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US11104418B2	Force feedback mechanism of an aircraft handling mini-stick and device for handling an aircraft having such a mechanism The force feedback device includes a stationary housing intended to be secured to an understructure of an aircraft, at least one spring opposing movement of a side-stick of the aircraft relative to the housing, and a transmission mechanism, which is supported by the housing movably and which is suitable for transmitting a rotational movement, around a first rotation axis, between the side-stick and said at least one spring, by applying a force law according to which a resistive force, opposed by said at least one spring, via the transmission mechanism, against the rotational movement of the side-stick around the first rotation axis, depends on an angular position of the side-stick around the first rotation axis. In order for this force feedback device to be more precise, compact and reliable, the transmission mechanism comprises a cam, which is suitable for being connected to the side-stick in rotation around the first rotation axis and which is provided with at least one profiled surface that is shaped so as to define at least one part of the force law, said at least one part of the force law including at least one force jump that corresponds to a discontinuity in intensity of the resistive force without changing the direction of the latter.
US11104410B2	Propeller-powered watercraft system and method of remote-controlled waterway navigation A propeller-powered propulsion system and method of remote-controlled waterway navigation is configured to navigate a waterway in a navigation route while being controlled remotely, and being tracked by a GPS system. The watercraft provides a watercraft body that carries a propeller subassembly having multiple propellers that operate independently of each other for variable propulsion and steering. A mobile communication device transmits a command signal to a receiver in the propeller subassembly. A microcontroller converts the command signal to a speed for each propeller, independently of the other. The propeller speeds create a disproportionate level of thrust from each propeller to enable remote controlled steering of the watercraft toward port and starboard directions, at variable speeds, and preprogrammed navigation routes. The mobile communication device also acquires location data of the watercraft body obtained by a GPS system. The microcontroller processes the location data to automate the navigation of the watercraft.
US11104406B2	Underwater mask with feeding and discharge system for breathing air An underwater mask includes a frame, a transparent part, a seal part mounted on the frame, and a snorkel. The seal part has a partition wall forming an upper and a lower chamber, the lower chamber receiving nose and mouth of the user. The two chambers communicate through a passage in the partition wall and a one-way valve so that air can pass only from the upper chamber to the lower chamber. The snorkel has first and second channels through which the upper and respectively lower chamber communicate with the outside. A connection end between snorkel and mask is fastened at an opening of the seal part to put the first channel of the snorkel in communication with the upper chamber of the mask, and further has a side inlet for a corresponding exhaust tube that puts the lower chamber in communication with the second channel of the snorkel.
US11104404B2	Stokes drifter The present disclosure relates to drifters that float and take measurements at, or very near, a surface of a body of water. The drifters may have a design that reduces wind force effects but does not diminish Stokes drift force effects. The drifters may have two opposing exterior surfaces with antennas and sensors on each of the opposing surfaces so that the drifters may always utilize at least some of the antennas and sensors, regardless of the drifter's orientation in the water.
US11104402B1	Methods and systems for producing boat components An additive manufacturing method ay includes depositing thermoplastic material with an additive manufacturing apparatus to form a first section of a mold of a marine article. The first section includes an interior surface having a shape corresponding to a first portion of a hull of the marine article and a support portion including a support surface, the support portion being integrally formed with the interior surface. The method also includes depositing thermoplastic material to form a second section of a mold of a marine article, the second section including an interior surface having a shape corresponding to a second portion of a hull of the marine article. The method also includes joining the first section and the first section together to form at least a portion of the mold.
US11104395B2	Dropper post assembly for a bicycle A dropper post assembly for supporting a bicycle seat can include an outer tube and an inner tube telescopically receivable in the outer tube and slidable within the outer tube between a retracted position in which a lower end of the inner tube is proximate a lower end of the outer tube and an extended position in which the lower end of the inner tube is axially spaced from the lower end of the outer tube. An actuator assembly may include an actuator body having a mounting portion connected to the lower end of the outer tube and a cartridge rod receiving portion, and may be configured so that when the inner tube is in the retracted position at least the upper surface of the cartridge rod receiving portion is nested within the inner tube.
US11104394B2	Vehicle with interchangeable drive modules Vehicles may be composed of a relatively few number of “modules” that are assembled together during a final assembly process. An example vehicle may include a body module, a first drive module coupled to a first end of the body module, and a second drive module coupled to a second end of the body module. One or both of the drive modules may include a pair of wheels, a battery, an electric drive motor, and/or a heating ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) system. One or both of the drive modules may also include a crash structure to absorb impacts. If a component of a drive module fails or is damaged, the drive module can be quickly and easily replaced with a new drive module, minimizing vehicle down time.
US11104390B2	Motor vehicle with air-guide and drive A motor vehicle has a body; an air-guide, fastenable to the body; a drive to adjust the air-guide when the air-guide is fastened to the body; and connectors that connect the drive to the body. The connectors include first fastening elements and second fastening elements. The first fastening elements are insertable through cutouts in the body into the second fastening elements via a first position up to a second position. An orientation of the drive relative to the body is possible in the first position, and the second fastening elements exert a clamping force on the first fastening elements in the second position.
US11104389B2	Clamping system A clamping system for mating an I-Beam frame to an undercarriage is disclosed. The clamping system utilizes clamping brackets to secure the undercarriage to the trailer frame. The undercarriage has adapter sides oriented perpendicular to the undercarriage adapter bottom. The clamping brackets have two portions oriented perpendicular to each other. Holes are located in the clamping brackets to receive bolts or screws. The trailer frame is aligned onto the undercarriage and positioned such that proper tongue weight is applied. The clamping brackets are rigidly installed on the clamping bracket sides. Clamping screws are installed into the clamping brackets and torqued to a value such that a compressive force is applied between the bottom of the I-Beam and the undercarriage adapter bottom. The compressive force applied prevents unwanted relative motion between the I-Beam frame and the undercarriage during use.
US11104383B2	Vehicle front portion structure A vehicle front portion structure includes: a motor unit disposed at a vehicle front part; a suspension member disposed at the vehicle front part, the suspension member extending in a vehicle front-rear direction and deforming toward a vehicle lower side at a time of vehicle frontal collision; a left-right pair of front side motor mounts connecting a front part of the motor unit with the suspension member; a rear side motor mount connecting a central part, in a vehicle width direction, of a rear part of the motor unit with the suspension member; and a break mechanism that causes the rear side motor mount, which moves toward a vehicle rear side at a time of vehicle frontal collision, to break in the vehicle width direction.
US11104373B2	Radially preloaded rack bearing A rack and pinion steering system includes a housing, a rack, a pinion gear, and a radially preloaded rack bearing. The rack is supported by the housing, and the pinion gear is meshed to the rack. The radially preloaded rack bearing is supported and preloaded to the housing and is preloaded to the rack.
US11104363B2	Train operation planning support system According to one embodiment, a train operation planning support system displays a timetable of a train in which a first required time and a first buffer time are placed for running time of the train and a second required time and a second buffer time are placed for dwell time of the train. The first required time is time required for a train running between a departure station and an arrival station. The first buffer time is buffer time obtained by subtracting the first required time from running time of the train set as a target value. The second required time is time required for the train stopping at the arrival station. The second buffer time is buffer time obtained by subtracting the second required time from dwell time of the train which is set as a target value.
US11104360B2	Method of assembling railcar bogie, measurement jig, and railcar bogie A method of assembling a railcar bogie includes: a plate spring arranging step of making a pair of axle boxes support a plate spring extending in a car longitudinal direction, the axle boxes being arranged away from each other in the car longitudinal direction; a bogie frame arranging step of placing a bogie frame directly or indirectly on a longitudinal direction middle portion of the plate spring from above, the bogie frame including a side wall on which an opening is formed, the side wall covering the plate spring from an outside in a car width direction; and a measuring step of measuring a positional deviation between the plate spring and the bogie frame in the car longitudinal direction through the opening.
US11104354B2	Apparatus and method for recommending function of vehicle The present disclosure provides an apparatus for recommending a function of a vehicle. The apparatus includes a communication circuit configured to communicate with an external device, an output device configured to provide information to a user of the vehicle, a memory, and a processor configured to be electrically connected with the communication circuit, the output device, and the memory. The processor is configured to obtain a message associated with the user of the vehicle from an external device using the communication circuit, extract event information associated with movement of the user from the message associated with the user, and when a specified condition corresponding to the event information is met, output a notification of recommending execution of a task associated with the event information using the output device.
US11104350B2	Wireless vehicle control of vehicle sensor calibration environment Sensors coupled to a vehicle are calibrated using a calibration environment that includes sensor targets, and optionally includes a motorized turntable that rotates the vehicle to different orientations, with the sensors capturing data at each orientation. The vehicle's computer identifies representations of the sensor targets within the data captured by the sensors, determines whether characteristics such as lighting or positioning of the representations of the sensor targets are optimal for calibration, sends signals to lighting systems or motorized target movement systems if necessary to adjust those characteristics, and calibrates the sensor based on the representations of the sensor targets.
US11104328B2	Parking control method and parking control device A parking control method is provided for executing a control instruction to move a vehicle along a parking route on the basis of an operation command acquired from an operator located outside the vehicle. This method includes detecting movement of the operator; calculating an anxiety level of the operator from the movement of the operator; and when the anxiety level is less than a predetermined threshold, parking the vehicle in accordance with a first control instruction that is preliminarily set in the control instruction, while when the anxiety level is not less than the predetermined threshold, calculating a second control instruction obtained by limiting a control range of the first control instruction, and parking the vehicle in accordance with the second control instruction.
US11104327B2	Method for automated parking of a vehicle A method for automated parking of a vehicle includes providing image data captured by at least one vision sensor of the vehicle to an electronic control unit (ECU), and providing a parking scene map to the ECU. A free parking space present in the parking scene map is selected as a target parking space, and a parking path from a current vehicle location to the target parking space is formulated. The vehicle is autonomously maneuvered along the parking path towards the target parking space. Responsive to detection of a pedestrian in the target parking space or along the parking path, the vehicle is stopped until the detected pedestrian moves out of the target parking space or out of the parking path. After the detected pedestrian has moved out of the target parking space or out of the parking path, the vehicle continues autonomous maneuvering along the parking path towards the target parking space.
US11104321B2	Method for putting into operation a brake system with predefined approval specifications and system for putting into operation a brake system with predefined approval specifications The invention relates to a method and to a system for putting into service a brake system having specified approval prerequisites, in particular wherein the brake system is a pneumatic and/or hydraulic braking system, in particular a pneumatic and/or hydraulic braking system of a rail vehicle, wherein the control data set for the brake system is set on the basis of a real reference operation and a virtual test operation in such a way that the specified approval prerequisites are achieved.
US11104318B2	Parking brake apparatus for a vehicle A parking brake apparatus is provided for a vehicle having components of a parking brake system and devices for providing a plurality of output signals indicative of a plurality of vehicle factors. The parking brake apparatus comprises an electronic controller that monitors the output signals indicative of a plurality of vehicle factors, monitors for a pre-startup sequence of the plurality of vehicle factors having been met, monitors for a driver request to unpark the vehicle, monitors for a pre-release sequence of the plurality of vehicle factors having been met, and applies one or more control signals to components of the parking brake system to release parking brakes based upon a valid pre-startup sequence of the plurality of vehicle factors having been met, a driver request to unpark the vehicle, and at least one valid pre-release sequence of the plurality of vehicle factors having been met.
US11104307B2	Apparatus and method for controlling axle rotation during axle replacement Unlike axle replacement on vehicles, where the weight of the vehicle and air-assisted tools may be used, replacement of axle shafts in confined spaces (e.g. benchtop testing rigs) demand improved methods for controlling axle rotation during loosening and tightening of hub nuts. The present disclosure relates to an apparatus for controlling axle rotation during axle shaft replacement in confined spaces. The apparatus further includes a safety mechanism to prevent accidental team member injury caused by an independently rotating axle. Additionally, the disclosure describes a method of the apparatus for efficient loosening and tightening of hub nuts, reducing team member physical burden and expediting axle shaft replacement.
US11104306B2	Method and system for treating the surface of a vehicle A method for treating the surface of a vehicle by means of at least one rotating treatment brush. The treatment brush comprises treatment elements, the surfaces of which are brought into frictional contact with the vehicle surface during the treatment. According to the method, a reference measurement is carried out, in which the treatment brush is set in rotation and is moved into a defined position relative to a reference element, such that the surfaces of the handling elements are brought into frictional contact with the surface of the reference element, and in this case the value of the frictional force is measured directly or indirectly. During the treatment of the vehicle surface, the treatment brush is controlled as a function of the value of the frictional force measured during the reference measurement. A system for treating the surface of a vehicle by means of which this method can be carried out.
US11104304B2	Wiper arm device to clean a vehicle windshield and use of the wiper arm device The invention relates to a wiper arm device (100) for cleaning a vehicle window (1), with a wiper arm head (10) that can be at least indirectly connected by means of a wiper arm rod (22) with a wiper blade (5) at a first end region with a drive shaft (12) and a second end region lying opposite the first end region, wherein the wiper arm rod (22) is pivotably mounted on the side facing the wiper arm head (10) in a first pivoting axis (20). It is provided according to the invention that a spacer device (40) is arranged on the wiper arm rod (22), and designed to hold the wiper arm rod (22) a constant distance (a) away from the vehicle window (1).
US11104301B2	Autonomous driving vehicle and driverless transportation system When an autonomous driving vehicle picks a user up, a control device performs departure condition confirmation processing. The departure condition confirmation processing includes first authentication processing that performs authentication of the user outside the autonomous driving vehicle based on first authentication information, door lock release processing that releases a door lock in response to the completion of the first authentication processing, second authentication information provision processing that makes the user acquire second authentication information different from the first authentication information in response to the completion of the first authentication processing, second authentication processing that performs authentication of the user inside a vehicle cabin of the autonomous driving vehicle based on the second authentication information, and start permission processing that permits the start of the autonomous driving vehicle in a case where the second authentication processing is completed.
US11104299B2	Electronic car key and communication system An electronic vehicle key and a communication system wherein the cryptographic material stored in the secure memory of the electronic vehicle key is alterable by a command received from a first communication device or a second communication device to provide multiple vehicles flexibly using personal electronic vehicle key without being dependent, during use, on access to an external database.
US11104298B2	Assembly module for a motor vehicle comprising an optical sensor system and an emergency actuation means The invention relates to an assembly module (20) for a motor vehicle (1), comprising an optical sensor system (30) which is suitable a) for monitoring a detection area (21) located outside of the vehicle (1), b) if a user (10) is detected in the detection area (21), for triggering a signal to commence an authentication check between an ID transponder (13) and the motor vehicle (1), c) for monitoring an actuation area (22) which is located outside of the vehicle (1) and which is different from the detection area (21), d) if a user (10) is detected in the actuation area (22), for providing a working signal for the vehicle (1), wherein an emergency actuation means (90) is provided for additionally triggering the working signal, which emergency actuation means is suitable e) for providing a working signal for the vehicle (1) via an activation of the emergency actuation means (90) by a body part (11, 12) of the user (10).
US11104291B1	Occupant safety systems Occupant safety systems suitable for use in both traditional and opposed seating systems include various combinations of passive safety components: sensors that provides an output signal indicative of an imminent collision, seats selectively moveable relative to seat support structures in response to the output signal, inflatable restraints deployable from lap portions of a tensioned restraint based on the output signal, airbags deployable from a roof of a vehicle based on the output signal, cabin dividers deployable from a side of a cabin of the vehicle or the roof of the vehicle based on the output signal, and curtain airbags deployable between an occupant and the side of the cabin of the vehicle based on the output signal.
US11104290B2	Vehicle airbag door with stress guiding features A vehicle interior panel for use over a deployable airbag includes a substrate that splits during airbag deployment to form an airbag door on one side of a tear seam that pivots away from another portion of the substrate on an opposite side of the tear seam. One or more relief lines are formed in the substrate in a manner that allows the airbag door to preferentially bend along each relief line during airbag deployment. This bending concentrates forces from the deploying airbag to particular and sequential portions of the tear seam to improve tear seam function.
US11104289B2	Airbag device [Problem] To provide an airbag device capable of controlling flow of gas discharged from an inflator. [Resolution Means] The airbag device is an airbag device that expands and deploys in a vehicle passenger compartment of a vehicle and restrains a passenger sitting in a first seat from a side, including: a cushion 41 provided with a horizontal portion 41d that deploys in a horizontal direction of the vehicle in an expanded and deployed state and a protruding portion 41e that deploys in an upward direction of the vehicle from a center portion of the horizontal portion 41d; a diffuser that is secured inside the cushion 41, that is open in the horizontal direction of the vehicle, closed in a downward direction of the vehicle, and partially or entirely closed in a direction toward the protruding portion; and an inflator 42 that is secured to the first seat, provided inside the diffuser, and that discharges gas for expansion and deployment.
US11104285B2	Vehicle collision prediction algorithm using radar sensor and ultrasonic park assist sensor A method and apparatus of predicting a crash are provided. The method includes detecting coordinates of a target obstacle based on first coordinate information of a radar sensor and second coordinate information of an ultrasonic sensor, translating the second coordinate information to the coordinate system of the first coordinate information and generating translated coordinate information, estimating a position, speed, and acceleration of a vehicle if the vehicle is a predetermined distance from the target obstacle based on the translated coordinate information, determining a potential crash type between the vehicle and the target obstacle based on the estimated position, speed and acceleration of the vehicle, determining a three-dimensional movement trajectory based on the estimated position, speed and acceleration of the vehicle and the determined crash type, and predicting a crash point of the vehicle, a crash point of the target object and a crash time based on the three-dimensional movement trajectory.
US11104276B2	Vehicle console assembly having an integrated mounting structure A vehicle floor console assembly includes a console body including a bin integrally formed with the console body, and a support structure integrally formed with the console body and extending from a rear wall of the bin. The support structure includes a support hinge knuckle. The vehicle floor console assembly further includes a lid including a lid hinge knuckle rotatably coupled to the support hinge knuckle, and an end panel coupled to the support structure. A front portion of the end panel together with the console body defines an end panel interface. The end panel interface is substantially flush with the rear wall of the bin.
US11104274B2	Mirror assemblies for vehicles The invention relates to a mirror assembly (1) for a vehicle, comprising a housing having a first housing portion (12); a second housing portion (14), which is removably connected to the first housing portion (12) to define a recess therebetween; and a mirror mounted within the housing. A flexible engagement member (30) is provided between the first housing portion (12) and the second housing portion, the flexible engagement member (30) extending along at least a portion of an interface (18) between the first and the second housing portions. The flexible engagement member (30) comprises a first member portion first member portion (40) which extends inside the housing recess and which is releasably connected to at least one portion of the housing, and an second member portion (32) which extends from first member portion (40) to at least an outer surface of the housing (10). The second member portion (32) also extends at the interface (18) between a portion of a peripheral wall of the first housing portion (12) and a portion of a peripheral wall of the second housing portion (14). An operator can apply a force to the second member portion (32) of the flexible engagement member (30) to at least partially deform and/or displace the first member portion (40).
US11104272B2	System for assisted operator safety using an HMD A system and method for providing assisted safety to an operator of a vehicle using a head-mounted display that provides displayed content and a see-through view of a surrounding environment, includes determining whether the operator is looking through the windshield of the vehicle or is not looking through the windshield, if the user is looking through the windshield, preventing displayed content from being provided within a display field of view of the head-mounted display, thereby providing an unencumbered see-through view of the surrounding environment, if the user is not looking through the windshield, providing displayed content for viewing by the user within the display field of view, and if important information relating to the safety of the vehicle is detected by a system associated with the vehicle while the user is looking not looking through the windshield, interrupting the displayed content and providing an alert to the operator.
US11104263B2	Load securing bar The invention relates to a load securing bar for a load securing system with lashing points that have at least one tie bar (24), which has hook-shaped form fitting elements (9) on the ends of the load securing bar, wherein there are two hook-shaped form fitting elements (9) located on at least one, preferably both, of the ends of the load securing bar, which open toward one another, and which are spaced apart in a first open position, at least at their free ends, for receiving a tie bar (24), and are disposed such that they hook onto the tie bar in a form fitting manner when they are in a second, preferably lockable, closed position.
US11104261B2	Seat and cargo module quick attachment method A vehicular module attachment assembly includes a vehicular cabin module having a peg that includes a foot. A locking device is slidably coupled to the peg. A slot is formed in a cabin floor including first and second grooves configured to retain the foot. The locking device adjusts between an unlocked position, wherein the peg is slidable between the first and second grooves, and a locked position, wherein the peg is retained in the second groove.
US11104253B2	Flexible heat exchanger for thermal control of seating surfaces The present invention comprises a flexible heat exchange assembly for heating and thermal control the surface of a seat that is designed to prevent the blockage of fluid flow due to the pressure of an occupant's weight, which generally consists of formed layers that create passages through which a heat exchange fluid flows. The upper surface seat cushioning material is formed such that there are recesses into which these fluid passages rest, thereby preventing the blockage of fluid flow when the pressure from the weight of an occupant deforms the cushion.
US11104244B2	Method for charging a plug-in electric vehicle via another plug-in electric vehicle A system for a vehicle includes a bidirectional power converter, a vehicle controller configured to, in response to a pilot signal indicating a connection to a charging station, cause the converter to initiate power flow from the station to the vehicle, and an electric vehicle supply equipment (EVSE) controller configured to, in response to detecting a connection to another vehicle, generate the pilot signal to cause the converter to generate power to transfer to the another vehicle.
US11104234B2	Power architecture for a vehicle such as an off-highway vehicle The present disclosure relates to a power distribution architecture for an off-road vehicle. The power distribution architecture includes a work circuit and a propel circuit and is configured for facilitating bi-directional power exchange between the work circuit and the propel circuit.
US11104230B2	Multi-source power management for a transport refrigeration system A method for power management of a transport refrigeration system electrically connected to a utility power source. The method including determining an operating mode for the transport refrigeration system based on one or more of an amount of utility power available from the utility power source to the transport refrigeration system, a current cost of the utility power, and a noise or emission regulation for operating a prime mover. A transport refrigeration system unit that includes a transport refrigeration unit and a controller configured to receive power from a utility power source or a primary energy source. The controller also configured to determine an operating mode for the transport refrigeration system based on one or more of an amount of utility power available from the utility power source to the transport refrigeration system, a current cost of the utility power, and a noise or emission regulation for operating the prime mover.
US11104213B2	Optimized hatch posts Vehicle hatch comprising at least one lateral post, to which a rear window is attached, the post forming a profile having an open cross section and comprising a first and a second U-shaped cavity that each comprise two walls. The first cavity is oriented towards the median plane of the vehicle and comprises a rear wall and a front wall, and the second cavity is oriented towards the rear of the vehicle and comprises an inside wall and an outside wall. The front wall of the first cavity is arranged so as to be continuous with the outside wall of the second cavity, and the rear wall of the first cavity is separated from the inside wall of the second cavity so as to free up a free space that allows for access to the inner portion of the profile.
US11104209B2	Laminated glass Provided is a laminated glass (10), including: a core material (11) including a resin sheet (12); and a first glass sheet (13a) and a second glass sheet (13b) each being laminated on respective surfaces of the core material (11) via an adhesive layer (15a) or (15b). Each of thicknesses of the first glass sheet (13a) and the second glass sheet (13b) is smaller than a thickness of the core material (11). The first glass sheet (13a) has a cover sheet (14) made of a resin laminated on an outer surface thereof via an adhesive layer (15c). With this, the laminated glass has a light weight, and its partial breakage due to collision with a flying object can be suppressed. Each of the thicknesses of the first glass sheet (13a) and the second glass sheet (13b) is preferably ⅕ or less of the thickness of the core material (11).
US11104202B2	Vehicle HVAC airflow system A vehicle airflow system includes a centrifugal fan and an air diffuser. The centrifugal fan is configured to direct air radially outward from a rotational axis of the fan. The air diffuser has a plurality of air deflectors that are disposed radially about the fan. The air deflectors have curved surfaces. Each curved surface defines an airflow channel that has an inlet extending radially outward from a periphery of the centrifugal fan and an outlet extending axially away from the diffuser relative to the rotational axis of the fan.
US11104200B2	Method for producing an axle component The disclosure relates to a method for producing an axle component for a motor vehicle, in which at least two metallic axle parts are joined integrally to one another. The axle component is a twist beam axle, in which lateral trailing arms are connected to each other via a transverse profile. In order to establish a target geometry of the axle component, the heat induced by a welding operation is utilized. The welding operation can be a specifically positioned weld, an additional weld or a blind weld. The heat of welding is utilized in order to achieve a compensation deformation and to compensate for distortion states and/or to align the axle component.
US11104199B2	Suspension control system for vehicle A suspension control system includes: a pitch moment computation unit configured to compute a target pitch moment; a distribution ratio computation unit configured to compute a front and rear distribution ratio based on a roll rate and a vehicle speed, to compute a front distribution ratio based on the roll rate and the vehicle speed, and to compute a rear distribution ratio based on the roll rate and the vehicle speed; and a damping force computation unit configured to compute target damping forces of the dampers corresponding to respective front wheels based on the target pitch moment, the front and rear distribution ratio, and the front distribution ratio, and to compute target damping forces of the dampers corresponding to respective rear wheels based on the target pitch moment, the front and rear distribution ratio, and the rear distribution ratio.
US11104193B2	Combination tandem puller A combination tandem puller for releasing a trailer from a tractor in a tractor trailer includes a shaft section having a first end and a second end, a handle attached to the first end of the shaft section, a hook section attached to the second end of the shaft section, and a forked tab attached to and extending from the shaft section.
US11104191B2	Vertically articulating trailer hitch receiver for vehicle A vertically articulating trailer hitch assembly for use with a vehicle, and particularly for use with an autonomous vehicle. The trailer hitch assembly is pivotally attached to the vehicle frame. The hitch assembly is allowed to swing away from the vehicle frame from a lowered position in which the trailer ball is uncoupled from the hitch coupler of the trailer to a raised position in which the trailer ball is coupled to the hitch coupler. The hitch assembly typically includes a receiver that has a long axis. The vehicle frame has a long axis. When the hitch assembly is in its lowered position, the long axis of the receiver is out of alignment with the long axis of the frame. When the hitch assembly is in its raised position, the long axis of the receiver is aligned with the long axis of the frame.
US11104186B2	Pneumatic tire A pneumatic tire comprises a plurality of protrusion portions extending along a tire side surface of a tire side portion in a direction that intersects a tire circumferential direction and a tire radial direction; the plurality of protrusion portions each including an intermediate portion in an extension direction that includes a highest position of projection height from the tire side surface, and tip portions on either side of the intermediate portion in the extension direction that include a lowest position of projection height from the tire side surface, at least the intermediate portion being only disposed inward of a tire maximum width position in the tire radial direction; and a ratio of a total width (SW) to an outer diameter (OD) satisfying the relationship SW/OD≤0.3.
US11104178B2	Card with layers on one side A method of processing sheet stock in the creation of plastic cards, such as gift cards or credit cards that include special effects and/or security measures. A card formed by such methods is also disclosed. The method provides for two or more dissimilar materials to be bonded together while maintaining the integrity of the card and as any graphics, security features, and/or special effects provided thereon. Thermoset and thermobond adhesive layers are placed between a first material layer and a second material layer of the sheet stock. The thermoset and thermobond adhesive layers allow the first and second material layers to move independently and to expand and contract at different rates relative to each other. The adhesive layers enable the sheet stock to be rolled up for shipping or storage and further enable the end product produced therefrom to have a planar profile.
US11104175B1	Sheet processing apparatus, image forming system, and sheet processing method A sheet processing apparatus includes a stapler, a translating actuator, a rotating actuator, and a controller. The stapler is configured to bind a plurality of sheets together. The translating actuator is configured to translate the stapler. The rotating actuator is coupled to the translating actuator and configured to rotate the stapler. The controller is configured to (a) receive an instruction input, (b) determine a target position and a target angle of the stapler based on the instruction input, (c) control the translating actuator to move the stapler to the target position, (d) control the rotating actuator to rotate the stapler to the target angle, and (e) control the stapler to bind the plurality of sheets together while the stapler is at the target position and the target angle.
US11104170B2	Method for verifying the authenticity of printed printing materials by using a dynamic mask A method for verifying the authenticity of printed printing materials includes applying a random pattern to a printing material during a printing procedure in a first step. The printed printing materials are captured by a first electronic reading device during a production run, the captured data are transmitted to a computer and encrypted data are generated in the computer from the captured data of the applied random pattern. In a second step the printed printing material is at least partly scanned by using a second electronic reader and the authenticity of the printed printing material is ascertained from the scanned image data by a comparison with the encrypted data of the random pattern. A dynamically generated mask is used in the computer for selecting the random pattern when generating the encrypted data of the random pattern on the printed printing material.
US11104169B2	Method and system for building painted three-dimensional objects Methods of printing a three-dimensional object, layer by layer are provided. Layers are formed by a bulk inner region which may be formed by depositing a transparent material, a white material, a colored material or a combination thereof, and a color outline which includes voxels formed by depositing a colored building material.
US11104152B2	Liquid discharging apparatus and liquid discharging method A liquid discharging apparatus is provided with a head including a plurality of nozzle groups, a main scanning portion that scans the head in a main scanning direction, a sub-scanning portion that relatively moves the head and the medium in a sub-scanning direction, which intersects the main scanning direction, and a control portion, in which the control portion acquires a possible printing Duty of a predetermined nozzle group on the basis of a number of occurrences of non-discharging nozzles in the predetermined nozzle group, compares a set printing Duty that the predetermined nozzle group is to print among an overall printing Duty, and the possible printing Duty. and supplements a printing Duty with another nozzle group in a case in which the possible printing Duty is smaller than the set printing Duty.
US11104150B2	Valve housing rotation prevention In some examples, an apparatus can include a pawl including an anti-rotation surface and a spring, and a valve housing including a wedge, where the spring biases the pawl to a first position in response to the valve housing being at a closed position such that the wedge of the valve housing contacts the anti-rotation surface of the pawl to prevent rotation of the valve housing at the first position of the pawl.
US11104147B2	Flow channel pressure measurement A differential pressure sensor is used for measuring or identifying a pressure difference, for example to determine a movement or speed of fluid in a fluid conduit or printer re-circulation conduit. The differential pressure sensor determines the difference between an air pressure and a fluid pressure, wherein the fluid is moving in a flow channel. The flow channel includes a surface conveying a fluid between a first port and second port. An opening in the surface of the flow channel provides a fluid communication between the differential pressure sensor and fluid. Moreover, the sensor is arranged in air communication with the pressure box, such as to allow the differential pressure sensor to identify the pressure difference between the air pressure in the pressure box and the fluid pressure in the flow channel.
US11104143B2	Image-recording device issuing notification concerning quantity of liquid in tank In an image-recording device, a cartridge has a first chamber and a outlet. A mount body includes a tank, first and second sensors. The tank has an inlet, and a second chamber. The liquid in the first chamber flows into the second chamber via the outlet and the inlet. The first sensor outputs a first signal when a level of the liquid in the second chamber is higher than a first position, and outputs a second signal when the level is lower than the first position. The second sensor outputs a third signal when the level is higher than a second position higher than the first position, and outputs the fourth signal when the level is lower than the second position. A controller controls a notification device to issue a notification if a condition based on the first and second signals is satisfied.
US11104137B2	Liquid discharging apparatus Provided is a liquid discharging apparatus including a liquid discharging unit configured to discharge a liquid, and a dummy discharge receptacle including an absorbing member configured to absorb a liquid dummy-discharged by the liquid discharging unit, wherein the liquid discharging unit discharges a liquid having a resin content of 5% by mass or greater, and wherein the absorbing member of the dummy discharge receptacle is formed of melamine foam.
US11104133B2	Liquid discharging head A liquid discharging head, having a first pressure chamber group, a second pressure chamber group, and a common flow path, is provided. The first pressure chamber group and the second pressure chamber group each have a plurality of pressure chambers arrayed in a first direction. The second pressure chamber group aligns with the first pressure chamber group along a second direction intersecting with the first direction. The common flow path extends in the first direction. The common flow path communicates with each of the pressure chambers belonging to the first pressure chamber group and the second pressure chamber group. The common flow path has a supplying opening at one end thereof and a returning opening at the other end thereof in the first direction. The common flow path is located between the first pressure chamber group and the second pressure chamber group in the second direction.
US11104127B2	Material displacement A method comprises: providing a first stream of discrete volumes (908b) of material, and directing a pulsed laser beam (912) at a first discrete volume (908b) of material in the first stream of discrete volumes of material so as to interact with the first discrete volume of material and thereby displace the first discrete volume away from the first stream. An apparatus and a system for achieving such steps are also disclosed.
US11104116B2	Method for dismantling solar cell module for recycling According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method for dismantling a solar cell module for recycling comprises the steps of: providing a silicon solar cell module in which a silicon solar cell element and one side of glass are bonded together by a sealing agent and a transparent conductive material layer is coated between the side of the glass and the sealing agent; applying a high voltage between the transparent conductive material layer and the other side of the glass; and separating the glass and sealing agent by exposing the silicon solar cell module having the transparent conductive material layer discolored by application of the high voltage to a moisture environment.
US11104109B2	Reversible recording medium and exterior member A reversible recording medium according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a first layer that reversibly changes between an achromatic state and a transparent state, and a second layer that reversibly changes between a chromatic state and a transparent state.
US11104104B2	Container for emanating volatile substances The invention relates to a container for emanating volatile substances, The container comprises a container body which has at least one opening and is closed by a lid film. The lid film comprises an outer multi-layer film having at least one barrier layer impermeable to the volatile substances, a coextruded inner multi-layer film having at least one layer permeable to the volatile substances. The coextruded inner multi-layer film is bonded on one side to the outer multi-layer film and on another side to the container. The coextruded inner multi-layer film consists of at least a polyethylene layer, a release layer comprising a polymer selected from the group consisting of EVOH and PETg, a peelable interface interposed between the release layer and a layer permeable to the volatile substances, whereby said permeable layer comprises a polymer selected from the group consisting of mVLDLLDPE, ethylene vinyl acetate copolymer, and ethylene n-butyl acrylate copolymer.
US11104101B2	Systems and methods for sealing an airbag inflator base Systems and methods are disclosed in which a seal is formed between an interior of an airbag inflator base and an exterior environment. A polymeric member of a membrane seal can form a solid state bond with an overmold of an electrical connector of an initiator of an airbag inflator. Furthermore, an adhesive film of the membrane seal can bond to the airbag inflator base at a position disposed at least partially around a recess through which the overmold couples an initiator to the airbag inflator base.
US11104090B2	Control system for tire injection filling mixing machine A method of controlling operation of a tire filling mixing machine, by: (a) mixing a rubber/polyurethane and a catalyst in a first mixer to form a virgin polyurethane; (b) grinding cured polyurethane core bits in a grinder; (c) mixing the virgin material and the ground material in a second mixer thereby forming a mixed flatproofing material; (d) injecting the mixed flatproofing material into a tire; (e) measuring the ratio of ground material to virgin material in the mixed flatproofing material; (f) comparing the measured ratio of ground material to virgin material to a pre-stored preferred ratio of ground material to virgin material; and (g) increasing or decreasing the relative percentages of virgin material and ground material entering the second mixer by an amount that is a fraction of the difference between the measured ratio and the pre-stored preferred ratio.
