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US11193210B2	Coated metallic substrate and fabrication method A coated metallic substrate is provided, including, at least; one layer of oxides, such layer being directly topped by an intermediate coating layer comprising Fe, Ni, Cr and Ti wherein the amount of Ti is above or equal to 5 wt. % and wherein the following equation is satisfied: 8 wt. %
US11193208B2	Wafer/support arrangement, method for producing the arrangement, and use of the arrangement in the processing of the wafer A wafer/support arrangement, including a wafer, a support system, which includes a support and an elastomer layer, and a connecting layer, wherein the connecting layer is a sol-gel layer. The invention further relates to a coated wafer for a wafer/support arrangement according to the invention, wherein a sol-gel layer is used as a connecting layer for a corresponding wafer/support assembly, and to a method for processing the back side of a wafer.
US11193207B2	Treatment chamber for a chemical vapour deposition (CVD) reactor and thermalization process carried out in this chamber Treatment chamber (C) for a chemical vapor deposition (CVD) reactor, comprising, within a body (B) defining an enclosure (E) under partial vacuum, a system (3) for injecting reactive species with a view to being deposited on a substrate (8) placed on a support element (5), and a thermal control system (2) for regulating the temperature of the injection system (3) or keeping it substantially constant, this thermal control system (2) having an interface zone (ZI) with the injection system (3). The treatment chamber (C) further comprises, in the interface zone (ZI), at least one thermal transfer zone (ZT) that is (i) insulated from the enclosure under partial vacuum (E) by an insulating barrier to the pressure and to the diffusion of contaminating species and (ii) filled with a thermal interface material (10). Application for carrying out CVD depositions, especially pulsed CVD depositions.
US11193202B2	Medical device with plasma modified oxide layer and method of forming such a device A method of modifying a surface of a medical device for implantation or disposition inside a patient is described. The medical device comprises a structure having at least one surface. The method includes the steps of: placing the medical device into a plasma chamber substantially free from contaminants and substantially sealing the plasma chamber from the atmosphere; removing at least an outermost layer of any oxide layer from the at least one surface of the structure by a plasma oxide-removal process, whilst maintaining the plasma chamber under seal from the atmosphere; and subsequently forming a new oxide layer at the least one surface of the structure by introducing at least one gas into the plasma chamber, whilst maintaining the plasma chamber under seal from the atmosphere. A medical device including a bulk material and an oxide layer disposed over at least one surface of the medical device. The oxide layer is substantially pure and free from contaminants.
US11193198B2	Methods of forming devices on a substrate Embodiments of the disclosure relate to systems and methods for forming devices on a substrate. For example, a method for forming devices on a substrate can include projecting one or more ion beams from one or more ion beam chambers to form one or more devices on a first surface of a substrate and projecting one or more ion beams from one or more ion beam chambers to form one or more devices on a second surface of a substrate. In these embodiments, the first surface and the second surface are on opposite sides of the substrate. Therefore, the ion beams can form the devices on both sides of the substrate.
US11193196B2	Method and device for reaction control A furnace for annealing a sheet includes: a first section; a second vertical section, the second vertical section including openings supplied with an oxidizing medium, an opening facing each side of the sheet, and means for separately controlling a flow of the oxidizing medium on each side of the sheet; and a third section. The second vertical section is located in a distinct casing and separated from the first and third sections with sealing devices. The second vertical section includes extraction openings for extracting the oxidizing medium not consumed by the sheet, an extraction opening facing each side of the sheet. The openings supplied with an oxidizing medium are located transversally at one end of the second vertical section. The extraction openings are located transversally at an other end of the second vertical section.
US11193182B2	Method and furnace installation for heat treating metal strip A method for heat-treating a metal strip, where the metal strip is pre-heated continuously in a pre-heating zone with the aid of hot gas and subsequently undergoes further heat treatment in a directly fired furnace in a reducing and/or oxidizing atmosphere. The metal strip is pre-heated in the pre-heating zone with hot inert gas and further heated with an electric heating system before entering the directly fired furnace. A furnace plant for implementing the process and a related heat recovery system are also disclosed.
US11193179B2	Seamless stainless steel pipe for oil country tubular goods and method of manufacturing the same A method of manufacturing a seamless stainless steel pipe for Oil Country Tubular Goods by heating a billet having a specified chemical composition including forming the billet into a seamless steel pipe by applying hot working to the billet, cooling the seamless steel pipe to a room temperature at a cooling rate of air cooling or more, thereafter, performing quenching by heating the seamless steel pipe to a temperature of 850° C. or above, subsequently, cooling the seamless steel pipe to a temperature of 100° C. or below at a cooling rate of air cooling or more, and subsequently, applying tempering to the seamless steel pipe at a temperature of 700° C. or below for a specific holding time.
