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US11071579B2	Bipolar cutting and hemostasis blade system An electrosurgical medical device includes an elongate shaft defining a proximal end, a distal end, and a lumen there through. A fluid conduit is disposed within the lumen. A first electrode is at least partially disposed within the lumen and extends distally from the distal end of the shaft, the first electrode is sized and configured to cut tissue with radiofrequency energy. A second electrode is arranged in a bipolar configuration with the first electrode, the second electrode is coupled to ground and configured to receive radiofrequency energy from the first electrode. The second electrode is defined by at least a portion the shaft and extending a distance away from the distal end of the shaft.
US11071578B2	Method and apparatus to electrochemically treat adipose tissue in the human body A method of altering adipose tissue includes creating an electrochemical reaction in the tissue, wherein the electrochemical reaction occurs in the presence of an electrolytic solution in the tissue.
US11071573B2	Matrix implant Implants for the fusion or fixation of two bone segments are described. For example, the implants can be used for the fusion or fixation of the sacroiliac joint. The implants can have a matrix structure, have a rectilinear cross-sectional area, and have a curvature.
US11071552B2	Hemostasis clip A device for treating tissue includes a capsule defining a channel extending therethrough and clip arms. Each of the arms includes a proximal part releasably coupled to a distal part, a proximal portion of the distal part configured to be received within the channel of the capsule so that the arms move proximally and distally relative to the capsule between a tissue receiving configuration, in which distal ends of the arms are separated from one another, and a tissue clipping configuration, in which distal ends of the arms are moved toward one another. The proximal portion of each of the arms is configured to release from the corresponding distal part to lock the distal part of each of the arms over a portion of target tissue to be clipped while the proximal parts of the alms are removed from the body.
US11071550B2	Methods and devices for treating pancreatitis Disclosed herein are methods and devices for treating pancreatitis. In the methods described herein, the distal portion of a catheter is routed into the pancreatic duct. The catheter delivers to the pancreatic duct an effective amount of a composition at an effective infusion pressure, wherein the amount and infusion pressure of the composition are effective to decrease the secretion of digestive enzymes from one or more exocrine tissues of the pancreas. The reduction of digestive enzymes may reduce damage to the islet cells typically seen in chronic pancreatitis. Backflow of the composition out of the pancreatic duct is limited, for example, by an occluding system, and aspiration system, or both.
US11071548B2	Powered circular stapler with reciprocating drive member to provide independent stapling and cutting of tissue An apparatus includes a shaft assembly and an end effector. The shaft assembly includes an outer sheath and a staple driving mechanism. The end effector includes a staple deck, an anvil, a first staple driver, and a second staple driver. The staple deck defines a plurality of staple openings in at least one annular array. Each staple opening in the plurality of staple openings houses a staple. The anvil is configured to actuate relative to the staple deck to compress tissue between the staple deck and the anvil. The staple driving mechanism is configured to actuate the first staple driver to fire a first staple of the plurality of staples against the anvil. The staple driving mechanism is further configured to actuate the second staple driver independently of the first staple driver to fire a second staple of the plurality of staples against the anvil.
US11071547B2	Abdominal closure method and device for ventral hernia An abdominal closure method and device is disclosed where the device generally includes a first tissue securement member configured for securement to a first tissue region and a second tissue securement member configured for securement to a second tissue region. The first and second tissue securement members are coupled to the connecting member and the connecting member is positionable at a distance from the first and second tissue regions. Additionally, one or more biasing elements may be connected to the first and second tissue securement members to approximate the first and second tissue regions towards one another via respective securement members.
US11071544B2	Powered surgical stapling device A medical instrument having a tool assembly including a pair of opposing tissue engaging surfaces for clamping tissue therebetween. The medical instrument includes a housing having a fixed handle and a movable handle mounted to the housing and selectively movable relative to the fixed handle from a first position in spaced relation relative to the fixed handle to a second position closer to the fixed handle to actuate the clamping of tissue. The medical instrument includes a selectively activatable drive assembly including a power source and a motor which is operatively coupled to the movable handle, wherein upon actuation the motor actuates the pair of opposing tissue engaging surfaces. The drive assembly includes a controller configured to variably control the rate at which the motor actuates the pair of opposing tissue engaging surfaces in response to the force exerted on the movable handle.
US11071526B2	Specimen collection and delivery apparatus A specimen collection and delivery apparatus for collecting clinical specimens and delivery of samples thereof to, e.g., microfluidic testing devices for diagnostic analysis is disclosed. The specimen collection and delivery apparatus includes a closure housing for coupling with a sample tube at one end, an open luer for coupling with a complementary luer on a microfluidic device at the other end, and a filter matrix disposed in the interior. The filter matrix is air permeable and liquid impermeable at atmospheric pressure and prevents sample from flowing through the open luer end when coupled to a sample tube containing a specimen. Under vacuum, the liquid sample fraction of the specimen can be drawn through the filter matrix and into the microfluidic testing device through the luer connection for diagnostic analysis.
US11071520B2	Tissue imaging and analysis using ultrasound waveform tomography This application presents a system and related methods that analyze a volume of tissue using ultrasound waveform tomography imaging. By using frequency-domain waveform tomography techniques and a gradient descent algorithm, the system can reconstruct the sound speed distributions of a volume of tissue, such as breast tissue, of varying densities with different types of lesions. By allowing sound speed to have an imaginary component that characterizes sound attenuation, the system can classify the different types of lesions with a fine granularity.
US11071517B2	Machine implemented methods, systems, and apparatuses for improving diagnostic performance A method for ultrasound diagnosis includes determining a first risk of malignancy based on a human assessment of a first set of features of one or more ultrasound images of a target; determining a second risk of malignancy based on an automatically extracted second set of features of the one or more ultrasound images; determining at least one overall risk value based on the first risk of malignancy and the second risk of malignancy; and characterizing the at least one overall risk value as one of a high confidence assessment or a low confidence assessment.
US11071515B2	Augmented reality systems and methods for user health analysis Augmented reality systems and methods for user health analysis. Methods for user health analysis may include collecting data for an initial prediction model and continuing to collect additional data based on one or more data criteria. The methods may further include updating the initial prediction model based on the additional data to produce a revised prediction model or causing an intervention to occur based on the additional data. The data may be collected by a display system including one or more sensors configured to collect user-specific data and a display device configured to present virtual content to a user. The display device may be configured to output light with variable wavefront divergence.
US11071514B2	Imaging system with energy sensing and method for operation Some embodiments include a system, comprising: an integrating detector including a plurality of pixels, each pixel configured to integrate signal from photons of a radiation beam; and an energy sensing detector overlapping the plurality of pixels of the integrating detector and configured to generate energy information in response to the radiation beam.
US11071509B2	Surgical devices and methods of use thereof The present invention provides a method, including: obtaining a first image from a first imaging modality; identifying on the first image from the first imaging modality obtaining a second image from a second imaging modality; generating a compatible virtual image from the first image from the first imaging modality; mapping planning data on the compatible virtual image; coarse registering of the second image from the second imaging modality to the first image from the first imaging modality; identifying at least one element of the mapped planning data from the compatible virtual image; identifying at least one corresponding element on the second imaging modality; mapping the at least one corresponding element on the second imaging modality; fine registering of the second image from the second imaging modality to the first image from the first imaging modality; generating a third image.
US11071499B2	Multichannel ultra-low noise amplifier The present disclose generally relates to a multichannel low-noise amplifier. At each input to the multichannel low-noise amplifiers, a plurality of transistors can be connected in parallel. This parallel connection decreases the voltage noise beyond what is possible using a single input transistor at each input. As an additional benefit, the initial operating region of the input transistors is not changed. The multichannel low-noise amplifier can be incorporated on a single integrated circuit chip to amplify biological signals to facilitate selective recording of a property (e.g., amplifying neural signals to facilitate selective recording of neural activity).
US11071497B2	Wearable medical device A wearable medical device includes a frame and a lens coupled to the frame. The lens is configured to be positioned proximate eyes of a user. At least one lamp device is coupled to the frame. The at least one lamp device emits light forward from the frame. A controller activates and controls the at least one lamp device.
US11071492B2	Apparatus and method for processing physiological information, and computer readable medium A physiological information processing apparatus includes an acquiring section that acquires physiological information of a subject, a classifying section that classifies the physiological information that is acquired by the acquiring section, and an analyzing section that selects an algorithm from a plurality of algorithms according to a result of the classification performed by the classifying section, and that analyzes the classified physiological information by using the selected algorithm.
US11071483B2	Mood score calculation apparatus and mood score calculation method A mood score calculation apparatus has a memory device that stores a manipulation history of a user on a predetermined device and a arithmetic device that classifies the manipulation history into any one of a verbal task and a spatial task on the basis of a predetermined algorithm, calculates the user's mood score on the basis of a relative relationship between the manipulation histories for each of the verbal task and the spatial task specified in the classification, and outputs information on the mood score into a predetermined output target.
US11071477B2	High frequency QRS in biometric identification Disclosed is sampling HF-QRS signals from a number of subjects (or derived values or features), and using e.g. deep learning-convolutional neural networks to find features or values which are (i) sufficiently similar for the same subject over all samples, yet (ii) sufficiently different among different subjects to allow identification. Also disclosed is finding signatures which are sufficiently stable over a particular period such that these signatures are within a deviation threshold, and then monitoring all subjects to be identified at least as often as the period used to establish the deviation threshold.
US11071473B2	System and method for processing using multi-core processors, signals and AI processors from multiple sources In an example, the present invention provides an UWB and FMCW sensor apparatus, with an audio module and inertial motion module, using multi-core processing and an AI processor.
US11071468B2	Detecting apparatus and detecting method for physiological information A detecting apparatus and a detecting method for physiological information are provided. The detecting apparatus includes a first optical signal provider configured to provide an organism with a first optical signal, a signal receiver configured to receive the first physiological signal, and a processor. The first optical signal, after interacting with the organism, turns into a first physiological signal. The processor is configured to calculate a plurality of physiological information values of the organism according to the first physiological signal; determine whether or not any of the physiological information values is abnormal; and replace the abnormal physiological information value with a physiological information reliable value when there is the abnormal physiological information value.
US11071461B2	Photoacoustic measurement device and method An acoustic wave detector detects photoacoustic waves generated by absorbing measurement light emitted toward a subject, and reflected acoustic waves with respect to acoustic waves transmitted toward the subject. A preamplifier amplifies a detection signal output by the acoustic wave detector. A bypass unit is intended to output the detection signal without passing through the preamplifier. Controller causes the preamplifier to enter an operating state and selects a first path along which the detection signal is amplified by the preamplifier and then is input to the reception circuit as a signal path in a case where the photoacoustic waves are detected. The controller stops an amplification operation in the preamplifier and selects a second path along which the detection signal is input to the reception circuit via a bypass unit as the signal path in a case where reflected acoustic waves are detected.
US11071458B2	SERS-active opto-fluidic photonic crystal fiber probe as biopsy needle and optofluidic sensor The present application discloses a surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS)-active photonic crystal fiber (PCF) probe including a biopsy needle in the PCF probe for integrated sample collection and SERS sensing of one or more analytes comprised in the sample. The PCF comprises solid core and a cladding region surrounding the solid core, wherein the cladding region comprises air holes functionalised by metallic nanoparticles. The application also provides a method for detecting one or more analytes using the PCF probe as well as the use of the PCF probe for the detection of one or more analytes.
US11071457B2	Apparatus and method for removing strands of hair from near-infrared spectroscopy Disclosed are an apparatus and a method for removing strands of hair from a near-infrared spectroscopy. The apparatus for removing strands of hair from a near-infrared spectroscopy may comprise: an arch-shaped main body worn on the head of a user, having a plurality of protrusions formed at an inner side part of the arch-shaped main body, and configured to expose a portion of scalp by arranging the strands of hair; a probe configured to come into close contact with the scalp; and a sensor configured to be accommodated inside the probe and receive light.
US11071451B2	Intraocular lens alignment A method for generating a radial alignment guide for an eye includes collecting preoperative alignment data relative to a pupil from an eye that is not dilated. The method also includes locating a pupil center of the eye while dilated. The method further includes displaying the alignment data on an image of the dilated eye relative to the pupil center. In particular embodiments, software embodied in a computer-readable medium is executable by a processor to perform the steps of such a method.
US11071450B2	System and methods using real-time predictive virtual 3D eye finite element modeling for simulation of ocular structure biomechanics Disclosed are systems, devices and methods for performing simulations using a multi-component Finite Element Model (FEM) of ocular structures involved in ocular accommodation.
US11071448B2	Length adjustable cannula A length adjustable cannula includes: a pipe-like main body having a through hole formed therein and an outer circumferential surface on which a screw thread is formed; a base grip provided at an end of the main body; an inner support plate provided at another end of the main body; and an outer support plate thread-coupled with the outer circumferential surface of the main body, the outer support plate being movable along the screw thread in a lengthwise direction of the main body. A position of the outer support plate is adjusted based on a distance from an outside skin to a medical treatment region of a human body, such that the outer support plate is brought into contact with the outside skin and the inner support plate is brought into contact with and supported by an inside skin of the human body.
US11071443B2	Minimizing image sensor input/output in a pulsed laser mapping imaging system Minimizing image sensor input/output pads in a pulsed laser mapping imaging system is disclosed. A system includes an emitter for emitting pulses of electromagnetic radiation and an image sensor comprising a pixel array for sensing reflected electromagnetic radiation. The system includes a plurality of bidirectional pads comprising an output state for issuing data and an input state for receiving data. The system includes a controller configured to synchronize timing of the emitter and the image sensor. The system is such that at least a portion of the pulses of electromagnetic radiation emitted by the emitter comprises a laser mapping pattern.
US11071440B2	Dishwasher with rack-mounted conduit return mechanism A dishwasher and method for operating the same utilize a rack-mounted rotatable conduit with a return mechanism that positions the rotatable conduit to a predetermined rotational position when the conduit is disconnected from a docking arrangement on a wall of a wash tub.
US11071435B2	Dosing device for a cleaning machine A system for dosing substances such as cleaning and/or care agents is disclosed. The system includes a dosing device, at least one energy source, a control unit, a sensor unit, and at least two cartridges for respectively accommodating at least one of the cleaning and/or care agents. The at least two cartridges are capable of being coupled to the dosing device.
US11071427B2	Cruise control of portable garden or forestry tool A handheld power tool comprises a cruise control actuator (22), which is mechanically connected to a controller input actuator (27) so as to variably move the controller input actuator (27) in a trigger direction (T) based on the position of the cruise control actuator (22). The cruise control actuator (22) is movable between a plurality of different, stable cruise speed positions, in which the cruise control actuator (22) is connected to said controller input actuator (20) in a unidirectional manner to allow a trigger (20) to move the controller input actuator (27) even further in the trigger direction (T) without moving the cruise control actuator (22). The cruise control actuator (22) is also movable to an “OFF” position in which it mechanically blocks the trigger (20) from moving the controller input actuator (27) in the trigger direction (T). Suggested figure for publication.
US11071424B2	Floor brush for cleaning appliance and cleaning appliance having same Disclosed are a floor brush of a dust collector and a dust collector having same, the floor brush of a dust collector comprising: a main body, the main body defining an air channel therein and being provided with, on a lower surface at the front end thereof, a suction port in communication with the air channel, when the main body covers a surface to be cleaned, an air-tight space being formed between the air channel and the surface to be cleaned, and the front end of the main body being provided with a front air inlet port in communication with the air channel; and a flow guiding portion, the flow guiding portion being provided at the front end of the main body and being provided adjacent to the front air inlet port, and the flow guiding portion being provided with a flow guiding face so that the external air passes through the flow guiding face and the front air inlet port into the air channel.
US11071418B2	Self-orienting wipes dispensing nozzles and wipes dispensers having the same Exemplary embodiments of wipes dispensers are disclosed herein. An exemplary wipes dispenser includes a container, a plurality of wipes contained within the container, a fluid for wetting the plurality of wipes and a self-orientating outlet nozzle. The self-orientating outlet nozzle includes a moveable outlet opening. The moveable outlet opening aligns with the direction of pull of the wipe when the wipe is pulled out of the dispenser at an angle that is not substantially vertical.
US11071409B2	High-voltage battery powered heating unit for vehicle and heating unit powering method A vehicle assembly includes, a traction battery and a heating unit. The heating unit is disposed within a cargo bed of a vehicle and selectively powered by the traction battery. A heating unit powering method includes powering a heating unit within a cargo bed of a vehicle using a traction battery of the vehicle.
US11071400B1	Bowl with suction device and method of use A container system includes a container having a body forming an inner area to hold contents therein, the container having an outer surface that extends from a top surface to a bottom surface; and an attachment device secured to the bottom surface of the container, the attachment device having an elastomeric body configured to engage with a surface of a support structure to secure the attachment device to the surface of the support structure; the attachment device secures the container to the support structure.
US11071398B2	Convertible apparel rack A convertible apparel rack functions as a multi-purpose rack that can display garments, shoes, or a combination of both, by changing out the hanger bars. Further, the rack can be changed from a single rack to a dual rack by removing or inserting uprights on a standard base. The apparel hanger bars are solid and of sufficient strength to allow dense packing of apparel without mechanical failure. The shoe hanger bars have a gap to allow shoes to be clipped on. Further, the convertible apparel rack can display a single rack of items or can be configured to display two racks of items.
US11071391B2	Convertible-couch with concealed convenience features A convertible couch with concealed storage includes an upper seat back, a seat bottom adapted for sliding inwardly for a first mode and sliding outwardly for a second mode, and an articulating seat section between the upper seat back and the seat bottom. The articulating seat section converts between a lower seat back in the first mode and an inner seat bottom in the second mode. The first mode is adapted for seating and the second mode is adapted for lying and reclining. A storage location housing convenience features is located behind the articulating section, such that the storage location and convenience features are concealed in the first mode and accessible in the second mode.
US11071381B2	Fastening fitting for a panel The invention relates to a fastening fitting for a drawer panel, wherein the panel carries aligned panel mounting parts (2, 2′, 2″) on its rear side and the lateral walls of the drawer carry panel fitting parts (1, 1′) which receive the panel mounting parts (2, 2′, 2″), which panel mounting parts and panel fitting parts can be operatively connected using a fixing means (7, 7′). The panel mounting parts (2, 2′, 2″) have means (4, 4′, 8) for adjusting the inclination of the panel, said means being operatively connected to adjustment bodies (5. 5′) of the panel fitting parts (1, 1′) and pivoting the panel about an axis running perpendicularly to the base side or cover side of the drawer.
US11071368B2	Applicator system An applicator system comprises a container and an applicator. The container is configured to contain a substance to be applied using the applicator. The container is further configured to support the applicator in an accessible orientation in use. For example, the container can comprise a first chamber that is open at an end thereof. The first chamber can be arranged to receive and locate at least an active end of the applicator therein and to hold the applicator in the accessible orientation in use. The container can also comprise a second chamber that is arranged to receive and hold therein the substance to be contacted by the active end of the applicator in use.
US11071366B2	Razor drying container A razor drying container. The razor drying container includes a housing. The housing is defined by a base and a first sidewall that extends upward from the base. The first sidewall defines a first open end. A first diaphragm is mounted on the first open end. The first diaphragm has a first slot. The first open end defines an interface for the second sidewall. The second sidewall forms a second open end. A second diaphragm is formed on the second open end. The second diaphragm includes a second slot.
US11071363B2	Thin card sized wallet A thin card sized wallet is provided herein that is super-thin, comfortable to wear, and minimally sized to store and transport essential articles. The thin card sized wallet is formed from a single piece of folded material and includes an obverse face, a reverse face, a pouch, a first sleeve, second sleeve, third sleeve, and fourth sleeve. The pouch is situated between the obverse face and reverse face and is configured to receive articles therein. The first sleeve and second sleeve are situated between the obverse face and the reverse face to receive one or more cards therein. The third sleeve and fourth sleeve are situated on the obverse face to receive one or more cards therein. The wallet may further include radiofrequency identification (RFID) shields to protect RFID enabled cards from electronic theft.
US11071359B2	Interchangeable jewelry An interchangeable jewelry system or kit can include a jewelry base, one or more charms, and one or more keys. A manufacturer can configure the jewelry base so that a user can wear the jewelry system as a ring, necklace, bracelet, or any other type of jewelry. The jewelry base can include a recessed surround and a post recess. A manufacturer can size the charm to fit within the recessed surround and be configured in a variety of ways to lock into the recessed surround. A manufacturer can configure a key in a variety of ways so that a user can unlock the dot fitting from the recessed surround with the key. Once unlocked, the owner can remove the charm from the recessed surround of the jewelry base and can select an alternative dot fitting with a different design to lock into the recessed surround.
US11071358B2	Interchangeable jewelry linking system and clasps thereof A clasp for a jewelry system has two arms and a sleeve that can slide to a position covering at least portions of both arms. In this position, the sleeve urges the clasp from an un-locked state towards a locked state.
US11071357B2	Slide fastener and method for manufacturing same A slide fastener includes: a pair of fastener stringers each provided with a fastener element at a bent side-edge portion of a fastener tape; a slider that moves for opening or closing the pair of fastener stringers; and a pair of resin-made terminal members each fixed to the fastener tape adjacently to the fastener element in a terminal portion of the fastener tape in an elongation direction of the fastener tape, the pair of terminal members including a pin and a socket configured to receive the pin. Reinforcing films are attached to both tape surfaces of at least one fastener tape in the terminal portion, and each reinforcing film has an embedded portion embedded in the terminal member.
US11071353B2	Automated footwear platform having lace cable tensioner A footwear assembly includes an upper, a lace cable, a plurality of lace guides and a tensioner. The tensioner includes a tensioning member secured to a side of the upper proximate a toe box and the lace cable, and a floating overlay attached to a side of the upper proximate a toe box and the lace cable. The tensioning members include an elastic member. The tensioning members can be configured to provide a stiff lockout zone and an elastic stretch zone.
US11071346B2	Taps and tap attachment mechanisms for tap shoes Examples of the disclosure are directed to a tap apparatus for attachment to a tap shoe. In some examples, the tap apparatus can include an upper tap portion that can be attached to the tap shoe, and a lower tap portion that covers and protects the fasteners used to attach the upper tap portion to the tap shoe. In some examples, the lower tap portion may slide onto the upper tap portion using a dovetail-like attachment mechanism. Screws or locking tabs may then be used to hold the lower tap portion in place. In some examples, the lower tap portion may be affixed to the upper tap portion using a threaded fastener, plug, or floating screw. In some examples, a tab in the upper tap portion can be retained in an aperture in the tap portion, and the lower tap portion can be pivotably engaged with the upper tap portion.
US11071343B2	Cap with interchangeable art A cap configured to permit different logos to be interchangeably positioned on the cap. The cap includes a front panel, a back panel and a visor. Further the cap comprises an adjustable strap. The front panel is made out of plastic material with hooks and other panels, such as the back panel and the visor, can also be made out of other materials. The logos are equipped with pile material permits them to be detachably mounted on the cap. A piece of stiffening material is positioned inside of the front panels forming the front face of the cap to maintain the front face in a shape.
US11071342B2	Low profile sock device A low profile sock device may include a body for receiving portions of a foot of a user. A first retainer may be configured to tension portions of the body, such as a first side and/or a heel region towards a portion of an upper foot region that the first retainer may be coupled to. A second retainer may be configured to tension portions of the body, such as a second side and/or a heel region towards a portion of the upper foot region that the second retainer may be coupled to. The retainers may be used to tension the body to the foot of a user to increase friction between the body and the foot prevent walking/running motion from pushing the body downward at the back of the foot while allowing the body to remain hidden while being worn with a shoe.
US11071340B2	Protective pant A protective pant for a wearer, comprising a pelvic portion for overlying a pelvic region of the wearer to provide impact protection to the pelvic region, leg portions for overlying thighs of the wearer to provide impact protection to the thighs, and a zipperless length adjuster configured to adjust a length of the protective pant. Also, a protective pant for a wearer, the protective pant comprising: an inner base for protecting a pelvic region of the wearer; an outer shell; and a zipperless length adjuster comprising a plurality of adjustment elements on the inner base and a plurality of adjustment elements on the outer shell, each of the adjustment elements on the outer shell configured to be attachable to a corresponding one of the adjustment elements of the inner base in at least two positions to permit length-wise adjustment of the outer shell relative to the inner base.
US11071336B2	Surgical masks A mask includes a housing defining (1) an inner layer, an outer layer, and a volume in between, (2) a mouth aperture to be disposed about a mouth of a user, (3) a side aperture to allow fluid flow into and out of the housing, (4) an oral fluid pathway extending from the mouth aperture to the side aperture, and (5) a nasal aperture to be disposed adjacent to nostrils of the user. The mask also includes a nasal channel extending from the nasal aperture and to a nasal exit aperture. The housing is configured to route (1) fluid flow received at the mouth aperture distally through the oral fluid pathway, and (2) fluid flow received at the side aperture proximally through the oral fluid pathway. The nasal channel is configured to route fluid flow received at the nasal aperture distally through the nasal fluid pathway.
US11071333B2	Backpack A backpack may include a first panel having a first panel surface facing in a direction and a second panel. The second panel has a second panel first surface and a second panel second surface opposite the second panel first surface. The second panel first surface is inconspicuous. The second panel is pivotable relative to the first panel between (1) a concealment position in which second panel second surface faces the first panel surface and (2) a safety position in which the second panel second surface faces in the. The backpack further includes a safety optic formed on one of the first panel surface and the second panel second surface.
US11071332B2	Swimwear garment with opening mechanism A swimsuit garment having a shoulder securing means connected to a torso-covering section extending from a bustline to a hemline. The torso-covering section will have an opening mechanism extending from a terminus point on the bustline in a diagonal direction to a starting point on the hemline. The starting point on the hemline is situated on an opposite side of the terminus on the bustline. Further, the torso-covering section is connected to a back-covering section. The opening mechanism may be situated diagonally, with a starting point situated on a wearer's leg cuff on one side of the wearer's body to an ending point on the wearer's bustline on the side of the body opposite to the leg cuff, for example the starting point is on the left leg cuff and the ending point or terminus is on the bustline on the wearer's right-side.
US11071330B2	Body suit A maternity garment, or bodysuit, configured to provide support and comfort to a pregnant woman. The garment may include an opening in the front of the garment exposing the stomach, or belly, of a woman. The garment may further include reinforced or compression material that passes underneath the belly providing support to the belly. Additionally, a reinforced back panel may be positioned on the back of the garment to provide additional support to the lower back of a pregnant woman. Straps may extend over the shoulders and cross in the back. Furthermore, a support strap may pass under the breasts as well. The garment may include a seamless one-piece fabric and may be a bikini or thong cut back depending on a woman's preference to provide both comfort and style.
US11071329B2	Method of making hybrid e-vaping cartridge, and method of making an e-vaping device including the hybrid e-vaping cartridge The method of making the e-vaping cartridge includes cutting at least one first hole through a first channel, sliding a housing over the first channel, the at least one first hole providing fluid communication between a first reservoir and a second reservoir, the first reservoir being defined between the housing and the first channel, where the second reservoir is defined between the first channel and a central passage traversing through the first channel. The method further includes inserting at least one first layer of absorbent material within the second reservoir, and positioning a heater and a wick in communication with the central passage. Distal ends of the wick contact the at least one first layer of absorbent material, where the heater is configured to vaporize a pre-vapor formulation that is communicated by the wick from the at least one first layer of absorbent material.
US11071328B2	Electronic cigarette An electronic cigarette, including a mouthpiece assembly, an atomization assembly, and a base assembly. The mouthpiece assembly includes a mouthpiece, a decorative cover, a movable cover, a fixed base adapted to fix the mouthpiece, a seal ring adapted to seal the fixed base, a first seal ring and a second seal ring adapted to seal the mouthpiece, and a sliding block. The atomization assembly includes a positioning pin, a limit spring, an upper holder, a gasket, a third seal ring adapted to seal the upper holder, a glass tube, an upper seal ring adapted to seal the glass tube, a lower seal ring adapted to seal the glass tube, a fourth seal ring adapted to seal the lower holder, a lower holder, a connecting thread, a spring, a first cylinder, a fifth seal ring adapted to seal the first cylinder, a second cylinder, and an atomizing core.
US11071325B2	Electronic smoking article including a heating apparatus implementing a solid aerosol generating source, and associated apparatus and method A smoking article is provided, having a component housing including a power source, and a tubular housing having a first end and a longitudinally-opposed second end, wherein the first or second end is configured to receive the component housing. The tubular housing includes an outer wall defining a cylindrical cavity. An aerosol-generating element is configured to be received within the cylindrical cavity, wherein the aerosol-generating element is configured to produce an aerosol in response to heat. An associated aerosol-generating element and related production methods are also provided.
US11071321B2	Container for electronic smoking articles The present disclosure relates to lockable and unlockable containers for electronic smoking articles, the containers including at least two concentric tubes, a locking mechanism retained therein, and an organizer configured to hold the articles.
US11071320B2	Smoking article filter for easy extinguishing There is provided a smoking article comprising a tobacco rod, a filter and tipping material attaching the tobacco rod and the filter. The filter comprises a plug of filtration material that defines a furthest downstream end of the smoking article, the plug being surrounded by one or more filter wrappers. The tipping material includes a ventilation zone. The tipping material and the filter wrapper or wrappers have a combined thickness (t) perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the smoking article, and the smoking article, at a location about the plug of filtration material, has a diameter (D SA) perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the smoking article. The diameter (D SA) to thickness (t) ratio is less than about 80 and the filtration material extends to the furthest downstream end of the smoking article.
US11071314B2	Temperature controlled thawing method and apparatus The present invention relates to a method of thawing and an apparatus for performing the method.
US11071304B2	Method and composition for preparing cured meat products The invention provides a curing agent comprising a plant-based nitrite derived from plant material comprising nitrate and a process for preparing the curing agent comprising contacting a plant material with an organism capable of converting nitrate to nitrite. The curing agent can be used to preserve or cure meat or meat products.
US11071303B2	Electrical stunning method with prolonged period of unconsciousness Disclosed is an electrical stunning method that is delivered to the head of a slaughter animal. A direct and/or alternating current electric pulse or an electric pulse sequence including two or more direct and/or alternating current pulses is used in the method. Also disclosed is a slaughter method using the stunning method and a design for a device that can be used in the stunning method.
US11071301B2	Anti-microbial agent to control biomass accumulation in SO2 scrubbers A method for removing or preventing a microbial growth, biofilm, biomass and/or mineral deposit on a hard surface inside an SO2 scrubber is disclosed. In particular, biocide compositions may be dosed in pulse or continuously for the reduction and prevention of biofilms on the hard surfaces inside an SO2 scrubber. A biocide composition disclosed here uses one or more non-oxidizing biocides, especially a mixture of one or more quaternary ammonium compounds and one or more other biocides.
US11071298B2	Sprayable gelling animal attractant A gel-based and sprayable animal attractant composition is provided that comprises at least one synthetic scent. Generally, the gel-based animal attractant composition can be applied through the use of an aerosol spray can and can be formulated to attract specific types of animals, in particular ruminants. More specifically, the animal attractant can comprise a synthetic scent designed to mimic the urine of a doe in estrus.
US11071288B2	Aquaculture shrimps and methods for culturing same An aquacultured shrimp contains carotenoid and does not have a broken 2nd antenna.
US11071279B2	Method and system for tracking health in animal populations An animal health monitoring system includes a plurality of animal tag assemblies configured for being disposed on members of an animal population, each of the animal tag assemblies including one or more sensors configured to measure one or more animal characteristics of a member of the animal population. The system includes a concentrator communicatively coupled to the plurality of animal tag assemblies and configured to acquire one or more animal characteristics from the plurality of animal tag assemblies. The system includes a controller communicatively coupled to the concentrator and configured to receive the acquired one or more animal characteristics from the plurality of animal tag assemblies from the concentrator, determine a health state of one or more of the members of the animal population based on the received one or more animal characteristics and report the determined health state to one or more user devices.
US11071273B2	Soybean cultivar 86172030 A soybean cultivar designated 86172030 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 86172030, to the plants of soybean cultivar 86172030, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 86172030, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 86172030. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 86172030. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 86172030, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar 86172030 with another soybean cultivar.
US11071267B2	Environment-enhancing hydroponic garden system having instream aeration features Described herein are example portable indoor hydroponic garden assemblies and associated methods of use. The portable indoor hydroponic garden assemblies can include features that facilitate hydroponic gardening in an indoor environment, including structural features that enhance the indoor environment itself, such as through sounds, smells, textures, sights, and so on. In an example, the portable indoor hydroponic garden system includes a tiered growing assembly housed fully within an enclosure. The tiered growing assembly can include a group of trays defining tiers that are recessed from one another, allowing water or other fluid to flow from tray to tray, creating waterfall features there between that can aerate the water and emit a pleasurable sound to the indoor environment. The enclosure can be climate controlled and thus adaptable to a variety of indoor conditions to grow desired plants, including embodiments using programmable heating and lighting systems.
US11071263B2	Expandable irrigation controller Described herein are several embodiments relating to irrigation controllers. In many implementations, the irrigation controllers includes a housing; a control unit within the housing and comprising a first microcontroller configured to execute stored irrigation programs, wherein the control unit includes an interface connector port; a driver circuitry within the housing configured to actuate irrigation valves based on control signals received from the first microcontroller; and a removable plug-in device removably coupled to the interface connector port, the removable plug-in device comprising a second microcontroller configured to send and receive data communications to and from the first microcontroller, such that the first microcontroller and the second microcontroller function together during use of the irrigation controller, wherein the removable plug-in device does not include any driver circuitry configured to actuate any irrigation valves based on any control signals received from the first microcontroller.
US11071248B1	Mower with cutting deck suspended from floor pan A mower may have a frame, a floor pan affixed to the frame, and a cutting deck suspended from the floor pan. A height of the cutting deck over a terrain surface may be adjustable with a lift system. The lift system may couple the cutting deck to the floor pan and move the cutting deck between a minimum height and a maximum height.
US11071245B2	Seeding machine including variable force trench closer An agricultural seeding machine includes a trench closer assembly and a sensing device configured to sense an aspect of the soil without contacting the soil and to output a sensed signal corresponding to the aspect of the soil. A processing device processes the sensed signal to generate a processed sensed signal, and compares a characteristic of the processed sensed signal to a stored signal characteristic representative of a soil condition. A trench closure quality metric is determined and provided via a user interface. Additionally, in response to and based upon the comparison, the processing device may automatically adjust the force applied to the soil by the soil contacting member. In this manner, the seeding machine utilizes a feedback signal to determine how well a trench is closed and can adjust the performance of the trench closer assembly in accordance with that feedback.
US11076521B2	Production plan creation system and production plan creation method A production plan creation computer, in a production plan creation process before starting production, creates or enters multiple production jobs required for producing the multiple types of component-mounted boards that are planned to be produced, and predicts or enters a production job that may become a jump-the-queue job to be produced unscheduled while one of the multiple production jobs is being produced. Next, the jump-the-queue job and the production jobs are grouped into multiple setup groups, with the jump-the-queue job being included in all the setup groups. Here, the jobs are grouped in each setup group such that it is possible to switch between the production jobs and the jump-the-queue job without performing changeover. The priorities of the jump-the-queue job and the production jobs are determined, and the feeder arrangement is optimized for each setup group based on the priorities of the jump-the-queue job and the production jobs.
