion node configured to integrate photocharge generated by the photodiode; a first capacitor configured to store charge corresponding to a voltage of the floating diffusion node which is reset; a first sampling transistor one terminal of which is connected to the second node, and another terminal of which is connected to the first capacitor, being configured to sample charge to the first capacitor; a second capacitor configured to store charge corresponding to the voltage of the floating diffusion node at which the photocharge has been integrated; and a second sampling transistor, one terminal of which is connected to the second node, and another terminal of which is connected to the second capacitor, being configured to sample charge to the second capacitor.
US11924559B2
A system and method for determining occlusion are presented. The system receives camera data generated by at least one camera, which includes a first camera having a first camera field of view. The camera data is generated when a stack having a plurality of objects is in the first camera field of view, and describes a stack structure formed from at least an object structure for a first object of the plurality of objects. The system identifies a target feature of or disposed on the object structure, and determines a 2D region that is co-planar with and surrounds the target feature. The system determines a 3D region defined by connecting a location of the first camera and the 2D region. The system determines, based on the camera data and the 3D region, a size of an occluding region, and determines a value of an object recognition confidence parameter.
US11924556B2
The present invention is directed to predicting and optimizing the exposure value of cameras in order to properly capture images, achieve robust and efficient calibration, and detect faults. The present invention features a method comprising displaying one or more reference images and using the camera to capture the reference image at one or more camera exposures. This allows an optimal camera exposure and an optimal reference image to be determined. The method may further comprise estimating ambient light. The method may further comprise the display device displaying an input image and identifying relative properties of the input image in comparison to the reference image. The method may further comprise predicting an optimal exposure based on the relative properties of the input image, ambient light, and the optimal reference exposure, adjusting the exposure value of the camera based on the optimal exposure, and capturing the input image at the proper exposure.
US11924555B2
An apparatus comprising a light projector, a sensor and a processor. The light projector may be configured to toggle a light pattern. The sensor may be configured to generate pixel data. The processor may be configured to process the pixel data arranged as video frames, extract IR images with the light pattern, IR images without the light pattern and RGB images from the video frames, generate a control signal in response to the IR images with the light pattern and the RGB images, calculate an IR interference measurement in response to the IR images without the light pattern and the RGB images and select a mode of operation for an IR channel control and an RGB channel control in response to the IR interference measurement. The control signal may be configured to adjust an exposure for the sensor.
US11924547B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure include apparatuses and methods for sensor blocking. In a number of embodiments, a method can include operating a sensor block of an apparatus in a first mode to allow a sensor to receive inputs, and operating the sensor block in a second mode to inhibit the sensor from receiving the inputs. A sensor block can be used to prevent a sensor, such as an image sensor, from receiving an input, such as a light source input, to capture image data. A sensor block can be used to prevent a sensor from capturing image data even when an application causing to the sensor to operate, such as when applications have access to the sensor, but the user of a device is unaware that an application is using the sensor. The sensor block can be used to prevent the sensor from capturing useful images and the sensor can only capture a black image of the sensor block and not the surroundings of the device.
US11924542B2
An accuracy estimation apparatus includes at least one processor and/or at least one circuit that functions as an obtainment unit configured to obtain a shooting condition for a plurality of parallax images that mutually exhibit parallax, and an estimation unit configured based on the shooting condition, to estimate an accuracy of dimension measurement that is performed using the plurality of parallax images.
US11924531B2
The present invention provides a retractable camera module, including a housing, a lens assembly, a support assembly, a driving assembly, and an exterior part covered on the housing. A bulge portion is arranged on an outer wall of a top plate in the housing; a first groove matched with the bulge portion is formed in an inner wall of the exterior part; the support assembly includes a lifting plate connected to the lens assembly, a guide rod penetrating through the lifting plate and fixedly connected between the bulge portion and a bottom plate, and at least two elastic members elastically connected between the lifting plate and the bottom plate. the present invention provides a retractable camera module which occupies a small space and can ensure the extending and retracting steadiness and achieves better optical characteristics.
US11924526B2
An example device for processing media data is configured to parse a bitstream including the media data, the bitstream being formatted according to Common Media Application Format (CMAF), detect, during the parsing, a file type (FTYP) value for a CMAF track file of the bitstream, determine that a CMAF header of the CMAF track file starts with the FTYP value, and process one or more CMAF fragments following the CMAF header of the CMAF track file. The device may additionally be configured to detect one or more segment type (STYP) values in the bitstream, determine that each of the one or more STYP values corresponds to a start of a respective one of the CMAF fragments, and process each of the CMAF fragments starting from the corresponding STYP value.
US11924506B2
It is common that in an audio system, there are multiple data rates that need to be synchronized. For example, a sending device has its own crystal or clock, and a receiving device has another. Typical solutions introduce a lot of latency. According to various embodiments of the invention, a data management mechanism and technique are presented. The data management mechanism and technique pertains to managing media data such as those in an audio system, for example, managing the consumption of digital audio data in USB audio. The data management mechanism may include a dynamic buffer, which can be automatically controlled and adjusted to address issues (e.g., latency) in data consumption.
US11924495B2
A far-field speech support with a lens function and an electrical device are provided. The far-field speech support includes: a base, a far-field speech board installation portion disposed on the base and configured to install a far-field speech board, a transparent light guide plate disposed on a bottom side of the far-field speech board installation portion, a buckle structure disposed on the base and configured to install an infrared receiving head assembly, and an infrared reflective portion disposed corresponding to the transparent light guide plate and disposed below the infrared receiving head assembly. The far-field speech support acts as a lens, provides an installation space for the far-field speech board, and facilitates installation of the far-field speech board.
US11924492B2
Systems and methods are provided for facilitating the selection of content for a television broadcast system. A first request for content in a broadcasting based format is received from a television broadcast system. A second request for content in a computer based format is sent to a network-based content selection system. A content identifier associated with selected content is received from the network-based content selection system and sent to the television broadcast system.
US11924490B2
Methods, systems, and machine-readable media for adapting content composites to device operations of an endpoint media device are disclosed. Blockchain data associated with a blockchain address may be processed by one or more processing devices. The blockchain data and/or the blockchain address may be mapped by the one or more processing devices to a first endpoint media device. Based at least in part on the blockchain data, a first content composite may be identified by one or more processing devices for delivery from a content provider system via one or more networks to the first endpoint media device. Transmission of the first content composite may be caused where, consequent to delivery of the first content composite to the first endpoint media device, the first endpoint media device or a second endpoint media device performs at least one operation relating to the first content composite.
US11924488B2
Methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to estimate population reach from marginal ratings with missing information. An example apparatus includes a pseudo universe calculator to (i) determine a first pseudo universe estimate for a first audience of media corresponding to a first union of first margins, the first margins corresponding to known audience totals, and (ii) determine a second pseudo universe estimate for a second audience of the media corresponding to a second union of second margins, the determination based on an audience constant, the second margins including a margin corresponding to an unknown audience total. The example apparatus also includes a reach calculator to (i) determine an estimate of the unknown audience total of the second audience based on the second pseudo universe estimate for the second audience, and (ii) determine a reach estimate for the second union based on the first and second pseudo universe estimates.
US11924486B2
Example apparatus disclosed herein are to cause meter software to be provided to a compute device, the meter software executable by the compute device to monitor use of the compute device associated with presentation of media. Disclosed example solutions are also to collect demographic data of a user associated with the compute device, the demographic data collected from a source different from the compute device. Disclosed example solutions are further to obtain meter data from the compute device, the meter data generated by the meter software, and associate the meter data with the demographic data.
US11924480B2
In one aspect, a method includes identifying an upcoming content modification opportunity on a channel. The method also includes responsive to identifying the upcoming content modification opportunity on the channel, identifying a group of multiple content-presentation devices tuned to the channel. The method also includes using, at least in part, an amount of content-presentation devices in the identified group as a basis to determine an amount of system resources to request. The method also includes requesting the determined amount of system resources for use in performing actions that facilitate at least a portion of the content-presentation devices in the identified group performing respective content-modification operations.
US11924479B2
Systems and methods are described to dynamically generate metadata for a live media stream. The system determines that a first user on a social media network has started a live media stream. In response, the system identifies a topic of the live media stream based on a frame of the live media stream and identifies another person featured in the frame of the live media stream based on social connections of the first user in the social media network. The system then generates a title for the live media stream based on the identified topic and the identified person, and transmits a notification to a second user that the first user is streaming live, where the notification includes the generated title.
US11924474B2
Systems, methods and apparatus for video processing are described. The video processing may include video encoding, video decoding, or video transcoding. One example method of video processing includes performing a conversion between a video including one or more pictures and a bitstream of the video according to a format rule. The format rule specifies that a first syntax element that indicates whether motion vector difference for a particular reference picture list (RPL) is indicated is conditionally included in the bitstream based on (i) whether a second syntax element indicating whether an RPL information is included in a picture header and/or (ii) a number of reference pictures in the particular RPL in case that the RPL information is present in the picture header.
US11924473B2
Disclosed herein is a method for decoding a video including determining a coding unit to be decoded by block partitioning, decoding prediction syntaxes for the coding unit, the prediction syntaxes including a skip flag indicating whether the coding unit is encoded in a skip mode, after the decoding of the prediction syntaxes, decoding transform syntaxes including a transformation/quantization skip flag and a coding unit cbf, wherein the transformation/quantization skip flag indicates whether inverse transformation, inverse quantization, and at least part of in-loop filterings are skipped, and the coding unit cbf indicates whether all coefficients in a luma block and two chroma blocks constituting the coding unit are zero, and reconstructing the coding unit based on the prediction syntaxes and the transform syntaxes.
US11924471B2
A video decoder configured to set a context index variable to a first value, wherein the first value for the context index variable is associated with a first context; context decode a first bin for a syntax element indicating a transform using the first context; determine a new value for the context index variable based on a value of the first bin; context decode a second bin for the syntax element indicating the transform using a context associated with the new value; determine an inverse transform from a set of inverse transform candidates based on the first bin and the second bin; and apply the inverse transform to a set of coefficients to determine a block of residual data.
US11924468B2
A method of point cloud geometry encoding includes receiving a slice of a point cloud frame for encoding, and constructing an octree representing a geometry of points in a bounding box of the slice where a current node of the octree is partitioned with a quadtree (QT) partition or a binary tree (BT) partition. The constructing includes determining a value of a partitionSkip variable specifying a partition type and a partition direction of the current node of the octree.
US11924463B2
A video processing method is provided to include determining, for a current video block of a video, a final prediction block for the current video block by refining one or more initial predictions for the current video block using an optical flow calculation based on a gradient of initial prediction samples according to a precision rule; and performing a conversion between the current video block and a coded representation using the final prediction block, wherein the optical flow calculation includes a prediction refinement with optical flow (PROF) procedure or a bi-directional optical flow (BDOF) procedure, wherein the precision rule specifies to use a same precision for representing the gradient for both the PROF procedure and the BDOF procedure.
US11924459B2
A method and apparatus for inter prediction. According to the position of a current block in a video picture, first motion information and second candidate motion information is determined, the motion information at least includes a motion vector; it is determined whether the distance between the motion vector of the first motion information and the motion vector of the second candidate motion information is greater than a first threshold; if the determination result is that the distance is less than or equal to the first threshold, the second candidate motion information is updated to obtain second motion information; if the determination result is that the distance is greater than the first threshold, the second candidate motion information is taken as the second motion information; and inter prediction is performed on the current block by using the first motion information and the second motion information.
US11924448B2
According to the disclosure of the present document, LMCS may also be applied to a block having a dual tree structure. In addition, the number of LMCS APS may be limited. Therefore, an LMCS procedure may be efficiently performed, and the complexity of LMCS may be reduced. As the performance of LMCS is improved, the video/image coding efficiency may be increased.
US11924447B2
According to the disclosure of the present document, by explicitly signaling information relating to a value(s) of a chroma residual scaling factor, accuracy in an LMCS procedure can be increased, and therefore a subjective/objective image quality of a coded image/video can be further improved.
US11924446B2
A method of processing video data includes performing a conversion between a video and a bitstream of the video. The bitstream comprises one or more layers comprising one or more pictures comprising one or more subpictures according to a rule which specifies that, responsive to a condition, a selective processing of a first supplemental enhancement information network abstraction layer, SEI NAL, unit of a target output subpicture sub-bitstream that is extracted during a subpicture sub-bitstream extraction process.
US11924433B2
The disclosure regards cross-component prediction and methods for deriving of a linear model for obtaining a first-component sample for a first-component block from an associated reconstructed second-component sample of a second-component block in the same frame, the method comprising determining the parameters of a linear equation representing a straight line passing through two points, each point being defined by two variables, the first variable corresponding to a second-component sample value, the second variable corresponding to a first-component sample value, based on reconstructed samples of both the first-component and the second-component; and deriving the linear model defined by the straight line parameters.
US11924428B2
A G-PCC encoder and G-PCC decoder may quantize and scale, respectively, a position of a child node. The G-PCC encoder may control the precision of the quantization and scaling using a quantization parameter (QP) value and a parameter value k, wherein the parameter value k specifies a number of QP points per doubling of a scaling step size to be used at the G-PCC decoder.
US11924427B2
A method of encoding a video stream in a video encoder is provided that includes computing an offset into a transform matrix based on a transform block size, wherein a size of the transform matrix is larger than the transform block size, and wherein the transform matrix is one selected from a group consisting of a DCT transform matrix and an IDCT transform matrix, and transforming a residual block to generate a DCT coefficient block, wherein the offset is used to select elements of rows and columns of a DCT submatrix of the transform block size from the transform matrix.
US11924425B2
Provided are a method and apparatus for encoding or decoding a coding unit on an outline of a picture. An image decoding method and apparatus according to an embodiment determine whether a current coding unit extends across an outline of a picture, by comparing a location of the current coding unit in the picture to at least one of a width and a height of the picture, split the current coding unit in at least one direction into a plurality of coding units based on a shape of the current coding unit upon determining that the current coding unit extends across the outline of the picture, obtain block shape information and split type information of the current coding unit from a bitstream and split the current coding unit into a plurality of coding units based on the block shape information and the split type information upon determining that the current coding unit does not extend across the outline of the picture, and decode a coding unit that is no longer split among the plurality of coding units.
US11924413B2
A video decoder that decodes a current block of pixels by using multi-hypothesis combined prediction mode is provided. The video decoder generates a first prediction of the current block based on an inter prediction mode. The video decoder enables the combined prediction mode for the current block based on a block size of the current block determined according to a width and a height of the current block. The combined prediction mode is disabled when the width of or the height of the current block is greater than a threshold length. When the combined prediction mode is enabled, the video decoder generates a second prediction based on an intra prediction mode that is inferred to be a planar mode, and subsequently a combined prediction for the current block based on the first prediction and the second prediction. The video decoder reconstructs the current block by using the combined prediction.
US11924409B2
A video processing method includes: determining whether an inter predictor correction is enabled for a coding block; and when the inter predictor correction is enabled for the coding block, performing the inter predictor correction by: obtaining a plurality of predicted samples from a top boundary and a left boundary of a predicted block corresponding to the coding block; obtaining a plurality of reconstructed samples from top neighboring reconstructed samples and left neighboring reconstructed samples of the coding block; and deriving a corrected predicted block based on the plurality of the predicted samples, the plurality of the reconstructed samples and the predicted block.
US11924404B2
A method for setting a parameter value of a first video source device comprises: determining a first set of image characteristic values from an image captured by the first video source device configured with a first set of parameter values; obtaining a second set of image characteristic values generated from an image captured by a second video source device different from the first video source device, the second video source device being configured with a second set of parameter values; determining if the obtained second set of image characteristic values comprises values equivalent to values of the determined first set of image characteristic values; and if there are equivalent values, setting the parameter value of the first video source device using the second set of image characteristic values.
US11924400B2
A three-dimensional display device includes a display panel, an optical element, an acquisition unit, and a controller. The display panel includes an active area. The optical element defines a light beam direction of image light emitted from the active area. The acquisition unit acquires a position of a first eye of a user and a position of a second eye of the user. The controller drives the active area to display the image mixture. The active area includes a plurality of subpixels. The controller determines a first visible region. The controller determines a second visible region. The controller determines a first subpixel based on the first visible region. The controller determines a second subpixel based on the second visible region. The controller drives a third subpixel which is the first subpixel and also is the second subpixel, to display a third image.
US11924397B2
A method for generating content includes receiving information regarding electronic devices respectively capturing content associated with an event. The method also includes identifying, based on the received information, one or more parameters for the electronic devices to use in capturing the content, the one or more parameters identified to assist in generating multi-view content for the event from the captured content. The method further includes identifying, based on the received information, a common resolution for the electronic devices to use in capturing the content. Additionally, the method includes identifying, based on the received information, a common frame rate for the electronic devices to use in capturing the content. The method also includes sending information indicating the one or more parameters, the common resolution, and the common frame rate to the electronic devices.
US11924395B2
An inventive device includes a multi-aperture imaging device having an image sensor; an array of adjacently arranged optical channels, each optical channel including optics for projecting at least one partial field of view of a total field of view on an image sensor area of the image sensor, a beam deflector for deflecting a beam path of the optical channels, and focusing means for setting a focal position of the multi-aperture imaging device. The device further includes control means configured to control the focusing means and to receive image information from the image sensor; wherein the control means is configured to control the focusing means and to receive image information from the image sensor; wherein the control means is configured to set a sequence of focal positions in the multi-aperture imaging device so as to detect a corresponding sequence of image information of the total field of view, and to create a depth map for the detected total field of view on the basis of the sequence of image information.
US11924393B2
Described are techniques for shared viewing of video among remote users, including methods and corresponding systems and apparatuses. A first computer device operated by a first user can receive an input video stream representing a three-dimensional (3D) space. From the input video stream, an output video stream corresponding to the 3D space as seen from a viewing direction specified by the first user is generated. The output video stream includes images that cover a narrower field of view compared to the input video stream. The first computer device can receive information indicating a viewing direction specified by a second user, who is a user of a second computer device. The first computer device can update the output video stream based on the information indicating the viewing direction specified by the second user. The updated output video stream can then be presented on a display of the first user.
US11924388B2
An image recording apparatus includes a feed tray, a feed mechanism feeding a sheet-shaped medium accommodated in the feed tray, and a recording device recording an image on the sheet-shaped medium fed by the feed mechanism. The feed tray includes a first accommodation portion accommodating a roll, in which the sheet-shaped medium is rolled, a pair of side walls interposing the sheet-shaped medium unrolled from the roll in a first direction parallel to an axis of the roll, and a side guide disposed inside the pair of side walls and having an inner-side surface contactable with an edge in the first direction of the first sheet-shaped medium unrolled from the roll. The side guide has a metal portion made of metal, the metal portion forming at least part of the inner-side surface.
US11924374B2
Real time, remote access to and adjustment of the hearing aid of a patient while the patient is located in a normal life environment that is remote from a hearing professional. A session request initiates a programming session. Adjustable settings from the patient's hearing aid are wirelessly streamed to the patient's mobile device and from the mobile device to a streaming cloud server. The settings are stored on the cloud, streamed from the cloud to a hearing professional's computer or mobile device and displayed. The hearing professional then changes at least one of the adjustable hearing aid settings and the changed settings are streamed to the cloud, stored on the cloud, streamed from the cloud to the patient's mobile device, wirelessly transmitted to the hearing aid and stored there. A telephonic voice connection between the hearing professional and the patient's mobile device is used to transmit the patient's evaluation of changed settings to the hearing professional.
US11924359B2
A security device generates a key based on a physically unclonable function (PUF). The security device includes a physically unclonable function (PUF) block, an integrity detector, and a post processor. The PUF block outputs a plurality of first random signals and a plurality of corresponding first inverted random signals each having a logic level opposite to that of each of the plurality of corresponding first random signals. The integrity detector determines data integrity of the plurality of first random signals by using the plurality of first random signals and the plurality of corresponding first inverted random signals. The post processor generates a first row key that includes validity signals satisfying the data integrity.
US11924352B2
Distributed ledger-based networks (DLNs) employ self-executing codes, also known as smart contracts, to manage interactions occurring on the networks, which may result in the generation of a massive amount of DLN state data representing the interactions and participants thereof. The instant disclosure discloses systems, apparatus and methods that allow interactions to occur on the DLNs without modification to stored data, thereby improving the storage capabilities of the networks.
US11924351B1
A transient blockchain proxy server consolidates many individual requests to add data to a blockchain by aggregating hashed data from these requests and sending the aggregated hashed data to the blockchain network as a single request. The blockchain network adds a new block to the blockchain with the aggregated hashed data and returns a transaction identifier for the new block to the transient blockchain proxy server, which passes the transaction identifier back to all the requestors who then can directly use the blockchain network to verify the hashed data using the transaction identifier. The transient blockchain proxy server buffers all incoming requests until one of the pending requests reaches a send timepoint that is the blockchain network delay plus a buffer time before a guaranteed time of verification. All incoming requests are then consolidated and sent as a single transaction to the blockchain network. Tiered verification-time services are enabled.
US11924347B2
There is provided an authentication system for validating identity credentials of a user attempting to access a resource provided by a remote resource provision system. The authentication system includes an input configured to receive, from the resource provision system, an authentication request comprising a cryptographic representation of digital identity data of the user and an associated token identifier, where the digital identity data comprises at least one image of an identity credential of the user. The system also includes a processor configured to: determine a pre-stored cryptographic identifier corresponding to the token identifier; and compare the received cryptographic representation with the pre-stored cryptographic identifier. The system further includes an output configured to transmit, to the remote resource provision system and in response to determining a match between the received cryptographic representation and the pre-stored cryptographic identifier, an authentication confirmation indicating successful validation of the digital identity data.
US11924337B2
An aspect of the present invention is provided with a sensitive data protection code generating unit which generates a sensitive data protection code of a predetermined data length, a symmetric encryption key generating unit which generates a symmetric encryption key by using a key derivation function that takes, as input, the sensitive data protection code, a sensitive data encrypting unit which encrypts sensitive data by using the symmetric encryption key, a sensitive data protection code encrypting unit which encrypts the sensitive data protection code by using a public key provided from an sensitive data access support terminal, and a deleting unit which deletes the symmetric encryption key and the sensitive data after the encryption of the sensitive data, and deletes the sensitive data protection code after the encryption of the sensitive data protection code.
US11924336B1
A pair of virtualized security device initialization data sets are received at a first virtualization server from respective sources prior to a launch of a compute instance at the server. A first virtualized security device is initialized using the data sets, and used to generate cryptographic artifacts used by the compute instance. A data item which was included in one of the data sets is modified after the cryptographic artifacts are generated. Additional cryptographic artifacts are generated by a second virtualized security device at a second virtualization server to which the compute instance has been migrated. The second virtualized security device is initialized using at least the modified data item.
US11924334B2
A quantum neural network architecture. In one aspect, a quantum neural network trained to perform a machine learning task includes: an input quantum neural network layer comprising (i) multiple qubits prepared in an initial quantum state encoding a machine learning task data input, and (ii) a target qubit; a sequence of intermediate quantum neural network layers, each intermediate quantum neural network layer comprising multiple quantum logic gates that operate on the multiple qubits and target qubit; and an output quantum neural network layer comprising a measurement quantum gate that operates on the target qubit and provides as output data representing a solution to the machine learning task.
US11924308B2
A computer system can receive user data from a computing device of a user, and based on the user data, determine that the user will utilize a transport service to arrive at a destination location at a specified time. The system can monitor transport provider availability within a proximity of a current location of the user prior to the specified time. The system can then determine a service request time for the user based at least in part on the transport provider availability, and automatically generate the service request for the user at the service request time to match the user to a transport provider.
US11924296B2
Provided is a process to detect a web-browser address bar in a UI layout based on communications with an accessibility application program interface (API) of an operating system and detect navigation events in the same via the accessibility API.
US11924295B2
A method and system for serving assets is disclosed, comprising receiving an asset request to serve an asset, wherein the asset request originates at an application, and wherein the asset request comprises an advertisement of an asset to be served and a request for the network address of an asset server configured to serve the requested asset. The method further comprises causing a service discovery server to identify an asset server configured to serve the requested asset, and causing the requested asset to be served to the application.
US11924287B2
One disclosure of the present specification provides a method by which a session management function (SMF) performs communication. The method comprises the steps of: sending an analytics request message to a network data analytics function (NWDAF), the request message including a data network name (DNN) and single network slice selection assistance information (S-NSSAI); receiving analytics from the NWDAF; determining a deactivation timer value on the basis of the analytics; and transmitting the deactivation timer value to a user plane function (UPF).
US11924274B2
The application relates to modular electronic apparatus (1) for distribution of RF communication signals. The apparatus comprises a chassis (2) arranged to removably receive plural modules (3), at least some of which are arranged to receive and process RF communication signals. A communication path (17) is provided for modules to communicate with each other and/or with the chassis. Plural modules received in the chassis. When a module is received in the chassis, it is arranged to broadcast a message over the communication path indicating its presence in the chassis and its type. At least one other module is arranged to adapt its behaviour in response to the message.
US11924272B2
The present disclosure is directed towards systems and methods of detecting a cause of anomalous load balancing among a plurality of servers. A device intermediary to a plurality of clients and a plurality of servers collects values of a plurality of counters. The device identifies a server of the plurality of servers that is an outlier. The device can identify a counter of the plurality of counters that is an outlier based on at least a comparison of values of each of the plurality of counters for each of the plurality of servers. The device can provide, responsive to the determination, an indication that a value of the counter is a factor causing the server to have uneven load balancing during the time interval.
US11924262B2
Provided is a sponsorship server including: a transceiver; at least one processor; and at least one memory operably connected to the at least one processor, and storing instructions for enabling the at least one processor to perform operations.
US11924256B2
A conference control method may include: creating video conferences and data conferences both of which are in one-to-one correspondence; and receiving a control instruction sent by a conference terminal, and instructing, according to the control instruction, all conference terminals to switch to a video conference or data conference corresponding to the control instruction.
US11924246B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to detecting and identifying malicious sites using machine learning. A computing platform may receive a uniform resource locator (URL). The computing platform may parse and/or tokenize the URL to reduce the URL into a plurality of components. The computing platform may identify human-engineered features of the URL. The computing platform may compute a vector representation of the URL to identify deep learned features of the URL. The computing platform may concatenate the human-engineered features of the URL to the deep learned features of the URL, resulting in a concatenated vector representation. By inputting the concatenated vector representation of the URL to a URL classifier, the computing platform may compute a phish classification score. In response to determining that the phish classification score exceeds a first phish classification threshold, the computing platform may cause a cybersecurity server to perform a first action.
US11924244B2
In some embodiments, a method can include identifying detection coverage of a set of adversarial techniques based on telemetry data and a detection instance of an environment. The method can further include determining a subset of detection coverage that has a metric value below a metric value threshold and among the detection coverage for the set of adversarial techniques. The method may further include identifying at least one detection instance associated with the subset of detection coverage. The method can further include presenting, via a graphical user interface, a representation of at least one of the subset of detection coverage or the at least one detection instance associated with the subset of detection coverage. The method can further include updating the subset of detection coverage based on the telemetry data, the detection instance, or the at least one detection instance to improve the metric value.
US11924240B2
Aspects of the subject technology relate to a system configured to receive a set of network snapshot segments from an output stream of a stream processing service, compile the set of network snapshot segments from the set of messages into a first network snapshot and a second network snapshot, and compare the first network snapshot and the second network snapshot to identify a difference between the first network snapshot and the second network snapshot.
US11924238B2
A cyber-defense appliance securely communicates and cooperates with a suite of different lightweight probes that can ingest onboard traffic from multiple different independent systems using protocols for at least one of a data link layer, a physical layer, and then one or more of an application layer, a transport layer, a network layer, and any combination of these layers when a protocol is used in that layer in the independent system. The lightweight probe ingests data and meta data with an independent system it resides within. The appliance has AI models to model a normal pattern of life in each of the independent systems using the data and/or meta data from protocols listed above. An analyzer module cooperates with the AI models that model a normal pattern of life in each of the independent systems to determine when abnormal behavior or suspicious activity is detected.
US11924237B2
We are in a digital revolution. Over 85% of an organization's value is in digital form. Digital assets are systems, processes, data and technologies. Cyber exposures are quantified and cyber risks are scored. A graphical user interface visualizes a cyber-risk engine that quantifies cyber risk in alignment to how insurance companies pay claims, using flexible and multiple cyber risk algorithms that are prescribed in relationship to a customer's risk requirements. Digital asset cyber risk ratings are measured to increase cyber resiliency. A cyber risk management platform automates business processes across each cybersecurity function that provides data from near-real time cybersecurity tools for participants to reduce cyber risk back to acceptable risk tolerances and improve cyber resiliency.