US11193176B2	Method for detecting and quantifying latent retroviral RNA species The invention includes methods for determining the presence of a latent viral population by analyzing an RNA population from the virus with digital techniques, such as digital PCR or by sequencing cDNA produced from the RNA. The invention additional includes methods for determining the presence of latent viral populations by detecting and/or quantifying enzymes that are uniquely associated with the virus, e.g., reverse transcriptases.
US11193170B2	Method of determining disease causality of genome mutations A method of identifying a gene or genomic mutation that is linked to causality of a neuropsychiatric disorder is provided. The method comprises identifying exons which exhibit an expression level that is at least within the 75th percentile of exon expression levels within a nucleic acid-containing sample from a mammal having a neuropsychiatric disorder; comparing the sequence of each identified exon to the sequence of a corresponding exon from a healthy control to identify rare or de novo sequence mutations within the identified exon; calculating the burden of rare or de novo mutations within the exon; and determining the correlation between expression level of the identified exon and burden of de novo or rare mutations in the exon, wherein an inverse correlation indicates that the exon gene is linked to causality of the neuropsychiatric disorder.
US11193168B2	Multiplex amplification detection assay II Provided herein is technology relating to the amplification-based detection of bisulfite-treated DNAs and particularly, but not exclusively, to methods and compositions for multiplex amplification of low-level sample DNA prior to further characterization of the sample DNA. The technology further provides methods for isolating DNA from blood or blood product samples, e.g., plasma samples.
US11193154B2	Prokaryote-based cell-free system for the synthesis of glycoproteins The present invention is directed to a cell-free system for producing a glycosylated protein. This system comprises an isolated oligosaccharyltransferase capable of transferring a glycan from a lipid carrier molecule to a glycoprotein target, one or more isolated glycans, where each glycan is linked to a lipid carrier molecule, and a glycoprotein target comprising one or more glycan acceptor amino acid residues or a nucleic acid molecule encoding said glycoprotein target. The present invention further relates to kits and methods for producing a glycosylated protein in this cell-free system.
US11193149B2	Compositions and methods for robust dynamic metabolic control of alanine production The present disclosure provides compositions and methods for rapid production of chemicals in genetically engineered microorganisms in a large scale. Also provided herein is a high-throughput metabolic engineering platform enabling the rapid optimization of microbial production strains. The platform, which bridges a gap between current in vivo and in vitro bio-production approaches, relies on dynamic minimization of the active metabolic network.
US11193148B2	Method for extracting alpha-ketoglutarate and pyruvate simultaneously from microbial fermentation broth or enzymatic conversion solution The present disclosure provides a method for extracting alpha-ketoglutarate and pyruvate simultaneously from microbial fermentation broth or enzyme transformation solution, which is related to the technical field of biological separation and extraction. The method comprises the following steps: centrifuging the microbial fermentation broth or enzymatic conversion solution containing α-KG and PA to remove the cells and other visible solids; removing the macromolecular impurities by ultrafiltration; evaporating and concentrating under reduced pressure conditions; extracting with the water-insoluble extraction after acidification; separating crude crystals of α-KG and crude liquid of PA by evaporation crystallization method (if concentration of PA is great higher than that of α-KG, crystallization separation should be conducted after distilling partial pure pyruvate); washing the crude crystal of α-KG with water-insoluble organic solvent as ethyl acetate or butyl acetate, drying and crushing to obtain qualified α-KG; distilling to gain qualified PA product applying high vacuum distillation (or molecular distillation).
US11193135B2	Woody plants having improved growth properties The invention relates to a method for producing a genetically modified plant or woody plant with improved growth properties (in terms of biomass and wood quality) as compared to a corresponding non-genetically modified wild type plant or woody plant, said method comprising altering the level of expression of a polypeptide in a plant cell or woody plant cell; a plant or woody plant; or a part thereof.
US11193131B2	Haploid inducer line for accelerated genome editing Provided herein are materials and in planta methods for using haploid inducer lines containing a targeted endonuclease to generate transgenic or non-transgenic plants with targeted mutations and/or genomic modifications.
US11193125B2	Antisense nucleic acids Provided is a drug that allows highly-efficient skipping of exon. The present invention provides an antisense oligomer wherein two or more unit oligomers targeting sequences that are neither consecutive nor overlap with each other in the same exon are connected.
US11193121B2	Partitioning and processing of analytes and other species The present disclosure provides compositions, methods, systems, and devices for polynucleotide processing. Such polynucleotide processing may be useful for a variety of applications, including polynucleotide sequencing.
