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US11069265B2	Foldable electronic device including antenna Various embodiments relate to an electronic device including an antenna. The electronic device may include: a foldable housing; a flexible display disposed on the foldable housing wherein at least a part of the flexible display is configured to be folded; and a frame disposed on a boundary portion of the flexible display and coupled to a side member of the foldable housing. The side member may include a conductive portion electrically connected to a communication circuit, and the frame may include a low-permittivity material.
US11069261B2	Food swallowing simulating device The present invention discloses a food swallowing simulating device, and belongs to the field of structural design of bio-simulation machinery. The device comprises an upper jaw matrix, a tongue matrix, a transmission device and a driving device; the upper jaw matrix and the tongue matrix are arranged oppositely, and opposite surfaces are curved surfaces; a channel is reserved between the curved surfaces to form a bionic oral cavity; and the tongue matrix is connected with the driving device by the transmission device, so that the motion of the tongue matrix is controlled by the driving device. Transition from static food swallowing mechanism simulation to dynamic food swallowing mechanism simulation is realized, and thus, a blank in the market is made up.
US11069258B2	System for behavioral conditioning through gamification In an example, a system is disclosed for behavioral conditioning through games using a systematic process of cue deconstruction, reaction prompting, and the novel application of classical and operant conditioning techniques. The invention describes the design and production of specially configured clients with given conditioned and unconditioned stimuli for reinforcement and punishment, their provision through a server, and the collection of user metrics for behavioral profiling.
US11069251B1	System and method for automating therapeutic exercises based on discrete trial training Remote administration of discrete trial training exercises to a patient and analyzing results. Instructions are executed by the processing circuitry of the patient-side device that interrupts the operation of the entertainment circuitry to administer the discrete trial training exercise to the patient. Sensor data from at least one input capture element is collected. The sensor data is analyzed and compared to a pre-determined result and if the sensor data substantially matches the pre-determined result, a reward command is sent to the patient-side device that causes a resumption of the operation of the entertainment circuitry on the patient-side device.
US11069243B2	Method for warning a vulnerable road user A method for warning a vulnerable road user. The method includes: receiving surroundings signals, which represent a surroundings of the road user and the road user, receiving communication address signals, which represent a communication address of a mobile communication device, which the road user is carrying, ascertaining on the basis of the surroundings signals whether there is an imminent danger to the road user, in the event of an imminent danger to a road user, generating communication message signals, which represent a communication message for the mobile communication device that is to be transmitted to the communication address of the mobile communication device, the communication message comprising a warning to the road user, outputting the generated communication message signals in order to transmit the communication message to the communication address of the mobile communication device. A device, a computer program, and a machine-readable storage medium, are also described.
US11069236B2	Systems and methods for virtual traffic lights implemented on a mobile computing device Disclosed herein is an implementation of a Virtual Traffic Lights (VTL) application implemented as an app on a mobile computing device in which online mapping services provide information necessary to determine a lead vehicle among one or more vehicles approaching an intersection. The lead vehicle controls status of virtual traffic lights at the intersection. The information retrieved from in the online mapping service may be used to determine whether vehicles approaching intersection are moving closer or farther apart from each other, the direction of travel of the vehicles, the geographic location of the intersection, and the distance between each vehicle and the geographic location of the intersection.
US11069233B1	Video-based main road cooperative signal machine control method The present application discloses a video-based main road cooperative signal machine control method, which includes: installation of video detectors at each intersection of the main road; data acquisition and communication of a single intersection; data acquisition and storage of multiple intersections; data processing of the main road coordination signal control; signal command release service and signal light control. The application adopts active video detection technology, which can accurately detect the traffic state of multiple intersections of the main road, formulate an optimized signal control scheme, provide optimal decision and emergency plan for the control of traffic light of the main road, improve the traffic efficiency of intersections and effectively alleviate traffic congestion on trunk roads.
US11069227B1	Firearm system having monitoring capabilities An airsoft firearm system configured to provide a plurality of operational parameters of the airsoft firearm during utilization thereof. The airsoft firearm system includes a communications module wherein the communications module is operable to wirelessly transmit operational parameter data to a remote computing device. A power supply and a power monitoring module are located in the firearm so as to provide the necessary power to operate the firearm and monitoring thereof. An ammunition counting module is present within the firearm wherein the ammunition counting module provides data on ammunition consumption rate and remaining ammunition. A safety module is present and is operably coupled to the power supply and is configured to provide control thereof. A position sensor is located on the firearm and is operable to detect the orientation of the firearm. An audio module is operably coupled to the communications module and is configured to broadcast sound effects.
US11069221B1	Methods of facilitating emergency assistance A method of responding to a vehicle accident includes receiving data indicating that vehicle is involved in an accident. The method further includes transmitting a communication to a mobile device of a user in response to receiving the data. Still further, the method includes displaying the communication via a mobile device application on the mobile device, the communication prompting the user to provide responses to one or more questions regarding the accident. The method further includes determining a likely severity of the accident based on the received data, receiving an indication of a response to the one or more questions from the user, and, based on the determination of the likely severity of the accident and the received indication of the response, prompting the user with an emergency assistance recommendation. In addition, the method further includes performing one or more assessments based on the determination of the likely severity of the accident, the one or more assessments including determining damage to the vehicle, repairs needed for the vehicle, or fault of the user for the accident.
US11069218B2	System for monitoring offender during correctional supervisory program The present disclosure provides details of a system for monitoring an offender during a correctional supervisory program. The system includes an offender communication device that transmit and receive communications via a communication and monitoring center. The offender communication device include a smart phone or tablet that obtains identity information including biometric information from an offender before a communication is transmitted or received. The offender communication device also stores data including metadata, metrics, or content of a communication and transmits the stored data to the communication and monitoring center. The communication and monitoring center transmits and receives communications from the offender communication device and another communication device. Further, the communication and monitoring center provides monitoring functionality to record a communication and determine that a location of an offender is in an authorized location based on rules and requirements of the correctional supervisory program.
US11069213B2	Fall detection system and method A fall detection system is provided, which includes at least one processing device, at least one personal module including a personal module pressure sensor, and at least one reference module including a reference module pressure sensor. The at least one processing device is arranged to receive personal pressure data from the at least one personal module pressure sensor, receive reference pressure data from the at least one reference module pressure sensor, determine a personal pressure using the personal pressure data and the reference pressure data, determine an individual personal pressure profile based on the historical personal pressure of the individual, compare the personal pressure with the individual personal pressure profile, which may e.g. be an individual personal pressure threshold, and set a fall detection alert based at least on whether the personal pressure lies beyond the individual personal pressure profile, e.g. by being above the individual personal pressure threshold.
US11069207B2	Pneumatically controlled haptic mechanisms for haptic feedback An apparatus for creating haptic stimulations is provided. The apparatus includes one or more pods coupled to a garment, each pod including: (i) an internal structure, and (ii) an airtight bladder surrounding the internal structure, where the bladder is pneumatically coupled to a pneumatic device that is configured to control a pressurized state of the bladder. Each pod is configured to: (i) have a first degree of flexibility when the bladder of the pod is in a first pressurized state; and (ii) have a second degree of flexibility, less than the first degree of flexibility, when the bladder of the pod is in a second pressurized state different from the first pressurized state. Each pod provides a haptic stimulation to a wearer of the garment when the corresponding bladder is in the second pressurized state.
US11069193B2	Gaming device having gridded-card game feature Embodiments of the present invention set forth systems, apparatuses and methods for implementing a card game on a gaming device. Here, gaming devices having a display and game processor may be operable to provide a gaming event using cards with gridded fields. In one type of gaming event, a player may be given one or more cards with a gridded field and compete against one or more other opponents each having one or more competing cards with gridded fields. In another type of gaming event, a player may be given one or more cards with gridded fields and try to match numbers or indicia that are randomly drawn. Play of the gaming event may continue in multiple rounds or stages where a next stage is reached by obtaining a continuation trigger on one or more of the player cards during a present round of the gaming event.
US11069184B2	Apparatus, system and method for electronic gaming A system for electronic gaming is described which includes a plurality of individual game stations each of which is constructed and arranged with a user interface. Upstream from each game station is a third party subsystem which includes a corresponding database. This third party subsystem is in data communication with each game station. Also upstream from the plurality of game stations is a gaming server subsystem which includes a database. A central determinate translator system is constructed and arranged in communication either directly or indirectly with each game station and provides a communication link and interface between the gaming server subsystem and each game station.
US11069181B2	Gaming machine, control method for a gaming machine, and program for gaming machine A gaming machine provides a game feature. The gaming machine includes an operation unit, a display unit, a memory device and a game control unit. The operation unit receives an operation input of the player. The display unit is configured to display a game screen including computer generated graphics. The memory device stores a game execution program including computer instructions for generating the game feature. The game control unit executes the game execution program to provide the game feature and is coupled to the operation unit, the display unit and the memory device. The game control unit includes a processor programmed to display a game feature structure on the game screen on the display unit. The game feature structure includes a wheel having a plurality of wedges. Each wedge has an associated indicia. The indicia are from a set of indicia which includes a plurality of prize symbols.
US11069174B2	Charging vehicles in a parking area Methods and systems for charging vehicles in a parking area are described. In one embodiment, a charge request may be received for a vehicle located in a parking area. The vehicle may have a power connection with a power source. An electric charge is provided through the power connection from the power source to the vehicle based on receiving the charge request, the value of the electric charge being adjustable based at least in part on the power basis of the vehicle. Billing or Payment is recorded for providing the electric charge based upon departure of the vehicle from the parking area.
US11069168B2	Facial capture managing access to resources by a device Disclosed are various embodiments for controlling access to resources by a client device. Methods may include receiving a user request to access a resource on the device and determining whether the resource requires a facial capture. If the resource requires a facial capture, a camera of the device may be automatically activated to capture an image and the resource may be rendered on the device. In some cases, access to the resource may be limited based on whether the image includes a face or not. A record associating the image and the requested resource may be stored, for example, on the device or on a remote server.
US11069167B2	Method and system for automated physical access control system using biometric recognition coupled with tag authentication An access control system is described along with a method for operating the system. In one example, a system and method are disclosed that provide a hands-free solution thereby enabling a user to walk through a door or portal with no stop in motion and limited to no interaction or user effort. Security of the system is still maintained even though user interactions are significantly decreased.
US11069162B1	System and method for generating vehicle crash data A computer-implemented method for generating vehicle crash data is presented. The method may include determining whether sensor data output of a sensor of a mobile computing device within a vehicle indicates that a crash of a vehicle has occurred. The method may further include displaying a notification prompting a user of the mobile computing device to confirm that the crash of the vehicle has occurred and receiving an indication from the user that the crash of the vehicle has occurred. Still further, the method may include transmitting the sensor data output to a remote computing device and receiving a communication from the remote computing device, wherein the communication prompts the user to take a post-crash action.
US11069159B1	Driving trip and pattern analysis A driving analysis server may be configured to receive vehicle location data and/or operation data from one or more vehicle systems, identify driving trips and/or driving patterns based on the vehicle data, determine risk assessment values corresponding to the driving trips and driving patterns, and calculate driver scores based on the analyzed driving trip and driving pattern data. Destination locations may be identified for a vehicle's driving trips, and information relating to the destination locations may be retrieved and analyzed to determine risk factors and risk assessment values associated with driving to and from the destination, as well as parking at the destination. Specific driving trip types or purposes may be identified, and driving scores may be calculated based on the vehicle location and time data, including the risk factors, risk assessment values, and the determined trip types or purposes.
US11069152B2	Face pose correction apparatus and method Provided is a face pose correction apparatus for correcting a face pose, using a person-specific frontal model specialized for input three-dimensional (3D) facial data. The face pose correction apparatus may comprise: a generation unit for generating corrected first facial data by performing a 3D rigid transformation of input 3D facial data on the basis of a pre-stored 3D standard facial model; and a correction unit for generating a first subject-specialized frontal model which is a bilateral symmetry model of the first facial data, and correcting the first facial data by performing the 3D rigid transformation of the first facial data on the basis of the generated first subject-specialized frontal model.
US11069151B2	Methods and devices for replacing expression, and computer readable storage media The present disclosure provides a method and a device for replacing an expression. The method includes: acquiring a current expression represented by a currently-reconstructed 3D face model; acquiring a target expression from a user; acquiring, based on the current expression and the target expression, values for adjusting coordinates of a first set of key points on the currently-reconstructed 3D face model; and adjusting the coordinates of the first set of key points on the currently-reconstructed 3D face model based on the values, to generate a 3D face model representing the target expression.
US11069150B2	Image processing method, system and device for synthesizing human appearance The present invention is directed to generating an image based on first image data of a first person having first pose, first body shape, and first clothing and second image data of a second person having second pose, a second body shape, and second clothing. The generated image represents a transfer of appearance (e.g., clothing) of the second person to the first person. This is achieved by modeling 3d human pose and body shape for each of the persons via triangle mesh, fitting the 3d human pose and body shape models to the images of the persons, transferring appearance using barycentric methods for commonly visible vertices, and learning to color the remaining ones using deep image synthesis techniques.
US11069141B2	Dynamic configuration of an augmented reality overlay A device may detect, in a field of view of a camera, one or more components of an automated teller machine (ATM) device using a computer vision technique based on generating a three dimensional model of the one or more components. The device may identify the ATM device as a particular device or as a particular type of device based on the one or more components of the ATM device, or first information related to the ATM device. The device may identify a set of tasks to be performed with respect to the ATM device. The device may provide, for display via a display associated with the device, second information associated with the set of tasks as an augmented reality overlay. The device may perform an action related to the set of tasks, the ATM device, or the augmented reality overlay.
US11069135B2	On-set facial performance capture and transfer to a three-dimensional computer-generated model A method of transferring a facial expression from a subject to a computer generated character that includes receiving a plate with an image of the subject's facial expression, a three-dimensional parameterized deformable model of the subject's face where different facial expressions of the subject can be obtained by varying values of the model parameters, a model of a camera rig used to capture the plate, and a virtual lighting model that estimates lighting conditions when the image on the plate was captured. The method can solve for the facial expression in the plate by executing a deformation solver to solve for at least some parameters of the deformable model with a differentiable renderer and shape from shading techniques, using, as inputs, the three-dimensional parameterized deformable model, the model of the camera rig and the virtual lighting model over a series of iterations to infer geometry of the facial expression and generate a final facial mesh using the set of parameter values of the deformable model which result in a facial expression that closely matches the expression of the subject in the plate.
US11069124B2	Systems and methods for reducing rendering latency In one embodiment, a computing system may determine a first orientation of a viewer in a three-dimensional (3D) space based on first sensor data associated with a first time. The system may render one or more first lines of pixels based on the first orientation of the viewer and display the one or more first lines. The system may determine a second orientation of the viewer in the 3D space based on second sensor data associated with a second time that is subsequent to the first time. The system may render one or more second lines of pixels based on the second orientation of the viewer and display the one or more second lines of pixels. The one or more second lines of pixels associated with the second orientation are displayed concurrently with the one or more first lines of pixels associated with the first orientation.
US11069122B2	Photorealistic three dimensional texturing using canonical views and a two-stage approach Images of various views of objects can be captured. An object mesh structure can be created based at least in part on the object images. The object mesh structure represents the three-dimensional shape of the object and includes a mesh with mesh elements. The mesh elements are assigned views first from a subset of views to texture large contiguous portions of the object from relatively few views. Portions that are not textured from the subset views are textured using the full set of views, such that all mesh elements are assigned views. The views first assigned from the subset of views and the views then assigned from the full plurality of views can be packaged into a texture atlas. These texture atlas views can be packaged with mapping data to map the texture atlas views to their corresponding mesh elements. The texture atlas and the object mesh structure can be sent to a client device to render a representation of the object. The representation can be manipulated on the client device in an augmented reality setting.
US11069117B2	Optimal texture memory allocation Systems and methods for generating three-dimensional models having regions of various resolutions are provided. In particular, imagery data can be captured and utilized to generate three-dimensional models. Regions of texture can be mapped to regions of a three-dimensional model when rendered. Resolutions of texture can be selectively altered and regions of texture can be selectively segmented to reduce texture memory cost. Texture can be algorithmically generated based on alternative texturing techniques. Models can be rendered having regions at various resolutions.
US11069114B2	In-vehicle avatar processing apparatus and method of controlling the same An in-vehicle avatar processing apparatus and a method of controlling the same, for generating and outputting an avatar in consideration of a driving situation as well as an external appearance of a vehicle, may include generating first avatar data including at least a vehicle external image by a transmission side device included in a first vehicle, generating second avatar data based on information pertaining to an inside or an outside of a vehicle, by the transmission side device, generating avatar animation by combining the first avatar data and the second avatar data, and outputting the generated avatar animation through an output unit of a reception side device.
US11069104B1	Display that uses a light sensor to generate environmentally matched artificial reality content A display assembly generates environmentally matched virtual content for an electronic display. The display assembly includes a display controller and a display. The display controller is configured to estimate environmental matching information for a target area within a local area based in part on light information received from a light sensor. The target area is a region for placement of a virtual object. The light information describes light values. The display controller generates display instructions for the target area based in part on a human vision model, the estimated environmental matching information, and rendering information associated with the virtual object. The display is configured to present the virtual object as part of artificial reality content in accordance with the display instructions. The color and brightness of the virtual object is environmentally matched to the portion of the local area surrounding the target area.
US11069100B2	Intelligent interactive interface The present disclosure discloses an intelligent interactive interface, comprising: an interface underlayer drawn from trajectory formed by measurement; a plurality of identifications disposed on the interface underlayer, each of the identifications corresponds to an external device, information of the external device is uploaded in real time, displayed on the interface underlayer and can be stored on a server, and a mapping relationship is established between the information of the external device and the corresponding identification of respective external device; a terminal apparatus is connected to the external device and displays the interface underlayer, identifications and control and/or exchange information with the external device; wherein the information of the external device is displayed in real time on the terminal apparatus through the identifications, the identifications can be added or deleted in real time. The present disclosure implements functional interactions such as controlling, monitoring an external device by a terminal apparatus. The present disclosure also implements various functions such as curve line measurement, dotting, identification description, synthesis of a measurement drawing and a real scene, remote real-time monitoring, etc.
US11069099B2	Drawing curves in space guided by 3-D objects Various embodiments enable curves to be drawn around 3-D objects by intelligently determining or inferring how the curve flows in the space around the outside of the 3-D object. The various embodiments enable such curves to be drawn without having to constantly rotate the 3-D object. In at least some embodiments, curve flow is inferred by employing a vertex position discovery process, a path discovery process, and a final curve construction process.
US11069095B1	Techniques for efficiently sampling an image A sample mask is used to control which samples are used in a filtering operation such as bilinear filtering. A conventional filtering operation reads a set of samples based on a single coordinate and combines the samples to produce a filtered sample value. Such filtering operations are performed conventionally using fixed function units designed specifically to perform such filtering operations. However, for some applications, excluding one or more of the samples in producing a filtered sample value is desirable. In other applications, combining the samples using different weighting factors is also desirable. Techniques are disclosed herein for extending the capabilities of existing filtering units, for example, to exclude one or more samples in the filtering operation and for specifying different weighting rules for combining the samples.
US11069083B2	Method and a system for counting objects in an image A method and a system are described for counting objects in an image. The method includes receiving at least one image comprising one or more objects. The method includes determining contours of the one or more objects using one or more morphological operations on the at least one image. The method further includes identifying shapes of the one or more objects based on counting a number of contours associated with each of the one or more objects. The method includes comparing the shapes of the one or more objects with one or more predefined training images to identify one or more objects of interest. The method includes counting the one or more objects of interest based on the shapes of the one or more objects of interest.
US11069070B2	Self-cleaning autonomous store An autonomous store that tracks shopper movements and actions, and performs store cleaning actions based on analysis of shopper activity. Cleaning actions may include disinfecting the store or regions within the store using radiation, fogging or spraying, or ventilation. Cleaning actions may be targeted; for example, zones where shoppers linger or congregate may be cleaned more frequently or intensively, or shelves or items that shoppers touch may be cleaned after these interactions. Shopper activity information may be used to limit the number of shoppers in a store at once, for example by denying entry when the store is at capacity. The density of shoppers in regions of the store may be communicated to shoppers so that they can limit their interactions with other shoppers. Shopper activity history may be used for contact tracing by identifying other shoppers that may have been exposed to an individual who was in the store.
US11069068B2	Image processing apparatus that performs multi-crop processing, method of generating image in units of documents by multi-crop processing and storage medium To make it possible to cut out an image area corresponding to a document with a high accuracy from an image obtained by scanning a document without forcing a user to perform complicated work or without giving a feeling of discomfort at the time of performing multi-crop processing. To this end, first, position information on the document is acquired by detecting an edge component from a first image obtained by setting high the first white reference value. Then, an image area corresponding to the document is cut out based on the acquired position information from a second image obtained by setting the second white reference value lower than the first white reference value.
US11069065B2	Validity of a reference system In an embodiment, a method includes acquiring a first image data set of the patient, via an X-ray apparatus, at a first time point during the operative intervention, the first image data set including the reference structure, the anatomical structure and the reference system between the reference structure and the anatomical structure; acquiring a second image data set of the patient at a second time point, the second image data set including at least the reference structure; registering the second image data set to the first image data set. As a result of the registering of the second image data set to the first image data set, a registered second image data set is determined. Finally, an embodiment of the method includes determining the validity of the reference system by a comparison of the registered second image data set with the first image data set.
US11069063B2	Systems and methods for noise analysis The disclosure provides a system for noise analysis. The system may acquire a plurality of signals of a subject, and determine a signal representation of the subject based on the plurality of signals. The system may determine an updated signal representation of the subject by adding a signal disturbance into the plurality of signals. The system may further determine a value of a noise parameter indicative of a signal level of the plurality of signals relative to noise of the plurality of signals based on the signal representation and the updated signal representation of the subject.
US11069059B2	Prenatal ultrasound imaging An ultrasound system (100) and operating method (200) are disclosed in which the system is adapted to receive a sequence (15) of 2-D ultrasound image frames (150) of a prenatal entity from an ultrasound probe (14) and, for each image frame in said sequence, control the display device to display the received image frame; attempt to segment the image frame for recognition of an anatomical feature of interest (151) of said prenatal entity in said image frame; and accept the image frame for further processing upon recognition of said feature, said further processing comprising: determine a geometric property of the recognized anatomical feature of interest for each accepted image frame; and control the display device to display the determined geometric properties of the accepted image frames in said sequence with each displayed image frame. Such an operating method may be made available as a computer program product for installation on the ultrasound system.
US11069057B2	Skin diagnostic device and skin diagnostic method A skin diagnostic device includes an image acquisition unit that acquires a skin image obtained by capturing skin, an image analyzer that calculates an index value indicating a darkness level of a color of a discolored region of the skin from the obtained skin image, a threshold determination unit that determines a threshold based on the calculated index value and a size of a contrast of the skin image, and a skin diagnostic unit that performs a diagnosis on the skin by comparing the determined threshold and normalized luminance value data obtained by normalizing luminance value data of the skin image with an average luminance value of the luminance value data.
US11069038B2	Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and image display apparatus An information processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology includes a projection instruction unit and an output unit. The projection instruction unit instructs a projection of a correction image in which one or more representative pixels are displayed. The output unit outputs a GUI (Graphical User Interface) for inputting a blur degree of each of the one or more representative pixels within the projected correction image.
US11069036B1	Method and system for real-time and offline de-identification of facial regions from regular and occluded color video streams obtained during diagnostic medical procedures Systems and techniques that facilitate real-time and/or offline de-identification of facial regions from regular and/or occluded color video streams obtained during diagnostic medical procedures are provided. A detection component can generate a bounding box substantially around a person in a frame of a video stream, can generate a heatmap showing key points or anatomical masks of the person based on the bounding box, and can localize a face or facial region of the person based on the key points or anatomical masks. An anonymization component can anonymize pixels in the frame that correspond to the face or facial region. A tracking component can track the face or facial region in a subsequent frame based on a structural similarity index between the frame and the subsequent frame being above a threshold. If the structural similarity index between the frame and the subsequent frame is above the threshold, the tracking component can track the face or facial region in the subsequent frame without having the detection component generate a bounding box or a heatmap in the subsequent frame, and the anonymization component can anonymize pixels in the subsequent frame corresponding to the tracked face or facial region.
US11069032B2	System and method of reducing effects of turbulence in an image A system and method of removing turbulence from an image of a time ordered sequence of image frames. The method comprises removing effects of turbulence from a first image of the sequence to create an initial corrected image frame; determining a number of iterations required to achieve a desired turbulence removal for a subsequent image in the sequence and satisfy a latency constraint and an available memory capacity; and determining, based on the number of required iterations, a minimum set of image frames required to remove turbulence from the subsequent image. The minimum set of image frames comprises: a number of image frames of the sequence, a number of image frames generated in an intermediate iteration of turbulence removal and the initial corrected image frame. The method further comprises using the minimum set of image frames to remove turbulence from the subsequent image of the sequence.
US11069031B2	Image processing apparatus, control method for image processing apparatus, image pickup apparatus, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium to control reflected color components of input image A control method for an image processing apparatus includes setting a virtual light source, analyzing characteristics of a partial region of a subject in an input image acquired through image capturing, smoothing at least a portion of the input image on the basis of information about a result of the analysis, generating, on the basis of the smoothed input image, reflected color components in a case where the subject is irradiated with light from the virtual light source, and performing correction based on the reflected color components on the input image.
US11069025B2	Method for transmitting and receiving metadata of omnidirectional image The present disclosure relates to a method for transmitting metadata of an omnidirectional image by a transmission apparatus, the method comprising the steps of: projecting an omnidirectional image into a planar image based on a 3-dimensional (3D) geometry corresponding to the omnidirectional image; and transmitting metadata including type information of the 3D geometry, information for a region on the projected planar image, and information for an area on the omnidirectional image which is mapped to the region.
US11069024B2	Primitive processing in a graphics processing system with tag buffer storage of primitive identifiers A graphics processing system has a rendering space which comprises one or more tiles. The system comprises a processing module configured to perform hidden surface removal for primitives of a tile to determine primitive identifiers identifying the primitives which are visible at each of a plurality of sample positions in the tile. A set of two or more tag buffers store the primitive identifiers determined for each of the sample positions in a tile, thereby representing overlapping layers of primitives. A tag control module controls: (i) selection of a tag buffer for the storage of each of the primitive identifiers according to the layering of the primitive identifiers stored in the tag buffers, and (ii) flushing of primitive identifiers from the tag buffers. A texturing engine applies texturing to the primitives identified by the flushed primitive identifiers.
US11069019B2	Multi-threaded asynchronous frame processing Parallel processing of frames by a first and second thread is disclosed. In particular, the systems and methods can process multiple frames in a pipelines manner by a JavaScript thread and a UI thread. The system first executes a first frame by a JavaScript thread during a first time interval. The system then executes the first frame by a UI thread during a second time interval. While the UI thread is executing the first frame, the JavaScript thread executes a second thread in parallel during the second time internal. As a result, latency is added to UI processing while maintaining the same throughput, to add parallelism. The JavaScript and UI threads can be handled by different processors (e.g., using a multi-core processor), thereby adding further parallelism and increasing the efficiency of processing an event.
US11069007B2	Crop management method and system A computer-implemented cloud-based agricultural enterprise management system and methods. The system comprises a plurality of modular components for receiving and processing data pertaining to agricultural production of commodities by an agricultural producer and for centralizing and storing the received and/or processed data in a single cloud-based database. The producer can provide to one or more third-party suppliers and/or service providers, authorized but restricted access to selected components of their agricultural enterprise management system and cloud-based database so that together, the producer, suppliers and service providers can effectively and cost-efficiently plan and manage the delivery of products and services during a crop production cycle, and the sale of harvested agricultural commodities. Separate modular components may be utilized for inputs exemplified by agronomy data, crop production inputs data, and crop growth and performance tracking.
US11069006B2	Systems and methods for generating and updating dynamic digital tickets within a digital board A communication application may include a request-response mechanism, which may enable real-time interaction between multiple users executing multiple tasks at multiple locations. Using the communication application, a first user may generate a digital ticket for the tasks, which may be shared with a second user. A response associated with the digital ticket by the second user may occur in a particular structured format within the communication application. The response may include location information of the second user and status of machines executing the tasks. The communication application may bring every user action and response data associated with the tasks into one unique digital board associated with the communication application. The digital board may create and implement a collaborative network and successfully orchestrate value-exchanging interactions among the users in the data sharing ecosystem.
US11068994B2	Sensor based system and method for augmenting insurance claim filing Techniques for detecting physical conditions at a physical premises from collection of sensor information from plural sensors execute one or more unsupervised learning models to continually analyze the collected sensor information to produce operational states of sensor information, produce sequences of state transitions, detect during the continual analysis of sensor data that one or more of the sequences of state transitions is a drift sequence, correlate determined drift state sequence to a stored determined condition at the premises, and generate an alert based on the determined condition. Various uses are described for these techniques.
US11068992B1	Insurance policy modifications using informatic sensor data A computer device and method for processing risk related data to affect changes to an insurance policy whereby one or more terms of an insurance policy associated with an insured and informatic data from a plurality of sensor devices are received by a computer processor. Analysis is performed on the received informatic data to determine a risk assessment value regarding the insured and/or other risks relevant to the insurance policy, such as a dwelling. Predefined business rules are then applied using at least the determined risk assessment value to determine if conditions have been met to allow or require modification of the insurance policy whereafter modification of one or more terms of the insurance policy is performed if the insurance policy associated with the insured permits modification.
US11068986B2	System and method for automated order entry on short queues Orders are automatically sent to the market when certain user defined conditions are met. In particular, a trader can configure the trading application to automatically send orders for preset quantities at price levels with queues falling below a user defined threshold. The length of queues may be measured in several ways, for example, the queue length could be measured by quantity at a given price level or the queue length could be measured by the number of orders at a given price level, or the queue length could be measured by a combination of quantity and orders. The present embodiments can more quickly recognize opportunities and send an order to take advantage of it than a trader can do manually. Other advantages and features are described herein.
US11068981B2	System and method for displaying trade information for electronic trading exchange An application is disclosed that receives from a host exchange a plurality of trade notifications, each trade notification corresponding to an executed trade, and for each executed trade of interest, may determine whether the executed trade belongs in an aggregated set with one or more other executed trades. The application provides an indicator for indicating whether the corresponding executed trade or aggregated trade traded on the bid side or on the offer side of the market, and which indicates whether additional volume is available at the associated trade price.
US11068974B2	Systems and methods for providing financial service extensions Systems and methods are provided for providing financial service extensions. In one implementation, a financial cloud system including a memory storing instructions and a processor configured to execute the instructions is provided. The instructions may be executed to perform a process associated with providing the financial service extensions. The process may include providing a platform application to a client device. The process may also include receiving data associated with a financial service extension to be used in connection with the platform application. The process may further include receiving configuration data associated with the financial service extension. The process may additionally include configuring, by the processor, the financial service extension for use with the platform application. The process may also include providing, by the processor, the financial service extension to the client device.
US11068971B1	Method, medium, and system for virtual try-on coordination via communications sessions A method includes obtaining, from a first computing device, a request to establish a communications session between the first computing device and a second computing device to initiate a virtual try-on session for a first user of the first computing device. The method proceeds with establishing the communications session between these computing devices, where the communications session is configured to enable the virtual try-on session to be simultaneously viewed on user interfaces of both devices. Further, the method includes receiving, from the first computing device, a selection of items for presentation on a first user graphical representation. In response to this selection, the user interfaces are simultaneously updated to present these items on the first user graphical representation. The method further includes obtaining, from the second computing device, feedback on these items from a second user and updating both user interfaces in accordance with this feedback.
US11068962B1	Updating cart state using auto-generated sensor data This disclosure describes techniques for utilizing sensor data to automatically determine the results of events within a system. Upon receiving sensor data indicative of an event, the techniques may analyze the sensor data to determine a result of the event, such as that a particular user associated with a user identifier selected a particular item associated with an item identifier. Contents of a virtual shopping cart of the user may be maintained based on this automated analysis of sensor data. In some instances, when a confidence level associated with a result is less than a threshold, the sensor data may be sent to a client computing device for analysis by a human user.
US11068937B1	Systems and methods for determining real time available capacity of a merchant Systems and methods of determining real-time available capacity of a merchant are provided. A plurality of financial transactions involving the merchant can be received during a current time period. A current payment velocity of the financial transactions involving the merchant during the current time period can be determined. The current payment velocity can be compared with a baseline payment velocity associated with financial transactions involving the merchant during a corresponding historical time period. An available capacity of the merchant can be determined, based on a difference between the current payment velocity and the baseline payment velocity.
US11068927B2	Methods and apparatus to correct audience measurement data An example involves determining a missing-audience factor based on first impressions corresponding to first client devices that do not have database proprietor (DP) identifiers for use by a DP to identify subscribers registered with the DP, and based on second impressions corresponding to second client devices that do have the DP identifiers used by the DP to identify subscribers registered with the DP. The first impressions represent accesses to media via the first client devices. The second impressions represent access to the media via the second client devices. The example involves determining a coverage-corrected unique audience (CCUA) size based on the missing-audience factor and a UA size of DP subscribers exposed to the media. The UA size is determined based on impressions logged by the DP. The CCUA size corresponds to impressions logged by the DP and not logged by the DP.
US11068923B2	System for loyalty program Systems, methods, devices and computer-readable media for generating incentives for a loyalty system are described. A method includes: receiving, at at least one processor, data reflective of transactions conducted by a plurality of customers; processing, at the at least one processor, the data to determine a set of attributes for each of the plurality of customers; classifying, at the at least one processor, each of the plurality of customers according to at least one of a plurality of customer groups based on the determined set of attributes; and generating, at the at least one processor, an incentive targeting customers in at least one of the plurality of customer groups.
US11068920B2	Methods, platforms and systems for paying persons for use of their personal intelligence profile data Methods and systems for rewarding a personal intelligence profile (PIP) owner who owns associated PIP data used by a PIP data user. The methods are performed using a PIP platform that includes a dedicated server that mediates between the PIP data owner and the PIP data user. A method may comprise, through the dedicated PIP platform, obtaining PIP data associated with the PIP data owner according to criteria defined by the PIP data owner, determining a value of the obtained PIP data, providing the PIP data to the PIP data user, and paying the PIP data owner a reward based on the obtained PIP data value.
US11068919B2	Method of making changes to product mixes placed on boundary constrained shelves by determining the cost of implementing a pricing strategy formed by changeable business rules The present invention relates to a computer implemented method of determining the cost of implementing a pricing strategy, the pricing strategy formed by changeable business rules which engender algorithmic constraints, impacting optimized business metrics. The computer implemented method comprising the steps of defining a cohort of at least one of a boundary constrained shelf space and associating with each of the boundary constrained shelf space, in the cohort, a product mix, and a product mix ranking. The computer implemented method continues by using a data processing device to develop, through algorithmic autonomous learning, achievable MEMBER OPTIMAL SALES REVENUE AMOUNT performance absent pricing strategy business rules and MEMBER OPPORTUNITY PRICING STRATEGY SALES REVENUE AMOUNT inclusive of pricing strategy business rules. The OPPORTUNITY PRICING STRATEGY COST is then determined as the difference between the TOTAL MEMBER OPTIMAL SALES REVENUE AMOUNT and the TOTAL MEMBER OPPORTUNITY PRICING STRATEGY SALES REVENUE AMOUNT.
