US11936111B2
An antenna array with a layered structure having a base layer with a metamaterial structure, a printed circuit board (PCB) layers, a feed layer arranged on the opposite side of the PCB from the RF IC(s), and a radiating layer arranged on the feed layer. The radiating layer having a plurality of radiating elements. The metamaterial structure is arranged to attenuate electromagnetic radiation propagating between the at least two adjacent waveguides in the frequency band.
US11936110B2
A reflector antenna heating system includes a dielectric radome that covers a first side of a reflector and a feed subsystem of an antenna. The system also includes a plurality of heater blower devices on a second side of the reflector, each of the plurality of heater blower devices having an inlet port and an outlet port. The system further includes a plurality of outlet duct assemblies, wherein each of the plurality of outlet duct assemblies is coupled to the outlet port of a respective heater blower device to direct heated air around a perimeter of the reflector and along an inside surface of the dielectric radome. One or more gaps proximal to a center of the reflector are included to recirculate cooled air toward a plurality of inlet ducts for the plurality of heater blower devices to feed the inlet port of each heater blower device.
US11936108B2
An RCS reduction surface for reducing a radar cross section of an object is described. The RCS reduction surface comprises at least one absorber portion, wherein the absorber portion is configured to absorb radar waves. The RCS reduction surface further comprises at least one reflecting portion, wherein the reflecting portion is configured to reflect radar waves. A first plane being associated with a top surface of the absorber portion and a second plane being associated with a top surface of the reflecting portion are spaced from each other by a predefined distance. The predefined distance is configured such that radar waves with a predefined wavelength range that are reflected at the absorber portion and at the surface of the reflecting portion interfere destructively with each other. Further, an RCS reduction member and a radar test system are described.
US11936105B2
Provided herein is an artificial dielectric material for use in a focusing lens, comprising a plurality of dielectric tubes supported by one or more dielectric supporting elements which fix and separate the dielectric tubes from each other, wherein a surface of each dielectric tube is at least partially covered by at least one conductive element. Also provided are lenses comprising the artificial dielectric materials and methods for manufacture of such materials. The artificial dielectric materials and lenses may provide desirable dielectric and radio wave focusing properties and manufacturing advantages.
US11936084B2
The present disclosure provides a filter structure and a method for manufacturing a filter structure. The filter structure includes a metal resonant array. The metal resonant array includes a plurality of array units. The filter structure further includes a transparent plastic film. The metal resonant array is provided on the transparent plastic film.
US11936081B2
A redox flow battery may include: a positive half-cell comprising a catholyte; a negative half-cell comprising an anolyte; and an ion permeable membrane, wherein the ion permeable membrane separates the catholyte and the anolyte, and wherein the catholyte, the anolyte, or both comprise a low-transition temperature material comprising: a redox-active phase; and an ionically conducting organic salt.
US11936069B2
A layered double hydroxide is represented by the following formula (I): Ni2+1−(x+y+z)Fe3+xV3+yCo3+z(OH)2An−(x+y+z)/n·mH2O . . . (I). In one embodiment, in the formula (I), (x+y+z) is from 0.2 to 0.5, “x” represents more than 0 and 0.3 or less, “y” represents from 0.04 to 0.49, and “z” represents more than 0 and 0.2 or less.
US11936066B2
Lithium ion-exchanged zeolite particles and methods of making such lithium ion-exchanged zeolite particles are provided herein. The method includes combining precursor zeolite particles with (NH4)3PO4 to form a first mixture including intermediate zeolite particles including NH4+ cations. The method further includes adding a lithium salt to the first mixture to form the lithium ion-exchanged zeolite particles, or separating the intermediate zeolite particle from the first mixture and combining the intermediate zeolite particles with the lithium salt to form the lithium ion-exchanged zeolite particles.
US11936064B2
In order to solve the problem caused by leaching of lithium polysulfide, disclosed is a functional separator, a method of manufacturing the same, and a lithium secondary battery including the same, which can improve the capacity and life of the battery by coating a material capable of reducing lithium polysulfide on the separator surface. The functional separator includes a base separator; and a redox active polymer-conductive carbon composite layer on a surface of the base separator.
US11936055B2
Battery packs according to some embodiments of the present technology may include a longitudinal beam. The packs may include a plurality of battery cells disposed adjacent the longitudinal beam. Each battery cell may be characterized by a first surface, and a second surface opposite the first surface. Each battery cell may be characterized by a third surface extending vertically between the first surface and the second surface. The first surface may face the longitudinal beam, and battery terminals may extend from the third surface. Each battery cell may be characterized by a fourth surface opposite the third surface. The packs may include a lid coupled with the first surface of each battery cell of the plurality of battery cells. The packs may include a base coupled with the second surface of each battery cell of the plurality of battery cells.
US11936054B2
An energy storage device includes an outer case including a lid plate on which an external terminal is mounted, a plate including a tab and housed in the outer case, a conductive shaft portion penetrating the lid plate and including one end thereof connected to the external terminal, and a conductive plate portion housed in the outer case, and including a first surface to which an other end of the conductive shaft portion is connected and a second surface to which the tab is connected. A size of the conductive plate portion is set larger than a size of the external terminal in a planar direction of the lid plate.
US11936049B2
The present disclosure relates to a battery unit and a battery module, the battery unit includes an electrode assembly, including a main body portion and a tab; two electrode terminals; and two current collecting members respectively connecting the tabs on both sides of the main body portion with the respective electrode terminals; the current collecting member includes a guiding plate and a supporting plate, the guiding plate is located on one side of the main body portion along the length direction, a reinforcement portion is arranged on the guiding plate and is configured to reduce the deformation of the guiding plate towards the main body portion; and the supporting plate is connected to an end of the guiding plate along the width direction, the tab is bent relative to the length direction and connected to the supporting plate. The battery unit can reduce the bending deformation of the guiding plate.
US11936046B2
An electricity storage device includes a stack of bipolar electrodes each including a steel sheet, and a plating layer provided on a surface of the steel sheet. The plating layer includes a base nickel-plating layer provided on the surface of the steel sheet, and a surface nickel-plating layer provided on the base nickel-plating layer, and having a surface roughness greater than that of the base nickel-plating layer.
US11936042B2
A cathode material includes: a plurality of first particles. Each first particle includes a secondary particle composed of a plurality of third particles, and the first particle includes a first lithium-containing transition metal oxide; and a plurality of second particles. The second particle includes a fourth particle and/or a secondary particle composed of a plurality of fourth particles, and the second particle includes a second lithium-containing transition metal oxide. The electrochemical device including the cathode material is significantly improved in the aspects of energy density, capacity attenuation and service life.
US11936041B2
A lithium secondary battery includes a cathode formed from a cathode active material including a first cathode active material particle and a second cathode active material particle, an anode and a separator interposed between the cathode and the anode. The first cathode active material particle includes a lithium metal oxide including a continuous concentration gradient in at least one region between a central portion and a surface portion. The second cathode active material particle includes a lithium metal oxide including elements the same as those of the first cathode active material particle, and the second cathode active material particle has a uniform composition from a central portion to a surface.
US11936033B2
The present disclosure provides a battery tab-feeding device including a battery tab disposed on a non-coating part of an electrode plate during a process of manufacturing an electrode by fusing the battery tab to the non-coating part of an electrode plate, an electrode plate supporting part disposed to support the electrode plate having a first surface exposed from both surfaces of the electrode plate and a tab transferring part disposed to support a battery tab and transfer the battery tab to the non-coating part of the electrode plate. Additionally, a guide part guides the transfer of the battery tab to position a first side edge of the battery tab perpendicular to a first side edge of the electrode plate.
US11936022B2
A battery module includes at least one cell group, and a heat dissipating member coupled to one side of the at least one cell group to externally dissipate heat generated in the at least one cell group, wherein the at least one cell group includes at least one battery cell stack, a flame retardant cover coupled to the battery cell stack to encase both side surfaces and an upper portion of the battery cell stack, and a flame retardant member disposed between an upper surface of the battery cell stack and the flame retardant cover and formed of a porous material.
US11936020B2
A battery management support device that is configured to acquire information on an electric vehicle including a battery that is rechargeable with electric power received from an external power supply. The information includes at least information when the electric vehicle is parked indicating a temperature of the battery, information when the electric vehicle is parked indicating an electrical connection state between the electric vehicle and the external power supply, and information when the electric vehicle is parked indicating an operation state of a cooling device for the battery.
US11936011B2
An electrochemical cell management system comprising an electrochemical cell and at least one controller configured to control the cell such that, for at least a portion of a charge cycle, the cell is charged at a charging rate or current that is lower than a discharging rate or current of at least a portion of a previous discharge cycle. An electrochemical cell management method. An electrochemical cell management system comprising an electrochemical cell and at least one controller configured to induce a discharge of the cell before and/or after a charging step of the cell. An electrochemical cell management method. An electrochemical cell management system comprising an electrochemical cell and at least one controller configured to: monitor at least one characteristic of the cell and, based on the at least one characteristic of the cell, induce a discharge and/or control a charging rate or current of the cell.
US11935987B2
A light emitting diode (LED) array comprises non-segmented pixels in a light-emitting pixel area providing optical efficiency and minimizing dark-grid appearance. The LED array comprises: a monolithic body, a light-emitting pixel area, a plurality of anodes, a common cathode, and one or more dielectric materials. The light-emitting pixel area is integral to the monolithic body. The light-emitting pixel area includes semiconductor layers comprising: a second portion of an N-type layer, an active region, and a P-type layer. The monolithic body comprises a first portion of an N-type layer, and the second portion of the N-type layer is integral to the first portion of the N-type layer. Each anode comprises a P-contact layer and one or more P-contact materials, each P-contact layer is in contact with the P-type layer. The common cathode comprises one or more N-contact materials in contact with the first portion of the N-type layer.
US11935984B2
A quantum dot including a core that includes a first semiconductor nanocrystal including zinc and selenium, and optionally sulfur and/or tellurium, and a shell that includes a second semiconductor nanocrystal including zinc, and at least one of sulfur or selenium is disclosed. The quantum dot has an average particle diameter of greater than or equal to about 13 nm, an emission peak wavelength in a range of about 440 nm to about 470 nm, and a full width at half maximum (FWHM) of an emission wavelength of less than about 25 nm. A method for preparing the quantum dot, a quantum dot-polymer composite including the quantum dot, and an electronic device including the quantum dot is also disclosed.
US11935979B2
Light-weight, flexible solar panels adapted to prevent inadvertent stress on silicon solar photovoltaic cells inside solar panels. In some examples, a solar panel comprising solar cells includes a plurality of supports, such as one support for each solar cell, with gaps between the supports to allow the panel to flex when strained while protecting the individual cells. In other examples, a solar panel comprises a plurality of solar cells and a support or plural supports designed to accept force applied to the top of the panel and divert such force around the individual cells, without the use of a heavy glass support over top. Some examples may include both individual supports for each cell, with each individual support further adapted to direct applied forces around the individual cells.
US11935969B2
A photodetector includes a first semiconductor layer, an absorption structure, a second semiconductor layer, and a barrier structure. The absorption structure is located on the first semiconductor layer, and having a first conduction band, a first valence band, and a first band gap. The second semiconductor layer is located on the absorption structure, and having a second conduction band, a second valence band, and a second band gap. The barrier structure is located between the absorption structure and the second semiconductor layer, and having a third conduction band, a third valence band, and a third band gap. The third conduction band is greater than the second conduction band or the third valence band is less than the second valence band.
US11935962B2
A semiconductor device having favorable characteristics is provided. A semiconductor device having stable electrical characteristics is provided. An island-shaped insulating layer containing an oxide is provided in contact with a bottom surface of a semiconductor layer containing a metal oxide that exhibits semiconductor characteristics. The insulating layer containing an oxide is provided in contact with a portion of the semiconductor layer to be a channel formation region and is not provided under portions to be low-resistance regions.
US11935960B2
Some embodiments include integrated memory. The integrated memory includes a first series of first conductive structures and a second series of conductive structures. The first conductive structures extend along a first direction. The second conductive structures extend along a second direction which crosses the first direction. Pillars of semiconductor material extend upwardly from the first conductive structures. Each of the pillars includes a lower source/drain region, an upper source/drain region, and a channel region between the lower and upper source/drain regions. The lower source/drain regions are coupled with the first conductive structures. Insulative material is adjacent sidewall surfaces of the pillars. The insulative material includes ZrOx, where x is a number greater than 0. The second conductive structures include gating regions which are spaced from the channel regions by at least the insulative material. Storage elements are coupled with the upper source/drain regions.
US11935958B2
A semiconductor device structure is provided. The semiconductor device structure includes a first stacked nanostructure and a second stacked nanostructure formed over a substrate. The semiconductor device structure includes a first gate structure formed over the first stacked nanostructure, and the first gate structure includes a first portion of a gate dielectric layer and a first portion of a filling layer. The semiconductor device structure includes a second gate structure formed over the second stacked nanostructure, and the second gate structure includes a second portion of the gate dielectric layer and a second portion of the filling layer. The semiconductor device structure includes a first isolation layer between the first gate structure and the second gate structure, wherein the first isolation layer has an extending portion which is formed in a recess between the gate dielectric layer and the filling layer.
US11935955B2
A device includes a fin extending from a substrate, a gate stack over and along sidewalls of the fin, a gate spacer along a sidewall of the gate stack, and an epitaxial source/drain region in the fin and adjacent the gate spacer. The epitaxial source/drain region includes a first epitaxial layer on the fin, the first epitaxial layer including silicon, germanium, and arsenic, and a second epitaxial layer on the first epitaxial layer, the second epitaxial layer including silicon and phosphorus, the first epitaxial layer separating the second epitaxial layer from the fin. The epitaxial source/drain region further includes a third epitaxial layer on the second epitaxial layer, the third epitaxial layer including silicon, germanium, and phosphorus.
US11935954B2
A semiconductor device structure includes a fin structure formed over a substrate. The structure also includes nanostructures formed over the fin structure. The structure also includes a gate structure wrapped around the nanostructures. The structure also includes a first inner spacer formed beside the gate structure. The structure also includes a second inner spacer formed beside the first inner spacer. The structure also includes spacer layers formed over opposite sides of the gate structure above the nanostructures. The structure also includes source/drain epitaxial structures formed over opposite sides of the fin structure. The second inner spacer is partially embedded in the source/drain epitaxial structures.
US11935933B2
An apparatus including a circuit structure including a device stratum including a plurality of devices including a first side and an opposite second side; and a metal interconnect coupled to at least one of the plurality of devices from the second side of the device stratum. A method including forming a transistor device including a channel between a source region and a drain region and a gate electrode on the channel defining a first side of the device; and forming an interconnect to one of the source region and the drain region from a second side of the device.
US11935932B2
In an embodiment, a device includes: a gate electrode; a epitaxial source/drain region adjacent the gate electrode; one or more inter-layer dielectric (ILD) layers over the epitaxial source/drain region; a first source/drain contact extending through the ILD layers, the first source/drain contact connected to the epitaxial source/drain region; a contact spacer surrounding the first source/drain contact; and a void disposed between the contact spacer and the ILD layers.
US11935923B2
The present disclosure relates to semiconductor structures and, more particularly, to a lateral bipolar transistor with gated collector and methods of manufacture. The structure includes: an extrinsic base region vertically over a semiconductor substrate and comprising asymmetrical sidewall spacers on opposing sidewalls of the extrinsic base region; a collector region on the semiconductor substrate and separated from the extrinsic base region by at least a first spacer of the asymmetrical sidewall spacers; and an emitter region on the semiconductor substrate and separated from the extrinsic base region by a second spacer of the asymmetrical sidewall spacers.
US11935919B2
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming, on first and second impurity layers on a termination region side, an insulating layer, forming a first metal film and a second metal film in this order on the insulating layer and a drift layer, performing dry etching on the first and second metal films all together so that a position of a first end of a metallized layer, which is a remaining part of the first metal film, in the interface region on the termination region side and a position of a second end of an electrode, which is a remaining part of the second metal film, in the interface region on the terminal region side are the same in plan view. The first and second ends are closer to the active region than an end of the second impurity layer on the termination region side in plan view.
US11935910B2
Provided is a semiconductor light-emitting device including a substrate, a first insulating layer disposed on an upper surface of the substrate, a plurality of light-emitting structures disposed on the first insulating layer and spaced apart from each other, each of the plurality of light-emitting structures including a first semiconductor layer, an active layer, and a second semiconductor layer, a plurality of optical layers each filling a groove that is formed at a certain depth in the second semiconductor layer, a plurality of first electrodes penetrating the substrate and electrically connected to the first semiconductor layer, a plurality of second insulating layers disposed on side surfaces of each of the plurality of light-emitting structures, respectively, and a second electrode connected to the plurality of light-emitting structures, the second electrode being disposed on an uppermost surface of the second semiconductor layer and each of the plurality of second insulating layers.
US11935898B2
A semiconductor device including: a first gate electrode; a first gate insulating layer on the first gate electrode; a first oxide semiconductor layer on the first insulating layer; source and drain electrodes connected to the first oxide semiconductor layer; a second gate insulating layer on the first oxide semiconductor layer; a second oxide semiconductor layer on the second gate insulating layer; a second gate electrode on the second oxide semiconductor layer, the second gate electrode being in contact with the second oxide semiconductor layer; a first insulating layer on the second gate electrode, the first insulating layer having a part of a first aperture overlapping with the second oxide semiconductor layer in a planar view; and a first connecting electrode electrically connecting the first gate electrode and the second gate electrode via the first aperture.
US11935896B2
Disclosed is a display device including a transistor showing extremely low off current. In order to reduce the off current, a semiconductor material whose band gap is greater than that of a silicon semiconductor is used for forming a transistor, and the concentration of an impurity which serves as a carrier donor of the semiconductor material is reduced. Specifically, an oxide semiconductor whose band gap is greater than or equal to 2 eV, preferably greater than or equal to 2.5 eV, more preferably greater than or equal to 3 eV is used for a semiconductor layer of a transistor, and the concentration of an impurity which serves as a carrier donor included is reduced. Consequently, the off current of the transistor per micrometer in channel width can be reduced to lower than 10 zA/μm at room temperature and lower than 100 zA/μm at 85° C.
US11935882B2
A semiconductor device including a static random access memory (SRAM) device includes a first SRAM array including a first plurality of bit cells arranged in a matrix; a second SRAM array including a second plurality of bit cells arranged in a matrix; and a plurality of abutting dummy cells disposed between the first SRAM array and the second SRAM array. Each of the plurality of abutting dummy cells includes a plurality of dummy gate electrode layers and a plurality of dummy contacts. The semiconductor device further includes a first-type well continuously extending from the first SRAM array to the second SRAM array. The first-type well is in direct contact with portions of the plurality of dummy contacts.
US11935878B2
A method for manufacturing a package structure includes providing a carrier board; providing at least one die having a top surface, a bottom surface, and a side surface on the carrier board; and forming a protective layer to cover at least a portion of the side surface of the die. The die includes a substrate, a semiconductor layer, a gate structure, a source structure and a drain structure, at least one dielectric layer, and at least one pad. The semiconductor layer is disposed on the substrate. The gate structure is disposed on the semiconductor layer. The source and the drain structures are disposed on opposite sides of the gate structure. The dielectric layer covers the gate, source, and drain structures. The pad is disposed on the dielectric layer and penetrates through the dielectric layer to electrically contact with the gate, source or drain structure.
US11935874B2
A circuitry is provided. The circuitry may include a power stage including a first transistor and a second transistor, an encapsulation including encapsulation material encapsulating the power stage, wherein the first transistor and the second transistor are arranged in an L-shape with respect to each other along their long axes, and a passive electronic component arranged on or embedded within the encapsulation at least partially, in top view, within a rectangular area defined by the L-shape configuration and further next to the first transistor and next to the second transistor.
US11935873B2
A semiconductor package may include first and second substrates, which are vertically stacked, a semiconductor device layer on a bottom surface of the second substrate to face a top surface of the first substrate, upper chip pads and an upper dummy pad on the top surface of the first substrate, penetration electrodes, which each penetrate the first substrate and are connected to separate, respective upper chip pads, lower chip pads on a bottom surface of the semiconductor device layer and electrically connected to separate, respective upper chip pads, and a lower dummy pad on the bottom surface of the semiconductor device layer and electrically isolated from the upper dummy pad. A distance between the upper and lower dummy pads in a horizontal direction that is parallel to the first substrate may be smaller than a diameter of the lower dummy pad.
US11935865B2
A method for producing a semiconductor package, capable of effectively suppressing contamination of a chemical liquid and unintended peeling-off of a reinforcing sheet, is provided. This method includes providing a tacky sheet including a substrate sheet, and a soluble tacky layer and a banking tacky layer on at least one surface of the substrate sheet; making a first laminate including a redistribution layer; using the tacky sheet to obtain a second laminate having a second support substrate bonded to a surface on the redistribution layer side of the first laminate with the tacky layer therebetween; peeling off the first support substrate, pretreating the resulting third laminate; mounting a semiconductor chip on a pretreated surface of the redistribution layer; immersing the third laminate in a solution to dissolve or soften the tacky layer; and peeling off the second support substrate in a state where the tacky layer is dissolved or softened.
US11935864B2
A method of adjusting a clamping of a semiconductor element against a support structure on a wire bonding machine is provided. The method includes: (a) detecting an indicia of floating of the semiconductor element with respect to the support structure at a plurality of locations of the semiconductor element; and (b) adjusting the clamping of the semiconductor element against the support structure based on the results of step (a).
US11935861B2
Disclosed herein are structures and techniques for underfill flow management in electronic assemblies. For example, in some embodiments, an electronic assembly may include a first component, a second component, an underfill on the first component and at least partially between the first component and the second component, and a material at a surface of the first component, wherein the material is outside a footprint of the second component, and the underfill contacts the material with a contact angle greater than 50 degrees.
US11935860B2
An interconnect that has an electrically conductive layer, where a first and second insulator layers are coupled with the conductive layer. A region of the conductive layer includes an opening of a portion of the first insulator layer the second insulator layer that are adjacent to the region. An electrical connector of a first device is electrically coupled to a portion of the region on a first side of the conductive layer and an electrical conductor of a second device is electrically coupled with a portion of the region on the second side. Also, an interconnect coupled with a substrate that includes a cylinder extending from a side of the substrate with a plate coupled at the end of the cylinder with an opening that includes two or more tabs of the plate extending into the opening to receive a connector.
US11935859B2
A chip structure includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a conductive via, and a redistribution layer. The first substrate has a first inclined sidewall. The second substrate is located on a bottom surface of the first substrate, and has an upper portion and a lower portion. The lower portion extends from the upper portion. The upper portion is between the first substrate and the lower portion. The upper portion has a second inclined sidewall, and a slope of the first inclined sidewall is substantially equal to a slope of the second inclined sidewall. The conductive via is in the lower portion. The redistribution layer extends from a top surface of the first substrate to a top surface of the lower portion of the second substrate sequentially along the first inclined sidewall and the second inclined sidewall, and is electrically connected to the conductive via.
US11935855B2
An electronic package structure and a method for manufacturing the same are provided. The electronic package structure includes a first electronic component, a second electronic component, an interconnection element, an insulation layer, and an encapsulant. The second electronic component is disposed adjacent to the first electronic component. The interconnection element is disposed between the first electronic component and the second electronic component. The insulation layer is disposed between the first electronic component and the second electronic component and has a side surface and a top surface connecting to the side surface. The encapsulant surrounds the interconnection element and at least partially covers the top surface of the insulation layer and has an extended portion in contact with the side surface of the insulation layer.
US11935850B2
The present application discloses a method for fabricating a semiconductor device with slanted conductive layers. The method for fabricating a semiconductor device includes providing a substrate, forming a first insulating layer above the substrate, forming first slanted recesses along the first insulating layer, and forming first slanted conductive layers in the first slanted recesses and a top conductive layer covering the first slanted conductive layers.
US11935847B2
A semiconductor package includes: a connection structure having a first surface and a second, and including a redistribution layer; a passive component disposed on the first surface of the connection structure, and electrically connected to the redistribution layer; a semiconductor chip disposed on the first surface of the connection structure, and electrically connected to the redistribution layer; a first encapsulant disposed on the first surface of the connection structure and covering at least a portion of the semiconductor chip; a second encapsulant disposed on the first surface of the connection structure and covering at least a portion of the passive component; an antenna substrate disposed on the first encapsulant and including a wiring layer, at least a portion of the wiring layer including an antenna pattern; and a through via penetrating at least a portion of each of the connection structure, the first encapsulant, and the antenna substrate.
US11935837B2
An integrated circuit package integrates a photonic die (oDie) and an electronic die (eDie). More specifically, the integrated circuit package may include a plurality of redistribution layers communicatively coupled to at least one of the oDie and/or the eDie, where molded material at least partially surrounds the at least one of the oDie and/or the eDie.
US11935826B2
A method includes depositing a first passivation layer over a conductive feature, wherein the first passivation layer has a first dielectric constant, forming a capacitor over the first passivation layer, and depositing a second passivation layer over the capacitor, wherein the second passivation layer has a second dielectric constant greater than the first dielectric constant. The method further includes forming a redistribution line over and electrically connecting to the capacitor, depositing a third passivation layer over the redistribution line, and forming an Under-Bump-Metallurgy (UBM) penetrating through the third passivation layer to electrically connect to the redistribution line.
US11935822B2
A wiring substrate includes a resin insulating layer, a via conductor formed in the resin insulating layer such that the via conductor is penetrating through the resin insulating layer, a conductor pad formed on the resin insulating layer and connected to the via conductor, a coating insulating layer formed on the resin insulating layer such that the coating insulating layer is covering the conductor pad, and a metal post formed on the conductor pad and protruding from the coating insulating layer. The conductor pad is formed such that a central axis of the conductor pad is shifted in a predetermined direction with respect to a central axis of the via conductor, and the metal post is formed such that a central axis of the metal post is shifted in the predetermined direction with respect to the central axis of the conductor pad.
US11935816B2
The present disclosure provides a semiconductor device, a semiconductor assembly and method of manufacturing the semiconductor assembly. The semiconductor device includes a substrate, a conductive feature in the substrate, an isolation liner between the substrate and the conductive feature, and a main component in the substrate. The conductive feature includes first to third blocks. The first block has a uniform first critical dimension, wherein the main component is disposed around the first block. The second block has a uniform second critical dimension greater than the first critical dimension. The third block is interposed between the first block and the second block and has varying third critical dimensions.
US11935808B2
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.
US11935807B2
A semiconductor device package includes a multilayer substrate including atop layer, a bottom layer and an intermediate layer between the top layer and the bottom layer. The package also includes one or more semiconductor dies embedded in the intermediate layer and conductive connector means to provide a conductive connection from the one or more dies. The conductive connector means extend through the top layer to provide connection means for one or more devices mounted on or adjacent the top layer.
US11935799B2
Disclosed herein are integrated circuit (IC) package lids with polymer features, as well as related methods and devices. For example, in some embodiments, an IC package may include a package substrate, a lid, and a die between the package substrate and the lid. A foot or rib of the lid may include a polymer material.
US11935796B2
Techniques for temperature control for multiple dies in an element. A temperature of a first die is measured, in an element comprising the first die and a second die. The second die includes at least a portion of a controller. The temperature of the first die is changed by adjusting activity, from the second die to the first die, based on a target temperature for the first die and the measured temperature for the first die.
US11935790B2
Disclosed are a field effect transistor and a method of manufacturing the same. The field effect transistor includes a source electrode on a substrate, a drain electrode separated from the source electrode, and channels connected between the source electrode and the drain electrode, gate insulating layers, and a gate electrode. The channels may have a hollow closed cross-sectional structure when viewed in a first cross-section formed by a plane across the source electrode and the drain electrode in a direction perpendicular to the substrate. The gate insulating layers may be in the channels. The gate electrode may be insulated from the source electrode and the drain electrode by the gate insulating layers.
US11935788B2
A manufacturing method of a semiconductor device includes the following steps. A singulation process is performed to a semiconductor wafer for forming semiconductor dies and includes a first cutting step, a thinning step, and a second cutting step. The first cutting step is configured to form first openings in the semiconductor wafer by etching. A portion of the semiconductor wafer is located between each first opening and a back surface and removed by the thinning step. Each first opening penetrates through the semiconductor wafer after the thinning step. The second cutting step is configured to form second openings. Each second opening penetrates through the semiconductor wafer for separating the semiconductor dies. A semiconductor die includes two first side surfaces opposite to each other and two second side surfaces opposite to each other. A roughness of each first side surface is different from a roughness of each second side surface.
US11935783B2
Examples of an integrated circuit with an interconnect structure and a method for forming the integrated circuit are provided herein. In some examples, the method includes receiving a workpiece that includes a substrate and an interconnect structure. The interconnect structure includes a first conductive feature disposed within a first inter-level dielectric layer. A blocking layer is selectively formed on the first conductive feature without forming the blocking layer on the first inter-level dielectric layer. An alignment feature is selectively formed on the first inter-level dielectric layer without forming the alignment feature on the blocking layer. The blocking layer is removed from the first conductive feature, and a second inter-level dielectric layer is formed on the alignment feature and on the first conductive feature. The second inter-level dielectric layer is patterned to define a recess for a second conductive feature, and the second conductive feature is formed within the recess.
US11935778B2
A holding mechanism includes a Bernoulli pad that holds a plate-shaped body, a hand on which the Bernoulli pad is disposed, a sensor that is disposed on the hand and detects that the plate-shaped body is held under suction by the Bernoulli pad, a lateral movement restriction section disposed on the hand, a tube that connects an air source supplying air to the Bernoulli pad and the Bernoulli pad, an adjustment valve that is disposed in the tube and adjusts a flow rate of air supplied to the Bernoulli pad, and a control section that controls operation of the adjustment valve. The control section gradually increases the flow rate of the air supplied from the adjustment valve to the Bernoulli pad and, when it is detected by the sensor that the plate-shaped body has been held under suction by the Bernoulli pad, fixes the flow rate of the air.
US11935774B2
Provided is an assembly jig set of semiconductor module having a plurality of semiconductor chips, the assembly jig set comprising: a first outer frame jig; and a plurality of inner piece jigs positioned by the first outer frame jig and each having a sectioned shape corresponding to the first outer frame jig, wherein one of the inner piece jigs has a plurality of opening portions for positioning the semiconductor chips. A manufacturing method of a semiconductor module using an assembly jig set is provided.
US11935773B2
Apparatus and methods for calibrating a height-adjustable edge ring are described herein. In one example, a calibration jig for positioning an edge ring relative to a reference surface is provided that includes a transparent plate, a plurality of sensors coupled to a first side of the transparent plate, and a plurality of contact pads coupled to an opposing second side of the transparent plate.
US11935770B2
Methods and apparatus bonding chiplets to substrates are provided herein. In some embodiments, a multi-chamber processing tool for processing a substrate includes: an equipment front end module (EFEM) having one or more loadports for receiving one or more types of substrates; and a plurality of automation modules coupled to each other and having a first automation module coupled to the EFEM, wherein each of the plurality of automation modules include a transfer chamber and one or more process chambers coupled to the transfer chamber, wherein the transfer chamber includes a buffer configured to hold a plurality of the one or more types of substrates, and wherein the transfer chamber includes a transfer robot configured to transfer the one or more types of substrates between the buffer, the one or more process chambers, and a buffer disposed in an adjacent automation module of the plurality of automation modules.
US11935768B2
To satisfactorily apply a protective tape to a bump wafer, an application apparatus (1) for applying a protective tape (PT) to a wafer (W) includes: an application table (60) configured to support the wafer (W); a tape holding body (30) capable of holding the protective tape (PT) and configured to supply the protective tape (PT) held by the tape holding body (30) onto the wafer (W); and a pressing member (62) configured to press the protective tape (PT) from above. The pressing member (62) includes a protective layer outer periphery retainer (620) configured to press a peripheral portion of a protective layer (PL), which is laminated on the protective tape (PT) and has an outer diameter smaller than an outer diameter of the wafer (W), to apply the protective tape (PT) to the wafer (W).