US11193118B2	Molecular filter A molecular filter that may include a substrate. The substrate may define a first channel, a second channel, at least one slit fluidically coupling the first channel to the second channel, at least one inlet port fluidically coupled to the first channel, at least one recovery port fluidically coupled to the first channel, at least one purge port fluidically coupled to the first channel, and at least one filtrate port fluidically coupled to the second channel. A respective cross-sectional area of each respective slit of the at least one slit in a plane perpendicular to a long axis of the respective slit is smaller than a cross-sectional area of the first channel in a plane perpendicular to a long axis of the first channel.
US11193111B2	Viral nanoparticle multimers Virus particle multimers and methods of making and using such virus particle multimer are described. Virus particle multimers are constructed by preparing a plurality of asymmetrically functionalized virus particles bearing one or more functional groups and contacting the asymmetrically functionalized virus particles with a first linker molecule that reacts with the functional groups to form a virus particle multimer that includes a plurality of asymmetrically functionalized virus particles connected by the linker molecule. The asymmetrically functionalized virus particles are typically prepared by attaching the virus particles to a support surface to allow asymmetrical functionalization to be introduced.
US11193102B2	Cell culture apparatus A cell culture apparatus includes an introduction-side flow path arranged to allow a culture solution introduced to flow therethrough and be introduced therethrough into each of a plurality of concave wells of a flexible strip circumferentially wound, and a first introduction-side seal provided on an outer circumferential side of the introduction-side flow path, the first introduction-side seal being configured to block flow of the culture solution from the introduction-side flow path to an outer circumferential side of the flexible strip.
US11193101B2	Methods and apparatus for separating live from dead organisms in a sample Methods and apparatus for detecting, quantifying, enriching, and/or separating bacterial species in fluid sample are provided. The fluid sample is provided as input to a microfluidic passage of a microfluidic device, wherein the microfluidic device comprises at least one electrode disposed adjacent to the microfluidic passage. The at least one electrode is activated to capture bacteria in the sample using dielectrophoresis, wherein the capture efficiency of bacteria is at least 99%.
US11193100B2	Method for carbon resource utilization A method for carbon resource utilization is disclosed. According to one embodiment, the method includes (a) supplying carbon dioxide to a medium to form bicarbonate ions (HCO3−) (S100), (b) inoculating one or more microalgal species into the medium, followed by photo-culture (S200), and (c) supplying calcium ions (Ca2+) to the medium, where the microalgal species are photo-cultured, to produce calcite (CaCO3)-containing biomass (S300).
US11193090B2	Systems and methods of forming and analyzing dissolvable articles Systems and methods of forming and analyzing a dissolvable article are provided herein. In an embodiment, a method of forming a dissolvable article with excellent dissolution performance includes heating a dissolvable composition that includes a water-soluble block copolymer at heating conditions that are sufficient to render the copolymer flowable and to form a hot melt composition. The water-soluble block copolymer is solid at ambient conditions. The method further includes solidifying the dissolvable composition to form the dissolvable article. A surface of the dissolvable article is analyzed for surface texture using a three-dimensional imaging device to produce a data set that is representative of the surface texture. If the data set fails to at least equal a predetermined threshold value, the method further includes reformulating the dissolvable composition to form a reformulated dissolvable composition.
US11193089B2	Detergents and cleaning agents having anionic surfactants consisting of renewable raw materials Detergents and cleaning agents containing an anionic surfactant of general formula (I), in which n is a number from 5 to 21 and X+ is a charge-balancing cation. Also disclosed are an agent or a use, characterized in that, in the compound of general formula (I), X+ is selected from the group including the proton, alkali metal cations and the group N+R1R2R3, where R1, R2 and R3 are, independently of one another, hydrogen, an alkyl group with 1 to 6 C atoms or a hydroxyalkyl group with 2 to 6 C atoms.
US11193086B2	Wax compositions and surface tension Disclosed herein is a method of using surface tension to control the manufacture of candles until a surface tension ranging from 20 to 30 dynes/cm is achieved.
US11193083B2	Alkyl capped oil soluble polymer viscosity index improving additives for base oils in industrial lubricant applications An industrial base oil formulation comprising a base oil, preferably a hydrocarbon base oil, having a kinematic viscosity of more than 100 centiStokes, preferably 150 centiStokes or more, at 40 degrees Celsius and an AC-OSP where the AC-OSP has the structure of Formula I: R1[O(R2O)n(R3O)mR4]p (I) where R1 is an alkyl having from one to thirty carbons, R2 and R3 are independently selected from alkyl groups having three or four carbons and can be in block form or randomly combined, R4 is an alkyl having from one to 18 carbon atoms, n and m are independently numbers ranging from zero to 20 provided that n+m is greater than zero and p is a number within a range of one to three; wherein the industrial base oil formulation has a kinematic viscosity of greater than 100 centiStokes, preferably 150 centiStokes or more, at 40 degrees Celsius is useful in a lubricant for mechanical devices.