US11068916B2	Using machine learning to predict retail business volume Methods for estimating multiple types of retail business volume based on multiple types of data are described. Historical volume data, prior recorded business volume, characteristics of the store including departments, and geographical location are used. Historical data is transformed into multiple features that capture seasonality, trends, the effects of special events and other business characteristics. This data can be pooled based on business characteristics, and then machine learning regression models, e.g., multiple regression trees, are fitted to each pool of data. To estimate future volume, the same features are computed, and the regression model is applied. The estimates are presented back to the user, or transmitted electronically to other systems, including systems for creating worker schedules based on predicted volumes. Systems, apparatus and computer readable media are also described.
US11068903B2	Transaction exchange platform with watchdog microservice Aspects described herein may relate to a transaction exchange platform using a streaming data platform (SDP) and microservices to process transactions according to review and approval workflows. The transaction exchange platform may receive transactions from origination sources, which may be added to the SDP as transaction objects. Microservices on the transaction exchange platform may interact with the transaction objects based on configured workflows associated with the transactions. Processing on the transaction exchange platform may facilitate clearing and settlement of transactions. Some aspects may provide for dynamic and flexible reconfiguration of workflows and/or microservices. Other aspects may provide for data snapshots and workflow tracking, allowing for monitoring, quality control, and auditability of transactions on the transaction exchange platform.
US11068902B2	Systems and methods for settling chargeback requests Described herein are chargeback settlement processing systems and methods. A chargeback settlement computing device is configured to store a dispute table including a dispute record associated with a first chargeback request associated with a first chargeback transaction. The dispute record includes an account identifier, a chargeback transaction amount, and a unique chargeback identifier. The computing device is also configured to receive (i) a clearing detail record including a unique chargeback reference number associated with clearing/settlement of the chargeback transaction and chargeback transaction data, and (ii) a chargeback response including the chargeback identifier, the chargeback reference number, and chargeback transaction data. The computing device is configured to determine whether the dispute record, the clearing detail record, and the chargeback response match, and generate an individual reconciliation record using data from the dispute record, the clearing detail record, and/or the chargeback response.
US11068901B2	Method and apparatus for money transfer A method of staging a transaction includes receiving transaction information including a transaction type selection, a send amount, sender and recipient information, and compliance data. A staging record is generated responsive to the transaction information including at least a retrieval key to identify the staging record and a transaction type identifier expressing the transaction type selection. The transaction type selection is detected from the staging record, which is sent to an agent terminal set up to handle the transaction. The method further includes providing instructions for fulfillment of the transaction at the agent terminal. The transaction is rejected if the retrieval key does not lead to the staging record and the transaction proceeds if the retrieval key leads to the staging record. The transaction proceeds if the send amount and compliance data are consistent with applicable compliance rules and the transaction is rejected if the compliance rules are not met.
US11068895B2	Token and cryptogram using transaction specific information Systems and methods for token processing are disclosed. An access device can provide access device data to a mobile communication device. The communication device generates a token request including the access device data and communication device data and sends the token request to a server computer. The server computer returns a token and a token cryptogram to the mobile communication device. The token and the cryptogram may be used in a transaction.
US11068892B2	System and method for secure personal information retrieval A transaction method using an electronic device. The method comprises detecting, during an online transaction, one or more fields capable of being automatically filled by the electronic device, the one or more fields associated with the online transaction. The method further comprises obtaining, using a sensor, biometric information of a user of the electronic device, and verifying an identity of the user of the electronic device based on the obtained biometric information. Additionally, the method includes, in response to verifying the identity of the user of the electronic device based on the obtained biometric information: identifying personal information of the user to be automatically filled into the one or more fields based on the verified identity, and inserting the identified personal information into the one or more fields for the online transaction.
US11068891B2	Methods and systems for leveraging transactions to dynamically authenticate a user A system and method for authenticating a candidate user accessing a host computing device as an authentic user is provided. The host computing device is in communication with an authenticating computing device. The method includes receiving, by the authenticating computing device, a request to authenticate the candidate user as an authentic user. The authentication request includes a user identifier. The method also includes retrieving, by the authenticating computing device, transaction data including payment transactions performed by the authentic user based on the user identifier. The method also includes generating, by the authenticating computing device, a challenge question and a correct answer based on the transaction data associated with the authentic user, and transmitting the challenge question for display on a candidate user computing device used by the candidate user.
US11068889B2	Instant token issuance A user can request provisioning of account information for an account to a plurality of resource providing entities. The account may be a new or existing account issued by an authorization computer. The authorization computer may prompt the user to select one or more resource providing entities to which to provision a token associated with the account. Processor server computer may then tokenize the account information associated with the account by determining a token for each resource providing entity selected by the user. In some cases, a token may be provisioned to an already existing account or profile (e.g., account on file) associated with a resource providing entity. In other cases, an account or profile associated with a resource providing entity may not yet exist and thus may be created before a token may be provisioned. Subsequently, the user may utilize provisioned tokens to conduct transactions.
US11068885B2	Method and system for deanomymizing cryptocurrency users by analyzing bank transfers to a cryptocurrency exchange A computerized method for deanonymizing cryptocurrency users by analyzing bank transfers to a cryptocurrency exchange may include receiving data from a currency transfer made by a user at a bank to a cryptocurrency exchange. Candidate currency exchange transactions made by the user may be identified from the currency exchange transactions completed by the cryptocurrency exchange within a predefined time interval. A set of anonymous transactions in blockchain cryptocurrency ledger in the predefined time interval may be identified where the cryptocurrency value in transactions of anonymous users in a blockchain cryptocurrency ledger matches a currency transfer amount made by the user in the candidate currency exchange transactions. Anonymous transactions in the set may be identified as being made by the user based on the probability assigned to each anonymous transaction in the set.
US11068884B2	E-wallet transfer payment method and system based on PKI smart card An E-wallet transfer payment method includes: connecting a first PKI smart card to a second PKI smart card wirelessly; the first PKI smart card receiving a transfer instruction input by a first user, wherein the transfer instruction comprises a transfer amount to be transferred to a payee account; the second PKI smart card sending the payee account information to the first PKI smart card; the first PKI smart card generating transaction information according to the transfer instruction, and displaying the transaction information; the first PKI smart card receiving a confirmation instruction input by the first user according to the displayed transaction information; the first PKI smart card deducting a corresponding amount in a payment account according to the transfer amount, generating a signature information and sending the signature information to the second PKI smart card; adding the corresponding amount to the payee account according to the signature information.
US11068881B2	System for resource distribution within an offline environment Embodiments of the present invention provide a system for resource distribution within an offline environment. A merchant device internally stores a repository of reference codes and managing entity public keys that are paired with managing entity private keys. The user requests an amount of resources for offline exchange from the managing entity system. The managing entity system transmits certain authorization and encryption information to a user device. When the user device receives an exchange prompt from the computing device of the merchant through near field communication, it generates a digital token incorporating layers of content encryption ending with a managing entity's private key. The encrypted token and reference code are transmitted via near field communication to the merchant device. The merchant device matches the reference code to the managing entity public key and decrypts portions of the token with the managing entity public key to acquire the usable exchange information.
US11068876B2	Securing of internet of things devices based on monitoring of information concerning device purchases Purchasing related activity that is executed on computing devices on a LAN is monitored. Information is identified concerning purchases of IoT devices on the LAN, based on the monitoring of the purchasing related activity. For example, a specific purchase of a specific device (or specific device type) can be identified, or identifying information concerning a purchased device can be inferred, based on monitored purchasing related activity. IoT devices are discovered on the LAN and identified. Identifying a discovered device can further comprise interrogating the discovered device, monitoring activities of the discovered device, and/or analyzing information concerning purchases of IoT devices on the LAN. Gleaned identifying information concerning a discovered device can be used to determine or disambiguate the device's identity. Identifying information concerning discovered devices can be transmitted to a backend component, which provides constraint profiles concerning discovered devices, which can be enforced on the LAN.
US11068874B2	System, method, and computer program product for providing instant credit to a customer at a point-of-sale Described are a system, method, and computer program product for providing instant credit to a customer at a point-of-sale. The method includes receiving a transaction approval request including a full transaction amount for at least one transaction between a merchant and the customer. The method also includes communicating a credit approval request based on the transaction approval request to an issuer system. The method further includes, in response to the issuer system initially declining the credit approval request or approving less than the full transaction amount, determining, with at least one processor, customer data used to evaluate an extension of credit to the customer. The method further includes communicating the customer data to the issuer system and receiving a credit approval message from the issuer system including the full transaction amount. The method further includes communicating a transaction approval message to a merchant system including the full transaction amount.
US11068866B1	Real-time interbank transactions systems and methods A computer-implemented system and method receive information regarding a funds transfer from a payor to a payee. The information includes a data payload related to the funds transfer. The information is received by a depository computer system. The depository computer system forwards the information regarding the funds transfer to an account verification service computer system. The information, including the data payload, is transmitted by via the account verification service computer system to the paying bank for use by the payor.
US11068862B2	Intelligent authentication process A method for authentication includes receiving consumer information associated with a consumer transmitted over a first data network in a processor operated by an account issuer; determining available account authentication options based on the received consumer information and a database of potential authentication options stored in a memory in the processor; selecting a set of available authentication options from the available account authentication options based on a database of attributes for the potential authentication options stored in the memory in the processor; transmitting consumer information to an authentication provider associated with a selected authentication option over a second data network; receiving an authentication confirmation over the second data network in the processor; and updating the database of attributes for the potential authentication options to include information regarding a successful authentication and the authentication provider associated with the selected authentication option.
US11068855B2	Automatic event scheduling Some embodiments provide a method for creating a new appointment for an electronic calendar. The method receives a set of proposed attendees for the new appointment. The method retrieves and analyzes calendars of the proposed attendees. The method proposes a time for the new appointment at which all proposed attendees, including an organizer of the appointment, are available to attend the new appointment. In some embodiments, the proposed time is an earliest future time at which all proposed attendees are available to attend the new appointment. In some embodiments, the method also proposes a second time for the new appointment at which a subset of the proposed attendees are available to attend the new appointment.
US11068847B2	Computerized tools to facilitate data project development via data access layering logic in a networked computing platform including collaborative datasets Various embodiments relate generally to data science and data analysis, computer software and systems, network communications to interface among repositories of disparate datasets and computing machine-based entities that seek access to the datasets, and, more specifically, to a computing and data storage platform configured to provide one or more computerized tools that facilitate data projects by providing an interactive, project-centric workspace interface that may include, for example, a unified view in which to identify data sources, generate transformative datasets, and/or disseminate insights to collaborative computing devices and user accounts. For example, a method may include generating data configured to generate a data project user interface to receive a user input to implement a computerized tool to resolve a project objective including a query applied against a collaborative dataset, and forming data configured to display a user input to access hierarchical levels of data, for example, related to an insight.
US11068845B2	Crowd-sourced incident management Techniques for managing complaints are disclosed. The system may receive complaints submitted by users. A complaint may describe an incident, such as a safety issue or a cheating incident. The system analyzes a set of complaints to identify similar complaints. Upon identifying a threshold number of similar complaints, the system generates an incident report based on the complaints. The system may refrain from generating or submitting any incident report for a complaint if the threshold number of similar complaints have not been received by the system. The system may or may not include information such as the identity of the reporter, the identity of the accused party, or the incident location in an incident report based on threshold criteria.
US11068836B2	Systems and methods for monitoring the internal storage contents of a shipment storage using one or more internal monitor drones A drone-based monitored storage system includes a shipment storage with an interior storage area and a drone storage area, an internal docking station, and an internal monitor drone disposed within the shipment storage that aerially monitors the items being shipped within the interior storage area. The monitor drone includes an airframe, battery, onboard controller, lifting engines and lifting rotors responsive to flight control input, communication interface, sensor array that gathers sensory information as the drone moves within the interior shipment storage area of the shipment storage, and a drone capture interface that can selectively mate to the internal docking station to hold the monitor drone in a secure position. The monitor drone can gather the sensory information (such as environment information, image information, multidimensional mapping information, and scanned symbol information) and autonomously detect conditions of items being shipped based upon the sensory information from the sensor array.
US11068834B2	Secure shipment receive apparatus with delegation-chain Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to coordinate and manage secure shipment of a package. An example shipment coordination apparatus includes an address generator and a verification engine. The example apparatus includes a shipping group coordinator to generate a group including a sender and a receiver based on a) a first digital address associated with the sender, b) a second digital address associated with the receiver, and c) at least one encryption key associated with at least one of the first digital address or the second digital address, the shipping group coordinator to initiate delivery instruction and manage receipt confirmation of a package at a second physical address corresponding to the second digital address based on verification of a token identifying the receiver and to provide messaging between the sender and the receiver in the group using a group encryption key to keep messages private in the group.
US11068830B2	Waste management system having unscheduled stop monitoring A system is disclosed for managing services of a service vehicle. The system may have a locating device configured to generate a first signal indicative of a location of the service vehicle, and at least one sensor configured to generate a second signal indicative of a waste service being completed by the service vehicle. The system may further have a computing device in communication with the locating device and the at least one sensor. The computing device may be configured to receive a route assignment including waste services to be performed by the service vehicle at a plurality of target locations, and to make a determination that the service vehicle has stopped at a non-target location based on the plurality of target locations and at least one of the first and second signals. The computing device may further be configured to selectively generate an electronic response based on the determination.
US11068823B2	System and method for retailer risk profiling The lottery administration entity typically maintains a retail network of terminals that can be used to purchase tickets as well as validate tickets. Each transaction at the retail locations, whether it is purchasing tickets or validating tickets, may be stored in a database or other data store. The data store may be used to search for ticket information, such as when or where a particular ticket was purchased. The stored data may processed in order to generate a risk profile of retailers.
US11068821B2	Building energy optimization system with capacity market program (CMP) participation An energy optimization system for participating in a capacity market program (CMP) includes one or more memory devices storing instructions, that, when executed on one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to receive a nominated capacity value, generate an objective function and one or more CMP constraints, wherein the one or more CMP constraints cause an optimization of the objective function with the CMP constraints to generate a resource allocation that reduces the load of the facility by the nominated capacity value in response to receiving the dispatch from the utility, receive the dispatch from the utility, optimize the objective function based on the nominated capacity value, the dispatch, and the one or more CMP constraints to determine the resource allocation, and control one or more pieces of building equipment based on the determined resource allocation.
US11068820B2	Avoiding peak energy demand times by managing consumer energy consumption A computer-implemented method, according to one embodiment, includes: receiving data which corresponds to energy consumption of two or more different consumer systems. The energy consumption data is used to generate a consumption profile for each of the consumer systems, where the consumption profile for a given consumer system identifies recurring energy consumption periods for the given consumer system and a corresponding flexibility metric for each of the recurring energy consumption periods. The consumption profiles are further used along with current energy demands to predict peak demand times. Moreover, prior to each of the predicted peak demand times, a suggestion is issued to each of one or more of the consumer systems, where each of the suggestions proposes making an amendment to the energy consumption of the respective consumer system in order to reduce energy demand during one or more of the predicted peak demand times.
US11068817B2	Artificial intelligence and machine learning based project management assistance In some examples, artificial intelligence and machine learning based project management assistance may include ascertaining an inquiry by a user. The inquiry may be related to a project. An attribute associated with the user and an attribute associated with the project may be ascertained. The inquiry may be analyzed based on the ascertained attributes associated with the user and the project. A predictor category may be identified, based on the analyzed inquiry, from a plurality of predictor categories that include a performance predictor category, a quality predictor category, a retrospect predictor category, and a planning predictor category. A predictor from a plurality of predictors may be identified based on the identified predictor category. A response to the inquiry may be generated based on execution of the identified predictor. Further, a display responsive to the inquiry may be generated based on the generated response.
US11068810B2	Matching deployable resources with available tasks based on personal information obtained from wearable devices Matching deployable resources with available tasks based on personal information obtained from wearable devices is disclosed. A processor-based controller receives permission from each of a plurality of deployable resources to receive personal information from the respective deployable resource. The controller next automatically receives personal information from each of the plurality of deployable resources via the wearable devices. The personal information is based on information determined by the respective wearable device while the wearable device is being worn by the respective deployable resource. The controller automatically compares the personal information received from one or more of the deployable resources to a selection criterion associated with a task. Based on the comparing, the controller selects one or more of the deployable resources, and notifies each of the selected deployable resources to request assistance with respect to the task.
US11068807B2	Incident resource management In an embodiment, a system may comprise a communications network and processing logic. The processing logic may acquire information regarding an incident, identify a first mobile resource (MR) that may respond to the incident based on a type of the incident and a capability associated with the first MR. The processing logic may further identify a generic path scenario to the incident based on a location of the MR and a location of the incident. The processing logic may identify that the first MR is preferred over a second MR with respect to responding to the incident and assign the first MR to the incident. The processing logic may send a message via the communications network to the first MR to notify the first MR that it has been assigned to the incident.
US11068800B2	Nearline updates to personalized models and features The disclosed embodiments provide a system for processing data. During operation, the system obtains events reflecting responses by a user to job recommendations outputted to the user. Next, the system updates a set of features for the user from the events. The system then includes the updated set of features in a feature repository for use by a statistical model in generating a ranking of jobs for the user. Finally, the system retrains the statistical model using the events prior to using the statistical model to update the outputted job recommendations using the ranking.
US11068798B2	Systems and methods for short identifier behavioral analytics Embodiments relate to systems, devices, non-transitory computer-readable storage media, and computer-implemented methods for performing behavioral analytics using short identifiers by obtaining historical event data for multiple events and multiple short identifiers, where each event is associated with a short identifier, selecting a first event location associated with a first event, selecting a second event location associated with a second event that is geographically dispersed from the first event location, determining identifier collisions based on short identifiers associated with the first event location and short identifiers associated with the second event location in the historical event data, determining an average percentage of identifiers collisions based on the identifier collisions that were determined, performing behavior analytics on the short identifiers to generate behavioral models associated with the short identifiers, and generating adjusted behavioral models based on the average percentage of identifier collisions.
US11068797B2	Automatic correction of indirect bias in machine learning models Systems and methods for detecting indirect bias in machine learning models are provided. A computer-implemented method includes: receiving, by a computer device, a user request to detect transitive bias in a machine learning model; determining, by the computer device, correlations of attributes of neighboring data not included in a dataset of the machine learning model; ranking, by the computer device, the attributes based on the determined correlations; and returning, by the computer device, a list of the ranked attributes to a user that generated the user request.
US11068796B2	Pruning process execution logs Methods and systems for pruning process execution logs include learning a predictive model from a set of execution traces that characterize a process, where the predictive model determines a likelihood of a given instance reaching a specified outcome; identifying attributes in the predictive model that fall below a threshold measure of relevance to the specified outcome using a processor; and removing the identified attributes from the set of execution traces.
US11068794B2	Leveraging an external ontology for graph expansion in inference systems A mechanism is provided in a data processing system for exploring knowledge. The mechanism receives a set of known facts. The mechanism traverses paths in an ontology for a domain of knowledge from known facts in the set of known facts to one or more hypotheses. The ontology includes a plurality of entity types and a plurality of relationships between the entity types. The mechanism presents one or more hypotheses to a user.
US11068793B2	Causality analysis device, method, and non-transitory computer readable storage medium with determination of causal advantages and disadvantages to a user An inference device disclosed herein includes an identifying unit, and an inferring unit. The identifying unit identifies a set of a predetermined phenomenon, an effect having a causal relation with the predetermined phenomenon, and a polarity of the effect, from concept information in which a phenomenon, an effect having a causal relation with the phenomenon, a polarity to be an indicator of advantages and disadvantages caused by the effect to a user. The inferring unit infers an effect caused when the predetermined phenomenon occurs, and advantages and disadvantages caused by the effect based on the set identified by the identifying unit.
US11068791B2	Providing recommendations utilizing a user profile A computer-implemented method according to one embodiment includes creating a profile for a user, the profile including one or more default aspects created automatically by a system and one or more custom aspects created in response to textual input by the user, comparing event data to the profile, and providing a recommendation to the user, based on the comparing.
US11068789B2	Dynamic model data facility and automated operational model building and usage A commercial process with a dependent variable can be associated with a set of independent variables. The commercial process can continuously provide data collection opportunities. An intervention is designed using a model to predict the dependent outcome. The actual outcome of the intervention can be determined within the window of utility for these data. One objective is to improve intervention outcomes with prediction. Purely random outcomes (no model prediction) and outcomes resulting from the intervention (model operations) are aggregated into separate files—a sequence of control model data files and a sequence of model data files of operational data. These model data files and control model data files are used to analyze model performance and to react automatically when identified conditions warrant.
US11068771B2	Integrated neuro-processor comprising three-dimensional memory array The present invention discloses an integrated neuro-processor comprising at least a three-dimensional memory (3D-M) array. The 3D-M array stores the synaptic weights, while the neuro-processing circuit performs neural processing. The 3-D integration between the 3D-M array and the neuro-processing circuit not only improves the computational power per die area, but also greatly increases the storage capacity per die area.
US11068766B2	Enrolment case for smart card Disclosed is a semi-rigid enrolment case for a smart card, formed by folding and gluing an envelope-like cardboard blank of the dimensions of the card. The case includes an electrical circuit printed directly on the cardboard of an inner surface. The circuit includes contact studs connected to a power supply interface and arranged to connect electrical contacts of the card to the power supply interface when the card is inserted into the case. A biometric sensor of the card remains accessible to the user when it is out of the case for making the enrolment. Through-openings are made in the cardboard on either side of contact stud lines and allow forming independent flexible areas, providing better contact between the studs and the electrical contacts of the card.
US11068759B2	Printing apparatus capable of using a plurality of types of printing paper for executing a first calibration and a second calibration, and a control system A printing apparatus includes a control unit to execute either one of a first calibration and a different second calibration in a case where a predetermined execution condition corresponding to a type of printing paper that is set in the printing apparatus is satisfied. The first calibration is executed when the type of printing paper that is set is a first type that is included in a plurality of types and the second calibration is executed when the type of printing paper that is set is a second type. The control unit determines whether the predetermined execution condition is satisfied, based on a relationship as to which is greater and which is smaller between a predetermined threshold value and a count value corresponding to a number of elapsed days since calibration was previously executed for the type of printing paper that is set in the printing apparatus.
US11068758B1	Polarity semantics engine analytics platform Embodiments of the systems and methods disclosed herein provide a prescriptive analytics platform, a polarity analysis engine, and a semantic analysis engine in which a user can identify a target objective and use the system to find out whether the user's objectives are being met, what predictive factors are positively or negatively affecting the targeted objectives, as well as what recommended changes the user can make to better meet the objectives. The systems and methods may include a polarity analysis engine configured to determine the polarity of terms in free-text input in view of the target objective and the predictive factors and use the polarity to generate the recommended changes. The systems and methods may also include a semantic analysis engine to extend the results of the polarity analysis engine for improved determination of predictive factors and improved recommendations.
US11068756B2	Heterogeneous data fusion Various deficiencies in the prior art are addressed by systems, methods, architectures, mechanisms and/or apparatus configured to fuse data received from a plurality of sensor sources on a network. The fusing data includes forming an empirical distribution for each of the sensor sources, reformatting the data from each of the sensor sources into pre-rotational alpha-trimmed depth regions, applying an affine transformation rotation to each of the reformatted data to form post-rotational pre-rotational alpha-trimmed depth regions, and reformatting each affine transformation into a new data fusion operator.
US11068755B2	Locating method and a locator system for locating a billet in a stack of billets A locating system that performs a locating method for locating a flame-cut billet in a stack of flame-cut billets that includes an imager that obtains an image of an end surface of a billet, a classifier that classifies the image of the end surface, and a matcher that matches the classified image of the end surface with a classified image from among a plurality of classified images stored in a classified image storage.
US11068752B2	Inspection systems and methods including image classification module A method of inspecting a component using an image inspection controller that includes a processor communicatively coupled to a memory includes classifying each sample image in a first database as a first sample or a second sample using a classification module, extracting at least one class generic feature from each first sample to generate a plurality of class generic features, and extracting at least one class specific feature from each second sample to generate a plurality of class specific features. The method further includes combining the class generic features and the class specific features to generate a plurality of supplemental images. The method further includes storing the sample images and the supplemental images in a second database, classifying each sample image and each supplemental image, capturing at least one image of the component using a camera, and identifying at least one feature of the component in the at least one image of the component using the classification module.
US11068750B1	Testing and evaluating detection process by data augmentation In an example, a method includes: based on a starting set of real image data of a set of one or more original images obtained using a detection process of a detection system, identifying elements of the real image data which are picture or volume elements; performing data augmentation on the identified elements to produce one or more augmented images; replacing the set of one or more original images with a set of the one or more augmented images; analyzing the set of one or more augmented images (which may be supplemented with additional real data) using the detection process; and evaluating a detection response of the detection system for each augmented image of the set of one or more augmented images. The analyzing and evaluating may be performed by using an emulator for the detection system which was used to obtain the one or more original images.
US11068740B2	Particle boundary identification A method of characterising particles (140) by using a processor (301) to identify a particle boundary (165) of at least one particle (140) in an image (135, 171). The method comprises processing the image (135, 171) using a thresholding method to determine a first boundary (160a) corresponding with the at least one particle (140) and processing the image (135, 171) using an edge detection method to determine a second boundary (160b) corresponding with at the least one particle (140). The first boundary (160a) and second boundary (160b) are combined to create a combined boundary (160). A particle boundary (165) of the at least one particle (140) is determined using the combined boundary. A parameter used by the edge detection method is adaptive, and determined with reference to the image (135, 171).
US11068739B1	Method and system for comparison of object contours A method and a system of object contours comparisons are described. A first tree structure that connects all points of a set of points is determined such that a length of the first tree structure is smaller than a length of any other possible tree structures for connecting all points. Based on the first tree structure, a first subset of the set of points is determined such that it includes points ordered to form a path that satisfies a selection criterion for representing a first contour of a first object. From the first subset of points and a second set of points that forms a contour of a second object, a set of points of interest is determined. The first object and the second object are compared based on characteristics of the shape indicative of a difference between the first and the second contours formed by the points of interest.
US11068734B2	Client terminal for performing hybrid machine vision and method thereof A client terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a communication unit receiving a request for object recognition; a recognition unit performing the object recognition through machine vision; a determination unit determining devices that will perform distributed object recognition; and a control unit setting parameters affecting the object recognition, and performing learning for the object recognition through artificial intelligence on the basis of the set parameters, wherein the control unit controls the determination unit to determine the devices by taking into account the parameters when the request for object recognition is received, and controls the recognition unit to integrate results obtained from the devices performing the distributed object recognition so as to perform the object recognition.
US11068733B2	Biometric imaging system and method of determining properties of a biometric object using the biometric imaging system There is provided a biometric imaging system comprising a display panel. The display panel in turn comprises: a plurality of display pixels configured to emit visible light and controllable to form an image in the display; and a plurality of non-visible light emitting elements configured to emit linearly polarized non-visible light; a camera configured to receive polarized non-visible light having an orientation which is rotated with respect to the emitted linearly polarized light; and control circuitry configured to: activate the plurality of non-visible light emitting elements to emit linearly polarized light towards a biometric object; and control the camera to capture an image based on light reflected by the biometric object having a polarization which is rotated with respect to the emitted linearly polarized light.
US11068732B1	International Biometric Identification System (IBIS) A system and method for international biometric identity verification between two countries; without transferring biometric information between the two countries. The system and method will replace the traditional approach of identification of uniforms and identification cards, which are easily compromised, into a secure approach of leveraging biometric information through a person's identity. This system and method are consistent with the policy of not sharing any biometric information relating to verification of identification of individuals with other countries.
US11068718B2	Attribute classifiers for image classification A method includes activating a first object detector and a second object detector. The first object detector is operable to detect a first type of object in a set of image frames, and the second object detector is operable to detect a second type of object in the set of image frames. The method also includes activating a first set of attribute classifiers and a second set of attribute classifiers. The method also includes generating first statistics for the first object detector and second statistics for the second object detector. The method also includes modifying activation of at least the second set of attribute classifiers based on a comparison of the first statistics and the second statistics.
US11068711B2	Systems and methods of biometric acquisition using positive optical distortion The present disclosure describes systems and methods for acquiring a biometric image. A biometric camera system can position a lens of a biometric camera between a pixel array of the biometric camera and an iris. The pixel array can acquire an image of the iris using light reflected from the iris and transmitted through the lens of the biometric camera. The lens can increase a pixels per iris (PPi) value of the image of the iris acquired by the pixel array, by applying optical positive distortion to the light reflected from the iris when the light is optically directed through the lens. A processor can provide a biometric image for biometric matching, by image-processing the acquired image of the iris having the increased PPi value, with an inverse function of the optical positive distortion.
US11068705B2	Vector based object recognition in hybrid cloud Disclosed are systems, methods, and computer-readable media for a hybrid cloud structure for machine-learning based object recognition. In one aspect, a system includes one or more video-capable access points; and one or more processors configured to receive image data from the one or more video-capable access points; perform, at a first processor of the one or more processors, a first process to detect one or more objects of interest in the image data; generate vector IDs for one or more objects detected in the image data; perform, at a second processor of the one or more processors, a second process to identify the one or more objects in the vector IDs; and generate at least one offline trail for the one or more objects based on statistics associated with the one or more objects identified.
US11068692B2	Image capturing device under screen and electronic equipment The image capturing device under the screen and the electronic equipment including a nonopaque cover plate, a light source module, and a photosensor module are provided. The nonopaque cover plate, the light source module, and the photosensor module are sequentially arranged from top to bottom. The nonopaque cover plate is provided with nonopaque area, the light source module includes a plurality of light sources arranged in an array, the photosensor module comprises a plurality of discrete photosensors. The light emitted from each light source toward the nonopaque area is reflected by the nonopaque cover plate and received by one photosensor in the photosensor module. By the above-mentioned scheme, the biometric information on the nonopaque area that is outside the projection range of the photoelectric sensor can also be obtained by the photosensors, effectively increasing the imaging area of the photosensors, effectively reducing the area of the photosensors required to detect the same image information, preventing from occupying too much space under the screen, and saving hardware costs.
US11068688B2	Multi-function ultrasonic sensor controller with fingerprint sensing, haptic feedback, movement recognition, 3D positioning and remote power transfer capabilities The present invention is a multi-function ultrasonic sensor controller (inc. sensor driver capabilities) capable of authenticating an end-user when placing his/her finger on any am of a device display while further providing haptic feedback, surface roughness and texture rendering, proximity sensing, movement recognition, 3D positioning and remote power transfer for an improved end-user experience. By default, the multi-function ultrasonic sensor controller of the invention is made of a first set of ultrasonic transducers covering the whole screen display area for fingerprint scanning, a second set ultrasonic transducers for haptic feedback, surface and texture roughness rendering, a third set ultrasonic transducers for movement recognition, proximity sensing and 3D localization, and a fourth set of ultrasonic transducers for the reception of remote power transfer through ultrasound waves. The multi-function ultrasonic sensor controller according to the invention is particularly well-suited for smartphones but can also be applied to other application markets and end-user devices having the need to jointly support end-user authentication with flexible finger placement along aforementioned additional functionalities.
US11068686B2	Low power baseline tracking for fingerprint sensor Low power consumption baseline tracking systems and methods for automatically tracking a baseline input into a capacitive sensor having a plurality of transmitter electrodes and a plurality of receiver electrodes. A partial baseline scan is captured by driving all or a portion of the plurality of transmitter electrodes simultaneously and detecting receiver signals from a subset of the at least one receiver electrode simultaneously, and the partial baseline scan is compared with a stored baseline image. When a difference between the captured partial baseline scan and the stored baseline image exceeds a threshold value, a full baseline image scan is acquired, and the stored baseline image is updated.
US11068679B2	Methods and arrangements for identifying objects In some arrangements, product packaging is digitally watermarked over most of its extent to facilitate high-throughput item identification at retail checkouts. Imagery captured by conventional or plenoptic cameras can be processed (e.g., by GPUs) to derive several different perspective-transformed views—further minimizing the need to manually reposition items for identification. Crinkles and other deformations in product packaging can be optically sensed, allowing such surfaces to be virtually flattened to aid identification. Piles of items can be 3D-modelled and virtually segmented into geometric primitives to aid identification, and to discover locations of obscured items. Other data (e.g., including data from sensors in aisles, shelves and carts, and gaze tracking for clues about visual saliency) can be used in assessing identification hypotheses about an item. Logos may be identified and used—or ignored—in product identification. A great variety of other features and arrangements are also detailed.
US11068673B2	Handheld basket and commodity container that have antennas for reading tag information of commodities A commodity container includes a main body having a container space, first and second antennas, and a processing circuit. The first antenna is configured to receive tag information from one or more wireless tags in a first range covering at a first region of the container space. The second antenna is configured to receive tag information from one or more wireless tags in a second range covering at a second region the container space. The second range is different from the first range. The processing circuit is configured to store tag information received by the first antenna in a data storage unit, determine whether or not tag information received by the second antenna corresponds to the stored tag information, and generate a control signal for generation of a user notification when the tag information received by the second antenna does not correspond to the stored tag information.
US11068669B2	Dynamic translation The present disclosure relates generally to dynamic translation of text and/or audio data. The client instance hosted by one or more data centers and accessible by one or more remote client networks. In accordance with the present approach, a translation request is received from a user via a client device, wherein the translation request is associated with an untranslated file and a target language. Further, a source language of the untranslated file is identified. Further still, the untranslated file and the target language are outputted to a third party translation service. Even further, a translated file based on the target language, the untranslated file and a source language of the untranslated file is received.
US11068665B2	Hypernym detection using strict partial order networks One embodiment of the present invention provides a method comprising receiving a text corpus, and generating a first list of triples based on the text corpus. Each triple of the first list comprises a first term representing a candidate hyponym, a second term representing a candidate hypernym, and a frequency value indicative of a number of times a hypernymy relation is observed between the candidate hyponym and the candidate hypernym in the text corpus. The method further comprises training a neural network for hypernym induction based on the first list. The trained neural network is a strict partial order network (SPON) model.
US11068658B2	Dynamic word embeddings Systems, methods, and articles of manufacture to perform an operation comprising deriving, based on a corpus of electronic text, a machine learning data model that associates words with corresponding usage contexts over a window of time, according to a diffusion process, wherein the machine learning data model comprises a plurality of skip-gram models, wherein each skip-gram model comprises a word embedding vector and a context embedding vector for a respective time step associated with the respective skip-gram model, generating a smoothed model by applying a variational inference operation over the machine learning data model, and identifying, based on the smoothed model and the corpus of electronic text, a change in a semantic use of a word over at least a portion of the window of time.
US11068656B2	Displaying text classification anomalies predicted by a text classification model A test controller submits testing phrases to a text classifier and receives, from the text classifier, classification labels each comprising one or more respective heatmap values each associated with a separate word. The test controller aligns each of the classification labels corresponding with a respective testing phrase. The test controller identifies one or more anomalies of a selection of one or more classification labels that are different from an expected classification label for the respective testing phrase. The test controller outputs a graphical representation in a user interface of the selection of one or more classification labels and one or more respective testing phrases with visual indicators based on one or more respective heatmap values.
US11068652B2	Information processing device An information processing device (10) includes: a morphological analysis unit (11a, 11b) performing morphological analysis to divide each of an article body text included in an article and a caption of each of images into morphemes; a phrase acquiring unit (12) dividing the article body text into phrases on a basis of a result of the morphological analysis performed by the morphological analysis unit (11b); and a correspondence determining unit (13). The correspondence determining unit (13) determines correspondence between each of the phrases of the article body text and the images by calculating a correlation between the caption and each of the phrases of the article body text on a basis of the result of the morphological analysis performed by the morphological analysis unit (11a).
