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US11024920B2	Battery module A Battery module includes a plurality of cylindrical batteries and battery a holder holding the cylindrical batteries arranged in at least one row. The battery holder includes a first side wall part, a second side wall part, and a low thermal-conductive member disposed between the side wall parts. The low thermal-conductive member includes a first partition walls interposed between respective the cylindrical batteries and the first side wall part, and the second partition walls interposed between the respective cylindrical batteries and the second side wall part. The first and the second partition walls are alternately arrayed along the row.
US11024913B2	Battery module with tension member resisting deflection A battery module according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, an array of battery cells, a compression structure including a first wall and a second wall, at least one conduit configured to convey fluid adjacent the array, and a tension member connected to the first wall and the second wall. The tension member is adjacent the at least one conduit. This disclosure also relates to an electrified vehicle and a method.
US11024907B1	Button cell having winding electrode and method for the production thereof A button cell includes a housing having a metal cell cup and a metal cell top. The button cell is a secondary lithium ion cell. An electrode winding disposed within the housing is formed from a multi-layer assembly that is wound in a spiral shape about an axis. The multi-layer assembly including a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a separator disposed between the electrodes. A first conductor is provided that includes a strip-shaped portion that lies flat between a first end side of the electrode winding and a first of the cell cup and cell top. A second conductor is provided that includes a strip-shaped second portion that lies flat between a second end side of the electrode winding and a second of the cell cup and cell top. The first conductor and the second conductor are metal foils.
US11024902B2	Battery cell having recessed portion formed in connection region between receiving units Disclosed herein is a battery cell including a battery case having an initial position and an assembled position, and an electrode assembly. The electrode assembly may include a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a separator interposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode. The electrode assembly may be mounted in the battery case in the assembled position. The battery case may include a first receiving unit and a second receiving unit formed in the battery case and spaced apart from each other when the battery case is in the initial position, the first and second receiving units receiving a respective portion of the electrode assembly when the battery case is in the assembled position, and a bridge region having a recessed portion that is recessed in a direction identical to the depth direction of each of the receiving units when the battery case is in the initial position.
US11024895B2	Charging apparatus for lithium-ion secondary battery and method for charging and discharging lithium-ion secondary battery A charging apparatus for a lithium-ion secondary battery in which a cathode, an anode, and an electrolyte are housed in a battery case, includes an electrode shape changing unit that physically changes the shape of at least one electrode of the cathode and the anode at the time of charging or discharging the lithium-ion secondary battery so as to expand at least a part of a void which is formed in the electrode and which is to be penetrated by the electrolyte, and restores the physically changed shape of the electrode after charging or discharging the lithium-ion secondary battery.
US11024894B2	Cooling architecture for a vehicle A method of recharging an energy storage system for a vehicle, the energy storage system operable in a charging mode and a discharging mode includes balancing a discharging mode waste power and a discharging mode removal power to independently maintain the energy storage system near a discharging design temperature during the discharging mode; receiving an off-board cooling flow into an on-board cooling architecture of the energy storage system during charging mode, wherein the on-board cooling architecture comprises a network of on-board passages proximate to at least portions of the energy storage system; and distributing the off-board cooling flow to maintain the energy storage system near a peak charging design temperature through a balance of a charging mode waste power and a charging mode removal power.
US11024885B2	Electronic apparatus and control method thereof An electronic apparatus includes a secondary battery; a touch panel; a deformation amount detector configured to detect a deformation amount of the secondary battery; a touch determination unit configured to determine whether the touch panel is in a touch state; and a state determination unit configured to determine a state of the secondary battery using the deformation amount detected by the deformation amount detector when the touch panel is in the non-touch state based on a determination result of the touch determination unit.
US11024881B2	Electrolyte additive and lithium secondary battery comprising same The present invention provides an electrolyte additive comprising a salt of an anion, derived from a nitrogen-atom-containing compound, with Cs+ or Rb+. Further, the present invention provides an electrolyte additive further comprising lithium difluoro bis(oxalato) phosphate. The present invention provides a non-aqueous electrolyte comprising a lithium salt, a non-aqueous organic solvent, and the electrolyte additive, and may provide a lithium secondary battery comprising: a cathode employing a cathode active material; an anode employing an anode active material; a separator interposed between the cathode and the anode; and the non-aqueous electrolyte.
US11024867B2	Battery including adhesion layer adhering positive electrode collector of first power generating element to negative electrode collector of second power generating element, battery manufacturing method, and battery manufacturing apparatus A battery is provided which includes a first power generating element, a second power generating element, and a first adhesion layer adhering the first power generating element to the second power generating element. A first positive electrode collector of the first power generating element and a second negative electrode collector of the second power generating element face each other with (i.e., via) the first adhesion layer. Between the first positive electrode collector and the second negative electrode collector, the first adhesion layer is disposed in a region forming a first positive electrode active material layer or a region forming a second negative electrode active material layer, whichever is smaller. The first positive electrode collector and the second negative electrode collector are not in contact with each other in a region in which the first positive electrode active material layer and the second negative electrode active material layer face each other.
US11024866B2	Elastomeric cell frame for fuel cell, method of manufacturing same, and unit cell having same An elastomeric cell frame forming a unit cell of a fuel cell stack may include an insert in which a membrane electrode assembly and a pair of gas diffusion layers are bonded to each other; and an elastomeric frame disposed to surround a periphery of side surfaces of the insert, in which the side surfaces of the insert are positioned between the upper and lower surfaces of the insert, one of upper and lower surfaces of the insert and side surfaces of the insert and bonded with the periphery of the surface of the insert and the side surfaces of the insert into an integrated structure by thermal bonding.
US11024859B2	High temperature humidification membranes Membranes and methods of making and using the membranes are described herein. The membranes can include a foamed polymeric support and a plurality of inorganic particles disposed within the foamed polymeric support. The foamed polymeric support can contain a hydrophilic polymer such as polyethersulfone. The plurality of inorganic particles can include hydrophilic particles such as zeolite particles. In certain embodiments, the membrane can be used in humidifiers, such as those used in fuel cell systems. In some aspects, the membrane can be used for separating a fluid mixture comprising water. The membranes described herein are stable for high temperature applications.
US11024853B2	Nonaqueous electrolyte secondary cell and method for manufacturing nonaqueous electrolyte secondary cell According to the present disclosure, there is provided a technique making it possible to improve suitably the performance of a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary cell in which a SEI film is formed on the surface of a negative electrode active material. The nonaqueous electrolyte secondary cell disclosed herein includes a positive electrode 10, a negative electrode 20, and a nonaqueous electrolytic solution, wherein a negative electrode SEI film 29 including at least a LiBOB skeleton and a fluorosulfonic acid skeleton is formed on the surface of a negative electrode active material 28, and a positive electrode SEI film 19 including at least a phosphoric acid skeleton is formed on the surface of a positive electrode active material 18. Where the component amount of the LiBOB skeleton in the negative electrode SEI film 29 is denoted by IB, the component amount of the fluorosulfonic acid skeleton in the negative electrode SEI film 29 is denoted by IS, and the component amount of the phosphoric acid skeleton in the positive electrode SEI film 19 is denoted by IP, a formula of 4≤IB/IS≤10 and a formula of 5 μmol/m2≤IP≤15 μmol/m2 are satisfied.
US11024848B2	Thermally self-chargeable flexible energy storage device and method of forming and operating the same An energy storage device and method of forming and operating the same. In one embodiment, the energy storage device includes a positive electrode including a first redox polymer deposited on a first conductive porous substrate. The energy storage device also includes a solid-state polyelectrolyte separator operative as a voltage generator, and a negative electrode including a second redox polymer deposited on a second conductive porous substrate, thereby forming an electrochemical cell.
US11024846B2	High energy/power density, long cycle life, safe lithium-ion battery capable of long-term deep discharge/storage near zero volt and method of making and using the same A high energy/power density, long cycle life and safe lithium ion cell capable of long-term deep discharge/storage near zero-volt is described. The cell utilizes a near zero-volt storage capable anode, such as a spinel Li4Ti5O12, coupled to a high voltage, high-energy and/or high-power density cathode, such as LiNi0.5Mn1.5O4. The near zero-volt storage cell is rechargeable and affords safety advantages for battery transportation, storage, and handling, and significant cost reductions for cell maintenance. The cells produce high-energy and/or high-power densities and long cycle life. The cell anode, cathode, and separator active materials are coated with one or more protection or stability enhancing and/or conductivity enhancing materials to enhance electrochemical performance and to strengthen stabilities for long-term cycle life and storage life.
US11024835B2	Positive electrode for lithium ion battery and lithium ion battery To provide a positive electrode for a lithium ion battery having high energy density and being capable of rapid discharging. A positive electrode for a lithium ion battery, the positive electrode including a positive electrode current collector, a positive electrode active material layer formed on the surface of the positive electrode current collector, and a non-aqueous liquid electrolyte including an electrolyte containing lithium ions and a non-aqueous solvent, in which the positive electrode active material layer includes a positive electrode active material and voids, the voids are filled with the non-aqueous liquid electrolyte, and a proportion of the battery capacity based on a total amount of lithium ions in the non-aqueous liquid electrolyte existing in the positive electrode active material layer with respect to the battery capacity based on a total amount of the positive electrode active material is 3.5 to 15%.
US11024830B2	Display device A display device includes: a display panel; and a touch member disposed on the display panel. The touch member includes a first conductive layer and a first insulating layer. The first insulating layer is disposed on the first conductive layer and includes diffraction patterns.
US11024829B2	Display device A display device includes a substrate including a display area in which a plurality of pixels is disposed, and a non-display area in a peripheral area of the display area; an insulating layer disposed on the substrate; a metal wiring disposed on the substrate; and a plurality of dummy patterns disposed in the non-display area of the substrate. The plurality of dummy patterns includes a plurality of first patterns including an insulating material and a plurality of second patterns including a metal material.
US11024826B2	Display substrate A display substrate including a base substrate including a plurality of pixel areas, each of the plurality of pixel areas including an emission area and a transmission area, a pixel circuit layer disposed in the emission area and including at least one transistor, a pixel electrode disposed on the pixel circuit layer and connected to the pixel circuit layer, a hole injection layer selectively disposed on the pixel electrode in the emission area, an emission layer disposed on the hole injection layer of the emission area, an electron injection layer disposed on the base substrate on which the emission layer is disposed; and a common electrode disposed on the base substrate on which the electron injection layer is disposed.
US11024824B2	Organic electroluminescent devices, displays and mobile communication apparatuses The application discloses an organic electroluminescent device. The organic electroluminescent device includes: a substrate; and an organic luminescent layer including an array of pixel points which include a first electrode, and the first electrode of the pixel points laps with a Vss lead. A length of the first electrode lapping with the Vss lead increases from a starting end of the Vss lead toward a terminating end of the Vss lead.
US11024813B2	Photoelectric conversion element, optical sensor, and imaging element A photoelectric conversion element has a conductive film, a photoelectric conversion film, and a transparent conductive film in this order, in which the above-described photoelectric conversion film contains a compound represented by Formula (1). In Formula (1), R1 and R2 each independently represent an alkyl group, an aryl group, or a heteroaryl group. R1 and R2 may be linked to each other to form a ring. R3 represents an alkyl group, an aryl group, or a heteroaryl group. A represents a ring at least containing one carbon atom and one cationic nitrogen atom.
US11024810B2	Compound for organic electronic element, organic electronic element using same, and electronic device thereof Provided are an organic electronic element and an electronic device thereof, comprising a mixture of a compound of Formula 1 as a phosphorescent host material and thereby achieving high light-emitting efficiency, low driving voltage and improved lifespan.
US11024798B2	Protective passivation layer for magnetic tunnel junctions A magnetic device for magnetic random access memory (MRAM), spin torque MRAM, or spin torque oscillator technology is disclosed wherein a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) with a sidewall is formed between a bottom electrode and a top electrode. A passivation layer that is a single layer or multilayer comprising one of B, C, or Ge, or an alloy thereof wherein the B, C, and Ge content, respectively, is at least 10 atomic % is formed on the MTJ sidewall to protect the MTJ from reactive species during subsequent processing including deposition of a dielectric layer that electrically isolates the MTJ from adjacent MTJs, and during annealing steps around 400° C. in CMOS fabrication. The single layer is about 3 to 10 Angstroms thick and may be an oxide or nitride of B, C, or Ge. The passivation layer is preferably amorphous to prevent diffusion of reactive oxygen or nitrogen species.
US11024794B2	Method for producing a plurality of piezoelectric multilayer components A method for producing a plurality of piezoelectric multilayer components is disclosed. In an embodiment, a method for producing a plurality of piezoelectric multilayer components includes grinding the piezoelectric multilayer components without an addition of an abrasive by rubbing the piezoelectric multilayer components against one another so that a material abrasion of the piezoelectric multilayer components is carried out.
US11024781B2	Glueless light emitting device with phosphor converter A multi-stage lamination process is used to laminate a wavelength conversion film to a transparent substrate, and subsequently to a light emitting element. The wavelength conversion film may be an uncured phosphor-embedded silicone polymer, and the lamination process includes heating the polymer so that it adheres to the transparent substrate, but is not fully cured. The phosphor-laminated transparent substrate is sliced/diced and the wavelength conversion film of each diced substrate is placed upon each light emitting element. The semi-cured wavelength conversion film is then laminated to the light emitting element via heating, consequently curing the phosphor film. Throughout the process, no glue is used, and the optical losses associated with glue material are not introduced.
US11024769B2	Group III nitride semiconductor light-emitting element and method of manufacturing same A group III nitride semiconductor light-emitting element comprises, in the following order: an n-type group III nitride semiconductor layer; a group III nitride semiconductor laminated body obtained by alternately laminating a barrier layer and a well layer narrower in bandgap than the barrier layer in the stated order so that the number of barrier layers and the number of well layers are both N, where N is an integer; an AlN guide layer; and a p-type group III nitride semiconductor layer. The AlN guide layer has a thickness of 0.7 nm or more and 1.7 nm or less. An Nth well layer in the group III nitride semiconductor laminated body and the AlN guide layer are in contact with each other, or a final barrier layer is further provided between the Nth well layer and the AlN guide layer.
US11024768B2	Semiconductor device The present disclosure provides a semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a semiconductor stack, a trench formed in the semiconductor stack, a current confinement layer, a first electrode and a second electrode. The semiconductor stack includes a first reflective structure, a second reflective structure, and a cavity region. The cavity is between the first reflective structure and the second reflective structure and has a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The current confinement layer is in the second reflective structure. The first electrode and the second electrode are on the first surface.
US11024759B2	Electronic device using two dimensional semiconductor material Provided is an electronic device containing: a two-dimensional semiconductor material; and another heterogeneous material adjacent to the two-dimensional semiconductor material, wherein the heterogeneous material is doped with an impurity of a type different from the two-dimensional semiconductor material or has a band gap different from the two-dimensional semiconductor material.
US11024758B2	Layer structure for a thin-film solar cell and production method A layer structure for a thin-film solar cell and production method are provided. The layer structure for the thin-film solar cell includes a photovoltaic absorber layer doped, at least in a region which borders a surface of the photovoltaic absorber layer, with at least one alkali metal. The layer structure has an oxidic passivating layer on the surface of the photovoltaic absorber layer, which is designed to protect the photovoltaic absorber layer from corrosion.
US11024744B2	Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing the same Provided is a semiconductor device including: a gate electrode; a channel layer arranged in a region directly below or directly above the gate electrode; a source and a drain electrodes arranged to be in contact with the channel layer; and a first insulating layer arranged between the gate electrode and the channel layer, the channel layer including a first oxide semiconductor, the source electrode and/or the drain electrode including a second oxide semiconductor, the first and second oxide semiconductors containing In, W and Zn, a content rate of W/(In+W+Zn) being higher than 0.001 atomic % and not higher than 8.0 atomic %, a content rate of Zn/(In+W+Zn) being from 1.2 atomic % to 40 atomic %, an atomic ratio of Zn to W being higher than 1.0 and lower than 20000. Also provided is a method for manufacturing the device.
US11024742B2	Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof The stability of steps of processing a wiring formed using copper or the like is increased. The concentration of impurities in a semiconductor film is reduced. Electrical characteristics of a semiconductor device are improved. A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor film, a pair of first protective films in contact with the semiconductor film, a pair of conductive films containing copper or the like in contact with the pair of first protective films, a pair of second protective films in contact with the pair of conductive films on the side opposite the pair of first protective films, a gate insulating film in contact with the semiconductor film, and a gate electrode overlapping with the semiconductor film with the gate insulating film therebetween. In a cross section, side surfaces of the pair of second protective films are located on the outer side of side surfaces of the pair of conductive films.
US11024741B2	Integrated circuits and methods of manufacturing the same An integrated circuit includes a fin active region protruding from a substrate, a plurality of semiconductor patterns on an upper surface of the fin active region, a gate electrode that surrounds the plurality of semiconductor patterns and includes a main gate part on an uppermost one of the plurality of semiconductor patterns and sub gate parts between the plurality of semiconductor patterns, a spacer structure on a sidewall of the main gate part, and a source/drain region at a side of the gate electrode. The source/drain region is connected to the plurality of semiconductor patterns and contacts a bottom surface of the spacer structure. A top portion of the uppermost semiconductor pattern has a first width. A bottom portion of the uppermost semiconductor pattern has a second width smaller than the first width.
US11024738B2	Measurement of top contact resistance in vertical field-effect transistor devices Semiconductor device structures and techniques are provided for measuring contact resistance. A semiconductor device is disclosed including a first source/drain region and a contact disposed on the first source/drain region and configured to supply energy to the semiconductor device. A fin extends between the first source/drain region and a second source/drain region of the semiconductor device. A first contact material layer is disposed on the second source/drain region and a first active drain contact is disposed on the first contact material layer. A first sensor drain contact is also disposed on the first contact material layer. A second contact material layer is disposed on the second source/drain region and a second active drain contact is disposed on the second contact material layer. A third contact material layer is disposed on the second source/drain region and a second sensor drain contact is disposed on the third contact material layer.
US11024730B2	Nitride semiconductor device and manufacturing method for the same A nitride semiconductor device includes a first nitride semiconductor layer; a back-barrier layer that contains InGaN provided on the first nitride semiconductor layer; and a second nitride semiconductor layer that is provided on the back-barrier layer, wherein, in the back-barrier layer, in a thickness direction, an In composition increases at a first interface with the first nitride semiconductor layer, and the In composition is continuously reduced toward a second interface with the second nitride semiconductor layer.
US11024729B2	Method for manufacturing semiconductor device A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a first source/drain region in a substrate. A core channel region is formed on the first source/drain region. A barrier layer is formed on the core channel region. A shell is formed lining sidewalls of the core channel region and sidewalls and top surface of the barrier layer. The shell includes a channel portion in contact with the core channel region and a barrier portion in contact with the barrier layer. A second source/drain region is formed above the shell. A first gate electrode is formed to surround the channel portion of the shell. A conduction energy band of the channel portion of the shell is aligned with a conduction energy band of the barrier portion of the shell.
US11024728B2	Monolithic self-aligned heterojunction bipolar transistor (HBT) and complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to an integrated circuit (IC) having a heterojunction bipolar transistor (HBT) device. The HBT device generally includes an emitter region and a collector region. The collector region may include a proton implant region having an edge aligned with an edge of the emitter region. In certain aspects, the HBT device also includes a base region disposed between the emitter region and the collector region.
US11024722B1	Diffused field-effect transistor and method of fabricating same A diffused field-effect transistor (FET) and a method of fabricating same are disclosed. The diffused FET is dually optimized in voltage resistance by incorporating both a trench isolation structure and a thick second oxide layer and thus has a more significantly improved breakdown voltage. With the thick second oxide layer ensuring suitable voltage resistance of the transistor device, its on-resistance can be reduced either by reducing the size of the trench isolation structure or increasing an ion dopant concentration of a drift region. As such, a good tradeoff between voltage resistance and on-resistance is achievable.
US11024720B2	Non-self aligned contact semiconductor devices Techniques regarding non-SAC semiconductor devices are provided. For example, one or more embodiments described herein can comprise an apparatus, which can further comprise a gate positioned adjacent a channel region of a semiconductor body for a field effect transistor. The gate can comprise a metal liner, and wherein the metal liner is an interface between a first metal layer of the gate and a second metal layer of the gate.
US11024719B2	Semiconductor device and production method thereof A semiconductor device of an embodiment includes a first electrode, a second electrode, an oxide semiconductor channel, an insulation layer, an oxide layer, and a gate electrode. The oxide semiconductor channel includes a portion extending along a first direction and connects the first electrode to the second electrode. The insulation layer surrounds the oxide semiconductor channel. The oxide layer covers the oxide semiconductor channel and the insulation layer, and includes an oxide of a metal element. The gate electrode covers the oxide semiconductor channel, the insulation layer, and the oxide layer, and includes the metal element.
US11024717B2	Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing semiconductor device In one embodiment, a semiconductor device is provided with a substrate, a first nitride semiconductor layer above the substrate, a second nitride semiconductor layer which is provided on the first nitride semiconductor layer and is in contact with the first nitride semiconductor layer, a source electrode provided between the substrate and the first nitride semiconductor layer and electrically connected to the first nitride semiconductor layer, a drain electrode provided on the second nitride semiconductor layer and electrically connected to the second nitride semiconductor layer, a gate insulating layer provided at least between the substrate and the first nitride semiconductor layer, a gate electrode between the substrate and the gate insulating layer, and a first insulating layer between the substrate and the gate insulating layer to cover the gate electrode and the source electrode.
US11024716B2	Semiconductor structure and method for forming the same A semiconductor structure and a method for forming the same are provided. The semiconductor structure includes: a substrate; a fin structure, disposed over the substrate; a gate structure, disposed over the substrate and covering a portion of the fin structure; a first sidewall, disposed over the substrate and surrounding a lower portion of the gate structure; and a second sidewall, disposed over the first sidewall and directly surrounding an upper portion of the gate structure, wherein the first sidewall is orthogonal to the second sidewall.
US11024715B2	FinFET gate cut after dummy gate removal Semiconductor devices include a first semiconductor fin. A first gate stack is formed over the first semiconductor fin. Source and drain regions are formed on respective sides of the first gate stack. An interlayer dielectric is formed around the first gate stack. A gate cut plug is formed from a dielectric material at an end of the first gate stack.
US11024713B2	Gradient doping to lower leakage in low band gap material devices An apparatus is provided which comprises: a semiconductor region on a substrate, a gate stack on the semiconductor region, a source region of doped semiconductor material on the substrate adjacent a first side of the semiconductor region, a drain region of doped semiconductor material on the substrate adjacent a second side of the semiconductor region, and a transition region in the drain region, adjacent the semiconductor region, wherein the transition region comprises varying dopant concentrations that increase in a direction away from the semiconductor region. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.
US11024695B2	Display panel and display apparatus including the same A display panel and a display apparatus are provided. The display panel includes a display region and a non-display region surrounding the display region. The non-display region includes a step region, a left border and a right border that are adjacent to the step region, and an upper border arranged opposite to the step region. The left border, the right border, the upper border, and the step region surround the display region. The left border and the right border each include an encapsulation region. The encapsulation region includes a sealant and a reflective metal layer that are at least partially overlapped with each other. The step region includes a ground metal line, and the ground metal line is connected to the reflective metal layer through an electrostatic consumption resistance portion.
US11024685B2	Electroluminescent display device An electroluminescent display device includes a substrate including a plurality of pixel regions; an air gap over the substrate and configured to separate the plurality of pixel regions; a first electrode in each of the plurality of pixel regions; an insulating pattern covering an edge of the first electrode; a light emitting portion on the first electrode and the insulating pattern; and a second electrode on the light emitting portion.
US11024682B2	Fingerprint sensor and display device including the same The fingerprint sensor may include: a light transmitting hole array layer including a plurality of light blocking patterns having a plurality of light transmitting holes to form light transmitting paths of light rays; a sensor layer including a plurality of photo sensors configured to sense light rays that pass through the light transmitting holes and are incident on the sensor layer; and metal patterns configured to apply electrical signals to pixels or the light blocking patterns. A gap between the light blocking patterns may overlap with at least some of the metal patterns.
US11024677B2	Organic EL display apparatus and method of manufacturing organic EL display apparatus An organic-EL display apparatus comprises: a substrate comprising a first electrode; an organic layer formed of organic materials so as to form a plurality of pixels arrayed in a matrix form, the organic material being vapor-deposited on the first electrode; and a second electrode formed on the organic layer. Each of the plurality of pixels comprises at least three sub-pixels having substantially rectangular shapes; a first sub-pixel and a second sub-pixel among the at least three sub-pixels are arranged in parallel with each other such that a long side of the first sub-pixel and a long side of the second sub-pixel are substantially parallel with each other; and a third sub-pixel among the at least three sub-pixels is formed such that a long side of the third sub-pixel is substantially parallel with a short side of the first sub-pixel and a short side of the second sub-pixel. In the first sub-pixel and the second sub-pixel, a variation in a thickness of the organic layer through a long-side direction is larger than a variation in the thickness of the organic layer through a short-side direction; and in the third sub-pixel, a variation in a thickness of the organic layer through a short-side direction is larger than a variation in the thickness of the organic layer through a long-side direction.
US11024673B1	3D semiconductor device and structure A 3D semiconductor device, the device including: a first level including a single crystal layer, a first metal layer, a second metal layer above the first metal layer, and a third metal layer above the second metal layer, where the second metal layer is significantly thicker than either the third metal layer or the first metal layer, where the third metal layer is precisely aligned to the first metal layer with less than 20 nm misalignment; a second level including a first array of first memory cells, each of the first memory cells include first transistors; a third level including a second array of second memory cells, each of the second memory cells include second transistors, where the second level is above the third level, where the second transistors are self-aligned to the first transistors, being processed following the same lithography step; and periphery circuits connected by the second metal to control the memory cells, where the periphery circuits are either underneath or atop the memory cells.
US11024665B2	Imaging device and manufacturing method thereof An imaging device according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes: a semiconductor substrate; and pixels. Each of the pixels includes: a photoelectric converter that converts incident light into electric charge; a diffusion region provided in the semiconductor substrate and electrically connected to the photoelectric converter; a first transistor including a gate, and the diffusion region as one of a source and a drain; and a plug that is directly connected to the diffusion region, is electrically connected to the photoelectric converter, and includes a semiconductor. The height of the plug and the height of the gate from the surface of the semiconductor substrate are equal to each other.
US11024654B2	Display panel including link lines A display panel includes: a display area including: a curved boundary in plan view, and a pixel array including pixel rows, and a non-display area in a periphery of the display area, and including: a curved boundary in plan view, a plurality of gate blocks arranged along the curved boundary of the non-display area, and at least one dummy block among the gate blocks, and a plurality of link lines configured to connect the gate blocks to the pixel rows, at least one of the link lines being multi-segmented to include a plurality of segments oriented in different directions in plan view.
US11024651B2	Display device and electronic device with microlens array and light emitting element substrates bonded by adhesive layer There is provided a display device including: a first substrate that is a silicon substrate and on which a plurality of light-emitting elements is formed; a second substrate including, on a surface, a color filter layer including a plurality of color filters arrayed and a microlens layer including a plurality of microlenses arrayed that are layered in this order, the microlens layer being arranged to face the plurality of light-emitting elements with respect to the first substrate; and an adhesive layer that fills a gap between the first substrate and the second substrate for bonding the first substrate and the second substrate together.
US11024650B2	FinFET device and a method for fabricating the same A finFET device that includes a substrate and at least one semiconductor fin extending from the substrate. The fin may include a plurality of wide portions comprising a first semiconductor material and one or more narrow portions. The one or more narrow portions have a second width less than the first width of the wide portions. Each of the one or more narrow portions separates two of the plurality of wide portions from one another such that the plurality of wide portions and the one or more narrow portions are arranged alternatingly in a substantially vertical direction that is substantially perpendicular with a surface of the substrate. The fin may also include a channel layer covering sidewalls of the plurality of wide portions and a sidewall of the one or more narrow portions.
US11024649B2	Integrated circuit with resurf region biasing under buried insulator layers Complementary high-voltage bipolar transistors in silicon-on-insulator (SC) integrated circuits is disclosed. In one disclosed embodiment, a collector region is formed in an epitaxial silicon layer disposed over a buried insulator layer. A base region and an emitter are disposed over the collector region. An n-type region is formed under the buried insulator layer (BOX) by implanting donor impurity through the active region of substrate and BOX into a p-substrate. Later in the process flow this n-type region is connected from the top by doped poly-silicon plug and is biased at Vcc. In this case it will deplete lateral portion of PNP collector region and hence, will increase its BV.
US11024644B2	Integrated assemblies having vertically-spaced channel material segments, and methods of forming integrated assemblies Some embodiments include a NAND memory array having a vertical stack of alternating insulative levels and conductive levels. The conductive levels include terminal regions, and include nonterminal regions proximate the terminal regions. The terminal regions are vertically thicker than the nonterminal regions, and are configured as segments which are vertically stacked one atop another and which are vertically spaced from one another. Blocks are adjacent to the segments and have approximately a same vertical thickness as the segments. The blocks include high-k dielectric material, charge-blocking material and charge-storage material. Channel material extends vertically along the stack and is adjacent to the blocks. Some embodiments include integrated assemblies. Some embodiments include methods of forming integrated assemblies.
US11024640B2	Three-dimensional semiconductor memory device and method of fabricating the same Disclosed are three-dimensional semiconductor memory devices and methods of fabricating the same. A three-dimensional semiconductor memory device including a substrate including a cell array region and a connection region, an electrode structure including a plurality of electrodes and a plurality of dielectric layers alternately stacked on the substrate, the electrode structure having a stepwise portion on the connection region, an etch stop structure on the stepwise portion of the electrode structure, and a plurality of contact plugs on the connection region, the contact plugs penetrating the etch stop structure and connected to corresponding pad portions of the electrodes, respectively, may be provided. The etch stop structure may include an etch stop pattern and a horizontal dielectric layer, which has have a uniform thickness and covers a top surface and a bottom surface of an etch stop pattern.
US11024629B2	Semiconductor device comprising gate structure sidewalls having different angles The present disclosure provides a semiconductor device including a substrate, a first active region, a second active region, and a gate structure. The first active region and the second active region are disposed in the substrate. The gate structure includes a bottom, a first sidewall attached to the first active region, and a second sidewall attached to the second active region. The first sidewall and the bottom have a first point of intersection, and the first sidewall and a first horizontal line starting from the first point toward the substrate have a first included angle. The second sidewall and the bottom have a second point of intersection, and the second sidewall and a second horizontal line starting from the second point toward the substrate have a second included angle. The first included angle is different from the second included angle. A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device is provided herein.
US11024621B2	Memory circuit layout method A method includes placing first and second oxide diffusion (OD) layout patterns in a layout design corresponding to first, second, third, and fourth memory cells of a memory circuit. The first OD layout pattern extends along a first direction and has a first source portion shared between the first and second memory cells, and the second OD layout pattern extends along the first direction and has a second source portion shared between the third and fourth memory cells. The method includes placing a first conductive layout pattern in the layout diagram, the first conductive layout pattern corresponding to a first conductive structure under a lowest via plug layer of the memory circuit, extending along a second direction, and overlapping the first source portion and the second source portion. The method is wholly or partially performed by using a hardware processor.
US11024620B2	Integrated circuits and processes for protection of standard cell performance from context effects Integrated circuit (5) includes substrate (10) with surface (20) and structure (30) including base levels (45.i, 45.(i+1)), terminating cells (48, 49), and block (40) of standard cells arranged in rows (42.i, 42.(i+1)), and another type of block (60) outside block (40). Standard cells at at least two edges of block (40) have the following protections: (1) block (60) has strip of separation (41.j) having at least a minimum width from the edges of block (40), and protected by one of the following: (2) terminating cells (48, 49) reduce context effect and some terminating cells (48) are placed at at least one end of rows (42.i, 42.(i+1)) of standard cells within first-named block (40), and (3) the terminating cells (48, 49) reduce context effect and some terminating cells (49) are at one end of a column of standard cells within block (40). Other structures, devices, and processes are also disclosed.
US11024611B1	Micro-LED array transfer method, manufacturing method and display device A micro-LED transfer method, manufacturing method and display device are provided. The micro-LED transfer method comprises: bonding the micro-LED array on a first substrate onto a receiving substrate through micro-bumps, wherein the first substrate is laser transparent; applying underfill into a gap between the first substrate and the receiving substrate; irradiating laser onto the micro-LED array from a side of the first substrate to lift-off the micro-LED array from the first substrate; and removing the underfill.
US11024610B2	Module for a video wall, and method of producing same A module for a video wall includes a plurality of light-emitting components; and a carrier including conduction regions, wherein the light-emitting components each include a top side including a top-side contact and an underside including an underside contact, the light-emitting components are configured to emit electromagnetic radiation via the top side, the underside contacts of the light-emitting components electrically conductively connect to the conduction regions, the top-side contacts electrically contact a conductive layer, the light-emitting components each include at least four light-emitting semiconductor chips, the light-emitting semiconductor chips within a light-emitting component interconnect in parallel with one another, the light-emitting semiconductor chips within a light-emitting component each electrically conductively connect to the top-side contacts and the underside contacts of the light-emitting component, a plurality of adjacent light-emitting components constitute a cluster, and the light-emitting semiconductor chips of the light-emitting components of a cluster includes an identical nominal wavelength.
US11024602B2	Hybrid bond pad structure In some embodiments, the present disclosure relates to a method of forming a multi-dimensional integrated chip. The method includes forming a first plurality of interconnect layers within a first dielectric structure on a front-side of a first substrate and forming a second plurality of interconnect layers within a second dielectric structure on a front-side of a second substrate. A first redistribution layer coupled to the first plurality of interconnect layers is bonded to a second redistribution layer coupled to the second plurality of interconnect layers along an interface. A recess is formed within a back-side of the second substrate and over the second plurality of interconnect layers. A bond pad is formed within the recess. The bond pad is laterally separated from the first redistribution layer by a non-zero distance.
US11024600B2	Unified semiconductor devices having programmable logic device and heterogeneous memories and methods for forming the same Embodiments of semiconductor devices and fabrication methods thereof are disclosed. In an example, a semiconductor device includes NAND memory cells and a first bonding layer including first bonding contacts. The semiconductor device also includes a second semiconductor structure including DRAM cells and a second bonding layer including second bonding contacts. The semiconductor device also includes a third semiconductor structure including a programmable logic device and a third bonding layer including third bonding contacts. The semiconductor device further includes a first bonding interface between the first and third bonding layers, and a second bonding interface between the second and third bonding layers. The first bonding contacts are in contact with a first set of the third bonding contacts at the first bonding interface. The second bonding contacts are in contact with a second set of the third bonding contacts at the second bonding interface. The first and second bonding interfaces are in a same plane.