US11193071B2	Simultaneous crude oil dehydration, desalting, sweetening, and stabilization Integrated gas oil separation plant systems and methods are disclosed. Systems and methods include treating a crude oil inlet feed stream with a high pressure production trap (HPPT), a low pressure production trap (LPPT), a low pressure degassing tank (LPDT), a first heat exchanger, a second heat exchanger, a LPPT recycle water stream, a fresh wash water supply stream, and a LPDT recycle water stream, where the LPDT recycle water stream is operable to supply recycle water from the LPDT to an output stream from the HPPT to form the LPPT inlet feed stream.
US11193065B2	Liquid crystal composition, method of producing the same, and retardation film constituted from the same A liquid crystal composition is provided containing a polymerizable liquid crystal compound, the composition having high preservation stability when dissolved in a solvent and also having the ability to restrain the development of orientation defects of the liquid crystal compound. A method of producing such a liquid crystal composition is also provided with ease. The liquid crystal composition includes a first polymerizable liquid crystal compound having five or more ring structures on its principal chain and represented by the following formula (A) and a second polymerizable liquid crystal compound having five or more ring structures and represented by the following formula (B).
US11193060B2	Method for synthesizing perovskite quantum dot film Provided is a method for synthesizing a perovskite quantum dot film, including: preparing a cellulose nanocrystal (CNC) solution, wherein the CNC solution includes a plurality of CNCs with sulfate groups; preparing a precursor solution; mixing the CNC solution and the precursor solution to form a mixed solution; and filtering and drying the mixed solution to form a perovskite quantum dot film.
US11193057B2	Fluorescent particles Water-soluble, fluorescent particles and compositions, kits, and methods of making and using such particles are disclosed. Processes for preparing fluorescent particles and for controlling the size, polydispersity and optical properties of such particles also are provided.
US11193048B2	Waterborne adhesives for reduced basis weight multilayer substrates and use thereof The adhesive composition comprising emulsion polymers and microspheres and articles made therefrom are provided. The adhesive is particularly suitable for packages for consumer products that provide sufficient strength and thermal insulation while reducing the overall basis weight of the substrates.
US11193045B2	Multi-material assembly and methods of making there of A multi-material assembly is provided, as well as methods of making a multi-material assembly. The multi-material assembly includes a first coated structural component and a second structural component. The first coated structural component includes a first uncoated portion, and an adhesive is positioned between the second structural component and the first uncoated portion that secures the first coated structural component to the second structural component.
US11193041B1	Polyurethane moisture barrier coatings containing thermoplastic resins A moisture barrier coating includes the reaction product of (A) at least one polyol and (B) at least one polyisocyanate. The moisture barrier coating further includes at least one amorphous thermoplastic material that forms a homogeneous mixture with the polyol, and is nonreactive with the polyol and with the polyisocyanate. A controlled release fertilizer, a method for the production of a controlled release fertilizer, and a moisture barrier coating composition are also disclosed.
US11193035B2	Ultra low thermo fusion PVC plastisol coating and textile printing ink The present invention relates to a novel plastisol composition that cures at a temperature much lower than conventional plastisols. Also disclosed is a method of applying the composition.
US11193034B2	Hybrid nanoparticles as photoinitiators Provided is a novel photoinitiator in the form of a hybrid nanoparticle constructed of a semiconductor and metallic regions, and uses thereof.
US11193023B2	Methine dyes The present invention relates to novel methine dyes, methods for the preparation thereof and use thereof for dyeing plastics, especially polyamides, so as to obtain yellow to orange colourings with improved light fastness and improved thermal stability. Such dyes include a dye of the formula (I) in which R1 is hydrogen, halogen, COOH or COOR11, R2 is hydrogen, halogen, COOH, COOR12 or CN, R3 is alkyl or phenyl, R4 and R5 are each independently alkyl, R6, R7, R8, R9 and R19 are each independently hydrogen, halogen, alkyl, alkoxy or COOR13, and R11, R12 and R13 are each independently alkyl.
US11193020B2	Polyarylene ether sulfone comprising naphthalic acid anhydride endgroups A polyarylene ether sulfone comprising endgroups of formula (I), a process for its manufacture, a molding composition comprising the polyarylene ether sulfone, use of the molding composition and fiber, film or shaped article produced using the molding composition.