US11104088B2	Method for checking a continuous elongated element during the building of a tyre for vehicle wheels A method for checking a continuous elongated element during the building of a tyre for vehicle wheels. A beam of an electromagnetic radiation is projected on a section of the continuous elongated element dispensed by a dispensing head and interposed between the dispensing head and a first contact area of the continuous elongated element with a radially outer surface of a tyre being processed. An image of a radiation reflected by the section is acquired. A first parameter related to the image is detected, and the first parameter is compared with a second reference parameter.
US11104084B2	Method and system for reworking a composite laminate A method for reworking a composite laminate comprising a plurality of tapes, comprising the following steps: detecting the occurrence of a defect on a tape of composite material while the tape is being laid up; continuing the lay-up of the defective tape until a tape length is formed which surpasses a manufacturing length of the tape; catching the part of the defective tape that surpasses the manufacturing length of the tap; cutting the defective tape in the part of the defective tape that surpasses the manufacturing length of the tape; removing from the laminate the caught defective tape by the catching system, and laying-up a replacement tape in the place of the removed defective tape.
US11104083B2	Method and device for joining a lens with a housing of a lighting device for a motor vehicle A method for joining a lens with a housing of a lighting device for a motor vehicle, having the steps: positioning the housing in a receiving device of a welding device, said housing having on its underside at least one fastener for attaching the lighting device in the motor vehicle, identifying the position of the at least one fastener relative to the receiving device, calculating a correction value on the basis of the identified position of the at least one fastener, and moving the lens held in a holding device of the welding device in the direction of the housing along a travel distance and welding the lens to the housing.
US11104073B2	Build material container There is provided a 3D printing build material container (31) comprising a reinforcement structure (34), a collapsible reservoir (33) to hold build material, a build material outlet structure (313), at least one first inlet structure (314, 316), and a second inlet structure (315). The reinforcement structure encloses an airtight space and the reservoir is disposed within the reinforcement structure. The build material outlet (313) structure is to allow build material to exit the reservoir. The at least one first inlet structure (314, 316) is to allow recycled build material to enter the reservoir and to selectively allow a gas to enter the reservoir. The second inlet structure (315) is to selectively allow a gas to enter a space between the reservoir and the reinforcement structure.
US11104059B2	Reinforced fused-deposition modeling An apparatus for manufacturing an object includes an extrusion head having an extrusion needle for extruding thermoplastic material associated with one or more fiber strands. The apparatus may further include a turn-table, a more robotic arm for moving the extrusion head and needle, thermoplastic filament and fiber strand spools and thermoplastic filament and fiber strands. A controller is provided for directing the robotic arm, extrusion head and the turn-table. Further, a method for manufacturing an object includes generating a design for the object that substantially satisfies desired structural properties of the object and generating a sequence for extruding one or more beads of thermoplastic material to manufacture the object according to the design, in which the one or more beads of thermoplastic material are associated with one or more fiber strands. The one or more beads of thermoplastic material and the associated one or more fiber strands are then extruded according to the sequence.
US11104057B2	Imprint apparatus and method of imprinting a partial field In an embodiment, an imprint apparatus can include a substrate holder having a chucking region and a recessed support section; and a template holder, wherein the chucking region has more area as compared to a template region. In another embodiment, an imprint apparatus can include gas zones; and a gas controller that can be configured to adjust pressures within the gas zones to induce a convex curvature of a partial field of a workpiece used with the imprint apparatus. A method can include providing a workpiece within an imprint apparatus, wherein the workpiece includes a substrate and a formable material; and initially contacting a template with the formable material at a location spaced apart from the periphery of a partial field. In a particular embodiment, the method can further include modulating the substrate to form a convex shape contacting the template with the formable material.
US11104052B2	Increased rubber-to-nylon adhesion by ozone treatment An arrangement includes an extruder crosshead, and an innermost rubber tube having an input portion a resident portion residing in the extruder crosshead, and an output portion. The arrangement further includes an ozone stream evolved from an ozone source, where the ozone stream is introduced into an ozone cavity of the extruder crosshead, and a continuous molten barrier forming material which is movable through a flow cavity in the extruder crosshead. A portion of the continuous molten barrier forming material which is emitted from the extruder crosshead is exposed to the ozone stream on an inner side of the portion to provide a heterogeneous surfaced barrier layer. The arrangement also includes a barrier coated rubber tube including the heterogeneous surfaced barrier layer and the output portion of the innermost rubber tube, where the heterogeneous surfaced barrier layer is disposed outward from the output portion of the innermost rubber tube.
US11104047B2	Transfer film, method for producing a transfer film, use of a transfer film, and method for coating a component A transfer film includes a carrier film and a transfer ply, wherein the transfer film is provided for transferring the transfer ply to a component. A deep-drawing membrane is arranged between the carrier film and the transfer ply. A method for producing a transfer film as well as the use of a transfer film and a method for coating a component with a transfer film.
US11104045B1	Device for preparing thermally conductive sheet with graphene fibers in an oriented arrangement A device for preparing a thermally conductive sheet with graphene fibers in an oriented arrangement includes a first mold and a second mold. The first mold is configured to press a first cuboid block, and the second mold is configured to repeatedly press the first cuboid block. The first mold is provided with a first mold groove. A first mold cover covers an opening end of the first mold groove, and the first mold cover and the first mold are configured to press the first cuboid block. A second mold groove is arranged on one side of the second mold, and a second mold cover is arranged at an opening end of the second mold groove. A movable thickness limiting block is arranged at a side of the second mold cover adjacent to the second mold groove, and is configured to be clamped in the second mold groove.
US11104043B2	Thermal extrusion method to fabricate large-dimension superhydrophobic cylinder pillar arrays with droplet pancake bouncing phenomenon A thermal extrusion method to fabricate large-dimension superhydrophobic cylinder pillar arrays with droplet pancake bouncing phenomenon. Preparing thermal extrusion mold: the through-hole arrays with 0.8˜1.25 mm diameter, 0.25 mm interval space and 0.6˜1.0 mm height are first obtained on metals, and are then polished, rinsed and dried. Thermal extrusion: polymer materials are first thermally extruded on the obtained mold and cooled to room temperature. Demold: excess polymer materials flowing from the through hole are cut off and then the polymer cylinder pillar arrays are lifted off from the mold. Superhydrophobic treatment: the whole polymer sample is treated using mixed liquid spray consisting of titanium oxide nanoparticles dispersed in fluoroalkylsilane ethanol solution, and the superhydrophobic cylinder pillar arrays are obtained. The method is easy to operate, low-cost, recyclable, effective for different polymer materials, and can obtain cylinder pillar arrays with large dimensions, which can realize efficient large-area and industrial fabrication of the droplet pancake bouncing surfaces.
US11104028B2	Fences for table saws Fences for use in table saws are disclosed. One embodiment may include an actuator, handle or lever to lock and unlock the fence from the table, where the actuator, handle or lever is positioned substantially above the tabletop and substantially within the perimeter of the table (including any rail associated with the table). Another embodiment may include an actuator, handle or lever to lock and unlock the fence from the table, where the actuator, handle or lever is positioned along a top surface of the fence and configured so that the fence unclamps from the saw when the actuator, handle or lever is pressed. The fence may be configured to include a material support shelf that is selectably extendable and retractable.
US11104020B2	Razor handle and method of manufacture A razor handle and method of manufacture, the razor handle having a connection member for connecting a razor blade cartridge to the handle, a core member, a cap member attached to the core member and an overmolded member surrounding the core member and bounded by the cap member, where the overmolded member and cap member form portions of the exterior surface of the handle.
US11104018B2	Safety razor with comb and blade A safety razor removes hair from skin using the cutting blade comprising a sharp edge along an elongated side of a planar surface. An outer comb has a row of outer teeth running along the planar surface on an outside of the cutting blade, each outer tooth is substantially perpendicular to the sharp edge and spaced with a gap between the row of the outer teeth and the planar surface of the cutting blade. Ends of the row of outer teeth comprise outer teeth tips. An inner guard runs along the planar surface on an inside of the cutting blade. The sharp edge of cutting blade is recessed up to a skin surface contour, the skin surface contour defined by the outer teeth tips and an edge of the inner guard. The sharp edge of cutting blade longitudinally bends to cause further recess relative to the skin surface contour.
US11104017B2	Hair cutter blade gap adjustment system A hair cutting system includes a handle defining a longitudinal axis, a strut mounted to the handle and a hair cutting blade assembly coupled to the strut. The cutting blade assembly includes a stationary blade defining cutting teeth having blade edges and a movable blade defining cutting teeth having blade edges and capable of reciprocal movement relative to the stationary blade in a horizontal direction. The movable blade and the stationary blade are movable relative to each other in a longitudinal direction to adjust a longitudinal position of the movable blade relative to the stationary blade to selectively vary a distance between the blade edges of the stationary blade and the blade edges of the movable blade. A releasable lock is configured to selectively lock and release the stationary blade and the movable blade with respect to each other in the longitudinal direction.
US11104013B2	Cutting device The apparatus has a blade retaining member that is elongated in a longitudinal direction, a recess disposed in the blade retaining member, the recess having a first portion extending in the longitudinal direction and a second portion extending in a radial direction, a protruding portion that extends from the blade retaining member in the longitudinal direction, and a protrusion disposed on the protruding portion. The recess is a first attachment portion configured to removably attach the removably-attachable blade cartridge to a first cutting device. The protrusion is a second attachment portion configured to removably attach the removably-attachable blade cartridge to a second cutting device.
US11104010B2	Workpiece gripping hand, hand system, and robot system A workpiece gripping hand includes a first movable member and a second movable member which cooperate with each other to grip an object, a first drive unit which linearly moves the first movable member, a support unit which rotatably supports the second movable member, a link member which is linked to the first movable member and the second movable member, and which rotates the second movable member by transmitting a linear motion of the first movable member to the second movable member, and a second drive unit which moves the support unit to change a position of a center of rotation of the second movable member.
US11104002B2	Robot apparatus A plurality of robot arms are each provided with indication devices that have indicators which indicate operability states of at least one other robot arm different from the robot arm on which the indication device is provided. Alternatively or in addition, the indication devices have indicators which indicate operability states of a respective robot arm upon which the indication devices are provided. Robot control devices which control operations of the robot arms communicate through a local area network (LAN) to share information regarding the states of the robot arms. Indication drive signals for the indication devices are generated based on states of servo control signals and/or brake control signals for the robot arms.
US11103991B2	Assisted lifting devices An assisted lifting device includes an adjustable sleeve configured to be worn on an arm of a subject and an array of inflatable actuators connected to the adjustable sleeve. Each of the actuators defines an axis. The axes of the two outermost actuators in the array are each configured to be oriented perpendicular to the arm of the subject. The assisted lifting device also includes a retainer coupled to the sleeve and one of the outermost actuators to maintain the perpendicular orientation of the outermost actuator upon inflation of the plurality of actuators.
US11103989B2	Interchangeable and interconnectable tool organizing device A custom tool accessory to hold a tool, the custom tool accessory including a body, at least one tongue disposed at a first side of the body, at least one tongue receiving groove disposed at a second side of the body opposite from the first side of the body, and a tool holding portion disposed on the body to hold the tool. At least one magnet is attached to the underside of a metallic base plate that is in turn secured to the underside of the body. A retainer surrounds the at least one magnet and also underlies the area of the bottom of the base plate that is not covered by the at least one magnet.
US11103986B2	Pneumatic nail gun with safety control chamber A pneumatic nail gun comprises a working piston connected to a driving ram that is configured to drive in a fastening means and is pressurized by air when a driving process is initiated. A hand-operated trigger and a contact sensor. Simultaneous actuation of the hand-operated trigger and contact sensor activates a first control valve and initiates the driving process if the pressure in a safety control chamber is above a given pressure threshold. A second control valve is configured to be activated upon actuation of the trigger. The safety control chamber is continuously de-aerated via a throttle and is separated from a pressurized casing interior when the second control valve is activated.
US11103980B2	Assembly tool smart configuration selector by means of orientation detection The present invention provides methods and systems an impact wrench having dynamically tuned drive components, such as an anvil/socket combination, and related methodology for dynamically tuning the drive components in view of inertia displacement, as well as stiffness between coupled components, and with regard to impact timing associated with clearance gaps between the component parts.
US11103974B2	Methods of measuring and grinding an ice blade, and apparatuses using same An automated apparatus for grinding an ice blade on an ice skate comprises a processor, an input device in communication with said processor, a skate holder, a non-contact measuring device in communication with said processor, and a grinding device in communication with said processor. The input device permits a user to select an ice blade grinding option. The skate holder releasably holds at least one said ice skate to said apparatus. The non-contact measuring device is configured to measure a three-dimensional (3D) shape of said ice blade. The grinding device is configured to perform a grinding action on said ice blade in said holder based on said selected ice blade grinding option to change said 3D shape of said ice blade to a desired 3D shape.
US11103973B2	Clamping device A clamping device for axially clamping a disk-shaped tool on a flange of a spindle of a machine tool, includes a clamping disk which rests against the tool in a friction-fitting manner in the clamped state, a screw which is screwed into a threaded receiving opening in an end face of the spindle, an operating element which is connected to the screw in a rotationally fixed manner, and a first securing element which interacts with a corresponding second securing element provided on a flange such that when the screw is at least partly introduced into the receiving opening, the clamping disk is rotationally secured to the flange in a form-fitting manner, where the clamping disk can be rotated relative to the screw and the operating element. The first securing element can be rotated relative to the screw and is mounted in a rotationally fixed manner relative to the clamping disk.
US11103968B2	Rotary table apparatus A rotary table apparatus includes: a table part having a placement surface; a support part having a guide surface facing an opposing surface which is on an opposite side of the placement surface of the table part; an air film forming part that forms an air film by supplying compressed air between the guide surface and the opposing surface; a negative pressure generating part that sucks air between the guide surface and the opposing surface; a discharge part formed with a discharge port; and an opening adjusting part that adjust the size of an opening area of the discharge port in accordance with the size of a compressed air pressure corresponding to a load applied to the table part.
US11103966B2	Method for tightening screw connections For tightening screw connections disposed along two annular flanges to be tensioned relative to one another and forming a ring, a tool carrier movable along the ring has a tool and a sensor. It is moved along the ring at least once, wherein current longitudinal positions of the tool carrier relative to the ring are repeatedly detected as position values and the gap size between the annular flanges at the respective current position is repeatedly detected as a gap size value by the sensor. These values are transmitted to a control and evaluation unit storing gap size values conjointly with assigned position values as datasets and determining, based on the datasets, the largest or an above-average gap size value together with assigned position value as a primary position. The screw connection at the primary position or a directly adjacent one in circumferential direction is tightened by the tool.
US11103965B2	Method for producing a curved tubular connection element A method for producing a curved tubular connection element has at least the following production steps: machining a linearly extending metal tube piece (10) with a specifiable length while incorporating connection geometries (12, 14) for receiving separate connection parts (18, 20) to connect a media-conducting piping; carrying out a bending process for the tube piece (10) produced by being machined with a specifiable bending radius, preferably up to 90 degrees; and attaching each connection part (18, 20) to the respective connection geometry (12, 14) that can be paired with it.
US11103954B2	Laser processing device with tubular filter The present invention is a laser processing device wherein adhesion of fumes to a lens can be effectively avoided. The laser processing device is provided with a laser scanner provided with protective glass on a laser output opening, and a cylindrical member having a through path through which the laser output via the protective glass passes formed on the center side in the direction of the radius. A cylindrically shaped filter is disposed on an inside wall part of the cylindrical member facing the through path. The cylindrical member discharges a gas into the through path from the filter.
US11103943B2	Blade extension and extended reach reciprocating saw with blade extension A blade extension for a reciprocating saw comprises a movable member and a stationary member. The movable member has a proximal end, a distal end and a body extending between the proximal end and the distal end. The proximal end comprises a blade end shaped to be received in a blade holder of the reciprocating saw. The distal end is configured to be coupled to a reciprocating saw blade. The stationary member extends along at least a portion of the movable member and supports the movable member for movement relative to the stationary member. The stationary member has a proximal end configured to be coupled to the reciprocating saw and an opposite distal end. The distal end of the movable member is arranged to protrude distally beyond the distal end of the stationary member.
US11103942B2	Dustless one-stroke cut-through saw A saw system capable of cutting through a workpiece in one stroke is provided. The saw system includes a base, a turntable mounted on the base for rotation about a vertical axis, a support structure defining a cutting axis and fixedly attached to the turntable, and an elongated blade including a cutting edge. The turntable has a substantially planar support surface for supporting a workpiece. The support structure includes a pair of parallel sliding members, wherein the sliding members are disposed in a direction substantially parallel to the cutting axis. The elongated blade is spaced apart from the sliding members and is movable along the sliding members. The cutting edge includes a proximal end and a distal end, wherein an angle between an imaginary line connecting the distal end of the cutting edge to the proximal end thereof and its projection onto the turntable is an acute angle.
US11103939B2	Rotatable bit cartridge A rotatable bit cartridge that can be inserted and removed from permanently mounted cutter bodies, bit holders, and/or picks and are used until replacement of the cutter body, bit holder, and/or pick is required. The rotatable bit cartridge may include a forward end with a brazed diamond coated, layered, and/or diamond table bit tip insert or a brazed tungsten carbide bit tip insert. The rotatable bit includes a body that includes a generally cylindrical and/or a tapered first bore extending axially inwardly from a forward end of the body and a bit tip insert comprising a tip and a base subjacent the tip, a portion of the base adjacent a distal end of the bit tip insert disposed within the first bore of the body.
US11103938B2	Indexable cutting insert for a milling tool An indexable and double-sided round cutting insert includes an upper and lower side. A center axis extends between the upper and lower side and a median plane extends perpendicular to the center axis and is situated halfway between the upper and lower side. A side surface has an upper and lower positive clearance surface at an upper positive clearance angle with respect to an upper cutting edge and a lower positive clearance angle with respect to a lower cutting edge. A plurality of protrusions extends along the side surface and protrude in a radial direction perpendicular to the center axis. Each protrusion includes an outer surface, which along the center axis, extends such that a first radial distance from the center axis to the outer surface in the median plane is at least equal to or greater than a second radial distance from the center axis to the outer surface.
US11103927B2	Heat sink support structures in additive manufacturing Additive manufacturing methods and corresponding systems and computer-readable mediums. A method includes receiving, by a data processing system, a three-dimensional (3D) model of a product to be manufactured by additive manufacturing. The method includes generating, by the data processing system, a time-based heat map of temperatures of the product during manufacture. The method includes identifying, by the data processing system, hot spots in the heat map where the temperature exceeds a first predetermined threshold. The method includes adding, by the data processing system, heatsink support structures to the 3D model at locations corresponding to the hot spots to produce a modified 3D model. The method includes storing, by the data processing system, the modified 3D model.
US11103923B2	Compositions of nanoparticles with radial gradients and methods of use thereof A nanoparticle with tunable radial gradients of compositions extending from the center of the nanoparticles. The nature of the gradient preserves the metallic state of the nanoparticles, the diffusion of the constituents, and the oxidation of the interface. The gradients can be purposely varied to allow for specific applications in fields ranging from corrosion, magnetics, information technology, imaging, electromagnetic absorption, coating technologies, and immuno-precipitation. The nanoparticles can be easily used to advance many areas of industry, technology, and life sciences.
US11103916B2	Swaging device and press A swaging device includes a top die and a bottom die that can move in a vertical direction between an open position and a closed position. Each die includes an inclined surface, and the device further includes swaging elements each having a complementary inclined surface that is in contact with the inclined surface of each die, both in the open position and in the closed position. The swaging elements are arranged opposite one another such that in at least any position other than the open position, they are in contact by certain non-inclined surfaces opposite the complementary inclined surfaces.
US11103914B2	Can manufacturing method, can manufacturing device, can, and can manufacturing tool set A can 1 is provided with a mouth part (4), a shoulder part (3), and a body part (2). The shoulder part (3) of the can (1) is decorated, without damaging the shoulder part (3), by forming at least one of a recess and a protrusion by a rotating process in which the shoulder part (3) is held between a receiver (11a), having a concave-convex shape, of an inner roll (11) and an outer roll (12) having a convex-concave shape corresponding to the concave-convex shape of the receiver (11a) of the inner roll (11).
US11103913B2	Methods and systems for jacket joints A system comprising a protective jacket for insulating pipe is provided. The protective jacket comprises a first metal shell comprising an interior surface and an exterior surface, wherein the interior surface comprises a moisture protective coating, and the exterior surface comprises a film adhered to the exterior surface by an adhesive, and wherein the adhesive provides for a toolless removal of the film.
US11103909B2	Method and machine system for controlling an industrial operation A method for selecting optimum operation performance criteria for a metal working process. The method includes the step of developing a process model relating process parameters for the operation with performance variables for said operation, wherein the process parameters and performance variables are retrievable via integrated multiple data sources, and selecting at least one optimization technique to define a function, said function including process parameters. Moreover, the method includes generating the function for optimization by using acceptable tolerances of a product to be machined as a basis to define ranges for performance variables along with ranges for process parameters, and applying the at least one optimization technique to said function, whereby optimum operation performance criteria are calculated for the process model including process parameters and performance variables to obtain a set of requirements to be used for controlling the metal working process.
US11103908B2	Coiled material passing device and coiled material passing method A coiled material passing device is usable to pass a coiled material played out by an uncoiler to a leveler feeder configured to correct any winding curl of the coiled material. The coiled material passing device includes a clamper configured to clamp a starting end of the coiled material played out from the uncoiler, a moving body configured to support the clamper, the moving body being movable between the uncoiler and the leveler feeder, and a first driver configured to move the moving body.
US11103907B2	Device and method for descaling a workpiece in motion Device and method for descaling a workpiece that is in motion in relation to the device in a movement direction. The device includes a rotor head rotatable about a rotational axis and inclined diagonally at an angle (Y) with respect to an orthogonal on a surface of the workpiece. The device includes jet nozzles attached to the rotor head which dispense a pressurized liquid onto the workpiece at an angle of attack (α) inclined to the workpiece surface. The nozzles are fixedly attached on the rotor head such that during rotation of the rotor head about its axis of rotation, the spraying direction of the liquid dispensed from the nozzles with respect to a projection in a plane parallel to the surface of the workpiece, is aligned opposing to and at a spraying angle (β) of approximately between 170 and 190 degrees to the movement direction of the workpiece.
US11103904B2	Well head cover and assembly A well head cover and assembly is disclosed. The well head cover includes a top discharge section; a bottom engagement section; and a middle section interconnecting the top and bottom sections. The top section includes a sleeve of a predetermined length to prevent the well head cover from tilting when installed on a conduit.
US11103903B2	Ball circulation pump skid and related method In a hydraulic circuit including a ball circulation pump skid, a single pump, and a set of valves in a manifold of the ball circulation pump skid, the pump and valves are operated to move all fluid in the hydraulic circuit alternately along two paths through an operative device and a ball collection capsule in the manifold, so that none of the balls ever enter the pump. The first path enables (a) ball-containing fluid flow from the operative device to the ball collection capsule and (b) ball-free fluid flow from the ball collection capsule to the exactly one pump and back to the manifold. The second path provides for (c) ball-free fluid flow from the pump to the ball collection capsule and (d) ball-entraining flow from the ball collection capsule to the operative device.
US11103899B2	Method for cleaning drink filling system An apparatus for filling a drink including a drink supply pipe line for supplying a drink to a filling machine, the drink supply pipe line including at least two supply pipe lines of a first supply pipe line for supplying a non-sterilized carbonated drink, a second supply pipe line for supplying a high acidic carbonated drink or a low acidic carbonated drink and a third supply pipe line for supplying a high acid beverage or a low acid beverage, and an aseptic chamber surrounding at least the apparatus for filling the drink.
US11103897B2	Efficient flexible sorting device for material flow An efficient flexible sorting device for material flow is provided. The gear A is driven by the rotating motor, and the gear A meshes with the gear B, so that the rotating body can be rotated relative to the main frame according to the sorting direction actually required. The belt motor rotates the driving shaft through the small synchronous pulley, the synchronous belt, and the large synchronous pulley. The driving shaft drives the belt to move along the tensioning roller, the driving shaft, and the guiding pulley. The relative position of the tensioning roller and the rotating body is adjusted through the bolt F, the fixing plate and the nut F to ensure that the belt is tensioned, thereby realizing the sorting process.
US11103896B2	Parcel sorting system and method A parcel sorter system and method. A process performed by a parcel sorter system includes receiving sorting information of a first parcel. The process includes identifying a first destination pallet corresponding to the sorting information. The first destination pallet is associated with a first carousel and a first destination chute. The process includes transporting the first parcel toward the first destination chute. The process includes, while transporting the parcel toward the first destination chute, operating the first carousel to move the first destination pallet proximate to the first destination chute. The process includes delivering the first parcel at the first destination chute for placement on the first destination pallet.
US11103894B2	Screening bucket A screening bucket comprises a main structure which includes a collecting portion for the material to be screened and a receiving member in which there is collected the material which is subjected to sieving and which has a discharge opening for the screened material. A plurality of rotating elements are arranged in the region of the discharge opening and are supported in a removable manner on pairs of opposing bearing groups. The bearing groups comprise a bearing and a rotatable support, to which there is connected an end of the rotating element by means of a male/female connection, wherein the rotatable support further comprises a locking portion which is capable of being retained by means of a corresponding retention device so as to prevent the rotation of the rotatable support when the rotating element is removed.
US11103889B2	Filter jet-director unit and high-pressure nozzle unit A filter jet-director unit for a high-pressure nozzle for descaling metal products, having a housing, wherein the housing has an entry filter, a connector end for connecting to a nozzle, a flow duct between the entry filter and the connector end, and a jet director having flow-guiding faces in the flow duct. The flow-guiding faces of the jet director at least in portions are disposed in the region of the entry filter.
US11103887B2	Multipurpose machine for surface treatment and related method An apparatus for treating a surface has a vehicle including an extensible boom. A multi-purpose hood is attached to the boom. The hood includes at least one nozzle for spraying a fluid through an outlet of the hood, the nozzle adapted for reciprocating, non-rotational movement in a generally linear direction relative to the opening in the hood. The multi-purpose hood may be adapted for rotating independently about three different axes, and may include a first actuator for controlling a roll of the hood, a second actuator for controlling a yaw of the hood, a third actuator for controlling a pitch of the hood, and a fourth actuator for controlling an extension of the boom and a second actuator for controlling a swing of the boom. The extensible boom may be connected to a telescoping conduit for communicating fluid along the boom to or from the multi-purpose hood. Related methods are also disclosed.
US11103885B2	Sealant discharging apparatus A sealant discharging apparatus includes a sealing gun, a movement controller, a discharge controller, a measuring instrument, and an air bubble detector. The sealing gun is configured to discharge sealant to an object. The movement controller is configured to cause the sealing gun and the object to move relatively. The discharge controller is configured to control a discharge amount of the sealant discharged from the sealing gun. The measuring instrument is configured to measure a distance to a sealant pool that has been discharged from the sealing gun and yet to be used to seal the object. The air bubble detector is configured detect mixture of an air bubble in the sealant discharged from the sealing gun, on a basis of a result of measurement by the measuring instrument.
US11103879B2	Apparatus for washing and grading sand and aggregate An apparatus for washing and grading sand and aggregate includes an aggregate grading and washing screen with a plurality of vertically stacked decks for producing a plurality of aggregate products therefrom, and at least one sump for collecting undersize material comprising sand and water from the plurality of decks. A plurality of sand washing and grading units each include a first hydrocyclone, a vibratory screen having a deck, and a sump beneath the deck for receiving undersize material and water passing through the deck. The deck of the vibratory screen receives an underflow from the first hydrocyclone. A further hydrocyclone receives undersize material and water from the vibratory screen's sump. Underflow from the further hydrocyclone is delivered onto the deck of the vibratory screen. The first hydrocyclone of each sand washing and grading unit receives undersize material and water from the sump of the aggregate washing and grading screen.
US11103873B2	Jaw plate retainer A jaw plate retainer assembly is arranged to releasably secure a jaw plate at a jaw of a jaw crusher. The retainer assembly is configured specifically for positioning at a rearward region of the jaw plate, such that no part of the retainer assembly is exposed to the crushing chamber and to protect it when mounted in use by the jaw plate.
US11103868B2	Microfluidic chip, biological detection device and method The present disclosure provides a microfluidic chip, a biological detection device and a method. The microfluidic chip includes: a first substrate and a second substrate that are oppositely disposed; a first electrode and a second electrode that are oppositely disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, the first electrode including a plurality of spaced first electrode units, and the second electrode including a plurality of spaced second electrode units, wherein the first electrode units are disposed oppositely to the second electrode units in one-to-one correspondence; a first dielectric layer and a second dielectric layer between the first electrode and the second electrode; a first hydrophobic layer and a second hydrophobic layer between the first dielectric layer and the second dielectric layer, wherein a gap is between the first hydrophobic layer and the second hydrophobic layer.
US11103864B2	Multilayered ion exchange membranes An ion exchange membrane has multiple layers of ionic polymers which each contain substantially different chemical compositions. i.e. varying side chain lengths, varying backbone chemistries or varying ionic functionality. Utilizing completely different chemistries has utility in many applications such as fuel cells where for example, one layer can help reduce fuel crossover through the membrane. Or one layer can impart substantial hydrophobicity to the electrode formulation. Or one layer can selectively diffuse a reactant while excluding others. Also, one chemistry may allow for impartation of significant mechanical properties or chemical resistance to another more ionically conductive ionomer. The ion exchange membrane may include at least two layers with substantially different chemical properties.
US11103849B2	Upgrading of a raw blend into a diesel fuel substitute: poly(dimethoxymethane) A method for forming poly(dimethoxymethane) includes a step of separating a formaldehyde-containing blend into a first bottom stream and a first top stream. The first formaldehyde-containing blend includes methanol, formaldehyde, and water while the first bottom stream includes water. The first top stream includes dimethoxymethane that is produced from the reaction between methanol and formaldehyde. The first top stream is separated into a second bottom stream and a second top stream. The second bottom stream includes poly(dimethoxymethane) while the second top stream includes dimethoxymethane, methanol, and ethanol. The second top stream is separated into a third bottom stream and a third top stream. Third bottom stream includes methanol and ethanol while the third top stream includes dimethoxymethane. The third top steam can be recycled to form additional poly(dimethoxymethane). A system that implements the method is also provided.
US11103835B2	Separation film and production method therefor The purpose of the present invention is to provide: a separation film that consists primarily of a cellulose ester and has a high membrane strength and a high elongation degree; and a production method therefor. Provided is a separation film which has a structure comprising a cellulose ester phase and pores, wherein the average pore diameter R is 0.001-6 μm, the value obtained from the expression: breaking strength (MPa)÷(100−porosity (%))×100 is 40 or greater, and the elongation degree is 10% or greater.
US11103833B2	Hydrophobic polyethylene membrane for use in venting, degassing, and membrane distillation processes Described is a polyethylene membrane and in particular an ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene member that provides a high air permeability and is hydrophobic. The membranes have small pores and are suitable for sterilization by exposure to gamma radiation. The membranes can be made by methods that involve one or more of stretching the membrane and grafting hydrophobic monomers onto the membrane surface. A perfluorinated monomer, such as perfluoro-n-octyl acrylate, can be grafted to one or more surfaces of the membrane. The membrane have a high flow rate compared to unstretched or ungrafted membranes.
US11103830B2	Method for purifying a liquid Raw liquid is fed along a raw liquid and drain liquid mixing line to a liquid purification device. Drain liquid is fed along a recirculation line to be mixed with raw liquid. After a set period of time, the liquid purification process is interrupted to flush the liquid purification device by a liquid to remove contaminants built up on the inside surface of the liquid purification device. Downstream of the liquid purification device, the liquid is discharged at high speed into a drain. Prior to flushing, the purification process is interrupted at least once for a time sufficient to enable disruption of a polarized layer of contaminants. A mixture of raw liquid and drain liquid is used as the liquid medium for flushing such that less raw liquid is used for flushing and the service life of the water purification device increases.
US11103815B2	Apparatus for filtering a liquid and method for detecting a state of at least a filter element An apparatus for filtering a liquid includes a filter housing, at least one filter element arranged in the filter housing, and at least one sensor unit. The at least one sensor unit includes at least one sensor and a radio module. The at least one sensor is configured to detect an operating parameter representative of a state of at least the at least one filter element or the apparatus.
US11103808B2	Process for recovering isoprenoids produced by microorganisms The present invention is a process for recovering an isoprenoid compound produced by fermentation from a fermentation medium comprising: (a) demulsifying the fermentation medium or a fraction thereof in presence of a salt and a surfactant, thereby generating a stream having an organic phase containing the isoprenoid compound and a phase heavier than the organic phase, and (b) separating the stream obtained in step (a) into the organic phase containing the isoprenoid compound, the phase heavier than the organic phase, and optionally a solid phase containing host cell debris and cells.
US11103806B2	Preparative separation-purification system In a preparative separation-purification system for passing a solution containing a target component through a trap column 21 to capture the target component in the column 21, and for subsequently passing an eluting solvent through the column 21 to elute the captured component and collect it in a container, an outlet aperture 27 of the column 21 has a tapered shape whose sectional area is largest on a plane facing an inner space of the column 21 and decreases in the flowing direction of the liquid. A filter 26 for preventing deposition of the target component is also provided at the boundary between the inner space of the column 21 and a passage for discharging liquid from the inner space. By this configuration, clogging of the passage at the outlet end of the column 21 due to deposition of the target component is prevented.
US11103801B2	Magnetic toy block A magnetic toy block and a kit suitable for the composition of toy assemblies. The magnetic block comprises a hollow body consisting of a first and a second shell member, identically configured with peripheral contact surfaces to contact with peripheral surfaces of other magnetic blocks of an assembly; each shell member is provided with male and female junction elements, which may be press-fitted into the female junction elements respectively into the male junction elements of another shell member in an assembled condition of the block. The junction elements extend inside the hollow body of the block in a direction parallel to a reference axis, at magnetic contact zones of the peripheral contact surface of the block; permanent magnets or ferromagnetic connection elements are housed in the female junction elements of one or both shell members of the toy block.
US11103794B2	Post-launch crowd-sourced game qa via tool enhanced spectator system A spectator of a computer simulation who is not playing the computer simulation and is associated with a spectator device for viewing the simulation without controlling it is identified. An indication can be received from the spectator that a portion of the computer simulation contains an error. The indication is transmitted to a computer network, from whence is received a corrected version of the computer simulation that does not contain the error. The corrected version of the computer simulation can then be presented. The spectator may be awarded for reporting the error.