US11068646B2	Merging documents based on document schemas Document schemas for a first document from a first data source and a second document from a second source are identified. The document schema includes a set of tags and data elements corresponding to the set of tags. Based on the identified document schema, the set of tags of the first document to the set of tags of the second document are mapped. Portion of the first document is formatted based on the mapped set of tags. The formatted portion of the first document is positioned parallel to corresponding portion of the second document. The formatted first document and the second document are merged then displayed on the computer device.
US11068638B2	Power grid, IC and method for placing power grid A power grid of an integrated circuit (IC) is provided. The power grid includes a plurality of first power lines formed in a first metal layer, a plurality of second power lines formed in the first metal layer, a plurality of third power lines formed in a second metal layer and a plurality of fourth power lines formed in the second metal layer. The second power lines are parallel to the first power lines, and the first and second power lines are interlaced in the first metal layer. The third power lines are perpendicular to the first power lines. The fourth power lines are parallel to the third power lines, and the third and fourth power lines are interlaced in the second metal layer. A first power pitch between two adjacent third power lines is greater than a second power pitch between two adjacent fourth power lines.
US11068635B2	Method of designing a mask and method of manufacturing a semiconductor device using the same In a method of designing a mask, a first mask including an active region, a gate structure, and a gate tap partially overlapping the active region and the gate structure is designed. The first mask is changed so that a portion of the gate tap is extended. An OPC is performed on the changed first mask to design a second mask.
US11068627B2	Procedural world generation Procedural generation of simulated environments is described herein. In an example, a computing device can access road network data associated with a real environment. Further, the computing device can generate, based on the sensor data, a road mesh associated with the real environment. The computing device can associate the road network data with the road mesh to generate a simulated environment and can procedurally render at least one object into the simulated environment based at least in part on at least one rule. The computing device can output the simulated environment for at least one of testing, validating, or training an algorithm used by an autonomous vehicle for at least one of navigating, planning, or decision making.
US11068626B2	Simulating a cable driven system by simulating the effect of cable portions on objects of the system A cable driving a large system such as cable driven machines, cable cars or tendons in a human or robot is typically modeled as a large number of small segments that are connected via joints. The two main difficulties with this approach are satisfying the inextensibility constraint and handling the typically large mass ratio between the small segments and the larger objects they connect. This disclosure introduces a more effective approach to solving these problems. The introduced approach simulates the effect of a cable instead of the cable itself using a new type of distance constraint called ‘cable joint’ that changes both its attachment points and its rest length dynamically. The introduced approach models a cable connecting a series of objects as a sequence of cable joints, reducing the complexity of the simulation from the order of the number of segments in the cable to the number of connected objects.
US11068623B2	Automated building design guidance software that optimizes cost, energy, daylight, glare, and thermal comfort A method of optimizing computer-implemented building design, includes the following: defining one or more options for each building component; providing an energy use intensity versus cost optimization value for each option for a plurality of metrics; selecting a subset of the plurality of metrics applicable to each option; defining a metric vector for each metric through connecting the energy use intensity versus cost optimization value for each option; arranging each metric vector on a coordinate grid with an equal angle between each metric vector; constructing a two-dimensional polygon on an XY-plane by interconnecting for all the metric vectors the energy use intensity versus cost optimization value for each option; providing a performance value for each option for each metric vector based on a percentage the metric vector the associated option represents; and representing a fitness factor for each option as a function of each of the plurality of metrics.
US11068622B2	Information processing apparatus and information processing method An information processing apparatus includes one or more processors to acquire a shape characteristic of a target entity; determine similarity between the shape characteristic of the target entity and a shape characteristic of a three-dimensional model; acquire a material characteristic of a material in a designated region of the target entity where the shape characteristic of the target entity matches with the predetermined shape characteristic; and determine an extent to which the acquired material characteristic matches a predetermined material characteristic based upon a magnitude of differences between the acquired material characteristic and the predetermined material characteristic. The predetermined material characteristic is correlated with the designated region of the three-dimensional model The apparatus determines that the target entity is one of a genuine copy and a pirated copy based on the determined extent to which the acquired material characteristic of the target entity matches the predetermined material characteristic.
US11068621B2	Method for patching a sheet body to a target body In computer assisted design, a sheet body is patched to a target body, wherein the boundary edges of sheet body are partially coincident with the target body. All segments of the sheet body boundary that are coincident or non-coincident to the target body are detected; for a non-coincident segment with at least one end point which is in the interior of the target body but not on the sharp edge, the corresponding patch position on the target body is determined, and the segment or an extension is projected on the target body; for a non-coincident segment with both end points on sharp edges of the target body, the open region between the segment and the sharp edges is filled as extension of the faces of sharp edges; the coincident segments and the projected or extended non-coincident segments are combined to divide the target body into separate regions; and one of the regions is replaced by the sheet body.
US11068616B2	Secure message handling Systems and methods in accordance with various embodiments of the present disclosure provide secure handling of messages at a hardware-protocol level using a logic device on a server. Various embodiments provide approaches for filtering messages on various buses, such as SSIF, SMBus, PMBus, I2C, and SPI, within a server or a computer. Embodiments may include a policy engine through which message handling logic applied to a given bus or buses may be implemented. A message is compared to one or more policies. The message is allowed to be transmitted to a baseboard management controller based on the one or more policies and a type of message.
US11068615B2	Dynamic multi-factor authentication An authentication model dynamically adjusts authentication factors required for access to a remote resource based on changes to a risk score for a user, a device, or some combination of these. For example, the authentication model may conditionally specify the number and type of authentication factors required by a user/device pair, and may dynamically alter authentication requirements based on changes to a current risk assessment for the user/device while the remote resource is in use.
US11068603B2	Trust agents Systems and techniques are provided for trust agents. Trust agents may be enabled. A state determination may be received from each of the enabled trust agents. The state determination may indicate either a trusted state or an untrusted state. The received state determinations may be combined to determine a security state. A security measure may be enabled or disabled based on the determined security state.
US11068589B2	Interference detecting ring oscillators A system for providing security in a computer system is provided. The system includes a plurality of ring oscillators and one or more logic circuits. The ring oscillators are equipped with a respective plurality of counters to count impulses of oscillating outputs of the ring oscillators. The one or more logic circuits start and stop the respective plurality of counters over repeated counting periods, and select a group of ring oscillators from the plurality of ring oscillators. The one or more logic circuits also determine a correlation between oscillating outputs of the group of ring oscillators. The one or more logic circuits further generate a notification indicating interference in the group of ring oscillators and thereby the plurality of ring oscillators when the correlation is above a predefined threshold correlation.
US11068583B2	Management of login information affected by a data breach A device determines that a data breach of an application has been reported and determines that an individual has an account with the application based on identifying an association between an application identifier and a username the individual uses to access the application. The device receives, from a user device associated with the individual, password information used to access the application. The device uses the password information and usernames for a group of applications with which the individual has accounts to perform a login procedure for the group of applications to determine that login information for one or more of the applications includes the password information used to access the application affected by the data breach. The device provides, to the user device or another device, a recommendation to change the password information used to access the application and the one or more applications.
US11068578B2	Subtoken management system for connected devices A system for generating subtokens and/or sets of protocols to be provided to connected devices for use in subsequent transactions is disclosed. A mobile device identifies one or more connected devices via a discovery process. The mobile device may receive transaction information related to transactions to be conducted by the connected devices. The mobile device may, in some cases by communicating with a processing server, identify a parent token and/or a set of protocols related to the transaction information/connected device. The mobile device may subsequently generate a subtoken derived from the parent token based on the set of protocols. The subtoken and/or the set of protocols may be provided to a connected device, which may subsequently conduct a transaction using the subtoken and/or the set of protocols.
US11068577B2	Technique for connecting a mobile device to a vehicle-based system A method for connecting a mobile device with a vehicle-based system is described. The vehicle based-system comprises a first device and a second device that are both in possession of a system key. For an initial connection request between the first device and the mobile device, a token pair comprising a plaintext token and an encrypted token has been provided. The encrypted token is obtainable by applying the system key to at least the plaintext token. The mobile device is connected with the vehicle-based system by receiving, for a subsequent connection request with the second device and from the mobile device, the token pair comprising the plaintext token and the encrypted token. The token pair is verified using at least the system key. The subsequent connection is accepted upon successful verification of the token pair.
US11068566B2	Temporal access authorization and notification A computer-implemented method validates information indicating ownership of an asset by a first user. Information of parties of interest regarding use of the asset are received. The information associated respectively with the asset, the ownership, and the parties of interest are stored in a transaction repository structure. The identity information of a second user selected by the first user to receive temporal authorization of use of the asset is validated. Responsive to validating of the second user's identity a temporal authorization transaction of the use of the asset by the second user is generated. Responsive to confirming the parties of interest regarding the use of the asset, a notification of the temporal authorization transaction is sent to the parties of interest, and the information associated with the transaction of the temporal authorization of use of the asset by the second user is stored in a transaction repository structure.
US11068562B2	Efficient method and apparatus for fast signal processing A method and apparatus for fast signal processing is presented. Increase of traffic over data communication networks requires increase of data processing speed. The proposed method is faster than the conventional technique, because it uses less operations of multiplications and additions. The method implements a flexible algorithm architecture based on an elementary cell which is used for both direct and inverse transforms. The method can be implemented for fast analysis and synthesis of different signal types; for fast multiplexing and demultiplexing; and for channel estimation and modeling. The flexible architecture allows: 1) conducting signal analysis according to a certain criterion, and operating on the whole signal or it's part; 2) modifying multiplexed datastream number “on the fly”, splitting and merging groups of datastreams from different sources; 3) splitting a communication channel into a set of subchannels of different bandwidth, organizing data communication in particular subchannels that satisfy certain requirement.
US11068558B2	Managing data for rendering visualizations Some embodiments provide a program. The program receives from a first webview a first request for data for a first visualization in a plurality of visualizations specified in a visualization collection definition. The program further retrieves the data for the first visualization in the plurality of visualizations. The program also sends the first webview the data for the first visualization in order for the first webview to render the first visualization. The program further receives from a second webview a second request for data for a second visualization in the plurality of visualizations specified in the visualization collection definition. The program also retrieves the data for the second visualization in the plurality of visualizations using the background processing thread. The program further sends the second webview the data for the second visualization in order for the second webview to render the second visualization.
US11068555B2	System and method of sensing and responding to service discoveries A system and method of sensing and responding to service discoveries on a consumer's machine and, more particularly, to a system and method of sensing (discovering) service needs on a consumer's machine using a resident Daemon, and responding to the service discoveries using an extension of UDDI. The method comprises receiving a keyword from a local machine, locating a service associated with the keyword, and notifying the local machine about the service that matches the keyword.
US11068554B2	Unsupervised entity and intent identification for improved search query relevance Technologies are described here for, among other things, improving search query relevance by executing a query on a search engine, retrieving search-page-data generated from executing the query, the search-page-data including document-titles and universal resource locators (URLs), each document-title being a title of a document associated with a URL, determining relevant-entity-words in the query from an entity relevance score for matching search terms in the query, Domain-URLs, and Domain-Titles, determining relevant-intent-words in the query from an intent-word relevance score based on a number of times a search term appears in the query and the URLs relative to other search terms in the query and the URLs, comparing each of the determined relevant-entity-words and each of the determined relevant-intent-words with a plurality of stored past-user queries, retrieving the plurality of stored past-user search queries including the relevant-entity-words and the relevant-intent-words, and transmitting a set of query suggestions to a client device.
US11068540B2	Techniques for integrating validation results in data profiling and related systems and methods According to some aspects, techniques for configuring a data processing system are provided that increase flexibility and efficiency of generation of a data profile of a dataset. The data processing system may produce a value census and a validation census of the dataset in separate processing steps. The value census may then be enriched with contents of the validation census by processing the validation census in a manner that allows matching of field-value pairs of the dataset between the two censuses.
US11068537B1	Partition segmenting in a distributed time-series database Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for partition segmenting in a distributed time-series database are disclosed. A first host receives a request to store a data element in a tile comprising linked segments including a head segment and a tail segment. The head and tail segments are associated with the same spatial and temporal boundaries, and the data element is within those boundaries. The first host determines that the data element is not stored in the head segment and forwards the data element to a next segment of the tile. An additional host receives a request to store the data element in the tail segment. The additional host determines that the data element is not stored in the tail segment and then stores the data element in the tail segment.
US11068531B2	Visual search in real world using optical see-through head mounted display with augmented reality and user interaction tracking A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product conduct online visual searches through an augmented reality (AR) device having an optical see-through head mounted display (HMD). An apparatus identifies a portion of an object in a field of view of the HMD based on user interaction with the HMD. The portion includes searchable content, such as a barcode. The user interaction may be an eye gaze or a gesture. A user interaction point in relation to the HMD screen is tracked to locate a region of the object that includes the portion and the portion is detected within the region. The apparatus captures an image of the portion. The identified portion of the object does not encompass the entirety of the object. Accordingly, the size of the image is less than the size of the object in the field of view. The apparatus transmits the image to a visual search engine.
US11068523B1	Systems and methods for facilitating searching, labeling, and/or filtering of digital media items In certain embodiments, media item search and machine learning system training may be facilitated. In some embodiments, a first set of media items may be obtained (based on performance of a query) and presented on a user interface. A user selection of a media item of the first set may be obtained, and the query may be updated based on the user-selected media item. A second set of media items may be obtained based on performance of the updated query, and media items of the second set may be assigned to a group based on their similarities with one another. A predicted name for the group may be determined via a machine learning system and presented on the user interface. A user-indicated update to the predicted name for the group may be obtained and provided to the machine learning system to train the machine learning system.
US11068512B2	Data virtualization using leveraged semantic knowledge in a knowledge graph A knowledge graph virtualization system (KGVS) implements data virtualization techniques using semantic knowledge when parsing a knowledge graph to return results to a query. The data virtualization using semantic knowledge enable end users and applications to describe desired output without detailed knowledge of underlying data storage, schema, and relationships.
US11068498B2	Systems and methods for importing data from electronic data files Computer implemented systems and methods are disclosed for importing data from electronic data files. In accordance with some embodiments, a file format is assigned to a source electronic data files by a data importation system. The data importation system may further identify a file type identifier associated with the source electronic data file and map the source electronic data file to a transformation template. The data importation system may further store the file format, file type identifier, and an indication of the transformation template as a file type profile associated with the source electronic data file in a database.
US11068489B2	Optimizing digital video distribution Systems, methods, and apparatus include computer programs encoded on a computer-readable storage medium, including a system for ranking videos. Videos are identified that have been presented at client devices. For each video, session start data is identified that specifies a lead video that initiated presentation to a user during a presentation session. For each lead video, presentation times over multiple user sessions are determined, a scaled presentation time is obtained, user sessions for which the lead video initiated presentation of videos are identified, and an aggregate video presentation time attributable to the lead video is determined. For each given video, a presentation score is determined based on a scaled presentation time of the lead video relative to a sum of the aggregate video presentation times for the lead videos. The videos are ranked based on the presentation scores. A user interface is updated to present the ranked videos.
US11068487B2	Event-stream searching using compiled rule patterns Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for implementing event-stream searching using compiled rule patterns are disclosed. A rule base is compiled based at least in part on one or more rule patterns. The field names are sorted within the rule patterns. The rule patterns comprise one or more field names and one or more field values. The rule base represents a finite-state machine comprising a plurality of states. A plurality of events are received. The events comprise field names and field values describing events associated with resources in a provider network. The field names are sorted within the events. The rule patterns are evaluated against the events using the rule base. In determining a matched rule pattern for one of the events, the finite-state machine transitions between at least two of the states for the matched rule pattern.
US11068486B2	Method for automatically processing a number of log files of an automation system A method for automatically processing log files of different types of an automation system, said method determining a message part of a data set of the log file. All contents of the respective data sets of the log files are concatenated. The data sets of all the log files are summarized in a summary file. The data sets of all the log files are chronologically sorted in the summary file. The data sets are compressed in the summary file. The compressed data sets in the summary file are coded. The compressed data sets are assigned to groups with associated group codes. The group code of the assigned group is decoded. The decoded group code is output as the alphanumeric message part of the log file. The alphanumeric message part of the log file is stored in a memory.
US11068482B2	Computation reuse in analytics job service Described herein is a system and method for detecting and reusing overlapping computations. Overlapping subgraphs of the query are determined using a normalized signature for a particular subgraph that identifies a particular subgraph across recurring instances of data. A normalized signature for each overlapping subgraph for the determined overlapping subgraphs of the query is provided. For each overlapping subgraph determined to be materialized: whether or not the particular subgraph has been materialized is determined using a precise signature corresponding to a normalized signature of the particular overlapping subgraph. The precise signature identifies a particular subgraph corresponding to the normalized signature within a particular recurring instance of data. When the particular subgraph has not been materialized, the subgraph is materialized and used to respond to the query. When the particular subgraph has been materialized, the materialized subgraph is used to respond to the query.
US11068452B2	Column-based table manipulation of event data to add commands to a search query A search interface is displayed in a table format that includes a plurality of columns, each column including data items of an event attribute, the data items being of a set of events, each column being selectable by a user, and a plurality of rows forming cells with the one or more columns, each cell comprising one or more of the data items of the event attribute of a corresponding column. Based on the user selecting one or more of the columns, a list of options is displayed corresponding to the selected one or more columns, and one or more commands are added to a search query that corresponds to the set of events. The one or more commands are based on at least an option that is selected from the list of options and the event attribute of each of the selected one or more columns.
US11068447B2	Directory level atomic commit protocol A system for directory level atomic commits includes an interface and a processor. The interface is configured to receive an indication to provide a set of files. The processor is configured to determine whether a file in a directory has been either 1) atomically committed or 2) written by a non-atomic process and not designated as deleted and provide the file as one file of the set of files in the event that the file in the directory has been either 1) atomically committed or 2) written by a non-atomic process and not designated as deleted.
US11068440B2	Application-specific computing system and method A computing system has a central processing unit (CPU), a plurality of n digital data repositories R1-Rn, having a common sector size, a file system, and a digital bus connecting the CPU and the plurality of n digital data repositories R1-Rn. The file system receives an original file to be stored of FS bits in size, creates a new file of NFS bits, comprising all the data structure of the original file, NFS evenly divisible by n and by the common sector size, divides the NFS by n, creating n portions P1-Pn, and stores one portion to each disk in the plural array simultaneously.
US11068434B2	Logic circuitry for a replicable print cartridge Logic circuitry packages for association with replaceable print apparatus components are disclosed herein. An example logic circuitry package includes a timer and a serial data bus interface including a data contact and a clock contact, the serial data bus interface to interface with a serial data bus of a printer. The example logic circuitry package also includes logic circuitry to, in response to a first command sent to the logic circuitry package via the serial data bus of the printer: initiate a low voltage on the data contact; wait for a time period tracked by the timer to expire, without reference to a clock signal at the clock contact from the serial data bus; and upon expiration of the time period, cause the data contact to assume a second voltage different than the low voltage. The first command specifies a duration of the time period and the example logic circuitry is to maintain the low voltage on the data contact based on the duration of the time period.
US11068430B2	Configuration parameter transfer Examples relate to configuration parameter transfer. An apparatus may include a memory resource storing executable instructions. Instructions may include instructions to receive a first signal from a host computing device. Instructions may further include instructions to initiate communications with the host computing device in response to receiving the first signal. Instructions may further include instructions to receive a configuration parameter from the host computing device in response to initiation of communications with the host computing device. The apparatus may further include a processing resource to execute the instructions stored on the memory resource.
US11068428B2	Adjustable embedded universal serial bus 2 low-impedance driving duration Aspects of the present disclosure provide for a system. In at least some examples, the system includes an embedded Universal Serial Bus 2 (eUSB2) device having a first receiver and a first transmitter, a processor, a second transmitter coupled to the processor, a second receiver coupled to the processor, a drive low circuit coupled to the processor second transmitter, and differential signal lines having a length greater than ten inches. The differential signal lines are coupled at a first end to the first receiver and the first transmitter and at a second end to the second transmitter and the second receiver. The processor is configured to control the drive low circuit to drive the differential signal lines low with a logic ‘0’ to cause the first receiver to receive the logic ‘0’ and a value of a signal present on the differential signal lines to reach about 0 volts.
US11068421B1	Memory device and associated flash memory controller The present invention provides a memory device including a connector and a flash memory controller. The connector is configured to connect to a first host and a second host. The flash memory controller is configured to select one of the first host and the second host based on a selection signal, and the flash memory controller only processes commands from the selected one of the first host and the second host, and accesses a flash memory module based on the commands.
US11068410B2	Multi-core computer systems with private/shared cache line indicators According to embodiments described herein, the hierarchical complexity for coherence protocols associated with clustered cache architectures can be encapsulated in a simple function, i.e., that of determining when a data block is shared entirely within a cluster (i.e., a sub-tree of the hierarchy) and is private from the outside. This allows embodiments to eliminate complex recursive coherence operations that span the hierarchy and instead employ simple coherence mechanisms such as self-invalidation and write-through but which are restricted to operate where a data block is shared. Thus embodiments recognize that, in the context of clustered cache hierarchies, data can be shared entirely within one cluster but can be private (unshared) to this cluster when viewed from the perspective of other clusters. This characteristic of the data can be determined and then used to locally simplify coherence protocols.
US11068407B2	Synchronized access to data in shared memory by protecting the load target address of a load-reserve instruction A data processing system includes multiple processing units all having access to a shared memory. A processing unit includes a processor core that executes memory access instructions including a load-type instruction. Execution of the load-type instruction generates a corresponding request that specifies a target address. The processing unit further includes a read-claim state machine that, responsive to receipt of the request, protects the load target address against access by any conflicting memory access request during a protection interval following servicing of the request.
US11068401B2	Method and apparatus to improve shared memory efficiency Methods and apparatus to improve shared memory efficiency are described. In an embodiment, a first version of a code to access one or more registers as shared local memory is compiled. A second version of the same code is also compiled to access a cache as the shared local memory. The first version of the code is executed in response to comparison of a work group size of the code with a threshold value. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.
US11068394B2	Neural network system including data moving controller Provided is a neural network system for processing data transferred from an external memory. The neural network system includes an internal memory storing input data transferred from the external memory, an operator performing a multidimensional matrix operation by using the input data of the internal memory and transferring a result of the multidimensional array operation as output data to the internal memory, and a data moving controller controlling an exchange of the input data or the output data between the external memory and the internal memory. The data moving controller reorders a dimension order with respect to an access address of the external memory to generate an access address of the internal memory, for the multidimensional matrix operation.
US11068391B2	Mapping table updating method for data storage device A mapping table updating method executable by a data storage device is provided. The data storage device includes a non-volatile memory and a controller. The mapping table updating method includes steps of: step A: configuring the controller to process a command issued by a host, and determine whether to trigger a partial garbage collection procedure when the command is a write command; when it is determined to trigger the partial garbage collection procedure, then performing step B: copying partial valid data in at least one source block to a destination block according to a segmentation condition; and step C: updating a logical-to-physical address mapping table of the data storage device according to a logical address of the copied partial valid data and a physical address in the destination block where the partial valid data is located, and returning to perform the step A.
US11068385B2	Behavior driven development test framework for application programming interfaces and webservices Systems and methods for testing software such as webservices and APIs using behavior-driven development (BDD) language are disclosed. Software such as, for example, an Application Programming Interface (API) or webserver is tested using a BDD expression such as, for example, a Gherkin. The Gherkin may be converted into machine-executable code for the test. The machine-executable code may be executed if the software is available. A response output generated by the software may be validated based on validation information of input data. A report based on the validation may be generated.
US11068367B2	Storage system and storage system control method While an extra storage resource required for an operation of IaaS/PaaS is reduced, an SLA on storage performance is maintained even upon a failure. In a storage system including a plurality of storage nodes for providing storage regions for storing data of a computer on which an application is executed, a normal mode to be set in a normal state and an emergency mode in which a predetermined function is suppressed compared with the normal mode are prepared as a process mode for a request for input and output of data. In the storage system, in response to the occurrence of a failure in a first storage node, the process mode is switched to the emergency mode for a second storage node in which the failure does not occur.
US11068366B2	Power fail handling using stop commands A device that provides power fail handling using command suspension includes non-volatile memory circuits and a controller that is configured to determine that a power fail event has occurred. The controller is configured to determine, in response to the determination that the power fail event has occurred, which of the non-volatile memory circuits are executing a first type of memory commands. The controller is also configured to issue a stop command to the determined non-volatile memory circuits to stop execution of the first type of memory commands.
US11068364B2	Predictable synchronous data replication The method, apparatus, and system disclosed herein relate to a faster and more predictable way to achieve synchronous phase from non-synchronous phase for synchronous data replication between a source volume and a destination volume. Consistency data and replication data are sent in parallel during a pre-synchronous phase to reestablish a synchronous phase of operation. Sequence identifiers and consistency sequence identifiers are used to determine whether to write consistency data to the destination volume, or to leave consistency data unwritten for blocks already updated with replication data during the process of reestablishing synchronization.
US11068361B2	Cluster file system support for extended network service addresses A computer program product is provided for extending network services addresses, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, where the program instructions are executable by a processor to cause the processor to identify, by the processor, an event affecting a node, wherein the node provides external access to a network using an Internet Protocol (IP) address, in response to identifying the event, identify, by the processor, an attribute associated with the IP address, and based on the attribute associated with the IP address, determine, by the processor, whether to move the IP address to another node.
US11068359B2	Stream level uninterrupted restore operation using data probe Methods and systems for restoring data from a target device are described. According to some embodiments, the method receives a first set of data packets for restore, where the first set of data packets includes a multiplicity of data chunks. The method further captures footprints of the first set of data packets in a cache disk array. In response to receiving an acknowledgement from the cache disk array indicating the footprints of the first set of data packets have been captured, the method pushes each data chunk of the first set of data packets to a construction container for reconstruction of backup data. In response to receiving an acknowledgement from the construction container indicating the data chunk is successfully pushed, the method flushes the respective footprint of the data chunk from the cache disk array.
US11068356B2	Incremental export and conversion of virtual machine snapshots Methods and systems for reducing the data recovery time when failing back to a primary system from a secondary data backup system using virtual machine conversions and incremental exportation for backed-up virtual machine snapshots are described. Upon detection that the primary system is available to receive replicated snapshots for a virtual machine, the secondary data backup system may identify a first virtual machine snapshot out of a chain of snapshots for the virtual machine (e.g., the earliest in time snapshot within the chain or a middle snapshot in the middle of the chain) and transfer a full image snapshot for the first virtual machine snapshot to the primary system. Thereafter, data changes between the next virtual machine snapshot to be transferred to the primary system and the most-recently hydrated virtual machine on the primary system may be identified and then transferred to the primary system.
US11068342B1	Redundancy data in integrated memory assembly Technology for recovering data in memory dies is disclosed. A set of codewords may be stored across a set of memory dies. One of the memory dies stores redundancy information that is based on information from each codeword in the set of codewords. Each of the memory dies is bonded to control die through bond pads that allow communication between the control die and the memory die. If decoding of one of more codewords fails, the redundancy information may be used to recover data bits of all the codewords in the set. The redundancy information may be sent to a memory controller that is in communication with the control dies, which performs the data recovery.
US11068334B2	Method and system for enhancing communication reliability when multiple corrupted frames are received An exemplary communications receiver includes an error detector for determining whether a first and second received frame is corrupted, each frame comprising of a plurality of bits. The receiver includes a filter for determining whether the second received corrupted frame should be recovered. The receiver includes a frame generator for generating a recovered frame based on the plurality of bits of the first and second corrupted frame and frame information of the second corrupted frame, in response to the error detector determining that the first and second received frames are corrupted and the filter determining that the second received frame should be recovered.
US11068329B2	Alerting system having a network of stateful transformation nodes An alerting system is provided that includes a network of transformation nodes, and state change processors. The transformation nodes include input transformation nodes, output transformation nodes, and intermediate nodes that connect the input and output transformation nodes. Each input transformation node can receive an events stream, and is coupled to one of the output transformation nodes by one or more intermediate transformation nodes. Each transformation node (except the input transformation nodes) can receive state updates from those transformation nodes that it subscribes to. Each output transformation node can generate a check result when stored state information for each of the transformation nodes that the output transformation node subscribes to collectively indicates that the check result should be generated. Each output transformation node is coupled to one of the state change processors that can determine whether the check results should trigger an action, and if so, can then perform an action.
US11068326B2	Methods and apparatus for transmitting time sensitive data over a tunneled bus interface Methods and apparatus for time sensitive data transfer between logical domains. In one embodiment, an user equipment (UE) device has an application processor (AP) coupled to a baseband processor (BB) that operate independently of one another normally, but may cooperate in limited hybrid use scenarios. For example, the BB receives audio packets via a cellular network that are converted to pulse code modulated (PCM) digital audio to be played by the AP. Unfortunately, since the AP and the BB are independently clocked, they will experience some clock drift. As a result, the audio playback may have undesirable artifacts if the drift is not otherwise compensated for. To these ends, the AP and/or BB determine a relative clock drift and compensate for playback by e.g., adding, padding, or deleting audio samples and/or audio packets. Techniques for handover scenarios are also disclosed.
US11068320B2	Interface combining multiple systems into one A vehicle system includes a vehicle, a vehicle control unit (VCU), a plurality of data modules and a data conversion interface. The vehicle includes a chassis that supports the other components of the vehicle, including the VCU. The data modules each provide an output signal with a data type specific to each data module. The data conversion interface couples with the VCU and each data module. The data conversion interface receives the output signal from each data module, converts each output signal into a common data format, and transmits the converted output signals to the VCU.
US11068316B2	Systems and method for managing memory resources used by smart contracts of a blockchain There is provided a system, comprising: a hardware processor(s) executing a code for: receiving a request to identify data for execution of action(s) in a limited allocated memory resource (LAMR) of a blockchain storage system, the LAMR defining storage space for storing data of smart contracts, when the requested data is not found in the LAMR, acquiring a cryptographic proof of the requested data from the LAMR, using the cryptographic proof for acquiring a copy of the requested data from a virtual allocated memory resource (VAMR), storing the copy of the requested data in the LAMR for performing the action(s) by the blockchain storage system using the stored copy, the performance of the action(s) updates the stored copy in the LAMR, replacing the cryptographic proof with a new cryptographic proof created by processing the updated stored copy in the LAMR, and storing the updated stored copy in the VAMR.
US11068313B2	Cloud brokerage application decomposition and migration Decomposing and migrating applications by receiving a candidate application, identifying components of the candidate application, analyzing the granularity of components, decomposing a component into sub-components; identifying cloud service provider offerings, mapping the cloud service provider offerings to a technology mapping database, collecting performance information on the cloud service provider offerings, estimating performance associated with deploying sub-components across cloud service provider offerings; and ranking the performance of different deployment scenarios.
US11068304B2	Intelligent scheduling tool Systems and methods are disclosed for intelligent scheduling of calls to sales leads, leveraging machine learning (ML) to optimize expected results. One exemplary method includes determining, using a connectivity prediction model, call connectivity rate predictions; determining timeslot resources; allocating, based at least on the call connectivity rate predictions and timeslot resources, leads to timeslots in a first time period; determining, within a timeslot and using a lead scoring model, lead prioritization among leads within the timeslot; configuring, based at least on the lead prioritization, the telephone unit with lead information for placing a phone call; and applying a contextual bandit (ML) process to update the connectivity prediction model, the lead scoring model, or both. During subsequent time periods, the updated connectivity prediction and lead scoring models are used, thereby improving expected results over time.
US11068298B2	Hardware acceleration method and related device The present disclosure provides a hardware acceleration method and a related device. The hardware acceleration method includes: determining, by a functional entity, a requirement of a to-be-accelerated virtualized network function VNF; determining, by the functional entity, a target virtualized infrastructure manager VIM; and deploying, by the functional entity, the to-be-accelerated VNF onto a target host in a management domain of the target VIM by using the target VIM. In the present invention, the functional entity deploys the to-be-accelerated VNF onto the target host whose hardware matching resource meets the requirement in the to-be-accelerated VNF, so that the type of the hardware acceleration resource required in the to-be-accelerated VNF can match a type of the hardware matching resource of the target host, and the hardware matching resource of the target host can meet an acceleration requirement of the to-be-accelerated VNF, thereby effectively improving performance of the to-be-accelerated VNF.
US11068296B2	Virtualised software application performance A method of improving performance of a software application executing with a virtualized computing infrastructure wherein the application has associated: a hypervisor profile of characteristics of a hypervisor in the infrastructure; a network communication profile of characteristics of network communication for the application; a data storage profile of characteristics of data storage for the infrastructure; and an application profile defined collectively by the other profiles.
US11068290B2	Systems and methods for providing interactive streaming media A client system presents, within an execution environment of an application, a third-party media stream distinct from the application, received from a remote host server via a network. The client system detects interaction events during presentation of the third-party media stream, and transmits descriptions of the detected interaction events to the remote host server. The application may be pre-cued prior to presentation, e.g., to minimize start-up time. In some implementations, a side-band message channel is established to facilitate communication between the client system and the remote host server.
US11068281B2	Isolating applications at the edge Disclosed herein are enhancements for deploying application in an edge system of a communication network. In one implementation, a runtime environment identifies a request from a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) accelerator service to be processed by an application. In response to the request, the runtime environment may identify an isolation resource to support the request, initiate execution of code for the application, and pass context to the code. Once initiated, the runtime environment may copy data from the artifact to the isolation resource using the context and return control to the HTTP accelerator service upon executing the code.
US11068278B2	Dual inline memory module with multiple boot processes based on first and second environmental conditions An information handling system includes a dual in-line memory module (DIMM) coupled to a memory controller via a memory channel. A processor during a first in time boot process of the information handling system determines a first environmental condition of the information handling system, and initializes the memory controller and the DIMM to determine a first set of initialization parameters for the memory controller and the DIMM. During a second in time boot process of the information handling system, the processor determines if a second environmental condition is different than the first environmental condition, if the second environmental condition is not different then to continue the second in time boot process without initializing the memory controller and the DIMM, and if the second environmental condition is different then to initialize the memory controller and the DIMM to determine a second set of initialization parameters for the memory controller and the DIMM.
US11068272B2	Tracking and communication of direct/indirect source dependencies of producer instructions executed in a processor to source dependent consumer instructions to facilitate processor optimizations Tracking and communication of direct/indirect source dependencies of producer instructions executed in a processor to source dependent consumer instructions to facilitate processor optimizations. The processor includes instruction processing circuit configured to process and execute fetched instructions in an instruction stream according to a dataflow execution. The instruction processing circuit includes mechanisms to communicate dependencies to dependent, consumer instructions in an instruction pipeline to facilitate processor optimizations, such as replay of consumer instructions. The instruction processing circuit is configured to track producer instructions and consumer instruction dependencies on its producer instructions in the instruction pipeline in a data structure circuit before the instructions are scheduled for execution. These recorded source dependencies in the source dependency indicators can then be communicated to later stages in the instruction pipeline, such as scheduling, to facilitate for example, replay of dependent consumer instructions, if for example, its producer instruction incurs a hazard.