US11924226B2
Systems, methods, and computer program products for identifying a fraudulent device. A device analytics engine receives device data from a computing device, the device data including parameters associated with the computing device. The device analytics engine selects a set of rules in a plurality of rules that indicate at least one parameter in the plurality of parameters in the device data for determining a device identifier. The set of rules are evaluated in an order until the device identifier is determined from the at least one parameter indicated in the set of rules, the device data, and previously stored data from multiple computing devices. A score is generated for the computing device using one or more of the device identifier, device data, a set of rules, and previously receive device data that corresponds to the device identifier. A computing device is identified as a fraudulent computing device based on the score.
US11924220B2
A cloud network for automatically provisioning a user directory in a multi-tenant system. User attributes for configuration of the user directory and groups associated with a plurality of end-users are received from a local application on an end-user device. A program module integrates with an external application and the user interface allows integration with a mid-link server. User policies and group policies associated with the plurality of end-users are determined. A high-risk user from the plurality of end-users is determined using the external application. A threat is determined associated with an end-user based on a type of the threat, a threat level is determined based on the type of the threat, and the threat level is compared to a threshold level, the threshold level categorizes the end-user as the high-risk user. The user directory is deployed using a snippet based on the user policies and the group policies.
US11924219B1
A solution for efficient and secure automated age assurance checking in association with a third party workflow involving an interaction between a user having an associated email address, and a target service. A request to estimate an age of the user is received and includes the email address. In response, the system issues a query to one or more data sources, each data source being of a different type and having an age attribute associated therewith. The data source(s) return responses to the queries. The system then associates an age attribute (typically, a minimum age) to each indication received from each data source queried. Based on a frequency of occurrence of the indications and the associated age attributes, a digital footprint that includes an estimate of the individual's minimum age is derived. A response (e.g., the estimated minimum age) to the request is then returned to the third party workflow.
US11924217B2
A system for data security includes a processor and a computer-readable storage medium having instructions stored thereon that cause the processor to perform operations including: (i) logging data access events initiated by a user; (ii) generating a user profile of the user, the user profile including a size and a type of data accessed by each data access event; (iii) receiving a new data access event initiated by the user including a size and a type of data requested by the new data access event; (iv) comparing the size and the type of the requested data of the new data access event to the user profile; (v) determining that the new data access event initiated by the user does not correspond to the data included in the user profile; (vi) restricting the requested data associated with the new data access event; and (vii) transmitting the restricted data to the user.
US11924214B2
A method for accessing cloud resources via a local application development environment on a computing device. The method includes invoking an access management client at the computing device; obtaining an account identifier associated with a user account and communicating the account identifier to an identity platform; receiving an authentication message from the identity platform in response to the identity platform validating the account identifier, the authentication message comprising a role identifier; communicating the authentication message to the cloud platform; receiving security credentials associated with the role identifier from the cloud platform in response to the cloud platform validating the authentication message and the associated role identifier; setting a variable in the local development environment based on the received security credentials for use by the local development environment to request access to one or more resources maintained by the cloud platform.
US11924205B2
Disclosed embodiments provide a framework to enable automatic identification and authentication of users to allow for multichannel communications in an authenticated state. In response to an authentication request from an end agent engaged in a communications session with a user, a current authentication state associated with the user is determined. Based on the current authentication state and a set of authentication rules associated with the end agent, a set of authentication challenges are identified and executed by an application implemented on the user's computing device. Data corresponding to completion of these authentication challenges is used to determine a new authentication state, which can be used to update the communications session.
US11924202B2
Systems and methods are provided for establishing a secure communication link between a first client and a second client. One exemplary computer-implemented method for establishing a secure communication link between a first diem and a second client includes accessing, from a storage, identification information of a user of the first client. The method further includes receiving a Domain Name Service (DNS) request from the first client requesting a secure network address corresponding to a secure domain name associated with the second client. The method further includes authenticating the user based on the user identification information. The method also includes transmitting the secure computer network address in response to the DNS request based on a determination that the user has been authenticated. A secure communication link between the first diem and the second client is established based on the secure computer network address.
US11924199B1
Described herein are computerized methods and systems for user authentication using an imaged machine-readable identity document. A server receives an authentication request from a first client device, including image files corresponding to a user's machine-readable identity document. The server displays on the first client device user-identifying data elements extracted from the image files. The server captures additional user-identifying data elements from the first client device, and verifies the user's identity based upon the user-identifying data elements. The server determines user contact channel data based upon the verified identity. The server displays the contact channel data on the first client device, and generates a transient access code upon receiving a contact channel selection. The server transmits the access code to a second client device corresponding to the contact channel selection, and connects the first client device to a secure resource upon validating the access code from the first client device.
US11924194B2
A monitoring method includes obtaining identification information of a digital certificate processing device, establishing a connection with the digital certificate processing device according to the identification information, sending monitoring information to the digital certificate processing device, receiving operation data fed back according to the monitoring information, and monitoring an operation status of the digital certificate processing device according to the operation data.
US11924192B2
A method for automatically attaching a purpose-built electronic device to a provider network includes steps of discovering, by a Wi-Fi module of the purpose-built electronic device, a wireless data network in operable communication with the provider network selecting, by the Wi-Fi module, the wireless data network, transmitting a primary authentication certificate from the Wi-Fi module to an authentication, authorization, and accounting server of the provider network, receiving, by an application server of the provider network, a secondary authentication certificate from a functionality module of the purpose-built electronic device authenticating, by the provider network, the primary and secondary authentication certificates, and attaching the purpose-built device to the provider network.
US11924190B2
Aspects of the disclosure include a method and associated network device. The method includes authenticating an identity of a user of a client device after the client device is associated with an access network provider. Authenticating the identity of the user comprises receiving, from an identity provider, a credential associated with the identity, and receiving, from the identity provider, information identifying a network-based service to be applied to network traffic with the client device. The method further includes establishing, using the credential and the received information, a secure connection between the access network provider and a service provider that is capable of providing the network-based service. The method further includes receiving network traffic from the service provider. Packets of the network traffic include an assurance value that enables the client device to determine that the network-based service is being provided by the service provider.
US11924189B2
Embodiments as disclosed provide systems and methods that use a local authenticator within a domain to provide a credential to access a resource of the domain to a non-local requestor. When a request is received from a non-local requestor at the domain the non-local requestor can be authenticated based on the request. The local authenticator can then be accessed to obtain a credential. This credential may be the same type of credential provided to members of the domain when they authenticate using the local authenticator. The credential is provided to the non-local requestor so the non-local requestor can access the resource of the domain using the credential and authentication of the non-local requestor with respect to these accesses can be accomplished using the local domain authenticator and the credential.
US11924188B2
Example embodiments of systems and methods for data transmission between a contactless card, a client device, and one or more servers are provided. The memory of the contactless card may include one or more applets and a counter. The client device may be in data communication with the contactless card and one or more servers, and the one or more servers may include an expected counter value. The client device may be configured to read the counter from the contactless card and transmit it to the one or more servers. The one or more servers may compare the counter to the expected counter value for synchronization. The contactless card and the one or more servers may resynchronize the counter, via one or more processes, based on one or more reads of the one or more applets. The one or more servers may authenticate the contactless card based on the resynchronization.
US11924184B2
The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for secured user equipment communications over a user equipment relay. In some embodiments, symmetric or asymmetric encryption may be used for the secured user equipment communications.
US11924183B2
Data protection in a storage system that includes a plurality of Non-Volatile Memory Express (‘NVMe’) Solid State Drives (‘SSDs’), including: retrieving, from a plurality of NVMe SSDs (‘Non-Volatile Memory Express Solid State Drives’) of a storage system, one or more unencrypted shares of a master secret; reconstructing the master secret using the shares of the master secret; decrypting one or more encrypted device keys using the master secret; and using the decrypted device keys to perform a plurality of accesses to one or more of the NVMe SSDs.
US11924180B2
This present disclosure generally relates to managing encrypted network traffic using Domain Name System (DNS) responses. One example includes requesting an address; receiving a response from the resolution server including one or more addresses associated with the domain name; associating with the domain name a particular address selected from the received one or more addresses; receiving a request to resolve the domain name; sending a response to the request to resolve the domain name, the sent response including the particular address associated with the domain name; receiving a secure request for a resource, the secure request directed to the particular address associated with the domain name; and determining that the secure request is directed to the domain name based on the association between the particular address and the domain name.
US11924166B2
In an embodiment, a computer-implemented method for providing dynamic mechanisms for resource-path-based, dynamic group membership support for local and external membership groups is described. A method comprises: detecting, by a group resolver implemented in a management and control plane, that information about an object stored in the plane was created or updated; determining whether a URI of the object matches a URI regular expression and other conditions specified in membership criteria created for a membership group; in response to determining that a URI of the object matches a URI regular expression and other conditions specified in membership criteria created for a membership group: distributing the information about the object to network agents implemented in transport nodes to cause the network agents to automatically update a group membership policy associated with the membership group; and wherein the group membership policy affects packet forwarding behavior of a forwarding node.
US11924154B2
A method includes detecting a modification to one chat message that forms a modified one chat message. Subsequent chat messages that are posted after the one chat message has been posted are processed. The method includes automatically identifying a chat message from the subsequent chat messages that has a dependency on the one chat message. The method also includes automatically determining whether a content of the chat message from the subsequent chat messages is impacted by the modified one chat message.
US11924153B2
In one or more implementations, a messaging history between a first user and a second user may be analyzed to determine a context for a new messaging session between the first user and the second user. A reminder message to the at least one of the first user or the second user may be displayed in a messaging user interface element that replaces a default message. The reminder message may be related to a tone for the new messaging session.
US11924143B2
A method for wireless communication and an apparatus are provided, comprising: determining location information, wherein the location information indicating a quantity of M subcarrier spacings between a second location of a physical resource block (PRB) in a system common PRB grid and a first location in a synchronization signal block, the system common PRB grid having a first subcarrier spacing, the first location being a beginning subcarrier of the synchronization signal block and the first location overlapping with the PRB; sending the location information via a broadcast message.
US11924142B2
A method of operating a wireless communication device (101) includes receiving (3002) at least one downlink control message (411, 412, 4002) from a communications network (100), the at least one downlink control message (411, 412, 4002) being indicative of a frequency density (401-404) of uplink reference signals (31), the uplink reference signals (31) being for an estimation of a radio channel (114) between the wireless communication device (101) and the communications network (100) to coherently decode data signals encoding data of a uplink data transmission (4012), the uplink reference signals (31) and the data signals using the same precoding. The method also includes transmitting (3003) the uplink reference signals (31) on the radio channel (114) using a time-frequency resource mapping (390) set in accordance with the frequency density (401-404), the time-frequency resource mapping (390) allocating time-frequency resource elements (311, 312, 313) of a plurality of time-frequency resource elements (309, 311, 312, 313) of a time-frequency resource grid (300) of the radio channel (114) to the uplink reference signals (31).
US11924140B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive a plurality of reference signals on a plurality of reference signal resources, wherein the plurality of reference signal resources span a plurality of subbands associated with the UE. The UE may determine, for the plurality of subbands, respective selected CSI reports from a set of CSI reports based at least in part on the plurality of reference signals. The UE may transmit information indicating a subset of the respective selected CSI reports. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11924137B2
A method and system for minimizing the control overhead in a multi-carrier wireless communication network that utilizes a time-frequency resource is disclosed. In some embodiments, one or more zones in the time-frequency resource are designated for particular applications, such as a zone dedicated for voice-over-IP (VoIP) applications. By grouping applications of a similar type together within a zone, a reduction in the number of bits necessary for mapping a packet stream to a portion of the time-frequency resource can be achieved. In some embodiments, modular coding schemes associated with the packet streams may be selected that further reduce the amount of necessary control information. In some embodiments, packets may be classified for transmission in accordance with application type, QoS parameters, and other properties. In some embodiments, improved control messages may be constructed to facilitate the control process and minimize associated overhead.
US11924133B2
Provided is a radio communication device which can separate propagation paths of antenna ports and improve a channel estimation accuracy even when using virtual antennas. The device includes: a mapping unit which maps a data signal after modulation to a virtual antenna and a virtual antenna; a phase inversion unit which inverts the phase of S0 transmitted from an antenna port in synchronization with a phase inversion unit between the odd-number slot and the even-number slot; the phase inversion unit which inverts the phase of R0 transmitted from the antenna port; a phase inversion unit which inverts the phase of S1 transmitted from an antenna port in synchronization with a phase inversion unit; and the phase inversion unit which inverts the phase of R1 transmitted from an antenna port.
US11924132B2
A communication device comprises a receiver including at least two receive antennas and configured to receive at least one reference signal of a plurality of reference signals, each reference signal being transmitted from at least one base station at a predefined reference signal transmission time; a controller configured to switch between at least two receive configurations of the at least two antennas during a reception period of the at least one reference signal; and a signal quality determiner configured to determine a parameter indicative of a first signal quality of the received reference signal for each receive configuration.
US11924117B2
At a first compute instance run on a virtualization host, a local instance scaling manager is launched. The scaling manager determines, based on metrics collected at the host, that a triggering condition for redistributing one or more types of resources of the first compute instance has been met. The scaling manager causes virtualization management components to allocate a subset of the first compute instance's resources to a second compute instance at the host.
US11924111B2
A buffer unit including a plurality of buffers, a sorting unit configured to sort an input signal to any of the plurality of buffers based on header information, a rate calculation unit configured to calculate a rate at which the input signal is read from each of the plurality of buffers based on burst information of the input signal, an adjustment unit configured to adjust a rate at which the input signal is read from each of the plurality of buffers based on the rate calculated by the rate calculation unit, and a transfer unit configured to transfer the signal read from each of the plurality of buffers are provided.
US11924107B2
Techniques for orchestrating workloads based on policy to operate in optimal host and/or network proximity in cloud-native environments are described herein. The techniques may include receiving flow data associated with network paths between workloads hosted by a cloud-based network. Based at least in part on the flow data, the techniques may include determining that a utilization of a network path between a first workload and a second workload is greater than a relative utilization of other network paths between the first workload and other workloads. The techniques may also include determining that reducing the network path would optimize communications between the first workload and the second workload without adversely affecting communications between the first workload and the other workloads. The techniques may also include causing at least one of a redeployment or a network path re-routing to reduce the networking proximity between the first workload and the second workload.
US11924091B2
A method for autonomous selection of a data routing path in a computer network includes: forming a pulse group comprising a plurality of nodes in a computer network, automatically sending a plurality of pulse messages from a first node in the pulse group to other nodes in the pulse group, receiving one of the plurality of pulse messages by a second node in the pulse group, automatically computing a first one-way latency for a direct path from the first node to the second node based on a first time stamp and a second time stamp, automatically recording one-way latencies between each pair of nodes in the pulse group in a one-way latency matrix, and automatically determining a low-latency data routing path from the first node to the second node based on the one-way latencies in the one-way latency matrix.
US11924084B2
A path selection apparatus 100 that selects a path in a sensor tree in a wireless sensor network including a plurality of nodes including a sensor node and a relay node includes a node information acquisition unit 110 that acquires information on the nodes and a path determination unit 130 that determines a path in the sensor tree based on the information on the nodes acquired by the node information acquisition unit 110, wherein the path determination unit 130 uses node costs of the sensor node and the relay node in the wireless sensor network and weights a path cost of a path passing through the relay node.
US11924082B2
A policy control device includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire an amount of communication of an accommodated user terminal from a relay device that notifies the amount of communication when the amount of communication exceeds a communication amount threshold value, a calculation unit configured to calculate a communication speed by using an amount of communication in a past fixed period of time including at least the amount of communication currently acquired by the acquisition unit, and calculate the communication amount threshold value based on the calculated communication speed, and a notification unit configured to notify the relay device of the communication amount threshold value calculated by the calculation unit.
US11924080B2
Some embodiments provide a method of identifying packet latency in a software defined datacenter (SDDC) that includes a network and multiple host computers executing multiple machines. At a first host computer, the method identifies and stores (i) multiple time values associated with several packet processing operations performed on a particular packet sent by a first machine executing on the first host computer, and (ii) a time value associated with packet transmission through the SDDC network from the first host computer to a second host computer that is a destination of the particular packet. The method provides the stored time values to a set of one or more controllers to process to identify multiple latencies experienced by multiple packets processed in the SDDC.
US11924078B2
Various embodiments comprise systems, methods, mechanisms, and apparatus by which a network operator such as a wireline internet service provider (ISP) may determine that an endpoint device has one or more other wireless devices tethered to it, such as a mobile handset providing dual-Wi-Fi ad-hoc tethering (i.e., connected to a high-speed Wi-Fi network while simultaneously providing Wi-Fi connections to wireless devices tethered to the mobile handset), by monitoring Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)/IP traffic flow associated with endpoint devices (i.e., to or through endpoint devices), characterizing these traffic flows in accordance with one or more error indicative criteria to establish thereby a baseline profile of error indicative criteria that is indicative of a TCP/IP traffic flow associated with an endpoint device that is not associated with tethering (e.g., a rate or number of duplicate ACKs), wherein deviations from the baseline profile of error indicative criteria beyond a threshold are indicative of a TCP/IP traffic flow associated with an endpoint device that is associated with tethering.
US11924077B2
One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for evaluating connections between nodes in a mesh network. The technique includes listening, at a first node and across a plurality of listening windows, for one or more messages transmitted by a second node during a first period of time; determining a number of messages received by the first node during the first period of time; computing, based on the number of messages received by the first node, a received message success rate associated with a first connection between the first node and the second node, wherein the received message success rate indicates a probability of successfully receiving, at the first node, messages transmitted by the second node via the first connection; and computing, based on at least one message received during the first period of time, a transmitted message success rate associated with the first connection, wherein the transmitted message success rate indicates a probability of successfully transmitting messages from the first node to the second node via the first connection.
US11924076B2
The present disclosure relates to methods and devices for wireless communication of an apparatus, e.g., a UE. In one aspect, the apparatus may determine whether a connection of a video call is interrupted, the video call including a plurality of decoded frames. The apparatus may also determine, if the connection of the video call is interrupted, whether one or more decoded frames of the plurality of decoded frames are suitable for artificial frame generation. The apparatus may also generate one or more artificial frames based on the one or more decoded frames and an audio feed from a transmitting device. Additionally, the apparatus may determine whether the one or more artificial frames are suitable for a facial model call. The apparatus may also establish a facial model call based on a combination of the one or more artificial frames and the audio feed from the transmitting device.
US11924069B2
A system can identify a first group of time-series telemetry data that represents performance metrics of a computing device, wherein the first group of time-series telemetry data identifies respective first values and corresponding respective first timestamps. The system can create a second group of time-series telemetry data that identifies second timestamps. The system can populate the second group of time-series telemetry data with the respective first values at respective first locations of the second group of time-series telemetry data that correspond to the respective first timestamps of the respective first values. The system can create a tensor that identifies third timestamps. The system can populate the tensor with the respective first values at respective second locations of the tensor that correspond to the respective first timestamps of the respective first values, wherein populating the tensor comprises combining two values of the respective first values.
US11924067B2
Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems and methods for a service activation system in a telecommunications network that utilizes one or more generic container files for building the configuration file to instantiate the service on the network. A request for service from a network may be received from an order entry system that includes specific information about the requested service. A collection of generic configuration files may be selected based on the information included in the service order and arranged to build a configuration file to be executed on the network. The service activation system may also include a component or group of components to verify a received service order and alter the service order with default information or data where applicable. The configuration file may also be executed on the network through one or more drivers communicating with the affected devices to configure the one or more network devices.
US11924053B2
Techniques are disclosed for intelligent infrastructure management in a radio access network. For example, a method obtains, from a plurality of baseband units of a radio access network, a plurality of data sets, wherein respective ones of the plurality of data sets correspond to operational statistics of respective ones of the plurality of baseband units. The method then generates a forecasted data set corresponding to one or more predicted operational statistics of each of the subset of baseband units, wherein the forecasted data set is generated using a first machine learning model. The method analyzes the forecasted data set to predict a future occurrence of a technical issue and to determine at least one corrective action for the predicted future occurrence of the technical issue, wherein the analysis is performed using a second machine learning model. The method then causes initiation of the at least one corrective action.
US11924052B2
A network device divided into a training plane and a control plane, model management server that controls a network device, and processing methods of a network device and model management server are disclosed. A processing method may include receiving a machine learning model from a model management server, obtaining network data to generate analytics information, generating analytics information by inputting the network data to a machine learning model, feeding back the analytics information to the model management server, and generating a control command of the network device using the analytics information, wherein the analytics information is generated by a training plane function and the control command is generated by a control plane function.
US11924051B2
Embodiments of the disclosed techniques include methods for estimating network performance of a path between a terminal device and an application server through a core network. In one embodiment, the method comprises measuring network performance of a portion of the path within the core network to obtain one or more partial network performance measurements in a first period, obtaining one or more end-to-end measurements of the path in the first period, where the end-to-end measurements are values of an end-to-end performance indicator; and estimating one or more values of the end-to-end performance indicator in a second period after the first period, using partial network performance measurements in the second period and the machine learning function.
US11924050B2
A method of predicting the evolution of simulation results for an Internet of Things (IoT) network by creating a source digital twin for the IoT network, driven by real-time sensed data from objects fed to models of the objects interconnected as object nodes in a directed acyclic graph (DAG) with the interconnections representing flow of data, the source digital twin outputting a state of one or more of the objects in real time; creating a clone digital twin of the source digital twin; connecting input of the clone digital twin with output of the source digital twin via a data stream synthesizer node, the data stream synthesizer node adds a time increment to the output of the source digital twin to drive the clone digital twin at the incremented time. The source digital twin and the clone digital twin are executed to indicate an evolved state of one or more of the objects at the incremented time as the output of the clone digital twin.
US11924046B1
This disclosure describes techniques and mechanisms for disclosure describes techniques and mechanisms for a central management plane to automatically create and assign system identifiers to network devices, thereby creating a global network hierarchy within a network. The techniques enable the use of a system identifier to be automatically generated and assigned, as well as configuration and network policies to be automatically generated based on the system identifier. Accordingly, the techniques enable automation of regional connectivity and policy application, a simplified manner of troubleshooting/debugging of any connectivity issues, and a simplified, aggregated view of statistic and analytics related to problems at site, sub-region, and region levels.
US11924043B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for assessing reliability and trustworthiness of devices operating within a network. A recipient node in a network environment can receive a neighbor discovery (ND) message from an originating node in the network environment that are both implementing a neighbor discovery protocol. Trustworthiness of the originating node can be verified by identifying a level of trust of the originating node based on attestation information for the originating node included in the ND message received at the recipient node. Connectivity with the recipient node through the network environment can be managed based on the level of trust of the originating node identified from the attestation information included in the ND message.
US11924040B2
A system and a method for traffic management on a network. The method including: determining a desired intent for a network operator's traffic; determining a set of classes for a traffic flow through a link; determining a minimum and target bandwidth for each class in the set of class based on the desired intent; measure user score and bandwidth use for each class; allocate a bandwidth per class based on the minimum and target bandwidth and measured user score; and shape the traffic flow to the allocated bandwidth.
US11924038B2
A method in a User Plane Function (UPF) comprising receiving from a Policy Control Function (PCF), an instruction to create a new Packet Detection Rule (PDR), the instruction comprising an IP address for the wireless device, a value of a ToS field, and a quality-of-service, QoS, reference or charging policy. The method further comprises storing the IP address, the value of the ToS field, and the QoS reference or charging policy as a predetermined PDR. The method further comprises subsequently receiving, from a wireless device, a first packet targeted to an application server, AS, mapping the first packet to the predetermined PDR, based on a value of a ToS, field in the first packet, and adding a 5-tuple associated with the first packet to the predetermined PDR. This serves to bind the new connection to the PDR.
US11924032B2
A network interface device comprises a plurality of components configured to process a flow of data one after another. A control component is configured to provide one or more control messages in said flow, said one or more control message being provided to said plurality of components one after another such that a configuration of one or more of said components is changed.
US11924023B1
A technology is described for redundant network communication in a robot. An example of the technology can include a main robotic controller and a robotic component including a local controller and a controlled component that is operable based on a data signal comprising control instructions executed by the local controller. A command can be sent between the main robotic controller and the local controller. The command can be encoded in a first data signal and a second data signal. The first data signal can be sent over a first network channel, and the second data signal can be sent over a second network channel. The first data signal and the second data signal can be configured to be redundant data signals for the local controller sent respectively over the first network channel and the second network channel.
US11924020B2
A data processing system is implemented for detecting changes to infrastructure components, and extracting metadata associated with the changes. The data processing system also implements grouping the changes based on the metadata, ranking the groups of changes based on past incidents of service outages, and displaying the ranked groups of changes to a user.
US11924016B2
The present disclosure relates to a method (50) for transmitting a data stream from a transmitting device (30) to a receiving device (40), the data stream comprising m data sub-streams, said method (50) comprising: encoding (S51) the data sub-streams with respective polar codes, such as to produce m polar-encoded data sub-streams, modulating (S52) the m polar-encoded data sub-streams onto symbols of a multilevel modulation comprising m levels defining 2m different symbols, such as to produce a symbol stream, transmitting (S53) the symbol stream to the receiving device (40), wherein the 2m symbols of the multilevel modulation are distributed in the complex plane such that they are regularly spaced along the real axis and the complex axis by a spacing factor K, the predetermined labeling function Z being such that Φ(Z)<1.7m×(0.0425×m−0.06), expression in which: Φ ( Z ) = ∑ i = 1 m ∑ { c 1 , … , c m } ∑ { c 1 ′ , … , c m ′ } \ ( c i , … , c m ) e - 4 K 2 ❘ "\[LeftBracketingBar]" Z ( c 1 , … , c m ) - Z ( c 1 , … , c i - 1 , c i ′ , … , c m ′ ) ❘ "\[RightBracketingBar]" 2 .
US11924015B2
A phase tracking reference signal (PT-RS) may be transmitted to enable a receiver to correct phase noise in wireless communication. A UE scheduled for one PDSCH with DMRS ports in two or more DMRS CDM groups that are associated with two TCI states may be configured for PT-RS using two PT-RS ports. Therefore, rather than limiting PT-RS to a single port, the PT-RS may be transmitted to the UE using two PT-RS ports. The apparatus transmits a capability indication for more than one PT-RS port for receiving a downlink shared channel based on a first TCI and a second TCI. The apparatus receives a configuration for a maximum number of downlink PT-RS ports from a base station.
US11924007B2
To obtain delay spread estimations and/or Doppler spread estimations, data representing received data is input to at least one trained model, the trained model outputting spread estimations.
US11923997B2
Methods and systems are disclosed that include identifying two or more participants of the video conference, obtaining desired attributes from the participants, determining the desired, average breakout group size, dividing a total number of participants by the breakout group size, in order to determine the initial number of breakout groups, processing the participant attributes to assign participants to the breakout group, and controlling a transmission component and an output component of a first of the participants to either communicate with, or not communicate with, a second of the participants based upon the assignment.
US11923995B2
Device Assisted Services (DAS) for protecting network capacity is provided. In some embodiments, DAS for protecting network capacity includes monitoring a network service usage activity of the communications device in network communication; classifying the network service usage activity for differential network access control for protecting network capacity; and associating the network service usage activity with a network service usage control policy based on a classification of the network service usage activity to facilitate differential network access control for protecting network capacity.
US11923993B2
The present disclosure addresses missing procedures on subscription to notification of subscription data changes in current standards and provides for amending the “Policy Data Subscription” data structure to indicate that the URI of the “Policy Data Subscriptions” resource and the URI of the “Individual Policy Data Subscription” resource are excluded from the list of resources for which a modification triggers a notification. The present disclosure also provides for new attributes to be included in the “Policy Data Change Notification” data type.
US11923992B2
A chassis front-end is disclosed. The chassis front-end may include a switchboard including an Ethernet switch, a Baseboard Management Controller, and a mid-plane connector. The chassis front-end may also include a mid-plane including at least one storage device connector and a speed logic to inform at least one storage device of an Ethernet speed of the chassis front-end. The Ethernet speeds may vary.