US11076519B1	Selective inking head for semiconductor devices A method and system for manufacturing a device by forming a conformable interface layer from elastomer solution on semiconductor devices to facilitate picking and placing the semiconductor devices from a carrier substrate to a target substrate. The method may include transferring elastomer solution onto fluidic tips of a subset of fluidic heads of a fluidic head array by extending one or more fluidic head actuators of the subset of the fluidic heads, transferring the elastomer solution on the fluidic tips of the subset of the fluidic heads to semiconductor devices on a carrier substrate to form conformable interface layers on the semiconductor devices, and picking up the semiconductor devices via adhesive attachment with the conformable interface layers from the carrier substrate to place on a target substrate.
US11076518B2	Component supply device A component supply device supplies components stored in a component storage tape to a component extracting position. The component supply device includes a component exposing unit that exposes the components in the component storage tape fed by a tape feeding unit, the component storage tape traveling on a travel path formed from a tape travel path forming unit. The component exposing unit includes an insertion member that is inserted between a cover tape and a carrier tape and includes a base part and a tip part continuous with an upstream end in a tape feeding direction of the base part. The tip part is inclined toward the cover tape away from the carrier tape with respect to the base part in a state where the insertion member is inserted between the cover tape and the carrier tape.
US11076513B2	Circuit module A circuit module 2 comprises: a wiring structure 4; at least one electronic component 6a, 6b arranged on the upper surface of the wiring structure 4; an insulating resin layer 8 which is provided on the upper surface of the wiring structure 4 and in which at least one electronic component 6a, 6b is embedded; and a metal layer 10 provided on the upper surface of the insulating resin layer 8. The surface roughness of the portion S1 directly above each electronic component on the upper surface of the insulating resin layer 8 is expressed as R1. The surface roughness of the portion S2 other than the portion directly above all the electronic components on the upper surface of the insulating resin layer 8 is expressed as R2. At least one R1 satisfies the condition: R1>R2.
US11076511B2	Self-contained electromagnetic tracking unit An electromagnetic tracking system includes a magnetic transmitter configured to output magnetic fields, a receiver responsive to the magnetic fields, an electronics assembly having conductive elements that cause distortion to the magnetic fields, and an output mechanism configured to output a position of the receiver relative to the magnetic transmitter, wherein the magnetic transmitter has at least one winding disposed around a hollow ferromagnetic core comprised of conductive material through which current is made to flow by the electronics, wherein the electronics assembly is at least partially contained within the hollow portion of the hollow ferromagnetic core. Methods of manufacturing include shaping walls into a hollow shell to surround an electronics assembly, covering the hollow shell with ferromagnetic material, inserting the wrapped hollow shell into a plastic bobbin, and winding the plastic bobbin with coil wire to produce three orthogonal windings.
US11076504B2	Arrangement for dissipating heat of a power supply unit in a housing The present disclosure envisages an arrangement (100) for dissipating heat of a power supply unit (105) in a housing (110). The arrangement (100) comprises at least one packing member (120). The packing member (120) is disposed between the power supply unit (105) and an operative inner wall of the housing (110) to increase conductive thermal contact between inner walls of the housing (110) and the power supply unit (105). The arrangement (100) facilitates maximum surface contact between a power supply unit and inner walls of a housing.
US11076496B2	Tamper-resistant electronics system and improved method of manufacturing therefor In accordance with the embodiments described herein, there is provided an enclosure system including an enclosure formed of an insulating material, and at least one heatsink arrangement formed of a thermally-conductive material. The heatsink arrangement includes a heat conductive surface configured as one of a pyramid, an inverted pyramid, a plateau, a spherical segment, and an inverted spherical segment. The heatsink arrangement in the enclosure system can be integrally formed from the enclosure such that a demarcation between the heatsink arrangement and the enclosure is water-tight. The enclosure and the heatsink arrangement can also be simultaneously integrally formed and enmeshed using additive manufacturing processes.
US11076492B2	Three dimensional circuit formation Devices, methods, and systems for forming an electrical circuit out of a conductor embedded in two layers of substrate are disclosed. Portions of the two layers of substrate and the conductor are removed, forming a cavity through the two layers and the conductor. A blocker material is deposited along the wall of the cavity. A portion of the blocker material and adjacent layer of the substrate is removed forming another cavity in contact with a part of the conductor. A surface of the second cavity is then electroless plated by a conductive metal to form part of the electrical circuit.
US11076486B2	Electronic unit and method for forming an electronic unit The invention relates to an electronic unit (100, 100′) comprising at least one printed circuit board (10, 10′, 20) which is populated with a plurality of electric and/or electronic components (50, 50.1, 50.2) on one side or on both sides and which is incorporated into at least one protective housing (90) made of a solidified potting compound (80′). In the process, the electronic unit overall forms a volume body (200) in which the solidified potting compound takes up a filling volume (70). In order to minimize the filling volume, the electronic unit additionally comprises a separate insert molding part (60) which is arranged at least adjacently to a populated side of the at least one printed circuit board and which takes up a spatially closed displacement volume in the volume body with respect to a flowable potting compound for forming the protective housing in a solidified state (80′).
US11076485B2	Component mounted board and electronic device comprising the same A component mounting board includes first and second substrates, a connection substrate, an interposer, and an electronic component. The first substrate has first and second surfaces opposing each other, a first side surface between the first and second surfaces, and a first signal pattern. The second substrate is disposed on the first substrate, has third and fourth surfaces opposing each other and a second side surface between the third and fourth surfaces, and includes a second signal pattern. The connection substrate is bent to connect the first and second side surfaces, and the interposer is disposed between the first and third surfaces and electrically connects the first and second signal patterns. The electronic component is mounted on at least one of the first to fourth surfaces.
US11076484B2	Circuit module A circuit module (100) includes a substrate (10) having a plurality of internal conductors (2), a first electronic component disposed on one principal surface (S1) of the substrate (10), a first resin layer (40) provided on the one principal surface (S1) and sealing the first electronic component, a plurality of outer electrodes (B1) provided on the other principal surface (S2) of the substrate (10) and including a ground electrode, a conductor film (50) at least provided on an outer surface of the first resin layer (40) and a side surface (S3) of the substrate (10) and connected to the ground electrode via at least one of the plurality of internal conductors (2), and a resin film (60).
US11076480B2	Component carrier with embedded filament A method of manufacturing a component carrier. The method includes forming a stack having at least one electrically insulating layer structure and/or at least one electrically conductive layer structure, and embedding a filament in the stack.
US11076478B2	Electronic assemblies having embedded passive heat pipes and associated method An electronic assembly may include a chassis, and electronic modules mounted within the chassis. Each electronic module may include a printed circuit substrate, heat-generating electronic components mounted on the printed circuit substrate, and a heat sink body mounted to the printed circuit substrate and having a plurality of heat pipe receiving passageways extending between opposing side edges and overlying corresponding heat-generating components. A respective elongate, passive, heat pipe may extend within each heat pipe receiving passageway and be removably fastened to at least one end to the heat sink body for enhanced conductive heat transport.
US11076477B2	Cooling and compression clamp for short lead power devices A clamp configured to be coupled to a printed circuit board to cool and compress one or more electrical connections subject to repeated power and thermal cycling. A first conductive column of the clamp is configured to compress a first electrical connection between a first power device lead and a first printed circuit board trace of the printed circuit board, and draw thermal energy away from the first power device lead. The first conductive column extends from a load spreading plate. The load spreading plate is an insulator that electrically isolates a fastener extending therefrom from the first conductive column. The fastener is configured to cooperate with the circuit board to connect the clamp to the circuit board, compress the load spreading plate against the first conductive column to compress the first electrical connection, and connect the clamp to ground.
US11076471B2	Light management system for wireless enabled fixture A lighting management system includes communications circuitry, processing circuitry, and a memory. The memory stores instructions, which, when executed by the processing circuitry cause the lighting management system to receive a message from a lighting fixture via the communications circuitry, the message indicating a proximal presence of a detected mobile device to the lighting fixture, and performing one or more actions in response to receipt of the message. By performing the one or more actions upon receipt of the message as described above, a lighting system may be provided with additional functionality that enhances the lighting system.
US11076468B2	Driver circuit and lighting system for light apparatus The lighting apparatus includes a driver circuit and a lighting system. The driver circuit includes a signal receiver module, a signal processing module and a signal execution module. The signal receiver module is configured to receive a parameter signal of a coding device. The signal processing module is connected to the signal receiver module. The signal processing module is configured to convert the parameter signal into a PWM signal. The signal execution module is connected to the signal processing module. The signal execution module is also configured to convert an alternating current input power source into a direct current power source. The direct current power source is filtered based on the PWM signal. In this way, the filtered direct current power source matches a required power source of the lighting apparatus. The lighting apparatus solves low inapplicability and compatibility that occurs in the driver circuit of the convention art.
US11076464B2	Control method and driving circuit for light emitting diode A driving circuit, for providing a driving current to a light emitting diode, includes a PWM demodulator, a current source and a local clock generator. The PWM demodulator is configured to sample a PWM input signal in reference with a local clock signal and generate a brightness code according to a duty ratio of the PWM input signal. The current source is coupled with the PWM demodulator and the light emitting diode. The current source is configured to generate the driving current with a current amplitude according to the brightness code. The local clock generator is configured to generate the local clock signal according to a global clock signal during a first cycle period of successive cycle periods of the PWM input signal. The local clock generator suspends oscillation of the local clock signal during a second cycle period of the successive cycle periods of the PWM input signal.
US11076461B2	User control modality for LED color tuning Various embodiments include apparatuses and methods enabling a control apparatus for color tuning a light-emitting diode (LED) array. In one example, a controllable-lighting apparatus includes an LED array having at least one desaturated red LED, at least one desaturated green LED, and at least one desaturated blue LED. A number of color-tuning and luminous-flux control devices includes an adjustable correlated color temperature (CCT)-control device for setting a desired color temperature of the LED array, an adjustable Duv-control device for setting a desired overall color cast of the LED array along an isothermal CCT line corresponding to the desired color temperature, and an adjustable flux-control device for setting a desired luminous-flux value of the LED array. Other apparatuses and methods are described.
US11076459B2	LED lighting device for preventing flickering The present inventions presents an LED lighting device for preventing flickering. The device comprises: a rectification unit receiving an alternating current voltage applied from an alternating current power source and rectifying the same so as to output a direct current; a first light-emitting unit receiving the direct current applied thereto and adjusting a first constant current so as to make a first LED array emit light; a second light-emitting unit receiving the adjusted first constant current applied thereto and adjusting a second constant current so as to make a second LED array emit light; and a serial switching unit receiving the direct current and the adjusted first and second constant currents applied thereto so as to control current transmission according to the opening/closing of a plurality of embedded transistors, wherein the direct current and the first constant current, which are to be applied, are applied by passing through first and second diodes, respectively.
US11076453B2	Heatable glazing A heatable glazing comprising a pane of glazing material with a first portion delimited by a first and a second bus bars wherein a voltage VI is applied and a second portion of the pane in need of rapid heating delimited by the second bus bar and a third bus bar wherein a voltage V2 is applied. The voltage VI is converted into a voltage V2 within the second portion by an electrical converter DC/DC.
US11076449B2	Smart appliance for self-sustaining wireless network Disclosed herein are systems and techniques to self-sustain a wireless network. A wireless base station and a mobile wireless extender are provided. The wireless base station can provide a wireless network. Furthermore, the mobile wireless extended can navigate within an environment to extend the wireless network provided by the wireless base station.
US11076433B2	Dynamic subband-based signal transceiving method and apparatus therefor in wireless communication system Disclosed is a method for a terminal for transceiving a signal with a base station in a wireless communication system. Specifically, the method comprises the steps of: receiving, from the base station, information regarding one or more extended subbands by means of a base subband; transmitting a random access preamble to the base station by means of a particular extended subband from among the base subband or one or more extended subbands; receiving, from the base station, a random access response corresponding to the random access preamble by means of the particular extended subband; and transmitting an uplink signal and receiving a downlink signal by means of the particular extended subband, wherein the base subband and said one or more extended subbands differ from each other by one or more from among the subcarrier spacing, unit scheduling time, and bandwidth.
US11076417B2	Downlink transmission scheduling for user equipments enabling device-to-device communications This disclosure generally relates to downlink transmission scheduling for D2D UE based on subframe pattern. In one embodiment, the D2D UE may provide the BS with information on a pattern of the D2D reception subframes that indicates the usage of at least some of the D2D reception subframes. From the pattern, the BS may determine one or more D2D reception subframes in which the UE wants to monitor the D2D reception and/or the cellular reception. Then the BS may avoid scheduling the downlink transmission in the subframes in which the UE monitors the D2D reception. In the other D2D reception subframes, the downlink transmission can be scheduled. In this way, the UE can properly switch between the D2D reception and cellular reception, without any conflicts or downlink resource waste.
US11076415B2	Methods and apparatus for backhaul and access link scheduling in integrated access and backhaul networks and synchronized networks A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided in which a scheduling entity determines a first direction of a backhaul link traffic between a first scheduling entity and a second scheduling entity, and determines a second direction of an access link traffic between the scheduling entity and a user equipment (UE) based on the first direction of the backhaul link traffic to reduce potential interference caused by the access link traffic. The scheduling entity transmits or receives the access link traffic in the second direction utilizing at least one of a same transmission resource of the backhaul lick traffic. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also claimed and described.
US11076414B2	Half-duplex handling with system-wide feedback resources Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for half-duplex handling with system-wide feedback resources. Embodiments include determining, for a first feedback resource corresponding to a first time period, that the wireless node has a scheduled feedback transmission and a scheduled feedback reception on shared frequency resources. Embodiments include selecting one of the scheduled feedback transmission or the scheduled feedback reception based on a rule. Embodiments include using the feedback resource to perform the selected one of the scheduled feedback transmission or the scheduled feedback reception.
US11076412B2	Communications device and method A communications device includes a transmitter configured to transmit signals to one or more other communications devices via a wireless access interface, the one or more communications devices configured to perform device-to-device communications. A receiver is configured to receive signals from the one of the other communications devices via the wireless access interface, and a controller controls the transmitter and receiver to transmit or to receive the signals via the wireless access interface to transmit or to receive data represented by the signals. The wireless access interface provides a scheduling region including plural predetermined sections of communications resources, and plural sections of shared communications resources. Transmission of a scheduling assignment message in a section of the scheduling region informs other devices of a group that a communications device will transmit signals representing data in a corresponding section of the shared communications channel.
US11076393B2	Device and method for controlling working state change of small cell A device and method controlling working state change of a small cell and a base station including the device. The device includes: an information acquiring unit that acquires interference between a small cell to be controlled and an adjacent small cell and/or load of the small cell to be controlled; and a state change determination unit that determines working state change to be performed by the small cell to be controlled according to the acquired interference and/or load. The working state includes multiple sleep levels from low to high. A sleep degree of the small cell to be controlled in a low sleep level is less than a sleep degree of the small cell to be controlled in a high sleep level, the working state change being performed among multiple sleep levels.
US11076385B2	Block acknowledgement and fragmentation in multi-link communication between multi-link logical entities Embodiments of a station (STA) and method of communication are generally described herein. The STA may be included in a first plurality of STAs affiliated with a first multi-link logical entity (MLLE). A plurality of links may be established between the first MLLE and a second MLLE, wherein the second MLLE may be affiliated with a second plurality of STAs. The STA may receive a first subset of a sequence of MAC protocol data units (MPDUs). A second subset of the sequence of MPDUs may be transmitted by another STA of the first plurality of STAs. The STA may transmit a block acknowledgement (BA) frame that includes: a number of BA bitmaps, configurable to values greater than or equal to one; and BA control information for each of the BA bitmaps.
US11076370B2	Node synchronization for networks A network includes an intermediate node to communicate with a child node via a wireless network protocol. An intermediate node synchronizer in the intermediate node facilitates time synchronization with its parent node and with the child node. A child node synchronizer in the child node to facilitates time synchronization with the intermediate node. The intermediate node synchronizer exchanges synchronization data with the child node synchronizer to enable the child node to be time synchronized to the intermediate node before the intermediate node is synchronized to its parent node if the intermediate node has not synchronized to its parent node within a predetermined guard time period established for the child node.
US11076367B2	Power headroom report transmission method and apparatus A power headroom report transmission method includes: determining whether a trigger event for a first serving cell of user equipment exists; transmitting a power headroom report of a first carrier, as a working carrier, of a first serving cell to a base station in case that there is a trigger event; determining whether a power headroom report of a second carrier of the first serving cell has been uploaded, wherein one of the first carrier and the second carrier is the supplement uplink carrier, and the other of the first carrier and the second carrier is a non-supplement uplink carrier; and in case that the power headroom report of the second carrier is not uploaded, transmitting the power headroom report of the second carrier to the base station when the first serving cell switches to the second carrier as the working carrier.
US11076362B2	Method and apparatus for transmitting uplink signals in wireless communication The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More particularly, the present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for a terminal controlling uplink power in a carrier aggregation-based wireless communication system, comprising the steps of: configuring a first cell and a second cell; transmitting a first PUCCH signal from subframe #n in the first cell; and transmitting a second PUCCH signal from subframe #n in the second cell, wherein when the sum of transmit power of the first PUCCH signal and transmit power of the second PUCCHJ signal exceeds a predetermined maximum transmit power configured to the terminal, the transmit power of the PUCCH signal having a lower priority from among the first UCCH signal and the second PUCCH signal is reduced or the transmission is dropped.
US11076357B2	Uplink power control on unlicensed carriers Systems and methods relating to transmit power control are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method of operation of a radio access node for providing transmit power control commands to a wireless device for uplink (UL) transmission on a cell that operates in an unlicensed frequency spectrum is provided. The method comprises indicating, for the cell that operates in the unlicensed frequency spectrum, a dynamic Transmit Power Control (TPC) command using a downlink (DL) control channel which indicates a DL-UL allocation of upcoming subframes in the cell that operates in the unlicensed frequency spectrum. In some embodiments, the DL control channel is a common DL control channel. In some other embodiments, the DL channel is a common Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH).
US11076352B2	Macro and micro discontinuous reception Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A wireless device may receive a downlink (DL) reception indication during an active duration of a discontinuous reception (DRX) configuration. The DL reception indication may indicate the presence of a reception opportunity following an inactivity interval, as well as the length of the inactivity interval. The wireless device may refrain from DL monitoring during the inactivity interval. In some cases, the wireless device may enter a sleep mode during the inactivity interval and wake up to receive a subsequent transmission during the reception opportunity. In some examples, the wireless device may use the inactivity interval to communicate using a different radio access technology (RAT).
US11076350B2	Methods and apparatus for increasing the number of training and data tones in wireless communications systems Accordingly, systems and methods for managing power when the number of training and data tones are increased in a wireless communications system are provided. An L-SIG field is generated that includes a set of data and pilot tones, wherein the pilot tones are inserted between the data tones in the set of data and pilot tones. A plurality of training tones is added to the L-SIG field before and after the set of data and pilot tones. A symbol is generated that includes the L-SIG field, an L-LTF field, and a data field, wherein the training tones of the L-SIG field provide channel estimates for the data field. Power of the L-LTF field is managed relative to power of the L-SIG field in the generated symbol in a time domain.
US11076344B1	Wireless device and wireless network processes for access control A wireless device receives, from a base station, one or more broadcast messages comprising system information. The system information may indicate that a first type of wireless device is barred from accessing or camping on a first cell. The wireless device may determine, based on the system information and based on the wireless device not being of the first type, that the wireless device is not barred from accessing or camping on the first cell. The wireless device may transmit, to the base station, a random access preamble for accessing or camping on the first cell.
US11076338B2	Conveyance system data transfer A method for data transfer in a conveyance system includes moving a conveyance system component along a travel path, the conveyance system component including a memory; and transferring data, by at least one of sending data from the memory or receiving data to the memory, in response to available network signal strength.
US11076332B2	Wireless terminal and base station switching method A wireless terminal that: for previous communications between the wireless terminal and base stations, stores as a communication history at least position information for the wireless terminal and information pertaining to each base station; acquires the position information for the wireless terminal and, on the basis of the position information for the wireless terminal and the stored communication history, derives from multiple base stations at least a connection subject base station to be used in data communication and a connection standby base station, which is the base station having the next highest connection priority after the connection subject base station; and performs data communication when a trial connection with the connection subject base station has succeeded, and switches the connection subject base station to be used in data communication to the connection standby base station when communication with the connection subject base station is interrupted.
US11076313B2	Base station and master communication apparatus A base station and a master communication apparatus are provided. The master communication apparatus belongs to a mobile communication system. The mobile communication system includes a plurality of data transmission apparatuses. Each of the data transmission apparatuses has a transmission path with a user equipment individually. Each transmission path has a priority degree. The master communication apparatus selects one of the transmission paths as the primary path. For each of a plurality of QoS degrees, the master communication apparatus selects a set of the transmission paths as at least one duplication path of the QoS degree according to the priority degrees and/or a plurality of communication service statuses. The master communication apparatus configures a MAC logic channel parameter and configures at least one PDCP parameter. The master communication apparatus transmits the MAC logic channel parameter and the at least one PDCP parameter to the user equipment.
US11076299B1	Multiple antenna based spectrum sensing solution for cognitive radio A method for spectrum sensing for cognitive radio includes performing a process of local spectrum sensing using receive beamforming and energy detection at each of a plurality of secondary users included in a cognitive radio network, wherein the process of local spectrum sensing decides between two hypotheses corresponding to absence and presence of a primary user, the two hypotheses being formulated using a primary user signal, a plurality of co-channel interferences, and sensing noise, the primary user signal, the plurality of co-channel interferences, and the sensing noise being received at each of the plurality of secondary users, and a set of beamforming weights of the receive beamforming is determined by optimizing a probability of detection and constraining a probability of false alarm.
US11076290B2	Assigning an agent device from a first device registry to a second device registry An agent device is registered in a first device registry maintained by a first registry apparatus for authenticating agent devices for communicating with application providing apparatuses. The agent device can be assigned to a second device registry maintained by second registry apparatus. The method of assignment comprises the first registry apparatus receiving from a requestor device a device assignment request. In response to the device assignment request, the first registry apparatus checks whether the agent device is allowed to be assigned to the second device registry, and if so, the agent device transmits second authentication information for authenticating the identity of the agent device to the second registry apparatus which registers this in the second device registry.
US11076289B1	AI-based multi-mode wireless access protocol (MMWAP) Aspects of the disclosure relate to a multi-mode wireless access protocol (MMWAP). A redirection router may receive a pre-association request, from a user communication device, and send an acknowledgment of the pre-association request. The user communication device may further transmit authorization keys associated with an application installed in the user communication device. Based on the authorization keys, the redirection router may send an authentication indication to the user communication device. The user communication device may use the redirection router to transmit and receive messages associated with the application to public networks and other private networks. The redirection router may maintain multi-mode connectivity independently with multiple user communication devices.
US11076286B2	Beam-switching capability indication in wireless networks that utilize beamforming Disclosed are techniques for enhanced positioning methods that are suitable for use in a wireless network that utilizes beamformed communication. More particularly, a user equipment (UE) may determine a capability for a number of beam switches that the UE supports per slot for one or more slot types and transmit, to a network node, capability information indicating the capability for the number of beam switches that the UE supports per slot in slots having the one or more slot types. As such, the network node may transmit and the UE may receive one or more signals across a number of beams based on the capability indicated in the capability information for the number of beam switches per slot based on a slot type associated with a slot in which the one or more signals are transmitted.
US11076279B2	Communication apparatus and communication method A communication apparatus and a communication method by which to perform communication operations in conformity with the Wi-Fi P2P specification. When either a service advertiser function or a service seeker function is to be activated, a WFD R2 device activates both the functions. In particular, the device avoids operating only as a service seeker. Accordingly, the device can discover partner devices as a service seeker, and can be discovered by the partner devices as a service advertiser.
US11076278B2	Wireless communication system A wireless communication system includes a base station and direct wave communication stations that communicate with the base station. At least one of the base station and the direct wave communication stations includes a number-of-bands switching unit that switches, on the basis of a communication state, a number of bands for direct wave communication, by dividing a band for direct wave communication. One of the plurality of direct wave communication stations receives a narrowband carrier in the divided band.
US11076277B2	Public safety systems and methods for providing emergency access to private networks Disclosed herein are public safety systems and methods for providing private network access to a user device. An exemplary public safety system is configured to communicate with a plurality of private networks and a communications network. The exemplary public safety system is configured to receive an emergency notification identifying a first private network of the plurality of private networks. The exemplary public safety system is configured to select the first private network. The exemplary public safety system is configured to provision the first private network to accept a configuration credential. The exemplary public safety system is configured to send through the communications network the configuration credential to a user device, thereby provisioning a subscriber identification module (SIM) in the user device to access the first private network.
US11076273B2	Systems and methods for controlling data transfer in a network of moving things, for example including autonomous vehicles Communication network architectures, systems and methods for supporting and/or effectively utilizing a network of mobile and/or static nodes. As a non-limiting example, various aspects of this disclosure provide communication network architectures, systems, and methods for supporting a dynamically configurable communication network comprising a complex array of both static and moving communication nodes (e.g., the Internet of moving things, autonomous vehicle networks, etc.). For example, a communication network, or one or more nodes thereof, implemented in accordance with various aspects of the present disclosure provide for controlling data transfer through a network of moving things in a manner that reduces unnecessarily utilization of communication bandwidth and/or financial resources.
US11076269B2	Machine type communication using mobile originated short messaging service without mobile station international subscriber directory number Various communication systems may benefit from being able to communicate without requiring certain identifiers to be assigned. For example, certain wireless communication systems may benefit from machine type communication using mobile originated short messaging service without a mobile station international subscriber directory number. A method can include preparing, at a user equipment, a mobile originated short message service message. The method can also include identifying, in the message, a particular external identifier from a set of external identifiers assigned to an application.
US11076262B2	Method and system for vehicle location tracking using V2X communication A method at a network element within a Vehicle to Everything (V2X) Communications Domain, the method including receiving a tracking request at the network element for a target vehicle, the tracking request including identifying information for the target vehicle; creating a target vehicle list based on the tracking request; distributing the target vehicle list to at least one V2X endpoint; receiving at least one sighting report from the at least one V2X endpoint; and forwarding the at least one sighting report to a second network element.
US11076261B1	Location systems for electronic device communications An electronic device may be provided with control circuitry, wireless transceiver circuitry, and a display. The control circuitry may determine where nearby devices are located relative to the electronic device. When a wireless communications link is established with a nearby device, the control circuitry may use the display to inform a user of the status of the wireless communications link and the location of the nearby device. The display may produce images such as a line extending in the direction of the nearby device. The line may move on the display in response to movement of the nearby device. In an environment with multiple devices that are in range for wireless communications, the display may show a notification for each nearby device. The location and size of each notification on the display may be based on the location and proximity of the nearby device.
US11076258B2	System and methods for dynamic creation of a geofence for a location The present teachings relate to a method of creating a geofence for a first location comprising receiving a time that a first vehicle was at the first location from a fleet management system, receiving a time that the first vehicle was at a second location from an on-board telematics unit of the first vehicle, determining if the first vehicle was at the second location for a predetermined period of time before or after being at the first location, and creating the geofence for the first location as including the second location if it is determined that the first vehicle was at the second location for the predetermined period of time before or after being at the first location.
US11076252B2	Audio signal processing apparatus and audio signal processing method An audio signal processing apparatus includes; a first correlation component separating unit configured to predict a first signal from a second signal in a predetermined period to generate a first correlation component signal and to separate the first non-correlation component signal from the first signal by using the first correlation component signal; a second correlation component separating unit configured to predict a second signal from the first signal in the predetermined period to generate a second correlation component signal and to separate the second non-correlation component signal from the second signal by using the second correlation component signal; a correlation component synthesizing unit configured to synthesize the first correlation component signal and the second correlation component signal to generate a synthesized correlation component signal; a first gain multiplying unit configured to multiply the synthesized correlation component signal by a gain to generate a correlation component signal; a first signal adding unit configured to add a correlation component signal and a first non-correlation component signal; and a second signal adding unit configured to add the correlation component signal and the second non-correlation component signal.
US11076246B2	Eye-mounted hearing aid Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a method of stimulating a cornea. A non-limiting example of the method includes capturing a sound with a microphone. A non-limiting example of the method also includes transducing the sound to an electric signal by a microprocessor. A non-limiting example of the method also includes stimulating a piezo-electric element adjacent to a receptor of the cornea, wherein the piezo-electric element is positioned on an eye lens with an electric signal. A non-limiting example of the method also includes mechanically stimulating a receptor of the cornea with the stimulated piezo-electric element.
US11076245B2	Ball and socket connection with an acoustic seal and mounting interface for a hearing assistance device Disclosed herein, among other things, are apparatus and methods to provide improved connections for components of hearing assistance devices. Various embodiments include an apparatus including a receiver case configured to house a hearing assistance device receiver, the receiver case including a spherical receiver spout having an opening. The apparatus also includes a receptacle housing having a spherical socket adapted to mate with the spherical receiver spout to form a ball and socket connection. An insert within the spherical socket is configured to establish a retained interference fit with the opening of the receiver spout when the connection is formed so as to create an acoustic seal therebetween.
US11076242B2	Ultrasonic transducer Ultrasonic transducers that are capable of generating increased levels of ultrasound, as well as receiving ultrasonic waves with increased sensitivity. The ultrasonic transducers include a back cover, a protective front cover, a backplate, and a vibrator film layer disposed between the backplate and the protective front cover. The backplate includes a plurality of grooves formed on a surface thereof facing the vibrator film layer. Each groove includes upper edges having cross-sectional contours that gradually tend toward the deepest part of the groove to allow a larger area of the backplate to be closer to the vibrator film layer, thereby increasing the resulting electric field, and, consequently, increasing the output power and sensitivity of the ultrasonic transducer.
US11076239B2	Sound generator The invention discloses a sound generator having a voice coil. The most outer layer of the voice coil is defined as a tailend layer (last layer), which is wound obliquely from a top of the penult layer adjacent to the diaphragm in a direction away from the diaphragm, so that the high frequency pit of the sound generator is improved. The most outer layer of the voice coil is not completely wound such that the most outer layer reduces the contacting area between the dome and the voice coil, which reduces the split vibration of the dome at high frequency and improves the high frequency-resonance performance.
US11076238B2	Speaker The present invention discloses a speaker having a vibrating system and a flexible circuit board. The vibrating system has a lower vibrating diaphragm with a first fastening portion, a second fastening portion, and a vibrating portion having a first and a second connecting portion and a middle portion. A vertical distance between a tangent line along a vertical vibrating direction at a first end of the first connecting portion and another tangent line along the direction of the middle portion is a first distance; another vertical distance between a tangent line along the direction at the second end of the second connecting portion and another tangent line along the direction of the middle portion is a second distance. Both the first and second distance are longer than a distance of the maximum elastic deformation of the flexible circuit board. The quality of speaker can be improved.
US11076233B2	Sound generation device Provided is a sound generation device wherein noise can be reduced in accordance with a predetermined frequency band. An elastic member (8) is provided to obtain a sound pressure characteristic having a sub-peak at a predetermined frequency on the lower side than a lowest resonance frequency, and a phase characteristic such that a change rate of phase difference is lowered around the predetermined frequency. When the phase characteristic is calculated by simulation or actually measured in advance and an input signal is controlled such that the generated sound has an opposite phase to the noise, the generated sound can be made less prone to deviate from the opposite phase to the noise even if a time difference is caused between noise sound collection and sound generation at around the predetermined frequency, with the result that the noise can be effectively reduced. In addition, restrictions regarding the equivalent mass and resonance frequency of a diaphragm (3) can be reduced, the flexibility of design can be improved, and the noise can be reduced in accordance with the predetermined frequency band.
US11076230B2	Speaker array, and signal processing apparatus The present technology relates to a speaker array designed to be capable of achieving sufficiently high reproducibility at low cost, and a signal processing apparatus. The speaker array is formed with a plurality of higher order speakers and a plurality of general speakers. The type, the number, or the installation positions of the higher order speakers are determined in accordance with wavefront reproducibility in a second region located on the outer side of a first region that can be controlled by the general speakers. The present technology can be applied to a speaker array and a sound field forming apparatus.
US11076224B2	Processing of data of a video sequence in order to zoom to a speaker detected in the sequence Method and device for processing a video sequence containing a succession of images of one or more participant speakers, captured by a wide-angle camera. The method includes: capturing sound using a microphone having a plurality of sensors for capturing a sound field; processing the audio data captured by the microphone in order to determine at least one direction of origin of sound coming from a participant, relative to an optical axis of the wide-angle camera; generating a signal including data concerning the direction of origin of the sound relative to the optical axis of the camera, for the purpose of utilizing the signal when rendering the captured images by zooming into an area around the participant emitting the sound for which the direction of origin corresponds to the data of the signal.
US11076220B2	Loudspeaker system Provided are loudspeaker systems. Embodiments include a first speaker to provide a direct radiating output from the front of the loudspeaker system and a second speaker to drive a ported side chamber of the loudspeaker system, wherein the first and second speakers share a ported common chamber, and wherein at least one port of the ported common chamber exits the front of the loudspeaker system. In one embodiment, the common chamber includes at least one port that is substantially aligned with the front of the loudspeaker system. In another embodiment, each speaker is coupled to a separate amplifier and signal processing unit.
US11076215B2	Electronic device including speaker and microphone Certain embodiments of the disclosure relate to microphone-equipped wearable devices, and more particularly, to wearable devices worn on users' ear. According to certain embodiments of the disclosure, a wearable device comprises a speaker, a microphone, and a housing, the housing includes a protrusion configured to be insertable into a user's ear, a first sound path including a first opening formed through an area of a surface of the protrusion, extending from the first opening in a first length, and including a second opening facing the speaker, and a second sound path including a third opening formed through another area of the surface of the protrusion, extending from the third opening in a second length larger than the first length, and including a fourth opening facing the microphone. Other certain embodiments are also possible.
US11076210B1	Distributed processing architecture Embodiments of the present disclosure include techniques for processing neural networks. Various forms of parallelism may be implemented using topology that combines sequences of processors. In one embodiment, the present disclosure includes a computer system comprising one or more processor groups, the processor groups each comprising a plurality of processors. A plurality of network switches are coupled to subsets of the plurality of processor groups. In one embodiment, the switches may be optical network switches. Processors in the processor groups may be configurable to form sequences, and the network switches are configurable to form at least one sequence across one or more of the plurality of processor groups to perform neural network computations. Various alternative configurations for creating Hamiltonian cycles are disclosed to support data parallelism, pipeline parallelism, layer parallelism, or combinations thereof.