US11103790B2	Game picture display method and apparatus and computer-readable storage medium The present application discloses a game picture display method and apparatus and a computer-readable storage medium. The method includes: displaying a picture in a target game in a client of the target game in a first display mode in response to that the client runs the target game, the client being installed on a mobile device; acquiring first state information of the mobile device; and switching a display mode of the client from the first display mode to a second display mode in a case that the first state information does not match the first display mode, and continuing to display the picture in the target game in the client in the second display mode, the target game in the client being kept in a running state in a process of switching the display mode. The present application solves the technical problem that a game cannot run smoothly in the related art.
US11103787B1	System and method for generating a synthetic video stream A system and method for receiving an ordered set of images and analyzing the images to determine at least one position in space and at least one motion vector in space and time for at least one object represented in the images is disclosed. Using these vectors, a four dimensional model of at least a portion of the information represented in the images is formulated. This model generally obeys the laws of physics, though aberrations may be imposed. The model is then exercised with an input parameter, which, for example, may represent a different perspective than the original set of images. The four dimensional model is then used to produce a modified set of ordered images in dependence on the input parameter and optionally the set of images, e.g., if only a portion of the data represented in the images is modeled. The set of images may then be rendered on a display device.
US11103783B2	Sports simulation system A sports simulation system comprises a projectile tracking apparatus configured to detect a projectile traveling through a projectile tracking region towards a display surface, a controller comprising one or more actuatable buttons, each actuatable button configured to communicate one or more control signals in response to actuation thereof, and at least one processing stage configured to receive data from the projectile tracking apparatus and determine three-dimensional positions, velocity and acceleration of a detected launched projectile traveling through said projectile tracking region, the three-dimensional positions, velocity and acceleration used by said at least one processing stage to calculate a trajectory of said launched projectile into a three-dimensional sports scene, receive one or more control signals from the controller and determine one or more control commands of one or more animated objects based on the one or more control signals, and use said calculated trajectory and said one or more control commands to generate updated image data including a simulation of said launched projectile into said three-dimensional sports scene and manipulate one or more animated objects associated with said three-dimensional sports scene, the updated image data associated with a sports result.
US11103775B2	Input apparatus for a games console The invention provides an improved controller (110) for a games console. The invention is a games controller (110) that is intended to be held by a user in both hands in the same manner as a conventional controller (1). The controller of the invention (110) may comprise a plurality of controls (101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107A, 107B, 107C, 108, 109) on the front and top of the controller (110). The controller of the present invention (10) is advantageous as it additionally comprises at least one additional controls (120, 122 located on the side walls of the controller (110) in a position to be operated by the index fingers of a user (12).
US11103765B2	Score keeper and display device A score keeper and display device, and methods of making and using such a score keeper and display device, whereby the score keeper and display device includes a panel having opposing panel front and rear faces, first interconnected slots disposed within the panel to communicate between the panel front and rear faces, a first marker configured to travel between the first interconnected slots, second interconnected slots disposed within the panel to communicate between the panel front and rear faces, and a second marker configured to travel between the second interconnected slots.
US11103764B1	Digital patch for discrete signaling, a baseball glove including same, and related method of manufacture An apparatus for communication, a system thereof, and methods of manufacture thereof are provided. The apparatus comprises a body and a printed circuit board (PCB) operatively coupled to the body. The PCB comprises a processing unit, a first communication module operatively coupled to the processing unit, and an array of assemblies. The first communication module is configured to communicate with a secondary communication module wirelessly. The array of assemblies comprises at least two rows and at least two columns. Each assembly comprises a switch and a light. The array of assemblies are operatively coupled to the processing unit. Each light is configured to change a state responsive to at least one of a change in state by the switch within the same assembly and a control signal from the first communication module.
US11103761B2	Protective headgear with display and methods for use therewith Protective headgear includes, for example, a headgear body that is wearable on a head of a baseball umpire. At least one sensor is configured to generate imaging data that includes a batter in proximity to home plate. A processor analyzes the imaging data to determine a strike zone of the batter and to generate augmented reality data in response thereto. A display device generates a heads up display of the strike zone that is viewable to the baseball umpire during a pitch to the batter, based on the augmented reality data. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11103760B2	Line fault detection systems and method for determining whether a sport gaming device has bounced off an area of a sports field We generally describe an audio-based line fault detection system for a sports game. The audio-based line fault detection system comprises one or more audio sensors (102) for sensing an audio signal generated by a sports gaming device bouncing off a sports field. The sports field comprises surface modifications applied to a line and/or an area adjacent to the line on the sports field such that the generated audio signal is dependent on whether or not the sports gaming device bounces off the sports field where the surface modifications are applied. The detection system is configured to generate a sound profile from the audio signal sensed by the one or more audio sensors (102). The detection system is further configured to identify a bounce type based on the sound profile, wherein the bounce type is defined by whether or not the sports gaming device has bounced off the sports field where the surface modifications are applied.
US11103755B2	Golf club heads and methods to manufacture golf club heads Embodiments of golf club heads and methods to manufacture golf club heads are generally described herein. In one example, a golf club head may include a body portion having a front portion, a rear portion, a toe portion, a heel portion, a bottom portion, a top portion, and a crown portion covering an opening in the top portion. The crown portion may include a raised central crown portion. Other examples and embodiments may be described and claimed.
US11103753B2	Multi-piece solid golf ball In a golf ball having a core, an intermediate layer and a cover, the core is formed primarily of a base rubber, has a diameter set in a specific range and has a specially designed internal hardness profile, the intermediate layer and the cover are each formed of resin materials, and the surface hardness of the ball is higher than the surface hardness of the intermediate layer-encased sphere. This ball achieves a satisfactory distance on full shots with a driver and with long and middle irons, provides a good spin performance on approach shots, and has a durability to repeated impact and a scuff resistance that are both excellent.
US11103749B2	Systems and methods of swimming analysis Systems and methods of analyzing a user's motion during a swimming session are described. One or more motions sensors can collect motion data of the user. A processor circuit can make motion analysis based on the motion data. The processor circuit can determine if the user's arm swing is a genuine swim stroke. The processor circuit can also determine whether the user is swimming or turning. The processor circuit can also classify the user's swim stroke style. The processor circuit can also determine the user's swim stroke phase. The processor circuit can also determine the user's stroke orbit consistency.
US11103745B2	Exercise disc for strengthening the fingers The invention relates to an exercise disc for strengthening the fingers of the hand, including a disc body with an upper disc surface on which the palm together with the fingers and the thumb can be placed, wherein receiving areas for a region of the fingertips and a region of the thumb tip are recessed in the upper disc surface. According to the invention: one disc body is provided for the left hand and one disc body is provided for the right hand; two neighbouring receiving areas are provided for each said region of the finger tips and said region of the thumb tip; and the respective finger and the thumb can move between the two receiving areas by abduction/adduction. Preferably, the receiving areas are in the form of blind slotted holes.
US11103742B2	Exercise apparatus An exercise apparatus is disclosed, comprising a first frame, a second frame aligned about parallel to the first frame, and at least three crossbars extending about orthogonally between inward faces of the frames. Each of the first frame and the second frame includes at least three vertices, at least three sides extending between the at least three vertices, at least three attachment struts disposed inward from the at least three vertices, and at least three load posts extending from an outward face of the frames. The at least three sides of each frame are formed of at least three frame struts. The at least three crossbars attach to one of the at least three attachment struts of the first frame and one of the at least three attachment struts of the second frame. The load posts are arranged and disposed to receive and releasably retain a plurality of weights.
US11103734B2	Fire protection element having a carrier fabric A fire-protection element includes a carrier material having a carrier fabric; an intumescent material, which is applied to at least one surface of the carrier material and which forms elongated structures when heat is applied. The carrier material has a carrier fabric having loops for receiving the elongate structures of the intumescent material that arise when heat is applied and for hooking together with said elongated structures.
US11103712B2	Connector assemblies with novel spacers for electrical stimulation systems and methods of making and using same A connector assembly includes an elongated connector housing having a first end, a second end, and a length, the connector housing defining a port at the second end of the connector housing for receiving a proximal end of a lead or lead extension; a lead lumen that extends from the port into the connector housing; connector contacts axially spaced-apart and disposed along the lead lumen for coupling to terminals along a proximal end of a lead or lead extension; and non-conductive spacers disposed between adjacent connector contacts. Each of the spacers includes a first radial sidewall, a second radial sidewall, and an intermediate region extending between, and connecting, the first and second radial sidewalls. The first and second radial sidewalls and intermediate region define boundaries of an open circumferential space opposite the lead lumen with respect to the intermediate region.
US11103710B2	Systems, methods, and devices for treating bradyarrhythmias, tachyarrhythmias and heart failure A method, system and device for monitoring and treating conditions of a mammalian heart, among which may include bradyarrhythmias, tachyarrhythmias and heart failure, the device being configured as a pacemaker that harvests energy as it implements the pacemaker functions to treat and monitor conditions of the heart. The pacemaker has a case, electrical circuitry sealed within the case, an electrode that is electrically coupled to the electrical circuitry, and embodiments may include a microelectromechanical system (MEMS) for harvesting and converting the kinematic energy of the heart into electrical energy. Embodiments provide receivers at locations of the heart which sense heart activity and are controlled with pacing circuitry to deliver electrical impulses at locations and time intervals to replicate the contractions of a normal functioning heart. Further embodiments provide a multi-part pacemaker where case-connectable electrode part may be implanted separately from the case part.
US11103709B2	Systems and methods for recognizing His-bundle capture type and providing His-bundle pacing Systems and methods for pacing cardiac conductive tissue are described. A medical system includes an electrostimulation circuit that may generate His-bundle pacing (HBP) pulses for delivery at or near the His bundle. In response to the delivery of the HBP pulse, the system senses a near-field cardiac activity representative of excitation of a para-Hisian myocardial tissue, and a far-field cardiac activity representative of excitation of the His bundle and a ventricle. The system classifies a tissue response to HBP into one of a plurality of capture types based on the sensed near-field and far-field cardiac activities. The system includes a control circuit to adjust one or more stimulation parameters based on the classified capture type. The electrostimulation circuit generates and delivers the HBP pulses according to the adjusted stimulation parameters to excite the His bundle.
US11103707B2	Methods and systems to diagnose depression A method includes receiving sensor data at a processor from sensors of an external medical device. The sensor data corresponds to at least a first body parameter value for a patient and a second body parameter value for the patient. The method includes determining a first depression-indicative value based on the first body parameter value, a second depression-indicative value based on the second body parameter value, a depression detection value as a function of a first weight applied to the first depression-indicative value and a second weight applied to the second depression-indicative value, and a depression state based at least in part on a comparison of the depression detection value to one or more threshold values.
US11103702B2	Method and system to stimulate the intracochlear electrodes in cochlear implants The present invention provides a method implementing a speech strategy based on zero crossing behavior of speech time waveforms; the zero crossing containing both spectral and temporal speech information. This method uses temporal information of speech to activate electrodes instead of spectral information; maps temporal segment durations to spatial durations along the basilar membrane inside the cochlea; and provides instantaneous, continuous information about speech to electrodes that stimulate the auditory nerve. Timing of oval window mechanical motion is represented by zero crossings which are used to activate electrodes implanted inside the cochlea. Motion of the tympanic membrane, and the oval and round windows, follow the speech signal temporal waveform. Positive segments of the temporal waveform cause inward displacement of the oval membrane from its stationary position and negative segments causes outward retraction of the membranes. Temporal waveform zero-crossings indicate time instants when the membranes are in their stationary positions.
US11103697B2	Apparatus and method for positioning, implanting and using a stimulation lead An introducing device for locating a tissue region and deploying an electrode is shown and described. The introducing device may include an outer sheath. An inner sheath may be disposed within the outer sheath. The inner sheath may be configured to engage an implantable electrode. In an example, the inner sheath may comprise a stimulation probe having an uninsulated portion at or near a distal end of the delivery sheath. The outer sheath may be coupled to a power source or stimulation signal generating circuitry at a proximal end. A clinician may control application of the stimulation signal to a tissue region via the outer sheath.
US11103696B2	Device for electrical stimulation of peridontal complex and surrounding tissue A device for electrical stimulation of one or more components of the periodontal complex and surrounding tissue of a tooth, for uses such as reducing orthodontic pain and encouraging tooth movement, has electrodes of a rigid, electrically conductive material in a fixed spatial relationship configured for application to oral mucosa and attached gingiva adjacent to, and along a periodontal ligament of, a root structure of a single tooth. An electrical circuit is configured for electrical connection to the at least two electrodes. The electrical circuit has an output providing a subsensory electrical stimulus comprising a waveform in accordance with predetermined stimulation parameters. After the electrodes are applied to the oral mucosa and attached gingiva adjacent to, and along the periodontal ligament of, a root structure of the tooth, a switch, when activated, activates the electrical circuit to output the electrical stimulus through the at least two electrodes.
US11103690B2	Catheter pump comprising drive unit and catheter A catheter including a cage having a distal and proximal sleeves and filaments running between sleeves and an actuation portion comprises a base part that is movement-coupled with the inner catheter in the axial direction and an actuation part that can be moved relative to the base part in the axial direction and is guided in or on the base part, the outer catheter's proximal end having the actuation part and the outer catheter's distal end having the proximal sleeve are movement-coupled in the axial direction such that when moving the actuation part away from the base part, the proximal sleeve is moved toward the distal sleeve, the actuation part comprises an inlet for irrigation fluid to be transferred to bearing points of the conveying element, and the base part has an outlet for irrigation fluid coming from the bearing points.
US11103689B2	Blood pump A blood pump (1) comprises a pump casing (2) having a blood flow inlet (5) and a blood flow outlet (6) connected by a passage (7), and an impeller (3) arranged in said pump casing (2) so as to be rotatable about an axis of rotation (9). The impeller (2) is provided with blades (4) sized and shaped for conveying blood along the passage (7) from the blood flow inlet (5) to the blood flow outlet (6), the impeller (3) being rotatably supported in the pump casing (2) by at least one bearing (10, 20). A surface of the impeller (3) faces a surface of the pump casing (2) spaced from said surface of the impeller (3) by a clearance (31), the clearance (31) being in fluid connection with the passage (7) at a clearance transition point (36). In order to wash out the clearance, at least one wash out channel (30) extends through the impeller (3) and is in fluid connection with the passage (7) via a first opening (34) and with the clearance (31) via a second opening (35). The first opening (34) of the wash out channel (30) is arranged in an area of the impeller (3) that—during operation of the blood pump (1)—is under a higher pressure than the clearance transition point (36) so as to cause a blood flow from the first opening (34) through the wash out channel (30) and the clearance (31) to the clearance transition point (36).
US11103677B2	Coaxial draining tube, particularly for chest draining systems A coaxial draining tube, particularly for chest draining systems, includes an inner tube, which has a first opening, and an outer tube, which has a second opening. The inner tube is enclosed within the outer tube and has a smaller diameter than the second opening of the outer tube. The first and second tubes are mutually coupled by way of a supporting component and include one or more holes adapted to allow the passage of air from the chest cavity to the first opening of the inner tube and one or more holes adapted to allow the passage of liquids from the chest cavity to the second opening of the outer tube. The one or more holes are provided in the portion of the coaxial draining tube that is intended to be inserted in the chest cavity of a patient.
US11103675B2	Urinary catheter The invention relates to urinary catheters having a catheter tube with a first connection on the distal end and at least one catheter eye to be positioned in the urinary bladder. The urinary catheters are distinguished in particular in that they may be used problem-free as indwelling catheters. To this end, disposed in the urinary bladder is a reservoir container that is connected via a channel running parallel to the catheter tube to a second connection as distal end of the channel. In addition, the channel is connected to the urethra via at least one opening of the channel wall.
US11103673B2	Method for operating a sleep mode in a massage chair using progressive muscular relaxation and the massage chair capable of using the same A method is provided for operating a sleep mode of a massage chair, which is capable of implementing a sleep mode according to progressive muscle relaxation, and a massage chair for the method is also provided.
US11103662B2	Cover for a housing of a moisture-heat exchanger The invention relates to a cover for a housing of a moisture-heat exchanger for laryngectomized and tracheostomized patients, comprising a cover edge and a number of recesses passing through the cover.
US11103655B2	Handheld apparatus for vaporization of plant-based or synthetic compounds by laser The present disclosure is a handheld apparatus that vaporizes plant-based or synthetic compounds, for the purpose of inhalation, or diffusion into an external environment. More specifically, the disclosure describes a handheld apparatus wherein a laser beam from an internal laser unit heats compounds, such as dried plant, tinctures, resins, or essential oils, to the compound's vaporization temperature for inhalation, or diffusion as part of aromatherapy or other holistic therapeutic treatments.
US11103654B2	Tamper-evident closure A tamper-evident closure assembly includes a connector, a tamper element removably affixed to the connector, and a cap having an interior surface defining a receptacle, where a portion of the connector is within the receptacle and the cap is configured to engage with the tamper element. The tamper element is configured to be separated from the connector upon application of a removal force and to be retained within the receptacle of the cap so that it can later be removed from the receptacle. A kit for a tamper-evident closure assembly includes a cap having an interior surface defining a receptacle, a tamper element configured to engage with the cap within the receptacle, and a housing configured to receive the cap.
US11103647B2	Injection device comprising a cover cap and a system for preventing the cover cap from being remounted An injection device for distributing a liquid product, in particular a medicament, includes: a) a housing with a longitudinal axis (L) and a product container, in particular a syringe, provided in the housing, the product container including a displaceable plunger, where the plunger can be displaced along the longitudinal axis (L) in a distal direction using a propulsion member to distribute the product contained in the product container; b) a cover cap which is mounted on the distal end of the housing and which can be removed from the housing; and c) a mechanism which prevents the cover cap from being remounted on the distal end of the housing.
US11103643B2	Bi-directional rotation resistant friction pad An assembly for advancing a piston through a rotationally fixed cartridge includes a rotatable, axially fixed first member and an axially movable, rotatable second member connected thereto via a threaded connection and connectable to the piston. A friction pad is rotationally fixedly connected with the second member and includes first and second sets of fingers extending radially outwardly from a central disk. Both the first and second sets of fingers are configured to contact an interior side wall of the cartridge. The first set of fingers are angled toward a first rotational direction and are configured to wedge the friction pad between the side wall and the second member upon rotation of the first member in the first direction, thereby substantially preventing rotation in the first direction. The second set of fingers are angled toward a second rotational direction and are configured to substantially prevent rotation in the second direction.
US11103642B2	Method and apparatus for injecting a neurotoxin into a localized area A syringe assembly for administration of a neurotoxin, the syringe assembly comprising: a syringe comprising: a clear syringe barrel with dosage markings completely encircling the clear syringe barrel; and a plunger having a plunger body and a clear inverted plunger tip; and a needle assembly comprising a needle and a sealing hub for removably attaching the needle assembly to the syringe, wherein the needle is approximately 0.15 inches to approximately 0.3 inches in length and has a gauge of approximately 27 gauge to approximately 35 gauge.
US11103641B1	Container adapter for removably attachable syringe Apparatus for removably attaching a syringe to a container for extracting fluid therefrom into the syringe, which is particularly beneficial for fluid having a relatively high viscosity. The disclosed container adapter holds a syringe adapter securely therein (the syringe adapter configured for providing a fluid path between a container and a syringe) while also securing the syringe adapter to the container, and provides an attachment point for securely attaching the syringe to the syringe adapter and thus to the container (at least) while the fluid is withdrawn from the container into the syringe. The syringe is removably attached to an end of the syringe adapter during the withdrawal, and a cap is provided that closes entry and exit to this attachment point when the syringe is not in place. The cap preferably attaches to the syringe adapter using a connection that mimics the connection used by the syringe.
US11103640B2	Drug delivery device with front loading feature A drug delivery device adapted to receive a cartridge and hold it in a mounted position is provided, comprising a housing, an expelling assembly, and a front-loaded cartridge holder assembly adapted to receive and hold a cartridge in a mounted state. The assembly comprises cartridge holding means actuatable between a receiving state and a holding state, as well as a user operated actuation sleeve being rotationally actuatable relative to the housing between a loading state and an operational state, such that the cartridge holding means is actuated from the receiving state to the holding state when the actuation sleeve is actuated from the loading state to the operational state. The actuation sleeve is configured to enclose at least a portion of a mounted cartridge and is provided with inspection means allowing at least a portion of an enclosed cartridge portion to be visually inspected.
US11103635B2	Micro-infusion device and infusion set Systems and methods of micro-infusion of medical fluids are disclosed. Micro-infusion systems may include a pump, a patient interface, tubing between the pump and the interface, and a micro-infusion device along the tubing. A first portion of the tubing above the micro-infusion device is longer than a second portion of the tubing below the device. The micro-infusion device may include a chamber in-line with the tubing, a first valve between the chamber and the first portion of the tubing, a second valve between the chamber and the second portion of the tubing and a third valve between the chamber and a dump chamber. The second valve may be slidably disposed within the chamber. A medical fluid may be provided into the chamber that slides the second valve displacing another fluid in the chamber through the third valve into the dump chamber.
US11103631B2	Nasal aspirator with lighting function The present disclosure illustrates a nasal aspirator with a lighting function. The nasal aspirator includes a main body, a power supply unit, a sucking unit, air extracting unit, and a lighting unit. The power supply unit is disposed in the main body. The sucking unit is coupled with and extended out of the main body and configured to insert into a nasal cavity. The air extracting unit is disposed in the main body and electrically coupled with the power supply unit, and configured to enable the sucking unit to generate suction. The lighting unit is disposed in the sucking unit, and the power supply unit is configured to drive the air extracting unit and the lighting unit.
US11103625B2	Blood treatment systems and methods Dialysis systems are disclosed comprising new fluid flow circuits. Systems may include blood and dialysate flow paths, where the dialysate flow path includes balancing, mixing, and/or directing circuits. Dialysate preparation may be decoupled from patient dialysis. Circuits may be defined within one or more cassettes. The fluid circuit fluid flow paths may be isolated from electrical components. A gas supply in fluid communication with the dialysate flow path and/or the dialyzer able to urge dialysate through the dialyzer and urge blood back to the patient may be included for certain emergency situations. Fluid handling devices, such as pumps, valves, and mixers that can be actuated using a control fluid may be included. Control fluid may be delivered by an external pump or other device, which may be detachable and/or generally rigid, optionally with a diaphragm dividing the device into first and second compartments.
US11103624B2	Permselective membrane for treating vascular calcifications in chronic hemodialysis patients The present disclosure relates to a hemodialysis membrane for the treatment of vascular calcification in hemodialysis patients, especially in chronic hemodialysis patients. The present disclosure further relates to methods of treating vascular calcification in hemodialysis patients, wherein the hemodialysis membrane is characterized in that it comprises at least one hydrophobic polymer and at least one hydrophilic polymer and in that it has a MWRO of between 15 and 20 kD and a MWCO of between 170-320 kD or that the hemodialysis membrane comprises at least one hydrophobic polymer and at least one hydrophilic polymer and has a MWRO of between 8.5 kD and 14.0 kD and a MWCO of between 55 kD and 130 kD.
US11103609B2	Devices and methods for controlled release of substances A controlled release device and method of use, the device comprising a reservoir wherein the reservoir is divided into one or more chambers; a first active material placed in a first chamber of the one or more chambers and at least one second active material placed in at least one other of the one or more chambers wherein the first active material comprises an active ingredient (AI), wherein the AI is one of an insecticide, a spatial repellent, a herbicide or a larvicide; wherein the at least one second active material comprises one or both of a matrix and an altering material; a permeable membrane covering the first chamber; partitions positioned between adjacent chambers of the one or more chambers for dividing the reservoir into chambers such that full or partial removal of one or more of the partitions results in mixing of the first active material and the at least one second active material to form a mixed active material; a cap positioned over the membrane for sealing the reservoir such that removal of the cap results in controlled release of the AI from the mixed active material through the membrane.
US11103606B2	Device and method for disinfecting CPAP components using chemically reactive substrate This disclosure relates to a device and method for disinfecting CPAP components using a chemically reactive substrate. Specifically, the device and method are used to disinfect CPAP components (or, CPAP equipment), including the various parts of a CPAP system, such as hoses, masks, pillows, couplings, humidifiers, etc., that require frequent cleaning and disinfecting. An exemplary device includes, among other things, a chamber, an ultraviolet (UV) light configured to emit UV light within the chamber, and a substrate chemically reactive to the UV light. Exposing the substrate to UV light releases free radicals which are configured to destroy bacteria, mold, and fungus, as well as eliminate odor. The free radicals may be circulated within the chamber and consequently within the CPAP components that are placed within the chamber to provide a thorough disinfection.
US11103596B2	Fabry disease gene therapy There is described a nucleic acid molecule comprising a nucleotide sequence encoding for a functional α-galactosidase A protein wherein the nucleotide sequence has at least 85% identity to the sequence of SEQ ID NO. 1. Also described is a vector, host cell or transgenic animal comprising the nucleic acid molecule; and a pharmaceutical composition comprising the nucleic acid molecule or the vector. Further, the use of the nucleic acid molecule in a method of treating Fabry disease is described.
US11103587B2	Multiple oligonucleotide moieties on peptide carrier The present disclosure relates to antisense oligonucleotides (AONs), such as phosphorodiamidate morpholino oligonucleotides (PMOs). The present disclosure further relates to the conjugation of multiple PMOs to cationic cell penetrating peptides (CPPs) to enhance the uptake of PMOs into skeletal and cardiac muscle cells.
US11103585B2	Use of a polyanionic composition Disclosed herein is a use of a composition, comprising a non-toxic polyanionic material or a salt thereof to dissociate a polymeric membrane. In addition, a method of dissociating a polymeric membrane is also presented, the method comprising the steps of providing a polymeric membrane; and dissociating the polymeric membrane by adding a composition comprising a non-toxic polyanionic material to the polymeric membrane.
US11103583B2	Lipids for therapeutic agent delivery formulations The description is directed to ionizable lipids useful for enhancing the delivery of therapeutic agents in liposomes.
US11103582B2	Method to achieve extended expression of DNA infused into liver Materials and methods for treating a patient to express a therapeutic agent comprising administering a Kupffer cell-suppressing substance in combination with a vehicle for introducing, into the patient, an exogenous nucleic acid comprising a sequence for expression of the agent.
US11103579B2	Combination of DR5 agonist and anti-PD-1 antagonist and methods of use Provided are methods and compositions for treating cancer using an effective amount of a PD-1 antagonist in combination with a DR4 or DR5 agonist.
US11103578B2	Respiratory virus nucleic acid vaccines Provided herein, in some embodiments, are vaccines (and vaccination methods) that include a ribonucleic acid (RNA) polynucleotide encoding a human metapneumovirus (hMPV) F protein and a RNA polynucleotide encoding a human parainfluenza virus 3 (hPrV3) F protein.
US11103577B2	Methods of treating CMV retinitis by T cell therapy Methods of treating CMV (cytomegalovirus) retinitis in a human patient in need thereof comprise administering to the human patient a population of allogeneic T cells comprising CMV-specific T cells, wherein the human patient is infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) or has been the recipient of a solid organ transplant.
US11103575B2	Immunogenic composition for MERS coronavirus infection Described herein are immunogenic compositions for preventing infection with Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) wherein the immunogenic compositions comprise at least a portion of the MERS-CoV S protein and an immunopotentiator.
US11103573B2	Vaccine against infectious bronchitis Poultry vaccines against infectious bronchitis and Turkey Rhinotracheitis are provided. The vaccines are adjuvanted with oil emulsion containing an immunostimulatory oligonucleotide. The methods of using the vaccines are also provided.
US11103570B2	Recombinant modified vaccinia virus Ankara (MVA) foot and mouth disease virus (FMDV) vaccine The present invention relates to modified poxviral vectors and to methods of making and using the same. In particular, the invention relates to recombinant modified vaccinia virus Ankara-based (MVA-based) vaccine against FMDV infection and to related products, methods and uses. Specifically, the present invention relates to genetically engineered (recombinant) MVA vectors comprising at least one heterologous nucleotide sequence encoding an antigenic determinant of a FMDV protein. The invention also relates to products, methods and uses thereof, e.g., suitable to induce a protective immune response in a subject.
US11103567B2	Glycoconjugate vaccines, preparation method and uses thereof Disclosed herein is a glycoconjugate vaccine conferring protection against a Gram negative pathogen infection, a method of manufacturing the glycoconjugate vaccine, and use of the glycoconjugate vaccine for treating bacterial infection. The glycoconjugate vaccine of the present disclosure has the structure of formula (I), wherein, L is a maleimide-type linker, which is connected to the carrier protein via a maleimide bond formed therebetween; and n and m are independently an integral or a non-integral number between 2 and 20.
US11103563B2	Method for prophylaxis and/or treatment of ErbB2 positive cancers Provided are compositions and methods for prophylaxis and/or therapy of ErbB2-positive cancer. The compositions include pharmaceutical preparations that contain isolated or recombinant or modified peptidase D (PEPD) proteins. The methods include prophylaxis and/or therapy of ErbB2-positive cancer by administering a PEPD to an individual who has or is at risk for developing ErbB2-positive cancer.
US11103556B2	Satiation peptide administration Disclosed herein are compositions and methods for treating obesity involving satiation gut peptide administration to the mouth of a subject for a predetermined dose and frequency. In other embodiments, materials and methods of treating certain psychological disorders are disclosed involving satiation gut peptides. In exemplary embodiments, the satiation gut peptide pertains to PYY.
US11103550B2	Gastro-resistant microencapsulates, and uses thereof to stimulate in-vivo ileal GLP-1 release in a mammal A cold-gelated mono-nuclear microencapsulate comprises a unitary liquid core encapsulated within a gastro-resistant, ileal-sensitive, polymerized denatured protein membrane shell, wherein the liquid core comprises a GLP-1 release stimulating agent in a substantially solubilised form. The GLP-1 release stimulating agent is a native protein selected from native dairy protein, native vegetable protein or native egg protein.
US11103546B2	Edible oil compositions to treat oral complications and methods of using same A composition having a mixture of several different edible oils and methods of use of thereof for alleviating discomfort associated with oral complications and/or providing nutrition by administering such composition are disclosed.
US11103543B2	Composition for recovering from fatigue and/or preventing fatigue accumulation An object of the present invention is to provide a novel food material effective for recovering from fatigue and/or preventing fatigue accumulation. The present invention provides a composition for use in recovering from fatigue and/or preventing fatigue accumulation, comprising a Lactococcus bacterium as an active ingredient.
US11103539B2	Pharmaceutical composition for preventing or treating metabolic diseases, comprising bacteroides acidifaciens as active ingredient The present disclosure relates to a composition for preventing or treating metabolic diseases, in which the composition includes Bacteroides acidifaciens as an active ingredient. In addition, the present disclosure relates to a composition for oxidizing fat or inhibiting DPP-4, in which the composition includes Bacteroides acidifaciens as an active ingredient. In addition, the present disclosure relates to a transformant expressing a lean phenotype, in which an Atg7 gene is deleted in dendritic cells.
US11103535B2	Peptides and combination of peptides of non-canonical origin for use in immunotherapy against different types of cancers The present invention relates to peptides, proteins, nucleic acids and cells for use in immunotherapeutic methods. In particular, the present invention relates to the immunotherapy of cancer. The present invention furthermore relates to tumor-associated T-cell peptide epitopes, alone or in combination with other tumor-associated peptides that can for example serve as active pharmaceutical ingredients of vaccine compositions that stimulate anti-tumor immune responses, or to stimulate T cells ex vivo and transfer into patients. Peptides bound to molecules of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), or peptides as such, can also be targets of antibodies, soluble T-cell receptors, and other binding molecules.
US11103534B2	Peptides and combination thereof for use in the immunotherapy against cancers The present invention relates to peptides, proteins, nucleic acids and cells for use in immunotherapeutic methods. In particular, the present invention relates to the immunotherapy of cancer. The present invention furthermore relates to tumor-associated T-cell peptide epitopes, alone or in combination with other tumor-associated peptides that can for example serve as active pharmaceutical ingredients of vaccine compositions that stimulate anti-tumor immune responses, or to stimulate T cells ex vivo and transfer into patients. Peptides bound to molecules of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), or peptides as such, can also be targets of antibodies, soluble T-cell receptors, and other binding molecules.
US11103533B2	Compositions and methods for treating cancer with anti-CD38 immunotherapy Chimeric antigen receptors containing CD38 antigen binding domains are disclosed. Nucleic acids, recombinant expression vectors, host cells, antigen binding fragments, and pharmaceutical compositions, relating to the chimeric antigen receptors are also disclosed. Methods of treating or preventing cancer in a subject, and methods of making chimeric antigen receptor T cells are also disclosed.
US11103517B2	Pharmaceutical compositions for minocycline The present application relates to a method of orally administering once daily tablet of minocycline to a subject in need thereof, wherein said tablet is substantially free of lactose. The present application also relates to processes for preparing said once daily tablet of minocycline that provides reduced stock keeping units with improved inventory by supplying multiple doses of minocycline in single tablet.
US11103516B2	Natural combination hormone replacement formulations and therapies Estrogen and progesterone replacement therapies are provided herein. Among others, the following formulations are provided herein: solubilized estradiol without progesterone; micronized progesterone without estradiol; micronized progesterone with partially solubilized progesterone; solubilized estradiol with micronized progesterone; solubilized estradiol with micronized progesterone in combination with partially solubilized progesterone; and solubilized estradiol with solubilized progesterone.
US11103515B2	Multiphasic contraceptive regimen for oral combination drug formulation of progestin and estrogen A method for contraception includes administering to a female daily, in a fourphasic dosing regimen during a time period of 24 successive days, an oral combination drug formulation of norethindrone acetate and ethinyl estradiol (EE), wherein doses in the second, third and fourth phases of the regimen increase by a predefined dose increment as compared to the corresponding doses administered during the previous phase, wherein the norethindrone acetate dose in the first phase is 1000 mcg, in the second phase is 1125 mcg, in the third phase is 1250 mcg, and in the fourth phase is 1375 mcg, wherein the EE dose in the first phase is 20 mcg, in the second phase is 22.5 mcg, in the third phase is 25 mcg, and in the fourth phase is 27.5 mcg, and wherein the fourphasic dosing regimen is followed by 4 days without norethindrone acetate and EE administration.
US11103499B2	Compositions and methods thereof Compounds of Formula I: or enantiomers thereof, metabolites thereof, derivatives thereof, deuterated derivatives thereof, prodrugs thereof, pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, N-oxides thereof, or a combination thereof, processes and intermediates for preparation thereof, compositions thereof, and uses thereof, are provided. Pharmaceutical compositions comprising a compound of formula I and a compound of Formula II: or enantiomers thereof, metabolites thereof, derivatives thereof, deuterated derivatives thereof, prodrugs thereof, pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, N-oxides thereof, or a combination thereof. Compositions and methods for improving the efficacy of DEX, or providing beneficial pharmacokinetic effects to DEX, comprising co-administering a compound of formula I or SARPO, and a compound of Formula II or DEX to a subject in need thereof, and dosage forms, drug delivery systems, methods of treatment thereof.