US11024593B2	Metal bumps and method forming same A method of forming an integrated circuit structure includes forming a patterned passivation layer over a metal pad, with a top surface of the metal pad revealed through a first opening in the patterned passivation layer, and applying a polymer layer over the patterned passivation layer. The polymer layer is substantially free from N-Methyl-2-pyrrolidone (NMP), and comprises aliphatic amide as a solvent. The method further includes performing a light-exposure process on the polymer layer, performing a development process on the polymer layer to form a second opening in the polymer layer, wherein the top surface of the metal pad is revealed to the second opening, baking the polymer, and forming a conductive region having a via portion extending into the second opening.
US11024589B2	Distributing on chip inductors for monolithic voltage regulation Distributions of on-chip inductors for monolithic voltage regulation are described. On-chip voltage regulation may be provided by integrated voltage regulators (IVRs), such as a buck converter with integrated inductors. On-chip inductors may be placed to ensure optimal voltage regulation for high power density applications. With this technology, integrated circuits may have many independent voltage domains for fine-grained dynamic voltage and frequency scaling that allows for higher overall power efficiency for the system.
US11024578B1	Conductive component and display device The present invention provides a conductive component and a display device. The conductive component includes a first conductive line, wherein an end of the first conductive line includes a first narrow portion; and a second conductive line, wherein at least one end of the second conductive line includes a second narrow portion, the end of the second conductive line including the second narrow portion extends to the end of the first conductive line including the first narrow portion, and the first narrow portion and the second narrow portion engage with one another. The first narrow portion is bridged to the second narrow portion through a conductive block.
US11024577B1	Embedded anti-fuses for small scale applications A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming first and second interconnect structures on an etch stop layer, wherein the second interconnect structure is spaced apart from the first interconnect structure. The etch stop layer extends between the first and second interconnect structures. In the method, part of the etch stop layer between the first and second interconnect structures is removed. The removing forms a first portion of the etch stop layer extending from under the first interconnect structure toward the second interconnect structure, and a second portion of the etch stop layer extending from under the second interconnect structure toward the first interconnect structure. The first and second portions are spaced apart from each other. A dielectric layer is formed which fills in the spaces between the first and second portions of the etch stop layer and between the first and second interconnect structures.
US11024575B2	Semiconductor device and method of fabricating the same A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, a conductive pad disposed on the semiconductor substrate, and a pillar pattern disposed on the conductive pad. The semiconductor device further includes a solder seed pattern disposed on the pillar pattern, and a solder portion disposed on the pillar pattern and the solder seed pattern. A first width of the solder seed pattern is less than a second width of a top surface of the pillar pattern.
US11024572B2	Wiring board, electronic device, and electronic module A wiring board includes an insulating substrate including a cutout portion that opens in a main surface of the insulating substrate and a side surface of the insulating substrate, an inner surface electrode on an inner surface of the cutout portion, an external electrode on the main surface of the insulating substrate, and a connecting section where the inner surface electrode and the external electrode are connected to each other. The connecting section is thicker than the inner surface electrode and the external electrode.
US11024568B2	Semiconductor package A semiconductor package is provided. The semiconductor package includes a first substrate, a first semiconductor chip arranged on the first substrate, a first group of at least one solder ball arranged on a side surface of the first semiconductor chip, an interposer arranged on the first semiconductor chip and the first substrate and being in contact with the first group of at least one solder ball, and an adhesive layer arranged between the first semiconductor chip and the interposer and configured to expose at least a portion of un upper surface of the first semiconductor chip, wherein a first height from an upper surface of the first substrate to the upper surface of the first semiconductor chip is greater than a second height of the first group of at least one solder ball.
US11024567B2	SMD diode taking a runner as body and manufacturing method thereof A surface mount (SMD) diode taking a runner as the body and a manufacturing method thereof are described. An elongated runner groove is adopted to cure and package groups of diode chips arranged side by side and corresponding copper pins thereon, with the utilization rate of epoxy resin up to 90% or more. The use cost of epoxy resin is thus reduced, and environmental pollution is also reduced.
US11024565B2	Direct selective adhesion promotor plating A semiconductor device includes a die paddle, a plurality of electrically conductive leads extending away from the die paddle, and an adhesion promoter plating material selectively formed on the electrically conductive leads such that outer portions of the leads are covered by the adhesion promoter plating material, and interior portions of the leads that are disposed between the die paddle and the respective outer portions of each lead are substantially devoid of the adhesion promoter plating material.
US11024562B2	Lead frame system A lead frame strip with corrugated saw street metal where the corrugated saw street metal is comprised of a partial thickness of the lead frame strip metal. A lead frame strip with corrugated saw street metal where the corrugated saw street metal is comprised of a half thickness of the lead frame strip metal.
US11024547B2	Method and structure for forming vertical transistors with shared gates and separate gates A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a fin on a substrate, removing one or more portions of the fin prior to forming a gate structure on the fin, forming the gate structure on the fin, and simultaneously removing one or more additional portions of the fin and one or more portions of the gate structure aligned with the one or more additional portions of the fin to create a fin edge portion aligned with a gate structure edge portion.
US11024540B2	Fin field-effect transistor device and method of forming the same A method includes forming a first gate structure over a substrate, where the first gate structure is surrounded by a first dielectric layer; and forming a mask structure over the first gate structure and over the first dielectric layer, where forming the mask structure includes selectively forming a first capping layer over an upper surface of the first gate structure; and forming a second dielectric layer around the first capping layer. The method further includes forming a patterned dielectric layer over the mask structure, the patterned dielectric layer exposing a portion of the mask structure; removing the exposed portion of the mask structure and a portion of the first dielectric layer underlying the exposed portion of the mask structure, thereby forming a recess exposing a source/drain region adjacent to the first gate structure; and filling the recess with a conductive material.
US11024526B2	Robot with gas flow sensor coupled to robot arm Processes and systems for cleaned storage of high level cleanliness articles, such as extreme ultraviolet (EUV) reticle carriers. A decontamination chamber cleans the stored workpieces. A purge gas system prevents contamination of the articles stored within the workpieces. A robot detects the condition of the storage compartment before delivering the workpiece. A monitor device monitors the conditions of the stocker.
US11024514B2	Etching method and etching apparatus There is provided an etching method including: loading a substrate having a recess and an etching target portion existing on an inner surface of the recess into a processing container, the etching target portion being made of SiN or Si; preferentially modifying a surface of the etching target portion at a top portion of the recess by performing an oxygen-containing plasma process on the substrate inside the processing container; and subsequently, dry-etching the etching target portion in an isotropic manner.
US11024511B1	Patterning method Provided is a patterning method including: providing a strip layer with a plurality of strips A, in combination with a plurality of strips B and strips C arranged alternately between the strips A; forming a first mask layer having a first opening on the strip layer; removing the strips A and B exposed by the first opening; forming a plurality of first spacers on sidewalls defined by the first opening; forming a plurality of second spacers on sidewalls of the first spacers respectively; forming a second mask layer having a second opening on the strip layer; removing the strips A and C exposed by the second opening; forming a plurality of third spacers defined by the second opening; forming a plurality of fourth spacers on sidewalls of the third spacers respectively; and removing the strips A, the first spacers, and the third spacers to form a pattern layer.
US11024507B2	Substrate liquid processing apparatus, substrate liquid processing method, and computer-redable storage medium having substrate liquid processing program stored therein In a substrate liquid processing method for performing an etching process by bringing an etching liquid for removing a coating film into contact with a surface of a substrate having a recess and covered with a coating film inside and outside the recess, the substrate liquid processing method includes: a first coating film removal step of setting the etching liquid to a first temperature so as to attain a first etching rate and removing the coating film outside the recess in a first process time; and thereafter, a second coating film removal step of setting the etching liquid to a second temperature so as to attain a second etching rate lower than the first etching rate and removing the coating film outside the recess in the second process time while leaving the coating film inside the recess.
US11024505B2	Gate structure passivating species drive-in method and structure formed thereby Generally, the present disclosure provides example embodiments relating to formation of a gate structure of a device, such as in a replacement gate process, and the device formed thereby. In an example method, a gate dielectric layer is formed over an active area on a substrate. A dummy layer that contains a passivating species (such as fluorine) is formed over the gate dielectric layer. A thermal process is performed to drive the passivating species from the dummy layer into the gate dielectric layer. The dummy layer is removed. A metal gate electrode is formed over the gate dielectric layer. The gate dielectric layer includes the passivating species before the metal gate electrode is formed.
US11024503B2	Laser annealing device, mask, thin film transistor, and laser annealing method To provide a laser annealing device capable of performing annealing whereby electron mobility is different depending on the part, a mask, a thin film transistor, and a laser annealing method. A laser annealing device of the present invention is provided with a mask in which a plurality of openings are formed along the scanning direction, moves a substrate in the scanning direction, and irradiates the substrate with laser light via the openings. The openings respectively have first opening regions, which are aligned in the scanning direction, and which have a same shape, and some of the openings among the openings respectively have second opening regions continuous to the first opening regions in the predetermined direction with respect to the first opening regions.
US11024500B2	Low-pressure discharge lamp A low-pressure discharge lamp having a discharge vessel and a coating structure. The coating structure is formed on an inner side of the discharge vessel. The coating structure has nanoscale phosphate particles and/or nanoscale functional oxide. Alternatively or in addition, the phosphate particles are free or at least approximately free of rare earth metals. The nanoscale phosphate particles range in size from 5 nm to 800 nm.
US11024499B2	Body, especially lamp body, and method for producing a hermetic seal A body, such as a lamp body, includes a tubular element. At least one conductor is introduced into the tubular element and a glass material surrounds the conductor. The glass material forms a seal between the tubular element and the conductor. The glass material includes a sintered glass, such as a sintered glass ring, and may completely surround the conductor.
US11024493B2	Analyzing device, analytical device, analyzing method, and computer program product An analyzing device includes: a measurement data acquisition unit that acquires measurement data obtained by irradiating a plurality of irradiation positions on a sample with a laser beam and performing mass spectrometry on a sample component corresponding to each irradiation position; and an analysis unit that performs analysis of the measurement data by excluding a set of data corresponding to an excluded irradiation position among the plurality of irradiation positions each having a different irradiation portion from which a portion that has been already irradiated with the laser beam is excluded in an irradiation range irradiated when the laser beam is irradiated to each irradiation position.
US11024491B2	Hybrid mass spectrometer A data independent acquisition method of mass spectrometry for analyzing a sample within a mass range of interest as it elutes from a chromatography system. The method comprises selecting precursor ions within a mass range of interest to be analyzed, performing at least one MS1 scan of the precursor ions using a first, high-resolution mass analyzer and performing a set of MS2 scans by segmenting the precursor ions into a plurality of precursor mass segments, each precursor mass segment having a mass range of no greater than 5 amu, and for each precursor mass segment fragmenting the precursor ions within that precursor mass segment and performing an MS2 scan of the fragmented ions using a time of flight mass analyzer.
US11024485B2	Multi-charged-particle-beam writing apparatus and beam evaluating method for the same In one embodiment, a multi-charged-particle-beam writing apparatus includes a shaping aperture array plate including a plurality of first apertures through which a charged particle beam passes to form multiple beams, a movable stage on which a writing target substrate is placed, an inspection aperture plate disposed on the stage, the inspection aperture plate including a second aperture through which one of the multiple beams passes, a current detector detecting a current of the beam that has passed through the second aperture of the inspection aperture plate, a deflector deflecting the multiple beams, the deflector controlling deflection of one of the multiple beams such that the one beam is located at a predetermined position in a region including the second aperture and a surrounding region of the second aperture, and a calculator obtaining a beam position based on the beam current detected by the current detector.
US11024479B2	Passive wireless switch circuit and related apparatus A passive wireless switch circuit and related apparatus are provided. In examples discussed herein, an apparatus includes a smaller number of voltage circuits configured to control a larger number of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) switches. The voltage circuits passively generate a number of constant voltages based on a number of radio frequency (RF) signals to collectively identify each of the MEMS switches. A decoder circuit decodes the constant voltages to identify a selected MEMS switch and provides a selected constant voltage higher than a defined threshold voltage to close the selected MEMS switch. As such, it may be possible to eliminate active components and/or circuits from the passive wireless switch circuit, thus helping to reduce leakage and power consumption. It may be further possible to reduce conductive traces between the voltage circuits and the MEMS switches, thus helping to reduce routing complexity and footprint of the apparatus.
US11024467B2	Self-charging supercapacitor A self-charging supercapacitor is provided which includes a supercapacitor first electrode, a supercapacitor second electrode, a first electrolyte, and a metal electrode. The supercapacitor first electrode and the supercapacitor second electrode are parallel to and spaced apart from each other. A part of the metal electrode is Ohmic contacted with a surface of the supercapacitor second electrode, and another part of the metal electrode is disposed opposite to the supercapacitor first electrode.
US11024446B2	Production method for insulated electric wire and insulated electric wire An insulated electric wire that includes a conductor having a plurality of twisted elemental wires made of a conductive material and an insulation covering that covers an outer surface of the conductor. The method includes a partial exposure step of forming an exposed portion in which the insulation covering is removed from the outer surface of the conductor, a density modification step of increasing spacing between elemental wires in the exposed portion, while increasing a density of the conductive material per unit length in the exposed portion, and a filling step of filling gaps between the elemental wires in the exposed portion with a sealant comprising an insulated material.
US11024445B2	Power cable with an overmolded probe for power transfer to a non-thermal plasma generator and a method for constructing the overmolded probe A transfer module for transferring power to a non-thermal plasma generator includes a power cable; a first epoxy; a second epoxy; an interface between the first epoxy and the second epoxy; and a well; the power cable including a conductor for conducting electrical power and an insulation layer for surrounding a portion of the conductor; the first epoxy being located within the well to surround the insulation layer; the second epoxy being located within the well to surround the conductor located within the well; the second epoxy being located outside the well to surround the conductor located outside the well.
US11024435B2	Radiation-shielding material and manufacture thereof Radiation-shielding composite materials and their methods of manufacture. Such methods may include adding a metal hydride to a hardenable matrix precursor, adding a reinforcing material to the hardenable matrix precursor, and hardening the matrix precursor to form a composite material that incorporates the reinforcing material and the metal hydride in a solid matrix. The resulting radiation-shielding composite materials are configured to attenuate incident radiation, and may be used in the construction of panels, laminate structures, buildings, and aerospace vehicles, among others.
US11024429B2	Method, system and computer readable medium for adaptive and advisory control of diabetes An Adaptive Advisory Control (AA Control) interactive process involving algorithm-based assessment and communication of physiologic and behavioral parameters and patterns assists patients with diabetes with the optimization of their glycemic control. The method and system may uses all available sources of information about the patient; (i) EO Data (e.g. self-monitoring of blood glucose (SMBG) and CMG), (ii) Insulin Data (e.g. insulin pump log files or patient treatment records), and (iii) Patient Self Reporting Data (e.g. self treatment behaviors, meals, and exercise) to: retroactively assess the risk of hypoglycemia, retroactively assess risk-based reduction of insulin delivery, and then report to the patient how a risk-based insulin reduction system would have acted consistently to prevent hypoglycemia.
US11024418B2	Systems and methods for intelligent radiology work allocation An example system to distribute a medical exam to an examiner includes a first interface to display a medical exam identifier associated with a medical exam stored in a patient record database and an examiner availability indicator to be displayed via the first interface. The examiner availability indicator is to be updated via a second interface. The example system includes an exam allocator to automatically allocate the medical exam to the examiner and an assignment tool to be displayed to a user via the first interface and to facilitate assignment of the allocated exam to the examiner. At least one of the exam allocator or the assignment tool is to be communicatively associated with the examiner availability indicator. Upon assignment of the medical exam to the examiner, the medical exam identifier is displayed in an examiner work queue via the first interface, the second interface, and a third interface.
US11024401B1	Compute an optimized read voltage A memory device to determine a voltage optimized to read a group of memory cells by reading the group of memory cells at a plurality of test voltages, computing bit counts at the test voltages respectively, and computing count differences in the bit counts for pairs of adjacent voltages in the test voltages. When a smallest one in the count differences is found at a side of a distribution of the count differences according to voltage, the memory device is configured to determine a location of an optimized read voltage, based on a ratio between a first count difference and a second count difference, where the first count difference is the smallest in the count differences, and the second count difference is closest in voltage to the first count difference.
US11024399B2	Shift register unit, gate drive circuit, display device and driving method A shift register unit, a gate drive circuit, a display device and a driving method are disclosed. A shift register unit includes an input circuit, a first node reset circuit, an output circuit and a touch noise reduction circuit. The input circuit is configured to control a level of a first node in response to an input signal; the first node reset circuit is configured to reset the first node in response to a reset signal; the output circuit is configured to output a driving signal to an output terminal under control of the level of the first node; and the touch noise reduction circuit is configured to reset the first node in response to a touch start signal.
US11024393B1	Read operation for non-volatile memory with compensation for adjacent wordline An apparatus comprises a driver circuit, sense circuit, and die controller. The driver circuit supplies a pass voltage to a selected word line and unselected word lines, a sense voltage to an adjacent word line, and a bit line voltage to bit lines coupled to selected and unselected word lines. The sense circuit determines nonconducting and conducting memory cells on the adjacent word line. The die controller then directs the driver circuit to ramp the sense voltage on the adjacent word line to the pass voltage and ramp the pass voltage on the selected word line to ground. The die controller then directs the driver circuit to ramp the bit line voltage for bit lines coupled to nonconducting memory cells to a bit line compensation voltage and directs the sense circuit to read memory cells of the selected word line based on the bit line compensation voltage.
US11024383B2	Memory device, memory controller, and storage device including memory device and memory controller The memory controller controls a memory device. The controller is configured to determine to perform a target operation on a first memory block and determine an activation voltage level transferred to a block word line based on block state information of a second memory block.
US11024382B2	Fully associative cache management Methods, systems, and devices for fully associative cache management are described. A memory subsystem may receive an access command for storing a first data word in a storage component associated with an address space. The memory subsystem may include a fully associative cache for storing the data words associated with the storage component. The memory subsystem may determine an address within the cache to store the first data word. For example, the memory subsystem may determine an address of the cache indicated by an address pointer (e.g., based on the order of the addresses) and determine a quantity of accesses associated with the data word stored in that cache address. Based on the indicated cache address and the quantity of accesses, the memory subsystem may store the first data word in the indicated cache address or a second cache address sequential to the indicated cache address.
US11024380B2	Dual demarcation voltage sensing before writes Nonvolatile memory (e.g. phase change memory) devices, systems, and methods that minimize energy expenditure and wear while providing greatly improved error rate with respect to marginal bits are disclosed and described.
US11024375B2	Semiconductor storage device and control method of semiconductor storage device with detecting levels of a multi-ary signal According to one embodiment, there is provided a semiconductor storage device including N word lines, M bit lines, multiple memory cells, and a read circuit. N is an integer of four or greater. M is an integer of two or greater. The M bit lines intersect with the word lines. The multiple memory cells are placed at positions where the word lines and the bit lines intersect. The memory cell stores binary data. The read circuit is connected to the M bit lines. The read circuit is able to detect levels of a multi-ary signal.
US11024361B2	Coincident memory bank access via cross connected shared bank resources Systems, methods, and computer programs are disclosed for providing coincident memory bank access. One embodiment is a memory device comprising a first bank, a second bank, a first bank resource, and a second bank resource. The first bank has a first set of bitlines for accessing a first set of rows in a first memory cell array. The second bank has a second set of bitlines for accessing a second set of rows in a second memory cell array. The first bank resource and the second bank resource are selectively connected to the first set of bitlines or the second set of bitlines via a cross-connect switch.
US11024348B2	Memory array with reduced read power requirements and increased capacity An electronic memory array includes a plurality of memory domains, a current controller, and a selector device. Each memory domain includes a plurality of bit cells. The current controller includes a current controller output electrically connectable to said plurality of memory domains and is configured to control a bit cell current. The selector device is electrically connected to the current controller and the plurality of memory domains. The selector device is configured to selectively electrically connect the current controller output to only a select one of said memory domains, such that the current controller controls only the bit cell current of the bit cells of the select memory domain.
US11024347B2	Multiple sense amplifier and data path-based pseudo dual port SRAM A memory device includes a memory array of memory cells, wordlines and bitlines connected to the memory cells, a first read multiplexor and a second read multiplexor connected to the bitlines, a first sense amplifier connected to the first read multiplexor, a second sense amplifier connected to the second read multiplexor, a first data path connected to the first sense amplifier, and a second data path connected to the second sense amplifier. Each of the memory cells is connected to only one pair of the bitlines and only one of the wordlines. The first read multiplexor is adapted to connect the first sense amplifier to the bitlines during a first portion of a clock cycle and the second read multiplexor is adapted to connect the second sense amplifier to the bitlines during a second portion of a clock cycle that is different from the first portion of the clock cycle.
US11024346B2	Semiconductor circuit, driving method, and electronic device with less disturbance A semiconductor circuit includes a first circuit to apply an inverted voltage of a voltage at a first node to a second node, a second circuit to apply an inverted voltage of a voltage at the second node to the first node, a first transistor that includes a gate, a drain, and a source, and stores a threshold state, a second transistor that couples the first node to a first terminal by being turned on, a third transistor that couples a first predetermined node to the gate of the first transistor, and a driving section that controls operations of the second transistor and the third transistor, and applies a control voltage to a second terminal. The first terminal is one of the drain or the source of the first transistor. The second terminal is another of the drain or the source of the first transistor.
US11024344B2	Landing pad in interconnect and memory stacks: structure and formation of the same A conductive landing pad structure is formed utilizing a selective deposition process on a surface of an electrically conductive structure that is embedded in a first dielectric material layer. The conductive landing pad structure is located on an entirety of a surface of the electrically conductive structure and does not extend onto the first dielectric material layer. A conductive metal-containing structure is formed on a physically exposed surface of the conductive landing pad structure. During the formation of the conductive metal-containing structure which includes ion beam etching and/or a wet chemical etch, no conductive landing pad material particles re-deposit on the sidewalls of the conductive metal-containing structure.
US11024328B2	Generating a synopsis of a meeting The systems and techniques disclosed here feature a device including an audio analyzer connected to microphone(s) monitoring a conversation between one or more individuals. The audio analyzer can identify auditory expressions from audio captured by the microphone, where the auditory expressions can include linguistic expressions and nonlinguistic expressions. The audio analyzer can analyze the linguistic expressions to identify a topic and a time period when the topic was discussed. A video analyzer can be connected to camera(s) monitoring the conversation. The video analyzer can identify non-auditory expressions by the individuals from video captured by the camera. A sentiment analyzer can analyze auditory expressions during the time period when the topic was discussed and non-auditory expressions during the time period when the topic was discussed to determine sentiments to the topic. A processor can analyze the determined sentiments to the topic to determine a group sentiment to the topic.
US11024322B2	Methods and systems for encoding frequency-domain data An exemplary frequency-domain encoder system accesses a set of encoder parameters. The frequency-domain encoder system also accesses time-domain data representative of a content instance. In accordance with the set of encoder parameters, the frequency-domain encoder system transforms the time-domain data into frequency-domain data representative of the content instance. The frequency-domain data includes a plurality of complex coefficients each representing different frequency components of a plurality of frequency components incorporated by the content instance. Also in accordance with the set of encoder parameters, the frequency-domain encoder system generates a frequency-domain data container that includes, in a predefined data container format, the complex coefficients of the frequency-domain data and metadata descriptive of the frequency-domain data. Corresponding systems and methods are also disclosed.
US11024320B2	Audio encoder and decoder The present disclosure provides methods, devices and computer program products for encoding and decoding of a vector of parameters in an audio coding system. The disclosure further relates to a method and apparatus for reconstructing an audio object in an audio decoding system. According to the disclosure, a modulo differential approach for coding and encoding a vector of a non-periodic quantity may improve the coding efficiency and provide encoders and decoders with less memory requirements. Moreover, an efficient method for encoding and decoding a sparse matrix is provided.
US11024315B2	Characterizing accuracy of ensemble models for automatic speech recognition One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for analyzing transcriptions of a recording. The technique includes storing per-character differences between a first set of characters from a first transcription of the recording and a second set of characters from a second transcription of the recording in a matrix with a fixed width. The technique also includes encoding the per-character differences in the matrix into a vector of the fixed width. The technique further includes outputting the vector as a representation of a pairwise error rate between the first transcription and the second transcription.
US11024314B2	Method and apparatus for acquiring and processing an operation instruction Systems and methods are provided for acquiring and processing operation instructions. The systems and methods may include receiving a first operation instruction. The system may determine an application associated with the first operation instruction, and determine whether the first operation instruction satisfies one or more predetermined conditions, wherein the predetermined conditions are associated with the application. The system may also, responsive to determining that the first operation instruction satisfies the predetermined conditions, and after the second operation instruction is received, invoke the application, and transmit the second operation instruction to the application for execution. The system may also, responsive to determining that the first operation instruction does not satisfy the predetermined conditions, execute the first operation instruction as a standalone instruction.
US11024302B2	Quality feedback on user-recorded keywords for automatic speech recognition systems Systems and methods are provided for an automated speech recognition system. A microphone records a keyword spoken by a user, and a front end divides the recorded keyword into a plurality of subunits, each containing a segment of recorded audio, and extracts a set of features from each of the plurality of subunits. A decoder assigns one of a plurality of content classes to each of the plurality of subunits according to at least the extracted set of features for each subunit. A quality evaluation component calculates a score representing a quality of the keyword from the content classes assigned to the plurality of subunits.
US11024301B2	Modification of electronic system operation based on acoustic ambience classification Methods and systems for modification of electronic system operation based on acoustic ambience classification are presented. In an example method, at least one audio signal present in a physical environment of a user is detected. The at least one audio signal is analyzed to extract at least one audio feature from the audio signal. The audio signal is classified based on the audio feature to produce at least one classification of the audio signal. Operation of an electronic system interacting with the user in the physical environment is modified based on the classification of the audio signal.
US11024300B2	Electronic device and control method therefor Provided are an electronic device and a control method. The electronic device comprises: a storage unit for storing a user-based dictionary; an input unit for receiving an input sentence including a user-specific word and at least one word learned by a neural network-based language model; and a processor for determining a concept category of the user-specific word on the basis of semantic information of the input sentence, adding the user-specific word to the user-based dictionary to perform update, and when text corresponding to semantic information of the at least one learned word is input, providing the user-specific word as an autocomplete recommendation word which can be input subsequent to the text.
US11024297B2	Method for using pauses detected in speech input to assist in interpreting the input during conversational interaction for information retrieval A method for using speech disfluencies detected in speech input to assist in interpreting the input is provided. The method includes providing access to a set of content items with metadata describing the content items, and receiving a speech input intended to identify a desired content item. The method further includes detecting a speech disfluency in the speech input and determining a measure of confidence of a user in a portion of the speech input following the speech disfluency. If the confidence measure is lower than a threshold value, the method includes determining an alternative query input based on replacing the portion of the speech input following the speech disfluency with another word or phrase. The method further includes selecting content items based on comparing the speech input, the alternative query input (when the confidence measure is low), and the metadata associated with the content items.
US11024291B2	Real-time class recognition for an audio stream In an embodiment, the disclosed technologies include automatically recognizing speech content of an audio stream that may contain multiple different classes of speech content, by receiving, by an audio capture device, an audio stream; outputting, by one or more classifiers, in response to an inputting to the one or more classifiers of digital data that has been extracted from the audio stream, score data; where a score of the score data indicates a likelihood that a particular time segment of the audio stream contains speech of a particular class; where the one or more classifiers use one or more machine-learned models that have been trained to recognize audio of one or more particular classes to determine the score data; using a sliding time window process, selecting particular scores from the score data; using the selected particular scores, determining and outputting one or more decisions as to whether one or more particular time segments of the audio stream contain speech of one or more particular classes; where the one or more decisions are outputted within a real-time time interval of the receipt of the audio stream; where the one or more decisions are used by downstream processing of the audio stream to control any one or more of the following: labeling the audio stream, segmenting the audio stream, diarizing the audio stream.
US11024278B1	Acoustic absorber An acoustic absorber is disclosed. The acoustic absorber contains a plurality of adjacent passages defined by walls configured to generate alternating high and low pressure zones as an acoustic energy travels though the acoustic absorber.
US11024273B2	Method and apparatus for performing melody detection A method for performing melody detection comprises interpreting the global perceptual effect of all the sounds at once, to determine what is the melody actually perceived by the human ear, and providing a music sheet or a text printout including a time sequence of single notes describing that melody.
US11024263B2	Method and apparatus for adjusting augmented reality content Methods and devices providing augmented reality (AR) content. The method includes monitoring viewing activity of a user with respect to one or more of objects, determining, based on the viewing activity of the user, a viewing time of AR content associated with a next appearing object from among the one or more of objects, determining a size of the AR content associated with the next appearing object based on the viewing activity of the user, and displaying the AR content of the next appearing object based on the size of the AR content.
US11024257B2	Android platform based display device and image display method thereof An image display method of an Android platform based display device includes: monitoring the state of a mouse coupled to the display device to acquire a corresponding mouse event; creating a mouse cursor layer according to the acquired mouse event, and reporting a processing request of the mouse cursor layer to an upper level; and having a processor of the display device enable an auxiliary processing thread in response to the processing request of the mouse cursor layer to process the processing request of the mouse cursor layer so as to display a corresponding mouse cursor on a display screen of the display device. The image display method and the display method of the present invention effectively increase the response speed for a mouse cursor event, preventing lagging in displaying a mouse cursor and enhancing user experience.
US11024256B2	Adaptive image display based on colorspace conversions Techniques to improve detection and security of a displayed image on a screen of a computer device, such as a device, and in response to environmental changes, including formation and detection of matrix-based images that may be dynamically altered and optimized as a result of environmental changes. Some techniques include logic to process image data, generate one or more colorspaces associated with that data, and perform colorspace conversions based on the generated colorspace. The logic may be further configured to generate an image based on the colorspace conversions, including but not limited to a matrix bar code. The logic may further be configured to alter the displayed image based on environmental changes and optimize the newly generated image utilizing one or more colorspace conversions in relation to a new environment generated as a result of the environmental changes. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US11024252B2	Power-saving driving circuit for display panel and power-saving driving method thereof A power-saving driving circuit for a display panel is provided. The display panel includes a pixel array including a plurality of data lines. The data lines are grouped into a plurality of pixel regions according to a scan time. Each of the pixel regions has a plurality of pixels. The power-saving driving circuit includes at least one source driver. The source driver respectively supplies a driving voltage to the pixels on at least one of the data lines. The driving voltage supplied by the source driver to each of the pixel regions has a varying driving capability determined according to a pulse width and/or a rising slope of the driving voltage. The pulse width and/or the rising slope of the driving voltage is larger when the driving voltage is supplied for driving the pixels in the pixel region farther from the source driver.
US11024250B2	Liquid crystal display panel and electronic device having the same A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel including a plurality of pixels, a voltage generator generating a gate on voltage and a gate off voltage, a gate driver generating a gate signal provided to the pixel using the gate on voltage and the gate off voltage, and providing the gate signal to the pixels, a data driver providing a data signal to the pixels, and a timing controller generating control signals that control the gate driver and the data driver. Each of the pixels includes a red sub-pixel, a green sub-pixel, and a blue sub-pixel. A voltage level of the gate off voltage provided to the red sub-pixel, a voltage level of the gate off voltage provided to the green sub-pixel, and a voltage level of the gate off voltage provided to the blue sub-pixel are different from one another.
US11024245B2	Gate driver and display device using the same A gate driver and a display device using the same are disclosed. The gate driver includes a plurality of stages connected in a cascade connection manner, and each of the stages include a clock input configured to receive a shift clock signal, a first output terminal, and a second output terminal. Each of the stages generates a first output voltage that is transmitted to another stage through the first output terminal and a second output voltage that is supplied to a gate line of a display panel through the second output terminal. Each of the stages includes a first diode connected between the clock input and the first output terminal.
US11024243B2	Electronic device display with charge accumulation tracker An electronic device may generate content that is to be displayed on a display. The display may have an array of liquid crystal display pixels for displaying image frames of the content. The image frames may be displayed with positive and negative polarities to help reduce charge accumulation effects. A charge accumulation tracker may analyze the image frames to determine when there is a risk of excess charge accumulation. The charge accumulation tracker may analyze information on gray levels, frame duration, and frame polarity. The charge accumulation tracker may compute a charge accumulation metric for entire image frames or may process subregions of each frame separately. When subregions are processed separately, each subregion may be individually monitored for a risk of excess charge accumulation.
US11024239B2	Liquid crystal display The present disclosure relates to a liquid crystal display including a liquid crystal panel. The liquid crystal panel includes a plurality of photodetectors, a plurality of first sub-pixels and a plurality of second sub-pixels respectively corresponding to the photodetectors. Each of the photodetectors partially overlaps with an opening area of the corresponding first sub-pixel. The liquid crystal display further includes a backlight module facing toward the liquid crystal panel having a first light emission section and a second light emission section. The first light emission section faces toward the first sub-pixels, and the second light emission section faces toward the second sub-pixels. A light emission brightness of the first light emission section is greater than the light emission brightness of the second light emission section.
US11024238B2	High dynamic contrast image display method and device based on partitioned backlight A high dynamic contrast image display method and device based on a partitioned backlight is disclosed. The method includes steps of: S1: obtaining a brightness information of an arbitrary pixel of an image, S2: obtaining a low-frequency illumination signal of the arbitrary pixel by gaussian filtering, S3: according to a space division of a partitioned backlight, diving the low-frequency illumination signals as same MN partitions, S4: for anyone of the MN partitions, calculating a maximum value of the low-frequency illumination signals of a current partition, and S5: performing a linear compression to the low-frequency illumination signal in the current partition. In the invention, the low-frequency illumination signals are subjected to a linear compression according to the luminance range that covered by the actual backlight. Contrast spatial adaptation can be performed within the backlight brightness range, while spatial details corresponding to high-frequency reflected signals are reserved.
US11024237B2	Pixel and organic light emitting display device including the same A pixel includes an organic light emitting diode including an anode electrode and a cathode electrode; a driving transistor including an input electrode connected to a first node (FN), a control electrode connected to a second node, and an output electrode connected to a third node; a switching transistor to apply a data signal to the FN in response to a scan signal in a second period; a first initialization transistor to apply a first initialization voltage to the second node in response to an initialization control signal in a first period (FP); a second initialization transistor to apply a second initialization voltage having a voltage level different from the first initialization voltage to the anode electrode in response to the initialization control signal in the FP; and an on-bias transistor to apply a first driving voltage to the FN in response to an on-bias control signal in the FP.