US11076205B2	Retrieving supplemental content A system may provide supplemental content to a viewer of a content item through use of an embedded identifier indicating an address of associated supplemental content identifying data. The supplemental content identifying data may identify one or more supplemental content items associated with the content item and available to the viewer. An address or other identifier in the supplemental content identifying data may be used to retrieve at least a portion of the available supplemental content items, and a display may be generated combining the content item with the supplemental content. In some embodiments, the identifier may be securely provided to a client and may be authenticated as part of retrieving supplemental content associated with the content item. The identifier may comprise a trusted token or security token used to authenticate the supplemental content identifying data associated with the content item.
US11076202B2	Customizing digital content based on consumer context data Systems and methods for customizing digital content based on consumer context data are disclosed. In embodiments, a computer-implemented method, comprises: determining, by a computing device, a goodness of fit of one or more digital content segments for a digital product based on asset success metrics indicating a trend in consumer consumption of content; identifying, by the computing device, a select digital content segment from the one or more digital content segments based on the goodness of fit; and incorporating, by the computing device, the select digital content segment into the digital product.
US11076199B2	Systems and methods for providing targeted content in an EMBMS stream to a user device Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to systems [100, 200, 300] and methods for providing targeted content in an eMBMS stream to a user device [130], wherein the systems [100, 200, 300] and the methods [400, 500] may be implemented through one a server [110] and a user device [130]. The method, in an embodiment, may comprise: receiving a request from the user device for availing the eMBMS stream; receiving a profile information from the user device; generating at least one context tag based on the profile information; screening the at least one portion of the eMBMS stream to identify at least one object; identifying and transmitting at least one content based on at least one of the profile information and the at least one context tag; and enabling the at the user device to exhibit the at least one content.
US11076194B2	Time-shifted playback A reception apparatus includes receiver circuitry configured to receive a broadcast stream that includes (i) a first broadcaster service selected by a user and (ii) a second broadcaster service. The reception apparatus further includes a demodulator configured to demodulate the broadcast stream into a plurality of data packets. The reception apparatus further includes processing circuitry configured to: store the plurality of data packets corresponding to the first and second broadcaster services in a pause buffer, process each data packet associated with the selected first broadcaster service to extract audio and video content, and output, as part of a live TV broadcast, the extracted audio and video content associated with the first broadcaster service to the user during a first time period.
US11076191B2	Systems and methods for extending an in-home splitter network A system for extending an in-home splitter network includes a cable television (CATV) device that is configured to transmit and receive signals in a multimedia over coax alliance (MoCA) bandwidth and signals in a CATV bandwidth. The system also includes a MoCA device that is configured to be disposed within a user's premises. The MoCA device is configured to transmit and receive the signals in the MoCA bandwidth. The system also includes a reflection-less in-home network adapter (RNA) configured to be connected to and positioned between the CATV device and the MoCA device.
US11076187B2	Systems and methods for performing quality based streaming Systems and methods in accordance with various embodiments of the invention enable quality based streaming. A content player in accordance with an embodiment of the invention includes: a processor; a network interface; and memory containing a content player application. The content player application can direct the processor to: receive quality metadata describing a plurality of streams, where: the plurality of streams are encoded at different maximum bitrates; each stream is divided into content segments; and the quality varies between content segments in each stream. Furthermore, the content player application directs the processor to measure available bandwidth; request content segments from the plurality of streams based upon the available network bandwidth and the quality metadata, where the requested content segments include content segments encoded at a maximum bitrate and having quality that is the lowest maximum bitrate that achieves a target quality level.
US11076184B2	Publishing disparate live media output streams in mixed mode A system generates disparate live output stream manifests. For a disparate live media output stream manifest generated based on a first live input stream, programming schedules and/or events in a first live input stream manifest are identified. Based on a transition due to the identification, a second live input stream manifest and/or a pre-encoded media asset manifest is inserted in the disparate live output stream manifest. For the disparate live media output stream manifest s generated based on a first pre-encoded media asset, the programming schedules and/or the events in a first pre-encoded media asset manifest, and/or events in the second live input stream manifest defined in the programming schedules are identified. Based on another transition due to the identified events, a second pre-encoded media asset manifest and/or a live input stream manifest is inserted in the disparate live output stream manifest. The disparate live output stream manifest is published.
US11076183B2	Systems and methods for seamlessly connecting devices based on relationships between the users of the respective devices Systems and methods are described for seamlessly connecting devices based on relationships between the users of the respective devices. A media guidance application may determine that a first user has entered an environment (e.g., his/her mother's home) and may determine a frequency with which the first user enters the environment (e.g., daily). In response to determining that the first user visits frequently, the media guidance application may identify a second device in the environment (e.g., a smart TV) that a second user (e.g., the first user's mother) is authorized to grant access rights for. The media guidance application may determine a likelihood that the second user will grant the access rights for the second device to the first user, based on interaction data between the first user and the second user. In response to determining a high likelihood, the media guidance application may transmit the access rights.
US11076176B2	Multiple transcode engine systems and methods Systems and methods for improving determination of encoded image data using a video encoding pipeline, which includes a first transcode engine that entropy encodes a first portion of a bin stream to determine a first bit stream including first encoded image data that indicates a first coding group row and that determines first characteristic data corresponding to the first bit stream to facilitate communicating a combined bit stream; and a second transcode engine that entropy encode a second portion of the bin stream to determine a second bit stream including second encoded image data that indicates a second coding group row while the first transcode engine entropy encodes the first portion of the bin stream and that determines second characteristic data corresponding to the second bit stream to facilitate communicating the combined bit stream, which includes the first bit stream and the second bit stream, to a decoding device.
US11076174B2	Sample adaptive offset (SAO) parameter signaling Techniques for signaling of sample adaptive offset (SAO) information that may reduce the coding rate for signaling such information in the compressed bit stream are provided. More specifically, techniques are provided that allow SAO information common to two or more of the color components to be signaled using one or more syntax elements (flags or indicators) representative of the common information. These techniques reduce the need to signal SAO information separately for each color component.
US11076172B2	Region-of-interest encoding enhancements for variable-bitrate compression A specification defining allowable luma and chroma code-values is applied in a region-of-interest encoding method of a mezzanine compression process. The method may include analyzing an input image to determine regions or areas within each image frame that contain code-values that are near allowable limits as specified by the specification. In addition, the region-of-interest method may comprise then compressing those regions with higher precision than the other regions of the image that do not have code-values that are close to the legal limits.
US11076169B2	Switchable interpolation filtering (SIF) for video coding A device for coding video data may determine whether a switchable interpolation filter (SIF) index value of a first motion vector (MV) component of a pairwise average motion vector predictor (MVP) is equal to a SIF index value of a second MV component of the pairwise average MVP. Based on the SIF index value of the first MV component being equal to the SIF index value of the second MV component, the device may set the SIF index of the pairwise average MVP to be equal to the SIF index of the first MV component. The device may code the video data based on the SIF index value of the pairwise average MVP.
US11076167B2	Device and method for coding video data A method of decoding a bitstream by an electronic device is provided. An image frame is received from the bitstream. A block unit is determined from the received image frame. A plurality of model parameters is derived based on motion information of a plurality of neighboring blocks neighboring the block unit. An intermediate block is derived for a sub-block in the block unit based on the plurality of model parameters. A vector formula is determined based on the plurality of model parameters, and at least one vector value is calculated based on the vector formula for at least one sampling position in the sub-block. The at least one vector value is compared with a threshold to determine whether the intermediate block is adjusted based on the vector formula to generate a predicted block. The sub-block is reconstructed based on the predicted block.
US11076164B2	Video camera with rate control video compression Embodiments provide a video camera that can be configured to compress video data in a manner that achieves a targeted output size in a computationally efficient manner. The video compression systems and methods can be used with DCT-based compression standards to include a rate control aspect. The rate controlled video compression methods can be configured to compress video data in real time and/or using a single pass. During compression of video data, the video compression systems and methods can modify compression parameters to achieve a targeted file size while maintaining relatively high visual quality of the compressed images.
US11076158B2	Systems and methods for reducing WiFi latency using transmit opportunity and duration Disclosed herein includes a system, a method, and a device for reducing latency and jitter by reserving a transmission duration for a transmit opportunity. A device can compress a first slice of a plurality of slices of a video frame to obtain a size of the first slice after compression. The device can estimate a size of the video frame after compression, according to the size of the first slice after compression. The device can generate a request to send (RTS) to reserve, a transmission channel for a transmission duration corresponding to the size of the video frame after compression. The device can broadcast the RTS to one or more other devices.
US11076138B2	Projection system, projection apparatus and calibrating method for displayed image thereof Provided are a projection system, a projection apparatus, and a calibration method for a displayed image thereof. The calibration method includes: by a projection apparatus, projecting a calibration image to form an imaged image, wherein the calibration image has at least four identification patterns; by an image capturing apparatus, providing multi-axis angle information, and capturing a captured image including the imaged image; by an arithmetic device, calculating a reference region range in the captured image according to the multi-axis angle information, and calculating coordinate conversion information according to the identification patterns of the calibration image and identification patterns in the captured image; by the arithmetic device, calculating boundary calibration information according to reference coordinate values on the reference region range and the coordinate conversion information; and by the projection apparatus, adjusting the size of the imaged image according to the boundary calibration information and the coordinate conversion information.
US11076130B2	Operation information transmission device, construction management system, operation information transmission method, and program An operation information transmission device transmits a state of each work medium performing work in a construction site (F) to an information providing device. The operation information transmission device includes an image data acquisition unit that acquires image data including the work medium, a type/state specifying unit that specifies the type and a state of the work medium included in the image data, and an operation information transmission unit that transmits operation information indicating the specified type and state of the work medium to the information providing device.
US11076124B2	Data transfer system and conversion device An HDMI source conversion device according to one aspect of the disclosure includes an HDMI interface, an IP interface, and a converter. The HDMI interface receives a first signal based on the HDMI communication protocol. The IP interface receives address information from a control device via a network based on the Internet protocol, the control device being connected to the network, and the address information indicating the address on the network of an HDMI sink conversion device that is a device different from the control device. The converter converts the first signal based on the HDMI communication protocol into a second signal based on the Internet protocol by adding at least the address information to the first signal received by the HDMI interface. The IP interface transmits the second signal to the HDMI sink conversion device via the network.
US11076108B2	Image capturing apparatus and control method thereof An image capturing apparatus comprises an image sensor including a plurality of pixels, each pixel being configured to include a sensor unit that outputs a signal pulse in response to a single photon being received, and a counter that counts the signal pulses and outputs a count value; and a control unit configured to control a pulsewidth of the signal pulses in accordance with shooting conditions of the image capturing apparatus or a state of the image capturing apparatus.
US11076104B2	Camera-equipped portable information terminal device The present invention makes it possible to perform good illumination and obtain a good captured image when a plurality of users each having a camera-equipped portable information terminal device gather in the same place. A camera-equipped portable information terminal device is provided with: an imaging unit that captures an image of a subject; a first illumination means for illuminating the subject; a first communication unit that communicates with other portable information terminal devices; and a first control unit that controls the imaging unit and the first communication unit. The first control unit transmits a light emission instruction signal to the other portable information terminal devices via the first communication unit, and causes a second illumination means of each of the other portable information terminal devices to emit light in tandem with an imaging operation of the imaging unit.
US11076082B2	Systems and methods for digital video stabilization An image processing method includes obtaining one or more sets of image data generated by an imaging sensor and one or more sets of positional data generated by one or more positional sensors. An individual set of image data is associated with an image timestamp based on a time at which the individual set of image data was generated. An individual set of positional data is associated with a positional timestamp based on a time at which the individual set of positional data was generated. The method further includes correlating one of the one or more sets of image data with a corresponding one of the one or more sets of positional data based on an image timestamp associated with the one of the one or more sets of image data and a positional timestamp associated with the corresponding one of the one or more sets of positional data.
US11076069B2	Pixelation density increment for embedding information Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for determining, by a pixelation device, an arrangement of pixels for generating representations of data for a document; adjusting, by an increment module and based on the arrangement of pixels, an optical density of one or more pixels included in the arrangement; associating, by the pixelation device, a plurality of distinct types of credential data with one or more line patterns included in the arrangement of pixels; and generating, by the pixelation device, multiple line patterns at a document, the multiple line patterns encoding the plurality of distinct types of credential data.
US11076063B2	Information processing system that performs synchronization of information related to display of a button related to an application, information processing apparatus, method of controlling the same, and storage medium Setting information of a menu screen is registered, the registered setting information, which is a synchronization target, is stored, and a synchronization of the setting information is performed between a server and an information processing apparatus. In a case where an inconsistency occurs between a function corresponding to a button displayed on the menu screen and a display of the button, the display of the button is deleted if synchronization of the setting information between the server and the information processing apparatus is disabled.
US11076062B2	Information processing device capable of switching language of name of icon, method of controlling information processing device, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium An information processing device capable of executing at least one function: displays an icon selection screen displaying an icon including an image indicating the function and a name of the function; accepts selection of the icon through the displayed icon selection screen; executes processing of the function corresponding to the icon, in accordance with the acceptance of the icon: and switches a language used for display of the name of the icon on the icon selection screen to a different language every predetermined time.
US11076061B2	Information processing apparatus and system and non-transitory computer readable medium that stores environmental information when providing a service has previously failed An information processing apparatus includes an obtaining unit and a controller. The obtaining unit obtains environment information concerning a user terminal when a service request is received from the user terminal. Providing of a service to the user terminal has previously failed. The controller performs control to store the environment information obtained by the obtaining unit in a storage device. Data is read from and written into the storage device without operating the user terminal.
US11076057B2	Image scanning apparatus with an improved notification process using shrink images In an image scanning apparatus, an image scanning unit scans one or more page images from a document of one or more pages and generates image data of the one or more page images. An image acquiring unit acquires the image data, generates a document image file including the image data, and stores the document image file into a specific folder. A communication processing unit transmits to a specific destination a message that includes a network identifier of the document image file. A server unit transmits the document image file upon receiving a transmission request that specifies the network identifier. Further, the communication processing unit includes a shrink image of a predetermined page among the one or more page into the message; and the server unit performs image search for the shrink image as a search key upon receiving an image search request that specifies the shrink image.
US11076052B2	Selective conference digest Various disclosed implementations involve processing and/or playback of a recording of a conference involving a plurality of conference participants. Some implementations disclosed herein involve receiving audio data corresponding to a recording of at least one conference involving a plurality of conference participants. In some examples, only a portion of the received audio data will be selected as playback audio data. The selection process may involve a topic selection process, a talkspurt filtering process and/or an acoustic feature selection process. Some examples involve receiving an indication of a target playback time duration. Selecting the portion of audio data may involve making a time duration of the playback audio data within a threshold time difference of the target playback time duration.
US11076047B1	Intent analysis for call center response generation A system obtains conversation data corresponding to conversations between users and agents of a client. The system identifies a set of intents from the conversations and identifies a set of contexts, explicit elements, and implied elements of these intents. The system identifies actions that can be performed to recognize new explicit and implied elements from new conversations and to address intents in these new conversations. Based on these actions, the system generates a set of recommendations that can be provided to the client. As agents communicate with users, the system monitors adherence to the set of recommendations.
US11076038B2	Reviewing message-based communications via a keyboard application Systems and methods are described herein for facilitating the review of messages (e.g., text messages, instant messages, chat messages, and so on) via a keyboard application of a mobile device. The message review system can facilitate a review of a message before it is sent to a recipient (e.g., a recipient of a text message or another user within a chat conversation).
US11076028B2	Switch assembly for engaging a switch of an electronic device A switch assembly for engaging a switch of an electronic device includes a rotatable knob having an axis of rotation, a pin mechanism engaged with the rotatable knob, and a slider body. The pin mechanism includes a pin, the pin being offset from the axis of rotation of the rotatable knob. The slider body is shaped to include a slot in which the pin of the pin mechanism is positioned and a switch recess shaped to receive and selectively contact the switch of the electronic device. Rotation of the rotatable knob in a first direction causes the slider body toward contact with a first portion of the switch to urge the switch into a first position, and rotation of the rotatable knob in a second direction causes the slider body toward contact with a second portion of the switch to urge the switch into a second position.
US11076027B1	Network communications protocol selection based on network topology or performance Techniques for selecting a network communications protocol based on network topology and/or network performance are described. A first application executing on a first computer system obtains a distance characteristic of a network coupling the first computer system to a second computer system. The first application selects a network communications protocol from a plurality of network communications protocols based on the distance characteristic of the network. The first application and the second application connect with the selected network communications protocol. In some embodiments, the distance characteristic of the network may be based on topological or performance characteristics of the network.
US11076021B2	Host device for obtaining operating instructions for a barcode reader from a remote server A barcode reader may include barcode reading hardware, which may include an image sensor. The image sensor may capture an image of a barcode within a field of view. The barcode reading hardware may also include a communication interface for output of decoded data to a remote computing system. The barcode reader may also include volatile memory and non-volatile memory. The non-volatile memory may include start-up instructions. The barcode reader may also include a processor. The processor may be configured to, upon power-up of the barcode reader, execute the start-up instructions to obtain firmware for operating the barcode reader from a remote configuration server, load the firmware to the volatile memory, and commence execution of the firmware to commence barcode reading functions of the barcode reader without performing a re-boot operation.
US11076010B2	Service providing system, service delivery system, service providing method, and non-transitory recording medium A processor manages and associates terminal identifiers identifying terminals requesting login with communication states, the terminal identifiers including user identifiers that are to-be-authenticated sections to be used to authenticate users of the terminals; receives from a communication terminal a login request and a first terminal identifier; searches communication states managed and associated with the terminal identifiers, in response to receiving the first terminal identifier, for the number of communication states indicating online states and associated with second terminal identifiers that include user identifiers the same as user identifier included in the first terminal identifier; and transmits to the communication terminal, for a case where the number of communication states indicating online states is less than a predetermined number as a result of the search, service providing possible information indicating that a service can be provided.
US11076009B2	Anti-jitter mechanism for monitoring online availability A system is configured to determine whether a member of a social networking service is online or offline with the social networking service. The system updates the online or offline status of the member in accordance with whether the member is connected to the social networking service. The system further implements an anti-jitter mechanism that prevents a waste of computing resources where the member is connected to the social networking service using an intermittent connection. The anti-jitter mechanism leverages heartbeat messages and timestamps to determine whether the member is online or offline with the social networking service. The anti-jitter mechanism further includes the use of one or more delay triggers, where each delay trigger may be generated based on a received heartbeat message. As the status of the member changes, the social networking service disseminates the status change to other members communicatively coupled to the social networking service.
US11075998B2	Architecture, method and apparatus for realizing communication between network functions Provided are an architecture, method and apparatus for realizing communication between network functions. The network function establishes interworking with other communication domains via the interface function. An interworking interface between a network function and a selected interface function is identical to an interworking interface between the network function and a destination network function. With the architecture, the network function and the interface function are decoupled. The interworking between network functions within the communication domain and the interworking between the network function within the communication domain and the network function outside the communication domain are achieved by using only one type of interworking interface.
US11075995B2	System and method for managing concentrate usage of a user A system comprising a vaporizing device and a central server is described. The vaporizing device includes a housing and a cartridge, received within the housing, the cartridge including a predefined quantity of concentrate and an identification code associated with the concentrate and uniquely identifying the cartridge. The vaporizing device further includes a control unit configured to read the identification code. The vaporizing device further includes a communication unit configured to transmit the identification code to a computing device of a user. The central server includes a database. The central server is configured to receive the identification code from the computing device and retrieve concentrate information corresponding to the identification code from the database. The central server is configured to transmit the concentrate information to the computing device for displaying to the user.
US11075987B1	Load estimating content delivery network A CDN that employs a load balancer that uses probabilistic filters to estimate sizes of requested data objects and that balances incoming request loads according to the estimated sizes is provided herein. For example, the load balancer stores probabilistic filters. Each probabilistic filter is associated with a size range. When the CDN receives a data object request, the load balancer generates a cache key and tests whether the cache key is a member of any probabilistic filter. If the cache key is a member of a probabilistic filter, then the load balancer estimates a size of the requested data object based on the probabilistic filter of which the cache key is a member. The load balancer then uses the estimated size to estimate the added load on one or more cache servers. Based on the estimated added load, the load balancer selects a cache server to handle the request.
US11075980B2	Method for operating a node cluster system in a network and node cluster system Operating a node cluster system with a plurality of nodes in a network, wherein the cluster system appears to be a single node with only one specific network address to its network environment. Providing a shared socket database for linking network connection port identifications of a common set of network connection port identifications to the individual nodes, assigning a master function to one of the nodes, sending incoming traffic to all nodes of the cluster system wherein each node verifies its responsibility for this traffic individually, exclusive assignment of a network connection port to the responsible node for the duration of a connection of the corresponding application process by means of the corresponding network connection port identification and the link established by the shared socket database and processing of the traffic by the responsible node or otherwise by the node having the master function.
US11075978B2	Fast file server methods and systems The invention provides, in one aspect, an improved system for data access comprising a file server that is coupled to a client device or application executing thereon via one or more networks. The server comprises static storage that is organized in one or more directories, each containing, zero, one or more files. The server also comprises a file system operable, in cooperation with a file system on the client device, to provide authorized applications executing on the client device access to those directories and/or files. Fast file server (FFS) software or other functionality executing on or in connection with the server responds to requests received from the client by transferring requested data to the client device over multiple network pathways. That data can comprise, for example, directory trees, files (or portions thereof), and so forth.
US11075973B2	Systems and methods for prioritized sip services using UE-specified sip register messages A system described herein may provide for the prioritization of Session Initiation Protocol (“SIP”) messages, transmitted by a User Equipment (“UE”), based on a priority class indicator (“PCP”) included in a registration message (e.g., a SIP REGISTER message) from the UE. The PCI may be included in a contact header, a SIP contact Uniform Resource Identifier (“URI”), and/or some other portion of the registration message. A Universal Integrated Circuit Card (“UICC”) may store information indicating the priority class (e.g., in an Access Control Class (“ACC”) Elementary File (“EF”)). One or more network components, such as a Call Session Control Function (“CSCF”) may prioritize SIP messages from the UE based on the priority class indicator included in the registration message by the UE.
US11075966B2	Cache and multicast techniques to reduce bandwidth utilization Techniques are described herein for caching content locally at a local network device and serving the cached content via multicast transmission to a user equipment in a multicast single frequency network (SFN) coverage area in which the local network device is located. The local network device receives a request for content from the user equipment in the multicast SFN coverage area. The request includes usage data associated with the user equipment indicating a triggering event. If the content is not cached at the local network device, the local network device identifies a content server to provide the content based at least on the usage data and a broadcast identifier associated with the local network device. The local network device receives the content that is associated with the broadcast identifier of the local network device and stores the content locally. Thereafter, the local network device serves the content via multicast transmission to the user equipment.
US11075960B2	User of identity services to auto-discover subscribers of social networking sites Techniques are disclosed for initiating game sessions between subscribers to online gaming services when account IDs of those subscribers are unknown. Such techniques permit a first user to select a second user with whom to play a game from information readily at hand, such as a contact manager that the first user maintains. The first user's device may send a resolution request message to an identity services server that includes contact information of the second user. Contact information may include network-based information regarding the second user, such as the user's e-mail address or phone number. The identity services server may resolve the contact into an account ID. Thereafter, a game launch request may be sent to the game server, which includes the account identifier resolved by the identity services server. An invitation message may be sent to a terminal of the second user to participate in the game and the game may be started. These techniques do not require that the first user possess the second user's account ID at the game server.
US11075954B2	Identifying systems where a policy as a code is applicable Techniques regarding identifying one or more systems where a policy as a code can be applicable are provided. For example, one or more embodiments described herein can comprise a system, which can comprise a memory that can store computer executable components. The system can also comprise a processor, operably coupled to the memory, and that can execute the computer executable components stored in the memory. The computer executable components can comprise a matching component, operatively coupled to the processor, that can determine whether a policy as a code is enforceable on a computing entity based on a comparison of a plurality of commands executed on the computing entity and a plurality of actions extracted from the code.
US11075953B2	Cyber attack information processing apparatus and method A cyber attack information processing apparatus includes a memory and a processor configured to, when a first system obtains first information regarding a cyber attack from a first terminal, store the first information in a state that the first information is accessible to a second terminal that is capable of accessing the first system, convert the first information having a first data structure into second information having a second data structure usable by a second system wherein the second information is to be provided for the second system, when the second system obtains third information regarding another cyber attack, convert the third information having the second data structure into fourth information having the first data structure, and provide the second terminal with the fourth information.
US11075947B2	Virtual traffic decoys A network security method is provided. The method includes obtaining, at a network security device, first network traffic from a network device destined for a potential attacker; determining if the first network traffic is suspicious; when the first network traffic is determined to be suspicious: generating second network traffic based on the context of the network device and the first network traffic; providing the second network traffic to the potential attacker; obtaining, from the potential attacker, third network traffic in response to the second network traffic; and designating the potential attacker as malicious based on the third network traffic is disclosed. An apparatus and one or more non-transitory computer readable storage media are also disclosed.
US11075945B2	System, apparatus and method for reconfiguring virtual machines According to one embodiment, a computerized method operates by configuring a virtual machine operating within an electronic device with a first instrumentation for processing of a suspicious object. In response to detecting a type of event during processing of the suspicious object within the virtual machine, the virtual machine is automatically reconfigured with a second instrumentation that is different from the first instrumentation in efforts to achieve reduced configuration time and/or increased effectiveness in exploit detection.
US11075944B2	System and method for protection of computer networks against man-in-the-middle attacks A system and a method of detection of an attack on a computer network including a plurality of nodes, the method including: associating the plurality of nodes with each other in a distributed ledger configuration; producing, by a requesting node of the plurality of nodes, a request to set a value of at least one key derivation parameter; performing a vote of confidence among a subset of the plurality of nodes regarding the validity of the request; and detecting an attack on at least one node of a plurality of nodes according to the vote of confidence.
US11075934B1	Hybrid network intrusion detection system for IoT attacks A Deep Learning Dendritic Cell Algorithm (DeepDCA) is employed in an intrusion detection system (IDS) and method. The framework adopts both a Dendritic Cell Algorithm (DCA) and a Self Normalizing Neural Network (SNN). The IDS classifies interned of things (IoT) intrusion, while minimizing false alarm generation, and it automates and smooths the signal extraction phase which improves the classification performance. The IDSselects the convenient set of features from the IoT-Bot dataset, and performs their signal categorization using the SNN. Experimentation demonstrated that the IDS with DeepDCA performed well in detecting IoT attacks with a high detection rate demonstrating over 98.73% accuracy and a low false-positive rate. Also, IDS was capable of performing better classification tasks than SVM, NB, KNN and MLP classifiers.
US11075919B2	System and method for providing proximity alert for trusted visitor A wireless communication device includes a network component, a wireless communication component, a memory, a trusted visitor management component and a primary user notification component. The network component can establish a primary wireless local area network and can establish a trusted visitor wireless local area network. The wireless communication component can receive a primary user identification and can receive a trusted visitor identification. The trusted visitor management component can generate a permission based on a stored trusted visitor identification and the trusted visitor identification. The primary user notification component can generate a primary user notification based on the permission. The network component can connect a trusted visitor wireless communication device to the trusted visitor wireless local area network based on the permission.
US11075917B2	Tenant lockbox Tenant approval for operator access to tenant data is provided. In order to grant service personnel operators access to a tenant's data for performing a requested action, a lockbox determines a security group role to which an operator needs to be elevated to perform a requested action, computes a set of internal administrators and tenant administrators authorized to grant a temporary role elevation, and sends an access control request to the administrators. Upon receiving approval of the access control request from an internal administrator and a tenant administrator, the lockbox elevates the operator to the security group role, granting the operator a set of permissions needed in order to allow the operator to perform the requested action. Accordingly, tenants are enabled to control access to their data and scrutinize access requests per their company procedures and compliance needs.
US11075915B2	System and method for securing communication between devices on a network Methods and systems for securing data communication between devices in a computer network may include receiving a communication request between at least one device and the computer network, validating the at least one device based on the communication request and based on at least one first communication rule, and restricting communication of devices with validated data to at least one virtual network within the computer network, wherein the at least one first communication rule comprises device parameters for allowed connectivity.
US11075902B1	Systems and methods of hardened proxy authentication A network authorization system includes an authorization interface, an authorizer, and a network interface. The authorization interface receives a network connection request to access an external network and generates a characteristic of a portable component. The authorizer compares the characteristic to a predetermined characteristic, generates an authorization token responsive to the characteristic matching the predetermined characteristic, uses the authorization token to authenticate the network connection request, and transmits a first notification to the authorization interface that the characteristic matched the predetermined characteristic. The network interface receives, from the authorizer, a second notification indicating that the authorizer authenticated the network connection request, and transmits the network connection request to the external network responsive to determining, based on the network connection request and the second notification, that the network connection request is authorized for external transmission.
US11075892B2	Fully cloaked network communication model for remediation of traffic analysis based network attacks A point-to-point Virtual Private Network (VPN) tunnel is established for facilitating fully cloaked transmission of a data packet from a source endpoint device to a destination endpoint device. The data packet includes a payload portion, an inner header, and an outer header. An ‘end-to-end key’, a ‘next-hop-destination key’ and a plurality of ‘next-hop’ keys are calculated. The end-to-end key is used at the source endpoint device and the destination endpoint device respectively to encrypt and decrypt the payload portion. The next-hop keys are used to encrypt the inner header during the hop-to-hop communication from one intermediary node to another, along the incrementally constructed path connecting the source endpoint device with the destination endpoint device. The encryption of the payload portion is maintained throughout the hop-to-hop communication regardless of the number of intermediary nodes traversed by the data packet en route to the destination endpoint device.
US11075887B2	Federating data inside of a trusted execution environment There is described a method and data processing gateway comprising: data processing circuitry for performing data processing operations in response to program code; a first execution environment (FEE) and a second execution environment (SEE) for storing data and program code, wherein data and program code stored in the FEE when accessible to the data processing circuitry configured to operate in the FEE is inaccessible to the data processing circuitry when configured to operate in the SEE, the FEE comprising: a data ingestion store for receiving a device decryption mechanism into the FEE to decrypt encrypted device data, the data ingestion store further for receiving encrypted device data into the FEE and for decrypting the encrypted device data using the device decryption mechanism; and a subscriber client manager for receiving a first subscriber encryption mechanism into the FEE, and further for encrypting device data using the first subscriber encryption mechanism and further for transmitting encrypted device to a first subscriber externally of the data processing gateway whereby the device data is secure outside of the FEE.
US11075886B2	In-session splitting of network traffic sessions for server traffic monitoring Methods and systems are disclosed that provide in-session splitting of network traffic sessions for monitoring of traffic between network clients and network servers. This in-session splitting is based upon monitoring traffic sessions for one or more events and then initiating a proxied session based upon detection of the one or more events. For further embodiments, the creation of the proxied session is implemented based upon detection of a request for a secure link within the session traffic, and the proxied session is then implemented such that original session participants are not aware of the proxied session. The encrypted secure communications between the network client and the network server are split into two connections that decrypted and re-encrypted so that the contents of the secure link can be analyzed to identify network threats and/or other desired network related activities.
US11075880B2	Data service implementation method and apparatus, and terminal This application provides a data service method relates to the field of communications technologies, the method comprises: a first router is connected to a second router, and the first router establishes a connection to the Internet. The terminal establishes a wireless local area network connection to the second router. A terminal broadcasts request information for obtaining a network configuration parameter. The terminal receives and stores a first network configuration parameter and a second network configuration parameter respectively sent by the first router and the second router; and determines a network configuration parameter used for network configuration. The second router receives a second data service request sent by the terminal, and forwards the request to the first router, so that the first router sends the request to a server through the Internet, thereby implementing a second data service of the terminal.
US11075875B2	Bi-directional multi-channel social media brokering The present disclosure provides a detailed description of techniques used in systems, methods, and in computer program products for bi-directional social media broker services that connect multiple social media sites using a common management framework. The claimed embodiments address the problem of efficiently scaling and managing bidirectional interaction with multiple social media publishing channels. More specifically, the claimed embodiments are directed to approaches for a computing platform having multiple message broker modules that enable bi-directional communication of messages between a common resource manager and a plurality of social media sites. The message broker modules can receive messages in a unified message format from the common resource manager, queue the messages for asynchronous processing, translate the messages from the unified message format to a site-specific format, and deliver the translated messages to multiple social media sites.
US11075872B2	Email frequency and consolidation assistant An email system is configured to enable a user to identify frequent email senders and block or consolidate emails from such senders. The emails received within a predetermined time period from a sender, who is selected for consolidation by a user of an email account, are consolidated into one entry in the inbox. This mitigates the inbox from getting overcrowded with frequent emails from various senders. Statistics related to various senders are also generated in order to aid the user in identifying senders whose emails need to be consolidated or blocked.
US11075868B2	Personal communication data management in multilingual mobile device A method for managing personal communication data, wherein the personal communication data including a plurality of chat histories from a plurality of chat applications is provided. The method may include converting a first chat history from a first application and a second chat history from a second application into an integrated unified format, whereby the second application is different from the first application. The method may also include storing the integrated unified format into an indexed storage. The method may further include providing a user interface (UI) to access the integrated unified format via the indexed storage.
US11075867B2	Method and system for detection of potential spam activity during account registration A computer implemented method for detecting an preventing spam account generation is disclosed. The method comprises receiving, by the email server, a request from the browser application to create an email account for at least one of sending and receiving an electronic message over the communication network, the request comprising at least the unique browser ID, acquiring, a browsing history data associated with the unique browser ID, the browsing history data being indicative of the browser application's browsing history with the at least one web resource; analyzing the browsing history data to determine a user score of the request, the user score being indicative of a likelihood that the user is one of a human or a bot executed by a computer application; and upon determining that the user score is indicative of a higher likelihood that the user is the bot, performing a restrictive action to the request.
US11075861B2	System and method for the automated notification of compatibility between real-time network participants The present invention is a method and system for using predetermined preferences/characteristics to ascertain personal compatibility between network or chat room participants based upon profile information. When the system determines that these preferences are favorable for interpersonal compatibility, the system will automatically notify or page the participants so as to facilitate their introduction. Further functionality, aside from the compatibility based upon profile information, includes e-mail and other electronic notification of personal compatibility as well as geographic compatibility.
US11075859B2	Egress packet processing using a modified packet header separate from a stored payload At least a payload of a packet that is received by a network device is stored in a packet memory. The packet is processed at least to determine at least one egress port via which the packet is to be transmitted, modify a header of the packet to generate a modified header, and determine, based at least in part on the modified header, whether the packet is to be transmitted or to be discarded by the network device. In response to determining that the packet is to be transmitted, the at least the payload of the packet is retrieved from the packet memory, a transmit packet is generated at least by combining the at least the payload of the packet with the modified header, and the transmit packet is transmitted via the determined at least one egress port of the network device.
US11075856B2	Switch device and communication control method This switch device is mounted on a vehicle, and comprises: a switch unit for relaying communication data communicated between a plurality of communication devices; a buffer for holding the communication data to be relayed; and a control unit for transmitting stop request to at least one communication device of the plurality of communication devices if communication data to be transmitted to a communication device in which abnormality has been detected is held in the buffer, the stop request which requests for stopping transmission of communication data to the switch device and for holding of communication data to be transmitted to the switch device.