US11193016B2	Curable and cured compositions Curable compositions, cured compositions formed from the curable compositions, and articles containing the cured compositions are provided. The curable compositions include (a) a curable component that includes (1) an epoxy resin, (2) a polyamide composition, (3) a multifunctional amine compound, and (4) a multifunctional (meth)acrylate compound and (b) an optional inorganic filler. The curable composition can result in the formation of cured compositions with properties such as good tensile strength, good elongation at break, good overlap shear strength, good adhesion to substrates such as metal substrates, or a combination thereof.
US11193015B2	Thermosetting resin composition for semiconductor package and prepreg using the same A thermosetting resin composition having improved flowability and stiffness, and a prepreg using the same. Specifically, three kinds of fillers having different average particle diameters are combined with a binder resin system including an epoxy resin, a bismaleimide resin, a diaminodiphenylsulfone resin, and a benzoxazine resin.
US11193014B2	Anti-drip compositions including transparent blends of PMMA and PC-siloxane copolymer Thermoplastic compositions include: (a) from about 30 wt % to about 95 wt % poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA); and (b) from about 5 wt % to about 70 wt % of a poly(carbonate-siloxane) copolymer having a siloxane content of from about 25 wt % to about 45 wt %. Methods for making a molded article, include: (a) combining from about 30 wt % to about 95 wt % PMMA and from about 5 wt % to about 70 wt % of a poly(carbonate-siloxane) copolymer having a siloxane content of from about 25 wt % to about 45 wt % to form a blend; (b) melt processing and pelletizing the blend; and (c) injection molding the article from the melt processed and pelletized blend.
US11193009B2	Modified polyethylene compositions and method for making the same Provided is a method for increasing the melt strength and/or low shear viscosity of a polyethylene resin. The method includes: a) providing a polyethylene composition including the reaction product of ethylene and optionally, one or more alpha-olefin comonomers, wherein the polyethylene composition is characterized by the following properties: a density ranging from 0.900 g/cm3 to 0.970 g/cm3, a molecular weight distribution (Mw/Mn) ranging from 2.6 to 3.5, and from 0.10 to 0.27 vinyl groups per 1,000 total carbon atoms; b) providing a masterbatch composition including a free radical generator and a polyethylene resin, wherein the free radical generator has a half-life at 220° C. of less than 200 seconds, and a decomposition energy higher than −250 kJ/mol, and wherein the polyethylene resin has a density ranging from 0.900 g/cm3 to 0.970 g/cm3, melt index ranging from 0.01 g/10 min to 100 g/10 min; and c) reacting the polyethylene composition with the masterbatch composition to form a modified polyethylene composition.
US11192996B2	Recycled PET foam material and method for manufacturing the same A recycled PET foam material and a manufacturing method thereof are characterized in that a recycled material can be used. The manufacturing method includes the following steps: uniformly mixing PET resin, chain extender, antioxidant, flame retardant and heat stabilizer, and then mixing with a twin-screw extruder to obtain a foam PET resin. The PET foaming material obtained is a material having the advantages of light weight, large rigidity, high specific strength, good electrical insulation, good sound insulation and the like, low raw material cost, simple manufacturing process and environmental protection.
US11192987B2	Process for production of film comprising microfibrillated cellulose and nanoparticles The present invention relates to a new process for improving runnability and dimensional stability when manufacturing a film comprising high amounts of microfibrillated cellulose (MFC) without negatively impacting the film properties. According to the present invention a high amount of nanoparticles is used as an additive, optionally together with a retention polymer.
US11192985B2	Composite material and resin composition containing metastable particles A curable matrix resin composition containing a thermoset resin component and metastable thermoplastic particles, wherein the metastable thermoplastic particles are particles of semi-crystalline thermoplastic material with an amorphous polymer fraction that will undergo crystallization upon heating to a crystallization temperature Tc. A fiber-reinforced polymeric composite material containing metastable thermoplastic particles is also disclosed.
US11192983B2	Production method for polymer latex A method for producing a polymer latex includes: a preparation step of reducing the weight average molecular weight of a conjugated diene polymer (A) by 20 to 70 mass %, thereby obtaining an organic solvent solution containing a conjugated diene polymer (B) having a weight average molecular weight lower than that of the conjugated diene polymer (A); and an emulsification step of emulsifying the organic solvent solution in water in the presence of a surfactant, thereby obtaining a polymer latex.
US11192982B2	Methods and compositions for synthesizing improved silk fibers The present disclosure provides methods and compositions for directed to synthetic block copolymer proteins, expression constructs for their secretion, recombinant microorganisms for their production, and synthetic fibers (including advantageously, microfibers) comprising these proteins that recapitulate many properties of natural silk. The recombinant microorganisms can be used for the commercial production of silk-like fibers.