US11068271B2	Zero cycle move using free list counts A system and method for reducing the latency of data move operations. A register rename unit within a processor determines whether a decoded move instruction qualifies for a zero cycle move operation. If so, control logic assigns a physical register identifier associated with a source operand of the move instruction to the destination operand of the move instruction. Additionally, the register rename unit marks the given move instruction to prevent it from proceeding in the processor pipeline. Further maintenance of the particular physical register identifier may be done by the register rename unit during commit of the given move instruction.
US11068268B2	Data structure processing An apparatus comprises: an instruction decoder and processing circuitry. In response to a data structure processing instruction specifying at least one input data structure identifier and an output data structure identifier, the instruction decoder controls the processing circuitry to perform a processing operation on at least one input data structure to generate an output data structure. Each input/output data structure comprises an arrangement of data corresponding to a plurality of memory addresses. The apparatus comprises two or more sets of one or more data structure metadata registers, each set associated with a corresponding data structure identifier and designated to store address-indicating metadata for identifying the memory addresses for the data structure identified by the corresponding data structure identifier.
US11068256B2	Systems and methods for pushing firmware binaries using nested multi-threader operations A computer may receive a request to generate a snapshot view of the enterprise network infrastructure. The computer may implement a multithread process to contemporaneously query a plurality of blade servers and server enclosures within the entire network infrastructure. The computer may contemporaneously receive a plurality of information files from the queried network resources (e.g. the blade servers, server enclosures). In active state modes, the computer may push firmware update binaries to the network resources. In a server processing and an active state mode, the computer may implement a multithreaded process to push the firmware update binaries to standalone servers or blade servers that can be accessed directly. In a blade enclosure processing and an active state mode, the computer may implemented a nested multi-threader, using child threads nested within a parent thread to a blade server enclosure to push firmware update binaries to blade servers in the enclosure.
US11068252B2	System and method for dynamically determining applicable updates A system includes a systems manager configured to retrieve an update package that includes an update installer for updating the information handling system, and to install the update package with the update installer. The update installer retrieves an operating system build number from the information handling system, and parses a metadata file included in the update package to determine a device group based on the operating system build number, wherein the device group includes the applicable updates for the information handling system. The update installer determines a mode of installation based on the operating system build number of the device group, determines a sequence of installation of the applicable updates, and installs the applicable updates according to the sequence of installation and the mode of installation.
US11068245B2	Containerized deployment of microservices based on monolithic legacy applications The present disclosure provides a scalable container-based system implemented in computer instructions stored in a non-transitory medium. The present disclosure further provides a method of creating and operating a scalable container-based system.
US11068242B2	Method and system for generating and executing client/server applications There is provided an improvement for developing an application between an application server and one of multiple client devices where the application server is disposed remotely of the one of multiple client devices. In one example, an application behavior model (ABM) is produced and stored at the application server. Using an output corresponding with the one of multiple devices, program code for a client application is produced from a selected one of several configurable templates. Selected input, generated with the ABM and the program code, is received at the application server to cause a sequence of processing steps to be performed with the application server. In another example, the ABM is received at the one of multiple client devices, the one of multiple client devices including a user interface (UI). The ABM and client application are used to render a first page at the UI for providing an action identifier. The action identifier is sent to the application server for causing a sequence of processing steps to be performed with the application server. Pursuant to performing the sequence of processing steps, the ABM and client application conjunctively cause a second page to be rendered on the UI.
US11068241B2	Guided definition of an application programming interface action for a workflow A computing system includes persistent storage configured to store definitions of actions for integration into workflows, and a software application configured to define an action that invokes a function of an application programming interface (API). The software application obtains a specification and identifies therein definitions of a uniform resource locator (URL) that addresses the API, the function, an input of the function, and an output of the function. The software application generates an input variable of the action that corresponds to the input of the function and an output variable of the action that corresponds to the output of the function. The software application determines a first mapping between the input variable and a URL parameter of the API and a second mapping between the output variable and a response from the API. The first and second mappings are stored in in the persistent storage to define the action.
US11068240B1	Aperiodic pseudo-random number generator using big pseudo-random numbers The present innovative solution solves the problem of generating pseudo-random numbers that have practically infinite period, while requiring limited processing resources and operating significantly faster that known pseudo-random number generators. A sequence of big pseudo-random numbers is created using a large seed number calculated as the product of three large constants entered by a user or fed by a computer clock. The big pseudo-random numbers are then selectively split into a sequence of aperiodic pseudo-random numbers which are then output for use in any suitable application and for seeding the present generator.
US11068237B1	Dual-domain combinational logic circuitry A combinational logic circuit includes input circuitry to receive a first and second input signals that transition between supply voltages of first and second voltage domain, respectively. The input circuitry generates, based on the first and second input signals, a first internal signal that transitions between one of the supply voltages of the first voltage domain and one of the supply voltages of the second voltage domain. Output circuitry within the combinational logic circuit generates an output signal that transitions between the upper and lower supply voltages of the first voltage domain in response to transition of the first internal signal.
US11068228B2	Board-level noise reduction during headphone load current sensing An audio codec system includes an audio driver path coupled to a first node of the audio codec system. A first terminal of a sense resistor external to the audio codec system is coupled to the first node and a second terminal of the sense resistor is coupled to an auxiliary device load. The audio codec system includes a second path having a first bias circuit, a second bias circuit and an off-chip voltage reference. The first bias circuit is coupled to a second node of the audio codec system. The second bias circuit is coupled to a third node of the audio codec system. The off-chip voltage reference is associated with the auxiliary device load coupled between the first bias circuit and the second bias circuit.
US11068221B1	Remote monitoring systems and related methods Systems and methods are disclosed herein relating to control of one or more components of an electric power system. A human machine interface (HMI) may be utilized to control and monitor a remote intelligent electronic device (IED) via a local intelligent electronic device (IED) connected to the HMI.
US11068220B2	Image forming apparatus capable of changing sensitivity of human body detection sensor when receiving disaster information An image forming apparatus includes an image forming section, a human body sensor, a communication section, and a controller. The image forming section forms an image on a recording medium. The human body sensor detects a human body. The communication section receives disaster information. When the communication section has received the disaster information, the controller controls the human body sensor such that sensitivity of the human body sensor is raised to a level higher than that before reception of the disaster information.
US11068215B2	Computer-readable storage medium and information processing apparatus A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing computer-readable instructions for an information processing apparatus having a display and a user interface is provided. The computer-readable instructions cause the information processing apparatus to control the display to precedingly display a sheet image and a usable condition image, in response to receiving of an editing operation designating a predetermined position in one of the sheet image and the usable condition image, specify a corresponding position in the other of the sheet image and the usable condition image, and control the display to subsequently display the sheet image and the usable condition image edited as instructed by the editing operation or correspondingly to image-editing in the one of the sheet image and the usable condition image containing the predetermined position; and generate imaging data composing the sheet image having been edited and output the generated imaging data externally.
US11068210B2	Information processing apparatus and method An information processing apparatus according to various embodiments causes a Bluetooth® device to which connection of the web application is permitted to execute a request via a web browser and an operating system (OS) by using Bluetooth® communication, thereby acquiring an identifier of the Bluetooth® device.
US11068206B2	Data storage device for processing a sequential unmap entry by using trim instruction data and operating method thereof A data storage device includes a nonvolatile memory device and a memory having an unmap command queue configured to store an unmap command received from a host, and a sequential unmap table configured to store a sequential unmap entry corresponding to an unmap command for sequential logical addresses, and a controller including a first core and a second core. The second core configured to read an unmap-target map segment including the sequential logical addresses from an address mapping table stored in the nonvolatile memory device, store the read unmap-target map segment in the memory, and change, within the stored unmap-target map segment, physical addresses mapped to the sequential logical addresses to trim instruction data at the same time, the trim instruction data being included in the sequential map entry.
US11068204B2	Memory device with multiple physical spaces, multiple non-volatile memory arrays, multiple main data, multiple metadata of multiple types of commands, and access method thereof A memory device and an access method applied to the memory device are provided. The memory device is electrically connected to a host, and the memory device includes a memory circuit and a memory controller. The memory circuit includes a first memory array and a second memory array. The first memory array and the second memory array respectively provide a first physical space and a second physical space. The memory controller receives an access command from the host. The memory controller performs the access command to the first physical space when the access command is a first type of command, and the memory controller performs the access command to the second physical space when the access command is a second type of command.
US11068193B2	Mapping data sources to storage devices based on fuzzy logic-based classifications A technique includes, for each storage device of a plurality of storage devices, applying, by a processor, fuzzy logic to assign the plurality of storage devices to respective storage classes based on the weights that are assigned to the plurality of storage devices. The technique includes assigning, by the processor, weights to attributes of a data source. In response to an operation to backup data of the data source, mapping, by the processor, the data source to a given storage device based on the weights that are assigned to the attributes of the data source and the storage class that is associated with the given storage device.
US11068191B2	Adaptive replication modes in a storage system In one aspect, adaptive replication modes in a storage system are provided. An aspect includes during an active replication session in which a first type of replication is performed at the storage system, monitoring write input/output (IO) operations, collecting data from the write IO operations, and determining, from the collected data, write IO latency. Upon determining that a threshold value has been met from the write IO latency, where the threshold value is defined for the first type of replication, an aspect includes automatically switching from the first type of replication to a second type of replication. The second type of replication is configured to compensate for operational deficiencies detected in response to the write IO latency.
US11068189B2	Storage device and control method thereof A control method of a storage device may include the steps of determining, by a storage device controller of the storage device, whether the storage device has to move internal data; deciding, by the storage device controller, a data movement allocation ratio based on at least some of internal data movement requests and the number of free pages in the storage device, when it is determined that the storage device has to move internal data; and allocating, by the storage device controller, one or more programming times to complete a first data number of internal data movement operations corresponding to at least some of the internal data movement requests and a second data number of host data write operations, such that the ratio of the first and second data numbers coincides with the data movement allocation ratio.
US11068183B2	Memory access techniques in memory devices with multiple partitions Methods, systems, and devices for operating a memory array are described. A memory controller may be configured to provide enhanced bandwidth on a command/address (C/A) bus, which may have a relatively low pin count, through use of a next partition command that may repeat an array command from a current partition at a different partition indicated by the next partition command. Such a next partition command may use fewer clock cycles than a command that includes a complete instruction and memory location information.
US11068173B2	Method and device for writing software objects into an electronic control unit of an internal combustion engine It is hereby disclosed an apparatus for and a method of writing software objects into a rewritable nonvolatile memory of an electronic control unit of an internal combustion engine, wherein the method comprises: receiving an access request from a memory writing device, generating a seed code, transmitting the seed code to the memory writing device, generating a first key code on the basis of the seed code and a first identification code, generating a second key code on the basis of the seed code and a second identification code, receiving a reference key code from the memory writing device, comparing the reference key code with the first key code and/or with the second key code, and enabling the memory writing device to write software objects into the rewritable nonvolatile memory, if the reference key code corresponds to the first key code or to the second key code.
US11068169B2	Data storage device and method for memory operation and iterative polling A controller of the data storage system may poll a non-volatile memory component to determine an operational status of the non-volatile memory component after a memory operation has been initiated in the non-volatile memory component. The controller may, in response to determining the operational status of the non-volatile memory component is busy, update a polling interval based on a polling factor. The controller may re-poll the non-volatile memory component to determine the operational status of the non-volatile memory component after expiration of the updated polling interval. The controller may repeat the updating of the polling interval and the re-polling of the non-volatile memory component until the operational status of the non-volatile memory component is determined to be ready or until a predetermined number of iterations of the updating and re-polling have been performed if, in response to the re-polling, the operational status is determined to be busy.
US11068162B1	Storage management in a cloud data store Storage management within a cloud-based data store, including: receiving one or more data objects for storage; selecting, based at least upon a storage policy and upon one or more characteristics of storage data, one or more storage classes from among a plurality of storage classes of one or more data storage services; and storing the one or more data objects to the selected one or more storage classes of the one or more data storage services.
US11068159B1	Systems and methods for facilitating keyboard-based search of local and connected digital media items within a messaging application Keyboard-based search of local and/or connected digital media items may be facilitated. A digital media item search interface may be presented in the same view as a messaging interface. The digital media item search interface may receive input such as from an on-screen keyboard to facilitate editing of user-provided search queries and submission of the user-provided search queries. The digital media item search interface may present digital media item tags relating to context information based on input received by the digital media item search query field. The digital media item search interface may present visual previews of local and/or connected digital media items corresponding to digital media item tags presented in the digital media item tag field. The digital media item search interface may receive user selections of individual digital media items to be communicated to one or more other users via the messaging interface.
US11068158B2	Electronic apparatus and method for controlling thereof An electronic apparatus and a method for controlling the electronic apparatus are provided, the method includes displaying an image window on a first part of a writing area of a display; displaying, based on a first user input for writing being detected on a second part of the writing area that is outside the image window, first writing information corresponding to the first user input on the writing area with a first thickness that is predetermined; and displaying, based on a second user input for writing being detected on the image window, second writing information corresponding to the second user input on the image window with a second thickness that is set according to the first thickness and a display magnification of the image window.
US11068154B2	Wearable apparatus and control apparatus A wearable apparatus includes a display unit and a display control unit. The display unit is configured to switch and display a plurality of images classified for each layer. The display control unit is configured to selectively execute a first display control mode and a second display control mode. The first display control mode causes the display unit to display, on the basis of an operation event, the second image from a third image not relating to the first image via the first image. The second display control mode enables the display unit to display the second image from the third image without the first image when a control signal for prompting access to the second image is received.
US11068139B2	Communications devices and methods for single-mode and automatic media capture Devices are configured to capture and share media based on user touch and other interaction. Functional labels show the user the operation being undertaken for any media captured. For example, functional labels may indicate a group of receivers, type of media, media sending method, media capture or sending delay, media persistence time, discrimination type and threshold for capturing different types of media, etc., all customizable by the user or auto-generated. Media is selectively captured and broadcast to receivers in accordance with the configuration of the functional label. A user may engage the device and activate the functional label through a single haptic engagement, allowing highly-specific media capture and sharing through a single touch or other action, without having to execute several discrete actions for capture, sending, formatting, notifying, deleting, storing, etc. Devices include any number of sensors to properly detect and act in accordance with the user engagement.
US11068132B2	Command user interface for displaying selectable software functionality controls An improved user interface is provided for displaying selectable software functionality controls and for presenting logical groupings of particular functionality controls associated with a selected top-level functionality. Underneath a row of top-level functionality tabs, functionalities controls associated with a given top-level functionality tab are presented in logical groupings. Selection of a particular tab switches modes of the user interface to present controls for functionalities associated with the selected tab.
US11068127B2	Springboard interface for quick task transitions Techniques for generating and presenting interfaces for navigating between different tasks and applications are disclosed. In one or more embodiments, a runtime interface is generated based on a set of one or more attributes associated with a user. Based on the attributes, a subset of applications of a plurality of applications included in a system are identified. In a first area of a display, a first application interface is displayed for interacting with a first application instance. Links to the subset of applications are concurrently displayed in a second area of the display. Responsive to receiving input selecting one of the links, a second application interface is displayed in the first area of the display while the links to the subset of applications remain in the second area of the display.
US11068116B2	Touch detection and position reconstruction In one embodiment, an electrical device may inject one or more first electrical signals into a resistive layer of a touch sensor. The device may receive one or more second electrical signals each corresponding to a first electrical signal injected by a first electrode. The device may determine, based on the one or more second electrical signals, a vector with each element of the vector corresponding to a value associated with a particular second electrical signal. Each element may depend at least on: a relative location between the first electrode injecting the first electrical signal and a second electrode receiving the second electrical signal, the signal frequency, and a user touch location on the touch sensor. The device may determine the user touch location based on the vector using at least one of a lookup table, a curve-fitting coefficient set, or a machine-learning model.
US11068108B2	Input device An input device capable of precisely determining presence or absence of a specific non-contact operation on an operation screen is provided. An input device includes a display control unit that displays an operation screen on a display surface, a first detection unit that detects a passing state of an object in a first sensing layer in air formed to face the display surface, a second detection unit that detects a passing state of the object in a second sensing layer in air formed between the display surface and the first sensing layer, and a determination unit that determines presence or absence of the specific non-contact operation performed by the object based on respective detection results of the first detection unit and the second detection unit.
US11068106B2	Noise sensing circuit and touch device A noise sensing circuit is provided according to the disclosure. The noise sensing circuit includes a first filter, which is coupled to a plurality of receiving electrodes, and configured for receiving a plurality of reception signals corresponding to the plurality of receiving electrodes, and performing a high pass filtering operation or a band pass filtering operation on the plurality of reception signals to generate a filtering result; a down-sampling unit, which is coupled to the first filter, and configured for performing a down-sampling operation on the filtering result to generate a down-sampling result; and a noise detection unit, which is coupled to the down-sampling unit, and configured for determining a first operating frequency of the touch device according to the down-sampling result.
US11068102B2	Display device A display device is provided. The display device includes: a display panel including a first area, a second area, and a folding area between the first area and the second area, and a force sensor at one surface of the display panel. The force sensor includes a plurality of first touch cells overlapping the first area or the second area, a plurality of second touch cells overlapping the folding area, and a touch driver which controls a threshold voltage of the plurality of second touch cells on the basis of an intensity of a base force of the plurality of second touch cells.
US11068100B1	Electronic apparatus An electronic apparatus includes a flexible cover plate, a force sensing module, a touch display module, and a metal thin plate. The force sensing module includes a flexible electrode and a flexible force-sensitive composite layer. The flexible force-sensitive composite layer includes at least one flexible electrode layer and at least one functional spacer layer. The flexible electrode layer has a first resistivity. The functional spacer layer has a second resistivity greater than the first resistivity. The flexible electrode layer and the functional spacer layer are disposed under the flexible electrode. The touch display module is disposed between the flexible cover plate and the force sensing module and includes an organic light emitting display unit and a touch sensing layer. The metal thin plate is disposed under the force sensing module and serves as a contact electrode of the force sensing module.
US11068085B2	Method for processing touch screen terminal object and touch screen terminal The present invention provides a method for processing a touch screen terminal object and a touch screen terminal. The method includes: receiving an object placing instruction of placing, in a container interface, a source object selected in a source interface, determining, according to attribute information of the source object, a display icon that corresponds to the source object, and displaying, in the container interface, the display icon that corresponds to the source object; receiving an icon placing instruction of placing the display icon that corresponds to the source object and is in the container interface on a selected target object in a target interface; determining a target operation option according to the attribute information of the source object and attribute information of the target object; and starting a target operation procedure according to the target operation option and the target object.
US11068083B2	Button functionality Button functionalities for user interfaces, e.g., for use with a portable multifunction device, are disclosed. Exemplary button functionalities are described for an electronic device with a display, a rotatable and depressible input mechanism, and/or a button. Different device features may be accessed, depending on whether the rotatable and depressible input mechanism or the button is activated, and further depending on whether the activation represents a single press, a double press, or an extended press on the rotatable and depressible input mechanism or the button.
US11068082B1	Mouse usable as wheel input device A mouse usable as a wheel input device is described. In an embodiment, a mouse may include: a top surface; a sensor coupled to the top surface; a controller coupled to the sensor; and a memory coupled to the controller, the memory having instructions stored thereon that, upon execution by the controller, cause the mouse to: enter a mouse mode of operation in response to detection of a finger on the top surface; and enter a wheel mode of operation in response to detection of a turning of the mouse in a clockwise or counterclockwise direction.
US11068080B2	Mouse device and scroll wheel module A mouse device includes a scroll wheel module. The scroll wheel module includes a long shaft, a scroll wheel, an encoding wheel, and a switching unit. The scroll wheel and the encoding wheel are disposed on two sides of the long shaft. The encoding wheel includes a first encoding groove module and a second encoding groove module. The switching unit includes a first switch and a second switch. The first switch engages with the first encoding groove module. The second switch engages with the second encoding groove module. The first encoding groove module includes a plurality of first encoding grooves. A quantity of the first encoding grooves is a first number. The second encoding groove module includes a plurality of second encoding grooves. A quantity of the second encoding grooves is a second number.
US11068079B2	Electronic device having multi-functional human interface A multi-functional human interface device includes a control unit and a first multi-functional input button. The first multi-functional input button includes a cover unit configured to receive a touch input of a user's finger, an electrode unit including a transmitter and a receiver to form an electric field, an elastic unit configured to move from a first height to a second height when a first pressure is applied from the cover unit and configured to move back to the first height when the first pressure from the cover unit is released, and a switch unit configured to generate an electric signal representing an input of a predetermined letter.
US11068073B2	User-customized keyboard input error correction Systems and methods for providing user-customized keyboard input error correction based on contextual information are described. In some embodiments, an Information Handling System (IHS) may include a processor and a memory coupled to the processor, the memory having program instructions stored thereon that, upon execution by the processor, cause the IHS to: monitor context information; receive an input via a keyboard; and identify an error in the input, at least in part, based upon the context information.
US11068070B2	User-defined virtual interaction space and manipulation of virtual cameras with vectors The technology disclosed relates to creating user-defined interaction spaces and modalities in a three dimensional (3D) sensor space in response to control gestures. It also relates to controlling virtual cameras in the 3D sensor space using control gestures and manipulating controls of the virtual cameras through the control gestures. In particular, it relates to defining one or more spatial attributes of the interaction spaces and modalities in response to one or more gesture parameters of the control gesture. It also particularly relates to defining one or more visual parameters of a virtual camera in response to one or more gesture parameters of the control gesture.
US11068062B2	Display device and method for cancelling a user selected feature on a graphical user interface according to a change in display device rotation A display device includes processing circuitry that is configured to return, to an initial state, a display screen of the display device that displays a selection of a user-selected feature on a graphical user interface in response to a change in posture of the display device by a predetermined amount.
US11068057B1	Wearable device with fiducial markers in virtual reality A virtual reality system enables a user to interact with virtual objects. The system includes a fiducial ring, an imaging device and a console. The fiducial ring includes a ring body that includes a plurality of fiducial markers that each correspond to a different location on the ring body. An imaging device is configured to capture one or more images of the fiducial ring. The console receives the images that include an image of one or more fiducial markers. Based on the received images of the fiducial markers, the console determines a location on the fiducial ring that corresponds to the imaged fiducial marker. The console determines a position of the fiducial ring based on the determined location of the fiducial marker on the fiducial ring. The console provides content to a head mounted display (HMD) based on the determined position of the fiducial ring.
US11068054B2	Vehicle and control method thereof The present disclosure provides a vehicle that includes a display and a rotation member that rotates the display. A vision sensing unit acquires eye position information of a user and a controller determines a first area included in a field of view of the user based on the eye position information and a rotation angle of the display. The controller then divides a display area of the display into a plurality of areas based on the first area and operates the display to display content corresponding to each of the plurality of areas.
US11068050B2	Method for controlling display of virtual image based on eye area size, storage medium and electronic device therefor An electronic device comprises a first camera module, a display device, and a processor functionally connected with the first camera module and the display device. The processor may be configured to determine a size of at least one eye area included in an image obtained by the first camera module while displaying a virtual image using the display device and to control a degree of display of the virtual image corresponding to the size of the at least one eye area. Other various embodiments are also available.
US11068040B2	Clock gating unit for a transponder In accordance with a first aspect of the present disclosure, a transponder is provided, comprising: digital logic for processing one or more portions of a data frame; a status detection unit configured to detect a status of a data frame reception or data frame transmission; a clock gating unit configured to apply clock gating to said digital logic in dependence on the status of said data frame reception or data frame transmission. In accordance with further aspects of the present disclosure, a corresponding method of operating a transponder is conceived, and a corresponding computer program is provided.
US11068039B2	Electronic apparatus, control method, and storage medium An electronic apparatus provided with a touch screen, the electronic apparatus comprising: a first sensor that detects approach of a finger to the touch screen; and a controller that switches, in an inactive state of the touch screen, in a case where the first sensor detects the approach of the finger to the touch screen, an operating state of the touch screen from the inactive state to an active state.
US11068036B2	Portable electronic device and control method thereof A control method of a portable electronic device (PED) includes following steps. A trigger event is received. Next, an accelerator detects a first behavior of the PED and produces a first signal. If the first signal satisfies a first preset condition, the accelerator detects a second behavior of the PED and produces a second signal. If the second signal satisfies a second preset condition, the PED performs an action.
US11068032B2	Electronic device An electronic device including a hinge module, a first body, a first linking assembly, a second body, a second linking assembly, and a flexible display assembled to the first body and the second body is provided. The hinge module includes a first rotating shaft, a second rotating shaft parallel to the first rotating shaft, a first guiding shaft orthogonal to the first rotating shaft, and a second guiding shaft orthogonal to the second rotating shaft. The first body is slidably assembled to the first guiding shaft, the second body is slidably assembled to the second guiding shaft, the first linking assembly slidably assembled to the first guiding shaft connects the first body, and the second linking assembly slidably assembled to the second guiding shaft connects the second body. A deformation of the flexible display drives the first and second bodies to move close to or away from the hinge module.
US11068018B2	System and method for power management of a computing system with a plurality of islands The invention concerns a computing system comprising: an island (102) comprising a group of circuits capable of operating in one of a plurality of operating modes, the island being coupled to an island control circuit (122); and a clock generation circuit (902) supplying a further clock signal to the island control circuit (122) for controlling a change of mode of the island, the clock generation circuit (902) being configured to select one of a plurality of clock frequencies for the further clock signal, the selection being based on the change of operating mode to be applied.
US11068012B2	Rudder control pedal assembly with linear pedal travel path A rudder control pedal assembly including an idler link pivotably coupled to a support frame at a first joint, a coupler link pivotably coupled to the idler link at a second joint, a drive link pivotably coupled to the coupler link at a third joint and pivotably coupled to the support frame at a fourth joint, and a pedal coupled to the coupler link and constrained to movement along an approximately linear travel path, wherein the support frame forms an imaginary fixed link to complete a four-bar linkage.
US11068011B2	Signal generating device and method of generating temperature-dependent signal A signal generating device includes: a first circuit arranged to generate a first current to a first bipolar junction transistor therein; a second circuit coupled to the first circuit via an output terminal for generating a second current to a second BJT therein; and a first control circuit coupled to the first circuit and the second circuit, for generating a first adjusting current and a second adjusting current to the first circuit and the second circuit for adjusting the first current and the second current such that the first circuit and the second circuit outputs a temperature-dependent signal on the output terminal.
US11068004B2	Regulator with reduced power consumption using clamp circuit A regulator includes: a first transistor connected between an input terminal and an output terminal; a feedback circuit configured to control a control voltage of a control electrode of the first transistor such that a voltage of the output terminal approaches a target voltage according to a feedback voltage proportional to the voltage of the output terminal; a second transistor having one end connected to the input terminal and a control electrode to which the control voltage is applied in common with the first transistor; and a clamp circuit configured to set the other end of the second transistor to a voltage determined by the voltage of the output terminal.
US11067990B2	Operation method of an agriculture UAV An operation method of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) includes determining a distance between the UAV and a ground reflector in front of the UAV by using a radar wave emitted obliquely downward by a radar carried by the UAV, determining terrain information in front of the UAV according to the distance between the UAV and the ground reflector in front of the UAV, and adjusting one or more operation parameters of the UAV according to the terrain information.
US11067986B2	Autonomous driving vehicle, method of stopping autonomous driving vehicle, and recording medium An autonomous driving vehicle includes a main vehicle part, a processor, and a memory storing thereon a computer program, which when executed by the processor, causes the processor to perform operations. The operations include detecting a gesture made, to try to stop the main vehicle part, by a person present near a road on which the main vehicle part is running, determining whether there is a passenger in the main vehicle part, and controlling autonomous driving of the main vehicle part. In a case where it is determined that there is no passenger in the main vehicle part, when a person making the gesture is detected, the controlling controls the main vehicle part to stop near the person.
US11067972B2	Observation device, observation method, and non- transitory computer-readable medium storing an observation program To provide an observation device, an observation method, and a computer-readable medium developed to allow checking of observation data in entirety. An observation device comprises: a data acquisition unit that acquires observation data together with temporal information, the observation data including at least one of an internal behavior signal about a numerical controller for controlling a machine tool, etc., and feed axis control data and spindle control data detected from a motor of the machine tool, etc.; a setting unit that sets a time scale for the observation data acquired by the data acquisition unit; a print data generation unit that generates print data including the observation data represented on the time scale set by the setting unit; and a print data output unit that outputs the print data generated by the print data generation unit to a printer capable of producing a long printed matter.
US11067971B2	Production line configuration change system and production line configuration change method The production line configuration change system includes: an error information storage unit that stores information of an error which occurs in equipment on a production line; a work information storage unit that stores work contents required for manufacturing a product; an equipment information storage unit that stores constraint information of a tool mountable on the equipment; a production line configuration information storage unit that, in order of manufacturing processes of the product, stores a work content, work assignment equipment, a tool mounted on the equipment, and a process tact time in each of the manufacturing processes; and a production line configuration calculation unit that is activated immediately after the error occurs, prepares a change plan of assigning a work assigned to the equipment in which the error occurs to the equipment before or after the process or another equipment of the identical process and calculates a provisional production line configuration.
US11067969B2	Relay device for relaying data between devices, control method therefor, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium therefor The present invention addresses the problem whereby the number of commands to be transmitted increases in accordance with an increase in the number of devices to be backed up and restored, and processing becomes complex. An IO-Link master is provided with: an upper-level communication control unit which receives an instruction to execute backup in which setting information is acquired from IO-Link devices, and stored in a storage unit; and a backup control unit which executes backup of the plurality of IO-Link devices in accordance with the one received instruction.
US11067961B2	Controller and machine learning device A machine learning device provided in a controller for controlling a wire electrical discharge machine uses state variables (including data relating to a correction amount, a machining path, machining conditions, and a machining environment) observed by a state observation unit and determination data acquired by a determination data acquisition unit to machine-learn a correction for a machining path. Using the learning result, the machining path can be corrected automatically and accurately on the basis of a partial machining path, the machining conditions and the machining environment of the machining performed by the wire electrical discharge machine.
US11067956B2	Variable refrigerant flow system with automatic sensor data correction A method for controlling a variable refrigerant flow (VRF) system includes applying a time window to sensor data associated with the VRF system, the sensor data including input data points and having a first resolution, wherein applying the time window to the sensor data isolates a subset of the input data points; applying a timing weight to one or more input data points in the subset of the input data points to generate corrected data points having a second resolution higher than the first resolution; creating a virtual sensor and mapping the corrected data points to an output of the virtual sensor; and controlling the VRF system based on an output of the virtual sensor. The use of virtual sensors with a higher resolution than corresponding physical sensors in this manner allows for existing physical sensors to be used while improving performance of the VRF system.
US11067953B2	Apparatus and method for generating an optical pattern from image points in an image plane Apparatus for generating an optical pattern from image points in an image plane, including: a control unit; a micro-mirror array; an illumination unit controllable by the control unit; a focusing unit; the control unit being configured to control one or several micro-mirror groups formed of several micro-mirrors of the multitude of micro-mirrors such that the centroid beams reflected at the micro-mirrors of one of the micro-mirror groups meet in the image plane, and such that optical path lengths of the centroid beams reflected at the micro-mirrors of the respective micro-mirror group are equal from the illumination unit up to the image plane or differ by an integer multiple of a wavelength of the light beams in order to generate an image point of the image points in such a way.
US11067946B2	Removably mountable unit and image forming apparatus A cartridge detachably mountable to an image forming apparatus includes a cleaning member; a cleaner container; a discharge opening; a shutter for the opening; an urging member for urging the shutter to a closing position, wherein when the cartridge is mounted, the shutter abuts to a shutter abutting portion provided in the image forming apparatus to be moved from a closing position to an opening position; a locking member rotatable between a locking position and a release position, wherein before the shutter contacts to the shutter abutting portion when mounting the cartridge to the apparatus, the locking member contacts a releasing portion provided in the apparatus to be rotated in a releasing direction, by the releasing portion; and an interrelating mechanism for interrelating relative movement between the shutter and the cleaner container and rotation of the locking member in a direction of the locking.
US11067944B2	Developing cartridge including holder movably supporting electrical contact surface A developing cartridge includes: a housing extending in a first direction; a developing roller; a memory held at the housing; a holder holding an electrical contact surface; and a relay component electrically connecting the memory to the electrical contact surface. The developing roller is rotatable about an axis extending in the first direction. The developing roller is positioned at one end portion of the housing in a second direction. The holder is movable relative to the housing in at least one of the second direction and a third direction crossing the first direction and the second direction. The third direction also crosses the electrical contact surface.
US11067921B2	Image forming device, and setting method and non-transitory recording medium therefor An image forming device may include an image unit which in turn may include an image carrier, and a transfer unit arranged adjacent to the image carrier. A controller sets a usable period of the image unit based on a relative positional relation between the image unit and the transfer unit. The controller further: obtains first positional information related to the image unit and second positional information related to the transfer unit, identifies the relative positional relation between the image unit and the transfer unit based on the obtained first and second positional information.
US11067916B2	Driving apparatus and printing apparatus A driving apparatus comprising a driving circuit is provided. The driving circuit includes an output terminal to which the load element is connected, a current output circuit configured to supply a current to the load element, a voltage supply circuit configured to apply a voltage to the load element, a first signal line configured to control a timing at which the current output circuit starts supplying a current to the load element and a second signal line configured to control a timing at which the voltage supply circuit is turned off. The voltage supply circuit starts applying a voltage before the current output circuit supplies a current to the load element, and a timing at which the current output circuit starts supplying a current differs from a timing at which the voltage supply circuit turns off application of a voltage.
US11067908B2	Measurement apparatus, exposure apparatus, and method of manufacturing article A measurement apparatus that measures a position of a mark formed between first and surfaces of a substrate is provided. The apparatus includes a stage that holds and moves the substrate, a first detector that detects an image of the mark, a second detector that detects a height position of the first surface, and a processor that determines, based on the detected height position, an offset amount used to set the focus of the first detector to the mark. The processor includes a first mode in which the offset amount is determined based on a first distance set as a distance from the first surface to the mark, and a second mode in which the offset amount is determined based on a second distance set as a distance from the second surface to the mark.
US11067907B2	Target supply device, extreme ultraviolet light generating apparatus, and electronic device manufacturing method A target supply device includes a vibrating element driven by a square wave electric signal and configured to generate a droplet of a target substance by vibrating the target substance to be output from a nozzle through a vibration propagating path; a temperature adjusting mechanism configured to adjust, to a specified temperature, a temperature of a vibration propagating path member including at least part of the vibration propagating path; a droplet detecting unit configured to output a signal containing information on a droplet detection interval indicating a time interval of droplets continuously generated; and a control unit configured to determine, based on the droplet detection interval, an operation specified temperature that is the specified temperature of the vibration propagating path member and an operation duty value that is a duty value of the electric signal used for driving the vibrating element when the droplet is irradiated with the laser beam.
US11067906B2	Droplet catcher system of EUV lithography apparatus and EUV lithography apparatus maintenance method A droplet catcher system of an EUV lithography apparatus is provided. The droplet catcher system includes a catcher body, a heat transfer part, a heat exchanger, and a controller. The catcher body has an outer surface. The heat transfer part is directly attached to the outer surface of the catcher body. The heat exchanger is thermally coupled to the heat transfer part. The controller is electrically coupled to the heat exchanger.