US11923978B1
A multi-port transceiver comprises a plurality of first ports, a first communication interface, and a second communication interface. Multi-rate interleaver circuitry interleaves i) a plurality of first data streams, each received via a respective first port at a first data rate, and ii) a second data stream received via the first communication interface at a second data rate, to generate a third data stream to be transmitted via the second communication interface at a third data rate. Multi-rate deinterleaver circuitry deinterleaves a fourth data stream that was received via the second communication interface at the third data rate into i) a plurality of fifth data streams, each fifth data stream to be transmitted via a respective first port at the first data rate, and ii) a sixth data stream to be transmitted via the first communication interface at the second data rate.
US11923970B2
Systems and methods providing for dynamic switching between the various waveforms on the downlink are described. Embodiments of a dynamic downlink waveform switching implementation may, for example, support utilization of one or more multiple carrier (MC) waveform (e.g., OFDMA) or other high peak to average power ratio (PAPR) waveform and one or more SC (SC) waveform (e.g., discrete Fourier transform-spread-orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (DFT-S-OFDM)) or other low PAPR waveform. Dynamic selection of a downlink waveform may be made by an access point based upon various metrics, including relative distance to a served an access terminal and the preference of downlink waveform indicated by a served an access terminal. A downlink waveform selection indication may be signaled from the access point to the served an access terminal using downlink control information (DCI).
US11923968B2
An optical transmission device includes: a signal processor, a first frame generator circuit and a second frame generator circuit. The signal processor accommodates a client signal into one or a plurality of time slot sequences among n time slot sequences. The first frame generator circuit generates a frame including the client signal accommodated into a part of time slot sequences among the n time slot sequences. The second frame generator circuit generates a frame including the client signal accommodated into other time slot sequences among the n time slot sequences. The signal processor accommodates the client signal into the n time slot sequences when the first frame generator circuit and the second frame generator circuit are implemented, and accommodates the client signal into the other time slot sequences when the first frame generator circuit is not implemented and the second frame generator circuit is implemented.
US11923954B1
Techniques are described for a method of establishing a wireless ad hoc network using a series of wireless relays deployed in a geographical area where an extreme event has occurred. The deployed wireless relays may form a plurality of links between them to form the wireless ad hoc network where each of the wireless relays may serve as node in the wireless ad hoc network. The wireless ad hoc network may provide wireless services to devices within the geographical area. The wireless relays may be deployed to various locations within the geographical area using a plurality of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that may receive control commands from a relay control device.
US11923952B2
This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to a distributed relay. The distributed relay may utilize beamforming and/or a specific physical arrangement of transmit and receive antennas to ensure a high isolation between antennas. The distributed relay may further facilitate the concurrent operation of two different intermediate frequency (IF) chains to support communications between a network entity and user device, receiving and transmitting data on each of the two IF chains independently of one another.
US11923951B2
A device for repeating a Wi-Fi signal transmitted by an access point and a system for extending the coverage of the Wi-Fi access point. The device for repeating the Wi-Fi signal is configured to: receive, via a wired connection connected to a device for extending a Wi-Fi access point, a digital signal resulting from the analogue-digital conversion of an analogue signal from a power division of a signal intended to be transmitted by the Wi-Fi access point around a predetermined carrier frequency so as to deliver a first Wi-Fi signal; convert the digital signal received via the wired connection into an analogue signal and transmit the analogue signal around the predetermined carrier frequency, so as to deliver a second Wi-Fi signal substantially identical to the first Wi-Fi signal.
US11923949B2
Disclosed are passive reflector radio communications systems, such as for UHF frequencies or greater than UHF frequencies, and related deployment systems and devices that provide underground communications. Embodiments of the system include reflector elements to provide passive radio communications, structural frameworks to support and orient the reflector elements, methods for calculating reflector size, shape, and position corresponding to a desired wavelength, and deployment methods and devices to install the communication system at a desired location. The passive reflectors can be placed in a folded or otherwise compact mode, for transport into underground tunnels. Once at the desired installation location, the system can be installed, with the reflectors positioned appropriately for the radio frequencies used at the location. Some of the embodiments include any of vertical or horizontal foldable reflector poles, reflective sheets, reflective mesh sheets and/or ropes, inflatable reflective pucks, and rapid deployment systems and methods.
US11923947B2
A method for random access for beam failure recovery. In the method, a random access configuration for the beam failure recovery is received. In the event of a beam failure, a random access procedure is performed according to the random access configuration.
US11923944B2
Apparatuses and methods for frequency selective uplink precoding are provided. The method includes receiving configuration information about resource allocation for an uplink transmission, the configuration information indicating: allocated resources for uplink transmission, and uplink precoding information for G antenna port groups for the uplink transmission on the allocated resources, wherein the uplink precoding information indicates: SD basis vectors, FD basis vectors, coefficients for (SD, FD) basis vector pairs, and two components for the coefficients across the G antenna port groups; based on the uplink precoding information, applying uplink precoding for the G antenna port groups; and performing uplink transmission on the allocated resources according to the configuration information.
US11923937B2
Spurious beamforming in high density environments can be reduced via transmitting a first signal from a first Access Point (AP) to a first endpoint associated with the first AP via a first beamforming arrangement; in response to identifying that the first beamforming arrangement is pollutive to a second endpoint associated with a second AP: deprecating the first beamforming arrangement; and transmitting a second signal from the first AP to the first endpoint via a second beamforming arrangement, different from the first beamforming arrangement.
US11923932B2
A network node signals to a wireless communication device which precoders in a codebook are restricted from being used. The network node in this regard generates codebook subset restriction signaling that, for each of one or more groups of precoders, jointly restricts the precoders in the group by restricting a certain component (e.g., a certain beam precoder) that the precoders in the group have in common. This signaling may be for instance rank-agnostic signaling that jointly restricts the precoders in a group without regard to the precoders' transmission rank. Regardless, the network node sends the generated signaling to the wireless communication device.
US11923930B2
A high-dimensional signal transmission method is provided. The method generates M M-dimensional first signals on the basis of M original signals and generates M M-dimensional second signals on the basis of a precoding signal and of the first signals, and finally, a transmitter sums all of the second signals and then transmits by utilizing M subchannels. As such, each subchannel carries information of the M original signals; hence, when any subchannel experiences deep fading, the deep fading is shared jointly by M signals, thus preventing the deep fading from causing a particularly severe impact on any signal. Moreover, all of the original signals can be recovered by utilizing the signals on the other subchannels, thus increasing the systematic resistance against subchannel deep fading. Meanwhile, the system implements the parallel transmission of the M original signals, thus ensuring the throughput of a communication system.
US11923925B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method, device and computer readable medium for user selection for MU-MIMO communications. In example embodiments, the method comprises for a set of candidate terminal devices, performing scheduling by: obtaining a set of received signals; determining a set of measurements for relevance among the candidate terminal devices based at least on the set of received signals and channel estimation for the set of candidate terminal devices; determining a maximum measurement in the set of measurements; and updating the set of candidate terminal devices by removing a candidate terminal device associated with the maximum measurement from the set of candidate terminal devices.
US11923909B1
Disclosed is a self-coherent receiver based on polarization-independent delay interferometers, relating to a technical field of optical communication, including a first beam splitter, a first circulator, a second circulator, a first polarization-independent delay interferometer, a second polarization-independent delay interferometer, a first balanced detector, a second balanced detector and an electrical signal processing module.
US11923906B2
A system includes a first device and a second device. The first device generates a source optical signal using a first optical signal and a polarization splitter-rotator. The second device modulates the source optical signal from the first device using a first data signal to produce a first modulated optical signal. The first modulated optical signal has a polarization that is orthogonal to a polarization of the source optical signal. The first device recovers the first data signal from the first modulated optical signal using at least the polarization splitter-rotator.
US11923891B2
Disclosed are a non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) multi-layer transmission method and an apparatus therefor. The method includes: a terminal determines a spread spectrum sequence group for NOMA multi-layer transmission, with the terminal being configured for NOMA multi-layer transmission, and the spread spectrum sequence group includes N spread spectrum sequences, the N spread spectrum sequences correspond to N data layers, the N spread spectrum sequences are mutually orthogonal, N is the number of data layers of NOMA multi-layer transmission, and N is an integer greater than 1; and the terminal sends data, the data comprising the N data layers using the spread spectrum sequence group for spectrum spreading.
US11923885B2
A high-frequency module (1) includes a mounting substrate (90), a transmission filter (6MT) arranged on the mounting substrate (90), a reception filter (6MR) arranged on the mounting substrate (90), and a semiconductor control IC (40) arranged on the mounting substrate (90) and stacked with the reception filter (6MR) of the transmission filter (6MT) and the reception filter (6MR).
US11923884B2
This disclosure provides systems, methods, and devices for wireless communication that support reconfiguring degeneration components in a converged RF transceiver supporting carrier aggregation across sub-6 GHz frequency bands and mmWave frequency bands. In a first aspect, an apparatus includes an input port configured to receive a mixer input signal; a first mixer forming at least a portion of an HRM mixer and coupled to the input port; a first configurable degeneration component of a first processing path coupled between the input port and the first mixer; and a controller coupled to the first degeneration component, wherein the controller is configured to control a first aspect of a first degeneration component. Other aspects and features are also claimed and described.
US11923878B2
A wireless signal processing circuit includes plural phase switchers, plural variable amplifiers and plural mixers. The plural phase switchers are provided on each of plural paths along which all in-phase signal and a quadrature signal are distributed. The plural phase switchers rotate the phases of the signals by signal phase rotation amounts according to a transmission direction of a transmission signal. The plural variable amplifiers alter amplitudes of input signals or output signals of the corresponding phase switchers in accordance with the transmission direction of the transmission signal. The plural mixers up-convert frequencies of the signals processed by the corresponding phase switchers and variable amplifiers.
US11923877B2
An antenna switch circuit and an antenna circuit switching method. The circuit includes an antenna port, a termination port (e.g., for disposal of power reflected back from an antenna and received through the antenna port in a transmit mode), and a receive port (e.g., for receiving a signal from the antenna port via the antenna switch circuit in a receive mode). The circuit also includes a first switch coupled between the antenna port and the termination port. The circuit further includes a resonant inductance coupled between the receive port and the node located between the antenna port and the first switch. The circuit also includes a second switch coupled between a reference potential and a node located between the resonant inductance and the receive port.
US11923872B2
A bit interleaver, a bit-interleaved coded modulation (BICM) device and a bit interleaving method are disclosed herein. The bit interleaver includes a first memory, a processor, and a second memory. The first memory stores a low-density parity check (LDPC) codeword having a length of 64800 and a code rate of 7/15. The processor generates an interleaved codeword by interleaving the LDPC codeword on a bit group basis. The size of the bit group corresponds to a parallel factor of the LDPC codeword. The second memory provides the interleaved codeword to a modulator for quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK) modulation.
US11923870B2
A method for constructing an n-qubit fault tolerant encode for any k-qubit quantum gate M, in any given quantum code [n, k, C], comprising: choosing a number n−k of independent spinors Sr from the first stabilizer C and a first ordered set SC consists of the independent spinors Sr; choosing a number n−k of independent spinors Ŝr from a second stabilizer Ĉ in the intrinsic coordinate and a second ordered set Ŝr consists of the independent spinors Ŝr consist; implementing an encoding Qen, wherein the encoding Qen converts the first ordered set SC to the second ordered set SĈ, wherein the encoding Qen is a sequential product provided by sequential operations of a number n−k of unitary operators Qr; wherein each of the unitary operator Qr is composed of a single s-rotation or a product of two s-rotations; and wherein the encoding Qen converts and maps the rth independent spinor Sr in the first ordered set SC to the rth independent spinor Ŝr in the second ordered set SĈ correspondingly; a fault tolerant action Û in the quantum code [n, k, C] generated by the second stabilizer Ĉ in the intrinsic coordinate, wherein the fault tolerant action Û is a direct sum of a basis state operator Λ and a correction operator Ω; and acquiring a fault tolerant encode in the quantum code [n, k, C] generated by the first stabilizer C, wherein the fault tolerant encode is a sequential product of the encoding Qen, the fault tolerant action Û and a complex conjugate Qen† of the encoding Qen.
US11923860B2
A DCO is configured such that, during a period in which a selection signal is asserted, a ring oscillator is formed so as to oscillate at a frequency that corresponds to a control code, and such that, during a period in which the selection signal SEL is negated, an injection edge based on a reference clock can be injected. During the startup period of a PLL circuit, a controller repeats a cycle including (i) a process in which the selection signal is asserted so as to oscillate the DCO, and phase comparison is made between an oscillator clock and the reference clock, and (ii) a process in which the selection signal is negated so as to stop the DCO, and the control code is updated by a binary search based on a result of the phase comparison.
US11923858B2
A clock data recovery circuit includes a phase detector, a first signal processing path, a second signal processing path, an oscillator circuit and a phase control circuit. The phase detector samples input data signal according to first clock signals to generate an up control signal and a down control signal. The first signal processing path includes at least one first signal processing device generating a phase control signal according to the up control signal and the down control signal. The second signal processing path includes at least one second signal processing device generating a frequency control signal according to the up control signal and the down control signal. The oscillator circuit generates second clock signals according to the frequency control signal. The phase control circuit controls phases of the second clock signals according to the phase control signal to generate the first clock signals.
US11923849B1
A frequency divider is provided that includes a plurality of latches for dividing an input clock according to an integer frequency divisor N of three or greater. Each latch is coupled to a corresponding pair of logic gates. For each latch, one of the logic gates in the corresponding pair controls a setting of the latch whereas a remaining one of the logic gates in the corresponding pair controls a resetting of the latch. Each latch outputs a pair of overlapping clock signals that are divided in frequency with respect to the input clock and have a 50% duty cycle. Each logic gate processes a pair of the overlapping clock signal and the input clock signal to provide a non-overlapping clock signal of the same frequency of the overlapping clock signals but have a (50/N) % duty cycle.
US11923841B2
A proximity sensor includes a light source, an optical sensing element, and an integration circuit. The light source is turned on and off several times during a measurement time interval. When the light source is turned on and off, the optical sensing element senses the surrounding light to generate a first current and a second current, respectively. The integration circuit integrates the first current and the second current to generate a first integration signal and a second integration signal respectively for determining whether an object is approaching. When the light source is turned on, the present second integration signal is stored, and a stored first integration signal is used as a starting value to integrate the first current. When the light source is turned off, the present first integration signal is stored, and the stored second integration signal is used as a starting value to integrate the second current.
US11923833B2
For example, the switching drive device 100 includes a driver 30 configured to drive an N-type semiconductor switch element, a current limiter 50 configured to limit a current fed to a boot capacitor BC1 included in a bootstrap circuit BTC, and a current controller 60 configured to control the operation of the current limiter 50. The current controller 60 is configured to drive the current limiter 50 to limit the current fed to the boot capacitor BC1 when the charge voltage across the boot capacitor BC1 is higher than a threshold value.
US11923811B2
A high-frequency power amplifier is configured in such a way as to include an input matching circuit, an amplifying element, an output matching circuit, a coupling circuit, a detection circuit, and an output terminal, and in such a way that either the input matching circuit or the output matching circuit has an active element, the detection circuit receives a signal outputted by the coupling circuit and outputs a control voltage into which the detection circuit converts the signal to the active element, and the active element changes the impedance of the active element in accordance with the control voltage outputted by the detection circuit, thereby changing the power of a signal outputted by either the input matching circuit having the active element or the output matching circuit having the active element, to change the power of a signal which the coupling circuit outputs to the output terminal.
US11923804B2
A temperature insensitive oscillator system. The system includes a substrate having a first surface and an opposing second surface, a CMOS device with one or more CMOS circuits attached to the first surface of the substrate, one or more piezoelectric transducers attached to an outer surface of the CMOS device, a voltage-controlled oscillator generating a RF frequency, which is transmitted as a plurality of short pulses to the one or more piezoelectric transducers, and one or more delays and oscillators using resistor and active components arranged alongside the piezoelectric transducers or on the CMOS device such that the voltage-controlled oscillator has minimal dependence on temperature, and has minimal deviation from a programmed frequency.
US11923803B2
According to one embodiment, an anomaly factor diagnosis apparatus includes an identifier configured to identify a first measurement data item corresponding to a first time point when an anomaly factor occurs in a power generation apparatus, among measurement data items in the power generation apparatus, based on anomaly factor occurrence data identifying the first time point; a distribution generator configured to calculate a first distribution function representing a distribution of a feature value of the first measurement data item; and an evaluator configured to calculate an evaluation value of possibility of occurrence of the anomaly factor in the power generation apparatus, based on the first distribution function, and measurement data items to be tested in the power generation apparatus.
US11923773B2
A voltage regulator module is provided. The switch circuit assembly includes two switch circuits and an input capacitor. Respective input terminals of the two switch circuits are connected with each other in parallel. The input capacitor is electrically connected with the respective input terminals of the two switch circuits in parallel and disposed between the two switch circuits. The plurality of conductive members have a first conductive member, a second conductive member and a third conductive member. The first conductive member and the third conductive member are configured to deliver an electric energy. The second conductive member is configured to deliver a signal. One end of each conductive member is electrically connected with corresponding switch circuit, and the other end of the first conductive member and the third conductive member is electrically connected with the load. The switch circuit assembly and the magnetic assembly are stacked with each other.
US11923772B2
A DC/DC converter includes a high-voltage side, a low-voltage side, a high-voltage side capacitor and a power conversion circuit. The high-voltage side includes a high-voltage positive terminal and a high-voltage negative terminal. The low-voltage side includes a low-voltage positive terminal and a low-voltage negative terminal. The low-voltage negative terminal is electrically connected with the high-voltage negative terminal A first terminal of the high-voltage side capacitor is electrically connected with the high-voltage positive terminal. A second terminal of the high-voltage side capacitor is electrically connected with the low-voltage positive terminal. The power conversion circuit is electrically connected between the high-voltage side and the low-voltage side. The power conversion circuit includes at least one switch and at least one magnetic assembly.
US11923764B1
In one example, a circuit comprises: a controller, an electrostatic discharge (ESD) circuit, and a driver circuit. The controller has a driver control output. The ESD circuit has a driver control input and an ESD output, the driver control input coupled to the driver control output. The driver circuit has a driver input and a driver output, the driver input coupled to the ESD output.
US11923760B2
A switching power supply apparatus has a line-to-ground capacitance C31 between a first winding terminal of a transformer and a conductor portion, and a line-to-ground capacitance C32 between a second winding terminal of the transformer and the conductor portion. The switching power supply apparatus is provided with a capacitor being connected between a first output terminal of a switching circuit and the first winding terminal of the transformer, and a capacitor being connected between a second output terminal of the switching circuit and the second winding terminal of the transformer. Capacitances of the capacitors C21, C22 are set to satisfy: C21>C22, for C31>C32; C21=C22, for C31=C32; and C21
US11923749B2
A casing (10) is divided into a cylindrical first case portion (51) integrally having a partition part (54), a second case portion (52) connected to one end of the first case portion in an axial direction and configured to cover a second space (S2), and a third case portion (53) connected to the other end of the first case portion in the axial direction and configured to cover a first space (S1). A signal cable passed through a through hole (54c) of the partition part extends from a sensor (72, 73) to an external connector (81) provided in the second case portion or the third case portion, and is anchored to the first case portion (51) in the vicinity of a through hole (54c) of the partition part.
US11923748B2
An improved efficiency cooling plate apparatus for full-scale clean fuel electric-powered aircraft having a cooling body including a plurality of bores, apertures and interior chambers working together to process and circulate fluid coolant and function as a heat sink device, interconnecting with the cooling system of an electric motor and cooperatively functioning to transfer thermal energy away from the electric motor using conduction, convection and radiation, while transporting heated fluid coolant away from heated motor components and to other components of a vehicle for further processing, then returning cooled fluid coolant into the cooling system of an electric motor, effectively partitioning heated fluid coolant, cooled fluid coolant, and electrical circuitry in a space saving design formed from a single part or minimal number of parts to reduce modes of failure and reduce required fasteners or connections to improve robustness and reliability while maintaining suitable aerodynamic characteristics.
US11923744B2
The present disclosure provides a brushless direct drive linear servo actuator, comprising: a stator, a mover and a housing, wherein the stator is a pair of armatures arranged in mirror symmetry at both sides of the mover, the housing integrally encapsulates the stator and forms a cavity for the mover at the mover, and the mover has an output end protruding out of the housing and is linearly movable along a direction of the output end. A displacement signal emitter is provided at a side of the mover, and a signal receiver is provided within a cover arranged outside the housing on said side for detecting a displacement signal emitted by the emitter of the mover. The actuator of the present disclosure is characterized by high reliability, high accuracy and low cost.
US11923741B2
A motor stator for a motor is disclosed. The motor stator includes a stator body and a plurality of windings. The stator body includes a weld end, a crown end, and a plurality of slots arranged circumferentially and extending axially therethrough between the weld end and the crown end. Each winding including a phase lead, a neutral lead, and a plurality of coils. The plurality of coils include a same-layer lead coil including two legs that spans across multiple slots of the plurality of slots and that are inserted into respective slots at a same layer thereof. The same-layer lead coil positions the phase lead at the weld end. The neutral lead and welds joining the plurality of coils are all positioned at the weld end.
US11923739B1
An electric motor includes an end turn ring and a cooling structure that is in a thermally conductive relationship with the end turn ring.
US11923738B2
A vehicle electric machine includes a stator core having an inner diameter defining a plurality of slots, an outer diameter, and a plurality of mounting ears disposed radially outboard of the outer diameter. At least one of the mounting ears defines a cooling channel extending in an axial direction of the stator core. A radial distance between a center of the stator core and the cooling channel is greater than a radial distance between the center and the outer diameter. The machine further includes windings having portions disposed in the slots and end windings adjacent to an end face of the stator core.
US11923735B2
The rotor with a non-through shaft for a rotary electric machine comprises a cylindrical magnetic body clamped between two half-shafts, each comprising an attachment flange connected to the magnetic body, axial housings being uniformly provided in the magnetic body on at least one diameter of the magnetic body in order to house conductive bars. At least one attachment flange comprises insertion holes, each arranged facing a housing for inserting the conductive bars into the housings and the exterior diameter of the attachment flange is substantially equal to the exterior diameter of the magnetic body, the attachment flange comprising as many insertion holes as housings.
US11923729B2
A transport apparatus comprising a housing, a variable reluctance drive mounted to the housing, and at least one transport arm connected to the variable reluctance drive where the drive includes at least one rotor having salient poles of magnetic permeable material and disposed in an isolated environment, at least one stator having salient pole structures each defining a salient pole with corresponding coil units coiled around the respective salient pole structure and disposed outside the isolated environment where the at least one salient pole of the at least one stator and the at least one salient pole of the rotor form a closed magnetic flux circuit between the at least one rotor and the at least one stator, at least one seal partition configured to isolate the isolated environment; and at least one sensor including a magnetic sensor member connected to the housing, at least one sensor track connected to the at least one rotor, where the at least one seal partition is disposed between and separates the magnetic sensor member and the at least one sensor track so that the at least one sensor track is disposed in the isolated environment and the magnetic sensor member is disposed outside the isolated environment.
US11923728B2
A method for determining runout error includes generating a first magnetic field to interact with a second magnetic field generated by four or more poles of a magnet ring mounted to a first platform. The interaction may cause the first platform to rotate relative to a second platform. The method may further include receiving, from a magnetic field sensor, data including respective boundaries between neighboring poles of the four or more poles relative to a corresponding nominal boundary defined by substantially uniform boundary spacing. The method may include determining a magnetic field pattern from the data and, based on the pattern, determining an angular position of the four or more poles. The method may further include determining an angular difference between the determined angular position and a nominal angular position. The method may also include determining a runout error based on an amplitude of the angular difference.
US11923721B2
Disclosed is a system that includes a plurality of battery cells connected in series; a first connection path from an intermediate battery cell of the plurality to an output bus of the system; a second connection path from a last one of the plurality of battery cells to an output bus; a circuit switch installed along the second connection path, the circuit switch configured to open or close the second connection path; and an undervoltage relay in the output bus, wherein the undervoltage relay is set at a threshold voltage, and wherein the undervoltage relay is configured to control the circuit switch when a voltage on the output bus exceeds the threshold voltage or drops below the threshold voltage.
US11923718B2
Our system describes Unlimited Range Drive (URD) capabilities of an electrical automotive vehicle using machine learning technique, assisted by newly designed intelligent battery modules (IBM-R, IBM-D/R) and newly invented high voltage continuous variable power plant (CVPP), our intelligent battery and power plant modules work in harmony and continuously provide feedback to each other, causing a high voltage battery to recharge while other high voltage battery is in use to drive a vehicle, this charging/recharging process and dynamically switching high voltage battery in use is continued until physical life of batteries is exhausted which may be 10 to 15 years, dynamic coordination of the modules with dynamic switching of battery in use archives Unlimited Range Drive (URD) capabilities which may exceed more than 1 million miles drive on a single high voltage battery charge, our URD system provides clean environment and cost effective more than 1 million miles drive solution.
US11923714B2
A device for controlling a storage battery system is provided. The device includes: a state information calculator configured to calculate state information on each of batteries of a plurality of storage battery modules; a conversion efficiency characteristics calculator configured to calculate a power conversion efficiency of each of DC/DC converters of the plurality of storage battery modules; and a storage battery module selector configured to select one or a plurality of storage battery modules to be used while the storage battery system is charged or discharged and to determine a charge power or a discharge power of each of the selected storage battery modules, based on the state information of the batteries and the power conversion efficiencies of the DC/DC converters.
US11923710B2
There are provided a battery management apparatus, a battery management method and a battery pack. The battery management apparatus includes a sensing unit configured to detect a current, a voltage and a temperature of a battery, and a control unit. The control unit determines a first candidate value for a state of charge (SOC) of the battery using ampere counting. The control unit determines a Kalman gain and a second candidate value for the SOC using an extended Kalman filter. The control unit determines the first candidate value as the SOC when a difference value between the first candidate value and the second candidate value is larger than a threshold value. The control unit adjusts a ratio of second process noise to first process noise in the extended Kalman filter based on a first component and a second component of the Kalman gain.
US11923703B2
A system includes a first sense circuit configured to provide a first output representative of sensed current provided by a first battery coupled to a first load. A second sense circuit is configured to provide a second output representative of sensed current provided by a second battery coupled to the first load. An input current controller is coupled to receive the respective first and second outputs and to couple between the second battery and the first load to control the current provided by the second battery.
US11923700B2
An apparatus includes at least one first circuit configured to generate a first time-varying magnetic field for magnetic induction power transfer to a device, at least one second circuit configured to generate and/or receive a second time-varying magnetic field for magnetic induction data transfer to and/or from the device, and at least one third circuit configured to generate a third time-varying magnetic field in response to a time-varying electric current. The third time-varying magnetic field is configured to at least partially inhibit degradation of said data transfer from the first time-varying magnetic field. The apparatus further includes at least one fourth circuit configured to generate the time-varying electric current in response to a received portion of the first time-varying magnetic field.
US11923698B2
A detection coil includes a first sub coil disposed on a first PCB, the first sub coil includes a first part, and a second part that is disposed under the first part and that includes: one end connected to one end of the first part and is wound in a direction opposite to a direction the first part is wound. The detection coil includes a second sub coil disposed on a second PCB and including a third part and a fourth part disposed under the third part. The fourth part includes one end connected to one end of the third part, and is wound in a direction opposite to a direction the third part is wound. The first and second parts have polygonal shapes symmetrical to each other. The third and fourth parts have polygonal shapes symmetrical to each other. The first and second sub coils are arranged to partially overlap each other.
US11923696B2
This document describes a passive adapter for wireless charging of an electronic device and associated methods and systems. The described passive adapter includes two coils connected by a capacitor and separated by a core material that prevents mutual coupling between the coils. These two coils may have differing sizes, such that one coil can size-match to a transmitter coil of an existing wireless charger and the second coil can size-match to a smaller (or larger) receiver coil in a wireless-power receiver to charge a battery of the wireless-power receiver. In aspects, these two coils may be separated by a distance that enables the passive adapter to act as a passive repeater by bridging a space between the transmitter coil and the receiver coil.
US11923693B2
A wireless power supply apparatus includes a controller, a beamforming module, and an antenna array. When direction finding information is obtained, the controller determines an electromagnetic wave transmission direction, and transmits information about the transmission direction to the beamforming module. The beamforming module aggregates energy of electromagnetic waves corresponding to a plurality of radio frequency signals to the transmission direction. The antenna array receives the direction finding information, and transmits the electromagnetic waves.