US11935766B2
A liquid processing apparatus includes a heating member, a substrate holder, a processing liquid supply and a coil. The heating member is disposed adjacent to a portion of a substrate and has an insulating member. The substrate holder is configured to hold the substrate. The processing liquid supply is configured to supply a processing liquid onto the substrate held by the substrate holder. The coil is configured to heat the heating member inductively to heat the portion of the substrate.
US11935765B2
A laser processing apparatus includes a main imaging unit configured to image a region to be laser-processed and an auxiliary imaging unit. The auxiliary imaging unit includes an objective lens, a camera configured to generate an image via the objective lens, a half-silvered mirror disposed between the camera and the objective lens, a light source configured to illuminate a wafer held on a chuck table via the half-silvered mirror and the objective lens, a first polarizing plate disposed between the camera and the half-silvered mirror, and a second polarizing plate disposed between the light source and the half-silvered mirror. The second polarizing plate is disposed such that a polarization plane of light applied from the light source, passed through the second polarizing plate, and reflected by the half-silvered mirror is rotated by a required angle with respect to a polarization axis of the first polarizing plate.
US11935751B2
Exemplary deposition methods may include delivering a boron-containing precursor and a nitrogen-containing precursor to a processing region of a semiconductor processing chamber. The methods may include providing a hydrogen-containing precursor with the boron-containing precursor and the nitrogen-containing precursor. A flow rate ratio of the hydrogen-containing precursor to either of the boron-containing precursor or the nitrogen-containing precursor may be greater than or about 2:1. The methods may include forming a plasma of all precursors within the processing region of the semiconductor processing chamber. The methods may include depositing a boron-and-nitrogen material on a substrate disposed within the processing region of the semiconductor processing chamber.
US11935749B2
The present disclosure provides a method of manufacturing a semiconductor structure. The method includes forming a first patterned layer over a substrate; forming a second patterned layer over the substrate and alternately arranged with the first patterned layer; performing an etching, thereby forming an arched surface of the first patterned layer and an arched surface of the second patterned layer; forming a sacrificial layer over the first patterned layer and the second patterned layer, wherein a plurality of air gaps are defined by the substrate, the first patterned layer, the second patterned layer and the sacrificial layer; removing the sacrificial layer above the plurality of air gaps, thereby forming a planar top surface of the first patterned layer and a planar top surface of the second patterned layer; and patterning the substrate using the first patterned layer and the second patterned layer as a mask.
US11935747B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes depositing a photoresist material over a substrate. The substrate is rotated to spread the photoresist material. A gas is blown to an edge of the substrate when rotating the substrate. The rotating of the substrate is stopped. The blowing of the gas is stopped.
US11935734B2
The invention concerns an ion trap, including a first ring-shaped end cap electrode and a second ring-shaped end cap electrode, between which is formed a ring-shaped ion storage cell, as well as a plurality of radially inner disk-shaped ring electrodes and a plurality of radially outer disk-shaped ring electrodes, which delimit the ring-shaped ion storage cell. The invention also relates to a mass spectrometer that has such an ion trap as well as a control device that is designed to actuate the disk-shaped ring electrodes and the end cap electrodes for the storage, selection, excitation and/or detection of ions in the ring-shaped ion storage cell.
US11935733B2
A sample support is a sample support for sample ionization, including: a substrate formed with a plurality of through holes opening to a first surface and a second surface on a side opposite to the first surface; a conductive layer provided not to block the through hole in the first surface; and a reinforcement member disposed inside a part of the plurality of through holes.
US11935730B2
Systems and methods for cleaning an edge ring pocket are described herein. One of the methods includes providing one or more process gases to a plasma chamber, supplying a low frequency (LF) radio frequency (RF) power to an edge ring that is located adjacent to a chuck of the plasma chamber. The LF RF power is supplied while the one or more process gases are supplied to the plasma chamber to maintain plasma within the plasma chamber. The supply of the LF RF power increases energy of plasma ions near the edge ring pocket to remove residue in the edge ring pocket. The LF RF power is supplied during the time period in which a substrate is not being processed within the plasma chamber.
US11935720B1
A field-emission type electron source includes (i) a single-crystal tungsten rod having a sharpened terminus and (ii) a mass of ZrO formed only on a portion of the surface, or the entire surface, of the sharpened terminus. In preferred design, the single-crystal tungsten rod is placed in a gaseous medium that consists of oxygen and a non-oxygen gas. The molar ratio between oxygen and the non-oxygen gas is greater than 1:1.
US11935719B2
A power switch controller includes a condition detector, a zero crossing detector, a retimer, and a driver. The condition detector detects a change in a sense signal towards a first or second condition. The zero crossing detector detects zero crossings in an AC powerline signal. The power switch controller drives a latching relay that connects a load to powerlines. The power switch controller activates or deactivates the latching relay based on the sensed condition, and retimes activation and deactivation pulses to align the relay contact opening and closing times to coincide with the AC powerline zero crossings, compensating for contact travel times. The activation and deactivation pulses have a duration of max 20 ms, and an amplitude of at least 110% of the maximum sustainable voltage for the relay coil(s). A power-on reset deactivates the relay, aligned with a second AC zero crossing.
US11935718B2
A method for detecting faults in a switch assembly includes at least one switch for monitoring the position of a component that can be moved by means of a drive which has an electric motor includes shifting the movable component from a first position to a second position spatially separated from the first position, wherein the power consumption of the electric motor changes in a previously specified manner, and wherein the switch state of the switch during a proper functioning of the switch changes in a previously specified manner, analyzing the power consumption of the electric motor and the switch state of the switch in an analysis unit, and triggering a fault action if the power consumption of the electric motor has changed in the previously specified manner and the switch state of the switch has not changed in the previously specified manner.
US11935716B2
A relay includes a fixed contact, a movable contact piece including a movable contact, a movable portion, a coil, a return spring, and a contact spring. The movable portion includes a drive shaft and a movable iron core. The drive shaft is fixed to the movable contact piece in a contact case and extends from an inside of the contact case to an outside of the contact case. The movable iron core is connected to the drive shaft outside the contact case. The return spring urges the movable portion in an open direction in which the movable contact is separated from the fixed contact. The contact spring urges the drive shaft in a contact direction in which the movable contact contacts the fixed contact. The contact spring is arranged outside the contact case.
US11935715B2
An electromagnetic drive unit for a switching device includes: a magnetic core with a first, a second, and a third magnetic path each arranged transversely with respect to a longitudinal axis of the electromagnetic drive unit and coupled to longitudinal magnetic struts at respective ends to form a magnetic frame structure; an armature movable along the longitudinal axis between a first and a second state; and a first and a second magnetic coil for moving the armature based on excitation of the first and/or the second magnetic coil. The first magnetic coil is arranged between the first and the second magnetic path and the second magnetic coil is arranged between the second and the third magnetic path with respect to the longitudinal axis. The magnetic core and the magnetic coils are arranged such that a magnetic flux that flows through the magnetic paths to move the armature is adjustable.
US11935714B2
A load control device may control power delivered to an electrical load from an AC power source. The load control device may include a controllably conductive device adapted to be coupled in series electrical connection between the AC power source and the electrical load, a zero-cross detect circuit configured to generate a zero-cross signal representative of the zero-crossings of an AC voltage. The zero-cross signal may be characterized by pulses occurring in time with the zero-crossings of the AC voltage. The load control device may include a control circuit operatively coupled to the controllably conductive device and the zero cross detect circuit. The control circuit may be configured to identify a rising-edge time and a falling-edge time of one of the pulses of the zero-cross signal, and may control a conductive state of the controllably conductive device based on the rising-edge time and the falling-edge time of the pulse.
US11935709B2
A control device includes a button assembly having one or more buttons and a button carrier that includes a plurality of resilient, independently deflectable spring arms. The control device may be configured as a wall-mounted keypad to control a load control device, or as a thermostat to control a temperature regulation appliance. The button carrier may be configured to prevent interference between the buttons during operation of the control device. The button assembly may be captured between a faceplate of the control device and a housing that is attached to a rear side of the faceplate. The control device may include one or more button retainers that are attached to the buttons and that are configured to align respective outer surfaces of the buttons relative to each other, and relative to the faceplate of the control device, when the buttons are in respective rest positions.
US11935706B2
A capacitor has an anode with one or more active layers that each includes fused particles positioned on a current collector. The current collector includes tunnels that extend from a first face of the current collector to a second face of the current collector.
US11935697B2
A capacitor includes: a capacitor element; a pair of external electrodes provided at opposite ends of the capacitor element; and a pair of metal caps and or a metal foil, the pair of metal caps each covering a corresponding one of the pair of external electrodes, the metal foil covering at least part of the capacitor element.
US11935693B2
Methods and apparatus for producing helix windings used for a transformer are provided. For example, apparatus comprise an electrically conductive mandrel comprising an elongated body, a head comprising an eyelet detail, and a winding structure disposed along the elongated body.
US11935690B1
Electrode/inductor for devices for disposing waste by plasma-chemical destruction method, the inductor located between the electrode and conductive surfaces of the cavity with gaps towards them. The inductor is formed by two truncated regular pyramids with bottom bases located in one plane and top bases located in another plane. The pyramids are rotated relative to each other around their common axis. In all or some of side facet planes of the pyramids, metal side facet plates are located, that are connected to metal plates of the upper and bottom bases located in planes of the upper and bottom bases with gaps between lateral edges of adjacent side facet plates. An electrode of the inductor is placed along the common axis of the pyramids. The inductor electrode is connected to the metal plates of the upper and bottom bases and protrudes beyond the top base towards the reactor electrode.
US11935671B2
The disclosed technology relates to a cable configured for high current applications. The cable includes a conducting member having a conductor surrounded by an insulating layer, and a cooling conduit having a tubular portion and a coolant. The coolant is configured to flow within the tubular portion to cool the conductor. The conducting member is spiral wound around the cooling conduit along a length of the cooling conduit to increase a contact area between the conducting member and the cooling conduit to thereby improve a transfer of heat from the conducting member to the cooling conduit.
US11935662B2
An elongate fuel element is described that has a silicon carbide cladding enclosing a fuel, such as UO2, wherein the fuel is dimensioned relative to the cladding to define gaps at each lateral end of the enclosure sufficiently large such that upon swelling in use, the fuel does not increase the strain on the cladding beyond the limits of the claddings strain tolerance. The lateral gaps at the ends of the fuel allow lateral expansion during swelling that reduces the strain on the cladding.
US11935660B2
Systems and methods are provided for data driven predictive analysis of complex data sets for determining decision outcomes. The systems and methods include obtaining a first set of data associated with individuals and obtaining, a second set of data associated with events, wherein the events are associated with at least one of the individuals. The systems and methods further include determining a subset of the individuals from the first set of data based on the first subset of individuals having common attributes with a target individual and determining a second subset of events from the second set of data based on the second subset of events having common attributes with the target events associated with the target individual. Additionally, the systems and methods include aggregating data associated with the second subset of events based on the target events and providing for display output associated with aggregated data.
US11935658B1
A method, computer program product, and system are disclosed. The method, when implemented in a computer system, includes obtaining patient information (where the patient information comprises symptom information), and identifying a medication. The medication is identified by searching a medication information database using the symptom information.
US11935655B2
Systems and methods for determining an evaluation of one or more patients is provided. User input for evaluating one or more patients is received. A commit bundle is retrieved from a commit database. An evaluation of the one or more patients is determined based on the user input using a medical ontology configured with the retrieved commit bundle. The medical ontology is separate from the commit database. Results of the evaluation of the one or more patients are output.
US11935642B2
A system and method for generating a neonatal disorder nourishment program comprising a computing device, the computing device configured to obtain a neonatal indicator element, identify a neonatal bundle as a function of the neonatal indicator element, produce a neonatal profile as a function of the neonatal bundle, wherein producing further comprises obtaining a neonatal functional goal as a function of the neonatal bundle, receiving a neonatal recommendation as a function of a neonatal database, and producing the neonatal profile as a function of the neonatal functional goal and neonatal recommendation using a neonatal machine-learning model, determine an aliment as a function of the neonatal profile, and generate a nourishment program as a function of the aliment.
US11935641B2
This patent disclosure provides various embodiments of combining multiple modalities of non-text surgical data in forms of videos, images, and audios in a meaningful manner so that the combined data can be used to perform comprehensive data analytics for a surgical procedure. In some embodiments, the disclosed system can begin by receiving two or more modalities of surgical data during the surgical procedure. The system then time-synchronizes the two or more modalities of surgical data to generate two or more modalities of time-synchronized surgical data. Next, the system converts each modality of the time-synchronized surgical data into a corresponding array of values of a common format. The system then combines the two or more arrays of values to generate a combined set of values. The system subsequently performs comprehensive data analytics on the combined set of values to generate a surgical decision for the surgical procedure.
US11935634B2
A system for predicting and summarizing medical events from electronic health records includes a computer memory storing aggregated electronic health records from a multitude of patients of diverse age, health conditions, and demographics including medications, laboratory values, diagnoses, vital signs, and medical notes. The aggregated electronic health records are converted into a single standardized data structure format and ordered arrangement per patient, e.g., into a chronological order. A computer (or computer system) executes one or more deep learning models trained on the aggregated health records to predict one or more future clinical events and summarize pertinent past medical events related to the predicted events on an input electronic health record of a patient having the standardized data structure format and ordered into a chronological order. An electronic device configured with a healthcare provider-facing interface displays the predicted one or more future clinical events and the pertinent past medical events of the patient.
US11935630B2
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for blending data. The system may identify user behavior patterns such that relevant correlations are learned by the system and suggested to a user automatically. The system may also analyze each available data set to identify both present and potential correlations to suggest to a user. This provides an efficient means for the system to automatically narrow a compilation of data sets into a filtered group of suggested data sets for a user. Put another way, the system gathers data on user behavior and known correlations and uses various methodologies to generate new data sets to be automatically compared and catalogued.
US11935628B2
Determining relative relationships of people who share a common ancestor within at least a threshold number of generations includes: receiving recombinable deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) sequence information of a first user and recombinable DNA sequence information of a plurality of users; processing, using one or more computer processors, the recombinable DNA sequence information of the plurality of users in parallel; determining, based at least in part on a result of processing the recombinable DNA information of the plurality of users in parallel, a predicted degree of relationship between the first user and a user among the plurality of users, the predicted degree of relative relationship corresponding to a number of generations within which the first user and the second user share a common ancestor.
US11935620B2
A memory device for memory cell programming and erasing with refreshing operation is disclosed. The memory device includes multiple location-related memory cells and a refresh module. The location-related memory cells are coupled to a bit line on which a selecting voltage is applied. The refresh module rewrites a stored data of a first cell of the location-related memory cells to the first cell of the location-related memory cells in response to an operation count being smaller than a number N. N is related to the number of the location-related memory cells.
US11935612B2
A memory includes a storage circuit, a first reading circuit, a second reading circuit, and a plurality of correcting circuits. The storage circuit includes a plurality of sense amplifier arrays and a plurality of storage unit arrays. The sense amplifier arrays and the storage unit arrays are arranged alternately, and the sense amplifier arrays are configured to perform data reading and writing on the storage unit arrays. The first reading circuit is configured to compare a reference voltage signal with a signal on a first data line corresponding to the first reading circuit, and output a comparison result as read-out data. The second reading circuit is configured to compare the reference voltage signal with a signal on a first data line corresponding to the second reading circuit, and output a comparison result as read-out data.
US11935602B2
A memory device might include a controller configured to cause the memory device to generate a first sum of expected peak current magnitudes for a plurality of memory devices, and generate a second sum of expected peak current magnitudes for a subset of the plurality of memory devices, if the memory device were to initiate a next phase of an access operation in a selected operating mode; to compare the first sum to a first current demand budget for the plurality of the memory devices; to compare the second sum to a second current demand budget for the subset of memory devices; and to initiate the next phase of the access operation in the selected operating mode in response to the first sum being less than or equal to the first current demand budget and the second sum being less than or equal to the second current demand budget.
US11935596B2
In certain aspects, a three-dimensional (3D) memory device includes a first semiconductor structure, a second semiconductor structure, and a bonding interface between the first semiconductor structure and the second semiconductor structure. The first semiconductor structure includes an array of memory cells, a first peripheral circuit of the array of memory cells, and a polysilicon layer between the array of memory cells and the first peripheral circuit. The first peripheral circuit includes a first transistor. The second semiconductor structure includes a second peripheral circuit of the array of memory cells. The second peripheral circuit includes a second transistor.
US11935590B2
The invention is notably directed to a device for performing a matrix-vector multiplication of a matrix with a vector. The device comprises a memory crossbar array comprising a plurality of row lines, a plurality of column lines and a plurality of junctions arranged between the plurality of row lines and the plurality of column lines. Each junction comprises a programmable resistive element and an access element for accessing the programmable resistive element. The device further comprises a readout circuit configured to perform read operations by applying positive read voltages of one or more first amplitudes and negative read voltages of one or more second amplitudes corresponding to the one or more first amplitudes. The one or more first amplitudes and the corresponding one or more second amplitudes are different from each other, thereby correcting polarity dependent current asymmetricities.
US11935571B1
A method for writing repeatable run-out (RRO) data, to surfaces of a rotating magnetic storage medium in a storage device having two read channels, includes detecting, with a first head, using a first read channel, a servo sync mark (SSM) on a first track on a first surface, establishing a recurring servo-gating signal at a successive fixed interval from the SSM, detecting, with the first head, servo signals from the first track on occurrence of the recurring servo-gating signal, processing the servo signals from the first track, to generate first positioning signals for positioning the first head relative to the first track, following a similar procedure with a second read channel having a second head to generate second positioning signals for the second read head, and writing first and second RRO data to servo wedges of the first and second tracks according to the respective positioning signals.
US11935566B2
According to an embodiment, on a first track of a magnetic disk, a plurality of first sectors in each of which a data segment is stored, and a second sector in which a parity for first error correction is stored are arranged in this order from a first position. A controller executes a first operation of sequentially reading a first data segment from each of the plurality of first sectors, and storing a group of the read first data segments in a buffer memory. The controller obtains a first parity from the group of the read first data segments. The controller starts a second operation of writing each first data segment stored in the buffer memory, to a first sector that is a read source among the plurality of first sectors, and writing the first parity to the second sector, before the magnetic head reaches the first position.
US11935564B2
Disclosed is a video editing method including: acquiring an editing instruction to be executed from a user; calling a template video stored in advance according to the editing instruction, and acquiring a time axis representing duration of the template video; and overlaying the time axis on a progress bar of an editing video to indicate, by a combination of the time axis and the progress bar, a position of the template video in the editing video. A video editing apparatus and a smart mobile terminal are further provided.
US11935563B2
The present disclosure generally relates to a tape drive. The tape drive comprises a first tape head and a second tape head linearly aligned with one another, where the first tape head and the second tape head are configured to concurrently operate. The first tape head and the second tape head each comprise a plurality of write transducers, a plurality of read transducers, and a plurality of servo transducers. The tape drive further comprises a first actuator coupled to the first tape head and a second actuator coupled to the second tape head. The first and second actuators are configured to independently tilt and move the first and second tape heads, respectively. Tilting and moving the first and second tape heads individually enables the tape drive to compensate for non-linear tape dimensional stability effects.
US11935562B2
The present disclosure is generally related to a tape drive comprising a tape head and a controller coupled to the tape head. The tape head comprises one or more modules, each module comprising a plurality of write heads aligned in a first row, a plurality of read heads aligned in a second row parallel to the first row, and at least four first servo heads aligned in the second row. Two or more first servo heads of the at least four first servo heads are configured to concurrently read first servo data from a first servo track. The controller is configured to concurrently process the first servo data, to compute the position of the tape head based on a known spacing between the at least two servo heads, and to dynamically adjust a position of the tape head based on the processed first servo data.
US11935556B2
A messaging system for audio character type swapping. Methods of audio character type swapping include receiving input audio data having a first characteristic and transforming the input audio data to an input image where the input image represents the frequencies and intensities of the audio. The methods further include processing the input image using a convolutional neural network (CNN) to generate an output image and transforming the output image to output audio data, the output audio data having a second characteristic. The input audio and output audio may include vocals. The first characteristics may indicate a male voice and the second characteristics may indicate a female voice. The CNN is trained together with another CNN that changes input audio having the second characteristic to audio having the first characteristic. The CNNs are trained using discriminator CNNs that determine whether audio has a first characteristic or a second characteristic.
US11935551B2
The present invention relates to audio coding systems which make use of a harmonic transposition method for high frequency reconstruction (HFR). A system and a method for generating a high frequency component of a signal from a low frequency component of the signal is described. The system comprises an analysis filter bank providing a plurality of analysis subband signals of the low frequency component of the signal. It also comprises a non-linear processing unit to generate a synthesis subband signal with a synthesis frequency by modifying the phase of a first and a second of the plurality of analysis subband signals and by combining the phase-modified analysis subband signals. Finally, it comprises a synthesis filter bank for generating the high frequency component of the signal from the synthesis subband signal.
US11935549B2
An apparatus for encoding an audio signal includes: a core encoder for core encoding first audio data in a first spectral band; a parametric coder for parametrically coding second audio data in a second spectral band being different from the first spectral band, wherein the parametric coder includes: an analyzer for analyzing first audio data in the first spectral band to obtain a first analysis result and for analyzing second audio data in the second spectral band to obtain a second analysis result; a compensator for calculating a compensation value using the first analysis result and the second analysis result; and a parameter calculated for calculating a parameter from the second audio data in the second spectral band using the compensation value.
US11935544B2
Implementations set forth herein relate to management of casting requests and user inputs at a rechargeable device, which provides access to an automated assistant and is capable of rendering data that is cast from a separate device. Casting requests can be handled by the rechargeable device despite a device SoC of the rechargeable device operating in a sleep mode. Furthermore, spoken utterances provided by a user for invoking the automated assistant can also be adaptively managed by the rechargeable device in order mitigate idle power consumption by the device SoC. Such spoken utterances can be initially processed by a digital signal processor (DSP), and, based on one or more features (e.g., voice characteristic, conformity to a particular invocation phrase, etc.) of the spoken utterance, the device SoC can be initialized for an amount of time that is selected based on the features of the spoken utterance.
US11935541B2
A method of performing speech recognition, comprises, at a first device: receiving an audio signal representing speech; performing a first data integrity check operation on the received audio signal; performing a speaker recognition process on the received audio signal; forwarding the received audio signal to a second device, wherein the second device comprises a speech recognition function; and forwarding an output of the first data integrity check operation to the second device. The method further comprises, at the second device: receiving the audio signal forwarded from the first device; receiving the output of the first data integrity check operation forwarded from the first device; performing a second data integrity check operation on the audio signal forwarded from the first device; and using a result of performing the speech recognition function on the audio signal forwarded from the first device only if an output of the second data integrity check operation matches the output of the first data integrity check operation forwarded from the first device.
US11935540B2
A method may include obtaining first audio data originating at a first device during a communication session between the first device and a second device. The method may also include obtaining an availability of revoiced transcription units in a transcription system and in response to establishment of the communication session, selecting, based on the availability of revoiced transcription units, a revoiced transcription unit instead of a non-revoiced transcription unit to generate a transcript of the first audio data. The method may also include obtaining revoiced audio generated by a revoicing of the first audio data by a captioning assistant and generating a transcription of the revoiced audio using an automatic speech recognition system. The method may further include in response to selecting the revoiced transcription unit, directing the transcription of the revoiced audio to the second device as the transcript of the first audio data.
US11935536B2
Validating actions in a digital assistant-based application is provided. The system identifies an application with a conversational interface. The system selects an action from an action repository and generates, via a natural language processor, a trigger phrase for input into the application. The system executes the application to process the trigger phrase to identify an action of the application. The system identifies a parameter used by the application to execute the action, and generates, based on the parameter and via execution of the conversational interface of the application, a first query responsive to the trigger phrase. The system generates a first response to the first query for input into the application. The system determines, based on execution of the application to process the first response, a state of the application. The system evaluates the state to determine an error code and provide a notification based on the error code.
US11935530B2
Systems, methods, and apparatus for using a multimodal response in the dynamic generation of client device output that is tailored to a current modality of a client device is disclosed herein. Multimodal client devices can engage in a variety of interactions across the multimodal spectrum including voice only interactions, voice forward interactions, multimodal interactions, visual forward interactions, visual only interactions etc. A multimodal response can include a core message to be rendered for all interaction types as well as one or more modality dependent components to provide a user with additional information.
US11935526B2
A system and method for voice control of a media playback device is disclosed. The method includes receiving an instruction of a voice command, converting the voice command to text, transmitting the text command to the playback device, and having the playback device execute the command. An instruction may include a command to play a set of audio tracks, and the media playback device plays the set of audio tracks upon receiving the instruction.
US11935522B2
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for categorizing customer complaints on social media using a model trained on customer voice calls or chats with agents. Additionally, users interested in monitoring regulatory compliance issues based on customer complaints can receive notifications regarding complaints that are linked to regulatory topic areas, without the need to manually scan vast numbers of social media postings.
US11935520B1
A method and system for identifying the beginning and ending of songs via a machine learning analysis. A machine learning model analyzes streaming audio (such as a radio broadcast) in overlapping, 3-second samples. Each sample is labeled into groups such as “song,” “talk,” “commercial” and “transition.” Based on the location of the transition samples, an exact second a given song begins and ends in the audio stream is derivable. The model further identifies when two songs shift between one another.
US11935517B2
A speech decoding method is performed by a computer device, the speech including a current audio frame and a previous audio frame. The method includes: obtaining a target token corresponding to a smallest decoding score from a first token list including first tokens obtained by decoding the previous audio frame, each first token including a state pair and a decoding score, the state pair being used for characterizing a correspondence between a first state of the first token in a first decoding network corresponding to a low-order language model and a second state of the first token in a second decoding network corresponding to a differential language model; determining pruning parameters according to the target token and an acoustic vector of the current audio frame when the current audio frame is decoded; and decoding the current audio frame according to the first token list, the pruning parameters, and the acoustic vector.
US11935511B2
According to an embodiment, an acoustic output apparatus includes an acquisition unit and an output unit. The acquisition unit acquires non-stationary sound data that masks an operating sound, in which the operating sound is based on an operation of the operation unit. The output unit outputs a non-stationary sound based on the sound data acquired by the acquisition unit during occurrence of the operating sound.
US11935504B2
A display device includes a shift controller which generates an output image by shifting an input image within a shift range; and pixels which displays the output image. The shift controller sets the shift range to a first range when the input image is a moving image, and sets the shift range to a second range smaller than the first range when the input image is a still image.
US11935498B2
Disclosed are a display apparatus, a drive chip, and an electronic device. When determining that a disconnected signal line exists, the drive chip sends a control signal to a signal line repair module, so that when a shift output end of the first shift unit corresponding to the disconnected signal line outputs an enable signal, a selector switch corresponding to the shift output end is turned on, and then a connection control unit keeps outputting a turn-on signal to a control end of a corresponding connection switch.
US11935496B2
A variety of methods for driving electro-optic displays so as to reduce visible artifacts are described. Such methods includes driving an electro-optic display having a plurality of display pixels and controlled by a display controller, the display controller associated with a host for providing operational instructions to the display controller, the method may include updating the display with a first image, updating the display with a second image subsequent to the first image, processing image data associated with the first image and the second image to identify display pixels with edge artifacts and generate image data associated with the identified pixels, storing the image data associated pixels with edge artifacts at a memory location, and initiating a waveform to clear the edge artifacts.
US11935483B2
Provided are a pixel circuit, a driving method thereof and a display panel. The pixel circuit includes: multiple sub-pixel circuits in an array; each sub-pixel circuit includes a first node control sub-circuit, a second node control sub-circuit, a driving sub-circuit, a storage sub-circuit, a reading sub-circuit and a light emitting device; at least reading sub-circuits of the sub-pixel circuits of some rows are controlled by a same sensing control line; the first node control sub-circuit charges the storage sub-circuit in response to a first scan signal; the second node control sub-circuit writes a reference voltage signal into a second node in response to a second scan signal; the reading sub-circuit reads a potential of the second node in response to a sensing control signal written by a sensing control line; the driving sub-circuit drives the light emitting device to emit light.
US11935481B2
Provided is a display device, which includes: a reference voltage line formed along a circular outer line and configured to provide a reference voltage; a first reference voltage auxiliary line electrically connected to the reference voltage line and formed to be parallel with a predetermined interval; and a conductive line forming a contact with the reference voltage line and the first reference voltage auxiliary line and configured to provide the reference voltage to a cathode.
US11935477B2
A pixel includes a driving transistor having a gate electrode connected to a first node and connected between a first power line to which a first power voltage is applied and a second node, a first initialization transistor having a gate electrode connected to a first scan line and connected between the second node and a first initialization power line to which a first initialization power voltage is applied, a second initialization transistor having a gate electrode connected to the first scan line and connected between a third node and a second initialization power line to which a second initialization power voltage is applied, a first capacitor connected between the first node and the second node, a second capacitor connected between the first power line and the second node, and a light emitting element connected between the third node and a second power line.
US11935476B2
A display device includes: a substrate including a main display area and an edge display area bent with respect to a first axis from the main display area; and a wiring including a plurality of sub-wirings arranged in a direction intersecting the first axis in the edge display area; an insulating layer including a plurality of contact holes and covering the plurality of sub-wirings; and a connection wiring disposed on the insulating layer and connecting the plurality of sub-wirings through the plurality of contact holes.
US11935474B2
A display device includes a display panel including an under display camera (UDC) region and a non-UDC region, the UDC region including a plurality of sub-regions, and processing circuitry configured to, receive image data, select at least one first filter from a plurality of filters based on a spatial coordinate value of the received image data, the plurality of filters corresponding to a respective sub-region of the plurality of sub-regions, and perform first pixel rendering for the UDC region based on the at least one first filter and the image data, and the at least one first filter is generated based on a pixel arrangement pattern of the UDC region.
US11935470B2
A pixel circuit and a driving method thereof, and a display device are provided. The pixel circuit includes a driving sub-circuit, a data writing sub-circuit, a first light-emitting control sub-circuit, a second light-emitting control sub-circuit, a compensation sub-circuit, and a first reset sub-circuit, and is configured to generate a driving current to control a light-emitting element to emit light, the first reset sub-circuit comprises a first transistor, the compensation sub-circuit comprises a second transistor, the first transistor and the second transistor are both polysilicon oxide thin film transistors, and an active layer type of the first transistor and an active layer type of the second transistor are different from an active layer type of a transistor comprised in at least one selected from a group consisting of the driving sub-circuit, the data writing sub-circuit, the first light-emitting control sub-circuit, and the second light-emitting control sub-circuit.
US11935463B2
A light emitting display device includes: a light emitting diode at a display area, and including an anode and a cathode; a pixel circuit at the display area, and to transmit an output current to the anode of the light emitting diode; a repair line extending in a first direction; a repair pixel circuit connected to the repair line; a bridge including one end overlapping with the repair line; and a connecting portion connected to the anode, and including one end overlapping with the bridge. The bridge is not connected to the repair line, the connecting portion, and the anode.
US11935461B2
A method for control of a pixel array based on a temperature estimate is provided. A method includes sampling an anode voltage of each LED of a plurality of pixels resulting in sampled voltages, determining an average voltage based on the sample voltages, and determining a total voltage to provide to the pixels based on the average voltage and voltage data from a memory coupled to the controller, the voltage data including one or more of a 3-sigma value, a driver headroom value, a resistance value, or a k-factor value.
US11935450B2
A display panel and a display device are provided. The display panel includes a display unit, the display unit includes a plurality of light emitting modules, and a driving circuit electrically connected to the display unit and drives the display unit to display. The driving circuit includes a first circuit module and a second circuit module, the second circuit module is electrically connected to the first circuit module and the display unit, respectively.
US11935440B2
The present disclosure relates to a display apparatus including a plurality of display modules, and a hinge assembly connecting the plurality of display modules, wherein the hinge assembly comprises a pair of brackets rotatably coupled to each other to adjust an angle between the plurality of display modules, a moving block is mounted on each of the pair of brackets to be coupled to the display module, and the moving block is configured to slidingly move with respect to the bracket to adjust a spacing between the plurality of display modules. With this structure, the angle between the plurality of display modules may be variously varied according to an installation environment.