US11024236B2	Display driver with gamma correction A system and method for controlling the screen brightness of a display comprising calculating a brightness data which specifies a screen brightness level of a self-luminous display panel, determining, based on the brightness data, correction control points, calculating an output value from the input grayscale value with input-output characteristics specified by the correction control points.
US11024235B2	Shift register unit, method for driving shift register unit, gate driving circuit, and display device A shift register unit, a method for driving a shift register unit, a gate driving circuit, and a display device are provided. The shift register unit includes a blanking input circuit, a display input circuit, and an output circuit. The blanking input circuit is configured to, according to a blanking input signal and a blanking control signal, input a blanking pull-up signal to a first control node in a blanking period, and compensate the blanking input circuit; the display input circuit is configured to input a display pull-up signal to the first control node in a display period in response to a display input signal; and the output circuit is configured to output a composite output signal to an output terminal.
US11024228B2	Pixel circuit, driving method therefor and display device A pixel circuit and a driving method thereof, and a display device are disclosed. The pixel circuit includes: an initialization sub-circuit, configured to initialize a drive sub-circuit; a data write and compensation sub-circuit, configured to perform threshold voltage compensation on the drive sub-circuit; the drive sub-circuit, configured to output a signal of a second voltage terminal to a light-emitting sub-circuit; the light-emitting sub-circuit, configured to under control of the enable signal terminal input a signal of a first voltage terminal to the drive sub-circuit to control the drive sub-circuit to be turned on, and emit light under control of the enable signal terminal and a third voltage terminal; a leakage-current eliminating sub-circuit, configured to under the control of the enable signal terminal cause the initialization sub-circuit to output no signal to an initial voltage terminal when the initialization sub-circuit is in a turn-off state.
US11024215B2	Display panel having dual-gate structure, control circuit, and display device A dual-gate display panel, a control circuit, and a display device are provided. The display device includes the dual-gate display panel and the control circuit. The display panel includes a first subpixel, a second subpixel, a third subpixel, and a fourth subpixel, which are sequentially arranged along a first direction. The first subpixel and the third subpixel are electrically connected to a first source line. The second subpixel and the fourth subpixel are electrically connected to a second source line.
US11024213B2	Driving device, driving method and display system A driving device, driving method and display system are disclosed. The driving device includes: a RGB module, a first protocol processing module and a second protocol processing module, a selector, a first deserializer and a second deserializer, and multiple transmitters and multiple connection terminals. The present invention can use two communication methods to achieve the driving, reduce the communication interface and circuit scale, and reduce the cost.
US11024204B2	Handheld lighted stop sign apparatus A handheld lighted stop sign apparatus for increased visibility and safety for traffic control includes a sign body having a sign front side, a sign back side, an octagonal sign perimeter, a pair of reflectors having a “STOP” lettering, and a handle. A rim extends from the handle and a plurality of LED lights is coupled within the rim. A battery is coupled within a handle cavity and is in operational communication with the plurality of LED lights. A battery charge port is coupled to the handle. The battery charge port is coupled to the sign body and is in operational communication with the battery. A power switch is coupled to the handle. The power switch is in operational communication with the battery and the plurality of LED lights.
US11024198B2	Apparatus and method for estimating actual dietary content of meal of user Provided are an apparatus and method for acquiring information designating a plurality of menu items provided in a meal; reading a characteristic of each of the plurality of menu items provided in the meal, from a menu item database that stores a characteristic for each menu item; generating an classification model for classifying a specified menu item from among the plurality of menu items, based on characteristics of the menu items; acquiring measurement data measured by a sensor attached to a utensil during the meal; and classifying a menu item corresponding to the measurement data, from a characteristic corresponding to the measurement data, using the classification model.
US11024195B2	Diagnostic and therapeutic system for manual therapy The present disclosure relates to a system for joint mobilization comprising a mobilization tool, a head unit, and a mobilization glove. The system is directed to relief for patients suffering from joint pain and stiffness. The system provides for a controlled approach to evaluation and treatment of joint pain and stiffness, allowing for universal implementation while minimizing inter-therapist error. Moreover, the system provides for adapting longitudinal patient care.
US11024193B1	Interactive driver test administration systems Interactive driver test administration systems include a vehicle actuating mechanism and an instruction vehicle movable on a vehicle travel surface and operatively engaged by the vehicle actuating mechanism for travel of the instruction vehicle on the vehicle travel surface. The instruction vehicle may include a vehicle chassis having vehicle wheels, a windshield on the vehicle chassis, driver inputs in the vehicle chassis and a central processing unit interfacing with the windshield and the driver inputs. The central processing unit may be configured to present and operate a virtual windshield screen in a selected one of a question-and-answer driver testing mode and a practical driver testing mode on the windshield. The central processing unit may be configured to operate the instruction vehicle via the vehicle actuating mechanism responsive to input from the driver inputs in the vehicle chassis. An answer selecting system may interface with the central processing unit.
US11024190B1	Online classes and learning compliance systems and methods Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for online learning compliance systems. An example method can include receiving a request including a user identifier (UUID) and associated with a live or on-demand class; based on the request, retrieving course content including streamed content when the request is for the live class and a data object associated with a course, chapter, and/or lesson when the request is for the on-demand class; tracking, based on electronic messages sent to a user terminal, time spent by a user accessing the course content; based on the tracked time, updating a time spent counter in a user record associated with the UUID; and reconciling tracked live time and tracked on-demand time from the time spent counter into a progress value associated with the UUID.
US11024185B2	Apparatus and method for assisting flight crew during an approach to an airport with restrictions for non-standard conditions A method for assisting pilots during an approach to an airport with a cold temperature restriction which includes: programming on a computing device, at least one processor to implement an algorithm of an app to automatically detect a temperature restriction of a particular airport with the cold temperature restriction and to calculate a cold temperature compensation based on data from published notices to airman (NOTAMs) and to generate data of a corrected altitude of the aircraft during an approach to the cold temperature restricted airport based on a first component of sensor data contributed from the current flight approach and based on a second component of data of NOTAMs; receiving sensor data to the at least one processor deployed on the aircraft; an associated memory for acquiring the published data; and executing an algorithm to calculate a corrected cold temperature altitude when approaching the airport with the cold weather restriction.
US11024184B1	Vehicle path hash values Disclosed are systems and methods for reducing the amount of messaging between aerial vehicles and between controllers of aerial vehicles and simplifying aerial vehicle traffic management. In one implementation, a large service area, such as the United States, may be separated into a series of hierarchal regions. Rather than sending notifications to all agents (e.g., aerial vehicles, controllers) in the service area, each agent may subscribe to one or more regions of the hierarchal regions and only receive messages intended for the subscribed regions. In one example, as discussed below, messages for a particular region are only sent to agents subscribed to that region. Other agents within the larger service area do not receive the messages as they may not be relevant to those agents.
US11024183B2	Air traffic control support system, air traffic control support method, and recording medium An air traffic control support system for more quickly grasping a flight plan in air traffic control is provided. An air traffic control support system 3 includes a learning unit 100 and a prediction unit 200. The learning unit 100 generates a prediction model, based on learning data including a past flight plan and information that affected formulation of the past flight plan. The prediction unit 200 predicts a flight plan, based on information that affects formulation of the flight plan and a prediction model.
US11024181B2	Systems and methods for generating avionic displays including forecast overpressure event symbology Avionic display systems and methods are provided for generating avionic displays, which include symbology and other graphics pertaining to forecast overpressure events, which are forecast to occur during supersonic aircraft flight. In various embodiments, the avionic display system includes a display device on which an avionic display is produced. A controller architecture is operably coupled to the display device. Storage media contains computer-readable code or instructions that, when executed by the controller architecture, cause the avionic display system to determine whether an overpressure event is forecast to occur due to the predicted future occurrence of a sonic boom, which has a magnitude exceeding a boom tolerance threshold. When the controller architecture determines that an overpressure event is forecast to occur, the avionic display system further generates symbology on the avionic display indicative of or visually signifying the forecast overpressure event.
US11024167B2	Information collection system and information collection apparatus An information collection system enables crackdown on traffic violations by vehicles to be carried out in a preferable manner. The information collection system includes an autonomous mobile object that moves autonomously based on an operation command and a server apparatus. The autonomous mobile object includes a driving information acquirer that acquires driving information relating to the state of driving of a nearby vehicle, image acquirer that captures an image of the environment of the autonomous mobile object, a detector that detects a traffic violation by a nearby vehicle based on the driving information, and a controller that sends violation information relating to a traffic violation to the server apparatus. When a traffic violation is detected by the detector, the controller sends a captured image relating to the violator's vehicle and the driving information about the violator's vehicle, to the server apparatus as the violation information.
US11024160B2	Feedback performance control and tracking A method is provided for optimizing the use of autonomous features of advanced driver assistance systems and the tracking thereof. For example, a vehicle may be equipped with several driver assistance systems in which a driver of the vehicle may be assisted. The vehicle may automatically change the number of active assistance systems or suggest to the driver one or more assistance systems to activate based on several factors, including poor driving on behalf of the driver or poor driving conditions due to weather or road quality. Statistics regarding the use of such advanced driver assistance systems may be monitored and tracked and stored on an onboard database or transmitted continuously or periodically to various entities. For example, the system may operate to allow an insurance company to track the driving performance and the use of the advanced driver assistance systems to update actuarial models to more accurately adjust rates.
US11024149B2	User action triggered reminder message transmission The present invention discloses a method to deliver a reminder message. The method includes a step of triggering a delivery of the reminder message upon detecting or sensing a reminder message required event-or-activity to prevent a person from forgetting or losing a person item. In an exemplary embodiment, the step of sensing the reminder message required event-or-activity includes a step of detecting or sensing an activity when the person preparing to leave a place for a next destination.
US11024144B2	Redirecting traffic from mobile device to initial slice selector for connection Some embodiments provide a method for a first network slice selector that selects network slices for connections from endpoint devices located within a first geographic range. The method selects a network slice for a connection between a mobile endpoint device and a network domain that originates when the mobile endpoint device is located within the first geographic range. The method stores state that maps the connection to the selected network slice. The method forwards data traffic belonging to the connection from the mobile endpoint device onto the selected network slice using the stored state. After the mobile endpoint device moves from the first geographic range to a second geographic range, the method receives data traffic belonging to the connection from a second network slice selector that selects network slices for connections from endpoint devices within the second geographic range and forwards said received data traffic onto the selected network slice.
US11024142B2	Event detector for issuing a notification responsive to occurrence of an event A system for determining the occurrence of an event and for issuing notifications responsive the occurrence of the event. The system has a first component for storing reference parameters for use in determining occurrence of the event and a sensor for determining real-time parameters that may be indicative of the occurrence of the event. An analysis component analyzes the real-time parameters relative to the reference parameters. If the event is detected a communications component issues a notification to those effected by the event.
US11024132B2	Gaming device having multiple game play option Embodiments of this concept are directed to gaming devices that are configured to initiate multiple gaming events in response to a player input. The gaming device may include game initiating inputs that initiate a predetermined number of gaming events in response to the player input, or the gaming device may include configurable game initiating inputs that initiate a number of gaming events specified by the player, specified the gaming device, or specified by a gaming server. The gaming device or gaming server may set the number of initiated game events in response to the occurrence of a triggering event.
US11024131B2	Location based restrictions on networked gaming A system and method for peer-to-peer gaming is described. One embodiment includes a system for peer-to-peer gaming, the system comprising an at least one gaming client, wherein the at least one gaming client is configured to accept a selection of an at least one gaming option from a player, and allow the player to play a game based on the selection of the at least one gaming option; an administration server, wherein the administration server is configured to receive the selection of the at least one gaming option from the at least one gaming client, and initiate the game for the player based on the selection of the at least one gaming option; and an at least one gaming server, wherein the at least one gaming sever is configured to run the game and transmit data about the game to the administration server.
US11024125B1	Systems, methods, and media for implementing internet-based wagering Mechanisms for wagering comprising: receiving bet information describing bets, wherein the bet information includes a bet amount and a bet position on a game wheel for each bet; determining a payout amount for each bet; receiving first wheel spin information including a first wheel stop position for a first spin of the game wheel; determining that the first wheel stop position is one of at least one multiplier position on the game wheel having a multiplier value, and applying the multiplier value to the payout amount for each bet; receiving final wheel spin information including a final wheel stop position for a final pin f of the game wheel; and determining that the final wheel stop position is one of non-multiplier positions on the game wheel, and causing payouts to be made to each of the bets having a bet position matching the final wheel stop position.
US11024124B2	Roulette game According to various embodiments, an apparatus may laser project a customized ordering of numbers onto a roulette wheel.
US11024114B2	Gaming system with pre-calibrated sensor for detecting chip and finger placement Gaming tables that support wager-based gaming are provided with input receiving devices that are structured to intuitively message to players what kind of wagers are permitted at which betting positions and when and then to automatically detect timely placement of such wagers at corresponding betting positions. This allows for faster unfolding of gaming action in that player confusion is minimized with respect to which wagers are being called for, when and where. An integrated compact sensor system is provided occupying slightly more table area than that needed for supporting wagering tokens of different denominations. The sensor system includes a large array of full color pixels (e.g., RGB capable pixels) for messaging to the players and proximity detection functionality for detecting 3D player hand gestures.
US11024104B2	Vehicle-based identification and access A method for conducting an interaction using a vehicle is disclosed. A vehicle can be identified based on one or more vehicle characteristics, including a license plate number, a make, a model, and a color. A user credential can be identified based on the vehicle and used for an interaction. Additionally, user contact information can be identified based on the vehicle and the user can be contacted to approve the interaction.
US11024102B2	Apparatuses, systems, and methods for remotely capturing automotive vehicle diagnostic information, monitoring, and controlling The present disclosure provides systems and methods for remote vehicle diagnostics. The remote vehicle diagnostics are obtained based on a vehicle identification number for a vehicle connected to an electrical connector of a vehicle diagnostic system host device. A vehicle electronic configuration file is provided to the host device to control access to one or more vehicle control modules.
US11024097B2	System and method for using augmented reality to visualize network service quality The quality of service one may expect from a given network is often hard to determine in advance. Further, given agreements between network service providers and a variety of content providers, the complexity inherent in selecting a given available network is increasing for consumers. Embodiments described herein provide mechanisms for creating an augmented reality presentation of networks and the service quality of those networks. The presentation may display information regarding a variety of factors including content transit agreements with content providers, quality-of-service or prioritization guarantees for certain types of content, or low-level Wi-Fi signal quality. These presentations allow users to ascertain where in a given spatial area good quality is available for whichever services they intend to use.
US11024092B2	System and method for augmented reality content delivery in pre-captured environments This disclosure describes systems and methods for augmented reality (AR) content delivery in pre-captured environments. In one embodiment, an AR client gathers information about the physical environment with the help of sensors embedded within an AR headset. The client reconstructs a 3D model of the physical environment from the gathered information and sends it to an AR content server. Based on the 3D reconstruction information obtained at the AR content server, the server modifies the content. AR content server compares the AR content against the 3D reconstruction data and does a visibility analysis of the AR content. Based on the visibility analysis, the AR elements occluded by real objects are removed to reduce the data size of the AR content. Finally, the AR content server streams the modified content to the AR client and the AR client renders the content and sends it to the headset.
US11024073B2	Method and apparatus for generating virtual object A method and apparatus for generating a virtual object are provided, the method includes acquiring a point cloud of an object to generate a virtual object, determining shape attribute information of the object based on an image of the object, changing a position of at least one point in the point cloud based on the shape attribute information, and generating a virtual object for the object based on a changed point cloud.
US11024069B2	Optically challenging surface detection for augmented reality Approaches in accordance with various embodiments provide for the presentation of augmented reality (AR) content with respect to optically challenging surfaces. Such surfaces can be difficult to locate using conventional optical-based approaches that rely on visible features. Embodiments can utilize the fact that horizontal surfaces can be located relatively easily, and can determine intersections or boundaries of those horizontal surfaces that likely indicate the presence of another surface, such as a vertical wall. This boundary can be determined automatically, through user input, or using a combination of such approaches. Once such an intersection is located, a virtual plane can be determined whose relative location to a device displaying AR content can be tracked and used as a reference for displaying AR content.
US11024065B1	Process for creating an augmented image Embodiments described herein provide a process and method running on a computer for creating an augmented image. According to an embodiment, a graphical user interface gathers data that is programmatically analyzed to obtain photographic properties from a first image. Photographic properties are provided to a user for obtaining a second image containing a fiducial mark. The second image is programmatically analyzed to obtain photographic properties. The first image and the second image are programmatically analyzed and processed to produce an augmented image.
US11024061B2	Apparatus and method for scattered radiation correction A method for scattered radiation correction acquires radiographic projection image data for a first portion of a subject that lies within a field of view of an imaging apparatus and characterizes the surface contour of the subject that includes at least a second portion of the subject that lies outside the field of view of the imaging apparatus. The surface contour of the subject is characterized according to the reflectance images. The surface contour characterization is registered to the field of view. Scattered radiation is estimated according to the projection image data and the surface contour characterization. The acquired radiographic projection image data is updated according to the estimated scattered radiation. An image of the field of view is displayed according to the conditioned acquired radiographic projection image data.
US11024046B2	Systems and methods for depth estimation using generative models Systems and methods for depth estimation in accordance with embodiments of the invention are illustrated. One embodiment includes a method for estimating depth from images. The method includes steps for receiving a plurality of source images captured from a plurality of different viewpoints using a processing system configured by an image processing application, generating a target image from a target viewpoint that is different to the viewpoints of the plurality of source images based upon a set of generative model parameters using the processing system configured by the image processing application, and identifying depth information of at least one output image based on the predicted target image using the processing system configured by the image processing application.
US11024045B2	Method and apparatus for generating three-dimensional data, device, and storage medium Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and an apparatus for generating three-dimensional data, a device, and a storage medium. The method comprises: obtaining a profile information annotation result for a target object in a two-dimensional image; calculating depth of field of the target object and a three-dimensional orientation of the target object according to the profile information annotation result and a standard three-dimensional size of the target object; determining a three-dimensional coordinate of a reference two-dimensional image point in the target object according to a two-dimensional coordinate of the reference two-dimensional image point in the two-dimensional image and the depth of field; and generating three-dimensional data matching the target object according to the three-dimensional coordinate of the reference two-dimensional image point and the three-dimensional orientation of the target object.
US11024043B1	System and method for visually tracking persons and imputing demographic and sentiment data A visual tracking system for tracking and identifying persons within a monitored location, comprising a plurality of cameras and a visual processing unit, each camera produces a sequence of video frames depicting one or more of the persons, the visual processing unit is adapted to maintain a coherent track identity for each person across the plurality of cameras using a combination of motion data and visual featurization data, and further determine demographic data and sentiment data using the visual featurization data, the visual tracking system further having a recommendation module adapted to identify a customer need for each person using the sentiment data of the person in addition to context data, and generate an action recommendation for addressing the customer need, the visual tracking system is operably connected to a customer-oriented device configured to perform a customer-oriented action in accordance with the action recommendation.
US11024038B2	Display device motion exclusion from home surveillance motion detection Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for allowing a motion-detecting system to distinguish and/or mask motion that originates from a display screen. One method includes: capturing, by a computing device associated with a motion detector, an image of a field of view of the motion detector. The computing device may determine, based on object recognition, one or more candidate display areas within the image of the field of view. Based on the determined candidate display areas within the image, the computing device may generate a mask corresponding to the field of view. The computing device may exclude, from motion detection, motion occurring within the mask of the field of view.
US11024037B2	Foreground-background-aware atrous multiscale network for disparity estimation A system for disparity estimation includes one or more feature extractor modules configured to extract one or more feature maps from one or more input images; and one or more semantic information modules connected at one or more outputs of the one or more feature extractor modules, wherein the one or more semantic information modules are configured to generate one or more foreground semantic information to be provided to the one or more feature extractor modules for disparity estimation at a next training epoch.
US11024030B2	Apparatus, method, and recording medium In a related-art technology, training images in accordance with the number of classifications need to be prepared to perform training process. For this reason, in a case where a model is caused to output how much effect of a drug is expressed, a training image needs to be prepared for each expression degree, and it is troublesome to create the model. Provided is an apparatus including an image obtaining unit configured to obtain an evaluation target image depicting a subject of an evaluation target, a probability obtaining unit configured to obtain a recognition probability regarding the evaluation target image by using a model that outputs, in accordance with input of an image, a recognition probability at which a subject of the image is recognized as the subject before effect of a drug is expressed or the subject after the effect of the drug is expressed, and a calculation unit configured to calculate an expression degree of the effect of the drug based on the recognition probability of the evaluation target image.
US11024029B2	Vascular dissection detection and visualization using a superimposed image with an improved illustration of an outermost vessel periphery Methods and systems for detecting a dissection of an elongated structure in a three dimensional medical image. One system includes an electronic processor that receives the three dimensional medical image. The electronic processor determines a first periphery and a second periphery of the elongated structure, the first periphery and the second periphery associated with an enhancing part and a non-enhancing part, respectively, of the elongated structure. The electronic processor determines whether the first periphery or the second periphery best illustrates an outermost periphery of the elongated structure and generate a base image based on whether the first periphery or the second periphery best illustrates an outermost periphery of the elongated structure. The electronic processor superimposes a contrast image associated with the three dimensional image on top of the base image, detects a dissection in the elongated structure using the superimposed image, and outputs a medical report identifying the dissection.
US11024023B2	Inspection system A system for improving inspection systems is provided. The system generally includes a camera in communication with a processor. The camera is configured to capture an image for inspection of an object A to be inspected. The camera transfers the image to the processor for comparison with a reference image. If the comparison is not within a predetermined range, then the camera settings are adjusted and a new image is taken until the current image matches the reference image. Alternatively, or in addition to, the system is capable of learning based on a plurality of data and creating a model image for comparison prior to capturing the first image.
US11024019B2	Image-based maintenance prediction and detection of operating errors A computer-implemented method for ascertaining a need for predictive maintenance for a microscope system. A microscope system, which an image sensor for recording digital images of a sample, recording digital images during regular operation of the microscope system, and providing a digital image as an input data set to an image analysis system, is provided. At least one feature relating to a malfunction of the microscope system during regular operation is determined, a status signal is produced, and a component group of the microscope system for which a maintenance procedure is necessary is determined.
US11024018B2	Imaging methods and computer-readable media One aspect of the invention provides an imaging method including: (a) acquiring a first fluorescent image of an object of interest impregnated with fluorescent nanodiamonds; (b) applying a magnetic field to the fluorescent nanodiamonds in order to decrease fluorescence of the fluorescent nanodiamonds; (c) acquiring a second fluorescent linage of the object of interest; and (d) subtracting the second fluorescent linage from the first fluorescent image to produce a resulting image. Another aspect of the invention provides an imaging method including: (a) applying a time-varying magnetic field to an object of interest impregnated with fluorescent nanodiamonds to modulate the fluorescence of the fluorescent nanodiamonds; (b) acquiring a plurality of fluorescent images of the object of interest; and (c) for each corresponding pixel in the plurality of fluorescent images, calculating a fluorescence intensity using a lock-in technique.
US11024015B2	Image processing apparatus and distortion correction coefficient calculation method An image processing apparatus includes an input buffer, a processor configured to convert a position of an input pixel of an input image received into the input buffer into a first pixel position of an output image using a first conversion function, convert a position of an output pixel in a vicinity of the first pixel position of the output image into a second pixel position of the input image using a second conversion function, calculate a pixel value of the second pixel position by interpolation using pixels of the input image that are in a vicinity of the second pixel position of the input image, and output the position of the output pixel as a corrected position of the input pixel and the calculated pixel value as a pixel value at the corrected position.
US11024005B2	Optical flow tracking device and method The present disclosure provides an optical flow tracking device. The device includes an image pyramid establishing circuit configured to establish a first image pyramid of a first image and a second image pyramid of a second image. The first image pyramid includes one or more image layers, and the second image pyramid includes one or more image layers. The device further includes an optical flow tracking circuit configured to perform an optical flow tracking processing on a kth image layer in the first image pyramid and a kth image layer in the second image pyramid to acquire an optical flow estimator of the second image in the kth image layer. K is an integer. The optical flow tracking circuit is configured to calculate an optical flow of the second image by using the optical flow estimator of the second image in the kth image layer.
US11023994B2	Auto-focus engine architecture for image signal processor Embodiments relate to image signal processors (ISP) that include one or more auto-focus circuits. Each of the auto-focus circuits may be connected to an image sensor and may be separate from a statistics circuit and other image processing pipelines of the ISP. An image sensor may include one or more focus pixels that are used to generate data for auto-focusing. The auto-focus circuit may extract the focus pixel values and generate a signal to control the lens position of the image sensor. Each image sensor may include a separate auto-focus circuit. When other image processing pipelines of the ISP are processing the image data from one image sensor, the auto-focus circuit for another image sensor may continue to generate focus signals that control the lens position of the other image sensor. The other image sensor may be in standby but may continue to remain in focus.
US11023991B2	System for transporting a vulnerable population to a desired destination by one or more drivers in a set of trusted drivers This disclosure generally relates to a method and system for scheduling a ride for a third party by a ride requestor. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving a ride request for a third party rider from a user device. The method may further include identifying a set of drivers from a trusted drivers and identifying from the set of trusted drivers, an optimal driver. The method may further include transmitting a ride confirmation to the ride requestor, the optimal driver, and the third party rider.
US11023985B1	Systems and methods for executing a customized home search A home cost analysis server for executing a customized home search may include a processor programmed to receive user input including a geographic area and a budget, and define a budget constraint. The processor may access an external database storing a list of available homes in the geographic area, and analyze metadata associated with each available home on the list to determine a monthly home cost associated with each available home. The processor may also determine a significant home maintenance cost associated with each available home based upon the metadata and the geographic area, and calculate a total cost associated with each available home. The processor may further isolate a subset of the available homes having the total cost associated therewith that satisfies the budget constraint, and cause to be displayed the subset of available homes along with a graphical indicator that associates the total cost with the budget constraint.
US11023977B1	Financial future visualization and training A computer-implemented method, device, and system for communicating an impact of a financial decision or an investment strategy to a user through the use of virtual reality are provided. Providing a context for figuratively ‘seeing and feeling’ the results for a proposed financial strategy may assist the user in better understanding the impact of the financial strategy. Information provided in this context may educate the user with regards to the amount of income or savings required to achieve a goal over a time period. A goal for a user may be displayed as an image in a virtual reality scene based on gathered user information. The image representing the goal may be displayed according to a percent of clarity based on the financial amount needed to achieve the goal. The image may be changed based on the amount over a perceived virtual reality time period.
US11023964B2	Systems, devices, and methods for interactions with an account A system and method for management of a financial account maintained by a financial entity is described. A user device may receive historical information relating to the financial account, including a monetary value of at least one individual transaction of the financial account which has occurred prior. A virtual representation of the monetary value may be displayed. The virtual representation may be selected for transmission to a dedicated digital money box device. The dedicated digital money box device may display an indication of a monetary value of a balance of the selected virtual representation, and historical information previously received by the dedicated digital money box device.
US11023962B2	Searching available rental vehicles based on adjustable parameters Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing available rental vehicle options to a user. The system includes a network interface with at least one rental provider computer system. The system receives a rental request for an available rental vehicle. The rental request includes a pick-up location and a drop-off location. In response to receiving the rental request, the system queries a rental store database for a plurality of available rental stores in both the pick-up location and the drop-off location. The system arranges the available rental stores into at least one cluster in the pick-up location and the drop-off location based on a geographical position of the available rental stores. The system selects a particular number of available rental stores within each cluster in both the pick-up location and the drop-off location.
US11023961B1	Virtual reality visualization system with object recommendation engine Aspects of the disclosure relate to virtual reality systems (and/or augmented reality systems) that facilitate visualization of replacement and/or additional items for rebuilding a damaged room. The system may provide a virtual representation of a subject real world room. A user may select items, such as appliances and furniture, for placement in the virtual room and the system may update the virtual room to include a representation of the items. In some embodiments, the system may utilize information about the user to provide recommendations regarding items that may be placed in a virtual room. For example, the system may utilize one or more service records to identify items covered under a service associated with the user. In some embodiments, the system may apply a monetary settlement to the cost of the real world items to facilitate the replacement of damaged items.
US11023956B2	Guided purchasing via smartphone Guiding purchasing via smartphone by, determining, via smartphone input of a user, the smartphone user's intent to purchase a given product. At least one sequence of tasks to purchase each of a plurality of products is determined. The determined intent to purchase the given product is associated with a determined sequence of tasks to purchase one of the products in the plurality of products. The smartphone user's current state in the associated sequence of tasks is determined. The smartphone user is notified, via the smartphone, of the next uncompleted task from the associated sequence of tasks based on the smartphone user's current state in the associated sequence of tasks.
US11023954B2	Systems and methods for using a social networking system to purchase products Embodiments of the present invention relate generally to marketing products through a social networking system. More specifically, one or more embodiments of the present invention relate to allowing social networking users to purchase products through the social networking system and to add products to shopping carts associated with third-party merchants.
US11023944B2	Mobile device for retrieving product information associated with scanned barcode data when the mobile device is connected to a network A computer-implemented method includes receiving a request to scan a barcode and in response, displaying a split screen having a camera image portion and a product information portion. At least part of an image currently being captured by a camera and containing a barcode is displayed in the camera image portion. Product information for a product represented by the barcode is displayed in the product information portion.
US11023943B1	Methods, systems, and computer storage mediums for reel configuration Concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to configuring a reel containing one or more circuits of a conductor. According to one aspect of the concepts and technologies, a request to create a circuit to be installed on the reel is received. In addition, configurations associated with the circuit are received.
US11023940B1	Systems and methods for using hardware transmitters to improve customer service The present disclosure is directed to automatically determining customer information in response to detecting that a customer's mobile device is located at a retail location. A mobile device of the customer may detect a communication from a wireless communication beacon, and may send a customer ID to a backend server. Upon receiving the customer ID, the backend server may access customer information, and transmit it to a server of the retail location. The server may, in turn, cause a customer mobile device in the retail location to display the customer information, thus facilitating effective and efficient customer service. With the customer's permission, upon detecting the customer's mobile device, customer information may be pushed to a salesperson's device or information (e.g., insurance quote or claim information; new vehicle financing, feature, or review information; or other product or service information) may be pushed to the customer's mobile device.
US11023934B1	Business variable optimization for manufacture or supply of designed products In one aspect, a computer-implemented method of receiving information corresponding to a designed product and determining initial price(s) as well as initial values of other business variables associated with the price. The method allows a user to enter a change to a price or the other business variable to instantly discover how the change affects other variables and optionally how the change affects one or more allowable ranges of acceptable values of other variables. The user can then lock the value of one or more of the variables and prices and change others to instantly discover how a change to one affects the others and optionally how a change to one affects one or more allowable ranges of acceptable values of the others while any locked values remain unchanged. The user can then order manufacture of the designed product as a function of values of price and other business variables.
US11023929B2	System and method for tokenizing offers Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems, methods, devices, and the like for tokenizing offers. The current disclosure presents a system and method that can present a tokenized offer for saving and retrieving from a digital wallet. The tokenized offer may be presented on a client site for selection by a user interested in taking advantage of the promotion without having to leave the current site. The current disclosure also presents a system that can retrieve the tokenized offer saved for use with a purchase. The tokenized offer may be automatically applied and on display at the merchant site and/or retrieved from the digital wallet.
US11023927B2	System and method for location-based advertisement delivery verification A system and method for enhanced location verification and content delivery confirmation including building a customized pixel for location verification, appending the customized pixel to an ad tag, collecting a combination of data from the pixel, holding the combination of data collected and grouping the held data, and processing the combination of data collected from a previous day by performing a first enrichment process including enriching the combination of data with additional data corresponding to at least one of connection type and latitude and longitude data, wherein latitude and longitude data is based on IP in a case where latitude and longitude information was not provided. The method further includes performing a second enrichment process including enriching the combination of data with location data fields, calculating and assigning a location quality score to the enriched data based on an accuracy or in-geo, a precision or credibility, and a confidence of location data, and aggregating the enriched data and storing the enriched data in a database.
US11023911B2	Comparative item price testing An online gaming system for valuing new virtual items introduced into an online game. The system may comprise one or more processors configured to execute computer program modules. The system may include a virtual shop module configured to present offers to sell instances of probability item bundles including a first offer to sell instances of a first probability item bundle that includes a first primary item and a first set of secondary items for a price, and a second offer to sell instances of a second probability item bundle that includes a second primary item and a second set of secondary items for the same price. The system may include a price determination module configured to determine a value for the second primary virtual item based on comparative sales of the first probability item bundle and the second probability item bundle.
US11023906B2	End-to-end effective citizen engagement via advanced analytics and sensor-based personal assistant capability (EECEASPA) Providing an end-to-end citizen engagement, in one aspect, may comprise obtaining data of multiple disintegrated sources from one or more of communication and social computing channels via one or more adapters. Data refactoring and management, integration and process orchestration of the data according to a data model as data attributes of the data model may be provided. One or more analytics may be performed based on the data attributes stored according to the data model and input specified to the one or more analytics. One or more results computed by performing the one or more analytics may be provided. One or more application logics supporting one or more front-end applications may be produced. One or more front-end applications for automated sensing of user activities and sensor-based individual assistant capability may be provided.
US11023902B2	System and method for providing localized product offerings publications A retailer system responds to a request to view an electronic product offerings publication by using data indicative of a geographic location to select from a plurality of retailer locations at least one retailer location and by retrieving inventory related information for the selected at least one retailer location. The retrieved inventory related information is then used to select product offerings from a repository of product offerings whereupon an electronic product offerings publication container is populated with the product offerings selected from the repository of product offerings. The populated electronic product offerings publications container is then returned to the requester as the requested product offerings publication.
US11023900B2	Routing customer feedback and service request A system, method, and computer-readable medium for performing receiving customer product specific issues and routing to appropriate business entities that include receiving customer product specific issues from various channels; tokenizing the customer product specific issues into tokens; routing the tokens to the appropriate business entities; and matching customer service requests with relevant tokens.
US11023898B1	System and method for accumulation and maintenance of money in a vehicle maintenance savings account Systems and methods are provided for accumulating and maintaining funds (e.g., money, a money proxy or a combination thereof) in a vehicle maintenance savings account. The account funds may be used to pay for the costs of maintaining and/or operating a vehicle (e.g., costs of maintenance and operation associated with ownership, leasing or renting a vehicle) and/or driver safety. For instance, the balance of the account may be used to pay for driver's education, driver's safety courses, attention improvement/maintenance courses, visual acuity improvement/maintenance courses, vehicle maintenance, repair, inspections, registration, check-ups, replacement parts, emissions testing, government stickers, taxes, license plates, insurance premiums, insurance deductibles, safety products, sensors/monitors, disposal fees, new vehicles of a certain type, etc. The vehicle maintenance savings account system may collect and analyze user data, and may accumulate funds for the user when the user engages in certain user behaviors (e.g., safe driving behaviors, purchase behaviors, account use behaviors, etc.).