US11923683B2
A micro-network comprising includes at least two heating appliances provided with communication modules, one being used for obtaining and transmitting a first data set having at least one measurement related to the electricity consumption of the heating appliance, at least one measurement related to the electricity production of same and at least one measurement related to a state of charge of an electrical energy storage device, and subsequently controlling the power supply to the heating member. The other communication module is used for obtaining, and transmitting to a supervision module, first and second data sets including at least one item of data relating to an electrical power source, and subsequently transmitting a first setpoint state of charge related to the state of charge of the electrical energy storage device of the other heating device. The first setpoint state of charge is taken into account when controlling the power supply to the heating member.
US11923678B2
Presented herein are techniques for power fault management that operates without power-source-side switching. A power transmitter is configured to provide power to a current loop, and a power receiver is configured to receive the power from the current loop. The power receiver is configured to, on a periodic basis, disconnect from the current loop to stop pulling power from current loop for a period of time to enable a safety check to be performed by the power transmitter. The power transmitter is configured to monitor current on the current loop, determine whether the current level on the current loop passes the safety check within a predetermined time interval since a determination that the current level was not within a safe range, and control connectivity of the power to the current loop based on whether the safety check has or has not passed within the predetermined time interval.
US11923659B2
A method for controlling a wavelength of an optical module, includes: a laser light source unit emitting a laser beam; a wavelength filter having a periodical transmission characteristic with respect to a wavelength of light; a temperature controller on which the wavelength filter is placed and that adjusting a temperature of the wavelength filter; a heat generating body placed on the temperature controller; and a control device controlling the wavelength of the laser beam emitted from the laser light source unit and control the transmission characteristic of the wavelength filter based on an intensity of the laser beam transmitted through the wavelength filter, the method including changing at least one of a target value of the wavelength control of the laser beam and a target value of the control of the wavelength filter based on a current value of the heat generating body.
US11923655B2
The present embodiment relates to a light emission device capable of removing zero-order light from output light of an S-iPM laser. The light emission device comprises an active layer and a phase modulation layer. The phase modulation layer includes a base layer and a plurality of modified refractive index regions. In a state in which a virtual square lattice is set on the phase modulation layer, a center of gravity of each modified refractive index region is separated from a corresponding lattice point, and a rotation angle around each lattice point that decides a position of the center of gravity of each modified refractive index region is set according to a phase distribution for forming an optical image. A lattice spacing and an emission wavelength satisfy a condition of M-point oscillation in a reciprocal lattice space of the phase modulation layer. A magnitude of at least one of in-plane wavenumber vectors in four directions formed in the reciprocal lattice space and each including a wavenumber spread corresponding to an angle spread of the output light is smaller than 2π/λ.
US11923649B2
A connector includes a housing having a bore therein. A center conductor element is positioned in the bore and includes a center conductor pin. The center conductor pin is spring-biased to move longitudinally in the housing bore for being compressed. A ground sleeve element is coaxially arranged around the center conductor element and is also spring-biased to move longitudinally in the housing bore for being compressed. The center conductor element and ground sleeve element are coupled together for moving together in the housing bore when compressed. The compressed elements maintain their same coaxial position in the housing bore with respect to each other when the connector is compressed.
US11923641B2
An electrical wiring system providing selectable referencing to earth ground having a housing comprising a first terminal for attachment to HOT, a second terminal for attachment to LOAD, and a flexible terminal comprising a first leg mounted to the electrical wiring device and a second leg connected to the first leg via a flexible joint, wherein the relative distance between the first leg and the second leg is adjustable between an extended position and a retracted position by flexing the flexible joint, the flexible joint being biased in the extended position, wherein the first leg defines a first aperture and the second leg defines a second aperture, and a load control circuit disposed within the housing and receiving a line input from the first terminal and a reference input, the reference input being referenced to the electric potential of the flexible terminal.
US11923640B2
An electrical connector includes first and second adjacent electrical contacts that each define respective first and second mating ends, the first mating end of a first one of the first and second adjacent electrical contacts defines a first contact surface, the second mating end of a second one of the first and second adjacent electrical contacts defines a second contact surface electrically isolated from the first contact surface; and a dielectric material positioned between the first and second adjacent electrical contacts. When a mating connector applies a force to the first contact surface and the second contact surface, the first and second mating ends and the dielectric material all move in a first direction.
US11923636B2
A cable connector is provided having a backshell defining an interior chamber, wherein the backshell has a cable-guide-through-opening, through which a cable can be guided into the interior chamber; and the cable connector has a strain-relief member for providing a strain-relief to the cable. In order to make an inexpensive and easy to assemble cable connector, that allows multiple sizes of cables or a bundle of cables to enter the backshell by providing sufficient clamping force such that the cable or cables is/are not easily removed, the backshell has at least a first recess extending to the interior chamber; the strain-relief member is adapted to be fixed to an exterior of the cable, and the strain-relief member protrudes from the interior chamber into the first recess for providing the strain-relief to the cable.
US11923632B2
A work machine, such as a hauler at a mining site, includes a conductor rod housing concentric metal tubes for receiving multiple poles of electrical power from a contactor sliding on a power rail. A terminal assembly includes conductive extensions from the respective metal tubes that are arranged concentrically and rotatably around an axis orthogonal with the conductor rod, rotatable metal pins positioned transversely to the axis, and conductive arms connected through hinge joints to respective ones of the rotatable metal pins. When the conductive arms are connected to rotatable and hinged joints at the contactor, the terminal assembly provides multiple degrees of freedom for the conductor rod relative to the contactor and avoids detachment of the contactor from the power rail.
US11923629B2
A device may include a frame, a first leg extending from the frame, and a second leg extending from the frame, wherein each of the first leg and the second leg is curved in a respective direction, the respective directions being different.
US11923624B2
An antenna device includes a first and second antennas. The first antenna includes a coupling element, a phase adjuster, and first and second radiating elements. The phase adjuster is provided to adjust a phase difference between signals of the first radiating element and the second radiating element in a communication band of the second antenna to be about 180°±45°.
US11923618B2
A phased-array antenna system includes: an array of discrete antenna modules disposed conformally with an exterior surface of a platform; a digital distribution system comprising a digital communications medium to convey digital signals to and/or from respective input/output ports of the antenna modules; and a controller system to supply and/or receive the digital signals to/from the antenna modules via the digital distribution system. The controller system controls relative phases of the digital signals to enable the antenna elements to form a directive antenna beam pattern. Each antenna module includes: an antenna element to emit and/or absorb RF signals; an input/output port to send and/or receive digital signals; an electronics unit including an A/D and/or D/A converter to provide an interface between the antenna element and the input/output port; and a housing in which the antenna element and electronics unit are packaged.
US11923614B2
Antenna rotation structure includes a rotating member and an angle adjusting member. The rotating member is rotatably disposed along an axial direction in an accommodating space of the housing and includes a holding portion and a pushing portion disposed at one side of the holding portion spaced apart from the axial direction. The angle adjusting member includes a pressing portion bonded to a through hole of the housing and made of an elastic material and, an abutting portion connected to the pressing portion and corresponding to the pushing portion. When the pressing portion is pressed by a force, it deforms and drives the abutting portion to push the pushing portion to drive the holding portion to rotate about the axial direction to adjust the angle of the antenna.
US11923610B2
In various embodiments, an antenna array may comprise a dielectric; a first patch antenna disposed on a first region of the dielectric; a second patch antenna disposed on a second region of the dielectric; and a ground layer including a first sub-ground layer in contact with a lower portion of the first region of the dielectric, a third sub-ground layer in contact with a lower portion of the second region of the dielectric, and a second sub-ground layer spaced apart from a lower portion between the first region and the second region of the dielectric.
US11923609B2
Disclosed is a radar antenna including an antenna body including a first plate and a second plate; a slot radiation part and a slot reception part formed in the first plate; a transmission port and a reception port formed in the second plate; and a waveguide formed by assembling the first and second plates. The slot radiation part includes a first slot radiation part configured to radiate a radio wave in a first detection range, and a second slot radiation part configured to radiate radio waves in a second detection range having a larger width and distance than the first detection range.
US11923606B2
The present disclosure described devices, components, connectors, and cables that connect an audio-visual device to an external antenna. Some embodiments describe a device connector for connecting the audio-visual device to an external cable. The device connector may include a supply port that is configured to receive power, data signals, and/or some combination of power and data from a source external to the audio-visual device. The device connector may also include an antenna port that is configured to connect the audio-visual device to an external antenna that is, for example, part of the same. Additionally, the device connector may include a detection mechanism that detects the presence of an antenna connection in the antenna port. When an antenna connection is detected, the audio-visual device may be configured to use one or more external antennas connected via the antenna connection to send and receive, e.g., WiFi signals.
US11923592B2
Waveguide device (1) for guiding a radio frequency signal at a given frequency f, the device (1) including: a core (3) manufactured by additive manufacturing and including side walls with inner and outer surfaces (7, 8), the inner surfaces (7) delimiting a waveguide channel (2), wherein a cross-section of the channel (2) has two straight sides joined together by two half-portions, at least one of the two half-portions being rounded or formed of at least two straight segments the cross-section having a maximum length (a) and a maximum width (b), the ratio between the maximum length (a)/maximum width (b) being between 2.05 and 3.5, preferably between 2.05 and 2.4.
US11923591B2
Waveguide device for guiding a radio frequency signal at a given frequency f, the device including: a core manufactured by additive manufacturing and including side walls with inner and outer surfaces, the inner surfaces delimiting a waveguide channel, wherein a cross-section of the channel has two straight sides joined together by two half-portions, at least one of the two half-portions being rounded or formed of at least two straight segments, the cross-section having a maximum length (a) and a maximum width (b), the ratio between the maximum length (a)/maximum width (b) being between 2.05 and 3.5, preferably between 2.05 and 2.4.
US11923585B2
An inlet header having: an inner end, an outer end, a plurality of segments therebetween, including: an outer segment that extends from the outer end to a first intermediate end, the outer segment defines a cylindrical profile; a first intermediate segment that forms an outer elbow and extends from the first intermediate end to a second intermediate end, the second intermediate end has a rectangular shape, and the first intermediate segment increases in width proportionally as it extends toward the second intermediate end; a second intermediate segment that extends from the second intermediate end to a third intermediate end, the third intermediate end has a rectangular shape, and the second intermediate segment increases in width and height proportionally as it extends toward the third intermediate end; and an inner segment that forms an inner elbow and extends from the third intermediate end to the inner end of the inlet header.
US11923575B2
A fault diagnostic apparatus for a fuel cell electric vehicle and a method therefor are provided. The apparatus includes: a main relay connected to a fuel cell stack; a power converter connected to the main relay; a heater relay connected to the fuel cell stack and the main relay at one end and connected to a cathode oxygen depletion (COD) heater at the other end; and a fuel cell control unit (FCU) connected with the main relay, the power converter, and the heater relay. The FCU diagnoses a fault of the main relay based on an amount of change in stack voltage according to control to turn off and on the heater relay and a power of the power converter according to variable control of a voltage of the power converter, when the vehicle enters a shutdown sequence, and outputs the diagnosed result.
US11923566B2
A sealed battery with a current breaking mechanism, and a conductor member that is, inside the battery, electrically connected to the current breaking mechanism, and that is, outside the battery, electrically connected to the positive electrode external terminal. The current breaking mechanism includes a thin plate-like inversion plate in which an outer peripheral portion thereof is connected to the positive electrode collector member, and an inner peripheral portion thereof is connected to the conductor member. The inversion plate is, upon an increase in pressure inside the battery, capable of having the inner peripheral portion become displaced so as to be separated from the conductor member. An accommodating recess that receives the inner peripheral portion of the inverted collector member separated and displaced from the conductor member is formed in the positive electrode collector member and in a thickness direction of the positive electrode collector member.
US11923565B2
A battery module is provided including a battery unit that includes a battery top cover; a temperature measurement unit, including a temperature collection element to collect temperature of the battery top cover; a harness plate, arranged on the battery top cover and including a harness plate body and a limiting structure arranged on the harness plate body, wherein the limiting structure is matched with the temperature measurement unit; a circuit board, arranged on the harness plate and including a circuit board body and an extending strip arranged on the circuit board body, wherein the temperature collection element is connected with the extending strip; and an electrical connecting sheet arranged on the harness plate to connect different battery units, wherein the temperature measurement unit is arranged between the electrical connecting sheet and the battery top cover, and the electrical connecting sheet exerts pressure onto the temperature measurement unit.
US11923554B2
An extruded hollow plate and an electric vehicle battery casing formed by combining the extruded hollow plates. The extruded hollow plate has a plate-shaped body having a constant cross-section, a cavity is provided inside the plate-shaped body, a protrusion and/or a groove is provided at an end of the body, the protrusion is bent downward, the groove opens upwards as a hook, and the arc surfaces forming the protrusion and the groove each comprise at least two involute surfaces. Compared with the existing battery box manufacturing process of friction stir welding, the combining and bonding connection manner has the significant advantages of rapid production speed, a low device cost, high flatness, etc.
US11923550B2
The preset disclosure provides a catalyst layer that has a small contact resistance with a gas diffusion layer and excellent gas diffusion properties. The catalyst layer for a fuel cell has a uniform thickness and includes fibrous conductive members and catalyst particles. The fibrous conductive members are inclined relative to a surface direction of the catalyst layer, and a lengthwise direction of the fibrous conductive members, on average, matches a first direction.
US11923549B2
An adhesive layer is placed in a region outside an outer peripheral edge part of a second catalyst layer, on a second surface of an electrolyte membrane. A support frame is placed via the adhesive layer such that the second catalyst layer and a second gas diffusion layer are placed inside an opening of the support frame. A specific region as a region between the outer peripheral edge part of the second catalyst layer and an inner peripheral edge part of the opening of the support frame is present. A predetermined material is placed inside a recessed portion present on a surface of the adhesive layer inside the specific region, the predetermined material containing at least one of a first substance having an action of decomposing hydrogen peroxide and a second substance having an action of decomposing hydroxyl radicals.
US11923548B2
The present invention relates to the redox buffer electro-catalyst for bi-functional air electrode of metal-air batteries and fuel cells, wherein an electro-catalyst comprising of redox buffer oxides facilitates bi-functional activity of air electrode towards oxygen reduction and oxygen evolution reactions at the air electrode-electrolyte interface. The bi-functional activity of electro-catalyst comprising of redox buffer oxides is superior, due to improved electron transfer ability in comparison to electro-catalyst without redox buffer oxides.
US11923537B2
The present application discloses a negative electrode plate including a negative electrode active material layer including a first active material layer; wherein in a first cross section in a thickness direction of the negative electrode plate, the first active material has a size a in a direction parallel to the metal conductive layer, the first active material has a size b in the thickness direction, satisfying 0.8≤a/b≤20; in a second cross section in the thickness direction of the negative electrode plate, the first active material has a size c in the direction parallel to the metal conductive layer, the first active material has a size d in the thickness direction, satisfying 0.8≤c/d≤20; and the first cross section is parallel to a first direction, the second cross section is parallel to a second direction, and the first direction intersects the second direction.
US11923526B2
Provided is a process for producing a thin film graphene-bonded metal foil current collector for a battery or supercapacitor, said process comprising: (a) providing a graphene suspension comprising graphene sheets dispersed in a liquid medium; (b) operating a micro-gravure coater to deposit a layer of the graphene suspension onto at least one of the two primary surfaces of a metal foil to form a wet layer of graphene deposited thereon; and (c) removing said fluid medium from the deposited wet layer to form a dry layer of graphene, having a layer thickness from 1 nm to 100 nm. Optionally, the process may include heat treating the dry layer of graphene at a temperature from 35° C. to 3,000° C.
US11923521B2
Embodiments of the present application relate to the technical field of batteries, and provide a water cooling assembly, a battery pack, and a device in order to solve the technical problem of low cooling efficiency of a cooling assembly of a battery pack. The water cooling assembly is configured to cool a cell, and includes: a body portion having a cooling channel for receiving a coolant; a first connecting portion connected to the body portion and having a communication cavity for introducing or draining the coolant; and a second connecting portion arranged between the body portion and the first connecting portion and having an inner cavity for communicating the cooling channel with the communication cavity. An end face of the inner cavity close to the cooling channel has a cross-sectional area greater than that of an end face of the communication cavity close to the inner cavity.
US11923518B2
The present disclosure relates generally to systems and methods for recycling lead-acid batteries, and more specifically, relates to purifying and recycling the lead content from lead-acid batteries. A system includes a reactor that receives and mixes a lead-bearing material waste, a carboxylate source, and a recycled liquid component to form a leaching mixture yielding a lead carboxylate precipitate. The system also includes a phase separation device coupled to the reactor, wherein the phase separation device isolates the lead carboxylate precipitate from a liquid component of the leaching mixture. The system further includes a closed-loop liquid recycling system coupled to the phase separation device and to the reactor, wherein the closed-loop liquid recycling system receives the liquid component isolated by the phase separation device and recycles a substantial portion of the received liquid component back to the reactor as the recycled liquid component.
US11923508B2
Provided is an electrolyte solution for a lithium secondary battery and a lithium secondary battery including the electrolyte solution. The electrolyte solution includes an additive represented by a specific chemical formula, an organic solvent and a lithium salt. The lithium secondary battery including the electrolyte solution provide enhanced high-temperature properties.
US11923502B2
An all-solid secondary battery includes a solid electrolyte layer disposed between an anode layer and a cathode layer, where the solid electrolyte layer contains a first solid electrolyte layer including a first solid electrolyte and a second electrolyte layer including a second solid electrolyte, where the first solid electrolyte is disposed proximate to the anode layer, the second solid electrolyte layer is disposed proximate to the cathode layer, and the first solid electrolyte has a lithium ion conductivity greater than a lithium ion conductivity of the second solid electrolyte, where a difference between the lithium ion conductivity of the first solid electrolyte and the lithium ion conductivity of the second solid electrolyte is equal to or greater than about 2 mS/cm.
US11923494B2
Energy storage devices, battery cells, and batteries of the present technology may include a base plate. The batteries may include a first circuit board overlying the base plate. The batteries may include a battery stack overlying the first circuit board and electrically coupled with the first circuit board. The battery stack may include a plurality of battery cells. The battery stack may define an aperture through an active region of the battery stack. The batteries may include a second circuit board overlying the battery stack and electrically coupled with the battery stack. The batteries may include a compression plate overlying the second circuit board. The batteries may include a retaining member compressibly coupling the compression plate with the base plate. The retaining member may extend through the aperture through the active region of the battery stack.
US11923486B2
A light-emitting module and a light-emitting diode are provided. The light-emitting diode includes an epitaxial light-emitting structure to generate a light beam with a broadband blue spectrum. A spectrum waveform of the broadband blue spectrum has a full width at half maximum (FWHM) larger than or equal to 30 nm. The spectrum waveform has a plurality of peak inflection points, and a difference between two wavelength values to which any two adjacent ones of the peak inflection points respectively correspond is less than or equal to 18 nm.
US11923482B2
A light emitting device and method of forming a light emitting device are disclosed. The light emitting device includes a light emitting diode and a phosphor layer formed on the light emitting diode, the phosphor layer including a plurality of phosphor particles formed in a particle layer, the particle layer including interstices between the phosphor particles, and a matrix material disposed in a portion of the interstices. A plurality of cavities may be disposed in a remaining portion of the interstices.
US11923477B2
A method of manufacturing an electronic device, including the successive steps of: a) performing an ion implantation of indium or of aluminum into an upper portion of a first single-crystal gallium nitride layer, to make the upper portion of the first layer amorphous and to preserve the crystal structure of a lower portion of the first layer; and b) performing a solid phase recrystallization anneal of the upper portion of the first layer, resulting in transforming the upper portion of the first layer into a crystalline indium gallium nitride or aluminum gallium nitride layer.
US11923475B2
The present invention relates to a method of making a light converting optical system. The method involves providing a first optical layer having a microstructured front surface comprising an array of linear grooves that reflect first light rays using total internal reflection and deflect second light rays using refraction. A thin sheet of reflective light scattering material is positioned parallel to the first optical layer. A second optical layer is provided with a microstructured front surface. A continuous photoabsorptive film layer comprising a light converting semiconductor material is positioned between the first optical layer and the reflective material, with a thickness less than the minimum thickness required for absorbing all light traversing through the film layer. The method further involves providing a light source and positioning the second optical layer on the light path between the light source and the photoabsorptive film layer.
US11923469B2
An optical solar enhancer comprises a panel that has a top surface and a bottom surface and an imaginary central plane that extends between the top surface and the bottom surface. The panel includes a plurality of generally parallel features configured to variably increase radiant energy entering the top surface at an acute angle relative to the central plane such that the effect is strongest at lower angles (early morning and late day sun) and weakest at higher angles (mid-day sun) and then redirect the increased radiant energy through the bottom surface.
US11923452B2
In a semiconductor device having a main cell region and a sense cell region, a main contact trench and a sense contact trench extend in one direction. When viewed from a stacking direction of a drift layer and a body layer, in the one direction, the main contact trench and a first impurity region disposed in the main cell region protrude more than a main upper electrode toward a sense upper electrode, and the sense contact trench and the first impurity region disposed in the sense cell region protrude more than the sense upper electrode toward the main upper electrode.
US11923448B2
A semiconductor device includes type IV semiconductor base substrate, first and second device areas that are electrically isolated from one another, a first region of type III-V semiconductor material formed over the first device area, a second region of type III-V semiconductor material formed over the second device area, the second region of type III-V semiconductor material being laterally electrically insulated from the first region of type III-V semiconductor material, a first high-electron mobility transistor integrally formed in the first region, and a second high-electron mobility transistor integrally formed in the second region. The first and second high-electron mobility transistors are connected in series. A source terminal of the first high-electron mobility transistor is electrically connected to the first device area. The first device area is electrically isolated from a subjacent intrinsically doped region of the base substrate by a first two-way voltage blocking device.
US11923443B2
A semiconductor device in which IGBT regions and diode regions are alternately set along a first direction, includes first to third electrodes, and a semiconductor portion. The semiconductor portion includes a collector layer, a low-concentration cathode layer, a high-concentration cathode layer, a drift layer, anode layers, base layers, and an emitter layer. The low-concentration cathode layer and the high-concentration cathode layer are in contact with the first electrode. When the diode region on a lower surface of the semiconductor portion is divided into three equal regions of a first peripheral region, a central region, and a second peripheral region along the first direction, an area ratio of the low-concentration cathode layer in the central region is higher than the area ratio of the low-concentration cathode layer in the first peripheral region and the second peripheral region.
US11923439B2
The present disclosure describes a semiconductor structure and a method for forming the same. The semiconductor structure can include a substrate, a fin structure over the substrate, a gate structure over a first portion of the fin structure, and an epitaxial region formed in a second portion of the fin structure. The epitaxial region can include a first semiconductor layer and an n-type second semiconductor layer formed over the first semiconductor layer. A lattice constant of the first semiconductor layer can be greater than that of the second semiconductor layer.
US11923434B2
A method is presented for forming a vertical transport field effect transistor (VTFET). The method includes forming a plurality of fins over a substrate, depositing a sacrificial material adjacent the plurality of fins, forming self-aligned spacers adjacent the plurality of fins, removing the sacrificial material to define openings under the self-aligned spacers, filling the openings with bottom spacers, depositing an interlayer dielectric (ILD) after patterning, laterally etching the substrate such that bottom surfaces of the plurality of fins are exposed, the lateral etching defining cavities within the substrate, and filling the cavities with an epitaxial material such that epitaxial regions are defined each having a symmetric tapered shape under a twin-fin structure. The single fin device can be formed through additional patterning and bottom epi under the single fin device that has an asymmetric tapered shape.
US11923431B2
A bipolar junction transistor (BJT) may include a substrate defining a collector region therein. A first superlattice may be on the substrate including a plurality of stacked groups of first layers, with each group of first layers including a first plurality of stacked base semiconductor monolayers defining a first base semiconductor portion, and at least one first non-semiconductor monolayer constrained within a crystal lattice of adjacent first base semiconductor portions. Furthermore, a base may be on the first superlattice, and a second superlattice may be on the base including a second plurality of stacked groups of second layers, with each group of second layers including a plurality of stacked base semiconductor monolayers defining a second base semiconductor portion, and at least one second non-semiconductor monolayer constrained within a crystal lattice of adjacent second base semiconductor portions. An emitter may be on the second superlattice.
US11923428B2
A semiconductor device includes a fin structure disposed over a substrate. The semiconductor device includes a first interfacial layer straddling the fin structure. The semiconductor device includes a gate dielectric layer extending along sidewalls of the fin structure. The semiconductor device includes a second interfacial layer overlaying a top surface of the fin structure. The semiconductor device includes a gate structure straddling the fin structure. The first interfacial layer and the gate dielectric layer are disposed between the sidewalls of the fin structure and the gate structure.
US11923427B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, a control gate, a select gate, a charge trapping structure, and a dielectric structure. The semiconductor substrate has a drain region, a source region, and a channel region between the drain region and the source region. The control gate is over the channel region of the semiconductor substrate. The select gate is over the channel region of the semiconductor substrate and separated from the control gate. The charge trapping structure is between the control gate and the semiconductor substrate. The dielectric structure is between the select gate and the semiconductor substrate. The dielectric structure has a first part and a second part, the first part is between the charge trapping structure and the second part, and the second part is thicker than the first part.
US11923419B2
Chemical sensors, devices and systems including the same, and related methods are disclosed. In an embodiment, a medical device is included having a graphene varactor including a graphene layer and a self-assembled monolayer disposed on an outer surface of the graphene layer through non-covalent interactions between the self-assembled monolayer and a π-electron system of graphene. The self-assembled monolayer includes one or more pillarenes, substituted pillarenes, calixarenes, substituted calixarenes, peralkylated cyclodextrins, substituted peralkylated cyclodextrins, pyrenes, or substituted pyrenes, or derivatives of each. Other embodiments are also included.
US11923400B2
A display apparatus includes a substrate, a light-emitting device provided on the substrate, a driving transistor device configured to control the light-emitting device, a first power supply line electrically connected to a source region of the driving transistor device, a conductive pattern electrically connected to a gate electrode of the driving transistor device, and a second power supply line electrically connected to the first power supply line, wherein the conductive pattern and the first power supply line constitute a first capacitor, and the conductive pattern and the second power supply line constitute a second capacitor, wherein the first capacitor and the second capacitor are connected in parallel.
US11923397B2
The present invention discloses a micro light emitting diode display substrate and a manufacturing method thereof. The substrate includes an underlay substrate, a thin film transistor and a micro light emitting diode disposed on a top surface of the underlay substrate and connected to each other, a first metal film layer disposed on a bottom surface of the underlay substrate and at least formed with fanout circuit pattern and a side printed bonding pad. The fanout circuit pattern is connected to the side printed bonding pad, the side printed bonding pad is connected to the thin film transistor through a side wire such that after the display substrate is assembled with a bezel, a top surface display pixel region can maximally approach the bezel, to achieve bezel-less effect.
US11923394B2
In some embodiments, the present disclosure relates to an integrated chip having an inter-layer dielectric (ILD) structure along a first surface of a substrate having a photodetector. An etch stop layer is over the ILD structure, and a reflector is surrounded by the etch stop layer and the ILD structure. The reflector has a curved surface facing the substrate at a location directly over the photodetector. The curved surface is coupled between a first sidewall and a second sidewall of the reflector. The reflector has larger thicknesses along the first sidewall and the second sidewall than at a center of the reflector between the first sidewall and the second sidewall.
US11923392B2
The present disclosure relates to an integrated chip. The integrated chip includes an image sensing element disposed within a substrate. A gate structure is disposed along a front-side of the substrate. A back-side of the substrate includes one or more first angled surfaces defining a central diffuser disposed over the image sensing element. The back-side of the substrate further includes second angled surfaces defining a plurality of peripheral diffusers laterally surrounding the central diffuser. The plurality of peripheral diffusers are a smaller size than the central diffuser.
US11923381B2
A display device may include a first conductive layer disposed on a substrate, and including an auxiliary bottom line and an additional conductive pattern; a first insulating layer disposed on the substrate and the first conductive layer; a semiconductor pattern disposed on the first insulating layer; a second insulating layer disposed on the first insulating layer and the semiconductor pattern; a second conductive layer disposed on the second insulating layer, and including a conductive pattern and a gate electrode; a third insulating layer disposed on the second insulating layer and the second conductive layer; a connection pattern disposed on the third insulating layer and electrically connected to the conductive pattern; a first electrode disposed on the connection pattern and electrically connected to the connection pattern; and at least one light emitting element disposed on the first electrode and electrically connected to the first electrode.