US11935431B1
The present invention relates to a learning game system that comprises a plushy having an internal chamber and a control system that is fitted into the internal chamber. The control system comprises a microcontroller, one or more memory, an impact sensor, and a user interface. During gameplay, a person catching the ball is detected by way of the impact sensor. The person is presented with a question that can be from a variety of school subjects, trivia, or other types of questions. An answer is received from the person by way of the user interface. A determination can be made if the answer is correct or incorrect. The person is prompted to toss the ball to another game-playing person. Game content such as questions can be downloaded, interchanged, or otherwise changed to cover a variety of subject matter areas and be progressively challenging to gameplayers of all ages.
US11935426B2
Industrial vehicle monitoring for modification of vehicle operator behavior comprises storing data identifying an event associated with the operation of an industrial vehicle, the data having a performance parameter to evaluate against the event. Further, operation of the industrial vehicle is monitored for an event. When an occurrence of the event is detected, event data that characterizes an action of a vehicle operator is recorded into memory. The recorded event data is evaluated against the performance parameter to determine whether the vehicle operator demonstrated appropriate behavior for the detected event, and a behavior modification action is determined based on the evaluation of the recorded event data against the performance parameter. An output message is conveyed on the industrial vehicle to perform the behavior modification action.
US11935422B2
A method of providing an instructional scaffold to person learning to read English language comprises displaying printed matter to the learner in the form of lists. preferably text stories. The normal spacing of the letters in words is kept intact; in a first part of the method the rime portions of monosyllable words are bolded and made larger than the onset portions; and in a second part of the method, which also may be used independently, the sequential syllables of multisyllable words are emphasized by alternating plain font with bolded font and the long vowels are identified, for example by underscore, again with the words of any text being kept intact.
US11935407B1
A dynamic loose vehicle formation method based on real-time online navigation map, which belongs to the field of vehicle formation technologies. The method includes a driver inputs travel information of a destination and waypoints in a GIS app; the GIS app uploads the travel information to a GIS server; the driver chooses to join a recommended formation or create a formation in the GIS app; when the driver chooses the formation and joins the formation, the formation information is displayed on the GIS app interface and sent to other vehicles within the formation for information interaction; when the driver chooses to leave the formation and leaves the formation, the formation is adjusted and the GIS server updates the formation information.
US11935403B1
A vehicle identification system includes one or more displays associated with a vehicle, a transceiver, and a controller communicatively coupled to the transceiver. The one or more displays are located to be visible from an exterior of the vehicle. The controller is adapted to generate a first signal to be transmitted by the transceiver to a mobile communication device associated with a driver of the vehicle when it is determined that the vehicle is within a predetermined distance of a specific location. The mobile communication device associated with the driver is adapted to generate a second signal to be transmitted to the one or more displays. The second signal represents an indicator.
US11935399B2
Sensing devices in an installation state are flexibly managed and the sensing devices are controlled appropriately. The sensing devices each include a sensor, a selection control unit, and a notification unit. The sensor measures the ambient environment to generate a measurement signal. The selection control unit controls the selection state of the sensing device in response to the measurement signal from the sensor. The notification unit issues a notification that the sensing device has been selected in a case where the selection state indicates that the sensing device has been selected.
US11935393B2
According to various features described herein, a wireless connection device facilitates providing wireless transmission of detected voltages on monitored lines, and comprises: a communication connector via which the wireless communication device receives detected voltage information for one or more monitored lines; and one or more printed circuit boards (PCB)s comprising circuitry for processing the received detected voltage information; and a wireless transceiver that transmits the processed voltage information wirelessly for presentation and storage on a remote device.
US11935391B2
Fire alarm system device identification methods and systems are described herein. One fire alarm system, includes a gateway connected to a system control panel for allowing mobile device access to the system, a mobile device connected to the control panel, a fire alarm system control application on the mobile device, wherein the fire alarm control system application gains access to the control panel via the gateway, a search utility in the fire alarm control system application for identifying a particular fire alarm system device that is in a specific condition or location, and a database accessible via the fire alarm control system application wherein location and condition information about the plurality of fire alarm system devices is located, such that the search utility can search the database and identify the particular fire alarm system device from the other of the plurality of fire alarm system devices.
US11935389B2
Systems and methods for monitoring intravenous (IV) fluid bags are provided. The system includes a replaceable unit comprising a sensor comprising a pressure sensor configured to measure hydrostatic pressure, an electrical connector coupling the sensor to a controller component, a cannula configurable for insertion into a fluid port of an IV fluid bag, and an IV tube coupling the sensor to an IV fluid bag via the cannula. The system further includes the controller component configured to retrieve data representative of hydrostatic pressure from the sensor and calculate remaining fluid volume, discharge rate, and flow occlusion based on the retrieved data.
US11935381B2
The fire detection system is provided to enable early detection of a location where a fire may occur. When detecting a location which vibration reached in the optical fiber 104, the sensor unit 102 transmits information indicating the location to the information output unit 101. The gas state detection section 103 transmits information indicating the state of gas to the information output unit 101. The information output unit 101 receives the information indicating the location which the vibration reached in the optical fiber 104 and the information indicating the state of gas, and outputs information indicating a sign of a fire outbreak occurred when the state of gas meets a predetermined condition.
US11935380B2
Apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media for operating a scanning smoke detector are described herein. One apparatus a laser emitter configured to emit a beam of light, a rotational component configured to rotate the emitter such that the beam periodically scans across an area, and a light receiver configured to receive a reflected portion of the beam of light and determine a presence of smoke particles in the area based on the reflected portion. The smoke detection apparatus can be configured to operate at a first power level, decrease the beam to a second power level responsive to a determination that an object in the area is in a path of the beam, and increase the beam to the first power level responsive to a determination that the object is no longer in the path of the beam.
US11935379B2
According to one or more embodiments, a premises security system includes a sensor adaptor device mountable on a third-party sensor. The sensor adaptor device comprises at least one terminal in electrical communication with a preconfigured premises device of a premise security system, and processing circuitry configured to: store a mapping of a plurality of third-party sensor signals to a plurality of translated third-party signals, detect a first third-party sensor signal emitted from the third-party sensor, determine that the first third-party sensor signal maps to a first translated third-party signal based on the mapping, and in response to determining that the first third-party sensor signal maps to the first translated third-party signal, trigger, via the at least one terminal where the preconfigured premises device to cause the preconfigured premise device to transmit an alert signal to the premises security system.
US11935365B2
Techniques for creating and managing wagers on possible states within a live event, such as possible outcomes of subparts of a sporting event or other possible occurrences within the event. An initial state and multiple possible future states of a performance parameter of the event are determined based on state information of the event. A betting market may be created by determining probabilities and odds for the possible future states. Bets may be made on the possible future states via a touch-sensitive display. A payout may be made to a winner who selects a possible future state that actually occurs.
US11935364B2
An electronic gaming system is capable of forming a multi-player group to play a game; receiving, from a first gaming device, first game play information for a first game played by a first player member of the multi-player group on the first gaming device; determining that the first game play information comprises a first winning outcome corresponding to a first winning outcome; in response, allocating the first winning outcome among the first and second player members; and notifying a second gaming device of the second player member that the second player member has received the second portion of the first winning outcome.
US11935360B2
A gaming device may perform various electronic games, such as a keno game, and may include a game controller configured to control operations of the performed electronic games. During the course of a game performed on the gaming device, the game controller may control various winning scenarios, including alternate winning scenarios. At certain stages in a keno game, a number of markers may be selected. Before, after, or while these markers are selected, the game controller may determine how many bonus markers will be selected. Based on the number of selected bonus markers, the game controller may initiate a bonus draw phase where an additional number of markers may be selected. After all markers have been selected, any selected bonus markers may be added together and the calculated sum may be added to a credit balance associated with a player of the gaming device.
US11935355B2
A gaming signage system may include one or more movable displays. One or more movable displays may present first visual effects while the one or more movable displays are in a first configuration in which at least one game feature presentation device is not viewable. In response to a trigger event indication (which may correspond to a base game event), the movable display(s) may move to a second configuration and reveal the game feature presentation device. The game feature presentation device may be used to present a bonus feature and/or to present a different aspect of the base game. Alternatively, at least a portion of a movable display may be hidden when in a first configuration. At least the portion of the movable display(s) may present a bonus feature and/or a different aspect of the base game when in the second configuration.
US11935351B2
According to one embodiment, a paper sheet processing apparatus includes a conveyance mechanism which conveys a paper sheet with fluorescent ink print information along a conveyance path, a fluorescence reference member including a fluorescent material and arranged to oppose to the conveyance path, a light source device which irradiates the fluorescence reference member with excitation light, and an imaging device which images the fluorescence emission of the fluorescence reference member and acquires an image including a contour of the paper sheet passing over the fluorescence reference member and an image of the fluorescent ink print information of the paper sheet.
US11935339B2
Provided are a vehicle inspection system and a vehicle inspection method that can align a vehicle with a constant location of a bench testing machine. The present invention comprises: a bench testing machine that rotatably supports wheels of a vehicle, using rollers that are provided for each of the wheels; and a monitor device that is positioned in a fixed location with regard to the bench testing machine and displays, toward a camera, an image resembling an exterior environment, wherein the bench testing machine has a location adjustment device (turning mechanism, test bench control device) that adjusts the location of the vehicle in the vehicle width direction such that the relative location of the camera in the vehicle width direction with regard to the monitor device is constant.
US11935336B2
A drive recorder to be mounted on a vehicle includes an acquisition unit, a recording unit, a communication unit, and a control unit. The acquisition unit acquires data representing driving condition. The recording unit records the acquired data. The communication unit transmits the acquired data to the outside. The control unit controls the quality of the data to be transmitted based on the information received from the outside.
US11935335B2
A system within an ego vehicle for robust association of a physical identity and a virtual identity of a target vehicle includes a data processor, including a wireless communication module and a visible light communication module, positioned within an ego vehicle, and a plurality of perception sensors, positioned within the ego vehicle and adapted to collect data related to a physical identity of the target vehicle and to communicate the data related to the physical identity of the target vehicle to the data processor via a communication bus, the data processor within the ego vehicle adapted to receive, via a wireless communication channel, data related to a virtual identity of the target vehicle, associate the physical identity of the target vehicle with the virtual identity of the target vehicle, and initiate, via the wireless communication channel and a visible light communication channel, a challenge-response protocol between the ego vehicle and the target vehicle.
US11935330B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for generating a 3D avatar and object fitting recommendations using a biomechanical analysis of observed actions with a focus on representing actions through computer-generated 3D avatars. Physical quantities of biomechanical actions can be measured from the observations, and the system can analyze these values, compare them to target or optimal values, and use the observations and known biomechanical capabilities to generate the 3D avatars and object fitting recommendations.
US11935325B2
Techniques for saving bandwidth in performing facial recognition are provided. An image including a face may be received, over a wireless link, at a first resolution. A facial recognition system may identify a subset of people who may be associated with the face, wherein the facial recognition system cannot definitively associate the face with an individual person in the subset of people, based on the image including the face at the first resolution. A feature of the subset of people that may be used to identify a person within the subset of people may be determined. A request for the portion of the image containing the feature at a second resolution may be sent over the wireless link. The second resolution may be higher than the first.
US11935305B2
An applique is mounted over one or both B-pillars of an autonomous vehicle and includes a display, speaker, touch input, and microphone. The applique may include a curved cover mounted over a printed circuit board (PCB) having LED arrays mounted thereto. A diffuser defines windows for the LED arrays and has a planar surface interfacing with the PCB and a curved surface interfacing with the curved cover. A controller of the vehicle detects proximity to a passenger to be picked up and displays the passenger's name at a first proximity, outputs a spoken message at a second, closer, proximity, and outputs a visible and audible prompt to enter an access code at a third proximity closer than the second proximity.
US11935298B2
A system and method of predicting a team's formation on a playing surface are disclosed herein. A computing system retrieves one or more sets of event data for a plurality of events. Each set of event data corresponds to a segment of the event. A deep neural network, such as a mixture density network, learns to predict an optimal permutation of players in each segment of the event based on the one or more sets of event data. The deep neural network learns a distribution of players for each segment based on the corresponding event data and optimal permutation of players. The computing system generates a fully trained prediction model based on the learning. The computing system receives target event data corresponding to a target event. The computing system generates, via the trained prediction model, an expected position of each player based on the target event data.
US11935290B2
Systems and methods of servicing engines, an exemplary method of servicing an engine, the method including receiving, by one or more computing devices, information corresponding to one or more components of the engine; determining, by the one or more computing devices, a location of the one or more components of the engine with respect to a location of an augmented reality device; and presenting, in a current field of view display of the augmented reality device, at least a portion of the information corresponding to the one or more components of the engine, wherein the portion of the information includes a rendering of the one or more components, instructions regarding operations to be performed on the one or more components, directional arrows or contextual information associated with the one or more components, or any combination thereof.
US11935283B2
Disclosed are a cranial CT-based grading method and a corresponding system, which relate to the field of medical imaging. The cranial CT-based grading method as disclosed solves the problems of relatively great subjective disparities and poor operability in eye-balling ASPECTS assessment. The grading method includes: determining frames where target image slices are located from to-be-processed multi-frame cranial CT data; extracting target areas; performing infarct judgment on each target area included in the target areas to output an infarct judgment outcome regarding the target area; and outputting a grading outcome based on infarct judgment outcomes regarding all target areas. The grading method and system as disclosed may eliminate or mitigate the diagnosis disparities caused by human factors and imaging deviations due to different imaging devices, and shorten the time taken by human observation, consideration, and bared-eye grading, thereby serving as a computer-aided method to provide reference for medical studies on stoke.
US11935282B2
A server of a crop growth stage determination system includes a processor. The processor inputs first images obtained by image capturing crops in a manner such that crop shapes are extractable. The Processor inputs growth stages each indicating a level of physiological growth of the crops for each of the first images. The processor constructs a learned model by performing deep learning to associate images of the crops and growth stages of the crops based on the input first images and the input growth stage. The processor inputs a second image obtained by image capturing crops a growth stage of which is unknown, in a manner such that crop-shapes are extractable. The processor determines the growth stage for the input second image based on the learned model. The processor outputs the determined growth stage.
US11935277B2
A training data generation device performs the processes of: acquiring first correct answer data that is correct answer data with respect to each training image of a training image group, the training image group including plural training images to be given the correct answer data, the training image group being divided into plural image subgroups, the first correct answer data being generated in a different situation for each of the plural image subgroups; generating a discriminator with respect to the each of the plural image subgroups, the discriminator being learned based on the each of the plural image subgroups and the first correct answer data corresponding to the each of the plural image subgroups; acquiring a discrimination result outputted by the discriminator for each of the plural training images by inputting the each of the plural training images to the discriminator which is generated based on at least one image subgroup other than an image subgroup to which the each of the training images belongs; and generating second correct answer data for the each of the plural training images based on the discrimination result and the first correct answer data.
US11935273B2
The present disclosure relates to an object recognition system and method. The system comprises: an illumination apparatus configured to generate an illumination light for illuminating an object; a lighting sensor configured to acquire a first lighting parameter of an ambient light in a recognition environment in which the object is located; an imaging apparatus configured to acquire imaging data of the object; a first controller communicatively connected with the illumination apparatus and the lighting sensor, and configured to control a second lighting parameter of the illumination light generated by the illumination apparatus according to the first lighting parameter, until the first lighting parameter of the ambient light is within a preset parameter range; and a processor communicatively connected with the imaging apparatus and the first controller, and configured to recognize the object according to imaging data of the object under the ambient light within the preset parameter range.
US11935271B2
A method, computer program, or computer system is provided for compressing a neural network model. One or more blocks are identified from among a superblock corresponding to a multi-dimensional tensor associated with a neural network. A set of weight coefficients associated with the superblock is unified. A model of the neural network is compressed based on the unified set of weight coefficients.
US11935265B2
A fingerprint image processing device includes a memory, and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor performs operations. The operations include reading a tenprint card image which includes a plurality of fingerprint patterns and at least one ruled line to separate one fingerprint imprint area from another fingerprint imprint area, and extracting from the tenprint card image a fingerprint image which includes at least one of the fingerprint patterns, apart of a fingerprint imprint area, and a part of a next fingerprint imprint area.
US11935262B2
A method where one or more objects of a three-dimensional scene are determined in accordance with provided raw data of the three-dimensional scene representing a predefined environment inside and/or outside the vehicle. A two-dimensional image is determined in accordance with the provided raw data of the three-dimensional scene such that the two-dimensional image depicts the determined objects of the three-dimensional scene on a curved plane. The two-dimensional image has a quantity of pixels, each representing at least one part or several of the determined objects of the three-dimensional scene. Data is provided which represents at least one determined field of view of the driver. For at least one of the determined objects, the probability with which the at least one object will be located in the field of view of the driver is determined in accordance with the provided data and the two-dimensional image.
US11935259B2
In a measurement of a microscope image, a measurement can be conducted with high accuracy when measuring a measuring object including a step having a depth larger than a depth of focus or comparing patterns at different positions along the optical axis of a microscope. A microscope image measuring device includes: a microscope for obtaining a magnified image of a surface of a measuring object by irradiating the surface with white incident light; a spectral camera for obtaining a spectral image of the magnified image; and an image processing part for extracting the spectral image at each wavelength and performs an image measuring process. The microscope forms an image of a different focal position at each wavelength on the imaging surface of the spectral camera, and the image processing part extracts a spectral image with a wavelength where a measuring point has the highest contrast, and performs edge detection.
US11935258B2
A method for range detection is described. The method includes segmenting an image into one or more segmentation blobs captured by a monocular camera of an ego vehicle. The method includes focusing on pixels forming a selected segmentation blob of the one or more segment blobs. The method also includes determining a distance to the selected segmentation blob according to a focus function value of the monocular camera of the ego vehicle.
US11935251B2
A sensor may be configured to determine how many people that have entered or exited a space. The sensor may comprise a pyroelectric infrared (PIR) detection circuit capable of generating different output signal patterns in response to a person entering or exiting the space. The sensor may determine whether the person has entered or exited the space based on the output signal pattern. The sensor may include a thermopile array, a radar detection circuit, or a visible light sensing circuit. The thermopile array, radar detection circuit, or visible light sensing circuit may be capable of detecting a person's location and/or movements within an area monitored by the sensor and determining, based on the detected movements, whether the person has entered or left the space. An occupant count of the space may then be determined accordingly by the sensor or by a system controller.
US11935245B2
The invention provides for a medical apparatus (100, 400, 600) comprising a memory (110) for storing machine executable instructions (120) and a processor (104) for controlling the medical apparatus. Execution of the machine executable instructions causes the processor to: receive (200) a medical image (122) descriptive of a three-dimensional anatomy of a subject (418); and provide (202) an image segmentation (124) by segmenting the medical image into multiple tissue regions (300, 302) using a model-based segmentation. The model-based segmentation assigns a tissue type to each of the multiple regions. The model-based segmentation has a surface mesh (304). The segmentation is corrected by using the tissue type assigned to each of the multiple regions to correct for partial volume effects at boundaries formed by the surface mesh between at least some of the multiple tissue regions.
US11935244B2
A method and apparatus for improving sensitivity of wafer detection, and a storage medium are provided. The method including: acquiring a gray-scale image of a peripheral circuit region of a wafer; dividing the gray-scale image into at least one pixel region; determining a repeated image region in each pixel region, in which the repeated image region is a region with N*M pixels where M pixels on a same column in the repeated image region have a same gray-scale value, and N and M are integers greater than 0; and determining position information where interference superposition occurs in the peripheral circuit region of the wafer according to all repeated image regions in the gray-scale image.
US11935242B2
The present disclosure provides for crop yield estimation by identifying, via image processing, a field in which a crop is grown; identifying a plurality of regions within the field; identifying, by processing growth metrics via a model, a plurality of data collection points in the plurality of regions, wherein a given data collection point of the plurality of data collection points within a given region of the plurality of regions is identified by multivariate analysis as representative of growing conditions in the given region; receiving in-field data linked to the data collection points of the plurality; and predicting a yield for the crop in the field based on the in-field data.
US11935239B2
Control method, apparatus and program for system for determining lesion obtained via real-time image
Provided is a control method for a system for determining a lesion obtained via real-time image. The control method comprises: an endoscope device obtaining a stomach endoscopy image; the endoscope device transmitting the obtained stomach endoscopy image to a server; the server determining a lesion included in the stomach endoscopy image, by inputting the stomach endoscopy image into a first artificial intelligence model; when it is determined that a lesion is detected in the stomach endoscopy image, the server obtaining an image including the lesion and transmitting the image to a database of the server; the server determining the type of the lesion included in the image, by inputting the image into a second artificial intelligence model; and when it is determined that a lesion is detected in the stomach endoscopy image, a display device displaying a UI for guiding the location of the lesion in the stomach endoscopy image.
US11935236B2
Provided are a method and an apparatus for interlocking a lesion location between a 2D medical image and 3D tomosynthesis images including a plurality of 3D image slices.
US11935221B2
A method of processing component carriers includes supplying a plurality of arrays, each comprising a plurality of component carriers, to a human operator for optical inspection, displaying a respective array on a display, and providing a user interface enabling the human operator to input a judgment concerning a quality classification of a displayed array without a mandatory manual handling of the array by the human operator.
US11935220B1
In some aspects, a debris detector includes one or more processors and a memory storage device to store instructions executable by the one or more processors to: receive a frame captured by a camera, receive a subsequent frame captured by the camera, compare the frame to the subsequent frame to determine a difference, and based on determining that the difference is greater than a threshold, send a notification indicating that debris has been detected. The notification may include location data identifying a location where the debris is located. Receiving the notification may cause a robot vacuum to initiate cleaning the location identified in the notification.
US11935205B2
An augmented reality (AR) display device can display a virtual assistant character that interacts with the user of the AR device. The virtual assistant may be represented by a robot (or other) avatar that assists the user with contextual objects and suggestions depending on what virtual content the user is interacting with. Animated images may be displayed above the robot's head to display its intents to the user. For example, the robot can run up to a menu and suggest an action and show the animated images. The robot can materialize virtual objects that appear on its hands. The user can remove such an object from the robot's hands and place it in the environment. If the user does not interact with the object, the robot can dematerialize it. The robot can rotate its head to keep looking at the user and/or an object that the user has picked up.
US11935203B2
In order to guide the user to a target object that is located outside of the field of view of the wearer of the AR computing device, a rotational navigation system displays on a display device an arrow or a pointer, referred to as a direction indicator. The direction indicator is generated based on the angle between the direction of the user's head and the direction of the target object, and a correction coefficient. The correction coefficient is defined such that the greater the angle between the direction of the user's head and the direction of the target object, the greater is the horizontal component of the direction indicator.
US11935195B1
Briefly, embodiments, such as methods and/or systems of real-time visualization of web browser derived content within a gaming environment, for example, are described.
US11935188B2
A system and method is provided for constructing a labeled and dimensioned multidimensional (e.g., 3D) building model from building object imagery (e.g., ground-level imagery). The method begins by retrieve building object imagery, the building object imagery collected based on directed capture with a mobile device. The method continues by constructing a scaled multi-dimensional building model, the scale based on sizing of at least one selected architectural feature. The method continues by identifying architectural elements within facades of the multi-dimensional building model. The method continues by determining dimensions of at least one of the architectural elements, the dimensions based on the scale. The method continues by determining dimensions (e.g., area) of at least one of the architectural elements. The method continues by labeling each identified architectural element with at least an identifier and by labeling at least one of the architectural elements with the determined dimensions.
US11935185B2
An apparatus for content based anti-aliasing is described herein. The apparatus comprises a detector, corrector, and downscaler. The detector is to detect potential aliased content in an input image, wherein the potentially aliased content occurs at a downscaled version of the input image. The corrector is to apply a correction to a single component of the input image. A downscaler may downscale the corrected input image to an output image according to a scaling factor.
US11935181B2
A methods and system are provided for dynamically adjusting a camera angle in a video game is provided. One example method includes receiving a dataset of a plurality of video sequences that are associated with tagging data in metadata that identify characteristics of actions occurring in each of the plurality of video sequences. The method includes generating an artificial intelligence (AI) model from the dataset. The method includes accessing the AI model during gameplay of the video game. The accessing includes providing snapshots of video sequences generated during said gameplay of the video game. The method includes adjusting a game camera angle dynamically during the gameplay. The adjusting is responsive to adjustment instructions derived from said AI model.
US11935180B2
Examples of the disclosure describe systems and methods for presenting virtual content on a wearable head device. In some embodiments, a state of a wearable head device is determined by minimizing a total error based on a reduced weight associated with a reprojection error. A view reflecting the determined state of the wearable head device is presented via a display of the wearable head device. In some embodiments, a wearable head device calculates a preintegration term based on the image data received via a sensor of the wearable head device and the inertial data received via a first IMU and a second IMU of the wearable head device. The wearable head device estimates a position of the device based on the preintegration term, and the wearable head device presents the virtual content based on the position of the device.
US11935177B2
Disclosed are apparatuses, systems, and techniques to render images with global illumination using efficient ray tracing, light source identification, and reservoir resampling that deploys temporal and spatial reservoirs.
US11935171B2
An interactive physical environment providing entertainment to a patron includes a scanner, a sensor within the room, and a control system. The scanner is associated with a room provided by the interactive physical environment. The scanner identifies a patron of the interactive physical environment and transmits patron identification information. The sensor determines patron game performance data and transmits the patron performance data. The control system receives patron identification information from the scanner and patron performance data from the sensor. The control system, responsive to the received patron identification information and patron performance data, modifying an avatar associated with the patron.
US11935160B2
Tomographic images acquired by iterative reconstruction of low quality projection images, are enhanced by the steps of correcting at an iteration step the result of the previous iteration step by means of a back-projection of the result of a comparison of a projection image and the forward projection of the result of the previous iteration step whereby this result is enhanced by subjecting it to a trained neural network.
US11935154B2
A method and system for transforming an input image via a plurality of image transformation stylizers includes receiving the input image; providing the input image, information about the plurality of image transformation stylizers and at least one of user data, history data, and contextual data to a trained machine-learning (ML) model for selecting a subset of the plurality of image transformation stylizers; receiving as an output from the ML model the subset of image transformation stylizers; executing the subset of the image transformation stylizers on the input image to generate a plurality of transformed output images; ranking the plurality of transformed output images based on at least one of the input image, the user data, the history data, and the contextual data; and providing the ranked plurality of transformed output images for display.
US11935153B2
Data processing methods and devices are provided. A processing device comprises memory and a processor. The memory, which comprises a cache, is configured to store portions of data. The processor is configured to issue a store instruction to store one of the portions of data, provide identifying information associated with the one portion of data, compress the one portion of data; and store the compressed one portion of data across multiple lines of the cache using the identifying information. In an example, the one portion of data is a block of pixels and pixels and the processor is configured to request pixel data for a pixel of a compressed block of pixels, send additional requests for data for other pixels determined to belong to the compressed pixel block and provide an indication that the requests are for pixel data belonging to the compressed block of pixels.
US11935148B2
Provided is an apparatus for acquiring images including an image sensor including a sensor substrate including a plurality of photo-sensing cells sensing light, and a color separation lens array provided above the sensor substrate, the color separation lens array including a fine structure in each of a plurality of regions respectively facing the plurality of photo-sensing cells and separating incident light based on color, the fine structure forming a phase distribution to condense light having different wavelengths on adjacent photo-sensing cells, a signal processor configured to perform, based on a point spread function corresponding to each color pixel by the color separation lens array, deconvolution on sensing signals of the plurality of photo-sensing cells to process an image signal for each color obtained by the image sensor, and an image processor configured to form a color image from the image signal for each color processed by the signal processor.
US11935144B2
A system and method for managing requests for integrating a handheld customer interface with a point of sale (POS) system are disclosed. In one aspect, an integrated customer interface module is configured to communicate with a wireless mobile computing device of a customer and a POS system associated with a restaurant chain. The integrated customer interface module is configured to receive a request from the customer to check in to one of the chain's restaurants, automatically generate an order in the POS system, receive information regarding the customer from the remote database, and send at least a portion of the information regarding the customer to the POS system so as to be used as identification in the ordering and purchasing at the restaurant.
US11935137B2
A method for distributing an equity reward for federated learning based on an equity theory includes the following steps: applying Adams' equity theory to federated learning, analyzing, by a participant, all factors invested in a federated task comprehensively, then giving an expected reward for this task, calculating, by the task publisher, the reputation of the participant; participating, by the participant, in each round of a training task using a local data to evaluate data contribution, model contribution, and a waiting-time allowance of the participant, then combining contribution results of the three factors to evaluate the contribution of the participant; after a global model converges, dynamically adjusting weights of the three factors according to an objective function of the equity reward, with a goal that an actual reward of the participant is as close as possible to the expected reward, and obtaining and distributing the actual reward of the participant.
US11935128B2
A system for generating and managing usage-based contracts using blockchains configured to (i) store an insurance contract for a currently occurring or upcoming trip, where the insurance contract is to insure the driver, passenger, and/or vehicle during the trip, where the insurance contract includes terms, conditions, or other clauses (e.g., mileage limitations, limitations on autonomous vehicle operation, etc.) and is in a blockchain structure, and where several nodes store copies of the insurance contract in the blockchain structure; (ii) receive, from the driver and/or (autonomous) vehicle, a requested modification of one or more terms, conditions, or other clauses of the insurance contract, (iii) transmit the requested modification to an insurance auction network, (iv) receive a response to the request from the insurance auction network; and (v) store the response in a new block in the insurance contract (e.g., a smart contract) to facilitate providing trip insurance in a transparent manner.
US11935124B2
A method and system for associating information regarding an object with image objects is disclosed, wherein each image object is a visual data containers including an image associated with the object and data items relating to the object. A user may interact with a graphical user interface to create, modify, and associate image objects by means of the associated images. Information regarding the objects may be associated therewith by means of the image objects, and image objects may be associated with other image objects to generate associations between information regarding the underlying objects. Information regarding other image objects or the associated image may be used to determine information regarding the object, which may be associated with the image object. In some embodiments, associating two or more image objects may associate the underlying objects for purposes of insurance policies or may generate a new insurance policy based on the image objects.
US11935122B2
Systems for and methods of evaluating messaging, comprising, receiving, via at least one server device, one or more messages, and said at least one server device processing at least one of the one or more messages by grading content included in said at least one message, applying a weighting factor to said at least one message according to said grading, thereby determining a weighted message count for said at least one message, aggregating the weighted message count for said at least one message, and initiating an action if the aggregated weighted message count meets or exceeds a predetermined count threshold.
US11935120B2
A system may include a field programmable gate array (FPGA) based gateway comprising: a network interface configured to receive data packets containing proposed transactions, and validation logic circuitry configured to validate one or more headers or application-layer of the data packets in accordance with filter rules. The system may also include an FPGA based router comprising: a network interface configured to receive the data packets from the gateway, and parsing and lookup circuitry configured to compare the header field or application-layer field values in the data packets to those in a forwarding table. The system may also include an FPGA based matching engine comprising: a network interface configured to receive the data packets from the router, transaction validation circuitry configured to validate the proposed transactions based on information from state memory and policies, and matching algorithm circuitry configured to match pair of proposed transactions according to pre-determined criteria.
US11935118B2
A method for providing financial alerts includes retrieving financial transaction data for the plurality of financial instruments. The financial transaction data includes at least open price, close price, high price, low price, time and volume of individual financial transactions. Time periods for generating user requested information are identified. Price charts for the time periods are generated based on the retrieved financial transaction data. The generated price charts include one or more technical indicators. A financial alert configuration received from a user is analyzed. The financial alert configuration includes a trigger condition. The generated price charts are automatically analyzed to calculate the relative position of the technical indicator conditions that the user has selected in order to determine if one or more of the trigger conditions has been met. An alert notification is generated, in response to determining that the one or more trigger conditions has been met.