US11023892B2	Host capture A system and method for processing transactions. A unique transaction identifier is generated for each transaction. Processing of the transaction utilizes the unique transaction identifier.
US11023879B2	Recommending target transaction code setting region Implementations of the present specification disclose a method and a system for recommending a target transaction code setting region. The method includes the following: dividing a target region to obtain multiple sub-regions, where the multiple sub-regions include one or more label sub-regions with known target transaction code setting effects and one or more sample sub-regions with unknown target transaction code setting effects; obtaining an association feature between the multiple sub-regions; obtaining predicted effect values of setting a target transaction code in the one or more sample sub-regions by using a prediction algorithm based on at least estimated effect values of setting a target transaction code in the one or more label sub-regions and the association feature; and determining at least one recommended region for setting a target transaction code from the one or more sample sub-regions based on at least the one or more predicted effect values.
US11023873B1	Resources for peer-to-peer messaging Payment technology companies are advancing technological solutions to facilitate payments between users and merchants. The complex architecture and software associated with payment technologies can be further improved by offering additional services to users. Some users may find it difficult or overly complicated to use payment technologies. As such, technological improvement are needed to make using payments technology easier, including adding the ability to make payments when funds are not available in an account, or to offer an advance funds transfer if the user would prefer not to use funds stored in a balance.
US11023872B2	Systems for collecting retailer-specific data A retail customer or event attendee can provide feedback specific to a retail location, event, or other desired association using an association-specific machine executable code printed on a transaction request at a retailer or event host. In some embodiments, a system may include a server subsystem and a processor module configured to provide a customer with a printed or electronic version of an association-specific machine-readable code. The association-specific machine-readable code may include a decodable instruction for interacting with a server subsystem to access an electronic platform configured to provide a respective association-specific request for information and receive and store response data received in response to the information request.
US11023871B1	Authenticating a customer to a risk level using an authorization token Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for authenticating a mobile user via an authentication method determined based on a token level associated with the action being completed. An authentication token is created corresponding to the token level and the authentication token is sent to the mobile device. This authentication token may be used to authenticate subsequent actions and engage various services to complete the actions using application programming interfaces. The authentication token stored on the mobile device obviates the need for a user to authenticate multiple times to complete actions requiring a similar token level. The system may authenticate the identity of the mobile user using various authentication methods.
US11023869B1	Cardless payment transactions with multiple users A method of managing a cardless payment transaction between a customer and a merchant includes receiving, from a device of a customer, an indication of consent to join the customer to a cardless payment transaction, where the cardless payment transaction is between one or more other customers and the merchant; receiving from the customer device, location data indicating that the customer device is in proximity with the merchant; joining the customer with the cardless payment transaction between the one or more other customers and the merchant; receiving transaction data between the merchant and each customer; and submitting, for each customer associated with the cardless payment transaction, a transaction between the merchant and the customer to a financial service for authorization.
US11023867B2	Push payment scheme through a trusted third party Provided herein is a method of facilitating a transaction between a payer and a payee using a push payment. The payee sends a request for a payment identification code to a payment agent with payment information. The payment agent generates a unique payment identification code and stores the code along with the associated payment information, and sends the payment identification code to the payee who provides the code to the payer. The payer sends the payment identification code to a financial institution that forwards the code to the payment agent, which uses the code to retrieve the previously stored payment information, and sends the information to the financial institution who forwards the information to the payer. The payer may review information and send a request to pay message including the code to the financial institution, which then arranges for a push payment from the payer to the payee.
US11023865B2	Method and system for automatic task time estimation and scheduling A method and system for automatic task time estimation and scheduling comprising the steps of: (1) storing a plurality of media items; (2) defining an aggregate task; (3) storing participant data and historical time data; (4) determining a plurality of metadata attributes; and (5) determining a final time estimate.
US11023859B2	Using virtual currency to compensate workers in a crowdsourced task Systems and methods for using virtual currency to compensate workers in a crowd sourced task are disclosed. In one aspect, embodiments of the present disclosure include a method, which may be implemented on a system, of determining target accuracy in completion of the task by the online workers, computing a number of results to be collected for a unit job of the task based on the target accuracy; and/or setting a wage amount that is offered to a worker for completing a unit job of the task based on the number of results. In response to determining that the worker has completed the unit job, the wage is provided to the online worker in a form of virtual currency.
US11023853B2	Break-based inventory forecasting Techniques are disclosed for advantageously forecasting an inventory of a product having a particular duration (e.g., video content). The technique can include determining the particular configuration (e.g., maximum number of impressions, maximum amount of time permitted) of breaks identified within an impression log. Based on the number of breaks and the configurations of the breaks, the technique can forecast a future inventory of the product. In some implementations, the disclosed technique can identify an amount of a previous break that was not filled with video content. These forecasts can enable product sellers to better communicate with their customers, negotiate supply contracts, price their products, plan for business operations, etc.
US11023848B1	Systems and methods for call deflection for product return or exchange The embodiments of the present disclosure provide systems and methods for call deflection, comprising receiving, via a telephone communication from a mobile device of a user, a request for return or exchange, accessing a purchase history of the user to identify at least one order satisfying a predetermined return criteria, generating a unique hyperlink for the user, sending the unique hyperlink to the mobile device of the user, receiving, from the mobile device of the user, a selection of at least one product in the at least one order for return or exchange, and modifying a database to register the at least one product for return or exchange. The unique hyperlink may be assigned to the at least one order that satisfies the predetermined return criteria such that, when activated by the user, the mobile device is configured to display the at least one order.
US11023846B2	Location-based pick up and delivery services Computer program products, methods, systems, apparatus, and computing entities are provided. In one embodiment, a method is provided. The method comprises receiving location information for an item. The location information indicates the current physical location of the item. The method further comprises determining whether the item is located within a first configurable distance of an establishment and responsive to determining that the item is located within the first configurable distance of the establishment, requesting first location information for the consignee of the item and second location information for the consignee of the item. The method further comprises determining whether the consignee is within a second configurable distance of the establishment based at least in part on the first location information for the consignee and the second location information for the consignee and providing a notification for display via a user interface of an application executing on a customer computing entity.
US11023839B2	Workflow integration A method of constructing a workflow is described. The method is carried out by a programmed processor and a memory of a computing apparatus using a workflow processing language. One or more hooks are provided in the workflow processing language. Each hook is adapted to provide a programming interface to one of one or more applications. An input stream is received and converted into an input object that can be processed by the workflow processing language. A workflow with hooks to one or more applications is then used. The one or more hooked applications are used through the programming interface provided by the respective hook to prepare and provide an output stream. The computer apparatus adapted to construct and perform such workflows is also described.
US11023837B2	Method for the optimisation of product properties and production costs of industrial processes A method for optimisation of product properties and production costs of industrial processes where a product is manufactured in several operations, Including the following steps: —establishing process chain models (1-m) for each process (1-n), altogether (m×n) models for the calculation of product properties and product production costs, —defining model inputs and outputs related to each of the (m×n) models for physical, chemical or biological parameters and costs of the product, —defining limitations or minimum requirements related to each of the (m×n) models of product properties or process capacity or ability, —providing an optimizing tool linked to the input and output steps and model limitations performing iterations and flow of data between said steps to optimize the product based on customer requirements.
US11023832B2	Method and system for task processing Embodiments of the present application provide a method and system for task processing. During operation, the system may receive a task event generated by a task sending device with an initial state of the task event being a to-be-accepted state. The system may perform a first reminding operation associated with the task event for a user. Upon receiving a predetermined user response, the system may change the state of the task event from the to-be-accepted state to an activated state, wherein the predetermined user response is responsive to the first reminding operation associated with the task event.
US11023827B2	Machine learning device, servo control device, servo control system, and machine learning method for suppressing variation in position error using feedforward control A machine learning device performs machine learning with respect to a servo control device including at least two feedforward calculation units among a position feedforward calculation unit configured to calculate a position feedforward term on the basis of a position command, a velocity feedforward calculation unit configured to calculate a velocity feedforward term on the basis of a position command, and a current feedforward calculation unit configured to calculate a current feedforward term on the basis of a position command. Machine learning related to the coefficients of a transfer function of one feedforward calculation unit among the at least two feedforward calculation units is performed earlier than machine learning related to the coefficients of a transfer function of the other feedforward calculation unit.
US11023822B2	Classifier generation apparatus for generating a classifier identifying whether input data is included in a specific category based on machine learning, classifier generation method, and storage medium There is provided a classifier capable of classifying unknown abnormal data input to the classifier even if there is a small number of abnormal data used for the learning of the classifier. When learning parameters of the classifier, the specific category likelihood of normal patterns for learning relatively deviating from a group of normal patterns for learning is decreased relatively to the specific category likelihood of normal patterns for learning not relatively deviating from the group of normal patterns for learning, and the specific category likelihood of abnormal patterns for learning is decreased relatively to the specific category likelihood of the group of normal patterns for learning.
US11023819B2	Machine-learning models applied to interaction data for facilitating experience-based modifications to interface elements in online environments In some embodiments, a computing system computes, with a state prediction model, probabilities of transitioning from a click state represented by interaction data to various predicted next states. The computing system computes an interface experience metric for the click with an experience valuation model. To do so, the computing system identifies base values for the click state and the predicted next states. The computing system computes value differentials for between the click state's base value and each predicted next state's base value. Value differentials indicate qualities of interface experience. The computing system determines the interface experience metric from a summation that includes the current click state's base value and the value differentials weighted with the predicted next states' probabilities. The computing system transmits the interface experience metric to an online platform, which can cause interface elements of the online platform to be modified based on the interface experience metric.
US11023815B2	Temporal topic machine learning operation A method, system and computer readable medium for generating a cognitive insight comprising: receiving information regarding a temporal sequence of events; performing a temporal topic machine learning operation on the temporal sequence of events; generating a cognitive profile based upon the information generated by performing the temporal topic machine learning operation; and, generating a cognitive insight based upon the cognitive profile generated using the temporal topic machine learning operation.
US11023803B2	Abstraction library to enable scalable distributed machine learning One embodiment provides for a non-transitory machine readable medium storing instructions which, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising providing an interface to define a neural network using machine-learning domain specific terminology, wherein the interface enables selection of a neural network topology and abstracts low-level communication details of distributed training of the neural network.
US11023797B2	RFID transponder and method of operating the same In accordance with a first aspect of the present disclosure, a radio frequency identification (RFID) transponder is provided, comprising a modulator and a modulator controller, wherein the modulator is configured to generate a modulated signal to be transmitted to an external RFID reader, and wherein the modulator controller is configured to control a duty cycle of the modulator in dependence on an available amount of power. In accordance with a second aspect of the present disclosure, a method of operating a radio frequency identification (RFID) transponder is conceived, comprising: generating, by a modulator of the RFID transponder, a modulated signal to be transmitted to an external RFID reader; controlling, by a modulator controller of the RFID transponder, a duty cycle of the modulator in dependence on an available amount of power.
US11023796B1	Dynamic magnetic stripe communications device with stepped magnetic material for magnetic cards and devices A flexible card may include a dynamic magnetic stripe communications device having multiple layers, such as an electromagnetic generator, a magnet, and a shield. A shield may form a non-flexible layer within the stack and may bend, but the shield may not be able to stretch or compress. Flexible layers may surround and adhere to the shield such that when the card is flexed, the flexible layers may stretch and compress with the movement of the shield. The dynamic magnetic stripe communications device may include one or more coils. Each coil may contain a stepped material, such that a length of a lower layer of the stepped material is longer than a length of a middle layer of the stepped material which is longer than a length of a top layer of the stepped material.
US11023791B2	Color conversion using neural networks An example system includes a processor and a non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored therein instructions that are executable to cause the system to perform various functions. The functions include obtaining a source profile associated with a print job and a destination profile associated with the print job. The functions also include, based on the source profile and the destination profile, generating a color conversion object that maps input colors of a source color space to output colors of a destination color space. In addition, the functions include training a neural network using the color conversion object so as to obtain weights associated with two or more hidden layers of nodes of the neural network. Further, the functions include receiving color data corresponding to pixels of the print job, and converting the color data from the source color space to the destination color space using the neural network.
US11023785B2	Sparse MRI data collection and classification using machine learning A system, method and program product for implementing a sparse sampling strategy for acquiring MRI data. A method includes: collecting and labeling a training dataset of MRI scans for a predetermined diagnostic; selecting a sampling shape and associated parameter values; sampling each MRI scan in the training data set using the sampling shape and associated parameter values to generate a set of sparse samples; training a neural network using the sparse samples and assigning an accuracy to a resulting trained neural network; and adjusting the associated parameter values, and repeating the sampling and training until optimized parameter values are established.
US11023778B2	Techniques to embed a data object into a multidimensional frame Various embodiments are generally directed to techniques for embedding a data object into a multidimensional frame, such as for training an autoencoder to generate latent space representations of the data object based on the multidimensional frame, for instance. Additionally, in one or more embodiments latent space representations of data objects may be classified, such as with a machine learning algorithm. Some embodiments are particularly directed to embedding a data object comprising a plurality of object entries into a three-dimensional (3D) frame.
US11023777B1	Methods for training and testing obfuscation network capable of performing distinct concealing processes for distinct regions of original image and learning and testing devices using the same A method for training an obfuscation network capable of performing distinct concealing processes for distinct regions of an original image is provided. The method includes steps of: a learning device (a) inputting a training image into the obfuscation network to generate an obfuscated training image by performing a 1-st to an n-th concealing process respectively on a 1-st to an n-th training region of the training image; (b) inputting the obfuscated training image into a 1-st to an n-th discriminator to respectively generate a 1-st to an n-th obfuscated image score on determining whether the obfuscated training image is real or fake, and inputting the obfuscated training image into an image recognition network to apply learning operation on the obfuscated training image to generate feature information for training; and (c) training the obfuscation network such that an accumulated loss is maximized, and an accuracy loss is minimized.
US11023773B2	Coupon reader A method of reading a coupon channel that displays a test section pattern after being exposed to a target substance, the method uses a device having a computer readable memory, digital camera, logic assembly and user interface; providing a pixel target intensity profile; placing the coupon in the device and exposing the coupon channel to a test fluid mixture; automatically using the digital camera to take a digital image of the coupon channel test section after the exposure. The improvement in the method includes finding the contiguous set of pixels from the test section of the coupon channel that best matches the intensity profile of the target pattern representation and determining if this best match set of pixels exceeds a similarity threshold and in response to a best match set of pixels passing the similarity threshold, automatically providing a human perceptible indication that the target substance has been detected.
US11023763B2	Detecting boxes A method for detecting boxes includes receiving a plurality of image frame pairs for an area of interest including at least one target box. Each image frame pair includes a monocular image frame and a respective depth image frame. For each image frame pair, the method includes determining corners for a rectangle associated with the at least one target box within the respective monocular image frame. Based on the determined corners, the method includes the following: performing edge detection and determining faces within the respective monocular image frame; and extracting planes corresponding to the at least one target box from the respective depth image frame. The method includes matching the determined faces to the extracted planes and generating a box estimation based on the determined corners, the performed edge detection, and the matched faces of the at least one target box.
US11023762B2	Independently processing plurality of regions of interest In some examples, a method includes determining, by a computing device, a plurality of regions of interest of an image for independently processing relative to a plane of interest; determining, by the computing device and for respective regions of interest of the plurality of regions of interest, a distance from objects within the respective regions of interest to the plane of interest; and processing, by the computing device and independently for the respective regions of interest, the respective regions of interest of the image based on the determined distance from the objects to the plane of interest.
US11023758B2	Buses for pattern-recognition processors Disclosed are methods and systems, among which is a system that includes a pattern-recognition processor, a central processing unit (CPU) coupled to the pattern-recognition processor via a pattern-recognition bus, and memory coupled to the CPU via a memory bus. In some embodiments, the pattern-recognition bus and the memory bus form about the same number of connections to the pattern-recognition processor and the memory, respectively.
US11023753B2	System and method for determining a lane change of a preceding vehicle System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to detecting a lane change of a target vehicle ahead of an ego vehicle. In one approach, a method includes receiving communications from a target vehicle specifying state information about the target vehicle. The method includes determining a location of a first decision point at a first distance ahead of an ego vehicle and acquiring sensor data about the target vehicle. The method includes determining motion information about the target vehicle based on the sensor data. The motion information includes positions that the target vehicle occupied relative to the ego vehicle. The method includes storing the state information and motion information for a first amount of time, and determining whether the target vehicle has changed lanes based on the state information and the motion information that has been stored once the ego vehicle has reached the first decision position.
US11023744B2	Road parameter calculator A road parameter calculator is provided which is equipped with an edge-point extracting unit, a road parameter calculating unit, a gradient detecting unit, and a modeling unit. The image acquiring unit. The edge-point extracting unit extracts edge points from an image of a frontal view of a vehicle. The parameter calculating unit calculates a road parameter using the edge points through a Kalman filter. The gradient detecting unit detects a change in gradient of the road in front of the vehicle. The modeling unit is responsive to a change in gradient to make a model as extending more straight than when the change in gradient is not detected. This minimizes adverse effects of the change in gradient of the road on the calculation of the road parameter.
US11023737B2	Detection of demarcating segments in video A method of detecting frames in a video that demarcate a pre-determined type of video segment within the video is provided. The method includes identifying visually distinctive candidate marker frames within the video, grouping the candidate marker frames into a plurality of groups based on visual similarity, computing a collective score for each of the groups based on temporal proximity of each of the candidate marker frames within the group to related events occurring within the video, and selecting at least one of the groups based on the collective proximity scores as marker frames that demarcate the pre-determined type of video segment. A video processing electronic device and at least one non-transitory computer readable storage medium having computer program instructions stored thereon for performing the method are also provided.
US11023731B2	Data recognition model construction apparatus and method for constructing data recognition model thereof, and data recognition apparatus and method for recognizing data thereof Disclosed is a data recognition model construction apparatus. The data recognition model construction apparatus includes a video inputter configured to receive a video, an image composition unit configured to, based on a common area included in each of a plurality of images that form at least a portion of the video, generate a composition image by overlaying at least a portion of the plurality of images, a learning data inputter configured to receive the generated composition image, a model learning unit configured to make a data recognition model learn using the generated composition image, and a model storage configured to store the learnt data recognition model.
US11023721B2	Document information evaluating device, document information evaluating method, and document information evaluating program An information acquiring unit configured to acquire input information input from a user terminal that is able to be operated by a user from the user terminal, a storage unit configured to store a plurality of pieces of document information, a calculation unit configured to decompose the input information into predetermined constituent units and calculate a matching condition with one piece of document information among the plurality of pieces of document information stored in the storage unit as a score for each decomposed constituent unit, an output unit configured to output a comparison table representing a degree of difference between the input information and the document information for each constituent unit on the basis of the score, and an input unit configured to input a self-evaluation of the document information that is performed by the user to the comparison table are included.
US11023713B2	Suspiciousness degree estimation model generation device A suspiciousness degree estimation model generation device includes: a clustering unit that performs clustering on an input face image based on the feature extracted from the face image; and a suspiciousness degree estimation model generation unit that generates a suspiciousness degree estimation model used for estimating the suspiciousness degree of an estimation target person, based on the result of clustering by the clustering unit and suspiciousness degree information that is previously associated with a face image included by the clustering result and that shows the suspiciousness degree of a person shown by the face image. The suspiciousness degree estimation device includes: a feature extraction unit that extracts a feature from a face area of an estimation target person; and a suspiciousness degree estimation unit estimates the suspiciousness degree of the estimation target person, based on the feature extracted by the feature extraction unit and the suspiciousness degree estimation model generated by the suspiciousness degree estimation model generation device.
US11023710B2	Semi-supervised hybrid clustering/classification system System and method for classifying data objects occurring in an unstructured dataset, comprising: extracting feature vectors from the unstructured dataset, each feature vector representing an occurrence of a data object in the unstructured dataset; classifying the feature vectors into feature vector sets that each correspond to a respective object class from a plurality of object classes; for each feature vector set: performing multiple iterations of a clustering operation, each iteration including clustering feature vectors from the feature vector set into clusters of similar feature vectors and identifying outlier feature vectors, wherein for at least one iteration after a first iteration of the clustering operation, outlier feature vectors identified in a previous iteration are excluded from the clustering operation; and outputting a key cluster for the feature vector set from a final iteration of the multiple iterations, the key cluster including a greater number of similar feature vectors than any of the other clusters of the final iteration; and assembling a dataset that includes at least the feature vectors from the key clusters of the feature vector sets.
US11023709B2	System, method and apparatus for multi-modal biometric authentication and liveness detection A system and method and apparatus collect behavioral biometric and facial recognition data for biometric analysis by asking a user to type text to an electronic device. Fusion of knowledge based authentication, behavioral biometrics and facial recognition provides strong authentication and liveness detection, while keeping user experience to simply typing.
US11023702B2	Fingerprint sensing module and method for manufacturing the fingerprint sensing module There is provided a fingerprint sensing module comprising a fingerprint sensor device having a sensing array arranged on a first side of the device, the sensing array comprising an array of fingerprint sensing elements. The fingerprint sensor device also comprises connection pads for connecting the fingerprint sensor device to external circuitry. The fingerprint sensing module further comprises a fingerprint sensor device cover structure arranged to cover the fingerprint sensor device, the cover structure having a first side configured to be touched by a finger, thereby forming a sensing surface of the sensing module, and a second side facing the sensing array, wherein the cover structure comprises conductive traces for electrically connecting the fingerprint sensor module to external circuitry, and wherein a surface area of the cover structure is larger than a surface area of the sensor device. Moreover, the fingerprint sensor device comprises wire-bonds electrically connecting the connection pads of the fingerprint sensing device to the conductive traces of the cover structure.
US11023701B2	Signal processing circuit and related method of processing sensing signal A signal processing circuit for processing a sensing signal from a sensing circuit includes a plurality of input capacitors, an amplifier, an input switch group, a plurality of storage capacitors and a plurality of storage control switches. The plurality of input capacitors are configured to receive the sensing signal from one of a differential input nodes of the signal processing circuit and couple the sensing signal to a plurality of floating nodes. The amplifier, coupled to the plurality of floating nodes, is configured to amplify the sensing signal coupled from the plurality of floating nodes. The input switch group is coupled between the plurality of floating nodes and the plurality of input capacitors. The plurality of storage control switches, coupled between the plurality of floating nodes and the plurality of storage capacitors, are configured to couple offset information of the plurality of input capacitors to the plurality of storage capacitors.
US11023699B2	Information processing system and slip creation method An information processing system including a circuitry configured to detect first identification information used to identify a job, generate second identification information associated with the first identification information, and create a slip on which the first identification information and the second identification information are displayed.
US11023698B1	Barcode reader with off-platter detection A barcode reader has a housing, weigh platter, and off-platter detection assembly including first and second imaging assemblies in communication with a controller. The first imaging assembly has a first imager configured to capture an image of a first lateral edge of the weigh platter. The second imaging assembly has a second imager configured to capture an image of a second lateral edge of the weigh platter. The controller is configured to: identify and locate the first and second lateral edges; receive first and second images from the imagers; allow the weight of an object to be recorded if determined that a footprint of the object does not extend over the first or second lateral edges; and prevent the weight of the object from being recorded and/or providing an alert to a user if determined that the footprint of the object does extend over the first or second lateral edges.
US11023694B2	Sales data processing apparatus and sales data processing method In one embodiment, a sales data processing apparatus has a first and a second antennas, and a processor. The first antenna receives, from a wireless tag attached to a commodity, tag information to uniquely identify the relevant commodity. The second antenna receives the tag information from the wireless tag recovered by a recovery device. The processor judges whether the wireless tag attached to the commodity is a wireless tag required to be detached from the commodity, based on the tag information received by the first antenna. The processor judges whether the second antenna has received the tag information of the wireless tag which is judged to be the wireless tag required to be detached from the commodity.
US11023691B2	Hybrid analog-digital matrix processors Techniques for computing matrix operations for arbitrarily large matrices on a finite-sized hybrid analog-digital matrix processor are described. Techniques for gain adjustment in a finite-sized hybrid analog-digital matrix processor are described which enable the system to obtain higher energy efficiencies, greater physical density and improved numerical accuracy. In some embodiments, these techniques enable maximization of the predictive accuracy of a GEMM-based convolutional neural network using low-precision data representations.
US11023683B2	Out-of-domain sentence detection A computer-implemented method includes obtaining a training data set including text data indicating one or more phrases or sentences. The computer-implemented method includes training a classifier using supervised machine learning based on the training data set and additional text data indicating one or more out-of-domain phrases or sentences. The computer-implemented method includes training an autoencoder using unsupervised machine learning based on the training data. The computer-implemented method further includes combining the classifier and the autoencoder to generate the out-of-domain sentence detector configured to generate an output indicating a classification of whether input text data corresponds to an out-of-domain sentence. The output is based on a combination of a first output of the classifier and a second output of the autoencoder.
US11023666B2	Narrative-based media organizing system for transforming and merging graphical representations of digital media within a work area A computer system for a narrational media organizer for transforming digital media into a personal, memorable story with minimal user input having a processor and storage with instructions for creating a narrational media organizer (NMO) environment, where a user can annotate one or more than one digital media file or graphical representations of the digital media files using a user interface; and an NMO data structure for storing the digital media and annotations of the NMO environment.
US11023661B2	Visually enhanced digital ink Described herein is a system and method for visually enhancing digital ink of an electronic document. A trigger to visually enhance digital ink of portion(s) of the electronic document is received. In response to the received trigger, the digital ink of portion(s) of the electronic document to determine a semantic structure of the digital ink in response to the received trigger. The digital ink of the portion(s) of the electronic document are visually enhanced in accordance with the determined semantic structure. Visual enhancement can include horizontal line adjustment, aligning line(s), aligning word in a particular line using a baseline, adjusting vertical spacing of lines, paragraphs, and/or lists, adjusting spacing between words and/or list items in a particular line, modifying ink styling (e.g., ink size, ink thickness, ink color), adjusting sizing of characters in a same group, unifying ink color, and/or unifying ink thickness.
US11023651B2	Optical proximity correction (OPC) modeling methods and methods for manufacturing semiconductor device using the same A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes performing an optical proximity correction (OPC) process on a designed layout based on a final model signal obtained according to an OPC modeling process to generate a corrected layout, the OPC modeling process including, selecting a transmittance value of a sub-layout pattern of a sub-layout included in a target layout, the transmittance value being a parameter of an OPC model and representing an intensity of light that transmits through a photomask, and generating a final model signal based on the transmittance value of the sub-layout pattern, and forming a photoresist pattern on a substrate using the photomask generated based on the corrected layout.
US11023650B2	Apparatus and method for circuit timing fixing using extension metal sections and alternate vias A timing fixing logic section may select a timing path from among a plurality of timing paths. For the selected timing path, multiple nets along the path may be traversed. For a particular net, multiple metal layers may be traversed. For a particular metal layer, multiple shapes that are associated with the particular net may be traversed. A timing fixing logic section may examine space that is nearby each of the shapes, and identify unused space. The timing fixing logic section may add an extension metal section to the shape. In addition, the timing fixing logic section may identify an existing via of a first type, and select an alternate via of a second type having a resistance that is higher or lower than the existing via. The existing via may be replaced with the alternate via. Accordingly, hold and setup timing of a circuit may be improved.
US11023648B2	Puzzle-based pattern analysis and classification Methods and apparatus for pattern matching and classification are disclosed. In one example of the disclosed technology, a method of performing pattern matching according to a puzzle-matching the methodology includes analyzing an original source layout pattern and determining a signature for the original source layout pattern. A target layout is scanned to search for one or more portions of the target layout that have a signature that matches or is similar to the signature of the original source pattern. Similar patterns are searched based on a signature comparison of the source pattern and the target layout. In some examples of the disclosed technology, it is possible to match partial context to the original source pattern. In some examples, matches can be made in the target layout for different orientations of layout.
US11023642B2	Event-driven design simulation An event-driven simulation system is provided. The simulation system classifies events into bypass-events and perform-events. The simulation system performs simulation by executing instructions based on the perform-events and skips simulation for the bypass-events. The simulation system produces partial simulation result data based events that are actually simulated but not the events that are skipped. A post processor is provided to generate the missing simulation result data for the bypass-events and to merge the bypass-event with the partial simulation result to generate a complete simulation result.
US11023638B2	Method for reducing cost and increasing accuracy of variational quantum circuit optimization The optimization of circuit parameters of variational quantum algorithms is a challenge for the practical deployment of near-term quantum computing algorithms. Embodiments relate to a hybrid quantum-classical optimization methods. In a first stage, analytical tomography fittings are performed for a local cluster of circuit parameters via sampling of the observable objective function at quadrature points in the circuit parameters. Optimization may be used to determine the optimal circuit parameters within the cluster, with the other circuit parameters frozen. In a second stage, different clusters of circuit parameters are then optimized in “Jacobi sweeps,” leading to a monotonically convergent fixed-point procedure. In a third stage, the iterative history of the fixed-point Jacobi procedure may be used to accelerate the convergence by applying Anderson acceleration/Pulay's direct inversion of the iterative subspace (DIIS).
US11023622B2	Processors, methods, systems, and instructions to determine whether to load encrypted copies of protected container pages into protected container memory A method performed by a processor of an aspect includes accessing an encrypted copy of a protected container page stored in a regular memory. A determination is made whether the protected container page was live stored out, while able to remain useable in, protected container memory. The method also includes either performing a given security check, before determining to store the protected container page to a destination page in a first protected container memory, if it was determined that the protected container page was live stored out, or not performing the given security check, if it was determined that the protected container page was not live stored out. Other methods, as well as processors, computer systems, and machine-readable medium providing instructions are also disclosed.
US11023616B2	Data processing systems for identifying, assessing, and remediating data processing risks using data modeling techniques In various embodiments, a Data Model Adaptive Execution System may be configured to take one or more suitable actions to remediate an identified risk in view of one or more regulations (e.g., one or more legal regulations, one or more binding corporate rules, etc.). For example, in order to ensure compliance with one or more standards related to the collection and/or storage of personal data, an entity may be required to modify one or more aspects of a way in which the entity collects, stores, and/or otherwise processes personal data (e.g., in response to a change in a legal or other requirement). In order to identify whether a particular change or other risk trigger requires remediation, the system may be configured to assess a relevance of the risk posed by the risk and identify one or more processing activities or data assets that may be affected by the risk.
US11023612B2	Operator isolation based on data security requirements Provided are techniques for operator isolation based on data security requirements. At a cloud node, a graph is received that includes ingest portions of data and operators. For each of the operators, it is determined whether the operator processes protected data. In response to determining that the operator is tagged with an indication that the operator processes protected data, the operator is forwarded to a tenant secure node for processing. In response to determining that the operator is not tagged with an indication that the operator processes protected data, the operator is forwarded to a tenant general node for processing. Then, while the tenant general node is processing the operator, in response to determining that the operator is processing protected data a tag is associated with the operator to indicate that the operator processes protected data and the operator is forwarded to the tenant secure node for processing.
US11023603B2	Systems and methods for data sharing and transaction processing for high security documents Systems and methods for data sharing and transaction processing for high security documents are disclosed. According to one embodiment, a method may include (1) at least one computer processor verifying that a sender of a document is authorized to send the document; (2) the at least one computer processor verifying that a receiver of the document is authorized to receive the document; (3) the at least one computer processor identifying at least one restriction to associate with the document; and (4) the at least one computer processor associating the at least one restriction with the document.
US11023599B2	Information processing device, information processing method, and program There is provided an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program which are capable of appropriately restricting the use of content in a situation in which a certain user ends the use of the content. The information processing device includes: an acquiring unit configured to acquire information indicating an end of use of content of a free viewpoint by a first user, which is provided on the basis of sensing of a real space and shared by at least the first user and a second user; and a use restricting unit configured to set restrictions related to the use of the content of the free viewpoint on the basis of the information indicating the end of the use and first setting information.
US11023592B2	Systems and methods for managing data incidents Systems and methods for managing a multi-region data incident are provided herein. Example methods include receiving, via a risk assessment server, in response to an occurrence of the data incident, data incident data that including information corresponding to the data incident, wherein the data incident has a plurality of facets with each facet having any of unique and overlapping set of privacy data and media type and associated risk factors requiring facet specific incident risk assessment, automatically generating, via the risk assessment server, a risk assessment and decision-support guidance whether the facet is reportable, from a comparison of the facet to privacy rules, the privacy rules define requirements associated with data incident notification obligations, and providing, via the risk assessment server, the risk assessment to a display device that selectively couples with the risk assessment server.
US11023589B2	Secure booting of virtualization managers A multi-phase boot operation of a virtualization manager at a virtualization host is initiated at an offload card. In a first phase of the boot, a security key stored in a tamper-resistant location of the offload card is used. In a second phase, firmware programs are measured using a security module, and a first version of a virtualization coordinator is instantiated at the offload card. The first version of the virtualization coordinator obtains a different version of the virtualization coordinator and launches the different version at the offload card. Other components of the virtualization manager (such as various hypervisor components that do not run at the offload card) are launched by the different version of the virtualization controller.
US11023581B2	Code package variants Example implementations relate to code package variants. For example, a system according to the present disclosure, may include a client server, a development environment, a digital signing environment, and a central server. The development environment may generate a plurality of variants of a first portion of a code package. The digital signing environment may create a distinct digital signature for each variant of the plurality of variants of the first portion of the code package with a same second portion of the code package. The central server may transmit to the client server a complete code package comprising a variant of the plurality of variants of the first portion of the code package along with the second portion of the code package and a corresponding digital signature. The central server may transmit to the client server an incomplete code package comprising a remainder of the plurality of variants of the first portion of the code package, without the second portion of the code package, and digital signatures of each of the remainder of the plurality of variants.
US11023580B1	Systems and methods for cross-product malware categorization The disclosed computer-implemented method for cross-product malware categorization may include accessing computer readable media storing an incomplete feature dataset and an incomplete label dataset, determining a correlation between the plurality of features and the plurality of malware labels, and constructing at least one of a complete feature dataset based on the incomplete feature dataset and the correlation and a complete label dataset based on the incomplete label dataset and the correlation. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US11023572B2	Augmented reality object providing method and server using image authentication The present invention relates to an augmented reality object providing method and server using image authentication and, more specifically, to an augmented reality object providing method and server using image authentication, wherein an augmented reality object is registered using a first real-world image captured by a first mobile terminal and an input message, and according to the registration of the augmented reality object, a notification message is transmitted to a second mobile terminal corresponding to recipient information, so as to allow a second user of the second mobile terminal to experience augmented reality by outputting the registered augmented reality object in a second real-world image captured by the second mobile terminal.