US11103493B2	Substituted pyridinyl compounds as indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO) inhibitors Disclosed herein is a compound of formula (I), or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof: (I). Also disclosed herein are uses of the compounds disclosed herein in the potential treatment or prevention of an IDO-associated disease or disorder. Also disclosed herein are compositions comprising a compound disclosed herein. Further disclosed herein are uses of the compositions in the potential treatment or prevention of an IDO-associated disease or disorder.
US11103483B2	Formulations of bendamustine Long term storage stable bendamustine-containing compositions are disclosed. The compositions can include bendamustine or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and a pharmaceutically acceptable fluid which can include in some embodiments PEG, PG or mixtures thereof and an antioxidant or chloride ion source. The bendamustine-containing compositions have less than about 5% total impurities, on a normalized peak area response (“PAR”) basis as determined by high performance liquid chromatography (“HPLC”) at a wavelength of 223 nm, after at least about 15 months of storage at a temperature of from about 5° C. to about 25° C.
US11103479B2	Small organic molecules for use in the treatment of neuroinflammatory disorders This invention provides small organic molecules useful as therapeutics of neurodegenerative diseases. Small organic molecules that act as inhibitors of bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs) are useful in the treatment of neuroinflammatory disorders, in particular multiple sclerosis.
US11103475B2	Therapeutic compositions of undecylenic acid and arginine Compositions including a complex of fatty acids (e.g., including one or more C4 to C40 fatty acids, such as a C4 to C20 fatty acid) and one or more amino acids (and particularly one or more amino acids having electrically charged basic side chains, e.g., Arginine, Lysine, etc.) for use as an anti-pathogenic composition. These compositions may include the complex of fatty acid:amino acid having a lamellar supramolecular structure. In particular, described herein are therapeutic compositions of undecylenic acid:Arginine forming a complex of undecylenic acid and Arginine.
US11103471B2	Antimicrobials and methods of use thereof This disclosure provides generally for antimicrobial compositions and methods of use comprising an anthocyanin, an anthocyanidin or metabolites thereof. Methods for promoting healing of a wound using these compositions are also disclosed. These compositions have broad spectrum antimicrobial activity and are safe for human and animal uses. Further, these compositions are safe for medical uses and industrial uses as antiseptic preparations to reduce or prevent microbial growth, including killing bacterial biofilms.
US11103468B2	Mono- and di-amidine endo-exonuclease inhibitors and methods for inhibiting endo-exonuclease activity Compounds useful in inhibiting endo-exonuclease activity and treating cancer have the formula (I) wherein R3 is selected from the group consisting of loweralkyl, oxyalkyl, cycloalkyl, aryl, heteroaryl, heterocycloalkyl, aminoalkyl or a halogen; R4 is selected from the group consisting of H, loweralkyl, oxyalkyl, cycloalkyl, aryl, heteroaryl, heterocycloalkyl, aminoalkyl or a halogen; and wherein R5 is a loweralkyl; or formula (II) wherein R1 is selected from the group consisting of loweralkyl, oxyalkyl, cycloalkyl, aryl, heteroaryl, heterocycloalkyl, aminoalkyl or halogen; R2 is selected from the group consisting of H, loweralkyl, oxyalkyl, cycloalkyl, aryl, heteroaryl, heterocycloalkyl, aminoalkyl or halogen; and wherein R5 is a loweralkyl comprising a linear carbon chain of at least two carbons connecting the first “O” to the second “O”.
US11103466B2	Immunogenic composition for the treatment of cancer and methods of preparing the same The present disclosure relates, in some embodiments, to an immunogenic compositions for the treatment of cancer, methods of preparing an immunogenic composition for the treatment of cancer, and methods of treating cancer subjects with an immunogenic composition. Some embodiments of the present disclosure relate to an immunogenic composition operable as a treatment of cancer in a subject having a subject weight, the immunogenic composition including; an immunoactive tissue extract comprising a protein composition, wherein the immunogenic composition has a final concentration of the protein composition of about 6 mg to about 10 mg of the protein composition per kg of the subject weight; an immune response activator comprising a BCG solution, wherein the immunogenic composition has a final concentration of the immune response activator of about 0.525 to about 0.725 mg of the BCG solution per mL of the immunogenic composition; and an immune response mitigator comprising a formaldehyde solution, wherein the immunogenic composition has a final concentration of the formaldehyde solution of about 0.005% to about 0.035%.
US11103456B2	Methods for the preparation of biologically active compounds in nanoparticulate form A method for producing a composition comprising nanoparticles of a biologically active compound.
US11103454B2	Wax foamable vehicle and pharmaceutical compositions thereof Unique foamable vehicles or carriers comprising at least one wax, waxy substance, counterpart or derivative, a stabilizer, water, and a propellant are provided. In some embodiments, the wax is a liquid wax. In some embodiments, the wax includes a solid wax and a liquid wax. The compositions are substantially free of crystals. The components are selected to provide a composition that is substantially resistant to aging and to phase separation, and/or can substantially solubilize and or stabilize active ingredients. Pharmaceutical and cosmetic compositions with potentially enhanced skin delivery and their uses are also provided.
US11103451B2	Ophthalmic solution of difluprednate The present invention provides a method of treatment of inflammatory disorder of the eye, said method comprising administering into the eye of a person in need thereof, an aqueous solution comprising difluprednate as the sole active ingredient at a concentration of 0.02% to 0.04% weight by volume in an aqueous vehicle, wherein the solution is free of oil and wherein the solution is administered twice-a-day. The present invention also provides an ophthalmic solution comprising a. therapeutically effective concentration of difluprednate, a crystal growth inhibitor and pharmaceutically acceptable amounts of a solubilizer comprising a mixture of i. quaternary ammonium compound and ii. polyethoxylated castor oil, b. in an aqueous vehicle. wherein the crystal growth inhibitor is polyvinyl alcohol or its derivatives.
US11103448B2	Manufacture of pharmaceutical compositions The present invention relates to particles and to methods of making particles. In particular, the invention relates to methods of making composite active particles comprising a pharmaceutically active material for pulmonary inhalation, the method comprising a jet milling process.
US11103440B2	Agent and method for the temporary deformation of keratin-containing fibers A cosmetic composition for temporarily reshaping keratin fibres, said composition containing: a) at least one non-cross-linked, hydrophobically modified (meth)acrylic acid copolymer b) at least one vinyl caprolactam copolymer, use thereof, and method utilising a composition of this kind.
US11103435B2	Malodor reducing compositions A malodor reducing composition is provided. The composition includes a perfume mixture including (a) at least one odor-reducing material; and (b) at least one N-heterocycle selected from an aromatic N-heterocyclic moiety and N,S-heterocyclic moiety. The at least one odor-reducing material exhibits an Odor Value (OV) having a common decimal logarithm (log10 OV) of greater than about 5.5.
US11103429B2	Process for treating hair The present invention relates to a process for permanent shaping and dyeing carried out one after another with compositions providing improved and milder shaping and dyeing of hair, especially human hair. The inventors of the present invention have unexpectedly found out that when commonly used permanent shaping and dyeing compositions are mixed with another composition comprising predominantly carboxylic acids, the permanent shaping and dyeing effects of the compositions are improved, homogeneous permanent shaping and dyeing of hair fibers is achieved and natural cosmetic properties of hair are maintained.
US11103416B2	Device and method for simultaneous detection, monitoring and prevention of cerebral emboli A device for the prevention of stroke is provided that has a processor, a compression system, a compression member, and a vascular probe carried by the compression member. The vascular probe senses a parameter of a circulation system from a closed neck artery that is not being externally accessed. The processor processes the closed parameter and based upon this processing communicates with the compression system to instruct the compression system to actuate the compression member. The compression member and vascular probe are external to the interior of the patient when the vascular probe senses the closed parameter of the circulation system.
US11103413B2	Assistance apparatus, assistance method, and recording medium An assistance apparatus includes wires, each of which couples an upper-body belt and one of left and right knee belts to each other, and a motor. When the assistance apparatus assists a user in walking backward while carrying an object, the motor generates, in a gait phase of a left leg, a tension greater than or equal to a second threshold value in a second wire during a fifth period other than a first period during which a tension greater than or equal to a first threshold value is generated, and a tension less than the second threshold value in a first wire during a sixth period other than a second period during which a tension greater than or equal to the first threshold value is generated, and generates, in a gait phase of a right leg, a tension greater than or equal to the second threshold value in a fourth wire during a seventh period other than a third period during which a tension greater than or equal to the first threshold value is generated, and a tension less than the second threshold value in a third wire during an eighth period other than a fourth period during which a tension greater than or equal to the first threshold value is generated.
US11103412B1	Cushion for decompressing the human spinal column A cushion for decompressing the human spinal column comprises a body support surface, a first short flat bottom surface, a longer second flat bottom surface, wherein the first bottom surface and the second bottom surface intersect and are angled at a particular angle lying within the range of 120 degrees to 150 degrees, but preferably at 135 degrees. A cushion for decompressing the human spinal column comprise a body support surface, and a curved bottom surface wherein the curve of the bottom surface increases or decreases in radius from one end to the other. The curve of the bottom surface may have the shape of an incomplete portion of a two-dimensional spiral.
US11103410B2	Assistance apparatus, assistance method, and recording medium An assistance apparatus includes a first wire and a second wire that couple an upper-body belt and a left knee belt to each other on or above a front part and back part of the body of a user, respectively, a third wire and a fourth wire that couple the upper-body belt and a right knee belt to each other on or above the front part and back part of the body of the user, respectively, a motor, a left sensor on the left hand of the user, and a right sensor on the right hand of the user. When a force is applied to the left sensor and no force is applied to the right sensor, the motor makes the tension of the second wire and the third wire greater than the tension of the first wire and the fourth wire. When a force is applied to the right sensor and no force is applied to the left sensor, the motor makes the tension of the first wire and the fourth wire greater than the tension of the second wire and the third wire.
US11103409B2	Stretching device to restore and protect against the negative effects of prolonged sitting The device and methods disclosed herein allow an individual to create and sustain a differential stretch to the anterior muscles and ligaments of the torso, hips, and legs. The device includes a base frame, a vertical member secured to the base frame, a rotational lift lever secured to the vertical member at a vertical pivot member, a lower extremity elevation member secured to the rotational lift lever, and at least one lower extremity attachment device secured to the lower extremity elevation member. In methods of use, the device lifts an individual's legs off the ground, while the person is lying face down, to create a stretch in the anterior muscles, fascia, or ligaments. The device has various planes of rotation, which allows for differential stretching in the various quadrants of the person's torso. The device is height adjustable and displaceable along a track to accommodate different body types.
US11103406B1	Airborne infectious disease isolation units and method of making using prefabricated containers In one embodiment, a prefabricated container is modified as a medical isolation room by replacing an original door with a clear front door. An intake louver and an adjustable damper are disposed at a lower part of the front end. An exhaust vent is disposed at an upper part of the back wall. An exhaust fan and a HEPA filter are coupled to the exhaust vent. Washable coverings cover interior sides of the container to provide washable, nonslip interior surfaces. The exhaust fan and the adjustable damper at the intake louver are controlled to produce in the medical isolation room a negative air pressure of at least about minus 0.01 inch of water gage (approximately 2.5 pascals) and a displacement ventilation exhaust flow rate through the exhaust vent of at least about 100 cubic feet per minute (cfm) greater than an intake flow rate through the intake louver.
US11103399B2	Assistance device An assistance device that enables appropriate evaluation of to what extent a care receiver is using their own leg power. The assistance device is provided with: a body supporting member configured to support the upper body of the care receiver; a first load detecting device provided on the body supporting member, and configured to detect a first load applied by the care receiver; a second load detecting apparatus provided on the body supporting member at a position rearwards of the first load detecting device, and configured to detect a second load applied by the care receiver; and an effort level calculating device configured to calculate effort levels representing to what extent the care receiver is using their own leg power during the standing assistance based on a relationship between the first load and the second load.
US11103398B2	Flexible overhead arm An overhead arm assembly for a patient support apparatus includes a user interface device. The user interface device has a support structure for supporting a personal digital assistant and a charging port for personal digital assistant.
US11103387B2	Systems and methods for removing exogenous particles from the skin of a patient The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods that removing exogenous particles from a target region of the skin of a patient. The systems and methods can employ dermal lavage to remove the exogenous particles from the target region. In some instances, the exogenous particles can be residual tattoo ink after a tattoo removal process. A conduit can be sized and dimensioned for insertion into or around the target region to inject an irrigation fluid that defines an irrigation area. The exogenous particles can be suspended in the irrigation fluid. A device can be configured to form one or more channels in the irrigation area so that the exogenous particles are removable from the irrigation area.
US11103382B2	Systems and methods for preforming an intraocular procedure for treating an eye condition The invention provides an excimer laser system including a means for calibrating laser output to compensate for increased variation in laser optical fibers.
US11103378B2	Palate retainer with attached nasopharyngeal airway extender for use in the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea A medical appliance for the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea in a patient, the appliance comprising: a securing device configured to be removably affixed to the patient's jaw; and a biasing member which is insertable behind the soft palate and/or the base of the patient's tongue, thereby providing for the flow of air in the nasopharyngeal airway; wherein the securing device is connected to the biasing member to allow insertion and/or removal of the biasing member from the nasopharyngeal airway.
US11103377B1	Irising drainage device and irising rectal catheter An irising drainage device is disclosed, including an irising collection funnel having a plurality of overlapping petals extending from an annulus defining a central aperture and a conduit extending from the annulus away from the irising collection funnel. The conduit includes a lumen in fluid communication with the central aperture. An irising rectal catheter is disclosed, including an irising collection funnel having a plurality of overlapping elastically deformable petals extending from an annulus defining a central aperture and an elastomeric tube extending from the central aperture away from the irising collection funnel. The elastomeric tube includes a lumen in fluid communication with the central aperture. The irising collection funnel is configured to elastically narrow in response to a radially inward pressure and expand with reduction of the radially inward pressure. The plurality of elastically deformable overlapping petals, the annulus, and the elastomeric tube are integrally formed with one another.
US11103374B2	Delivery of medical devices A stent delivery system can include a core member, an introducer sheath, and a microcatheter. The core member can have a distal segment. The stent engagement member can have a generally tubular body positioned about the core member distal segment and can be rotatably coupled to the core member. The engagement member can include an inner layer that has a first durometer and an outer layer that has a second durometer less than the first durometer. The stent can extend along the core member distal segment such that an inner surface of the stent is engaged by the engagement member outer layer for facilitating rotation of the stent relative to the core member.
US11103371B2	Highly flexible stent and method of manufacture An implantable prosthesis designed to transition from a contracted state to an expanded state, including a continuous tubular helical winding and a plurality of bridges. The helical winding includes a plurality of circumferential sections spaced apart along a helical axis, each of the plurality of circumferential sections forming a non-orthogonal helical angle relative to the helical axis. The plurality of bridges connect adjacent circumferential sections, each having a length extending from a first end to a second end on a plane orthogonal to the helical axis, the length being equal to a circumferential offset between the adjacent circumferential sections in both the contracted state and the expanded state. The implantable prosthesis also includes a first annular ring orthogonal to the helical axis, and a first marker having a first end connected to the first annular ring, and a second end coupled to the first end of the helical winding.
US11103366B2	Expandable fusion device and method of installation thereof The present invention provides an expandable fusion device capable of being installed inside an intervertebral disc space to maintain normal disc spacing and restore spinal stability, thereby facilitating an intervertebral fusion. In one embodiment, the fusion device includes a body portion, a first endplate, and a second endplate, the first and second endplates capable of being moved in a direction away from the body portion into an expanded configuration or capable of being moved towards the body portion into an unexpanded configuration. The fusion device is capable of being deployed and installed in both configurations.
US11103365B2	Surgical trays, instruments and methods for removing components of a hip replacement prosthesis Surgical trays and tools for use in hip revision surgery wherein the implanted prosthesis is a reverse prosthesis comprising an acetabular ball and a femoral cup. A set of trays is provided having tools for i) separating a femoral cup from an acetabular ball, ii) separating a femoral cup from a femoral implant and iii) separating an acetabular ball from an acetabular cup. A tool for removing an acetabular cup from an acetabulum is also described. A surgical method is also provided wherein the acetabular ball and femoral cup are separated first followed by, in any order, separating the femoral cup from the femoral implant and separating the acetabular ball from the acetabular cup.
US11103364B2	Methods and tools for hip replacement with superscapsular percutaneously assisted total hip approach A minimally invasive surgical procedure for replacing a hip joint is provided. A main incision is initiated at a point being a projection of a tip of a greater trochanter and extends proximally about a distance in the range of from 1 cm to 8 cm in line with the femoral axis. An inline capsulotomy is performed, while keeping muscles and posterior capsule intact, to expose the hip joint capsule for accessing the hip joint. The femoral canal is prepared for receipt of a femoral implant. The femoral head is resected and removed out of the acetabulum. A step of acetabular preparation is performed using a retractor comprising two tip rails, each tip rail having a plurality of tines. Related tools, devices, systems and methods are also provided.
US11103362B2	Expandable implant assembly An expandable implant includes a top support configured to engage a first portion of vertebral bone, a bottom support configured to engage a second portion of vertebral bone, and a control assembly coupled to the top support and the bottom support and configured to control relative movement between the top support and the bottom support. The control assembly includes a control member including a head and a body portion. The head includes a recess and the body portion includes at least one access port in fluid communication with the recess to enable delivery of fluid to an interior of the implant via the recess and at least one access port.
US11103361B2	Intersomatic cage The invention relates to an intersomatic cage comprising a body and a part that is designed to dilate the intersomatic space between two vertebrae by rotating the cage so that the cage can be inserted into the space. The body has a prism shape with a substantially planar upper surface which can bear against the superior vertebral endplate and a substantially planar lower surface which can bear against the inferior vertebral endplate.
US11103353B2	Ankle prosthesis and methods of using the same The present disclosure pertains to ankle prostheses. In an example embodiment, the ankle prosthesis comprises an adjustable and replaceable intermediate implant that is disposed between a tibial implant and a talar implant. The intermediate implant is adjustable relative to the tibial implant and can be interlocked therewith once adjusted. Methods of using, fitting, and adjusting the device are also described. Still other embodiments are described.
US11103337B2	Artificial sphinchter An artificial sphincter including an inflatable occlusion means for occluding a body passage, a stretchable fluid reservoir and a pump means. The pump means has a first port in fluid communication with the occlusion means and a second port in fluid communication with the fluid reservoir for selectively transferring an isotonic fluid from the occlusion means to said reservoir to deflate said occlusion means. The artificial sphincter further includes a pressure compensation balloon which is attached to the fluid reservoir and which, in use, is to be implanted in the abdomen of a patient.
US11103335B2	Apparatus for the collection of mammalian inseminate An apparatus for collecting seminal fluids, and specifically an artificial cervix for collecting seminal fluids for artificial insemination, is provided herein. The cervix comprises an elongated cylindrical member having either a closed end for receiving and storing ejaculated semen or an open end for allowing ejaculate to pass through, and an open end having a rim of a diameter sufficient to receive the penis of the animal. A handle can be detachably connected to the cylindrical member that allows users to hold the cervix in the correct position during collection of the animal's seminal fluids.
US11103330B2	Dental attachment placement structure The present disclosure provides methods, computing device readable medium, devices, and systems having a dental attachment placement structure. One dental attachment placement apparatus includes a body having an attachment placement surface that is to be placed on an attachment affixing surface of a tooth and wherein the attachment placement surface includes a portion that is shaped to allow placement of an attachment at a particular position on the affixing surface of the tooth and a portion of the body having a contour that is shaped to correspond with a contour of an alignment surface of a tooth and when the contour of the body and the corresponding contour is aligned, the attachment is located at the particular position and can be secured to the affixing surface of the tooth.
US11103327B2	Surgical procedure kit A surgical procedure kit is disclosed. The surgical procedure kit includes a base, an expansion panel, a first tent panel, and a second tent panel. The kit includes a base with at least one receptacle configured to releasably hold at least one surgical device, an expansion panel with a first edge pivotably coupled to a first edge of the base, and at least one receptacle configured to releasably hold at least one surgical device. The surgical procedure kit also includes a first tent panel having a first edge pivotably coupled to a second edge of the expansion panel, and also includes at least one receptacle configured to releasably hold at least one surgical device, and a second tent panel with a first edge pivotably coupled to a second edge of the first tent panel, and also has at least one receptacle configured to releasably hold at least one surgical device.
US11103325B2	Tray for temporary storage of catheters and other coiled surgical devices A storage tray provides storage for multiple types of wires, catheters, and other instruments used during surgical procedures. The storage tray includes a base and a set of walls forming a basin that holds liquid. A wire containment section within the basin holds multiple coiled guidewires in a wire channel filled with the liquid. The wire containment section includes an inner wall and one or more wall segments forming an outer boundary of the wire channel. Flaps extend orthogonally from the walls and over portions of the wire channel to prevent the guidewire from springing out of the wire channel. A wire holder outside the wire channel holds end portions of the guidewires. Pulling an end portion of one of the coiled guidewires horizontally causes the guidewire to slide along the inner wall for separation and removal from the storage tray.
US11103324B2	Magnetically steerable continuum robotic guidewires for neurovascular applications Robotic devices and methods for performing minimally invasive procedures on the vascular system, particularly cerebrovascular and endovascular neurosurgical procedures, where a submillimeter-scale continuum robotic device is configured and adapted for active steering and navigation based on external magnetic actuation. The submillimeter-scale continuum robotic device includes an elongate body having an inner core and an outer shell, where the outer shell is fabricated of an elastomeric material having a plurality of ferromagnetic particles dispersed therein.
US11103319B2	Surgical tool A medical instrument may include multiple joint members and at least two pairs of tendons connected with the joint members and adapted to move at least one of the joint members relative to at least one other joint member. Each joint member may include a main structural body that may be a single piece and includes at least one convex contact surface. A main portion of each tendon contacts the medical instrument only on the convex contact surfaces.
US11103317B2	Surgical robot platform A medical robot system, including a robot coupled to an effectuator element with the robot configured for controlled movement and positioning. The system may include a transmitter configured to emit one or more signals, and the transmitter is coupled to an instrument coupled to the effectuator element. The system may further include a motor assembly coupled to the robot and a plurality of receivers configured to receive the one or more signals emitted by the transmitter. A control unit is coupled to the motor assembly and the plurality of receivers, and the control unit is configured to supply one or more instruction signals to the motor assembly. The instruction signals can be configured to cause the motor assembly to selectively move the effectuator element and is further configured to (i) calculate a position of the at least one transmitter by analysis of the signals received by the plurality of receivers; (ii) display the position of the at least one transmitter with respect to the body of the patient; and (iii) selectively control actuation of the motor assembly in response to the signals received by the plurality of receivers.
US11103316B2	Robot assisted volume removal during surgery Described herein is a device and method used to effectively remove volume inside a patient in various types of surgeries, such as spinal surgeries (e.g. laminotomy), neurosurgeries (various types of craniotomy), ENT surgeries (e.g. tumor removal), and orthopedic surgeries (bone removal). Robotic assistance linked with a navigation system and medical imaging it can shorten surgery time, make the surgery safer and free surgeon from doing repetitive and laborious tasks. In certain embodiments, the disclosed technology includes a surgical instrument holder for use with a robotic surgical system. In certain embodiments, the surgical instrument holder is attached to or is part of an end effector of a robotic arm, and provides a rigid structure that allows for precise removal of a target volume in a patient.
US11103313B2	Redundant reciprocal surgical tracking system with three optical trackers The present invention relates to a redundant reciprocal tracking system composed of at least two trackers 10. A first tracker is able to sense partial or full pose data (orientation and position) of a second tracker in a first reference frame and the second tracker is able to sense partial or full pose data of the first tracker in a second reference frame. Pose data of first and second trackers are further transferred to a central processor 30, which is able to compute the transformation between first and second reference frame. Data generated by the trackers are such designed that they define an over-determined mathematical system (e.g. more than 6 degrees of freedom in a 3D setup). The over-determined information can be used to qualify and/or improve the transformation of the reference frame. In an embodiment of the invention, the tracking system is an optical one and the over-determined information defines an error metric used to check the validity of the transformation. Such setup could be used in surgical navigation system in order to reduce the risk of injury or death of the patient.
US11103309B2	Multiple beam laser treatment device Embodiments of the invention include a treatment device and corresponding treatment method for laser wound healing, the device and method making use of the simultaneous action of multiple laser types and laser wavelengths which are applied at human tissue. The treatment device generally includes a laser system and a hand-piece which is coupled to the laser system. The hand-piece is designed so that one or multiple laser beams are applied at relatively small spot and at a relatively high power level, and are surrounded by a relatively large spot of another laser beam with a relatively low power level. In a preferred implementation, the hand-piece is adapted to facilitate the emission of first and second laser beams together with a third laser beam which is delivered at a different spatial profile in comparison to the first and second laser beams.
US11103308B2	Reusable transmission network for dividing energy and monitoring signals between surgical devices Microwave ablation systems and methods use a cable assembly including a signal divider device that enables use of multiple microwave antennas through a single channel of a microwave generator. The cable assembly includes a microwave transmission line, a signal divider device having multiple ports coupled to an end portion of the microwave transmission line, an electrical line, and a monitoring circuit coupled to an end portion of the electrical line. The monitoring circuit is configured to acquire information regarding multiple devices coupled to multiple respective ports of the signal divider device and convert the information regarding multiple devices to single channel information. The single channel information is inserted in a communication packet and transmitted to the microwave generator via the electrical line. The signal divider device includes a temperature sensor, which the monitoring circuit monitors to ensure that the temperature of the signal divider device circuitry remains within temperature limits.
US11103307B2	System and method for treating COPD and emphysema A system and method enabling the receipt of image data of a patient, identification of one or more locations within the image data depicting symptoms of COPD, analyzing airways and vasculature proximate the identified locations; planning a pathway to the one or more locations, navigating an extended working channel to one of the locations, positioning a microwave ablation catheter proximate the location, and energizing the microwave ablation catheter to treat the locations depicting symptoms of COPD.
US11103304B2	Catheter with composite insert support member An irrigated electrophysiology catheter has a tip electrode having a shell, and a support member configured to plug the shell and support one or more tip components and/or facilitate their functions. Advantageously, the support member has an electrically-conductive interface portion and an insert-molded portion, wherein the interface portion, typically constructed of a precious metal alloy, is structurally minimized, yet still configured for electrical connection with the shell and the lead wire, so as to reduce the amount and hence the cost of its manufacture, whereas the insert-molded portion is constructed of a significantly less-costly material and is readily configured with micro-complex 3-D geometry adapted to support tip structure and functions including irrigation, force sensing and temperature sensing, as a further cost savings in the manufacturing of the tip electrode by reducing materials, labor and time.
US11103303B2	Ultrapolar telescopic electrosurgery pencil An ultrapolar telescopic electrosurgery pencil/handpiece with or without smoke evacuation that is capable of cutting with a sharp non-conductive cutting end of an electrosurgery blade and cutting and coagulating with activation of active and return contacts both contained on each side of the electrosurgery blade.
US11103298B2	Systems and methods for detecting insertion or removal of a cable The disclosed systems and methods relate to detecting coupling or uncoupling of an external cable from an output port of an electrosurgical generator when a cable detection switch is unavailable or inoperable. The electrosurgical generator includes internal cabling having a first end portion connected to the output port and a second end portion. The disclosed technology includes supplying power from the electrosurgical generator, measuring current and voltage at the second end portion of the internal cabling within the electrosurgical generator, accessing one or more parameters associated with internal cable compensation corresponding to the internal cabling within the electrosurgical generator, and determining coupling or uncoupling of an external cable from the output port based on the measured current, the measured voltage, and the one or more parameters associated with internal cable compensation.
US11103293B2	Devices for generating and applying compression within a body This disclosure describes exemplary screw and intramedullary devices that are better able to bring bone fragments into close proximity with each other, generate a compressive load, and maintain that compressive load for a prolonged period of time while healing occurs. The devices are made of a shape memory material.
US11103284B2	Locking coupler device for spine alignment Embodiments are directed to an apparatus for aligning vertebrae of a curved spine that may include a coupler having a longitudinal axis, a proximal end, and a distal end, wherein the proximal end comprises first threads, wherein the distal end comprises a mating surface for disposition around a rod attached to a spinal column, and wherein the coupler applies a compressive clamping force to the rod. The apparatus further may include a nut having second threads corresponding to the first threads, wherein the nut is attachable to the coupler proximal end. The apparatus further may include a driver disposable at least partially around the coupler, wherein the driver applies a clamping force to the coupler, and wherein the nut applies a linear force to the driver when tightened.
US11103273B2	Powered hair restoration and surgical assembly An powered hair restoration and surgical assembly includes a housing for gripping during a surgical procedure. A blunt dissector is removably coupled to the housing for manipulating an incision. A control circuit is positioned in the housing and an incising unit is movably positioned in the housing. The incising unit is electrically coupled to the control circuit. The incising unit is extendable outwardly through the blunt dissector to incise skin on a patient and the incising unit is retractable into the blunt dissector. A fluid dispenser unit is positioned in the housing and the fluid dispenser unit is electrically coupled to the control circuit. The fluid dispenser unit is in fluid communication with the incising unit to deliver a selectable volume of the fluid into the incision when the incising unit is extended outwardly through the blunt dissector. A control is positioned on the housing. The control is electrically coupled to the control circuit for controlling operational parameters of the incising unit and the fluid dispenser unit.
US11103270B2	Handpiece and blade configurations for ultrasonic surgical instrument A surgical apparatus comprises a body, an ultrasonic transducer, a shaft, and an end effector. The ultrasonic transducer is operable to convert electrical power into ultrasonic vibrations. The body comprises a pivotal trigger. The shaft couples the end effector and the body together. The end effector comprises a clamp arm and an ultrasonic blade in acoustic communication with the ultrasonic transducer. The ultrasonic blade is operable to deliver ultrasonic vibrations to tissue. Pivotal movement of the trigger causes movement of the clamp arm. The trigger includes a compliant feature configured to limit the amount of force delivered to tissue by the clamp arm. The flexible feature may comprise a flexible band, living hinge, a series of living hinges, or a flexible tab.
US11103269B2	Motor-driven surgical cutting and fastening instrument with tactile position feedback A surgical instrument is disclosed including an end effector, a firing drive, and a mechanical closure system. The end effector includes a first jaw including a proximal end and a distal end, a second jaw rotatable relative to the first jaw between an open position and a closed position, a staple cartridge including staples removably stored therein, and a cutting member movable toward the distal end during a staple firing stroke. The firing drive includes a drive shaft operable to move the cutting member through the staple firing stroke, a gear drive train operably coupled to the drive shaft, an electric motor configured to actuate the gear drive train, and a firing trigger actuatable to actuate the electric motor. The mechanical closure system includes a closure member movable distally to close the second jaw during a closure stroke and a closure trigger rotatable between an unactuated position and an actuated position to advance the closure member through the closure stroke. The firing trigger pivots from a recessed position to an exposed user-accessible position when the closure trigger is placed in the actuated position.
US11103255B2	Offset reamer A reamer operably connected to a movable drive element by a translation assembly such that the movement of the movable drive element rotates the reamer. The reamer can be sized such that the reamer can be navigated through or around soft tissue to position the reamer adjacent the defect region and angled to align the reamer with a reamer axis perpendicular to the plane of the defect region. The translation assembly can be configured to translate rotation of the movable drive element to the reamer through an opening through or around the soft tissue. The translation assembly can permit axial reaming of the defect region when the perpendicular axis is obscured by soft tissue.
US11103252B2	Device to treat vascular defect and method of making the same The device includes a braided component formed from a network of wires having at least two different diameters. The outer surface of the braided component has roughness from about 30 microns to about 90 microns and the wires of different diameters provide the desired porosity to the device. The network of wires includes a biocompatible shape memory alloy and a noble metal as a coating material.
US11103250B2	Aneurysm occluder This invention relates to an aneurysm occluder, and more particularly but not exclusively, to an endovascular aneurysm occluder that can be inserted into an aneurysm cavity by using endovascular surgical procedures. The aneurysm occluder, includes a resiliently deformable cage (2) made of a mesh structure in which the mesh structure is cylindrical in cross section and closed off at opposite ends, where the opposite ends are held and closed off with shanks (4).
US11103241B2	Motor-driven surgical cutting instrument A surgical cutting and fastening device is disclosed including a handle assembly, a power supply, and a control circuit. The handle assembly includes a motor configured to drive a cutting member. The control circuit operably couples the power supply and the motor. A firing switch allows the power supply to provide power to the motor in a first energizing direction. A forward control circuit is configured to control current flow from the power supply to the motor. The forward control circuit includes a first flow path and a second flow path including a power control switch. The power control switch prevents current from flowing through the second flow path. The power control switch allows current to flow through the first flow path and the second flow path. A reverse flow path is configured to allow the power supply to provide power to the motor in a second energizing direction.
US11103237B2	Systems, devices and methods for storing suture needles and using robotics for delivering selected suture needles through trocars A suture needle container includes a receptacle having a proximal end with an opening and a closed distal end. A hollow mandrel is disposed inside the receptacle. The mandrel projects from the closed distal end toward the opening at the proximal end of the receptacle. The mandrel includes a tubular wall having a proximal end aligned with the proximal end of the receptacle and a distal end connected with the closed distal end of the receptacle. An elongated slot is formed in the tubular wall. A suture needle is disposed within the elongated slot. A suture is secured to the proximal end of the suture needle and wrapped around the hollow mandrel. A cover closes the opening at the proximal end of the receptacle for sealing the suture needle and the suture inside the receptacle for maintaining a sterile environment inside the receptacle.
US11103230B2	Suture thread A suture thread is used to perform suturing without tying part of or the whole of knots that are supposed to be tied during suturing. A suture thread support body prevents an end of the suture thread from being pulled into a suturing site. A needle accommodation body has a shape of a tube having a through-hole through both ends. The suture thread has the suture thread support body and the needle accommodation body.
US11103229B2	Actuated retractor with tension feedback Methods and apparatus for performing joint laxity measurement are disclosed. A retractor includes a plurality of spacers, such as plates, that are capable of being moved from a central portion of the retractor by a carriage mechanism. In some cases, the carriage mechanism may press against ramps connected to internal sides of the plates, thereby causing the plates to be displaced outwardly. In other cases, the carriage mechanism may include blades that rotate and press against the internal sides of the plates, thereby causing the plates to be displaced outwardly. The retractor is mounted on a surgical device configured to actuate the carriage mechanism. When the retractor is placed in a joint and the carriage mechanism is actuated, a measurement of the joint laxity may be determined based upon characteristics of the retractor and/or the surgical device.
US11103227B2	Spinal access retractor A retractor includes a first arm, a second arm, and a translating member. The first arm comprises a proximal portion configured to retain a first retractor member and a distal portion configured to rotate relative to the proximal portion about a first axis. The second arm is configured to retain a second retractor member, such that rotation of the distal portion about the first axis causes the first retractor member to pivot toward or away from the second retractor member when the first retractor member and the second retractor member are coupled to the first arm and the second arm, respectively. The translating member is coupled between the proximal portion and the distal portion, and is configured to receive a drive force that causes the translating member to bias the distal portion to pivot relative to the proximal portion about the first axis.