US11935113B2
Improved techniques and systems for delivery and acquisition of digital assets are disclosed. The techniques and systems are especially suitable and useful for delivering digital assets (e.g., media assets) that are available for acquisition and electronic delivery from online stores to electronic devices. In accordance with one aspect, when a digital asset is acquired from an online store via an electronic device associated with a user, the digital asset can be arranged for delivery to a number of other of electronic devices also associated with the user. It will be appreciated that the digital asset can be delivered and acquired without requiring explicit user input or instruction in accordance with another aspect. Other aspects of the techniques and systems include customization of configuration and user interfaces that are provided to facilitate acquisition of digital assets in a more efficient manner.
US11935112B2
A method for scan, try and/or buy may include receiving, from a mobile device, information that is representative of a clothing outfit. The clothing outfit may include a plurality of merchandise items available for purchase through a store. The information may be obtained by the mobile device by scanning a single code associated with the clothing outfit. The obtained information may be used to cause at least one user interface element associated with the clothing outfit to be displayed on the mobile device. In response to receiving a selection from the mobile device of the at least one user interface element, the plurality of merchandise items associated with the clothing outfit may be delivered to a merchandise check-out location within the store. The merchandise check-out location may be operable to receive payment from the user for the clothing outfit.
US11935111B2
A consumer is identified at a transaction terminal. A natural-language voice chatbot is initiated for the transaction. The chatbot is configured with store information for a store associated with the terminal and, optionally, with preferences registered to the consumer. A natural language voice dialogue using, at least the store information, is initiated between the chatbot and the consumer while the consumer is at the terminal and during the transaction. The consumer may order store items from the store and pay for the items through the dialogue. In an embodiment, the items ordered are delivered to the terminal where the consumer is located.
US11935110B2
A computer-implemented method and system may include receiving, at an e-commerce order processor, an order comprising at least one product, wherein the order is received in conjunction with an order completion event; receiving an order completion criterion; receiving an order change; and processing an order completion based on the order completion criterion.
US11935109B2
An online concierge system generates recipe embeddings for recipes including multiple items and user embeddings for users, with the recipe embeddings and user embeddings in a common latent space. To generate the user embeddings and the recipe embeddings, a model includes separate layers for a user model outputting user embeddings and for a recipe model outputting recipe embeddings. When training the model, a weight matrix generates a predicted dietary preference type for a user embedding and for a recipe embedding and adjusts the user model or the recipe model based on differences between the predicted dietary preference type and a dietary preference type applied to the user embedding and to the recipe embedding. Additionally cross-modal layers generate a predicted user embedding from a recipe embedding and generate a predicted recipe embedding from a user embedding that are used to further refine the user model and the recipe model.
US11935104B2
Systems and methods are provided for retail environments. In one implementation, a non transitory computer-readable medium may include instructions that when executed by a processor cause the processor to perform a method. The method may include receiving, from first sensors first sensed data indicating selection of a first product by a customer; determining, from the first sensed data, a first property associated with the first product; issuing a first query to the customer regarding the first property and, in response, receiving first information from the customer; comparing the first information with the first property; determining, based on the comparison, an integrity indicator associated with the customer; receiving, from second sensors second sensed data indicating a selection of a second product by the customer; determining, based on the integrity indicator, at least one action to determine a second property associated with the second product; and initiating the at least one action.
US11935097B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining a first plurality of inputs that identify a plurality of geographical locations and a plurality of infrastructure located at the plurality of geographical locations, classifying each of the plurality of geographical locations in accordance with the first plurality of inputs to obtain a plurality of classes, obtaining a second plurality of inputs that identify costs, revenue, profits, or any combination thereof, associated with the plurality of infrastructure, processing the second plurality of inputs in conjunction with the plurality of classes to identify a first plurality of locations included in the plurality of geographical locations to decommission infrastructure included in the plurality of infrastructure, and presenting the first plurality of locations via a device. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11935096B1
A system and method according to which a donation transaction is conducted. The method includes providing, via a network, an embeddable form, wherein the embeddable form is associated with a non-profit, and wherein the embeddable form is adapted to be displayed on a graphical user interface to receive payment data and payment metadata associated with the payment data. The method also includes: transmitting, via the embeddable form and the network, the payment data to a third-party server for tokenization of the payment data; receiving, by a software development kit (“SDK”) and via the network, a unique token associated with the payment data, and the payment metadata associated with the payment data; executing, by the SDK, the donation transaction in accordance with the unique token and the payment metadata; and storing, by the SDK, the unique token associated with the payment data and the payment metadata.
US11935082B2
Computer-based systems and methods for discovering neighborhood clusters in a geographic region, where the clusters have a mix of venues and are determined based on venue check-in data. The mix of venues for the clusters may be based on the social similarity between pairs of venues; or emblematic of certain neighborhood typologies; or emblematic of temporal check-in pattern types; or combinations thereof. The neighborhood clusters that are so discovered through venue-check in data could be used for many commercial and civic purposes.
US11935071B2
A computing system that determines employee and organizational compliance includes one or more databases that store organizational data and one or more processors to execute instructions to perform various operations. The operations include accessing, from the organizational data, employee information associated with a first employee object, accessing, from the organizational data, jurisdictional information associated with a first jurisdiction object, importing one or more compliance parameters relating to the first jurisdiction object to generate one or more compliance rules parameterized for the first jurisdiction object, determining compliance with the one or more compliance rules parameterized for the first jurisdiction object with respect to the first employee object, based on the employee information and the one or compliance parameters, and providing an output indicating whether the one or more compliance rules parameterized for the first jurisdiction object are being complied with, with respect to the first employee object.
US11935070B2
A method and system may automatically provide a remote airline agent to a user. A server device receives pending requests to communicate with a remote airline agent from users each attempting to modify a flight segment or obtain assistance related to the flight segment. For each of the requests, the server device obtains flight information for the flight segments to identify a flight urgency level or a flight criticality level for the flight segment. The server device assigns a priority level to each of the pending requests based on one or more attributes associated with each pending request, ranks the pending requests in accordance with the assigned priority levels, and automatically connects to a client device for a highest ranked request of the pending requests to initiate a video chat between the user and the remote airline agent.
US11935069B2
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to proactive intervention in a software application. Embodiments include selecting, by a proactive intervention system related to an application, an event of a plurality of events related to use of the application for processing based on event priorities associated with the plurality of events. Embodiments further include receiving, by the proactive intervention system, contextual information related to the event. Embodiments further include determining, by the proactive intervention system, a proactive intervention based on the event and the contextual information. Embodiments further include determining, by the proactive intervention system, that the proactive intervention can presently be provided based on intervention availability data. Embodiments further include providing, by the proactive intervention system, the proactive intervention via a user interface associated with the application.
US11935064B2
Authenticating a secure element payment card includes transmitting a cold reset signal to the payment card and receiving an answer-to-reset message therefrom. The answer-to-reset message includes governing rules for performing a transaction, including a rule indicating that a secure data element is to be used to authenticate the payment card. The process also includes receiving payment account details for a payment account associated with the payment card. A payment authorization request message is transmitted to an interchange network and a card authentication request message is then received from the interchange network. The card authentication request message includes an encrypted instruction, which is transmitted to the secure element payment card. The secure data element is received from the payment card and a card authentication request response message is then transmitted to the interchange network. A payment authorization request response message is then received from the interchange network.
US11935052B2
A computer-implemented method for seamlessly processing transactions using distributed ledger technology. The method may comprise: linking one or more conventional accounts hosted in a conventional banking infrastructure to one or more DLT-based client accounts hosted on a distributed ledger, wherein the DLT application comprises a routing address configured to be used in conventional transaction infrastructure using conventional communication protocols; storing one or more wallet identifications for the one or more DLT-based client accounts and a mapping of the one or more wallet identifications to the one or more conventional accounts hosted in the conventional banking infrastructure; exchanging a sequence of messages to execute an asset transfer and complete a transaction lifecycle, the sequence of messages based on the first asset type; updating the distributed ledger based on the asset transfer; and sending appropriate messages to clients.
US11935049B2
Provided is a graph data processing method, including: acquiring a degree of association of each node in a network graph; splitting the network graph to obtain a dense subgraph according to the degree of association of each node; determining stable nodes in the network graph and coreness of the stable nodes based on the dense subgraph, the coreness of the stable nodes being greater than a preset threshold; obtaining a sparse subgraph in the network graph according to the preset threshold, and remaining nodes in the network graph other than the stable nodes and connecting edges between the remaining nodes; and determining the coreness of each node in the sparse subgraph based on the sparse subgraph and the stable nodes.
US11935041B2
Example embodiments of systems and methods for data transmission system between transmitting and receiving devices are provided. In an embodiment, each of the transmitting and receiving devices can contain a master key. The transmitting device can generate a diversified key using the master key, protect a counter value and encrypt data prior to transmitting to the receiving device, which can generate the diversified key based on the master key and can decrypt the data and validate the protected counter value using the diversified key.
US11935026B2
A payment terminal includes a magnetic card reader slot having a magnetic head, an IC card reader slot configured to be front of a user, and a first board with a touch area for a contactless payment arranged diagonally upward toward the user. The magnetic card reader slot is arranged toward the user obliquely upward with respect to a direction parallel to the plane. The magnetic card reader slot and the IC card reader slot are arranged, so that a swipe direction of the magnetic card into the magnetic card reader slot and an insertion direction of an IC card into the IC card reader slot are substantially perpendicular to each other. The magnetic card reader slot, the IC card reader slot, and the first board are arranged in this order from the plane in a height direction.
US11935022B2
According to an embodiment of the present invention, there is provided an unmanned store operation method of operating an unmanned store system including an unmanned store apparatus and an unmanned store server, the unmanned store operation method including: a user identification step of identifying a user adjacent to the unmanned store apparatus; a door opening step of unlocking the door of the unmanned store apparatus by controlling a door unit of the unmanned store apparatus; a purchase target product identification step of identifying a product selected by the user and removed from the product storage unit of the unmanned store apparatus based on the analysis of an image photographed by a camera unit; and a payment processing step of processing payment based on the identification information of the user.
US11935019B1
A system for managing a financial account in a low cash mode. The system may include a memory storing instructions, and a processor configured to execute the instructions to perform operations. The operations may include providing an interface; providing a notification to a user when a balance in the first account is deemed to be in low cash mode; presenting, when the first account balance is deemed to be in low cash mode, an option for a transfer request; receiving, a selection of the option for the transfer request to connect the first account with a second account; transferring funds from the second account to the first account; notifying the user that funds have been transferred from the second account to the first account; and further notifying the user that the balance in the first account is greater than the threshold value.
US11934993B2
Systems, methods, and apparatus are disclosed that provide a pickup process for items purchased from a store. In some embodiments, a mobile computing device of a customer may determine whether the mobile computing device and therefore the customer are in a pickup zone for a store. In response to determining that the mobile computing device is in the pickup zone, the mobile computing device may notify the customer and request whether the customer wishes to initiate pickup of purchased items from the store. The mobile computing device may notify a merchandise pickup system of the customer's desire to pickup the purchased items.
US11934990B2
Disclosed is a an apparatus for performing smart logistics monitoring including a display unit, a memory, a sensor unit sensing at least one of a temperature, acceleration, humidity, illuminance, inclination, impact, and location of an inside of a logistics vehicle, and a control unit that generates respective status information of a logistics according to a sensed result at a predetermined period, generates a respective QR code indicating the respective status information, and displays the respective QR code on a screen of the display unit. The respective QR code is converted and displayed on the screen depending on an order in which the respective QR code is generated.
US11934982B2
A computer implemented method includes obtaining, by the computer, assay data for a feedstock containing measurements for one or more aspects of the first feedstock, a first equipment model containing properties of processing units, and processing conditions containing one or more variables by which the first feedstock will be processed by the processing units. The computer determines a corrosion amount of the processing units using the processing conditions, the properties of the processing units contained in the equipment model, and the assay data for the feedstock, and stores/displays the corrosion amount of the processing units. A safety warning may be displayed, and the feedstock rejected if the corrosion amount exceeds a predetermined safety level for one or more of the processing units.
US11934981B2
A technique is described for implementing drones as a service. As an example, a drone may receive instructions from one or more network elements, coordinate operations with the one or more network elements, and perform at least one task associated with the instructions. The drone may deliver a container to a first location and perform object recognition to validate an object of a subscriber being delivered to a second location. The drone may measure the weight and dimensions of the object to confirm the object is within operating guidelines. After verifying the object is within operating guidelines, the drone may transport the container containing the object to the second location.
US11934980B2
According to some embodiments, a communication device database may store information about a plurality of communication devices, including at least one communication address associated with each communication device, wherein each communication device is associated with a resource unit. Moreover, a network based segmentation server may access information in a resource status database, automatically assign each resource unit to a resource segment based on at least one pre-determined algorithm and information in the resource status database, and transmit information about the resource segments. A scheduling server, coupled to the segmentation server, may receive the information about the resource segments from the segmentation server, automatically schedule a series of communication events with communication devices in accordance with the resource segments, using the communication addresses, via the distributed communication network, and arrange for communication links to be established for resource units in accordance with the scheduled series of communication events.
US11934979B1
Techniques are generally described for onboarding optimization for new hires. In various examples, labor order data specifying a target number of new hires may be received. In some examples, a first machine learning model may predict a number of new hire appointments to offer based at least in part on the labor order data. In further examples, an optimization component may allocate the number of new hire appointments to respective time slots based at least in part on candidate preferences. In some additional examples, data may be sent to a first application effective to display a list of available new hire appointment time slots of the respective time slots.
US11934975B2
A resource processing method and apparatus. The method is achieved by a computer configured to execute the following steps: generating a resource allocation chart based on a resource allocation request; processing the resource allocation chart and generating an access entrance of the resource allocation chart; opening the access entrance to enable at least one third party resource supplier to respond to the resource allocation request via the access entrance. The method further comprises: when the resources are not available or not suitable for allocation, receiving a resource allocation chart, wherein the resource allocation chart is based on the resource allocation request; generating an access entrance of the resource allocation chart; opening the access entrance to at least one third party resource supplier; and receiving the allocated resources from the at least one third party resource supplier by responding to the resource allocation request through the access entrance.
US11934970B2
An abduction apparatus 1 includes: a probability calculation unit 2 configured to, with respect to each of candidate hypotheses generated using observation information and knowledge information, calculate a probability that the candidate hypothesis holds true as an explanation of the observation information; and a reward selection unit 3 configured to, when the candidate hypothesis holds true, select a reward value regarding the candidate hypothesis that has held true by referring to reward definition information in which a condition that the candidate hypothesis holds true is associated with the reward value.
US11934967B2
A management system operates in conjunction with entities to provide component recommendations for objects. The management system trains a machine learning model used to generate the component recommendations. The machine learning model is trained based on historical component entries describing components previously provided and identifiers of the components. The management system generates training data by classifying the historical component entries into predetermined component classifications. After the machine learning model is trained, the management system generates a customized recommendation of components for an object based on likelihoods of selection of the predetermined component classifications.
US11934966B2
A building system including one or more storage devices storing instructions thereon that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to receive an indication to execute an artificial intelligence (AI) agent of a digital twin, the digital twin including the AI agent and a graph data structure, the graph data structure including nodes representing entities of a building and edges between the nodes representing relationships between the entities of the building. The instructions cause the one or more processors to execute the AI agent based on data of the building to generate an inference that is a prediction of a future data value of a data point of the building for a future time and store at least one of the inference, or a link to the inference, in the graph data structure.
US11934964B2
System and methods for performing analytical operations are described. A hardware-based regular expression (RegEx) engine performs a regular expression operation on a stream of data units based on a finite automata (FA) graph. Performing includes configuring a regular expression engine of a hardware-based regular expression accelerator to, beginning at a root node in the plurality of nodes of the FA graph, step the regular expression engine through one or more nodes of the FA graph until the regular expression engine arrives at a skip node and to consume, at the skip node, two or more data units from the stream of data units before traversing one of the directional arcs to another node.
US11934961B2
A mobile device with a route prediction engine is provided that can predict current/future destinations or routes to destinations for the user, and can relay prediction information to the user. The engine includes a machine-learning engine that facilitates the formulation of predicted future destinations and/or future routes to destinations based on user-specific data. The user-specific data includes data about (1) previous destinations traveled, (2) previous routes taken, (3) locations of calendared events, (4) locations of events for which the user has electronic tickets, and/or (5) addresses parsed from e-mails and/or messages. The prediction engine relies on one or more of user-specific data stored on the device and data stored outside of the device by external devices/servers.
US11934958B2
This disclosure describes one or more embodiments of systems, non-transitory computer-readable media, and methods that utilize channel pruning and knowledge distillation to generate a compact noise-to-image GAN. For example, the disclosed systems prune less informative channels via outgoing channel weights of the GAN. In some implementations, the disclosed systems further utilize content-aware pruning by utilizing a differentiable loss between an image generated by the GAN and a modified version of the image to identify sensitive channels within the GAN during channel pruning. In some embodiments, the disclosed systems utilize knowledge distillation to learn parameters for the pruned GAN to mimic a full-size GAN. In certain implementations, the disclosed systems utilize content-aware knowledge distillation by applying content masks on images generated by both the pruned GAN and its full-size counterpart to obtain knowledge distillation losses between the images for use in learning the parameters for the pruned GAN.
US11934944B2
Methods and systems are provided for training a neural network with augmented data. A dataset comprising a plurality of classes is obtained for training a neural network. Prior to initiation of training, the dataset may be augmented by performing affine transformations of the data in the dataset, wherein the amount of augmentation is determined by a data augmentation variable. The neural network is trained with the augmented dataset. A training loss and a difference of class accuracy for each class is determined. The data augmentation variable is updated based on the total loss and class accuracy for each class. The dataset is augmented by performing affine transformations of the data in the dataset according to the updated data augmentation variable, and the neural network is trained with the augmented dataset.
US11934941B2
A neural processor circuit includes one or more planar engine circuits that perform non-convolution operations in parallel with convolution operations performed by one or more neural engine circuits. The neural engine circuits perform the convolution operations on neural input data corresponding to one or more neural engine tasks to generate neural output data. The planar engine circuits perform non-convolution operations on planar input data corresponding to one or more planar engine tasks to generate planar output data. A data processor circuit in the neural processor circuit addresses data dependency between the one or more neural engine tasks and the one or more planar engine tasks by controlling reading of the neural output data as the planar input data by the planar engine circuits or reading of the planar output data as the neural input data by the neural engine circuits.
US11934931B2
In an embodiment, a computer-implemented method for training a decision tree using a database system, the decision tree comprising a plurality nodes, comprises, by one or more computing devices: storing in a database input data for training the decision tree, the input data comprising a plurality of feature values corresponding to a plurality of features; generating a particular node of the plurality of decision nodes by: selecting a subset of the plurality of features and a subset of the input data; using one or more queries to the database system, for each feature of the subset of the plurality of features, calculating an information gain associated with the feature based on the subset of the input data; identifying a particular feature of the subset of the plurality of features associated with the highest information gain; associating the particular node with the particular feature, wherein the particular node causes the decision tree to branch based on the particular feature.
US11934930B2
An inference system applies a machine-learning transformer model to a batch of requests with variable input length or variable target length or variable internal state length by selectively batching a subset of operations in the transformer model but processing requests in the batch individually for a subset of operations in the transformer model. In one embodiment, the operation to be processed individually is an attention operation of an encoder or a decoder of the transformer model. By selective batching, the inference system can allow batching operations to be performed for a batch of requests with variable input or target length or internal state length to utilize the parallel computation capabilities of hardware accelerators while preventing unnecessary computations that occur for workarounds that restrain the data of a batch of requests to a same length.
US11934929B2
Methods and systems, including those employing machine learning, utilizing one or more algorithms for relating the structure of a molecule in a library to its function are described. Embodiments described herein relate structure to function by considering the covalent structure of the molecule, the components of that structure that are common to many molecules in the library, and the properties of those components as they relate to the function in question. Applications include, for example, enhancement and amplification of the diagnostic and prognostic signals provided by peptide arrays for use in analyzing the profile of antibodies in the blood produced in response to a disease, condition or treatment.
US11934923B1
The quality of predictive model outputs is improved by improving input data in the cases where entities in the input data are associated with one or more classes, computed at least in part from one or more subsets of the input data. Class association function characteristic data is derived from information describing a class association function that generates input data from source data. The class association function characteristic data comprises inferences relating to operation of the class association function that are not derivable solely from the input data. The input data is transformed into improved input data using a constructed class-specific transformation function and the class association function characteristic data.
US11934920B2
A quantum system controller configured to perform (near) real-time quantum error correction is provided. The controller comprises a processing device comprising at least one first processing element; a time-indexed command (TIC) sequencer comprising at least one second processing element; and a plurality of driver controller elements configured to control the operation of respective components and associated with respective buffers and processing elements. The processing device is configured to generate commands and the TIC sequencer is configured to cause the time-indexed execution of the commands by the appropriate driver controller elements. The controlling of real-time operations of the quantum computer by the TIC sequencer enables the processing device to generate commands based on conditionals evaluated based on input data indicating quantum errors that are likely present in a quantum calculation being performed by the quantum computer such that commands addressing the quantum errors are generated and executed in (near) real-time.
US11934919B2
Disclosed are a quantum topology graph optimization method, apparatus, terminal and storage medium, comprising: obtaining a first quantum topology graph of a target quantum algorithm, determining an intermediate node in the first quantum topology graph, and removing connecting lines between other graph nodes other than the intermediate node so as to obtain a second quantum topology graph without the crossed connecting lines; if not, updating the first quantum topology graph to a third quantum topology graph; determining an optimized sub-graph corresponding to one node to be optimized and composed of N child nodes connected by connecting lines according to a preset way, assigning connecting lines between non-optimized nodes and each child node so as to obtain a fourth quantum topology graph; restoring connecting lines between non-optimized nodes in the fourth quantum topology graph so as to obtain an optimized quantum topology graph.
US11934915B2
A method of identifying data items by wave blocks, each wave block comprising a set of unique features distinguishable from the unique features of other wave blocks. The unique features of the wave blocks are extracted and stored. A plurality of wave tags are defined, each comprising a set wave blocks. A mapping of the set of wave blocks to each wave tag is stored. A request for a wave tag to identify a data item is received and a wave tag is assigned to the data item. The wave tag is broadcasted and is captured by a capturing device, which extracts the unique features of the wave blocks. The wave tag is identified by comparing the extracted features of the wave blocks with the stored features of the plurality of wave blocks. The data item is identified from the mapping of the data item to the wave tag.
US11934913B2
A barcode, comprising: a code region, comprising at least two different types of information which represents code information of the code region; and a boundary region, formed as a closed shape surrounding the code region; wherein a decoding direction of the code region is not relative to the boundary region. The present invention also provides a barcode processing system which can process the barcode to generate a control command, and provides a coffee machine using the barcode processing system. The barcode can be easily aligned by a closed boundary region, without using a frame buffer with a large size.
US11934904B2
An RFID device that can be connected to a piece of material, in particular, a piece of fabric (22), in an efficient manner and that is small and flexible is provided. A wire antenna (16) is coupled to an integrated circuit provided on a substrate (12) of the RFID device (10). The wire antenna (16) is attached to the substrate (12) by being laced with the substrate (12) via a pair of through holes. In this state, the wire antenna (16) is fixedly connected to the piece of material by heating a coating of the wire antenna (16), which coating includes a thermoset adhesive material. In this manner, the substrate (12) is connected to the piece of material via the wire antenna (16).
US11934903B2
A low-cost, multi-function adhesive wireless communications and transducer platform with a form factor that unobtrusively integrates one or more transducers and one or more wireless communication devices in an adhesive product system. In an aspect, the adhesive product system integrates transducer and wireless communication components within a flexible adhesive structure in a way that not only provides a cost-effective platform for interconnecting, optimizing, and protecting the constituent components but also maintains the flexibility needed to function as an adhesive product that can be deployed seamlessly and unobtrusively into various applications and workflows, including sensing, notification, security, and object tracking applications, and asset management workflows such as manufacturing, storage, shipping, delivery, and other logistics associated with moving products and other physical objects.
US11934900B2
A modular transaction card assembly includes a card frame having the traditional dimensions of a credit card, and a transaction card that is smaller than a traditional card and that fits into a receptacle of the card frame. Each of the card frame and the transaction card may be capable of performing contactless data transactions individually. The combined assembly of the card frame with the transaction card secured in the receptacle is also capable of performing contact data transactions. The transaction card and/or the card frame may include one or more visual or tactile regions that allow the transaction card and card frame to be distinguished from other cards and/or to be properly oriented and aligned with one another when combined to form the card assembly.
US11934899B2
An information processing device includes an information acquisition unit that acquires at least one of attribute information of image data to be image processed and setting information related to the image process on the image data, and a prediction unit that predicts, based on a machine-learned model that accepts input of at least one of the attribute information and the setting information to output a period required for the image process, a period required for the image process on the image data from information acquired by the information acquisition unit.
US11934897B2
Methods and systems for executing an application data flow graph using a network of computational nodes are disclosed. In specific examples, the network of computational nodes can be a network-on-chip for a multicore processor. One method includes transitioning first application data from a first source computational node to an intermediary computational node. The method can also include providing second application data, from a computation layer of the network of computational nodes, on the intermediary computational node. The method can also include multicasting the first application data in combination with the second application data from the intermediary computational node to at least two destination computational nodes. The first source computational node, the intermediary computational node, and the at least two destination computational nodes are all in the network of computational nodes.
US11934894B2
Some examples of the present disclosure involve a client device configured to execute a simulated edge node. The simulated edge node can simulate an edge node of a distributed storage system. The distributed storage system can be configured to receive requests for performing file operations from external client devices via an application programming interface (API). The simulated edge node can receive a request for performing a file operation from a software program and, in response, facilitate execution of the file operation by exposing at least a portion of a file system of the distributed storage system to the software program using one or more access mechanisms other than the API.
US11934880B2
A method for quantifying resource usage may include measuring a quantity of a plurality of physical computing resources being used over a period of time. The method may also include normalizing each measured quantity of each physical computing resource being used. The method may also include summing the normalized measured quantities of the physical computing resources being used to generate a single usage value representative of the physical computing resources being used over the period of time.
US11934877B2
A workflow resource manager receives a request to execute a workflow in a cloud computing environment. The workflow resource manager determines that a first set of cloud computing resource requirements associated with the first set of operations for the workflow is satisfied by available cloud computing resources, and responsive to determining that a second set of cloud computing resource requirements associated with a subsequent set of operations for the workflow is not satisfied by the available cloud computing resources, rejects the request to execute the workflow.
US11934876B1
A compiler-implemented technique for performing a storage allocation is described. Computer code to be converted into machine instructions for execution on an integrated circuit device is received. Based on the computer code, a set of values that are to be stored on the integrated circuit device are determined. An interference graph that includes the set of values and a set of interferences is constructed. A number of possible placements and a number of blocked placements in a memory of the integrated circuit device are computed for each of the set of values. At least a portion of the set of values are assigned to a set of memory locations in the memory based on the numbers of possible placements and blocked placements, resulting in a set of memory location assignments.
US11934874B2
A serverless query processing system receives a query and determines whether the query is a recurring query or a non-recurring query. The system may predict, in response to determining that the query is the recurring query, a peak resource requirement during an execution of the query. The system may compute, in response to determining that the query is the non-recurring query, a tight resource requirement corresponding to an amount of resources that satisfy a performance requirement over the execution of the query, where the tight resource requirement is less than the peak resource requirement. The system allocates resources to the query based on an applicable one of the peak resource requirement or the tight resource requirement. The system then starts the execution of the query using the resources.
US11934871B1
A task scheduling method includes: when a task requirement is obtained, splitting the task requirement to obtain the plurality of subtasks having a constraint relationship; performing execution condition detection on non-candidate subtasks, determining a non-candidate subtask that satisfies an execution condition as a candidate subtask, and putting the candidate subtask into a task queue; performing state detection on a server network composed of edge servers to obtain server state information and communication information; inputting the server state information, the communication information, and queue information corresponding to the task queue into an action value evaluation model to obtain the plurality of evaluated values respectively corresponding to the plurality of scheduling actions; and determining a target scheduling action from the plurality of scheduling actions by using the evaluated values, and scheduling the candidate subtask in the task queue on the basis of the target scheduling action.
US11934860B2
Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing network experience shifting, and, in particular embodiments, using either a roaming or portable hypervisor associated with a user or a local hypervisor unassociated with the user. In some embodiments, a network node in a first network might receive, via a first network access device in a second network, a request from a user device to establish roaming network access, and might authenticate a user associated with the user device, the user being unassociated with the first network access device. Based on a determination that the user is authorized to access data, content, profiles, and/or software applications that are accessible via a second network access device, the network node might establish a secure private connection through a hypervisor or container communicatively coupled to the first network access device to provide the user with access to her data, content, profiles, and/or software applications.
US11934859B2
A data storage environment can include one or more virtual machines instantiated on a host computing device. Based on physical location data of the one or more virtual machines received from the host computing device, a storage manager can control the performance of a secondary copy operation on one or more storage units that store virtual machine data associated with the one or more virtual machines and/or the performance of a secondary copy operation on the one or more virtual machines.
US11934857B2
Example methods are provided to identify unused memory regions in pages that are allocated for storing executable code. One or more of the unused memory regions are usable as a secure location to store confidential information shared between a hypervisor on the host and a guest (such as a guest virtual computing instance) that runs on the host. The one or more unused memory regions may also be used to store executable code (such as valid executable code of antivirus software or other security program) that has been prevented/delayed in its execution by malicious code that has occupied the pages, thereby providing the executable code with sufficient memory resources to enable the executable code to at least partially complete execution.
US11934850B2
An electronic device is disclosed and includes a display and at least one processor operatively connected with the display. The at least one processor is configured to, when an application is executed, display an execution window corresponding to the application on the display, display the execution window, as a first shape of execution window, on at least a portion of the display, in response to a background switch request for the application, identify a state of the application while displaying the first shape of execution window, and switch the first shape of execution window into a second shape of execution window according to the state of the application.
US11934846B2
A job scheduling system determines a rate at which a user is providing user inputs to a user interface of a computing device. A set of jobs that is to be performed to display or otherwise present a current view of the user interface is identified in response to a user input. This set of jobs is modified by excluding from the set of jobs at least one job that is not estimated to run prior to the next user input. The user interface is displayed or otherwise presented as the modified set of jobs is performed.
US11934843B2
A processor includes a range register to store information that identifies a reserved range of memory associated with a secure arbitration mode (SEAM) and a core coupled to the range register. The core includes security logic to unlock the range register on a logical processor, of the processor core, that is to initiate the SEAM. The logical processor is to, via execution of the security logic, store, in the reserved range, a SEAM module and a manifest associated with the SEAM module, wherein the SEAM module supports execution of one or more trust domains; initialize a SEAM virtual machine control structure (VMCS) within the reserved range of the memory that is to control state transitions between a virtual machine monitor (VMM) and the SEAM module; and authenticate the SEAM module using a manifest signature of the manifest.
US11934836B2
A computing device, having: a processor; memory; a first cache coupled between the memory and the processor; and a second cache coupled between the memory and the processor. During speculative execution of one or more instructions, effects of the speculative execution are contained within the second cache.
US11934827B2
An apparatus that manages multi-process execution in a processing-in-memory (“PIM”) device includes a gatekeeper configured to: receive an identification of one or more registered PIM processes; receive, from a process, a memory request that includes a PIM command; if the requesting process is a registered PIM process and another registered PIM process is active on the PIM device, perform a context switch of PIM state between the registered PIM processes; and issue the PIM command of the requesting process to the PIM device.
US11934822B2
This disclosure describes systems and methods for connected vehicle enhancements. An example method may include causing to present, based on a first factor, an offer to install a first software update to a vehicle for a first period of time. The example method may also include receiving a request to install the first software update for the first period of time. The example method may also include causing to install the first software update on the vehicle at a first time. The example method may also include causing to disable, based on a determination that the first period of time has elapsed, the first software update on the vehicle. The example method may also include receiving a request to permanently install the software update on the vehicle. The example method may also include causing to permanently install the first software update on the vehicle at a second time.
US11934821B2
A device management system includes an automatic updater that automatically generates an automatic F/W update task in accordance with an automatic F/W update plan which is a setting for automatically generating the automatic F/W update task as a task for updating firmware of an image forming apparatus. The automatic F/W update plan includes specifying of firmware for update and a mode in which the update is fully executed on all electronic apparatuses of a target of the software update. The automatic updater automatically generates the automatic F/W update task in accordance with the automatic F/W update plan at a specific timing in a repeat manner.