US11023568B2	Image processing apparatus, system related to image processing apparatus, and method An image processing apparatus communicates with a user's mobile terminal that includes an authentication module for biometric authentication. When the image processing apparatus receives verification data enabling use of a service provision system, the authentication module is identified as an authentication module to perform biometric authentication. The image processing apparatus then causes the authentication module to perform authentication processing of the user.
US11023564B2	Publication of collaborative file to library Disclosed are examples of systems, apparatus, methods and computer program products for sharing and publishing files. In one aspect, the database system can maintain a user database, a file database and a library. The database system can receive a first request initiated by a first user to share a first file with one or more second users and, responsive to the first request, enable a second set of one or more permissions for each of the second users. The database system also can receive a second request initiated by the first user to publish the first file to the library and, responsive to the second request, publish the first file to the library. The database system additionally can restrict access to the published file based on permissions associated with the library.
US11023556B2	Web page designing with content beam to device preview Designing and previewing web pages includes displaying an identifying image encoded with a first uniform resource locator (URL) of a preview web page on a display of a first computing device, the first URL including a location of the preview web page and a token unique to a web page authoring session for the preview web page; receiving, from a second computing device, a second URL obtained by capturing the identifying image on the display of the first computing device by a camera of the second computing device and decoding the captured identifying image to get the second URL by the second computing device; validating the second URL; and sending the preview web page to the second computing device when the second URL is validated. The preview web page may then be displayed on the second computing device.
US11023555B2	Cookie based state propagation for a multi-tenant identity cloud service Embodiments provide cloud based identity management to authenticate a user. At a first authentication layer, embodiments receive a request from the user to be authenticated, where the request is received from a browser application on a user computer, and create at least one cookie, where the cookie includes state information of the request and is adapted to be stored on the browser application. At the first authentication layer, embodiments first redirect the request to a second authentication layer. At the second authentication layer, embodiments receive the cookie from the browser application and authenticate the user, and second redirect the request to the first authentication layer, where the second redirecting includes providing a result of the authenticating as a query parameter.
US11023553B2	Identifying and managing trusted sources in online and networked content for professional knowledge exchange Systems and methods are provided for identifying and managing trusted sources in online and networked content. URLs and other objects are vetted and identified as trusted sources based on the documents in which these objects are used or otherwise acted upon and not on the content of the URLs or other objects themselves. When a URL or other object is used in a document, the URL is given a score based on the use activity, attributes of the document itself, and, optionally, user history of the user. As users use that same URL with respect to their documents, the scores from those activities are accrued to that URL. A URL with an accrued score (value) above (or equal to) a threshold value can be added to a corpus of trusted sources that can be accessed when conducting research and/or by other applications and search engines.
US11023541B2	Methods and systems for providing media recommendations based on user location Methods and systems are described herein to recommend media assets to a user based on user location. A media guidance application may identify, using control circuitry, a user location. The media guidance application may generate a list of a plurality of media assets that match a user profile. The media guidance application may determine whether subject matter of a first media asset of the plurality of media assets is inconsistent with the user location. The media guidance application may remove the first media asset from the list in response to determining that the subject matter of the first media asset is inconsistent with the user location.
US11023534B2	Classification method and a classification device for service data A classification method and a classification device for service data. The classification method includes: acquiring service data, each including plural service indicators; extracting the service data whose category attribute meets a preset condition according to a set extraction rule to form a first data set, the extraction rule set according to part of the service indicators; taking and clustering the service data that are not extracted as a second data set; determining a classification result of the service data according to the first data set and a clustering result of the second data set; extracting service data of definite category attributes according to the extraction rule; and determining a classification result of service data according to a result of clustering of the service data which are not extracted and the service data having definite category attributes.
US11023530B2	Predicting user preferences and requirements for cloud migration Systems and methods for prioritizing interview questions, including predicting answers to questions in a candidate question set using a neural network model, and generating a ranking for each of the questions in the candidate question set by determining answer confidence, completeness, and ambiguity for each of the answers, and incorporating user preferences using a personalized preference matrix. A top ranked question is automatically selected and presented to the user, and the personalized preference matrix is iteratively adjusted for subsequent ranking of questions based on an answer to the top ranked question by the user to reduce computational resources expended.
US11023529B2	System and method for generating container image suggestions Methods, systems, and computer program products are included for suggesting at least one container image from one or more searched container images, and including the suggested container image in a search result. A log-in request to log a user into a cloud user account of a cloud platform is received via a user interface, and responsive to the log-in request, the user is logged into the cloud user account. A search query for a type of container image is received from the user via the user interface. The cloud platform is searched for one or more container images within the queried type of container image. One or more container images from among the one or more searched container images are suggested, where the suggesting is based on one or more suggestion parameters including: an indication of an error rate of the one or more searched container images, an amount of cloud computational resources that would be consumed by running the one or more searched container images, and a compatibility between the one or more searched container images and one or more software development environments (SDE) of the user, wherein the SDE compatibility is known from the cloud user account. A search result is provided, the search result including the one or more suggested container images. The search result is based at least on: the search query, an amount of cloud computational resources available to the user through the cloud user account, and the SDE compatibility, wherein the amount of available cloud computational resources is known from the cloud user account.
US11023516B2	Discovering media content using natural language processing and machine learning Embodiments are directed to a computer implemented method of analyzing media files to improve the presentation of media files to users. The method includes using a processor to analyze a set of media files. The media files are represented by a set of vectors according to characteristics of each media file. A set of preferences is gathered for a user. A configuration from the user is then obtained. The media file vectors are adjusted based on the preferences and configuration. The media files are selected for presentation to the user based on the user's preferences and configuration.
US11023512B2	Identifying relevant page content A computer-implemented method according to one embodiment includes identifying a plurality of related web pages, extracting textual data within the identified plurality of related web pages, determining a plurality of groupings of the extracted textual data, calculating a frequency of each of the determined plurality of groupings within the identified plurality of related web pages, creating a subset of the determined plurality of groupings, based on the calculated frequency of each of the plurality of groupings, and returning the subset of the determined plurality of groupings.
US11023506B2	Query pattern matching A set of documents associated with a query comprising one or more query terms is determined. A subset of the documents is sampled to identify a corresponding query constraint pattern associated with each document included in the subset of the documents. An entry of an inverted index is generated based on the corresponding query constraint pattern associated with each document included in the subset of document.
US11023504B2	Searching unstructured data in response to structured queries Technologies are described herein for executing queries expressed with reference to a structured query language against unstructured data. A user issues a structured query through a traditional structured data management (“SDM”) application. Upon receiving the structured query, an SDM driver analyzes the structured query and extracts a data structure from the unstructured data, if necessary. The structured query is then converted to an unstructured query based on the extracted data structure. The converted unstructured query may then be executed against the unstructured data. Results from the query are reorganized into structured data utilizing the extracted data structure and are then presented to the user through the SDM application.
US11023494B2	Computer-implemented method and computer system for clustering data An example embodiment of the invention provides a computer-implemented method of clustering data. The method comprises performing, by a clustering module, an nth pass of clustering on data to produce a plurality of nth clusters. A cluster analysis module calculates a plurality of components of each of the nth clusters and de-weights a largest component of each of the nth clusters to produce a plurality of de-weighted nth clusters. The clustering module performs an n+1th pass of clustering on the plurality of de-weighted nth clusters to produce a plurality of n+1th clusters. The method may be reiterated.
US11023491B1	Limit query processing using distributed stop operator A global and local row count limit associated with a limit query are received by a stop operator of a first execution node among a set of execution nodes that are assigned to process the limit query. Local distributed row count data is generated based on a local row count corresponding to a number of rows output by the first execution node in processing the query. Based on determining the local row count satisfies the local limit, the first execution node buffers rows produced in processing the query. The local distributed row count data is updated based on remote distributed row count data received from a second execution node. A stopping condition is detected based on determining the global limit is satisfied based on updated local distributed row count data and query processing by the first execution node based on detecting the stopping condition.
US11023485B2	Cube construction for an OLAP system Embodiments relate to cube construction. According to a method, a plurality of valid history queries that request to retrieve a cube comprising a first number of cuboids in an On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) system are collected. A plurality of dimension combinations is acquired from the plurality of valid history queries. A query frequency of each cuboid of a second number of cuboids with the plurality of dimension combinations is determined, the second number of cuboids being a subset of the first number of cuboids. A cuboid construction sequence for the second number of cuboids is determined based on the query frequency. The cube is constructed based on the cuboid construction sequence.
US11023480B2	Electronic device and method for providing information on work and personal life A method and an electronic device for providing information associated with work and personal life are provided. An electronic device according to various embodiments may include a user interface, a processor electrically connected to the user interface, and a memory electrically connected to the processor. The memory stores instructions which when executed by the processor cause the processor to determine a first zone and a second zone different from the first zone, based on location information and time information of the electronic device, obtain a first time during which the electronic device is located in the first zone and a second time during which the electronic device is located in the second zone, and display information associated with the first time and the second time on the user interface.
US11023478B2	Determining temporal categories for a domain of content for natural language processing Mechanisms are provided for processing sources of content in a corpus of information associated with a domain. The mechanisms ingest a plurality of sources of content in the corpus of information associated with the domain and determine at least one temporal category for the domain based on identification of frequently occurring references to at least one of temporal terms or time spans specified in the plurality of sources of content in the corpus of information associated with the domain. The mechanisms store the at least one temporal category for the domain in association with the domain and process queries applied to the plurality of sources of content in the corpus of information associated with the domain based on the stored at least one temporal category for the domain.
US11023475B2	Testing pairings to determine whether they are publically known Provided are techniques for testing pairings to determine whether they are publically known. It is determined whether a pairing from a record is publicly known by searching public data stores. The pairing is marked with an outcome of the determining. An operation is performed on the pairing based on the outcome.
US11023470B2	Voice response system for text presentation In response to a user query, aspects identify a content requirement for satisfaction of the user query as a function of context profile data of the user comprising a subject matter requirement, a personal requirement, and a restriction parameter, retrieve a search result that satisfies the content requirement, select a first portion of the search result as a function of a user current context, and the restriction parameter, and present the first selected portion to the user in satisfaction of the first user query.
US11023458B2	Systems and methods for blockchain interlinking and relationships This disclosure describes systems and methods for interlinking multiple independent and separately-scalable blockchains to provide transactional provenance. The disclosed systems and methods leverage a combination of blockchain and graph data structures to interoperate between blockchains without requiring a single data structure while still providing a single chain of custody and provenance for a particular set of actions.
US11023455B2	Executing transactions based on blockchain At a node device associated with a blockchain as a received target transaction, a target transaction published by a user is received, where the received target transaction includes transaction content, and where at least a part of the transaction content includes a content summary associated with target content that is stored in a third-party storage system connected to the blockchain. By the node device and to the third-party storage system, the target content corresponding to the content summary is queried. By the node device, whether the target content is verified is determined. In response to determining that the target content is verified, by the node device, the received target transaction is executed based on the transaction content. By the node device, the received target transaction is stored in a distributed database associated with the blockchain.
US11023443B2	Collaborative planning for accelerating analytic queries A system and method for determining optimal query plans within distributed database system employing table operators for performing analytic operations for storing and processing multi-structured data. The optimization of a query plan proceeds through a collaborative exchange between a database system optimizer, or planner, and a table operator, wherein multiple communications between said optimizer and said table operator are conducted to exchange input and output information relevant to optimizing execution of the query and table operator.
US11023439B2	Variable cardinality index and data retrieval Systems and methods for a variable cardinality index and data retrieval. A multi-level hash table increases cardinality from a top index and comprises multiple levels respectively pointing to at least one other level of hash tables. Each hash table comprises a unique file identification for a record in the index. A search engine module receives a token and cardinality limit, and performs a search through the multi-level hash table index for records associated with the token. The search is limited by the cardinality limit, and comprises a hash table lookup and a B-Tree progression. In response to a hit in the token search, the search engine performs a subsequent B-Tree progression from the hash table in which the hit occurred. The search engine returns the record, if encountered in the subsequent B-Tree progression. The unique file identification is returned if missing data is encountered, or the cardinality limit is reached.
US11023437B2	Data storage management based on indicated storage levels and other criteria for multi-level storage systems Data can be stored based on one or more indications and one or more other storage criteria. The indications can effectively indicate or identify a storage level for storing data in a multi-storage system. The indications, however, need not be the only basis for storing the data object in a multi-storage system as one or more other storage criteria can also be considered. As a result, the indication can be used to effectively influence data storage but other storage criteria can be used as well to prevent adverse effects caused by undue influence and to ensure the overall efficiency of the system. Also, the one or more other storage criteria can be evaluated or revaluated on a continual basis.
US11023430B2	Sparse dictionary tree Techniques related to a sparse dictionary tree are disclosed. In some embodiments, computing device(s) execute instructions, which are stored on non-transitory storage media, for performing a method. The method comprises storing an encoding dictionary as a token-ordered tree comprising a first node and a second node, which are adjacent nodes. The token-ordered tree maps ordered tokens to ordered codes. The ordered tokens include a first token and a second token. The ordered codes include a first code and a second code, which are non-consecutive codes. The first node maps the first token to the first code. The second node maps the second token to the second code. The encoding dictionary is updated based on inserting a third node between the first node and the second node. The third node maps a third token to a third code that is greater than the first code and less than the second code.
US11023428B2	Form field creation systems and methods A method for creating a field database object (DO) in a database system (DS) is provided. Prior to run-time: a first page associated with the DO is displayed via a user interface (UI) presented on a display device (DD); a request to create a field for the DO is received via the UI presented on the DD; field creation options for creating fields for the DO within the first page are displayed via the UI; a selection of one or more field creation options is received via the UI and communicated to the DS; and the field is created in the DS. During run-time, the DD is sent a second page to be displayed that is different than the first page, via the same UI presented on the DD that was displayed and used to receive the selection used to create the field using the first page.
US11023427B2	System and method for real-time synchronization of source repositories The present disclosure relates to system(s) and method(s) for real-time synchronization of source repositories is illustrated. The system is configured to receive a set of documents corresponding to history of changes and changed data associated with a source repository since last replication of the source repository over an intermediate storage. Further, the system may convert the set of documents in an intermediate format to generate a set of intermediate documents. Further, the system may comprise steps to identify one or more target repositories from the set of repositories based on analysis of the set of intermediate documents and current status associated with each repository from set of repositories. Further, the system transmit the set of intermediate documents to the one or more target repositories.
US11023422B2	Generating snapshot of an integration environment to facilitate replication of the environment A system, method, and computer-readable medium are disclosed for reproducing an issue via a remote access controller by providing the remote access controller with a method for allowing a user to take a snapshot (i.e., a representation of the state of all components of an integration environment at a particular point in time) of an integration of the various components administered via a management application suite executing on a remote access controller. In certain embodiments, the management application suite comprises an OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter. Such a method reduces the time needed to determine a root cause of an issue and assists system managers in properly providing a solution to the issue.
US11023413B2	Synchronization in a multi-tile, multi-chip processing arrangement A method of operating a system comprising multiple processor tiles divided into a plurality of domains wherein within each domain the tiles are connected to one another via a respective instance of a time-deterministic interconnect and between domains the tiles are connected to one another via a non-time-deterministic interconnect. The method comprises: performing a compute stage, then performing a respective internal barrier synchronization within each domain, then performing an internal exchange phase within each domain, then performing an external barrier synchronization to synchronize between different domains, then performing an external exchange phase between the domains.
US11023412B2	RDMA data sending and receiving methods, electronic device, and readable storage medium A Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) data sending method is disclosed. The method is applicable to a sending end, with a data-transmission RDMA device disposed thereon. The method includes: the data-transmission RDMA device acquiring raw data; the data-transmission RDMA device compressing the raw data by using a preset compression method to obtain compressed data; and the data-transmission RDMA device encapsulating the compressed data into a data packet, and transmitting the data packet to a receiving end. The data packet may include a method tag corresponding to the preset compression method. In this method, the compression and transmission of the raw data are conducted by the data-transmission RDMA device on the hardware level.
US11023410B2	Instructions for performing multi-line memory accesses A system is described that performs memory access operations. The system includes a processor in a first node, a memory in a second node, a communication interconnect coupled to the processor and the memory, and an interconnect controller in the first node coupled between the processor and the communication interconnect. Upon executing a multi-line memory access instruction, the processor prepares a memory access operation for accessing, in the memory, a block of data including at least some of each of at least two lines of data. The processor then causes the interconnect controller to use a single remote direct memory access memory transfer to perform the memory access operation for the block of data via the communication interconnect.
US11023409B2	MIPI D-PHY receiver auto rate detection and high-speed settle time control System, methods and apparatus are described that support multimode operation of a data communication interface. An apparatus includes a physical layer interface coupled to a serial bus and configurable for a high-speed mode of communication and a low-speed mode of communication, and a rate detector configured to receive a clock signal from the serial bus, and to use a reference clock to determine a unit interval representative of a data rate of the serial bus. The apparatus may also include interval calculation logic configured to determine an interval related to timing of a data signal transmitted on the serial bus, the interval having a duration expressed as a number of cycles of the reference clock. The physical layer interface may be configured to use the interval to capture data in the data signal.
US11023399B2	Transfer control device, transfer device, transfer control method, and transfer control program A problem addressed by the present invention is to provide a transfer control device, etc., with which it is possible to reduce the number of occurrences of sending and receiving processes which a management device carries out when information is transferred among recording units. To solve the problem, provided is a transfer control device comprising: a transfer processing unit which, using each of a plurality of instances of management information, carries out an information transfer from a first recording unit to a second recording unit; an assessment unit which carries out an assessment about whether or not to carry out an update by assessing completion of partial transfers, each of which corresponds to the information transfer having been associated with each of the plurality of instances of the management information, on the basis of contracted information which represents a completion status of the partial transfers.
US11023396B2	Memory system including DRAM cache and cache management method thereof A memory system includes a nonvolatile memory electrically connected to a data bus, a DRAM electrically connected to the data bus, and a memory controller configured to drive the DRAM as a cache memory and the nonvolatile memory as a main memory and to synchronize data of a cache line with data of the nonvolatile memory in units of cache units based on a dirty flag. The DRAM is configured to load data of the cache line that caches data stored in the nonvolatile memory and to store the dirty flag, which indicates whether a cache unit is dirty, in units of cache units, where a size of each cache unit is smaller than a size of the cache line.
US11023385B2	System and method for one step address translation of graphics addresses in virtualization A system and method including, in some embodiments, receiving a request for a graphics memory address for an input/output (I/O) device assigned to a virtual machine in a system that supports virtualization, and installing, in a graphics memory translation table, a physical guest graphics memory address to host physical memory address translation.
US11023380B2	Non-volatile storage system with filtering of data samples for a monitored operational statistic A non-volatile storage device includes a compact and efficient filter of data samples for a monitored statistic about operation of the storage device. The non-volatile storage device comprises a plurality of non-volatile memory cells and a control circuit connected to the non-volatile memory cells. The control circuit is configured to maintain at the non-volatile storage device a sum of samples of the statistic for a moving window of the samples such that during operation new samples are added to the sum and contributions from old samples are removed from the sum by the control circuit multiplying the sum by a weight when adding the new samples.
US11023379B2	Low-power cached ambient computing Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for performing a prefetch processing to prepare an ambient computing device to operate in a low-power state without waking a memory device. One of the methods includes performing, by an ambient computing device, a prefetch process that populates a cache with prefetched instructions and data required for the ambient computing device to process inputs to the system while in the low-power state, and entering the low-power state, and processing, by the ambient computing device in the low-power state, inputs to the system using the prefetched instructions and data stored in the cache.
US11023376B2	System and methods for efficient virtually-tagged cache implementation A multiprocessor system includes a plurality of nodes and at least one memory, each node containing at least one processor; a first cache configured to store a plurality of first cache lines, the first cache being private to at least one node from among the plurality of nodes; and a second cache configured to store a plurality of second cache lines, the second cache being at a higher level than the first cache, wherein at least one of the first cache lines includes a first associated pointer pointing to a location of one of the second cache lines, and wherein at least one of the second cache lines includes a second associated pointer pointing to a location of one of the first cache lines.
US11023371B2	Memory system and method for controlling nonvolatile memory According to one embodiment, a memory system manages a plurality of parallel units each including blocks belonging to different nonvolatile memory dies. When receiving from a host a write request designating a third address to identify first data to be written, the memory system selects one block from undefective blocks included in one parallel unit as a write destination block by referring to defect information, determines a write destination location in the selected block, and writes the first data to the write destination location. The memory system notifies the host of a first physical address indicative of both of the selected block and the write destination location, and the third address.
US11023364B2	Method and system for automating the process of testing of software applications The invention relates to a method and a system for testing interactive applications on at least one TV device according to at least one test scenario. The test scenario is run and monitored by a test driver system separate from the at least one TV device, wherein the test scenario comprises a series of user interaction steps and at least one target state of the application and/or the at least one TV device to be achieved after a specified user interaction step, the method comprising the steps of: a. integrating a test definition helper library into the interactive application, wherein the test definition helper library is configured to obtain information on the state of the interactive application and/or the at least one TV device; b. providing the modified interactive application to the at least one TV device; c. running the at least one test scenario, wherein the test driver system non-transparently performs the series of user interaction steps on the at least one TV device; and d. comparing the information on the state of the interactive application and/or the at least one TV device obtained by the test definition helper library with the at least one target state after the specified user interaction step.
US11023361B1	Intelligent automated way of baselining integration content using messages from historical tests to be used for regression testing Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for determining an integration regression between a source system and a target system. An embodiment operates by selecting a first set of messages in a middleware system. The embodiment receives a baseline mapping for the first set of messages from the middleware system. The embodiment creates a test suite based on the first set of messages. The embodiment performs the test suite, wherein the performing generates a second set of messages in the middleware system and a current mapping for the second set of messages. The embodiment compares the first set of messages to the second set of messages based on the baseline mapping and the current mapping. The embodiment determines an integration regression between the source system and the target system based on the comparing.
US11023342B2	Cache diagnostic techniques Techniques are disclosed relating to cache debug using control registers based on debug commands. In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a processor core, debug circuitry, and control circuitry. In some embodiments, the debug circuitry is configured to receive external debug inputs and send abstract commands to the processor core based on the external debug inputs. In some embodiments, the control circuitry is configured to, in response to an abstract command to read data from the cache: write cache address information to a first control register, assert a trigger signal to cause a read of the data from the cache to a second control register, based on the cache address information in the first control register, and send data from the second control register to the debug circuitry. In various embodiments, this may facilitate hardware cache debug using debug circuitry that also controls software debugging.
US11023340B2	Layering a distributed storage system into storage groups and virtual chunk spaces for efficient data recovery Technology is disclosed for storing data in a distributed storage system using a virtual chunk service (VCS). In the VCS based storage technique, a storage node (“node”) is split into multiple VCSs and each of the VCSs can be assigned a unique ID in the distributed storage. A set of VCSs from a set of nodes form a storage group, which also can be assigned a unique ID in the distributed storage. When a data object is received for storage, a storage group is identified for the data object, the data object is encoded to generate multiple fragments and each fragment is stored in a VCS of the identified storage group. The data recovery process is made more efficient by using metadata, e.g., VCS to storage node mapping, storage group to VCS mapping, VCS to objects mapping, which eliminates resource intensive read and write operations during recovery.
US11023337B2	Information processing system and control apparatus An information processing system includes a plurality of control apparatuses communicably coupled to each other. A first control apparatus of the plurality of control apparatuses includes a first memory configured to store first instructions and a first processor configured to operate using standby power before a power-on selection is made. The first processor executes the first instructions causing a process including collecting first identification information of each of the plurality of control apparatuses other than the first control apparatus. The process includes storing the first identification information in the first memory. The process includes determining a role of the first control apparatus based on a comparison result derived by comparing second identification information of the first control apparatus with the first identification information.
US11023334B2	Table level database restore in a data storage system The data storage system according to certain aspects can implement table level database restore. Table level database restore may refer to restoring a database table and its related data without restoring the entire database. The data storage system may use table metadata index to implement table level restore. A table metadata index may be created for each table, e.g., during a backup of the database. The table metadata index for a table can include any type of information for restoring the table and its related data. Some examples of the type of information included in the table metadata index include the following: container for the table, table backup location, system data, table index, table relationships, etc. Table metadata index can make the restoring of tables fast and efficient by packaging information that can be used to restore a table and its related data in an easily accessible manner.
US11023331B2	Fast recovery of data in a geographically distributed storage environment Described herein, system that facilitates recovery of an object segment in a geographically distributed storage environment. According to an embodiment, a system can comprise receiving a read request to read an object segment from a first data chunk stored in a geographically diverse data storage system, wherein the first data chunk is inaccessible, executing a GEO recovery process in response to determining that the first data chunk is inaccessible, wherein the GEO recovery process comprises accessing a first slice of data from a second data chunk stored in the geographically diverse data storage system, accessing a second slice of data from a third data chunk stored in the geographically diverse data storage system, and applying an XOR operation to the first slice of data and the second slice of data to determine a third slice of data, and extracting the object segment from the third slice of data.
US11023330B2	Efficient scheduling of backups for cloud computing systems A system and method for backing up virtual machines are disclosed. To better use the backup resources, an optimal set of virtual machines needing backup during a time window is generated. The optimal set depends on a total time for backing up each virtual machine needing backup and a cost metric that indicates a cost of not backing up the virtual machine during the time window. The optimal set also meets various system constraints that reflect the backup resource limitations. Performing backups according to the optimal set limits the number of missed backups and the number of service level agreement violations, thereby improving the backup performance without costly additions to its infrastructure.
US11023322B2	Raid storage-device-assisted parity update data storage system A RAID storage-device-assisted parity data update system includes a first RAID primary data drive that DMA's second primary data from a host system, and XOR's it with first primary data to produce first interim parity data for a first data stripe. A second RAID primary data drive DMA's fourth primary data from the host system, and XOR's it with third primary data to produce second interim parity data for a second data stripe. A first RAID parity data drive DMAs the first interim parity data and XOR's it with first parity data to produce second parity data for the first data stripe that overwrites the first parity data. A second RAID parity data drive DMA's the second interim parity data and XOR's it with third parity data to produce fourth parity data for the second data stripe that overwrites the third parity data.
US11023321B2	Raid storage-device-assisted deferred parity data update system A RAID storage-device-assisted deferred parity data update system includes a RAID primary data drive that retrieves second primary data via a DMA operation from host system, and XOR's it with first primary data to produce first interim parity data, which causes a RAID storage controller device to provide an inconsistent parity stripe journal entry in the host system. The RAID primary data drive then retrieves third primary data via a DMA operation from the host system, XORs it with the second primary data and the first interim parity data to produce second interim parity data. A RAID parity data drive retrieves the second interim parity data via a DMA operation, and XORs it with first parity data to produce second parity data that it uses to overwrite the first parity data, which causes the RAID storage controller device to remove the inconsistent parity stripe journal entry from the host system.
US11023318B1	System and method for fast random access erasure encoded storage A system and method is provided for fast random access erasure encoded storage. An exemplary method includes writing data to an append-only data log that includes data log extents that are each associated with data that is mapped to corresponding offset range of a virtual file of a client and storing the append-only data log as a sequence of data chunks each allocated on one or more one storage disks. Moreover, the method determines an amount of useful data in one or more data chunks and, when the amount of useful data in the data chunk is less than a predetermined threshold, appending the useful data from the data chunk to an end of the append-only data log. Finally, the data log is cleaned by releasing the one or more data chunk from the append-only data log after the useful data is appended to the append-only data log.
US11023314B2	Prioritizing shared blockchain data storage Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for storing blockchain data. One of the methods includes receiving a plurality of blocks from a blockchain node in the blockchain network; for each of the plurality of blocks: determining a first number of blockchain nodes that store a dataset divided from an error correction coding (ECC) encoded version of the block and a second number of blockchain nodes that store a dataset comprised of redundant bits divided from the ECC encoded version of the block; calculating a priority value of the block based on the first number and the second number; and encoding at least a portion of the plurality of blocks using ECC to generate a plurality of encoded blocks based on the priority value.
US11023304B2	System and method for data error notification in interconnected data production systems An error notification system includes a plurality of data production systems in communication with a monitoring server. Each data production system has a data processor configured to receive input data from a first set of data production systems, process the input data to produce output data, and make the output data accessible to a second set of data production systems. The monitoring server is configured to monitor data transmissions between the data production systems and to identify, for each data transmission, originating and receiving systems. The monitoring server is further configured to map data flow from each originating source system to identify all downstream data production systems. Upon identification of a data error in the originating source system, the monitoring server obtains data error information, assembles a data error notification, and transmits the data error notification to data production systems meeting system notification criteria.
US11023301B1	Unified API platform Systems and methods for providing a unified application programming interface (API) and command line interface (CLI) aggregation platform are provided. For example, the platform may capture and store current version and commands available for API and CLI commands for a plurality of vendors, provide the database, CLI, and interface for defining and abstracting Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), cloud, on-premise and hypervisor-backed virtualized hardware platform API and CLI calls, and create a semantic ontology unifying disparate API and CLI calls. The platform may help implement an instance of computer infrastructure for consolidating, unifying, and obfuscating multiple disparate IaaS, cloud, on-premise and hypervisor-backed virtualized hardware platforms thereby defining a unified method for calling IaaS services using the API and CLI commands from the plurality of vendors through an ontologically driven abstraction tier.
US11023292B1	Method and apparatus for using a single storage structure to authorize APIs Some embodiments of the invention provide a system for defining, distributing and enforcing policies for authorizing API (Application Programming Interface) calls to applications executing on one or more sets of associated machines (e.g., virtual machines, containers, computers, etc.) in one or more datacenters. This system has servers that act as a logically centralized resource for defining and storing policies and parameters for evaluating these policies. The servers enforce these policies and distribute the policies and parameters to policy-enforcing local agents that execute near the applications that process the API calls. From an associated application, a local agent receives API-authorization requests to determine whether API calls received by the application are authorized. In response to such a request, the local agent uses one or more parameters associated with the API call to identify a policy stored in its local policy storage to evaluate whether the API call should be authorized. To evaluate this policy, the agent also retrieves one or more parameters from the local policy storage.
US11023291B2	Synchronization between processes in a coordination namespace A system and method of supporting point-to-point synchronization among processes/nodes implementing different hardware barriers in a tuple space/coordinated namespace (CNS) extended memory storage architecture. The system-wide CNS provides an efficient means for storing data, communications, and coordination within applications and workflows implementing barriers in a multi-tier, multi-nodal tree hierarchy. The system provides a hardware accelerated mechanism to support barriers between the participating processes. Also architected is a tree structure for a barrier processing method where processes are mapped to nodes of a tree, e.g., a tree of degree k to provide an efficient way of scaling the number of processes in a tuple space/coordination namespace.
US11023289B2	Cloud environment configuration based on task parallelization Example methods and computer systems for cloud environment configuration based on task parallelization. One example method may comprise: obtaining a task data structure specifying execution dependency information associated with a set of multiple configuration tasks that are executable to perform cloud environment configuration. The method may also comprise: In response to identifying a first configuration task and a second configuration task that are ready for execution based on the task data structure, triggering execution of the first configuration task and the second configuration task. The method may further comprise: in response to determination that the first configuration task has been completed, identifying third configuration task(s) that are ready for execution based on the task data structure; and triggering execution of the third configuration task(s) by respective third compute node(s).
US11023271B2	System and method for registering subscribable sub-states in blockchain Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for registering subscribable sub-states in blockchain are provided. One of the methods includes: obtaining a request for registering one or more sub-states of a state, wherein a registered workflow comprises the state; generating a blockchain contract comprising the one or more sub-states; and deploying the blockchain contract in a blockchain. The deployed blockchain contract is executable to update a current sub-state of the state corresponding to the workflow among the one or more sub-states.
US11023261B1	3RD party application management Methods and systems for secure applications running web view applications are disclosed. In some aspects, user data may be secured within a first security domain, that is inaccessible to a web view application running within a second application. The second application accesses the user data via a second security domain, when a request is received from the web view application to display a user interface. The second application then displays a user interface based at least in part, on the user data.
US11023257B2	Loader application with secondary embedded application object Methods, systems, and non-transitory computer-readable media for embedding a secondary application object within a loader application are described herein. In some embodiments, a computing platform may initiate a first iOS application comprising a first name and a first instance of UIApplication comprising an NSObject class. Further, the computing platform may embed into the first iOS application, a second iOS application comprising a second name, a second instance of UIApplication, and a first derived class. Next, the computing platform may generate, based on NSObject and the first derived class, a second derived class. Additionally, the computing platform may generate an iPhone Application (IPA) file comprising the first iOS application wherein the first iOS application comprises the second derived class and the second name. Subsequently, the computing platform may distribute via a communication interface, the IPA file.
US11023253B2	Information processing apparatus and non-transitory computer readable medium An information processing apparatus includes an extraction unit, an acquisition unit, and a presentation unit. The extraction unit extracts pieces of characteristic information of an initialization target program to be installed and initialized. The acquisition unit acquires at least one set value for initializing the initialization target program from at least one different program that has been installed. The acquisition unit acquires the set value in an ascending order of priorities assigned to the multiple different programs in accordance with a degree of matching in the pieces of characteristic information extracted by the extraction unit. The presentation unit presents the set value acquired by the acquisition unit.
US11023250B2	Resetting a peripheral device Apparatuses, methods, systems, and program products are disclosed for resetting a peripheral device. An apparatus includes a disconnect module that detaches each of one or more device contexts from a peripheral device in response to a reset request for the peripheral device. Each of the one or more device contexts describes a connection between the peripheral device and a process. An apparatus includes an access module that prevents the one or more device contexts for one or more processes from accessing the peripheral device. An apparatus includes a reset module that resets the peripheral device in response to the one or more device contexts being detached from the peripheral device.
US11023245B2	Serialization floors and deadline driven control for performance optimization of asymmetric multiprocessor systems Closed loop performance controllers of asymmetric multiprocessor systems may be configured and operated to improve performance and power efficiency of such systems by adjusting control effort parameters that determine the dynamic voltage and frequency state of the processors and coprocessors of the system in response to the workload. One example of such an arrangement includes applying hysteresis to the control effort parameter and/or seeding the control effort parameter so that the processor or coprocessor receives a returning workload in a higher performance state. Another example of such an arrangement includes deadline driven control, in which the control effort parameter for one or more processing agents may be increased in response to deadlines not being met for a workload and/or decreased in response to deadlines being met too far in advance. The performance increase/decrease may be determined by comparison of various performance metrics for each of the processing agents.