US11923377B2
A display device includes a display area including pixels, a non-display area adjacent to the display area, and a display driver electrically connected to the non-display area. The display area includes a data line that supplies a data voltage received from the display driver to the pixel, the data line extending in a first direction, a gate input line electrically connected to the display driver and extending in the first direction, a gate driver electrically connected to the gate input line, and a gate line electrically connected to the gate driver and extending in a second direction intersecting the first direction.
US11923375B2
A display apparatus includes a substrate partitioned into a central area and a peripheral area disposed adjacent to the central area. The central area includes a display area; a first insulating layer corresponding to the peripheral area of the substrate; at least one slit corresponding to a region of the first insulating layer; and a cladding layer, which covers the at least one slit, on the first insulating layer.
US11923366B2
In an embodiment, a device includes: a first semiconductor fin extending from a substrate; a second semiconductor fin extending from the substrate; a hybrid fin over the substrate, the second semiconductor fin disposed between the first semiconductor fin and the hybrid fin; a first isolation region between the first semiconductor fin and the second semiconductor fin; and a second isolation region between the second semiconductor fin and the hybrid fin, a top surface of the second isolation region disposed further from the substrate than a top surface of the first isolation region.
US11923357B2
An interfacial structure, along with methods of forming such, are described. The structure includes a first interfacial layer having a first dielectric layer, a first conductive feature disposed in the first dielectric layer, and a first thermal conductive layer disposed on the first dielectric layer. The structure further includes a second interfacial layer disposed on the first interfacial layer. The second interfacial layer is a mirror image of the first interfacial layer with respect to an interface between the first interfacial layer and the second interfacial layer. The second interfacial layer includes a second thermal conductive layer disposed on the first thermal conductive layer, a second dielectric layer disposed on the second thermal conductive layer, and a second conductive feature disposed in the second dielectric layer.
US11923355B2
Devices and methods for manufacturing a deep trench capacitor fuse for high voltage breakdown defense. A semiconductor device comprising a deep trench capacitor structure and a transistor structure. The transistor structure may comprise a base, a first terminal formed within the base, and a second terminal formed within the base. The first terminal and the second terminal may be formed by doping the base. The deep trench capacitor structure may comprise a first metallic electrode layer and a second metallic electrode layer. The first terminal may be electrically connected to the first metallic electrode layer, and the second terminal may be electrically connected to the second metallic electrode layer.
US11923353B2
A method includes forming a release film over a carrier, forming a polymer buffer layer over the release film, forming a metal post on the polymer buffer layer, encapsulating the metal post in an encapsulating material, performing a planarization on the encapsulating material to expose the metal post, forming a redistribution structure over the encapsulating material and the metal post, and decomposing a first portion of the release film. A second portion of the release film remains after the decomposing. An opening is formed in the polymer buffer layer to expose the metal post.
US11923343B2
Disclosed are semiconductor packages and/or methods of fabricating the same. The semiconductor package comprises a package substrate, a first semiconductor chip mounted on the package substrate, a second semiconductor chip mounted on a top surface of the first semiconductor chip, and a first under-fill layer that fills a space between the package substrate and the first semiconductor chip. The package substrate includes a cavity in the package substrate, and a first vent hole that extends from a top surface of the package substrate and is in fluid communication with the cavity. The first under-fill layer extends along the first vent hole to fill the cavity.
US11923339B2
Embodiments of three-dimensional semiconductor devices and fabrication methods are disclosed. The method includes forming a first and a second memory chips and a microprocessor chip. The method also includes bonding a first interconnect layer of the first memory chip with a second interconnect layer of the second memory chip, such that one or more first memory cells of the first memory chip are electrically connected with one or more second memory cells of the second memory chip through interconnect structures of the first and second interconnect layers. The method further includes bonding a third interconnect layer of the microprocessor chip with a substrate of the second memory chip, such that the one or more microprocessor devices of the microprocessor chip are electrically connected with one or more second memory cell of the second memory chip through interconnect structures of the second and third interconnect layers.
US11923338B2
A method includes bonding a first wafer to a second wafer, with a first plurality of dielectric layers in the first wafer and a second plurality of dielectric layers in the second wafer bonded between a first substrate of the first wafer and a second substrate in the second wafer. A first opening is formed in the first substrate, and the first plurality of dielectric layers and the second wafer are etched through the first opening to form a second opening. A metal pad in the second plurality of dielectric layers is exposed to the second opening. A conductive plug is formed extending into the first and the second openings.
US11923331B2
In some embodiments, the present disclosure relates to an integrated chip (IC), including a substrate, a first die disposed over the substrate, a metal wire attached to a frontside of the first die, and a first plurality of die stopper bumps disposed along a backside of the first die and configured to control an angle of operation of the first die. The first plurality of die stopper bumps directly contacts a backside surface of the first die.
US11923329B2
A semiconductor die assembly in accordance with an embodiment of the present technology includes first and second semiconductor dies spaced apart from one another. The first semiconductor die has a major surface with non-overlapping first and second regions. The semiconductor die assembly further includes an array of first pillars extending heightwise from the first region of the major surface of the first semiconductor die toward the second semiconductor die. Similarly, the semiconductor die assembly includes an array of second pillars extending heightwise from the second region of the major surface of the first semiconductor die toward the second semiconductor die. The first and second pillars have different lateral densities and different average widths. The latter difference at least partially offsets an effect of the former difference on relative metal deposition rates of an electrochemical plating process used to form the first and second pillars.
US11923328B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor die having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface, a plurality of first real conductive pillars in a first region on the first surface, and a plurality of supporters in a second region adjacent to the first region. An area density of the plurality of supporters in the second region is in a range of from about 50% to about 100% to an area density of the plurality of first real conductive pillars in the first region. A method for manufacturing a semiconductor package including the semiconductor device is also disclosed in the present disclosure.
US11923327B2
A silicon integrated circuit. In some embodiments, the silicon integrated circuit includes a first conductive trace, on a top surface of the silicon integrated circuit, a dielectric layer, on the first conductive trace, and a second conductive trace, on the dielectric layer, connected to the first conductive trace through a first via.
US11923325B2
A memory chip unit includes a pad electrode including first and second portions, and a memory cell array. A prober includes a probe card and a movement mechanism. The probe card includes a probe electrode to be in contact with the pad electrode, and a memory controller electrically coupled to the probe electrode and executes reading and writing on the memory cell array. The movement mechanism executes a first operation that brings the probe electrode into contact with the first portion and does not bring the probe electrode into contact with the second portion, and a second operation that does not bring the probe electrode into contact with the first portion and brings the probe electrode into contact with the second portion.
US11923319B2
A method of fabricating a semiconductor package includes mounting at least one semiconductor chip to a package substrate, forming a shielding wall around the at least one semiconductor chip, forming a molded body on the package substrate in a space surrounded by the shielding wall, and forming a shielding cover covering the molding unit and in contact with the shielding wall.
US11923316B2
A display device according to an embodiment includes: a display panel; a first pad portion disposed on a lateral side of the display panel; and an information code disposed on the lateral side of the display panel.
US11923312B2
A die assembly is disclosed. The die assembly includes a die, one or more die pads on a first surface of the die and a die attach film on the die where the die attach film includes one or more openings that expose the one or more die pads and that extend to one or more edges of the die.
US11923293B2
In some embodiments, the present disclosure relates to an integrated chip that includes a first interconnect dielectric layer arranged over a substrate. An interconnect wire extends through the first interconnect dielectric layer, and a barrier structure is arranged directly over the interconnect wire. The integrated chip further includes an etch stop layer arranged over the barrier structure and surrounds outer sidewalls of the barrier structure. A second interconnect dielectric layer is arranged over the etch stop layer, and an interconnect via extends through the second interconnect dielectric layer, the etch stop layer, and the barrier structure to contact the interconnect wire.
US11923288B2
To provide a wiring substrate, an electronic device, and an electronic module the size of which can be easily reduced and the strength of which can be maintained. A wiring substrate includes an insulation substrate and an electrical wiring structure. The insulation substrate includes a recess section in one surface. A frame portion of the insulation substrate that forms a side surface which connects an opened surface and a bottom surface of the recess section to each other includes a first conductive portion having a plate shape in the frame portion.
US11923283B2
A semiconductor package including a first package substrate, a first semiconductor chip on a top surface of the first package substrate, an interposer electrically connected to the first package substrate on a top surface of the first semiconductor chip, and a molding layer configured to cover the first package substrate and the first semiconductor chip may be provided. The interposer may include an interposer trench recessed from a bottom surface of the interposer that faces both the top surface of the first semiconductor chip and the top surface of the first package substrate, and an interposer hole penetrating the interposer. The molding layer may include a filling portion filling a region between the first package substrate and the interposer, a through portion filling the interposer hole, and a cover portion covering at least a part of a top surface of the interposer.
US11923274B2
The subject application discloses a substrate. The substrate includes a first conductive layer, a first bonding layer, a first dielectric layer, and a conductive via. The first bonding layer is disposed on the first conductive layer. The first dielectric layer is disposed on the first bonding layer. The conductive via penetrates the first dielectric layer and is electrically connected with the first conductive layer.
US11923268B2
Techniques and mechanisms for promoting heat conduction in a packaged device using a heat spreader that is fabricated by a build-up process. In an embodiment, 3D printing of a heat spreader successively deposit layers of a thermal conductor material, where said layers variously extend each over a respective one or more IC dies. The heat spreader forms a flat top side, wherein a bottom side of the heat spreader extends over, and conforms at least partially to, different respective heights of various IC dies. In another embodiment, fabrication of a portion of the heat spreader comprises printing pore structures that contribute to a relatively low thermal conductivity of said portion. An average orientation of the oblong pores contributes to different respective thermal conduction properties for various directions of heat flow.
US11923267B2
Thermal heat spreaders and/or an IC die with solderable thermal structures may be assembled together with a solder array thermal interconnects. A thermal heat spreader may include a non-metallic material and one or more metallized surfaces suitable for bonding to a solder alloy employed as thermal interface material between the heat spreader and an IC die. An IC die may include a metallized back-side surface similarly suitable for bonding to a thermal interconnect comprising a solder alloy. Metallization on the IC die and/or heat spreader may comprise a plurality of solderable structures. A multi-chip package may include multiple IC die having different die thickness that are accommodated by a z-height thickness variation in the thermal interconnects and/or the solderable structures of the IC die or heat spreader.
US11923266B2
A semiconductor module circuit structure, including an insulating circuit substrate having an insulating plate, and a circuit pattern formed on a top face of the insulating plate, and a semiconductor element disposed on a top face of the circuit pattern. The circuit pattern includes a first straight part extending in a first direction, a second straight part extending in a second direction different from the first direction, and a corner part connecting the first and second straight parts. A wiring member is formed on a top surface of the first straight part along the first direction, the wiring member being formed off-center at the first straight part to be closer to an outer periphery of the circuit pattern.
US11923264B2
A semiconductor apparatus includes: a system substrate; a semiconductor package mounted on the system substrate and having a first length in a first horizontal direction; a conductive label flexible and arranged on the semiconductor package, the conductive label including: a first adhesive layer contacting the semiconductor package; a thermally-conductive layer attached to the semiconductor package by the first adhesive layer and having a second length in the first horizontal direction greater than the first length; and a second adhesive layer contacting a portion of a surface of the conductive layer, the portion not vertically overlapping the semiconductor package; a thermal interface material (TIM) arranged on the conductive layer to vertically overlap the semiconductor package; and a cover including: a first cover portion vertically overlapping the semiconductor package and contacting the TIM; and a second cover portion to which the thermally-conductive layer is attached by the second adhesive layer.
US11923263B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a chip underlying the substrate, a chip overlying the substrate, and a dummy die overlying the substrate. A pattern of the dummy die includes a first interior sidewall and a second interior sidewall, and a stress relief material between the first interior sidewall and the second interior sidewall to form a dummy die stress balance pattern.
US11923257B2
Hybrid microelectronic substrates, and related devices and methods, are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a hybrid microelectronic substrate may include a low-density microelectronic substrate having a recess at a first surface, and a high-density microelectronic substrate disposed in the recess and coupled to a bottom of the recess via solder.
US11923254B2
The present application provides a method for detecting temperature of thermal chamber comprising: conducting a thermal treatment at a predicted temperature to a selected silicon wafer within a thermal chamber, wherein the predicted temperature comprises plural temperature points set in order; obtaining a haze value corresponding to the predicted temperature; obtaining a linear relationship I between the temperature and the haze; polishing and washing the silicon wafer; conducting a thermal treatment at a predicted temperature to the polished silicon wafer within the thermal chamber; obtaining a linear relationship II between the temperature and the haze; calculating a difference of the haze at same temperature point between the two thermal treatments, and obtaining an actual temperature difference of the thermal chamber based on the difference of the haze. The present application increases efficiency and accuracy of temperature detection of the thermal chamber, reduce fluctuations caused by silicon wafer thickness and resistivity, increase utilization of silicon wafer, and reduce cost.
US11923251B2
A method includes forming a gate stack, which includes a gate dielectric and a metal gate electrode over the gate dielectric. An inter-layer dielectric is formed on opposite sides of the gate stack. The gate stack and the inter-layer dielectric are planarized. The method further includes forming an inhibitor film on the gate stack, with at least a portion of the inter-layer dielectric exposed, selectively depositing a dielectric hard mask on the inter-layer dielectric, with the inhibitor film preventing the dielectric hard mask from being formed thereon, and etching to remove a portion of the gate stack, with the dielectric hard mask acting as a portion of a corresponding etching mask.
US11923248B2
The present disclosure relates to semiconductor structures and, more particularly, to a single diffusion cut for gate structures and methods of manufacture. The structure includes: a plurality of fin structures; a plurality of gate structures extending over the plurality of fin structures; a plurality of diffusion regions adjacent to the each of the plurality of gate structures; a single diffusion break between the diffusion regions of the adjacent gate structures; and a liner separating the single diffusion break from the diffusion regions.
US11923239B2
Substrates for microelectronic radiofrequency devices may include a substrate comprising a semiconductor material. Trenches may be located in an upper surface of the substrate, at least some of the trenches including a filler material located within the respective trench. A resistivity of the filler material may be 10 kOhms·cm or greater. A piezoelectric material may be located on or above the upper surface of the substrate. Methods of making substrates for microelectronic radiofrequency devices may involve forming trenches in an upper surface of a substrate including a semiconductor material. A filler material may be placed in at least some of the trenches, and a piezoelectric material may be placed on or above the upper surface of the substrate.
US11923234B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for manufacturing electronic chips. The method includes forming a plurality of trenches on a first face of a semiconductor substrate, in and on which a plurality of integrated circuits has been formed. The trenches delimit laterally a plurality of chips, and each of the chips includes a single integrated circuit. The method further includes electrically isolating flanks of each of the chips by forming an electrically isolating layer on lateral walls of the trenches.
US11923219B2
The inventive concept relates to an apparatus for treating a substrate. In an embodiment, the apparatus includes a process chamber having a process space in which the substrate is treated with a fluid in a supercritical state, a support unit that supports the substrate in the process space, a fluid supply unit that supplies the fluid into the process space, a filler member disposed to face the substrate placed on the support unit in the process space, and a measurement unit that measures a state in the process space, the measurement unit being provided in the filler member.
US11923215B2
A processing system for processing a plurality of workpieces includes a transfer chamber in process flow communication with a first processing chamber and a second processing chamber, the transfer chamber having a first straight side, wherein the first process chamber includes at least one first processing station, and wherein the first processing chamber is disposed along the first straight side, wherein the second process chamber includes at least two second processing stations, wherein the second processing chamber is disposed along the first straight side, and wherein the second process chamber disposed in linear arrangement with the first process chamber along the first straight side, and wherein the transfer chamber includes at least one workpiece handling robot configured to transfer at least one workpiece to the at least one first processing station and the at least two second processing stations.
US11923213B2
Proposed is a substrate heating unit including: a laser generator providing a laser beam for heating a substrate; and a beam shaper processing the laser beam from the laser generator and selectively providing one of a first beam having a uniform energy distribution and a second beam having an edge-enhanced energy distribution to the substrate.
US11923209B2
A substrate processing apparatus includes a substrate support configured to support and rotate a substrate, at least one first lower cleaning nozzle configured to spray a first cleaning liquid on a lower surface of the substrate, at least one second lower cleaning nozzle configured to spray a second cleaning liquid on the lower surface of the substrate, a bowl assembly disposed around the substrate support, the bowl assembly including a cup body providing an annular shaped accommodating space and inner and outer collection portions sequentially arranged in a radial direction in a lower portion of the cup body, an annular shaped discharge guide plate disposed in the receiving space of the bowl assembly under the substrate and extending outwardly from a circumference of the substrate, and a discharge separation plate provided within the receiving space of the bowl assembly to be movable upward and downward.
US11923203B2
A method of fabricating a semiconductor device includes applying a plasma to a portion of a metal dichalcogenide film. The metal dichalcogenide film includes a first metal and a chalcogen selected from the group consisting of S, Se, Te, and combinations thereof. A metal layer including a second metal is formed over the portion of the metal dichalcogenide film after applying the plasma.
US11923179B2
A plasma processing apparatus for semiconductor processing includes an injector holder configured to removably mate with a structure defining an interior chamber of a plasma processing apparatus. The injector holder defines a first opening. A sleeve is configured to be received within the first opening, and the sleeve defines a second opening. A gas injector is configured to be received within the second opening of the sleeve.
US11923176B2
This disclosure provides a reactor system that includes a microwave source configured to generate a microwave energy, one or more energy sources configured to generate a thermal energy and a field-enhancing waveguide (FEWG) coupled to the microwave source. The FEWG includes a field-enhancing zone having a cross-sectional area that decreases along a length of the FEWG. The field-enhancing zone includes a supply gas inlet configured to receive a supply gas, a reaction zone configured to generate a plasma in response to excitation of the supply gas by the microwave energy, a process inlet configured to inject a raw material into the reaction zone, and an afterglow region configured to combine the plasma and the raw material in response to the thermal energy. An outlet outputs a plurality of carbon-inclusive particles resulting from the combination of the plasma and the raw material. Electrodes can be positioned proximate to the reaction zone.
US11923163B2
A fuse element for a fuse with an integrated measurement function, includes a first receiving area in an embodiment, for receiving a melting conductor of the fuse, delimited in the length direction of the fuse by a closure element and in a direction orthogonal to the length direction by the fuse element. Further, in an embodiment, the fuse element has a second receiving area, physically separated from the first receiving area, for receiving a measuring device of the fuse. The second receiving area is designed to receive the measuring device in a wall section of the fuse element. The second receiving area formed in the fuse element protects the measuring device arranged therein against interfering environmental influences. The measuring device is used to ascertain the electric current flowing through the fuse directly on the fuse.
US11923161B2
A Shunt Trip Circuit Interrupter is to be installed within an electrical panel and includes a number of sets of separable contacts, a housing, an operating mechanism structured to move each set of separable contacts between at least an ON condition and an OFF condition, and a tripping mechanism situated within an interior of the housing and including an electronic circuit, a solenoid electrically connected with the electronic circuit, and a wire electrically connected with the electronic circuit and extending between the electronic circuit and an exterior of the housing, the wire being structured to be electrically connected with a switch system having at least one of a manual switch and an electronic switch that, when actuated, actuates the solenoid that engages the operating mechanism which moves each set of separable contacts from the ON condition to the OFF condition.
US11923157B2
A multi-mode mechanical key switch assembly has a housing and a stem supported in a base of the housing, the stem constrained to move, when depressed during keystroke, from a resting state and toward the base of the housing. The assembly has a removable contact leaf spring seated in the housing and having a contact portion located in a travel path of the stem for engaging with the stem during the keystroke to provide audible and/or tactile feedback. The contact leaf spring is movable between a first seated position and a second seated position to change the characteristics of the feedback. Removal of the contact leaf spring from the housing enables the stem to travel its maximum keystroke distance without auditory or tactile feedback.
US11923152B2
An electrolytic capacitor includes a capacitor element that includes an anode body that has a porous structure, a dielectric layer disposed on a surface of the anode body, and a solid electrolyte layer that covers at least a part of the dielectric layer. The anode body contains a first group metal including at least one selected from the group consisting of tantalum, niobium, titanium, aluminum, and zirconium. The dielectric layer contains an oxide of the first group metal and a second group metal including at least one selected from the group consisting of iron, chromium, copper, silicon, molybdenum, sodium, and nickel. A ratio X of a total number of atoms of the second group metal to a total number of atoms of the first group metal in the dielectric layer is equal to or less than 100 ppm.
US11923151B2
Provided is an improved electronic component package. The electronic component package comprises a multiplicity of electronic components wherein each electronic component comprises a first external termination and a second external termination. The electronic component package also includes a structural lead frame comprising multiple leads wherein each lead is mounted to at least one first external termination and the structural lead frame comprises at least one break away feature between adjacent leads.
US11923143B2
A capacitive cable comprised six long, thin and narrow electrode plates or strips (101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106). Typically, they are 5 km long, 10 cm wide and 0.5 mm thick of aluminum or copper foil. Individual ones of them are separated by 0.25 mm thick polypropylene ribbons (107) insulating the individual strips from each other in an insulating manner. The assembly of strips and ribbons is contained within an insulating sheath 108. At opposite ends (111,112), the alternate strips are cut off short and the remaining fingers (114,115) are joined together and to connection wires (116,117), typically by riveting (118). The wires are insulated and the insulating sheath extends onto the insulation of the wires, whereby the entire cable is insulated for safe contact with foreign objects between the ends.
US11923135B2
Provided is a magnetic clamp device having a disassembly structure that is easy to maintain. In the magnetic clamp device 1, a magnetic pole 21 and an alnico magnet 23 each have fastening holes 21a, 23a that communicate with each other. The cavity portion 31 of the plate body 3 has an opening 33 that penetrates from the bottom surface 32b thereof to the back side of the plate body 3. A cap 7 having a base portion 71 having a bolt hole 74 communicating with the fastening holes 21a, 23a and a flange portion 72 abutting the surface 3b of the back side of the plate body 3 is inserted into the opening 33. A bolt 8 inserted into the fastening hole 23a of the magnetic pole 21 and the alnico magnet 23 from the front side of a magnetic pad 2 is screwed into a female screw thread 74a provided in the bolt hole 74 of the cap 7.
US11923130B2
A laminated core includes: a plurality of electrical steel sheets stacked in a thickness direction, wherein the electrical steel sheet includes an annular core back part and a plurality of tooth parts protruding from the core back part toward a radial direction and arranged at intervals in a circumferential direction of the core back part, and wherein among the plurality of electrical steel sheets, the tooth parts of the electrical steel sheets located at one side on the outside in a stacking direction are adhered to each other by an adhesion part provided between the tooth parts adjacent to each other in the stacking direction, the tooth parts of the electrical steel sheets located at the other side on the outside in the stacking direction are adhered to each other by an adhesion part provided between the tooth parts adjacent to each other in the stacking direction, and the tooth parts of the electrical steel sheets located at a center part in the stacking direction are not adhered to each other.
US11923123B2
A multilayer substrate includes first and second insulating layers stacked in a stacking direction with the second insulating layer located at a first side of the first insulating layer in the stacking direction, a first coil pattern disposed on a first principal surface of the first insulating layer on the first side of the first insulating layer in the stacking direction, and a second coil pattern disposed on a first principal surface of the second insulating layer on the first side of the second insulating layer in the stacking direction. The first and second coil patterns have spiral shapes. When viewed from the layer stacking direction, at least a portion of a first area in which the first coil pattern is disposed and at least a portion of a second area in which the second coil pattern is disposed overlap each other.
US11923120B2
A circuit is provided that comprises a transformer having a first coil, which is arranged on a substrate, a second coil, which is arranged above the first coil on the substrate, and a dielectric between the first coil and the second coil. The circuit furthermore comprises a resonant circuit, which is couplable to the first coil and/or the second coil to form a resonant loop, wherein a measure of a characteristic frequency of the resonant loop and/or a measure of a power consumption of the resonant loop is able to be tapped off at an output of the resonant circuit. A corresponding method is also provided.
US11923107B2
A high-voltage bushing has an insulator, which contains an insulating gas and an insulating solid, and an inner conductor which is led through the insulator. A mounting flange is employed for the mounting of the high-voltage bushing on a wall. A sensor, which is arranged on the mounting flange and is configured for the detection of at least one reaction product of the insulating gas and/or of the insulating solid. A corresponding method monitors an operating state of the high-voltage bushing.
US11923104B2
A cable includes a cable core including one or more electric wires, a shield layer covering around the cable core, and a sheath covering around the shield layer. The shield layer is composed of a braided shield including a plurality of first metal wires composed of aluminum or aluminum alloy and a plurality of second metal wires composed of copper or copper alloy. The plurality of first metal wires and the plurality of second metal wires are cross-braided.
US11923103B2
A stretchable and transparent electronic structure may generally include a stretchable elastomer layer; optionally, a metal adhesion layer on top of the stretchable elastomer layer; a metal alloying layer on top of the metal adhesion layer; and a liquid metal, wherein the structure is colorless and transparent when viewed under visible light. Methods of making the stretchable and transparent electronic structure are also described.
US11923098B2
A customizable thin plate fuel form and reactor core therefor are disclosed. The thin plate fuel will comprise a fuel material embedded within a matrix material, with the entire unit having a coating. The thin plate fuel may be flat or curved and will have flow channels formed within at least the top surface of the fuel plate. The structure of the thin plate fuel will make it easier for coating with Tungsten or any other suitable material that will help contain any byproducts, prevent reactions with the working fluid, and potentially provide structural support to the thin plate fuel.
US11923097B2
A sensor for passively measuring a maximum temperature within a nuclear reactor comprises a substrate, and a plurality of melt wires within a cavity defined within the substrate, at least one melt wire of the plurality of melt wires exhibiting a variable melting temperature along a length of the at least one melt wire. Related sensors and methods of forming the sensors are also disclosed.
US11923096B2
An inspection system for inspecting a machine includes an inspection vehicle constructed for wireless operation while submersed in a dielectric liquid medium. The inspection vehicle is self-propelled. A controller is operative to direct the activities of the inspection vehicle. A plurality of status interrogation systems is disposed on the inspection vehicle. The status interrogation systems are operative to capture inspection data regarding a plurality of inspection procedures performed on the machine.
US11923094B2
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for a system and method are provided for assessing the value of predictive models monitoring medical conditions. Trends in an individual's medical condition are determined based on monitoring values, and the trends are associated with the actions performed in response to the monitoring values and in accordance with the predictive models. The trends may indicate that an individual's condition is improving, worsening, or remaining stable in response to the action taken. Models used for multiple conditions for an individual or for a population of individuals may be assessed in this manner to generate knowledge regarding the performance of the models based on the actions taken. This knowledge may be used to assess the value of the models in terms of the models' performance and may provide insight on way to improve the models.
US11923092B2
Various embodiments of a fall-detection system for detecting personal fall while preserving the privacy of a detected person are disclosed. This disclosed fall-detection system can begin by receiving a sequence of video images comprising a person being monitored. The disclosed fall-detection system then processes each video image in the sequence of video images by: detecting the person in the video image; and extracting a skeletal figure of the detected person by identifying a set of human keypoints from the detected person. Next, the disclosed fall-detection system processes the sequence of skeletal figures corresponding to the sequence of video images by labeling each skeletal figure in the sequence of skeletal figures with an action among a set of predetermined actions. The disclosed fall-detection system subsequently generates a fall/non-fall decision for the detected person based on the set of action labels corresponding to the sequence of video images.
US11923086B2
Provided herein is a digital care circle platform for electronic communication between a senior and virtual care circle members. The digital care circle platform may include a chatbot and an application associated with the senior, a mobile application associated with the plurality of virtual care circle members, at least one processor in communication with at least one memory device, and one or more servers, sensors, wearables, and transceivers. The at least one processor may be configured to: (i) accept event posts from the senior via the chatbot and application and from each virtual care circle member of the plurality of virtual care circle members via the mobile application, (ii) detect pro-active check-ins from the senior, and (iii) generate, once a pro-active check-in is detected, an electronic communication detailing the pro-active check-in as a pro-active check-in event, and transmit the pro-active check-in event to the virtual care circle members.
US11923080B2
Medical patient monitoring devices that have the capability of detecting the physical proximity of a clinician token are disclosed. The medical patient monitoring devices may be configured to perform a selected action when the presence of a clinician is detected. The selected action may be dependent upon an attribute of the circumstances surrounding detection of the clinician.