US11103217B2	Ultrasound signal processing method and ultrasound signal processing device A reception beamformer 140 makes use of an ultrasound probe that includes N transducers in an azimuth direction, and includes: a partial frame memory 1432 partitioned into M0 azimuth direction×D depth direction addresses, where M0≤N; and a synthesizer 143 that makes a correlation between acoustic line signal line data corresponding to transmission events and addresses of the partial frame memory 1432, synthesizes acoustic line signal line data obtained from transmission events by summing acoustic line signals with data stored at correlation addresses S which have been correlated with the acoustic line signals, and generates acoustic line signal frame data having N lines in the azimuth direction.
US11103204B2	Parallel use of a medical X-ray device A medical X-ray system and a method perform radiological examinations of patients. In order to allow particularly efficient operation of the medial X-ray device, a data processing system of the X-ray system processes data processing processes in parallel and has multiple user interfaces that are used to provide a data input and/or data output option for respective different data processing processes at the same time.
US11103202B2	Mobile radiographic imaging apparatus having counterbalanced slewable arm There is disclosed a mobile radiographic imaging apparatus including a component operable to emit radiation for imaging a subject, an arm rotatably connected at a proximal end thereof to a body section of the apparatus, such that it is supported by the body section and can slew relative to the body section about an upright axis, and to a distal end of which said component is connected, and a generator assembly arranged in the body section and including a generator arranged in the casing and electrically connected to said component, the apparatus being configured such that the generator assembly rotates with the arm, about said axis, wherein the generator assembly has a centre of mass which is radially offset from said axis in a second direction that is substantially opposite to said first direction.
US11103201B2	Anti-scatter grid for radiation detector An anti-scatter grid, a detector with such an anti-scatter grid and a radiation imaging system including such a detector with an anti-scatter grid are provided. The anti-scatter grid includes at least one grid wall. The parameters of the grid wall may be adjusted to arrive a uniform scatter-to-primary ratio. The parameters of the grid wall comprise thickness, height, shape, or position of the grid wall, or width of interspace between two grid walls. The detector includes the anti-scatter grid, at least one photosensor, and at least one scintillator. The radiation system includes a radiation generator, a radiation detector with the anti-scatter grid, and a processor.
US11103199B2	System and method for whole body continuous bed motion PET scanning with bi-directional data acquisition modes A method of conducting a multi-pass dynamic positron emission tomography (PET) scans using continuous bed motion (CBM) mode is disclosed where the method involves acquiring PET sinogram data using CBM mode as the patient bed is moving in a first direction; acquiring PET sonogram data using CBM mode as the patient bed is moving in a second direction that is opposite from the first direction; and reconstructing 3-D PET image from the acquired PET sonogram data.
US11103196B2	Apparatus and method for predicting physical stability A physical stability determination system includes a wearable device configured to collect sleep information, activity information and heartbeat information of a user, a data preprocessor configured to divide each of the activity information and the heartbeat information into data of a sleep area and data of an activity area, based on the sleep information, and a data processor configured to calculate a sleep state, an activity intensity or a heartbeat state of the user from the data of the sleep area and the data of the activity area. The data of the sleep area may be used to calculate the sleep state in the data processor, and the data of the activity area may be used to calculate the activity intensity or the heartbeat state in the data processor.
US11103191B2	Template-based analysis and classification of cardiovascular waveforms In various embodiments, a first classification assigned to a periodic component of an electrical waveform that represents electrical activity in a patient's heart may be identified (302). A corresponding periodic component of a hemodynamic waveform that represents hemodynamic activity in the patient's cardiovascular system may be analyzed (306, 318, 328). The corresponding periodic component may be causally related to the periodic component of the electrical waveform. Based on the analysis, the previously-assigned classification may be assigned (312, 324) to the corresponding periodic component of the hemodynamic waveform in response to a determination, based on the analyzing, that the previously-assigned classification also applies to the corresponding periodic component. In a database (130) of hemodynamic templates, a hemodynamic template associated with the previously-assigned classification may be updated (314) to include one or more features of the corresponding periodic component of the hemodynamic waveform.
US11103168B2	Systems and methods for in vivo detection of electrophysiological and electrochemical signals Systems and methods for measuring electrophysiological and electrochemical signals in a portion of a body of a subject are provided. The structure includes an array of electrochemical sensors made of miniaturized multi-layer graphene, an array of electrophysiological electrodes, an integrated front-end readout circuit, and narrow silicon shafts with metal spines. The sensor arrays offer significantly higher sensitivity than conventional methods and enable simultaneous, multi-site measurement of chemical and electrophysiological. The front-end circuit contains features that allow significant improvement in detection of the resulting electrochemical current produced by the electrochemical sensing electrodes. The silicone probes allow measurements deep in the body. In one example, neuroprobes are provided that include an electrophysiological sensor and an amperometric or voltammetric electrochemical sensor for detecting electrochemical signals from neuromodulators such as dopamine in a portion of a brain of a subject.
US11103167B2	Systems and methods for self-emission glucose monitoring using a guided-mode resonance filter array Presented are systems and methods that perform noninvasive glucose monitoring using mid-infrared self-emission of the human body that acts as a background radiation emitter. Various embodiments accomplish this by taking advantage of the guided-mode resonance (GMR) effect in a number of bandpass filters that are constructed as an array of coplanar filters. The filter array acts as a spectral separator that uses a grating layer and a thin film waveguide to form reflection and transmission filters for particular wavelengths. Unlike, common multi-layer optical filter designs that utilize numerous individual optical filters, a novel GMR filter design comprises an array of filters that may be fabricated from CMOS-compatible materials using only a few thin film and grating layers to filter light. Advantageously, this reduces manufacturing cost and allows for simultaneous monitoring of a number of wavelengths of the glucose spectrum.
US11103165B2	Analyte monitoring device and methods of use An analyte monitor includes a sensor, a sensor control unit, and a display unit. The sensor has, for example, a substrate, a recessed channel formed in the substrate, and conductive material disposed in the recessed channel to form a working electrode. The sensor control unit typically has a housing adapted for placement on skin and is adapted to receive a portion of an electrochemical sensor. The sensor control unit also includes two or more conductive contacts disposed on the housing and configured for coupling to two or more contact pads on the sensor. A transmitter is disposed in the housing and coupled to the plurality of conductive contacts for transmitting data obtained using the sensor. The display unit has a receiver for receiving data transmitted by the transmitter of the sensor control unit and a display coupled to the receiver for displaying an indication of a level of an analyte. The analyte monitor may also be part of a drug delivery system to alter the level of the analyte based on the data obtained using the sensor.
US11103146B2	Wireless sensor for measuring pressure An implantable wireless sensor is provided that comprises a plurality of substrates joined together to form a body with a hermetically sealed cavity therein. A capacitor (C) is provided within the cavity. A first capacitor plate is formed on an internal surface of the first substrate. An inductor (L) is provided within the cavity and coupled to form an LC resonant circuit. At least a portion of the first substrate comprises a deflectable region mechanically coupled to the first capacitor plate. The deflectable region is configured to deflect in response to changes in pressure in the artery altering a spacing between the capacitor plates and altering a resonant frequency of the LC resonant circuit. First and second anchoring elements are coupled to the body and include flexible wire loops configured to extend outward from the body to lodge within a lumen of the artery.
US11103139B2	Detecting fever from video images and a baseline Described herein are embodiments of systems and methods that utilize images of a user's face to detect fever and intoxication. One embodiment of a system to detect fever includes first and second inward-facing head-mounted cameras that are located less than 5 cm from a user's face, are sensitive to wavelengths below 1050 nanometer, and are configured to capture images of respective first and second regions on the user's face. The system also includes a computer that calculates, based on baseline images captured with the cameras while the user did not have a fever, a baseline pattern of hemoglobin concentrations at regions on the face. The computer also calculates, based on a current set of images captured with the cameras, a current pattern of hemoglobin concentrations at the regions, and detects whether the user has a fever based on a deviation of the current pattern from the baseline pattern.
US11103137B2	Photoacoustic imaging method and device A photoacoustic imaging method is provided that can prevent the surface of the subject from appearing in an image when a part to be observed at a position deeper than the surface of the subject is imaged. The photoacoustic imaging device includes a unit for outputting pulsed light toward the subject, and generating photoacoustic data by detecting photoacoustic waves emitted from the subject exposed to the light. The photoacoustic imaging device also includes a region detection unit that detects a near-surface region of the subject based on the photoacoustic wave detection signals, and a correcting unit that attenuates (which encompasses removing) information of the near-surface region found by the region detection unit when the part to be observed is displayed.
US11103132B2	Eye imaging in head worn computing Head-worn computers with eye-imaging systems include a camera system positioned in a head-worn computer, wherein the camera system is further positioned to capture eye-image light that originates as reflections from a user's eye, wherein the camera system is further positioned to capture eye-image light as a reflection from a partially reflective surface that is positioned in front of an image display in the head-worn computer, wherein image light, from the image display, is transmitted through the partially reflective surface. A processor is adapted to cause the camera system to capture the eye-image light. The processor is further adapted to cause a comparison of the captured eye-image light with a pre-stored eye image of a known user of the head-worn computer. In the event the comparison confirms the identity of the known user, the user is granted permission to view content to be presented in a display of the head-worn computer.
US11103127B2	Steerable micro-endoscope A steerable micro-device comprising a cylindrical elongated member having a distal end and a proximal end, the elongated member comprising at least a first lumen, a tensioning wire running in the first lumen, a distal end of the tensioning wire being attached at the distal end of the elongated member and a proximal end of the tensioning wire exiting the first lumen at the proximal end of the elongated member; the elongated member having a proximal portion extending from the proximal end toward the distal end of the elongated member and a distal portion extending from the distal end to the proximal portion of the elongated member, the proximal portion having a first durometer and the distal portion having a second durometer, lower than the first durometer the first lumen being arranged such that the distal portion of the elongated body bends when the proximal end of the tensioning wire is pulled.
US11103114B2	Ground brush for cleaning appliance and cleaning appliance A ground brush for a cleaning appliance and a cleaning appliance with the same are provided. The ground brush includes: a body and a front dust collection strip. The body defines an air channel therein, a bottom plate of the body defines a suction port in communication with the air channel, and a rear side of the body defines an exhaust port. When the body covers a surface to be cleaned, an airtight space is defined between the air channel and the surface to be cleaned. The front dust collection strip is arranged at a front end of the body to support the ground brush for a cleaning appliance on the surface to be cleaned, defines a plurality of front air inlets in communication with the air channel, and is incline relative to a normal direction of the surface to be cleaned.
US11103109B2	Rail profile with attachment mechanism and related methods A profile system comprises at least one elongated rail profile which extends in a longitudinal direction and has a constant cross-section, and at least one holding element which is designed to be detachably fastened to the rail profile. The rail profile, viewed in cross-section, has a substantially rectangular base section which is provided on its front side with a receiving groove extending in the longitudinal direction which describes a circular arc extending over at least 200° and having a first radius R1 and is accessible via a groove opening of a predetermined groove width, and at least one first fastening leg which adjoins the rear side of the base section substantially flush and projects outwards from the base section.
US11103108B2	System, method and apparatus for shaker bottle A beverage container has a body with an open top, an interior volume and a closed bottom. A lid assembly is removably coupled to the open top of the body. A storage compartment is removably coupled to the closed bottom of the body. A mixer is coupled to the lid assembly. The mixer can mix contents located inside the body. The mixer can be silent when a user of the beverage container shakes contents located inside the body.
US11103107B2	Interlocking blending system A blending system is shown and described herein. The blending system may include a base including a motor, a blade selectively and operably engaged with the base, where the motor rotates the blade, a container having an open end and a lid configured to cover the open end. The blending system may also include an interlock system that may include a plurality of induction coils positioned on the base and the container and be in electrical communication with at least one lid sensor, wherein the power is translated through the induction coils to engage a switch device to complete a power circuit to allow a user to operate the motor of the blender.
US11103106B1	Grill for cooking food A grill for cooking food has a housing with side walls and a cover. One of the side walls has an opening. A drawer has drawer side walls, a front, and an open bottom. The drawer has a grill surface. The drawer is located in the opening and is moveable between an open position and a closed position. When the drawer is in the closed position, the drawer is located in the housing with the grill surface located above the heat source, and when the drawer is in the open position, the grill surface is substantially located outside of the housing interior. An absorbent curtain is located outside of the housing interior space and between the one housing side wall and the drawer front. The curtain collapses when the drawer is in the closed position, and the curtain being extended and located below the grill surface when the drawer is in the open position.
US11103101B2	System for preparing aromatic beverages with optmized beverage discharge disposition and process of operation of said system A system (1) for preparing beverages, in particular aromatic beverages such as espresso coffee and similar, having at least one type of brewing device (2), at least one beverage discharge disposition (3) that provides beverage discharge in a direction opposite that of the gravity force, and at least one type of beverage recipient (4), for example of the type glass, cup or similar. The system (1) presents at least one introduction opening (8) configured for the introduction of portions (7) of edible substance, arranged next to said beverage discharge disposition (3), so that both are accessible on a common exterior surface of the apparatus casing (6) of said beverage preparation apparatus (5). Also, a process for preparing beverages having a step of confirmation the correct placement of a beverage recipient (4) engaged in said beverage discharge disposition (3) and display of corresponding information.
US11103089B2	Bassinet A bassinet includes a main frame and a bassinet frame. The bassinet frame is detachably installed on the main frame. The bassinet frame is vertically movable between a first position and a second position relative to the main frame. When the bassinet frame is located at the first position, a supporting surface of the bassinet frame is located in close proximity to a top surface of the main frame, so that the bassinet provides an unhindered view of a child in the bassinet frame. The bassinet can be used as a normal bassinet when the bassinet frame is located at the second position. The main frame and the bassinet frame can be used as a standard play yard and a stand-alone bassinet when the bassinet frame is detached from the main frame. Therefore, the bassinet of the present invention has multiple purposes.
US11103088B2	Promotional chair sleeve The invention relates to a chair slipcover or sleeve which is sized to slide over a variety of camp chairs and other collapsible outdoor chairs. More specifically, the claimed invention is directe to a strap, a pair of straps or a continuous strap and a display panel or a pair of display panels. The display panels can show a message or display the name of a favorite sporting team. Panels can also be designed to show sponsorship information.
US11103084B2	Comfort layer having spacer pocketed springs A posturized comfort layer for a bedding or seating product has different sections of different firmness due to different pocketed mini coil springs within the sections. The springs may be individually pocketed between two sheets of non-woven polypropylene fabric joined with circular or rectangular weld seams. Regardless of the shape of the weld seams, the different firmness of the different sections of the comfort layer may be due to different mini coil springs contained in the pockets. In some embodiments, all pockets may have the same spring and the springs contained in different size weld seams to create pockets of different heights.
US11103074B2	Multi-positional chair assembly A multi-positional chair assembly comprises a frame portion defined by a pair of sinuously-shaped bars. The frame portion includes a back support section, a middle section, and a buttocks support section. A panel provides a supportive surface for a user. The panel may include a metal sheet, apertures, or parallel strips of material. The frame portion can be positioned in multiple positions to provide a sitting surface, including a lounge chair position and a higher elevated stool position. The chair assembly reconfigures between the lounge chair position and the stool position through rotation. Rotating the buttocks support section and the legs to engage the ground surface achieves the lounge chair position. And rotating the back support section and the legs to engage the ground surface achieves the stool position. The chair may be of a one-piece injection-molded construction.
US11103071B2	Collapsible chair A collapsible chair is provided, including a seat frame tube, and a support bracket having a mirror structure, wherein the support bracket including a first front leg tube, a second front leg tube, a rear leg tube, and a connecting plate, a top end of the first front leg tube is hinged with an upper portion of the seat frame tube, a bottom end of the first front leg tube is hinged with the top end of the second front leg tube, a top end of the rear leg tube and one end of the connecting plate are hinged with a lower portion of the seat frame tube, and a hinge portion of the first front leg tube and the second front leg tube is slidable along the connecting plate, and the second front leg tube is hinged with the rear leg tube at a certain position.
US11103070B2	Chair support device primarily for office use A chair support device primarily for office use includes a lower support having rollers or feet for standing on the floor spaced apart from each other in predetermined distances, an upper support, and a receiving tube, as a support member, that has a central axis, connected to a central portion of the upper support, extends therefrom towards the lower support and is coupled to a central portion of the lower support by a ball joint that enables tilting of the receiving tube within an angular range relative to vertical and weight load to be taken predominately by the lower support. The support member is preferably in or close to the weight line of a chair held by the device.
US11103057B2	Oral care implement Described herein is an oral care implement comprising a handle, and a head having a main body that is coupled to the handle, the head comprising a release component coupled to the main body, the release component comprising a water-dissolvable matrix comprising a first polymer having a processing temperature greater than or equal to 150° C., and a plurality of tooth cleaning elements.
US11103053B2	Finger-wearable oral hygiene device and method of using Disclosed are finger-wearable oral hygiene devices having a tapered shape with a plurality of extensions extending from the outer surface of the body, with the plurality of extensions extending around at least most of the circumference of the body member, the extensions being longer near the distal end of the device and shorter near the proximal end of the device, or the extensions arranged in a staggered pattern along the length of the tubular body, or having combination of these features. The device allows gums and teeth to be massaged or cleaned more efficiently and thoroughly, and can also provide greater comfort to a subject during an oral hygiene process.
US11103046B2	Cartridge, cartridge holder, and cartridge-type cosmetic container A cartridge is provided with a cartridge outer tube having a through hole and a support member that supports a cosmetic and that is received in the cartridge outer tube so as to be movable in the axial direction; the support member has a rod shaft portion that is linked to a tip end of a push rod at a base end thereof and a support tube that is provided on a tip end of the rod shaft portion and that supports the cosmetic; the through hole has a tip-end storing hole that stores the cosmetic and a base-end sliding hole that is provided so as to communicate with the tip-end storing hole, the base-end sliding hole being configured such that a linking portion formed of the tip end of the push rod and the base end of the support member slides therein in a linkage unreleasable state; and the linking portion is moved out from the base-end sliding hole by a feeding mechanism and is moved in a linkage releasable region in the tip-end storing hole.
US11103022B2	Synchronized safety lighting Under poor lighting conditions, it is difficult to distinguish whether multiple lights are attached to the same object or multiple objects, particularly when they are flashing. In some circumstances, lights flashing at different frequencies and/or with different periods may be presumed by other road users to be associated with different objects, thereby diminishing the value of multiple individual lights on a bicycle. Synchronized safety lighting enables a cyclist to synchronize multiple individual lights so that they may flash in unison with the same repeating pattern. This provides a stronger visual impression of a cyclist and their bicycle to other road users by visually tying the cyclist's lights together.
US11103019B2	Sweat diverter Described herein are sweat-diverting devices which can be adhered to a wearer by an adhesive. The sweat-diverting devices described here may be adhered over a portion of the face without circumscribing the head. Such sweat-diverting devices may comprise a first leg and a second leg that are joined at a base of the device to form a channel therebetween, where at least a portion of the base is more rigid than the first and second legs such that an acute angle between the first and second legs is maintained when the sweat-diverting device is applied on a wearer's forehead. In some variations, the thickness of the base is greater than the thickness of either of the legs, which may help to maintain a separation between the tips of the legs even when the sweat-diverting device is applied to a wearer's forehead.
US11103000B2	Methods of production of arginine-silicate complexes Methods of manufacturing inositol-stabilized arginine-silicate (“ASI”) complexes with reduced or eliminated clumping and with increased solubility.
US11102999B2	Method of preparing seasoned raw pollock and seasoned raw pollock prepared by using the same A method of preparing seasoned raw pollock includes cutting pollock flesh from pollock of which skin has been removed, preparing a salt mixture by adding Euphorbia humifusa powder and Dryopteris crassirhizoma powder to deep sea water brine, salting the pollock flesh in the salt mixture; preparing a vinegar mixture by adding Ixeris dentata powder and Androsace umbellata powder to vinegar water, performing fermentation by immersing the salted pollock flesh in the vinegar mixture, and mixing the fermented pollock flesh with salt, red pepper powder, garlic, ginger, sugar, syrup, vinegar, and sesame. Seasoned raw pollock is prepared by using the method, and a processed food is produced by using the seasoned raw pollock.
US11102997B2	Defrost apparatus and method thereof An apparatus and a method of defrosting frozen items, is provided. The apparatus and method utilizes a fluid flow system and method, such as a fluid-push/pull system in which generally an entire volume of fluid is pushed or pulled through a cavity in which frozen items are located and/or a continuous motion system in which fluid is circulated within a fluid tank of the system.
US11102992B2	Universal, refrigerated, automated vending kiosk for interchangeable equipment serving soft serve ice cream and frozen beverages A vending machine for dispensing both soft-serve ice cream and frozen ice-cream-based beverages to consumers. The machine includes a power management system having a controller, a master relay for controlling power supplied to a first component, slave relays for controlling power supplied to second and third components, and a current sensor for sensing a current draw of the machine. The machine also includes a flavoring plate for providing flavoring to a dispensed ice cream product. The plate includes an orifice for extruding the product, a channel extending around the orifice, two or more ports in fluid communication with the channel, and one or more gates in communication with the channel and the orifice. Each of two or more ports is configured to introduce one of a flavoring fluid or a cleaning fluid to the channel.
US11102984B2	Laminaria based compositions for benefitting plants and methods of application One or more compositions and methods for applying compositions, for improving characteristics of plants and soil are disclosed. The methods can be utilized by administering an effective amount of a macroalgal based composition (e.g., algal composition), such as comprising an extract of the biomass of an algae. Low concentration of the composition may be used for the application, to provide effective results.
US11102980B2	Method of preparing copper-containing wood preserving compositions The present invention relates to a method for producing copper ammonia solutions by reacting a cuprous oxide with ammonia, carbon dioxide and an oxidant. The resulting copper-containing solution can then be used to formulate a variety of wood preserving products.
US11102976B2	Protein-based film coatings and uses thereof Film coatings comprising protein and lipid, and methods of using the film coatings to coat biological surfaces. For example, when applied to the surface of plant seeds, the film coating adheres to and reinforces the outer seed coat or hull to maintain seed viability.
US11102974B2	Pop-up foldable hunting blind A hunting blind including three framed sidewalls and a panel permits the shape of the hunting blind to be adapted for secure positioning on various platforms of tree stands or the ground. The three framed sidewalls and panel have openings that can be fully or partially closed for comfort and visibility of a hunter or photographer located in the blind.
US11102965B2	Handle assembly for spinning reel and spinning reel A handle assembly of a spinning reel is configured to be integrally rotatable with a drive shaft of the spinning reel. The handle assembly includes a shaft member, a handle arm, a tubular member, and an annular elastic member. The shaft member is configured to be integrally rotatable with the drive shaft. The handle arm is coupled to the shaft member. The tubular member is disposed between the drive shaft and the handle arm on the outer periphery of the shaft member in order to position the handle arm with respect to the drive shaft. The annular elastic member is disposed between the shaft member and the tubular member in order to regulate the tubular member from falling off the shaft member.
US11102964B1	Electronic fishing lure An electronic fishing lure. The fishing lure has a solar powered motor which is housed inside an echo chamber inside the lure. The echo chamber is slightly larger in size than the motor so that the motor (when energized) would rattle around inside the echo chamber, causing the lure to shake in the water and make a rattling noise in the water. This ripple action of the lure mimics something alive in the water.
US11102960B2	Marine video monitoring apparatus A video monitoring apparatus for assessing marine diversity includes a support frame, one or more cameras mounted on the support frame for recording images, and a bait receptacle mounted on the support frame for holding bait. The bait receptacle is adapted to release bait therefrom when the support frame comes to rest on a surface.
US11102951B1	Soybean cultivar 96130264 A soybean cultivar designated 96130264 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 96130264, to the plants of soybean cultivar 96130264, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 96130264, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 96130264. 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 96130264. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 96130264, 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 96130264 with another soybean cultivar.
US11102950B1	Soybean variety 5PAJU23 A soybean variety, designated 5PAJU23 is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety 5PAJU23, cells from soybean variety 5PAJU23, plants of soybean 5PAJU23, and plant parts of soybean variety 5PAJU23. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety 5PAJU23 with another soybean plant, methods for introgressing a transgenic trait, a mutant trait, and/or a native trait into soybean variety 5PAJU23, methods for producing other soybean varieties or plant parts derived from soybean variety 5PAJU23, and methods of characterizing soybean variety 5PAJU23. Soybean seed, cells, plants, germplasm, breeding lines, varieties, and plant parts produced by these methods and/or derived from soybean variety 5PAJU23 are further provided.
US11102947B2	Variety corn line MFA7677 The present invention provides an inbred corn line designated MFA7677, methods for producing a corn plant by crossing plants of the inbred line MFA7677 with plants of another corn plant. The invention further encompasses all parts of inbred corn line MFA7677, including culturable cells. Additionally provided herein are methods for introducing transgenes into inbred corn line MFA7677, and plants produced according to these methods.
US11102943B2	Lettuce variety ‘milagro’ New lettuce variety designated ‘Milagro’ is described. ‘Milagro’ is a butterhead lettuce variety exhibiting stability and uniformity.
US11102930B2	Threshing/separating device having tined accelerator and/or axial rotor arrangement An axial threshing/separating system having at least one spring tined accelerator cylinder, in where the accelerator cylinder includes a plurality of double torsional spring tine cylinder elements extending from the spring tined accelerator cylinder; and one or more spring tined axial rotors, in where each of the spring tined axial rotors includes a plurality of double torsional spring tine rotor elements extending from each of the spring tined axial rotors, in where each of the spring tined axial rotors is aligned such that a respective longitudinal axis of each spring tined axial rotor is substantially coplanar and substantially parallel to a respective longitudinal axis of each other spring tined axial rotor, and wherein a longitudinal axis of at least one spring tined accelerator cylinder is substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of each spring tined axial rotor.
US11102925B2	All wheel drive, walk behind mower A drive system includes a first transmission, a second transmission and at least one flexible driving member. The first transmission is operably coupled to a first set of wheels to provide drive power to the first set of wheels responsive to engagement of the first transmission. The second transmission is operably coupled to a second set of wheels to provide drive power to the second set of wheels responsive to engagement of the second transmission. The at least one flexible driving member is operably coupled to a remote actuator and a drive shaft of the walk-behind outdoor power equipment device. The at least one flexible member selectively engages one of the first transmission or the second transmission to switch a walk-behind outdoor power equipment device between all wheel drive operation and another drive mode via the remote actuator.
US11109505B2	Locating device A locating device includes a guiding member, a sliding member and a pulling assembly. The guiding member includes a guiding channel inwardly cut through a top thereof, and the sliding member has side plates which each has a locating part. The pulling assembly comprises a pulling body having a guiding element, a fastening element disposed on a side thereof opposite to the guiding element. When the pulling body is in an open state, the fastening element is not located on the locating part; when the pulling body performs a locking operation, the guiding element is slid in the guiding channel and the sliding member is simultaneously slid in another direction opposite to the guiding element; when the pulling body is in a locked state, the fastening element is located on the locating part. Therefore, operational difficulty can be reduced and assembly speed can be improved.
US11109503B1	Data connection apparatus and supporting apparatus A data connection apparatus of a supporting apparatus includes a stationary part and a movable part. One of the stationary and movable parts has a circuit board having a number of electrically conductive pads, and the other has a receptacle within which the circuit board is received, such as when a circuit interrupter is moved to an installed position within a cassette of a draw-out switchgear cabinet. The data connection apparatus includes a housing within which the receptacle is formed, with the housing having a plurality of electrical contacts within the receptacle. The housing and the circuit board each have relieved regions in the exemplary form of ramped surfaces and edges that facilitate reception of the circuit board in the receptacle. Moreover, the circuit board and the housing are situated on structured that afford a certain level of flexibility to further facilitate reception of the circuit board in the receptacle.
US11109495B2	Banner display A display system (10) comprises a display (12) of one or more display surfaces (24), each formed from a plurality of display modules (14) arranged in proximity. Each display module comprising light-emitting elements configured to collectively display information. The display system also comprises one or more tension members (30) and one or more base supporting members (32) connected to the one or more tension members and positioned proximate to one or more of the display modules located at a vertical base of the display. The one or more base supporting members are coupled to the display modules located at the vertical base such that the one or more base supporting members provide underlying support to the plurality of display modules. The one or more tension members and the one or more base supporting members support the weight of the display when the one or more tension members are connected to a support structure.
US11109487B2	Electronic device An electronic device is disclosed, which includes: a display panel comprising a first substrate; a support unit disposed opposite to the display panel; a first circuit board electrically connected to the display panel and having a fist region and a second region, wherein the first region is not overlapped with the support unit in a normal direction of the first substrate, and the second region is overlapped with the support unit in the normal direction of the first substrate; and an electronic component disposed on the first region of the first circuit board.
US11109486B2	High-speed, flexible integrated circuits and methods for making high-speed, flexible integrated circuits The present invention provides flexible devices, such as integrated circuits, having a multilevel electronic device structure including two or more electronic components. The electronic components within the structure are electrically connected by an interconnect structure having multiple interconnect levels. In addition to the multilevel electronic device structure, the flexible devices include an elastomeric material disposed around the interconnect levels, including within the spaces between the interconnect levels.
US11109476B2	Filter A filter is provided. The filter includes a mixed layer. The mixed layer includes aluminum, magnesium fluoride, and lithium fluoride. The mixed layer is composed of 1 part by volume of magnesium fluoride, 0.25 to 1 parts by volume of aluminum, and 0.003 to 0.02 parts by volume of lithium fluoride.
US11109461B2	LED lighting apparatus capable of color temperature control An LED lighting apparatus capable of color temperature control includes a color temperature controller to receive a color temperature selection signal and output first and second control signals; a LED driver connected a plurality of LED groups; and a LED selection circuit including a first switch connected to a first node to which a rectified voltage is applied and receiving the first control signal, a first LED group selectively connected to the first node by the first switch, a second LED group connected in scales with the first LED group, a third LED group selectively connected to the first node by the first switch, a fourth LED group connected in series with the third LED group, and a second switch for selectively connecting the output terminal of the second LED group or the fourth LED group to the LED driver by receiving the second control signal.
US11109460B2	Interleaved boost converter with capacitive multiplier for LED drive Systems and methods for operating a light-emitting diode (LED) driver circuit are provided. Aspects include providing an interleaved boost converter including a first boost converter and a second boost converter, the second boost converter interleaved with the first boost converter, operating a first switching element to control a first boost convertor in the LED driver circuit, wherein the first boost convertor is in an ON state responsive to the first switching element being in an ON state, operating a second switching element to control a first boost convertor in the LED driver circuit, wherein the second boost convertor is in an ON state responsive to the first switching element being in an ON state, providing a set of LEDs, wherein the interleaved boost converter provides a step-up voltage to the set of LEDs.
US11109458B2	Phototherapy system with dynamic drive for light-emitting diodes The LEDs in a phototherapy LED pad are controlled so that the intensity of the light varies in accordance with a sinusoidal function, thereby eliminating the harmonics that are generated when the LEDs are pulsed digitally. This is accomplished analogically by using a sinusoidal wave to control the gate of a MOSFET connected in series with the LEDs or by using a digital-to-analog converter to control the gate of the MOSFET with a stair step function representative of the values of a sinusoidal function at predetermined intervals. Alternatively, pulse-width modulation is used to control the gate of the MOSFET in such a way that the average current through the LEDs simulates a sinusoidal function. In additional to using a simple sine wave function, the LED current may also be controlled in accordance with “chords” containing multiple sine waves of different frequencies.
US11109456B2	Load control device for a light-emitting diode light source A load control device for an electrical load is configured to operate in a normal mode and a burst mode to adjust the amount of power delivered to the electrical load. The load control device comprises a control circuit that operates in the normal mode to regulate an average magnitude of a load current conducted through the load between a maximum rated current and a minimum rated current. During the normal mode, the control circuit controls the operating period of a load regulation circuit between a high-end operating period and a low-end operating period. The control circuit operates in the burst mode to regulate the average magnitude of the load current below the minimum rated current. During the burst mode, the control circuit adjusts the low-end operating period to be less than or equal to a minimum on time of the load regulation circuit.
US11109454B2	Waveguide for microwave ovens with multiple feeding ports RF power control system and method thereof An electromagnetic cooking device includes a heating cavity and at least one electromagnetic energy source configured to generate radiation in communication with the heating cavity via a supply cavity. The cooking apparatus further includes a first port configured to emit the radiation into a first region of the heating cavity from the supply cavity and a second port configured to emit the radiation into a second region of the heating cavity from the supply cavity. A septum is disposed along the supply cavity. The septum is configured to adjust a proportion of the radiation emitted from the first port and the second port into the heating cavity.
US11109440B2	Discontinuous transmission on short-range packet-based radio links Described herein are systems and methods for discontinuous transmission on short-range packet-based radio links. As one option, during a communication session with a far-end system on a short-range packet-based radio link, an audio stream received on an audio line in is monitored for voice-based signals. Based on monitoring the audio stream for the voice-based signals, a voice activity estimation signal is generated. While the voice activity estimation signal exceeds a predetermined threshold, one or more voice packets are generated based on the audio stream, and transmitted to the far-end system at one or more times. Also, in response to determining that the voice activity estimation signal is below the predetermined threshold, one or more zero-payload packets are transmitted to the far-end system at one or more subsequent times.
US11109439B2	Communication terminal, communication method, base station, and communication system Provided is a communication terminal including a timing detection unit that detects arrival of timing according to a configured cycle, a condition determination unit that determines whether or not a shared condition shared with a base station is satisfied, and a communication controller that controls reception of paging when the timing detection unit detects the arrival of timing and the condition determination unit determines that the shared condition is satisfied.
US11109424B2	Connection control method and connection control device A connection control method is implemented by a communication system including a UE, two or more SGWs, and an MME for performing processing related to establishment and release of communication paths between the two or more SGWs and the UE. The connection control method includes a request reception in which the MME receives an establishment request of a communication path associated with the UE from one SGW, a path establishment starting processing related to establishment of communication paths between the UE and all SGWs, and an information updating in which the MME updates information related to an establishment status of the communication path stored in a storage unit on the basis of a result of establishing the communication path.
US11109415B2	Apparatus and method for a mobile telecommunications system An apparatus comprising circuitry configured to perform a Random Access procedure that is based on one or more access control parameters that are specific for a predefined coverage level.
US11109411B2	Channel sense method, network side device, and terminal A channel sense method, a network side device, and a terminal includes determining, by a network side device, a first sense resource used by a terminal to perform channel sense, where the first sense resource is another resource other than a resource in a cell in which the terminal is located and that is used by each terminal to perform data transmission; and sending first sense indication information to the terminal, where the first sense indication information is used to indicate the first sense resource. When the terminal performs sense on the first sense resource, another terminal in a same cell does not receive or send data on the first sense resource. If the terminal senses an interference signal, it can be determined that the interference signal is not an interference signal generated when the other terminal in this cell performs data transmission.