US11023244B2	System, apparatus and method for recovering link state during link training In one embodiment, a link training controller is to train a link. The link training controller may be configured to: update a first link parameter of a link setting for the link to a first value; write data to the memory; read the data from the memory using the first value of the first link parameter; and in response to a determination that the data read from the memory does not match the data written to the memory, send an in-band link recovery command to the memory via the link to cause the memory to participate in a link recovery protocol with the apparatus. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US11023240B1	Systems and methods for efficient scaling of quantized integers The disclosed computer-implemented method may include receiving an input value and a floating-point scaling factor and determining (1) an integer scaling factor based on the floating-point scaling factor, (2) a pre-scaling adjustment value representative of a number of places by which to shift a binary representation of the input value prior to a scaling operation, and (3) a post-scaling adjustment value representative of a number of places by which to shift the binary representation of the input value following the scaling operation. The method may further include calculating a scaled result value by (1) shifting rightwards the binary representation of the input value by the pre-scaling adjustment value, (2) scaling the shifted binary representation of the input value by the integer scaling factor, and (3) shifting rightwards the shifted and scaled binary value by the post-scaling adjustment value. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US11023236B2	Instruction and logic for processing text strings Method, apparatus, and program means for performing a string comparison operation. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes execution resources to execute a first instruction. In response to the first instruction, said execution resources store a result of a comparison between each data element of a first and second operand corresponding to a first and second text string, respectively.
US11023234B2	Method and system for restructuring of collections for synchronization A method includes implementing a collection for a single thread and a sequential data structure. The single thread includes functionality to execute on a parallel processor. The method further includes detecting whether the collection is shared by multiple threads by tracking reachability of the collection, and modifying the data representation and the implementation of the shared collection for synchronization of the multiple threads. The method may also include testing whether the multiple threads are synchronized on the shared collection.
US11023232B2	Control transfer termination instructions of an instruction set architecture (ISA) In an embodiment, the present invention includes a processor having an execution logic to execute instructions and a control transfer termination (CTT) logic coupled to the execution logic. This logic is to cause a CTT fault to be raised if a target instruction of a control transfer instruction is not a CTT instruction. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US11023229B2	Self-learning automated techniques for detecting the usage of software packages The systems and methods provided herein determine at least one first file system path related to a specific software package. A second file system path associated with a computing process running on the computer system is determined, and use of the specific software package on the computer system is detected based on comparing the first file system path with the second file system path. Thus, the present techniques determine the installation director(ies) of the application(s) and then compare active processes to determine whether an application is in use or is only installed.
US11023225B2	Method and apparatus for resource binding A method and apparatus for resource binding are disclosed. In an embodiment, the apparatus includes an acquisition module, for acquiring a data constraint of an Internet of Things (IOT) data input point of an algorithm encapsulation module forming an IOT application, the data constraint defining a requirement which must be met by an IOT resource which can be bound to the IOT data input point; a matching module for, on the basis of the acquired data constraint and descriptions of IOT resources in the IOT, searching amongst the IOT resources for an IOT resource matching the IOT data input point; and a binding module for, upon an IOT resource matching the IOT data input point being found, binding the IOT resource found to the IOT data input point. The use of the method and apparatus can reduce the burden on the user during creation of an IOT application.
US11023223B2	Software update program for in-vehicle devices and associated server A program update system includes a vehicle including a plurality of in-vehicle devices, and a server provided outside the vehicle. Each of the in-vehicle devices of the vehicle includes a storage unit configured to store one or more programs, an in-vehicle device communication unit configured to perform communication with the server, and an update execution unit configured to update the programs stored in the storage unit. The server includes a server communication unit configured to perform communication with each of the in-vehicle devices, and an update management unit configured to specify the in-vehicle device to be updated in a set of the in-vehicle devices and a program to be updated and execute update processing that makes the server communication unit transmit update data for updating the program to be updated to the in-vehicle device to be updated.
US11023221B2	Artificial intelligence driven configuration management Techniques for artificial intelligence driven configuration management are described herein. In some embodiments, a machine-learning process determines a feature set for a plurality of deployments of a software resource. Based on varying values in the feature set, the process clusters each of the plurality of deployments into a cluster of a plurality of clusters. Each cluster of the plurality of clusters comprises one or more nodes and each node of the one or more nodes corresponds to at least a subset of values of the feature set that are detected in at least one deployment of the plurality of deployments of the software resource. The process determines a representative node for each cluster of the plurality of clusters. An operation may be performed based on the representative node for at least one cluster.
US11023215B2	Methods, systems, and portal for accelerating aspects of data analytics application development and deployment The present disclosure relates to methods and systems for accelerating the development and distribution of data science workloads, including a consistent, portable and pre-configured data science workspace for development of data science applications allowing for the creation of a standardized, modular and reusable library of data science code product that can be maintained, extended and reused in a clear and repeatable manner. The code may be submitted to a build and deployment process that ensures consistency across multiple environments in terms of the application code and the operating system environment. Runtime execution may be managed through the authoring of definitions which detail aspects of how the workload should operate within a certain environment.
US11023208B2	True random number generator A true random number generator includes a latch circuit, a noise circuit coupled to the latch circuit and an equalization circuit coupled to the inputs of the latch circuit, the equalization circuit being configured to maintain the latch circuit in a balanced state and to allow the latch circuit to resolve from a metastable state based on a timing control. A method of generating a random number output includes maintaining a latch circuit in a balanced state by turning on an equalization circuit coupled to the inputs of the latch circuit, coupling at least one noise source to the latch circuit, allowing the latch circuit to resolve from a metastable state by turning off the equalization circuit and repeatedly turning the equalization circuit on and off based on a timing control.
US11023207B1	True random number generator and system comprising the same Embodiments provide a true random number generator. The true random number generator may include a first ring oscillator having a first frequency, a second ring oscillator having a second frequency, a third ring oscillator having a third frequency, and a capacitor connected between the second ring oscillator and the third ring oscillator to provide a capacitive coupling therebetween. The second frequency is lower than the first frequency, and the third frequency is lower than the second frequency. The true random number generator may further include a D-type flip-flop having a data input connected to an output of the first ring oscillator and having a clock input connected to an output of the third ring oscillator, wherein the D-type flip-flop is configured to generate an output signal representing a sequence of random numbers.
US11023202B2	Enhanced autocorrect features using audio interface A system and computer-implemented method are provided for enabling an audio interface enhanced autocorrect feature in a mobile device. The method includes detecting activation of an autocorrect feature of a mobile device in response to a portion of text not appearing in a system dictionary, enabling a microphone in response to activation of the autocorrect feature, receiving audio input from a user responsive to a word replacement by the autocorrect feature, and implementing an enhanced autocorrect action based on the audio input.
US11023201B2	Electronic device for processing multi-modal input, method for processing multi-modal input and server for processing multi-modal input An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a housing, a touchscreen display exposed through a first portion of the housing, a microphone disposed at a second portion of the housing, a speaker disposed at a third portion of the housing, a memory disposed inside the housing, a processor disposed inside the housing, and electrically connected to the display, the microphone, the speaker, and the memory. The memory is configured to store a plurality of application programs, each of which includes a graphic user interface (GUI).
US11023200B2	Systems, devices and methods for delivering audible alerts Systems, devices and methods for delivering audible alerts are described. In one aspect, an event for generating an audible alert for a user is detected. In response to detection of the event for generating for the audible alert, an audible interface device for delivery of the audible alert based on a location of a personal electronic device of the user is selected. It is determined whether a personal electronic device of another user is within a threshold distance of the selected audible interface device. In response to determining that the personal electronic device of another user is within the threshold distance of the selected audible interface device, an audible identifier associated with the user is determined. Alert instructions for the audible interface device are generated and sent to the audible interface device over a wireless network via a communication module. The alert instructions cause the audible interface device to generate the audible alert in accordance with alert data provided in the alert instructions. The generation of the audible alert is preceded by generation of the audible identifier associated with the user to notify the user of the forthcoming audible alert.
US11023194B2	Modular module An arrangement includes at least two modules for a video wall including light-emitting components arranged on a carrier, wherein a drive circuit that selectively drives the component at the carrier is provided for each component, row lines and column lines are provided, each drive circuit connects to a row line and a column line, each drive circuit connects to power supply lines, the carrier includes plated-through holes that guide the row lines and the column lines onto an underside of the carrier, the two modules are arranged on a further carrier, the further carrier includes at least one recess, an electrical connector is arranged in the recess, and the electrical connector connects column lines and/or row lines of the two modules to one another.
US11023193B2	Processing apparatus, medium storing program executable by processing apparatus, and printing material ordering system A processing apparatus for a print unit configured to print an image by using a printing material includes a processor configured to determine a value related to a remaining amount of the printing material in the print unit, output printing material information based on the determined value related to the remaining amount, and determine whether a replenishment printing material is ordered. The processor is configured to determine an order time to order the replenishment printing material by using the value related to the remaining amount of the printing material, and output the printing material information at a shorter interval before the replenishment printing material is ordered than after the replenishment printing material is ordered.
US11023192B2	Operation terminal, method, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium for requesting output of a file An operation terminal connected to an information storage apparatus and an output apparatus, comprising a processor that obtains a file from the information storage apparatus; displays, on a monitor, an image of the obtained file and a button for selecting an output device for outputting the file; displays, after the button has been pushed, a two-dimensional code photographing screen; the two-dimensional code photographing screen for photographing a two-dimensional code by a camera; obtains, after the two-dimensional code is photographed by the camera while the two-dimensional code photographing screen is displayed, information that specifies the output device; wherein the information that specifies the output device is obtained from the photographed two-dimensional code; and sends, to the output device through a network, an output request for outputting the file of the image displayed on the monitor, based on the obtained information that specifies the output device.
US11023184B2	Image forming system and program between a portable terminal and an image forming device with confirmation feature A non-transitory recording medium storing a computer readable program causes a computer included in a portable terminal to communicate with an image forming device to execute: a) a step of acquiring communication information from the image forming device via first wireless communication, the communication information being information for executing second wireless communication; b) a step of executing processing of confirming existence of a user who possesses the portable terminal in the vicinity of the image forming device; and c) a step of, on condition that existence of the user in the vicinity of the image forming device is confirmed in the step b), permitting registration processing of registering the communication information in the portable terminal in order to execute the second wireless communication, the communication information being communication information for the second wireless communication with the image forming device and being acquired in the step a).
US11023181B2	Systems and methods for operating multiple client printing systems A method for operating multiple client printing systems is described. The method includes creating an administration account. The method also includes instantiating a printing manager instance for each of the multiple client printing systems. The multiple client printing systems are associated with the administration account. The method further includes presenting a data structure comprising an object associated with each of the multiple client printing systems. The method additionally includes determining license usage data for the multiple client printing systems based on the printing manager instances. The method also includes presenting the license usage data.
US11023178B2	Implementing coherency and page cache support for a storage system spread across multiple data centers A plurality of computing devices are communicatively coupled to each other via a network, and each of the plurality of computing devices is operably coupled to one or more of a plurality of storage devices. The computing devices may use local caches and storing snapshots in a coherent manner when accessing the plurality of storage devices spread across multiple data centers.
US11023174B2	Combining of move commands to improve the performance of an automated data storage library A system and method of combining move commands of an automated data storage library is disclosed that includes receiving a first command from a host system to remove a first data storage cartridge from a data storage drive of the automated data storage library; maintaining the first data storage cartridge within the data storage drive until receiving a second command from the host system to move a second data storage cartridge into the data storage drive; responding to the host system with a successful move completion status of the first data storage cartridge from the data storage drive, even though the first data storage cartridge is maintained within the data storage drive; and updating a cartridge inventory for the host system to indicate that the first data storage cartridge is located in a requested storage slot location after receiving the first command from the host system to remove the first data storage cartridge from the data storage drive, even though the first data storage cartridge is maintained within the data storage drive.
US11023173B2	Apparatuses and methods to mask write operations for a mode of operation using ECC circuitry An exemplary semiconductor device includes an input/output (I/O) circuit configured to combine data corresponding to a write command received via data terminals with a first subset of corrected read data retrieved from a memory cell array to provide write data. The exemplary semiconductor device further includes a write driver circuit configured to mask a write operation of a first bit of the write data that corresponds to a bit of the first subset of the read data and to perform a write operation for a second bit of the write data that corresponds to the data received via the data terminals.
US11023159B2	Method for fast recovering of data on a failed storage device A method for recovering data on a failed storage device includes detecting that a first storage device has a failure, creating a simulated management module where the simulated management module linked with a second storage device, writing a replica of at least some of the data as stored in the first storage device to a second storage device, creating a permanent management module and deleting the simulated management module.
US11023158B2	Constraining placement of replica segment pairs among device pairs based on coding segment count Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method, apparatus, and computer program product for storing data. A method for storing data comprises: dividing data to be stored into a first number of data segments; generating a second number of coding segments based on the first number of data segments, such that at least a part of data segments from the first number of data segments can be derived from the second number of coding segments and remaining data segments in the first number of data segments; generating, for each of the first number of data segments, a replication data segment identical to the data segment; and storing the first number of data segments, the first number of replication data segments and the second number of coding segments into a plurality of storage devices. Embodiments of the present disclosure can reduce extra overhead for protecting data while ensuring high data availability.
US11023143B2	Node interconnection apparatus, resource control node, and server system Embodiments of application provide a node interconnection apparatus, and a method implemented by the node interconnection apparatus. The node interconnection apparatus includes a computing node and a resource control node, and a device interconnection interface connecting the two. Each of the computing node and the resource control node includes a processing unit and a storage unit, and the resource control node further includes a resource interface for connecting with a network storage device. The resource control node manages storage resource of the network storage device, and when the computing node needs started up, the resource control node obtains operating system startup information from the network storage device and provide the information to the computing node. The computing node can start up without the need for storing startup information locally. Therefore, storage resource inside the computing node is saved.
US11023142B2	Channel optimized storage modules A storage module includes a set of memories. Each of the memories in the set of memories may be divided into a set of portions. A controller is configured to transfer data between the set of memories and a host connected through an interface. A set of channels connects the set of memories to the controller. The controller is also configured to select: a memory from the set of memories, a portion from the set of portions for the selected memory, and/or a channel from the set of channels, e.g., connected to the selected memory, based upon an identification (ID) associated with the data. The ID may be separate from the data and a write address of the data, and the selected memory, the selected portion, and the selected channel may be used to store the data.
US11023132B2	Electronic device, computer system, and control method According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes a nonvolatile memory that includes blocks and a controller. The controller transmits information to the host. The information indicates a first logical address range corresponding to cold data stored in the nonvolatile memory, and a processing amount for turning a cold block that comprises the cold data into a block to which data is writable. The controller reads the cold data from the nonvolatile memory in accordance with a read command that is received from the host and designates the first logical address range, and transmits the read cold data to the host. The controller writes, to the nonvolatile memory, the cold data that is received with a write command designating the first logical address range from the host.
US11023116B2	Device, method, and graphical user interface for moving a user interface object based on an intensity of a press input An electronic device, with a touch-sensitive surface, displays a respective control, which is associated with respective contact intensity criteria, used to determine whether or not a function associated with the respective control will be performed. The device detects a gesture on the touch-sensitive surface, corresponding to an interaction with the respective control. In accordance with a determination that the gesture does not include a contact that meets the respective contact intensity criteria, the device changes the appearance of the respective control to indicate progress toward meeting the respective contact intensity criteria that is used to determine whether or not a function associated with the respective control will be performed. In response to detecting activation of the control, the device performs the function associated with the respective control in accordance with the detected gesture including a contact that meets the respective contact intensity criteria.
US11023115B2	Circular video player controls A method, system, computer program product, and computer readable storage medium provide the ability to control media content play. A media content user interface component that controls playback of the media content in a media player is activated. The component includes a circular progress bar and a progress marker that coincides with the circular progress bar. As the media content plays in the media player, the progress marker moves around the circular progress bar. User input moves the progress marker along the circular progress bar to rewind or fast forward the media content.
US11023109B2	Annotation using a multi-device mixed interactivity system In various embodiments, methods and systems for implementing a multi-device mixed interactivity system are provided. The interactivity system includes paired mixed-input devices for interacting and controlling virtual objects. In operation, a selection profile associated with a virtual object is accessed. The selection profile is generated based on a selection input determined using real input associated with a selection device and virtual input associated with a mixed-reality device. The selection device has a first display and the mixed-reality device has a second display that both display the virtual object. An annotation input for the virtual object based on a selected portion corresponding to the selection profile is received. An annotation profile based on the annotation input is generated. The annotation profile includes annotation profile attributes for annotating a portion of the virtual object. An annotation of the selected portion of the virtual reality object is caused to be displayed.
US11023108B2	Systems and methods of creative work collaborative systems A collaborative system that securely enables the tracking of changes in a document and securely prevents changes to the document in addition to associating the document with additional related data.
US11023095B2	Providing a first person view in a virtual world using a lens An interactive virtual world having avatars. Scenes in the virtual world as seen by the eyes of the avatars are presented on user devices controlling the avatars. In one approach, a method includes identifying a location of an avatar in a virtual world, and a point of gaze of the avatar; adjusting, based on the point of gaze, a lens that directs available light received by the lens so that the lens can focus on objects at all distances; collecting, using the adjusted lens, image data; and generating a scene of the virtual world as seen by the avatar, the scene based on the collected image data, the location of the avatar, and the point of gaze of the avatar.
US11023094B2	Collaborative, multi-user system for viewing, rendering, and editing 3D assets Systems and methods are presented for allowing multiple users to collaboratively edit 3-D assets in real-time, using a distributed 3-D editing/rendering software application. The software application may include a lightweight, browser-based user interface that is able to run on computing devices with relatively little memory and processing power. The software application may further include a progressive rendering engine.
US11023092B2	Shared virtual area communication environment based apparatus and methods Improved systems and methods for navigating and interacting in virtual communication environments are disclosed. Some of these systems and methods provide a framework that includes one or more virtual areas and supports realtime communications between the communicants. Some of these systems and methods provide an interface that includes navigation controls to navigate virtual areas and interaction controls to interact with other communicants in the one or more virtual areas.
US11023083B2	Touch panel and display apparatus including the same A touch panel includes first touch electrodes, second touch electrodes, and third touch electrodes. The first touch electrodes include sub electrodes spaced apart from one another in a first direction. The second touch electrodes extend in a second direction crossing the first direction. The second touch electrodes are spaced apart from one another in the first direction. The third touch electrodes extend in the second direction and are spaced apart from one another in the first direction. The third touch electrodes are shaped differently than the second touch electrodes.
US11023074B2	Display device having touch sensor A display device having a touch sensor that enables the size of a bezel area to be reduced is disclosed. The display device is configured such that a display area is spatially divided into first and second touch areas, and first sensing-routing lines, connected to touch electrodes in the first touch area, and second sensing-routing lines, connected to touch electrodes in the second touch area, are not disposed in side and upper bezel areas but are alternately disposed in a lower bezel area. Consequently, it is possible to reduce the size of the side bezel area and the upper bezel area.
US11023072B2	Electronic device for providing handwriting input function and method of operating the same An electronic device and method are disclosed. The electronic device includes: a housing adapted to couple to a first, second and third cover portion, an antenna in the second cover portion, a power management circuit, a wireless communication circuit, an input sensing circuit, and a control circuit. The control circuit implements the method, including: receiving power from a first external device coupled to the electronic device, driving, by a processor, an input-sensing circuit of the electronic device based on at least a part of the received power, detecting, by the processor, an input of a second external device using the driven input-sensing circuit, and transmitting, by communication circuitry, a signal related to the detected input via the second external device to the coupled first external device.
US11023071B1	Driving system and method of touch display panel A driving system of touch display panel includes a panel having an active area and a plurality of touch electrodes, and a gate driving circuit connected with a plurality of gate lines. There is at least one gate line not covered by the touch electrodes among the gate lines disposed in a range constituted by vertically adjacent touch electrodes. The gate line not covered by the touch electrode, at least one gate line previous thereto, and at least one gate line next thereto are selected as the gate lines that influence coupling. When driving the gate lines that influence coupling, the gate driving circuit enables a time difference between an active time of each at least one gate line among the gate lines that influence coupling and an active time of a gate line previous thereto to be greater than a predetermined interval.
US11023069B2	Pressure sensor and electronic device A pressure sensor that includes a piezoelectric film having a flat part and a curved part and having opposed first and second main surfaces, a first electrode on the first main surface of the piezoelectric film, and a second electrode on the second main surfaces of the piezoelectric film. When the flat part of the piezoelectric film receives a pressing operation a first output is generated, and when the curved part of the piezoelectric film receives a pressing operation a second output different from the first output is generated.
US11023066B2	Display device including touch sensor and driving method thereof A display device may include: a first touch sensor including first sensing electrodes and second sensing electrodes, arranged in a sensing area intersecting each other; a display panel including: pixels arranged in a display area overlapping with the sensing area; and a second touch sensor including photo sensors disposed between the pixels or in the pixels; and a driving circuit configured to drive the first touch sensor and the display panel, wherein the driving circuit may be configured to detect a touch input by comparing a first touch detection value detected by the first touch sensor and a second touch detection value detected by the photo sensors.
US11023064B2	Display device having at least one pressure sensor A display device including a first pressure sensor disposed under a display panel that includes an upper surface, a first upper curved portion extended from a first edge of the upper surface, and a first side surface extended from the first upper curved portion. The first pressure sensor is disposed in the first upper curved portion.
US11023059B2	Touch display panel and touch display device Embodiments disclosed herein relate to a touch display panel and a touch display device. By arranging a shielding structure, which is connected to a touch electrode in a region where a touch line and a data line overlap each other or is applied with a shielding signal corresponding to a touch driving signal from an outside circuit, between the touch line and the data line, it is possible to prevent direct capacitance from being formed between the touch line and the data line, and to prevent the capacitance formed due to the data line from causing noise on a touch sensing signal. In addition, by arranging a touch load reduction layer between the shielding structure and the touch line, it is also possible to reduce the capacitance between the touch line and the data line arranged in the horizontal direction, thereby improving touch sensing performance.
US11023049B2	Methods and systems for enabling gesture control for a vehicle feature A vehicle gesture system includes a processor connected to a transceiver and programmed to detect a wireless device associated with a vehicle feature settings interface for a first vehicle feature. The processor is further programmed to detect the wireless device based on received user input at the vehicle feature settings interface of the first vehicle feature. The processor is further programmed to control a setting for the first vehicle feature based on received data associated with one or more gestures made using the wireless device.
US11023042B1	Method for inputting gaze for display and devices performing the same A method for inputting gaze for a display and devices performing the same are disclosed. A method for inputting gaze for a display according to an example embodiment includes sensing gaze of a user and moving symbols displayed on both eyes of the user through the display, determining whether the both eyes move in a vergence manner based on the movements of the symbols to converge or diverge, and determining whether the gaze is directed to the symbols based on the determination result.
US11023040B2	Systems and methods for interacting with a computing device using gaze information Techniques for interacting with a first computing device based on gaze information are described. In an example, the first computing device captures a gaze direction of a first user of the first computing device by using an eye tracking device. The first computing device determines if the gaze direction of the first user is directed to a first display. Further, the first computing device receives information regarding if a gaze direction of a second user is directed to a second display. If the gaze direction of the first user is directed to the first display and the gaze direction of the second user is directed to the second display, the first computing device continuously updates content on the first display. If the gaze direction of the second user is not directed to the second display, the first computing device pauses the content on the first display.
US11023035B1	Virtual pinboard interaction using a peripheral device in artificial reality environments In general, the disclosure describes artificial reality (AR) systems and techniques for generating and presenting virtual surfaces within an artificial reality environment and for facilitating user interaction with the virtual surfaces using a physical peripheral device. For example, AR systems are described that generate and render virtual surfaces, such as a virtual pinboard or a virtual drawing surface (e.g., a virtual canvas) in an artificial reality environment, for display to a user. The AR systems enable the user to interact with the virtual surfaces using a physical peripheral device, which may be manipulated and otherwise interacted with by the user to provide input to an AR system through pose tracking of the peripheral device and/or via one or more input devices of the peripheral device, such as a presence-sensitive surface.
US11023024B1	Voltage regulator configuration system A voltage regulator configuration system includes a voltage regulator module that is coupled to a processing system and that is configured to provide a voltage to the processing system. A Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) that is also coupled to the processing system and the BIOS identifies a processing system mode in which the processing system is operating and identifies a voltage regulator module configuration for the voltage regulator module based on the processing system mode. The BIOS transmits a voltage regulator module configuration command that includes the voltage regulator module configuration to a remote access controller. The remote access controller configures the voltage regulator module with the voltage regulator module configuration.
US11023012B2	Electronic device having a plurality of bodies An electronic device includes a first body, a first supporting member, and a second body. The first supporting member has a first end and a second end opposite to each other, and the first end is pivoted at the first body. The second body has a notch, the second end is pivoted at the second body, and the first supporting member is fitted to the notch. The second body and the first supporting member fitted to the notch are closed or opened up with respect to the first body together as the first supporting member is pivotally rotated relative to the first body. When the second body is opened up, the second body and the first supporting member are pivotally rotated relatively to separate the first supporting member from the notch and move a bottom end of the second body to a preset position on the first body.
US11023008B2	Systems, methods and devices for native and virtualized video in a hybrid docking station A hybrid docking station determines whether native video data exists and can be passed through to a video port or whether a virtual video processor should be activated to provide virtual video data to a video port. For example, a laptop is connected to a hybrid docking station using a USB™ 3.0 connection. The hybrid docking station recognizes that the USB™ 3.0 connection includes a native video data and passes the native video data to a DisplayPort™. By avoiding activating a virtualized video processor and using native video data, the laptop avoids installing software to communicate with the virtualized video processor and communicates with one or more displays using a native video channel. By avoiding installing software, it simplifies IT's and user's usage and experience with universal docking station.
US11023005B2	TWS earphone, wristband-type AI voice interaction device, and system Disclosed is an AI voice interaction device, including a main body and an earphone detachably connected with the main body. User's voice is picked up by a voice pick-up, digital voice signals are obtained through analog-to-digital conversion, and are further transmitted to a first communication module through an earphone communication module. A body processor implements communication connection with a cloud server, and transmits to the cloud server for voice recognition and semantic analysis. Afterwards, the cloud server implements the functions such as making phone calls, sending short messages through the cellular transceiver, or calls corresponding network data, and transmits the network data back to the wristband-type AI voice interaction device to perform corresponding voice broadcasting according to the network data. Further, a TWS earphone and a wristband-type AI voice interaction system are disclosed.
US11022999B2	Client device and local clock skew compensation method thereof A local watch skew compensation device of the present invention is a client device which is synchronized with the other client device to provide a time-aware service including: a local time providing unit which supplies first local time data and second local time data in accordance with a local clock; a media scheduling unit which receives first media data and second media data from the other client device, schedules first playout time of the first media data using the first local time data, and schedules second playout time of the second media data using the second local time data; and a skew monitoring unit which requests global time data to a global time server when a difference between the first playout time and the second playout time exceeds a skew threshold value, and the first media data and the second media data are different types of media data.
US11022998B2	Optimally driving non-uniform clock mesh loads According to one or more embodiments of the present invention, a computer-implemented method includes determining, for a first sector from multiple sectors of a clock mesh of a semiconductor circuit, a set of mesh wires. The method further includes generating tapping point candidates, selecting a first combination of tapping points, and performing an analog electrical simulation of a clock signal. The simulation includes feeding the clock signal into the clock mesh via the first combination of tapping points via a clock signal transmitter, and measuring delays for the clock signal to reach a set of measuring nodes. The maximum delay from the measured delays is selected, and, in response to the maximum delay being less than a previous delay value, the first combination of tapping points is used to connect sector buffers from the first sector to the clock mesh.
US11022995B2	Method and apparatus for actively managing consumption of electric power over an electric power grid A client device manages consumption of power supplied by an electric utility to power consuming devices. Power flow to the power consuming devices is selectively enabled and disabled by one or more controllable devices controlled by the client device. The client device receives a power control message from a load management server. The power control message indicates at least one of an amount of electric power to be reduced and an identification of at least one controllable device to be instructed to disable a flow of electric power to one or more associated power consuming devices. Responsive to the power control message, the client device issues a power management command to one or more controllable devices under the client device's control. The power management command causes the one or more controllable devices to disable a flow of electric power to the one or more associated power consuming device.
US11022994B2	Utility console for controlling energy resources A system and method for managing power consumption and storage in a power grid. Measurements are received from a plurality of geographically distributed energy management controllers. Each energy management controllers has energy storage units with stored energy. The measurements comprise the energy production and storage capacity of the energy management controllers and their associated energy storage units. The measurements are processed, e.g., aggregated, and displayed on a graphical user interface. Commands are transmitted to a first subset of the energy management controllers to command the units to discharge their stored energy into a power grid through an inverter. Commands are transmitted to a second subset of the plurality of energy management controllers to store energy in each unit's energy storage unit.
US11022993B2	Energy supply apparatus The disclosure relates to an energy supply apparatus for the overcurrent-protected electric power supply to an electric consumer, including a power supply device configured to provide an electric current for the electric consumer, and a controllable power protection element configured to disable a supply of electric current to the electric consumer when the electric current reaches a first current limit value, wherein the controllable power protection element comprises an adjustable second current limit value set by the power supply device, wherein the power supply device receives an increased power requirement of the electric consumer within a time interval and to control the controllable power protection element for a duration of the time interval to set the second current limit value, and wherein the controllable power protection element disables the supply of the electric current to the electric consumer upon reaching the second current limit value by the electric current.
US11022990B2	Determining shear rate and/or shear stress from sonar based velocity profiles and differential pressure The present invention provides a new method and apparatus for receiving signals containing information about a plurality of velocity profiles of a flow in a pipe and about a pressure gradient of the flow over a length of the pipe; and determining information about an injection of a chemical into the flow in the pipe based at least partly on the information contained in the signals.
US11022987B2	Systems and methods for improved control of impingement mixing A fluid delivery system includes a first pressure sensor disposed on or near a spray gun and configured to monitor a first fluid, and a second pressure sensor disposed on or near the spray gun and configured to monitor a second fluid. The fluid delivery system further includes control system comprising a processor configured to receive a first signal from the first pressure sensor and to receive a second signal from the second pressure sensor. The processor is further configured to derive a pressure difference between the first and the second pressure sensor representative of a fluid pressure difference between the first fluid and the second fluid and to control one or more pumps to obtain a desired pressure difference.
US11022973B2	Systems and methods for communicating intent of an autonomous vehicle The present disclosure provides systems and methods to communicate intent of an autonomous vehicle. In particular, the systems and methods of the present disclosure can receive, from an autonomy computing system of an autonomous vehicle, data indicating an intent of the autonomous vehicle to perform a driving maneuver. It can be determined that the intent of the autonomous vehicle should be communicated to a passenger of the autonomous vehicle. Responsive to determining that the intent of the autonomous vehicle should be communicated to the passenger of the autonomous vehicle, a graphical interface indicating the intent of the autonomous vehicle can be generated and provided for display for viewing by the passenger.
US11022970B2	Machine-learning systems and techniques to optimize teleoperation and/or planner decisions A system, an apparatus or a process may be configured to implement an application that applies artificial intelligence and/or machine-learning techniques to predict an optimal course of action (or a subset of courses of action) for an autonomous vehicle system (e.g., one or more of a planner of an autonomous vehicle, a simulator, or a teleoperator) to undertake based on suboptimal autonomous vehicle performance and/or changes in detected sensor data (e.g., new buildings, landmarks, potholes, etc.). The application may determine a subset of trajectories based on a number of decisions and interactions when resolving an anomaly due to an event or condition. The application may use aggregated sensor data from multiple autonomous vehicles to assist in identifying events or conditions that might affect travel (e.g., using semantic scene classification). An optimal subset of trajectories may be formed based on recommendations responsive to semantic changes (e.g., road construction).
US11022964B2	Method and system for controlling body-shop processing A method and system to help control body-shop processing of vehicles, based on timing of interaction with a touch-screen display. In an example implementation, a body shop will be equipped with a computing system including a touch-screen display, with the computing system being configured to manage presentation on the display of graphical representations of job-cards for individual body-shop jobs, such as individual vehicles in for repair. With such an arrangement, body shop personnel could drag and drop job cards from one section to another to indicate transitions of jobs between body-shop processing steps. The computing system will then advantageously make use of data regarding the timing of those drag-and-drop operations as a basis to control body-shop processing, such as be predicting a processing duration of a job currently in process and taking action to modify processing of the job based on the predicted duration for instance.
US11022956B2	System and method for feedback-based dressing of a grinding wheel A method and a system are provided for automatically dressing a grinding wheel used to grind workpieces. A workpiece is scanned to determine dimensions of the workpiece. A computer-readable dimensions datafile is generated containing the dimensions of the workpiece. A processor electronically compares the dimensions of the workpiece with reference or desired dimensions to obtain comparison results, and generates a computer-readable comparison datafile containing the comparison results. The processor transmits the comparison datafile containing the comparison results to a CNC controller, which utilizes the comparison results to control a shaping tool used to shape or dress the grinding wheel so that the grinding wheel produces workpieces having the reference or desired dimensions.
US11022942B2	Isochronous pivot for timepiece resonators Isochronous pivot for a resonator including two flexible strips joining attachment points of a first and a second element, defining two strip directions, and a pivot axis, at the intersection of their projections or at their intersection, each strip having a free length between its attachment points, and an axial distance between the pivot axis and the attachment point thereof farthest from the axis, the attachment point ratio X=D/L being greater than one for each strip, the strip directions defining with the axis a first apex angle whose value in degrees is comprised between f1(X)=108+67/(10X−6), and f2(X)=113+67/(10X−6).
US11022938B2	Data generating device, light control device, data generating method, and computer-readable recording medium A data generating device sets an initial candidate solution of an intensity spectrum function, a phase spectrum function, and an initial temperature and a cooling rate, generates a neighborhood solution, transforms a first waveform function of a frequency domain including the neighborhood solution and the phase spectrum function into a second waveform function of a time domain including a time-intensity waveform function and a time-phase waveform function and calculates an evaluation value representing a degree of difference between the time-intensity waveform function and the desired time-intensity waveform, sets the neighborhood solution as an n-th candidate solution for a certain probability, and lowers the temperature on the basis of the cooling rate. A decrease in the temperature acts in a direction in which the probability P is lowered when the evaluation value of the neighborhood solution is worse than the evaluation value of the candidate solution.
US11022930B2	Mounting base and image forming apparatus set An image forming apparatus set (200) includes an image forming apparatus (100) and a mounting base (3) on which the image forming apparatus (100) is placed. The mounting base (3) includes a locking mechanism (R). When the image forming apparatus (100) is placed at a first position in the mounting base (3), the locking mechanism (R) restricts movement of the image forming apparatus (100) relative to the mounting base (3). The locking mechanism (R) includes a first locking mechanism (4) and a second locking mechanism (R2). The first locking mechanism (4) restricts movement of the image forming apparatus (100) in a first direction (D1) relative to the mounting base (3). The second locking mechanism (R2) restricts movement of the image forming apparatus (100) in a second direction (D2) relative to the mounting base (3). The second direction (D2) is opposite to the first direction (D1).