US11075855B2	Content supply device, content supply method, program, terminal device, and content supply system The present disclosure relates to a content supply device, a content supply method, a program, a terminal device, and a content supply system that make it possible to transmit a file transmission unit of a segment stream without delay. According to the present disclosure, there is provided a content supply device that multicast-delivers a fragment stream of content, the content supply device including: a fragment stream generating unit configured to generate the fragment stream based on source data of the content; and a delivering unit configured to generate a file transmission unit in units of second data units by delimiting the generated fragment stream into first data units that are randomly accessible and subdividing the first data unit into the second data units and FLUTE-multicast-deliver the file transmission unit. The present disclosure can be applied to a system in which content is FLUTE-multicast-delivered.
US11075847B1	Visibility sampling In response to certain events in a network device, visibility packets may be generated. A visibility packet may be or comprise at least a portion of a packet that is in some way associated with the event, such as a packet that was dropped as a result of an event, or that was in a queue at the time of an event related to that queue. A visibility packet may be tagged or otherwise indicated as a visibility packet. The network device may include one or more visibility samplers through which visibility packets are routed on their way to a visibility queue, visibility subsystem, and/or out of the network device. The samplers allow only a limited sample of the visibility packets that they receive to pass through the sampler, essentially acting as a filter to reduce the amount of visibility packets that will be processed.
US11075842B2	Inline load balancing Some embodiments provide a novel method for load balancing data messages that are sent by a source compute node (SCN) to one or more different groups of destination compute nodes (DCNs). In some embodiments, the method deploys a load balancer in the source compute node's egress datapath. This load balancer receives each data message sent from the source compute node, and determines whether the data message is addressed to one of the DCN groups for which the load balancer spreads the data traffic to balance the load across (e.g., data traffic directed to) the DCNs in the group. When the received data message is not addressed to one of the load balanced DCN groups, the load balancer forwards the received data message to its addressed destination. On the other hand, when the received data message is addressed to one of load balancer's DCN groups, the load balancer identifies a DCN in the addressed DCN group that should receive the data message, and directs the data message to the identified DCN. To direct the data message to the identified DCN, the load balancer in some embodiments changes the destination address (e.g., the destination IP address, destination port, destination MAC address, etc.) in the data message from the address of the identified DCN group to the address (e.g., the destination IP address) of the identified DCN.
US11075836B2	Reverse forwarding information base enforcement In exemplary embodiments of the present invention, a router determines whether or not to establish a stateful routing session based on the suitability of one or more candidate return path interfaces. This determination is typically made at the time a first packet for a new session arrives at the router on a given ingress interface. In some cases, the router may be configured to require that the ingress interface be used for the return path of the session, in which case the router may evaluate whether the ingress interface is suitable for the return path and may drop the session if the ingress interface is deemed by the router to be unsuitable for the return path. In other cases, the router may be configured to not require that the ingress interface be used for the return path, in which case the router may evaluate whether at least one interface is suitable for the return path and drop the session if no interface is deemed by the router to be suitable for the return path.
US11075835B2	Distributed, packet-mediated, packet routing A network switch holds a routing table and a network topology table so that when a link failure is detected at the network switch, the network switch may independently reroute a packet intended for that failed link using the network topology table. This processing can be performed in the data plane at a speed that can eliminate dropped packets. Intercommunication with a central controller is not required and intercommunication with other network switches may be accomplished through data plane communication by embedding the link failure information in the affected packet.
US11075833B2	Packet forwarding method and node device based on BIER-TE, and storage medium Provided are a packet forwarding method based on BIER-TE, a node device and a storage medium. The method includes: acquiring X bit string sub-package structures from a BIER-TE based message; and forwarding the message according to the X bit string sub-package structures, where X is greater than or equal to 1.
US11075830B2	Diversity routing to improve delay-jitter tradeoff in uncertain network environments Systems and methods reduce delivery delay jitter in a delivery network. A processor identifies a plurality of routes between an originating node and a destination node. Each route has a respective mean delivery delay time and a respective delivery delay jitter. The processor solves a convex optimization problem for a plurality of values of delivery delay, thereby yielding a plurality of solutions. Each solution represents a corresponding allocation of traffic among the plurality of routes. Each allocation of traffic has a corresponding mean delivery delay time and a corresponding mean delivery delay jitter. The processor selects, from the plurality of solutions, a selected solution, which has a mean delivery delay jitter less than the delivery delay jitter of any route of the plurality of routes. Traffic is automatically distributed over the plurality of routes according to the allocation of traffic that corresponds to the selected solution.
US11075829B2	Distributed monitoring in clusters with self-healing The present disclosure involves systems, software, and computer implemented methods for distributed monitoring in clusters with self-healing. One example method includes determining, by a first instance of a monitoring agent of a first node of a cluster, whether an error condition in a first registry included in the first node is present, where the error condition is associated with a second node of the cluster. In response to determining that the error condition associated with the second node is present in the first registry, the first instance of the monitoring agent performs at least one corrective action on the second node. A result of that action is determined, and the first registry in the first node is updated with the result. The first registry is then broadcast to each of the other nodes in the cluster other than the first node as an updated registry.
US11075824B2	In-line performance monitoring One function of a communications network, or of nodes in such a network, is to gather data that is useful in assessing network performance, and quantifying metrics of node and/or network performance. Various embodiments disclosed herein improve the ability of nodes and networks to gather such data, and quantify metrics of node and/or network performance by selectively marking existing network traffic, and in preferred embodiments without having to dilute network traffic by generating and transmitting dummy data packets.
US11075816B2	Time aware path computation A path computation method involves receiving (200) a request for computation of a new path in the network, the request indicating a future time interval when the path is desired. Subsequently a future network status is generated (210, 212, 214), having a representation of availability of path resources at the future time interval, based on selected paths already reserved at that future time interval. Then there is a step of computing (220) which of the path resources to select for the new path according to the future network status. By generating this future network status when the future time interval is known, it can be generated in respect of a limited time interval rather than covering all possible future reservable times. Thus the benefits of time aware path computation can be achieved without the need for maintaining a huge database of availability at all future times, of all the path resources.
US11075813B2	Proactively deploying analytics to a computerized edge device Techniques proactively deploy analytics to a computerized edge device. The techniques involve receiving data from the edge device. The data is conveyed through the edge device from a set of sensors disposed at a particular location. The techniques further involve performing analytics on the data to identify a set of edge device rules that defines a set of actions for the edge device to carry out under a set of predefined conditions potentially sensed by the set of sensors. The techniques further involve providing a command to the edge device. The command (i) includes the set of edge device rules and (ii) directs the edge device to, at a future time, start operating according to the set of edge device rules to protect against unsuccessful deployment of the command to the edge device due to subsequent delayed communication between the processing circuitry and the edge device.
US11075806B1	Hierarchical naming scheme for state propagation within network devices In general, techniques are described for providing a hierarchical naming scheme used to propagate state information within network devices. A network device comprising a topic database and a processor may be configured to perform the techniques. The topic database may be configured to store a hierarchical naming scheme that associates objects representative of the state information to hierarchically arranged topics. The processor may be configured to associate consuming components within the network device to the hierarchically arranged topics, and operate as a producer component to publish an object to one of the hierarchically arranged topics. The processor may also be configured to propagate the published object to one of the consumer components associated with the one of the hierarchically arranged topics.
US11075793B2	Method for network management based on NETCONF protocol, and associated network device The present disclosure discloses a method used in a network device for network management based on NETwork CONFiguration (NETCONF) protocol, and an associated network device. The method includes: receiving a Remote Procedure Call (RPC) message from a network management system, the RPC message instructing the network device to perform an edit operation on the network device's configuration; generating a configuration change notification based on the received RPC message to indicate that the network device's configuration has changed, the configuration change notification indicating a target of the edit operation, a type of the edit operation, and a value of the edit operation; and transmitting the configuration change notification to the network management system.
US11075789B2	Communication method, communications apparatus, and communications system Embodiments of this application provide a communication method, a communications apparatus, and a communications system, to determine a physical resource block (PRB) grid when a center frequency of a synchronization signal (SS) is inconsistent with a center frequency of a carrier. The method includes: receiving, by a terminal, an SS from a network device; determining, by the terminal, a first PRB grid based on the SS; receiving, by the terminal, first indication information from the network device, where the first indication information is used to indicate a first frequency offset between the first PRB grid and a second PRB grid; and determining, by the terminal, the second PRB grid based on the first PRB grid and the first frequency offset.
US11075787B2	Orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) structures for high efficiency wireless communications A wireless communication device (alternatively, device) includes a communication interface and a processor, among other possible circuitries, components, elements, etc. to support communications with other wireless communication device(s) and to generate and process signals for such communications. A device is configured to generate various orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) and/or orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) packets (e.g., frames, signals, etc.) that are based on any of a group of set of OFDM/A frame structures. Across the various OFDM/A frame structures, the ratio of pilot sub-carriers to data sub-carriers across resource units (RUs) decreases as the total number of sub-carriers across the RUs increases. In addition, some of the OFDM/A frame structures include different total number of sub-carriers yet same number of pilot sub-carriers. The device is configured to perform adaptation among and between the various OFDM/A frame structures based on any one or more considerations.
US11075774B2	VXLAN packet processing method, device, and system This application provides a VXLAN packet processing method, a device, and a system. After determining that a data packet sent by a CE device is a BUM packet, a PE device encapsulates the BUM packet to generate a VXLAN packet including an ESI label and a VXLAN packet including a BUM traffic label. The VXLAN packet including the ESI label is sent to an active-active gateway, so that the gateway can block forwarding of traffic to the CE device by using an interface configured with an ESI, to avoid a loop between the PE device and the CE device. The VXLAN packet including the BUM traffic label is sent to a remote PE, to block forwarding of the VXLAN packet to the CE device by using a secondary DF interface, thereby avoiding a multi-packet problem.
US11075771B2	Method for generating operating entropy A method (10) for generating operating entropy is provided. The method (10) is performed by a cloud computing entity (2) run on shared underlying resources (3). The method (10) comprises: sending (11) a respective entropy request to one or more servers (5a, 5b, 5c), inserting in each entropy request a respective timestamp, receiving (12) a response from each of the one or more servers (5a, 5b, 5c), each response payload comprising random bytes of unknown amount of entropy, verifying (13) validity of each response by comparing the respective timestamp in each response to a corresponding stored timestamp, and generating (14) the operating entropy based on at least one of the received responses. A cloud computing entity (2), a computer program and a computer program product are also provided.
US11075770B2	Semiconductor device and security system A semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes a unique-information generation portion, a detection portion, a memory portion, and a readout portion. The unique-information generation portion operates in a plurality of operation environments to generate unique information. The unique information includes stable information and unstable information. The stable information is constant in the plurality of operation environments, and the unstable information is different in at least two of the plurality of operation environments. The detection portion detects the unstable information. The memory portion stores the unique information and identification information for identifying the unstable information. The readout portion reads out the unique information and the identification information and outputs the unique information and the identification information to an external portion.
US11075755B2	Zero-knowledge key escrow Disclosed are various embodiments for implementing a key escrow system without disclosure of a client's encryption key to third parties. An encryption key is split into a plurality of key segments pursuant to a shared secret protocol. A plurality of peer client devices are then identified. Each peer client device in the plurality of peer client devices is then verified and the respective one of the plurality of key segments are sent to a respective one of the plurality of peer client devices. A response is then received from each respective one of the plurality of peer client devices, the response confirming receipt of the respective one of the plurality of key segments. A list identifying the plurality of peer client devices is finally provided to a key escrow service, the list comprising key-value pairs that identify each respective one of the plurality of peer client devices and the respective one of the plurality of key segments.
US11075744B2	Blockchain-based media content authentication methods and systems Disclosed herein are systems and method for storing media authentication data using a distributed ledger. In one aspect, an exemplary method comprises, receiving, by a processor of a computing node of a plurality of computing nodes, one or more hashes associated with a media content and a timestamp, the computing nodes being communicatively linked, generating a data block that contains at least one of the received hashes, the data block being generated by hashing a hash corresponding to a previous data block of the distributed ledger together with the at least one hash, the at least one hash corresponding to the media content of the data block being generated, transmitting to the plurality of computing nodes, a message reporting an addition of the generated data block, wherein at least some of the plurality of computing nodes maintain at least a partial copy of the distributed ledger.
US11075743B2	Adjustable high resolution timer An adjustable high resolution timer (100) for synchronizing a local clock to an external reference clock includes frequency offset acquisition and compensation unit (110) configured to acquire a frequency offset difference between the local and external reference clock and to generate frequency adjustment signals based on the frequency offset difference; a time drift tracking and adjustment unit (120) configured to continuously monitor the local and external reference clocks for phase offset differences therebetween and to generate timing adjustment signals based on the phase offset difference; a nanosecond timer core unit (140) configured to generate a frequency and phase adjusted nanosecond timer output signal in response to the frequency adjustment signals and timing adjustment signals; and a pulse generation unit (130) for generating a plurality of output pulse signals that are synchronized with the external reference clock in response to the frequency and phase adjusted nanosecond timer output signal.
US11075734B2	Method of transmitting reference signal for channel state change measurement and apparatus therefor Disclosed herein is a method of transmitting a reference signal for channel state change measurement and an apparatus therefor. The method includes receiving, from a transmitter, a first type reference signal of a first resource mapping pattern and a second type reference signal of a second resource mapping pattern. The receiver receives the first type reference signal under an assumption that the first type reference signal is associated with the second type reference signal, when a specific condition is satisfied.
US11075730B2	Method and apparatus for indicating semi-persistent sounding reference signal as reference signal of neighboring cell in next-generation mobile communication system A communication method and a system for converging a 5th generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th generation (4G) system with a technology for internet of things (IoT) are provided. The disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. Disclosed is a method of performing activation and deactivation of a semi-persistent sounding reference signal (SP SRS) through a medium access control element (MAC CE) when activation/deactivation of the SP SRS is indicated in a next-generation mobile communication system.
US11075727B2	Methods to mitigate transient times Techniques for mitigating transient overlap times between wireless signals are presented. For instance, an example method performed by a transmitting device is presented that includes generating a signal comprising data to be transmitted to a receiving device during a symbol by modulating the data on L-K L-combs. In an aspect, each L-comb has an associated group of subcarriers that are separated from one another by L-1 subcarriers. In addition, in some instances, the method can include the transmitting device transmitting the generated signal to the receiving device (106) during at least a portion of the symbol. Corresponding devices and computer/processor-executable instructions are also described.
US11075723B2	Method and system for MIMO transmission in a distributed transceiver network A transmitting device comprises a plurality of distributed transceivers, a baseband processor and a network management engine. Data streams are generated at baseband by the baseband processor. Diversity coding such as space-time coding may be performed over the generated data streams in the baseband. The transmitting device concurrently transmits each of the coded streams in a same radio frequency (RF) band to a receiving device over the entire distributed transceivers through associated antennas. When needed, the network management engine may identify one or more auxiliary devices providing available transceivers and antenna beamformers to the transmitting device for sharing. Beam patterns and antenna orientations may be determined for associated antennas of the available transceivers for the transmitting device. Each of the coded data streams in the same radio frequency band may be transmitted to the receiving device over the entire available transceivers for the transmitting device through the associated antennas.
US11075712B2	MCS update in group control channel Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A wireless device may receive an indicator of retransmission scheduling for a plurality of UEs, determine, based on a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) update in the indicator, resources for receiving a retransmission, and receive the retransmission on the determined resources. A base station may receive a negative acknowledgement report from at least one UE of a plurality of UEs, determine a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) update for the at least one UE, generate an indicator of retransmission scheduling for the plurality of UEs, the indicator including the MCS update for the at least one UE, and transmit the indicator.
US11075711B2	Wireless device specific maximum code rate limit adjustment According to one aspect of the disclosure, a network node for adjusting a maximum channel code rate limit of a wireless device is provided. The network node includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry includes a processor and a memory. The memory contains instructions that, when executed by the processor, configure the processor to: cause transmission, to the wireless device, of at least one data transmission coded at a maximum channel code rate that is one of less than and equal to a maximum channel code rate limit, receive at least one indication of reception of the at least one data transmission coded at the maximum channel code rate by the wireless device, and in response to receiving the at least one indication of reception associated with the at least one data transmission coded at the maximum channel code rate, modify the maximum channel code rate limit.
US11075709B2	Variable spreading factor codes for non-orthogonal multiple access Aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for variable spreading factor codes for non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA). In an exemplary method, a base station assigns, from a first codebook of N short code sequences of length K, a subset of the short code sequences to a number of user equipments (UEs); receives a signal including uplink data or control signals from two or more of the UEs, wherein a first uplink data or control signal is sent using a first subsequence of one of the assigned short code sequences, and a second uplink data or control signal is sent using a second subsequence of one of the assigned short code sequences or using one of the assigned short code sequences; and decodes each uplink data or control signal in the signal based on the assigned short code sequences and subsequences of the assigned the short code sequences.
US11075708B2	Method and apparatus for adjacent channel interference mitigation Systems and methods for mitigation of cross channel interference are disclosed in which the TDD configuration of a potential cross channel interference source is detected by received signals within the network with which the source interferes. The TDD configuration is then used to synchronize the transmissions from the network with which the source interferes to reduce the interference. In addition, interference is mitigated by providing adaptive guard bands based on results of a radio frequency environmental survey and/or coaxing an interfering user to another channel. Sub-channels can be assigned based on the results of the radio frequency environmental survey and Quality of Service requirements for traffic flows.
US11075705B2	Apparatus for transmitting broadcast signals, apparatus for receiving broadcast signals, method for transmitting broadcast signals and method for receiving broadcast signals A method of processing a broadcast signal includes physical layer processing a plurality of packets into a plurality of data pipes to form a signal frame of the broadcast signal. Further, a packet includes an emergency alert message for an emergency alert service so that a data pipe carries the emergency alert massage, the emergency alert message including a message identifier (ID) for identifying the emergency alert message and a service ID identifying a service related to the emergency alert message. The physical layer processing further includes encoding data in each data pipe; bit interleaving the encoded data in each data pipe; and time interleaving the bit interleaved data in each data pipe according to a first mode or a second mode, the first mode represents that the time interleaving is performed based on convolutional interleaving operation, the second mode represents that the time interleaving is performed based on a combination of block interleaving operation and convolutional interleaving operation; and transmitting the broadcast signal. In addition, the broadcast signal further includes physical layer signaling information, the physical layer signaling information including a signaling information representing that the data pipe carries the emergency alert message and time interleaving signaling information related to the first mode and the second mode.
US11075704B2	Radio wave environment display device and method for displaying radio wave environment A radio wave environment display device includes a display unit that displays a radio wave environment and a controller. The radio wave environment display device displays a radio wave environment in an area where a plurality of wireless transmitters located at different positions transmit radio waves. The controller selects, at each of a plurality of points in the area, a maximum intensity among intensities that are magnitudes of received power of radio waves transmitted from the wireless transmitters and causes the display unit to display the radio wave environment at each of the plurality of points based on the maximum intensity selected and an arrival direction of a radio wave with the maximum intensity selected.
US11075703B2	Method for checking characteristics of electronic device and communication device included in electronic device Various embodiments of the present invention relate to a method for inspecting whether an electronic device and a communication device included in the electronic device operate normally. A method for checking characteristics of a wireless communication device, according to various embodiments of the present invention, comprises the steps of: providing a wireless communication device at a first location, wherein the wireless communication device includes an antenna array and a wireless communication circuit electrically connected to the antenna array, and the wireless communication circuit is configured to transmit and receive signals having frequencies of 20 Ghz to 100 Ghz and includes a plurality of phase shifters configured to adjust phases of the signals in order to form directional beams together; providing a signal detecting device at a second location separated from the first location so as to detect a wireless signal from the wireless communication device; allowing the wireless communication device to transmit a first signal in a state in which all the phase shifters are configured to have a first delay; detecting a first power of the first signal by using the signal detecting device; allowing the wireless communication device to transmit a second signal in a state in which all the phase shifters are configured to have a second delay; and detecting a second power of the second signal by using the signal detecting device.
US11075701B2	Communications system An underwater communications system is provided that transmits electromagnetic and/or magnetic signals to a remote receiver. The transmitter includes a data input. A digital data compressor compresses data to be transmitted. A modulator modulates compressed data onto a carrier signal. An electrically insulated, magnetic coupled antenna transmits the compressed, modulated signals. The receiver that has an electrically insulated, magnetic coupled antenna for receiving a compressed, modulated signal. A demodulator is provided for demodulating the signal to reveal compressed data. A de-compressor de-compresses the data. An appropriate human interface is provided to present transmitted data into text/audio/visible form. Similarly, the transmit system comprises appropriate audio/visual/text entry mechanisms.
US11075698B2	Optical communication system The disclosure relates to technology for signal transmission in an optical communication system. An optical transmitter comprises a directly modulated laser (DML) configured to generate a modulated optical signal in response to a modulation signal. The modulated optical signal comprises a first frequency corresponding to a logical one value in the modulation signal and a second frequency corresponding to a logical zero value in the modulation signal. The modulated optical signal has a modulation symbol rate of “R”. The transmitter comprises a controller configured to control the DML to establish a target frequency gap between the first frequency and the second frequency. The transmitter also comprises an optical band pass filter (OBPF) coupled to the DML to receive the modulated optical signal and output a filtered optical signal. The OBPF has a 3-dB bandwidth of less than R.
US11075694B2	Frequency division multiple access optical subcarriers A network or system in which a hub or primary node may communicate with a plurality of leaf or secondary nodes. The hub node may operate or have a capacity greater than that of the leaf nodes. Accordingly, relatively inexpensive leaf nodes may be deployed to receive data carrying optical signals from, and supply data carrying optical signals to, the hub node. One or more connections may couple each leaf node to the hub node, whereby each connection may include one or more spans or segments of optical fibers, optical amplifiers, optical splitters/combiners, and optical add/drop multiplexer, for example. Optical subcarriers may be transmitted over such connections, each carrying a data stream. The subcarriers may be generated by a combination of a laser and a modulator, such that multiple lasers and modulators are not required, and costs may be reduced. As the bandwidth or capacity requirements of the leaf nodes change, the number of subcarriers, and thus the amount of data provided to each node, may be changed accordingly. Each subcarrier within a dedicated group of subcarriers may carry OAM or control channel information to a corresponding leaf node, and such information may be used by the leaf node to configure the leaf node to have a desired bandwidth or capacity.
US11075692B2	Method for defining the flexible payload of a telecommunications satellite with low-interference-level beam hopping A method for defining the flexible payload of a telecommunications satellite with low-interference-level beam hopping includes: a first step of defining the capacity from which each beam must benefit on account of the density of exchanges to be delivered by the beam; a second step of determining, depending on the various power-amplifier sharing schemes, the maximum number Pi of beams that an amplifier is able to deliver and the average capacity allocated to each beam; a third step of forming groups of beams, each characterized by the average value of the cumulative capacity of the beams that form it, and determining the number of amplifiers required for each formed group; a fourth step, during which the various beams are distributed between various amplifiers, in such a way that the average value of the load placed on these beams is substantially equal to the average load of the group in question.
US11075681B2	Communication system and method using layered construction of arbitrary unitary matrices A method includes generating, via a first processor of a first compute device, symbols based on an incoming data and decomposing a unitary matrix of size N×N by: 1) applying a permutation to each symbol using a permutation matrix, to produce permuted symbols, and 2) transforming each symbol using at least one primitive transformation matrix of size M×M, M being smaller than or equal to N, to produce transformed symbols. The method also includes sending a signal representing the transformed symbols to a plurality of transmitters for transmission of a signal representing the transformed symbols to a plurality of receivers. A signal representing the unitary matrix is sent to a second compute device for transmission of the unitary matrix to the receivers for recovery of the plurality of symbols at the plurality of receivers.
US11075680B2	Transmission of valid channel state information via a PUCCH secondary cell A wireless device receives, during a first time interval, a command indicating activation of a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) secondary cell of a timing advance group (TAG). A timing advance for the TAG is received. Transmission of valid channel state information is started via the PUCCH secondary cell during a second time interval occurring a first quantity of time intervals after the first time interval. The first quantity is based on a delay from receipt of the command until the wireless device applies the timing advance to uplink transmissions via the TAG.
US11075679B2	Port indexing for CSI-RS with larger number of antenna ports for EFD-MIMO Mapping with CSI-RS resources with a code divisional multiplex (CDM) length of eight is disclosed. Such mapping allows for flexibly configuring the set of resource elements (REs) for mapping based on the available CSI-RS resources.
US11075672B2	Cellular wireless communication systems enhanced by intelligent self-organizing wireless distributed active antennas This invention presents Capacity Projectors (CaPs) for intelligent control and management that collect information on channel conditions, actual and/or predicted demand for connectivity, data throughput and its distribution for a first time period in the future using signaling and control messages, analyze the collected information to identify the configurations of the BSs and CaPs that are needed to produce desired MU-MIMO communication channels in the first time period to meet the connectivity and data throughput demand and its distribution in the first time period, and adaptively control and configure the CaPs to actively shape the MU-MIMO communication channels to meet the predicted demand and its distribution, wherein controlling and configuring the CaP comprises implementing which of the CaPs to switch to sleeping mode or work mode and adjusting one or more of transmitting power gain, antenna tilt, beam direction and/or pattern of the transmitter and/or receiver, filtering of the receiving and/or transmitting signal.
US11075665B2	Efficient concurrent multichannel discovery and reception This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to efficient concurrent multichannel discovery and reception. A device may determine high performance communications circuitry and low performance communications circuitry within a first component of the device. The device may determine one or more high power radio frequency (RF) chains associated with at least one of a high frequency band or a low frequency band. The device may determine one or more low power RF chains associated with at least one of the high frequency band or the low frequency band. The device may perform a first operation with the high performance communications circuitry using a dynamically selected one of the one or more high power RF chains or the one or more low power RF chains and a second operation with the low performance communications circuitry using a dynamically selected one of the one or more low power RF chains or the one or more high power RF chains, wherein the dynamic selection is based at least in part on a use case, and wherein the first operation and the second operation are performed concurrently.
US11075662B2	Radiation protector for mobile devices A radiation protector is disclosed for protecting against radiation having a wavelength, which may include a front panel portion that includes a flexible carbon fiber layer having an outer edge and a back panel portion that includes a base layer mobile device having an outer edge. The outer edges of each of the flexible carbon fiber layer and base layer extend from edges of an electronic device having an antenna and removably positioned within a device housing on the base layer by a width w, wherein the width w is a fraction of a the wavelength of the radiation emitted by the antenna, and wherein the width w is between 0.5 and 2.5 centimeters from each of front, back, top and bottom sides of the electronic device.
US11075659B2	Power adjustment method and apparatus This application provides a power adjustment method and apparatus. The method includes obtaining a to-be-output signal, performing first automatic gain control (AGC) processing on the to-be-output signal to obtain the to-be-output signal on which the first AGC processing is performed, and to obtain a gain value of the to-be-output signal. The method also includes performing digital pre-distortion (DPD) processing on the to-be-output signal on which the first AGC processing is performed, to obtain the to-be-output signal on which the DPD processing is performed. The method further includes calculating an output power back-off (OBO) value based on the gain value, adjusting, based on the OBO value, output power of the to-be-output signal on which the DPD processing is performed, and sending, to a signal receive end, the to-be-output signal on which the power adjustment is performed.
US11075654B2	Method and error correction system for correcting an error at a unit position of a received signal A method for correcting an error of a received signal is provided. The method includes: determining a target degree based upon a length of the received signal; obtaining plural primitive polynomials each having a degree equal to the target degree; selecting one of the primitive polynomials as a target polynomial; defining plural syndromes according to the received signal; generating a group of product values based on the syndromes; obtaining plural coefficient polynomials based on the product values; obtaining monomial trace coefficients based on the coefficient polynomials; generating an error correction value based on the monomial trace coefficients; and correcting the error based on the error correction value.
US11075642B2	Linear calibration system and method for time-to-digital converter and digital phase-locked loop The present disclosure provides a linear calibration system for a time-to-digital converter and a method thereof, and a digital phase-locked loop. The linear calibration system includes a digitally controlled reference delay circuit for receiving a first clock signal and delaying the first clock signal to generate a reference clock signal, a time-to-digital conversion circuit including at least two time-to-digital converters, and a state machine. The time-to-digital conversion circuit receives the first clock signal and the reference clock signal, delays the first clock signal to generate a first delay signal, compares a phase of the first delay signal with a phase of the reference clock signal, and outputs a phase detection result signal. The state machine generates a delay control signal for controlling the digitally controlled reference delay circuit, adjusts a calibration control signal to align the phases of the first delay signal and the reference clock signal.
US11075640B1	Analog to digital converter device and method for calibrating clock skew An analog to digital converter (ADC) device includes ADC circuits, a calibration circuit, and a skew adjusting circuit. The ADC circuits are configured to convert an input signal according to interleaved clock signals to generate first quantized outputs. The calibration circuit is configured to perform at least one calibration operation according to the first quantized outputs to generate second quantized outputs. The skew adjusting circuit further includes a first adjusting circuit. The first adjusting circuit is configured to analyze adjacent clock signals according to part of the second quantized outputs to generate adjusting information. The skew adjusting circuit is configured to analyze time difference information within even-numbered sampling periods of the clock signals according to the second quantized outputs and the adjusting information to generate adjustment signals. The adjustment signals are configured to reduce clock skews of the ADC circuits.
US11075636B1	Differential output driver circuit and method of operation A differential output driver circuit includes a drive path having a first output node that provides a first output differential signal and a second output node that provides a complementary second output differential signal to the first output differential signal, a current control transistor to control current of the drive path, and a current measurement resistor circuit located in the drive current path outside of a path segment between the first and second output node. Current flowing through the drive path flows through the current measurement resistor circuit, and a voltage across the current measurement resistor circuit is indicative of an amount of current flowing through the drive path. A transistor control circuit utilizes a voltage across the current measurement resistor circuit to control a control terminal of the current control transistor to control the current in the drive path based on the voltage across the current measurement resistor circuit.
US11075635B2	Display device and manufacturing method of same A display device and a manufacturing method of the same are provided. The display device includes a frame, a pressure sensor, and a pressure sensing module. When a touch portion receives external pressure, a resistance value of the resistor changes, and a corresponding pressure sensing signal is output. The pressure sensing module outputs an execution signal according to the pressure sensing signal to realize a pressure touch function on a side of the frame. This eliminates a need to make holes in a side of the frame, which eliminates a mechanical button and improves dustproof and waterproof performance of the display device.
US11075630B2	Semiconductor relay module and semiconductor relay circuit A semiconductor relay module includes first to third semiconductor relays, first to third input terminals, first to third output terminals, a first connection line, and a first monitor terminal connected to the first connection line. A first input circuit of the first semiconductor relay and a second input circuit of the second semiconductor relay are connected to the first and second input terminals. A third input circuit of the third semiconductor relay is connected to the first or second input terminal and the third input terminal. A first output circuit of the first semiconductor relay is connected to the first output terminal and the first connection line. A second output circuit of the second semiconductor relay is connected to the second output terminal and the first connection line. A third output circuit of the third semiconductor relay is connected to the third output terminal and the first connection line.
US11075621B2	Delay circuit, time to digital converter, and A/D conversion circuit A delay circuit includes a state transition section configured to start state transition based on a trigger signal and output state information indicating the internal state and a transition-state acquisition section configured to latch and hold the state information. The state transition section includes a tapped delay line in which a plurality of delay elements are coupled, a logical circuit configured to generate a third signal based on a first signal based on the trigger signal and a second signal, which is an output signal of the delay element, and a synchronous transition section configured to count an edge of the third signal. The state information is having an output signal of the synchronous transition section and an output signal of the tapped delay line. A humming distance of the state information before and after the state transition is 1. A time from when the internal state transitions from a first internal state to a second internal state until when the internal state transitions to the first internal state again is longer than an interval of a time for updating the state information held by the transition-state acquisition section.
US11075620B2	Miller clamp driver with feedback bias control Aspects provide for a circuit including a voltage supply, a driver, and a feedback bias circuit. The driver includes a first p-type field effect transistor (FET) and a first n-type FET. The voltage supply has an input and an output. The driver has a first input coupled to the voltage supply output, a second input coupled to a first node, and an output coupled to a second node. The first p-type FET has a gate coupled to the output of the driver, a source coupled to the voltage supply output, and a drain coupled to the second node. The first n-type FET has a gate coupled to the output of the second driver, a drain coupled to the second node, and a source coupled to a ground node. The feedback bias circuit has an input coupled to the second node and an output coupled to the voltage supply input.
US11075618B2	Pulse width modulation signal generator A plus width modulation (PWM) signal generator is disclosed. The PWM signal generator includes a first signal generator providing a first signal, an output terminal, a first voltage generating circuit including connected to the first voltage generating circuit for providing a first present voltage according to the first signal, and a second voltage generating circuit connected to the first signal generator for providing a second present voltage according to the first signal. The first present voltage is earlier supplied to the output terminal than the second preset voltage, and after the first preset voltage continuously is provided for a period of preset time, the first voltage generating circuit stops providing the first preset voltage.
US11075615B2	Crystal vibration element, and crystal vibrator equipped with crystal vibration element A crystal vibration element that includes a crystal piece that has a prescribed crystal orientation, and a first direction and a second direction in a plan view thereof; and excitation electrodes that are respectively provided on front and rear surfaces of the crystal piece in order to excite a thickness shear vibration in the crystal piece upon application of an alternating electric field. A vibration distribution of the crystal piece has a vibration region that extends in a band-like shape in the second direction of the crystal piece and non-vibration regions that are adjacent to opposed sides of the vibration region in the first direction of the crystal piece.
US11075597B2	Motor control device A motor control device controls driving of a motor in response to d-axis and q-axis current commands set on the basis of a torque command. The motor control device includes: an electrical angle estimation unit configured to estimate an electrical angle of the motor according to at least one of methods of estimating the electrical angle on the basis that a leakage current in a q axis becomes zero by applying a voltage to a d axis, on the basis that at least one of a phase current difference and a line current difference caused by an induced voltage generated due to rotation of the motor becomes zero, and on the basis of a voltage equation, depending on an angular velocity of the motor, a modulation rate of a pwm signal, and whether a magnetic flux change is included in a nonlinear region.
US11075590B1	Methods and systems for actuating electroactive materials In various embodiments, a method includes (1) applying a first voltage and a first current to an electroactive device that includes a nanovoided electroactive polymer, (2) measuring a second voltage and a second current associated with the electroactive device, (3) determining at least one of a position or a force output associated with the electroactive device, the position or the force based on the second voltage and the second current, and (4) applying a third voltage and a third current to the electroactive device based on the at least one of the position or the force output. Various other methods, systems, apparatuses, and materials are also disclosed.