US11067904B2	System for combined imaging and scatterometry metrology Metrology targets, design files, and design and production methods thereof are provided. The targets comprise two or more parallel periodic structures at respective layers, wherein a predetermined offset is introduced between the periodic structures, for example, opposite offsets at different parts of a target. Quality metrics are designed to estimate the unintentional overlay from measurements of a same metrology parameter by two or more alternative measurement algorithms. Target parameters are configured to enable both imaging and scatterometry measurements and enhance the metrology measurements by the use of both methods on the same targets. Imaging and scatterometry target parts may share elements or have common element dimensions. Imaging and scatterometry target parts may be combined into a single target area or may be integrated into a hybrid target using a specified geometric arrangement.
US11067893B2	Compositions and processes for self-assembly of block copolymers The present invention relates to a novel styrenic polymer and to the novel composition comprised of this polymer and a solvent; wherein the styrenic polymer has a polydispersity from 1 to 1.3 and further wherein each polymer chain of the styrenic polymer is capped with one end group of structure 1), wherein, and L is a linking group selected from the group consisting of a direct valence bond, oxy (—O—), carbonyloxy, (—(C═O)—O—), carbonate (—O—(C═O)—O—); L2 is a C-1 to C-20 substituted or unsubstituted alkylene spacer, an arylene spacer or a direct valence bond, R, is hydrogen, a halide, a C-1 to C-20 alkyl moiety, or a C-1 to C-20 alkyloxy moiety, m is an integer from 1 to 3; and (I) represent the direct valence bond attaching the end group 1) to the end of the polymer chain of the styrenic polymer. In another aspect of this invention it pertains to the use of this composition to create self-assembly process.
US11067891B2	Temperature controlling apparatus A temperature controlling apparatus includes a platen, a fluid source that supplies a fluid, a first conduit, a second conduit, and a plurality of outlet thermal sensors. The first conduit includes a first inlet, a first outlet, and a first heater configured to heat the fluid to a first heating temperature. The fluid having the first heating temperature is dispensed on the platen through the first outlet. The second conduit includes a second inlet, a second outlet and a second heater configured to heat the fluid to a second heating temperature different from the first heating temperature. The fluid having the second heating temperature is dispensed on the platen through the second outlet. The outlet thermal sensors are disposed at the first outlet and the second outlet to sense temperature of the fluid dispensed from the first outlet and the second outlet respectively.
US11067889B2	Compound, composition, and method for producing same, underlayer film forming material for lithography, composition for underlayer film formation for lithography, and purification method A compound represented by the following formula (1) and a method for producing the same, and a composition, a composition for optical component formation, a film forming composition for lithography, a resist composition, a method for forming a resist pattern, a radiation-sensitive composition, a method for producing an amorphous film, an underlayer film forming material for lithography, a composition for underlayer film formation for lithography, a method for producing an underlayer film for lithography, a resist pattern formation method, a circuit pattern formation method, and a purification method. wherein R1 is a 2n-valent group of 1 to 60 carbon atoms or a single bond; R2 to R5 are each independently a linear, branched, or cyclic alkyl group of 1 to 30 carbon atoms, an aryl group of 6 to 30 carbon atoms, an alkenyl group of 2 to 30 carbon atoms, a group represented by the following formula (A), a group represented by the following formula (B), a thiol group, or a hydroxy group, wherein at least one selected from the group consisting of R2 to R5 is a group selected from the group consisting of a group represented by the following formula (A) and a group represented by the following formula (B); m2 and m3 are each independently an integer of 0 to 8; m4 and m5 are each independently an integer of 0 to 9, provided that m2, m3, m4, and m5 are not 0 at the same time; n is an integer of 1 to 4; and p2 to p5 are each independently an integer of 0 to 2: wherein each R6 is independently an alkylene group of 1 to 4 carbon atoms; and m′ is an integer of 1 or larger, and wherein R6 is as defined above; R7 is a hydrogen atom or a methyl group; and m″ is 0 or an integer of 1 or larger.
US11067886B2	Reflective photomask blank and reflective photomask A reflective photomask blank (10) of a first aspect includes a substrate (1); a reflective layer (2) formed on the substrate (1); and a light absorbing layer (4) formed on the reflective layer (2) and including a tin oxide film with a film thickness of 17 nm or more and less than 25.0 nm. Consequently, the shadowing effect of a reflective photomask for pattern transfer using extreme ultraviolet light as a light source is suppressed or reduced to improve the performance of transfer to a semiconductor substrate, and further, pattern collapse due to cleaning of the reflective photomask is suppressed.
US11067884B2	Through-display optical transmission, reception, or sensing through micro-optic elements A device includes a display stack and an optical receiver. The display stack includes a set of opaque elements defining a translucent aperture. The translucent aperture extends through the display stack. The optical receiver is spaced apart from and behind a back surface of the display stack. At least one micro-optic element is formed on the back surface of the display stack, between the display stack and the optical receiver. The at least one micro-optic element includes a micro-optic element having a focal point located within the translucent aperture. The optical receiver is configured to receive light through the translucent aperture and the at least one micro-optic element.
US11067878B2	Laser projection device A laser projection device includes: a laser light source, including three laser assemblies emitting lasers of different colors; a laser light source driving unit, including: a display control circuit; three power supply driving assemblies connected to the three laser assemblies; and three laser driving assemblies connected to three power supply driving assemblies, where the display control circuit is configured to transmit an enabling signal corresponding to each laser assembly to a corresponding power supply driving assembly when transmitting a PWM signal corresponding to the each laser assembly; each power supply driving assembly is configured to load a driving voltage to a corresponding laser driving assembly according to voltage of a received PWM signal, when a received enabling signal is at active potential; and each laser driving assembly is configured to drive a corresponding laser assembly to emit light according to the driving voltage.
US11067874B2	Camera, accessory apparatus, communication control method, storage medium, and camera system A camera includes a lens-camera communication controller and an adapter-camera communication controller. The camera-lens communication channel includes a first data communication channel used during a data communication and a first notification channel used for a notification of a timing of a communication via the first data communication channel. The camera-adapter communication channel includes a second data communication channel used during the data communication and a second notification channel used for a notification of a timing of a communication via the second data communication channel.
US11067869B2	Self-contained EC IGU Onboard EC window controllers are described. The controllers are configured in close proximity to the EC window, for example, within the IGU. The controller may be part of a window assembly, which includes an IGU having one or more EC panes, and thus does not have to be matched with the EC window, and installed, in the field. The window controllers described herein have a number of advantages because they are matched to the IGU containing one or more EC devices and their proximity to the EC panes of the window overcomes a number of problems associated with conventional controller configurations. Also described are self-meshing networks for electrochromic windows.
US11067847B2	Polarizer protective film, polarizing plate comprising same, and liquid crystal display device comprising polarizing plate The present specification relates to a wide color gamut film including a transparent substrate; a wide color gamut layer provided on one surface of the transparent substrate, and including a compound including a photocurable functional group and a dye or a pigment having a maximum absorption wavelength of 580 nm to 610 nm; a surface layer provided on the wide color gamut layer, wherein the transparent substrate, the wide color gamut layer and the surface layer are consecutively laminated, and a polarizing plate and a liquid crystal display device including the same.
US11067846B2	Color filter substrate and fabricating method thereof, display panel The present disclosure provides a color filter substrate and a fabricating method thereof, and a display panel. The method includes: forming a black matrix on a base substrate; forming an auxiliary electrode on a side of the black matrix away from the base substrate, an orthographic projection of the black matrix on the base substrate covering an orthographic projection of the auxiliary electrode on the base substrate; and forming color filters on the base substrate and in a space defined by the black matrix on which the auxiliary electrode is formed.
US11067822B2	Optical system An optical system is provided and includes a fixed module, a movable module, a sensing unit and a driving assembly. The fixed module includes a base, and the movable module includes an optical member holder, configured to hold an optical member. The sensing unit is configured to obtain information related to a first rotation angle of the optical member holder when rotating around a first axis relative to the base and a second rotation angle of the optical member holder when rotating around a second axis relative to the base. The driving assembly includes a coil, the coil and the movable module are arranged along an optical axis of the optical member, and the coil is disposed around an opening of the base. The first axis or the second axis is perpendicular to the optical axis.
US11067817B2	Optical element rotating device and stage light optical device The present invention provides an optical element rotating device, which is simple in structure and convenient in use, and can prevent the stuck phenomenon of the rotating motion of the optical element main body from affecting the using effect of the stage light, comprising a base body, a ball holder, a ball, a ball pressing plate, an elastic element, and a cover, wherein the ball holder is sleeved outside the periphery of the base body; and the ball, the ball pressing plate, the elastic element and the cover are sequentially positioned between the ball holder and the base body from bottom to top. A stage light optical device is also disclosed, comprising an optical element main body and the rotating device, wherein the optical element main body is positioned on the base body of the rotating device.
US11067816B1	Scattering STED lithography Disclosed are systems and methods for achieving sub-diffraction limit resolutions in lithography. In one embodiment, a lithography system is disclosed. The system includes, a first light source, configured to generate excitation laser beams; a second light source, configured to generate depletion laser beams; one or more scattering mediums configured to receive one or more of the excitation laser beams and depletion laser beams and scramble the laser beams; one or more wave-front shaping modules, configured to receive the scrambled laser beams, descramble the laser beams and generate one or more focused laser beams; a numerical aperture device configured to receive the one or more focused laser beams and generate a focused point on a substrate.
US11067815B2	Apparatus for beam shaping of laser radiation An apparatus for beam shaping of laser radiation in the form of ultra short pulses includes an achromatic optical device comprising a first substrate having a first Abbe number and a second substrate connected to the first substrate and having a second Abbe number that is different from the first Abbe number. The first and second substrates are arranged to allow the laser radiation to at least partially pass through the first and second substrates in succession, wherein an optically functional transformation boundary surface is disposed on one of the first and second substrates. The optically functional transformation boundary surface allows the laser radiation to pass at least partially, such that a profile of the laser radiation is transformed into a top-hat profile.
US11067809B1	Systems and methods for minimizing external light leakage from artificial-reality displays The disclosed display system may include (1) a display element that is transparent and includes a first surface facing a viewing region and a second surface opposite the first surface, the second surface facing an external environment, (2) a light-blocking shutter that faces and overlaps at least a portion of the second surface of the display element, (3) a display-driving subsystem that displays images visible to a user at the viewing region via display light emitted from the first surface of the display element during active display intervals, and (4) a shutter-driving subsystem that alternately switches the state of the light-blocking shutter between a blocking state during the active display intervals and a pass-through state during inactive display intervals when the display light is not emitted from the display element. Various other systems, devices, and methods are also disclosed.
US11067808B2	Diffractive optical elements with mitigation of rebounce-induced light loss and related systems and methods Display devices include waveguides with in-coupling optical elements that mitigate re-bounce of in-coupled light to improve overall in-coupling efficiency and/or uniformity. A waveguide receives light from a light source and/or projection optics and includes an in-coupling optical element that in-couples the received light to propagate by total internal reflection in a propagation direction within the waveguide. Once in-coupled into the waveguide the light may undergo re-bounce, in which the light reflects off a waveguide surface and, after the reflection, strikes the in-coupling optical element. Upon striking the in-coupling optical element, the light may be partially absorbed and/or out-coupled by the optical element, thereby effectively reducing the amount of in-coupled light propagating through the waveguide. The in-coupling optical element can be truncated or have reduced diffraction efficiency along the propagation direction to reduce the occurrence of light loss due to re-bounce of in-coupled light, resulting in less in-coupled light being prematurely out-coupled and/or absorbed during subsequent interactions with the in-coupling optical element.
US11067805B2	Systems and methods for operating a display system based on user perceptibility Systems and methods are disclosed for operating a head-mounted display system based on user perceptibility. The display system may be an augmented reality display system configured to provide virtual content on a plurality of depth planes by presenting the content with different amounts of wavefront divergence. Some embodiments include obtaining an image captured by an imaging device of the display system. Whether a threshold measure or more of motion blur is determined to be exhibited in one or more regions of the image. Based on a determination that the threshold measure or more of motion blur is exhibited in one or more regions of the image, one or more operating parameters of the wearable display are adjusted. Example operating parameter adjustments comprise adjusting the depth plane on which content is presented (e.g., by switching from a first depth plane to a second depth plane), adjusting a rendering quality, and adjusting power characteristics of the system.
US11067804B2	Virtual image display device A virtual image display device of the invention includes an image display element configured to emit image light, a relay optical system configured to generate an intermediate image of the image light emitted from the image display element, and an ocular optical element configured to reflect the intermediate image toward a position assumed to be a position of an eye of an observer to generate an enlarged virtual image. The relay optical system includes a prism, and the prism includes a first bending surface including a bending surface and serving as an incident surface, a second bending surface including a bending surface and serving as an emission surface, and a reflecting surface configured to reflect, toward the second bending surface, the image light incident from the first bending surface.
US11067798B2	Head-up display device A head-up display device that displays a virtual image to be viewable by an occupant in a movable body includes: a light source part which emits light source light; a liquid crystal panel integrally having a pair of polarizers for liquid crystals and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the polarizers in a stacked state; and an additional polarizer arranged in an optical path between the light source part and the liquid crystal panel. The additional polarizer and the pair of polarizers for liquid crystals have properties of transmitting polarized light along a transmission axis and shielding polarized light along a shielding axis which intersects the transmission axis. The additional polarizer is arranged such that the transmission axis and the shielding axis respectively match those of a polarizer for liquid crystals adjacent to the light source part, of the pair of polarizers for liquid crystals.
US11067791B2	Wearable device for protecting display and method thereof A wearable device includes at least one lens, an output device, at least one sensor, and at least one processor. The at least one processor is configured to identify a level of light sensed through the at least one sensor. The at least one processor is also configured to provide a notification related to the level of the light by using the output device when the level of the light satisfies a preset condition.
US11067789B2	Borescope wand protection system The present disclosure is directed to a borescope. The borescope includes a borescope wand having a base portion, an articulating portion, a lens end, and an outer surface. A lens is positioned in the lens end of the borescope wand. A sleeve is positioned around a portion of the outer surface of the borescope wand. The sleeve is spaced apart from the lens. An end cap defines a passage extending therethrough from a first opening to a second opening. The lens end of the borescope wand extends through the first opening and is positioned within the passage such that the lens is positioned between the first opening and the second opening.
US11067786B2	Artifact regulation methods in deep model training for image transformation A computerized method of artifact regulation in deep model training for image transformation first performs one cycle of deep model training by computing means using a training data, a validation data, a similarity loss function, an artifact regulation loss function and a weight of loss functions to generate similarity loss and artifact regulation loss and a deep model. The method then performs a training evaluation using the similarity loss and the artifact regulation loss thus obtained to generate a training readiness output. Then, depending upon the training readiness output, the method may be terminated if certain termination criteria are met, or may perform another cycle of deep model training and training evaluation, with or without updating the weight, until the termination criteria are met. Alternatively, the deep model training in the method may be a deep adversarial model training or a bi-directional deep adversarial training.
US11067778B2	Imaging optical lens assembly, imaging apparatus and electronic device An imaging optical lens assembly includes seven lens elements, the seventh lens elements being, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element, a sixth lens element, and a seventh lens element. The first lens element with positive refractive power has an object-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof. The second lens element has negative refractive power. The seventh lens element has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof and having a critical point in an off-axis region thereof. The image-side surface and an object-side surface of the seventh lens element are both aspheric.
US11067775B2	Camera lens assembly The present disclosure discloses a camera lens assembly. The camera lens assembly from an object side of the camera lens assembly to an image side sequentially includes: a first lens having a positive refractive power, wherein an object-side surface of the first lens is a convex surface; a second lens having a negative refractive power, wherein an image-side surface of the second lens is a concave surface; a third lens having a refractive power; a fourth lens having a refractive power; a fifth lens having a refractive power; and a sixth lens having a refractive power. A maximum effective radius DT11 of the object-side surface of the first lens and a maximum effective radius DT62 of an image-side surface of the sixth lens satisfy: 0.8
US11067765B2	Evanescent coupling of photodiode with optical waveguide Embodiments described herein include an apparatus comprising a semiconductor-based photodiode disposed on a semiconductor layer, and an optical waveguide spaced apart from the semiconductor layer and evanescently coupled with a depletion region of the photodiode. The photodiode may be arranged as a vertical photodiode or a lateral photodiode.
US11067753B2	Optical module and method for producing same An optical module includes: a substrate-type optical waveguide device; and an optical fiber that guides light that enters or exits the waveguide device. Spot sizes w1 and w2 satisfy 1
US11067735B2	Direct-lit backlight unit with 2D local dimming Backlight units include a light guide plate having a plurality of light extraction features, at least one light source optically coupled to a second major surface of the light guide plate, a rear reflector positioned proximate the second major surface, and a patterned reflective layer positioned proximate a first major surface of the light guide plate. Display and lighting devices comprising such backlight units are further disclosed.
US11067734B2	Illumination device having a plurality of different colored LEDs coupled to a solid waveguide An illumination device includes a solid waveguide; a plurality of light emitting diodes emitting light of different colors and arranged to project light into at least one of the surfaces of the waveguide; and one or more phosphor materials for converting light emitted by one of the LEDs from one color to another, such that an out-coupling region of the waveguide outputs a mixture of light from at least some of the LEDs and light converted by the phosphors materials.
US11067724B2	Fresnel-based varifocal lens assembly for VR or AR displays A near-eye display system includes a display panel to emit display light representative of a display image and a lens assembly disposed along an optical axis. The lens assembly includes a first phase mask plate having a first major surface facing the display and a second major surface opposite the first major surface, the second major surface implementing a first freeform Fresnel lens structure, and further includes a second phase mask plate adjacent and parallel to the first phase mask plate and having a third major surface facing the second major surface and an opposing fourth majors surface, the third major surface implementing a second freeform Fresnel lens structure. A pose of at least one of the first and second phase mask plates relative to the other is configured to be adjusted so as to adjust an optical power of the lens assembly.
US11067721B2	Textured self-cleaning film system and method of forming same A self-cleaning film system includes a substrate and an anti-reflection film disposed on the substrate. The anti-reflection film includes a first sheet formed from titanium dioxide, a second sheet formed from silicon dioxide and disposed on the first sheet, and a third sheet formed from titanium dioxide and disposed on the second sheet. The system includes a self-cleaning film disposed on the anti-reflection film and including a monolayer disposed on the third sheet and formed from a fluorinated material selected from the group consisting of fluorinated organic compounds, fluorinated inorganic compounds, and combinations thereof. The self-cleaning film includes a first plurality of regions disposed within the monolayer such that each of the first plurality of regions abuts and is surrounded by the fluorinated material and includes a photocatalytic material.
US11067716B2	System and method for a downhole gamma ray instrument A downhole logging tool includes a radiation generation source operable to emit radiation into a formation surrounding the tool and a radiation detector operable to detect backscattered radiation from the formation surrounding the tool. The tool also includes a sleeve positioned around the radiation generation source, the sleeve including at least one aperture for forming a pathway for a radiation beam, emitted from the radiation generation source, to enter the formation, the sleeve being rotatable about an axis of the tool to change a position of the aperture to distinctly inspect different regions of the formation.
US11067709B2	Radiation position detection method, radiation position detector, and PET apparatus A radiation position detection method includes: a first step of calculating a first centroid position in an incident direction regarding positions where scintillation light is detected, on the basis of electrical signals; and a second step of specifying, on the basis of a first table showing first identification regions for identifying the plurality of segments, and the first centroid position, the segment that initially generates the scintillation light. The first identification region includes a first region, a second region, and a third region. In the second step, in a case where the first centroid position is located in the first region or the third region, the first segment is specified as the segment that initially generates the scintillation light, and in a case where the first centroid position is located in the second region, the second segment is specified as the segment that initially generates the scintillation light.
US11067708B2	Portable radiation detector system An apparatus for detecting radiation, comprising: a first radiation absorption layer configured to generate first electrical signals from a photon of the radiation absorbed by the first radiation absorption layer, wherein the first radiation absorption layer comprises a first electrode; an electronic system configured to process the first electrical signals; a counter configured to register a number of photons absorbed by the radiation absorption layer; a controller; the controller is configured to cause the number registered by the counter to increase by one; a power supply; and a communication interface configured for the electronic system to communicate with outside circuitry.
US11067705B1	CNN-based abnormality score map for SPECT gamma camera flood analysis A method for determining an abnormality score map for Single-photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT) gamma camera flood analysis includes extracting a plurality of image patches from an input flood image and generating a feature vector for each image patch. A per-patch abnormality score is generated for each feature vector by comparing the feature vector against a normal flood feature dictionary comprising one or more normal flood feature vectors generated using a plurality of normal flood images. Then, an abnormality score map may be generated to depict the per-patch abnormality scores for the input flood image.
US11067699B2	Apparatus and method for improved position determination for a vehicle An apparatus for use in a vehicle for receiving and processing first data while the vehicle is in a parked position, the data taking into consideration errors in a position determination for the vehicle on account of atmospheric effects. The first data are produced by at least one satellite which is designed to send the first data to the vehicle having a first communication interface. The first communication interface is designed to receive the first data from the at least one satellite. A controller is connectable to the first communication interface in order to receive first data from the first communication interface for processing. The controller is further designed to take the received first data as a basis for determining at least one parameter for the creation of an error correction model for correcting a position error in the determination of a position for the vehicle.
US11067698B2	Message broadcast apparatus and method for enhanced parameter in satellite navigation system The present invention provides a message broadcast apparatus and method for enhanced parameters in a satellite navigation system. The apparatus includes: a processor, which determines the insertion position of the enhanced parameter in the reserved space in the navigation message frame structure model according to the byte size and the broadcast frequency of the enhanced parameter that needs to be broadcast, so as to perform the message arrangement of the enhanced parameter; and a transmitter, which uploads the arranged message to the broadcast satellite for broadcasting the message.
US11067696B2	System and methods for countering satellite-navigated munitions A defense system that receives information regarding an incoming object(s), then automatically coordinates spoofing or jamming of SATNAV signals potentially used by the incoming object(s) while also informing friendly systems of the spoofing or jamming of SATNAV signal.
US11067695B2	3D imaging by multiple sensors during 3D printing A method for 3D printing an object, based on a 3D printable model of the object, includes scanning, by a first LiDAR sensor of a plurality of LiDAR sensors, a portion of the object while the object is being printed by a printer head. The method also includes generating an image of at least the portion of the object based on scanning the portion, generating a comparison by comparing the image with the 3D printable model, and sending a feedback signal that adjusts the printer head based on the comparison.
US11067689B2	Information processing device, information processing method and program The information processing device includes a plurality of light transmission/reception units and an information processing unit. Each of the light transmission/reception unit includes an emission unit which emits a light, a scanning unit which scans the light emitted by the emission unit, and a light receiving unit which receives the light reflected by an object. The information processing unit obtains at least one of a distance to the object and an angle of the object based on light receiving results of the light receiving units. Each of the scanning units is arranged at a position where there is a direction in which the light scanned by the scanning unit is blocked by a vehicle itself, and scans the light omnidirectionally in a horizontal direction in a manner shared by the scanning units.
US11067688B2	Obstacle detection apparatus for vehicles An obstacle detection apparatus for vehicles includes: a first ultrasonic sensor for detecting a distance to an obstacle; a second ultrasonic sensor at a position of the vehicle for receiving a reflection wave from the obstacle of an ultrasonic wave from the first ultrasonic wave; a notifier that gives a notification of detecting the obstacle present within a preset distance in one or more of predetermined notification areas including a first notification area for the first ultrasonic sensor, and a second notification area for the second ultrasonic sensor detects the obstacle for the vehicle; and a controller that controls contents to be notified by the notifier. Furthermore, the controller determines whether a first indirect wave distance and a second indirect wave distance are used to determine whether to give the notification of detecting the obstacle in the first notification area.
US11067687B2	Multipath acoustic holography and virtual haptics According to various embodiments, systems and methods for transmitting acoustic waves in a region aided by reflection from environmental objects. An arrangement of acoustically reflective surfaces in an environment of a target can be detected to generate an environmental acoustic propagation channel model. An acoustic radiation pattern for reflecting one or more acoustic waves off of one or more acoustically reflective surfaces in the arrangement of acoustically reflective surfaces towards the target can be identified. A coherent acoustic beamforming device can be controlled to perform coherent beamforming of an acoustic hologram based on the acoustic radiation pattern to generate the one or more acoustic waves for reflection towards the target off of the one or more acoustically reflective surfaces.
US11067685B2	System, device and methods for imaging of objects using electromagnetic array The methods and device disclosed herein provide electromagnetic (EM) portable device for imaging an object embedded within a medium, the device comprising an array, the array comprises at least two transducers, wherein at least one of the at least two transducers is configured to transmit a signal towards the object, and at least one transceiver attached to said at least two transducers, the at least one transceiver is configured to transmit at least one signal toward the object and receive a plurality of signals affected by the object while the array is moved in proximity to the medium; a data acquisition unit configured to receive and stare the plurality of affected signals; and a processor unit configured to provide one or more hypothetical parameter values aver a parameter space of said at least one object and provide a target model per hypothesis of said parameter values, and compute a score value per hypothesis as a function of the target model and the affected signals.
US11067683B2	Systems and methods for locating items within a facility Systems and methods for finding tags which are unreadable at a particular time. The methods comprise: performing first operations by a first mobile tag reader to read tags at a first time and to determine physical locations of the tags which were read at the first time; and performing second operations by the first mobile tag reader or a second mobile tag reader at a second later time for determining a first geographic area in which a first tag which is unreadable resides. The second operations comprise: analyzing tag read data associated with the first operations to identify second tags which were read along with the first tag on a previous occasion; and selecting the first geographic area to comprise a second geographic area defined by the physical locations of the second tags which were determined during the first operations by the first mobile tag reader.
US11067681B1	Adaptive algorithms for interrogating the viewable scene of an automotive radar A radar system in an autonomous vehicle may be operated in various modes and with various configurations. In one example, the radar system determines a target range for further interrogation. The target range may be determined based on the radar system transmitting a first electromagnetic radiation signal and receiving a first reflected electromagnetic signal radiation signal. After the radar system determines a target range, it transmits a second electromagnetic radiation signal. Additionally, the radar system receives a reflected electromagnetic signal radiation based on the transmission. After receiving the reflected signal, the radar system can process the reflected signal to only have components associated with the target range. The processing of the reflected signal may create a processed signal. Finally, the radar system may determine at least one parameter of a target object based on the processed signal.
US11067674B2	Device for determining a distance to an object and corresponding method Described are a device for determining a distance to an object, having a transmitting device for emitting signals, a receiving device for receiving signals and for generating detection signals, an evaluating device for evaluating the detection signals of the receiving device, and a control device for controlling the evaluation of the detection signals, and a corresponding method. The receiving device has a plurality of receiving elements which generate, in case they receive a signal, a detection signal each. The evaluating device determines the distance to the object in accordance with the time-of-flight method and while considering coincidence events and uses that case in which a number of detection signals generated within a presettable coincidence time at least equals a presettable coincidence depth, as a coincidence events. The control device is configured to determine, starting from a background radiation measurement, a new value for the coincidence time and/or, if applicable, the coincidence depth and preset same for the evaluating device, wherein, in a background radiation measurement, the receiving device receives signals and generates background radiation detection signals.
US11067672B2	Shared sample and convert capacitor architecture A LIDAR device includes an input node, an output node, and a sample-and-convert circuit. The input node receives a photodetector signal, and the output node generates an output signal indicating a light intensity value of the photodetector signal. The sample-and-convert circuit includes a number of detection channels coupled in parallel between the input node and the output node. In some aspects, each of the detection channels may be configured to sample a value of the photodetector signal during the sample mode and to hold the sampled value during the convert mode using a single capacitor.
US11067671B2	LIDAR sensing arrangements A LIDAR sensing system includes a light source that is controlled to project a collimated beam at various wavelengths. An interferometer receives the collimated beam and projects an object beam corresponding to the collimated beam at a diffraction grating. The object beam is diffracted from the diffraction grating at different angles corresponding to the wavelength of the collimated beam. As a result, the LIDAR sensing system generates a vertical scan (e.g., a two-dimensional scan) of the external environment. Various components of the LIDAR sensing system are then configured to rotate to produce multiple vertical scans, thus generating a three-dimensional scan.
US11067662B2	Electronic device for verifying relative location and control method thereof An electronic device may include a plurality of antennas, a memory storing at least one reference data, and a processor. The processor may be configured to obtain context information associated with a state of the electronic device, when the context information meets a first specified condition, determine phase difference information corresponding to signals obtained using the plurality of antennas based on first specified reference data, when the context information meets a second specified condition, determine phase difference information corresponding to signals obtained using the plurality of antennas based on second specified reference data, and determine a relative location of an external electronic device with respect to the electronic device based on the determined phase difference information.
US11067658B2	Probe card inspection wafer, probe card inspection system, and method of inspecting probe card A probe card inspection wafer includes a base wafer and first and second probe card inspection chips on the base wafer and apart from each other, wherein each of the first and second probe card inspection chips located on the base wafer is divided into a probe vertical-level inspection region, a probe horizontal-position inspection region, and contact inspection regions, wherein the first and second probe card inspection chips include first pad arrays located on the probe vertical-level inspection region and configured for inspecting vertical levels of first and second alternating-current (AC) probes of a probe card to be inspected, and second pad arrays located on the probe vertical-level inspection region and configured for inspecting vertical levels of first and second VSS probes of the probe card to be inspected.
US11067650B2	Enclosure for an MR local coil An enclosure for a magnetic resonance (MR) local coil and an MR local coil including the enclosure are provided. The enclosure has a first enclosure shell and a second enclosure shell. The first enclosure shell is arranged opposite the second enclosure shell. The enclosure is configured such that an MR local coil is positionable between the first enclosure shell and the second enclosure shell.
US11067647B2	Low-noise magnetoresistive sensor having multi-layer magnetic modulation structure A low-noise magnetoresistive sensor includes a substrate and an array of magnetic modulation structures on the substrate. The structure includes upper and lower soft ferromagnetic layers and a conductive metal layer in the middle. The two ends of the structure are connected to form a two-port excitation coil. Adjacent structures have opposite current directions. A magnetoresistive sensing unit is located above or below and is centered in the gap between the structures. The sensitive direction of the sensing units is perpendicular to a long direction of the structures. An array of sensing units is electrically connected to form a magnetoresistive sensor, and the sensor is connected to the sensor bond pads. When measuring an external magnetic field, an excitation current is applied to the excitation coil, and the output of the voltage or current signal of the magnetoresistive sensor is demodulated to produce a low-noise voltage signal.
US11067645B2	Magnetic sensor component and assembly A sensor comprises a housing; and a lead frame comprising at least three elongated leads having an exterior portion extending from the housing; and a magnetic sensor circuit disposed in the housing, and connected to the lead frame. The housing comprises two recesses arranged on two opposite sides of the housing for allowing the sensor to be mounted to a support. The lead frame may further comprise a plurality of tabs disposed between the elongated leads, for use as test pins. A component assembly comprising said sensor mounted on a support between deformable protrusions. A method of making said component assembly, comprising the step of positioning said component on the support between said protrusions, and deforming said protrusions such that they are at least partially disposed within the recesses.
US11067626B2	Circuit arrangement comprising a microprocessor and a voltage generating circuit A circuit arrangement includes a microcontroller having a first analog-to-digital converter whose input is connected to the output of a first multiplexer whose output is connected to a first comparison device for comparing reference voltages, and a first serial interface circuit connected to the first comparison device. A voltage generating circuit includes a second analog-to-digital converter whose input is connected to the output of a second multiplexer whose output is connected to a number of registers, which are connected to a safety value generator and store digital values together with a respective safety value, and a second serial interface circuit connected to the registers. The first and second serial interface circuits are connected to each other for communication of the microcontroller with the voltage generating circuit, the first interface circuit being connected to a second comparison device for comparing supply voltages and/or currents with desired voltages and/or desired currents.
US11067625B2	IC device authentication using energy characterization Systems, methods, and apparatuses are described for verifying the authenticity of an integrated circuit device. An integrated test apparatus may use quiescent current and/or conducted electromagnetic interference readings to determine if a device under test matches the characteristics of an authenticated device. Deviations from the characteristics of the authenticated device may be indicative of a counterfeit device.
US11067616B2	Connecting-state detection system A connecting-state detection system for a power supply system of a human-powered vehicle comprises a detector. The power supply system includes a power supply device having a plurality of connecting terminals. The detector is configured to detect a connecting state of each of the plurality of the connecting terminals.
US11067615B2	Portable thermoelectric potential detector The present application discloses a portable thermoelectric potential detector, which is small in size and easy to carry. A portable thermoelectric potential detector includes a test fixture for fixing a sample to be tested, a probe assembly unit for detecting the sample to be tested, and a collection and control unit for controlling detecting of the probe assembly and collecting a voltage signal of the probe assembly; the probe assembly unit includes two probe assemblies, each probe assembly includes a probe for loading on the surface of the sample to be tested and a linear motor for driving the probe to move and load on the surface of the sample to be tested; the collection and control unit is electrically connected to the linear motor, and is further configured to transmit a first control signal for controlling a moving distance and a loading force of the linear motor.
US11067613B2	Configurable electricity meter Configurable meter that can be configured according to a first configuration in which the meter is capable of being connected directly to a phase conductor (40), and according to a second configuration in which the meter is capable of being connected to the phase conductor (40) via a transformer (41), the meter including an upstream current port (2a, 2c, 2e) and a downstream current port (2b, 2d, 2f), a voltage port (3), a circuit breaker (7) that is closed by default, and an access opening through which a conductive element of an adaption module extends when the latter is mounted on the meter, such that, when the adaption module is mounted on the meter, the conductive element opens the circuit breaker while being connected to the voltage port, the meter then being in the second configuration, and when the adaption module (24) is not mounted on the meter, the meter is in the first configuration. Adaption module. System comprising a meter and an adaption module. Method for configuring a meter.
US11067610B2	Partial discharge detector A partial discharge (PD) detection system includes a PD sensor configured to sense a PD event of an electrical system and to generate a sensor signal in response to the PD event. An envelope generator is coupled to receive the sensor signal from the PD sensor. The envelope generator extracts an envelope signal from the sensor signal. A digitizer is configured to convert the envelope signal to a digital representation of the PD event.
US11067597B2	Method of performing atomic force microscopy with an ultrasound transducer A method of performing atomic force microscopy (AFM) measurements, uses an ultrasound transducer to transmit modulated ultrasound waves with a frequency above one GHz from the ultrasound transducer to a top surface of a sample through the sample from the bottom surface of the sample. Effects of ultrasound wave scattering are detected from vibrations of an AFM cantilever at the top surface of the sample. Before the start of the measurements, a drop of a liquid is placed on a top surface of the ultrasound transducer. The sample is placed on the top surface of the ultrasound transducer, whereby the sample presses the liquid in the drop into a layer of the liquid between the top surface of the ultrasound transducer and a bottom surface of the sample. The AFM measurements are started after a thickness of the layer of the liquid has stabilized.
US11067596B2	Method for calibrating phase-frequency characteristic of low frequence accelerometer based on time-spatial synchronization A method for calibrating phase-frequency characteristics of low frequency accelerometer based on time-spatial synchronization, comprises: measuring excitation displacement of the low frequency accelerometer to realize excitation acceleration measurement of the low frequency accelerometer; realizing alignment of the excitation acceleration signal of the low frequency accelerometer with output voltage signal of the low frequency accelerometer in the spatial domain based on TSS technology, fitting the excitation acceleration signal and the output voltage signal respectively by SAM, and calculating phase φF of the excitation acceleration signal at a zero position of horizontal long-stroke shaker and phase φZ of the output voltage signal at the time when a zero encoder on the shaker outputs pulse; and calculating the sensitivity phase of the low frequency accelerometer with φZ and φF, and determining phase-frequency characteristics of the low frequency accelerometer by calibrating the sensitivity phases at different frequencies.