US11022928B2	Cleaning device and image forming apparatus A cleaning device includes a sheet conveyance roller, and a cleaning unit that cleans a surface of the sheet conveyance roller. The cleaning unit includes a cleaning member that can come in contact with the surface of the sheet conveyance roller, and a pressing roller that presses the cleaning member against the surface of the sheet conveyance roller. The pressing roller includes a low Young's modulus area formed at least on a part of the pressing roller in a radial direction, the low Young's modulus area having a Young's modulus lower than a Young's modulus of the sheet conveyance roller. When the surface of the sheet conveyance roller is cleaned, the pressing roller is pressed against the sheet conveyance roller so as to elastically deform in the radial direction in a state where the cleaning member is sandwiched between the pressing roller and the sheet conveyance roller.
US11022923B2	Image forming apparatus, and method for controlling the same An image forming apparatus includes: a housing part that is capable of housing a plurality of recording materials in such a manner that one recording material is put on another; a transport part that transports a recording material from the housing part; and a hardware processor that detects a kind of the recording material transported by the transport part, detects an amount of the recording materials housed in the housing part, detects replacement of recording materials housed in the housing part, or addition of recording materials in the housing part, on the basis of a result of the detection by the hardware processor, and, on the basis of a result of the detection by the hardware processor, switches whether or not to execute, by the hardware processor, the kind detection of the recording materials housed in the housing part.
US11022922B2	Image forming apparatus and intermediate transfer member An image forming apparatus including: a movable intermediate transfer member onto which a toner image borne by an image bearing member is to be transferred; a detection unit configured to irradiate the toner image on the intermediate transfer member with light to detect reflected light; and a control unit configured to adjust a condition for forming the toner image based on a detection result of the detection unit, wherein a plurality of grooves extending along a movement direction of the intermediate transfer member are formed in a surface of the intermediate transfer member in a width direction intersecting the movement direction, and wherein grooves, formed within a range of the intermediate transfer member to which the light is irradiated by the detection unit, among the plurality of grooves are formed so that intervals each between adjacent grooves with respect to the width direction are regularly changed within a predetermined range.
US11022916B2	Image forming apparatus, recording medium. and control method for reducing pressure gradient between rollers An image forming apparatus according to the present invention includes: a driver that presses and separates two rollers via a belt; a detector that detects a position of the belt in an axial direction of one roller of the two rollers; and a hardware processor that calculates, based on a detection result by the detector, a first movement amount of the position of the belt in the axial direction when the belt is made to travel for a predetermined time in a state where the two rollers are separated and a second movement amount of the position of the belt in the axial direction when the belt is made to travel for the predetermined time in a state where the two rollers are pressed.
US11022910B2	Sensor positioning by a replaceable unit of an image forming device A replaceable unit is removably installable in an image forming device. The replaceable unit includes a rotatable input gear that is positioned to mate with an output gear of the image forming device. The replaceable unit includes an encoded member that is encoded with identifying information of the replaceable unit and that is operatively connected to the input gear such that rotation of the input gear causes movement of the encoded member. The replaceable unit includes an alignment guide on the exterior of the replaceable unit. The image forming device includes a sensor supported by a sensor housing. The alignment guide is positioned to contact and move the sensor housing during insertion of the replaceable unit into the image forming device to align the sensor with an exposed portion of the encoded member for reading the identifying information from the encoded member by the sensor.
US11022909B2	Toner container having an encoded member and an alignment guide for locating a sensor relative to the encoded member A toner container includes an encoded member that is encoded with identifying information of the toner container and that is operatively connected to an input gear of the toner container such that rotation of the input gear causes movement of the encoded member for communicating the identifying information to a sensor. A first alignment guide on the first side of the toner container includes a top surface that is unobstructed to contact a sensor housing from below when the toner container is installed in an image forming device. At least a portion of the top surface of the first alignment guide inclines upward and rearward for contacting and lifting the sensor housing upward during insertion of the toner container into the image forming device for aligning the sensor with an exposed portion of the encoded member.
US11022904B2	Electrophotographic member, process cartridge and electrophotographic image forming apparatus Provided an electrophotographic member having an excellent electroconductivity and being capable of forming a high quality electrophotographic image even in long-term use. The electrophotographic member comprises an electroconductive substrate and an electroconductive layer on the substrate, the electroconductive layer containing a matrix polymer, and a specific imidazolium salt.
US11022900B2	Inspection apparatus and methods, substrates having metrology targets, lithographic system and device manufacturing method Disclosed is an inspection apparatus for use in lithography. It comprises a support for a substrate carrying a plurality of metrology targets; an optical system for illuminating the targets under predetermined illumination conditions and for detecting predetermined portions of radiation diffracted by the targets under the illumination conditions; a processor arranged to calculate from said detected portions of diffracted radiation a measurement of asymmetry for a specific target; and a controller for causing the optical system and processor to measure asymmetry in at least two of said targets which have different known components of positional offset between structures and smaller sub-structures within a layer on the substrate and calculate from the results of said asymmetry measurements a measurement of a performance parameter of the lithographic process for structures of said smaller size. Also disclosed are substrates provided with a plurality of novel metrology targets formed by a lithographic process.
US11022896B2	Mark position determination method Corrections are calculated for use in controlling a lithographic apparatus. Using a metrology apparatus a performance parameter is measured at sampling locations across one or more substrates to which a lithographic process has previously been applied. A process model is fitted to the measured performance parameter, and an up-sampled estimate is provided for process-induced effects across the substrate. Corrections are calculated for use in controlling the lithographic apparatus, using an actuation model and based at least in part on the fitted process model. For locations where measurement data is available, this is added to the estimate to replace the process model values. Thus, calculation of actuation corrections is based on a modified estimate which is a combination of values estimated by the process model and partly on real measurement data.
US11022891B2	Photoresist bridging defect removal by reverse tone weak developer A method for removing photoresist bridging defects includes coating a photoresist layer over a dielectric layer formed over a substrate, applying a first developer that results in formation of one or more photoresist bridging defects, and applying a second developer to remove the one or more photoresist bridging defects. The first developer is an aqueous base developer and the second developer is a reverse tone weak developer (RTWD), the RTWD being a mixture of a first (good) solvent and a second (bad) solvent for the photoresist.
US11022890B2	Photoresist bridging defect removal by reverse tone weak developer A method for removing photoresist bridging defects includes coating a photoresist layer over a dielectric layer formed over a substrate, applying a first developer that results in formation of one or more photoresist bridging defects, and applying a second developer to remove the one or more photoresist bridging defects. The first developer is an aqueous base developer and the second developer is a reverse tone weak developer (RTWD), the RTWD being a mixture of a first (good) solvent and a second (bad) solvent for the photoresist.
US11022889B2	Overlay-shift measurement system and method for manufacturing semiconductor structure and measuring alignment mark of semiconductor structure Methods for manufacturing a semiconductor structure are provided. A substrate is provided. A first lithography is performed according to a first layer mask, to form a plurality of first photonic crystals with a first pitch on a first area of a layer above the substrate. A second lithography is performed according to a second layer mask, to form a plurality of second photonic crystals with a second pitch on a second area of the layer. A light is provided to illuminate the first and second photonic crystals. Light reflected by the first and second photonic crystals or transmitted through the first and second photonic crystals is received. The received light is analyzed to detect overlay-shift between the first photonic crystals corresponding to the first layer mask and the second photonic crystals corresponding to the second layer mask.
US11022888B2	Synthesis of superhydrophobic microporous surfaces via light-directed photopolymerization and phase separation The formation of microporous surfaces through polymer induced phase separation in a photopolymer solvent mixture using photopolymerization via light self-focusing and self-trapping. The self-trapping of light sets fixed regions of brightness and darkness, sustained by the polymerization of light, and then wave guiding within the substrate. Phase separation occurs with the solvent phase separating in the regions of darkness and crosslinking in the regions of brightness. Upon removal of the solvent, precise and uniformly dispersed pores are created in the surface. The pore size and spacing may be tuned by adjusting the weight fraction of the photopolymer solvent mixture as well as through changes in the mask pattern.
US11022887B2	Tunable adhesion of EUV photoresist on oxide surface An EUV lithographic structure and methods according to embodiments of the invention includes an EUV photosensitive resist layer disposed directly on an oxide hardmask layer, wherein the oxide hardmask layer is doped with dopant ions to form a doped oxide hardmask layer so as to improve adhesion between the EUV lithographic structure and the oxide hardmask. The EUV lithographic structure is free of a separate adhesion layer.
US11022886B2	Bottom-up material formation for planarization The present disclosure provides a method for planarization. The method includes providing a substrate having a top surface and a trench recessed from the top surface; coating a sensitive material layer on the top surface of the substrate, wherein the sensitive material layer fills in the trench; performing an activation treatment to the sensitive material layer so that portions of the material layer are chemically changed; and performing a wet chemical process to the sensitive material layer so that top portions of the sensitive material layer above the trench are removed, wherein remaining portions of the sensitive material layer have top surfaces substantially coplanar with the top surface of the substrate.
US11022880B2	Chemically amplified positive-type photosensitive resin composition, photosensitive dry film, method of manufacturing photosensitive dry film, method of manufacturing patterned resist film, method of manufacturing substrate with template, method of manufacturing plated article, and mercapto compound A chemically amplified positive-type photosensitive resin composition capable of suppressing the occurrence of “footing” in which the width of the bottom (the side proximal to the surface of a support) becomes narrower than that of the top (the side proximal to the surface of a resist layer) in the nonresist portion; and the generation of development residue when a resist pattern serving as a template for a plated article is formed on a metal surface of a substrate using the photosensitive resin composition. A mercapto compound having a specific structure is included in the photosensitive resin composition, and includes an acid generator which generates acid upon exposure to an irradiated active ray or radiation, and a resin whose solubility in alkali increases under the action of acid.
US11022873B2	Transparent screen, transparent screen assembly, manufacturing method of transparent screen, and manufacturing method of transparent screen assembly A transparent screen includes a plurality of transparent plates arranged in a front-rear direction; and a screen main body, interposed between the transparent plates, configured to display video images projected from a front side or a rear side of the transparent screen to a user on the front side, and enable a rear background to be visually recognized by the user. In a cross section orthogonal to a part of an outer edge of the transparent screen, the transparent screen has a curved shape, and a length of a center line in a plate thickness direction of the transparent plate on an external side of the screen main body in a curvature radius direction of the curved shape is greater than a length of a center line of the transparent plate on an internal side of the screen main body.
US11022847B2	Liquid crystal display and method for manufacturing the same Provided is a liquid crystal display in lateral-electric-field mode that improves faulty display resulting from static electricity without, in particular, degrading display quality or considerably increasing costs. A liquid crystal display in one aspect of the present invention includes the following: an array substrate and counter substrate processed into a thin plate that is less than 0.5 mm thick; a liquid crystal layer sealed between this pair of substrates; and an alignment film disposed on the counter substrate. The alignment film has a photoconductivity in which the volume resistance value of the alignment film under light irradiation changes to at least not greater than 1/10 of the volume resistance value of the alignment film under no light irradiation.
US11022836B2	Polarizer and display device The present disclosure relates to a polarizer and a display device. The polarizer includes a polarization layer, a color filter layer located on the polarization layer, wherein the color filter layer includes a quantum dot. The application of the polarizer provided by the embodiments of the present disclosure to the display device can increase the color gamut, the color purity, and the light utilization, thereby improving the display color quality.
US11022834B1	Viewing angle control unit and display device including same The present disclosure relates to a viewing angle control unit and a display unit including the same, in which the viewing angle control unit includes: a first substrate disposed on a side of the surface of the liquid crystal display unit; a second substrate which opposes the first substrate; a liquid crystal layer arranged between the first substrate and the second substrate; and a seal assembly which is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate and surrounds the liquid crystal layer and seals and separates the liquid crystal layer from the outside. At least part of the seal assembly is constituted by a seal section and a shade section which are stacked in a direction substantially perpendicular to opposing surfaces of the first substrate and the second substrate.
US11022805B2	Head-mounted display apparatus with optical adjustment element A head-mounted display apparatus including a light source module, an optical adjustment element, a display module and a lens element is provided. The light source module provides an illumination beam. The optical adjustment element and the display module are disposed on a transmission path of the illumination beam, and the display module is configured to convert the illumination beam into an image beam. The optical adjustment element is located between the light source module and the display module. The lens element is disposed on a transmission path of the image beam, wherein a transmission direction of the maximum light-emitting intensity of the illumination beam transmitted from the light source module to the optical adjustment element is different to a transmission direction of the maximum light-emitting intensity of the illumination beam transmitted from the optical adjustment element to the display module.
US11022804B2	Head-mounted display and method of controlling the same A head-mounted display (HMD) includes a frame configured to be fixated to a head, a light-transmissive display unit fixated to the frame and outputting a VR image in a VR mode and an AR image in an AR mode, a light transmission control layer having changed transmittance, a lens unit having a refractive index changed in the VR mode and the AR mode, and a controller control the light transmission control layer to increase transmittance in the AR mode and decrease transmittance in the VR mode.
US11022801B2	Eye imaging with an off-axis imager Examples of an imaging system for use with a head mounted display (HMD) are disclosed. The imaging system can include a forward-facing imaging camera and a surface of a display of the HMD can include an off-axis diffractive optical element (DOE) or hot mirror configured to reflect light to the imaging camera. The DOE or hot mirror can be segmented. The imaging system can be used for eye tracking, biometric identification, multiscopic reconstruction of the three-dimensional shape of the eye, etc.
US11022794B2	Visual indicators of user attention in AR/VR environment A method of notifying a user about attention from another user in an augmented reality/virtual reality (AR/VR) system is provided. The method includes displaying a first image on a first electronic display to a first user of the AR/VR system and, upon detecting a gaze of the first user at a second user of the AR/VR system or the second user's avatar in the first image, notifying the second user about the gaze of the first user by displaying a second image on a second electronic display to the second user, the second image having a visual cue of the gaze of the first user.
US11022782B2	Imaging lens, and camera module and digital device comprising same An embodiment provides an imaging lens comprising: a body in which a first opening and a second opening are disposed; a first lens group which is disposed on the body and corresponds to the first opening; and a second lens group which is disposed on the body and corresponds to the second opening, wherein the focal distance of the first lens group is greater than 1.8 times and less than 2.1 times the focal distance of the second lens group.
US11022774B2	Plastic barrel, lens module and electronic device A plastic barrel includes an object-end portion, an image-end portion, an inner tube portion and a plurality of protrusions. The object-end portion includes an outer object-end surface, an object-end hole and an inner annular object-end surface. One side of the inner annular object-end surface is connected to the outer object-end surface and surrounds the object-end hole. The image-end portion includes an outer image-end surface, an image-end opening and an inner annular image-end surface. The inner annular image-end surface is connected to the outer image-end surface and surrounds the image-end opening. The inner tube portion connects the object-end portion and the image-end portion and includes a plurality of inclined surfaces. The protrusions are disposed at least on one of the inner annular object-end surface, the inner annular image-end surface and the inclined surfaces, wherein the protrusions are regularly arranged around the central axis of the plastic barrel.
US11022770B2	Bladed chassis systems A bladed chassis system facilitates installation of the bladed chassis system and replacement of the blades at the chassis. Blades can be inserted and removed from the front and/or the rear of the bladed chassis system at the discretion of the user. Blades can be moved between discrete positions. In examples, blades can be one-handedly released from the chassis to allow movement between discrete positions. In examples, accidental movement past a discrete position is inhibited. Accidental removal of the blades from the chassis is inhibited. The chassis and blades cooperate to manage the optical fiber cables routed through a cable port in the chassis to the blades.
US11022767B2	TO-CAN cap The present disclosure provides a TO-CAN cap. The TO-CAN cap includes a casing, the casing has a hollow cylindrical structure, and an inner wall of the casing has a protrusion portion at a first end portion in an axial direction of the casing; and an optical lens, the optical lens has an optical portion for refracting light and a rib portion at a periphery of the optical portion, a side surface of the rib portion having a concave portion complementary to the protrusion portion, where the casing and the optical lens are connected to each other through the protrusion portion and the concave portion.
US11022765B2	Lens clip for coupling and optical alignment of an optical lens and an optical subassembly module implementing same The present disclosure is generally directed to a lens clip that includes an optical lens slot to securely hold an optical lens at a predetermined position to mitigate effects of post-annealing shift. The lens clip includes a base that provides at least one substrate mating surface for mounting to a substrate, and at least first and second arms extending from the base. The first and second arms extend substantially parallel relative to each other and define at least a portion of an optical lens slot. The optical lens slot is configured to receive at least a portion of an optical lens and securely hold the optical lens at a predetermined position to ensure optical alignment of the optical lens, e.g., relative to an associated laser diode or other optical component, during fixation of the optical lens to the substrate using, for instance, UV-curing optical adhesives.
US11022757B1	Using an anti-reflection coating with a grating coupler Embodiments herein describe a photonic platform where an AR coating is disposed between an optical grating and a semiconductor substrate. In one embodiment, the optical grating is disposed within an insulative layer. A first side of the insulative layer provides an optical interface where an external optical source can transmit an optical signal into, or a receive an optical signal from, the grating. A second, opposite side of the insulative layer contacts the AR coating. When the external optical source transmits light through the first side of the insulative layer, some of the light passes through the grating and reaches the AR coating. The AR coating prevents this light from being reflected back to the grating by the semiconductor layer which can cause interference that varies the coupling efficiency of the grating.
US11022756B2	Method and system for near normal incidence MUX/DEMUX designs Near normal incidence MUX/DEMUX designs may include an optical demultiplexer coupled to a photonics die, where the optical demultiplexer comprises an input fiber, thin film filters at a first surface of a substrate, a first mirror at the first surface of the substrate, and a second mirror at a second surface of the substrate. The optical demultiplexer may receive an input optical signal comprising a plurality of wavelength optical signals, reflect the input optical signal from the first mirror to the second mirror, reflect the input optical signal from the second mirror to a first of the thin film filters, communicate an optical signal at a first wavelength to the photonics die while reflecting others to the second mirror, reflect the other signals to a second of the plurality of thin film filters, and communicate an optical signal at a second wavelength to the photonics die.
US11022754B2	Methods for processing a two row multi-fiber ferrule The present disclosure generally relates to a method for processing optical fibers supported by a multi-fiber ferrule. The method can include laser cutting first and second rows of optical fibers in a first fiber cutting step by directing a laser beam in a first direction relative to the ferrule. The laser beam can cut the second row of optical fibers to a first fiber extension length and cut the first row of optical fibers to a second fiber extension length. The method can also include laser cutting the first row of optical fibers by directing a laser beam in a second direction relative to the multi-fiber ferrule. The laser beam cuts the first row of optical fibers to the first fiber extension length and by-passes the second row of optical fibers such that optical fibers of the second row of optical fibers remain at the first fiber extension length.
US11022751B2	Phase tuning in waveguide arrays The wavelength response of an arrayed waveguide grating can be tuned, in accordance with various embodiments, using a beam sweeper including one or more heaters to shift a lateral position of light focused by the beam sweeper at an interface of the beam sweeper with an input free propagation region of the arrayed waveguide grating.
US11022746B2	Linear light source and planar light emitting device Provided is a linear light source including: a light-transmissive base having a first main surface that has a rectangular shape with long sides and short sides, a second main surface located opposite to the first main surface, a first (long) side surface, and a second (short) side surface; a plurality of light emitting devices, each including a light emitting element, a light-transmissive member and a sealing member. An upper surface of each of the light emitting devices includes an upper surface of the light-transmissive member. A first bonding member bonds the first main surface of the light-transmissive base and the upper surfaces of the light emitting devices. A width of the light-transmissive base is the same as a width of the light emitting devices in a first direction orthogonal to a first side surface of the light-transmissive base.
US11022744B2	Multilayer polymeric films and the methods of making thereof A multilayer polymeric film includes a top layer comprising poly(methyl methacrylate); a bottom layer comprising a bottom layer composition comprising poly(methyl methacrylate), polycarbonate, copolymers thereof, or a combination comprising at least one of the foregoing, wherein a glass transition temperature of the bottom layer composition is less than or equal to 140° C.; and an inner layer disposed between an inside surface of the top layer and an inside surface of the bottom layer, wherein the inner layer comprises polycarbonate.
US11022736B2	Metal wire grid and its manufacturing method, and display panel An embodiment of this disclosure discloses a metal wire grid comprising: a patterned metal layer and a patterned antireflective layer located on the patterned metal layer, wherein a surface of the antireflective layer distal to the patterned metal layer has a plurality of continuous pits. Embodiments of this disclosure further disclose a method of manufacturing a metal wire grid and a display panel.
US11022735B2	Method of producing polarizing plate There is provided a polarizing plate excellent in durability. A method of producing a polarizing plate according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: preparing a polarizing film laminate including a polarizer and a protective film arranged on at least one side of the polarizer; and shrinking the polarizing film laminate.
US11022733B2	ASi-H bandpass filter comprising a second material with high refractive index and a second bandpass filter as a blocker An optical filter having a substrate including a primary bandpass filter at least predominantly on an interference basis and a secondary bandpass filter at least predominantly on an interference basis. Both bandpass filters are designed such that they transmit sufficiently over the entire required angle range in the desired spectral transmittance wavelength interval. The primary bandpass filter contains the small angle shift required by the overall system. It also has a spectral transmittance wavelength interval which is as small as possible according to the requirements of the respective application and restricted by narrow blocking bands. The secondary bandpass filter is designed such that its transmittance wavelength interval is limited by a short-wave edge and a long-wave edge and is adjusted to the primary bandpass filter in such a way that its edges shift over the required angle range only within the blocking bands of the primary bandpass filter.
US11022732B2	Optical film for eyewear, and functional film for eyewear, optical laminate for eyewear, and eyewear which have same The present disclosure provides an optical film for eyewear that allows, when used by a person feeling stressed, easy of production of a space having a color tone that the person psychologically feels healing, and a functional film for eyewear, an optical laminate, and eyewear that each include the optical film. The optical film for eyewear including an optical functional layer, and has that transmitted light from a light source of white light has a pale tone, is provided.
US11022718B2	System, method and apparatus for determining the disposition of structural features present in borehole cores A system method and apparatus for determining the disposition or orientation of a structural feature or structural feature present in a borehole core, such as a core sample. The apparatus is provided to capture data on structural features present in the core sample. The apparatus includes an orientation arrangement configured to determine the orientation, or change in orientation, of the apparatus, and a data-capturing arrangement configured to capture orientation data generated by the orientation arrangement. The orientation arrangement may include a gyroscope. The apparatus also includes an alignment arrangement operable to align the apparatus with a structural feature relating to the core sample. The alignment arrangement may include an alignment indicator operable to provide visual indication on the surface of the core sample. The method may include real-time delivery of data from the point of acquisition to cloud-based storage.
US11022713B2	Dipole modeling for electric and/or magnetic fields A method for dipole modeling may comprise providing an electromagnetic induction tool comprising an electromagnetic antenna, disposing the electromagnetic induction tool in a wellbore, and activating the electromagnetic antenna. The method may further comprise producing a dipole array equivalent of the electromagnetic antenna, where the dipole array equivalent comprises at least two dipoles. Additionally, the method may comprise implementing the dipole array equivalent in a forward model within an inversion process, wherein the inversion process determines an electromagnetic property.
US11022711B2	Correcting eccentering effect in pulse-echo imaging Methods for correcting eccentering effects on echoes detected from ultrasonic pulses emitted by a transducer of a downhole tool. Echo envelope amplitude, azimuth, and location for each echo is utilized to assess echo amplitude sensitivity to geometric and spatial characteristics of the downhole tool within the wellbore. Echo envelope amplitudes are corrected for eccentering effects based on the assessed sensitivity. A visual representation of the corrected echo envelope amplitudes is the generated. Also disclosed herein are tangible, non-transient, computer-readable media comprising instructions executable by a processor to carry out the methods, as well as systems including downhole tools and processing devices operable to carry out the methods.
US11022710B2	Identifying anomalies in a subterranean formation based on seismic attributes Systems and methods for identifying anomalies in a subterranean formation based on seismic attributes include: receiving a seismic cube and a seismic surface, wherein the seismic cube includes traces recorded at receivers deployed to collect seismic data, and the seismic surface is picked on the seismic cube; extracting seismic wavelets with a selected length from the seismic cube along an intersection with the seismic surface for each spatial coordinate associated with the seismic surface; determining a population trend of the seismic wavelets; and generating a attribute map based on comparing each of the seismic wavelets to the population trend.
US11022702B2	Improving azimuth determination accuracy using multiple GNSS antennas Aspects of the present disclosure may improve the accuracy of the known azimuth determination techniques by employing more than two GNSS antennas positioned on a base station antenna. Techniques may use one or more combinations of the GNSS antennas to determine an azimuth of the base station antenna, which serve to improve accuracy of an azimuth determination.
US11022692B2	Triangulation scanner having flat geometry and projecting uncoded spots A projector projects an uncoded pattern of uncoded spots onto an object, which is imaged by a first camera and a second camera, 3D coordinates of the spots on the object being determined by a processor based on triangulation, the processor further determining correspondence among the projected and imaged spots based at least in part on a nearness of intersection of lines drawn from the projector and image spots through their respective perspective centers.
US11022690B2	Tracking system A system simultaneously tracks multiple objects. All or a subset of the objects includes a wireless receiver and a transmitter for providing an output. The system includes one or more wireless transmitters that send commands to the wireless receivers of the multiple objects instructing different subsets of the multiple objects to output (via their respective transmitter) at different times. The system also includes object sensors that receive output from the transmitters of the multiple objects and a computer system in communication with the object sensors. The computer system calculates locations of the multiple objects based on the sensed output from the multiple objects.
US11022664B2	MRI compatible intrabody fluid transfer systems and related devices and methods Systems and methods for transferring fluid to or from a subject use a set of MRI compatible components that can aspirate intrabody structure and/or fluids. The components include a device guide, a semi-rigid guide sheath configured to slidably extend through the device guide, a stylet releasable coupled to the guide sheath and extending a fixed distance out of a distal end thereof, and a cannula coupled to flexible tubing that is releasably interchangeably held in the guide sheath in lieu of the stylet.
US11022663B2	Communication channel A system for moving a patient into and from a medical apparatus includes a patient support arranged outside a treatment space of a medical apparatus, a treatment table arranged inside the treatment space in the medical apparatus and a patient bed movable in a longitudinal direction from the patient support to the treatment table and back by means of activation of a transferring mechanism. The patient bed is provided with at least a first communication channel for transferring communication signals.
US11022661B2	Magnetoresistance element with increased operational range A magnetoresistance (MR) element includes a first stack portion comprising a first plurality of layers including a first spacer layer having a first thickness and a first material selected to result in the first stack portion having a first sensitivity to the applied magnetic field. The MR element also has a second stack portion comprising a second plurality of layers, including a second spacer layer having a second thickness to result in the second stack portion having a second sensitivity to the applied magnetic field. The first thickness may be different than the second thickness resulting in the first sensitivity being different than the second sensitivity.
US11022646B2	Method and system for resolving hot spots in LIT Localizing hot spots in multi layered device under test (DUT) by using lock-in thermography (LIT) where plural hot spots of electrical circuits are buried in the DUT at different depth layers from a bottom layer to a top layer, comprises applying test signals of multiple frequencies to the electrical circuits of the DUT for exciting the hot spots; imaging a top surface of the top layer of the DUT at timed intervals to obtain IR images of the DUT while the test signal is applied to the electrical circuits wherein the images are in correlation to a propagation of heat from the hot spots in the DUT; detecting the thermal response signals at the timed intervals from the images taken from the DUT; and determining changes in the appearance of hot spot images on the top surface of the DUT in relation to the frequencies of the thermal response signals.
US11022638B2	Testing shield continuity of a cable or cabling installation using common mode insertion loss A method and apparatus for testing shield continuity are provided. In the method and apparatus, a transmitter transmits a first signal in common mode over a plurality of conductors of a cable or cabling installation having a shield. The first signal is transmitted in the common mode at a first end of the plurality of conductors. A receiver receives a plurality of second signals representative of the first signal at a second end of the plurality of conductors, respectively, and outputs data representative of the plurality of second signals. A processor receives the data representative of the plurality of second signals, determines a common mode insertion loss for the cable or cabling installation based on the plurality of second signals, determines, based on the common mode insertion loss, whether the shield is continuous or discontinuous and outputs data representative of whether the shield is continuous or discontinuous.
US11022631B2	Current sensor A conductor includes a first conductor portion, which is separated from a first imaginary flat plane on which a magnetoresistance effect element is disposed, and through which a current to be measured flows parallel to a first imaginary straight line, a second conductor portion, which intersects the first imaginary flat plane and through which the current to be measured flows parallel to a second imaginary straight line, a bent portion, which is disposed between the second conductor portion and the first conductor portion and is bent in a direction parallel to the first imaginary straight line from a direction parallel to the second imaginary straight line, and a third conductor portion disposed between the bent portion and the first conductor portion. The magnetic field due to the current to be measured flowing through the second conductor portion is perpendicular to the first imaginary flat plane.
US11022630B2	Measurement of current within a conductor In the field of Rogowski coils for the measurement of current within a conductor there is provided an electrical interface for connection to a Rogowski coil arranged around a primary conductor. The electrical interface includes an input that is configured to sample an input voltage signal from the Rogowski coil. The electrical interface also has an integrator circuit which includes an integrator module that is configured to integrate the sampled input voltage signal to provide an output voltage signal from which can be derived a primary current flowing through the primary conductor. The integrator module employs a transfer function that includes an attenuation factor.
US11022620B2	Methods, apparatus, and quality check modules for detecting hemolysis, icterus, lipemia, or normality of a specimen A method of characterizing a specimen for HILN (H, I, and/or L, or N). The method includes capturing images of the specimen at multiple different viewpoints, processing the images to provide segmentation information for each viewpoint, generating a semantic map from the segmentation information, selecting a synthetic viewpoint, identifying front view semantic data and back view semantic data for the synthetic viewpoint, and determining HILN of the serum or plasma portion based on the front view semantic data with an HILN classifier, while taking into account back view semantic data. Testing apparatus and quality check modules adapted to carry out the method are described, as are other aspects.
US11022613B2	Mass spectrometry imaging of glycans from tissue sections and improved analyte detection methods The presently disclosed subject matter provides methods using mass spectrometry for direct profiling of N-linked glycans from a biological sample. In addition, the embodiments of the present invention also disclose novel methods, known as targeted analyte detection (TAD), for improving the detection limit of MALDI-MS. These methods take advantage of the carrier effect of the added standard analytes, which occurs due to the generic sigmoidal shape of the calibration curve. The functionality of TAD depends on the relative enhancement of sensitivity over the increase of the standard deviation at the analysis of target analytes with spiking in exogenous concentration. At certain ranges of exogenous concentration, the increment in the sensitivity overcomes the standard deviation, resulting in an improved LOD. Theoretically, exogenous concentrations approximately at 1 LODorig would generate the optimum LOD improvement. TAD is a cost-effective LOD improvement method, which is not limited to a certain group of analytes, or detection methods or instruments. It can be applied to enhance the detection of any analyte with different detection methods, provided that the analyte of interest can be extracted or is available in synthetic form.
US11022606B2	Cell information acquisition method and cell information acquisition device A cell information acquisition method may include: binding a binding substance to a receptor on a cell membrane surface of a cell, the binding substance being bindable to the receptor; permeabilizing a cell membrane of the cell after the binding; labeling a receptor in an intracellular area of the cell with a binding substance labeled with a first labeling substance after the permeabilizing; causing a specimen including the cell to flow through a flow path after the labeling; irradiating the cell included in the specimen flowing through the flow path with light; and acquiring a signal based on light generated from the first labeling substance in the cell irradiated with light.
US11022601B2	Use of Eomesodermin to determine risk of allograft rejection Pre-existing alloreactive memory T cells are a major barrier to the induction of allograft tolerance in organ transplant recipients. The use of Eomesodermin (Eomes) expression in memory T cells to determine the risk of allograft rejection in a subject is described. Also described is the use of Eomes expression in memory T cells of transplant recipients to modify immunosuppressive therapy.
US11022593B2	Solid phase sampling device and methods for point-source sampling of polar organic analytes Sampling devices for sampling an aqueous source (e.g., field testing of ground water) for multiple different analytes are described. Devices include a solid phase extraction component for retention of a wide variety of targeted analytes. Devices include analyte derivatization capability for improved extraction of targeted analytes. Thus, a single device can be utilized to examine a sample source for a wide variety of analytes. Devices also include an isotope dilution capability that can prevent error introduction to the sample analysis and can correct for sample loss and degradation from the point of sampling until analysis as well as correction for incomplete or poor derivatization reactions. The devices can be field-deployable and rechargeable.
US11022587B2	Electric conductivity detector and method for determining phase adjustment value An electrical conductivity detector includes a cell, a pair of electrodes, a voltage application part, an amplification circuit, a phase adjustment value holding part, and a signal processing circuit. The amplification circuit has multiple gains, and amplifies a current flowing between the pair of electrodes using any one of the gains to obtain an amplified signal. The phase adjustment value holding part holds a phase adjustment value determined in advance for each of the gains for canceling a phase difference between amplified signals determined using each of the gains of the amplification circuit. The signal processing circuit calculates electrical conductivity of the liquid flowing through the cell using an amplified signal obtained by being amplified by the amplification circuit and the phase adjustment value which is for the gain used to obtain the amplified signal and is held in the phase adjustment value holding part.
US11022586B2	Multi-column separation apparatus and method The invention provides an apparatus and system for the separation and optional analysis of the components of a sample of material, the apparatus and system comprising a cartridge comprising: at least one sample inlet port, at least one resin inlet port and a multiplicity of reagent and purge fluid input ports which are fluidically connected via a multiplicity of control valves to a multiplicity of chromatographic columns which are fluidically connected together in series; and a multiplicity of outlet ports wherein each outlet port additionally comprises an outlet valve which is adapted to control the flow of fluid through said outlet ports; wherein each of said multiplicity of chromatographic columns is aligned with one of said multiplicity of outlet ports so as to allow for fluid flow from said column through said outlet port. The system optionally additionally facilitates the analysis of the components. The invention additionally provides a method for the separation of the components of a sample of material which comprises the use of the apparatus and system of the invention. The apparatus, system and method of the invention are advantageously applied to the separation and analysis of radioactive materials.