US11109407B2	Methods and nodes for decoding of contention based uplink transmissions A network node, a wireless device and methods therein, for decoding of contention based uplink transmissions of data in a cell served by the network node. The network node registers the wireless device for contention based uplink transmissions of data on a radio resource reserved for contention based uplink transmissions of data. e.g. when receiving a registration request sent from the wireless device, such that the wireless device is included in a set of wireless devices being registered for contention based uplink transmissions of data on the radio resource in the cell. The network node then performs blind decoding of uplink signals transmitted on the radio resource by considering the wireless devices in the set. In this way, the decoding is made more efficient by disregarding any other wireless devices in the cell which are not registered for contention based uplink transmissions of data on the radio resource in the cell.
US11109397B2	Cross-carrier scheduling with multiple active bandwidth parts Wireless communications using multiple active resources (e.g., bandwidth parts (BWP)) are described. At least one of multiple active resources (e.g., BWPs) of a first cell may be selected to send scheduling information (e.g., cross-carrier scheduling information) for other cells. A base station may send downlink control information (DCI) for scheduling (e.g., cross-carrier scheduling) a second cell using the selected BWP. A wireless device may monitor a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) of the selected BWP to detect the DCI for scheduling (e.g., cross-carrier scheduling) the second cell.
US11109385B2	Method and apparatus for measuring downlink interference in OFDM mobile communication system A method of a base station in a wireless communication system, a method of a terminal, a base station, and a terminal are provided. The method of the base station includes transmitting configuration information on measuring a channel state, wherein the configuration information includes first information on a first resource for a channel measurement and second information on a second resource for an interference measurement; transmitting a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) associated with the first resource; and receiving channel state information based on the first resource and the second resource, and wherein the second resource is a resource for muting data transmission, and wherein the second resource is one of resources for muting data transmission which are configured to a user equipment (UE).
US11109384B2	Collision handling for semi-persistent scheduling signals Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a base station may identify a collision between a first resource for a downlink semi-persistent scheduled communication and a second resource for another downlink signal; and perform an action to mitigate the collision based at least in part on identifying the collision. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may identify a collision between a first resource for a downlink semi-persistently scheduled (SPS) communication and a second resource for another downlink signal; and determine an action, to be performed by a base station, to mitigate the collision based at least in part on identifying the collision; and selectively receive the downlink SPS communication or the other downlink signal based at least in part on the determination. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11109373B2	Multiple message single timeslot Link 16 relay transmission A method of transmitting and receiving a plurality of Link 16 messages on a single subnet in a single timeslot includes a transmitting terminal packaging the Link 16 messages into an envelope enhanced throughput message (envelope LET message) and transmitting the envelope LET message to a receiving terminal, followed by the receiving terminal unpacking the Link 16 messages from the envelope LET message, restoring them to their original form, and presenting them to a host. Modification of the host is not required. The Link 16 messages can be relayed messages, and the transmitting terminal can be a relay terminal. The Link 16 messages can be concatenated within the envelope LET message, or another lossless packaging algorithm such as lossless compression can be applied. The terminals can be JTRS terminals, the Link 16 messages can be 115 kbps messages, and the envelope LET message can be a 2 Mbps LET message.
US11109372B2	Narrow-band physical control channel design Techniques are described for wireless communication. One method includes allocating, in a downlink carrier including a plurality of resource blocks, a first set of resource elements for cell-specific reference signals (CRS) associated with communication with one or more communication devices of a first type; allocating resources of a resource block of the plurality of resource blocks to a narrow-band physical channel for communication with one or more communication devices of a second type, the allocated resources being rate-matched around the first set of resource elements and a second set of resource elements allocated to narrow-band CRS (NB-CRS) associated with communication with the one or more communication devices of the second type; and transmitting information to the one or more communication devices of the second type mapped to a subset of the allocated resources of the narrow-band physical channel.
US11109370B2	Method for transmitting data in next generation communication system, and device therefor The present application discloses a method for a terminal to transmit an uplink data signal configured with a plurality of code blocks in a wireless communication system. Particularly, the method comprises: a step of mapping, within one slot, a plurality of code blocks to resource elements by using a time-first method, for each time block; and a step of transmitting, to a base station, an uplink demodulation reference signal and an uplink data signal which is configured with a plurality of code blocks, wherein the size of the time block to which the time-first method is applied is determined based on a mapping pattern of the uplink demodulation reference signal.
US11109367B2	Uplink control channel resource determining method, terminal, and network side device An uplink control channel resource determining method, a terminal, and a network side device are provided. The terminal determines the number N of uplink control information bits to be transmitted; the terminal determines the number of first resources according to a target encoding rate and N; the terminal determines the number of resources actually used according to the number of the first resources and the number of pre-configured resources; and the terminal transmits the uplink control information by means of the number of resources actually used.
US11109365B2	Communication method, terminal, and network device for repeating uplink control information to obtain data segment This application provides a communication method, a terminal, and a network device. The communication method includes: repeating, by a first terminal, to-be-transmitted uplink control information for N times to obtain a first data segment, where N is a positive integer; determining, by the first terminal, an orthogonal cover code based on N; multiplying, by the first terminal, the first data segment by the orthogonal cover code to obtain a second data segment; and sending, by the first terminal, the second data segment. By using the communication method, the terminal, and the network device provided in this application, frequency diversity gains of the uplink control information can be increased, transmission flexibility of the uplink control information can be improved, and resource utilization can be increased.
US11109364B2	Method and apparatus for configuring PUCCH resource in wireless communication system Provided herein is a method and apparatus for configuring a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource in a wireless communication system and, most particularly, in a new radio access (NR) technology. More specifically, when and/or for which operation the default PUCCH resource is being used may be defined. For example, a wireless device may receive information on a default physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource, and the wireless device may transmit uplink control information (UCI) to a gNB by using the default PUCCH resource, only before establishing a radio resource control (RRC) connection with the gNB.
US11109359B2	Method and user equipment for transmitting uplink signal and user equipment for receiving uplink signal A user equipment operating in a coverage enhancement mode in a wireless communication system, includes a transceiver, at least one processor, and at least one computer memory that is operably connectable to the processor and that has stored thereon instructions which, when executed, cause the processor to perform operations comprising transmitting, via the transceiver, a random access preamble on a uplink system band; receiving, via the transceiver, a random access response related to the random access preamble; and transmitting, via the transceiver, a first physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) for carrying Msg3 based on the random access response, wherein the uplink system band comprises a plurality of uplink frequency bands in a frequency domain, each of the plurality of uplink frequency bands includes only a predetermined number of consecutive resource blocks in the frequency domain, and the random access response includes frequency resource information for the first PUSCH.
US11109352B2	Robust grant-free transmissions Various arrangements for performing uplink grant-free transmissions are presented herein. An instance of user equipment (UE) may determine data that is to be transmitted using a grant-free (GF) uplink transmission to a base station of a cellular network. The UE may select a first GF resource block and a second GF resource block. The UE may transmit a GF transmission that comprises a data payload and a first pointer at the first GF resource block. The first pointer may refer to the second GF resource block.
US11109336B2	Time allocation for network transmission Methods and systems for managing data transmissions are disclosed. An example method can comprise determining a plurality of time allocations for a time cycle. The plurality of time allocations can comprise a first time allocation which can be determined based on an information rate, a committed information rate, an excess information rate, an effective bandwidth rate, other factors, or a combination thereof. Data can be received from multiple sources into a buffer, for example, and can be processed within a time cycle if processing the data will not exceed the time allocation.
US11109323B2	Channel configuration method and apparatus, power control method and apparatus, user equipment, base station and storage medium Provided are channel configuration and power control methods and devices, a user equipment, a base station and storage mediums. The channel configuration method is configured to receive a second channel characteristic assumption of a control channel resource set configured by a second communication node; where the control channel resource set is formed by at least one of a first type of search space and a second type of search space; the second channel characteristic assumption is used for configuration of control channel resources in the second type of search space; and the control channel resource transmitted by the second communication node are received according to the second channel characteristic assumption.
US11109321B2	Method for sending preamble sequence and user equipment The present disclosure discloses a method and user equipment for sending a preamble sequence. The method includes determining a transmit power for sending a preamble sequence, and sending the preamble sequence according to the determined transmit power.
US11109319B2	Information sharing method, wireless communication method, and apparatuses thereof Embodiments of the present application provide an information sharing method, a wireless communication method, and apparatuses thereof. The information sharing method comprises: determining information related to a channel state of at least one channel between a first device and an access point device; and sending the information to at least one second device located within a preset distance range of the first device. The methods and apparatuses of the embodiments of the present application share information related to a channel state according to adjacent relationship between devices, so as to be conducive to determining the channel state in a low complexity and low power consumption, thereby performing wireless communication in a short delay.
US11109314B2	Padding for wakeup radio (WUR) packets A communication device in a wireless local area network (WLAN) generates a first portion of a wakeup radio (WUR) packet and a second portion of the WUR packet. The first portion of the WUR packet corresponds to a WLAN legacy physical layer (PHY) preamble. Generating the second portion of the WUR packet includes: generating the second portion of the WUR packet to include a WUR packet PHY sync signal. The WUR packet PHY sync signal corresponds to a sync bit sequence with each bit in the sync bit sequence modulated by a sync waveform. The second portion of the WUR packet is generated to also include a PHY data portion and a padding signal. The padding signal corresponds to a padding bit sequence with each bit in the padding bit sequence modulated by the sync waveform. The communication device transmits the WUR packet in the WLAN.
US11109313B2	Cellular modem for low power applications A cellular modem is configured for low power applications. In some instances, the cellular modem includes a transceiver, a processor to control the transceiver, a memory device in communication with the processor, and a general-purpose input/output (GPIO) pin, controlled by the processor. In an example, the cellular modem receives an appointed time for an upcoming communication and determines a time to activate a power supply. The determination may be based at least in part on the appointed time for the communication, so that the power supply is ready to supply power at a level consistent with use of the transceiver at the appointed time of the communication. At the determined time, a signal from the GPIO pin is used to activate the power supply, resulting in an increase in power supplied to the cellular modem in a just-in-time manner.
US11109304B2	Radio link failure detection of an unlicensed cell by a wireless device A wireless device receives from a first base station, configuration parameters of a plurality of cells. The configuration parameters comprise a first cell group comprising one or more first cells for communication with the first base station, and a second cell group comprising a licensed assisted access (LAA) cell for communication with a second base station. The wireless device receives from the second base station LAA cell signals in a subframe of a plurality of subframes of the LAA cell. The wireless device determines whether the subframe is considered for radio link failure (RLF) detection based on processing the LAA cell signals. The wireless device increments a counter in response to the subframe of the LAA cell being considered for RLF detection, and the wireless device not successfully decoding a control channel in the subframe of the LAA cell. The wireless device detects an RLF based on the counter.
US11109303B2	System information broadcasting method and apparatus, and system information receiving method and apparatus A system information broadcasting method and apparatus, and a system information receiving method and apparatus are provided. The system information broadcasting method includes: determining, by a first network device, first system information of a first cell, where there is no broadcast channel in the first cell and no system information is broadcast; and broadcasting, by the first network device, the first system information in a second cell of the first network device
US11109299B2	Adaptive public land mobile network management for varying network conditions The present disclosure describes apparatuses and techniques of adaptive PLMN management for varying network conditions. In some aspects, a PLMN manager of a user equipment (UE) searches, as part of a registration procedure, a data repository of PLMN information that includes a PLMN blocked from registration for a duration of time and determines that the PLMN is blocked due to a signal-related condition with a cell of the PLMN (e.g., weak signal). The PLMN manager then determines, during the duration of time, that the signal-related condition between the UE and the cell has improved. In response to the improvement, the PLMN manager unblocks the PLMN before expiration of the duration of time. By so doing, the UE may reattempt registration with the unblocked PLMN at least once before the duration of time expires, which may allow the UE to register more quickly and reestablish network services.
US11109296B2	Control device, computer-readable storage medium, communication system, and control method A control device is provided, including: a relative-speed acquiring unit for acquiring relative speeds of a movable first mobile relaying apparatus and a movable second mobile relaying apparatus, which are camped on a cell of a wireless base station to relay communications between the wireless base station and a wireless communication terminal; and a determination unit for determining, based on the relative speeds, whether the second mobile relaying apparatus becomes a handover destination, from the first mobile relaying apparatus, of the wireless communication terminal camped on the first mobile relaying apparatus, or becomes a carrier-aggregation destination of the first mobile relaying apparatus for the wireless communication terminal camped on the first mobile relaying apparatus.
US11109291B2	Method for performing handover in wireless communication system and device for same A method for performing handover in a wireless communication system and a device therefor are disclosed. Specifically, the method for performing handover by a user equipment (UE) without a wireless local area network (WLAN) termination (WT) change from a source eNodeB (eNB) to a target eNodeB (eNB) in a wireless communication system, the method includes transmitting an end-marker request for requesting retransmission of an end-marker packet to the target eNB when a loss of the end-marker packet is detected after the handover without the WT change is started, and retransmitting the end-marker request or performing a recovery procedure for the end-marker packet when the end-marker packet is not received from the target eNB after the transmitting the end-marker request.
US11109286B2	Radio terminal, base station, and methods and non-transitory computer-readable media therefor When a radio terminal (2) in a first RAT RRC_INACTIVE state in the first radio access network (RAN) (3) and having a Non-Access Stratum (NAS) connection with a first core network (CN) (4) associated with the first RAT moves to a cell (51) of a second RAN (6), the radio terminal (2) alters an RRC state transition operation of the radio terminal (2) depending on whether the second RAN (6) supports interworking with at least one of the first CN (4) and the first RAN (3).
US11109285B2	Multi-PCell design for URLLC reliability Aspects of the present disclosure provide a mechanism for improving reliability in a wireless communication network supporting a multi-cell transmission environment including a primary cell (PCell) and one or more secondary cells (SCells). In some examples, a user equipment (UE) in a connected mode with a PCell for multi-cell communication with the PCell and one or more SCells may utilize link quality measurements on both the PCell and one or more SCells to manage the connection with the PCell. In other examples, one or more SCells may function as a PCell to transmit common control signaling to the UE and/or receive uplink control information from the UE. In other examples, a UE in an idle mode may evaluate the reference signals transmitted from the PCell and one or more potential SCells before deciding whether to connect to the PCell for multi-cell communication.
US11109283B1	Handover success rate prediction and management using machine learning for 5G networks Aspects of the present disclosure provide systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media that leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning to predict future handover success rates of cells of a wireless network and to determine updated network parameter values that may be used to improve the future handover success rates. Clustering algorithms may be applied to handover success rates associated with the cells to group the cells into different clusters. Machine learning (ML) models may be trained based on historical handover data associated with cells of the clusters to predict future handover success rates based on current handover success rates. The output of the ML models may be used to determine one or more updated network parameter values to be implemented by the wireless network to improve future handover success rates at one or more cells.
US11109282B2	Methods, apparatuses, related computer program product and data structure for deciding on a signaling scheme for handover A first method (and related first apparatus) includes transmitting, in a handover request message, an indication of a first protocol version; a second method (and related second apparatus) includes receiving, in the handover request message, the indication, deciding, based on the received indication and a second protocol version, on a value of an information element included in a handover request acknowledgement message to be transmitted, the information element indicating usage of a first or second signaling scheme, and transmitting the handover request acknowledgement message including the information element; and in the first method receiving the handover request acknowledgement message including the information element; and a third method (and related third apparatus) including receiving the handover command message including the information element, and configuring according to one of the first and second signaling schemes indicated by the information element.
US11109280B2	Method for PDU session establishment procedure and AMF node Provided is a method for handling a packet data unit (PDU) session establishment procedure. The method may performed by an access and mobility management function (AMF) node and comprise: determining whether to reject a PDU session establishment request. The determination may be performed if the PDU session establishment request includes an existing PDU session identifier. Based on the existing PDU session identifier, an identifier of a session management function (SMF) node may be acquired. The PDU session establishment request may be accepted, if it is determined based the identifier of the SMF node that the SMF node and the AMF node belong to a same PLMN. The PDU session establishment request may be further accepted, if it is determined based the identifier of the SMF node that the SMF node belongs to a HPLMN. The PDU session establishment request may be rejected, if it is determined based the identifier of the SMF node that the SMF node and the AMF node do not belong to the same PLMN or the SMF node does not belong to the HPLMN.
US11109269B2	Packet forwarding method and apparatus A network node encapsulates an IPv6 packet into a data frame including a layer-2 forwarding header and a MAC header, where the data frame includes a 6LoWPAN compressed IPv6 packet, and the layer-2 forwarding header and the MAC header are located in an outer layer of the 6LoWPAN compressed IPv6 packet. The network node obtains a MAC address of a next-hop node based on a final MAC address in the layer-2 forwarding header, and sends the data frame to the next-hop node, so that the next-hop node forwards the data frame directly based on the layer-2 forwarding header.
US11109264B2	Configuring quality of service (QoS) mapping relationship flexibly to improve an efficiency in data transmission Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a data transmission method, a terminal device and a network device. The method includes: receiving a downlink data packet transmitted by a network device, where the downlink data packet includes an RQI; determining a working mode of the RQI, where the working mode of the RQI is used to determine an indication content of the RQI, the indication content includes whether a first mapping relationship and/or a second mapping relationship satisfies a reflective QoS mapping; determining the first mapping relationship and the second mapping relationship of an uplink data packet according to the working mode of the RQI and the RQI. The terminal device may determine, according to the RQI of only 1-bit, whether the first mapping relationship and the second mapping relationship of the uplink data packet to be transmitted to the network device satisfy the reflective QoS.
US11109263B2	Data transmission method and data transmission apparatus This application provides a transmission method and a data transmission apparatus. The method includes: sending, by a source access network device, data packets of a QoS flow and a first end marker packet to a first core network user plane device over a first data tunnel, wherein the first end marker packet indicates an end of sending data packets of the QoS flow to the first core network user plane device, and the first data tunnel is corresponding to a first PDU session; sending, by the first core network user plane device, the data packets received from the source access network device and a second end marker packet to a second core network user plane device over a second data tunnel; and sending, by the second core network user plane device, the data packets received from the first core network user plane device to a target access network device.
US11109255B2	Method and wireless device for performing measurement in NR for 5G A disclosure of the present specification provides a method by which a wireless device performs measurement. The method can include: a step for receiving information about a plurality of synchronization signal (SS) burst set periods from a serving cell; and a step for performing measurements on a plurality of neighbor cells on the basis of a measurement gap length (MGL) and a measurement gap repetition period (MGRP) set on the basis of the plurality of SS burst set periods. The MGL and the MGRP can be set in consideration of one or more among L, representing the largest value among the SS burst set periods, S, representing the smallest value among the SS burst set periods, D, representing a default value of the SS burst set period, and R, representing a radio frequency (RF) switching time of the wireless device.
US11109251B2	Method and apparatus for channel state information reporting The present disclosure provides a method for reporting channel state information (CSI), a first set of channel state information-reference signals (CSI-RSs) sent from a base station is measured to obtain a first set of CSI, and the first set of CSI obtained is reported to the base station. A second set of CSI-RSs sent from the base station is measured based on the first set of CSI to obtain a second set of CSI, and the second set of CSI obtained is reported to the base station, in which the second set of CSI-RSs is precoded CSI-RSs determined based on the first set of CSI.
US11109247B2	Beam failure recovery method, device, and apparatus Disclosed are a beam failure recovery method, device, and apparatus, comprising: a terminal determining that performing beam failure recovery is required; and the terminal initiating random access to perform the beam failure recovery on a selected bandwidth part, and the bandwidth part is not changed in the random access process. By adopting the present disclosure, a terminal configuring each bandwidth part will not cause a disorderly beam failure recovery process. The terminal can select an appropriate bandwidth part and a synchronization signal block or channel state information reference signal thereon to initiate the beam failure recovery process. The disclosure achieves fast beam recovery while minimizing impact on data transmission. Further, a base station is also for determining how the terminal performs the beam failure recovery, to make a timely response, to ensure effective transmission of data without wasting random access resources.
US11109244B2	Optimization of distributed Wi-Fi networks A distributed Wi-Fi system includes a first Wi-Fi access point communicatively coupled to a modem/router for connectivity to the Internet and to a cloud controller via the Internet; and at least one additional Wi-Fi access point with wireless backhaul connections to the modem/router via the first Wi-Fi access point, wherein the first Wi-Fi access point and the at least one additional access point cooperatively form a single Wi-Fi network; wherein the cloud controller is configured to receive inputs related to operation of the single Wi-Fi network, perform an optimization based on the inputs with an objective function, and provide operational parameters for the single Wi-Fi network based on the optimization.
US11109242B2	QoS differentiation method for distributed network-assisted FBE-compliant UE cooperation in unlicensed spectrum Methods and devices are provided to enable a cooperating group of user equipments (UEs) to access a second spectrum band as frame based equipment (FBE) for device-to-device (D2D) sidelink transmission within the group. In an embodiment, a UE operating as a cooperating UE (CUE) in a cooperating group of UEs receives a group-specific CPC message from the network over a first spectrum band, the group-specific CPC message comprising information related to channel access for transmission of traffic intended for a target UE (TUE). The UE receives traffic intended for the TUE from the network over the first spectrum band and accesses a second spectrum band as FBE in accordance with a set of channel access parameters corresponding to the traffic to relay the traffic to the TUE via D2D sidelink transmission over the second spectrum band.
US11109240B2	Component carrier grouping method and device A component carrier grouping method and a device are provided. The method includes: grouping, by a network device, a plurality of component carriers configured for a terminal into at least one component carrier group of a first type, the terminal aggregates feedback information corresponding to the plurality of component carriers and feeds back the aggregated feedback information to the network device over one component carrier; and sending, by the network device, first grouping configuration information to the terminal.
US11109239B2	Method for communication in unlicensed band and apparatus for same An electronic device is disclosed. The electronic device includes a communication circuitry that supports to transmit and receive data with a base station on a licensed band and an unlicensed band, a processor, and a memory electrically connected with the processor. The memory stores instructions, when executed, causing the processor to configure a first cell on a licensed band and configure a second cell on an unlicensed band, among a plurality of cells associated with the base station, trigger an unlicensed band preferred mode, and transmit control information for inducing to increase an amount of data transmitted and received over the unlicensed band to the base station, based on the triggering of the unlicensed band preferred mode. In addition, various embodiments recognized through the specification are possible.
US11109235B2	Spectrum management service Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are described for a spectrum management service. A spectrum management service may be utilized to manage wireless spectrum licenses, which may associated with various license-holders, spectrum bands, and geographic regions. The spectrum management service may determine a utilization of various spectrum licenses based on capacity data and usage data from a wireless service provider, and may identify underutilized licenses and/or regions within a wireless network where additional spectrum may be required. The spectrum management service may further identify candidates for spectrum license swaps, analyze proposed or actual license swaps, identify transmissions outside of licensed areas, and analyze information from various sources to improve the efficiency of licensed spectrum usage.
US11109228B2	Communication device and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing computer-readable instructions for communication device A communication device may receive a specific signal from a first external device; display a first instruction screen; in a case where it is instructed that the target process is to be executed in a situation where the first instruction screen is displayed, send a public key to the first external device, wherein in a case where it is not instructed that the target process is to be executed in the situation where the first instruction screen is displayed, the public key is not sent; after the public key has been sent to the first external device, receive an authentication request from the first external device; send an authentication response to the first external device; receive connection information from the first external device; and establish, by using the connection information, a wireless connection between the communication device and a second external device.
US11109224B2	Method for determining access method of mobile terminal, storage medium, and mobile terminal Disclosed are a method for determining an access method of a mobile terminal, a storage medium, and a mobile terminal. A database comprising APN types and APN access identifiers is pre-stored in a mobile terminal, such that when a SIM card is inserted into the mobile terminal, the APN type and the APN access identifier corresponding thereto can be searched in the database according to information about the SIM card, thereby determining that the access method of an operator corresponding to the SIM is VoLTE or VoWiFi, distinguishing between VoLTE and VoWiFi, reducing the probability of access failure of the mobile terminal.
US11109220B1	Enterprise embedded subscriber identification module solutions Methods, apparatus, and systems for providing an embedded subscriber identity module (eSIM) solution are disclosed. In one example, a method for providing an eSIM solution to enterprises includes receiving, by a network server operated by a network operator, a request from an enterprise device management system requesting an eSIM profile for a communication device. The method also includes transmitting, by the network server, information to a discovery server associated with the communication device to register the communication device with the discovery sever.
US11109219B2	Mobile terminal, network node server, method and computer program Methods of operating a network node in a wireless local area network, a mobile terminal and a server, respectively, are disclosed. Corresponding computer programs, as well as a network node, a mobile terminal and a server are also disclosed. The network node establishes connection with the mobile terminal; and sends at least one network name to the mobile terminal, wherein the at least one network names correspond to possible public land mobile networks, PLMNs, based on the determined AAA information. The mobile terminal can thus display the network name.
US11109216B2	Operation optimization for trigger-based instant communication One or more wireless stations operate to configure direct communication with neighboring mobile stations, e.g., direct communication between the wireless stations without utilizing an intermediate access point. A wireless station may be configured to perform a method to accelerate discovery of a peer device after an out-of-band triggering event. For example, a wireless device may detect an out-of-band triggering event and activate a wireless interface capable of peer-to-peer communications in response. The wireless device may transmit one or more discovery messages (e.g., discovery beacons, active subscribe messages, and/or unsolicited publish messages) over the wireless interface immediately after activation of the wireless interface to aid in discovery of the peer device. The one or more discovery messages may be transmitted as service discovery frames. The wireless device may perform service discovery over the wireless interface with the peer device post discovery.
US11109204B2	Device, system, and method for sensor provisioning Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and devices for reducing user effort for sensor provisioning. In one embodiment, a system includes one or more processors and one or more memories including program instructions. The program instructions when executed are configured for receiving and storing initial sensor provisioning instructions from a graphical user interface (GUI) and provisioning a first plurality of sensors using the initial sensor provisioning instructions.
US11109201B2	Device and method for provisioning services to mobile communication device Techniques are disclosed which can allow a mobile device, which is no longer being updated by the device manufacturer, to receive updates from the manufacturer. In an implementation, an international mobile equipment identity (IMEI) is received from the mobile device that identifies a model of the mobile device. The mobile device can have at least one application that is unable to communicate with a server of the mobile device's manufacturer. A provisioning server may determine that the mobile device is depreciated based upon the IMEI, and obtain a key unique to the mobile device. The key and at least one Access Point Name may be transmitted to the mobile device, which can allow the mobile device to direct its data traffic to the server of the manufacturer.
US11109196B1	Automatic formation of social networking group based on thread A method and apparatus for creation and storage of online community groups is provided. In various implementations, digital communication data is stored representing interactions between users as part of an online community platform. In various implementations, a user of the online community platform indicates the desire to create a group comprising digital accounts which have interacted with the user as indicated by the digital communication data. In various implementations, a digital communication group is created comprising digital accounts specifically chosen by a user of an online community platform.
US11109181B2	System and method for tracking chemical applications and providing warnings regarding chemical exposure times The present invention provides a system and method for tracking chemical applications and providing warnings regarding chemical exposure times. According to a preferred embodiment, the present invention provides a method which includes the steps of: receiving chemical application data; retrieving data regarding the chemical characteristics of the applied chemicals; receiving geo-location data identifying a target application area for the applied chemicals; calculating a probable application area based on a calculation of the potential drift of the applied chemicals beyond the target application area; calculating a buffer zone around the probable application area; calculating a safety boundary around the probable application area; calculating a geo-fence for the determined buffer zone; calculating a geo-fence for the probable application area; calculating an effective period for the probable application area; receiving location data regarding a registered user; comparing the received location data against the calculated geo-fence boundaries for the determined buffer zone and the probable application area; determining whether the first user is within a determined buffer zone; transmitting a notification or warning message to the user regarding entry into the buffer zone; determining whether the first user is within the probable application area; transmitting a notification to the user regarding entry into the probable application area; tracking the total time the first user is within the probable application area; and transmitting a notification to the first user regarding the total time the first user is within the probable application area.
US11109172B2	Audio processing circuit supporting multi-channel audio input function An circuit includes: a plurality of analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) and a control chip. The control chip is utilized for instructing a target ADC to output audio data of a target channel during a target period, and utilized for instructing remaining ADCs not to output audio data in the target period. Then, the control chip defines data timing of the target channel and other channels based on the data receiving time point of the audio data of the target channel. The plurality of ADCs would process analog audio signals of a plurality of channels and output audio data of the plurality of channels according to an assigned order configured by the control chip to form a serial data signal. The control chip separates the audio data of different channels from the serial data signal according to the data timing of the plurality of channels.
US11109170B1	System and method for aiding hearing A system and method for aiding hearing are disclosed. In one embodiment of the system, a programming interface is configured to communicate with a device. The system screens, via a speaker and a user interface associated with the device, a left ear—and separately, a right ear—of a patient at an incrementally selected frequency within a frequency range, with tinnitus detected frequencies being re-ranged tested to better identify the tinnitus frequencies. The system then determines a left ear tinnitus-impacted hearing range and a right ear tinnitus-impacted hearing range.
US11109166B2	Hearing device comprising direct sound compensation A hearing device, e.g. a hearing aid, configured to play sound into an ear canal of a user, the hearing device comprising at least one input transducer (ITq) for picking up sound sq at said at least one input transducer from a sound field S around the hearing device and providing corresponding at least one electric input signal(s) INq representing said sound sq, i=1, . . . , Q, where Q≥1; an analogue to digital converter for converting said at least one electric input signal(s) to a digitized signal represented by discrete samples sq(p), where p is a time sample index, a processor for processing said at least one electric input signal sq(p) to a processed signal; an output transducer (OT) for converting an electric signal including said processed signal to an acoustic signal s″; a forward signal path of the hearing device being defined from an acoustic input to said at least one input transducer to an acoustic output of said output transducer having a forward signal propagation delay τHI of the hearing device, the hearing device further comprises a compensation unit for at least partially cancelling directly propagated sound from said sound field S that is propagated to the ear canal via a direct acoustic propagation path, wherein the compensation unit is configured to predict said directly propagated sound and to play it in opposite phase of said directly propagated sound. A method of operating a hearing device is further disclosed.
US11109160B2	Speaker The present invention discloses a speaker having a frame, a vibrating system and a magnet circuit system. The vibrating system has a vibrating diaphragm, a voice coil, and an elastic supporting. The magnetic circuit system has a main magnet, as secondary magnet located and spaced on two opposite sides of the main magnet, and a magnetic plate stacked on the secondary magnet and spaced away from the elastic supporting assembly. The magnetic plate includes a main body stacked on the secondary magnet and an extending wall extending from two opposite sides of the main body towards the main magnet and spaced away from the voice coil. The extending wall is facing and spaced away from the elastic supporting assembly. The speaker of the present invention has an excellent acoustic performance.
US11109157B2	Providing aggregate playback information System, method, and apparatus including receiving an identification of content played by a playback system and an identification of location of the playback system. A playlist of content is associated with the location. A request is received to retrieve the playlist of content and the requested playlist of content is sent to a playback system.
US11109154B2	Method and apparatus for dynamic reduction of camera body acoustic shadowing in wind noise processing An image capture device includes a processor for wind noise processing. The processor receives signals from a first microphone, a first plurality of microphones, and a second plurality of microphones. The processor may segment each signal into low frequency bins and high frequency bins. The processor may select a minimum level signal bin for each low frequency bin. For the high frequency bins, the processor may select a minimum level signal bin for a first group of microphones or a second group of microphones. The processor may generate a composite signal by combining the selected minimum level signal bins for each low frequency bin and the selected minimum level signal bins for each high frequency bin.
US11109149B2	Sound absorbing material and speaker box using same The present disclosure provides a sound absorbing material. The sound absorbing material comprises MFI-structural-type zeolite. The MFI-structural-type zeolite comprises a framework, and the framework comprises SiO2 and AlO3, and the mass ratio of Si to Al in the framework is less than 200 and not less than 50. The present disclosure also provides a speaker box applying the sound absorbing material. The sound absorbing material provided by the present disclosure and the speaker box using the sound absorbing material can further improve the performance of the speaker box, reduce the failure of zeolite and improve the performance stability of the speaker box.
US11109144B2	Electronic device including acoustic module An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a housing including a front plate, a rear plate, and a lateral member surrounding a space between the front and rear plates and having at least one through-hole. The electronic device further includes a display disposed to be seen through the front plate, and a speaker structure disposed near the through-hole in the space between the display and the rear plate. The speaker structure includes a yoke disposed between the display and the rear plate and facing the display, a diaphragm disposed between the rear plate and the yoke and spaced apart from the rear plate, a magnet disposed between the yoke and the diaphragm, a speaker housing surrounding, at least in part, at least one of the diaphragm, the yoke, or the magnet and including a first opening formed toward the rear plate and a second opening formed toward the through-hole. The electronic device further includes a sealing member disposed between the speaker housing and the rear plate and surrounding the first opening when viewed from the rear plate. A sound conduit includes, between the diaphragm and the through-hole, a first space formed by the first opening, the rear plate, and the sealing member, and a second space connected to the first space through the second opening.
US11109143B2	Signal processing apparatus and signal processing method Disclosed is a signal processing apparatus including a surrounding sound signal acquisition unit, a NC (Noise Canceling) signal generation part, a cooped-up feeling elimination signal generation part, and an addition part. The surrounding sound signal acquisition unit is configured to collect a surrounding sound to generate a surrounding sound signal. The NC signal generation part is configured to generate a noise canceling signal from the surrounding sound signal. The cooped-up feeling elimination signal generation part is configured to generate a cooped-up feeling elimination signal from the surrounding sound signal. The addition part is configured to add together the generated noise canceling signal and the cooped-up feeling elimination signal at a prescribed ratio.
US11109142B2	Loudspeaker device The present disclosure provides a loudspeaker device. The loudspeaker device includes a support connector configured to be in contact with a head and at least one speaker component. The at least one speaker component may include an earphone core and a core housing for accommodating the earphone core. The core housing may be fixedly connected to the support connector. The core housing may be provided with at least one key module. The support connector may accommodate a control circuit or a battery. The control circuit or the battery may drive the earphone core to vibrate to produce sound. The loudspeaker device of the present disclosure may optimize sound transmission efficiency and increase volume, thereby improving the user experience.
US11109139B2	Systems and methods to shape a medium A system includes a medium disposed on a base, a plurality of transducers coupled to the base, and a controller communicatively coupled to the plurality of transducers such that each individual transducer of the plurality of transducers is individually addressable by the controller. The controller is configured to receive feedback and to instruct at least some of the individual transducers of the plurality of transducers to activate to move the medium on the base to create a shaped surface based on the feedback.
US11109135B1	Headphones with rotatable user input mechanism This disclosure includes several different features suitable for use in circumaural and supra-aural headphones designs. Designs that enhance user comfort and improve user control of the headphones are discussed. Various sensor configurations and electronic component positions are also discussed. User convenience features that include detachable cushions and automatically detecting the donning and doffing of headphones are also discussed.