US11934802B2
A computing system includes a server. The server is communicatively coupled to a data repository and is configured to store a data in the data repository. The server is further configured to create, via a visual information flow creation tool, at least one information flow object, wherein the at least one information flow object comprises a flow, a sub-flow, an Action, or a combination thereof. The server is also configured to interface with the at least one information flow object via a front-end application programing interface (API), a back-end API, or a combination thereof. The server is additionally configured to execute the at least one information flow object via the front-end API, the back-end API, or a combination thereof, and to retrieve results obtained by executing the at least one information flow object via the front-end API, the back-end API, or the combination thereof.
US11934794B1
A system and method for algorithmically orchestrating conversational dialogue transitions within an automated conversational system may include extracting a set of slots defined within a plurality of utterances and converting the plurality of utterances to a plurality of skeleton utterances. The method may also include grouping the plurality of skeleton utterances into a plurality of skeleton utterance groups, identifying a plurality of valid slot transition pairs based on an assessment of the plurality of skeleton utterance groups, and deriving a plurality of slot ontology groups based on the plurality of valid slot transition pairs. The system and method may use the plurality of distinct slot ontology groups and the plurality of skeleton utterances to facilitate contextually relevant dialogue transitions in the automated conversational system.
US11934793B2
A method, apparatus and system for training an embedding space for content comprehension and response includes, for each layer of a hierarchical taxonomy having at least two layers including respective words resulting in layers of varying complexity, determining a set of words associated with a layer of the hierarchical taxonomy, determining a question answer pair based on a question generated using at least one word of the set of words and at least one content domain, determining a vector representation for the generated question and for content related to the at least one content domain of the question answer pair, and embedding the question vector representation and the content vector representations into a common embedding space where vector representations that are related, are closer in the embedding space than unrelated embedded vector representations. Requests for content can then be fulfilled using the trained, common embedding space.
US11934786B2
Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for providing access to a cloud data platform including a machine learning model for performing a plurality of iterations, by at least one hardware processor, to generate a Natural Language Processing (NLP) model. The cloud data platform performs each iteration by receiving real-world documents and enabling information retrieval from the real-world documents without annotated training data. Each iteration includes receiving data comprising text data, layout data, and image data and analyzing the text data, the layout data, and the image data. The cloud data platform generates one or more outputs from the machine learning model by applying the iterative training on new data, based at least in part on the analyzing of the text data, the layout data, and the image data.
US11934780B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate generally to systems for presenting content suggestions within a messaging interface. A content suggestion system performs operations that include: receiving inputs that include a text string into a messaging interface; parsing a keyword from the text string of the input in response to receiving the inputs; retrieving message content that includes at least a media item based on the keyword; and presenting a chat suggestion that includes the message content within the messaging interface, according to certain example embodiments.
US11934772B2
A method, a non-transitory computer readable medium, and an apparatus are provided for switching between a synchronous data entry processing and an asynchronous data entry processing for processing input into a data entry field of the GUI based on a latency threshold for validation and a latency threshold for conversion; and for determining which input from a series of inputs entered into the data field during the asynchronous data entry processing based on a criteria.
US11934760B1
Methods and systems for performing timing analysis during the design of a circuit are described. In one embodiment, a simulation system can generate an effective resistance value (or an impedance value based on the effective resistance value) for an instance and use the effective resistance value in a simulation to determine a minimum timing delay for the instance when only the instance switches during such simulations.
US11934759B2
A parameter candidate for a semiconductor element is provided. A data set of measurement data is provided to a parameter extraction portion, and a model parameter is extracted. A first netlist is provided to a circuit simulator, simulation is performed using the first netlist and the model parameter, and a first output result is output. A classification model learns the model parameter and the first output result and classifies the model parameter. A second netlist and a model parameter are provided to the circuit simulator. A variable to be adjusted is supplied to a neural network, an action value function is output, and the variable is updated. The circuit simulator performs simulation using the second netlist and the model parameter. When a second output result to be output does not satisfy conditions, a weight coefficient of the neural network is updated. When the second output result satisfies the conditions, the variable is judged to be the best candidate.
US11934748B2
A system for developing a simulation of a process. In one aspect, a system creates a first model within the simulation. The first model represents a part of the process and comprises a first port to which other models may be connected. The system also creates a second model within the simulation. The second model represents another part of the process and comprises a second port to which other models may be connected. The system then connects the first port and the second port together. Upon connection, the system allocates a memory location as a connection variable that represents a type of information transfer between the first and second ports. A first port variable, which represents a value transferrable through the first port, is set to reference the value at the allocated memory location. Similarly, a second port variable, which represents a value transferrable through the second port, is also set to reference the value at the allocated memory location.
US11934745B2
The disclosure notably relates to a computer-implemented method for designing, with a CAD system, a 3D modeled object representing a mechanical part. The method includes obtaining a B-rep representing the mechanical part. The B-Rep has faces and edges. The method further includes obtaining a first set of faces and a feature type. The feature type is either a depression feature type or a protrusion feature type. The method further comprises, automatically by the CAD system, recognizing a second set of faces within the first set of faces. The second set of faces represents a feature of the provided feature type. This constitutes an improved method for designing a mechanical part.
US11934742B2
Disclosed herein are example techniques to support multiple voice assistant services. An example implementation may involve a playback device capturing audio from the one or more microphones into one or more buffers as a sound data stream monitoring the sound data stream for a wake word associated with a specific voice assistant service and monitoring the sound data stream for a wake word associated with the media playback system. The playback device generates a second wake-word event corresponding to a voice input when sound data matching the wake word associated with the media playback system in a portion of the sound data stream is detected. The playback device determines that the voice input includes sound data matching one or more playback commands and sends sound data representing the voice input to a voice assistant associated with the media playback system for processing of the second voice input.
US11934741B2
A user interacts with a Voice User Interface (VUI) software application such as a digital assistant on a first user device such as a smart phone to access information about different products by communicating with a VUI server over a first communications channel. The VUI server relays indications of the products to an assistance server, for example a server in a wireless telecommunications network of a telecommunications service provider for the user device, and the assistance server provides additional information regarding the different products including images to the first user device and/or one or more additional user devices such as a smart television connected to the wireless telecommunications network user device via at least a second communications channel that is distinct from the first communications channel.
US11934738B2
An acoustic device includes: a music player that is capable of simultaneously playing a plurality of music pieces of which music piece data includes specific playback positions set therefor; a playback speed adjusting section configured to adjust a playback speed of each of the music pieces; a music piece switching section configured to execute switching from a first music piece being played by the music player to a second music piece; and a playback position adjusting section configured to execute adjustment such that the specific playback position of the second music piece is aligned on a time axis with the specific playback position of the first music piece being played at a playback speed adjusted by the playback speed adjusting section.
US11934731B1
A system to is described. The system includes at least one physical memory device to store print workflow manager and one or more processors coupled with the at least one physical memory devices to execute the print workflow manager receive a print job including print data to be printed, wherein the print data comprises a first presentation format, convert the received print data from the first presentation format to generate second print data in a second presentation format, duplicate the second print data to generate third print data, process the second print data to generate data to be printed to a first page size and process the third print data to generate data to be printed to a second page size.
US11934729B2
The disclosure discloses methods and systems for allowing a user to print multiple documents stored over multiple and/or different cloud locations. A pre-defined file is received from a user, where the file includes multiple URLs such that each URL represents a cloud URL for accessing a document stored over that cloud location. Then, each URL is analyzed to segregate the URL into a cloud location URL and a document name. A pre-defined user-friendly view is generated based on the cloud locations, where the pre-defined view includes a common cloud URLs, corresponding document names, and print options, for user's selection. Based on the user's selection, one or more documents stored at corresponding cloud locations are printed without requiring the user to access any cloud location URL.
US11934723B2
A computer determines whether PDL data contained in a print job, which is obtained via a communication interface or an external interface, matches pre-conversion PDL data stored in a conversion rule in a non-volatile memory. When a type of converted PDL data associated with the pre-conversion PDL in the conversion rule matches a type of PDL data determined in a PJL converting process, PJL data that conversion is held is converted to the converted PDL data associated with the pre-conversion PJL data that matches the held PDL data in the conversion rule.
US11934715B2
An image forming apparatus includes: a consumable including a consumable memory storing type information; a main casing to which the consumable is attached; a communication interface; and a controller. The type information indicates whether the consumable is a special consumable that can be used when the image forming apparatus is under a concluded agreement or a normal consumable that can be used irrespective of whether or not the image forming apparatus is under the concluded agreement. The controller is configured to perform: when determining that the attached consumable is the special consumable and when printing is performed based on a print instruction after the image forming apparatus is registered to be subjected to a newly concluded agreement, transmitting to an external device print information indicating that the printing is performed based on the print instruction to cause a concluded agreement for another image forming apparatus to be cancelled.
US11934709B2
An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to receive, from an external apparatus, a request to output a file to be output by an information terminal, identify, in cooperation with the external apparatus, an information terminal that satisfies a predetermined condition among plural information terminals that are candidates for a target to which the file is to be output, and transmit, to the identified information terminal, first information to be used to identify a location at which the file is stored before a user requests the identified information terminal to display information regarding the file.
US11934708B2
An image forming device includes: a scanner mechanism; an inkjet-type print mechanism; a display mechanism; and a control unit configured to control the scanner mechanism, the print mechanism, and the display mechanism. The control unit includes a pattern storage unit configured to store a temperature, a humidity, and an adjustment pattern group including a plurality of adjustment patterns, in association with each other, a first acquisition unit configured to acquire a first measured temperature and a first measured humidity from a temperature and humidity sensor, and a data generation unit configured to read an adjustment pattern group corresponding to the first measured temperature and the first measured humidity acquired by the first acquisition unit from the pattern storage unit, and generate print data including the read adjustment pattern group.
US11934706B2
Aspects of a storage device provide an optimized data relocation scanning process which significantly reduces a number of page reads performed during a block relocation scan by consolidating logical addresses for multiple FMUs in a single FMU. The storage device includes a memory comprising a block including pages and FMUs, and a controller that is configured to store, in one of the FMUs, logical addresses for multiple FMUs. The controller is further configured, in response to a data relocation command, to read the logical addresses from the FMU, to determine at least one of the read logical addresses is mapped to a current FMU in a L2P mapping table, and to relocate data stored at the valid logical addresses in response to the determination. As a result, latency and power consumption associated with data relocation may be significantly reduced and storage device performance may thus be improved.
US11934702B2
The present technology relates to an electronic device. According to the present technology, a computing system may include a storage device and a host. The storage device may include a plurality of zones. The host may receive storage area information including an optimal write size of an open zone among the plurality of zones from the storage device, determine a target size of data to be flushed to the storage device based on the optimal write size, a history size that is a size of data previously flushed to the storage device, and a buffer data of the host, and flush data having the target size among the buffer data to the storage device.
US11934692B2
Methods, systems, and devices for write booster buffer and hibernate are described. The memory system may initiate a first operation to enter a first power mode having a lower power consumption than a second power mode. In some cases, the memory system may determine whether a quantity of data stored in a buffer of single-level cells associated with write booster information satisfies a threshold based on initiating the first operation. The memory system may determine whether to perform a second operation to transfer the quantity of data stored in the buffer of single-level cells to a portion of memory comprising multiple level cells based on determining whether the quantity of data satisfies the threshold. The memory system may enter the first power mode based on determining to perform the second operation to transfer the quantity of data from the buffer to the portion of memory.
US11934684B2
A data storage device includes a memory device and a controller coupled to the memory device. The controller is configured to determine a maximum bandwidth of an interface, allocate a portion of the maximum bandwidth to one or more tenants, either: determine a maximum data transfer size (MDTS) setting based on quality of service (QoS) requirements, determine an aggregated queue depth (QD) setting based on QoS requirements, or determine a combined MDTS and aggregated QD setting based on QoS requirements, and provide the determined settings to the one or more tenants.
US11934683B2
The present disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for testing a memory chip, and a storage medium, and belongs to the technical field of semiconductors. The method for testing a memory chip includes: writing test data into a memory cell of a to-be-tested memory chip; reading stored data from the memory cell; and generating a test result of the to-be-tested memory chip based on the test data and the stored data; wherein in the reading stored data from the memory cell, a row address strobe precharge time is less than a standard row address strobe precharge time of the to-be-tested memory chip, and/or a current sensing delay time of the to-be-tested memory chip is less than a standard sensing delay time of the to-be-tested memory chip.
US11934660B1
Embodiments are directed to tiered data store with persistent layers. A write tier in the file system for storing in a file system. A value for a performance metric that corresponds to write requests to the file system may be predicted based on characteristics of the write requests such that the performance metric may be determined based on a plurality of interactions with the write tier. The predicted value that exceeds a threshold value of the performance metric may be employed to cause performance of further actions, including: queuing a portion of the write requests in a memory buffer based on the predicted value and the threshold value; combining the queued portion of the write requests into s; storing the data segments in the write tier such that a measured value of the performance metric may be less than the threshold value.
US11934653B2
A split screen processing method includes determining that a screen is in a first interface state, the first interface state including a plurality of snapshot windows, obtaining a first gesture operation for at least two snapshot windows of the plurality of snapshot windows, and determining that the first gesture operation satisfying a split screen gesture condition, and controlling the at least two snapshot windows to be displayed on the screen in a split screen mode.
US11934647B2
The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for using modularized digital editing action blocks in a graphical user interface to generate and apply a variety of advanced modifications to a digital image. The disclosed systems can categorize the digital editing action blocks into digital editing action categories from which a user can select a digital editing action block and insert into a field of a node compositor. Once the digital editing action block is arranged at a compatible field within the digital editing user interface, the snap effects system can execute the digital editing action block to create a particular graphical effect according to the positional configuration of the digital editing action block within the node compositor. In turn, the snap effects system can save the action-block configuration within the node compositor and facilitate additional use and/or sharing thereof.
US11934645B2
The present technology relates to a display control device and a display control method each of which is capable of further improving operability. Provided is a display control device including a control unit that displays a plurality of items associated with a display screen, and, in a case where a desired item is selected by a user operation from the plurality of displayed items, displays a selected display screen corresponding to the selected item together with the display screen that is currently displayed, the selected display screen being displayed at a position relative to a display position of the selected item. The present technology is applicable to, for example, a television receiver.
US11934630B2
There is disclosed a system, including apparatus, methods and computer programs, for running native software applications (apps) and HTML5 web-based apps on a computing device, particularly a mobile computing device, in a multitasking mode of operation. In one embodiment, touch screen displays having one or more browsers are adapted to run one or more HTML5 apps, and receive input from hand gestures. One or more software modules execute on the operating system and are responsive to a dragging gesture applied to an HTML5 app displayed in a full screen mode, to subdivide the screen display and display the HTML5 app in one of the subdivided areas and display icons used to launch a second HTML5 app in a different one of the subdivided areas. The second HTML5 app is run concurrently with the first HTML5 app in order to provide multi-tasking between the first and second apps.
US11934626B2
A joystick includes a stick head, an actuating component, a substrate, a bearing base, a resilient recovering component and a constraining component. The actuating component has a first end and a second end opposite to each other. The first end is connected to the stick head, and an identification feature is disposed on the second end. The substrate has a detection module used to detect the identification feature and determine motion of the stick head. The bearing base is disposed on the substrate. An opening portion of the bearing base aligns with the detection module and the actuating component. The resilient recovering component is disposed between the substrate and the bearing base. The constraining component is disposed on the resilient recovering component and movably disposed inside the opening portion, and used to abut against the actuating component in a detachable manner.
US11934625B2
Provided is a mobile terminal which allows pieces of furniture to be virtually arranged. A mobile terminal according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises: a wireless communication unit which is capable of communicating with an external server or an external device; a display unit for displaying an execution screen of a certain application; and a control unit, wherein the execution screen at least comprises: a first area for displaying a first image corresponding to a certain area; a second area for displaying information on each of a plurality of pieces of furniture which can virtually be arranged on the first image; and a third area which includes a chat room for exchanging opinions related to the virtual arrangement of the pieces of furniture on the first image, with a user of at least one predetermined external device on which the certain application is installed.
US11934621B2
An input device includes a fixed electrode, a movable electrode, and a movable member. The movable member is configured to elastically deform by receiving pressing force to relatively displace the movable electrode toward the fixed electrode. The movable member has an outer peripheral part. The outer peripheral part includes a suppression structure configured to suppress the movable member from being elastically deformed by the pressing force.
US11934615B2
The present disclosure relates to a touch power management circuit and a touch driving system comprising the same, and more particularly, relates to a touch power management circuit to generate signals required for a touch driving by using voltage sources different in a pen touch driving period and a finger touch driving period in order to reduce power consumption of a display device and a touch driving system comprising the touch power management circuit.
US11934614B1
Disclosed are systems and methods for an anomaly detection framework that operates as an executable analysis tool for devices to operate in order to determine whether the device contains an unresponsive touch screen (e.g., defective or malfunctioning touch screen). The disclosed framework can analyze the capacitance capabilities of the touch screen, inclusive of the touch layers associated with the touch screen panel, and determine when a device's touch screen is unresponsive to user provided input, which can be any type of touch or gesture provided on a touch screen.
US11934603B2
The present disclosure provides a display panel, including a light emitting layer and a touch structure, wherein the touch structure includes a plurality of touch areas, and each of the touch areas includes a plurality of touch units, which are arranged in a first direction in at least two rows and arranged in at least two columns along the second direction, and the plurality of touch units in each of the at least two columns are arranged along the first direction, wherein a plurality of first traces are disposed below the touch area, the touch units in a same row are electrically connected to the driving circuit through one of the plurality of first traces corresponding to the row, the touch units in a same column are electrically connected to the driving circuit through a second trace corresponding to the column.
US11934600B2
The touch sensor includes a touch detection area with at least a part of a curved area having a curved edge. In the touch detection area, a plurality of first electrodes and second electrodes disposed side by side in a first direction and in a second direction are disposed. A plurality of first electrodes disposed side by side in the first direction are connected to each other. A plurality of second electrodes disposed side by side in the second direction are connected to each other. In the curved area, distances between the plurality of first electrodes and the second electrodes in the first direction gradually change in the second direction.
US11934598B2
A displacement detection circuit (100) configured to implement a displacement detection method (500) for a pointing device (199) having at least one pixel array (190). The displacement detection circuit (100) includes at least one main calculator (110), at least one auxiliary calculator (111, 112, 113) at least one comparator (130) and at least one motion detector (150). The main calculator (110) is configured to calculate at least one main average (210) corresponding to the average of the at least one pixel array (190), which is compared to at least one auxiliary average (211, 212, 213) of the at least one auxiliary calculator (111, 112, 113). According to the result of the comparison, the at least one motion detector (150) indicates at least one direction (250) of displacement of the pointing device (199).
US11934596B2
An electronic device capable of sensing a contact by a peripheral device according to various embodiments may comprise: at least one coil configured to be linked to the peripheral device; and at least one processor configured to sense a contact by the peripheral device. The at least one processor may be configured to: detect a first reception signal from the at least one coil during a first period; apply a first transmission signal to the at least one coil during a second period after the passage of the first period; detect a second reception signal from the at least one coil during a third period after the passage of the second period; and check whether or not the peripheral device has been inserted in the electronic device based on the first reception signal and the second reception signal, wherein the first reception signal is not generated by the peripheral device, and the second reception signal is generated in response to the reception, by the peripheral device, of the first transmission signal.
US11934593B2
A magneto-electrophoretic medium that can be globally and locally addressed and erased. The medium provides a writeable display with no perceivable lag and the ability to write and erase with only minimal power requirements. In particular, the magneto-electrophoretic medium can be erased by providing a subthreshold electric stimulus and supplementing a second non-electric stimulus that disturbs the written state and allows the magneto-electrophoretic particles to return to their original state.
US11934592B2
A position indicator that indicates a position is disclosed. The position indicator includes a casing of an electronic pen, a position indicating part, a tracker, and a grip part configured to be gripped by a user. The position indicating part is disposed at one end of the casing. The position indicating part, in operation, indicates the position. The tracker, in operation, causes an external device to detect the position in a three-dimensional space. The grip part is orthogonal to the casing of the electronic pen.
US11934587B1
A keyboard palm rest includes a base including a raised intermediate member, first and second cavities extending from two sides of the intermediate member respectively, and first and second grooves disposed through the first and second cavities respectively; a first pad including a first projection slidably disposed in the first groove; a second pad including a second projection slidably disposed in the second groove; a first sliding member including a first resilient member moveably disposed in the first cavity, and a first fastener driven through the first resilient member into the first projection to pivotably secure the first pad to the first sliding member; and a second sliding member includes a second resilient member moveably disposed in the second cavity, and a second fastener driven through the second resilient member into the second projection to pivotably secure the second pad to the second sliding member.
US11934584B2
Touch detection includes obtaining image data for a finger and a target surface, and determining a touch region in the image data on which the fingertip makes contact with the target surface. A pointing direction of the finger in the image data is determined, and a target region is estimated on the target surface based on the touch region and the pointing direction, wherein the touch region comprises a portion of the target surface that extends from the touch region in a direction of the pointing direction.
US11934583B2
A data communication apparatus comprising: a plurality of data communication devices comprising a sensor operable to output contextual data associated with a wearer, a plurality of haptic energy generators operable to output a haptic energy toward skin of the wearer, and a control system operable to maintain a data feedback loop with the wearer by causing the plurality of haptic energy generators to output the haptic energy responsive to one of the contextual data and an external data source in data communication with the control system; an electrical network operable to transmit data and power between the plurality of data communication devices; and a wearable structure comprising a biocompatible material shaped to house the plurality of data communication devices and the electrical network, maintain a plurality of air gaps between the plurality of data communication devices, and define a skin contacting surface that is directly engageable with the skin.
US11934581B2
The present disclosure provides a terminal vibration evaluation method performed by an electronic device. The method includes: acquiring an actual vibration curve of a target terminal when a target game scenario is displayed; acquiring a predefined vibration description file associated with the target game scenario, and determining a predefined vibration curve according to the predefined vibration description file; determining target deviation data between the actual vibration curve and the predefined vibration curve; and determining, according to the target deviation data, whether vibration of the target terminal matches the target game scenario. The present disclosure provides a measurement solution used for determining whether terminal vibration matches a game scenario (for example, a game sound and a game picture), which helps improve a matching degree between terminal vibration and the game scenario, thereby improving a sense of substitution of the game and a sense of immersion of a player.
US11934577B2
An electronic device includes one or more deformable interfaces which are able to pressurize a part of a user operating, in an actual environment, an operation target moving in a different environment and of which shapes are changeable; and one or more temperature changing units which are able to change a temperature perceived by the part of the user. A feedback system includes the electronic device; an actuator control unit configured to control an operation of an actuator that changes the shape of the deformable interface based on a change in a tactile sensation estimated to be obtained by the operation target; and a temperature control unit configured to control the temperature of the temperature changing unit capable of changing a temperature perceived by the part of the user based on a change in temperature estimated to be perceived by the operation target.
US11934574B2
Modifying vehicle display parameters using operator gaze, including: detecting a gaze of an operator of a vehicle; and modifying one or more parameters of a display based on the gaze of the operator.
US11934570B2
Interactive augmented reality experiences with an eyewear device including a position detection system and a display system. The eyewear device registers a first marker position for a user-controlled virtual game piece and a second marker for an interaction virtual game piece. The eyewear device monitors its position (e.g., location and orientation) and updates the position of the user-controlled virtual game piece accordingly. The eyewear device additionally monitors the position of the user-controlled virtual game piece with respect to the interaction virtual game piece for use in generating a score. Augmented reality examples include a “spheroidal balancing” augmented reality experience and a “spheroidal balancing” augmented reality experience.
US11934568B2
A device including a cable transceiver including cable electrical connections including data electrical connections and control electrical connections, and a hardware memory device, the hardware memory device storing a string identifying a cable and being electrically accessible from externally to the cable transceiver via the control electrical connections. The cable, in electrical connection with the cable electrical connections, may be included in the device. A device for verifying cable authenticity is also described, the device including interface hardware for interfacing a plurality of cables with the device, and verifier circuitry configured to verify that each of the plurality of cables is genuine based on a string stored in a hardware memory device included in each of the plurality of cables. Related apparatus and methods are also described.
US11934567B2
A host may use address translation to convert virtual addresses to physical addresses for endpoints, which may then submit memory access requests for physical addresses. The host may incorporate the physical address and a signature of the physical address generated using a private key into a translated address field of a response to a translation request. An endpoint may treat the combination as a translated address by storing it in an entry of a translation cache, and accessing the entry for inclusion in a memory access request. The host may generate a signature of the translated address from the request using the private key, with the result being compared to the signature from the request. The memory access request may be verified when the compared values match, and the memory access may be performed using the translated address.
US11934563B2
An anomaly detection apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a global tree structure creation unit configured to create a global tree structure for dividing a plurality of data pieces into a plurality of groups, a local tree structure creation unit configured to create a local tree structure for further dividing the data pieces divided into the plurality of groups for each of the plurality of groups, and a score calculation unit configured to calculate a score indicating an anomaly level of the plurality of data pieces using a depth from a root node to a leaf node of the local tree structure.
US11934562B2
Provided is a data processing device including: a noise removal unit that removes noise from data to which noise has been added, the data having been received from a terminal device; a measurement unit that measures the data for each data type constituting a data set and indicating a classification of the data; and a data set updating unit that updates the data set on the basis of a measurement result of the measurement unit.
US11934557B1
Utilizing a user computing device to remove privacy information. The user computing device may obtain a vehicle identification number associated with a target vehicle that has a target in-vehicle device from which privacy information of a user is to be removed. Using the vehicle identification number, the user computing device may obtain vehicle parameters associated with the target vehicle. The user computing device may obtain a privacy information removal file comprising an instruction set associated with removing privacy data from candidate in-vehicle devices, and may present the instruction set. The user computing device may obtain a user feedback experience. The user feedback experience may include a confirmation of removal of the privacy information from the at least one candidate in-vehicle device, user comments, a voice recording, or an image, captured by a camera of the user computing device, of the at least one candidate in-vehicle device.
US11934555B2
Systems and methods facilitate privacy-preserving data curation in a federated learning system by transmitting a portion of a potential data sample to a remote location. The portion is inspected for quality to rule out data samples that do not satisfy data curation criteria. The remote examination focuses on checking the region of interest but maintains privacy as the examination is unable to parse any other identifiable subject information such as face, body shape etc. because pixels or voxels outside the portion are not included. The examination results are sent back to the collaborators so that inappropriate data samples can be excluded during federated learning rounds.
US11934552B2
Systems, methods, and computer program products for selectively customizing, modifying and changing performance parameters, capabilities and behaviors of AI devices within AI device networks by sharing user-selected portions of a knowledge corpus with other AI device networks. Selectively sharing parameters, learned behaviors, capabilities, and features of the knowledge corpus allows for AI devices within a second AI device network to mimic, clone or recreate the performance or behaviors of AI devices operating within the environment of a first AI device network. Users can create portable nodes that travel with the user and upon connecting with the second device network, identify AI devices that can be modified using the portions of the knowledge corpus to recreate selected portions of the first AI device network within the environment of the second AI device network either permanently or for a user-selected amount of time.
US11934546B1
Disclosed is a method and apparatus for securely copying and pasting data between computer applications. The method includes generating alternative data from copied data from a first computer application. The method further includes adding the alternative data to a copy-paste clipboard and detecting an attempt by a user device to paste the copied data into a user interface. In response to the user interface being associated with a computer application from a predefined list of computer applications, the method further includes pasting, by a processing device, the copied data into the user interface. In response to the user interface being not associated with the computer application from the predefined list of computer applications, the method further includes pasting, by the processing device, the alternative data from the copy-paste clipboard into the user interface.
US11934539B2
A method for storing application program information including segmenting the application program information into program sub-information, with an information segmentation algorithm of the application program information having undergone algorithm obfuscation processing; and storing the program sub-information. The present disclosure significantly reduces the possibility of application program information being acquired by hackers and the like, and improves the security of application program information and electronic devices.
US11934530B2
Provided are a security protection method and apparatus. The security protection method includes: generating software versions based on diversity compilation, and constructing a software version pool using the software versions as heterogeneous functional equivalents; and dynamically deploying a software version on a network element according to the software version pool.
US11934529B2
A method includes protecting a boot sequence of a processing device by incrementing a counting value generated by a monotonic counter, then a first time period after the beginning of the boot sequence, comparing, by the protection circuit, the counting value with a first reference value, and, if the counting value is smaller than the first reference value, changing, by the protection circuit, the counting value to the first reference value.
US11934527B2
A method is disclosed and includes authenticating a first stage boot loader and authenticating a second stage boot loader in response to authentication of the first stage boot loader. The method also includes executing the second stage boot loader in response to authentication of the second stage boot loader. Executing the second stage boot loader includes loading an operating system, a first set of machine-readable instructions, and first configuration information associated with the first set of machine-readable instructions onto a non-transitory computer-readable medium, wherein the first set of machine-readable instructions and the first configuration information are associated with one or more priority partitions. Executing the second stage boot loader includes authenticating the operating system and the first set of machine-readable instructions. Executing the second stage boot loader includes executing the first set of machine-readable instructions in response to authentication of the operating system and the first set of machine-readable instructions.
US11934524B2
Herein disclosed are approaches for protecting sensitive information within a fingerprint authentication system that can be snooped and utilized to access the device, secured information, or a secured application. The approaches can utilize encryption keys and hash functions that are unique to the device in which the fingerprint authentication is being performed to protect the sensitive information that can be snooped.
US11934523B1
This document discloses a system and method for securing data files selected from a series of data files. The system comprises a transformation module, an artificial neural network (ANN), a clustering module and a backpropagation module whereby these modules are configured to identify data files that contain malware or anomalies. When such data files are detected, the system will then initiate a series of measures to identify other data files that may be similarly afflicted by the detected malware. These data files are then secured to prevent the malware from affecting a host machine and/or any storage/peripheral devices linked to the host machine.
US11934508B2
Systems, methods, and software products provide increased trust in authentication of a user to an authentication server when a trusted witness client device witnesses the authentication of the user on the user's root client device. Both the root and the witness client devices cooperate to present the user with an interactive task during the authentications and each client device independently captures movement of the user performing the interactive task, during which, the user is authenticated to the root client device. An increased level of trust in the authentication of the user is achieved by the authentication server when the captured movements match expected movements of the user performing the interactive task and the authentication server has proof that the witness client devices witnessed a successful authentication.
US11934503B2
An electronic apparatus is provided. The electronic apparatus includes a display; a sensor configured to detect a fingerprint of a user on the display; and a processor configured to: identify the fingerprint of the user based on information from the sensor; and control the display to display a path configured to guide a user touch on the display to move to a boundary of the display from a first region where the fingerprint has been detected.
US11934499B2
There are provided systems and methods for contact lookup operations during inoperability of mobile devices. A service provider, such as an online transaction processor, may provide additional services for secure contact lookup when a computing device of a user is nonoperational or unavailable. The user may establish a contact identifier and authentication mechanism with the service provider and allow access to the user's contacts. Once established, when the user's device is unable to access contacts and/or communication with other devices, the user may utilize the service provider for contact access through a contact lookup system. The user may utilize a different device to access a communication system or application and retrieve a data structure representing the user's contacts. The data structure may then be passed to the corresponding communication system or application interface system, which may then be output to the user.
US11934494B2
A computer-implemented method (900) and system (1) for verifying the integrity of a computer software for installation using a distributed hash table (13) and a peer-to-peer distributed ledger (14). This may be the Bitcoin blockchain or an alternative implementation. The method includes determining (910) a metadata associated with a transaction record stored on the peer-to-peer distributed ledger (14). An indication of an entry stored on the distributed hash table (13) may be determined (920) from the metadata. The method further includes determining (930) a third hash value based on the computer software and determining (940) a fourth hash value from the entry on the distributed hash table (13). The method further includes comparing (950) the third hash value and the fourth hash value and verifying (960) the integrity of the computer software based on the comparing of the third hash value and the fourth hash value.