US11923072B2
An image diagnosis supporting device includes a model reader that reads an image diagnostic model that outputs a diagnostic result for a diagnostic image that is an input medical image, a storage unit that stores facility data that is a plurality of medical images associated with diagnostic results held in a facility, and an adjuster that adjusts, based on the facility data, the image diagnostic model or the diagnostic image input to the image diagnostic model.
US11923061B2
A variable dose dispensing system may include a processor and memory. The processor secures a first container including a first dosage form of medication in a first location and a second container including a second dosage form of the medication in a second location within an automated dispensing device. The processor also receives a selection identifying an order for the medication, the order including at least a maximum amount to administer and determines that the first dosage form and the second dosage form are sufficient to provide the maximum amount. The processor also selects the first dosage form as preferable over the second dosage form based on one or more determined characteristics of the first dosage form and of the second dosage form and activates the automated dispensing device to permit access to the first location.
US11923059B2
A system and method for managing the contents of a medical storage container such as a tray that has a required inventory of medical articles. A Faraday cage enclosure is used to isolate, scan, and inventory the container. The container and each of the medical articles in the container have a respective RFID tag. A processor is programmed to retrieve the inventory list for the container based on its tag and compare the actual contents of the container according to their tags to the inventory list. Missing items and extra items are noted.
US11923058B2
An application system capable of providing a continuation of care for a user. This is achieved through the assessing of medication compliance, assessing medical testing compliance and providing appropriate care suggestions. The system incorporates medication reminder, medication compliance analytics and the capacity to provide responses to user specific medication inquiries. The system also incorporates medical test assessment capabilities and the capacity to provide basic medical testing protocols. Additionally, as medication and medical testing data are collected, processed and analyzed, they are stored in a zero-click fashion with results being rapidly presented back to the user via an interactive avatar. These data can also be provided in standard of care summaries to users, HIPAA compliant third parties and/or medical care providers.
US11923054B2
An AI based platform for processing information collected during a medical procedure. A method includes capturing images and speech during a medical procedure; processing the images using a trained classifier to identify image-based quality-of-care indicators (QIs); converting the speech into text; parsing the text into sentences; performing a search and replace on predefined text patterns in the sentences; identifying text-based QIs in the sentences; classifying sentences into sentence types using a trained model; updating sentences by integrating the image-based QIs with text-based QIs; and outputting structured data that includes sentences organized by sentence type.
US11923046B2
Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and apparatus for detecting microamplifications or microdeletions in the genome of a fetus. In some embodiments, the method comprises receiving sequence tags for each of a plurality of DNA fragments in a biological sample; determining genomic positions for the sequence tags; determining whether the density of DNA in each of a plurality of genomic regions is aberrantly high or low; identifying as a microamplification a set of consecutive genomic regions having aberrantly high density; and identifying as a microdeletion a set of consecutive genomic regions having aberrantly low density. The biological sample may be a blood sample obtained noninvasively from a female subject pregnant with the fetus.
US11923035B2
A pseudo dual port memory device in which an operating speed is improved and stability is increased is provided. The pseudo dual port memory device may include a memory cell, a pair of bit lines connected to the memory cell, a write driver, a sense amp, and a column multiplexer which is connected to the bit lines, receives a write multiplexer control signal and a read multiplexer control signal, connects the bit lines to the write driver in response to the write multiplexer control signal, and connects the bit lines to the sense amp in response to the read multiplexer control signal. A precharge control signal generation circuit which is connected to the column multiplexer may generate a precharge control signal on the basis of the read and write multiplexer control signals, and a bit line precharge circuit may precharge the bit lines based on the precharge control signal.
US11923034B2
Disclosed herein are related to an integrated circuit including a semiconductor layer. In one aspect, the semiconductor layer includes a first region, a second region, and a third region. The first region may include a circuit array, and the second region may include a set of interface circuits to operate the circuit array. A side of the first region may face a first side of the second region along a first direction. The third region may include a set of header circuits to provide power to the set of interface circuits through metal rails extending along a second direction. A side of the third region may face a second side of the second region along the second direction. In one aspect, the first side extending along the second direction is shorter than the second side extending along the first direction, and the metal rails are shorter than the first side.
US11923027B2
Methods, systems, and devices for read command fault detection in a memory system are described. For example, a memory device may be configured to set a field of a register with a first value, corresponding to a state where a read command has not been decoded. If the memory device receives and decodes a read command from a host device, the memory device may set the field with a second value. The memory device indicate a value of the field of the register to the host device, which may be used to evaluate whether to process information interpreted over an interface between the host device and the memory device. For example, if the host device receives an indication of the second value, the host device may proceed with processing and, if the host device receives an indication of the first value, the host device may refrain from processing.
US11923026B2
A data storage system may connect a non-volatile memory to a quarantine module that generates a quarantine strategy in response to a pending data access request to the non-volatile memory. The quarantine strategy can proactively prescribing a plurality of status levels for physical data addresses of the non-volatile memory. A comparison of a volume of errors for the non-volatile memory to a first threshold of the quarantine strategy with the quarantine module may prompt the alteration of a first status level of the plurality of status levels for a first physical data address of the non-volatile memory, as directed by the quarantine strategy.
US11923016B2
Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for technology that resumes a program operation with respect to NAND memory during a first tier in response to a suspension counter reaching a first threshold and resumes the program operation with respect to the NAND memory during a second tier in response to the suspension counter reaching a second threshold. The technology may also resume the program operation with respect to the NAND memory during a third tier in response to the suspension counter reaching a third threshold. Additionally, the technology may service one or more read operations with respect to the NAND memory until the suspension counter reaches the first threshold during the first tier, until the suspension counter reaches the second threshold during the second tier, and until the suspension counter reaches the third threshold during the third tier.
US11923015B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor storage device includes strings each with a first select transistor, memory cell transistors, and a second select transistor connected in series. Word lines are provided, each connected to memory cell transistors in a same position across the strings. A bit line is connected in common to a first end of each of the strings. A source line is connected in common to a second end of each of the strings. A control circuit is configured to perform an erase operation on strings. The control circuit adjusts, for each of the strings, either an application time of a first voltage applied to a gate of the first select transistor of the respective string in the erase operation or a voltage level of the first voltage applied to the gate of the first select transistor of the respective string in the erase operation.
US11923012B2
A semiconductor storage device includes memory cells, select transistors, memory strings, first and second blocks, word lines, and select gate lines. In the memory string, the current paths of plural memory cells are connected in series. When data are written in a first block, after a select gate line connected to the gate of a select transistor of one of the memory strings in the first block is selected, the data are sequentially written in the memory cells in the memory string connected to the selected select gate line. When data are written in the second block, after a word line connected to the control gates of memory cells of different memory strings in the second block is selected, the data are sequentially written in the memory cells of the different memory strings in the second block which have their control gates connected to the selected word line.
US11922999B2
A novel memory device is provided. The memory device includes a plurality of memory cells, and one memory cell includes a first transistor and a second transistor. One of a source and a drain of the first transistor is electrically connected to a gate of the second transistor through a node SN. Data written through the first transistor is retained at the node SN. When an OS transistor is used as the first transistor, formation of a storage capacitor is not needed. A region with a low dielectric constant is provided outside the memory cell, whereby noise from the outside is reduced and stable operation is achieved.
US11922990B2
Memory devices, systems including memory devices, and methods of operating memory devices and systems in which a memory device can include a voltage regulator for adjusting a supply voltage to an output voltage and providing the output voltage to other devices external to the memory device (e.g., other memory devices in the same memory system, processors, graphics chipsets, other logic circuits, expansion cards, etc.). A memory device may comprise one or more external inputs configured to receive a supply voltage having a first voltage level; a voltage regulator configured to receive the supply voltage from the one or more external inputs and to output an output voltage having a second voltage level different from the first voltage level; one or more memories configured to receive the output voltage from the voltage regulator; and one or more external outputs configured to supply the output voltage to one or more connected devices.
US11922983B2
The technology of this application relates to a data read/write apparatus and an electronic device, which relate to the data storage field, and can improve data read/write performance. The data read/write apparatus includes a first laser, configured to output a first optical pulse based on a control signal, where the control signal is a signal obtained based on to-be-written data, a dispersion compensator, configured to perform dispersion compensation on the first optical pulse to output a second optical pulse, and an optical fiber lens, connected to the dispersion compensator by using an optical fiber, and configured to focus the second optical pulse onto an optical storage medium, to write the to-be-written data to the optical storage medium.
US11922966B2
A signal separation device for acquiring a source signal from a mixed signal observed by a plurality of sensors includes: a database that stores feature information of a clean signal; separation matrix calculation means for repeatedly performing processes of, based on a separated signal obtained by multiplication of a mixed signal converted into a time-frequency representation by a separation matrix and on the feature information stored in the database, calculating a parameter to be used for an objective function for optimizing the separation matrix, and calculating a separation matrix for minimizing the objective function using the parameter; and output means for outputting a separated signal calculated using the optimized separation matrix obtained by the separation matrix calculation means.
US11922961B2
Audio decoder, method and computer program using a zero-input-response to obtain a smooth transition
An audio decoder for providing a decoded audio information on the basis of an encoded audio information includes a linear-prediction-domain decoder configured to provide a first decoded audio information on the basis of an audio frame encoded in a linear prediction domain, a frequency domain decoder configured to provide a second decoded audio information on the basis of an audio frame encoded in a frequency domain, and a transition processor. The transition processor is configured to obtain a zero-input-response of a linear predictive filtering, wherein an initial state of the linear predictive filtering is defined depending on the first decoded audio information and the second decoded audio information, and modify the second decoded audio information depending on the zero-input-response, to obtain a smooth transition between the first and the modified second decoded audio information.
US11922957B2
A method is described which decodes a downmix matrix for mapping a plurality of input channels of audio content to a plurality of output channels, the input and output channels being associated with respective speakers at predetermined positions relative to a listener position, wherein the downmix matrix is encoded by exploiting the symmetry of speaker pairs of the plurality of input channels and the symmetry of speaker pairs of the plurality of output channels. Encoded information representing the encoded downmix matrix is received and decoded for obtaining the decoded downmix matrix.
US11922954B2
An encoder includes a signal detection circuit and a signal encoding circuit. The signal encoding circuit is configured to encode the Nth-frame downmixed signal when the signal detection circuit detects that an Nth-frame downmixed signal includes a speech signal, or when the signal detection circuit detects that the Nth-frame downmixed signal does not include a speech signal, encode the Nth-frame downmixed signal when the signal detection circuit determines that the Nth-frame downmixed signal satisfies a preset audio frame encoding condition, or skip encoding the Nth-frame downmixed signal when the signal detection circuit determines that the Nth-frame downmixed signal does not satisfy a preset audio frame encoding condition.
US11922951B2
Techniques are disclosed that enable processing of audio data to generate one or more refined versions of audio data, where each of the refined versions of audio data isolate one or more utterances of a single respective human speaker. Various implementations generate a refined version of audio data that isolates utterance(s) of a single human speaker by processing a spectrogram representation of the audio data (generated by processing the audio data with a frequency transformation) using a mask generated by processing the spectrogram of the audio data and a speaker embedding for the single human speaker using a trained voice filter model. Output generated over the trained voice filter model is processed using an inverse of the frequency transformation to generate the refined audio data.
US11922946B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for determining textual transcription from minute facial skin movements. In one implementation, a system may include at least one coherent light source, at least one sensor configured to receive light reflections from the at least one coherent light source; and a processor configured to control the at least one coherent light source to illuminate a region of a face of a user. The processor may receive from the at least one sensor, reflection signals indicative of coherent light reflected from the face in a time interval. The reflection signals may be analyzed to determine minute facial skin movements in the time interval. Then, based on the determined minute facial skin movements in the time interval, the processor may determine a sequence of words associated with the minute facial skin movements, and output a textual transcription corresponding with the determined sequence of words.
US11922944B2
Phrase alternative data structures are generated from the lattice output of an audio input to Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) system. A user interface is supported for users to view phrase alternatives to selected portions of an audio transcript of the audio input, search the transcript based on query phrases, or edit the transcript based on phrase alternatives.
US11922932B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-readable storage media, for speech recognition using attention-based sequence-to-sequence models. In some implementations, audio data indicating acoustic characteristics of an utterance is received. A sequence of feature vectors indicative of the acoustic characteristics of the utterance is generated. The sequence of feature vectors is processed using a speech recognition model that has been trained using a loss function that uses a set of speech recognition hypothesis samples, the speech recognition model including an encoder, an attention module, and a decoder. The encoder and decoder each include one or more recurrent neural network layers. A sequence of output vectors representing distributions over a predetermined set of linguistic units is obtained. A transcription for the utterance is obtained based on the sequence of output vectors. Data indicating the transcription of the utterance is provided.
US11922930B1
A system and method for contextualized communication events and notifications for project management based on conversation processing. A portion of a conversation with a given user is recorded, stored in memory, and processed so as to influence subsequent interactions. These may include audio or other contextualized annunciations of related information and expectations concerning project responsibilities, schedules, and dependencies. Subsequent meetings and telephone calls may chivvy the project along through reminders of potential compliance or noncompliance with stated and accepted assignments. Other modes addressing conversational processing for social purposes can result in interwoven conversation guided among threads of interest, advertising and incented participation of conversational content and placement. The invention is capable of implementation in telecommunications systems such as cellular, local exchange, and VOIP, and in combination with other forms of internet-based telecommunication, including smart phones, conferencing systems, virtual meetings, adaptive forums, chat rooms and other social media.
US11922928B2
Apparatus and methods for leveraging machine learning and artificial intelligence to assess a sentiment of an utterance expressed by a user during an interaction between an interactive response system and the user is provided. The methods may include a natural language processor processing the utterance to output an utterance intent. The methods may also include a signal extractor processing the utterance, the utterance intent and previous utterance data to output utterance signals. The methods may additionally include an utterance sentiment classifier using a hierarchy of rules to extract, from a database, a label, the extracting being based on the utterance signals. The methods may further include a sequential neural network classifier using a trained algorithm to process the label and a sequence of historical labels to output a sentiment score.
US11922918B2
A noise controlling method includes generating a reference signal representing a primary noise, generating a secondary noise in response to a control signal for cancelling the primary noise, generating an error signal representing a superposition of the primary and secondary noises at a position, generating an additional reference signal, secondary noise, or additional error signal, and generating the control signal for generating the secondary noise using adaptive subband filtering based on the reference and error signals, the generating the control signal including decomposing the reference signal and the error signal into a subband reference and error signal for each subband, updating subband adaptive filters for a subband based on the subband reference signal and the subband error signal, updating a fullband adaptive filter based on the updated subband adaptive filter, and generating the control signal by filtering the reference signal by the updated fullband adaptive filter.
US11922917B2
An audio system for an ear mountable playback device comprises a compensation filter configured to generate a third compensation signal by applying filter operations to an audio signal, and an error compensation unit configured to generate a compensated error signal on the basis of the third compensation signal and a disturbed audio signal from an error microphone. The audio system further comprises a first noise filter configured to be adapted based on the compensated error signal, and a detection unit configured to estimate the acoustic leakage condition on the basis of the first noise filter or of the disturbed audio signal and an audio output signal. The compensation filter is configured to be adapted based on the acoustic leakage condition.
US11922908B2
The present invention is a thumb rest that has a wedge body that attaches to a string instrument such as a bass or guitar. The wedge body has fastening holes, extruded ridges, contoured edges, and a string instrument facing side. This allows for a less permanent modification to the instrument. The fastening holes are circular holes that traverse into the wedge body. The extruded ridges are rectangular sections extending from the wedge body. The string instrument facing side is the flat side of the wedge body. The proposed implementation allows a user to remove and or move the thumb rest at any time.
US11922903B2
An image display method includes displaying a first image and a second image on a display and, when the first image to which a first additional image identifying the first image is added and the second image to which a second additional image identifying the second image is added are displayed on the display along a first axis in a still state, making a display mode different between the first additional image added to the first image and the second additional image added to the second image.
US11922880B2
A current supply circuit according to the present disclosure may include a voltage/current converter configured to convert, into a data current, a data voltage received from a data driving circuit and a first current mirror circuit configured to mirror the data current so that a light-emitting diode (LED) current flows into an LED array. The data current may be adjusted based on a greyscale value of the LED array.
US11922879B2
A display substrate and a display device. The display substrate includes a pixel circuit in which the driving circuit controls a driving current for driving the light emitter element to emit light; the first light emission control circuit applies a first voltage to a first terminal of the driving circuit in response to a first light emission control signal; the second light emission control circuit applies the driving current to the light emitter element in response to a second light emission control signal; the first reset circuit applies a first reset voltage to the control terminal of the driving circuit in response to a first reset signal; the first reset signal and the first light emission control signal are simultaneously turn-on signals during a period; the first light emission control line and the second light emission control line extend along a first direction and are arranged in a second direction.
US11922878B2
A display panel includes: a pixel circuit, and a light-emitting element, that the pixel circuit includes a driving transistor configured to provide a driving current for the light-emitting element; a working process of the pixel circuit includes a data writing stage, in which a gate of the driving transistor receives a data signal, and a bias adjustment stage, in which a source or drain of the driving transistor receives a bias adjustment signal; and the pixel circuit has a frame refresh frequency F1, and a data refresh frequency including a first data refresh frequency F11 and a second data refresh frequency F22, that at least one second data refresh period includes N11 bias adjustment stages, a bias adjustment signal V11 is inputted in a first bias adjustment stage, and a bias adjustment signal Vi is inputted in an i-th bias adjustment stage, where V11≠Vi.
US11922877B2
The present disclosure achieves a display device provided with a pixel circuit that enables both high-frequency drive and low-frequency drive without causing deterioration in display quality. In a pixel circuit (20), a holding capacitor (C1) is provided between a second control node (NA) connected to a data signal line via a write control transistor (T3) and a first control node (NG) connected to a control terminal of a drive transistor (T4). An oxide thin-film transistor (TFT) is employed for each of a first initialization transistor (T1) having a second conductive terminal connected to the first control node (NG) and a threshold voltage compensation transistor (T2) having a first conductive terminal connected to the first control node (NG).
US11922873B2
A current control circuit for LED or OLED sub-pixels or pixels of an active matrix display is able to store bits or a bit of a control signal used to drive a pixel or sub-pixel, in a memory associated with each pixel or sub-pixel. The control circuit elements can be made compatible with thin-film processing such as to produce thin-film transistors.
US11922872B2
In a pixel, a display device including a pixel, and a method of driving the display device, the pixel includes a first transistor connected to a first power source, a fourth node and a first node, a second transistor connected to a third node, a data line and an i-th first scan line, a third transistor connected to the first node, the fourth node, and an i-th third scan line, a fourth transistor connected to the second node, an initialization voltage, and an i-th second scan line, a first capacitor connected between the third node and the first node, a second capacitor connected between the first node and the second node, and an organic light emitting diode connected between the second node and a second power source, wherein I is a natural number and the third transistor is an N-type transistor.
US11922862B2
An electroluminescent display apparatus includes a display panel including first and second pixel, a data voltage supply unit supplying the first pixel with a first data voltage of a first gate signal and supplying the second pixel with a second data voltage of a second gate signal in a vertical active period of a first frame and continuously supplying the second pixel with a sensing data voltage and a recovery data voltage of a third gate signal in a vertical blank period of the first frame, and a sensing circuit sensing an electrical characteristic of the second pixel based on the sensing data voltage in the vertical blank period. The recovery data voltage is supplied to the second pixel later than the sensing data voltage. The recovery data voltage supplied to the second pixel in the vertical blank period includes the first and second data voltages.
US11922851B2
A method includes: dividing a display area of a display panel into multiple sub-display areas distributed in an array; selecting at least two sub-display areas as reference sub-display areas, the reference sub-display areas being adjacent and one reference sub-display area includes a target sub-pixel to be compensated; determining a weight factor for each reference sub-display area according to a distance between a center point of the target sub-pixel and a center point of the reference sub-display area and a distance between center points of adjacent reference sub-display areas; calculating a weighted sum of average luminance values of the reference sub-display areas under a target grayscale value with the weight factors for the reference sub-display areas to obtain a target luminance value of the target sub-pixel under the target grayscale value; determining a compensation grayscale value of the target sub-pixel under the target grayscale value according to the target luminance value.
US11922848B2
Provided is a method for compensating a displayed picture in a display screen. The display screen includes a plurality of regions, each of the plurality of regions including a plurality of pixels; the method includes: determining transformation matrices corresponding to pixels in the plurality of regions based on texture complexities of pictures to be displayed in the plurality of regions; acquiring compensated grayscales by compensating grayscales of pixel points in the pictures to be displayed in the plurality of regions based on the transformation matrices corresponding to the pixels in the plurality of regions.
US11922844B2
An integrated driving device is provided. The integrated driving device includes a touch sensing circuit and an optical sensing circuit. The touch sensing circuit is configured to perform touch sensing in a plurality of touch sensing periods during a first frame period. The optical sensing circuit is configured to perform optical sensing during at least one optical sensing period during the first frame period to obtain optical sensing signals for generating first ambient light information. The touch sensing periods and the optical sensing period are non-overlapping. Correspondingly, an operation method of an integrated driving device is also provided.
US11922841B2
The present disclosure relates to a display device, and the display device according to an embodiment includes: a substrate including a display area and a peripheral area; a plurality of light-emitting elements positioned in a display area; a plurality of pixel circuits connected to a plurality of light-emitting elements, respectively; a sensor positioned on the peripheral area of the substrate; a leakage current detecting circuit connected to the sensor; and a light emitting wiring connected to the leakage current detecting circuit and connected to at least one of the plurality of light-emitting elements, wherein the sensor includes a first sensor and the first sensor includes a first sensing transistor, and a first conductive pattern spaced apart from the channel of the first sensing transistor, and the first conductive pattern is positioned in the same layer as at least one of a plurality of layers configuring the transistor.
US11922839B2
The present disclosure relates a display device and a method of driving the same. For example, a display device according to one or more embodiments of the present disclosure includes pixels, a sensing unit, and a compensator calculating a current compensation value for each of the pixels based on a sensing value of the sensing unit, a first pixel among the pixels includes at least two light emitting diodes connected in series with a first transistor that controls a current, the sensing unit outputs a sensing value by sensing a voltage of the light emitting diodes in a sensing period, and the compensator increases the current compensation value for the first pixel as a voltage of the second node decreases in the sensing period.
US11922831B2
An electronic device is provided, including a housing and a display screen covering the housing, where the housing includes a first housing portion, a second housing portion, and a third housing portion; when the electronic device is in a first state, the first and third housing portions are spliced, the electronic device performs displaying by the display screen covering the first and third housing portions, an accommodating space is formed between the first and third housing portions, and the second housing portion is accommodated in the accommodating space; and when the electronic device is in a second state, the first, second, and third housing portions are spliced, the second housing portion is located between the first and third housing portions, and the electronic device performs displaying by the display screen covering the first, second, and third housing portions.
US11922823B2
An apparatus for demonstrating the use of a medical device includes a body adapted for receiving the medical device. The body includes at least a portion adapted for viewing the medical device when positioned in the body. A cover is provided for selectively covering the portion of the body adapted for viewing the medical device. A kit and related methods are also disclosed.
US11922818B2
A system, method, node, apparatus, and computer program for allocating a flight corridor for use by an UAV (10) for traveling from a starting point to a destination point is presented. The UAV (10) is connected to a cellular network and associated with an Application Server, UAV-AS, (100) being responsible for an own geographical service area (150) where the UAV (10) is located. The UAV-AS (100) is maintaining a set of predetermined flight corridor segments in the geographical service area (150). The method is performed by the UAV-AS (100) and comprises receiving a request for allocation of a flight corridor for use by the UAV (10), the request comprising a starting point and a destination point. The method further comprises allocating a flight corridor being seamlessly covered by the cellular network and allowing a seamless control of the UAV (10) by the UAV-AS (100), the flight corridor comprising a concatenation of flight corridor segments and bridging the starting point and the destination point. The method also comprises sending a response comprising an identifier of the allocated flight corridor.
US11922806B2
An automobile vehicle continuous validation system includes a backend collecting data from a vehicle fleet and wirelessly communicating with the vehicle fleet. The backend is in wireless communication with at least one client. A vehicle module is provided on-board individual ones of multiple automobile vehicles of the vehicle fleet and performing an on-board vehicle validation analysis. A fleet-based validation module provided either at the backend or cloud based manages data defining a configuration of and a capability of the multiple automobile vehicles of the vehicle fleet. A validation manager generates validation tasks based on a user's definition or a desired production of the validation tasks of the validation analysis and a fleet vehicle availability. A client-side module remote from the multiple automobile vehicles of the vehicle fleet has interface items applied by the at least one client seeking to perform the validation analysis.
US11922802B2
There is provided a method for generating traffic data indicative of a traffic volume and/or traffic density within a navigable network in an area covered by an electronic map, the electronic map comprising a plurality of segments representing navigable elements of the navigable network. The method generally comprises obtaining positional data relating to the movement of a plurality of devices along the navigable elements represented by the segments of the electronic map; determining, using (at least) positional data relating to one or more congested segments within a region of the navigable network, an estimate of one or more average penetration rates for the region; determining a sample volume for a non-congested segment within the region based on the obtained positional data; and estimating, using the determined sample volume and a selected one of the average penetration rates for the region, a traffic volume and/or traffic density for the non-congested segment. Also provided are systems for performing the method. Accordingly, traffic volume and/or traffic densities can be estimated from probe data.
US11922798B2
A control device includes a detection unit, a specifying unit, and a phase offset control unit. The detection unit detects a contact position on a display provided with a plurality of drive units that performs tactile presentation. The specifying unit specifies, based on the contact position detected by the detection unit, a target phase offset, which is a phase offset being an acquisition target of a plurality of drive signals each of which drives each of the plurality of drive units. The phase offset control unit adjusts the phase offset of the plurality of drive signals so as to obtain the target phase offset specified by the specifying unit.
US11922797B2
To reduce a data amount required for tactile presentation while enabling driving of different types of tactile presentation devices corresponding to different physical amounts. An encoding device according to the present technology is provided with an encoding unit that generates coded data by performing encoding to compress an information amount by utilizing an interconversion property between physical amounts on a plurality of tactile signals representing different physical amounts. This makes it possible to obtain the tactile signals representing desired physical amounts within a range in which interconversion may be performed while compressing the information amount by utilizing the interconversion property between the physical amounts.
US11922794B2
When a parked vehicle sustains accidental damage, the system automatically communicates with the vehicle owner and optionally the perpetrator of the damage via, e.g., WLAN communications.
US11922782B2
A control unit performs a reconciliation process in a case where an error occurs while a transport unit is transporting media to a temporary storage unit or a storage unit and the number of media stored in a memory becomes uncertain, the reconciliation process being a process in which the control unit checks the number of media stored in the memory using the temporary storage unit while at least a part of the media remain in the temporary storage unit.
US11922777B2
An electronic gaming device includes a display device configured to display an electronic game that includes a dynamic wheel feature, a storage device storing a weighted table for the dynamic wheel feature, a processor programmed to: activate the dynamic wheel feature including displaying a wheel where each wheel section identifies an award; display an initial spin of the wheel; provide an initial award value by identifying a first entry in the weighted table indicating an initial award value; remove wheel sections from the displayed wheel that have award values that are less than or equal to the initial award value; perform a second spin of the wheel; and provide a second award value by identifying a second entry in the weighted table based on the third random number and which has an associated award value that is greater than the initial award value.
US11922765B2
The present disclosure relates generally to a system that utilizes a virtual ticket audit device to account for the transfer of virtual ticket vouchers between different components of a gaming establishment ecosystem.
US11922761B2
A system that interconnects multiple accounts associated with a gaming establishment.
US11922748B2
A door system includes a door jamb, a door panel, a window disposed in the door panel, a plurality of electronic components, a hinge pivotally coupling an edge of the door panel to the door jamb, and a control system disposed within the door panel. The plurality of electronic components include an electronic locking mechanism coupled to the door panel, a camera coupled to the door panel, a sensor configured to facilitate detecting at least one of sound or activity proximate the door panel, and a backup battery disposed in at least one of the door jamb or the door panel. The edge of the door panel is configured to receive power from an external power source to power the plurality of electronic components. The backup battery is configured to power at least one of the plurality of electronic components in an event of power loss from the external power source.