US11022584B2	Method and apparatus for scanning a test object and correcting for gain A method and an apparatus for scanning a test object are introduced. A reference object is scanned to build a gain correction map including gain values for scanning points on a surface of the reference object. The test object is also scanned to obtain measurements for scanning points on a surface of the test object. Amplitudes of the measurements obtained for the scanning points on the surface of the test object are normalized using the gain values of the gain correction map. The apparatus has a probe mounted on a mechanical scanner, and a controller controlling the scanning and normalizing operations. The method and apparatus can be used to create an image of the test object for non-destructive testing.
US11022583B2	Apparatus and method for fabricating ultrasonic sensor probes directly on a substrate surface and using same The invention comprises methods for fabricating and using a plurality of sensors on a substrate surface, such as ultrasonic sensor probes. The methods for fabricating sensors directly on the substrate surface includes the use of a template to dispose sensor material in an array and form a first layer on the substrate surface and a second template to dispose sensor electrode material in a corresponding array to form a second layer on top of the first layer. The invention provides a sensor housing that electrically connects the sensors and a computing device. The sensor housing may comprise a flexible circuit having a plurality of sensor electrode contact points corresponding to each of the sensors, at least one spring plate, a force distribution plate, and a plurality of cable wires attached to the flexible circuit and corresponding to each of sensor electrode contact points.
US11022580B1	Low impedance structure for PCB based electrodes A PCB based electrochemical sensor includes a PCB having a first electrode on a first surface of the PCB, and a second electrode on a second surface. A sensing element, such as a conductive wire, is attached to the first electrode. The PCB includes one or more through holes, and the conductive wire is positioned proximate one or more of the one or more through holes. When the PCB based electrochemical sensor is positioned in a solution to be sensed, the solution fills the through holes. The ions within the solution provide a current pathway between the conductive wire and the second electrode through the through holes. A voltage potential between the two electrodes is measured. The measured voltage potential is used to determine a value associated with the solution, such as a pH value.
US11022576B2	Gas sensor with a gas permeable region A gas sensor with a gas permeable region is disclosed. In an embodiment a gas sensor includes a dielectric membrane formed on a semiconductor substrate having a cavity portion, a heater located within or over the dielectric membrane, a material for sensing a gas, wherein the material is located on one side of the dielectric membrane, a support structure located near the material, a gas permeable membrane coupled to the support structure so as to protect the material, wherein the semiconductor substrate forms the support structure.
US11022563B2	Method for monitoring a protective glass Monitoring of protective glasses (8) in laser machining heads, which are exposed to dust, sputtering and/or soiling, with the aim of predicting the contamination of the protective glass. For this purpose, image sections (19) are captured by means of at least two image capture systems (16) at capture-times, computer-readable image files are stored by means of a frequency-based compression algorithm, and a file size value (kB) is determined for each image file on the basis of its file size. A signal is generated if for a majority of the image capture systems (16) the file size values (kB) decrease and/or are below one of a predefined number of threshold values (20) for a predetermined minimum number of consecutive capture-times.
US11022558B2	Coagulation analyzer and coagulation analysis method The present invention discloses a coagulation analyzer and a coagulation analysis method which relate to the technical field of medical instruments. The coagulation analyzer includes an optical coagulation analysis module, a sample interference analysis module, a magnetic coagulation analysis module, and a test transfer module. The coagulation analyzer uses the sample interference analysis module to determine whether an interferent in the sample has effect on the coagulation test result of the optical coagulation analysis module. If the interferent in the sample has no effect on the coagulation test result, the optical coagulation analysis module is used to perform the coagulation analysis and report the test result. If the interferent in the sample has effect on the coagulation test result, the test transfer module is used to transfer the test to the magnetic coagulation analysis module to perform the coagulation analysis and report the test result.
US11022547B2	Optical gas sensor A gas sensor comprises a chamber configured to receive a gas; a light source configured to emit a light wave propagating through the chamber in an emission cone; a measurement photodetector and a reference photodetector, each configured to detect a light wave emitted by the light source and having passed through the chamber. The chamber extends between two transverse walls, arranged opposite one another and connected to one another by a peripheral wall extending therebetween, about a longitudinal axis (Z), and comprising a first reflective segment configured to receive a first portion of the emission cone to reflect it toward the measurement photodetector, thus forming a measurement cone converging toward the measurement photodetector. A second reflective segment of the peripheral wall is configured to receive a second portion of the emission cone to reflect it toward the reference photodetector, thus forming a reference cone converging toward the reference photodetector.
US11022545B2	Multi-spectral gas analyzer system with multiple sets of spectral sensitivity A system and method for multi-spectral gas concentration analysis that includes using a library of multiple sets of optimized spectral sensitivities prepared in advance, and a multi-spectral IR gas analyzer tuned to a set of optimized spectral sensitivity. The multi-spectral IR gas analyzer measures spectral absorption of gas using one or more different sets of optimized spectral sensitivities.
US11022542B2	On-chip spectroscopic sensors with optical fringe suppression An on-chip spectroscopic sensor includes a tunable diode laser. A laser driver for drives the tunable diode laser. An analyte test cavity receives a chemical sample and exposes the received chemical sample to light from the tunable diode laser. An optical detector detects light emerging from the analyte test cavity as a result of the laser exposure. A spectral analyzer determines a spectrum of the emerging light, matches and removes one or more known optical fringe patterns from the determined spectrum, and determines a composition or concentration of the chemical sample from the optical fringe pattern-removed spectrum.
US11022539B2	Masking of images of biological particles The current invention relates to the task of masking, i.e. determination of boundaries in an image of biological particles and/or elements or parts of biological particles in image cytometry. Methods for masking of a biological particle or element or region of a biological particle in a sample are provided which include staining a first element or region of the biological particle with a first fluorescent dye, staining a second element or region of the biological particle with a second fluorescent dye, recording an image of the fluorescent light signal emitted from the sample, and determining boundaries of the biological particle or element or region of the biological particle based on the fluorescent light signal in the image.
US11022538B2	Quantum flow cytometer A quantum flow cytometer detects an analyte with photon-number statistics and includes: a flow cytometer that receives a pump light, an analyte and produces scattered light from the analyte; an intensity interferometer that includes a beam splitter and receives the scattered light; splits the scattered light; and single photon detectors that receive the scattered light, such that the beam splitter and the single photon detectors provide photon number statistics that detects the analyte. A process for detecting the analyte with photon-number statistics includes: receiving the pump light; producing, by the analyte, scattered light from scattering the pump light; splitting the scattered light into first scattered light and second scattered light; detecting, by single photon detectors, the first scattered light and second scattered light; producing, by the single photon detectors, detection signals; and subjecting the detection signals to an analyzer to detect the analyte by photon number statistics.
US11022535B2	Particulate matter detection sensor A PM detection sensor has a sensor body part made of an insulating member and a positive electrode and a negative electrode. The positive electrode is composed of a plurality of positive electrode segments. The negative electrode is composed of a plurality of negative electrode segments. A deposition surface is formed on the sensor body part. These electrode segments are formed on the deposition surface to be exposed to exhaust gas introduced into the inside of the PM detection sensor. The positive electrode segments and the negative electrode segments are arranged adjacently to and separately from each other, on the deposition surface, along a short width direction and a long width direction of each electrode segment. The short width direction and the long width direction are orthogonal to a normal direction of the deposition surface.
US11022526B1	Systems and methods for monitoring a condition of a fracturing component section of a hydraulic fracturing unit Systems and methods to monitor a condition of a fracturing component section including a section frame and a hydraulic fracturing component of a hydraulic fracturing unit to pump fracturing fluid connected to the section frame may include a condition monitoring controller configured to receive one or more signals from one or more sensors configured to be connected to the fracturing component section and generate signals indicative of operating parameters associated with operation of the fracturing component. The condition monitoring controller may be configured to generate, based at least in part on the signals, condition signals indicative of approaching maintenance due to be performed, predicted component damage, predicted component failure, existing component damage, existing component failure, irregularities of component operation, and/or operation exceeding rated operation. The systems and methods also may include exchanging the fracturing component for another fracturing component based at least in part on the condition signals.
US11022523B2	Mode-dependent loss measurement method and measurement device A present embodiment relates to a MDL measurement method and the like including a structure for enabling MDL measurement without increasing a processing load. The present embodiment sequentially executes, for N (≥2) spatial modes, light-input operation of inputting light of a predetermined intensity to an arbitrary spatial mode, and intensity measurement operation of measuring an output light intensity of each of the N spatial modes including the arbitrary spatial mode, to generate a transfer matrix relating to transmission loss in an optical fiber as a measurement target, and determine at least a linear value of MDL per unit fiber length by using each component value of the generated transfer matrix.
US11022509B2	Measurement transducer for measuring a force A measurement transducer for measuring a force includes a resonator element, which can be excited to at least one resonance frequency, and at least one force application element on which the force is applied and which transmits the force to the resonator element. The force application element is a hollow body defining a top surface, a lateral surface and a cavity. The top and lateral surfaces are mechanically connected and enclose the cavity, which contains the resonator element that is mechanically connected to the lateral surface. The lateral surface defines at least one recessed area that extends into the cavity and prevents transmission of the force from the top surface. The lateral surface defines at least one non-recessed area that transmits the force from the top surface.
US11022502B2	Ultrasonic waveguide technique for distribute sensing and measurements of physical and chemical properties of surrounding media This invention relates to a waveguide with distributed sensors that support traveling ultrasonic wave modes to provide quantitative local distributed sensing of the physical and chemical properties of the medium surrounding the sensor locations and/or the material properties of the waveguide. The plurality of sensors is operably associated with a plurality of wave modes for probing and identifying a plurality of properties simultaneously. The reflected waves are representative of local information about the surrounding media at that sensor location.
US11022498B2	Measurement apparatus and power cable accessory and system using the same and assembling method therefor An apparatus for measuring variable in relation to a power cable accessory, including: an RFID tag, including: a sensor configured to generate a signal indicative of the variable in its environment, an antenna, and an RFID IC electrically connected to the sensor and configured to process and modulate the signal generated by the sensor and transmit the modulated signal to an RFID reader via the antenna, wherein: the RFID tag is shaped to be fitted with the power cable accessory with its sensor in thermal contact with an electrical connector of the power cable accessory and with its antenna external to the electrical connector.
US11022492B2	Optical module An optical module 1A includes a mirror unit 2 including a movable mirror 22 and a fixed mirror 16, a beam splitter unit 3, a light incident unit 4, a first light detector 6, a second light source 7, a second light detector 8, a holding unit 130, a first mirror 51, a second mirror 52, and a third mirror 53. The holding unit 130 holds the first light detector 6, the second light detector 8, and the second light source 7 so as to face that same side, and to be aligned in this order. A length of an optical path between the unit 3 and the detector 6 is shorter than a length of an optical path between the unit 3 and the detector 8, and a length of an optical path between the unit 3 and the source 7.
US11022489B2	Portable multi-spectrometry system for chemical and biological sensing in atmospheric air The invention relates to a portable multi-spectrometry system for chemical and biological sensing in atmospheric air. A portable, spectrometric system integrates multiple spectroscopy theories, combines their advantageous features, and fills the gaps for their limitations. The combined spectrometry system with operations for PLS, IRAS, MAS, MFS, RSS, and MS, will detect particles and chemicals, directly and sequentially, in the same air-stream.
US11022486B2	MoS2 based photosensor for detecting both light wavelength and intensity In various embodiments, a simple, robust molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) based photosensor is provided that is able to detect both light intensity and wavelength. The MoS2 based photosensor may be structured as a field effect transistor (FET) with a back-gate configuration, including MoS2 nanoflake layers, an insulating layer coated, doped substrate, and source, drain and backgate electrodes. The photoresponse of the MoS2 based photosensor exhibits a fast response component that is only weakly dependent on the wavelength of light incident on the sensor and a slow response component that is strongly dependent on the wavelength of light incident on the sensor. The fast response component alone may be analyzed to determine intensity of the light, while the slow response component may be analyzed to determine the wavelength of the light.
US11022483B2	Light detection system and method of using same Various embodiments of a light detection device and a method of using such device are disclosed. In one or more embodiments, the light detection device can include a housing including a top surface and a bottom surface, where the housing extends along a housing axis between the top surface and the bottom surface; and a support member connected to the housing and adapted to be selectively moved from a closed position to an open position. The support member is further adapted to maintain the light detection device in an upright position when the bottom surface and the support member are in contact with a working surface and the support member is in the open position.
US11022481B2	Load cell having compensation of temperature differences The invention relates to a load cell for a scale, comprising a measuring device for producing a temperature-dependent weight measurement signal corresponding to an acting weight and at least one temperature sensor for measuring a temperature of the load cell, wherein a temperature-compensated weight can be calculated by an evaluating unit from the produced weight measurement signal and the measured temperature. The temperature sensor is designed as a sensor, in particular a thermocouple, that measures a temperature difference between a first point, in particular a measurement point, of the load cell and a second point, in particular a comparison point, of the load cell.
US11022478B2	Passive magnetic position sensor A filling level indicator for determining a filling level in a tank includes: a resistor network; a contact element arranged spaced apart from the resistor network; and a magnetic element movable relative to the resistor network and the contact element. The contact element has a contact region deflectable by the magnetic element. The contact region is deflectable so as to produce an electrically conductive connection between the contact region and the resistor network. The contact region comprises a planar tape-shaped element that is partially deflectable by a magnetic force of the magnetic element. The contact region has at least two portions that are arranged mutually adjacent to, and mutually spaced apart from, one another.
US11022468B2	Magnetoresistive angle sensor and corresponding strong magnetic field error correction and calibration methods A biaxial magnetoresistive angle sensor with a corresponding calibration method for magnetic field error correction, comprising two single-axis magnetoresistive angle sensors for detecting an external magnetic field in an X-axis direction and a Y-axis direction that are perpendicular to each other, a unit for calculating a vector magnitude of the voltage outputs of the single-axis magnetoresistive angle sensors along the X axis and the Y axis in real time, a unit for calculating a difference between a known calibration vector magnitude and the measured vector magnitude, a unit for dividing the difference by the square root of 2 in order to calculate an error signal, a unit for adding the error signal to the X-axis output and the Y-axis output respectively or subtracting the error signal from the X-axis output and the Y-axis output in order to calculate the calibrated output signals of the X-axis and the Y-axis angle sensors, a unit for calculating an arc tangent of a factor obtained by dividing the calibrated Y-axis output signal by the calibrated X-axis output signal to provide a rotation angle of the external magnetic field. This method for applying the magnetic field error calibration to the biaxial magnetoresistive angle sensor reduces the measurement error and expands the magnetic field application range in addition to improving the measurement precision in a high magnetic field.
US11022463B2	Position sensor and shift lever device A position sensor includes a magnet that generates a magnetic field, and a magnetic detector that is positioned opposing the magnet to detect an inclination of the magnetic field caused by the magnet. The magnet and the magnetic detector move relative to each other when an operation member is automatically or manually operated. The position sensor detects an operation position of the operation member based on a detection signal of the magnetic detector. The magnet includes two magnets positioned to oppose each other to generate the magnetic field as a parallel magnetic field at a rotation center of a support structure that forms operation axes of the operation member in multiple directions. The magnetic detector is arranged between the two magnets positioned opposing each other.
US11022459B2	System for providing personalized information and method of providing the personalized information A system and method for providing location-based personalized information by using user location history information, whereby battery consumption of a computing device is reduced. The computing device includes: a location finder configured to obtain user location information of a user of the computing device; a display configured to display information indicating a route of the user of the computing device; and a controller configured to track a location of the user by controlling the location finder as the controller senses a change in the location of the user based on the obtained user location information, obtain information corresponding to an initial route of the user based on the tracked location of the user, detect a predicted route of the user from user location history information based on the information corresponding to the initial route of the user, and display on the display unit the predicted route.
US11022451B2	Methods and systems for generation and utilization of supplemental stored energy for use in transport climate control Methods and systems for operating a transport climate control system of a vehicle are provided. The method includes obtaining a state of charge of an energy storage device capable of providing power to the transport climate control system; determining an energy level including the state of charge, receiving a planned route for the vehicle, and receiving route status data associated with the planned route for the vehicle. The route status data includes traffic data, weather data, and/or geographic data identifying areas where the transport climate control system is to be solely powered by the energy storage device. The method further includes determining whether the energy level is sufficient to complete the planned route for the vehicle based on the planned route and the route data, and when the energy level is not sufficient to complete the planned route for the vehicle, providing a notification to a user via a display.
US11022449B2	Route planning for an autonomous vehicle Among other things, a determination is made of and ability of an autonomous vehicle to safely or robustly travel a road feature or a road segment or a route that is being considered for the autonomous vehicle as of a time or range of times. The route conforms to properties of stored road network information. The road feature or road segment or route is eliminated from consideration if the computer has determined that the road feature or road segment or route cannot be safely or robustly traveled by the autonomous vehicle. The determination is based on analysis of performance of the autonomous vehicle.
US11022447B2	Environment based navigation An embodiment of the invention may include a method, computer program product and computer system for environment based navigation. The method, computer program product and computer system may include computing device which may collect environment map data. The environment map data may include one or more environmental zones. The computing device may receive one or more user environment preferences from a user. The user environment preferences may include a user's preferred environmental zones and non-preferred environmental zones. The computing device may receive a destination from the user and determine one or more routes to the destination. The computing device may compare the one or more determined routes to the environment map data and the user environment preferences and display a list of the determined routes based on the user environment preference data.
US11022440B2	Cladding-pumped waveguide optical gyroscope A waveguide optical gyroscope (WOG) is disclosed, which may include: an emitter; an integrated interferometer disposed on a silica planar lightwave circuit (PLC) and comprising a multilayer waveguide loop disposed in a first cladding material and interposed between layers of at least a second cladding material having an index of refraction lower than an index of refraction of the first cladding material; a pump source configured to pump the first cladding material with a signal that compensates for a propagation loss in the multilayer waveguide loop; and a micro-optic component configured to receive an output of the emitter and to guide the output into the integrated interferometer.
US11022439B2	Synchronized multi-axis gyroscope The disclosure relates to a microelectromechanical gyroscope which comprises first and second proof masses which form a first proof mass pair and third and fourth proof masses which form a second proof mass pair. The oscillation of the first and second proof mass pairs is synchronized by a synchronization element which comprises a ringlike body and torsion bars which extend along the x-axis from the ringlike body to the first, second, third and fourth proof masses.
US11022438B2	Distance measuring device, distance measuring system and distance measuring method The present disclosure provides a distance measuring device, a distance measuring system and a distance measuring method. The distance measuring device includes a finger sleeve assembly and a communication component. The finger sleeve assembly includes a first interphalangeal joint and a second interphalangeal joint that is rotatable connected to the first interphalangeal joint. The communication component is disposed on the finger sleeve assembly and is configured to transmit and/or receive a ranging signal.
US11022437B2	Leveling sensor, load port including the same, and method of leveling a load port A leveling sensor, a load port including a leveling sensor, and a method of leveling a load port using a load port are disclosed. In an embodiment, a sensor includes an accelerometer configured to detect leveling and vibration of a load port and produce a plurality of data; a plurality of indicator lights configured to display a level measurement and a level direction based on the leveling of the load port; a processor configured to process the data produced by the accelerometer; and a wired connection configured to connect the processor to an external device.
US11022435B2	Pattern projection depth value 3D scanning device and method Disclosed are a 3D scanning apparatus and a 3D scanning method. The 3D scanning apparatus includes a projector projecting patterns previously set onto a subject that is to be 3D scanned, a photographing unit photographing each of the patterns projected onto the subject at each of exposure levels previously set, a calculating unit calculating a depth value for each pixel of the subject based on the patterns photographed at each of the exposure levels, and a scanning unit 3D scanning the subject, which is photographed, based on the calculated depth value. The calculating unit calculates the depth value for each pixel of the subject by calculating the depth value for each pixel of the subject at each of the exposure levels and combining the depth values for the pixel, which are calculated at each of the exposure levels.
US11022431B2	Shape calculating apparatus A shape calculating apparatus includes a light source and a light guide provided with detection targets to decrease quantity of light guided by the light guide according to a bend shape of the light guide. The apparatus also includes a light detector to detect light quantity information in wavelengths included in light absorption spectra of the detection targets, a calculation unit that makes a calculation relating to a shape of each detection target based on the light quantity information, and a control unit that changes a dynamic range of at least one of an intensity of light input to the light guide and a detection signal output by the light detector for each wavelength range so that a magnitude of the detection signal is within a range between a lower limit threshold and an upper limit threshold of the light detector.
US11022416B2	Tape measure with tape blade profile increasing tape standout A tape measure, including a tape measure blade having a cross-sectional profile to increase standout is provided. The profile has a curved shape that increases standout. The tape blade may have a flat width of 30 mm or less and a standout of at least 132 inches. The tape blade may have a flat width greater than or equal to 29 mm and less than 32 mm and a standout of at least 156 inches. The tape blade may have a flat width greater than 32 mm and a standout of at least 168 inches.
US11022415B2	Boosterless ballistic transfer A ballistic transfer system, comprising: a housing, wherein the housing is cylindrical, wherein the housing comprises: a central bore that traverses a length of the housing; a first end; wherein the first end is disposed about a first ballistic apparatus; and a second end, wherein the second end is opposite to the first end, wherein the second end is disposed about a second ballistic apparatus; an alignment insert, wherein the alignment insert is secured into the housing; a first detonation transfer line, wherein a portion of the first detonation transfer line is disposed within the alignment insert; and a second detonation transfer line, wherein a portion of the second detonation transfer line is disposed within the alignment insert.
US11022408B2	Drone interceptor system, and methods and computer program products useful in conjunction therewith A system operative to down a target drone having propellers deployed along a perimeter p, comprising a processor-controlled interceptor drone bearing a processor-controlled flexible elongate intercepting agent cannon and an onboard camera; and an onboard processor to receive sensed wind conditions and to a firing distance d, between interceptor and target drones, given a firing angle A, and wherein the processor is configured to track the target drone using imagery generated by the onboard camera including at least once, when said wind conditions exist, guiding the interceptor drone to a firing position whose distance from the target drone is d, and commanding the cannon to fire at firing angle A, once said firing position is achieved, thereby to use the flexible elongate intercepting agent to down target drones.
US11022405B2	Bullet-proof backpack A bullet-proof backpack includes a back protection section having bullet-proof material integrated therein. The back protection section is sized to cover a portion of a user's upper back when the backpack is worn by the user. The bullet-proof backpack also includes a neck protection section having bullet-proof material integrated therein. The neck protection section is movably connected to the backpack and operable to move from a stored position to a deployed position. When the neck protection section is in its stored position, it is stored against a portion of the backpack. When the neck protection section is in its deployed position, it covers a back of the user's neck and a back portion of the user's head when the backpack is worn by the user.
US11022402B1	Printing-reducing strap for use with concealed carry holsters A printing-reducing strap configured for use with a concealed carry holster is capable of interacting with the concealed carry holster in a manner that reduces printing of a handgun carried by the concealed carry holster by pulling the handgun into the body of an individual who wears the concealed carry holster. The printing-reducing strap includes a first end capable of being secured to a holster body of the concealed carry holster and a second end capable of being secured to a portion of a waistband of the concealed carry holster located adjacent to a handgun receptacle of the holster body. Concealed carry holsters that include printing-reducing straps and methods for reducing printing by handguns carried by concealed carry waist holsters are also disclosed.
US11022398B1	Projectile launching device with self-timing and without cam lean A projectile launching device includes self-timing without cam lean. The projectile launching device preferably includes a rail, a riser, two energy storing components, (such as two limbs), two cams, a launch string, and at least two cables. The ends of the launch string are attached to the two cams. Opposing ends of first and second cables are coupled to the first and second cams. A mid-segment of the first and second cables are slideably engaged with the first and second cable pulleys, respectively. The two cams are preferably built as mirror images of each other at a centerline of the rail. The two cams include a launch string track, having identical, but mirrored, upper and lower cable tracks.
US11022394B1	Multi bore barrel for pistol A gun barrel that has a proximal chamber end, a distal muzzle end, and an internal bore bounded by a bore wall where the internal bore has a cartridge chamber at the proximal chamber end of the barrel, a first rifled bore section distal to the cartridge chamber, a second rifled bore section at the distal muzzle end of the barrel, and a reducing section distal to the first rifled bore section and connecting the first rifled bore section and the second rifled bore section.
US11022392B2	Child firearm safety lock allowing adult proficiency training A safety lock for a firearm comprises a casing, a releasable locking member at a second end, and a flexible member between the first end and the second end. When the lock is installed on the firearm, the lock extends along the barrel from the chamber to the muzzle end. When in the locked position, the casing is positioned in the chamber and the flexible member extends along the barrel, an ammunition round from being loaded. The safety lock allows a user to dry fire the firearm.
US11022382B2	System and method for heat exchanger of an HVAC and R system The present disclosure relates to a heat exchanger for a heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) system that includes a first slab having a first plurality of tubes extending between a first manifold and a second manifold and a second slab having a second plurality of tubes and a third plurality of tubes. The second plurality of tubes extends between a third manifold and a fourth manifold and the third plurality of tubes extends between the fourth manifold and a fifth manifold, such that the heat exchanger defines a refrigerant path sequentially through the first plurality of tubes, the second plurality of tubes, and the third plurality of tubes.
US11022381B2	Heat exchange system with main heat exchange chamber and subsidiary heat exchange chamber and method for exchanging heat by using the heat exchange system A heat exchange system with at least two heat exchange chambers is provided. Each of the heat exchange chambers includes heat exchange chamber boundaries which surround at least one heat exchange chamber interior of the heat exchange chamber. The heat exchange chamber boundaries include at least one first opening for guiding in of an inflow of at least one heat transfer fluid into the heat exchange chamber interior and at least one second opening for guiding out of an outflow of the heat transfer fluid out of the heat exchange chamber interior. At least one heat storage material is arranged in the heat exchange chamber interior such that a heat exchange flow of the heat transfer fluid through the heat exchange chamber interior causes a heat exchange between the heat storage material and the heat transfer fluid.
US11022380B2	Heat pipe with micro-pore tube array and heat exchange system employing the heat pipe A heat pipe with micro tubes (2), includes a solid heat conductor (1) provided therein with two or more parallel micro tubes (2), the micro tubes being filled therein with working medium which exchanges heat through phase change; and the two ends of the heat conductor (1) are sealed and at least one of them is provided with a sealing strip of gradually shrinking shape that is formed from cold welding.
US11022368B2	Refrigerator A refrigerator may include a storage compartment, an inner door which comprises an opening having a size corresponding to a size of the storage compartment, a plurality of door guards, and an outer door which open and close the storage compartment, wherein the inner door comprises a control unit may control an internal environment of the storage compartment.
US11022367B2	Apparatus for emptying and filling horizontal freezers and freezing system with apparatus for filling and emptying horizontal freezers An apparatus for emptying and filling horizontal freezers, which includes a first and a second chain actuator, the chain actuators being arranged parallel to each other and parallel to an y axis, the chain actuators having first and second ends, a sliding beam arranged between the first and second chain actuators nearby, or at, the first end of the first and second chain actuators, and a feeding arrangement for retracting the first and second chain actuators from an extended configuration to a collapsed configuration and for extending the chain actuators from a collapsed configuration to an extended configuration.
US11022364B2	Wall covering assembly with ventilation pattern and air curtain system A refrigerator includes a wall covering assembly having a top wall spaced-apart from a top wall of a liner, and a rear wall spaced-apart from a rear wall of the liner. The wall covering assembly includes a pattern of ports for providing outwardly directed cooled air to the refrigerator cabinet from a duct assembly. The duct assembly is configured to deliver cooled air through the ventilated portion of the wall covering assembly and also deliver cooled air to a front portion of the refrigerator cabinet via a downwardly directed air curtain. The air curtain disrupts the outward flow of air from the ventilated portion of the wall covering assembly before the cooled air reaches a gasket assembly disposed around the refrigerator doors. Angled venting slots disposed on the wall covering assembly direct air towards inner surfaces of the doors without disruption from the air curtain.
US11022360B2	Method for reducing condenser size and power on a heat rejection system A heat transfer system for high transient heat loads includes a fluid, a heat exchanger; a compressor downstream of the heat exchanger outlet; a condenser downstream of the compressor outlet, and a thermal energy storage (TES) section downstream of the condenser outlet and upstream of the heat exchanger. The TES section may include a first pressure regulating valve downstream of a TES unit; and a second pressure regulating valve upstream of the first pressure regulating valve.
US11022359B2	Clear ice making appliance and method of same An aspect of the present disclosure is generally directed to an ice making appliance that includes: an ice making compartment and an ice maker including an ice mold having a total water capacity. The ice mold includes a plurality of ice wells and is configured to release the ice cubes without the use of a heater and by twisting the ice mold. The ice wells are typically no more than about 12.2 mm in depth from a top surface of the ice mold and have a volume of about 20 mL or less. The ice maker is capable of producing at least about 3.5 lbs. of ice or more in a 24 hour span.
US11022337B2	Air conditioning system An air conditioning system for an occupiable structure having a plurality of regions includes a plurality of air condition sensors, an air conditioning unit, and a programmable controller. The air condition sensor assemblies are each located in a respective region of the plurality of regions. The air conditioning unit is adapted to condition air in the occupiable structure. The controller is configured to receive a plurality of condition signals from each one of the plurality of air condition sensor assemblies and output an activate command that facilitates activating the air conditioning unit. The activate command is based on any one of the condition signals and a preprogrammed condition threshold. Each one of the condition signals is associated with a respective programmed time interval of a plurality of programmed time intervals.
US11022332B2	Systems and methods for configuring and communicating with hvac devices An actuator in a HVAC system includes a mechanical transducer, a processing circuit, a wireless transceiver, and a power circuit. The processing circuit includes a processor and memory and is configured to operate the mechanical transducer according to a control program stored in the memory. The wireless transceiver is configured to facilitate bidirectional wireless data communications between the processing circuit and an external device. The power circuit is configured to draw power from a wireless signal received via the wireless transceiver and power the processing circuit and the wireless transceiver using the drawn power. The processing circuit is configured to use the power drawn from the wireless signal to wirelessly transmit data stored in the memory of the actuator to the external device via the wireless transceiver, wirelessly receive data from the external device via the wireless transceiver, and store the data received from the external device in the memory.
US11022318B1	Apparatus and method for operating a gas-fired burner on liquid fuels A gas-fired burner adapted for use on a liquid fuel. A method for essentially smokeless start-up and steady state operation of a gas-fired burner on a liquid fuel. The apparatus integrates a catalytic liquid fuel reformer with a flame burner designed for operation on a gaseous fuel of high Wobbe Index, e.g., natural gas. The method involves reacting a mixture of a liquid fuel and oxidant in a catalytic reformer to obtain a gaseous reformate having a low Wobbe Index; and thereafter combusting the gaseous reformate, optionally augmented with liquid co-fuel and oxidant, in the gas-fired burner under diffusion flame conditions. The invention allows commercial gas-fired appliances to be operated on a liquid fuel, thereby offering advantages in logistics and camp operations.
US11022308B2	Double wall combustors with strain isolated inserts A combustor for a turbine engine includes a first liner and a second liner forming a combustion chamber with the first liner. The combustion chamber is configured to receive an air-fuel mixture for combustion therein. The first liner is a first double wall liner with a first wall forming a portion of the combustion chamber and a second wall extending around at least a portion of the first wall to form a liner cavity with the first wall. The first wall defines a first wall orifice and the second wall defines a second wall orifice. The combustor further includes a first insert mounted on the second wall within the second wall orifice and extending through the first wall orifice. The first insert is configured to direct a first air jet through the second wall, through the first wall, and into the combustion chamber.
US11022303B2	Combustion device A combustion device includes at least one burner, a supporting assembly, and an infrared ray generation mesh wherein, the at least one burner includes a flame outlet, and the infrared ray generation mesh which is corresponding to the flame outlet is disposed on a rear cover of the supporting assembly. An outer surface of the infrared ray generation mesh is exposed outside. The infrared ray generation mesh is heated by flames out of the flame outlet. Whereby, open fire and thermal energy of the infrared ray can be generated so as to effectively increase heating intensity and realize uniformly heating as well.
US11022296B2	Operatory lights and replacement bulbs for operatory lights An operatory light may comprise a bulb that includes a light emitting diode (LED) module positioned such that when the bulb is installed into a socket of the operatory light and powered, none of the light emitted from the LED is directed directly toward a lens of the operatory light, and only reflected light passes through the lens of the operatory light.
US11022292B2	Lighting device A lighting device that protects a member related to light emission from heat associated with light emission includes a light source, a first optical member configured to transmit light emitted by the light source, a second optical member, arranged between the light source and the first optical member, configured to transmit light emitted by the light source, and an air-sending mechanism configured to send air suctioned from a first space that is an inner space on a side nearer to the light source than the second optical member and includes the light source to a second space that is a space between the first optical member and the second optical member.
US11022287B2	Explosion proof luminaire The present disclosure envisages a luminaire (100). The luminaire (100) comprises at least an array of light-emitting diodes (10), a driver (20) for driving the array of light-emitting diodes (10), a first compartment (30), a second compartment (40), a perforated wall (50), an array of fins (60) and a lid (70). The first compartment (30) houses the array of light-emitting diodes (10). The second compartment houses the driver (20). The second compartment (40) is separated from the first compartment (30) by a perforated wall (50). The array of fins (60) is disposed on an operative external wall surface surrounding the first compartment (30) and/or the second compartment (40) of the luminaire (100). The lid (70) is removably fitted on an operative end of the first compartment (30). The luminaire (100) has an explosion-proof construction, dissipates heat efficiently, is less expensive and is easy to assemble.
US11022283B2	Integrated ring clip of flashlight and flashlight The present invention provides an integrated ring clamp of a flashlight, which includes a ring and a clip, wherein the ring has a base; the clip includes a clamping part and a holding part that can hold and be fixed to a body of the flashlight, the holding part is fixed to the clamping part, and the clamping part is detachably fixed to the base. The present invention also provides a flashlight, which includes a flashlight body and the integrated ring clip, and may further include a flashlight sleeve sleeved on the outer face of the flashlight body and wrapping the same. The integrated ring clamp and the flashlight solve the problem of a structural conflict of the ring and the clip, so that the ring and the clip can be present on the flashlight at the same time, thereby achieving diversified functions.
US11022281B2	Lighting system A lighting system and related methods are disclosed herein. The lighting system may have a mounting fixture and a light fixture. The mounting fixture is configured to engage a mounting surface. The light fixture is configured to engage the mounting fixture and has a driver configured to drive a light source. A first fastener having a movable elongated member is configured to removably couple the light fixture to the mounting fixture in an extended configuration. A second fastener having a quick connect feature is configured to removably couple the light fixture to the mounting fixture in a retracted configuration.

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