US11109128B2	Speaker apparatus An apparatus is described, the apparatus including a case, a display assembly, a chassis connected to the display assembly, a suspension component between the display assembly and the case, wherein the suspension component is configured to allow the display assembly to move relative to the case, at least one vibrating element configured to actuate the chassis to move the display assembly relative to the case to generate at least one of acoustic waves or haptic/tactile effect, and an internal cavity below the display, wherein electronic components of the apparatus are located at the internal cavity.
US11109118B2	Hub and electronic device including the same Provided are a hub capable of sharing specific content according to a plurality of augmented reality (AR) devices and an electronic device including the same. The electronic device according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes a hub, and a plurality of AR devices configured to transmit and receive data to and from the hub, in which the hub includes a collector configured to collect content implemented on the augmented reality devices, a storage configured to store the collected content, a modifier configured to modify the content to correspond to an event when the event occurs in the augmented reality device, and a transmitter configured to transmit the modified content to the augmented reality device. An electronic device according to the present disclosure may be associated with an artificial intelligence module, a robot, an AR device, a virtual reality (VR) device, and a device related to 5G services.
US11109114B2	Advertisement management method, system, and computer program product A method, system, and computer program product enables automation and control of the sales, management, accounting, reporting, and traffic functions necessary to manage advertisement sales, content management, and administrative processes for media production environments, including, but not limited to, broadcast television, radio and webcasting stations, and newspapers. The advertisement management and automation system operates on a PC-based platform and is networked for communications with local area networks, wide area networks, and the Internet, including both wired and wireless appliances. Distribution and tracking is enabled for both local and national advertisement and content management, whereby data, advertisements, content, and reports are pushed and pulled from individual nodes (e.g., television stations) to a central network hub or point that feeds and/or gathers data and communicates with the individual nodes. Traditional broadcast methods for over-the-air, DBS, terrestrial cable, wireless, and live Internet webcasting are combined with on-demand Internet and wireless appliances for monetizing and streamlining the sales, management, accounting, reporting, and traffic processes for single and multi-distribution content production environments.
US11109112B2	CATV device with resistive signal distribution network The present invention is directed to a CATV & MoCA® device, such as a RF signal amplifier. The RF signal amplifier includes a RF input port to receive signals from, and transmit signals to, a service provider. The RF input port is connected to an active communication path with a downstream signal amplifier leading to an input of a resistive splitter network. The resistive splitter network has plural interconnected resistors, which split the amplified signal received at the input of the resistive splitter network and provide the signal to plural “CATV & MoCA®” output ports. Upstream CATV signals received by the “CATV & MoCA®” output ports are combined by the resistive splitter network and sent to the RF input port to be transmitted to the service provider. MoCA® signals received by any one of the “CATV & MoCA®” output ports are carried by the resistive splitter network to the other “CATV & MoCA®” output ports, and potentially to other “MoCA® only” ports of the RF signal amplifier.
US11109105B2	Graphical user interface for insights on viewing of media content Systems and methods relate to display of insights, including a system including a remote computing system configured to cause a user display to display a graphical user interface (GUI), wherein the GUI enables a user to select a time range and a locale, the GUI displays a list of a plurality of media content that have been displayed on one or more digital displays associated with the locale, each of the plurality of media content being listed according to impression counts of each of the plurality of media content for the locale selected and the time range selected, and each of the impression counts is a count of views by people of a respective media content of the plurality media content on the one or more digital displays of the locale.
US11109095B2	Automatic activation of closed captioning for low volume periods A method and apparatus for monitoring volume level associated with a video stream to determine when the volume level is below an activation threshold (level that may be difficult for a viewer to hear) and automatically activating the closed captioning at that point. The activation threshold may be configurable based on viewer preferences and may be dynamically generated based on the monitored volume level for the video stream. The closed captioning may be de-activated when the volume level exceeds a de-activation threshold (may be configurable and may be dynamically generated). The automatic activation/de-activation of the closed captioning may be performed by a video processor included in a set top box or a television. The volume level may be monitored by the video processor or externally by a volume monitoring device. The text of the closed captioning may be monitored for words associated with a low volume level.
US11109090B2	Apparatus and methods for automated highlight reel creation in a content delivery network Methods and apparatus for the automated creation of targeted or focused content extractions and/or compilations (e.g., highlight reels). In one embodiment, the extractions or compilations are created for use in a content delivery network. In one variant, incoming live feeds are recorded. Time-stamped metadata from sources (either internal or external) able to identify moments and events of interest is used to parse or select portions of the live feeds to generate clips related thereto. Those clips are then sent to users (including optionally their mobile devices) for viewing. In some embodiments, a recommendation engine is used to select clips matching interests of a particular user or group of users. Varied sources of metadata may be used, and networked resources may be utilized to in the implementation of internal “excitement” monitoring systems. Myriad configurations may be implemented including server or head-end based configurations, consumer premises based deployments, and/or distributed implementations.
US11109088B2	Content-modification system with unscheduling feature In one aspect, a method includes a content-presentation device determining first and second intervals during which presentation of received content is modifiable, and transmitting first and second requests for first and second supplemental content. A link to content in a playlist may be received, the playlist including first supplemental content followed immediately by second supplemental content. The link may be used to retrieve the first supplemental content, which may be presented in a first modification operation during the first interval. Before completing the first modification operation, the content-presentation device may use the link to start retrieving the second supplemental content for a second modification operation scheduled immediately following the first modification operation, and may determine that while less than a threshold portion of the first modification operation remains incomplete, retrieval of the second supplemental content is also incomplete. The content-presentation device may then unschedule the second content-modification operation.
US11109085B2	Utilizing one hash permutation and populated-value-slot-based densification for generating audience segment trait recommendations The present disclosure relates to training a recommendation model to generate trait recommendations using one permutation hashing and populated-value-slot-based densification. In particular, the disclosed systems can train the recommendation model by computing sketch vectors corresponding to traits using one permutation hashing. The disclosed systems can then fill in unpopulated value slots of the sketch vectors using populated-value-slot-based densification. The disclosed systems can combine the resulting densified sketches to generate the trained recommendation model. For example, in some embodiments, the disclosed systems can combine the sketches by generating a plurality of locality sensitive hashing tables based on the sketches. In some embodiments, the disclosed systems generate a count sketch matrix based on the sketches and generate trait embeddings based on the count sketch matrix using spectral embedding. Based on the trait embeddings, the disclosed systems can utilize the recommendation model to flexibly and accurately determine the similarity between traits.
US11109083B2	Utilizing a deep generative model with task embedding for personalized targeting of digital content through multiple channels across client devices The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media for training and utilizing a generative machine learning model to select one or more treatments for a client device from a set of treatments based on digital characteristics corresponding to the client device. In particular, the disclosed systems can train and apply a variational autoencoder with a task embedding layer that generates estimated effects for treatment combinations. For example, the disclosed systems receive, as input, digital characteristics corresponding to the client device and various treatment combinations. The disclosed systems apply the trained generative machine learning model with the task embedding layer to the digital characteristics to generate effect estimations for the various treatment combinations. Based on the effect estimations for the treatment combinations, the disclosed systems select one or more treatments to provide to the client device.
US11109077B2	Controlling delivery of requested content based on delivery bandwidth limitations A device, computer readable medium, system and method for overcoming bandwidth limitations is disclosed for determining that a bandwidth limitation is related to preventing delivery of content, identifying a version of the content capable of being transmitted over a lower bandwidth, querying a device requesting delivery of the content for an indication of acceptability of a lower bandwidth version of the content instead of a higher bandwidth version, and based on an affirmative response to the querying, causing delivery of the lower bandwidth version.
US11109074B2	Method and device for generating and detecting a fingerprint functioning as a trigger marker in a multimedia signal A device is configured to perform a method that detects a trigger marker for an action corresponding to a segment of a multimedia signal. A fingerprint is generated based on the segment of the multimedia signal at a trigger time point. The generated fingerprint is stored in a database and communicated to the device. During playback of the multimedia signal, fingerprints of segments of the multimedia signal are generated and matched against fingerprints in the database. When a match is found, one or more associated actions for the segment are retrieved by the device. The trigger time point may be determined as a time point near or at the segment of the multimedia signal with the matched fingerprint. In this way, trigger markers for actions may be enabled without modifying the multimedia signal.
US11109066B2	Encoding and decoding of volumetric video There are provided methods, apparatuses, systems and computer program products for coding volumetric video, where a first texture picture is coded, the first texture picture comprising a first projection of texture data of a first source volume of a digital scene model, the scene model comprising a number of further source volumes, the first projection being from the first source volume to a first projection surface, a first geometry picture is coded, the first geometry picture representing a mapping of the first projection surface to the first source volume, and first projection geometry information of the first projection is coded, the first projection geometry information comprising information of position of the first projection surface in the scene model.
US11109064B2	Signaling of motion vector difference derivation A video decoder receives data for a block of pixels to be decoded as a current block of a current picture of a video. When the current block is coded by using inter mode and bi-directional prediction, the video decoder receives a first motion vector difference and determines a second motion vector difference based on a first flag or a second flag. When the first flag is false, the video decoder uses the second flag to determine whether to set the second motion vector difference to be at an opposite value of the first motion vector difference. When the first flag is true, the video decoder sets the second motion vector difference to be zero. The video decoder reconstructs the current block by using motion information based on the first motion vector difference and the second motion vector difference to perform inter prediction.
US11109057B2	Overlapped block motion compensation based on blended predictors Exemplary video processing methods and apparatuses for coding a current block by overlapped sub-block motion compensation split the current block into overlapped sub-blocks, determine a sub-block MV for each overlapped sub-block, derive an initial predictor for each sub-block by motion compensation using the sub-block MV, derive a final predictor for each overlapped region by blending the initial predictors of the overlapped region, and encode or decode the current block based on the final predictors. Exemplary video processing methods and apparatuses for coding blocks with OBMC generate a converted MV by changing a MV to an integer MV or changing a MV component to an integer component, derive an OBMC region by motion compensation using the converted MVs, and encode or decode the blocks by blending an OBMC predictor with an original predictor.
US11109056B2	Method and apparatus of current picture referencing for video coding using adaptive motion vector resolution and sub-block prediction mode Methods and apparatus for a video coding system with the current picture referencing (CPR) mode enabled are disclosed. According to one method, when the current reference picture is equal to the current picture, an integer motion vector flag is inferred to be true without signalling the integer or parsing the motion vector flag. In another method, when all motion vector differences for the current block are equal to zero, an integer motion vector flag is inferred to be true without signalling the integer or parsing the motion vector flag. In yet another method, when all reference pictures for the current block are equal to the current picture: the sub-block prediction coding mode is disabled; and the current block is encoded or decoded by disabling the sub-block prediction coding mode. Alternatively, derived motion vectors associated with sub-blocks for the current block can be converted into integer motion vectors.
US11109055B2	MVD precision for affine Apparatus and methods for video processing are described. An exemplary method for video processing comprises determining a motion vector difference (MVD) precision for a current block processed with affine mode from an MVD precision set; performing, based on the determined MVD precision, a conversion between the current block and a bitstream representation of a video including the current block.
US11109053B2	Encoding method, decoding method, encoder, and decoder An encoder includes circuitry and memory. The circuitry, using the memory: calculates at least one difference value between a plurality of pixels in a first block of a current image; calculates a denominator value used for a second block, using the difference value, the denominator value being used for a plurality of sub-blocks of the first block, the second block being one of the plurality of sub-blocks; determines a shift value, using the denominator value; calculates a first value and a second value, using at least a shift operation with the shift value; determines a prediction sample for the second block, using at least the first value and the second value; and encodes the second block, using at least the prediction sample.
US11109051B2	Motion compensation using temporal picture interpolation The present disclosure relates to the use of hierarchical algorithms to temporally interpolate enhanced reference pictures for use in video encoding and decoding. According to a first aspect, there is provided a method of generating enhanced reference pictures in a video encoding and/or decoding process, the method comprising: receiving one or more known reference elements of video data from a reference picture buffer; generating, using one or more hierarchical algorithms, one or more additional reference elements of video data from the one or more known reference elements of video data; and outputting the one or more additional reference elements of video data; wherein the generating the one or more additional reference elements of video data from the one or more known reference elements of video data comprises the use of temporal interpolation.
US11109050B2	Video encoding and decoding Motion vectors of a first reference frame are permitted to point to a plurality of further reference frames. A method of storing the motion vectors comprises, when a block of the first reference frame has two motion vectors (V2A, V2B) initially, selecting one of the two motion vectors, the non-selected motion vector not being stored. The selected motion vector may be scaled. This can reduce the motion vector memory size.
US11109046B2	Image processing apparatus and image processing method There is provided an image processing apparatus and an image processing method by which a reduction in encoding efficiency can be suppressed. A prediction residual of an image is orthogonally transformed, the number of significant figures of coefficient data obtained by performance of orthogonal transform on the prediction residual is controlled on the basis of a bit depth indicating a range of pixel values of a local level that is a data unit smaller than a sequence level of the image; the coefficient data is quantized, and the number of significant figures of a quantized coefficient obtained by quantization of the coefficient data is controlled on the basis of the bit depth of the local level; and the quantized coefficient is encoded, and a bit stream is generated. The present disclosure is applicable to, for example, an image processing apparatus, an image encoding apparatus, or an image decoding apparatus.
US11109044B2	Color space conversion Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are disclosed for color space conversion. A video signal associated with a first color space may be received. The first color space may comprise a point. A partition of the first color space that includes the point may be determined. The partition may be associated with a first dimensionality. The point may be converted from the first color space to a second color space using a color space conversion model that corresponds with the partition. The color space conversion model may be associated with a second dimensionality. The second dimensionality may be less than the first dimensionality.
US11109043B2	Coding method and coding apparatus The image decoding method includes: determining a context for use in a current block to be processed, from among a plurality of contexts; and performing arithmetic decoding on a bit sequence corresponding to the current block, using the determined context, wherein in the determining: the context is determined under a condition that control parameters of neighboring blocks of the current block are used, when the signal type is a first type, the neighboring blocks being a left block and an upper block of the current block; and the context is determined under a condition that the control parameter of the upper block is not used, when the signal type is a second type, and the second type is one of “ref_idx_l0” and “ref_idx_l1”.
US11109036B2	Encoder-side options for intra block copy prediction mode for video and image coding Innovations in encoder-side options for intra block copy (“BC”) prediction mode facilitate intra BC prediction that is more effective in terms of rate-distortion performance and/or computational efficiency of encoding. For example, some of the innovations relate to concurrently performing block vector (“BV”) estimation and making block splitting decisions for a block. Other innovations relate to selectively merging blocks into a larger block during BV estimation.
US11109010B2	Automatic system for production-grade stereo image enhancements Systems and methods for automatically optimizing pairs of stereo images are presented. Pixels in an image pair are reprojected from their raw format to a common pixel-space coordinate system. The image pair is masked to remove pixels that do not appear in both images. Each image undergoes a local enhancement process. The local enhancements are processed into a global enhancement for each image of the image pair. A factor is calculated to balance the left and right images with each other. A brightness factor for the image pair is calculated. The enhancements, including the balancing and brightness factors, are then mapped to their respective images.
US11109008B2	Data transmission method, data loading device, data parsing device and data transmission system A data transmission method, a data loading device, a data parsing device, and a data transmission system are described herein. The methods include acquiring original video data, acquiring data to be transmitted, processing the original video data according to the data to be transmitted to obtain target video data, and displaying the target video data and the original video data. The methods may further include after displaying the target video data and the original video data, collecting the displayed target video data and original video data, parsing the original video data and the target video data to obtain the data to be transmitted.
US11109004B2	Display with increased pixel count An example projector includes: a first light source to provide first light; and a second light source to provide second light. A spatial light modulator produces: first modulated light by modulating the first light; and second modulated light by modulating the second light. An image direction device directs: the first modulated light to project a first image having a first pixel position; and the second modulated light to project a second image having a second pixel position.
US11108996B1	Two-way intercept using coordinate tracking and video classification A system comprising a coordinate tracking engine and a video classification engine communicably coupled to a notification engine. The coordinate tracking engine detects that geographical coordinates of a mobile device indicate that an account holder is within a threshold distance of a physical branch of an institution. The notification engine retrieves account information for the account holder. The coordinate tracking engine further detects that the account holder has arrived at the physical branch. The video classification engine captures video frames of an entrance to the physical branch and identifies the account holder. The notification engine further determines an institutional representative associated with the account holder is available at the physical branch, notifies the representative of the arrival of the account holder, and presents account information for the account holder.
US11108993B2	Predictive network management for real-time video with varying video and network conditions A system and methods for controlling video streaming over a shared communications channel from a set of two or more video cameras to a base station, including acquiring video capture rate data values from each video camera; acquiring transmissions rate data values from each video camera indicative of a rate of transmission from each video camera to the base station over the shared communications channel; acquiring channel bandwidth data values from said shared communications channel indicative of a supported rate of transmission by the shared communications channel; predicting, from the acquired video capture, communications rate and channel bandwidth data values, future values of at least one of (1) future captured video rate data; (2) future transmission rate data; or (3) future channel bandwidth; and responsively providing that video rates of transmission from all the cameras are supported by the shared communications channel.
US11108978B2	Image sensor and image-capturing device including adjustment unit for reducing capacitance An image sensor includes: a first pixel having a first photoelectric conversion unit that photoelectrically converts light to generate a charge, a first accumulation unit that accumulates the charge generated by the first photoelectric conversion unit, and a first output unit that is connected to the first accumulation unit; a second pixel having a second photoelectric conversion unit that photoelectrically converts light to generate a charge, a second accumulation unit that accumulates the charge generated by the second photoelectric conversion unit, and a second output unit that is connected to and disconnected from the second accumulation unit via a second connection unit; and an adjustment unit that adjusts capacitances of the first accumulation unit and the second accumulation unit if a signal based on the charges generated by the first photoelectric conversion unit and the second photoelectric conversion unit is output from the first output unit.
US11108969B2	Shutter apparatus, imaging apparatus, control method of shutter apparatus, and storage medium A shutter apparatus includes a shutter base plate having an opening, a light shielding member movable to provide a closed state for closing the opening and an open state for opening the opening, and at least one processor or circuit configured to perform operations of a control unit configured to control the light shielding member configured to reciprocate relative to the opening so as to move the light shielding member in a first direction for a forward exposure and in a second direction opposite to the first direction for a return exposure. The control unit varies an exposure correction amount of the light shielding member between the forward exposure and the return exposure.
US11108957B1	Low power operation of differential image sensor pixels An imaging system includes a sensor array of differential pixels. A controller operates a first differential pixel of the sensor array in a first, lower power mode. The controller supplies a first clock signal to selectively activate a first collection terminal of the first differential pixel for a first duration, and a second clock signal to selectively activate a second collection terminal of the first differential pixel for a second duration. In an analog domain, a first amount of charge accumulated at the first collection terminal over the first duration is readout and compared to a readout of a second amount of charge accumulated at the second collection terminal over the second duration. Responsive to the first amount of charge being different from the second amount of charge by more than a threshold, the first differential pixel of the sensor array is operated in a second, higher power mode.
US11108956B2	Imaging apparatus with high-load and low-load mode control An imaging apparatus which can be mounted with a first battery and a second battery includes: a load circuit configured to operate the imaging apparatus; and a control circuit configured to control power supply to the load circuit based on a first battery voltage in the first battery and a second battery voltage in the second battery. In a high-load mode, the control circuit selects any one of the first battery, the second battery, and a combination of the first and second batteries in accordance with the first and second battery voltages, to supply power to the load circuit. In a low-load mode, the control circuit selects either one of the first battery and the second battery in accordance with the first and second battery voltages without selecting the combination of the first and second batteries, to supply power to the load circuit.
US11108952B2	Extended scene view The disclosure provide methods and content consumption devices that enable a scene, for example a 360° scene, that is larger (i.e. has more pixels in at least one dimension) than a display format of the content consumption device to be displayed. Constituent scene views are received individually by the content consumption device, for example as broadcasts, and are combined, for example stitched together, at the content consumption device to output a part of the scene that fits in the display format. The part of the scene (and hence the required constituent streams) to be displayed are determined by a signal, for example a navigational input from a user, enabling the user to navigate in the scene.
US11108950B2	Method for generating blurred photograph, and storage device and mobile terminal Provided is a method for generating a blurred photo graph, comprising: receiving a blurring adjustment instruction and determining a blurring adjustment signal trajectory of the blurring adjustment instruction; if the trajectory is a dynamic short change, according to a first blurring mapping signal corresponding to the dynamic forward movement of a target object, obtaining a virtual photographing state and adjusting the target object to be in the virtual photographing state; and if the trajectory is a dynamic long change, according to a second blurring mapping signal corresponding to the dynamic back ward movement of the target object, obtaining a virtual photographing state and adjusting the target object to be in the virtual photographing state.
US11108944B2	Image processing apparatus for providing information for confirming depth range of image, control method of the same, and storage medium An image processing apparatus comprises at least one processor which function as: an obtaining unit configured to obtain one or more images; and a display control unit configured to display the one or more images on a display in a different display mode and to superimpose, on an image, information indicating a defocus range of the image on a basis of the display mode and defocus information. The display control unit changes, depending on whether a first number of images are displayed or a second number of images are displayed, displaying that uses information indicating a defocus range of focus or non-focus and information indicating a defocus range in which a focus position is changeable or a defocus range of a case where an aperture value is changed.
US11108938B2	Image pickup apparatus An image pickup apparatus includes an image sensor, a substrate mounted with the image sensor, a first holding member configured to hold the image sensor, and having an opening configured to expose an imaging plane of the image sensor, the image sensor being fixed to the first holding member via an adhesive while the image sensor is housed in the opening of the first holding member, and a convex portion extending in a direction from the first holding member to the substrate.
US11108929B2	Sheet conveying device and document reading unit According to one or more embodiments, a sheet conveying device includes a reading device, a roller, a downstream guide, and a transition guide. The reading device reads a surface of the sheet. The roller faces the reading device. The downstream guide is downstream of the roller in the sheet conveyance direction. The transition guide guides the sheet at least during a sheet transition from the reading position to s an upstream end of the downstream guide.
US11108926B2	Sheet processing apparatus, sheet processing system, sheet processing method, and sheet processing program Provided is a sheet processing apparatus which enables processing of a sheet without a decrease in processing efficiency even when the phenomenon that the information cannot be read from the header card arises. The sheet processing apparatus is a sheet processing apparatus that successively processes a plurality of processing-target sheets forming a sheet group, the sheet group including at least one sheet set, the at least one sheet set including a first sheet that is given first recognition information and a second sheet, the sheet processing apparatus includes a recognition unit that reads the first recognition information from one of the plurality of processing-target sheets and a controller that generates second recognition information associated with the one of the plurality of processing-target sheets when the recognition unit fails to read the first recognition information from the one of the plurality of processing-target sheets and a predetermined condition is satisfied.
US11108902B2	Camera assembly and terminal A camera assembly and a terminal are provided. The camera assembly includes a base body having a receiving cavity, a driving component and a sliding body received in the receiving cavity, and a camera module. The driving component is configured to drive the sliding body moving relative to the base body, to enable the sliding body to extend out of or retract into the receiving cavity. The sliding body includes a base member and a cover plate. The cover plate covers the base member and is engaged with the base member to define a component space for receiving the camera module. The cover plate has a through hole in communication with the component space. The camera module includes a voice coil motor and a lens facing the through hole. The voice coil motor drives the lens to extend out of or retract into the sliding body through the through hole.
US11108899B2	WLAN device with preamble decode-based receive suspend during undesired packets A WLAN device includes a processor implementing a MAC layer and a PHY layer which is coupled to a transceiver including a receive (Rx) chain and a transmit (Tx) chain that is coupled to an antenna. A preamble decode-based receive suspend algorithm has software stored in a memory that is implemented by the processor or by hardware including digital logic. The algorithm responsive to receiving a packet including a Physical Layer Convergence Protocol (PLCP) header, a MAC header, and data, is for analyzing a length field in the PLCP header to determine whether the packet is an undesignated packet and whether there is sufficient time remaining for implementing a turning off and then back on of an analog portion of the Rx chain to avoid missing a next packet. If the undesignated packet and sufficient time are present, the analog portion of the Rx chain is turned off.
US11108887B2	Methods and systems for the display and navigation of a social network Systems and methods for the display and navigation of a social network or set forth. According to one embodiment a method comprising identifying a first profile in a social network, identifying associated profiles associated with the first profile, ranking the associated profiles, wherein ranking is not based exclusively on a degree of separation, and outputting the associated profiles based at least in part on the ranking is set forth. According to another embodiment a method comprising identifying a user profile, identifying a member profile, determining an association path for the user profile and the member profile, and outputting the association path is set forth.
US11108861B1	System for managing multiple information management cells A disclosure for management of multiple information management cells running different versions of software applications using a gateway system is provided herein. The disclosure addresses the drawbacks associated with the current environment of managing multiple information management cells through a separate URL by centralizing the user interfaces (UI) to a single front-end administrative UI that is specific to the version of software application operating on that cell. The gateway system comprises a mapping module, a storage module, a UI module, and a communication module that interoperate to retrieve the version of a software application operating on the targeted cell, the UI running that version of software application, and presenting a user interface that can view and manage the operations of that targeted cell. The gateway system serves the UI specific for the version of software application for that cell from its local collection.
US11108858B2	Archiving mail servers via a simple mail transfer protocol (SMTP) server Systems and methods for providing data storage operations, such as archiving and/or backing up of data, for mail servers, such as Exchange servers, via a Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) interface are described. For example, the systems and methods may provide an SMTP server between one or more Exchange servers and a media agent, which is configured to performing secondary copy operations, in order to quickly and/or efficiently generate archive or other secondary copies of various mailboxes within the mail server before or during the transfer of mail data to the media agent for data storage operations.
US11108834B2	Method and system for completing a voice call in a cloud-based communication system A method and system for completing a voice call in a cloud-based communication system is provided. A cloud-based group voice call service receives a group voice call initiation request from a first mobile device located at a first communication system. The group voice call initiation request is a request to complete a group voice call with a second mobile device located at a second communication system. The cloud-based group voice call service allocates resources at the first communication system and the second communication system. The cloud-based group voice call service issues a call grant to the first mobile device located at the first communication system and also issues a call response to the second mobile device located at the second communication system in order to complete the voice call.
US11108833B2	Crossed-invite call handling A method and devices for handling crossed-invite situations in set-up of IP-based sessions. A local device receives an incoming session invite after sending an outgoing session invite before the outgoing session invite has been accepted. It then determines that the incoming session invite was sent by the remote device to which the outgoing session invite is also addressed. The method includes determining a remote device priority value from identifying information contained in the incoming session invite, comparing the remote device priority value with a local device priority value to determine whether the remote device or the local device is higher priority and, if the remote device is higher priority, canceling the outgoing session invite and displaying an incoming call answer screen for the incoming session invite, and if the local device is higher priority, waiting for cancelation of the incoming session invite and acceptance of the outgoing session invite.
US11108825B2	Managed real-time communications between user devices Managed real-time communications between user devices may be provided. Upon receiving a request to instantiate a communication connection from an application, a secure session may be established between the application and a remote application. Input from a user of the application may be received, subjected to at least one management policy, and transmitted to the remote application.
US11108820B2	Apparatus and method for distinguishing between legitimate and malicious branches of a split blockchain Nodes determine a first measure of difficulty for a first branch of a split blockchain and a second measure of difficulty for a second branch of the split blockchain. The first measure of difficulty is based on a measure of block generation frequency of each node that mined for the split blockchain during a window that comprises blocks of the first branch. The second measure of difficulty is based on a measure of block generation frequency of each node that mined for the split blockchain during a window that comprises blocks of the second branch. One of the first branch and the second branch is identified as a legitimate branch based on a comparison of the first measure of difficulty and the second measure of difficulty.
US11108807B2	Performing rule-based actions for newly observed domain names Domain names are determined for each computational event in a set, each event detailing requests or posts of webpages. A number of events or accesses associated with each domain name within a time period is determined. A registrar is further queried to determine when the domain name was registered. An object is generated that includes a representation of the access count and an age since registration for each domain names. A client can interact with the object to explore representations of domain names associated with high access counts and recent registrations. Upon determining that a given domain name is suspicious, a rule can be generated to block access to the domain name.
US11108804B2	Providing secure inter-vehicle data communications Systems, methods, and software can be used to provide secure inter-vehicle data communications. In some aspects, a method, comprising: receiving, at a security server and from a hardware security processor connected to a system bus of a vehicle, security confidence data of the vehicle, wherein the security confidence data include at least one of version information of a software code executing on a component of the vehicle, diagnostic data information of the vehicle, or data traffic pattern information of the vehicle; determining, at the security server, a security confidence score of the vehicle; receiving, at the security server, a query from a different vehicle; and in response to the query, transmitting the confidence score of the vehicle to the different vehicle.
US11108803B2	Determining security vulnerabilities in application programming interfaces A security system scans application programming interfaces (APIs) to detect security vulnerabilities by receiving API documentation from a third-party system associated with the API and organizing it in an API specification that describes the hostname of the API and one or more endpoints of the API. For each of the endpoints, the API specification includes a uniform resource identifier, a method term, an input content type, an output content type (if applicable), authorization details, and any associated parameters or arguments. The security system performs an audit job for each combination of endpoints, potential security vulnerabilities, and (in some embodiments) authentication flows. In some embodiments, the security system is able to access portions of the API requiring authentication by using authentication flows received from the third-party system and detect security vulnerabilities related to authentication by manipulating the authentication units that make up the authentication flow.
US11108797B2	Timely detection of network traffic to registered DGA generated domains A non-transitory computer-readable medium having a program stored thereon that, when executed by one or more processors, directs a computing system to secure a communication network. The program comprises a traffic inspection engine, a domain generation algorithm (DGA) inspection engine, and a message bus communicationally coupling the traffic inspection engine and the DGA inspection engine. The traffic inspection engine is configured to identify if a traffic session containing a domain name system (DNS) request and/or response in a communication network includes a DGA generated domain and send information about the identified DGA generated domain to the DGA inspection engine via the message bus. The DGA inspection engine is configured to verify if the identified DGA generated domain is registered, and send information about the registered DGA domain to the traffic inspection engine via the message bus. The traffic inspection engine is further configured to inspect, using the information about the registered DGA generated domain, if a subsequent traffic session in the communication network contains the registered DGA generated domain.
US11108796B1	System and method for identifying security entities in a computing environment System and method to identify a security entity in a computing environment is disclosed. Communication between a user computer and at least one destination computer by a security appliance is monitored by a security appliance. A virtual identifier is assigned to a subset of the communication within a defined time period. At least one security entity is identified based on a subset of the selective information. The assigned virtual identifier associated with at least one security entity.
US11108794B2	Indicating malware generated domain names using n-grams Systems and methods for identifying, in a domain name, n-grams that do not appear in words of a given language, where n is greater than two are disclosed. The disclosed systems and methods may include comparing a value based on a number of the identified n-grams to a threshold and indicating that the domain name is potentially generated by malware in response to the value having a specified relationship with respect to the threshold.
US11108792B2	Systems and methods for determining individual and group risk scores Embodiments disclosed herein describe a server, for example a security awareness server or an artificial intelligence machine learning system that establishes a risk score or vulnerable for a user of a security awareness system, or for a group of users of a security awareness system. The server may create a frequency score for a user, which predicts the frequency at which the user is to be hit with a malicious attack. The frequency score may be based on at least a job score, which may be represented by a value that is based on the type of job the user has, and a breach score that may be represented by a value that is based on the user's level of exposure to email.
US11108786B2	Data processing method and apparatus A data processing method may include: determining, by a transaction initiation node in a blockchain, transaction data of a transaction and information to be hidden in the transaction data; obtaining, by using the transaction data as an input of a predetermined one-way function, a transaction root of the transaction, and constructing, based on the transaction root, proof data corresponding to the information to be hidden; and, after signing the transaction root, initiating a transaction request to write the transaction root and the proof data on the blockchain, for a node in the blockchain to perform consensus verification on the transaction root and the proof data, and approve or reject the transaction request based on a verification result.
US11108777B1	Temporarily providing a software product access to a resource Functionality is disclosed herein for providing temporary access to a resource. A software product that is executing in response to a request from a customer may access one or more resources of a software provider. The resources that may be accessed by a software product may be identified within an access policy. The customer is prevented from accessing the resource when the software product is not executing.
US11108775B2	System, method and apparatus for increasing website relevance while protecting privacy The present invention provides a system, method and apparatus for increasing relevance of a content provided to a visitor by a content provider by providing one or more server computers and at least one data storage communicably coupled to the one or more server computers, receiving at least a portion of a visitor token and at least a portion of a content provider token at the one or more server computers from a content provider device, determining whether a release of an anonymous unfilled demand for the visitor is authorized based on the visitor token, the content provider token and one or more preferences stored in the at least one data storage, and sending at least a portion of the anonymous unfilled demand for the visitor to the content provider device when the release is authorized.
US11108774B2	Method and system for verifying user identity Embodiments disclosed herein generally relate to a system and method of verifying an identity of user. A computing system receives a HTTP request. The HTTP request includes at least a user name and an IP address associated with a router accessed by the remote client device. The computing system parses the HTTP request to extract the user name and the IP address contained therein. The computing system identifies a user account associated with the extracted user name. The computing system identifies an internet service provider associated with the IP address. The computing system transmits a verification message to the third party service provider. The computing system receives a confirmation message from the third party service provider. The computing system increases a level of confidence in an identification verification process based on the confirmation.
US11108773B1	Mobile user authentication over WIFI using IPX networks A client device accesses an online system using an authentication process when it is connected to a public network and not a private network. The client device requests access using an authentication broker via the public network. The authentication broker determines an authentication system and transmits identification information for the client device to the authentication system via the private network. The authentication broker receives an authentication vector generated by the authentication system via the private network, and receives a verification response from the client device via the public network. The verification response corresponds to a verification challenge generated based on the authentication vector by the authentication broker. The authentication broker determines the client device is authorized to access the online system based on the authentication vector and verification response and transmits an authorization to the client device via the public network allowing access to the online system.
US11108767B2	Apparatus and system for obtaining and encrypting documentary materials The apparatus and systems provided herein relate to a distributed patent processing system. Such a system includes, in one particular arrangement web portals, mobile applications and an integrated secure network enabled hardware unit designed to capture documentary evidence relating to a technology or concept disclosure by an inventor. This disclosure is used to generate an encrypted data package for transmission to a national or international patent office. The package, upon receipt by one or more patent offices is accorded a priority and filing date just as in standard patent application filings.
US11108764B2	Automating responses to authentication requests using unsupervised computer learning techniques Techniques are disclosed relating to automating authentication decisions for a multi-factor authentication scheme based on computer learning. In disclosed embodiments, a mobile device receives a first request corresponding to a factor in a first multi-factor authentication procedure. Based on user input approving or denying the first request, the mobile device sends a response to the first request and stores values of multiple parameters associated with the first request. The mobile device receives a second request corresponding to a factor in a second multi-factor authentication procedure where the second request is for authentication for a different account than the first request. The mobile device automatically generates an approval response to the second request based on performing a computer learning process on inputs that include values of multiple parameters for the second request and the stored values of the multiple parameters associated with the first request. The approval response is automatically generated and sent without receiving user input to automate the second request.