US11192981B2	Preparation method of polyarylene sulfide The present disclosure relates to a preparation method of a polyarylene sulfide, and this method may produce a polyarylene sulfide having properties equal to or higher than those of the conventional method at a high yield by adding an acidic compound in addition to existing materials for dehydration.
US11192970B2	Polymerization process A process including contacting one or more monomers, at least one catalyst system, and a condensing agent including propane and isobutane under polymerizable conditions to produce a polyolefin polymer is provided.
US11192968B2	High ethylene random copolymer with non-migrating oligomers This invention relates to the use of ethylene/propylene random copolymers for the production of films having low-haze. In particular, the present invention involves the use of ethylene/propylene random copolymer comprising 90-96.5 wt % propylene and 3.5-10 wt % ethylene demonstrated to have low haze. This invention also relates to an ethylene/propylene random copolymer composition comprising about 3.5-10 wt % ethylene content and about 90-96.5 wt % propylene content, for production of a low-haze film.
US11192967B1	Thermosetting polyimides derived from resveratrol A method for making thermosetting polyimides from resveratrol including converting resveratrol to trisaniline, reacting trisaniline with one or more dianhydride and thermosetting endcap to form amic acid, thermally imidizing amic acid to form polyimide oligomer, and cross-linking polyimide oligomer with heat and pressure to generate polyimide thermoset.
US11192957B2	Antibodies binding to HLA-A2/WT1 The present invention generally relates to antibodies that bind to HLA-A2/WT1, including bispecific antigen binding molecules e.g. for activating T cells. In addition, the present invention relates to polynucleotides encoding such antibodies, and vectors and host cells comprising such polynucleotides. The invention further relates to methods for producing the antibodies, and to methods of using them in the treatment of disease.
US11192955B2	Efficacy of anti-Trop-2-SN-38 antibody drug conjugates for therapy of tumors relapsed/refractory to checkpoint inhibitors The present invention relates to therapeutic ADCs comprising SN-38 attached to an anti-Trop-2 antibody or antigen-binding antibody fragment, more particularly sacituzumab govitecan. The ADC is administered to a subject with a Trop-2 positive cancer that is resistant to or relapsed from prior treatment with a checkpoint inhibitor. The therapy is effective to treat cancers that are resistant to checkpoint inhibitors.
US11192953B2	Human monoclonal antibody human CD134 (OX40) and methods of making and using same The invention provides antibodies that specifically bind to OX40 (CD134), referred to as OX40 antibodies, anti-OX40 or anti-OX40 antibodies. Invention antibodies that specifically bind to OX40 include mammalian (human, primate, etc.), humanized and chimeric anti-OX40 antibodies. Invention antibodies and antibody subsequences (fragments) that specifically bind to OX40 include purified and isolated antibodies, as well as pharmaceutical formulations thereof, are useful in various methods including treatment, screening and detection methods.
US11192949B2	HIV-1 vaccine A method for inducing an immune response against HIV in a subject includes the step of preparing an HIV-1 gp120 envelope protein coding sequence particle having an N425K mutation, introducing the HIV-1 gp120 protein coding sequence particle having an N425K mutation into an expression construct using yeast homologous recombination, transfecting a cell with the expression construct, wherein the HIV-1 particle is secreted by the cell, and administering the secreted HIV-1 particle and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier to the subject, wherein the secreted HIV-1 particle stimulates an immune response in the subject.
US11192947B2	Histidine engineered light chain antibodies and genetically modified non-human animals for generating same A genetically modified non-human animal is provided, wherein the non-human animal expresses an antibody repertoire capable of pH dependent binding to antigens upon immunization. A genetically modified non-human animal is provided that expresses a single light chain variable domain derived from a single rearranged light chain variable region gene in the germline of the non-human animal, wherein the single rearranged light chain variable region gene comprises a substitution of at least one non-histidine encoding codon with a histidine encoding codon. Methods of making non-human animals that express antibodies comprising a histidine-containing universal light chain are provided.
US11192944B2	Methods of inducing complement activity The present disclosure provides methods of inducing a complement activity on a surface of a cell comprising contacting the cell with an effective amount of an anti-Factor B antibody, wherein the anti-Factor B antibody inhibits dissociation of a C3bBb complex into a Factor Bb and a C3b.
US11192942B2	Targeted protein silencing using chimeras between antibodies and ubiquitination enzymes The present invention relates to an isolated chimeric molecule comprising a degradation domain including a eukaryotic U-box motif and a targeting domain capable of immunospecifically directing the degradation domain to a substrate where the targeting domain is heterologous to the degradation domain. A linker couples the degradation domain to the targeting domain. Also disclosed are compositions as well as methods of treating a disease, substrate silencing, screening agents for therapeutic efficacy against a disease, and methods of screening for disease biomarkers.