US11075589B2	DC inverter/converter current balancing for paralleled phase leg switches Current imbalances between parallel switching devices in a power converter half leg are reduced. A gate driver generates a nominal PWM gate drive signal for a respective half leg. A first feedback loop couples the nominal PWM gate drive signal to a gate terminal of a respective first switching device. The first feedback loop has a first mutual inductance with a current path of a first parallel switching device and has a second mutual inductance with a current path of a second parallel switching device. The first and second mutual inductances are arranged to generate opposing voltages in the first feedback loop, so that when all the parallel switching devices carry equal current then the voltages cancel.
US11075585B2	Synchronous rectification circuit and display device A synchronous rectifier circuit and a display device are provided. In some implementations, the circuit includes a controller, a first MOSFET and a protection circuit. A first detection terminal of the controller is connected with a first end of the first MOSFET, an input of the controller is connected with a second end of the first MOSFET and configured to input a driving voltage to the first MOSFET, and a ground terminal of the controller is connected with a third end of the first MOSFET. An output of the protection circuit is connected with the control end of the controller. The protection circuit is configured to send a control signal to the controller when receiving a shutdown signal and/or a power-down signal of an alternating current power supply. The control signal is configured for the controller to stop sending the driving voltage to the first MOSFET or supplying power to the controller.
US11075576B2	Apparatus and method for efficient shutdown of adiabatic charge pumps An apparatus and method for efficient shutdown of adiabatic charge pumps. A power converter includes a charge pump, a controller, an output load and an inductor. According to one aspect, the power converter includes a switch which is connected across the inductor, where the controller is configured to sense a status of the charge pump and to correspondingly drive the switch element. According to another aspect, the charge pump includes an active discharge circuit and a current-sense circuit, where the current-sense circuit is configured to activate the active discharge circuit. According to yet another aspect, the power converter includes a cascade multiplier having a plurality of high side and low side switches, where a pair of high side and low side switches are enabled simultaneously, such that the pair of high side and low side switches act as an active discharge switch for the charge pump.
US11075575B2	Resonant converter and control method of the resonant converter A resonant converter is disclosed, including: a primary side circuit including at least one set of primary side switches, where the primary side circuit is configured to receive an input voltage; a resonant network coupled to the primary side circuit; a transformer having a primary side winding and a secondary side winding, where the primary side winding is coupled to the resonant network; a secondary side circuit including at least one set of secondary side switches, where the secondary side circuit is coupled to the secondary side winding of the transformer; and a control block that controls the secondary side switches according to the input voltage, the output voltage and the current detection signal, so that the secondary side winding of the transformer is short-circuited during a preset time interval before operating state of the primary side switches changes.
US11075571B2	Infinite stroke linear motor An embodiment of a linear motor assembly includes an armature extending linearly along an axis, the armature having a plurality of windings. The linear motor assembly also includes a magnetic assembly including a plurality of magnets arrayed in a loop configuration, a linear section of the plurality of magnets extending linearly through the plurality of windings in a direction parallel to the axis, each magnet of the linear section being oriented in the direction and configured to move in the direction due to interaction between the plurality of windings and a magnetic field generated by the magnetic assembly.
US11075557B2	Rotor of rotating electrical machine and associated fabrication process The present invention relates to a rotor (1) of a rotary electric machine, comprising: a body (3) comprising a cylindrical central core (5) and a circumferential plurality of arms (B1 . . . B18) extending radially out from the cylindrical central core (5), the body (3) being intended to be mounted with the ability to move about an axis of rotation X, a coilset produced by windings of turns and forming at least one series of coils (C1 . . . C9, C1′ . . . C9′), a coil (C1 . . . C9, C1′ . . . C9′) comprising a predetermined number of turns around at least two arms (B1 . . . B18) of the body (3), two adjacent coils (C1 . . . C9, C1′ . . . C9′) of a series being angularly offset from one another with a partial overlap, in which the last coil (C9, C9′), situated radially furthest towards the outside, comprises a predetermined number of turns that is lower than the predetermined number of turns of the other coils of the series (C1 . . . C8, C1′ . . . C8′).
US11075552B2	Motor having split spray ring for cooling end turns A motor is cooled with a coolant. The motor includes a rotor rotatable about an axis, a stator including a stator core and windings wound about the stator core, a housing enclosing at least a portion of the stator, and a resiliently deflectable spray ring extending circumferentially relative to the axis. The spray ring defines at least one orifice configured to direct coolant on the stator. The spray ring presents first and second arcuately spaced apart ends defining a gap therebetween.
US11075551B2	Method for making stator of rotary electrical machine A stator of a rotary electrical machine has a stator body formed by a stack of metal sheets. The stator body is delimited by inner and outer radial surfaces. Notches in the stator body extend axially. Each notch has a notch base and a notch opening, and the notch opening is on the side of the inner radial surface. A stator winding is supported by the stator body, and the winding has a plurality of winding parts. Each part is accommodated in one of the notches. Each of the notches at the notch opening has a closure element. Each winding par in a notch is retained between the notch base and the closure element. The closure elements are formed by offsetting at least one of the metal sheets of an adjacent notch in the direction of the notch.
US11075550B2	Power transmission apparatus, power receiving apparatus, wireless power transmission system, and control methods thereof A power transmission apparatus that transmits power wirelessly to a power receiving apparatus by using power supplied from a power supply apparatus includes a first authentication unit configured to execute device authentication with the power supply apparatus, a second authentication unit configured to execute device authentication with the power receiving apparatus, and a control unit that performs negotiation related to transmission power with the power receiving apparatus based on a result of the device authentication by the first authentication unit and a result of the device authentication by the second authentication unit.
US11075547B2	Cell phone having wireless charging function A coil module is disposed inside an electronic apparatus and receives prescribed power. The coil module includes a loop coil, a plate-like magnetic body that is disposed on the loop coil, and a conductive member that has prescribed conductivity and is disposed parallel with the plate-like magnetic body and on a surface, opposite to a surface on which the loop coil is disposed, of the magnetic body. The conductive member projects outward relative to at least a portion of a circumferential surface of the magnetic body.
US11075539B2	Alternator control device An alternator control device includes a battery state determination unit determining whether the state of a battery is a predetermined normal state, a vehicle speed determination unit determining whether the speed of a vehicle is within a predetermined low speed range, a position determination unit determining whether the position of the vehicle meets a predetermined positional condition, and an output voltage instruction unit gives an instruction relating to the output voltage of the alternator. The output voltage instruction unit gives an instruction to increase the output voltage of the alternator to a voltage that is greater than a reference voltage, if it is determined that the state of the battery is not the predetermined normal state, if it is determined that the speed of the vehicle is within the predetermined low speed range, and if it is determined that the position of the vehicle meets the positional condition.
US11075534B2	USB type-C interface circuit and charging method thereof, USB device A interface circuit includes: a power supply circuit, configured to output a DC voltage; a voltage conversion circuit, configured to convert the DC voltage to a target voltage, wherein the voltage conversion circuit is a step-down conversion circuit; a first Type-C port and a second Type-C port, configured to be connected to the respective loads; a switch circuit, connected to the power supply circuit, the voltage conversion circuit, the first Type-C port and the second Type-C port respectively; and a USB controller, configured to communicate with the first Type-C port and the second Type-C port respectively, and regulate the DC voltage and the target voltage according to supply voltages of the loads connected to the first Type-C port and the second Type-C port, and control the switch circuit to apply the DC voltage or the target voltage to a Type-C port connected to a corresponding load.
US11075530B2	Modular system for collection and distribution of electric storage devices A collection, charging and distribution machine collects, charges and distributes portable electrical energy storage devices (e.g., batteries, super- or ultracapacitors). To charge, the machine employs electrical current from an external source, such as the electrical grid or an electrical service of an installation location. The machine determines a first number of devices to be rapidly charged, employing charge from a second number of devices identified to sacrifice charge. Thus, some devices may be concurrently charged via current from the electrical service and current from other devices, to achieve rapid charging of some subset of devices. The devices that sacrifice charge may later be charged. Such may ensure availability of devices for end users. Collection, charging and distribution machines may be deployed individually or as networked collection, charging and distribution modules with one collection, charging and distribution module controlling at least one other collection, charging and distribution module.
US11075526B2	Charging control device A charging control device includes a switching unit configured to be capable of switching a connection state of a battery unit including a plurality of battery modules whose number is N×M; and a controller configured to control the switching unit, wherein the controller causes the switching unit to switch the connection state from a first state in which all the battery modules are connected in series to a second state in which N groups each including M battery modules connected in series are connected in parallel when a power storage amount of the battery unit becomes equal to or larger than a first connection switching value in a first charging method in which a current supplied to each of the plurality of battery modules decreases as the power storage amount increases.
US11075507B2	Sealant repair systems and methods for outer jacket layers of cables and cable accessories A method for repairing a damaged area of an outer jacket layer of a cable or cable accessory includes: applying sealant to a strip of flexible material; forming a preliminary sealant layer on the damaged area and around an entire circumference of the outer jacket layer by sliding the strip of flexible material relative to the outer jacket layer with the sealant in contact with the outer jacket layer; wrapping the strip of flexible material around the entire circumference of the outer jacket layer and the preliminary sealant layer, wherein the preliminary sealant layer holds the strip of flexible material in place after the wrapping; and allowing the sealant to cure to thereby form a final sealant layer on the damaged area and around the entire circumference of the outer jacket layer, wherein the strip of flexible material holds the sealant in place while allowing the sealant to cure.
US11075506B2	Maintenance latch for switchgear shutter A switchgear housing for housing an object, such as a circuit breaker, includes: a wall with an access opening for access to a high voltage connector; at least one shutter plate movable parallel to the wall between a closed position, in which the shutter plate covers the opening and an open position, in which the shutter plate exposes the opening; an urging means for urging the at least one shutter plate towards the closed position; an operating mechanism for operating the shutter plate from the closed position to the open position when an object is moved into the housing; and at least one latch movable in a direction perpendicular to the wall with the access opening and between a latched position and an unlatched position. A path of the at least one latch and a path of the shutter plate intersect.
US11075500B2	Optical device having a substrate and a laser unit that emits light into the substrate An optical device includes a first substrate, having first and second surfaces, and a second substrate having a third surface. The first substrate includes: a laser unit, having an active layer and emitting light into the first substrate from the active layer; a reflecting mirror, having a plane obliquely intersecting an optical axis of light emitted from the laser unit, and being formed on the first surface so as to reflect the light toward the second surface; and a convex lens, being formed in a region on the second surface, the region including an optical axis of the light reflected by the reflecting mirror. The second substrate is provided with a grating coupler and an optical waveguide on the third surface, the optical waveguide having light incident on the grating coupler propagating therethrough.
US11075499B2	Heat sink comprising synthetic diamond material A heat sink comprising a heat spreader (2) made from synthetic diamond and having a front surface for mounting one or more components to be cooled like a laser disc (8) and a rear surface for direct fluid cooling (10). A plurality of ribs (4,7) is bonded to the rear surface of the heat spreader (2) to stiffen the heat spreader. Both the heat spreader and the plurality of ribs are formed of synthetic diamond material. The ribs (4,7) may be fixed to the heat spreader by braze bonds (6).
US11075497B2	Laser device and internal combustion engine Laser devices include a light source that emits a laser beam, an optical system that concentrates the laser beam emitted from the light source, an optical window through which the laser beam exited from the optical system passes, a housing that accommodates the optical system, and an optical window holding member fixed to the housing. The optical window holding member holds the optical window. In the first laser device, the optical window has a face or a protruding face through which the laser beam passes. When the optical window has the face, the face is flush with an edge of the optical window holding member and a film is formed on the face. When the optical window has the protruding face, the protruding face protrudes with reference to the edge of the optical window holding member and a film is formed on the protruding face.
US11075490B2	Electrical receptacle connector with elastic contacts An electrical receptacle connector includes an insulated housing, receptacle terminals, and a metallic shell. The insulated housing includes a base portion and a tongue portion outwardly extending from the base portion. Two metal sheets are arranged at two sides of the tongue portion. Each of the metal sheets includes a hook structure protruding from a side portion of the tongue portion and a through hole adjacent to the hook structure. The receptacle terminals are held in the base portion and disposed at the surface of the tongue portion. The metallic shell includes a receptacle cavity. The insulated housing is held in the receiving cavity. The contact arms are formed by the through holes of the metal sheets in an elastic manner, to avoid the hooks on both sides of the electrical plug connector in contact with the metal sheets in a poor interference manner.
US11075485B2	Contact device adapted to facilitate the repair of bolted electrical connections Contact device adapted to be inserted between two contact surfaces of two conductors of an electrical connection provided with at least one bolt, the device being formed by a metal foam plate to reduce electrical resistance of the connection. The surface area of the metal foam plate is at least equal to the surface area in contact with the two conductors, and is approximately 1 to 2 mm thick. The metal foam plate includes at least one circular opening intended to contain the bolt and at least one first pre-cut located between the opening and an outer edge of the contact device. The pre-cut is made by cutting the foam plate over a part of its thickness so that it can be easily broken along the pre-cut, the pre-cut allowing the bolt to be passed through it during the installation of the contact device.
US11075472B2	Systems and methods for active taps in cable networks In various embodiment, the disclosed systems, methods and apparatuses are directed to active taps. In particular, the disclosure is directed to providing an input port of a device to receive a first radio frequency (RF) signal; providing a plurality of output ports of the device to transmit second RF signals based on the first RF signal; coupling a bidirectional amplifier to the input port and at least a portion of the plurality of output ports; and modifying, using the bidirectional amplifier, the magnitude of at least the first RF signal. Further, a controller may be coupled to the cable modem; further the controller may be used to control the bidirectional amplifier or operate, based on instructions received from the cable modem, relays associated with the plurality of output ports of the active tap.
US11075471B2	Coaxial cable and connector with dielectric spacer that inhibits unwanted solder flow A coaxial cable-connector assembly includes a coaxial cable and a coaxial connector. The coaxial cable includes a central conductor, an outer conductor, a dielectric layer interposed between the central conductor and the outer conductor, and a jacket overlying the outer conductor. The coaxial connector includes: a central conductor extension configured to mate with a mating connector at one end and mated with the central conductor of the coaxial cable at a second opposite end; an outer conductor extension configured to mate with the mating connector at one end attached via a solder joint to the outer conductor of the coaxial cable at a second opposite end; and a dielectric spacer positioned between and separating the central conductor extension and the outer conductor extension, the dielectric spacer further positioned adjacent the solder joint to inhibit solder flow away from the solder joint.
US11075465B2	Surface-link antenna architecture Technologies for wireless network devices with surface-link antenna systems mounted on exterior surfaces of buildings are described. One wireless network device includes a housing with a circuit board and a first antenna port. A processor, a first antenna, a first wireless local area network (WLAN) radio, and a second WLAN radio are disposed on the circuit board. The first WLAN radio communicates with a radio of a client device using the first antenna over a first line-of-sight (LOS) or non-LOS wireless link (e.g., 2.4 GHz) inside the building. The second WLAN radio communicates with a radio of a second wireless network device using the second antenna over a second LOS wireless link (e.g., 5 GHz) that is external to the building. The first antenna is located inside the building and the second antenna is located along an exterior surface of the building.
US11075463B2	Wireless power transfer in the fresnel zone with a dynamic metasurface antenna A metasurface antenna can be configured to focus a paraxial beam, such as a Gaussian beam, on a target within a Fresnel zone region. The focused beam can be used to wirelessly deliver power to the target.
US11075449B2	Electronic device with antenna mechanism The present disclosure provides an electronic device that includes a first housing, a second housing, a rotary shaft, a display screen, and at least one antenna radiator. The second housing is rotatably coupled to the first housing by the rotary shaft. The display screen comprises a first portion and a second portion. The first portion is positioned on the first housing, and the second portion is positioned on the second housing. The at least one antenna radiator is positioned on the rotary shaft and configured to transmit radio frequency signals.
US11075448B2	Multiple antenna system and method for mobile platforms A method and system facilitate communication between a constellation of satellites and a mobile platform-mounted mobile communicator. The method and system may include the use of a first antenna suited for operation using a first frequency band in a first geographic region and a second antenna suited for operation using either the first or a second frequency band in a second geographic region. The method and system may use a controller to determine which antenna to activate based on one or more of a geographic indicator or a signal indicator. The system used by the method to facilitate the communication may have one or more enclosures over the antennas and controller for mounting to a mobile platform.
US11075447B2	Antenna for wireless communication and electronic device including the same An electronic device is provided, which includes a housing; a conductive member forming at least a part of the housing; first to third nonconductive members separating the conductive member, wherein the conductive member includes a first conductive pattern disposed between the first nonconductive member and the second nonconductive member, and a second conductive pattern disposed between the second nonconductive member and the third nonconductive member; a first feeding part connected to the first conductive pattern; a second feeding part connected to the second conductive pattern; a first ground part connected to the first conductive pattern at a point adjacent to the second nonconductive member; and a communication circuit electrically connected with the conductive member.
US11075446B2	Communication device A communication device for wireless communication includes a housing having a front dielectric cover, a back dielectric cover and a metal frame circumferentially arranged between the front dielectric cover and the back dielectric cover. The metal frame forms a first antenna that is configured to radiate in a first set of frequency bands. The communication device further includes a circuit arranged inside the housing, where the circuit is electrically isolated from the metal frame and includes at least one first feed line coupled to the metal frame and configured to feed the first antenna with a first set of radio frequency signals in the first set of frequency bands. The communication device further includes a second antenna arranged inside the housing.
US11075440B2	Surface-mounted device and mobile terminal The present disclosure provides a surface-mounted device and a mobile terminal. The surface-mounted device includes a rigid-flex board, at least one antenna array provided at the rigid-flex board; and a radio frequency integrated chip packaged in the rigid-flex board and connected to the at least one antenna array. The surface-mounted device can be welded to a main board of the mobile terminal as a separate device, making the installation convenient. Moreover, an omnidirectional coverage can be achieved when two opposite corners of the mobile terminal are respectively provided with one surface-mounted device.
US11075437B2	Mounting bracket for antenna information sensing unit, antenna information sensing unit, and antenna system A mounting bracket for an antenna information sensor unit includes a main horizontal arm, a first clamping member, and a second clamping member. The main horizontal arm is separately connected to the first clamping member and the second clamping member, and a distance between the first clamping member and the second clamping member is adjustable. The first clamping member and the second clamping member are configured to fasten the main horizontal arm on the top of an antenna, and the main horizontal arm is configured to connect to the antenna information sensor unit.
US11075431B2	Integrated current collector for electric vehicle battery cell Systems and methods to power an electric vehicle are provided. The system can include a battery pack having a plurality of battery modules, each of the of battery modules can include a plurality of battery blocks. The battery blocks can include a plurality of cylindrical battery cells. An integrated current collector device can be formed in a single structure and coupled with the plurality of cylindrical battery cells. The integrated current collector device can include a first current collector to couple with positive terminals of the cylindrical battery cells at first ends of the cylindrical battery cells and a second current collector to couple with negative terminals of the cylindrical battery cells at the first ends of the cylindrical battery cells. An isolation layer can be disposed between the first current collector and the second current collector to electrically isolate the first current collector from the second current collector.
US11075423B2	Battery submodule carrier, battery submodule, battery system and vehicle A battery submodule carrier includes a monolithic cell tray configured to accommodate a plurality of aligned battery cells; a plurality of cell retainers configured to retain the battery cells within the cell tray; and a plurality of tray fasteners configured to mount the cell tray to a battery system carrier.
US11075422B2	Battery terminal covering assembly and terminal covering method A covering assembly for a traction battery includes, among other things, a busbar cover that covers a busbar of a battery array, and a terminal cover connected to the busbar cover and moveable back and forth between a closed position and an open position. The terminal cover and cover at least one terminal of the battery array when in the closed position.
US11075420B2	Coin-type battery and manufacturing method thereof When a coin-type battery is manufactured using a sealing can in which a fold portion is not provided in a side wall portion, a coin-type battery with excellent reliability, which has excellent mass productivity and sealing properties and a capacity of which has been increased by increasing a housing space in which an electrode body is housed is manufactured. An open end portion of a side wall portion of a sealing can is formed not to bend toward an inner circumference side and an outer circumference side, an edge of the open end portion is formed not to have a sharp angle, a cut off portion is formed in an inner circumference side of an upper end portion, the sealing can is fitted to a gasket an inner diameter of which is made smaller than an external diameter of the side wall portion of the sealing can, an exterior can is caulked, thereby manufacturing a coin-type battery.
US11075419B2	Method of manufacturing pouch-shaped battery cell comprising jig grading A method of manufacturing a pouch-shaped battery cell including a silicon-based negative electrode active material includes injecting an electrolytic solution into a pouch-shaped battery case, in which an electrode assembly is mounted, charging and discharging the pouch-shaped battery cell having the electrolytic solution injected thereinto (a primary formation step), placing the pouch-shaped battery cell in a jig configured to fix and press the pouch-shaped battery cell, and charging and discharging the pouch-shaped battery cell while pressure is applied to the pouch-shaped battery cell by the jig (a jig grading step).
US11075413B1	Solid-state battery and method of forming same Methods of forming an electrochemical cell using a non-inert gas are disclosed. Exemplary methods include providing a non-inert gas before and/or after at least one charge and/or discharge cycle. The non-inert gas can facilitate formation of a solid electrolyte interphase (SEI). Further examples of the disclosure relate to methods of forming an electrochemical cell or portion thereof by electrospraying a solution including polymeric material. Such methods potentially eliminate a step of compressing the cell at a pressure beyond 100 MPa and prolong the cycle life while preventing a fire hazard.
US11075407B2	Grafted polyesters as electrolytes for lithium ion batteries New polymers with that have polyesters grafted onto polynorbornene backbones have been synthesized. When these grafted polymers are combined with electrolyte salts, such polymer electrolytes have shown excellent electrochemical oxidation stability in lithium battery cells. Their stability along with their excellent ionic transport properties make these grafted polyesters especially suitable as electrolytes in high energy density lithium battery cells.
US11075403B2	Garnet powder, manufacturing method thereof, solid electrolyte sheet using hot press and manufacturing method thereof The present disclosure relates to garnet powder, a manufacturing method thereof, a solid electrolyte sheet using a hot press, and a manufacturing method thereof. In particular, the present disclosure provides a method for manufacturing Li7La3Zr2O12 (LLZ) garnet powder including preparing a mixture by first dry mixing Li2CO3, La2O3, ZrO2, and Al2O3. The mixture is first calcinated for 5 to 7 hours in a temperature range of 800 to 1000° C. The calcinated mixture is ground to a powder with an average particle size of 1 to 4 μm through dry grinding. A cubic-phased LLZ garnet powder is prepared by second calcinating the ground mixture for 10 to 30 hours in a temperature range of 1100 to 1300° C.
US11075399B2	Ionic receptors to regulate the polysulfide shuttle in lithium-sulfur batteries A battery including at least one of a separator, an interlayer, a protective layer, and an electrode that incorporates an ionic receptor nanomaterial of formula MxNy, wherein M is boron (B), silicon (Si), aluminum (Al), carbon (C) or tin (Sn) and N is nitrogen, with x being equal to 1 to 3 and y being equal to 1 to 4. The ionic receptor nanomaterial is in a form of one of nanoparticles, nanoflakes, nanosheets, nanotubes, or nanorods.
US11075398B2	Cell pack and method for producing unit cell for use in cell pack A cell pack including: a plurality of unit cells arranged in an arrangement direction, each unit cell including a cell case accommodating an electrode body and an electrolytic solution; and a spacer disposed between two unit cells adjacent to each other in the arrangement direction. The cell case has a side surface facing the spacer. At least one of the side surfaces has a pressing region pressed by the spacer and a non-pressing region not pressed by the spacer. An expanding portion bulging in a direction of approaching the spacer is provided in the non-pressing region of the cell case, and a gap between the cell case and the spacer is reduced by the expanding portion.
US11075394B2	Apparatus and method for high efficiency operation of fuel cell systems A drive circuit comprising a DC bus configured to supply power to a load, a first fuel cell coupled to the DC bus and configured to provide a first power output to the DC bus, and a second fuel cell coupled to the DC bus and configured to provide a second power output to the DC bus supplemental to the first fuel cell. The drive circuit further includes an energy storage device coupled to the DC bus and configured to receive energy from the DC bus when a combined output of the first and second fuel cells is greater than a power demand from a load, and provide energy to the DC bus when the combined output of the first and second fuel cells is less than the power demand from the load.
US11075392B2	Fuel cell system and method of estimating content of metal ions A fuel cell system includes: a fuel cell including an MEA including an electrolyte membrane and anode and cathode catalyst layers sandwiching the electrolyte membrane; an impedance measuring device measuring AC impedance of the fuel cell when AC voltage is applied to the fuel cell; an impedance acquisition unit configured to obtain a first imaginary part value of the AC impedance measured when AC voltage with a fixed frequency satisfying Fixed frequency [Hz]×(Thickness of the electrolyte membrane [μm])2≤500 [Hz×μm2] is applied in a state where a relative humidity of the MEA is 20% or greater, and a fuel gas is present and an oxidant gas is absent in the anode and cathode catalyst layers; and a metal ion estimation unit configured to estimate a content of metal ions in the electrolyte membrane based on the first imaginary part value of the AC impedance.
US11075389B2	Electrode for rechargeable lithium battery, and rechargeable lithium battery including same A rechargeable lithium battery includes a metal-containing foam current collector, and an active mass that fills in the metal-containing foam current collector, the active mass including an active material. The electrode includes a central region and a surface region. The central region corresponds to a ±5% upper and lower area with a reference to a central thickness line of the electrode. A volume ratio of the metal and the active material in the central region is different from a volume ratio of the metal and the active material in the surface region.
US11075388B1	Foil-type current collector having an unperforated strip at the connector tab A current collector for an electrochemical cell is described. Unlike conventional current collector designs, the current collector does not have an unperforated perimeter frame completely bordering or surrounding a perforated interior region. Instead, only that portion of the current collector adjacent to the connector tab is unperforated. Otherwise, perforations extend directly to the perimeter edge.
US11075379B2	Preparation and characterization of modified oxide compositions Oxide compositions comprising a modified structure which includes the formula ABOz. The A component may comprise at a cation of least one element selected from the group consisting of Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba, Sc, Y, La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Gd, and Zn, and the B component may comprise a cation of at least one element selected from the group consisting of V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, and Ni. Batteries and supercapacitors comprising the oxide compositions of the present disclosure and methods of making the oxide compositions of the present disclosure are also provided.
US11075375B2	Cathode mixture, all solid state battery, method for producing cathode mixture, and method for producing all solid state battery An object of the present disclosure is to produce a cathode mixture with less irreversible capacity. The present disclosure achieves the object by providing a cathode mixture comprising: a cathode active material including a S element; a sulfur containing compound including a P element and a S element; a conductive auxiliary material; and substantially no Li element; wherein when a diffraction intensity at 2θ=15.5° in an X-ray diffraction measurement using a CuKα ray is regarded as I15.5, a diffraction intensity at 2θ=25° is regarded as I25, and a diffraction intensity at 2θ=40° is regarded as I40, a standard value defined by the following formula is more than 1.2. Standard value=(I15.5−I40)/(I25−I40)
US11075374B2	Method for producing electrode assembly and method for producing nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery A method for producing an electrode assembly includes a step of ultrasonically welding an exposed portion where the surface of an electrode current collector is exposed and an electrode lead to each other. The ultrasonic welding is performed, while the exposed portion of the electrode current collector and the electrode lead are stacked on each other, with an ultrasonic horn pressed against a resin sheet disposed on the exposed portion or the electrode lead. The resin sheet includes a sheet base material and an adhesive layer formed on one surface of the base material and is bonded to a portion of the exposed portion that is to be in contact with the ultrasonic horn or to a portion of the electrode lead that is to be in contact with the ultrasonic horn.
US11075367B2	Composite cathode active material, and cathode and lithium battery comprising composite cathode active material A composite cathode active material, a cathode including the composite cathode active material, and a lithium battery including the cathode are provided. The composite cathode active material includes a core including a lithium metal oxide and a coating layer on the core, wherein the lithium metal oxide includes two or more transition metals including nickel (Ni), an amount of Ni within one mole of the two or more transition metals included in the lithium metal oxide is about 0.65 mol or greater, the coating layer includes LiF, and a resistance of the composite cathode active material is lower than that of the core.
US11075366B2	Method for producing sulfide solid-state battery Disclosed is a sulfide solid-state battery produced via a first step of doping at least one material selected from graphite and lithium titanate with lithium, to obtain a predoped material; a second step of mixing the sulfide solid electrolyte, the silicon-based active material, and the predoped material, to obtain the anode mixture; and a third step of layering the anode mixture over the surface of the anode current collector that contains copper, to obtain the anode.
US11075360B2	Display panel, display device and method for manufacturing display panel An OLED display panel, a display device and a method for manufacturing the OLED display panel are provided. The display panel includes a display panel body, and an encapsulation layer disposed on the display panel body and applied to encapsulate the display panel body. The encapsulation layer has a gradually increasing thickness in a direction from a central position of the display panel to an edge position of the display panel.
US11075356B2	Display substrate, manufacturing method thereof, display device A display substrate, a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device are provided, which pertain to the field of display technologies. The display substrate includes a display area and a package area surrounding the display area. The display substrate includes a base substrate and an interlayer insulating layer on the substrate. The interlayer insulating layer has a groove, an orthographic projection of the groove on the base substrate is located within an orthographic projection of the package area on the base substrate, and the groove is provided with a sealing material.
US11075354B2	Display panel and method for manufacturing thereof A display panel is provided. The display panel includes a substrate, an active component disposed on the substrate, a passivation layer covering the active component, a planar layer covering the passivation layer, a first electrode disposed on the planar layer, a pixel defining layer covering the first electrode and the planar layer, an insulating layer disposed on the pixel defining layer, a conductive layer disposed on the insulating layer, an electroluminescence layer, and a second electrode. The first electrode is electrically connected to the active component by extending through an opening disposed in the passivation layer and the planar layer. The insulating layer covers a part of the pixel defining layer. The electroluminescence layer is disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode. A thickness of the electroluminescence layer is larger than or equal to a thickness of the insulating layer.
US11075347B2	Flexible display device This present disclosure discloses a display device. The display device may include a bending area and a non-bending area. A structure for improving durability may be included in the bending area. The display device may include a base layer having one or more first regions that can be folded along a predetermined axis, and a second region adjacent to the first regions; and thin-film transistors, organic light-emitting elements and functional layers stacked in the second region of the base layer. The thin-film transistors, the organic light-emitting elements and the functional layers stacked in the second regions are not disposed in the first regions. Instead, the space otherwise occupied by the elements is filled with the filling layer.
US11075344B2	Organic device and image sensor Disclosed are an organic device including a first electrode and a second electrode facing each other and an active layer between the first electrode and the second electrode, wherein the active layer includes compound represented by Chemical Formula 1, and an image sensor including the same. In Chemical Formula 1, L1, L2, R1, R2, Ar1, Ar2, X1, X2, m1, m2, n1, and n2 are the same as described in the detailed description.
US11075342B2	Spiro-type compound and organic light emitting diode comprising same The present specification relates to a spiro structure compound and an organic light emitting device including the same.
US11075341B2	Organic microcavity photodetectors with narrow and tunable spectral response An organic photodetector (OPD) comprises a microcavity defined by a reflective electrode and a semi-transparent electrode, wherein the microcavity comprises a transparent conductive oxide layer and an active layer comprising an n-type organic semiconductor and a p-type organic semiconductor, and wherein the blend of the n-type organic semiconductor and the p-type organic semiconductor exhibits low absorption at the resonance wavelength, which results in an excellent optical sensitivity in a favorably narrow wavelength region and allows to tune the response to different wavelengths depending on the desired application. In addition, methods of producing such organic photodetectors and methods of tuning the resonance of a microcavity formed in an organic photodetector (OPD) to a predetermined wavelength are provided.
US11075337B2	Integrated circuit devices based on metal ion migration and methods of fabricating same The disclosed technology generally relates to integrated circuit (IC) devices and more particularly to IC devices based on metal ion migration, and to manufacturing of the IC devices. In one aspect, a method of manufacturing an integrated electronic circuit, which includes at least one component based on metal ion migration and reduction, allows improved control of an amount of the metal which is incorporated into the component. This amount is produced from a metal supply layer and transferred into a container selectively with respect to the rest of the component. The container is configured as part of an electrolyte portion or active electrode in the final component. The method is compatible with two-dimensional and three-dimensional configurations of the component.
US11075335B2	Techniques for MRAM MTJ top electrode connection Some embodiments relate to a method for manufacturing a memory device. The method includes forming a first masking layer disposed over a dielectric layer, the first masking layer exhibiting sidewalls defining an opening disposed above a magnetoresistive random-access memory (MRAM) cell located in an embedded memory region. A first etch is performed to form a first via opening within the dielectric layer above the MRAM cell. A top electrode via layer formed over the MRAM cell and the dielectric layer. A first planarization process performed on the top electrode via layer to remove part of the top electrode via layer and define a top electrode via having a substantially flat top surface.
US11075334B2	Spin-orbit-torque magneto-resistive random access memory with stepped bottom electrode A memory structure, and a method for forming the same, includes a spin-orbit-torque electrode within a dielectric layer located above a substrate. The spin-orbit-torque electrode including a first conductive material, and a spin-orbit torque via is directly above the spin-orbit-torque electrode that includes a second conductive material. A magnetic tunnel junction pillar is directly above the spin-orbit torque via, and the spin-orbit-torque via contacting a center of a bottom surface of the magnetic-tunnel-junction pillar. A third conductive material is positioned directly below the bottom surface of the magnetic tunnel junction pillar on opposite sides of the spin-orbit torque via and directly above the spin-orbit-torque electrode. The third conductive material, the spin-orbit torque electrode and the spin-orbit torque via form a bottom spin-orbit torque electrode of the magnetic tunnel junction pillar.
US11075332B2	Tactile temperature control A temperature control system for a motor vehicle includes a thermotactile user interface having a plurality of adjacent thermoelectric units arranged in an array, each thermoelectric unit having a thermoelectric surface whose temperature varies with an amount of current supplied to the thermoelectric unit. A controller controls the amount of current supplied to each thermoelectric unit such that the temperature of each thermoelectric surface in the array progressively increases or decreases along the array. The system also includes a sensor system that detects a user selection of one of the thermoelectric surfaces as corresponding to a desired temperature. In response to the detected user selection, the controller controls a temperature of a temperature controlled medium of the motor vehicle, e.g., controls the vehicle's cabin climate, to match the temperature of the selected thermoelectric surface.
US11075330B2	Package structure and electronic device A package structure and an electronic device including the package structure are disclosed. The package structure includes a substrate, a wire layer disposed on the substrate, a visual unit disposed on the substrate, and an encapsulation element disposed on the substrate. The wire layer includes a plurality of patterned circuits. The visual unit includes a first area and a second area defined along a periphery of the first area. The first area is configured with a photoelectric element, and the photoelectric element is electrically connected to and disposed corresponding to at least one of the patterned circuits. The encapsulation element completely covers the first area of the visual unit and overlaps the corresponding patterned circuit, such that an average reflectance inside the encapsulation element is greater than an average reflectance outside the encapsulation element.