US11067592B2	Methods and apparatus for prognostic health monitoring of a turbine engine Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to perform prognostic health monitoring of a turbine engine. An example apparatus includes a health quantifier calculator to execute a computer-generated model to generate first sensor data of a turbine engine, the first sensor data based on simulating a sensor monitoring the turbine engine using asset monitoring information, a parameter tracker to execute a tracking filter using the first sensor data and second sensor data to generate third sensor data corresponding to the turbine engine, the second sensor data based on obtaining sensor data from a sensor monitoring the turbine engine, the third sensor data based on comparing the first sensor data to the second sensor data, the health quantifier calculator to execute the computer-generated model using the third sensor data to generate an asset health quantifier of the turbine engine; and a report generator to generate a report including the asset health quantifier and a workscope recommendation based on the asset health quantifier when the asset health quantifier satisfies a threshold.
US11067586B2	Adrenomedullin assays and methods for determining mature adrenomedullin Subject of the present invention is an in vitro method for therapy follow-up in septic patients wherein the concentration of mature ADM 1-52 and/or mature ADM 1-52-Gly in a sample of bodily fluid of said septic patient is determined using an assay comprising two binders that bind to two different regions within the region of mature adrenomedullin and/or adrenomedullin-Gly that is aminoacid 21-52-amid SEQ ID No. 1 or aminoacid 21-52-Gly SEQ ID No. 2 wherein each of said regions comprises at least 4 or 5 amino acids. The invention further relates to assays and calibration methods.
US11067584B2	Methods for the quantitation of polypeptides Provided are methods for quantitating an amount of a polypeptide that comprises a portion of an antibody present in a sample (e.g., a plasma or serum sample) wherein the antibody comprises a constant region (e.g., a heavy chain or light chain constant region) that comprises an engineered mutation.
US11067582B2	Peptide array quality control The present application provides arrays for use in immunosignaturing and quality control of such arrays. Also disclosed are peptide arrays and uses thereof for diagnostics, therapeutics and research.
US11067581B2	Detection of cerebrospinal fluid The invention encompasses methods and test strips for detecting the presence of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) in a biological sample comprising removing sialo-transferrin and selectively detecting or measuring asialo-transferrin in the biological sample.
US11067580B2	Compounds and methods for conjugation of biomolecules Low-copper click chemistry, 1.3-dipolar cycloadditions, and Staudinger ligations for modifying biomolecules is provided. Compositions, methods, and kits relating to low-copper click chemistry, 1.3-dipolar cycloadditions, and Staudinger ligations are also provided.
US11067573B2	Light microscopy chips and data analysis methodology for quantitative localzied surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) biosensing and imaging A chip for localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) biosensing and imaging having a glass coverslip compatible for use in a standard microscope and at least one array of functionalized plasmonic nanostructures patterned onto the glass coverslip with electron beam nanolithography. The nanostructures can be regenerated allowing the chip to be used multiple times. Also disclosed is a method for determining the fractional occupancy values for surface-bound receptors as a function of time for LSPR biosensing from the spectroscopic response of the array and modeling the photon count in each spectrometer channel, allowing for a functional relationship to be determined between the acquired spectrum and the fractional occupancy of binding sites on the array. Additionally disclosed is a method for the spatiotemporal mapping of receptor-ligand binding kinetics in LSPR imaging using the chip and projecting a magnified image of the array to a CCD camera and monitoring the binding kinetics of the array.
US11067570B2	Bio-detection chip and detection method associated therewith The present disclosure relates to a bio-detection chip and a detection method associated therewith. The bio-detection chip includes an upper substrate, a lower substrate, a reference electrode, a driving electrode, and a first dielectric layer, a first hydrophobic layer, a second hydrophobic layer and a second dielectric layer disposed successively between the reference electrode and the driving electrode. The bio-detection chip further includes a plurality of micro-capsules arranged between the first hydrophobic layer and the second hydrophobic layer. Each micro-capsule encapsulates a plurality of charged microspheres, and surfaces of the charged microspheres have a first biomolecule for specifically binding with a second biomolecule that enters the bio-detection chip so as to give rise to a color change. The charged microspheres move close to the upper substrate when a voltage is applied between the reference electrode and the driving electrode. As such, a result of biomolecule detection may be observed intuitively.
US11067568B2	Trenched sample assembly for detection of analytes with electromagnetic read-write heads Described are embodiments of an invention for detecting target antigens in a biological sample using a sample assembly. Detection may be accomplished by performing a method comprising: sweeping a head module over the sample assembly, wherein said head module includes at least one magneto-resistive read sensor configured to detect target antigens via nanoparticles within the sample assembly; and detecting at least one particular antigen among the target antigens. Preferably, detecting the target antigens via the nanoparticles is based at least in part on detecting unique magnetic properties of particular nanoparticles specifically associated with different types of the target antigens. Detection using a magnetic read/write head in the sample assembly facilitates automation of sample detection with high speed and fidelity. Corresponding systems are also disclosed.
US11067561B2	Nanopore device and methods of electrical array addressing and sensing A method of manufacturing and using a nanofluidic NAND transistor sensor array scheme including a plurality of nanopore channel pillars, a plurality of respective fluidic channels, a plurality of gate electrodes, a top chamber, and a bottom chamber includes placing a sensor substrate in an electrolyte solution comprising biomolecules and DNA. The method also includes placing first and second electrodes in the electrolyte solution (Vpp and Vss of the nanofluidic NAND transistor); forming the nanopore channel pillars; placing the gate electrodes and gate insulators in respective walls of the nanopore channel pillars; applying an electrophoretic bias in the first and second electrodes; applying a bias in the gate electrodes; detecting a change in an electrode current in the electrolyte solution caused by a change in a gate voltage; and detecting a change in a surface charge in nanopore channel electrodes in the respective fluidic channels.
US11067558B2	Real-time air monitoring with multiple sensing modes Embodiments of a gas detector with a first gas sensor having a first gas specificity and a first response time and a second gas sensor having a second gas specificity and a second response time. The first gas specificity is different than the second gas specificity, the first response time is different than the second response time, or both the first gas specificity and the first response time are different than the second gas specificity and the second response time. A readout and analysis circuit is coupled to the first and second gas sensors to read and analyze data from the first and second gas sensors, and a control circuit is coupled to the readout and analysis circuit and to the first and second gas sensors to execute logic that operates the first gas sensor, the second gas sensor, or both the first and second gas sensors.
US11067556B1	Carbon monoxide sensor for portable generator A generator includes an internal combustion engine and a carbon monoxide (CO) sensor unit. The CO sensor unit includes a CO sensor controller including a CO sensing circuit configured to detect a level of CO and a shutdown circuit. The shutdown circuit is configured to receive a detected level of CO and calculate a trailing window average of the detected level of CO. The trailing window average includes an average of the detected level of CO over a predetermined sampling window. The shutdown circuit is further configured to determine whether to initiate a shutdown of the generator based on at least the calculated trailing window average and a predetermined trailing window average threshold and initiate the shutdown of the generator based on determining that the trailing window average exceeds the predetermined trailing window average threshold.
US11067552B2	Multi-core sensor system A multi-core sensor system is provided. The multi-core sensor system can intelligently determine whether the reason for an abrupt dramatic change in sensor data is a sub-sensor fault or sudden pollution, so as to increase reliability of detected data of the sub-sensor. The multi-core sensor system can automatically determine whether the repair is needed when a device fault occurs, so as to ensure the continuity of sub-sensor detected data, which has significant value for continuous monitoring required for a haze treatment operation. In addition, human and material resources for device maintenance may be saved, thereby reducing waste.
US11067545B2	Continuous wave ultrasound for analysis of a surface A continuous wave ultrasound analysis device for analysing a surface of a component includes an input to receive ultrasound data relating to continuous wave, swept frequency ultrasound propagated through the component; a processing section to derive a standing wave amplitude spectrum from the received ultrasound data, and determine a property of an unconstrained layer on the surface based on the standing wave amplitude spectrum; and an output to output the determined property of the layer. A method of continuous wave ultrasound for analysing a surface is also provided.
US11067544B2	Switched capacitor delay line A delay line control circuit includes a pseudo-random number generator and a random phase generator circuit coupled to the pseudo-random number generator. The pseudo-random number generator is configured to produce a predetermined sequence of pseudo-random values. The random phase generator circuit is configured to randomize an access sequence for capacitors of a delay line. The random phase generator circuit includes a sequence register, an adder, and gating circuitry. The sequence register is configured to a store a value identifying one of the capacitors to be accessed. The adder is coupled to the sequence register, and is configured to increment the value stored in sequence register. The gating circuitry is coupled to the pseudo-random number generator and the adder. The gating circuitry is configured to pass one of the pseudo-random values to the adder for addition to the value stored in the sequence register.
US11067534B2	Multi-channel nanopore sensing by local electrical potential measurement There is provided a multi-channel nanopore sensor having a plurality of independent nanopore sensors. Each independent nanopore sensor includes a nanopore disposed in a support structure. A fluidic connection is between a first fluidic reservoir, common to all of the independent nanopore sensors, and an inlet to the nanopore, with a first ionic solution of a first ionic concentration disposed in the first fluidic reservoir. A fluidic connection is between a second fluidic reservoir, common to all of the independent nanopore sensors, and an outlet from the nanopore, with a second ionic solution of a second ionic concentration, different than the first ionic concentration, disposed in the second fluidic reservoir. An electrical transduction element, disposed in contact with that ionic solution having a lower ionic concentration, is arranged at a site that produces an electrical signal indicative of electrical potential local to that ionic solution having a lower ionic concentration.
US11067531B2	Method of operation of a gas sensor A method of operation of a gas sensor includes applying a control voltage that is repetitively set to on state and off state between the reference electrode and the measurement-object gas side electrode to pump in oxygen to the periphery of the reference electrode; and detecting the specific gas concentration in the measurement-object gas on the basis of a voltage between the reference electrode and the measurement electrode during a second period, from among a first period that is started upon setting of the control voltage to on state, during which a potential difference between the reference electrode and the measurement-object gas side electrode is large, and the second period that is started upon setting of the control voltage to off state after the potential difference falls from the first period.
US11067528B2	Electro-chemical sensor and coating method, production method and corresponding uses The invention relates to an electro-chemical sensor and coating method, production method and corresponding uses. The coating method of an electro-chemical sensor comprises the following steps: coating a carbon-rich substrate, with a carbon content greater than or equal to 0 wt. % in relation to the total weight of the substrate, and with an organic polymer; and applying a cold plasma treatment to said coating. This method permits the production of electro-chemical sensors with a carbon-rich substrate, with a carbon content greater or equal to 50 wt. % in relation to the total weight of the substrate, and a modified organic polymer coating. These new sensors are suitable for the detection of, inter alia, dopamine, glucose, uric acid and ascorbic acid.
US11067517B2	Neutron radiography method and apparatus for the implementation thereof A method and apparatus for neutron radiography is provided for the examination of elongate radioactive items, primarily nuclear fuel elements, and also for the non-destructive testing of irradiated and non-irradiated objects in order to determine the internal structure and material composition thereof. The method and apparatus include placing an object under examination into a protective container. A detection system includes a rotatable limb with a mounting seat for securing neutron detectors in a diametric groove. The limb being mounted to be rotatable by a set angle about an axis parallel to the axis of the object under examination and having a semi-circular recess therein for the passage of an elongate object as the limb rotates by an angle ±αi relative to the direction of a neutron beam.
US11067515B2	Apparatus and method for inspecting a wafer process chamber An apparatus for inspecting a wafer process chamber is disclosed. In one example, the apparatus includes: a sensor, a processor, and a lifetime predictor. The sensor captures information about at least one hardware part of the wafer process chamber. The processor processes the information to determine a hardware condition of the at least one hardware part. The lifetime predictor predicts an expected lifetime left for the at least one hardware part based on the hardware condition.
US11067511B2	Methods and devices for real-time detection of fouling chemistry Methods and devices for real-time detection of fouling chemistry are described herein. In one aspect, a method of detecting and characterizing fouling of a membrane used for separation in a fluid-based system can include illuminating the membrane with one or more light sources, collecting Raman spectroscopy data from the membrane, and based on the Raman data, determining at least one selected from the group consisting of: presence or absence of membrane fouling, severity of membrane fouling, and composition of the membrane fouling, where the Raman spectroscopy is selected from the group consisting of Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering (CARS), Stimulated Raman Scattering (SRS), and spontaneous Raman Scattering.
US11067504B2	Optical inspection apparatus and method for an extruder An apparatus (1) for optical inspection of a mass of polymeric material (2) passing through an extruder (3) having a hollow extrusion cylinder (4) extending elongately in a longitudinal direction comprises an optical sensor (8) which can be operatively coupled to the extrusion cylinder (4) and having an infrared light emitter (8a) and a receiver (8b) configured to measure a measurement parameter representing an optical property of the polymeric material (2) inside the extrusion cylinder (4) and is characterized in that it comprises a plurality of the optical sensors (8) which can be operatively coupled to the extrusion cylinder (4) in a plurality of measurement sites located in succession and spaced from each other along the longitudinal direction and a processor (9) programmed to acquire a plurality of measurement signals containing the measurement parameters measured by the corresponding optical sensors (8) and programmed to process the plurality of measurement signals in order to calculate a corresponding plurality of values of a control parameter indicating a physical state of the polymeric material (2) as a function of a longitudinal position.
US11067502B2	Control of n-(phosphonomethyl)iminodiacetic acid conversion in manufacture of glyphosate This invention relates to the preparation of N-(phosphonomethyl)glycine (“glyphosate”) from N-(phosphonomethyl)iminodiacetic acid (“PMIDA”), and more particularly to methods for control of the conversion of PMIDA, for the identification of reaction end points relating to PMIDA conversion and the preparation of glyphosate products having controlled PMIDA content. One such method involves obtaining a series of Fourier transform infrared (“FTIR”) analyses of the PMIDA content of the aqueous reaction medium or a sample thereof during the course of the reaction. From a plurality of FTIR analyses, a projection is made of the batch reaction time or continuous oxidation residence time within the oxidation reaction zone at which a target conversion or end point may be anticipated to be attained or is attained.
US11067496B2	System for detecting a mechanical fault in a rotating shaft A new system is described that is able to detect mechanical failures in a rotating shaft or shafts such as those which may be found in an aircraft or other mechanical device or vehicle. The system comprises a first accelerometer provided on the rotating shaft to be monitored and a reference accelerometer provided elsewhere. The system can compensate information received from these accelerometers so as to determine a fault in the rotating shaft that is being monitored.
US11067493B2	Particle measuring method, sample processing method, and particle imaging apparatus A particle measuring method, a sample processing method, and a particle imaging apparatus capable of efficiently acquiring information effective in pathological diagnosis or the like are provided. The particle measuring method comprises a step (S13) of labeling and amplifying, within a particle, a target nucleic acid in the particle, a step (S14) of labeling a surface target polypeptide on the surface of the particle and/or target nucleic acid different from the first target nucleic acid, and a step (S2) of measuring the labeled target nucleic acid and the labeled target polypeptide and/or other labeled target nucleic acid.
US11067486B2	Electron microscopy Aspects and embodiments relate to electron microscopy sample preparation apparatus; and a method of preparing an electron microscopy sample. Aspects and embodiments provide electron microscopy sample preparation apparatus. The apparatus comprises a support holder configured to receive an electron microscopy sample support, the electron microscopy sample support configured to receive a fluid sample. The apparatus comprising a gas outlet configured to direct a flow of gas towards a surface of the electron microscopy sample support to adjust fluid supported by the electron microscopy sample support. Aspects and embodiments recognise that in order to be successfully imaged, a specimen must be adequately prepared for imaging. Successful and reproducible preparation of an electron microscopy sample or specimen may be key to obtaining useful results from microscopy techniques. It will be appreciated that incorrect or unsuccessful preparation of a specimen for examination, may result in damage to a specimen, poor and/or irreproducible results.
US11067474B2	Methods and systems for controlling impact An impact test device includes a control rail and a carriage assembly moveable along the control rail in a plurality of directions including a first direction and a second direction opposite the first direction. The carriage assembly includes a catch configured to engage the control rail to control movement of the carriage assembly. Movement of the carriage assembly in the first direction urges the catch to disengage from the control rail, and movement of the carriage assembly in the second direction urges the catch to engage the control rail.
US11067472B2	Dynamic vacuum decay leak detection method and apparatus A method and system of testing for package leaks by a test system is disclosed. The test system includes a vacuum source and a test chamber in which a package is received for testing. A package is placed in the test chamber, and a vacuum is drawn on the test chamber by the vacuum source. A predetermined pressure level in the test system is detected, and based upon the detection of the predetermined pressure level, the test system determines when to stop drawing the vacuum. The test chamber is isolated from the vacuum source based upon the determination, and subsequently the test system detects the presence or absence of a leak in the package based on pressure measurements in the test chamber. A timer may be used to determine the delay in isolating the test chamber from the vacuum source after detection of the predetermined pressure level.
US11067464B2	Wet barrel hydrant with pressure monitoring and leak detection Example aspects of a pressure monitoring system for a wet barrel hydrant, a pressure monitoring and leak detection system for a wet barrel hydrant, and a method for using a pressure monitoring and leak detection system are disclosed. The pressure monitoring system for a wet barrel hydrant can comprise a pressure sensor assembly comprising a pressure sensor and a connector, the pressure sensor configured to measure the pressure of a fluid received in the wet barrel hydrant, the connector configured to attach the pressure monitoring system to the wet barrel hydrant; a mounting flange coupled to the pressure sensor assembly; a main PCB configured to process pressure data measured by the pressure sensor; an antenna configured to send a signal representative of the pressure data; and a housing coupled to the mounting flange, the housing enclosing the processor and the antenna.
US11067460B2	Torque sensor incorporating an angular position sensor of a rotating element A torque sensor mounted on a rotating element in a motor vehicle, including at least one strain gauge and emitting an electrical signal as a function of the torsion experienced by the rotating element, the torque sensor having a moving part intended to be driven in rotation with the rotating element and including the strain gauge and a fixed part including a first printed circuit board. The torque sensor also acts as an angular-position sensor, the moving part bearing angularly distributed targets passing in succession past a first annular sector borne by the first board including a secondary receiver winding generating a sine signal, a secondary receiver winding generating a cosine signal, and a primary emitter winding inducing a voltage in the receiver windings.
US11067454B2	Stability of a resistance temperature detector In a particular embodiment of the present disclosure, an apparatus is disclosed for improving for the stability of a resistance temperature detector (RTD). In this particular embodiment, the apparatus includes an RTD having a case surrounding a resistive meander deposited on a substrate. The RTD also includes a pull-down resistor. A first end of the resistive meander is configured for coupling to a positive power supply. The second end of the resistive meander is coupled to a first end of the pull-down resistor. The second end of the pull-down resistor is coupled to a ground. The case of the RTD is also coupled to the ground.
US11067451B2	Photo-detection system comprising photo-detection apparatus including light-shielding film, optically-coupled layer, and photodetector and arithmetic circuit A photo-detection system includes: a photo-detection apparatus including a light-shielding film, an optically-coupled layer, and a photodetector including first and second photo-detection cells; and an arithmetic circuit that generates, based on first signals and second signals, third signals each representing coherence of light having entered a position of each of the first and second photo-detection cells and generates at least one selected from the group consisting of an average value of the third signals, a standard deviation of the third signals, a ratio between the standard deviation and the average value, and a ratio between an average value of a first portion of the third signals based on light having entered the positions of the first photo-detection cells and an average value of a second portion of the third signals based on light having entered the positions of the second photo-detection cells.
US11067449B2	Multispectral imager A multispectral imager includes processing circuitry, an illumination assembly, a detector assembly, and a focusing assembly. The illumination assembly includes an array of illumination elements controlled by the processing circuitry to illuminate a scene. The detector assembly includes a detector array controlled by the processing circuitry to capture images from the scene at different wavelengths. The focusing assembly includes a lens and is controlled by the processing circuitry to adjust a focal point for the detector array. The processing circuitry generates and processes the images from the scene, taken at different wavelengths and focal points, combines the images to form a multispectral image cube for the scene, and determines a composition of an object within the scene based on a spectral profile of the multispectral image cube.
US11067442B2	Miniaturized waveguide imaging spectrometer A waveguide spectrometer includes at least one substrate layer with at least one waveguide. Each waveguide extends from an inlet face proceeding partly through the substrate layer to a reflecting element. A multiplicity of photo detectors is arranged on a front side of the substrate layer, while the photo detectors are electrically connected to an electronic read out system. The spectrometer can be made lightweight and easier to produce by forming the waveguides as surface waveguides, each showing a longitudinal opening with a width to the front side of the substrate layer between the inlet face and the reflecting element. The photo detectors are in print distributed at the front side on top of the substrate layer at least partly overlapping the longitudinal opening along an overall length of sampled region and the electrical connection of the photo detectors with the electronic read out system is achieved by a multiplicity of printed electrical conductors.
US11067434B2	Fast detector of electromagnetic radiation A detector of electromagnetic radiation (RL) is described. The detector comprises: a substrate (1), an oriented polycrystalline layer (2) of thermoelectric material deposited on the top surface (10) of the substrate, first and second electrodes spaced the one from the other and in electrical contact with the oriented polycrystalline layer. The substrate comprises at least one ceramic layer and the oriented polycrystalline layer has a crystal orientation at an angle comprised between 30 degrees and 55 degrees relative to a normal to the top surface of the substrate.
US11067432B2	Weighing instrument using a general-purpose computer as the primary display and data entry A commercial-transaction weighing instrument (110) subject to W&M legal controls, configured with a weighing platform (12), at least one load cell (16), a controller (120) with weight-processing (122) and communications (124) modules, and software to be implemented on a general-purpose computer with display and data entry capabilities. The general-purpose computer itself is not subject to legal controls. The weight-processing module receives data from the at least one load cell and generates output data in the nature of weight and legally-required weighment information. The communications module receives the output data of the weight-processing module and further transmits the data to a general-purpose computer (136). Software implemented on the general-purpose computer has program code for establishing encrypted bidirectional communication with the communications module and to operate as the primary display device for the weighing instrument. Software implemented on the general-purpose computer also has program code for transmitting signals from the general-purpose computer to the communications module in the nature of data or instructions for the weight processing module.
US11067429B2	Liquid level detection device A liquid level detection device is disposed in a container having a viscous liquid. The liquid level detection device includes an installing seat, a connecting rod, a pivoting structure connecting the installing seat and one end of the connecting rod, and a floating element disposed at one end of the connecting rod opposite to the installing seat. Further, the liquid level detection device includes a protecting bladder disposed to correspond to the pivoting structure. The protecting bladder divides the liquid level detection device into a coated part and an exposed part. One end of the floating element opposite to the installing seat is the exposed part. The protecting bladder isolates the viscous liquid from contacting with the pivoting structure to prevent excessive viscous liquid from remaining on the pivoting structure and avoid the problem of misoperation of the liquid level detection device caused by the influence of the protecting bladder.
US11067426B2	Liquid tank with capacitive level sensor A tank (1) of electrically conductive liquid (12) comprising an enclosure (2) for storage of the liquid (12) delimited by at least one wall (13), a capacitive sensor (5) for measuring the liquid level inside said enclosure (2), and a device (6) for processing the output signal of the sensor (5) outside of the enclosure (2) comprising, in order to form a capacitor, a dielectric (11) and a first frame (10) electrically connectable to a source (18) for supplying power and to the processing device. The first frame (10) is arranged outside the enclosure (2), the dielectric (11) can be at least partially interposed between said first frame (10) and the electrically conductive liquid (12) and the dielectric (11) is formed by at least one part (131) of the wall (13) delimiting the enclosure (2) suitable for coming into contact with the electrically conductive liquid (12) contained inside the enclosure (2).
US11067425B2	Wiring interface for fluid sensors A cap for a fluid sensor is provided. The cap comprises a cap input port including a first toolless connector configured to removably couple to a cable; and a cap output port including a second toolless connector configured to removably couple to a cable. The cap may further comprise an interface circuit including a circuit input port, a circuit output port, and a sensor port configured to couple to the fluid sensor. The first toolless connector may be configured to removably couple the circuit input port to a cable and the second toolless connector may be configured to removably couple the circuit output port to a cable. The circuit will automatically sequence the signals on the cable, so standard one-to-one wired cables can be used.
US11067416B2	System for interrogating an interferometer, an interferometric system and a method for interrogating an interferometer A system for interrogating an interferometer. The system comprises an optical signals generation system for concurrently generating a plurality of optical signals that each have a modulation parameter that the other of the plurality of optical signals do not have. The optical signals generation system is for optically coupling each of the plurality of optical signals to a plurality of optical ports of the interferometer for ingress of the plurality of optical signals into the interferometer. The system comprises an interferometer output processing system. Also disclosed herein is an interferometric system and a method for interrogating an interferometer.
US11067412B2	System and method for improved routing that combines real-time and likelihood information A system and method for improved routing that combines real-time and likelihood information. In accordance with an embodiment, the system comprises a digital map/map information; a likelihood routing information; a route processor; wherein, when a request is received from a user/driver, or from another system, to receive a routing information, the system receives real-time information from a traffic-monitoring device or service providing real-time information; wherein the route processor adjusts the received real-time information based on the system's likelihood routing information; and wherein the routing information based on the combination of real-time and likelihood information can then be provided to the user/driver or other system in response to the original request.
US11067407B2	Generating turn-by-turn direction previews Aspects of the present disclosure relate to generating turn-by-turn direction previews. In one aspect, one or more computing devices, may receive a request for a turn-by-turn direction preview. The one or more computing devices may generate a set of directions from a first geographic location to a second geographic location. Each turn of the directions may be associated with a corresponding waypoint. The one or more computing devices may then identify street level images corresponding with the waypoints, and display a preview of their associated turns by displaying their street level images and a map in between.
US11067398B1	Indoor positioning method, electronic device and readable storage medium An indoor positioning method detects a moving object defines a possible location area of the moving objects according to errors calculated by RSSI values of the moving object, and calculates RSSI moving vectors between the moving object and wireless devices according to the RSSI values to predict an exact position of the moving object according to the dependency of the RSSI moving vectors and relative angular positions of the moving object. The high relevance feature between CCI of multi-nodes and CINR is transformed as vectors and the vectors are compared with the RSSI moving vectors to calculate a RMSE value. When the root mean square error is less than a preset threshold value, the exact position of the moving object can be obtained.
US11067394B2	Spirit level with a lighting device therein A spirit level includes a housing having an elongated body and a level tube set and a lighting device mounted in the body of the housing. The body has a recessed accommodation chamber and two positioning grooves connected to the recessed accommodation chamber and disposed adjacent to the end portions of the level tubes of the level tube set. The lighting device includes a controller mounted in the recessed accommodation chamber and a plurality of light-emitting devices respectively mounted in the positioning grooves for illuminating the level tubes so that the user can see the level tubes. The invention simplifies the assembly of the spirit level and makes it easy to repair or replace the light-emitting devices of the lighting device without increasing the height or thickness of the spirit level.
US11067380B2	Optical module An optical module includes a mirror unit and a beam splitter unit. The mirror unit includes a base with a main surface, a movable mirror, a first fixed mirror, and a drive unit. The beam splitter unit constitutes a first interference optical system for measurement light along with the movable mirror and the first fixed mirror. A mirror surface of the movable mirror and a mirror surface of the first fixed mirror follow a plane parallel to the main surface and face one side in a first direction perpendicular to the main surface. The movable mirror, the drive unit, and at least a part of an optical path between the beam splitter unit and the first fixed mirror are disposed in an airtight space.
US11067368B1	Composite enclosure for explosive reactive armor and methods of manufacturing the same An explosive reactive armor (ERA) enclosure for an ERA tile includes a bottom and a plurality of sidewalls extending from the bottom, where the plurality of sidewalls are continuous with each other and with the bottom so as to define an internal volume. The plurality of sidewalls are formed from a fiber-reinforced composite material having a plurality of plies of fiber sheet material. Additionally, a sidewall seam defined by abutting edges of the first ply is offset from a sidewall seam defined by abutting edges of the second ply. Methods of manufacturing ERA enclosures, including applying wrap layers and forming attachment structures for securing the fiber-reinforced composite ERA enclosure to an armor element, are also described. The composite enclosure is inexpensive and lightweight and improves the dynamic capabilities of armored vehicles using such ERA tiles.
US11067366B2	Leveling jack for a gun sight of a rifle A leveling jack for a gun sight (or ‘scope’) of a gun or rifle is provided. The leveling jack is movable between at least a first and a second position and is secured to a gun or rifle. The leveling jack has a bottom edge which may be secured to, for example, the picatinny rail of the top of the gun or rifle and an extended bar which contacts and levels the gun sight. The leveling jack may also be secured directly to the gun or rifle without utilizing a picatinny rail. The leveling jack is especially suitable for leveling the gun sight of the gun or rifle in a quick and efficient manner.
US11067364B1	Two-part composite scope A method of producing a rifle scope and a rifle scope including a conical objective bell, a main tube, and a connector. The objective bell is made of composite materials and increasing in diameter as the bell extends distally from its proximal to its distal end, with the proximal end being adjacent to the distal end of the main tube. The main tube, also constructed of composite materials, is a hollow cylinder. The connector is positioned about the distal end of the main tube with an exterior surface that conforms and is adhered to the interior surface of the proximal end of the objective bell and the interior surface of the distal end of the main tube, thereby joining together the objective bell and the main tube.
US11067359B1	Expandable baton An expandable baton includes a first tube; a second tube disposed in the first tube; at least one lock mechanism disposed on a first end of the second tube, clamped to an inner surface of the first tube and including a locking pipe, two lock protuberances and two elastic members, the lock protuberances correspondent to each other and the elastic members disposed between the two lock protuberances; a release mechanism including a lock needle and a pushbutton, a pressing of the pushbutton moves the lock needle to insert into the lock mechanism, the lock protuberances depart from the first tube simultaneously and urge the elastic members to an unlocked position, without a pressing of the pushbutton, the restored elastic members enable the lock protuberances to a locked position; and a positioning member for limiting the release mechanism at a first end of the first tube.
US11067354B2	Breech and method for noise reduction A breech for noise reduction in a recoil-less weapon is described. The breech is adapted to be arranged in fluid communication with a launcher of the weapon to release exhaust gas. The breech comprises a venturi tube. The venturi tube has an inlet at a first end adapted to be connected to the launcher, and an outlet for releasing the exhaust gas at a second end, wherein the area of the outlet is larger than the area of the inlet. The venturi tube further comprises an exhaust gas controlling element formed at the venturi tube structure. The exhaust gas controlling element is arranged to control the release of exhaust gas so as to decrease a sound pressure peak at the weapon. The inner envelope surface of the venturi tube is configured, such that the inner envelope surface does not alter or at least has a very small influence on recoil characteristics of the weapon.
US11067348B1	Slide assembly for a firearm A slide assembly for a firearm comprising a slide and an extractor assembly is provided. The slide includes a mounting recess about a top side of the slide, and a housing recess about a proximal end of the slide. The extractor assembly is mounted within the housing recess and includes a distal end for engaging a cartridge and a proximal end opposite the distal end. The proximal end terminates at a position adjacent about a mid-portion of the mounting recess. One or more retaining holes are provided within a proximal region of the mounting recess spaced from the proximal end of the extractor assembly. Firearm sights are attachable to the mounting recess via fasteners engaging the retaining holes. The retaining holes are arranged such that they do not interfere with the extractor assembly or other components within the housing recess of the slide.
US11067342B2	Method for heat exchange and conditioning of a heat exchanger The invention relates to a method for heat exchange. At a first point in time, in a thermal energy storing device, at least part of the previously accumulated thermal energy is discharged to a first fluid by heat exchange, and subsequently, at a second later point in time, when the first fluid has been heated to a temperature higher than the temperature of a second fluid, the second fluid receives heat energy by heat exchange with said first fluid which then circulates on the other side of a first wall that prevents the first and second fluids from mixing.
US11067339B2	Condensing a volatilized substance with a liquid A volatilized substance is condensed using a vapor-liquid interface. The volatilized substance is diffused into a condenser vessel containing a cooling liquid via a diffusion device. When the volatilized substance comes into contact with the cooling liquid it is condensed. The large vapor-liquid surface area created by the diffusion device enhances the rate of condensation. The cooling liquid is circulated through a heat exchanger to remove heat introduced by the condensing vapor. The temperatures of the cooling liquid leaving and entering the condenser vessel are monitored.
US11067333B2	Refrigeration appliance with a noise sensor A refrigeration device has an electrical device part which emits noise during operation. A controller operates the electrical device part in a normal operating power range. A noise sensor detects an intensity of the emitted noise from the electrical device part. The controller is configured to change an operating power of the electrical device part within the normal operating power range and to determine a minimum value of the noise intensity which is detected by the noise sensor and to determine a noise-reduced operating power in order to operate the electrical device part at the noise-reduced operating power.
US11067332B2	Refrigerator and drawer assembly thereof A drawer assembly includes: drawers, arranged in a storage compartment of the refrigerator in a way of being capable of being pushed and pulled forward and rearward between a front extreme position and a rear extreme position; and two support assemblies in left-right parallel arrangement. Each of the support assemblies includes a support frame. The support frame is fixed to an inner wall of the storage compartment, is provided on an inner side with a first slideway extending forward and rearward, and is provided on a rear portion of the inner side with an elastic tongue. A left sidewall and a right sidewall of the drawer are respectively mounted on the first sideway of the support frame of one of the support assemblies in a forward and rearward slidable way.
US11067330B2	Device and method for measuring defrost time A defrost or thaw measuring device has a dumbbell or hourglass-shaped rotatable compartment with a cavity, the cavity being partly filled with at least two phase change materials having different melting points. The measuring device may determine the time period of thawing at two or more temperature intervals in the refrigeration space.
US11067327B2	Portable cooler with active temperature control A portable cooler container with active temperature control system is provided. The active temperature control system is operated to heat or cool a chamber of a vessel to approach a temperature set point suitable for a medication stored in the cooler container.
US11067315B2	Temperature control system A temperature control system includes: first and second refrigerator units; a first fluid flow apparatus that allows a first fluid to flow therethrough and that is cooled by the first refrigerator unit; a second fluid flow apparatus that allows a second fluid to flow therethrough and that is cooled by the second refrigerator unit; and a valve unit that is configured to allow the first fluid or the second fluid to selectively flow out therefrom. The first refrigerator unit has, in a medium-temperature-side refrigerator, a medium-temperature-side first expansion valve and a medium-temperature-side second expansion valve. A medium-temperature-side second evaporator corresponding to the medium-temperature-side second expansion valve and a low-temperature-side condenser of a low-temperature-side refrigerator constitute a cascade condenser. The first fluid is cooled by a medium-temperature-side first evaporator corresponding to the medium-temperature-side first expansion valve, and is then cooled by a low-temperature-side evaporator of the low-temperature-side refrigerator.