US11934487B2
One example method includes a pipeline for a distributed neural network. The pipeline includes a first phase that identifies intersecting identifiers across datasets of multiple clients in a privacy preserving manner. The second phase includes a distributed neural network that includes a data receiving portion at each of the clients and an orchestrator portion at an orchestrator. The data receiving portions and the orchestrator portions communicate forward and backward passes to perform training without revealing the raw training data.
US11934484B2
Systems and methods for facilitating computer-vision-based detection and identification of consumer products comprise a support surface for supporting thereon one or more consumer products to be detected and a plurality of digital cameras each arranged at a different height relative to the support surface and positioned such that a field of view of each of the digital cameras includes the consumer product(s) located on the support surface. Movement of the support surface and/or the digital cameras permits the digital cameras to capture images of the consumer product from different angles of view and up to a full 360 degree of rotation around the at least one consumer product. A computing device uses at least the image data from such images to train a computer vision consumer product identification model to generate a reference image data model to be used for recognition of the at least one consumer product.
US11934481B2
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a matrix multiplier, and relate to the field of data computing technologies, so as to divide two matrices into blocks for computation. The matrix multiplier includes: a first memory, a second memory, an operation circuit, and a controller, where the operation circuit, the first memory, and the second memory may perform data communication by using a bus; and the controller is configured to control, according to a preset program or instruction, a first matrix and a second matrix to be divided into blocks, and control the operation circuit to perform a multiplication operation on corresponding blocks in the first memory and the second memory based on block division results of the controller. The matrix multiplier may be configured to perform a multiplication operation on two matrices.
US11934471B2
A technique for more efficiently integrating external content for web page display is disclosed. The technique includes identifying a plurality of page features for displaying a web page, selecting a corresponding content resolver from a plurality of content resolvers stored in the memory for each of the identified page features. The selecting may be in accordance with the end user device. The technique may also include rendering the web page for display on the end user device in accordance with one or more parameters specified in the corresponding content resolver.
US11934462B2
A method, system, and computer program product for identifying network appliances on a network which includes a processor configured to intercept network communications from one or more devices between a first network and a second network. The processor may store the information about each connection in a database, the information including a Client Id and a destination address. The processor may query the database for a list of all destination addresses which were attempted to be contacted for each Client Id and generate metadata for each Client Id. The processor may analyze each Client Id, the associated metadata for each Client Id, and the destination addresses associated with each Client Id using one or more rules in a device identification tree and assign a device label to each Client Id of the one or more devices.
US11934460B2
Managing content is disclosed. An indication is received that a content item comprising a body of managed content is associated with a business object not included in the body of managed content. The content item is linked with the business object.
US11934452B1
The present disclosure relates to systems that perform text-based palette searches that convert a text query into a color distribution and utilize the color distribution to identify relevant color palettes. More specifically, the disclosed systems receive a textual color palette search query and convert, utilizing a text-to-color model, the textual color palette search query into a color distribution. The disclosed systems determine, utilizing a palette scoring model, distance metrics between the color distribution and a plurality of color palettes in a color database by: identifying swatch matches between colors of the color distribution and unmatched swatches of the plurality of color palettes and determining distances between the colors of the color distribution and matched swatches of the plurality of color palettes. The disclosed systems return one or more color palettes of the plurality of color palettes in response to the textual color palette search query based on the distance metrics.
US11934449B2
Provided are a method and apparatus for processing map information, a device, and a storage medium which relate to the field of computer technology and, in particular, to the fields of intelligent transportation and computer vision technology. The specific implementation includes that an object in an image for query is recognized to obtain an object recognition result and that a target point of interest matching the image for query is selected from at least one candidate point of interest of an electronic map according to the object recognition result.
US11934446B2
An information providing system includes a content association database storing external information, in which content is divided in a chunk structure, and chunk reference information, in which reference information having a different attribute than the content is divided in a chunk structure, in association with each other. An external information similarity calculation database is built on machine learning using the external information. A processor acquires specific external information, and compares the external information with the acquired specific external information. The processor looks up the external information similarity calculation database, and calculates a similarity between the external information and the specific external information, when the external information does not match with the acquired specific external information. The processor selects first external information from the stored external information, based on the calculated similarity, and extracts chunk reference information associated with the first external information as first chunk reference information.
US11934438B2
Systems and methods for summarizing captions, configuring playback speed, and rewriting the caption file for a media asset are disclosed. The system determines whether to display the original captions or a summarized version of the captions, which are based on user's language proficiency level, reading pace, and historical data, and can be generated either on-demand or automatically when rewinds and pauses are detected. The caption file which includes the original captions can be rewritten. The system determines whether to stream a caption or a rewritten file to a media device based on user or system selections. In the absence of a caption file, or when the caption file cannot be summarized, the playback speed of the media asset is slowed down to provide additional reading time to the user.
US11934431B2
To facilitate efficient entity resolution, systems and methods include a first dataset is received from a first database associated with a first entity and a second dataset is received from a second database associated with a second entity. A geo-grid is mapped to a geographical area covering the first entity data records and the second entity data records. A grid matching area in the geo-grid is generated for each first entity data record based on latitude data and longitude data of each first entity data record. Candidate matching records are determined from the second entity data records based on respective grid matching areas. Actual matching records are determined from the candidate matching records based on a threshold for a trigram similarity between each candidate matching record and the respective first entity data record. The actual matching records are associated with the respective first entity data record in the first database.
US11934426B2
A method and system for receiving data relating to one or more activities performed by a user on a document within a specific time period, the one or more activities being performed by using an application, analyzing the data to identify a category of user activity based at least on the type of activity performed on the document, and transmitting a signal to a device for storage in association with the document, the signal including the identified category.
US11934423B2
A method by one or more processing units of a database management system includes determining to transition a collection of data from storage in a set of first temperature storage nodes to storage in a set of second temperature nodes based on one or more criteria associated with the collection of data, where each first temperature storage node of the set of first temperature storage nodes is paired with a corresponding second temperature storage node of the set of second temperature storage nodes to form a set of parallel node pairs. The method further includes transitioning storage of the collection of data in parallel, by each parallel node pair of the set of parallel node pairs, from storage in the set of first temperature storage nodes to storage in the set of second temperature storage nodes.
US11934421B2
The present invention provides for a system and a method for optimized data extraction of different document types. First digitised data is extracted from ingested documents based on extraction rules and is classified into first classified data based on pre-defined rules. Confidence score is assigned to first classified data based on comparison of first classified data with pre-defined data. A second digitised data is extracted from classified document types corresponding to first classified data via a tool selected from multiple integrated tools based on extraction rules. An extraction score is determined for second digitised data. Classified document types are validated based on pre-defined requirements. In the event the pre-determined requirements are met the confidence score and the extraction score are compared with pre-defined parameters. If the result is above a pre-determined threshold the second digitized data is transmitted as executable files to applications for execution.
US11934419B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for displaying a search result in a user interface comprising a sequence of K table rows, a sequence of first type columns (named regular columns) and a sequence of B second type columns (named braided columns), the search result comprising values of attributes. The method includes creating a structure that includes a sequence table rows and a sequence of regular columns and a sequence of braided columns. The method selects a row of the sequence of rows and a braided column of the braided columns for displaying the search result. In each regular column a regular cell that is included in the selected row may be defined. From a braided column a braided cell may be defined that includes in the selected row and subsequent B−1 rows. The attributes values are displayed in the defined regular and braided cells.
US11934418B2
Techniques and mechanisms are disclosed to optimize the size of index files to improve use of storage space available to indexers and other components of a data intake and query system. Index files of a data intake and query system may include, among other data, a keyword portion containing mappings between keywords and location references to event data containing the keywords. Optimizing an amount of storage space used by index files may include removing, modifying and/or recreating various components of index files in response to detecting one or more storage conditions related to the event data indexed by the index files. The optimization of index files generally may attempt to manage a tradeoff between an efficiency with which search requests can be processed using the index files and an amount of storage space occupied by the index files.
US11934417B2
Data intake and query system (DIQS) instances supporting applications including lower-tier, focused, work group oriented applications, are tailored to display the metrics for the needs of the user. An interface caused by operation of an entity monitoring system (EMS) operating in conjunction with the lower-tier DIQS displays the monitored entities as individual representations. The user selects a metric and a metric threshold. The EMS causes a display of an interface having a representation for each monitored entity. Each representation includes a metric value and indicates an entity status based on the metric value and the threshold. The user can dynamically change the threshold on the interface for easy visualization of aggregation of monitored entities to determine the performance of the infrastructure. The interface also provides the user with the ability to select an entity and click through to the entity analysis workspace for more detailed information.
US11934414B2
Disclosed is a computer-implemented method for determining a score adjustment for a search document, comprising determining a first attractiveness model of a first document from one or more documents based on one or more user interactions associated with the first document; determining a second attractiveness model of a second document from one or more documents based on one or more user interactions associated with the second document; determining one or more pairwise comparisons of documents based on the first and second attractiveness models of the first and second documents; training an adjustment model based on the pairwise comparisons of documents; and inputting the search document into the adjustment model to determine the score adjustment.
US11934411B1
Devices and techniques are generally described for regionalizing content based on the availability of similar content. In some examples, a first search query related to a first item may be received. A determination may be made that the first search query is associated with a first region. In some examples, the first item may be determined to be associated with the first region based at least in part on at least one of the first item or items classified as substitutes for the first item being available in a plurality of regions. A first plurality of search results associated with the first region may be determined. In further examples, code may be generated to cause the first computing device to display the first plurality of search results.
US11934407B2
Techniques and solutions are described for implementing virtual table schemas. A virtual table schema includes a logical pointer that is used to target a table that includes data and is defined according to the virtual table schema. Values assigned to the logical pointer can be used to target tables at different locations, such as in-memory storage or in dynamic storage of a database management system. The dynamic storage includes an in-memory buffer cache and persistent storage. The logical pointer can be updated to point to the in-memory storage or the dynamic storage, including based on use statistics. Similarly, a table having data for the virtual table can be transitioned between the in-memory buffer cache and the persistent storage, including based on use statistics for the virtual table. A value for the logical pointer can be updated when the table is transferred between the in-memory buffer cache and the dynamic storage.
US11934397B2
Techniques are disclosed relating to database query optimizers. In some embodiments, a query parser of a database system receives a query requesting data from a multi-tenant database. The query includes a first constraint that restricts a query optimizer's selection of a set of execution plans available to implement the query. The database system determines whether an override has been specified for a particular tenant associated with the received query, the override indicating that the first constraint is to be replaced with a second constraint for the particular tenant. In response to determining that the override has been specified for the particular tenant, the database system replaces the first constraint in the query with the second constraint and provides the query with the second constraint to the query optimizer for selection of an execution plan in accordance with the second constraint.
US11934396B2
Apparatus and methods for reconciling data in a big data environment is provided. Methods may receive a first data set and a second data set for reconciliation. Methods may identify a first set of metadata associated with the first data set. Methods may identify a second set of metadata associated with the second data set. Methods may include a data reconciliation algorithm. The algorithm may compare the first set of metadata to the second set of metadata to obtain a subset of data found within the first data set and a subset of data found within the second data set that are joinable. Methods may dynamically construct one or more SQL queries to identify any discrepancies between the first data set and the second data set. Methods may execute the one or more SQL queries that identify any discrepancies between the first data set and the second data set.
US11934394B2
A data query method supporting a natural language, an open platform, and a user terminal are provided, where the method includes: receiving, by the open platform, a natural language query statement sent by the user terminal, and transforming the natural language query statement into a query statement that is recognizable by a third-party content provider; sending, by the open platform, the query statement that is recognizable to one or more third-party content providers; receiving, by the open platform, one or more query response messages returned by the one or more third-party content providers according to the query statement that is recognizable; and sending, by the open platform, the one or more query response messages to the user terminal.
US11934391B2
The present invention relates to a method for an at least semiautomatic generation of a request to a data processing system with a data pool, wherein a data model, which is usable for the selection of data from the data pool using a query language, forms the basis of the data pool, wherein a user's request made in natural language, which takes place by a user input of terms (user terms) captured as a series of characters (character string), wherein the terms semantically describe the user intended results of the answer of the data processing system on the request that has to be carried out by the data processing system, is analyzed and/or interpreted, and converted into a request in the query language.
US11934390B2
Knowledge graph systems are disclosed for implementing multiple approaches, including stand alone or combined approaches, for knowledge graph pruning. The approaches are based on graph sampling work such as, for example, information gain theory. The approaches are applied by a knowledge graph system to perform schema pruning, automatic graph pruning, and query correlation for improving query performance.
US11934388B2
Transaction processing systems in accordance with aspects of the invention may process a variety of transactions. Transaction processing systems may include a transaction processing device and a distributed processing system. The transaction processing device obtains transaction requests from a variety of client devices and process the transaction requests. The distributed processing system may also obtain the transaction requests and maintain a transaction history of the transaction requests obtained and/or processed by the transaction processing device. Both the distributed processing system and the transaction processing device may send a transaction succeeded event based on the transaction being processed successfully. The transaction processing device and distributed ledger may also maintain an indication of if a particular transaction has been processed. When the transaction processing device becomes available after a period of unavailability, the transaction history for both the transaction processing device and distributed ledger may be reconciled.
US11934386B2
A method for migration of a blockchain to be replaced, called the first blockchain, to a replacement blockchain, called the second blockchain. The migration method comprises: an initialisation of the second blockchain, the initialisation comprising a generation, in a main blockchain configured to supervise access to the first and second blockchains, of a zone of supervision (250) of the second blockchain; the entry of a user comprising a registration in a directory of users in the main blockchain of a secondary address allocated to this user for the connection to the second blockchain; a generation in the second blockchain of a set of blocks of data corresponding to an image of the first blockchain; a switch of all or some of the users of the first blockchain to the second blockchain so as to prevent registration of transactions in the name of these users in the first blockchain and to permit the registration of transactions in the name of these users in the second blockchain.
US11934381B2
A data consistency analyzer identifies data inconsistencies proactively, providing insights into the financial, business, and technical impact to enable users to make decisions regarding resolution of the inconsistencies. The data consistency analyzer may provide additional insights such as criticality of inconsistencies. Data inconsistencies may be caused by configuration changes to master data. As described herein, data consistency is improved by keeping a constant watch on various master data changes which is one of the major sources towards causing inconsistency and taking necessary actions based on further assessments. Using master data change as initial lead, the inconsistencies would be identified that are not mere database or technical inconsistencies. Along with the primary option of inconsistency check based on master data change, additional options to scan the system based on overall run and run per selection, or application level specific checks will be provided.
US11934380B2
A source storage unit of a storage network operates by: sending a slice to migrate from the source storage unit to a destination storage unit; sending a slice verification request to the destination storage unit, wherein the slice verification request includes one or more of: a slice identifier, the slice, a revision indicator, a verification method indicator, or a nonce; receiving an integrity value from the destination storage unit; determining when the integrity value compares favorably to the slice verification request by determining when a hash of the slice and a nonce matches the integrity value or determining when a decrypted signature of the integrity value matches a hash of the slice and the nonce or the slice and the nonce; when the integrity value compares favorably to the slice verification request, updating a slice identifier assignment associated with a slice identifier corresponding to the slice, wherein updating the slice identifier assignment associates the destination storage unit with the slice identifier and disassociates the source storage unit from the slice identifier.
US11934377B2
Embodiments described herein are directed to detecting data inconsistencies within a distributed database and identifying the cause thereof. For example, lineage events are emitted from different components of the distributed system that operate on various data files. A consistency checking engine analyzes these events and detects inconsistencies with respect to the data files. The embodiments described herein checks the integrity of the database and assists in understanding the root cause in case of a corruption. Moreover, it provides the timeline for the corruption and whether it is repairable or not. These properties enable determining the right time to restore the customer's database or the right set of actions to repair the corruption. In case of repairable corruption, the correct compensating repair actions may be applied.
US11934375B2
In an aspect a computer system is configured to: receive accelerated transfer definition data defining one or more conditions for accelerating a transfer; obtain a due date for completing the transfer; initiate the transfer in response to the earlier of: determining that at least one of the conditions for accelerating the transfer have occurred; and determining that a current date is within a defined proximity of the due date for completing the transfer.
US11934359B1
A method, computer system, and a computer program product is provided for computer log management. In one embodiment, in response to receiving a log request from a user, an input content is analyzed and adjusted according to input contents and user's previous activities. A similarity analysis and a fairness analysis is performed to determine similarities between the input content, as adjusted, and a plurality of log records in an object library. The similarity analysis includes analyzing any patterns and attributes. The attributes have a dimension, and each dimension has a predefined weight (W). The fairness analysis ensures that one type of log is not favored over others. A best possible match is then determined, and one or more logs are presented to the user providing the best possible match.
US11934352B2
A card rendering method includes that an electronic device sends a request for obtaining related information of a target card to a server, and receives related information that is of a target card and that is sent by the server. The electronic device renders the target card based on a first layout snapshot, displays the target card on a display screen, parses a first file package set of the target card to obtain a second rendering instruction set, selects a rendering instruction in the second rendering instruction set other than a first rendering instruction set, renders again the target card according to the selected rendering instruction, and updates the target card displayed on the display screen.
US11934346B1
A cloud computing infrastructure hosts a web service with customer accounts. In a customer account, files of the customer account are listed in an index. Files indicated in the index are arranged in groups, with files in each group being scanned using scanning serverless functions in the customer account. The files in the customer account include a compressed tar archive of a software container. Member files of a compressed tar archive in a customer account are randomly-accessed by way of locators that indicate a tar offset, a logical offset, and a decompressor state for a corresponding member file. A member file is accessed by seeking to the tar offset in the compressed tar archive, restoring a decompressor to the decompressor state, decompressing the compressed tar archive using the decompressor, and moving to the logical offset in the decompressed data.
US11934344B2
In certain instances, a data management application (software application) that manages moving data files, and the like, from a primary high-speed storage system. An end-user can configure the data management application for particular files via management policies. Based on the management policies, after a file is migrated from the primary storage system to a targeted secondary storage system, a breadcrumb pointing to a webpage for the migrated file is left behind in the primary storage system. The webpage can be used to manage the migrated file, such as moving the migrated file back to the primary storage system.
US11934343B2
Disclosed is a data processing system to receive a processing graph of an application. A compile time logic is configured to modify the processing graph and generate a modified processing graph. The modified processing graph is configured to apply a post-padding tiling after applying a cumulative input padding that confines padding to an input. The cumulative input padding pads the input into a padded input. The post-padding tiling tiles the padded input into a set of pre-padded input tiles with a same tile size, tiles intermediate representation of the input into a set of intermediate tiles with a same tile size, and tiles output representation of the input into a set of non-overlapping output tiles with a same tile size. Runtime logic is configured with the compile time logic to execute the modified processing graph to execute the application.
US11934342B2
Embodiments are generally directed to graphics processor data access and sharing. An embodiment of an apparatus includes a circuit element to produce a result in processing of an application; a load-store unit to receive the result and generate pre-fetch information for a cache utilizing the result; and a prefetch generator to produce prefetch addresses based at least in part on the pre-fetch information; wherein the load-store unit is to receive software assistance for prefetching, and wherein generation of the pre-fetch information is based at least in part on the software assistance.
US11934340B2
In accordance with implementations of the subject matter described herein, there provides a solution for multi-path RDMA transmission. In the solution, at least one packet is generated based on an RDMA message to be transmitted from a first device to a second device. The first device has an RDMA connection with the second device via a plurality of paths. A first packet in the at least one packet includes a plurality of fields, which include information for transmitting the first packet over a first path of the plurality of paths. The at least one packet is transmitted to the second device over the plurality of paths via an RDMA protocol. The first packet is transmitted over the first path. The multi-path RDMA transmission solution according to the subject matter described herein can efficiently utilize rich network paths while maintaining a low memory footprint in a network interface card.
US11934336B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide an interface between a host and a multi-plane flash memory. For example, the interface can include a first storage unit, a second storage unit and a controller. The first storage unit can be configured to receive and store a first plane pipeline command issued from the host, and output the first plane pipeline command to a first plane of the flash memory. The second storage unit can be configured to receive and store a second plane pipeline command issued from the host, and output the second plane pipeline command to a second plane of the flash memory. The controller can be electrically connected to the first storage unit and the second storage unit, and configured to output the first and second plane pipeline commands to the first and second planes, respectively, when no read process is performed on the first plane and the second plane.
US11934332B2
Devices, methods, and systems are provided. In one example, a device is described to include a device interface that receives data from at least one data source; a data shuffle unit that collects the data received from the at least one data source, receives a descriptor that describes a data shuffle operation to perform on the data received from the at least one data source, performs the data shuffle operation on the collected data to produce shuffled data, and provides the shuffled data to at least one data target.
US11934328B2
A system and method for connecting a processing device to a functional device connected to or in a base unit of a communications network, the base unit having a transmitter and the processing device having a memory, a display and an operating system. A first peripheral device is adapted to be coupled to the processing device via a generic communications protocol, the first peripheral device having a receiver and at least one fixed or configurable endpoint of the functional device exposed on the first peripheral device. The base unit and the first peripheral device is adapted to transmit and receive data respectively over the communications network from the functional device to the processing device via the at least one fixed or configurable endpoint using the generic communications protocol for communication between the processing device and the first peripheral device.
US11934319B2
A computer system includes physical memory devices of different types that store randomly-accessible data in a main memory of the computer system. In one approach, an operating system allocates memory from a namespace for use by an application. The namespace is a logical reference to physical memory devices in which physical addresses are defined. The namespace is bound to a memory type. In response to binding the namespace to the memory type, the operating system adjusts a page table to map a logical memory address in the namespace to a memory device of the memory type.
US11934315B1
A system for efficiently configuring bindings based on a dependency graph is described. The system may generate or access a graph comprising a set of nodes. Each node may represent a binding and is associated with a component property of a component hierarchy corresponding to a hierarchical structure of a data model. Each node of the graph may be connected to at least one other node with an edge representing a dependency in the hierarchical structure of the data model. The system may receive a request to generate a view associated with the set of bindings. The system may determine an order to load the set of bindings based on the graph, and may load the set of bindings based on the determined order.
US11934314B2
A method of copying at least first and second files stored in a client computing device to a host server, includes the steps of: generating at the host server a first read I/O request for data of the first file based on responses to pre-read I/O requests for the first file, received from the client computing device; transmitting a merged I/O request that includes the first read I/O request for data of the first file and pre-read I/O requests for the second file from the host server to the client computing device; generating at the host server a second read I/O request for data of the second file based on responses to the pre-read I/O requests for the second file, received from the client computing device; and transmitting the second read I/O request for data of the second file from the host server to the client computing device.
US11934310B2
In one embodiment, a microprocessor, comprising: plural cores, each of the cores comprising a level 1 (L1) cache and a level 2 (L2) cache; and a shared level 3 (L3) cache comprising plural L3 tag array entries, wherein a first portion of the plural L3 tag array entries is associated with data and a second portion of the plural L3 tag array entries is decoupled from data, wherein each L3 tag array entry comprises tag information and data zero information, the data zero information indicating whether any data associated with the tag information is known to be zero or not.
US11934297B2
A system for testing applications is disclosed. The system includes one or more processors, one or more communications modules coupled to the one or more processors to enable communications between services provided by the system, and at least one memory coupled to the one or more processors. The at least one memory stores computer executable instructions to enable a plurality of virtualized test services, each virtualized test service at least in part emulating dependent server responses to application operations. The instructions enable a load-balancing service for communication with the plurality of virtualized test services, and test an application based on a load, by directing the application to interact with the plurality of virtualized test services that are available, while avoiding communicating with the dependent servers during testing. The load-balancing service balances the testing of the application between the plurality of virtualized test services that are available.
US11934290B2
Certain aspects involve providing automated performance monitoring of statistical models. For example, a processing device is used for performing a statistical analysis on information in an archive to extract historical data, scores, and attributes. The processing device calculates performance metrics based at least in part on the historical data, scores, and attributes. The processing device pre-calculates summary performance data based at least in part on the performance metrics. The summary performance data is stored in files with predefined layouts, which are stored in a non-transitory, computer-readable medium. Segmented data is presented from a file to a user through a graphical user interface (GUI). In some aspects, various reports of the segmented data are presented interactively by detecting a selection by the user of a segmentation and displaying the corresponding segmented data.
US11934287B2
A method, electronic device, and computer program product for processing data is disclosed. The method includes acquiring a configuration file for generating and sending a structured report, the structured report involving analysis of an application. The method also includes acquiring, based on an address of a data source in the configuration file, data from the data source to add the data to the structured report, the data source including the same type of data generated by the application. The method includes sending, based on an identifier of a target server in the configuration file, the structured report to the target server for analyzing the application. With this method, the format of a structured report to be acquired can be adjusted at any time without version upgrade, thereby saving time.
US11934286B2
A processing system concurrency optimization system includes a processing system having first and second processing subsystems, a power system that is coupled to the first and second processing subsystems, a processing system concurrency optimization database, and a processing system concurrency optimization subsystem that is coupled to the power system and the processing system concurrency optimization database. The processing system concurrency optimization subsystem determines that a first workload has been provided for performance by the processing system, and identifies a first processing system concurrency optimization profile that is associated with the first workload in the processing system concurrency optimization database. Based on the first processing system concurrency optimization profile, the processing system concurrency optimization subsystem configures the power system to provide first power in a first power range to the first processing subsystem and second power in a second power range to the second processing subsystem.
US11934276B2
A method and system for enabling incremental backup operations targeting bare-metal recovery and system-state recovery data and metadata. These aforementioned forms of recovery focus on the protection of computing system state, including operating system binaries and configuration, as well as the data, metadata, and/or configuration of software application(s) installed on said computing system(s). Further, the data and/or metadata reflected in said computing system state often remains unchanged unless operating system and/or software application component(s) or feature(s) is/are uninstalled, installed, and/or upgraded. Existing solutions protecting said data and/or metadata tend to only support full backup operations, which are time and storage space inefficient. Ideally, incremental backup operations targeting said data and/or metadata should be provided. Accordingly, one or more embodiments disclosed herein propose(s) a framework for enabling incremental backup operations targeting bare-metal recovery and/or system-state recovery data and/or metadata.
US11934273B1
Generation of new snapshots of a storage object are prompted based on changes to the storage object. An absolute storage change condition is satisfied when the aggregate amount of changed data since the most recent snapshot satisfies a threshold that represents a predefined amount of storage capacity, e.g., N GB. A percentage of used storage change condition is satisfied when the aggregate size of the changes expressed as a percentage of the provisioned storage capacity of snapped storage object satisfies a predetermined threshold, e.g., X % of Y TB. A percentage of provisioned storage change condition is satisfied when the aggregate amount of the changes in terms of percentage of utilized storage capacity of storage object satisfies a predetermined threshold expressed as a percentage of the utilized capacity of the storage object, e.g., P % of Z TB.
US11934267B1
Methods, apparatuses, and non-transitory machine-readable media associated with a data inversion and unidirectional error detection are described. An apparatus for data inversion and unidirectional error detection can include a memory device and a processing device communicatively coupled to the memory device. The processing device can be configured to encode a plurality of binary data bits in an information word, encode the information word using a unidirectional error detecting code, write the encoded information word to the memory device, read the encoded information word from the memory device, and detect an error in the information word using a unidirectional error detecting code. The encoding can include inverting the plurality of binary data bits and adding an inversion data bit to the information word.
US11934256B1
In accordance with various embodiments of the present disclosure, a first instance of a data intake and query system (DIQS) may receive latency data that indicates latency states of second instances of the DIQS, the latency states indicative of latencies associated with processing of event data by the plurality of second instances. The first instance may then determine overall latency state of the first instance based, at least in part, on determining number or percentage of the first instance and the second instances of the DIQS having one or more particular latency states, and determining whether the number or percentage of the first instance and the f second instances of the DIQS having the one or more particular latency states is equal to or exceeds a threshold. The first instance may then present the overall latency state of the first instance.
US11934244B2
A warning is generated when a computer simulation controller is determined to have insufficient charge to permit use through an upcoming simulation sequence. Thus, responsive to a computer simulation having a first context and a computer simulation controller having a first voltage, a human-perceptible indication of low voltage is presented, whereas if the computer simulation has a second context typically requiring less input than the first context, no indication is presented if the controller has the same first voltage.
US11934243B2
To individually control supply of the power supply voltage to circuits, a semiconductor device includes a CPU, a memory that reads and writes data used in arithmetic operation of the CPU, a signal processing circuit that generates an output signal by converting a data signal generated by the arithmetic operation of the CPU, a first power supply control switch that controls supply of the power supply voltage to the CPU, a second power supply control switch that controls supply of the power supply voltage to the memory, a third power supply control switch that controls supply of the power supply voltage to the signal processing circuit, and a controller that at least has a function of controlling the first to third power supply control switches individually in accordance with an input signal and instruction signals input from the CPU and the signal processing circuit.
US11934239B2
In an embodiment, a circuit includes: an error amplifier; a temperature sensor, wherein the temperature sensor is coupled to the error amplifier; a discrete time controller coupled to the error amplifier, wherein the discrete time controller comprises digital circuitry; a multiple bits quantizer coupled to the discrete time controller, wherein the multiple bits quantizer produces a digital code output; and a heating array coupled to the multiple bits quantizer, wherein the heating array is configured to generate heat based on the digital code output.
US11934238B2
A data storage device including, in one implementation, a non-volatile memory device having a memory block including a number of memory dies, and a controller coupled to the non-volatile memory device. The controller is configured to monitor a temperature of the data storage device and determine whether the monitored temperature exceeds a first temperature threshold. The controller is also configured to perform a default thermal throttling operation based on the monitored temperature exceeding the first temperature threshold, determine whether the monitored temperature exceeds a second temperature threshold, and perform a customized thermal throttling operation based on the monitored temperature exceeding the second temperature threshold.
US11934232B2
An electronic apparatus includes an upper case and a lower case. An end face of the upper case includes a first upper step surface and a second upper step surface located at high and inner positions with respect to the first upper step surface. An end face of the lower case includes a first lower step surface, a second lower step surface located at high and inner positions with respect to the first lower step surface, and a third lower step surface located at high and inner positions with respect to the second lower step surface. The first upper step surface is located at a low position with respect to the second lower step surface and faces the first lower step surface. The second upper step surface is located at a low position with respect to the third lower step surface and faces the second lower step surface.
US11934229B2
According to the present disclosure an electronic device is disclosed comprising: a housing including a front surface, a rear surface facing the direction opposite to the front surface, and a side surface encompassing the space between the front surface and the rear surface; a display included in the housing and visible to the outside of the electronic device through the front surface; an optical sensor positioned between the display and the rear surface overlapping at least one region of the display when viewed from above the front surface, and including a light-emitting part and a light-receiving part; and a first partition positioned between the light-emitting part and the light-receiving part based on the electronic device having a first shape, and a second partition present between the light-emitting part and the light-receiving part based on the electronic device having a second shape transformed from the first shape, wherein a straight line connecting the light-emitting part and the light-receiving part is perpendicular to the direction in which the electronic device changes from the first shape to the second shape.
US11934228B2
An electronic device includes a housing including a first housing and a second housing; a hinge unit configured to rotate the first housing and the second housing, the housing configured to move between a folded state and an unfolded state via the hinge unit; a first display disposed in a first area of the first housing and a second area of the second housing; a second display disposed in a third area of the first housing, located at an opposite side of the first area; at least one sensor; a memory configured to store an image frame set including a plurality of image frames; and at least one processor; wherein the memory stores instructions which, when executed, cause the at least one processor to obtain, via the at least one sensor, information corresponding to a folding angle between the first housing and the second housing, based on the obtained information corresponding to a first folding angle being smaller than a first reference angle, deactivate the first display and display, via the second display, an image frame included in the image frame set, based on the obtained information corresponding to a second folding angle being greater than the first reference angle, deactivate the second display and control to activate the first display, and based on the obtained information corresponding to a folding angle increasing from the second folding angle to a third folding angle, display, via the first display, image frames included in the image frame set corresponding to a plurality of folding angles between the second folding angle to the third folding angle.