US11075328B2	Method of forming conductive area at top surface of light-emitting diode A method of forming a conductive area at a top surface of a light-emitting diode includes: preparing a substrate having a top surface with a conductive pad thereon; bonding a light-emitting diode having first and second type semiconductor layers and an active layer to the conductive pad; forming a polymer layer on the substrate such that a difference between a distance from a first surface of the polymer layer to the top surface of the substrate and a distance from a second surface of the polymer layer to a top surface of the light-emitting diode is greater than a distance from an interface between a second type semiconductor layer and an active layer to the top surface of the substrate; and etching the polymer layer till the second type semiconductor layer to expose the top surface of the light-emitting diode from the polymer layer.
US11075323B2	Method of producing a radiation-emitting component and radiation-emitting component A method of producing a radiation-emitting component includes: A) providing a dielectric layer that degrades against environmental influences; B) applying a first protective layer to the dielectric layer by an atomic layer deposition method, wherein the first protective layer includes elemental Si or in a compound; and C) applying a second protective layer to the first protective layer, the second protective layer including elemental Si, wherein a layer thickness of the first protective layer is less than or equal to 1 nm so that the first protective layer reduces or prevents a degradation of the dielectric layer.
US11075313B2	Optoelectronic devices manufactured using different growth substrates A growth structure having a lattice transition (or graded buffer) or an engineered growth structure with a desired lattice constant, different from a lattice constant of conventional substrates like GaAs, Si, Ge, InP, under a release layer or an etch stop layer is used as a seed crystal for growing optoelectronic devices. The optoelectronic device can be a photovoltaic device having one or more subcells (e.g., lattice-matched or lattice-mismatched subcells). The release layer can be removed using different processes to separate the optoelectronic device from the growth structure, which may be reused, or from the engineered growth structure. When using the etch stop layer, the growth structure or the engineered growth structure may be grinded or etched away. The engineered growth structure may be made from a layer transfer process between two wafers or from a ternary and/or a quaternary material. Methods for making the optoelectronic device are also described.
US11075305B2	Semiconductor device According to one embodiment, the oxide semiconductor layer contains at least one of indium (In) and tin (Sn). The insulating film is provided between the control electrode and the oxide semiconductor layer, and contains silicon oxide. The metal oxide film is provided between the insulating film and the oxide semiconductor layer, and contacts the insulating film and the oxide semiconductor layer. The metal oxide film contains at least one selected from a group consisting of gallium (Ga), tungsten (W), germanium (Ge), aluminum (Al), molybdenum (Mo), and titanium (Ti).
US11075300B2	Semiconductor device, method for manufacturing the same, and electronic device The semiconductor device includes a first insulating layer; a first oxide semiconductor; a first insulator containing indium, an element M (M is gallium, aluminum, titanium, yttrium, or tin), and zinc; a second oxide semiconductor; a source electrode layer; a drain electrode layer; a second insulator containing indium, the element M, and zinc; a gate insulating layer; and a gate electrode layer. The first and second oxide semiconductors each include a region with c-axis alignment. In the first and second oxide semiconductors, the number of indium atoms divided by sum of numbers of the indium atoms, element M atoms, and zinc atoms is ⅓ or more. In the first insulator, the number of zinc atoms divided by sum of the numbers of indium atoms, element M atoms, and zinc atoms is ⅓ or less.
US11075287B2	Semiconductor structure and forming method thereof The present disclosure provides a semiconductor structure and a method for forming a semiconductor structure. In one form, a method for forming a semiconductor structure includes: providing a base; forming multiple spaced filling layers in the base; etching the base to form multiple independent fin portions; and etching the filling layers to form multiple independent pseudofin portions. In one form a semiconductor structure of the present disclosure includes: a substrate, multiple independent fin portions and multiple independent pseudofin portions, wherein the substrate includes device areas, and isolating areas located between the device areas; the multiple independent fin portions are located on the substrate in the device areas and are the same with the substrate in material; and the multiple independent pseudofin portions are located on the substrate in the isolating areas and are different from the substrate in material.
US11075282B2	Semiconductor structure and fabrication method thereof A method includes forming a gate layer over a semiconductor fin; forming a patterned mask over the gate layer; performing a first etching process to pattern the gate layer using the patterned mask as an etch mask, the patterned gate layer comprising a first gate extending across the semiconductor fin; depositing, by using an directional ion beam, a protection layer to wrap around a top surface, a first sidewall and a second sidewall of the first gate, the protection layer extending along the first and second sidewalls of the first gate towards a bottom surface of the first gate without extending to the bottom surface of the first gate on the second sidewall of the first gate; and after depositing the protection layer, performing a second etching process to a portion of the second sidewall of the first gate exposed by the protection layer.
US11075281B2	Additive core subtractive liner for metal cut etch processes An additive core subtractive liner method is described for forming electrically conductive contacts. The method can include forming a first trench in a first dielectric layer to expose a first portion of a metal liner, and filling said first trench with a second dielectric layer. A metal cut trench is formed in the second dielectric layer. A portion of the metal liner exposed by the metal cut trench is removed with a subtractive method. The method continues with filling the metal cut trench with a dielectric fill, and replacing the remaining portions of the second dielectric layer with an additive core conductor to provide contacts to remaining portions of the metal liner.
US11075276B2	Methods and apparatus for n-type metal oxide semiconductor (NMOS) metal gate materials using atomic layer deposition (ALD) processes with metal based precursors Methods and apparatus for forming a semiconductor structure such as an NMOS gate electrode are described. Methods may include depositing a first capping layer having a first surface atop a first surface of a high-k dielectric layer; and depositing at least one metal layer having a first surface atop the first surface of the first capping layer, wherein the at least one metal layer includes titanium aluminum silicide material. Some methods include removing an oxide layer from the first surface of the first capping layer by contacting the first capping layer with metal chloride in an amount sufficient to remove an oxide layer. Some methods for depositing a titanium aluminum silicide material are performed by an atomic layer deposition process performed at a temperature of 350 to 400 degrees Celsius.
US11075272B2	Semiconductor device having buried gate structure and method for fabricating the same Disclosed is a semiconductor device for improving a gate induced drain leakage and a method for fabricating the same, and the semiconductor device includes a substrate, a first doped region and a second doped region formed to be spaced apart from each other by a trench in the substrate, a first gate dielectric layer over the trench, a lower gate over the first gate dielectric layer, an upper gate over the lower gate and having a smaller width than the lower gate, and a second gate dielectric layer between the upper gate and the first gate dielectric layer.
US11075265B2	Trigate device with full silicided epi-less source/drain for high density access transistor applications After forming a laterally contacting pair of a semiconductor fin and a conductive strap structure overlying a deep trench capacitor embedded in a substrate and forming a gate stack straddling a body region of the semiconductor fin, source/drain regions are formed in portions the semiconductor fin located on opposite sides of the gate stack by ion implantation. Next, a metal layer is applied over the source/drain region and subsequent annealing consumes entire source/drain regions to provide fully alloyed source/drain regions. A post alloyzation ion implantation is then performed to introduce dopants into the fully alloyed source/drain regions followed by an anneal to segregate the implanted dopants at interfaces between the fully alloyed source/drain regions and the body region of the semiconductor fin.
US11075264B2	Super junction power semiconductor devices formed via ion implantation channeling techniques and related methods Semiconductor devices include a silicon carbide drift region having an upper portion and a lower portion. A first contact is on the upper portion of the drift region and a second contact is on the lower portion of the drift region. The drift region includes a superjunction structure that includes a p-n junction that is formed at an angle of between 10° and 30° from a plane that is normal to a top surface of the drift region. The p-n junction extends within +/−1.5° of a crystallographic axis of the silicon carbide material forming the drift region.
US11075263B2	Semiconductor device, and method for manufacturing semiconductor device [Object] To provide a semiconductor device capable of improving a discharge starting voltage when measuring electric characteristics, and widening a pad area of a surface electrode or increasing the number of semiconductor devices (number of chips) to be obtained from one wafer, and a method for manufacturing the same. [Solution Means] A semiconductor device 1 includes an n-type SiC layer 2 having a first surface 2A, a second surface 2B, and end faces 2C, a p-type voltage relaxing layer 7 formed in the SiC layer 2 so as to be exposed to the end portion of the first surface 2A of the SiC layer 2, an insulating layer 8 formed on the SiC layer 2 so as to cover the voltage relaxing layer 7, and an anode electrode 9 that is connected to the first surface 2A of the SiC layer 2 through the insulating layer 8 and has a pad area 95 selectively exposed.
US11075262B2	Semiconductor device According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a first electrode, a second electrode, a third electrode, a semiconductor member, and a first crystal member. A direction from the first electrode toward the second electrode is aligned with a first direction. A position in the first direction of the third electrode is between positions in the first direction of the first electrode and the second electrode. The semiconductor member includes at least one selected from the group consisting of silicon carbide, silicon, carbon, and germanium. The semiconductor member includes a first region, and first and second partial regions. The first region is between the first and second electrodes in the first direction. A second direction from the first region toward the third electrode crosses the first direction. The first crystal member is provided between the first and third electrodes in the second direction.
US11075261B2	Structure for use in a metal-insulator-metal capacitor The disclosed technology relates to a structure for use in a metal-insulator-metal capacitor. In one aspect, the structure comprises a bottom electrode formed of a Ru layer. The Ru layer has a top surface characterized by a grazing incidence X-ray diffraction spectrum comprising a first intensity and a second intensity, the first intensity corresponding to a diffracting plane of Miller indices (0 0 2) being larger than the second intensity corresponding to a diffracting plane of Miller indices (1 0 1). The structure further comprises an interlayer on the top surface of the Ru layer, the interlayer being formed of an oxide of Sr and Ru having a cubic lattice structure, and a dielectric layer on the interlayer, the dielectric layer being formed of an oxide of Sr and Ti.
US11075251B2	Flexible display device A flexible display device includes a protection member, a first adhesion member, a display member, a second adhesion member, and a window member. A thickness of the display member is less than a sum of thicknesses of the protection member and the window member. The display member includes a display panel layer, a touch sensing layer, and a reflection prevention layer integrated with each other to reduce a thickness of the flexible display device. The reduction in thickness enables the flexible display device to be bent with a relatively small radius of curvature, as well as to be repeatedly bent (or otherwise flexed) with reduced potential for delamination of the first and second adhesion members.
US11075250B2	Light-emitting device package, display device including the same, and method of manufacturing the same A light-emitting device package is provided. The light-emitting device package includes: a substrate having a first surface and a second surface, and having a first opening and a second opening spaced apart from each other; a light-emitting structure disposed on the first surface of the substrate and vertically overlapping the first opening; and an image sensor including a photoelectric conversion region, the photoelectric conversion region being disposed in the substrate and vertically overlapping the second opening. Light from the light-emitting structure is emitted toward the second surface of the substrate through the first opening.
US11075247B2	Circuit structure and method for resistive RAM with self aligned contacts in zero-via layer The disclosure provides a circuit structure and method to provide self-aligned contacts in a zero-via conductor layer. The structure may include a device layer including a first contact to a first source/drain region, and a second contact to a second source/drain region, the first and second source/drain regions being separated by a transistor gate. A zero-via layer of the circuit structure may include: a first via conductor positioned on the first contact and self-aligned with an overlying metal level in a first direction; and a second via conductor positioned on the second contact and self-aligned with the overlying metal level in a second direction, the second direction being orthogonal to the first direction.
US11075246B2	Method for generation of electrical power within a three-dimensional integrated structure and corresponding link device Method for generation of electrical power within a three-dimensional integrated structure comprising several elements electrically intercoupled by a link device, the method comprising the production of a temperature gradient in at least one region of the link device resulting from the operation of at least one of the said elements and the production of electrical power using at least one thermo-electric generator comprising at least one assembly of thermocouples electrically coupled in series and thermally coupled in parallel and contained within the said region subjected to the said temperature gradient.
US11075239B2	Anti-reflective coating with high refractive index material at air interface An optical element comprising a transparent substrate and an anti-reflective coating, wherein the anti-reflective coating further comprises at least a transparent, high refractive index layer and a transparent, low refractive index layer, wherein the high refractive index layer is in contact with the low refractive index layer; and wherein the high refractive index layer is situated at an interface between the anti-reflective coating and air. Further, the low refractive index layer may be silicon oxide; the high refractive index layer may be tantalum oxide or silicon nitride.
US11075222B2	Display apparatus Provided is a display apparatus. The display apparatus includes an active area and a bezel area, the display apparatus comprising semiconductor patterns disposed in a third area of the bezel area, an insulating layer disposed on the semiconductor patterns and includes contact holes and dummy holes, a power supply electrode disposed in the third area of the bezel area, overlaps the semiconductor patterns with the insulating layer therebetween, and is connected to the semiconductor patterns through the contact holes, dummy gate lines disposed between the semiconductor patterns and the power supply electrode, overlap the semiconductor pattern to form a first compensation capacitance and overlap the power supply electrode to form a second compensation capacitance, and a dummy semiconductor patterns disposed in the third area of the bezel area, and are connected to the power supply electrode through the dummy holes.
US11075221B2	Thin-film transistor substrate having overlapping thin-film transistor A thin-film transistor substrate may include a first thin-film transistor and a second thin-film transistor which are disposed on a substrate. The first thin-film transistor may include a first semiconductor layer, a first gate electrode, and a first electrode. The second thin-film transistor may include a second semiconductor layer disposed on the first semiconductor layer and overlapping at least a portion of the first semiconductor layer, a second gate electrode, and a second electrode electrically connected to the first electrode. The second electrode may overlap the first electrode.
US11075217B2	Vertical semiconductor devices A vertical semiconductor device includes odd and even cell blocks, and odd and even block pad structures. Each of the odd cell blocks includes first conductive line structures including conductive lines and insulation layers alternatively stacked in a first direction. Each of the even cell blocks includes second conductive line structures having substantially the same shape as the first conductive line structures. The odd block pad structure is connected to first edge portions of the first conductive line structures. The even block pad structure is connected to second edge portions, opposite the first edge portions, of the second conductive line structures. Each of the odd cell blocks and the even cell blocks has a first width in a third direction. Each of the odd and even block pad structures is formed on a region of a substrate having a second width greater than the first width in the third direction.
US11075211B2	Semiconductor device with nonvolatile memory A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate including a first region for a nonvolatile memory cell and a second region that is formed outside the first region and in which a semiconductor element differing from the nonvolatile memory cell is formed, a plurality of first element separating portions by which the first region and the second region are electrically separated from each other, a second element separating portion that is formed in the first region and that partitions the first region into a plurality of active regions, and a dummy region formed adjacently to a first portion that is one, which is closest to the first region, of the plurality of first element separating portions, and, in the semiconductor device, the first portion of the first element separating portion is equivalent in width to the second element separating portion.
US11075197B2	Resistor with doped regions and semiconductor devices having the same A resistor including a device isolation layer is described that includes a first active region and a second active region, a buried insulating layer, and an N well region. The N well region surrounds the first active region, the second active region, the device isolation layer and the buried insulating layer. A first doped region and a second doped region are disposed on the first active region and the second active region. The first doped region and the second doped region are in contact with the N well region and include n type impurities.
US11075189B2	Semiconductor package A semiconductor package including a substrate; a semiconductor stack on the substrate; an underfill between the substrate and the semiconductor stack; an insulating layer conformally covering surfaces of the semiconductor stack and the underfill; a chimney on the semiconductor stack; and a molding member surrounding side surfaces of the chimney, wherein the semiconductor stack has a first upper surface that is a first distance from the substrate and a second upper surface that is a second distance from the substrate, the first distance being greater than the second distance, wherein the chimney includes a thermally conductive filler on the first and second upper surfaces of the semiconductor stack, the thermally conductive filler having a flat upper surface; a thermally conductive spacer on the thermally conductive filler; and a protective layer on the thermally conductive spacer, and wherein an upper surface of the thermally conductive spacer is exposed.
US11075181B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate including a chip region and an edge region around the chip region, a lower insulating layer on the semiconductor substrate, a chip pad on the lower insulating layer on the chip region, an upper insulating layer provided on the lower insulating layer to cover the chip pad, the upper and different insulating layers including different materials, and a redistribution chip pad on the chip region and connected to the chip pad. The upper insulating layer includes a first portion on the chip region having a first thickness, a second portion on the edge region having a second thickness, and a third portion on the edge region, the third portion extending from the second portion, spaced from the first portion, and having a decreasing thickness away from the second portion. The second thickness is smaller than the first thickness.
US11075178B2	RF power amplifier pallet An example embodiment relates to a radiofrequency (RF) power amplifier pallet, and further relates to an electronic device that includes such a pallet. The RF power amplifier pallet may include a coupled line coupler that includes a first line segment and a second line segment that is electromagnetically coupled to the first line segment. A first end of the first line segment may be electrically connected to an output of an RF amplifying unit. The RF power amplifier pallet may further include a dielectric filled waveguide having an end section of the first dielectric substrate, an end section of the second dielectric substrate, and a plurality of metal wall segments covering the end sections of the first and second dielectric layers. The plurality of metal wall segments may be arranged spaced apart from the first line segment and electrically connected to a first end of the second line segment.
US11075174B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device capable of suppressing generation of noise caused by EMI is provided. The flash memory includes a memory cell array, a clock generator (200), a readout part, an input/output circuit, an overlap detecting part (330) and a clock control part. The clock generator generates an internal clock signal. The readout part reads data from a selected memory cell of the memory cell array using the internal clock signal. The input/output circuit outputs the read data using an external clock signal supplied from outside. The overlap detecting unit detects a period during which a rising edge of the internal clock signal overlaps a rising edge of external clock signal. The clock control part controls a timing of the internal clock signal in response to the detected overlap period.
US11075171B2	Fan-out semiconductor package A fan-out semiconductor package includes a core member having a through hole, at least one dummy structure disposed in the core member, a semiconductor chip disposed in the through hole and including an active surface on which a connection pad is disposed and an inactive surface opposing the active surface, an encapsulant sealing at least a portion of each of the core member and the semiconductor chip, and filling at least a portion of the through hole, and a connection member disposed on the core member and the active surface of the semiconductor chip, and including a redistribution layer electrically connected to the connection pad.
US11075165B2	Methods and apparatus for forming dual metal interconnects Methods and apparatus for creating a dual metal interconnect on a substrate. In some embodiments, a first liner of a first nitride material is deposited into at least one 1× feature and at least one wider than 1× feature, the first liner has a thickness of less than or equal to approximately 12 angstroms; a second liner of a first metal material is deposited into the at least one 1× feature and at least one wider than 1× feature; the first metal material is reflowed such that the at least one 1× feature is filled with the first metal material and the at least one wider than 1× feature remains unfilled with the first metal material; a second metal material is deposited on the first metal material, and the second metal material is reflowed such that the at least one wider than 1× feature is filled with the second metal material.
US11075161B2	Large via buffer An interconnect structure is provided. The interconnect structure includes a first metallization layer, an insulating layer and a second metallization layer. The first metallization layer includes, at an uppermost surface thereof, a first body formed of first dielectric material, first metallic elements and buffer elements formed of second dielectric material adjacent the first metallic elements. The insulating layer is disposed on the uppermost surface of the first metallization layer and defines apertures located at the first metallic elements and the corresponding buffer elements. The second metallization layer is disposed on the insulating layer and includes a second body formed of first dielectric material and second metallic elements located at the apertures and extending through the apertures to contact the corresponding first metallic elements and the corresponding buffer elements.
US11075158B2	MIM structure Disclosed is a method of manufacturing a three dimensional (3D) metal-insulator-metal (MIM) capacitor in the back end of line, which can provide large and tunable capacitance values and meanwhile, does not interfere with the existing BEOL fabrication process. In one embodiment, a method for fabricating a semiconductor device includes: forming a first conductive feature on a semiconductor substrate; forming a second conductive feature on the semiconductor substrate; forming a first via structure over the first conductive feature; forming a first metallization structure over the first via structure, wherein the first metallization structure is conductively coupled to the first conductive feature through the first via structure; forming a conductive etch stop structure on the first metallization structure; forming a first via hole above the conductive etch stop structure and a second via hole above the second conductive feature, wherein the first via hole exposes the conductive etch stop structure and the second via hole is deeper than the first via hole; and forming a capacitor in the second via hole.
US11075157B2	IC having trench-based metal-insulator-metal capacitor An integrated circuit (IC) includes a semiconductor surface layer of a substrate including circuitry formed in the semiconductor surface layer configured together with a Metal-Insulator-Metal (MIM) capacitor. A multi-layer metal stack on the semiconductor surface layer includes a bottom plate contact metal layer including a bottom capacitor plate contact. A first interlevel dielectric (ILD) layer is over the bottom plate contact metal layer. The MIM capacitor includes a trench in the first ILD layer over the bottom capacitor plate contact, wherein the trench is lined by a bottom capacitor plate with a capacitor dielectric layer thereon, and a top capacitor plate on the capacitor dielectric layer. A fill material fills the trench to form a filled trench. A second ILD layer is over including the filled trench. A filled via through the second ILD layer provides a contact to a top plate contact on the top capacitor plate.
US11075155B2	Package structure and manufacturing method thereof A package structure includes a redistribution layer having a first surface, a second surface disposed opposite to the first surface, and at least one sidewall connected to the first surface and the second surface, at least one bonding electrode disposed on the first surface of the redistribution layer, and a mounting layer disposed on the second surface of the redistribution layer. The mounting layer includes a plurality of conductive pads that are spaced apart from each other. At least one of the conductive pads is exposed by the sidewall of the redistribution layer.
US11075153B2	Electronic component-incorporating substrate An electronic component-incorporating substrate includes a metal mount portion and a first insulation layer. The mount portion includes a first accommodation portion recessed from the upper surface. The first insulation layer includes a second accommodation portion configured by an opening that exposes the first accommodation portion and partially exposes the upper surface of the mount portion located around the first accommodation portion. The electronic component-incorporating substrate further includes an electronic component mounted on the first accommodation portion and including a connection pad, a second insulation layer covering the first insulation layer, the electronic component, and the connection pad, a wiring layer formed on an upper surface of the second insulation layer and including a via wiring extending through the second insulation layer in a thickness-wise direction and a wiring pattern connected to the connection pad of the electronic component by the via wiring.
US11075146B2	Microfeature workpieces having alloyed conductive structures, and associated methods Microfeature workpieces having alloyed conductive structures, and associated methods are disclosed. A method in accordance with one embodiment includes applying a volume of material to a bond pad of a microfeature workpiece, with the volume of material including a first metallic constituent and the bond pad including a second constituent. The method can further include elevating a temperature of the volume of material while the volume of material is applied to the bond pad to alloy the first metallic constituent and the second metallic constituent so that the first metallic constituent is alloyed generally throughout the volume of material. A thickness of the bond pad can be reduced from an initial thickness T1 to a reduced thickness T2.
US11075143B2	Cooling apparatus A cooling apparatus includes a casing including a top wall, a bottom wall, and a cooling fluid passage. A heat radiator arranged in the cooling fluid passage includes heat radiation units arranged in a vertical direction and at least one intermediate plate each of which is arranged between adjacent heat radiation units of the heat radiation units in the vertical direction. Each of the heat radiation units includes a substrate and pin fins provided on the substrate. The substrate of each of the heat radiation units and the at least one intermediate plate are spaced apart in the vertical direction. The pin fins of the adjacent heat radiation units are in thermal contact with the at least one intermediate plate. The pin fins of the uppermost and lowermost heat radiation units of the heat radiation units are in thermal contact with the top and bottom walls of the casing, respectively.
US11075117B2	Die singulation and stacked device structures Techniques for singulating dies from a respective workpiece and for incorporating one or more singulated die into a stacked device structure are described herein. In some examples, singulating a die from a workpiece includes chemically etching the workpiece in a scribe line. In some examples, singulating a die from a workpiece includes mechanically dicing the workpiece in a scribe line and forming a liner along a sidewall of the die. The die can be incorporated into a stacked device structure. The die can be attached to a substrate along with another die that is attached to the substrate. An encapsulant can be between each die and the substrate and laterally between the dies.
US11075113B2	Metal capping layer and methods thereof A method and structure for forming an enhanced metal capping layer includes forming a portion of a multi-level metal interconnect network over a substrate. In some embodiments, the portion of the multi-level metal interconnect network includes a plurality of metal regions. In some cases, a dielectric region is disposed between each of the plurality of metal regions. By way of example, a metal capping layer may be deposited over each of the plurality of metal regions. Thereafter, in some embodiments, a self-assembled monolayer (SAM) may be deposited, where the SAM forms selectively on the metal capping layer, while the dielectric region is substantially free of the SAM. In various examples, after selectively forming the SAM on the metal capping layer, a thermal process may be performed, where the SAM prevents diffusion of the metal capping layer during the thermal process.
US11075100B2	Container for storing wafer The present invention relates to a container for storing a wafer, particularly to a container for storing a wafer in which a plurality of purging areas is vertically partitioned in the interior of a storage chamber, and a purge gas is sprayed into the plurality of purging areas, thereby allowing not only uniform purging of the wafer to be assured but also efficient purging of the wafer without waste of the purge gas to be achieved.
US11075098B2	Pod and method for containing a reticle using the same A reticle pressing unit and an EUV reticle pod using the same are provided. An inner assembly includes an upper cover and a lower cover. The lower cover includes a supporting element for supporting the reticle. A pressing unit for pressing the reticle is disposed on the upper cover and includes a pressing element and a limiting cap. The pressing element has oppositely arranged pressing part and pressure receiving part. The pressing part extends through the upper cover to press against the reticle. The pressing element is covered by the limiting cap and is protruded outwardly from a top surface of the limiting cap. An outer cover has a pushing surface for forming a surface-to-surface contact with the pressure receiving part and for simultaneously pressing against the pressure receiving part and the top surface to solve the problems relating to the reticle which is applied with uneven forces.
US11075094B2	Substrate processing apparatus A substrate processing apparatus includes a connection portion connected to the common piping and having a flow space in its interior, a chemical liquid supplying piping connected to the connection portion, a drain piping connected to the connection portion, and a cleaning liquid supplying piping connected to the connection portion, the connection portion has a plurality of ports aligned along a flow direction of the flow space, and a common port, which, among these ports, is connected to one end of the common piping, is disposed, in regard to the flow direction, between a drain port, which, among these ports, is connected to the drain piping, and a cleaning liquid supplying port, which, among these ports, is connected to the cleaning liquid supplying piping.
US11075089B2	Method of plasma etching and method of fabricating semiconductor device using the same Disclosed are a method of plasma etching and a method of fabricating a semiconductor device including the same. The method of plasma etching includes loading a substrate including an etch target onto a first electrode in a chamber, the chamber including the first electrode and a second electrode arranged to face each other, and etching the target. The etching the target includes applying a plurality of RF powers to one of the first and second electrodes. The plurality of RF powers may include a first RF power having a first frequency in a range from about 40 MHz to about 300 MHz, a second RF power having a second frequency in a range from about 100 kHz to about 10 MHz, and a third RF power having a third frequency in a range from about 10 kHz to about 5 MHz.
US11075083B2	Si-passivated GE gate stack A method for forming a gate stack of a field-effect transistor includes depositing a Si capping layer on a Ge channel material (100). The method further includes depositing an oxide layer on the Si capping layer by a plasma enhanced deposition technique at a temperature less than or equal to 200° C., and a plasma power less than or equal to 100 W.
US11075071B2	Method for processing wafer To provide a wafer processing method which can simplify the wafer processing process and efficiently obtain chips of stable quality. A wafer processing method includes: a tape attaching step of attaching a back grinding tape to the front surface of a wafer; a modified region forming step of applying a laser beam from the back surface of the wafer along a cut line to form modified regions inside the wafer; a back surface processing step of processing the back surface of the wafer having the modified regions to reduce a thickness of the wafer; and a dividing step of, in a state in which the back grinding tape is attached to the front surface of the wafer, applying a load to the cut line from the back surface of the wafer to divide the wafer along the cut line and obtain individual chips.
US11075062B2	Vacuum processing apparatus A vacuum processing apparatus includes a heat receiving member having a heat receiving surface configured to receive heat from a heat source; and a coolant path formed within the heat receiving member along the heat receiving surface and configured to allow a coolant to flow therein. The coolant path has, at a pair of second inner wall surfaces intersecting with a first inner wall surface disposed near the heat receiving surface, a first groove extending in an inclined direction toward the first inner wall surface with respect to a flow direction of the coolant.
US11075058B2	Spatially variable wafer bias power system A plasma deposition system comprising a wafer platform, a second electrode, a first electrode, a first high voltage pulser, and a second high voltage pulser. In some embodiments, the second electrode may be disposed proximate with the wafer platform. In some embodiments, the second electrode can include a disc shape with a central aperture; a central axis, an aperture diameter, and an outer diameter. In some embodiments, the first electrode may be disposed proximate with the wafer platform and within the central aperture of the second electrode. In some embodiments, the first electrode can include a disc shape, a central axis, and an outer diameter. In some embodiments, the first high voltage pulser can be electrically coupled with the first electrode. In some embodiments, the second high voltage pulser can be electrically coupled with the second electrode.
US11075049B2	Thermionic tungsten/scandate cathodes and method of making the same A thermionic dispenser cathode having a refractory metal matrix with scandium and barium compounds in contact with the metal matrix and methods for forming the same. The invention utilizes atomic layer deposition (ALD) to form a nanoscale, uniform, conformal distribution of a scandium compound on tungsten surfaces and further utilizes in situ high pressure consolidation/impregnation to enhance impregnation of a BaO—CaO—Al2O3 based emissive mixture into the scandate-coated tungsten matrix or to sinter a tungsten/scandate/barium composite structure. The result is a tungsten-scandate thermionic cathode having improved emission.
US11075048B2	Compact high voltage power fuse and methods of manufacture A high voltage power fuse having a dramatically reduced size facilitated by silicated filler material, a formed fuse element geometry, and arc barrier materials. Methods of manufacture are also disclosed.
US11075034B2	Ceramic electronic device and manufacturing method of the same A ceramic electronic device includes: a multilayer chip in which each of a plurality of dielectric layers and each of a plurality of internal electrode layers are alternately stacked; a first external electrode provided on the first end face; and a second external electrode provided on the second end face, wherein a first dielectric layer of the plurality of dielectric layers has a concavity which is recessed toward one side of a stacking direction of the multilayer chip, wherein a first internal electrode layer of the plurality of internal electrode layers crosses the concavity and has a cutout in the concavity, wherein the first internal electrode layer is next to the first dielectric layer and is positioned on other side of the stacking direction.
US11075025B2	Apparatus, system and method for electrical connection An apparatus comprising: a connector configured to be electrically and mechanically connectable to an electrical terminal, wherein the connector comprises a resistive material. The connector comprises respective first and second electrical contacts, wherein the resistive material is configured to provide a direct current connection for the flow of electric current between the first and second electrical contacts.
US11075010B1	Pharmacology model optimization based on distributed data acquisition Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media for pharmacology model optimization based on distributed data acquisition. A computer system stores a first pharmacology model associated with a drug dosage model for a particular medication. The computer system receives patient data including pharmacological data and data values for a drug identifier and a pharmacology model identifier. The pharmacological data being associated to drug dosing for the particular medication. The computer system aggregates the received data into a first data set based on the drug identifier value. The computer system optimizes the first pharmacology model using the first data set, thereby generating a second pharmacology model. The computer system provides access to the optimized second pharmacology model.
US11075003B2	Assistance apparatus for assisting interpretation report creation and method for controlling the same An assistance apparatus for assisting creation of an interpretation report obtains a set of regions of interest, which are determined as regions that were observed, of medical image data of a subject that is displayed as an interpretation target, and a set of described regions, which are regions that correspond to description of an interpretation report about the medical image data of a subject. The assistance apparatus determines consistency between the set of regions of interest and the set of described regions, and lets a display unit display a result of the determination.
US11074998B1	Real-time delivery of medical test data to portable communications devices The present invention relates to a system and method for real-time delivery of medical tests and related data from laboratories (12) or similar sources (18) to portable communication devices such as mobile phones (14), text-enabled pagers (14) and web-enabled personal digital assistance (PDA's) (14) and other WAP devices (14). The subject system enables physicians to access test results remotely as soon as they become available. Also, the system allows the physician to develop an electronic prescription and submit the electronic prescription to a pharmacy using the portable communications device (14).
US11074996B2	Automated clinical documentation system and method A method, computer program product, and computing system for source separation is executed on a computing device and includes obtaining encounter information of a patient encounter, wherein the encounter information includes first audio encounter information obtained from a first encounter participant and at least a second audio encounter information obtained from at least a second encounter participant. The first audio encounter information and the at least a second audio encounter information are processed to eliminate audio interference between the first audio encounter information and the at least a second audio encounter information.
US11074994B2	System and method for synthetic interaction with user and devices Systems and methods for conducting automated synthetic interactions with a user, such as a patient at home following a medical procedure. A digital coach having a processor and memory initiates a session with a user's interactive device, and presents pre-recorded scripts as video and/or audio through the interactive device. The user's responses are received by the digital coach through the interactive device. Peripheral devices, such as medical devices, may be used by the user or controlled by the digital coach to obtain data measurements regarding the physiological condition of the user. The processor of the digital coach analyzes the data from the user responses and devices, and semantically interprets the responses and data to determine the next action and script to present the user in the session. The digital coach provides a conversational, dynamic, adaptive session with a user based on semantically expanded interpretations of data by the processor.
US11074992B2	Method for determining interaction sites between biosequences A method and system for determining interaction sites between biosequences is described herein. A dataset of contact data for a plurality of biomolecule pairs is obtained to account their frequency of occurrence. Statistical weights are determined for each frequency of occurrence. Each vector of a statistical residual vector space (SRV) is decomposed through principal component decomposition. The vectors of the SRV are re-projected back to a new SRV with a new set of coordinates. A feature vector is generated and inputted into a predictor for outputting a likelihood of an interaction site.
US11074989B2	Uncorrectable ECC Disclosed in some examples are NAND devices, firmware, systems, methods, and devices that apply smart algorithms to process ECC errors by taking advantage of excess overprovisioning. In some examples, when the amount of overprovisioned blocks are above a predetermined threshold, a first ECC block error handling mode may be implemented and when the overprovisioned blocks are equal or less than the predetermined threshold, a second mode of ECC block error handling may be utilized.
US11074985B1	One-time programmable memory device and method for operating the same A semiconductor device including at least an OTP unit cell is disclosed. The OTP unit cell includes a read select transistor, a data storage transistor serially connected to the read select transistor, and a program select transistor. The drain of the program select transistor is electrically coupled to the gate of the data storage transistor. The programming path for programming the three-transistor unit cell is different from the reading path for reading the OTP unit cell.
US11074978B2	Memory device A memory device includes a memory cell array including a plurality of word lines, at least one select line provided above the plurality of word lines, and a channel region passing through the plurality of word lines and the at least one select line, the plurality of word lines and the channel region providing a plurality of memory cells, and a controller. The controller is to store data in a program memory cell among the plurality of memory cells by sequentially performing a first programming operation and a second programming operation, and to determine a program voltage input to a program word line connected to the program memory cell, in the first programming operation, based on information regarding the program memory cell.