US11067310B2	Topside induced draft fan This concept is very new, and it will allow for safe and continuous operation of gas heating units when the induced draft fan no longer operates. This device will allow the HVAC service technician to continue to operate the gas heating unit until the proper replacement induced draft fan can be acquired and installed on the gas heating unit. This invention is a supplemental induced draft fan that will attach to the exhaust output side of a gas heating units inoperable induced draft fan to draft air through the heat exchanger and create a vacuum to the pressure switch at a rate to be regulated by a control switch to make the gas heating unit operate safely until the correct part is acquired and installed.
US11067306B1	Systems and methods for correcting detected temperature for a climate control system Methods and related systems for measuring a temperature with an onboard sensor of a device of a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system are disclosed. In an embodiment, the method includes (a) changing a power state of the device from off to on, and (b) detecting a raw temperature with the sensor after (a). In addition, the method includes (c) determining a time offset along a predetermined time and temperature relationship for the device, and (d) calculating a temperature offset with the predetermined time and temperature relationship at the time offset. Further, the method includes (e) subtracting the temperature offset from the raw temperature.
US11067301B2	Blower and outdoor unit of air conditioner having the same Disclosed herein is a blower blowing air and an outdoor unit of air conditioner having the same. The blower includes a fan, a motor driving the fan, and a motor support member disposed on a flow path, through which air generated by a rotation of the fan flows, to support the motor. The motor support member includes a cross-sectional shape including a maximum width portion having a maximum width in a direction perpendicular to the airflow direction, an upstream portion having a width being increased from the upstream side to the downstream side, and a downstream portion having a width being reduced from the upstream side to the downstream side. A downstream end located downstream of the downstream portion has a width in a direction perpendicular to the airflow direction.
US11067300B2	Packaged terminal air conditioner unit having a removable exhaust air filter A packaged terminal air conditioner unit, as provided herein, may include a housing, an outdoor heat exchanger assembly, an indoor heat exchanger assembly, a compressor, and a filter assembly. The housing may define an indoor portion and an outdoor portion. The filter assembly may be supported on the housing. The filter assembly may include a support bracket attached to the housing, an exhaust air filter, and a louver cap. The exhaust air filter may be disposed on the support bracket in fluid communication with the indoor portion to receive air therefrom. The louver cap may be disposed over the exhaust air filter and downstream therefrom. The louver cap may be selectively attached to the support bracket.
US11067295B2	Heat emitting radiator A heat emitting radiator for use in a fluid circuit containing coolant therein, and which can generate substantial amounts of heat to heat larger spaces, such as in a home or business, while utilizing minimal power to run, and which can be utilized in various implementations and configurations. The radiator can be selectively activated or de-activated by, for example, a cell phone or the like whereby the fluid circuit in the radiator can be monitored for time of use, temperature and cost of use.
US11067288B2	Dual coil electric heating element An embodiment of an electric heating element is disclosed, including an electrically resistive inner heating element, an electrically resistive outer heating element, and a thermostat positioned along a cold leg of the inner heating element. The thermostat is configured to selectively allow electrical current to be delivered to the inner heating element while maximum electrical current, for example, continues to be provided to the outer heating element. The thermostat cycles the electrical current on and off when detecting maximum and minimum desired temperatures radiated from the electric heating element. The inner heating element has a pair of cold legs that extend parallel to a pair of cold legs of the outer heating element, some or all of which may be supported by a terminal bracket.
US11067280B2	Centerbody injector mini mixer fuel nozzle assembly The present disclosure is directed to a method for operating a turbine engine, the method including arranging a fluid conduit through a fuel nozzle in a first direction toward a downstream end and in a second direction toward an upstream end, the fluid conduit in fluid communication with a premix passage via a fluid injection port; flowing an oxidizer into the premix passage via a radially oriented first inlet port and a radially oriented second inlet port; flowing a first fuel to the premix passage through the fluid conduit and the fluid injection port, wherein the first fuel is provided to the premix passage axially downstream of the first inlet port; and generating a premixed flame from a mixture of the oxidizer and the first fuel.
US11067277B2	Component assembly for a gas turbine engine A component assembly for a gas turbine engine having a combustor and defining a core air flowpath includes a first wall and a second wall. The first wall is configured for at least partially defining the core air flowpath at a location downstream of a combustion chamber defined by the combustor of the gas turbine engine. Additionally, the second wall is also configured for at least partially defining the core air flowpath at a location downstream of the combustion chamber, and is located opposite the core air flowpath of the first wall. The second wall includes a plurality of fins extending towards the first wall along the radial direction and spaced along the circumferential direction.
US11067275B2	Multifunctional lighter case with adjusting clip and poker A multi-functional, all inclusive smoking tool may include a housing; a cigarette lighter attached to the housing; a poker attached to the housing so that the poker can swivel outward from the housing and swivel inward towards the housing, while attached to the housing; and wherein the elongated poker is configured to be swiveled outwards from the housing and thereafter used to clean debris from pipes, while attached to the housing. The apparatus may further include a clip attached to the housing so that the clip is configured to be moved, while attached to the housing, from a first position to a second position, with respect to the housing; wherein in the first position, the clip is at least partially within the housing, while attached to the housing; and wherein in the second position, the clip is entirely outside of the housing, while attached to the housing.
US11067273B2	Process for pneumatically conveying a powdery material Process and device for pneumatically conveying a powdery material comprising the steps of Pneumatically conveying a powdery material in a pneumatic conveying pipeline (first) and into said recipient by a flow generated by a blower, A powdery material dosing step, A fluctuation step of pressure drop in said pneumatic conveying pipeline or up to said recipient, wherein a sonic device generates sonic waves inside said pneumatic conveying pipeline or up to said recipient and provides a counteraction on the fluctuation step of the pressure drop in said pneumatic conveying pipeline or up to said recipient.
US11067270B1	Flip-up light for a remote control A portable lamp for affixing with an object, such as a remote control, includes a base that has a raised pivot pin. An enclosure has a pivot pin receiving recess adapted for receiving the pivot pin of the base pivotally therein. The enclosure includes an opening on a lower side thereof and a circuit board that includes a lighting circuit having a plurality of LEDs aligned with the opening of the lower side of the enclosure, a battery, and a magnetic switch disposed within the enclosure adjacent to at least one magnet of the base when the base and the enclosure are mutually aligned. In use, with the base affixed with the object and with the base aligned with the enclosure, the lighting circuit maintains the LEDs in an off state. With the enclosure manually pivoted away from the base the lighting circuit illuminates the LEDs.
US11067265B2	Intelligent lighting control system method for mapping light circuits The present disclosure provides intelligent lighting control systems and methods. The methods include modulating, via a mobile electronic device, a characteristic of each light circuit in a plurality of light circuits connected to a respective lighting control module in a plurality of lighting control modules. The characteristic is modulated for each light circuit in the plurality of light circuits sequentially. The characteristic impacts at least one of the light intensity, light color, and color temperature of a light bulb connected to a light fixture connected to the respective light circuit, the mobile electronic device communicably coupled to the plurality of lighting control modules. The methods include capturing, via the mobile electronic device, a plurality of images of a room contemporaneously with the modulation of the characteristic. The methods include identifying, on the mobile electronic device, a region of the room impacted by the respective modulations of the characteristic.
US11067260B2	Lighting systems incorporating connections for signal and power transmission In accordance with various embodiments, lighting systems features multiple inter-connectable light panels each having multiple light-emitting elements thereon. One or more of the light panels features one or more connectors, and associated conductors, for the transmission of power, communication signals, and/or control signals.
US11067257B2	Lighting device provided with a reflector element A lighting device uses a plurality of lighting sources. The lighting device includes a printed circuit board having a main side on which the lighting sources are arranged side by side, the lighting sources are oriented so as to project an emitted light radiation in a direction perpendicular to the main side, a first support body supporting the printed circuit board in a horizontal direction, a second support body rigidly connected to the first support body to form a single casing, and a reflector element rigidly connected by a plurality of connecting members to the second support body. The reflector element has a plurality of reflective surfaces arranged side by side. Each of the reflective surfaces faces towards one of a plurality of channel-shaped portions of the second support body and directs the emitted light radiation to one of a plurality of lenses at ends of the channel-shaped portions.
US11067254B1	Auxiliary light for mounting to a vehicle An apparatus includes an auxiliary light includes a housing defining a front opening, a light emitting in the housing, and a transparent cover is mounted over the front opening. A plurality of fins are mounted to the housing and extend rearwardly from the front opening. The housing defines a cavity of non-rectangular shape from the opening to a backwall of the cavity. A circuit board has a perimeter conforming to the non-rectangular shape. The circuit board may include cutouts for a plug through the backwall. A heat conducting pad, such as graphite is interposed between the circuit board and the backwall and may likewise conform to the non-rectangular shape.
US11067245B2	Light device, especially a signal lamp, for a motor vehicle The light device comprises an optical module (17), comprising a light source (5) and an associated optical body (8) of a transparent material to bind light rays (10) emitted by the source (5). The source (5) is a multidirectional light source configured to emit the primary light beam (6) of rays (10) towards the cover (1), and secondary beams (7) comprising rays (10) that are approximately transversal with respect to the rays (10) of the primary beam (6). The body (8) has a front surface (12) that forms a central front recess (18) in the body (8), a rear surface (14) that is opposite to the front surface (12) and is, in the direction from the optical axis (x) of the optical module (17), which passes through the source (5), inclined towards the cover (1), and a lateral surface (13) connecting the front surface (12) with the rear surface (14). The deepest point of the front recess (18) is situated approximately at the optical axis (x). The rear surface (14) and the lateral surface (13) are configured to prevent rays (10) from passing through these surfaces (14, 13).
US11067240B2	Optical article for illuminating building interiors An optical article for illuminating building interiors including a reflective grid and a light diffusing element positioned between the reflective grid and a light source. The reflective grid includes one or more arrays of transverse reflective surfaces and is configured to partially transmit and partially redirect incident light over a broad angular range.
US11067238B2	Flame simulating assembly for simulated fireplaces including a reflecting light system A flame simulating assembly is provided with a reflected flickering light that includes only one light source. Light from the light source passes though a rotating flicker element onto one or more reflectors, or mirrors, that reflect light up onto a simulated fuel bed and the some of the light is reflected off of the flicker elements towards a flame screen to create a simulated flame. The clipping flicker elements creates a fluttering light effect due to the flicker elements “intermittently dipping” into the light path. This fluctuating light is reflected onto the logs and ember bed in front and creates a dancing effect, which simulates glowing embers.
US11067233B2	Lighting arrangement with battery backup A lighting arrangement operable to emit light is disclosed herein. The lighting arrangement can include a mounting bracket and a luminaire. The mounting bracket can have first and second bracket portions positioned about a central longitudinal axis of the mounting bracket. The mounting bracket can also include at least one pair of telescoping shafts interconnecting the first and second bracket portions. The mounting bracket can also include at least one spring positioned to bias the at least one pair of telescoping shafts to an extended configuration. The luminaire can have at least one spring member selectively engageable with at least one shaft of the at least one pair of telescoping shafts to selectively interconnect the luminaire and the mounting bracket.
US11067230B2	Lighting device A lighting device 1 includes a circuit board that is long and flexible, light emitters mounted in a row on the circuit board, and an elongated cover. The cover includes (i) a translucent member that is made of translucent soft material and that covers the circuit board and the light emitters, and (ii) a phosphorescent member containing a phosphorescent material that is to be excited by light emitted by the light emitters. The phosphorescent member is arranged on a second area portion of the cover other than a first area portion of the cover that is located in an emission direction of light from each of the light emitters and a luminous intensity is equal to or greater than a standard luminous intensity in the emission direction.
US11067228B2	Planar illumination device A planar illumination device according to an embodiment includes a light guide plate, an attenuation element, and a plurality of light sources. The light guide plate has a light-emitting surface that is a main surface through which light is emitted and a light-receiving side surface that is a side surface intersecting with the light-emitting surface and receives the light. The attenuation element attenuates the light entering through the light-receiving side surface. The light sources face the light-receiving side surface of the light guide plate and are arranged in parallel with one another at certain intervals. One of the intervals closer to the attenuation element is smaller than another of the intervals distanced from the attenuation element.
US11067223B1	Clutch for gimbal system A trunnion clutch system is provided for angularly positioning a payload. The system includes a trunnion and a clutch. The trunnion has an annular trunnion housing, a trunnion shaft that engages the payload, and an electromagnetic motor that turns the trunnion housing. The clutch has an annular clutch housing, a jack shaft, a coil of copper winding rings, a plurality of helical springs, an annular armature, and an annular platform. The clutch housing contains a channel. The jack shaft is disposed in the clutch housing and engages the trunnion. The coil of copper winding rings is disposed within the channel. The helical springs are disposed within an angularly distributed plurality of pockets within the clutch housing. The annular armature is disposed to be separate from the coil by a gap via the springs. The annular platform has an abrasive liner disposed adjacent the armature. Energizing the coil pulls the armature away from the liner, thereby disengaging the trunnion.
US11067205B2	Threaded connection for steel pipe A threaded connection for steel pipe is provided that prevents cross-threading and provides good compression load resistance. A threaded connection (10) includes a pin (30) and a box (40). The male thread stabbing flank (34) of the pin (30) includes two male thread stabbing flank portions (341) and (342). The male thread stabbing flank portion (341) is located farther from the pipe axis (X) of the steel pipe (20) and has a stabbing flank angle (α1) of −10 to 15 degrees. The male thread stabbing flank portion (342) is located closer to the pipe axis (X) and has a stabbing flank angle (α2) of 20 to 60 degrees. The female thread stabbing flank (44) of the box (40) includes two female thread stabbing flank portions (441) and (442). The female thread stabbing flank portion (441) is located farther from the pipe axis (X) and has a stabbing flank angle (α1) equal to the stabbing flank angle (α1) of the male thread stabbing flank portion (341). The female thread stabbing flank portion (442) is located closer to the pipe axis (X) and has a stabbing flank angle (α2) equal to the stabbing flank angle (α2) of the male thread stabbing flank portion (342).
US11067204B2	Polymer compositions Polymer compositions comprising at least two polyethylene polymers, for example, recycled polymer compositions, methods for the production thereof, the use of functional fillers in said compositions, and articles formed from the polymer compositions. Pipe having at least one wall, the pipe having a nominal inside diameter of at least about 400 mm and a SN of at least about 4, and wherein the at least one wall comprises at least about 25% by weight of recycled polymer, based on the total weight of the at least one wall.
US11067202B2	Puzzle-lock pipe mount assembly A carrier assembly for a plurality of pipes includes a block and a keeper plate. The block has pipe holes defined therein, which are configured to receive the pipes. A slot is angular to the pipe holes. The keeper plate has a planar member and open channels formed therethrough, which are configured to partially surround the pipes. A lock member on the keeper plate interfaces the slot in the block. The keeper plate is moveable between an unlocked position, where the lock member is outside of the slot of the block and the open channels are not aligned with the pipe holes of the block; and a locked position, rotated relative to the unlocked position, where the lock member of the keeper plate is within the slot of the block, and the open channels of the keeper plate are aligned with the pipe holes of the block.
US11067194B2	Combination valve A combination valve includes a valve seat, a diaphragm valve element, a pilot system to automatically bring the diaphragm valve element into or out of contact with the valve seat by use of air pressure, and a manual system to hold the diaphragm valve element in contact with the valve seat even while air pressure is supplied. In the combination valve, a piston rod is provided such that, when the handle is turned to move the manual stem in a seating direction while the diaphragm valve element and the valve seat are separated from each other, the piston rod moves in the seating direction relative to a first piston and a second piston that are pushed by the air pressure in a separating direction.
US11067193B2	Actuator A valve actuator assembly having an actuator housing coupled to a bonnet and a housing lid. A hydraulic cylinder is positioned within the actuator housing and directly coupled to the bonnet. A piston is positioned within the hydraulic cylinder and coupled to a spring lifter assembly and a spring is positioned within the actuator housing and having a first end and a second end, the first end being coupled to a lower surface of the housing lid, and the second end being coupled to the spring lifter assembly. An operating stem is coupled to the piston and positioned in a channel extending through the bonnet to a valve body assembly.
US11067187B2	Fluidic control valve with small displacement actuators A fluidic control valve configured to control a flow of fluid through a conduit includes a piezostack actuator, a seal plate having a sealing face, an orifice plate including a plurality of orifices, and a suspension connected to the seal plate. The piezostack actuator is configured to displace the seal plate along a longitudinal axis of the conduit between a closed position, in which the sealing face engages the orifice plate, seals the orifices of the orifice plate and closes the valve, and an open position, in which the seal plate is displaced from the orifice plate to open the valve. The suspension is configured to flex and adjust an orientation of the sealing face relative to the orifice plate during movement of the seal plate from the open position to the closed position.
US11067185B2	Systems and methods for improved valve stem coupling assembly for isolating the torque load from the thrust load A coupler that separates a unitary valve stem into two separate but coupled sections to isolates the thrust load from the torque load.
US11067184B2	Triple icemaker valve with multiple configurations Provided herein are embodiments of a refrigerator valve and method of routing water through a refrigerator with the valve. The valve includes three valve bodies that route water in a refrigerator to different features. The middle valve body is higher than the two outer valve bodies, allowing the solenoid actuators to be mounted in a space-saving manner. The three valve bodies are linked by a central core pin that can be continuous or discontinuous such that the central core pin can provide fluid communication between all three valve bodies or divide the valve into two separate but linked valves. In a valve with a discontinuous central core pin, one valve body is isolated from the other two valve bodies so as to provide a redundant shutoff and allow a filter of a filtration unit to be replaced without having to shut off the water being supplied to the refrigerator.
US11067176B2	Crank pin configuration for butterfly valve A torque transfer arrangement for a butterfly valve includes a crank having a tubular portion with an outer radial surface and an inner radial surface defining a cylindrical bore about a first axis. The tubular portion has two openings connecting the outer surface with the inner surface. A shaft is sized and configured to fit within the cylindrical bore and aligned with the first axis. A hole formed therethrough is substantially perpendicular to the first axis. A tapered pin is sized and configured to snuggly engage within the two openings and the hole. A butterfly valve and method are also disclosed.
US11067175B2	Gasket-mounting structure A structure allowing a gasket to be mounted on a fluid device is provided. The gasket includes a ring with a first annular slope at a first axial end. The fluid device includes an inner sleeve with a second annular slope and an outer sleeve radially outside the inner sleeve. An outer periphery of the ring includes an annular contact face that contacts the outer sleeve and an annular non-contact face radially separated from the outer sleeve. The first annular slope contacts an outer periphery of the second slope.
US11067173B2	Piston assembly and fluid pressure device A rod assembly for a fluid pressure cylinder includes a rod member and a packing that is mounted on an outer circumferential part of the rod member and slides along a slide hole. Assembly is simple because a conventional hard piston is not used. The assembly can be carried out simply by hand without the use of a dedicated tool. Thus, the rod assembly simplifies assembly work.
US11067172B2	Control device and control method for continuously variable transmission A control device for a continuously variable transmission performs transmission control so that an actual transmission control value becomes a target transmission control value. The control device includes a lead compensation unit, delay compensation unit, and a setting unit. The lead compensation unit performs lead compensation of the target transmission control value. The delay compensation unit performs delay compensation of the target transmission control value. The setting unit is configured to set as the target transmission control value a post-compensation target transmission control value for which compensation is performed by the lead compensation unit and the delay compensation unit according to at least one of an input side rotation speed of the continuously variable transmission, an input torque to a driven side rotation element of the continuously variable transmission, a transmission ratio of the continuously variable transmission, and a rate of change of the transmission ratio.
US11067163B2	Epicycic geartrain, a gearbox, and aircraft, and a method An epicyclic gear train including a plurality of planet gears that are carried by a common planet carrier, the planet carrier comprising a support and a plurality of pins carried by the support, each pin having a fastening segment extending in a direction away from the support to a distal end, each planet gear being arranged around a respective one of the fastening segments and presenting a degree of freedom to move in rotation about an extension axis along which the fastening segment extends. A retaining link is carried by the pins and connects the pins together, each planet gear being arranged in a zone lying between the support and the retaining link, each pin presenting a restricted degree of freedom to move relative to the retaining link.
US11067158B2	Driving force distribution apparatus A driving force distribution apparatus includes a driving force connecting/disconnecting mechanism between a pinion gear shaft and an intermediate rotational member, a first driving force adjustment mechanism between the intermediate rotational member and a second output rotational member, a second driving force adjustment mechanism between the intermediate rotational member and a first output rotational member, and a hydraulic unit configured to generate pressures of hydraulic oil for operating the driving force connecting/disconnecting mechanism and the first and second driving force adjustment mechanisms. The hydraulic unit includes a single hydraulic pump and a hydraulic circuit configured to distribute a pressure of the hydraulic oil, which is discharged from the hydraulic pump, to cylinder chambers of pistons.
US11067153B2	Speed change device A speed change device comprising an inner race having an outer surface, an outer race having an inner surface, and set of orbital rollers including inner rollers in rolling contact with the outer surface of the inner race and outer rollers in rolling contact with the inner surface of the outer race.
US11067148B2	Hydraulic damper A hydraulic damper includes a piston slidable within a cylinder and dividing the cylinder into first and second chambers and a piston rod for driving the piston, the piston rod including a fluid passageway in fluid communication with the first and second fluid chambers wherein the piston is slidably moveable along the cylinder in compression and rebound, where compression results in fluid flowing through the passageway from the first to the second fluid chamber, and rebound results fluid flowing through the passageway from the second to the first fluid chamber. An adjustment mechanism located within the fluid passageway includes a compression member and a tapered valve head for adjusting the restriction of fluid flow through the passageway when the piston is in compression and a rebound adjustment member and a tapered valve head for adjusting the restriction of fluid flow through the passageway when the piston is in rebound.
US11067139B2	Vehicle transmission system This vehicle transmission system includes a transmission (21), a clutch device (26), a clutch control unit (61), and a shift operation detecting means (48), and, when a hydraulic pressure is supplied from a clutch actuator (50) to a slave cylinder (28), the clutch device (26) moves to a connection side, in an in-gear stop state in which the transmission (21) is in an in-gear state, and a vehicle (1) is in a stop state, the clutch actuator (50) supplies a standby hydraulic pressure (WP) to the slave cylinder (28), and the clutch control unit (61) sets the standby hydraulic pressure (WP) to a first setting value (P1) during non-detection in which a shift operation is not detected by the shift operation detecting means (48) and sets the standby hydraulic pressure (WP) to a second setting value (P2) lower than the first setting value (P1) when the shift operation is detected by the shift operation detecting means (48).
US11067138B2	Device for prevention of turbine rotation The invention relates to pumping equipment and can be used in oil industry as part of submersible electric centrifugal pump units. Device for prevention of turbine rotation consists of interconnected head and base, inside of which two shafts are installed on bearing supports—upper and lower ones, connected to each other through a cam clutch with the possibility of free running in the circumferential direction. The overrunning clutch is installed in the head, providing torque transmission in the forward direction from the lower shaft to the upper one and preventing reverse rotation of the upper shaft. The overrunning clutch is connected with the upper shaft via a coupling clutch, movable part of which is mounted on the upper shaft with possibility of axial movement, and stationary part is rigidly connected to the overrunning clutch. Coupling of the coupling clutch is provided by a spring, and disconnection is provided by a pusher mounted on the upper shaft with possibility of axial movement, and on one side the pusher is connected to the movable part of the coupling clutch and on the other side—with a bush sleeve having an inclined end surface rigidly installed on the lower shaft. The technical result is to increase reliability and safety of Electric Centrifugal Pumping Unit due to use of the apparatus for preventing rotation of the turbine.
US11067136B1	One-way clutch with reduced friction A one-way clutch is designed to minimize parasitic drag in the over-running condition. Rollers are positioned radially between an inner ring and outer ring and rotate with the inner ring. Positioning pins push the rollers up ramps on the inner ring into contact with the outer ring. In the locked mode, the outer ring also tends to push the rollers up the ramps into tighter contact. In the over-running condition, the outer ring tends to push the rollers down the ramp, against the force of the positioning pins, and away from contact. Each positioning pin includes a ball which is rotatably held in a retainer via microspheres. The ball is in rolling contact with the roller, as opposed to sliding contact, thereby limiting parasitic drag.
US11067126B2	Circulator structure and slider device using the same A circulator structure includes a main body, a Y-like groove and two return channels. The main body has a first side surface, a second side surface and a through hole. The Y-like groove includes a first oil-guiding groove, a second oil-guiding groove and an oil distribution groove. The first oil-guiding groove and the second oil-guiding groove are located at two opposite sides of the through hole, and the oil distribution groove is located below the through hole. A lower guiding end of the first oil-guiding groove and a lower guiding end of the second oil-guiding groove are respectively connected to the oil distribution groove. The oil distribution groove has an upper end distribution opening connected to the through hole and a lower end distribution opening. The return channels are respectively located on two opposite sides of the first side surface and are connected to the lower end distribution opening.
US11067125B2	Lubricating tube and slide rail device having same A lubricating tube includes an inner surrounding surface that has a non-circular cross-section, angularly spaced-apart inner lubricant-storing recesses, and guide surface portions each of which is interconnected between two adjacent ones of the inner lubricant-storing recesses. The inner lubricant-storing recesses and the guide surface portions constitute the inner surrounding surface and cooperatively define a roller passage hole. The inner lubricant-storing recesses are indented from the guide surface portions toward the outer surrounding surface. A slide rail device having the lubricating tube is also disclosed.
US11067121B2	Multi-film oil damper with tapered damper rings A multi-film oil damper has a housing defining an annular damper cavity between a radially outward wall and radially extending side walls. The annular damper cavity has an oil inlet configured for connection to a source of pressurized oil. A closure ring defines a radially inward boundary of the annular damper cavity. First and second damper rings are nested together coaxially within the annular damper cavity. At least one of the first damper ring and the second damper ring has an axial end radial thickness less than an intermediate-portion radial thickness.
US11067116B2	Low torque ball socket assembly The ball socket assembly includes a housing with at least one open end and with an inner surface that surrounds an inner bore which extends along a central axis. The ball socket assembly also includes a ball stud that has a ball portion and a shank portion. The ball portion is disposed in the inner bore of the housing and has an outer diameter which is in a spherical fit relationship with the inner surface of the housing. The shank portion of the ball stud extends out of the inner bore through the at least one open end of the housing. The ball portion is out of contact with any bearings on opposite axial sides of the ball portion such that the ball stud is able to move along the central axis relative to the housing.
US11067115B2	Spherical ball joint A spherical ball joint having an inner ring and an outer ring that cooperate by way of respective truncated spherical contact surfaces, the inner ring having a central bore with a cylindrical bore portion. The spherical ball joint includes a cylindrical sleeve mounted securely in the cylindrical bore portion, the sleeve configured to be mounted around a shaft, the sleeve being made of a wear-resistant material different from that of the inner ring.
US11067112B2	Pin and carrier locking assembly A pin and carrier locking assembly is described for locking a pin and carrier in position relative to each other. The carrier has first and second opposing arms, each comprising a bore therein and the axial ends of the pin are positioned within these opposing bores of the carrier. The assembly further comprises a hollow bearing provided around and coaxially with said pin and between said first and second arms. The bearing is positioned so as to not contact the first arm of the carrier but to contact the second arm of the carrier and a washer is positioned between the bearing and the first arm of the carrier so that a first section of the washer makes a first contact area with the first arm of the carrier.
US11067109B2	Engagement structure An engagement structure engages a first part with a second part, and includes a receive portion provided on the first part and an insertion portion provided on the second part. The insertion portion includes an insertion main body protruded in its insertion direction to the receive portion, and protrusions protruded from a side face of the insertion main body and having elasticity to be deformable. The receive portion includes an opening provided with an opening main portion into which the insertion main body is inserted and cutouts into which the protrusions are inserted when the insertion main body is inserted into the opening main portion, and overhangs that are disposed adjacently to the opening main portion to prevent, on a back surface of the receive portion, the protrusions from being pulled out due to elastic restorations of the protrusions that have passed through the cutouts.
US11067098B2	Silencer for a centrifugal compressor assembly A compressor includes a diffuser section having a diffuser structure and a silencer. The silencer includes a silencer housing defining a cavity and a silencing pad disposed within the cavity, wherein an exposed surface of the silencing pad is arranged in contact with a portion of the diffuser structure.
US11067096B2	Turbomachine assembly The present disclosure relates to a turbomachine assembly, which includes a shaft, a radial gas expander supported on the shaft between a first bearing and a second bearing, and a compressor supported on the shaft in overhung position adjacent to one or the other of the first and second bearings. The compressor includes a plurality of movable inlet nozzles and the radial gas expander includes a plurality of movable guide vanes.
US11067084B2	Pulsation mufflers for compressors The invention is related to a pulsation muffler (100) for a gaseous medium flow (107), which is supplied by a compressor. The pulsation muffler (100) comprises a housing (101) extending along a central axis with a medium flow inlet (106) and a medium flow outlet; several tubular absorber elements (108) concentrically arranged in the housing (10) and fluidically arranged one behind the other. Each tubular absorber element (108) is provided with an inlet area and an outlet area, positioned at an axial distance from each other. Between the respective radially adjacent wall sections of different absorber elements (108), a flow compartment (112, 114) is maintained for the medium flow (107).
US11067083B2	Compressor and air conditioner A compressor includes a low-pressure stage cylinder, a first high-pressure stage cylinder and a second high-pressure stage cylinder which are stacked, a partition is arranged between each two adjacent cylinders, the first and second high-pressure stage cylinders are both situated at a same side of the low-pressure stage cylinder or respectively situated at two sides of the low-pressure stage cylinder, the lower flange is situated below the low-pressure stage cylinder, the first high-pressure stage cylinder and the second high-pressure stage cylinder. A first sliding sheet is provided in the first high-pressure stage cylinder, a second sliding sheet is provided in the second high-pressure stage cylinder, and a third sliding sheet is provided in the low-pressure stage cylinder. The first and the second high-pressure stage cylinders are arranged in parallel, and the first and second high-pressure stage cylinders arranged in parallel are connected to the low-pressure stage cylinder in series.
US11067075B2	Method for operating a pressure control system comprising a multi-stage compressor, and pressure control system A method for operating a pressure control system having a multistage compressor includes providing, by the multistage compressor, a pressure medium that has been compressed multiple times in order to fill a pressure medium reservoir or pressure medium chambers of the pressure control system. The providing the pressure medium involves providing, by a first compression stage, a precompressed pressure medium and additionally compressing, via a second compression stage, the precompressed pressure medium, and/or introducing an already compressed charge pressure medium into an intermediate volume between the first compression stage and the second compression stage of the multistage compressor and further compressing, by the second compression stage, the charge pressure medium. The charge pressure medium simultaneously passes, via a control line, to a control input of a shut-off valve that interacts with the first compression stage, such that a charge pressure of the charge pressure medium predefines a control pressure.
US11067060B2	System and method for controlling a hybrid energy facility having multiple power sources A method for automatically controlling a renewable energy facility having a plurality of power sources includes operating, via a farm-level controller, the hybrid renewable energy facility at a first farm-level power set point. The method also includes modifying, via the farm-level controller, the first power set point to a second farm-level power set point. In response to modifying the first power set point to the second farm-level power set point, the method includes generating one or more power change requests for individual controllers of the plurality of power sources. Further, the method includes generating a power output via the plurality of power sources so as to transfer power generation from one of the plurality of power sources to another while minimizing the impact on farm-level production.
US11067047B2	External starter motor An external starter motor for an internal combustion engine, comprising: a power supply; an electric motor for producing torque; a dog rotatable by the electric motor and adapted to be axially movable into and out of engagement with a starting mechanism to turn over the internal combustion engine; and a circuit for detecting the presence of an output signal from the internal combustion engine and energising the external starter motor by the power supply when detecting the presence of the signal.
US11067046B2	Vent fuel handling assembly for a gas engine power plant and method of recovering vent fuel gas from a gas engine power plant The present disclosure relates to a vent fuel handling assembly and method of operation for a gas engine power plant, which can include a vent fuel recovery piping provided with at least one recovery piping for recovering vent fuel source, a vessel connected to the vent fuel recovery piping for storing the fuel recovered via the at least one inlet opening, and a compressor connected to the vessel at the inlet side of the compressor via a discharge piping so as to subject underpressure to the vessel and discharge gas from the vessel. The compressor is connected to the gas engine at the outlet side of the compressor via the discharge piping so as to feed the recovered gas to the engine for combustion therein.
US11067044B2	Fluid conveying device A fluid-conveying device for conveying a fluid from a tank includes: a first fluid-conveying pump; a swirl pot; and a second fluid-conveying pump having a drive region and a conveying region coupled to the drive region. The fluid is conveyable from the swirl pot by the first fluid-conveying pump, and the conveying region is configured and arranged so as to be drivable by the drive region.
US11067039B1	High compression boosting and water generation A method and system for condensing water for injection into an internal combustion engine to increase the engine's fuel economy and performance while reducing emissions. A volume of ambient air is drawn through an intake valve into a sealable chamber. The intake valve is closed and the ambient air compressed within the sealed sealable chamber and thereafter vented through an exit valve to be contained in a cooling section. The cooling section comprises a port and a cooling device. The cooling device, which in one embodiment comprises a refrigeration unit, cools the ambient air contained within the cooling channel to condense water vapor present in the ambient air into liquid water. The liquid water is drained from the cooling channel through the port and collected in a reservoir. Liquid water from the reservoir is then injected into at least one combustion chamber of the internal combustion engine.
US11067036B2	Combustor and jet engine having the same A jet engine includes an inlet that takes air, and a combustor that burns fuel using the air. The combustor includes a fuel injector and an igniter for igniting a gas mixture of the air and the fuel. The igniter ignites and activates automatically by heat and pressure created by compression of the air that has been taken in through the inlet.
US11067035B2	Gas turbine exhaust cooling system A gas turbine engine includes a main gas flow exhaust nozzle having an annular inner surface which, in use, bounds a flow of exhaust gas. The gas turbine engine further includes cooling passages having respective outlets therefrom to provide a flow of cooling air over a surface of the engine or an adjacent airframe component, thereby protecting the cooled surface from the exhaust gas flow. Adjacent cooling passages of the or each pair of the nested cooling passages are separated from each other by a respective dividing wall. The outlets from the nested cooling passages are staggered in the axial direction of the exhaust nozzle such that cooling air flowing out of an inner one of the adjacent cooling passages of the or each pair of the nested cooling passages flows over the dividing wall separating the adjacent passages.
US11067032B2	Piston A piston includes: a piston head; and a piston skirt connected to the piston head, wherein the piston skirt includes wall portions protruding outward from a surface of the piston skirt, the wall portions adjacent to each other in a circumferential direction of the piston skirt are inclined in directions opposite to each other with respect to a direction of movement of the piston in a bore for the piston, and define a tapered portion, and the tapered portions are spaced away from each other in the circumferential direction of the piston skirt.
US11067029B2	Systems and methods for coupling a cylinder head to a cylinder block An internal combustion engine includes a cylinder head and a cylinder block. The cylinder head includes a first boss cylinder head conduit portion and a first boss cylinder head cavity portion. The first boss cylinder head conduit portion is configured to receive a first fastener without threadably engaging the first fastener. The first boss cylinder head conduit portion has a first diameter. The first boss cylinder head cavity portion is aligned with the first boss cylinder head conduit portion. The first boss cylinder head cavity portion is configured to receive the first fastener without threadably engaging the first fastener. The first boss cylinder head cavity portion has a second diameter greater than the first diameter. The cylinder block is coupled to the cylinder head. The cylinder block includes a first boss cylinder block threaded portion.