US11108762B2	Methods and systems for controlling access to a protected resource A method for regulating access to a protected resource is disclosed. The method includes: receiving, via the communication interface from a client application executing on a first device, a first signal including a request to obtain an access token for accessing a protected resource, the request including: a client identifier uniquely identifying the client application; an authorization code for authorizing the client application's access of the protected resource; and a public key associated with the end user; and in response to validating the request: encrypting the authorization code using the public key to generate a first code; and transmitting, via the communication interface to the client application on the first device, a second signal including both an access token for accessing the protected resource and the first code.
US11108747B2	Decentralized and distributed secure home subscriber server device A decentralized and distributed secure home subscriber server is provided. First data can be sent representing a first nonce string to a mobile device; and in response to receiving second data representing the first nonce string and a second nonce string, a communication channel can be established with the mobile device as a function of the first nonce string.
US11108741B2	System and method for the separation of systems that work together A system and method is introduced for separating computing devices that work together. The computing devices appear to the user as a single device such as through using a single display and other I/O means. The output of computing devices such as the display output, may be monitored for unwanted display output to the user which may be filtered from the user. The device displaying unwanted content may then be reverted to a known state. Computing devices may communicate among themselves using display data while remaining separated. Secure services from the cloud to a user device may be offered through the separated computing devices that work together, services that utilizes separating and securing the user I/O from internet connected devices, while allowing to monitor and filter the internet connected devices. These services preferably use a key that is non-extractable for communicating with the secure cloud. Such services from the cloud server may include a secure remote desktop for VDI/DaaS and a secure web browser There is also provided implementation of the system on different architectures using SW only or using some HW additions. Usage examples for vehicles, enterprises and others are described.
US11108734B2	Error indication processing and system, and device The present disclosure provides an error indication processing method and system, and a device, and relates to the field of communications technologies, to resolve a problem that normal transmission of a service data packet is affected due to an inconsistency between contexts of an access node and a user plane network element in a next generation mobile communications network.
US11108726B2	Message queues for rapid re-hosting of client devices Connected gateway servers relay an electronic message from a first client device to a second client device by storing the message in respective user message queues associated with the sender and/or recipient of the message and then sending the message along a sequence of gateway servers to a gateway server that hosts the second client device. Upon receiving the electronic message at a first gateway server, a second gateway server that is hosting the second client device is identified and a sequence of gateway servers starting at the first gateway server and ending at the second gateway server is determined. Each gateway server in the sequence relays the message to the following gateway server in the sequence while maintaining user message queues. Failure of the last gateway server in the sequence results in the penultimate gateway server in the sequence assuming the responsibility of hosting the second client device.
US11108725B1	Social media message composition Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for posting messages on a social messaging platform. One of the methods includes providing a message composition interface; receiving a user request to include a promotion with a composed message; in response to the request, processing the content of the composed message and the user's profile on the social messaging platform to determine one or more social signals; computing an engagement score for each user in a pool of users, wherein the engagement score for each user indicates the likelihood that the user will engage with the message; selecting candidate users from the pool of users; selecting a plurality of target users from the candidate users based on a promotion value and the respective engagement scores; and posting the message on the platform including adding the message to a message stream associated with the selected target users.
US11108724B2	Electronically referring a contact without divulging contact data An information source, such as an advertiser or product vendor, transfers information to contacts for which the information source has no contact data. The information source stores information in an information database which communicates the information to a referrer which has the desired contact data. The referrer uses a communication device to transfer the information to one or more contacts using contact data.
US11108720B2	Upsell framework for network services Processes and systems described herein enable improvement of quality of experience (QoE) of network services using an upsell framework of the network services. Embodiments of the present disclosure include determining, by a computing device, a network throttling event associated with a network throttling imposed on an account of a user. In response to the determining, the computing device may at least cause presenting of one or more upgrade options in a user interface. After receiving a user selection of an upgrade option of the one or more upgrade options, the computing device may at least cause an adjustment of the network throttling.
US11108719B2	System and method for self-destructing messages Disclosed are systems and methods for automatically deleting messages from a recipient's inbox. The disclosed systems and methods provide the ability for automatic actions to be taken on delivered messages based on a passage of time. This enables a sender of messages, email service provider and/or email platform to exert control over sent messages to limit the number and type of operations that may be performed on such messages. For example, operations such as saving, forwarding, printing, copying, or otherwise duplicating the message and/or message data can be prohibited and all together rendered impossible. The disclosed systems and methods enables the purging of messages and associated message data from a recipient's inbox at a certain specified time, after the passage of a pre-determined amount of time, or upon the detection of a specified event.
US11108705B2	Linear network coding with pre-determined coefficient generation through parameter initialization and reuse A network node having a receiver for receiving input packets, a local node memory where one or more parameters for coding are stored, an encoder for creating coded packets from the input packets using linear network coding, and a transmitter to transmit the coded packets. Each coefficient of the linear network coding is a parameter of the one or more parameters or a pre-determined function of the one or more parameters. A related method and a network are also presented.
US11108704B2	Use of stashing buffers to improve the efficiency of crossbar switches A switch architecture enables ports to stash packets in unused buffers on other ports, exploiting excess internal bandwidth that may exist, for example, in a tiled switch. This architecture leverages unused port buffer memory to improve features such as congestion handling and error recovery.
US11108702B1	Customized command execution for a computing resource fleet A virtual computer system management service receives input from a user specifying operations to be performed by a web-based service. The input includes an indication of a set of resources to be used to perform the operations and control information to control the set of resources to perform the operations. The virtual computer system management service configures the resources to perform the operations according to the control information. This causes the set of resources to perform the operations and provide a result. The virtual computer system management service provides this result to the user.
US11108696B2	Next hop groups In general, the invention relates to a method for programming a network device to perform routing of data packets between and/or within networks. More specifically, the method provides a more efficient process for updating the forwarding equivalence class (FEC) table with minimal impacting of the mappings in the forward information base (FIB) of the network device.
US11108694B2	Communication system and upload method A communication system includes a plurality of communication terminals to transmit communication information and a communication controller. Each of the communication terminals includes: a generator to generate log information on communication between the communication terminals; a storage to store log information generated by the generator; and a transmitter to upload log information that is capable of being uploaded depending on a communication line band used for the communication information. The communication controller includes a communication management server configured to control transmission of the communication information and a log upload server, wherein the communication controller is configured to distribute the log information uploaded by the transmitter to the log upload server.
US11108683B2	Techniques for preferred path local switching in EVPN-VPWS In one embodiment, a method includes, subsequent to receipt of a packet from a first customer network node destined for a second customer network node at a first provider network node, determining whether a local connection exists between the first provider network node and the second customer network node, the provider network node forming part of an Ethernet Virtual Private Network (“EVPN”)—Virtual Private Wire Service (“VPWS”) domain; if a local connection is determined to exist between the first provider network node and the second customer network node, determining whether the local connection has failed; if the local connection is determined not to have failed, switching the packet to the second customer network node via the local connection instead of via the EVPN-VPWS domain; and if the local connection is determined to have failed, switching the packet to the second customer network node via the EVPN-VPWS domain.
US11108679B2	Producing deadlock-free routes in lossless cartesian topologies with minimal number of virtual lanes An apparatus includes a network interface and a processor. The network interface communicates with a network including switches interconnected in a Cartesian topology having multiple dimensions. The processor predefines turn types of turns in the Cartesian topology, each turn traverses first and second hops along first and second dimensions having same or different respective identities, and each turn type is defined at least by identities of the first and second dimensions. The processor searches for a preferred route from a source switch to a destination switch, by evaluating candidate routes based on the number of VLs required for preventing a deadlock condition caused by the candidate route. The number of VLs required depends on a sequential pattern of turn types formed by the candidate route. The processor configures one or more switches in the network to route packets from the source switch to the destination switch along the preferred route.
US11108677B2	Methods and apparatus for configuring a standby WAN link in an adaptive private network Techniques for providing a backup network path using a standby wide area network (WAN) link with reducing monitoring. Packet loss and latency metrics are monitored for network paths in an adaptive private network (APN) connecting a first user and a second user according to control traffic operating at a first control bandwidth for each network path. A determination is made that a first network path uses a standby WAN link, has packet loss and latency metrics indicative of a good quality state, and has at least one characteristic that identifies the first network path as a backup network path. The control traffic is then reduced for the backup network path to a second control bandwidth substantially less than the first control bandwidth. The backup network path is made active when the number of active network paths is less than or equal to a minimum number.
US11108673B2	Extensible, decentralized health checking of cloud service components and capabilities Methods, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for checking the health of a cloud-based component. The method includes receiving, by a health event hub as output by a first device, a request for performing a health check on a second device; outputting, by the health event hub, the request to each health checker on the network; receiving, by the health event hub, a health data response output by at least one checker that is capable of performing the health check; collecting, by the health event hub, each health data response associated with the request output by the first device that is output by the at least one health checker that is capable of performing the health check on the second device; and outputting, by the health event hub to each health data collector on the network, each health data response associated with the request output by the first device.
US11108666B2	Latency prediction and network message microtiming A system for network message microtiming, comprising a central routing device, a first mesh network, and a second mesh network. The central routing device continuously receives utilization data from one or more devices of the first mesh network; continuously receives timing data from one of more devices of the second mesh network; builds and continuously updates a probabilistic future latency model based at least in part on the utilization data and the timing data; receives a message from a client computing device comprising data to be sent to at least one of a plurality of remote computing devices via the first mesh network; determines that a current expected latency according to the future latency model exceeds a predetermined threshold; and as a result delays transmission of a packet comprising the data to be sent to at the least one of the plurality of remote computing devices.
US11108664B2	Prioritized message routing Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for routing messages in a network. Gateways may be selectively chosen to forward messages from a user device to a network server. Gateways may forward messages based on forwarding priorities for the user device. The forwarding priorities may, for example, indicate a repeat count threshold for a quantity of times the gateway may receive a message from a particular user device before the gateway forwards the message.
US11108658B2	Method for detecting data, method for updating a scenario catalog, a device, a computer program and a machine-readable memory medium A method for detecting data of a vehicle operated at least partially in an automated manner, including at least one sensor, in particular, a surroundings sensor, in particular, a video sensor, a radar sensor, a LIDAR sensor, an ultrasonic sensor, an infrared sensor, and/or a GNSS sensor, in particular, for receiving a GPS signal, a GLONASS signal or a Galileo signal, and/or a vehicle sensor, in particular, for engine control, for activating occupant protection means, for activating assistance functions and/or convenience functions, in particular, an acceleration sensor, a rotation rate sensor, a pressure sensor, and at least one memory, in particular, a ring memory, including detecting data of the at least one sensor; saving the data in the memory, in particular, in the ring memory; detecting an event; initially storing the content of the memory, in particular, of the ring memory, at the point in time of the detected event.
US11108656B1	Techniques for allocating and managing telecommunication resources In some implementations, a computer may during a repeating interval in a local GCAC node: (a) receiving and storing key data from one or more other GCAC nodes, the key data indicative of resource usage data for each key in the respective one or more other GCAC nodes wherein each key is associated with an allocation limit equal to a number of resources it may use at any given time across all GCAC nodes; (b) storing current key data, the current key data indicative of the resource usage data for each key in the local GCAC node; (c) determining estimated network-wide key data, the estimated network-wide key data indicative of an estimated network-wide resource usage across all GCAC nodes for each key, the estimated network-wide key data based on a combination of the current key data for the local GCAC node and a weighted multiple of the key data in each of the one or more other GCAC nodes; (d) storing the estimated network-wide key data for each key; and (e) repeating steps (a)-(d) during each interval.
US11108655B2	Automated application deployment in a managed services domain Techniques are described relating to automated deployment of an application in a managed services domain of a cloud computing environment. One or more of such techniques may minimize human interaction or intervention during deployment of the application. An associated method includes receiving from a client system a request to deploy the application in a target environment and analyzing the request via a machine learning knowledge model. Additionally, the method includes requesting from the client system access to the target environment and, upon receiving access to the target environment, validating the target environment through inspection. Upon validating the target environment, the method further includes facilitating presentation of an application deployment plan through an interface of the client system. Responsive to client approval of the application deployment plan, the method further includes deploying the application by facilitating application installation in the target environment via the machine learning knowledge model.
US11108653B2	Network service management method, related apparatus, and system A network service management method includes receiving, by a second NFVO, a first request sent by a first NFVO; and establishing, by the second NFVO, a connection between the nested network service instance and the composite network service instance and a connection between the nested network service instance and a member instance in the composite network service instance based on the service access point instance and the information about the service access point instance, and establishing a network connection between the nested network service instance and a member instance in the nested network service instance based on the service access point instance and the information about the service access point instance.
US11108648B2	Information processing method in M2M and apparatus An information aggregation method includes receiving an aggregation resource creation request, determining an identifier of an aggregated resource and an aggregation manner according to the aggregation resource creation request, creating an aggregation resource according to the determined identifier of the aggregated resource and the determined aggregation manner, where an attribute of the aggregation resource includes the identifier of the aggregated resource and the aggregation manner, and performing information aggregation according to the created aggregation resource.
US11108642B2	Method and apparatus for non-intrusive agentless platform-agnostic application topology discovery System and computer-implemented method for constructing a topology for an application distributed over multiple virtual computing instances in which a set of resource utilization metrics are collected for multiple computing instances. A propagation sequence caused by an execution of the application is determined based on the set of resource utilization metrics. A graph may be created with the propagation sequence, wherein each virtual computing instance in the multiple computing instances is a possible node in the graph and the graph includes all nodes associated with the application.
US11108641B2	Automatic switching fabric role determination system A switching fabric role assignment system includes a plurality of switch devices coupled together in a switching fabric. A first switch device included in the plurality of switch devices receives an endhost device identification communication from an endhost device when the endhost device is connected to the first switch device. The first switch device uses the endhost device identification communication to identify an endhost device type of the endhost device and determines, based on the endhost device type, a first switch device role for the first switch device. The first switch device then transmits a first switch device role communication that identifies the first switch device role to a second switch device included in the plurality of switch devices and connected to the first switch device. The second switch device may then determine, based on the first switch device role, a second switch device role for the second switch device.
US11108639B2	Wireless device feedback for semi-persistent scheduling release A wireless device receives RRC message(s) comprising a first configuration parameter of a first SPS configuration, a second configuration parameter of a second SPS configuration, and a third configuration parameter. The first configuration parameter may indicate a first HARQ codebook identifier. The second configuration parameter may indicate a second HARQ codebook identifier. The second HARQ codebook identifier may be the same as the first HARQ codebook identifier. The third configuration parameter may indicate a state that is mapped to the first SPS configuration and the second SPS configuration. A DCI may be received. A value of bit(s) of a HARQ process number field of the DCI may indicate the state. The wireless device may deactivate the first SPS configuration and the second SPS configuration in response to receiving the DCI. An acknowledgement may be transmitted.
US11108638B1	Health monitoring of automatically deployed and managed network pipelines Deployment of a network service pipeline may be automated by defining workflows comprising functions of instances of elements. Workflows may be defined in a graphical user interface including menus for the selection of elements, functions, and predefined workflows. A workflow may be dynamic such that addition or modification of a function invokes a trigger that automatically populates or modifies parameters of the functions of the workflow. Elements may each have a same set of functions that may be invoked by an orchestrator to perform automated implementation of the workflow. Functions of a workflow may be implemented in batches and may retrieve executable. data from a distributed file store. A test platform with hardware and network simulation may be used to develop functions and workflows.
US11108628B2	Linking multiple enrollments on a client device Disclosed are various examples for facilitating enrollment of a client device into more than one management framework. A client device can be enrolled with a management service as a fully managed device. The client device can also be enrolled with the management service as a personal or bring-your-own-device (BYOD), which causes a workspace to be created on the device that is segregated from the rest of the client device. Both enrollments can be managed by a remotely executed management service.
US11108626B2	Rewriting communication headers to manage virtual networks of virtual machines Techniques are described for providing logical networking functionality for managed computer networks, such as for virtual computer networks provided on behalf of users or other entities. In some situations, a user may configure or otherwise specify a network topology for a virtual computer network, such as a logical network topology that separates multiple computing nodes of the virtual computer network into multiple logical sub-networks and/or that specifies one or more logical networking devices for the virtual computer network. After a network topology is specified for a virtual computer network, logical networking functionality corresponding to the network topology may be provided in various manners, such as without physically implementing the network topology for the virtual computer network. In some situations, the computing nodes may include virtual machine nodes hosted on one or more physical computing machines or systems, such as by or on behalf of one or more users.
US11108620B2	Multi-dimensional impact detect and diagnosis in cellular networks A method for multi-dimensional impact detection and diagnosis of networks. The methods and systems dynamically explore only those network feature combinations that are likely to have problems by using a summary structure Sketch, for example. The method and systems capture fine-grained anomalies at a coarse level which allows for on-demand zoom into the finer-grained levels for further analysis.
US11108604B2	Driver architecture for multiphase and amplitude encoding transmitters Certain disclosed methods, apparatus, and systems enable improved communication on a multiphase communication link through improved encoding techniques and protocol. A data communication apparatus has a plurality of line drivers configured to couple the apparatus to a 3-wire link, and a data encoder configured to encode at least 3 bits of binary data in each transition between two symbols that are consecutively transmitted by the plurality of line drivers over the 3-wire link such that each pair of consecutively-transmitted symbols comprises two different symbols. Each symbol defines signaling states of the 3-wire link during an associated symbol transmission interval such that each wire of the 3-wire link is in a different signaling state from the other wires of the 3-wire link during the associated symbol transmission interval. Data may be encoded using a combination of 3-phase and pulse amplitude modulation.
US11108593B2	Methods and systems to offload overlay network packet encapsulation to hardware A method for offloading packet encapsulation for an overlay network is provided. The method, at a virtualization software of a host, sends a mapping table of the overlay network to a physical network interface controller (NIC) associated with the host. The mapping table maps the identification of each of a set of virtual machine (VM) of a tenant on the host to an identification of a tunnel on the overlay network. The method, at the virtualization software, receives a packet from a VM of the tenant. The method sends the packet to the physical NIC. The method, at the physical NIC, encapsulates the packet for transmission over the overlay network by using the mapping table. The method of claim also tags the packet by the virtualization software as a packet that requires encapsulation for transmission in the overlay network prior to sending the packet to the physical NIC.
US11108589B2	Battery module, control method, program, and information processing system A communication network (3020) is a bus type communication network that communicably connects each battery module (2000). In the battery module (2000), a communication identifier that is used in communication through the communication network (3020) is set. A transmission unit (2020) transmits identifier information to all of the other battery modules (2000) through the communication network (3020). The identifier information indicates a candidate identifier that is a candidate of the communication identifier. A communication arbitration unit (2060) performs communication arbitration for the identifier information transmitted by the transmission unit (2020). In a case of winning in the communication arbitration, a decision unit (2080) decides the candidate identifier indicated in the transmitted identifier information as the communication identifier used by the battery module (2000). On the other hand, in a case of losing in the communication arbitration, the transmission unit (2020) transmits the identifier information again.
US11108587B2	Building management system with space graphs A building system for operating a building and managing building information causes one or more processors to receive building data from one or more building data sources, generate relationships between entities based on the building data, wherein the relationships comprises a pair of relationships between a first entity and a second entity of the entities representing two different types of relationships, wherein the pair of relationships comprises a first relationship between the first entity and the second entity and a second relationship between the second entity and the first entity, and update a space graph by causing the space graph to store nodes representing the entities and edges between the nodes representing the relationships, wherein the space graph is a graph data structure.
US11108582B2	Interactive weather advisory system A method for providing information to a plurality of vendors located remotely from a broadcast network. A plurality of user-defined parameters are received by a user input database with at least one of the user-defined parameters including a user profile. Each of the user profiles includes a user identifier code identifying a communicator device associated with a particular user. Real-time data indicative of the spatial locations of the communicator devices is received by a communicator location database. Search information is received independently from a plurality of vendors and a data set is generated for each vendor.
US11108580B2	Systems and methods for structuring information in a collaboration environment A computer-implemented machine learning method for improving a collaboration environment is provided. The method comprises receiving text data for one or more users of the collaboration environment. The method further comprises generating a statement by partitioning the text data. The method further comprises determining an act using the statement and generating a thread using at least the statement and the act. The method further comprises generating an actor list using at least the thread, and generating an actionable item using the actor list and the thread.
US11108578B1	Method for managing collaborative playlists A method for managing collaborative playlists includes providing indication regarding one or more available collaborative guidance controls for a playlist created by a first user of a plurality of users of a content sharing platform, wherein the playlist comprises content items hosted by the content sharing platform. The method also includes receiving a user selection of the first user regarding one of the one or more collaborative guidance controls for the playlist, wherein the selected collaborative guidance control is to provide a theme for user suggestions for the playlist, and wherein a number of user suggestions from a particular user is limited based on a number of content items previously suggested by the particular user that have been added to the playlist. The method further includes receiving a user suggestion of a second user of the plurality of users regarding an additional content item hosted by the content sharing platform for addition to the playlist, determining a number of content items previously suggested by the second user that have been added to the playlist, and responsive to determining that the number of the added content items that were previously suggested by the second user is below a predefined maximum number, adding the additional content item to the playlist for consumption by the plurality of users via the plurality of user devices.
US11108574B2	Technologies for switch link and ply management for variable oversubscription ratios Technologies for switch link and ply management for variable oversubscription ratios include powering up and down links of one or more network plys according to bandwidth demand, desired oversubscription ratio and/or other parameters. Telemetry data representing one or more network traffic metrics of one or more switch plies is monitored to determine respective power states of the plurality of links associated with the one or more switch plies as a function of a desired oversubscription ratio calculated based on the telemetry data. The respective power state of the plurality of links is set accordingly.
US11108567B2	Compute digital signature authentication verify instruction A single architected instruction to verify a signed message is executed. The executing includes determining a verify function of a plurality of verify functions supported by the instruction to be performed and obtaining input for the instruction. The input includes a message and a key. Based on the verify function to be performed and the input, a signature of the message is verified.
US11108563B2	Information processing system, client device, authentication and authorization server, control method, and storage medium An information processing system is provided which authenticates and authorizes a client device. In a case where it is determined that an error includes a time of an authentication and authorization server, the information processing system transmits a second authorization token request including the time of the authentication and authorization server to the authentication and authorization server.
US11108561B2	Techniques for secure blockchain routing Described herein are systems and methods for providing secure blockchain routing utilizing an extended blockchain protocol. In some embodiments, a blockchain routing node may join an overlay network including a plurality of blockchain routing nodes. The blockchain routing node may receive a plurality of forwarding tables from the plurality of blockchain routing nodes in accordance with an extended blockchain protocol. The blockchain routing node may determine a routing table for the overlay network based at least on part on the plurality of forwarding tables. In some embodiments, the blockchain routing node may route a payload message to a destination blockchain routing node in the overlay network in accordance with the determined routing table.
US11108551B2	Quantum key distribution system and method A continuous variable quantum key distribution system comprises a transmitter and a receiver. The first quantum signal has a first polarization and is associated with first quadrature components and the second quantum signal has a second polarization and is associated with second quadrature components. The receiver receives the quantum signals transmitted by the transmitter via a quantum communication channel; estimates a channel matrix representing the polarization rotation of the first and second polarization caused by the quantum communication channel; modifies the received first and second quantum signals on the basis of the polarization rotation; and uses the modified received first and second quantum signals for generating a secret key. The transmitter may modify the transmitted first quantum signal and the transmitted second quantum signal based on the polarization rotation and use the modified transmitted first quantum signal and the modified transmitted second quantum signal for generating a secret key.
US11108545B2	Creating a blockchain account and verifying blockchain transactions Implementations of this specification provide a method and an apparatus for creating a blockchain account and verifying blockchain transactions. An example method performed by a blockchain platform includes receiving a transaction, the transaction including at least an initiator field that specifies an account to be created, a receiver field that specifies a pre-determined field value, and a data field that specifies a user-defined key control rule. The user-defined key control rule includes at least one 3-tuple, and each 3-tuple includes a key identifier, an action identifier, and a permission setting. The blockchain platform seals the transaction into a block, and sends the sealed transaction to at least one other full node in the blockchain network.
US11108544B2	On-chain governance of blockchain An example operation may include one or more of receiving a request to commit a blockchain request to a hash-linked chain of blocks stored on a distributed ledger, extracting governance policies which are encoded within a data block of the hash-linked chain of blocks on the distributed ledger, determining if the blockchain request satisfies the extracted governance policies of the hash-linked chain of blocks on the distributed ledger, and in response to the blockchain request satisfying the extracted governance policies, executing the blockchain request and storing the executed blockchain request within another data block of the hash-linked chain of data blocks on the distributed ledger.
US11108541B1	Methods and apparatuses for executing smart contract of blockchain, and electronic devices A blockchain-based smart contract execution computer-implemented method, medium, and system are disclosed. In one computer-implemented method, a target transaction initiated by a client device is received by a node device in a blockchain to invoke a target smart contract. The blockchain is interconnected to a trusted third party. A contract engine for smart contract execution is deployed in the trusted third party. Contract source code of the target smart contract is obtained from a distributed database of the blockchain by the node device in response to the target transaction being received by the node device. The contract source code is sent by the node device to the trusted third party. An execution result from execution of the contract source code by the contract engine is received from the trusted third party by the node device.
US11108540B2	Securing cluster communications in a non-secure network Secure communications are established in a non-secure environment between virtual machines configured as nodes of a virtual machine cluster having a virtual scale-out architecture without user intervention. When a new virtual cluster node is automatically and dynamically created and deployed by a virtual cluster master node, the master node embeds in a common image from which the new node is created an initial secret key for establishing initial trusted communications between the new node and the master node. The master node then passes a permanent secret key to the new node, opens an OpenSSL connection for creating a public key infrastructure, and signs the new node's CSR with its own public and private keys and sends the signed certificate to the new node.
US11108534B2	Method and device for service time division multiplexing A method and device for transmitting a service are disclosed. A terminal device receives position information of specific radio frames in a time unit, and position information of a specific subframe in each of the specific radio frames in the time unit from a base station. Every 2m radio frames in the time unit include one specific radio frame, the position information of the specific radio frames in the time unit comprises a value of a period of the specific radio frames in the time unit, and a length of the period is 2m radio frames, where m is a nonnegative integer. The terminal device receives the service carried in the specific subframe in one or more of the specific radio frames from the base station in accordance with the position information of the specific radio frames and the position information of the specific subframe.
US11108522B2	Distinguishing reference signals in a beam-based communication system A user equipment (110), UE, receives (410), on a frequency carrier (200), a plurality of beams (130a, 130b). Each beam (130a, 130b) comprises a corresponding reference signal (210a, 210b). The UE (110) identifies (420) resources of the frequency carrier (200) carrying the corresponding reference signals (210a, 210b) and transmits (430) a report (310) comprising an indication of the resources on which the corresponding reference signals (210a, 210b) were carried. The access node (120a) receives (510) the report (310) from the UE (110) and identifies (520) a given access node (120a, 120b) based on the indication of the resources on which the corresponding reference signals (210a, 210b) were carried.
US11108521B2	Method for transmitting and receiving reference signal in wireless communication system The present disclosure relates to a 5G or pre-5G communication system to be provided for supporting a data rate higher than that of a 4G communication system, such as LTE, and subsequent communication systems. The present disclosure relates to a method for transmitting a reference signal (RS) in a wireless communication system, comprising the steps of: configuring a transmission resource by including at least one resource block (RB), which does not map the RS, between two RBs, which map the RS, in a first subframe; transmitting a first message for directing an RB offset indicating a gap between the two RBs, which map the RS, and locations of the RBs, which map the RS; and transmitting the RS through the configured transmission resource.
US11108515B2	Method and apparatus for transmitting reference signal in mobile communication system The present disclosure relates to a communication method and 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). The present 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. A method by which a terminal receives a signal in a mobile communication system, according to one embodiment of the present specification, comprises the steps of: receiving channel state information-reference signal (CSI-RS) mode information; and receiving a signal on the basis of the CSI-RS mode information. Unlike a conventional method of allowing a base station to periodically set the CSI-RS in a terminal at a predetermined position such that the terminal receives the CSI-RS and generates and reports channel state information, the present invention proposes a method by which a base station allocates, to a terminal, a reference signal transmission for enabling aperiodic generation of the channel state information for a system having various numbers of transmission antenna ports such as one, two, four, eight, twelve, sixteen or thirty-two transmission antenna ports, and receives the channel state information report. In addition, a method for transferring ZP CSI-RS and quasi co-location (QCL) information for supporting rate matching thereby is also proposed.
US11108512B2	Method and system for centralized or distributed resource management in a distributed transceiver network A master application device comprises a plurality of distributed transceivers, a central baseband processor, and a network management engine that manages operation of the master application device and end-user application devices. The master application device communicates data streams to the end-user devices utilizing one or more distributed transceivers selected from the plurality of distributed transceivers. The selected distributed transceivers and the end-user devices are concurrently configured by the network management engine based on corresponding link quality and propagation environment. The network management engine allocates resources to the selected distributed transceivers and the end-user devices during the data communication. The network management engine continuously monitors communication environment information to configure beamforming settings and/or antenna arrangement for the selected distributed transceivers. Beam patterns are selected for the selected distributed transceivers so as to minimize power consumption and/or based on the location and orientation information of the end-user application devices.
US11108511B2	Carrier scheduling method and apparatus A carrier scheduling method and apparatus. The method comprises determining search spaces of downlink control channels corresponding to at least two first transmission time units on a first carrier, where the at least two first transmission time units are scheduled in one second transmission time unit on a second carrier, and the downlink control channels are in a one-to-one correspondence with the first transmission time units; and obtaining, in the search spaces, the downlink control channels corresponding to the at least two first transmission time units. In this application, a plurality of transmission time units on another carrier are scheduled in a cross-carrier manner, thereby improving transmission resource utilization.
US11108507B2	Method and apparatus for transmitting sidelink HARQ feedback in NR V2X Provided herein are a method of transmitting a Sidelink Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (SL HARQ) feedback by a first device and a device supporting the same. The method may include the steps of receiving a Physical Sidelink Shared Channel (PSSCH) from a second device, and transmitting a SL HARQ feedback related to the PSSCH to the second device, wherein a resource in which the SL HARQ feedback is transmitted is determined based on an identifier (ID) of the first device.
US11108500B2	Latency reduction by fast forward in multi-hop communication systems Latency reduction by fast forward (FF) in multi-hop communication device and/or systems is disclosed. Packets may be received and forwarded using a codeword (CW)-based approach with and/or without per-CW CRC. A FF session may have a flow ID and packets may have sequence numbers. Packets targeted for FF may be divided into independently decodable CWs that may be transmitted in the next hop, for example, as soon as the destination is determined without waiting for an entire packet's arrival and/or for CRC verification. Low latency (e.g. FF) traffic may be indicated. CW-based FF may be extensible for an e2e RAN path from a WTRU to the last access node in a RAN. Intermediate metrics, a packet CRC and/or a per-CW CRC may be utilized for data integrity. HARQ and/or CW retransmission procedures may be implemented between network nodes for error handling.
US11108497B2	Method and system for hierarchical decoding of data packets in cellular communication system Disclosed herein is method and system for hierarchical decoding of data packets in cellular communication network. At first, base station upon receiving data packets computes LLR values and evaluates computed LLR values through first Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) to determine successful decoding of data packets. When first CRC is unsuccessful and when SINR is greater than first predefined threshold, base station combines LLR values of intra base stations with computed LLR values for decoding data packets and performs second CRC check to determine if data packets are successfully decoded. The base station combines LLR values of intra base stations and LLR values of inter base stations with computed LLR values for decoding data packets when SINR value of inter base stations is greater than second predefined threshold and when evaluated second CRC is unsuccessful and performs third CRC. The present disclosure increases throughput and reduces latency significantly while decoding packets.
US11108495B2	Activation and deactivation of semi-persistent CSI reporting Systems and methods for validating a control message for activation or deactivation of Semi-Persistent Channel State Information (SP-CSI) reporting in a wireless communication system are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method performed by a wireless device for validating a control message for activation or deactivation of SP-CSI reporting in a wireless communication system comprises receiving, from a network node, a control message for activation or deactivation of the SP-CSI reporting. The method further comprises making, based on the control message, a determination as to whether to activate the SP-CSI reporting or to deactivate the SP-CSI reporting and activating or deactivating the SP-CSI reporting in accordance with the determination. In this manner, the wireless device is enabled to distinguish between a control message activating SP-SCI reporting and a control message deactivating SP-SCI reporting.
US11108491B2	Concealed jamming attach apparatus and method which use false acknowledgement frame According to one embodiment of the present invention, in a concealed jamming attack using a false acknowledgement frame, a jamming attack is performed at a point in time during which a data frame is transmitted between a transmission node and a reception node and a false acknowledgement frame is transmitted to the data frame transmission node, such that the data frame transmission node cannot detect a data transmission failure in a MAC layer because of the jamming attack, and thus a jamming attack can be concealed.
US11108488B2	Optical transceiver and method of controlling optical powers of optical channels Systems and methods for controlling optical powers of optical channels in an optical communications network comprising a plurality of nodes is described herein. The method comprises obtaining a reference optical power. The method also includes determining an optical power of an optical channel generated by an optical transmitter of a node. The method further includes applying an attenuation to the optical channel to reduce the optical power of the optical channel to the reference optical power. In some implementations, the method is performed by a network controller operating in the optical communications network.
US11108479B2	Mobile interactive satellite services A mobile interactive satellite service includes a first satellite, a base station, and a ground station configured to provide respective and distinct first and second multicast content components to the first satellite and the base station. The first satellite communicates the first multicast content component in a first signal to a mobile device. The base station communicates the second multicast content component in a second signal to the mobile device, which can combine the received signals. For another embodiment, a mobile interactive service includes a mobile device, a first base station, a second base station, and a ground station configured to provide a first multicast content component to the first base station and a second multicast content component to the second base station. The first and second multicast content components are distinct, transmitted in respective first and second multicast signals and are combined by the mobile device.
US11108477B2	Method and apparatus for determining broadcast beam weighted value in wireless communications system A method and an apparatus for determining a broadcast beam weighted value are provided. The method includes: obtaining an angle path loss spectrum of a target cell at a current moment, where the angle path loss spectrum includes signal path loss values of a target base station in the target cell in a plurality of directions; determining a beam angle power spectrum based on the angle path loss spectrum, where the beam angle power spectrum includes signal transmit powers of the target base station in the plurality of directions, and in the beam angle power spectrum, a signal transmit power in a direction with a relatively large signal path loss value in the angle path loss spectrum is relatively large; determining a broadcast beam weighted value based on the beam angle power spectrum; and forming a target broadcast beam based on the broadcast beam weighted value.

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