US11074977B2	Three-dimensional non-volatile memory device and method of manufacturing the same A semiconductor device includes a memory block including a plurality of memory strings, each of the plurality of memory strings including one or more dummy transistors, wherein each of the dummy transistors, included in the plurality of memory strings, is programmed to different degrees according to a junction overlap of each of the memory strings.
US11074974B2	Memory device and method of operating the same The present disclosure relates to an electronic device and a method of operating a memory device having a reduced program operation time including pre-charging a select line connected to the select transistor to a first select voltage during a first time period, discharging the select line during a second time period subsequent to the first time period, and discharging the select line while word lines connected to the plurality of memory cells are pre-charged to an operation voltage in a third time period subsequent to the second time period to change a level of the first select voltage pre-charged to the select line to a second select voltage.
US11074973B2	Responder signal circuitry for memory arrays finding at least one cell with a predefined value A memory device includes a memory array of non-volatile memory cells arranged in rows and columns and responder signal circuitry. The responder signal circuitry performs a calculation on a row of the memory array and generates a responder signal indicating that there is at least one cell in the row having a predefined value.
US11074949B2	Parallel access for memory subarrays Techniques herein may allow a row of a subarray in a bank of a memory device to be activated before a precharge operation has been completed for a previously opened row of memory cells in the same bank. Each subarray within the bank may be associated with a respective local latching circuit, which may be used to maintain phases at the subarray independent of subsequent commands to the same bank. For example, the latching circuit may internalize timing signals triggered by a precharge command for a first row such that if an activation command is received for a different subarray in the same bank at a time before the precharge operation of the first row is complete, the precharge operation may continue until the first row is closed, as the timing signals triggered by the precharge command may be maintained locally at the subarray using the latching circuit.
US11074946B2	Temperature dependent voltage differential sense-amplifier A voltage differential sense amplifier circuit for a semiconductor memory circuit is disclosed. The voltage differential sense amplifier circuit includes a first and second pluralities of transistors. A first bias control circuit is included to bias the first plurality of transistors. The first bias control circuit is connected to body terminals of the first plurality of transistors for providing a temperature dependent first bias voltage to control threshold voltages of the first plurality of transistors. The temperature defendant first bias voltage is generated based on junction leakages at the body terminals of the first plurality of transistors. A second bias control circuit is included to bias the second plurality of transistors. The second bias control circuit is connected to body terminals of the second plurality of transistors for providing a temperature dependent second bias voltage to control threshold voltages of the second plurality of transistors. The temperature dependent second bias voltage is generated based on junction leakages at the body terminals of the second plurality of transistors.
US11074945B1	Tri-state buffering techniques Various implementations described herein are related to a device having a sense amplifier with multiple output ports. The device may include tri-state buffer circuitry having multiple tri-state buffers coupled to the multiple output ports of the sense amplifier. The device may include latch circuitry having multiple latches coupled to the multiple tri-state buffers of the tri-state buffer circuitry.
US11074944B2	Semiconductor memory device According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory device includes: first to fifth interconnects; a semiconductor layer having one end located between the fourth interconnect and the fifth interconnect and other end connected to the first interconnect; a memory cell; a conductive layer having one end connected to the second interconnect and other end connected to the semiconductor layer; a first insulating layer provided to extend between the third and fourth interconnects and the semiconductor layer, and between the fifth interconnect and the conductive layer; an oxide semiconductor layer provided to extend between the fourth and fifth interconnects and the first insulating layer; and a second insulating layer provided to extend between the fourth and fifth interconnects and the oxide semiconductor layer.
US11074936B2	Magnetic disk device According to one embodiment, a magnetic disk device includes a magnetic disk, a magnetic head including a read head to read data from the magnetic disk and a write head to write data to the magnetic disk, and a controller configured to control read/write from/to the magnetic disk by the magnetic head. The magnetic head includes a thermal actuator configured to project a head surface of the magnetic head to a recording surface of the magnetic disk, and a detector configured to detect a gap between the head surface and the recording surface of the magnetic disk. The controller controls a degree of projection of the magnetic head to the recording surface by the thermal actuator corresponding to the gap detected by the detector during the read/write.
US11074934B1	Heat assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) media with Curie temperature reduction layer HAMR media with a magnetic recording layer having a reduced Curie temperature and methods of fabricating the HAMR media are provided. One such HAMR medium includes a substrate, a heat sink layer on the substrate, an interlayer on the heat sink layer, and a multi-layer magnetic recording layer on the interlayer. In such case, the multi-layer magnetic recording layer includes a first magnetic recording layer including an alloy selected from FePtX and CoPtX, where X is a material selected from the group consisting of Cu, Ni, and combinations thereof, a second magnetic recording layer on the first magnetic recording layer and having at least one material different from the materials of the first magnetic recording layer, and a third magnetic recording layer on the second magnetic recording layer and having at least one material different from the materials of the first magnetic recording layer.
US11074933B1	Write once read many data storage devices A hard disk drive includes a magnetic writer and a magnetic recording medium, which includes data tracks with user data sections positioned between servo wedges. The servo wedges each can include multiple servo sectors. The hard disk drive also includes circuitry programmed to cause the magnetic writer to write user data to the multiple servo sectors in multiple servo wedges.
US11074932B1	Suspension assembly with limiter and disk drive According to one embodiment, a suspension assembly includes a support plate including a distal end portion and a proximal end portion, a wiring member including a gimbal portion and provided on the support plate, and a magnetic head on the gimbal portion. The gimbal portion includes a first welded portion located near the proximal end portion and welded to the support plate, a second welded portion located near the distal end portion and welded to the support plate, a tongue portion between the first welded portion and the second welded portion, supported displaceably to the support plate, and on which the magnetic head is mounted, and a limiter extending from the tongue portion toward the second welded portion.
US11074930B1	Read transducer structure having an embedded wear layer between thin and thick shield portions In one general approach, an apparatus includes a read transducer structure having a media facing surface. The read transducer structure has a lower shield, and an upper shield formed above the lower shield. The upper and lower shields providing magnetic shielding. A current-perpendicular-to-plane sensor is positioned between the upper and lower shields. A dielectric layer extends into one of the shields from the media facing surface. The dielectric layer extends into the one of the shields for a distance that is less than a height of the one of the shields. Preferably, a first dielectric layer extends into the lower shield from the media facing surface, and a second dielectric layer extends into the upper shield from the media facing surface.
US11074924B2	Speech recognition method, device, apparatus and computer-readable storage medium A speech recognition method, device, apparatus and a computer-readable storage medium are provided. The method includes: starting a part of a microphone array to acquire a first speech signal; performing an echo cancellation process for the first speech signal to obtain a second speech signal; performing wakeup recognition for the second speech signal, to determine whether a wakeup word is included in the second speech signal; starting the microphone array to acquire a third speech signal, in the case that the wakeup word is included in the second speech signal; performing noise reduction for the third speech signal; and performing speech recognition for a noise-reduced signal. Computational load and power consumption during the speech recognition can be greatly reduced, because most processes of the front-end noise reduction algorithm are not started before the wakeup state and only a part of a microphone array is started.
US11074922B2	Hybrid encoding method and apparatus for encoding speech or non-speech frames using different coding algorithms An audio encoding method includes dividing an energy spectrum of a current audio frame into P FFT energy spectrum coefficients; determining a minimum bandwidth of distribution, on spectrum, of first-preset-proportion energy of the current audio frame according to the energy of the P FFT energy spectrum coefficients of the current audio frame, wherein the minimum bandwidth of distribution, on spectrum, of first preset proportion energy of the current audio frame indicates sparseness of distribution, on the spectrum, of energy of the current audio frame; and determining to use a linear-prediction-based encoding method to encode the current audio frame in response to the minimum bandwidth of distribution is greater than a first preset value.
US11074920B2	Encoder, decoder and methods for backward compatible multi-resolution spatial-audio-object-coding A decoder for generating an un-mixed audio signal including a plurality of un-mixed audio channels is provided. Moreover, an encoder and an encoded audio signal is provided. The decoder includes an un-mixing-information determiner for determining un-mixing information by receiving first parametric side information and second parametric side information on the at least one audio object signal, wherein the frequency resolution of the second parametric side information is higher than that of the first parametric side information. Moreover, the decoder includes an un-mix module for applying the un-mixing information on a downmix signal, to obtain an un-mixed audio signal including the plurality of un-mixed audio channels. The un-mixing-information determiner is configured to determine the un-mixing information by modifying the first parametric information and the second parametric information, such that the modified parametric information has a frequency resolution which is higher than the first frequency resolution.
US11074910B2	Electronic device for recognizing speech An electronic device includes a microphone obtaining an audio signal, a memory in which a speaker model is stored, and at least one processor. The at least one processor is configured to obtain a voice signal from the audio signal, to compare the voice signal with the speaker model to verify a user, and, if a verification result indicates that the user corresponds to a pre-enrolled speaker, to perform an operation corresponding to the obtained voice signal.
US11074905B2	System and method for personalization in speech recognition Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage devices are for identifying a user profile for speech recognition. The user profile is selected from one of several user profiles which are all associated with a speaker, and can be selected based on the identity of the speaker, the location of the speaker, the device the speaker is using, or other relevant parameters. Such parameters can be hierarchical, having multiple layers, and can also be dependent or independent from one another. Using the parameters identified, the user profile is selected and used to recognize speech.
US11074903B1	Audio device with adaptive equalization A system and method includes an audio device, such as an earbud or headphones, that includes one or more loudspeakers for outputting audio. The audio device further in includes one or more microphones that are positioned near an ear of a user. An acoustic barrier may be formed between a surface of the device and the ear of the user; properties of this barrier may, however, vary from user to user. The system determines these properties on a per-user basis and compensates for any differences therein.
US11074896B1	Drumstick with enhanced protection against wear and breakage in the rimshot area of the drumstick An extended play drumstick with enhanced durability of the rimshot area. The extended play drumstick includes a durable surrounding pad attached along and around the rimshot portion of the drumstick, and features an optional durable coating applied to the surface of the drumstick shaft, applied from at least the distal end of the durable surrounding pad up to and including at least the shoulder portion. The extended play drumstick resists rimshot damage caused by the drumstick striking the rim of a drum. The rimshot area of the drumstick is protected with a durable surrounding pad made of high strength material such as a para-aramid synthetic fiber, e.g., Kevlar® fiber from Dupont®. The extended play drumstick prevents chipping, fraying, and splintering of the shaft of the drumstick. Due to the light weight of the durable surrounding pad, and the durable coating, the balance and feel of a traditional drumstick are preserved.
US11074890B2	Display device and operation method thereof To provide a display device that achieves both smooth input and a high detection sensitivity on a touch sensor unit. The display device includes a display unit and the touch sensor unit. The display device has three operation modes: normal display in which the entire display region is rewritten, partial IDS driving in which part of the display region is rewritten, and IDS driving in which the entire display region is not rewritten. The detection operation by the touch sensor unit is performed at a time different from the time of performing the rewriting operation of the display region, so that a high detection sensitivity is achieved. Furthermore, a period of performing the detection operation in each of the partial IDS driving and the IDS driving is set longer than a period of performing the detection operation in the normal display, which enables smooth input.
US11074889B2	Adaptive compression by light level A method for adapting display data forming an image for display on a display screen to a viewer involves monitoring, over time, light that may affect an eye of the viewer of the image, analysing (S82) information regarding the monitored light based on one or more predetermined parameters (which may be based on a predetermined model of reactions of a human eye to light or to changes in light), adjusting (S83) at least one display value (preferably not a luminance value) of at least some of the display data based on the analysis of the monitored light, compressing the adjusted display data, and sending (S84) it for display on the display screen. In one embodiment, the one or more predetermined parameters includes one or more colour thresholds and monitoring the light comprises monitoring relative levels of different colours in the monitored light.
US11074887B2	Glasses-type wearable terminal and data processing method According to one embodiment, a display and a sensor signal acceptor which accepts detection signals from a sensor are provided. A first display controller displays a first instruction for instructing a first work on the display, based on the detection signal which indicates an end of preparation for the first work. And, a second display controller displays a second instruction for instructing a next second work on the display, based on the detection signal which indicates an end of the first work.
US11074885B2	Facilitating efficient detection of patterns in graphics display streams prior to their display at computing devices A mechanism is described for facilitating efficient detection of patterns in graphics display streams prior to their display at computing devices. A method of embodiments, as described herein, includes detecting a display stream from a display unit, wherein the display stream includes one or more frames, and analyzing a frame of the one or more frames, where the analysis and gathering logic is further to gather one or more observations relating to the frame. The method may further include polling for one or more patterns, where the polling and matching logic is further to match the one or more patterns with the one or more observations, and confirming a match between a pattern of the one or more patterns and an observation of the one or more observations, where the pattern includes a malicious pattern. The message may further include transmitting an alert relating to the pattern.
US11074883B2	Pixel circuit having latch sub-circuit and latch-control sub-circuits, display panel, driving method thereof, and a display apparatus The present application discloses a pixel circuit of a display panel. The pixel circuit includes a first latch-control sub-circuit configured to provide a data signal under controls of a first scan signal, a latch sub-circuit including a first inverter having an input terminal coupled to receive the data signal and a second inverter, a second latch-control sub-circuit configured to disconnect the second inverter from the first inverter to form an open circuit under controls of the first scan signal or form a latch loop under controls of a second scan signal to stabilize two voltage levels at the first output terminal of the first inverter and the second output terminal of the second output inverter, and an output sub-circuit configured to switch connection between an output terminal and two reference voltage ports under controls of the two voltage levels alternatively.
US11074876B2	Stereoscopic display device To provide a naked-eye type stereoscopic display device which can achieve a fine stereoscopic display property while achieving high-definition display and high yield. An aperture part includes overlapping regions which overlap with an aperture part or another aperture part neighboring to each other in a second direction and a non-overlapping region which does not overlap. Provided that a light amount emitted from a linear aperture of the aperture part in parallel to a second direction is “longitudinal light amount”, the non-overlapping region includes longitudinal light amount fluctuating regions where the longitudinal light amount changes continuously from roughly a center of the aperture part towards both ends of the first direction, respectively. The sum of the longitudinal light amounts of the two overlapping regions overlapping with each other at a same position in the first direction is larger than the longitudinal light amount in roughly the center of the aperture part.
US11074874B2	Electro-phoretic display apparatus An electro-phoretic display apparatus including an electro-phoretic display panel and a driving circuit is provided. The electro-phoretic display panel includes a display area and a border area. The driving circuit is configured to drive the display area to display an image frame according to a first voltage. The driving circuit drives the border area to maintain displaying a border of a first color or a second color according to a second voltage. The driving circuit generates the second voltage according to the first voltage. The border area includes electro-phoretic particles of the first color or the second color. A voltage difference between the first voltage and the second voltage drives the electro-phoretic particles of the first color or the second color to be maintained to a predetermined position such that the border area maintains displaying the border of the first color or the second color.
US11074871B2	Parallel pipelines for computing backlight illumination fields in high dynamic range display devices A display controller generates a backlight illumination field (BLIF) based on a coarse point-spread function (PSF) and a correction PSF. The display controller samples the coarse PSF to accumulate light contributions from a larger neighborhood of LEDs around a given LCD pixel. The display controller samples the correction PSF to generate correction factors for a smaller neighborhood of LEDs around the given LCD pixel. The display controller interpolates samples drawn from the coarse PSF and samples drawn from the correction PSF and then combines the interpolated samples to generate a full resolution BLIF.
US11074870B2	Display apparatus and control method thereof Disclosed is a display apparatus which selects one output setting level among the plurality of output setting levels based on the received user input, selects one ambient characteristic level among the plurality of ambient characteristic levels based on the detected ambient characteristic, selects an output setting value corresponding to the selected output setting level and the selected ambient characteristic level among the plurality of output setting values, and controls the display to cause the light source to output light based on the selected output setting value.
US11074859B2	AMOLED displays with multiple readout circuits The OLED voltage of a selected pixel is extracted from the pixel produced when the pixel is programmed so that the pixel current is a function of the OLED voltage. One method for extracting the OLED voltage is to first program the pixel in a way that the current is not a function of OLED voltage, and then in a way that the current is a function of OLED voltage. During the latter stage, the programming voltage is changed so that the pixel current is the same as the pixel current when the pixel was programmed in a way that the current was not a function of OLED voltage. The difference in the two programming voltages is then used to extract the OLED voltage.
US11074856B2	Display panel and display device The present application provides a display panel and a display device, the display panel makes a circuit structure of a first pixel driving circuit driving a first display pixel of a display transparent area to emit light different from a circuit structure of a second pixel driving circuit driving a second display pixel of a main display area to emit light, thereby reducing an area of a function add-on area occupied by the first pixel driving circuit, increasing an area of the display transparent area, improving light transmittance of the display transparent area, and improving photographing effect of under screen camera.
US11074855B2	Devices and methods for providing access to internal component Systems, methods, and devices are disclosed for applying concealment of components of an electronic device. In one embodiment, an electronic device may include a component that is disposed behind a display (e.g., a transparent organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display) that is configured to selectively become transparent at certain transparency regions. Additionally, the electronic device includes data processing circuitry configured to determine when an event requesting that the component be exposed occurs. The data processing circuitry may control portions of the display to become transparent, to expose the component upon the occurrence of the event requesting that the component be exposed.
US11074851B2	Driving apparatus for a display panel A driving apparatus capable of driving a display panel is provided. The driving apparatus can include a multiplexer and an output circuit. The multiplexer may include at least one first input terminal configured to receive information data in a first mode, at least one second input terminal configured to receive display data in a second mode, and at least one output terminal coupled to at least one input terminal of the output circuit. The output circuit can be configured to convert digital data into an analog voltage and output the analog voltage via at least one output terminal of the output circuit. The output circuit can be configured to convert the information data in the first mode and convert the display data into at least one driving voltage for driving at least one data line of the display panel in the second mode. The information data cannot be used for driving the display panel to present an image.
US11074849B2	Display method, display device, and display The preset disclosure provides a display method, a display device and a display. The display method includes: transmitting data to be displayed to a processing unit in an RGB format after acquiring the data to be displayed; performing contrast adjustment and brightness adjustment on the data to be displayed in the RGB format by the processing unit, and transmitting the processed data to be displayed to a conversion unit; converting the processed data to be displayed into data in an MIPI format by the conversion unit, and displaying the data to be displayed in the MIPI format.
US11074847B2	Switch timing controlling circuit, switch timing controlling method and display device A switch timing controlling circuit includes a first timing controlling circuit including a first inverting sub-circuit configured to form a first inverting signal that is inverted from an initial signal having a first level as an inactive level and a second level as an active level input from an initial signal terminal; a first delaying sub-circuit configured to delay a time point of the first inverting signal at which the first inverting signal changes from the first level to the second level to form a first delaying signal; and a second inverting sub-circuit configured to form a reset signal inverted from the first delaying signal; and a second timing controlling circuit including a second delaying sub-circuit configured to delay a time point of the initial signal at which the initial signal changes from the first level to the second level to form a display control signal.
US11074844B2	Shift register and method for driving the same, gate driving circuit and display apparatus The present disclosure provides a shift register and a method for driving the same, a gate driving circuit, and a display apparatus. The shift register includes: a node control sub-circuit configured to control a potential at a pull-up node under control of a signal input terminal and a reset terminal; an output sub-circuit configured to provide an output signal to a signal output terminal based on a signal at a clock signal terminal under control of the pull-up node; and at least one gating sub-circuit connected to at least one de-noising node respectively, and each configured to de-noise a respective de-noising node connected thereto independently of the potential at the pull-up node under control of a trigger signal terminal, wherein the at least one de-noising node includes at least one of the pull-up node and the signal output terminal.
US11074838B2	Image generation system including a spinning display According to one implementation, an image generation system includes a base having a rotor and a motor for spinning the rotor about an axis of rotation, and a display secured to the rotor, wherein a center of mass of the display is situated off of the axis of rotation. Such an image generation system also includes a first counterweight coupled to the rotor and having a first location relative to the rotor, and a second counterweight coupled the to the rotor and having a second location relative to the rotor different than the first location. The first counterweight and the second counterweight are configured to stabilize the display while the display is spun by the motor and the rotor.
US11074827B2	Virtual reality system for aerial vehicle The subject disclosure relates to a simulation system having an aircraft, a local wireless transceiver, and a simulation computer. The aircraft may include an onboard wireless transceiver and a flight controller operatively coupled with an onboard sensor payload to perceive a physical environment and to generate position and pose data. The simulation computer may be configured to communicate wirelessly with the aircraft via the local wireless transceiver. In operation, the simulation computer may be configured to generate one or more virtual reality sensor inputs and to receive the position and pose data from the aircraft. The simulation computer can be configured to transmit the one or more virtual reality sensor inputs to the flight controller of the aircraft.
US11074823B2	System for aiding the landing of an aircraft in a landing runway approach phase A system for aiding landing includes a module for computing by extrapolation a trajectory of the aircraft on the basis of its current position, a module for determining whether the extrapolated trajectory cuts the ground ahead of a threshold of the landing runway, a module for measuring a current height of the aircraft above an overflown terrain, a module for determining whether the current height corresponds to a risk height, an alert module for generating an alert only if the two determinations carried out by the two determination modules are positive, and if the aircraft is situated at a distance with respect to the threshold of the landing runway which is less than a predetermined threshold distance.
US11074820B2	Low/No visibility takeoff system A no/low visibility automatic takeoff system for an aircraft obtains a runway reference centerline and aircraft pointing direction (via the aircraft's sensors) and automatically controls the aircraft pointing direction to track the runway reference centerline. An initial vector is obtained based on the initial position of the aircraft the first piloted initiation of the takeoff roll. After the system obtains a centerline, it automatically tracks the centerline and corrects aircraft trajectory so the aircraft heading closely matches the runway centerline as the aircraft proceeds down the runway.
US11074819B2	Method and system for enabling computations to estimate and predict costs with a cost index by an operating cost app with an operating cost integrator interface for displaying gate to gate flight costs A method and system for providing cost data via an operating cost app for a flight associated with a flight plan, by a computing device including: obtaining cost data of the flight plan by executing the operating cost app to implement an operating cost integrator application integrated with the operating cost app to interface with a plurality of service providers for retrieving operating cost data of the flight plan from each of the service providers; obtaining, by the at least one processor, real-time aircraft performance parameters affecting the actual cost of the flight including: a landing time and a takeoff time; determining an actual cost of the flight by using software solutions of the operating cost app, and by calculating ground charges at the airport derived from the sensed data by the operating cost app and presenting the actual cost of the ground charge, via a display device for displaying.
US11074818B2	Drive assist device and drive assist method A drive assist device includes: an acquisition unit that acquires a captured image from an on-board camera; a recognition unit that recognizes road information of roads around a host vehicle on the basis of the captured image; a determination unit that determines, on the basis of the road information recognized by the recognition unit, a priority relation between a present road in which the host vehicle is running and an intersecting road that meets the present road; and an assist unit that executes, in response to the determination unit determining that the present road does not have priority over the intersecting road, drive assistance for the host vehicle when the host vehicle enters a place where the present road meets the intersecting road.
US11074814B2	Portable apparatus for providing notification The present disclosure discloses a portable apparatus which communicates with a vehicle through a wireless network, obtains vehicle information as the wireless network is connected, determines whether a user boards the vehicle based on motion state data of the user and the vehicle information, determines a stop to provide notification based on whether the user boards the vehicle and a getting-off history, and outputs getting-off notification.
US11074813B2	Driver behavior monitoring Systems and methods provide, implement, and use using a computer-vision based methods of context-sensitive monitoring and characterization of driver behavior. Additional systems and methods are provided for unsupervised learning of action values, monitoring of a driver's environment, and transmitting visual information from a client to a server.
US11074811B2	Method and apparatus for using drones for road and traffic monitoring An approach is provided for using aerial drones for road and traffic monitoring. The approach, for example, involves navigating an aerial drone to a physical marker located on a road link. The approach also involves initiating a capture of sensor data of the physical marker by a sensor of the aerial drone. The approach further involves adjusting a position, an altitude, or a combination thereof of the aerial drone to a reference position, a reference altitude, or a combination thereof over the physical marker based on the sensor data. The approach further involves initiating a capture of one or more images of the road link by the aerial drone at the reference position, the reference altitude, or a combination thereof. By way of example, the captured images can be processed for road and traffic monitoring and/or other similar applications.
US11074806B2	Method for controlling video system including a plurality of display apparatuses A method for reproducing a content in a display apparatus, a method for controlling an electronic apparatus connected to a plurality of display apparatuses, and a video system are provided. The method for reproducing a content in a display apparatus includes, based on a signal being received from a user apparatus, transmitting a response signal to the user apparatus; receiving the content and control information for reproducing the content from an external apparatus which communicates with the user apparatus; and reproducing the content based on the control information.
US11074801B2	Mobile communication tower A mobile communication tower assembly comprising a stand, an enclosure and a plurality of electronic components. The stand includes an attachment plate, a shaft and a base. The enclosure is connected to the attachment plate and defines a cavity. The enclosure includes a cover attached to a body. The body includes a top, a first side, a second side, a bottom and a back. The plurality of electronic components is located in the cavity of the enclosure.
US11074795B1	Inductive circuit sensor system and method An inductive circuit sensor system and method for monitoring an electromagnetic signal path through a circuit is shown. A protected element or door is movably positionable adjacent to the stationary element or frame in a monitored position. A conductive sensor pattern element is connected to a pair of inductive coils. The pattern element is a conductive wire traversing a predetermined cross-section of the door. The frame has a transmitting coil in communication with a microcontroller. The transmitting coil is coupled with the first coil and a receiving coil is coupled with the second coil. The transmitting coil receives a signal from the microcontroller and couples the signal to the pattern element. The signal is in communication with a receiving port on the microcontroller. The microcontroller is programmed to compare the signal from the transmit port with the signal at the receiving port.
US11074788B2	Electronic game arrangement A method is proposed for processing a game participation request. The method comprises receiving, from a terminal, a participation request comprising a prize amount indication and based on the prize amount, determining a winning criterion for a random number to meet for the game participation request to yield a winning participation. The method further comprises receiving a random number from a number generator, determining whether the number meets the winning criterion and communicating a message that the participation is a winning participation if the random number meets the criterion. With a prize amount a priori unknown by a game server as the electronic gaming arrangement, it is advantageous to relate winning for to the specific prize amount. In order to remain profitable, it is preferred to attribute lower winning chances for higher prize amounts. This is enabled by relating the winning criterion to the prize amount communicated to the server.
US11074785B2	Gaming machine having a changeable number of held wild reels and special symbols A gaming machine having a number of reels. Each of the reels includes at least one special symbol that in either in an active state or a normal state. Each of the reels is in either a held state or a symbol collection state indicative of a number of special symbols currently collected. During a game, when the number of special symbols of a reel reaches a predetermined number, the special symbols on the reel are in an active state for a next play of the game. While in the active state, when a special symbol is selected for the reel, the reel is in a held state a subsequent play of the game.
US11074784B2	Method for establishing a wager for a game In a particular embodiment of the invention, a system for establishing a wager associated with a game comprises a processor that receives information about a wager offer, wherein the wager offer is associated with an online game. The processor also receives information about a wager acceptance. The wager offer and the wager acceptance combine to form a wager, wherein the wager is associated with at least one wager parameter. The system further comprises a memory communicatively coupled to the processor and that stores information associated with the at least one wager parameter.
US11074781B2	Account and fund management Various examples of managing electronic accounts across various devices are described. Tokens may be used to transfer funds from one device to another device as the funds are desired for various activities such as gaming.
US11074778B2	Location based restrictions on networked gaming A system and method for peer-to-peer gaming is described. One embodiment includes a system for peer-to-peer gaming, the system including at least one gaming client configured to: accept a selection of at least one gaming option from a player, and allow the player to play a game based on the selection of the at least one gaming option. The system includes an administration server configured to: receive the selection of the at least one gaming option from the at least one gaming client, and initiate the game for the player based on the selection of the at least one gaming option. The system includes at least one gaming server configured to run the game and transmit data about the game to the administration server.
US11074768B2	Method and system for providing scanner jobs on diagnostic tool A diagnostic tool includes a processor, display, and memory storing instructions to perform scan tool functions (STF) including transmitting a message to a vehicle. The STF include first STF for a first system of the vehicle. Additional stored instructions are executable to display a first user-interface screen (UIS) including a first user-selectable control (USC) including an indicator of a first scanner job performable on the vehicle, and to display a second UIS instead of the first UIS in response to a selection of the first USC. The second UIS incudes: a second USC including an indicator of the first STF for the first system of the vehicle, and guidance for performing a procedure of the first scanner job. The stored instructions are executable to transmit a first vehicle data message to a component of the first system in response to a selection of the second USC.
US11074767B2	Automatic crash detection Systems and methods are disclosed for determining whether or not a crash involving a vehicle has occurred. The acceleration of the vehicle may be measured using, for example, an accelerometer of a mobile device, which may be located inside the vehicle. The system may determine the magnitude of each accelerometer measurement and whether the magnitude exceeds one or more acceleration magnitude thresholds. The system may also determine the number of accelerometer events within a time window and whether the number exceeds one or more count thresholds. The system may determine whether a crash involving the vehicle has occurred based on the magnitudes of acceleration, number of acceleration events, and various thresholds. In some examples, the system may confirm that a crash has occurred based on, for example, the location of the mobile device.
US11074757B2	Display device, display method, and recording medium A display device includes a display panel, and a processor. The display panel displays an image. The processor acquires, as a display image, three-dimensional image data including data of a right-eye image and a left-eye image, and controls the display panel to display the right-eye image and the left-eye image. A distance between the right-eye image and the left-eye image displayed shifted on the display panel is substantially half a spacing between eyes of a user viewing the display panel.
US11074755B2	Method, device, terminal device and storage medium for realizing augmented reality image A method for implementing an augmented reality picture is performed at a computing device having a camera, including: obtaining a picture frame and a pose direction of the camera during shooting of the picture frame; determining a framing space in a 3D rectangular coordinate system in accordance with that the camera shoots in a shooting mode; determining 2D graphics in the framing space, and obtaining 3D coordinates of a position reference point of each 2D graphic; for each 2D graphic, adjusting a pose based on a rotation datum point of the two-dimensional graphic, and obtaining 3D coordinates of a position reference point of the pose-adjusted 2D graphic; and projecting, through perspective projection transformation, the 3D coordinates of the position reference point of the two-dimensional graphic to be 2D coordinates in a corresponding planar projection area, and rendering the 2D graphic on the picture frame according to the 2D coordinates.
US11074752B2	Methods, devices and computer program products for gradient based depth reconstructions with robust statistics A method of generating a refined depth map for a three-dimensional (3D) model of an object is described. The method may include may include warping a set of target images, resulting in warped target images, wherein the set of target images is selected from the plurality of images; determining a difference between each warped target image and a reference image, wherein the reference image is from the plurality of images; determining, for each warped target image, an alpha mask comprising per-pixel weights; and updating an initialized depth map based on alpha mask, resulting in the estimated depth map. Related systems, devices and computer program products are also described.
US11074741B2	Apparatus and method for data-parallel ray tracing using volume proxies An apparatus and method are described for utilizing volume proxies. For example, one embodiment of an apparatus comprises: a volume subdivision module to subdivide a volume into a plurality of partitions, the apparatus to process a first of the partitions and to distribute data associated with each of the other partitions to each of a plurality of nodes; a proxy generation module to compute a first proxy for the first partition, the first proxy to be transmitted to the plurality of nodes; and a ray tracing engine to perform one or more traversal/intersection operations for a current ray or group of rays using the first proxy; if the ray or group of rays interacts with the first proxy, then the ray tracing engine to send the ray(s) to a second node associated with the first proxy or retrieves data related to the interaction from the second node.
US11074736B2	Cosmetic transformation through image synthesis According to one implementation, a system for performing cosmetic transformation through image synthesis includes a computing platform having a hardware processor and a system memory storing an image synthesis software code. The hardware processor executes the image synthesis software code to receive a user image depicting a user of the system, to receive a reference image for transforming to resemble the user image, the reference image projecting an identifiable persona, and to generate a user image metadata describing the user image, based on the user image. The hardware processor further executes the image synthesis software code to identify a reference image metadata describing the reference image, and to transform the reference image to resemble the user image, based on the user image metadata and the reference image metadata, while preserving the identifiable persona projected by the reference image.
US11074735B2	Multistep interactive image generation utilizing knowledge store One embodiment provides a method, including: receiving, from a user, input for manipulating an image, wherein the input (i) identifies a particular image element and (ii) identifies an operation a user wants to perform with respect to the image element; identifying a context of the image, wherein the identifying the context comprises identifying (i) existing image elements already included within the image and (ii) attributes of the existing image elements; determining, based upon the context, attributes for the image element utilizing a knowledge store comprising information regarding attributes for image elements in view of (i) contexts and (ii) operations; and thereafter, performing the operation utilizing the image element having the attributes.
US11074732B2	Computer-aided diagnostic apparatus and method based on diagnostic intention of user A computer-aided diagnostic (CAD) apparatus and a CAD method based on the diagnostic intention of a user are provided. The CAD apparatus includes a region of interest (ROI) detector configured to detect an ROI from an image input from a probe, and a probe motion determiner configured to determine a motion of the probe in response to the ROI detector detecting the ROI. The CAD apparatus further includes a diagnostic intention determiner configured to determine a diagnostic intention of a user based on the determined motion of the probe, and a diagnostic intention processor configured to perform a diagnostic procedure based on the determined diagnostic intention of the user.
US11074731B2	Dynamic visualization and data analytics based on parameter actions Embodiments are directed to managing visualizations of data using a network computer. A modeling engine may provide a data model that includes a plurality of data objects and a display model that includes a plurality of display objects based on the plurality of data objects. Parameter action objects may be associated with display objects in the display model. In response to an activation of the parameter action objects, values associated with display objects may be assigned to the parameter associated with a parameter action object and actions associated with the parameter may be executed to modify the display model.
US11074727B2	Microparticle analyzing apparatus and data displaying method Disclosed herein is a microparticle analyzing apparatus including a detecting portion configured to simultaneously detect a fluorescence generated from a microparticle in plural wavelength regions and a displaying portion configured to display thereon detection results in the plural wavelength regions in a form of a spectrum.
US11074723B2	Lossless compression of fragmented image data Lossless compression of fragmented image data is disclosed. In some embodiments, a stream of information comprising data elements having statistical characteristics is received. An encoded output is produced by an encoder comprising a data compressor that implements a variable length code that is adapted to the statistical characteristics of the data elements. The output and information from which the variable length code can be derived are stored.
US11074722B2	Method and system for performing automatic camera calibration for a scanning system A system and method for performing automatic camera calibration is presented. The system communicates with a first camera and a second camera, wherein a transparent platform is disposed between the two cameras. When a 3D calibration pattern is disposed on the platform, the system receives a first set of calibration images from the first camera, and a second set of calibration images from the second camera. The system determines, based on the first set of calibration images, a first set of coordinates for corners of the polyhedron. The system further determines, based on the second set of calibration images, a second set of coordinates for the corners. The system determines, based on the coordinates, a spatial relationship between the first camera and the second camera. The system further uses a description of the spatial relationship to generate a 3D model of an object other than the 3D calibration pattern.