US11067028B2	Fuel injector A fuel injector system includes an injector body having a proximal end and a distal end, the injector body defining a nozzle having an outlet. The injector system includes a spill valve fluidly connected to the outlet and having a spill valve member movable between an open position and a closed position. The injector system includes a control valve including a control valve member movable between an open position and a closed position. The injector system includes a check valve fluidly connected to the outlet, the control valve including a check valve needle movable between an open position and a closed position. The injector system also includes an electrical monitoring circuit configured to output a signal indicative of at least one of the open position or the closed position of the spill valve member.
US11067026B2	Engine controller, engine control method, and memory medium An engine controller, an engine control method, and a memory medium are provided. A second calculation process calculates an intake air amount without using a detected value of the intake air flow rate. A guard process sets a difference amount learning value as a learning reflected value when the difference amount learning value is less than or equal to an upper limit guard value and greater than or equal to a lower limit guard value. A calculation method switching process sets a sum of a second intake air amount and the learning reflected value as a calculated value of the intake air amount when it is determined that an intake air pulsation is great.
US11067024B2	Method for requirement-based servicing of an injector A method for requirement-based servicing of an injector in a common-rail system in which, during ongoing operation of the engine, a current operating point is stored as a function of the rail pressure and of the fuel injection mass, and the current operating point is multiplied by a damage factor and is stored as a reference injection cycle as a function of the rail pressure as well as of the fuel injection mass. A total reference injection cycle is calculated by forming sums over the reference injection cycles, and a load factor is calculated as a function of the total reference injection cycle and the permissible injection cycles, and the load factor is set as decisive for the servicing recommendation of the injector.
US11067015B2	Systems and methods for cylinder deactivation operation in response to route conditions Systems, apparatus, and methods are disclosed that include a divided exhaust engine with at least one primary exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) cylinder and a plurality of non-primary EGR cylinders. The systems, apparatus and methods control the EGR fraction by deactivation of one or more of the cylinders.
US11067012B2	Optimized fuel management system for direct injection ethanol enhancement of gasoline engines Fuel management system for enhanced operation of a spark ignition gasoline engine. Injectors inject an anti-knock agent such as ethanol directly into a cylinder. It is preferred that the direct injection occur after the inlet valve is closed. It is also preferred that stoichiometric operation with a three way catalyst be used to minimize emissions. In addition, it is also preferred that the anti-knock agents have a heat of vaporization per unit of combustion energy that is at least three times that of gasoline.
US11067000B2	Hydraulically driven local pump A gas turbine engine includes a compressor section, a combustion section, and a turbine section arranged in serial flow order; a casing surrounding the compressor section, the combustion section, and the turbine section; a first system comprising a first system fluid line, the first system fluid line including a first system fluid therein; and a second system including a hydraulic motor, the hydraulic motor positioned within the casing and fluidly coupled to the first system fluid line such that a flow of the first system fluid through the first system fluid line drives the hydraulic motor, the second system further including a fluid pump and a second system fluid line, the hydraulic motor drivingly coupled to the fluid pump, the fluid pump operable with the second system fluid line for providing a flow of a second system fluid through the second system fluid line during operation.
US11066998B2	Compressor rotor, compressor and gas turbine A compressor rotor includes a first outer cavity formed in a rotor main body and into which air on a high-pressure side of blades is to be introduced, a first inner cavity formed in the rotor main body on an inner side in a radial direction of the first outer cavity; and a first communication passage which connects the first outer cavity and the first inner cavity to each other in the radial direction of the first outer cavity. Along an entire length of the first communication passage from the first outer cavity to the first inner cavity, the first communication passage is inclined toward a forward side of a rotation direction of the rotor main body.
US11066997B2	Fluid circuit in a turbine engine An assembly for a turbine engine having an oil circuit. The oil circuit includes an air/oil heat exchanger, a primary bypass pipe connecting an intake of the air/oil heat exchanger to an outlet of the air/oil heat exchanger and surrounding the air/oil heat exchanger so as to exchange heat with the air/oil heat exchanger. The oil circuit further includes and a secondary bypass pipe of the primary pipe connecting the upstream end of the primary bypass pipe to the downstream end of the primary bypass pipe. The oil circuit also includes at least one valve for controlling the passage of the flow of oil into the primary and secondary bypass pipes and means for controlling the opening of said at least one valve for a temperature lower than a threshold temperature.
US11066993B2	Variable geometry inlet system A variable geometry inlet system of an aircraft engine includes an inlet duct. The inlet duct includes at least first and second sections moveable between extended and retracted positions such that the inlet duct defines a variable axial length of an inlet passage for selective flight conditions. The inclusion of acoustic treatment may assist in controlling noise.
US11066990B2	Constant-volume combustion module for a turbine engine, comprising communication-based ignition The invention relates to a turbine engine combustion module (10), in particular for an aircraft turbine engine, designed to carry out constant-volume combustion, comprising: at least two combustion chambers (12A, 12B) arranged about an axis, each chamber (12A, 12B, 12C) comprising a compressed gas intake port (16) and a burnt gas exhaust port (18); and an ignition means that triggers combustion in the combustion chambers (12A, 12B, 12C). The module (10) comprises at least one duct (80) which establishes a communication between a first combustion chamber (12A) and at least one second combustion chamber (12B) in order to inject burnt gases from the first combustion chamber (12A) into the second combustion chamber (12B) so as to trigger combustion in the second combustion chamber (12B).
US11066985B2	Rotary roller motor (RRM) A rotary roller motor is disclosed herein. The rotary roller motor is a four-stroke internal combustion engine, wherein the rotor “rolls” around the inside of the engine block. The rotor is a two-part rotor having an inner part with a shaft and an offset circular lobe, and an outer rotor fit around the lobe. Two barriers are provided around the rotor chamber, a compression/power barrier and an exhaust/intake barrier. The combustion chamber has a non-reversing compression barrier and a compression hold barrier regulating the combustion of gas.
US11066982B2	Centrifugal compressor and turbocharger A centrifugal compressor operable in a wide operation range under a condition accompanied with pulsations of a pressure and a flow rate. The centrifugal compressor has a casing including at least one recirculation channel that includes a first inlet slit connected to an air flow passage on a downstream side of a leading edge in an air flow direction of the air flow passage, a second inlet slit connected to the air flow passage on a downstream side of the first inlet slit in the air flow direction of the air flow passage, a first vane disposed on a downstream side of the first inlet slit or in the first inlet slit in the at least one recirculation channel, and a second vane disposed on a downstream side of the second inlet slit or in the second inlet slit in the at least one recirculation channel.
US11066981B2	Air distributor and vehicle comprising this air distributor This air distributor (1) has an exterior casing defining an interior volume, an air inlet (4) opening into this interior volume, several air outlets (4) intended to convey air from the interior volume towards the cylinders of an engine, and a heat exchanger (8) arranged in the interior volume. The heat exchanger (8) comprises a stack of plates (10) of plastic material where adjacent plates (10) are arranged so as to define a set of intermediate spaces comprising closed intermediate spaces (12) in fluid communication to enable circulation of fluid through the stack of plates (10), and open intermediate spaces (14) configured to enable a passage of air through the stack of plates (10) from the air inlet (4) to the air outlets (6).
US11066967B2	Controllable lubricating oil delivery system for internal combustion engines An adjustable lubrication oil conveying system for a combustion engine is proposed which comprises a screw pump for conveying lubrication oil with at least one screw rotatably accommodated in a screw chamber, wherein the screw pump is arranged such that a suction side of the screw chamber is connected with an intake path from an oil sump of the combustion engine, and a pressure side of the screw chamber is connected with a feed path to moving parts of the combustion engine. The lubrication oil conveying system is characterised in particular in that the screw pump is driven by the combustion engine; and towards the suction side of the screw chamber, an adjustable throttle valve is provided by means of which a flow cross-section of the intake path is gradually limitable between an opened position and a closed position. Therefore, the oil pressure in a combustion engine is, for the first time, adjusted by suction throttling in connection with a screw pump.
US11066966B2	Device for adjusting camshaft phase A device for adjusting camshaft phase is proviced that includes a stator, a rotor and two guard caps that limit the rotor are fixedly provided at axial ends of the stator. The device further includes a belt pulley that is sleeved on the periphery of the stator and the guard caps and fixedly connected to the stator or the guard caps. An annular seal is disposed on the device and includes a first sealing portion and a second sealing portion located at axial ends. The seal body is fixedly provided between the stator, the guard caps and the belt pulley, and the annular seal encloses a sealed cavity. The stator, the rotor and the guard caps are fixedly provided in the sealed cavity.
US11066958B2	Crushable spacer and bolted joint for a gas turbine engine A bolted joint apparatus includes: a first component including a first row of first bolt holes extending therethrough; a second component including a second row of second bolt holes extending therethrough wherein the second bolt holes are aligned coaxially with the first bolt holes, a plurality of fasteners, each of fasteners disposed through aligned pairs of the first and second bolt holes to couple together the first and second components, each of the fasteners including a shank; and crushable spacers disposed around the shanks of the fasteners, the crushable spacers clamped in compression between the fasteners and one of the components, wherein each of the crushable spacers has a tubular body interconnecting first and second enlarged ends, the tubular body being defined by a peripheral wall which incorporates at least one weakening feature.
US11066956B2	On-off valve and steam turbine An on-off valve of the present invention includes a valve box which includes an inlet flow path of steam and an outlet flow path which communicates with the inlet flow path through a communication bole, a stop valve body which opens or closes the communication hole, and a stop valve support portion, in which the outlet flow path extends in a direction intersecting the opening direction of the communication hole toward a downstream side in a flow direction of the steam, and a minimum wall thickness of the valve box is smaller than a minimum wall thickness of the valve box.
US11066953B2	Multi-ply heat shield assembly with integral band clamp for a gas turbine engine A heat shield assembly for a gas turbine engine includes a first heat shield ply assembly defined about an axis; a second heat shield ply assembly defined about the axis, the second heat shield ply assembly receivable at least partially over the first heat shield assembly and a band clamp mounted to the second heat shield assembly to circumferentially retain the first heat shield ply assembly and the second heat shield ply assembly.
US11066948B2	Rotary machine There is provided a rotary machine including a rotary shaft; a plurality of rotor blades extending outward from the rotary shaft in a radial direction of the rotary shaft, and are provided with gaps therebetween in a peripheral direction of the rotary shaft; a casing surrounding the rotor blades radially outside the rotor blades, and in which a recessed portion as a cavity accommodates tips of the rotor blades; a sealing portion extending from one of a bottom surface of the recessed portion and the tip of the rotor blade, and having a clearance with the other; a jet flow passage through which a fluid is jetted rearward in a rotation direction of the rotary shaft in the cavity; and a valve which is capable of switching a flow condition of the jet flow with turning the valve on an opening state and a closing state.
US11066932B2	Actuating cylinder for a hydrostatic axial piston machine and hydrostatic axial piston machine with an actuating cylinder An actuating cylinder for an adjustment apparatus of a pivot angle of a hydrostatic axial piston machine has a hydraulic stop which connects an actuating pressure chamber of the actuating cylinder to an interior of the housing of the axial piston machine if the actuating piston is maximally extended. To this end, a channel is provided on the actuating piston side, while a control edge is provided on the housing side. The control edge is formed at the interface of a stop bore with the actuating cylinder bore. The stop bore may also be a leakage bore of the axial piston machine.
US11066925B2	Method and apparatus for determining fluid flow characteristics A measurement device is configured in a shaped charge package to be utilized in a perforating gun section tool string. The measurement device may include for example thermal conductivity detectors (TCD) configured to measure fluid flow velocity and/or thermal characteristics of the flowing fluid. The measurement device may include for example a pair laterally spaced TCDs each having sensor faces positioned co-planar with a surface across which the fluid flows. The measurement device may include a recessed TCD, having a sensor face recessed below an opening in the exterior surface.
US11066909B2	Mechanical isolation plugs for inflow control devices Isolation plugs may be installed in a wellbore flow control device to temporarily close a flow path therethrough. The isolation plugs may be installed in threaded openings often provided to for access to nozzles or other flow restrictors in the flow control devices. The isolation plugs may initially be locked in a closed configuration while being run in hole and may be unlocked in response to the application of a predetermined activation pressure. Once unlocked, the isolation plug may not immediately move to an open configuration but may continue holding pressure to permit circulation and washdown operations to be conducted. The activation pressure may be reduced to a second predetermined threshold to lock the isolation plug in the open configuration wherein flow is permitted through the flow control device.
US11066906B2	Submersible vehicle with optical fiber A submersible vehicle is provided which includes a housing, an optical fiber coupled with the housing and communicatively coupled with a data acquisition system, and a propulsion system. The propulsion system is configured to propel the submersible vehicle in a fluid at a velocity. The optical fiber is configured to be released at a release rate equal to or greater than the velocity of the submersible vehicle.
US11066902B2	Power management system for a drilling rig A power management system may monitor data relating to respective loads on a plurality of power sources. The plurality of power sources may be associated with a drilling rig engaged in a drilling process. The power management system may determine a stage of the drilling process based on the respective loads on the plurality of power sources. The power management system may determine, based on the stage of the drilling process that is determined, respective load shares for the plurality of power sources. The power management system may manage load sharing among the plurality of power sources according to the respective load shares that are determined.
US11066900B2	Removable core wiper plug Provided are wiper plugs with removable cores and methods of using the wiper plugs with removable cores. An example wiper plug with a removable core comprises a molded body, a wiper, a cavity through the interior of the molded body, a support disposed in the cavity, and the removable core disposed in the cavity. An example method of use comprises removing the core of the wiper plug without drilling through the wiper plug, and leaving the remainder of the wiper plug in the wellbore.
US11066890B2	Tubing hanger assembly with a tubing head adapter receivable onto a tubing head in any rotational orientation A tubing hanger assembly for suspending a tubing string within a wellbore is provided. The tubing hanger assembly comprises a tubing head, a tubing hanger and a tubing head adapter. The tubing hanger and the tubing head adapter have aligned through-openings such that a chemical injection line and a communications line may each be passed through respective through-openings, thereby enabling an operator to have access to the wellbore. Beneficially, the assembly also comprises a bottom flange that secures the tubing head adapter to the tubing head once the tubing hanger and connected string of production tubing are landed in the wellbore. The bottom flange may be rotated so that ports in the bottom flange may be aligned with ports in an upper flange in the tubing head. A method for hanging a string of production tubing in a wellbore is also provided herein.
US11066889B2	Subsea assembly A subsea assembly includes a housing having a flange interface for interfacing with a flange of a process fluid carrying component, wherein the housing is configured such that boltheads or nuts exerting a fastening force on the subsea assembly when mounted to the process fluid carrying component are spaced from the flange interface so that the dimensions of the housing of the subsea assembly at the flange interface are not affected by a space required for a bolthead or nut fastening tool.
US11066874B1	Apparatus for bracing a fence gate and methods of making and using same An apparatus for bracing a fence gate during installation of the fence gate. The apparatus includes at least one support member and a brace bar. The at least one support member is mounted to the fence gate. The brace bar has a first end, a second end and a brace portion extending therebetween. A first portion of the brace bar is connectable to the fence gate and a second portion of the brace bar is adjustably connectable to the at least one support member.
US11066868B2	Double egress door frame A double egress door frame has a channel-shaped header with upstanding sides connected by a central web. The central web has a first series of slots that are offset to one side of the central web and a second series of slots that are offset toward the opposite side of the central web. Door stops comprise a right elongated channel-shaped member and a left elongated channel-shaped member. The channel-shaped members are attached to the central web of the header by tabs extending from the sides of the channel-shaped members. The tabs engage the slots. Once the tabs have passed through the slots to the opposite side of the central web, the tabs are twisted thereby connecting the channel-shaped members to the central web. A spot weld is used to insure the door stops is permanently locked into position.
US11066866B2	Method and apparatus for controlling motor for speed regulator power window A method and an apparatus for controlling a motor for a speed regulator power window is provided. The motor for the power window is adjusted to operate with a maximum output when a user operates a switch if an external environmental state of a vehicle coincides with a configured reference condition. The output of the motor is adjusted to operate the window at one of a normal speed, a high speed, and a low speed set by the user when the external environmental state of the vehicle does not coincide with the configured reference condition.
US11066858B1	Latch locking mechanism Provided is a latch mechanism including: a main body including a first enclosure and a second enclosure; a latch including: a latch body positioned within and slidingly coupled with the first enclosure of the main body; a latch lock fixed to the latch body; and a handle fixed to the latch body; and a latch locking mechanism including: a stopper positioned within and slidingly coupled with the second enclosure of the main body; a limit bar fixed to the latch body; a spring holder fixed to the latch body; and a spring positioned on the spring holder.
US11066856B2	Sealed tailgate handle assembly An embodiment is directed to a sealed tailgate handle assembly having a housing and a circuit board positioned in the housing. A switch is positioned in the housing and is configured to complete an electrical circuit path on the circuit board. Resin material encompasses the circuit board, with the resin material configured to seal the connection between the circuit board and the switch. An inner cover is movable between an initial position and a second position. A resilient member extends between the inner cover and the resin material. An outer cover has a deformable upper wall. Upon an application of a force to the upper wall, the inner cover is moved from an initial position to the second position, causing the inner cover to engage the switch, causing the switch to complete an electrical circuit path on the circuit board to release a tailgate.
US11066854B2	Actuated mechanism for active pedestrian safety latch with meshed gears A latch travel mechanism for a closure panel of a vehicle, the mechanism comprising: a mounting plate for mounting a latch, the latch for retaining the closure panel; a support plate coupled to the mounting plate by a pair of linkages, the support plate for connecting to a body of the vehicle, the pair of linkages including a pair of arms and a pair of meshed gears coupled to one another; and an actuation mechanism for mounting on at least one of the support plate or the body for extending the pair of linkages in order to move the mounting plate relative to the support plate from a home position to an extended position; wherein the mounting plate is moved from the home position to the extended position during operation of the actuation mechanism.
US11066849B2	Adjustable decorative lockset rose assembly A rose assembly for a lockset configured to conceal and protect at least portions of a chassis that are positioned in a through-hole of an entryway device. The rose assembly can include at least a rose base and a rose plate. The rose plate can be assembled to the rose base at one of a plurality of orientations so that the rose assembly has an asymmetrical configuration. The rose assembly can include an indexing system to control the orientations at which the rose plate can be selectively secured to the rose base. The indexing system can include first and second male members and a plurality of female members, the first male member being sized to be matingly received in some, but not all, of the plurality of female members. The rose plate can be secured to the rose base by plate fasteners, magnets and/or double-sided tape.
US11066846B1	Fence system The present invention refers to a fence system having a plurality of panel assemblies. The panel assemblies of the plurality of panel assemblies interconnect to one another, whereby first and second interlocking structures extend along planes of each panel assembly to mount onto an adjacent panel assembly. The first interlocking structure has an intermediate wall and the second interlocking structure has a fastening wall that hides a fastener passing through the intermediate wall when panel assemblies of the plurality of panel assemblies are interconnected to one another. The plurality of panel assemblies mounts onto at least two posts.
US11066840B2	Modular auditorium There is provided a lifting fixture securable to a lifting machine adapted for lifting/manipulating corresponding tier sections for assembly/disassembly of a modular auditorium including a plurality of tubes connected to a first fixture portion and a second fixture portion, the plurality of tubes adapted to be selectively secured to the lifting machine, the first fixture portion and the second fixture portion including a plurality of lifting interfaces adapted to interface with corresponding lifting interfaces of the corresponding tier sections.
US11066838B2	Work platform mover system A mover system that moves a work platform relative to a target object. The mover system includes a drive vehicle configured to be attached to the work platform. Sensors are attached to the work platform that detect a distance between the sensors and the target object. Signals from the sensors are used to determine an alignment angle used for the operation of the drive vehicle to move the work platform into alignment and spacing relative to the work object.
US11066837B2	Floor panel for forming a floor covering A floor panel for forming a floor covering wherein the floor panel is substantially realized on the basis of synthetic material. The floor panel is rectangular and comprises a first pair of opposite edges and a second pair of opposite edges such that both pairs of opposite edges comprise coupling parts allowing for mutually coupling a plurality of such floor panels to each other. The coupling parts of at least the first pair of opposite edges are configured such that two of such panels can be coupled to each other at these edges by means of a turning movement and the coupling parts to this aim consist of a tongue and a groove as well as locking parts, which, in the coupled condition, prevent the shifting apart of the tongue and groove. The floor panel has a global thickness which is smaller than or equal to 4.5 millimeters.
US11066836B2	Floorboards comprising a decorative edge part in a resilient surface layer A set of essentially identical floorboards each including a front face and a rear face extending in the horizontal plane, a core, and a surface layer, a mechanical locking system is arranged at least at two opposite edges for connecting a floorboard with an adjacent floorboard in a horizontal and a vertical direction, said mechanical locking system being configured for connecting the floorboard with the adjacent floorboard by vertical folding, wherein one of said opposite edges is provided with a horizontally extending protrusion at an upper edge, and wherein said protrusion is configured to overlap a surface groove at an upper edge of the other of said opposite edges, such that two connected and adjacent floorboards have upper overlapping edges.
US11066831B2	Snow rake A snow rake for moving snow from a roof. The snow rake includes an elongated extension pole comprising a plurality of pole sections which may be connected together in an end-to-end manner. First and second rake members are secured to the upper end of the extension pole. The first and second rake members are hingedly connected together so as to be able to be positioned in a straight position or a V-shaped position. Pivot support arms extend from the rake members to a clamp which is longitudinally adjustably secured to the extension pole. The clamp may be adjustably moved on the extension pole to change the positions of the rake members. The components of the snow rake may be placed in a box for display, shipment or storage.
US11066821B2	Toilet bowl chemical agent dispenser A device for delivering a chemical additive from a location at the top of an overflow tube to a toilet bowl has an upper portion that does not fit into the overflow tube and a lower portion that fits inside the overflow tube. The upper portion has a receptacle that can hold a chemical additive so that water flowing into the overflow tube runs over the additive and into the overflow tube.
US11066812B2	Bucket lip stabilizer structure A stabilizer structure includes an elongated main body portion having an upper portion with outward-facing side surfaces and a lower portion below the upper portion, the lower portion being greater in width than the upper portion. The stabilizer structure also includes a hole in a top surface of the upper portion. The stabilizer also includes a forward portion integrated with the main body portion as a single monolithic piece. The forward portion includes a bridge section, a first prong extending from the bridge section, and a second prong extending from the bridge section. The first prong, second prong, and bridge section share a single forward-facing curved surface and a single rear-facing curved surface, the forward-facing curved surface having a different curve than the rear-facing curved surface.
US11066801B2	Cofferdam system and method of installing the same The present disclosure relates to a cofferdam system securable to an underwater structure and across a body of water. The system includes a post support and anchoring assembly securable to the structure, a web support frame which extends upwardly from the post support and anchoring assembly in a spaced apart configuration from a surface defined by the underwater structure, as well as a substantially flexible impermeable web which is positioned across the body of water and which is adapted to cover the post support and anchoring assembly and at least a lower section of the web support frame outwardly therefrom. Such configuration of the system allows to provide a substantially dry enclosure from a dam upstream side between the substantially flexible impermeable web and the underwater structure when mounted thereto and once water is being removed from a dam downstream side. A method for installing the same is further described.
US11066779B2	Clothes dryer A clothes dryer comprises a body, a first drying container installed in the body and configured to include a rotary drum configured to be rotatable, and a second drying container installed in the body but separated from the first drying container, and the second drying container includes an electrode plate configured to include a plurality of electrode regions, a controller configured to select an electrode region where an electric field is to be applied, among the plurality of electrode regions and an electric field is applied to the electrode region selected by the controller.
US11066775B2	Method and apparatus for cleaning laundry A laundry washing machine having: a casing, a washing tub located within the casing, a drum mounted within the washing tub and configured to rotate relative to the casing, a door attached to the casing and being openable to provide access to the drum, an additive loading and supply system configured to receive loose detergent, one or more valves configured to selectively provide water to the additive loading and supply system, a tub supply pipe fluidly connecting the additive loading and supply system to the drum, a receptacle configured to receive a unit dose package comprising a water soluble pouch containing a dose of cleaning product, and means for breaking the unit dose package outside the additive loading and supply system.
US11066770B2	Laundry treatment apparatus and method of controlling the same A method of controlling a laundry treatment apparatus includes: determining whether bubbles have been generated in a tub of the laundry treatment apparatus in a state in which a second washing apparatus of the laundry treatment apparatus is operated based on a sequence of operations; and based on a determination that bubbles have been generated, reducing bubbles by (i) adding at least one first operation to the sequence of operations or (ii) replacing at least one second operation of the sequence of operations.
US11066762B2	Process and system of debundling fiber tow for use in preform mats and molding compositions containing such fibers A system for debundling fiber tow into chopped fibers is provided that has one or more reels of fiber tow, a cutting element configured to receive the fiber tow to form chopped fiber, and a tube with introduced gas flow configured to receive the chopped fiber. A moving belt is positioned under the tube to collect the chopped fiber. A dispenser is positioned along the moving belt for applying a binder or additive. A treatment chamber receives the treated chopped fiber. A process for debundling fiber tow into chopped fibers is provided that supplies one or more reels of fiber tow to a cutting system, drops the chopped fiber into a tube with introduced gas flow to debundle the chopped fiber with a vortex, collects the chopped fiber exiting the tube onto a moving belt, chemically treats the chopped fiber, and provides the chemically treated chopped to a treatment chamber.
US11066756B2	Crystal growth apparatus, method for manufacturing silicon carbide single crystal, silicon carbide single crystal substrate, and silicon carbide epitaxial substrate A crystal growth apparatus includes: a chamber including a gas inlet, a gas outlet, a welded portion, and a water-cooling portion configured to water-cool a portion at least including the welded portion; an exhaust pump connected to the gas outlet; a dew point instrument disposed between the gas outlet and the exhaust pump, the dew point instrument being configured to measure a dew point of gas passing through the gas outlet.
US11066755B2	Plating apparatus and plating method A substrate holder holds a polygonal substrate Wf. A plating bath accommodates the anode holder and the substrate holder. The anode and the substrate are immersed in a plating solution in the plating bath. A control device controls a current flowing between the anode and the substrate. The substrate holder has power feed members placed along respective sides of the polygonal substrate, and there are a plurality of groups of the sides, each group including at least one side, at least one side being different between the groups. The control device can control, on a group-by-group basis, a current to be supplied to the power feed members.
US11066746B1	Liquid material vaporization and supply device, and control program A liquid material vaporization and supply device is provided in which it is possible to accurately control a flow rate even in the case where calibration data is not available for a material gas. A first tank in which a liquid material is vaporized to produce material gas; a second tank in which the material gas is contained at a predetermined pressure; a pressure sensor that senses the pressure inside the second tank; a lead-out path for leading the material gas out of the second tank; a fluid control valve that is provided to open/close the lead-out path; and a flow rate control part that, when the material gas is led out through the lead-out path, on the basis of a reduction in the pressure sensed by the pressure sensor, controls the opening level of the valve to control the flow rate of the material gas are included.
US11066745B2	Antistatic coatings for plastic vessels A method of reducing static charge of a plastic container is provided. The method includes providing a PECVD coating of SiCOH, SiOx or SiOH to an external support surface of the container. The PECVD coating reduces static charge of the container compared to a reference container that is essentially identical to the container except that the reference container is uncoated.
US11066733B2	Calcium-based metallic glass alloy molded body for medical use and production method thereof It is an object of the present invention to provide a production method of a calcium-based metallic glass alloy molded body for medical use which has a biodegradable property, has a mechanical strength equal to or higher than that of metal materials, and enables complex molding and a wide range of applications. The calcium-based metallic glass alloy molded body for medical use is produced by mixing a metal powder including a calcium powder, alloying the mixed metal powder, and sintering the alloyed mixed metal powder.
US11066725B2	Cyclone underflow scavengering process using enhanced mineral separation circuits (EMSC) A system is provided for processing a circulating load in comminution circuit of a mineral separation process for separating mineral particles of interest from an ore, featuring: a coarse screen and an enhanced mineral separation circuit (EMSC). The coarse screen may be configured to receive a cyclone underflow having mineral particles of interest and forming part of the circulating load of the comminution circuit, and provide coarse screen feeds for further processing. The enhanced mineral separation circuit may include a collection processor configured to receive one of the coarse screen feeds, and may also include at least one collection apparatus located in the collection processor, the at least one collection apparatus having a collection surface configured with a functionalized polymer comprising a plurality of molecules having a functional group configured to attract the mineral particles of interest to the collection surface, and provide enhanced mineral separation circuit feeds for further processing in the system.
US11066723B2	Systems and methods to chemically treat metal-bearing waste streams to recover value-added materials Disclosed herein are system and methods to effectively leach coal ash with hydrochloric acid and separate an insoluble silica product and then selectively precipitate, from the leachate, a number to value-added, strategic, marketable products using a hydroxide reagent. The resulting precipitated products include iron, aluminum, magnesium, calcium, and a mixture of rare earth elements and transition metals. These can be separated as hydroxides or converted to oxides or carbonates. Using hydrochloric acid for leaching and converting the chloride to sodium chloride in the final step results in practically no waste for this process. The silica can be further purified using sodium hydroxide fusion or caustic leach methods and some minor streams from this process are recycled to minimize any waste stream. These systems and methods can be applied to a number of other industrial waste products such as red mud from the aluminum process, slag from steel furnaces, mine tailings, and other metal-bearing waste streams.
US11066715B2	Dehydrogenation processing method for turbine blades A dehydrogenation processing method for a turbine blade of a steam turbine. The method includes a step of heating the turbine blade by suppling heating steam into a casing of the steam turbine after a steam turbine plant is stopped. The heating steam supplied to the casing has a temperature that is higher than steam passing through the turbine blade during operation of the steam turbine plant. The method further includes repeating the process of supplying the heating steam into the casing a multiple of times.
US11066700B2	Nucleic acid complex pair, competitive construct, and PCR kit using the same According to an exemplary embodiment of the present application, provided is a nucleic acid complex pair, which includes a first nucleic acid complex including a first determinant and a second tag; and a second nucleic acid complex including a second determinant and a second tag, wherein the first determinant includes a forward primer for first target DNA, the second determinant includes a reverse primer for the first target DNA, the first tag includes a base sequence complementary to the base sequence of the second tag, and the second tag includes a base sequence complementary to the base sequence of the first tag.
US11066692B2	Real-time monitoring Provided herein are methods for the real-time monitoring of an intracellular event or response. In particular, the methods provided herein monitor the conversion of a pro-substrate to a substrate for a protein sensor as a result of an intracellular event or response.
US11066690B2	Flavin-binding glucose dehydrogenase variant The present invention relates to FAD-GDH consisting of the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1 or 3, an amino acid sequence having an identity of 70% or more with the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1 or 3, or an amino acid sequence having a deletion, substitution or addition of one or several amino acids in the amino acid sequence (the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1 or the amino acid sequence having an identity of 70% or more with the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1); having an amino acid substitution at the position(s) corresponding to the following amino acid(s): the amino acid at the 175th position in the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1, the amino acid at the 214th position in the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1, the amino acid at the 192nd position in the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1, the amino acid at the 212th position in the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1, the amino acid at the 218th position in the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1, and/or the amino acid at the 226th position in the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1; and having an improved thermal stability compared to that before the substitution, provided that an FAD-GDH consisting of the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 28, 30 or 32 is excluded.
US11066671B2	Use of therapeutic agents The specification relates to the use of Mcl-1 inhibitors to promote apoptosis in vascular endothelial cells undergoing neovascularisation in disease states.
US11066664B2	Inhibition of microRNA-134 for the treatment of seizure-related disorders and neurologic injuries A method for preventing or treating epilepsy or status epilepticus, or a brain-related disorder characterized by precipitation of seizures, in an individual, the method comprising the step of treating the individual with an agent capable of inhibiting the activity of miR-134 in the individual, wherein the agent is delivered to the brain of the individual.
US11066663B2	Multiplexed deterministic assembly of DNA libraries The present disclosure relates to methods of joining three or more double-stranded (ds) or single-stranded (ss) DNA molecules of interest in vitro or in vivo. The method allows the joining of a large number of DNA fragments, in a deterministic fashion. It can be used to rapidly generate nucleic acid libraries that can be subsequently used in a variety of applications that include, for example, genome editing and pathway assembly. Kits for performing the method are also disclosed.
US11066661B2	Methods of gene assembly and their use in DNA data storage A system for DNA gene assembly that utilizes a DNA symbol library and a DNA linker library. The symbol library has a number of DNA symbols each having a first overhanging end and a second overhanging end different than and non-complimentary to the first end, the first and second ends being the same nucleotides for each DNA symbol. The linker library has pairs of DNA linkers, a first linker of a pair having a first overhanging end and a second overhanging end and a second linker of the pair having a first overhanging end and a second overhanging end, the first end of the first linker being the same nucleotides for each first linker and the second end of the second linker being the same nucleotides for each second linker, wherein the second end of the first linker and the first end of the second linker have complementary nucleotides. The first linker joins to the first end of a DNA symbol and the second linker joins to the second end of another DNA symbol.
US11066655B2	RNA polymerase, methods of purification and methods of use Cyanophage Syn5 RNA polymerase (RNAP) and methods of purifying it are provided. Cyanophage Syn5 RNAP having one or more promoter mutations are provided. Methods of expressing cyanophage Syn5 RNAP are provided. Novel promoter sequences and in vitro transcription systems utilizing Syn5 RNAP are provided. Methods of making high range ssRNA ladders are also provided. Methods of incorporating 2′-modified dNTPs using Syn5 RNA polymerase are provided.
US11066646B2	Brown fat cell compositions and methods Methods of developing and using cell lines, such as stem cell lines, for therapeutic or cosmetic use. In one embodiment, the cell lines are used to treat a wide range of degenerative and metabolic disorders including, but not limited to, obesity, diabetes, hypertension, and cardiac deficiency. Also described are methods of using such cell lines to screen for compounds that play a role in regulating a variety of processes.
US11066638B2	Method of preparing bacterial ghosts from gram-positive bacteria by hydrochloric acid treatment The present invention relates to bacterial ghosts, and more particularly, to a method of preparing bacterial ghosts from gram-positive bacteria by hydrochloric acid treatment. Specifically, according to the present invention, when gram-positive bacteria were cultured after being treated with a minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) of hydrochloric acid capable of inhibiting colony formation of gram-positive bacteria, bacterial ghosts were effectively formed. Since the formed bacterial ghosts have no intracellular proteins or DNA while preserving cell wall integrity, the risk of side effects such as secondary infection caused by bacterial growth when the bacterial ghosts are administered to humans is low. Therefore, the bacterial ghosts prepared from gram-positive bacteria according to the method of the present invention may be effectively used as a vaccine or a foreign antigen carrier for preventing or treating gram-positive bacterial infection.
US11066635B2	Method of culturing cells A method of culturing cells including: dividing a culture area into a center area and a plurality of peripheral areas, and designating the center area and the plurality of peripheral areas as measurement positions; calculating: a confluent rate at each of the measurement positions designated; and an average confluent rate which is an average of sum of the confluent rates at the measurement positions designated, the confluent rate being defined as a proportion of an area occupied by cells in a designated area; and determining a timing to perform a subculture of the cells, based on the confluent rate, wherein the determining of the timing further includes determining when the average confluent rate is smaller than a first threshold value, the confluent rate of the center area is larger than a second threshold value, and the second threshold value is larger than the first threshold value.

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