US11922744B2
An integrated electronic locking system and electronic locking device configured to enable electronic access control of an integrated electronic locking device via multiple electronic access modalities across multiple user types/roles. An object of the present disclosure is an integrated electronic locking system configured to enable a system administrator to configure different access control parameters for two or more different access control modalities/types across two or more different users and/or use cases. In accordance with certain embodiments, an integrated electronic locking system comprises an integrated electronic locking device communicably engaged with a remote server over a wireless or wireline communications interface to enable one or more operations of an integrated electronic access control method.
US11922736B2
A refuse vehicle includes multiple systems, each system including a sensor. The refuse vehicle also includes an automated check system. The automated check system includes processing circuitry configured to obtain sensor data from the sensor of each of the multiple systems, determine which of the multiple systems require manual inspection based on the sensor data, and operate a display screen to prompt a technician to manually inspect one or more of the multiple systems.
US11922725B2
A method and a device for generating an emoticon are provided. A first expression tag list corresponding to a face image in a portrait is acquired by inputting the face image into an expression recognition model. Additionally, at least one label text corresponding to the face image is determined based on the first expression tag list and a correspondence between a preset text and a second expression tag list. Furthermore, an expression image corresponding to the portrait is determined, where the face image is a part of the expression image. Moreover, an emoticon is generated by labelling the expression image with the at least one label text.
US11922719B2
An image processing apparatus includes a first skeleton extraction means, a second skeleton extraction means, and an integration unit. The first skeleton extraction means discriminates a valid region and an invalid region in a fingerprint image which is input, and extracts skeleton lines in the valid region. The second skeleton extraction means extracts skeleton lines in the invalid region. The integration unit generates a skeleton image by integrating the skeleton lines extracted in the valid region and the skeleton lines extracted in the invalid region.
US11922710B2
A character recognition method includes the following operations: determining that the image of character to be identified corresponds to a matching character of several registered characters according to several vector distances to be identified between a vector of an image of character to be identified and several vectors of several registered character images of several registered characters, and storing a matching vector distance between the vector of the image of character to be identified and a vector of the matching character by a processor; and storing a data of the matching character according to the image of character to be identified when the matching vector distance is less than a vector distance threshold by the processor.
US11922706B2
A driver monitoring system of a vehicle includes: a camera configured to capture an image of a driver on a driver's seat within a passenger cabin of the vehicle; a gaze module configured to determine a gaze vector based on a direction of pupils of the driver in the image; an area module configured to determine an area on a vertical plane in front of the driver based on a road in front of the vehicle; a location module configured to determine a location on the vertical plane where the gaze vector intersects the vertical plane; and a monitor module that determines whether the location on the vertical plane where the gaze vector intersects the vertical plane is within the area on the vertical plane.
US11922700B2
A method and apparatus for aiding a police officer in writing a report by creating a depiction of an incident scene is provided herein. During operation a drone will photograph an incident scene from above. Relevant objects will be identified and a depiction of the incident scene will be created by overlaying the relevant photographed real world objects onto a map retrieved from storage. The depiction of the incident scene will be made available to police officers to increase the officers' efficiency in report writing. More particularly, officers will no longer need to re-create the depiction of the incident scene by hand. Instead, the officer will be able to use the depiction of the incident scene.
US11922698B2
Systems, methods, and devices are described for monitoring and protecting electronic hardware, data assets, and the facility itself, particularly well-suited to monitoring remote facilities and resources in edge locations, including for determining door state for both equipment and personnel doors, and for determining values of one or more environmental parameters, using optical image analytics. An example system includes one or more edge-located hardware monitoring devices having one or more physical sensors, and custom software distributed across edge, cloud, mobile, and enterprise platforms. An example monitoring device can include an embedded computer, various sensors of different types, one or more cameras, a power supply, and several communication interfaces. All or virtually all sensing and processing capabilities can be integrated into the edge device, which utilizes low-cost sensors and video analytics to monitor the environment.
US11922692B2
A vehicle and a control method may adjust an augmented reality (AR) image of a point of interest (POI) based on at least one of a driving speed of the vehicle or a distance between the vehicle and the POI. The vehicle may include: an image sensor configured to obtain a front image of the vehicle; a display module configured to display the front image; and a controller configured to control the display module to display an AR image of a POI included in the front image by being superimposed on the front image, and adjust the AR image so that at least one of an amount of information or a size is changed based on at least one of a driving speed of the vehicle or a distance between the vehicle and the POI.
US11922685B2
Systems, devices, and methods for presenting information in the sky using drones are disclosed. The presentation of information includes navigating one or more drones to locations in the sky where the locations are associated with an image, emitting light signals at the locations, capturing the light signals with a user device, processing the captured signals to identify the image, capturing a background image including at least one of the locations associated with the image, and presenting simultaneously, on the user device, the identified image and the background image.
US11922681B2
The present disclosure relates to automated systems and methods adapted to quickly and accurately train a neural network to detect and/or classify cells and/or nuclei. The present disclosure also relates to automated systems and methods for using a trained cell detection and classification engine, such as one including a neural network, to classify cells within an unlabeled image.
US11922668B2
A set of user interface tools is described facilitating asynchronous adjudication of one or more regions-of-interest in a medical image by a group of two or more graders, each of which has access to the set of tools in a workstation environment. The set of tools include (1) a feature for enabling the graders to assess the medical image and manually delineate one or more specific regions-of-interest (ROI) in the medical image, (2) a feature for assessing the ROI(s) delineated by other graders, including display of the ROI delineated by other graders; (3) dialog features for explaining and discussing the assessments, including a text feature for discussing the assessments. The dialog features and the ROIs delineated by all the graders are visible to all the graders on the workstation display as they collectively adjudicate the medical image in a round-robin manner. The set of tools further include (4) a feature for manually verifying grader agreement with the other graders' assessments.
US11922663B2
A method for point cloud decoding includes receiving a bitstream. The method also includes decoding the bitstream into multiple frames that include pixels. A portion of the pixels are organized into patches and correspond to respective clusters of points of a 3D point cloud. The method further includes decoding, from the bitstream, an occupancy map frame. The occupancy map frame indicates the portion of the pixels included in the multiple frames that represent the points of the 3D point cloud. In addition, the method includes reconstructing the 3D point cloud using the multiple frames and the occupancy map frame. The method also includes determining whether to perform smoothing to the 3D point cloud based at least in part on properties of the multiple frames. Based on determining to perform the smoothing, the method includes performing the smoothing to the 3D point cloud.
US11922662B2
In one or more implementations, the apparatus, systems and methods disclosed herein are directed to configuring a color measurement device to output color measurements that match the expected output of a different color measurement device. In a particular implementation, a method is provided for matching the color measurements made by a color measurement device to the color measurements made by a target color measurement device by implementing a single step color calibration and conversion process using an Artificial Neural Network (ANN). By way of non-limiting example, the raw counts from the color measurement device is converted to a specific color space, such as L*a*b, directly through an ANN. Such ANN is trained to ensure the output of the color measurement from the color measurement device will match with the output of the color measurement from a target color measurement device.
US11922660B2
The method includes a step of acquisition of an image of the leading aircraft, a step of extraction of the outline, an adjustment step including implementing an outline registration algorithm, to determine an optimized profile from a comparison of the outline of the leading aircraft with a profile of the leading aircraft determined from a three-dimensional model of the leading aircraft and from an initial position of the following aircraft with respect to the leading aircraft, and a step of determination of the positioning according to six degrees of freedom of the following aircraft with respect to the leading aircraft, from the optimized profile and from the three-dimensional model of the leading aircraft. The method thus makes it possible to rapidly and accurately determine the positioning of the following aircraft with respect to the leading aircraft, this positioning being used to implement a formation flight.
US11922659B2
A coordinate calculation apparatus 10 includes: an image selection unit 11 configured to select, when a specific portion is designated in an object, two or more images including the specific portion from the images of the object; a three-dimensional coordinate calculation unit 12 configured to specify, for each of the selected images, a location of points corresponding to each other at the specific portion, and calculating a three-dimensional coordinate of the specific portion by using the location of the point specified for each of the images and the camera matrix calculated in advance for each of the images; a three-dimensional model display unit 13 configured to display, using the point cloud data of the object, a three-dimensional model of the object on a screen, and displaying the designated specific portion on the three-dimensional model based on the calculated three-dimensional coordinates.
US11922655B2
Techniques for aligning images generated by an integrated camera physically mounted to an HMD with images generated by a detached camera physically unmounted from the HMD are disclosed. A 3D feature map is generated and shared with the detached camera. Both the integrated camera and the detached camera use the 3D feature map to relocalize themselves and to determine their respective 6 DOF poses. The HMD receives the detached camera's image of the environment and the 6 DOF pose of the detached camera. A depth map of the environment is accessed. An overlaid image is generated by reprojecting a perspective of the detached camera's image to align with a perspective of the integrated camera and by overlaying the reprojected detached camera's image onto the integrated camera's image.
US11922650B2
It is possible to estimate a slack level accurately in consideration of a shape of a deformed cable. A point cloud analysis device sets a plurality of regions of interest obtained by window-searching a wire model including a quadratic curve model representing a cable obtained from a point cloud consisting of three-dimensional points on an object, the region of interest being divided into a first region and a second region. The point cloud analysis device compares information on the first region with information on the second region based on the point cloud included in the region of interest and the quadratic curve model for each of the plurality of regions of interest, calculates a degree of division boundary representing a degree to which a division position between the first region and the second region of the plurality of regions of interest is a branch point of the cable, and detects a division boundary point that is a branch point of a cable represented by the quadratic curve model based on the degree of division boundary calculated for each of the plurality of regions of interest.
US11922644B2
Described herein are examples of weld tracking systems implemented via a welding helmet. The welding helmet includes weld tracking sensors configured to allow the welding helmet to track a welding-type tool and/or an arc generated by the welding-type tool. The welding helmet also includes helmet tracking sensors configured to allow the welding helmet to track its own position and/or orientation relative to a reference point in the welding environment. By tracking itself as well as the welding-type tool and/or arc, the welding helmet can differentiate between its own movement, and movement of the welding-type tool and/or arc. By knowing the spatial relationship between the different sensors of the welding helmet, the tracking information can be combined and used for weld tracking. By implementing the weld tracking system in the welding helmet, the weld tracking system becomes portable and usable outside of the usual fixed confines of weld tracking systems.
US11922639B2
A method for generating an high-dynamic-range (HDR) color image from a dual-exposure-time single-shot HDR color image sensor includes obtaining pixel values generated by a local region of sensor pixels of the image sensor, determining a motion parameter for the local region from pixel values associated with a first color, and demosaicing the pixel values of the local region to determine, for each of three colors, an output value of the images pixel, wherein relative contributions of short-exposure-time pixels and long-exposure-time pixels to the output value are weighted according to the motion parameter. A method for generating an HDR color image from a triple-exposure-time single-shot HDR color image sensor includes generating a first dual-exposure-time HDR image from short-exposure-time and medium-exposure-time pixel values, generating a second dual-exposure-time HDR image from medium-exposure-time and long-exposure-time pixel values, and generating a triple-exposure-time HDR color image from the first and second dual-exposure-time HDR images.
US11922630B2
A device may receive images of a patient, and may perform segmentation of surfaces on the images to create a 3D model. The device may identify normal tissue regions and atrial fibrosis (AF) regions in the 3D model, and may divide the 3D model into the normal tissue regions and the AF regions. The device may assign first cell and tissue properties to the normal tissue regions, and may assign second cell and tissue properties to the AF regions. The device may perform simulations on the normal tissue regions and the AD regions, based on the first and second cell and tissue properties, to generate simulation results, and may extract first features from the simulation results. The device may extract second features from the images, and may process the first and second features, with a model, to select a feature that is predictive of atrial fibrillation recurrence.
US11922617B2
The present application provides a method and system for defect detection. The method includes: acquiring a two-dimensional (2D) picture of an object to be detected; inputting the acquired 2D picture to a trained defect segmentation model to obtain a segmented 2D defect mask, where the defect segmentation model is trained based on a multi-level feature extraction instance segmentation network with intersection over union (IoU) thresholds being increased level by level, and the 2D defect mask includes information about a defect type, a defect size, and a defect location of a segmented defect region; and determining the segmented 2D defect mask based on a predefined defect rule to output a defect detection result.
US11922616B2
An alignment device includes a holding device capable of holding the second workpiece, a moving device that moves the holding device toward the first workpiece, a mirror member capable of reflecting the second workpiece, the mirror member being arranged adjacent to the first workpiece, an image sensor arranged to be able to simultaneously and continuously capture the first workpiece and a mirror image of the second workpiece reflected on the mirror member, and a control device that performs feedback control of the moving device based on the calculated position of the second workpiece with respect to the first workpiece based on the first workpiece and the mirror image of the second workpiece, which are captured by the image sensor, to align the second workpiece with the first workpiece.
US11922613B2
An inspection system for determining wafer defects in semiconductor fabrication may include an image capturing device to capture a wafer image and a classification convolutional neural network (CNN) to determine a classification from a plurality of classes for the captured image. Each of the plurality of classes indicates a type of a defect in the wafer. The system may also include an encoder to encode to convert a training image into a feature vector; a cluster system to cluster the feature vector to generate soft labels for the training image; and a decoder to decode the feature vector into a re-generated image. The system may also include a classification system to determine a classification from the plurality of classes for the training image. The encoder and decoder may be formed from a CNN autoencoder. The classification CNN and the CNN autoencoder may each be a deep neural network.
US11922601B2
A medical image processing apparatus includes: an obtaining unit configured to obtain a first image that is a motion contrast en-face image of an eye to be examined; and an image quality improving unit configured to generate a second image with at least one of lower noise and higher contrast than the obtained first image using the obtained first image as input data that is input into an image quality improving engine, wherein the image quality improving engine includes a machine learning engine that has been obtained by using training data including a second image with at least one of lower noise and higher contrast than a first image that is a motion contrast en-face image of an eye to be examined.
US11922594B2
Techniques and systems are provided for dynamically adjusting virtual content provided by an extended reality system. In some examples, a system determines a level of distraction of a user of the extended reality system due to virtual content provided by the extended reality system. The system determines whether the level of distraction of the user due to the virtual content exceeds or is less than a threshold level of distraction, where the threshold level of distraction is determined based at least in part on one or more environmental factors associated with a real world environment in which the user is located. The system also adjusts one or more characteristics of the virtual content based on the determination of whether the level of distraction of the user due to the virtual content exceeds or is less than the threshold level of distraction.
US11922587B2
Systems and methods describe an augmented reality (AR) system for generating AR experiences in real-time. The AR experience system receives a selection of an AR experience from an application running on a computer device, displays a first set of textual cues associated with the AR experience on the computer device, receives a first set of image data corresponding to the first set of textual cues, generates a first AR object associated with the AR experience, displays the first AR object on the computer device and a second set of textual cues associated with the AR experience, receives a second set of image data corresponding to the second set of textual cues, and generates a second AR object associated with the AR experience.
US11922586B1
Augmented reality eyewear are provided removing need to aim-down-sight while using a firearm. Eyewear have accelerometer sensors outputting a “view angle” that is compared with line of sight or “head angle” and true horizon. A camera system outputs the target distance. A firearm equipped with one or more accelerometers output a trajectory. With the firearm and goggles within an arms length proximity of one another, data points can be combined to create a full 3D spacial image of the bullet's path. Target distance determines the length of the trajectory and “termination coordinates” describing the projectile's target in space relative to the user's personal coordinate system (i.e., view angle). Relative termination coordinates can then be delivered to the goggle drivers. The termination coordinates are converted to a pixel command generating an illuminated aiming reticle that corresponds with the direction a firearm is pointing and overlaid on the target.
US11922579B2
There is provided an image processing apparatus and an image processing method that are capable of suppressing an increase in loads when a point cloud is generated from a mesh. Point cloud data is generated by positioning points at intersection points between a surface of a mesh and vectors each including, as a start origin, position coordinates corresponding to a specified resolution. For example, intersection determination is performed between the surface of the mesh and each of the vectors, and in a case where the surface and the vector are determined to intersect each other, the coordinates of the intersection point are calculated. The present disclosure can be applied to an image processing apparatus, electronic equipment, an image processing method, a program, or the like.
US11922574B2
A method for determining a plurality of layers of bounding boxes of an object includes determining a polyhedron capable of accommodating the object therein as a first-layer bounding box. The method also includes selecting one vertex from a plurality of vertices of the first-layer bounding box as a target vertex, and determining, by processing circuitry of a computing device, a support plane of the object. The support plane has a normal vector that has a specific direction corresponding to the target vertex and that is closest to the target vertex, the support plane being a plane passing through a point on a surface of the object such that the object is completely located on one side of the support plane. The method further includes cutting the first-layer bounding box based on at least the support plane to form a smaller bounding box, as a second-layer bounding box.
US11922573B2
The disclosure notably relates to computer-implemented method for learning a neural network configured for inference, from a freehand drawing representing a 3D shape, of a solid CAD feature representing the 3D shape. The method includes providing a dataset including freehand drawings each representing a respective 3D shape, and learning the neural network based on the dataset. The method forms an improved solution for inference, from a freehand drawing representing a 3D shape, of a 3D modeled object representing the 3D shape.
US11922569B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating realistic full-scene point clouds. One of the methods includes obtaining an initial scene point cloud characterizing an initial scene in an environment; obtaining, for each of one or more objects, an object point cloud that characterizes the object; and processing a first input comprising the initial scene point cloud and the one or more object point clouds using a first neural network that is configured to process the first input to generate a final scene point cloud that characterizes a transformed scene that has the one or more objects added to the initial scene.
US11922534B2
A method and system for generating and shading a computer graphics image in a tile based computer graphics system is provided. Geometry data is supplied and a plurality of primitives are derived from the geometry data. One or more modified primitives are then derived from at least one of the plurality of primitives. For each of a plurality of tiles, an object list is derived including data identifying the primitive from which each modified primitive located at least partially within that tile is derived. Alternatively, the object list may include data identifying each modified primitive located at least partially within that tile. Each tile is then shaded for display using its respective object list.
US11922529B2
A computer server may receive, from a remote device, an indication of a selection of a subset of a plurality of vendor entities associated with an enterprise. The server may then access a vendor data store to obtain vendor parameters associated with the subset of vendor entities, wherein the vendor data store contains electronic records representing a plurality of vendor entities, and each electronic record includes an electronic record identifier, vendor parameters, and an electronic communication address. The server may then automatically analyze the obtained vendor parameters and data in a metric data store (e.g., benchmark information) to generate vendor logistical variance results for each of the subset of vendor entities. An indication of the vendor logistical variance results may then be transmitted to be displayed on an interactive graphical user interface display that includes at least one electronic communication address from the vendor data store.
US11922527B1
A system may include a first computing system that may include at least one processor. The at least one processor may receive a request for identification information associated with a user of the first computing device, such that the request is received from a second computing device. The at least one processor may then receive information regarding an entity associated with the second computing device, retrieve data comprising the identification information from a storage component, generate additional data comprising a portion of the identification information based on the information regarding the entity, and send the additional data to the second computing device.
US11922520B2
A computer-based method, system, and computer program product for automatically identifying significant events for food traceability. The method may comprise receiving a series of events from an agriculture supply chain entity, automatically determining, at a machine learning model of an event analysis module, one or more events in the series having a significance for food traceability greater than a threshold, and automatically reporting the one or more events to a ledger.
US11922515B1
Platform-agnostic digital assistant methods and apparatuses are provided. The apparatuses and methods include a processor configured by a memory to receive user data from a storage containing informational contents. The processor is configured to establish a communication channel with an entity and utilize the communication channel to receive first information related to a user. The processor is configured to extract at least one user datum from the first information and modify the informational contents of the storage based on at least one of the user datum and the first information. The processor is further configured to initiate an action related to the user based on at least one of the first information, the user datum, and the informational contents.
US11922512B1
A method for determining vehicle insurance costs includes receiving a starting location and a destination location for a trip using a vehicle. One or more routes for the vehicle from the starting location to the destination location are received. A cost of insurance is determined for each of the one or more routes for the trip. The cost of insurance for each of the one or more routes for the trip is displayed. A selected route from the one or more routes is received. Operation of the vehicle for the trip is enabled along the selected route.
US11922511B2
A method for identifying a primary vehicle associated with a user of a mobile device includes receiving an indication of a vehicle entry event from a mobile device and retrieving sensor data from the mobile device. The method further includes receiving an indication of a vehicle exit event from the mobile device, generating a trip log including portions of the sensor data, and storing the trip log in a trip database. A server, or other suitable computing device, then analyzes the trip log and a plurality of previously stored trip logs in the trip database to determine a primary vehicle corresponding to the user of the mobile device. The method may allow a computing device to assign gathered mobile device data to a specific household vehicle.
US11922508B1
Systems and methods related to sourcing and managing a supplier is provided. For example, a system includes a processor operatively coupled to a memory and configured to receive an indication of one or more sourcing designations for a property and casualty insurance claim from a remote device, evaluate at least one of a respective risk and a respective cost associated with multiple suppliers that may be used to address the one or more sourcing designations, provide a recommendation to use a recommended supplier of the multiple suppliers based at least in part on the at least one of the respective risk and the respective cost of the multiple suppliers, and generate a contract that is appropriate for use with the recommended supplier of the multiple suppliers.
US11922507B2
Aspects described herein may allow displaying of augmented reality content items associated with selected vehicle models, as well as price or budget information associated with the displayed vehicle to facilitate the user to make purchasing or financing decisions. For example, a computing device may detect a plurality of physical anchors attached to a vehicle husk and determine location information for each of the plurality of physical anchors. The computing device may receive one or more augmented reality (AR) content items corresponding to one or more vehicle features for the selected vehicle model and display via an AR interface, the one or more AR content items positioned relative to the vehicle husk based on the location of each of the plurality of physical anchors, as well as a price associated with the selected vehicle model having the one or more vehicle features.
US11922502B2
Example methods, apparatus, and computer readable storage media are described and disclosed. An example method includes depicting a strategy node in a graphical user interface presented by a computing device. The strategy node represents a trading strategy associated with two or more tradeable objects. The example method includes generating a graphical connector between the strategy node and one of a plurality of contract nodes including at least a first contract node and a second contract node. Each contract node represents a contract associated with one of the tradeable objects. The example method includes repositioning, in response to an input received via the graphical interface, an endpoint of the graphical connector from the first contract node specified by the trading strategy to the second contract node. The example method also includes generating an updated trading strategy based on the trading strategy and the second contract node.
US11922501B2
A system for audibly conveying financial information includes at least one processor operatively coupled to a data source via a network, and configured to receive at least one user-selected musical parameter, as well as financial data from the data source associated with a financial asset. The financial data includes a variable parameter which varies over a time period. The at least one processor is further configured to determine, for a plurality of values of the variable parameter during the time period, a plurality of musical notes based on the plurality of values of the variable parameter and the user-selected musical parameter, and to generate audio data associated with the plurality of musical notes. The generated audio data is processable by a device to audibly produce the plurality of musical notes.
US11922500B2
The example methods and systems described herein provide for configuration of one or more trade order parameters to associate with one or more trade orders, where the trade orders may be submitted to one or more electronic exchanges. According to an example embodiment, rather than having the trader manually configure each individual parameter associated with each trade order, a trader can pre-configure customer and order parameters. A user, for example a trader, broker, or market maker, can configure trade order parameters to associate with one or more customers, one or more order types, and/or internal messages to associate with any of the configured customers or orders. Based on the selected customer and tradeable object, the trading system evaluates the pre-configured customer and associated order parameters and determines which trade order parameters best match. The trading system then dynamically populates the order entry window with the specific trade order parameters associated with the best match.
US11922497B1
A method employs consumer permissioned financial data to generate an updated credit score following a consumer authorization to access to at least one demand deposit account of the consumer for use in generating the credit score for the consumer. The consumer permissioned financial data may be sourced from any one of a plurality of aggregators where the aggregators employ different data structures for the financial data. The financial data is processed to automatically normalize the data received from an aggregator by applying a common classification system across the plurality of aggregators to classify a first set of data fields; and automatically, regardless of whether an updated credit score is advantageous for the consumer and independent of any further consumer permission, generating the updated credit score using a combination of credit file data for the consumer and the financial data received from the aggregator.
US11922496B2
The system and method of the present invention expand/enhance modeling for credit risks scores. The expanded modeling system and methods discussed herein identify new credit risk related attributes using limited and/or unconventional credit data. In an aspect, the system and method enhance performance definitions to capture incremental insight, expanding the applicable consumer segments previously inaccessible.
US11922495B1
Techniques described herein are directed to an intelligent lending platform in which a payment service may receive respective lending queries from users, analyze the queries using a machine-learned model and, if the queries are denied, output respective signals indicating that the respective queries are denied and the reasons for each respective decline. In some instances, the described techniques analyze data associated with each respective denied query to determine high-level reasons for the decline and may present these reasons in a manner that is both understandable to and actionable by the respective user. That is, the techniques may automatically identify the most significant reasons why a particular lending query was denied and may automatically output these reasons to a user in a manner that the user is able to easily comprehend and act upon to increase the chance of receiving an approval upon a subsequent lending query.
US11922491B1
Generating dynamic base limit value user interface elements determined from a base limit value model
The disclosure describes embodiments of systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable storage media that utilize a variety of machine learning models and a base limit value model to generate user interface elements that transparently and efficiently present current and future base limit values for user accounts. For example, the disclosed systems can utilize a machine learning model to determine a base limit value, subsequent base limit value, and user activity conditions to achieve the subsequent base limit value for a user account. Then, the disclosed systems can display a base limit progress element that indicates progress towards fulfilling the user activity conditions to achieve the subsequent base limit value. For example, the disclosed systems can display, within a graphical user interface, multiple base limit progress elements that indicate progress towards fulfilling the user activity conditions in separate time-based segments (e.g., to represent time elements within the user activity conditions).
US11922489B2
A camera is used to capture image data of representations of a physical environment. Planes and surfaces are determined from a representation. The planes and the surfaces are analyzed using relationships there between to obtain shapes and depth information for available spaces within the physical environment. Locations of the camera with respect to the physical environment are determined. The shapes and the depth information are analyzed using a trained neural network to determine items fitting the available spaces. A live camera view is overlaid with a selection from the items to provide an augmented reality (AR) view of the physical environment from an individual location of the locations. The AR view is enabled so that a user can port to a different location than the individual location by an input received to the AR view while the selection from the items remains anchored to the individual location.
US11922485B2
Systems and methods for facilitating a purchase are described. A user logs in to a payment service provider site. The user provides authorization to use a one-page checkout service. The user's information is captured during the session, and a cookie is placed on the user's device. When the user goes on a merchant website and checks out using the payment service provider, the payment service provider detects the cookie on the user device. The payment service provider uses the cookie, and in one embodiment, centrally stored information, to populate the one-page checkout page with the last used payment. In various embodiments, the one-page checkout page also displays a shipping address.
US11922479B2
Artificial intelligence (AI) assisted technology for grocery recommendations and nutrient optimization includes an intuitive application (app) that can use AI to improve grocery recommendations during grocery shopping to optimize nutrition and encourage users to purchase foods that can help the user receive more complete nutrition. Automatically capturing nutritional information while grocery shopping can assist users seeking to improve their health because it operates while users are performing their grocery shopping, when users have the best opportunity to shape the foods that will be available to them to consume. Nutritional optimization while grocery shopping can improve the use of resources including time and money (due to the cost of food) because it can provide suggestions to address nutritional opportunities that represent nutritional surpluses and nutritional opportunities that represent nutritional deficits. Nutritional optimization while grocery shopping can recommend complementary food items to improve nutritional deficits while minimizing nutritional surplus.
US11922476B2
Aspects described herein may relate to methods, systems, and apparatuses that provide new capabilities for recommending purchases to a user based on a new descriptor referred to as “purchase embeddings.” The purchase embedding may include a tuple in a new multi-dimensional search space for describing and tracking purchases of goods and services. Recommendations may be based on a distance between tuples in the search space, which provides a measure of similarity between items represented by the tuples.
US11922474B2
A system for assisting a user in listing items for sale in an electronic marketplace via an electronic marketplace application is disclosed. A product identification technique for assisting the user in listing of the item for sale in the electronic marketplace is determined based on initial user input provided by the user. A prompt to provide additional user input is then displayed to the user in the user interface of the electronic marketplace application, where the additional user data corresponds to the determined product identification technique for assisting the user. A listing for the item is generated based on the additional input provided by the user, and the listing is displayed to the user in the user interface of the electronic marketplace application.