US11074718B2	Image processing device An image processing device comprises: a result acquisition unit that acquires one or more of the input images including a target, and acquires a detection result obtained by comparing feature points of standard shape information with input-side feature points extracted from the input image; a frequency calculation unit that acquires multiple detection results in which the standard shape information and the target are placed in different positions and different postures, and calculates frequencies of detection of the input-side feature points in the input image for corresponding ones of the feature points of the standard shape information; and a feature point selection unit that selects a notable feature point from the feature points of the standard shape information on the basis of the frequencies calculated by the frequency calculation unit.
US11074713B2	Recognition device, recognition system, recognition method, and non-transitory computer readable recording medium A recognition device a first recognition unit, a second recognition unit, and a third recognition unit. The first recognition unit acquires image information of a target person, and determines, based on a first discriminator and a feature in the image information, a first range corresponding to the image information of the target person. The second recognition unit acquires distance information of the target person, and determines, based on a second discriminator and a feature in the distance information, a second range corresponding to the distance information of the target person. The third recognition unit determines, based on the first range determined by the first recognition unit and the second range determined by the second recognition unit, a direction that a body of the target person is facing, and recognizes, based on the determined direction and a joint position dictionary, a skeleton of the target person.
US11074706B2	Accommodating depth noise in visual slam using map-point consensus An apparatus, method, and computer readable medium to accommodate depth noise in SLAM (Simultaneous Localization & Mapping). The method includes receiving correspondences and clusters for pose estimation. After the correspondences and clusters are received, a dynamic centroid is determined using 3-D features of a landmark. The 3-D features of the landmark comprise a cluster. Next, distance-error metrics are determined using the dynamic centroid, a map point, and the cluster. The distance-error metrics are compared with thresholds to remove depth noise affected 3-D features and landmarks when the distance-error metrics are larger than the thresholds. The remaining 3-D features of the cluster are sent to a pose estimation framework.
US11074698B2	Object tracking device and object tracking method A congestion degree estimating unit (12) which estimates, for each image frame, a congestion degree of an area in which each object detected by an object detecting unit (11) is present is provided. An object selecting unit (13) refers to an estimation result of the congestion degree by the congestion degree estimating unit (12) for each image frame, and selects an object present in an area the congestion degree of which is equal to or lower than a first threshold out of one or more objects detected by the object detecting unit (11).
US11074687B2	Deep convolutional neural network with self-transfer learning Systems and techniques for facilitating a deep convolutional neural network with self-transfer learning are presented. In one example, a system includes a machine learning component, a medical imaging diagnosis component and a visualization component. The machine learning component generates learned medical imaging output regarding an anatomical region based on a convolutional neural network that receives medical imaging data. The machine learning component also performs a plurality of sequential downsampling and upsampling of the medical imaging data associated with convolutional layers of the convolutional neural network. The medical imaging diagnosis component determines a classification and an associated localization for a portion of the anatomical region based on the learned medical imaging output associated with the convolutional neural network. The visualization component generates a multi-dimensional visualization associated with the classification and the localization for the portion of the anatomical region.
US11074686B2	System for diagnosing disease using neural network and method therefor A disease diagnosis system including a processor and a storage device for storing a neural network and using a biometric image and the neural network, the disease diagnosis system including a micro-neural network for receiving a first tile included in the biometric image through a first input layer, and including a plurality of first layers and an output layer, and a macro-neural network for receiving a macro-tile including the first tile and at least one or more second tiles adjacent to the first tile through a second input layer, and including a plurality of second layers and the output layer, in which the output layer includes at least one state channel indicating a state of a disease of a biological tissue corresponding to the first tile.
US11074684B2	Inspection apparatus and inspection method A high-frequency component removing part removes high-frequency components from a first object image obtained by picking up an image of an object and a first reference image, to acquire a second object image and a second reference image, respectively. A correction part corrects a value of each pixel of at least one of the first object image and the first reference image on the basis of a discrepancy, which is a ratio or a difference, between a value of the corresponding pixel of the second object image and a value of the corresponding pixel of the second reference image. A comparison part compares the first object image with the first reference image, to thereby detect a defect area in the first object image.
US11074674B2	Imaging noise reduction system and method A system for reducing noise in a camera image is disclosed. The system includes one or more processors, and a camera operatively coupled to the processor, the processors are configured to reduce noise of camera images, the processors are configured to receive input image data from the camera representing pixel data from a plurality of pixels, segment the input image data to a plurality of segments and for each segment establish an initial segment image, pre-correct pixel data by modifying the pixel data to account for voltage offset and gain of each pixel based on a predetermined map of gain and offset, and obtain an estimate of an output image by minimizing a cost function and output and stitch the estimated image to other estimated and outputted image segments, and output a noise reduced image including the stitched estimated images.
US11074672B2	Method of image processing and display for images captured by a capsule camera A method and apparatus of processing and displaying images captured using an in vivo capsule camera are disclosed. One or more overlapped areas between a target image and each image in a neighboring image group are determined, which comprises at least two neighboring images around the target image. Marked pixels in the target image are then determined, where a pixel in the target image is designated as a marked pixel if the pixel is within an overlapped area between the target image and at least one neighboring image. If the total number of the marked pixels in the target image exceeds a threshold and the number of the marked pixels associated with the overlapped area(s) between the target image and any image in the neighboring image group is below the threshold, the target image is excluded from a set of images to be displayed on a display device.
US11074668B2	GPU based server in a distributed file system A plurality of computing devices are communicatively coupled to each other via a network, and each of the plurality of computing devices is operably coupled to one or more of a plurality of storage devices. A plurality of failure resilient stripes is distributed across the plurality of storage devices such that each of the plurality of failure resilient stripes spans a plurality of the storage devices. A graphics processing unit is operable to access data files from the failure resilient stripes, while bypassing a kernel page cache. Furthermore, these data files may be accessed in parallel by the graphics processing unit.
US11074659B1	Systems and methods for community-based cause of loss determination Methods and systems for determining a cause of loss to a property for damage associated with an insurance-related event based upon data received from a second property. A smart home (or other building) controller and/or an insurance provider remote processor may generate a time sequence of events for damage associated with an insure-related event. The smart home controller or remote processor may also receive a time-sequence of events generated by a smart home controller associated with a second property. The smart home controller or remote processor may compare the two time-sequences of events to determine causes of loss associated with damage to the property. The compared data may be further used to assign a portion of the overall damage to each cause of loss. Subsequently, the smart home controller or remote processor may automatically generate an insurance claim for damage to the property associated with the insurance-related event.
US11074629B2	Optimizing dynamic review generation for redirecting request links A system and method to optimize dynamic review generation. A client device of a user is selected to provide a review of a merchant. A weighted event factor associated with multiple websites is identified. The system and method identify an input parameter provided by the merchant to be used with the weighted event factor to determine a first website of the multiple websites to receive the review of the merchant. A communication object is transmitted to the client device to redirect the client device to the first website to submit the review.
US11074625B2	Bidding based on the relative value of identifiers Methods, systems, and apparatus include computer programs encoded on a computer-readable storage medium, including a method for providing content. A linking is provided of identifiers for users or devices known to a content delivery service. Each identifier is associated with the user or device in a specific context. The linking includes first and second identifiers. A request for content is received that includes either the first or second identifier. Bidders in an exchange are identified that have expressed an interest in bidding on a content delivery opportunity associated with the user or the device. For each bidder, a relative value is determined for a respective bidder for the opportunity to present content to the user or device in association with each identifier known to the bidder. For each bidder, a real-time bid request is generated in the exchange that includes the highest value identifier for submission to a respective bidder.
US11074624B1	Adaptive cost estimation Embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods, and computer storage media directed at cost estimation. In embodiments, a method may include receiving an observed event volume and an observed revenue in the current logical interval for a campaign. The method may also include tracking state information of various revenue state variables and events per revenue state variables associated with the previous logical interval. In addition, the method may include determining a cost estimate for a present logical interval of the campaign based on the state information, the observed event volume, the observed revenue, and an events per revenue forgetting factor. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed herein.
US11074623B2	Method and device for pushing information The present disclosure discloses a method and device for pushing information to a target user. One example method includes identifying a plurality of users that meet a predetermined condition; selecting a target user from the identified users to be provided with information, where in the target user is selected based on a relationship strength and an influence of the identified users; and transmitting the information to the determined target user over a network, and relates to the field of information technologies.
US11074616B2	Predictive media content delivery Examples of techniques for predictive media content delivery are disclosed. In one example implementation according to aspects of the present disclosure, a computer-implemented method for predictive media content delivery includes identifying, by the processing device, a customer approaching a kiosk. The method further includes determining, by the processing device, an estimated duration that the customer is expected to be in proximity to the kiosk. The method further includes presenting, by the processing device, media content to the customer that has a playback duration commensurate with the estimated duration that the customer is expected to be in proximity to the kiosk.
US11074615B2	Efficient and secure communication using wireless service identifiers Systems and methods are provided for reducing communications between servers and a mobile device and providing enhanced security and privacy to wireless beacon services. This can involve a broadcast device transmitting a beacon transmission using a short range wireless radio, such a Bluetooth or WiFi, and including a MAC address, a first unique identifier, and a beacon service identifier. The mobile device then selects one or more unique identifiers from received beacon transmissions, by filtering (that is, selecting) those beacon transmissions which include the beacon service identifier. The wireless device then takes further action, if the first unique identifier is present among the selected one or more unique identifiers, using stored information from the server. The stored information may be delivered to the wireless device in response to the wireless device sending the first unique identifier to a server, or the stored information may have been previously downloaded.
US11074614B2	GPS mapping of outdoor advertisement Embodiments are directed to a system that enables a user of a mobile communication device to view information that is presented on a billboard at a time after the user sees the physical billboard. The user inputs a billboard-information request into the mobile communication device, such as via an application executing on the mobile communication device. A current location of the mobile communication device at the time when the user input the billboard-information request is determined. Each billboard that is within a predetermined distance from the current location is identified as being a billboard-of-interest for the user. Information associated with each billboard-of-interest is provided to the user via the application executing on the mobile communication device or via a map on a website that is accessible to the user.
US11074609B1	Systems and method for improving mediated sponsored content networks using a stack trace Systems and methods are described for improving mediated sponsored content networks using a stack trace. One implementation relates to a method running on a sponsored content network and includes receiving a request for a sponsored content item from a user device executing code from a mediation platform. An item is sent to fulfill the request. If the identity of the mediation platform is not known, the sent item includes stack trace implementation code. An identifier is received that is associated with the mediation platform consequent to the user device executing the stack trace implementation code and the identity of the mediation platform is determined using the identifier. A performance metric associated with the determined identity of the mediation platform is identified. The method may further receive a second request for a sponsored content item from the user device and use the performance metric to select the second item.
US11074607B2	Method and digital signage player for managing distributed digital signage content A method and digital signage server for managing display of a distributed digital signage content. The digital signage server stores a first placement target for the distributed digital signage content, and a second placement target for the distributed digital signage content. The distributed digital signage content is displayed on a first digital signage player according to the first placement target and displayed on a second digital signage player according to the second placement target. The digital signage server exchanges messages with the first and second digital signage players for negotiating a modification of the first and second placement targets. The digital signage server ultimately modifies the first and second placement targets based on the messages exchanged with the first and second digital signage players.
US11074595B2	Predicting brand personality using textual content Embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods, and computer storage media directed to facilitating predicting brand personality. In one embodiment, target content for which brand personality prediction is desired is obtained. Content features associated with the target content are identified. Such content features and a brand personality prediction model are used to predict a brand personality of the target content, the brand personality indicating personality of a brand associated with the target content.
US11074585B2	Authenticating transactions using risk scores derived from detailed device information One embodiment of the invention is directed to a method comprising, receiving an authentication request message for a transaction. The method further comprises determining that detailed device information is required to authenticate the transaction and generating a message including an identifier and a request for the detailed device information. The method further comprises retrieving the detailed device information from a remote server computer using the identifier and modifying the authentication request message to include the detailed device information. The method further comprises sending the modified authentication request message to an access control server computer. The method further comprises receiving an authentication response message from the access control server computer including a verification value for the transaction, where the verification value is generated based on a result of a risk analysis performed using the detailed device information.
US11074572B2	User interfaces for stored-value accounts In some examples, an account is provisioned onto an electronic device. In some examples, the device receives a value to fund the account provisioned on the electronic device. In some examples, the electronic device transacts with a contactless transaction terminal using the provisioned account and displays an indication of the transaction. In some examples, the electronic device transmits information corresponding to the provisioned account without checking for authentication. In some examples, the device receives user input initiating a process for moving the account from a first device to a second device. In some examples, the device receives account payment credentials from a second device when a set of payment criteria are met.
US11074564B2	Computer system and computer-implemented method for processing a payment transaction at a point-of-sale terminal A payment network server for processing a payment transaction at a point-of-sale terminal is described. The server comprises a transaction module, a query module and a transfer module. The transaction module is configured to: (i) receive a payment transaction request comprising at least transaction details and a fund transfer indicator, the transaction details comprise at least a customer identifier, a merchant identifier, and a payment amount, the fund transfer indicator indicating that the payment transaction is to be processed by fund transfer; and (ii) transmit a payment transaction response indicating if the payment transaction is approved or refused to proceed.
US11074559B2	Payments platform, method and system for a cloud computing platform A cloud-based computing system is provided that includes a payments platform for integrating payment gateway services with a cloud computing platform so that clients of the cloud computing platform can perform payment transactions with customers via the cloud computing platform. The payment gateways that include a particular payment gateway. The cloud computing platform can include a multitenant database system that provides applications and services to a plurality of clients, and a payments platform module. Each client can be, for example, a tenant or organization of the cloud computing platform that transacts business with one or more customers via a payment gateway. The payments platform module has a pluggable architecture for integrating each of the payment gateway adapters with the cloud computing platform.
US11074557B2	Systems and method for interrogating, publishing and analyzing information related to a waste hauling vehicle A system and method for verifying waste fulfillment events in the absence of human intervention using the input of one or more vehicle sensor inputs, one or more waste disposal cycle inputs, and GPS information to augment or supplement optical scanning technology such as RFID tags is disclosed.
US11074550B2	Inventory management application for sales consultant users A mobile application may be used to track sales consultants' businesses, such as by tracking a local inventory maintained by the consultant. Determining whether local inventory is sufficient for fulfilling a sales order may be assisted by updating a database of the application with restocking information. Such restocking information may be obtained through a camera of the mobile device scanning a barcode or QR code or other information, such as recognizing text on a package. Information in the picture may be associated with inventory restocking information or be used to fetch restocking information.
US11074546B2	Global back-end taxonomy for commerce environments A method for defining, generating, and using a global back-end taxonomy is disclosed. It is identified that a listing of an item is exposed to a plurality of users of a first subsystem via a set of categories of a first front-end taxonomy. The listing of the item is mapped to a set of categories of a global back-end taxonomy, the global back-end taxonomy being maintained independently of the first front-end taxonomy and a second front-end taxonomy, the second front-end taxonomy being associated with a second subsystem. A category of the set of categories of the global back-end taxonomy is mapped to a category of a set of categories of the second front-end taxonomy associated with the second subsystem. The listing of the item is exposed to a plurality of users of the second subsystem via the set of categories of the second front-end taxonomy.
US11074542B2	Automated delivery device and method for delivering a package According to various examples, an automated delivery device is described including a transportation system configured to move a package to a package recipient location, a package drop-off mechanism configured to drop off the package at the package recipient location, a communication system configured to communicate with a recipient camera device at the package recipient location and a controller configured to instruct the recipient camera device via the transceiver to verify package delivery based on an image of the delivered package.
US11074539B2	Vehicle usage assessment of drivers in a car sharing service A method and system for use in performing a vehicle usage assessment for a first driver of a vehicle participating in a car sharing service based on a vehicle condition assessment of the vehicle by a second, subsequent driver. The method carried out by the system includes the steps of providing a user assessment interface that enables the second driver to provide one or more quantified assessments for one or more corresponding characteristics of the vehicle; receiving the one or more quantified assessments; associating the one or more quantified assessments with an immediately preceding first driver of the vehicle; and generating an overall assessment for the first driver using at least one of the one or more quantified assessments. The overall assessment may be used to rank the first driver relative to other drivers participating in the car sharing service.
US11074531B2	Machine learning techniques for automated processing of workflow approval requests Methods, apparatus, and processor-readable storage media for machine learning techniques for automated processing of workflow approval requests are provided herein. An example computer-implemented method includes generating a machine learning model for workflow approval requests, wherein generating the machine learning model comprises automatically learning temporal-based patterns from historical data related to previous workflow approval requests; generating, in response to an additional workflow approval request, an output value by applying the machine learning model to input data related to the additional workflow approval request; comparing the output value to at least one predefined threshold value; and automatically rejecting the additional workflow approval request responsive to a result of the comparing of the output value to the at least one predefined threshold value.
US11074526B1	Transport coordination system A computer-implemented method of connecting user equipments, i.e. UEs, to coordinate a transport request is disclosed. The method comprises sending a location request message to a plurality of UEs, receiving location response messages from each of one or more UEs of the plurality of UEs, receiving a requested destination message from a first UE, determining a first group of UEs, determining a second group of UEs based upon the location response messages, sending an indicator associated with each UE of the second group of UEs to the first UE, receiving an indicator associated with a second UE of the second group of UEs from the first UE, sending a journey request message to the second UE, receiving an acceptance indication response message from the second UE.
US11074522B2	Electric grid analytics learning machine Electric Grid Analytics Learning Machine, EGALM, is a machine learning based, “brutally empirical” analysis system for use in all energy operations. EGALM is applicable to all aspects of the electricity operations from power plants to homes and businesses. EGALM is a data-centric, computational learning and predictive analysis system that uses open source algorithms and unique techniques applicable to all electricity operations in the United States and other foreign countries.
US11074518B2	Computer system, generation method of plan, and non-transitory computer readable storage medium A computer system holds model management information for managing a model for calculating, based on a feature amount of a process pair generated based on a plan history and formed of two processes, a transition probability of the two processes forming the process pair. The computer system comprises: a transition probability calculating unit uses, in a case of receiving input data including a plurality of target processes, the model management information and a feature amount of a process pair formed of a reference target process and a transition destination target process, to thereby calculate a transition probability of the process pair; and a transition probability modifying unit modifies the transition probability of the process pair determined to be unreliable. The transition probability calculating unit generates a new plan by determining the order of execution of the plurality of target processes based on the transition probability of the process pair.
US11074517B2	Predicting keywords in an application A computer-implemented method includes training a classification model to produce a mapping from a set of feature vectors to a set of confidence levels. Each feature vector describes a respective term, and each confidence level indicates a likelihood that the respective term is a keyword. A plurality of program artifacts are tokenized into a plurality of terms. For each term in the plurality of terms, a respective feature vector is determined for describing the term, based on the plurality of program artifacts. For each term in the plurality of terms, based on the respective feature vector, using the mapping, a respective confidence level is determined for indicating a likelihood that the term is a keyword of the plurality of program artifacts.
US11074515B2	Query and ranking prediction using network action Described are methods and systems to identify analyzing a social network to predict member actions, queries, or ranks within a social networking system. According to various embodiments, the system detects changes within a first data set of a first member. The system identifies an entity associated with the change in the first data set, determines an action probability of the entity in response to the change, and identifies a second data set associated with a second member having at least one common element with the first data set. The system identifies a set of elements in the first data set and an entity data set corresponding to the change and generates a customized user interface screen comprising a representation of the entity and a portion of the set of elements.
US11074512B1	Cybersecurity incident response and security operation system employing playbook generation and parent matching through custom machine learning A cybersecurity incident is registered at a security incident response platform. At a playbook generation system, details are received of the cybersecurity incident from the security incident response platform. At least some of the details correspond to a set of features of the cybersecurity incident. A set or subset of nearest neighbors of the cybersecurity incident is localized in a feature space. The nearest neighbors of the cybersecurity incident are other cybersecurity incidents having a distance from the cybersecurity incident within the feature space that is defined by differences in features of the nearest neighbors with respect to the set of features of the cybersecurity incident. A playbook is created for responding to the cybersecurity incident having prescriptive procedures based on occurrences of prescriptive procedures previously employed in response to the nearest neighbor cybersecurity incidents. The differences in features of the nearest neighbors with respect to the set of features of the cybersecurity incident are calculated, for at least one feature, using a present-or-equal metric, and for at least one other feature, using a symmetric difference metric. The playbook generation system is also a parent recommendation system, which identifies a parent for the cybersecurity incident, based on distances of the nearest neighbors of the cybersecurity incident in the feature space. The parent recommendation system adjusts, based on the recommended parent or the parent other than the recommended parent being selected, weights of features upon which distances in the feature space are based.
US11074506B2	Estimating the amount of degradation with a regression objective in deep learning Computer systems and computer-implemented methods train a machine-learning regression system. The method comprises the step of generating, with a machine-learning generator, output patterns; distorting the output patterns of the generator by a scale factor to generate distorted output patterns; and training the machine-learning regression system to predict the scaling factor, where the regression system receives the distorted output patterns as input and learns and the scaling factor is a target value for the regression system. The method may further comprise, after training the machine-learning regression system, training a second machine-learning generator by back propagating partial derivatives of an error cost function from the regression system to the second machine-learning generator and training the second machine-learning generator using stochastic gradient descent.
US11074504B2	Instance segmentation Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for instance segmentation. In one aspect, a system generates: (i) data identifying one or more regions of the image, wherein an object is depicted in each region, (ii) for each region, a predicted type of object that is depicted in the region, and (iii) feature channels comprising a plurality of semantic channels and one or more direction channels. The system generates a region descriptor for each of the one or more regions, and provides the region descriptor for each of the one or more regions to a segmentation neural network that processes a region descriptor for a region to generate a predicted segmentation of the predicted type of object depicted in the region.
US11074503B2	Execution of a genetic algorithm having variable epoch size with selective execution of a training algorithm A method includes generating, by a processor of a computing device, a first plurality of models (including a first number of models) based on a genetic algorithm and corresponding to a first epoch of the genetic algorithm. The method includes determining whether to modify an epoch size for the genetic algorithm during a second epoch of the genetic algorithm based on a convergence metric associated with at least one epoch that is prior to the second epoch. The second epoch is subsequent to the first epoch. The method further includes, based on determining to modify the epoch size, generating a second plurality of models (including a second number of models that is different than the first number) based on the genetic algorithm and corresponding to the second epoch. Each model of the first plurality of models and the second plurality of models includes data representative of neural networks.
US11074501B2	Learning and detection method of neural network model for flame determination, and apparatus performing the same Disclosed herein is a learning method of a neural network model for flame determination. The learning method of a neural network includes generating a learning image including a fake image generated by combining a real fire image and an arbitrary flame image with a background image; inputting the learning image to a first neural network model and outputting a determination result for whether a flame is present; and updating a weight in a layer extracting features of the learning image from the first neural network model using the determination result. According to the present invention, data of various fire situations may be secured, a performance of the neural network model that determines an occurrence of the fire through the secured data may be increased, and a quality of data for learning may be increased to allow the neural network model itself to predict various situations of fires.
US11074499B2	Synaptic weight transfer between conductance pairs with polarity inversion for reducing fixed device asymmetries Artificial neural networks (ANNs) are a distributed computing model in which computation is accomplished with many simple processing units, called neurons, with data embodied by the connections between neurons, called synapses, and by the strength of these connections, the synaptic weights. An attractive implementation of ANNs uses the conductance of non-volatile memory (NVM) elements to record the synaptic weight, with the important multiply—accumulate step performed in place, at the data. In this application, the non-idealities in the response of the NVM such as nonlinearity, saturation, stochasticity and asymmetry in response to programming pulses lead to reduced network performance compared to an ideal network implementation. A method is shown that improves performance by periodically inverting the polarity of less-significant signed analog conductance-pairs within synaptic weights that are distributed across multiple conductances of varying significance, upon transfer of weight information between less-significant signed analog conductance-pairs to more-significant analog conductance-pairs.
US11074496B2	Providing transposable access to a synapse array using a recursive array layout Embodiments of the invention relate to providing transposable access to a synapse array using a recursive array layout. One embodiment comprises maintaining synaptic weights for multiple synapses connecting multiple axons and multiple neurons, wherein the synaptic weights are maintained based on a recursive array layout. The recursive array layout facilitates transposable access to the synaptic weights. A neuronal spike event between an axon and a neuron is communicated via a corresponding connecting synapse by accessing the synaptic weight of the corresponding connecting synapse in the recursive array layout.
US11074479B2	Learning of detection model using loss function There is a desire to accurately learn a detection model. Provided is a computer-implemented method including acquiring an input image; acquiring an annotated image designating a region of interest in the input image; inputting the input image to a detection model that generates an output image showing a target region from the input image; calculating an error between the output image and the annotated image, using a loss function that weights an error inside the region of interest more heavily than an error outside the region of interest; and updating the detection model in a manner to reduce the error.
US11074476B2	Data ingestion platform Embodiments are directed to data ingestion over a network. Raw data and integrated data associated with a plurality of separate data sources may be provided such that the raw data includes content associated with a plurality of subjects. Categorization models may be employed to categorize the raw data based on various features, such as, format, structure, data source, variability, volume, or associated entities. Matching models may be determined based on the categorization of the of the raw data, the integrated data and the content associated with the plurality of subjects. Matching models may generate a plurality of unified facts based on the raw data and the integrated data such that each unified fact is associated with a score associated with a quality of its match with a unified schema.
US11074460B1	Graphical management system for interactive environment monitoring Systems and methods for monitoring an environment using a Graphical Management System (GMS) are described. The GMS may present a vector image map of the environment for interaction by a user. The user may zoom and pan on the map to generate views of the map with various ranges of detail of the map. Video data from a plurality of video cameras may also be displayed on the map based on the user input and the level of zoom and the location viewed in the map. Further, the user may select a timeline event and sensor data associated with the event and the map may be initialized at the time and location of the event.
US11074447B1	Land analysis system using drone-captured data A land analysis system uses drone-captured images to detect plant health and/or soil moisture levels at a site. For example, the system instructs a drone to fly along a flight path, capture images of the land below, and measure altitude data. The system processes the images using, for example, artificial intelligence, to identify locations at which plant material may be present. The system then further processes the images to identify the plant health of the plant material at the identified locations. The system further uses the altitude data to determine the strata of plants at the identified locations. Optionally, the system can further process the images to identify the soil moisture levels at the identified locations.
US11074436B1	Method and apparatus for face recognition Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for face recognition. The method includes: acquiring a target face image in a video monitoring device (S101); comparing the target face image with a first category image in a static library to a first similarity (S102); when the first similarity is less than a first predetermined threshold, determining whether there is a backup face image whose similarity with the target face image that is greater than a second predetermined threshold (S103); if yes, determining whether there is a dynamic image corresponding to the backup face image in a dynamic library (S104); and if yes, determining that matching is successful (S105). The invention improves the precision of face recognition.
US11074432B2	Systems and methods for retrieving and presenting information using augmented reality A system and method for recognizing a person, including: capturing an identifying feature of the person; identifying the person based on the identifying feature to return a person identity; using the person's identity, retrieving information about the person from a person information database; and displaying the retrieved information in an overlay with a facial image of the person to a user. menu items can also be displayed. The identifying feature may be a biometric or a non-biometric feature.
US11074429B2	User identification method, terminal and storage medium The application relates to the field of terminals and provides a user identification method, a terminal and a storage medium. The method includes that: responsive to detecting that a fingerprint of a user is in contact with a preset fingerprint identification region, a surface humidity of the preset fingerprint identification region is determined; when the surface humidity is greater than a preset humidity, the fingerprint of the user is acquired through the optical fingerprint sensor; the fingerprint acquired through the optical fingerprint sensor is matched with pre-stored fingerprint information; and screen unlocking is performed in case of successful matching. Through the technical solutions, the sensor for fingerprint unlocking may be determined according to a humidity of a screen, thereby ensuring stability of fingerprint unlocking and further improving a user experience.
US11074427B2	Method for reconstructing an imprint image from image portions A method for reconstructing an imprint image, from a set of image portions, includes the steps of: extracting, from each image portion, a set of local points of interest and, for each point of local interest, calculating a descriptor vector that characterizes said point of local interest; for each pair of two image portions, evaluating a local interest points association score representative of a probability that the two image portions are contiguous on the imprint image; assembling the image portions of a best pair to form an assembled fragment; repeating the above steps by replacing each time, in the set of image portions, the two image portions of the best pair, until all the association scores of the remaining pairs are less than or equal to a predetermined threshold, and producing an assembly map of the image portions; merging the image portions to reproduce the imprint image.
US11074425B2	DOI scanning-based information processing Implementations of the present specification disclose DOI scanning-based information processing methods, apparatuses, and devices. After an end-user device scans a DOI and obtains service information corresponding to the DOI, the end-user device can cache the service information. Thereafter, the end-user device can read the cached service information, to generate a service request and send the service request to a service server. Particularly, when a network connection between the end-user device and the service server is abnormal, the end-user device can independently retry the service request based on the cached service information.
US11074417B2	Suggestions on removing cognitive terminology in news articles Embodiments provide a computer implemented method in a data processing system comprising a processor and a memory comprising instructions, which are executed by the processor to cause the processor to implement the method of removing a cognitive terminology from a news article at a news portal, the method including: receiving, by the processor, a first news article from a user; configuring, by the processor, a cognitive terminology filter list to add one or more entities and one or more cognitive terminology types associated with each entity in the cognitive terminology filter list; dividing, by the processor, the first news article into a plurality of text segments; identifying, by the processor, one or more key entities and one or more inter-entity relationships of each text segment; detecting, by the processor, one or more cognitive terminologies in the first news article; and providing, by the processor, one or more suggestions to remove the one or more cognitive terminologies.
US11074412B1	Machine learning classification system A system trains a classification model. Text windows are defined from tokens based on a window size. A network model including a transformer network is trained with the text windows to define classification information. A first accuracy value is computed. (A) The window size is reduced using a predefined reduction factor value. (B) Second text windows are defined based on the reduced window size. (C) Retrain the network model with the second text windows to define classification information. (D) A second accuracy value is computed. (E) An accuracy reduction value is computed from the second accuracy value relative to the first accuracy value. When the computed accuracy reduction value is ≥an accuracy reduction tolerance value, repeat (A)-(E) until the accuracy reduction value is
US11074410B2	Shared user context for efficient conversations An electronic message including text generated by a first user can be identified and at least a second user can be identified as a recipient. At least one n-gram contained in the text of the electronic message can be identified by performing natural language processing on the text. A first user profile of the first user and a second user profile of the second user can be accessed. Based on the first user profile and the second user profile, at least one user context of the first user, not shared with the second user, relating to the computer-understandable meaning of the at least one n-gram can be determined. The electronic message as presented to the second user can include the at least one user context of the first user, not shared with the second user, relating to the computer-understandable meaning of the at least one n-gram.
US11074392B2	Information processing apparatus and non-transitory computer readable medium for switching between an attribute information mode and an image information mode An information processing apparatus includes: an acquisition unit that acquires information from an external apparatus that stores data; and a switching unit that, for each item of the data, switches between a first mode in which the acquisition unit acquires attribute information of the data from the external apparatus, and a second mode in which the acquisition unit acquires, from the external apparatus, information for displaying an image that indicates a feature of the data.
US11074384B1	Method for simulating signal integrity of hybrid model A method for simulating signal integrity of a hybrid model is provided, which includes: establishing a transient simulation link including a front-end chip model, a pre-link model and a terminating impedance model, where the front-end chip model is a Spice model; inputting an ideal step signal to a port reserved in the front-end chip model, and extracting step response data in a steady state; inputting the step response data to an input end of a channel simulation link, where the channel simulation link includes a relay chip model, a post-link model and a back-end chip model, and each of the relay chip model and the back-end chip model is an IBIS AMI model; and inputting a random code signal to the input end of the channel simulation link, and reading a signal outputted from an output end of the back-end chip and forming an eye pattern.
US11074380B2	Logic repository service The following description is directed to a logic repository service. In one example, a method of a logic repository service can include receiving a first request to generate configuration data for configurable hardware using a specification for application logic of the configurable hardware. The method can include generating the configuration data for the configurable hardware. The configuration data can include data for implementing the application logic. The method can include receiving a second request to download the configuration data to a host server computer comprising the configurable hardware. The method can include transmitting the configuration data to the host server computer in response to the second request so that the configurable hardware is configured with the host logic and the application logic.
US11074378B1	Non-transitory computer readable recording medium storing a computer program, simulation method and simulation device for simulating dynamic behavior of electromagnetic component A computer program causes a computer to execute processing of simulating behavior of an electromagnetic component including a coil at each of a plurality of time points based on an analytic model of the electromagnetic component. The processing comprises creating a look-up table storing a flux linkage of the coil, an inductance of the coil and a current in the coil that are obtained by a magnetic field analysis based on the analytic model in association with one another, and simulating behavior of the electromagnetic component by referring to the look-up table using currents in the coil calculated at a previous simulation step and at a step before the previous simulation step.
US11074377B2	Simulators and simulation methods using adaptive domains An illustrative domain-adaptive simulator includes: a data acquisition module, a simulator module, and a visualization module. The data acquisition module acquires measurements of a physical system. The simulator module provides a series of states for the physical system, the series including at least a current state and a subsequent state, wherein as part of said providing, the simulator module implements a method that includes: (a) constructing a modeled domain for the system; (b) determining a domain of influence within the modeled domain; (c) generating a linear set of equations to derive the subsequent state from the current state, the linear set of equations excluding a region of the modeled domain outside the domain of influence; and (d) deriving the subsequent state from the linear set of equations. The visualization module displays the series of states.
US11074376B2	Method for analyzing process output and method for creating equipment parameter model A method for analyzing a process output and a method for creating an equipment parameter model are provided. The method for analyzing the process output includes the following steps: A plurality of process steps are obtained. A processor obtains a step model set including a plurality of first step regression models, each of which represents a relationship between N of the process steps and a process output. The processor calculates a correlation of each of the first step regression models. The processor picks up at least two of the first step regression models to be a plurality of second step regression models whose correlations are ranked at top among the correlations of the first step regression models. The processor updates the step model set by a plurality of third step regression models, each of which represents a relationship between M of the process steps and the process output.
US11074375B2	Methods for modeling tubing runs A method of modeling layout of rigid tubing comprises securing a first component of a lockable adjustment assembly to an end A of a first rigid tube via a first releasable coupling assembly. The method also comprises securing a second component of the lockable adjustment assembly to an end C of a second rigid tube via a second releasable coupling assembly. Further, the method comprises moving the first component and the second component, loosely coupled with each other, relative to each other with only three degrees of freedom to position the first rigid tube and the second rigid tube in a selected orientation with respect to each other. The method also comprises, with the first rigid tube and the second rigid tube in the selected orientation relative to each other, locking the lockable adjustment assembly so that the first component and the second component have zero degrees of freedom relative to each other.

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