US11192935B2	PD-1-CD28 fusion proteins and their use in medicine The present invention relates to PD-1-CD28 fusion proteins, nucleic acid molecules, vectors, transduced cells carrying nucleic acid molecules or vectors of the present invention or expressing the fusion proteins of the present invention, methods and kits comprising the nucleic acid molecules, vectors and/or the fusion proteins of the present invention. The invention also provides the use of said transduced cells in a method for the treatment of particular diseases as well as a pharmaceutical composition/medicament comprising said transduced cells expressing the fusion proteins of the present invention for use in a method of treating of diseases, in particular in the medical intervention of diseases characterized by PD-L1 and/or PD-L2 expression.
US11192931B2	Relaxin fusion polypeptides and uses thereof The present invention relates to Relaxin fusion polypeptides, in particular to Relaxin 2 fusion polypeptides and uses thereof. Thus, the invention provides Relaxin fusion polypeptides, nucleic acid molecules, vectors, host cells, pharmaceutical compositions and kits comprising the same and uses of the same including methods of treatment. The polypeptides and compositions of the invention may be useful, in particular, in the treatment of cardiovascular diseases, for example for the treatment of heart failure.
US11192927B2	Fusion proteins for inhibiting angiogenesis The present invention relates to a biologic that inhibits angiogenesis. In particular, the present invention relates to fusion proteins that inhibit the integrin activated pathway and one other angiogenic factor-activated pathway, the compositions of these fusion proteins, as well as methods for producing and using the same.
US11192918B2	Multicyclic peptides and methods for their preparation The invention relates to methods for preparing a compound comprising a peptide attached to a molecular scaffold whereby multiple peptide loops are formed, to compounds that can be obtained with such methods and uses thereof.
US11192905B2	Method for producing cyclic polysilane compound Provided is a method for producing a cyclic polysilane compound simply and easily in a higher yield. The method for producing a cyclic polysilane compound according to an embodiment of the present invention comprising a reaction step of adding a silane monomer compound represented by Formula (I) below into a liquid mixture containing metallic sodium and a lithium salt and allowing them to react: where, R1 and R2 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, a hydrocarbon group, an alkoxy group, or a halogen atom, X1 and X2 each independently represent a halogen atom or an alkoxy group, and n1 is an integer that is greater than or equal to 1.
US11192903B2	Zirconium-89 oxine complex as a cell labeling agent for positron emission tomography The invention provides a method of preparing a 89Zr-oxine complex of the formula The invention also provides a method of labeling a cell with the 89Zr-oxine complex and a method for detecting a biological cell in a subject comprising administering the 89Zr-oxine complex to the subject.
US11192897B2	Crystalline forms of 3-(imidazo[1,2-b]pyridazin-3-ylethynyl)-4-methyl-N-{4-[(4-methylpiperazin-1-yl)methyl]-3-(trifluoromethyl)phenyl}benzamide and its mono hydrochloride salt Novel crystalline forms of 3-(imidazo[1,2-b]pyridazin-3-ylethynyl)-4-methyl-N-{4-[(4-methylpiperazin-1-yl)methyl]-3-(trifluoromethyl)phenyl}benzamide free base and 3-(imidazo[1,2-b]pyridazin-3-ylethynyl)-4-methyl-N-{4-[(4-methylpiperazin-1-yl)methyl]-3-(trifluoromethyl)phenyl}benzamide mono hydrochloride, pharmaceutical compositions thereof and methods of their preparation and use are disclosed herein.
US11192896B2	Crystalline forms of 3-(imidazo[1,2-b]pyridazin-3-ylethynyl)-4-methyl-N-{4-[(4-methylpiperazin-1-yl)methyl]-3-(trifluoromethyl)phenyl}benzamide and its mono hydrochloride salt Novel crystalline forms of 3-(imidazo[1,2-b]pyridazin-3-ylethynyl)-4-methyl-N-{4-[(4-methylpiperazin-1-yl)methyl]-3-(trifluoromethyl)phenyl}benzamide free base and 3-(imidazo[1,2-b]pyridazin-3-ylethynyl)-4-methyl-N-{4-[(4-methylpiperazin-1-yl)methyl]-3-(trifluoromethyl)phenyl}benzamide mono hydrochloride, pharmaceutical compositions thereof and methods of their preparation and use are disclosed herein.