US11934225B1
A system for supporting a mobile device is described. The system includes a base and a top collapsibly coupled to the base. The top is configured to retain the mobile device and to lock at an angle with respect to the base. The angle has a vertex and is at least forty-five degrees and not more than one hundred degrees. The top and the base are configured such that a center of mass of a combination of the mobile device and the system is a nonzero distance along the base from the vertex of the angle and such that the combination is stable with respect to rotations around an axis including the vertex for the base being supported and oriented perpendicular to a direction of local gravity.
US11934223B2
A foldable electronic device, including a first body having a first shaft member, at least one second body having a second shaft member, and a latching member, is provided. The first shaft member and the second shaft member are coaxially pivoted together. The first shaft member has a recess. The second shaft member has a locking hole. The latching member is movably disposed in the recess and the locking hole, so that when the latching member leaves the locking hole, the first body and the second body are relatively pivoted through the first shaft member and the second shaft member, or when the latching member moves into the locking hole, the latching member interferes with the first shaft member and the second shaft member to block the first body and the second body from relatively pivoting.
US11934213B2
A liquid-cooling device includes multiple water blocks and at least one connection tube. Each of the water blocks has a water incoming end, a water outgoing end and a water-receiving space in communication with the water incoming end and the water outgoing end. The connection tube is disposed between each two water blocks. Two ends of the connection tube are respectively connected with the water incoming end of one of the two water blocks and the water outgoing end of the other water block, whereby the water-receiving spaces of the two water blocks communicate with each other via the connection tube. The connection tube has at least one bellows section between two ends of the connection tube. The liquid-cooling device solves the problems of the conventional liquid-cooling device that when the water block is welded, thermal deformation is produced to cause tolerance and the manufacturing cost is higher.
US11934203B2
A method for controlling a robot is provided. The method includes the steps of: acquiring information on a sound associated with a robot call in a serving place; determining a call target robot associated with the sound, among a plurality of robots in the serving place, on the basis of the acquired information; and providing feedback associated with the sound by the call target robot.
US11934201B1
System is configured to receive article information corresponding to articles to be transported by computer-controlled vehicles, the articles comprising a first article and a second article, each having a maximum article dimension. System is also configured to assign travel routes about a grid comprising grid cells for the vehicles to travel thereon. The travel route of a first vehicle carrying the first article includes a turning maneuver at a first grid cell. System is configured to control the turning maneuver of the first vehicle in the first grid cell such that there is no contact between the first article carried on the first vehicle with a second article carried on a second vehicle present in a second grid cell that is adjacent to the first grid cell when the first vehicle is undertaking the turning maneuver.
US11934199B2
A method for operating a system with a first automatically moving floor processing device and a second automatically moving floor processing device in which the first floor processing device detects environmental features in an environment of the first floor processing device. The first floor processing device or a shared computing device allocated to both the processing devices generates a first area map based on the detected environmental features, and the first floor processing device also detects the second floor processing device, and the position of the second floor processing device is thereupon stored within the generated first area map. The second floor processing device receives information about a current position of the second floor processing device within the first area map, and controls a second floor processing activity as soon as the first floor processing device has detected the second floor processing device.
US11934198B2
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for autonomous vehicle operation, in which a processor is configured to receive sensor data collected by a first sensor of a first autonomous vehicle during navigation of the first autonomous vehicle through a particular location and prior to a control signal subsequently generated by a controller of the first autonomous vehicle; determine based on the sensor data an event that triggered the control signal. A communication device coupled to the processor is configured to transmit to a second autonomous vehicle an instruction, based on the determined event, to adjust sensor data collected by a second sensor of the second autonomous vehicle during navigation of the second autonomous vehicle in the particular location.
US11934193B2
The technology relates to controlling a vehicle in an autonomous driving mode. In one instance, sensor data identifying an object in an environment of the vehicle may be received. A first path of a first trajectory where the vehicle will pass the object may be determined. A function is used to determining a first maximum speed of the vehicle based on a predetermined minimum lateral clearance between the object and the vehicle. The first maximum speed may be used to determine whether an actual lateral clearance between the object and the vehicle will meet the predetermined minimum lateral clearance. The determination of whether the actual lateral clearance will meet the predetermined minimum lateral clearance may be used to generate a first speed plan for the first trajectory. The vehicle may be controlled in the autonomous driving mode according to the first trajectory including the first speed plan and the first path.
US11934177B2
Elements of a machine are moved relative to one another along several axes. A monitoring device receives groups of position values of the axes which specify the relative position of the elements to one another. The surfaces and/or volumes of the elements taking up working space are determined therefrom. The monitoring device checks whether a collision risk between the elements exists. The monitoring device models at least parts of the surfaces of the elements with two-dimensional splines defined by nodes and checkpoints. The monitoring device further determines from the checkpoints of the splines for sections envelopes which envelop respective element in the respective section, and uses the respective envelope as a surface that is taken up by the respective element in the respective section. Boundary lines of faces of the envelopes are straight connecting lines of the checkpoints.
US11934173B2
A method for generating a tool path to manufacture a part using a computer numerical control system includes the steps of; generating an initial design part geometry from a geometry modelling program as an input, creating a pre-finished in-process workpiece geometry before a finishing process, controlling a stock thickness distribution of the pre-finished in-process workpiece geometry by following the tool path, wherein the stock thickness distribution is based on at least one ruling function on a basis of at least one predetermined direction, wherein the at least one ruling function is used to determine a stock thickness at a tool location to obtain a variable stock thickness distribution around a design part; locating at least one tool to be defined with respect to the initial design part geometry.
US11934164B2
A method, implemented in a device, for remote resetting of the device to factory default settings, the device comprising an electric circuit adapted to carry out the factory default reset and a secure processing and storage environment, SPSE, the method comprising: receiving, at the SPSE, a request to reset the device to factory default settings and a challenge associated with the request, wherein the request and the challenge are received via a network; initiating, by the SPSE, a reset to factory default settings of the device by communicating with the electric circuit via a communication channel; and sending, by the SPSE, a confirmation via the network, wherein the confirmation includes a response to the challenge as produced by the SPSE and an attestation report, the attestation report being a declaration by the SPSE that the reset to factory default settings is initiated or carried out.
US11934161B2
System and method provide wireless distributed lighting control systems implementing a secure peer-to-peer, self-organizing and self-healing mesh network of actuators and system inputs. The system and method can be designed specifically for indoor and outdoor lighting where actuators include in-fixture, on-fixture and circuit control modules with ON/OFF and full range dimming capabilities, and system inputs include occupancy/vacancy sensors, daylight sensors and switches. A unique messaging protocol facilitates wireless and wired communication between actuators and system inputs, and provides web-based commissioning and monitoring of the lighting control system using a wireless access point accessible from a local network or Internet which can provide an intuitive and easy to use Graphical User Interface (GUI).
US11934160B2
A mobile device can provide predictive user assistance based on various sensor readings, independently of or in addition to a location of the mobile device. The mobile device can determine a context of an event. The mobile device can store the context and a label of the event on a storage device. The label can be provided automatically by the mobile device or by the external system without user input. At a later time, the mobile device can match new sensor readings with the stored context. If a match is found, the mobile device can predict that the user is about to perform the action or recognize that the user has performed the action again. The mobile device can perform various operations, including, for example, providing user assistance, based on the prediction or recognition.
US11934156B2
A clockwork column selector mechanism, including a mobile with columns protruding above a base surface separated by clearances, forming slots along a profile, arranged to, in certain positions of the mobile, enable the insertion of a feeler-spindle into a clearance in a transverse direction substantially normal to the profile and parallel to the reference surface, and to, in other positions of the mobile, stop a feeler-spindle on a transverse surface of a column, at least one column including an intermediate transverse stopping surface constituting a stop bearing surface of a feeler-spindle and enable a partial insertion of a feeler-spindle in the thickness of one the slot, and which is located, in a transverse direction, between the geometric envelopes of two end transverse surfaces transversely delimiting this column.
US11934152B2
A device for illuminating luminescent watch displays containing luminophore material, including a case arranged to receive at least one receptacle for receiving at least one watch, the device including a illuminating device arranged to light up the displays of each said watch. The illuminating device include a control device and a time base, and at least one light source capable of exciting said luminophore material for a pre-determined charge time, or corresponding to a wearing duration chosen by the user via a control device included in the device, and watch self-winding device, including at least one such illumination device, and universal device for winding and setting the hands of a watch, including such a watch self-winding device.
US11934151B2
Exemplary arrangements relate to a universal world timepiece such as a clock having a movement (11) in connection with indicators such as hands (16, 18, 20). The timepiece includes a stationary oriented 24-hour clock face (101, 301, 401, 501) including hour marks for each hour, and a dial (103, 303, 403, 503) which is movable relative to the 24-hour clock face. The example dial has a unique icon such as a different Latin letter for each hour of the 24 hours. A computer (10) of the timepiece may operate to determine geographic coordinates and/or or to receive wireless time signals and to determine the time zone in which the timepiece is currently located. The computer operates to cause the dial to be rotatably positioned responsive to the time zone determination, to cause a particular icon to be linearly aligned with a particular hour mark of the clock face. The arrangement enables a time in a designated time zone such as world time to be read, along with the local time and enables users in various time zones with clocks including such dials to set a future appointment at the same real time through designation of an icon.
US11934150B2
A horological movement includes a resonator and an escapement wheel with flexible teeth, and an anchor formed of two mechanical pallets capable of abutting, when the anchor switches between its two rest positions, with any one of the flexible teeth depending on the angular position of the escapement wheel. Each flexible tooth is arranged to bend by undergoing an elastic deformation under a radial force that can be exerted by one of the two mechanical pallets abutting against this flexible tooth while the escapement wheel has an unfavourable angular position and the resonator is braked by the anchor. Each tooth has an elastic capacity to elastically absorb, in a radial direction, most of a maximum mechanical energy that the mechanical resonator may have during normal operation of the horological movement, to avoid breakage or deterioration of the escapement.
US11934148B2
Provided are: a light diffraction layer laminated sheet which enables easy production of a card that has a light analysis structure; and a card. A light diffraction layer laminated sheet material which forms a part of a laminated structure of a card by being laminated on top of a card base material. This light diffraction layer laminated sheet material is provided with: a transparent sheet layer; a hologram layer that has a contour smaller than the contour of the transparent sheet layer and is laminated on one surface, which is the upper surface, of the transparent sheet layer; and an HS layer that bonds the transparent sheet layer and the hologram layer with each other.
US11934143B2
A drum cartridge includes: a photosensitive drum rotatable about an axis extending in a first direction; a first drum frame to which a developing cartridge is attachable; and a second drum frame having an outer surface; and a memory having an electrical contact surface. The first drum frame is at one end portion of the drum cartridge in a second direction and the second drum frame is at another end portion of the drum cartridge in the second direction. The electrical contact surface is positioned at the outer surface of the second drum frame and is movable in a predetermined direction relative to the second drum frame.
US11934137B2
An image forming apparatus including: a restricting member; a driven gear including a portion to be restricted; a planetary gear mechanism including input portion to transmit a driving force from a driving source, output portion for transmitting the driving force to the driven gear; and a stopping member that is configured to stop rotation, which is oriented in a first rotation direction, and allow rotation of the portion to be stopped in a second rotation direction opposite to the first rotation direction, wherein when the input portion rotates in a first direction, the stopping member stops the rotation, and the output portion rotates the driven gear in a release direction opposite to the restriction direction, and when the rotation of the driven gear in the restriction direction is restricted and the input portion rotates to be oriented in a second direction opposite to the first direction.
US11934126B2
A heating device includes a first rotator, a heater including a base and a heat generator, and a second rotator contacting the first rotator. The heat generator adjacent to the base defines a heat generation area having one edge close to one edge of the base in a longitudinal direction of the base. A length between the one edge of the base and the one edge of the heat generation area is longer than a length between the other edge of the base and the other edge of the heat generation area. The second rotator has one edge close to the one edge of the heat generation area. A length between the one edge of the second rotator and the one edge of the heat generation area is shorter than a length between the other edge of the second rotator and the other edge of the heat generation area.
US11934125B2
An image forming apparatus includes a heating rotary member that heats toner born on a recording material, and a pressure rotary member that pressurizes the heating rotary member. These rotary members form a fixing nip portion and fix a toner image to the recording material at the fixing nip portion while nipping and conveying the recording material. The apparatus further includes a web that collects toner adhering to a surface of the heating rotary member, a winding roller that winds the web, a motor that rotates the winding roller, a contact member that makes contact with an outer surface of the wound web and moves based on a position of the outer surface, a variable resistor that is connected to change a resistance value depending on a position of the contact member, and a control unit that controls a rotation amount of the motor based on the resistance value.
US11934122B2
An image forming apparatus includes a temperature sensor, a conveyance control portion, a driving control portion, an adjustment processing portion, and a stop processing portion. The temperature sensor is provided apart from a contact position between a fixing member and a transferred sheet to which a toner image has been transferred. The conveyance control portion continuously executes conveyance processes of conveying the transferred sheet. The driving control portion controls driving of a heater for heating the fixing member so that a temperature detected by the temperature sensor matches a predetermined temperature. The adjustment processing portion restricts the execution of the conveyance process until an adjustment process of adjusting a formation condition of the transferred sheet is completed. The stop processing portion stops the continuous execution of the conveyance processes when the restriction on the execution of the conveyance process continues beyond a predetermined timing.
US11934118B2
A fuser configured to nip a sheet by a heating member and a pressurizing member and to thermally fix an image formed in a toner on the sheet, is provided. The fuser includes a supporting member, a temperature sensor, and a sensor cover. The supporting member supports the heating member. The temperature sensor is attached to the supporting member and is configured to detect a temperature of the heating member without contacting the heating member. The sensor cover is located on a side of the temperature sensor opposite to the heating member to cover the temperature sensor. The sensor cover includes a base having an opening at an upper position with respect to the temperature sensor and a windshield wall located in adjacent to the base. The windshield wall protrudes upward and extends in a lengthwise direction for the heating member.
US11934107B1
Embodiments described herein relate to methods of forming layers using maskless based lithography. In these embodiments, the methods implement ladders of dose change such that a geometric shape can be divided into overlaying sections. The overlaying sections can include a different dose of each section such that taper control can be achieved. The taper can be achieved by manipulating the geometry “mask data” into overlaying sections that are exposed by various doses controlled by pixel blending (PB) exposure techniques. To perform the methods described herein, a maskless lithography tool is used. The maskless lithography tool includes a controller that performs software based “mask data” manipulation. As such, because the methods are performed by software with no mask, there is much more flexibility to tune the taper angles and/or photoresist thickness residuals for multi-tone/gray tone mask features without any additional mask cost and fabrication time, providing advantages over conventional lithography methods using masks.
US11934104B2
An optical apparatus, which illuminates a first area with light from a light source while the first area is longer in a second direction intersecting a first direction than in the first direction, includes a collector optical member which is arranged in an optical path between the light source and the first area, and condenses the light from the light source to form a second area in a predetermined plane, the second area being longer in a fourth direction intersecting a third direction than in the third direction; and a first fly's eye optical member which is provided within the predetermined plane including the second area, and has a plurality of first optical elements guiding the light of the collector optical member to the first area.
US11934103B2
A method and apparatus for applying an electric field and/or a magnetic field to a photoresist layer without air gap intervention during photolithography processes is provided herein. The method and apparatus include a transfer device and a plurality of modules. The transfer device is configured to rotate a plurality of substrates between each of the modules, wherein one module includes a heating pedestal and another module includes a cooling pedestal. One module is utilized for inserting and removing the substrates from the system. At least the heating module is able to be sealed and filled with a process volume before applying the electric field.
US11934099B2
A resist composition containing a resin component (A1) having a constitutional unit (a01) and a constitutional unit (a02) derived from compounds each represented by General Formulae (a01-1) and (a02-1), a compound (B1) represented by General Formula (b1), and a compound represented by General Formula (d1-1) or a compound represented by General Formula (d1-2), in the formulae, Ct represents a tertiary carbon atom, a carbon atom at an α-position of Ct constitutes a carbon-carbon unsaturated bond, Wa02 represents an aromatic hydrocarbon group, and Rb1 represents hydrocarbon group, where a fluorine atom is not contained
US11934075B2
According to one embodiment, a display device includes a display portion, a first terminal, a second terminal located between the display portion and the first terminal, and an insulating film, in which each of the first terminal and the second terminal is a stacked layer body of a metal electrode and a first transparent electrode, in the first terminal, the first transparent electrode is in contact with an upper surface and a side surface of the metal electrode, in the second terminal, the insulating film is in contact with a side surface of the metal electrode, and the first transparent electrode is in contact with the upper surface of the metal electrode in an inside surrounded by the insulating film.
US11934074B2
A display device includes a liquid crystal layer between a first substrate and a second substrate. The first substrate includes a wiring line and a pixel electrode. The liquid crystal layer includes a stripe-shaped polymer extending in a first direction and a liquid crystal molecule. The liquid crystal layer includes a first polymer in an area overlapping the wiring line and a second polymer in an area overlapping the pixel electrode. The first polymer includes a first portion extending in a direction different from the first direction. The second polymer includes a second portion extending in a direction different from the first direction. A density of the first portion is higher than a density of the second portion.
US11934073B2
A liquid crystal panel is a normally-black mode segment liquid crystal panel, and includes a plurality of pixels that are arrayed in substantial tessellation of an active region, as viewed from a direction of the normal of a first substrate, and a plurality of auxiliary electrodes that each have a portion that overlaps a gap between two pixels that are adjacent to each other, as viewed from the direction of the normal of the first substrate. A plurality of pixel electrodes, a common electrode, the plurality of auxiliary electrodes, and portions of a plurality of signal lines that are present in the active region are made of a transparent electroconductive material. The auxiliary electrodes are electrically connected to one of two pixel electrodes of the two pixels.
US11934071B2
According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes a display panel and an image sensor element, the display panel includes a first area that does not overlap the image sensor element and a second area that overlaps the image sensor element, the display panel includes a first electrode, a second electrode that overlaps the first electrode, and a liquid crystal layer, the second electrode includes a plurality of first slits provided in the first area and a plurality of second slits provided in the second area, the second electrode includes a plurality of first slits provided in the first area and a plurality of second slits provided in the second area, the plurality of second slits are arranged based on a Fibonacci sequence.
US11934060B2
Provided is an array substrate. The array substrate includes: a base substrate, and a plurality of gate lines, a plurality of data lines, a plurality of sub-pixels and a plurality of touch signal lines disposed on the base substrate. The data lines have a plurality of first extending parts and a plurality of second extending parts which are in an alternating arrangement. When the array substrate is used to prepare a liquid crystal display panel and the liquid crystal display panel is displaying, in each column of the sub-pixels, the voltage polarities of the two adjacent sub-pixels which respectively belong to two adjacent first pixel regions are opposite.
US11934051B2
Structures including an electro-optical phase shifter and methods of fabricating a structure including an electro-optical phase shifter. The structure includes a waveguide core on a semiconductor substrate, and an interconnect structure over the waveguide core and the semiconductor substrate. The waveguide core includes a phase shifter, and the interconnect structure includes a slotted shield and a transmission line coupled to the phase shifter. The slotted shield includes segments that are separated by slots. The slotted shield is positioned between the transmission line and the substrate.
US11934043B2
An ophthalmic lens for myopia control. A first surface of the lens varies across the lens to form a first surface power map. A second surface of the lens varies across the lens to form a second surface power map. Each of the first and second surface power maps comprise a spiral. The spirals formed by the first and second surface power maps twist in opposing directions. Related methods are also described.
US11934037B2
The present disclosure discloses a camera lens group including, sequentially from an object side to an image side along an optical axis, a first lens having refractive power; a first prism having a first reflecting surface, and an angle between the first reflecting surface and the optical axis being 45°; a stop; a second lens having refractive power; a third lens having refractive power; a fourth lens having refractive power; a second prism having a second reflecting surface, and an angle between the second reflecting surface and the optical axis being 45°; and a fifth lens having refractive power. A maximum field-of-view FOV of the camera lens group satisfies: FOV≥80.0°.
US11934034B2
An optical element driving mechanism is provided. The optical element driving mechanism includes a movable portion, a fixed portion, a driving assembly, and an assist assembly. The movable portion is used for connecting to an optical element having a main axis. The movable portion is movable relative to the fixed portion. The driving assembly drives the movable portion to move relative to the fixed portion. The assist assembly limits the movement of the movable portion relative to the fixed portion.
US11934031B2
A lens apparatus includes a lens holding member configured to hold a lens, a base member including an adhesive holding portion opened in an optical axis direction of the lens to hold an adhesive, the base member being provided on an outer periphery side of the lens holding member, an annular member arranged inside the base member to protrude at least in part from an outer peripheral surface of the lens holding member toward an inner peripheral surface of the base member and intersect with the optical axis direction, and a holding member configured to hold the lens holding member, wherein the annular member is held by the lens holding member and the holding member.
US11934029B2
A lens assembly includes a plurality of lenses spaced apart from each other along an optical axis; and a first spacer disposed along the optical axis between any two lenses of the plurality of lenses, wherein the first spacer includes a body portion including an opening enabling light to travel between the two lenses; and an extension portion protruding from one surface of the body portion and extending toward one lens of the two lenses, the one lens being either one of the two lenses, the one surface of the body portion is spaced apart from the one lens, and the extension portion contacts and supports the one lens.
US11934010B2
There is provided an optical connection structure in which an optical fiber and an optical semiconductor waveguide are easily connected with low loss. The present invention relates to an optical connection structure configured to connect an optical waveguide device and an optical fiber including cores having different refractive indexes, wherein an optical connection component using a planar lightwave circuit is bonded and fixed on an end surface of an input/output waveguide of the optical waveguide device, a value of a refractive index of a core of the planar lightwave circuit is between a value of the refractive index of the core of the optical waveguide device and a value of the refractive index of the core of the optical fiber, and the optical waveguide device and the optical fiber are optically connected via the planar lightwave circuit.
US11934008B2
Structures for an edge coupler and methods of forming a structure for an edge coupler. The structure includes a waveguide core over a dielectric layer, and a back-end-of-line stack over the waveguide core and the dielectric layer. The back-end-of-line stack includes an interlayer dielectric layer, a side edge, a first feature, a second feature, and a third feature laterally arranged between the first feature and the second feature. The first feature, the second feature, and the third feature are positioned on the interlayer dielectric layer adjacent to the side edge, and the third feature has an overlapping relationship with a tapered section of the waveguide core.
US11934007B2
An assembly of an active semiconductor component and of a silicon-based passive optical component includes a carrier; and the active semiconductor component and the passive optical component both arranged on the carrier. The active semiconductor component includes a first set of semiconductor layers comprising at least one first waveguide configured to guide, in a first section of the assembly, at least one first optical mode; a second set of semiconductor layers, the set being superposed and making contact with the first set of layers, and including at least one second waveguide configured to guide at least one second optical mode. At least some of the layers of the first set of layers and of the second set of layers are doped to form, in a first region of the component, a PIN diode. The at least one first waveguide and the at least one second waveguide are configured to allow evanescent coupling therebetween, in a second section of the assembly. The first set of layers is etched to form, in a second region of the active semiconductor component, a first surface flush with the second waveguide. The passive component includes a substrate; a set of silicon-compound layers comprising at least one waveguide configured to guide at least one optical mode. The at least one waveguide lies flush with a first surface of the set of layers, which surface is opposite a second surface of the set of layers making contact with a surface of the substrate. The first surface of the passive optical component makes contact with the first surface of the active semiconductor component in order to allow evanescent coupling between the at least one waveguide of the passive optical component and the at least one second waveguide of the active semiconductor component.
US11934003B2
A planar light source includes: a support member; a light guide member disposed on the support member and having a light source positioning part; and a light source disposed on the support member while being in the light source positioning part of the light guide member. The support member includes: an insulation base having a first face positioned closer to the light source and a second face positioned opposite the first face, a first conductive layer disposed on the first face of the insulation base and electrically connected to the light source, an adhesive layer disposed on and in contact with the first face of the insulation base and the first conductive layer, and a light reflecting sheet disposed on the adhesive layer.
US11934002B2
An optical system including a light-guide optical element (LOE) with first and second sets (204, 206) of mutually-parallel, partially-reflecting surfaces at different orientations. Both sets of partially-reflecting surfaces are located between parallel major external surfaces. A third set of at least partially-reflecting surfaces (202), deployed at the coupling-in region, receive image illumination injected from a projector (2) with an optical aperture having a first in-plane width and direct the image illumination via reflection of at least part of the image illumination at the third set of at least partially-reflective facets towards the first set of partially-reflective facets with an effective optical aperture having a second width larger than the first width.
US11934000B2
The light emitting sheet excellent in light guiding performance according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may include: a base film; and a light guide pattern portion in which a pattern set on a surface of the base film is repeatedly formed, wherein the light guide pattern portion has a hexagonal shape.
US11933999B2
An optical structure film and a light source module are provided. The optical structure film includes multiple optical unit microstructures. Each of the optical unit microstructures has four side surfaces and an inwardly concave beam splitting surface. The beam splitting surface is respectively connected to the side surfaces, and the beam splitting surface has four endpoints when viewed from a front viewing angle. Connection lines of the four endpoints form a rectangle. The beam splitting surface includes at least one beam splitting curved surface. A junction of the at least one beam splitting curved surface and one of the four side surfaces is a first line segment. A projection of a midpoint of an edge of the rectangle on the beam splitting surface overlaps with a relative extreme point of the first line segment.
US11933997B2
A heat-ray-transmission-controllable, light-transmissive base material is provided that includes a light-transmissive insolation-cutting unit configured to control transmission of light in at least a part of wavelength regions among wavelength regions of visible light and near-infrared light; and a transparent conductive oxide layer disposed over the light-transmissive insolation-cutting unit, containing a transparent conductive oxide.
US11933991B2
Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage medium including: a lens and a focal reducer to receive a beam of image; a beam splitter to receive the beam of image from the focal reducer and split the beam of image into multiple directions. The system also includes a plurality of sensors coupled to the beam splitter. Each sensor of the plurality of sensors is configured to sense the beam of image within a particular band of frequencies. Further, the particular band of frequencies of a first sensor of the plurality of sensors does not overlap with the particular band of frequencies of a second sensor of the plurality of sensors. The focal reducer condenses and amplifies the beam of image to increase the sensitivity of each sensor.
US11933964B2
An optical scanning apparatus includes a first polarizing member and a second polarizing member between a light source and a MEMS mirror that is a deflection mirror. The first polarizing member reflects a first polarization component included in a beam light emitted from the light source so as to squarely enter the MEMS mirror and passes a second polarization component having a phase difference of a half-wavelength with respect to the first polarization component. The second polarizing member is provided between the first polarizing member and the MEMS mirror to pass the first polarization component reflected by the first polarizing member therethrough twice before and after being reflected by the MEMS mirror to change the first polarization component into the second polarization component. A rotation axis of the MEMS mirror is parallel to an optical axis of the beam light immediately before being reflected by the first polarizing member.
US11933963B2
The present embodiment relates to a light transmission band change unit comprising: a base including a first axis; a blade arranged on the base and including a body, which has a first hole having a lens and an infrared pass filter arranged therein, a second hole having an infrared cut filter arranged therein, and a third hole into which the first axis is inserted; a magnet arranged between the base and the blade; a core coupled with the base and having a coil arranged thereon; and a blade cover including an upper plate arranged on the blade so as to have a fourth hole formed at a position corresponding to the lens, wherein at least a portion of the lens is arranged within the fourth hole.
US11933949B2
A freeform folded optical system that include two freeform prisms with optical power. At least one of the freeform prisms is configured to fold the optical axis twice. Thus, embodiments of the freeform folded optical system fold the optical axis three or four times. Folding the optical axis three or four times in the freeform prisms allows for long focal lengths required for telephoto lens applications without requiring additional lens elements between the prisms. In addition, the configuration of the freeform folded optical system provides reduced Z-axis height when compared to conventional folded lens systems with similar optical characteristics.
US11933944B2
A microlens is provided with opposite sides thereof each having an aspheric-surface shape. The microlens is configured such that a lens layer having an aspheric-surface shape is provided on each opposite side of the microlens, an optical communication module may be miniaturized and integrated as a working distance (WD) is minimized to 0.160±0.05 mm, and collimating performance is excellent as a value obtained by calculating a paraxial radius (R1) of a first lens layer over a paraxial radius (R2) of a second lens layer is 1.8 to 3.5.
US11933927B2
A seismic sensor assembly can include a housing that defines a longitudinal axis; a sensor; sensor circuitry operatively coupled to the sensor; and overvoltage protection circuitry electrically coupled to the housing.
US11933921B2
The present disclosure provides a method and system for processing an obstacle detection result of an ultrasonic sensor array. The method comprises: obtaining obstacle coordinates collected by ultrasonic sensors in an ultrasonic sensor array; inputting the obstacle coordinates collected by ultrasonic sensors in the ultrasonic sensor array into a pre-trained neural network model, to obtain true or false labels for the obstacle coordinates collected by the ultrasonic sensors output by the pre-trained neural network model; process the obstacle coordinates collected by the ultrasonic sensors in the ultrasonic sensor array according to the true or false labels. The present disclosure improves the accuracy in the obstacle detection of the ultrasonic sensor array, avoids detection error and omission and improves the driving safety.
US11933913B2
A method of emulating echo signals reflected from an elongated target during radar testing includes identifying first and second end points do the target; acquiring a radar signal from a radar sensor that includes multiple receive elements; generating emulated echo signals, responsive to the acquired radar signal, corresponding to target points on the target, including the first and second end points and reference points located on a line connecting the first and second end points, by repeatedly identifying descriptive attributes corresponding to each of the target points during an integration period of the radar sensor, where the descriptive attributes are identified by interpolating between the corresponding descriptive attributes of the first and second end points; and applying the emulated echo signals to the receive elements of the radar sensor, respectively, during the integration period, where radar sensor calculates a relative position of the target using the descriptive attributes.
US11933912B2
A test system for testing a radar sensor comprising a test chamber for encompassing a radar sensor to be tested. A test location is provided within the test chamber on which the radar sensor to be tested is placed for testing. Further, the test system comprises at least one antenna unit and at least one first radar target simulator connected to the antenna unit. The test system also comprises at least one antenna array different to the antenna unit and at least one second radar target simulator connected to the antenna array.
US11933908B2
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for reporting of integrity-related information for positioning are provided.
US11933906B2
A system and method are provided for data fusion between portable electronic devices and wearable accessories that is used to improve location information, particularly with respect to vertical location. A barometer sensor in a wearable accessory is used to obtain relative accurate height information, and an ultra wide band (UWB) radio is used to determine the distance between the wearable accessory and the portable electronic device. At a second timestamp, a barometer in a wearable device is used to calculate a difference in elevation between the first timestamp and the second timestamp. This measurement, along with a measured distance between the devices, can be used to accurately determine elevation. The wireless accessory and the portable electronic device communicate the obtained height and distance information. Accordingly, accurate navigation signals may be provided, even where multiple levels of roadways overlap, such as in parking garages or complex highway interchanges.
US11933884B2
A radar image processing device includes at least one memory configured to store instructions; and at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to: determine a search range based on a reference block and a layover direction, the reference block being set as an area of interest in a radar image generated from data obtained by an imaging radar, the layover direction being a direction in which layover occurs in the radar image and being estimated from an incident direction of an electromagnetic wave used for observation by the imaging radar; extract a similar block that is similar to the reference block and included in the search range by searching the search range; and perform filtering processing for reducing speckles generated in the radar image by using the reference block and the extracted similar block.
US11933881B2
Disclosed are a method and apparatus for processing source data of a synthetic aperture radar in a satellite, including receiving source data generated based on a signal returned after an electronic device steers a beam from a synthetic aperture radar and backscatters, setting a plurality of subswaths after the electronic device parses the source data, storing based on the plurality of subswaths after the electronic device decodes the source data; and generating image data after the electronic device calls the decoded source data in the order of the plurality of subswaths.