US11922466B2
Among other things, advertisements are received for brands or products of brands. Criteria for placement of the advertisements are received at online retail sites. The online retail sites are controlled independently from one another. Inventory data for the products at the online retail sites is received and stored. Data about propensities of the consumers to favor one or more of the brands or one or more products of the brands, from activities of consumers on the online retail sites, is stored. Activity data about current activities of the consumers on the online retail sites is received. One or more of the advertisements are placed on pages served to the online retail sites based on the placement data, the inventory data, the propensity data, and the activity data. Conversion data is received indicating that consumers engaged in conversion events with respect to products associated with the brands or products of brands being advertised. The brands are charged based on the placing of the advertisements and the conversion events. The online retail sites are paid for the placing of the advertisements and the conversion events.
US11922464B2
A system and method facilitate digital marketing for sponsors of live television broadcasts. The system allows a user, using an application on a computing device while a piece of sponsored content is being broadcast, to express an interest in the broadcast piece of sponsored content and the interest of the user is communicated to a backend system that selects an endpoint destination associated with the broadcast piece of sponsored content wherein the endpoint destination is a pointer to further digital information about the broadcast piece of sponsored content. The system and method may periodically change the selected endpoint destination based on an event in the sponsored piece of content.
US11922454B1
An example method includes detecting, using a user interaction tracking module associated with a website, access of a user of a webpage that is part of the website. The website provides multiple products for sale and is operated by an entity. The user interaction tracking module is provided by an offer aggregator entity that is distinct from the entity. The website has a theme providing a look and feel for the website. The method further includes accessing a profile of the user and identifying, based on the profile of the user, multiple offers to provide to the user. Each offer includes an offer title and a reference to one or more products of the multiple products. The method further includes providing for display to the user in the webpage the multiple offers. Each offer for display includes the offer title and the reference and has the theme of the website.
US11922439B2
A system, method, and computer program product for identifying consumer items more likely to be bought by an individual user. In some embodiments, a collaborative filter may be used to rank items based on the degree to which they match user preferences. The collaborative filter may be hierarchical and may take various factors into consideration. Example factors may include the similarity among items based on observable features, a summary of aggregate online search behavior across multiple users, the item features determined to be most important to the individual user, and a baseline item against which a conditional probability of another item being selected is measured.
US11922437B2
An embodiment of the present invention is directed to a market data hub. The innovative system comprises a processing engine that manages contributed content and allows for custom analytics, alerting, reporting, machine learning interfaces, etc., while preserving entitlements controls specific to participants. Moreover, the system disseminates market data to downstream consumers and syndicated entities that are entitled to view the market data.
US11922436B2
Approaches are provided that determine and fine-tune product assortments carried by retail stores. In aspects, the number of stores that carry the item, the sales performance of the item, the loyalty of customers to the item, whether substitutes for the item can be found, and other factors are used to determine an actions such as increasing or decreasing the shelf space for an item.
US11922432B2
An information collection server obtains relevant information relating to legislation, regulations, or standards (vehicle emissions control) from an external server group and a local server and provides the obtained relevant information to an information processing server. When the information processing server receives the relevant information from the information collection server, it performs conversion processing on each piece of information included in the relevant information in accordance with each piece of information to convert each piece of information into an index relating to a degree of influence on revision of the emissions control. The information processing server provides each resultant index to a prediction creation server. When the prediction creation server receives each resultant index from the information processing server, it predicts a stage of revision of the emissions control based on each index.
US11922430B2
A system and method using blockchain for monitoring and tracking customer service representative actions are disclosed. In the system and method, customer service representative actions are encrypted using an encryption key specific to a company on whose behalf the customer service representative is acting. The customer service representative signs the encrypted action with a private key of a public/private key pair. The signed, encrypted action record is placed on the blockchain, which can later be accessed to review the actions of the customer service representative or actions of any customer service representative acting on behalf of the specific company.
US11922426B2
Systems and methods for artificial intelligence transaction priority control are presented. Transaction priority control may be provided in the context of online user accounts maintained by financial institutions. Transaction priority control may be obtained through querying transaction information from a database, applying a predictive model to determine a likely future transaction, assigning a priority score to the future transaction, and approving or denying the future transaction based on the priority score.
US11922425B2
Various embodiments described herein are generally directed to techniques for managing fraud rules and generating authentication directions according to location data from one or more client devices. Embodiments may include using a payment server informed by a client device application to manage and/or apply fraud rules for transactions. In embodiments, fraud rules may be managed based on location data provided by a client device application and/or location data associated with at least one transaction system. In some embodiments, fraud rules may be managed based on location data provided by multiple client device applications and/or location data associated with at least one transaction system. In some embodiments, rules may be managed for an individual authorization request according to information from at least one client device application and location data for a transaction system associated with the authorization request.
US11922422B2
A method of determining fraud includes: receiving a transaction request associated with a first payment transaction between a merchant and a user from a merchant system; generating a first risk score based on the transaction request and a first set pot of transaction data received prior to the transaction request; processing a transaction request approval based on the first risk score not satisfying a first threshold; receiving a risk score request associated with the first payment transaction, where the risk score request is received after the transaction request has been approved; generating a second risk score based on a second set of transaction data received after the first risk score is determined; and automatically classifying the first payment transaction as potentially fraudulent in response to determining that the second risk score satisfies a second threshold.
US11922421B2
Techniques are described herein for pattern identification using enhanced event stream processing. In an embodiment, an event instance is received via a programming interface, the event instance representing an occurrence of a corresponding type of real-world event and comprising one or more variable values pertaining to the occurrence. A ruleset is periodically evaluated as applied to the event instance including, for each of one or more reevaluations of the ruleset as applied the event instance, binding one or more variables of one or more rules of the ruleset to one or more variable values of the event instance and binding one or more other variables of one or more rules of the ruleset to one or more just-in-time variable values, the one or more just-in-time variable values received via one or more programming interfaces in context of the reevaluation.
US11922420B2
Systems and methods for authenticating a user are disclosed. An example method may be performed by one or more processors of a system and include generating an encoded identification tag including identification information associated with a user's account, embedding the encoded identification tag in a transaction description associated with a payment from the user, receiving a request to access the user's account, retrieving an existing identification tag from the transaction description, generating a decoded identification tag from the existing identification tag, determining whether information retrieved from the decoded identification tag matches the identification information, and granting the request to access the user's account if at least a portion of the information retrieved from the decoded identification tag matches the identification information or denying the request to access the user's account if the information retrieved from the decoded identification tag does not match at least a portion of the identification information.
US11922418B1
A computer-implemented method of completing a transaction comprises receiving, by one or more processors, a request to complete a transaction between a third party and a third party customer. The method comprises providing a first user interface to the third party customer via a customer device associated with the third party customer. The first user interface comprises a plurality of payment options to complete the transaction. The method comprises receiving a selection of one of the plurality of payment options to complete the transaction. The selection comprises a cash payment at a transaction machine. The method comprises generating a second user interface comprising a map that shows locations of a plurality of transaction machines in relation to a current position of the third party customer. The method comprises completing the transaction based on the cash payment being received by one of the plurality of transaction machines from the map.
US11922416B2
An atomtronics station and a cloud-based server cooperate to provide Bose-Einstein condensates as a service (ATaaS). The atomtronics station serves as a system for implementing “recipes” for producing, manipulating, and/or using atomtronic devices based on cold atoms that are, in some respects, analogous to classical electronic devices based on electricity. The cloud-based server acts as an interface between the station (or stations) and authorized users of account holders. To this end the server hosts an account manager and a session manager. The account manager manages accounts and associated account-based and user-specific permissions that define what actions any given authorized user for an account may perform with respect to an atomtronics station. The session manager controls (in some cases, real-time) interactions between a user and an atomtronics station, some interactions allowing a user to select a recipe based on results returned earlier in the same session.
US11922412B2
A system for data object compression and reduction includes to implement, in accordance with obtained optimization constraint data, an optimization procedure configured to determine an optimal set of adjustments to a set of data objects that maximizes reduction of both a data set aggregate magnitude and a data link composite magnitude for at least one pair of a plurality of data sources, the optimal set of adjustments including an offset of multiple data objects of data objects of same data object type and opposite polarity, and to store data indicative of the optimal set of adjustments to the set of data objects.
US11922399B2
An exemplary system, method, and computer-accessible medium can include, for example, storing on a first device an applet configured to generate a digital tag; receiving a request at the first device for information; configuring the digital tag to be associated with at least one of (i) an application or (ii) an input on a second device, such that receipt of the digital tag by a second device causes the application to launch on the second device; and emitting from the first device a digital tag.
US11922398B2
Delegated administration of permissions using a contactless card. In one example, a permissions module may receive a request from a first account to grant a second account access to a computing resource. The permissions module may receive permissions data of the first account from a contactless card and encrypted data generated by the contactless card. The permissions module may transmit the permissions data and the encrypted data to an authentication server, which may verify the encrypted data based at least in part on the private key, and determine, based on the permissions data, that the first account has permissions to grant access to the computing resource. The permissions module may receive, from the authentication server, an indication of the verification of the encrypted data and a permissions vector associated with the second account, the permissions vector reflecting the grant of access to the computing resource to the second account.
US11922397B2
A card reader includes a digital connector such as a Universal Serial Bus (USB) plug or an Apple® Lightning® plug. The digital connector includes a corresponding connector interface, which provides voltage to at least a card reader interface and an integrated circuit (IC) of the card reader. The card reader interface outputs an analog transaction information signal upon reading the card. The IC generates a digital version of the analog transaction information signal, encrypts the digital version, converts that into an analog audio signal. The audio signal can then be sent to the connector interface, which converts it into a digital signal such as a USB or Apple® Lightning® signal that is sent by the digital connector to a mobile device. Alternately, the audio signal can be sent to a microcontroller that converts the audio signal to a digital format such as USB, and then to the digital connector.
US11922396B1
Techniques described herein enable a payment service to generate and send different instructions regarding a wireless payment reader based on a current state of the payment reader. For instance, a wireless payment reader may include a quick-response (QR) code that uniquely identifies the payment reader relative to other payment readers. Further, the QR code may embed information identifying the wireless payment reader and/or a uniform resource locator (URL) pointing back to a payment service configured to process payment transactions with the wireless payment reader. In response to receiving an indication of a scan of the QR code, the payment service may determine whether the payment reader is currently paired. If not, then the payment service may generate and send pairing instructions to enable pairing with the payment reader. If so, then the payment service may generate and send payment instructions to cause the device to engage in a payment flow.
US11922388B2
Systems and methods are provided herein for producing and vending ice in an energy-efficient manner. A system for producing and vending ice comprises: an ice-making device configured to manufacture ice; a reservoir coupled to the ice-making device and configured to store the manufactured ice manufactured; and a control circuit communicatively coupled to the ice-making device, the control circuit configured to: determine a beginning ice inventory at a first time; determine a predicted ice demand for a first period, wherein the predicted ice demand is a function of at least a historical factor, a weather factor, a customer social event factor, and a public social event factor; determine an ice manufacturing quantity based on the beginning ice inventory, the predicted ice demand, and a manufacturing capacity of the ice-making device; and cause the ice-making device to produce an amount of ice consistent with the determined ice manufacturing quantity.
US11922377B2
Some embodiments provide a program that retrieves a set of notifications describing failures that occurred on a set of monitored devices. The program further determines a set of topics based on the set of notifications. The program also determines failure modes associated with the set of topic from a plurality of failure modes defined for the set of monitored devices. The program further determines failure modes associated with the set of notifications based on the set of topics and the failure modes associated with the set of topics. The program also receives a particular notification that includes a particular set of words describing a failure that occurred on a particular monitored device in the set of monitored devices. The program further determines a failure mode associated with the particular notification based on the particular set of words and the determined failure modes associated with the set of notifications.
US11922376B2
Disclosed are systems and methods for using a transaction to collect additional transaction information. The method may include: receiving transaction information indicating that a transaction of one or more products and/or services has been made by a user from a merchant; when the transaction information is received, scanning a user e-mail account to identify a receipt for the transaction within an e-mail of the user e-mail account, wherein the receipt is indicative of a transaction price; when the receipt for the transaction is identified: extracting information of the one or more products and/or services from the receipt; and based on the extracted information, automatically generating and submitting a price adjustment claim for the one or more products and/or services when a price lower than the transaction price is found; and when the receipt for the transaction cannot be identified: automatically submitting information about a missing receipt to a fraud system.
US11922371B1
A system includes a longitudinal rack storing a plurality of items, a shoe movably attached to the rack, a magnet coupled to the shoe and a longitudinal circuit board arranged along the length of the rack. The circuit board includes an array of sensors along the length of the rack, wherein spacing between each pair of sensors equals a thickness of an item stored in the rack. Each sensor generates a voltage value depending on a position of the magnet in relation to the sensor. The circuit board further includes a memory storing voltage values generated by the sensors, and a processor configured to monitor voltage values generated by the sensors, detect that a particular sensor has generated a maximum voltage value and determine a number of items stored in the rack based on a particular number of items corresponding to the particular sensor.
US11922367B2
A stocker system for transporting a good via a transport vehicle to a stocker with multiple storage compartments, the stocker system including: a stocker information memory section configured to memorize stocker information including arrangement position information of the storage compartments in the stocker, and information of presence or absence of the good in the storage compartments; a stocker information updating section configured to update the stocker information in accordance with the goods being taken in and out of the storage compartments; and a stopping position setting section configured to acquire the arrangement position information of an empty storage compartment from the stocker information and to set a stopping position of the transport vehicle for the good to be put into the empty storage compartment based on the acquired arrangement position information of the empty storage compartment.
US11922365B1
A portable device augments a shipping container with security and communications capabilities. The device includes multiple sensors, communications circuitry, and other electronic circuitry and/or mechanical components. The device can determine, based on output of the multiple sensors, an anomalous event experienced by the shipping container relative to an expected activity and communicate an indication of the anomalous event over a wireless network to a remote computer. The device also performs an action in response to the anomalous event or based on a command received from the remote computer.
US11922362B2
The technology relates to cargo vehicles. National, regional and/or local regulations set requirements for operating cargo vehicles, including how to distribute and secure cargo, and how often the cargo should be inspected during a trip. However, such regulations have been focused on traditional human-driven vehicles. Aspects of the technology address various issues involved with securement and inspection of cargo before a trip, as well as monitoring during the trip so that corrective action may be taken as warranted. For instance, imagery and other sensor information may be used to enable proper securement of cargo before starting a trip. Onboard sensors along the vehicle monitor the cargo and securement devices/systems during the trip to identify issues as they arise. Such information is used by the onboard autonomous driving system (or a human driver) to take corrective action depending on the nature of the issue.
US11922359B2
A system and method for securely training a model comprises including the algorithms of the model into a training module, and communicating the training module from a vendor computer system to a customer computer system. The training module is operated on the customer's computer system using the data from the customer, and a trained training module is achieved after operating the training module on the customer's computer system. The trained training module is used to initialize at least one additional module, which is communicated from the customer's computer system to the vendor's computer system, is used to score observations.
US11922353B2
A method, computer program product, and computing system for initiating a bespoke journey concerning a business process transition event; providing information concerning the bespoke journey to a plurality of recipients participating in the business process transition event; and monitoring the plurality of recipients to gauge sentiment concerning the bespoke journey.
US11922351B2
Methods and computer readable medium for queue management are disclosed. The method includes displaying a queue panel including two or more queue categories of queues. A queue is configured to include items that have at least one parameter is common. The queue panel is further configured to display activity data corresponding to queues in at least one of the two or more queue categories. The method also includes determining whether the activity data needs to be refreshed, identifying a list of queues belonging to the at least one queue category; generating a refresh request for the identified list of queues; communicating the refresh request to a remote server; receiving updated activity data from the remote server for the identified list of queues; and updating the activity data displayed in the queue panel based on the received updated activity data.
US11922348B2
A multi-model medical scan analysis system is operable to generate a plurality of training sets from a plurality of medical scans. Each of a set of sub-models is generated by performing a training step on a corresponding one of the plurality of training sets of the plurality of medical scans. A set of abnormality data is generated by applying a subset of a set of inference functions on a new medical scan. The subset of the set of inference functions utilize the subset of the set of sub-models, and each of the set of abnormality data is generated as output of performing one of the subset of the set of inference functions. The multi-model medical scan analysis system is further operable to generate final abnormality data that includes a global probability indicating a probability that any abnormality is present based on the set of abnormality data.
US11922344B2
The exemplary embodiments described herein are related to techniques for automatically generating narratives about data based on communication goal data structures that are associated with configurable content blocks. The use of such communication goal data structures facilitates modes of operation whereby narratives can be generated in real-time and/or interactive manners.
US11922342B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for providing a subscription service. The systems and methods include operations for setting, by an experience-based subscription service, a number of subscription value days; determining an amortized subscription parameter for a subscriber of the experience-based subscription service, the amortized subscription parameter representing a subscription cost accumulated over the number of subscription value days; identifying a plurality of experience-related resources available for access on future experience dates, each of the plurality of experience-related resources having a cost that satisfies the amortized subscription parameter; receiving, on a booking date, a request from the subscriber to reserve a given experience-related resource; and in response to receiving the request, preventing the subscriber from reserving a second experience-related resource during an in-use period that begins on the booking date and terminates after a period of time corresponding to the number of subscription value days.
US11922341B2
Systems and methods for controlling autonomous vehicles are provided. Assisted autonomy tasks facilitated by operators for a plurality of autonomous vehicles can be tracked in order to generate operator attributes for each of a plurality of operators. The attributes for an operator can be based on tracking one or more respective assisted autonomy tasks facilitated by the operator. The operator attributes can be used to facilitate enhanced remote operations for autonomous vehicles. For example, request parameters can be obtained in response to a request for remote assistance associated with an autonomous vehicle. An operator can be selected to assist with autonomy tasks for the autonomous vehicle based at least in part on the operator attributes for the operator and the request parameters associated with the request. Remote assistance for the first autonomous vehicle can be initiated, facilitated by the first operator in response to the request for remote assistance.
US11922334B2
A method and system for using a trained machine learning model with respect to information pertaining to a job title of multiple job titles to determine a job family of multiple job families that corresponds to the job title is disclosed. First input comprising information identifying the job title associated with an organization of a plurality of organizations is provided to the trained machine learning model. One or more outputs identifying (i) an indication of the job family that identifies a category of personnel positions that are categorized based on one or more characteristics that are shared between the personnel positions of the category, and (ii) a level of confidence that the job family corresponds to the job title is obtained from the trained machine learning model.
US11922333B2
A search method using an artificial intelligence based information retrieval model and a method for training the artificial intelligence based information retrieval model used for the method are provided. In the method, even if there is no labeled data and only a corpus exists, the artificial intelligence based information retrieval model can be trained using the weak-supervision methodology. Search can be performed by dividing documents into passages having short lengths. Compared to an information retrieval model based on unsupervised learning, improved search results are provided.
US11922324B1
Techniques are described herein for a method of determining a similarity of each neuron in a layer of neurons of a neural network model to each other neuron in the layer of neurons. The method further comprises determining a redundant set of neurons and a non-redundant set of neurons based on the similarity of each neuron in the layer. The method further comprises fine tuning the set of non-redundant neurons using a first set of training data. The method further comprises training the set of redundant neurons using a second set of training data.
US11922315B2
Solutions for adapting machine learning (ML) models to neural networks (NNs) include receiving an ML pipeline comprising a plurality of operators; determining operator dependencies within the ML pipeline; determining recognized operators; for each of at least two recognized operators, selecting a corresponding NN module from a translation dictionary; and wiring the selected NN modules in accordance with the operator dependencies to generate a translated NN. Some examples determine a starting operator for translation, which is the earliest recognized operator having parameters. Some examples connect inputs of the translated NN to upstream operators of the ML pipeline that had not been translated. Some examples further tune the translated NN using backpropagation. Some examples determine whether an operator is trainable or non-trainable and flag related parameters accordingly for later training. Some examples determine whether an operator has multiple corresponding NN modules within the translation dictionary and make an optimized selection.
US11922310B1
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for predicting activity within a software application using a machine learning model. An example method generally includes generating a multidimensional time-series data set from time-series data associated with activity within a software application. The multidimensional time-series data set generally includes the time-series data organized based on a plurality of time granularities. Using a machine learning model and the generated multidimensional time-series data set, activity within the software application is predicted for one or more time granularities of the plurality of time granularities. Computing resources are allocated to execute operations using the software application based on the predicted activity within the software application.
US11922286B1
Embodiments described herein disclose methods and systems for using more than one Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) to analyze a user input and to predict a request being made by the user as the user is inputting the request. In an embodiment, a first RNN and a second RNN can simultaneously or near simultaneously process the user requested information by separating and analyzing the characters and words in the user's request. A third RNN can process the output vectors generated by the first and second RNNs to identify one or more solutions that predict the user's request.
US11922275B2
A method for determining a perturbation energy of a quantum state of a many-body system includes constructing a wave function that approximates the quantum state by adjusting parameters of the wave function to minimize an expectation value of a zeroth-order Hamiltonian. The zeroth-order Hamiltonian explicitly depends on a finite mass of each of a plurality of interacting quantum particles that form the many-body system, the quantum state has a non-zero total angular momentum, the wave function is a linear combination of explicitly correlated Gaussian basis functions, and each of the explicitly correlated Gaussian basis functions includes a preexponential angular factor. The perturbation energy is calculated from the wave function and a perturbation Hamiltonian that explicitly depends on the finite mass of each of the plurality of interacting quantum particles. The perturbation energy may be added to the minimized expectation value to obtain a total energy of the quantum state.
US11922274B1
Quantum dot devices with three of more accumulation gates provided over a single row of a quantum dot formation region are disclosed. Each accumulation gate is electrically coupled to a respective doped region. In this manner, multiple single electron transistors (SETs) are provided along the row. Side and/or center screening gates may be used to apply microwave pulses for qubit control and to control electrostatics so that source and drain regions of the multiple SETs with quantum dots formed along the single row of a quantum dot formation region are sufficiently isolated from one another. Such quantum dot devices provide strong spatial localization of the quantum dots, good control over quantum dot interactions and manipulation, good scalability in the number of quantum dots included in the device, and/or design flexibility in making electrical connections to the quantum dot devices to integrate the quantum dot devices in larger computing devices.
US11922272B2
This disclosure relates to methods of constructing efficient quantum circuits for Clifford loaders and variations of these methods following a similar scheme.
US11922265B2
This disclosure relates to a card having (i) an infrared-blocking material capable of blocking a plurality of near infrared wavelengths and (ii) at least one phosphor particle capable of absorbing at least one near-infrared wavelength, and a card reader capable of allowing a user to interrogate the card and determine if it is authentic, and to read information from the card. The card reader typically includes a processor configured to cause the card reader to emit at least one wavelength of light, receive at least one additional wavelength of light emitting by the at least one phosphor particle, and identify at least one characteristic of the at least one phosphor particle selected from the group consisting of a location on the card, a rise time of the phosphor, and a decay time of the phosphor.
US11922248B2
The invention relates to a smart card, which includes: a card body, having an accommodating recess extending along its own thickness direction of the card body; a decorative part, at least part of the decorative part being embedded in the accommodating recess; in which the decorative part includes a base layer and decorative pieces, more than two decorative pieces are arranged on the base layer, the base layer is connected to the card body, the decorative pieces correspond to the accommodating recess along the thickness direction and are exposed to an external environment. The smart card of the invention can improve the stereoscopic sense, individuation and noble sense of the smart card by arranging the decorative parts with decorative pieces on the card body.
US11922242B2
An object of the present disclosure is to provide a mechanism capable of performing thickening processing of an object irrespective of the color of a line even in a case where the black over print is valid. One embodiment of the present invention is an image forming apparatus comprising a control unit configured to control whether or not to perform thickening processing to thicken an object in an upper layer and an object in a lower layer based on a raster operation code designating drawing processing in a case where the object in the upper layer and the object in the lower layer overlap, wherein the control unit: does not perform the thickening processing in a case where a value of the raster operation code is MERGEPEN and a color of the object in the upper layer is not a black color.
US11922237B1
A method for collective communications includes invoking a collective operation over a group of computing processes in which the processes concurrently transmit and receive data to and from other processes in the group via a communication medium. Messages are composed for transmission by source processes including metadata indicating how the data to be transmitted by the source processes in the collective operation are to be handled by destination processes that are to receive the data and also including in at least some of the messages the data to be transmitted by one or more of the source processes to one or more of the destination processes. The composed messages are transmitted concurrently from the source processes to the destination processes in the group over the communication medium. The data are processed by the destination processes in response to the metadata included in the messages received by the destination processes.
US11922234B2
Embodiments included herein generally relate to processing data samples. More particularly, embodiments relate to processing a plurality of data samples using a multi-agent ring-buffer and a plurality of agents configured to communicate with the ring-buffer to process each of the plurality of data samples.
US11922223B1
Control of a reconfigurable platform can include determining, by a host computer, an interface universally unique identifier (UUID) of an interface of platform circuitry implemented on an accelerator, wherein the accelerator is communicatively linked to the host computer. An electronic request to run a partition design on the accelerator is received by the host computer. In response to the electronic request, the host computer determines an interface UUID for an interface of the partition design and determines compatibility of the partition design with the platform circuitry based on a comparison of the interface UUID of the partition design with the interface UUID of the platform circuitry. The partition design is implemented on the accelerator in response to determining that the partition design is compatible with the platform circuitry.
US11922218B2
Communication fabric-coupled computing architectures, platforms, and systems are provided herein. In one example, an apparatus includes a management entity configured to establish a compute unit comprising components from among a plurality of physical computing components by at least instructing a communication fabric communicatively coupling the plurality of physical computing components to establish logical isolation within the communication fabric to form the compute unit. Responsive to an indication of a change in workload associated with at least a software component deployed to a processing element of the compute unit, the management entity is configured to adjust the logical isolation to alter a quantity of the plurality of physical computing components in the compute unit in accordance with the change in the workload.
US11922209B2
Systems and methods of invoking functions of agents via digital assistant applications are provided. Each action-inventory can have an address template for an action by an agent. The address template can include a portion having an input variable used to execute the action. A data processing system can parse an input audio signal from a client device to identify a request and a parameter to be executed by the agent. The data processing system can select an action-inventory for the action corresponding to the request. The data processing system can generate, using the address template, an address. The address can include a substring having the parameter used to control execution of the action. The data processing system can direct an action data structure including the address to the agent to cause the agent to execute the action and to provide output for presentation.
US11922205B2
A virtual machine management method and apparatus, a device, and a readable storage medium. The virtual machine management method is applied to a private cloud, and comprises: acquiring a SELinux label, the SELinux label comprising five elements: User, Role, Type, Sensitivity, and Category (S101); setting elements other than Category in the SELinux label as default values (S102); assigning different values to Category according to a preset Category variable combination so as to obtain multiple non-duplicate label groups (S103); and configuring each label group to a virtual machine in the private cloud, so that virtual machines configured with the same label group communicate with each other, and virtual machines configured with different label groups are isolated from each other (S104).
US11922188B2
A method of providing a workspace graphical user interface (GUI) for a user of a cloud-based content management platform includes providing the workspace GUI for the user via the cloud-based content management platform. The workspace GUI presents visual representations of documents stored on the user's cloud storage of the cloud-based content management platform and visual representations of workspaces created by the user. Each workspace includes a set of documents previously added to a respective workspace by the user and stored on the user's cloud storage. The method further includes receiving, via the workspace GUI, a user input with respect to a corresponding document stored on the user's cloud storage. The user input indicates a request to add the corresponding document to a particular workspace. The method further includes modifying a visual representation of the particular workspace to add the corresponding document to the particular workspace, and allowing the user to perform an action pertaining to content of the corresponding document in the workspace GUI without opening a document editing application associated with the corresponding document.
US11922185B2
In an architecture of a virtualized computing system plugins are less tightly integrated with a core user interface of a management server. Rather than being installed and executed at the management server as local plugins, the plugins are served as remote plugins from a plugin server, and may be accessed by a web client through a reverse proxy at the management server. Plugin operations may be executed at the plugin server and/or invoked from a user device where the web client resides. Furthermore, a plugin sandbox and other isolation configurations are provided at the user device, so as to further control access capability and interaction of the plugins.
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Software and system settings can be migrated between computing environments. In one example, a system can receive a group of software identification modules defining a group of software fingerprints for detecting a group of software components. Each software identification module can include a respective software fingerprint for detecting a respective software component. The system can determine that a source computing environment includes one or more software components from within the group of software components by analyzing the source computing environment using each respective software fingerprint in the group of software fingerprints. The system may then deploy the one or more software components in a target computing environment.