US11933880B2
An implement for use with an excavator includes a lightweight housing, a first coupling feature, a ground penetrating radar antenna, a controller, a wireless communication circuit and a rotation unit. The lightweight housing has an upper surface, a lower surface and a cavity. The first coupling feature is located on the upper surface and cooperates with a second coupling feature on an excavator arm. The ground penetrating radar antenna is mounted near the lower surface. The controller is mounted within the cavity and provides outgoing signals to the radar antenna, receives incoming signals from the radar antenna and interprets the incoming signals so as to provide implement output information. The wireless communication circuit is mounted within the cavity and transmits the implement output information. The rotation unit is mounted within the cavity and rotates the housing vis-à-vis the excavator arm.
US11933876B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a radar device may transmit a combined frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) radar signal, wherein the combined FMCW radar signal comprises: a first FMCW radar chirp generated based at least in part on a first set of transmission parameter values; and a second FMCW radar chirp generated based at least in part on a second set of transmission parameter values, wherein a transmission parameter value of the second set of transmission parameter values is different than a corresponding transmission parameter value of the first set of transmission parameter values. The radar device may detect a radar target based at least in part on a received signal corresponding to the combined FMCW radar signal and perform an action based at least in part on detecting the radar target. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11933872B2
A phantom for calibration and quality assurance of an MR tomograph that comprises a phantom body with measuring aids and an intermediate bottom in at least four planes. The first plane contains only measuring fluid. The second plane contains wedge-shaped elements. The third plane contains marks of known distance. The fourth plane contains comb-shaped elements. The measuring aids of the second plane are arranged on one side of the intermediate bottom and those of the fourth plane on the other side. The marks of the third plane are arranged in the intermediate bottom. This arrangement enables reliable calibration of the MR tomograph in a few steps with only this phantom.
US11933869B2
A method for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) comprises applying a consecutive series of MRI sequences to a target volume (V) according to experimental settings (TR, α, β). A discrete sequence of transient response signals (Sn, Sn+1, Sn+2) is measured and fitted to a fit function (F) that is continuously dependent on a sequence number (n) of the respective MRI sequence (Pn) and corresponding response signal (Sn). A shape of the fit function is determined according to an analytically modelled evolution by the experimental parameters (TR, α, β) as well as variable intrinsic parameters (r, λ3, φ, δ) to be fitted. For example, the model is based on an equivalent harmonic oscillator. The intrinsic parameters of the fit function can be related to the intrinsic properties (PD, T1, T2) of the spin systems and used for imaging the target volume (V). Various optimizations of contrast can be achieved by tuning the experimental settings according to the model.
US11933861B2
A method and apparatus for performing an on-system built-in self-test of a converter are provided. In the method, a controller generates a test signal and outputs the test signal to the converter. The controller receives a response signal from the converter and determines a plurality of bin powers of a plurality of bins, respectively, of a frequency domain signal representative of the response signal. The controller determines a figure of merit for the converter based on a first bin power of a first bin of the plurality of bin powers, where the first bin corresponds to a frequency of the test signal.
US11933859B2
In some examples, apparatus comprises a multiplexer (MUX) adapted to be coupled to a set of battery cells and configured to provide a voltage of a different battery cell in the set of battery cells based on a MUX control signal. Apparatus comprises a comparator coupled to the MUX and configured to compare a MUX output signal to a threshold voltage to provide a comparator output signal. Apparatus comprises a digital control circuit configured to provide the MUX control signal to the MUX, to store the comparator output signal, and to use a logic AND gate to provide an AND gate output signal based on the stored comparator output signal.
US11933858B2
Provided is a method for simultaneous detection of parameters of membrane electrode assemblies of a fuel cell stack, which includes: supplying hydrogen to an anode of the fuel cell stack and inert gas to a cathode of the fuel cell stack, controlling operating conditions of the fuel cell stack at respective preset values; applying different voltage excitations or micro-current excitations to the fuel cell stack, collecting a current signal of an entire stack and a voltage signal of each fuel cell; and analyzing a hydrogen crossover current, a catalyst electrochemical surface area, a double-layer capacitance, and a short-circuit resistance of a membrane electrode assembly of each fuel cell based on an excitation-response formula of a fuel cell. The present disclosure does not limit a form of a current or voltage excitation, thereby improving accuracy of a parameter test of a membrane electrode assembly while reducing the test cost.
US11933854B2
A battery management circuit includes: a reference signal generator that generates a first reference frequency signal and a second reference frequency signal having a phase different from a phase of the first reference frequency signal; an alternating-current superimposer that superimposes an alternating current on the secondary battery, the alternating current having a frequency component of the first reference frequency signal; a voltage measurer that measures a voltage of the secondary battery by performing sampling using a frequency; a current measurer that measures a current of the secondary battery by performing sampling using a frequency; and a converter that converts each of results of measurements by the voltage measurer and the current measurer into a complex voltage and a complex current, by multiplying the result of the measurement by the first reference frequency signal and the second reference frequency signal.
US11933851B2
According to various embodiments of the present invention, an electronic device may comprise a battery, a power management module, and a processor. The processor may be configured to: acquire power for battery charging from a source outside the electronic device through the power management module, charge the battery at a designated current value by using the power, check charging state information based on charging time and battery capacity according to charging in a designated charging state measurement interval after the charging is started, and when the charging state information satisfies a given condition, perform a designated operation associated with the battery. Various other embodiments are also possible.
US11933849B2
The present disclosure provides an inductance detection method includes steps of: (a) acquiring a stator resistance of the reluctance motor; (b) injecting a high-frequency sinusoidal signal in the d-axis or q-axis direction; (c) injecting an align signal command in the q-axis or d-axis direction; (d) receiving a dq-axes signal generated through injecting the high-frequency sinusoidal signal and the align signal command; (e) sampling a motor feedback signal generated through receiving the dq-axes signal; (f) in the direction of injecting the high-frequency sinusoidal signal, calculating an amplitude difference between the high-frequency sinusoidal signal and the motor feedback signal, and adjusting an amplitude of the high-frequency sinusoidal signal according to the amplitude difference for regulating a feedback amplitude of the motor feedback signal; and (g) when the feedback amplitude reaching an expected amplitude, calculating an apparent inductance of the reluctance motor based on the dq-axes signal, the motor feedback signal and the stator resistance.
US11933844B2
A test override circuit includes a memory that includes multiple memory instances. A path selector receives a control signal from automatic test pattern generator equipment (ATE) to control data access to data paths that are operatively coupled between the memory instances and a plurality of logic endpoints. The path selector generates an output signal that indicates which of the data paths is selected in response to the control signal. A gating circuit enables the selected data paths to be accessed by at least one of the plurality of logic endpoints in response to the output signal from the path selector.
US11933838B2
The present disclosure relates to a system, an apparatus, and a method for managing health condition of at least one rotating system. The method includes receiving, by a processing unit, operational data associated with the rotating system in real-time, from one or more sensing units. The operational data includes parameter values corresponding to an operation of the rotating system. Further, a virtual replica of the rotating system is configured using the operational data. A behavior of the rotating system is simulated on a simulation instance of the rotating system based on the configured virtual replica. The simulation results are analyzed to determine an abnormality in the health condition of the rotating system. The abnormality corresponds to a health status of an internal component of the rotating system. Further, a notification indicating the abnormality is generated, on a Graphical User Interface.
US11933833B2
Fault detection system (800) for a medium voltage circuit comprising assemblies of an electric power distribution cable (205), a first transformation center (210) comprising a first transformer and a first grounding conductor (603), a first grounding system comprising a first grounding resistor (RPAT1) connected to the first transformer through the first grounding conductor (603), the first transformation center (210) connected to a first end of the cable (205) and a second transformation center (220) comprising a second transformer and a second grounding conductor (603), a second grounding system comprising a second grounding resistor (RPAT2) connected to the second transformer through the second grounding conductor (603), the second transformation center (220) connected to a second end of the cable (205).
US11933829B2
A test system for testing a device under test is provided including at least one feed antenna, a shielded chamber, and at least a first reflector and a second reflector. The test system is a compact antenna test range. The first reflector and the second reflector are arranged inside the shielded chamber. The first reflector is configured and arranged such that it redirects outgoing test signals emitted by the at least one feed antenna towards the second reflector and incoming test signals coming from the second reflector towards the at least one feed antenna. The device under test is arranged outside the shielded chamber. The shielded chamber includes at least a first interface associated with the device under test. The first interface and the feed antenna are located at different sides of the shielded chamber, which are perpendicular to each other.
US11933827B2
Implementations relate to capacitive sensing of hand presence at a control input device. In some implementations, a control input device includes a support structure, a handle moveable in one or more degrees of freedom with reference to the support structure, and a capacitive sensor circuit electrically coupled to the handle. The handle is isolated from electrical ground and is an antenna for the capacitive sensor circuit.
US11933815B2
A test fixture includes a signal test board, a circuit routing, and a branch routing. The signal test board includes a first surface and a second surface. The first surface has a first pin and a test point. The second surface has a second pin. The circuit routing is located in the signal test board and configured to connect the first pin and a corresponding second pin. A portion of the circuit routing includes an upper routing connected with one first pin, a lower routing connected with one second pin, and a via-hole routing connected with two ends of the upper routing and the lower routing. One end, connected with the via-hole routing, of the upper routing is located in a projection area of the corresponding test point. The branch routing is located in the signal test board and configured to connect the test point with a corresponding upper routing.
US11933814B2
According to one implementation of the present disclosure, a method for determining airspeed for an unpowered vehicle is disclosed. The method includes: determining first and second body-fixed load factor measurements; determining a body Z-force coefficient based on an angle-of-attack parameter; and determining an airspeed value based on the second body-fixed load factor measurement and the body Z-force coefficient.
US11933805B2
Various embodiments include a system having a pipetting chamber, a set of pipettor cartridges docked in the pipetting chamber, a gantry system mounted on a ceiling within the pipetting chamber, the gantry system including at least one stationary track aligned in a first direction, and a movable track aligned in a second direction distinct from the first direction, the movable track coupled to the at least one stationary track, and a carrier configured to transport each of the set of pipettor cartridges to a pipetting location within the pipetting chamber, the carrier configured to move each pipettor cartridge in a third direction perpendicular to both the first and second directions.
US11933804B2
In a case where a dispensing tip is imaged from below, liquid attached to the tip falls downward and contaminates an imaging mechanism. An automatic analyzer includes: a buffer that has a hole for holding a tip for dispensing, the hole passing through the tip; a probe for dispensing having a tip to which the tip is attached; an imaging unit that images the tip; and a controller that controls the tip such that the tip is mounted on the probe by pressing the probe against the tip that passes through the hole to be held by the buffer, in which the imaging unit is disposed to image the tip from an upper side to a lower side in a gravity direction.
US11933786B2
Antibodies that selectively bind to glycosylated PD-1 relative to unglycosylated PD-1 are provided. In some aspects, PD-1 polypeptides comprising glycosylated amino acid positions are also provided. Methods for making and using such antibodies and polypeptides (e.g., for the treatment of cancer) are also provided.
US11933783B2
Provided herein are methods, kits, systems, and compositions or liquid biopsy yield enhancement.
US11933780B2
A method for assessing an effect, such as a treatment, disease, or passage of time on a cellular unit of an organism includes providing a sample including a cellular unit subject to the effect in a supporting medium in a hermetically sealed container. The container is deoxygenated to induce at least one of a predetermined amount of hypoxia and a predetermined rate of oxygen consumption in the medium. Values for variables associated with the medium and/or the cellular unit are determined at each of a plurality of different times. Various combinations of the predetermined amount of hypoxia, the predetermined rate of oxygen consumption, the values for the variables associated with the medium and/or cellular unit, and the times and then correlated to generate a multi-dimensional surface. This surface is compared with another surface correlating corresponding values relating to another cellular unit such as one not subject to the effect.
US11933770B2
A Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectrometry system comprises: a chromatograph; a mass spectrometer configured to ionize separated fractions of a sample received from the chromatograph; and a programmable processor operable to repeatedly execute the steps of: (i) causing the mass spectrometer to perform a data-independent analysis of the precursor ion species using a mass analyzer of the mass spectrometer; (ii) calculating one or more degree-of-matching scores that relate to detection of an internal standard; and (iii) if each of the degree-of-matching scores meets a respective degree-of-matching condition, performing a quantitative tandem mass spectrometric analyses of both the internal standard and the analyte; the programmable processor further operable to calculate a quantity of the analyte in the sample by comparison between intensities of one or more mass spectral signals generated by the quantitative tandem mass spectrometric analyses of the analyte and the internal standard.
US11933760B2
A cartridge for use in an electrowetting sample processing system, the cartridge having at least one inlet port for introducing an input liquid in an internal gap of the cartridge, wherein the gap has at least one hydrophobic surface and is configured to provide an electrowetting induced movement of a microfluidic droplet of input liquid, wherein the input liquid has a carrier liquid and a processing liquid and the gap has a capture zone that is configured to capture at least a part of the processing liquid as a microfluidic droplet by use of electrowetting force and the gap further has a transfer zone that is configured to provide a passage for the carrier liquid next to the microfluidic droplet, while processing liquid is captured in the capture zone.
US11933759B2
An apparatus includes a body portion that defines a reservoir and a set of substantially flexible capillaries. The set of substantially flexible capillaries are fixedly coupled to the body portion and in fluid communication with the reservoir. A connector is configured to be coupled to the body portion to be in fluid communication with the reservoir and the set of substantially flexible capillaries. The connector is further configured to be coupled to a vacuum source. The apparatus is arranged such that at least a part of the body portion is electrically conductive. Methods for separating and detecting an analyte from a biological sample with the apparatus are also provided. For example, methods for separating and detecting one or more proteins from a cellular lysate or a purified protein are also provided.
US11933732B2
The present invention provides a sensor having, one or more optical slab waveguides having one or more target regions. The target regions may interact with gas molecules or trap, entrain or capture one or more targets of interest. The optical slab waveguides are adapted to receive one or more input optical beams from one or more light sources to create a plurality of propagating optical waves in optical slab waveguide. The propagating optical waves interact with said one or more target regions to create an optical output wavefront that may be in the form of a diffraction pattern. The target regions may be functionalized with an antibody, polymer, cell, tissue, or biological material.
US11933728B2
Techniques are described for reducing the number of angles needed in structured illumination imaging of biological samples through the use of patterned flowcells, where nanowells of the patterned flowcells are arranged in, e.g., a square array, or an asymmetrical array. Accordingly, the number of images needed to resolve details of the biological samples is reduced. Techniques are also described for combining structured illumination imaging with line scanning using the patterned flowcells.
US11933717B2
A metrology system may include a metrology tool to selectively perform metrology measurements in a static mode in which one or more metrology targets on a sample are stationary during a measurement or a scanning mode in which one or more metrology targets are in motion during a measurement, and a controller communicatively coupled to the translation stage and at least one of the one or more detectors. The controller may receive locations of metrology targets on the sample to be inspected, designate the metrology targets for inspection with the static mode or the scanning mode, direct the metrology tool to perform metrology measurements on the metrology targets in the static mode or the scanning mode based on the designation, and generate metrology data for the sample based on the metrology measurements on the metrology targets.
US11933714B2
A calculation apparatus includes a first acquisition unit that acquires a first approximation expression based on a change in a temperature of a temperature controlled member with respect to a change in an outside temperature measured for a plurality of temperatures of a temperature controlling member, a second acquisition unit that obtains a second approximation expression based on the first approximation expression, a temperature input unit that receives input of a first set temperature of the temperature controlled member and a second set temperature of the temperature controlling member, a generation unit that substitutes the second set temperature into the second approximation expression to generate a third approximation expression representing relationship between the outside temperature and the temperature of the temperature controlled member, and a calculation/output unit that substitutes the first set temperature into the third approximation expression to calculate an outside temperature to be set.
US11933712B2
A method and apparatuses to extend the time interval between out-of-service, in-tank inspections while insuring structural integrity using a risk-based, Bayesian statistical approach comprised of a passing leak detection test, determining that the tank is not leaking, estimating a thickness of the tank floor to estimate a corrosion rate, and conducting a risk assessment using the result of the leak detection test, the corrosion rate and thickness of the tank floor, and statistical data of tank failures.
US11933703B1
A method of providing objective, forensic evidence as to whether an alleged contact occurred in order to forensically establish an alleged fondling or unwanted sexual touching includes receiving a sample that is an article of clothing or skin that is alleged to have been contacted by an accused perpetrator, identifying at least one location on the sample from which to test, developing biological trace evidence on the sample at the at least one identified location, and extracting the biological trace evidence to obtain a unique identifier of the biological trace evidence at the at least one identified location. The biological trace evidence may be a handprint, fingerprint, or biochemical residue obtained from the sample in a location on the sample that corresponds to a know position on the accuser's body.
US11933701B2
Devices and methods for analyzing a sample are disclosed. In various embodiments, the present disclosure provides devices and methods for preparing a serial dilution of a sample. In various embodiments, the present disclosure provides devices and methods for preparing a serial dilution of a sample and conducting sample analysis. In various embodiments, the present disclosure provides a cartridge device and a reader instrument device. The reader instrument device receives, operates, and/or actuates the cartridge device to prepare a serial dilution of a sample and conduct sample analysis.
US11933698B2
A system includes an analysis system at a first location and one or more remote sampling systems at a second location remote from the first location. A sampling system can be configured to receive a remote liquid sample. The system also includes a sample transfer line configured to transport gas from the second location to the first location. The sample transfer line is configured to selectively couple with a remote sampling for supplying a continuous liquid sample segment to the sample transfer line. The system can further include a sample receiving line at the first location. The sample receiving line is configured to selectively couple with the sample transfer line and the analysis system to receive the continuous liquid sample segment and supply the sample to an analysis device.
US11933688B2
Provided is a portable apparatus for measuring a manipulation force. The apparatus includes a manipulation force measurement unit configured to measure a manipulation force applied on a manipulated part in a first direction of pushing forward or pulling backward and measure a manipulation force in a second direction of moving toward left or right, and a controller configured to process the measured manipulation force to generate manipulation force information over time.
US11933676B2
The present invention relates to a microscope for quantitative measurements of the wavefront, comprising: means for the illumination of a sample (T); an objective lens (2); an ordered two-dimensional arrangement of lenses (3), with a spacing pμ greater than 500 μm and a relative aperture of less than 10; an image sensor (4) located in a capture space (Ec) to receive the light scattered by the sample (T), and to acquire spatial and angular information on the object wavefront associated therewith; and a computational entity to perform a computational reconstruction of the object wavefront from the spatial and angular information. Other aspects of the invention relate to a method, a computer program and a product incorporating the same, adapted for the performance of the functions of the computational entity of the microscope, as well as to a module and a kit for a microscope.
US11933672B2
A method for fabrication of a gold nanoporous anodic aluminum oxide (NAAO) substrate used in coordination with a handheld Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS) device for detecting phenylalanine (Phe) in a sample collected from a subject, the method comprising forming a three-phase system on top of a multilayered nanoporous aluminum layer of the gold NAAO substrate; injecting a cosolvent solution into the three-phase system, wherein the cosolvent solution comprises gold nanoparticles; forming a gold layer on top of the multilayered nanoporous aluminum layer, and drying the gold NAAO substrate.
US11933666B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, for a stray-light testing station. In one aspect, the stray-light testing station includes an illumination assembly including a spatially extended light source and one or more optical elements arranged to direct a beam of light from the spatially extended light source along an optical path to an optical receiver assembly including a lens receptacle configured to receive a lens module and position the lens module in the optical path downstream from the parabolic mirror so that the lens module focuses the beam of light from the spatially extended light source to an image plane, and a moveable frame supporting the optical receiver assembly including one or more adjustable alignment stages to position the optical receiver assembly relative to the illumination assembly such that the optical path of the illumination assembly is within a field of view of the optical receiver assembly.
US11933663B2
An internal calibration mechanism of a weigh module has a driving structure, a calibration weight and a weight support frame. The weight support frame has an opening or a groove for loading the calibration weight. The weight support frame is connected to a load receiving portion at both sides thereof and is connected to a portion of a fixing portion that extends towards the load-receiving portion. In one case, the weight support frame, the load-receiving portion and the fixing portion are integrally formed. In another case, a force transmission connecting portion and a fulcrum connecting portion of the weight support frame are fixedly connected, respectively, to the load-receiving portion and to the extending portion of the fixing portion. In another case, flexure hinges connect the weight support frame to the load-receiving portion at both sides thereof and connect the weight support frame to the extending portion.
US11933662B2
A load cell scale, has a columnar shaped load cell part having a upper surface and a lateral surface intersecting with the upper surface, the load cell part having a first load cell with a first weighting and a second load cell with a second weighting, and a stopper part for restricting deformation occurring in the load cell, wherein the load cell part further has a strain portion capable of elastically deforming, and wherein the stopper part is a plate-shaped member formed to extend along the longitudinal direction, the stopper portion has a fixing-end portion fixed to the lateral surface of the load cell; and a free-end portion separating from the fixing-end portion along the longitudinal axis, the free-end portion being configured to restrict the elastic deformation of the load cell part due to the load in a state when the fixing-end portion is fixed to the lateral surface.
US11933654B2
The present disclosure is related to a level and/or density sensor for vessels suitable for storing liquids, in particular barrels or vats, more in particular barrels or vats for storing or producing wine. The hydrostatic pressure differential sensor for measuring volume and/or density disclosed herein comprises a main body; a tube for diving into the liquid; a hydrostatic pressure differential sensor; an air injector for injecting air into said tube; wherein the tube is coupled to the main body; wherein the hydrostatic pressure differential sensor has two inlets, a first inlet airtight connected to the upper top of said tube, configured so that the tube maintains air present in the interior thereof when dived into the liquid, and a second inlet for communicating with the interior of the vessel.
US11933649B2
The disclosed portable self-powered flow measuring device has a non-metallic housing through which a fluid flows. An annular turbine spins within the housing, and has a set of inwardly-extending vanes set to reduce the pressure of the flowing fluid by more than 10%. A set of magnets that are spaced circumferentially about the turbine. Coils are mounted to the housing with axes that are radial to the axis of the central waterway. A set of circumferentially spaced reinforcing arms, one for each coil, are positioned outside the coils, the circumferential width of each reinforcing arm near the axial position of the turbine being no more than the radius of the coil.
US11933644B2
A touch detecting apparatus includes an electrostatic sensor provided on an object; and a processor configured to detect whether a hand touches the object based on a capacitance measured by the electrostatic sensor. The processor is configured to, in response to the capacitance being greater than or equal to a first touch threshold, detect that the hand touches the object, and, for a second predetermined time from when a change amount of the capacitance during a first predetermined time becomes greater than or equal to a noise threshold, continue a state where a correction value has been added to the first touch threshold.
US11933634B2
A compressor variable angle measurement system for guiding the positioning variable vanes supported on a penny of a compressor of a gas turbine engine. The system comprising a gauge assembly that is connectable to a computing device. the gauge assembly comprises a base plate and a clamp arm. The gauge assembly is configured to removably grip a variable vane between three vane contact portions of the baseplate and the vane contact portion of the clamp arm and on the leading edge vane engaging portion and the trailing edge vane engaging portion of the base plate, the stagger angle of the variable vane with respect to the radial setting pin being determined by the computing device from measurements made by an inertial measurement unit.
US11933630B2
A control arrangement for a vehicle, specifically adapted for use and creation of map data for improved operation of the vehicle. A corresponding method and computer program product is also provided.
US11933628B2
A device, system and method notifying a selected recipient that a driver of a vehicle has exceeded a posted speed limit. The process includes determining, by the computing device located within the vehicle, that the driver of the vehicle committed a violation based on the information about the vehicle and the posted speed limit associated with a roadway on which the vehicle is traveling. Sending, from the computing device located in the vehicle to a remote computing device, an indication of the violation, wherein the indication about the violation includes the information about the vehicle, wherein the remote computing device is configured to instantly notify the selected recipient that the driver of the vehicle has committed the violation, wherein the selected recipient is notified by sending a notification to recipient.
US11933622B2
A system and method provides a route and turn-by-turn directions based on estimates of current and future traffic along the route. A client device may request turn-by-turn directions between an initial and a final location. A server may identify a plurality of routes between the locations. Each route of the plurality of routes may be divided into route segments. For each route segment of a particular route, the server may estimate a travel time. The travel time may be based on estimated vehicle volume data generated from information received from other users vehicle Based on the estimated travel time for each route segment of a particular route, the server may estimate a total travel time for the particular route. The server may repeat this estimate for each of the plurality of routes between the locations and select the route with the lowest estimated travel time. Based on the selected route, the server may generate turn-by-turn directions and transmit the directions to the client device for display.
US11933621B2
Methods for providing a location of an object or objects of interest that may be performed by a processor of a computing device may include generating a map of an environment around the computing device by a first simultaneous location and mapping (SLAM) operation using information received from the optical sensor, identifying an object of interest in the environment of the computing device by an object recognition operation using information received from the optical sensor, determining a location of the object or objects of interest in the environment, and presenting the determined location of the object or objects of interest in the environment in response to a trigger event correlated to the object or objects of interest.
US11933614B2
The present disclosure relates to a positioning method, a positioning server, and a positioning system. The positioning method includes: receiving a wireless positioning coordinate of a moving object; determining a visual sub-map to be matched in a visual map database based on the wireless positioning coordinate; and obtaining a visual positioning coordinates corresponding to a current image of the moving object captured at time of wireless positioning as a positioning result, based on the determined visual sub-map to be matched.
US11933604B2
The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a detection method, apparatus for automatic driving sensor, and electronic device. The method includes: pre-establishing a standard association relationship, the sensor to-be-detected is used for capturing in a fixed scene, and a corresponding capturing result is displayed.
US11933603B2
Measurement apparatus, information processing apparatus, and non-transitory computer readable medium
A measurement apparatus includes a light irradiator, a light receiver, and a processor. The light irradiator is able to apply light from multiple directions to a specific portion of a subject to be measured. The light receiver receives light reflected by the specific portion. The processor is configured to: cause the light irradiator to apply light to the specific portion sequentially from the multiple directions; and acquire information concerning a tilt of a surface of the specific portion, based on information on light received by the light receiver when light is applied to the specific portion from a first direction and information on light received by the light receiver when light is applied to the specific portion from a second direction. The multiple directions include the first and second directions.
US11933598B2
A deviation detection method includes obtaining first and second images of first and second electrode sheets, respectively, of an electrode assembly during winding using first and second cameras. The method further includes determining whether the first and/or second camera is deviated according to a distance from a reference point in the first and/or second image to a specific position, which is a position of a same object appearing in the first image and the second image. The method also includes determining whether the electrode assembly is deviated according to a vertical distance from the reference point in the first image to a boundary of the first electrode sheet and a vertical distance from the reference point in the second image to a boundary of the second electrode sheet if the first camera and the second camera are not deviated.
US11933588B2
A projectile having a projectile body for holding a penetrator, a projectile rear, and a projectile ogive. The projectile body has a narrowed point, on which the penetrator can be supported. The narrowed point results in reliable breaking open of the projectile body when the projectile hits a target.
US11933585B2
The method and apparatus for a remote weapon station or incorporated into manually-aimed weapons. The methodology requires use of a muzzle velocity sensor that refines the aiming of the second and subsequent fires or volleys fired from weapon systems. When firing the first volley a weapon uses an estimated velocity and, at firing, the muzzle velocity of a projectile is measured. When firing the second volley a weapon's fire control calculates an aiming point using the measured velocity of the first volley.
US11933584B2
A kinematic mount assembly is provided. The kinematic mount assembly includes a fixed mount and a pivot mount. The fixed mount and pivot mount together have a plurality of an protrusions and recesses to guide the mounts into a repeatable position when rotating from an opened to a closed position. The protrusions may be semispherical balls and the recesses may be gothic-arch shaped. The pivot mount and fixed mount may be coupled by a pivot pin and rotate about the pivot pin. The pivot mount may contain holes configured to mount an accessory. A latch assembly may hold the fixed mount and pivot mount closed until the latch is actuated, usually by a switch, to allow the system to open.
US11933579B1
Weapon with an integrated winch (integrated winch) includes a reel, a tightening bolt and a line. One end of the line is attached to the reel and the other end of the line is preferably terminated with a line loop. A line O-ring is retained by the line loop. The tightening bolt may be inserted through a riser hole, threaded into a riser or threaded into stabilizer or the like. The tightening bolt is inserted through an axle hole in the reel. Tightening a head of the tightening bolt head prevents the reel from rotating. The line is prevented from unraveling by securing the line O-ring to the reel. A second embodiment of the integrated winch preferably includes the reel, a bracket, a reel axle, a riser bolt and two thumb nuts. The reel is rotatably retained by the bracket and the bracket is retained in a riser.
US11933573B1
A firearm shot tracking system including a camera assembly attached with a firearm assembly and a remote device assembly. The camera assembly includes a camera which may allow to record and track ballistic information by Bluetooth access. The firearm assembly includes a firearm which may be the housing for the camera which is placed on a bellow portion thereof to allow using the firearm and camera at once improving shooting abilities. The remote device assembly includes a remote device which can be monitored and display the information recorded by the camera. The camera is attached to the firearm to allow an easily use thereof while shooting and recording.
US11933571B2
Provided herein are buffer systems, bolt assemblies, firearms, and related methods, devices, and assemblies. A bolt carrier assembly for a firearm of an example includes: a bolt carrier body defining a cavity extending along a longitudinal axis of the bolt carrier; at least one weight disposed within the cavity; a forward stop at a forward end of the cavity; and an aft stop at an aft end of the cavity. In some embodiments, the bolt carrier assembly may include a spring, where the spring biases the at least one weight along the longitudinal axis toward at least one of the forward stop or the aft stop, where the at least one weight is configured to be driven against the spring bias in response to a firing action of the firearm.
US11933569B1
An adjustable support stand can include a front support on a first end of the adjustable support stand having a grip comprised of a first, front support material; and a rear support on an opposing, second end of the adjustable support stand having a grip comprised of a first, rear support material, wherein the front and the rear supports can each have at least two vertical arms, at least one of the supports can have vertically stacked chevron voids on each arm, and the chevron voids can be deformable by the object being worked upon to secure and grip the object in place.
US11933566B2
A firearm suppressor including an array of ported baffles and chambers in the suppressor assembly that may mitigate deleterious effects of gas pressure imbalances common in firearm suppressors. The suppressor may impart desirable noise suppression, gas balancing, and barrel heating characteristics to a firearm.
US11933564B2
A firearm barrel having an inner layer and a shroud. The inner layer surrounds a concentric bore and has an outer diameter. The inner layer is made up of an unperforated core that directly surrounds the concentric bore and a perforated core that surrounds the unperforated core. The shroud surrounds the perforated core, which is made up of a plurality of equilateral triangular cutouts and a plurality of circular cutouts in a grid pattern that is configured to form structural ribs between the unperforated core and the outer diameter of the inner layer. The inner layer is preferably made of steel, and the shroud is a cylindrical titanium tube.
US11933532B2
A refrigeration appliance includes a fresh food compartment and a freezer compartment. An ice maker is disposed within the fresh food compartment for freezing water into ice pieces. The ice maker includes a removable ice bin for storing the ice pieces produced by the ice maker. A rotatable auger is positioned within the removable ice bin and configured to drive the ice pieces out of the removable ice bin via a driving force applied in a first direction. A motor is configured to rotate the auger. A drive bar is coupled to the motor and is configured to apply a resisting force to the removable ice bin along a second direction generally opposed to the first direction sufficient to counteract the driving force, wherein the resisting force is less than a removal force applied by a user to remove the removable ice bin from the ice maker.
US11933531B2
Techniques are disclosed for systems and methods to reduce mechanical vibrations within a cryocooler/refrigeration system configured to provide cryogenic and/or general cooling of a device or sensor system. A cryocooler includes a motor driver controller configured to receive operational parameters and generate motor driver control signals and/or balancer system control signals based, at least in part, on the received operational parameters, and a motor driver configured to receive the control signals and generate drive signals to drive a motor and/or a balancer system of the cryocooler. The cryocooler includes a motorized and/or actively balanced expander configured to drive and/or balance motion of a displacer of the expander. The expander includes a magnet ring fixed to the displacer and a motor coil disposed within a cylinder head of the motorized and/or actively balanced expander.