US11192892B2	Substituted pyrazolo[1,5-a]pyrimidines for the treatment of medical disorders The invention provides substituted pyrazolo[1,5-a]pyrimidinyl carboxamide and related organic compounds, compositions containing such compounds, medical kits, and methods for using such compounds and compositions to treat medical disorders, e.g., Gaucher disease, Parkinson's disease, Lewy body disease, dementia, or multiple system atrophy, in a patient. Exemplary substituted pyrazolo[1,5-a]pyrimidinyl carboxamide compounds described herein include 2-heterocyclyl-4-alkyl-pyrazolo[1,5-a]pyrimidine-3-carboxamide compounds and variants thereof. The invention provides, in part, a compound of Formula (I): or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein the variables are as defined herein.
US11192884B2	Heterocyclic compound and organic light-emitting device comprising same The present specification relates to a heterocyclic compound of Chemical Formula 1, and an organic light emitting device comprising the same. The heterocyclic compound as a material of an organic material layer of the organic light emitting device provides enhanced efficiency, low driving voltage and increased lifetime.
US11192876B2	Tricyclic spiro compound A medicinal agent for the prevention and/or treatment of diseases caused by EP4 receptor activation is disclosed. A compound having antagonistic activity against the EP4 receptor is contained as an active ingredient in the medicinal agent. The compound represented by the following general formula (I) as defined in the specification, a salt, an N-oxide, or a solvate thereof, or a prodrug of these is useful as a medicinal component having antagonistic activity against the EP4 receptor for the prevention and/or treatment of diseases caused by EP4 receptor activation.
US11192871B2	5-hydroxytryptamine receptor 7 activity modulators and their method of use Pharmaceutical compositions of the invention comprise functionalized lactone derivatives having a disease-modifying action in the treatment of diseases associated with dysregulation of 5-hydroxytryptamine receptor 7 activity.
US11192867B2	Microbiocidal oxadiazole derivatives Compounds of the formula (I) wherein the substituents are as defined in claim 1, useful as pesticides, especially as fungicides.
US11192863B2	Antiviral compounds and methods The invention relates to compounds having antiviral and methods utilizing the compounds to treat viral infections.
US11192858B2	Diamine-based compound and organic light-emitting device including the same Provided are a diamine-based compound having a certain formula and an organic light-emitting device including the same.
US11192857B2	2-ethylidene-1,5-dimethyl-3,3-diphenylpyrrolidine analogs and methods for their synthesis and use The present invention relates to novel 2-ethylidene-1,5-dimethyl-3,3-diphenylpyrrolidine analogs, and methods for their synthesis and use. Such analogs are designed to provide a convenient linkage chemistry for coupling under mild conditions to a suitable group on a target protein, polypeptide, solid phase or detectable label.
US11192853B2	Separation method and method for producing isocyanate Disclosed is a method for separating, with a multi-stage distillation column, a mixture containing an active hydrogen-containing compound (A) and a compound (B) that reversibly reacts with the active hydrogen containing compound (A), the method comprising distillation-separating the active hydrogen-containing compound (A) and the compound (B) with the multi-stage distillation column in the presence of an intermediate-boiling-point inactive compound (C) that has a normal boiling point between a normal boiling point of the active hydrogen-containing compound (A) and a normal boiling point of the compound (B) and is chemically inactive for both of the (A) and the compound (B).
US11192845B2	Process for hydrogenation of phthalate compound Provided is a hydrogenation method of a phthalate compound. According to the present invention, in the hydrogenation reaction, generation of by-products is suppressed, and thus catalytic activity is improved and life-time is extended, thereby increasing efficiency of a commercial process and economic efficiency. Further, since the hydrogenation product prepared by the present invention has high purity and a low acid value, its quality as a plasticizer is excellent, thereby being applied to a variety of products.
US11192841B2	Processes for preparing halogenated alkanes The present invention provides improved processes for preparing halogenated alkanes. The processes comprise reacting an alkene, a halogenated alkene, or combinations thereof and a halogenated methane with at least one chlorine atom, while using an absorption device.
US11192837B2	Process for producing 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene, and system for carrying out same A process for producing 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene comprises i) in a first adiabatic reactor comprising a fixed bed composed of an inlet and an outlet, bringing hydrofluoric acid into contact, in the gas phase with at least one chlorinated compound in order to produce a stream A comprising 2-chloro-3,3,3-trifluoropropene, ii) in a second adiabatic reactor comprising a fixed bed composed of an inlet and an outlet, bringing the stream A into contact, in the gas phase in the presence of a catalyst, with hydrofluoric acid, to produce a stream B comprising 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene. The temperature at the inlet of the fixed bed of one of said first or second reactors is between 300° C. and 400° C. The longitudinal temperature difference between the inlet and the outlet of the fixed bed of the reactor is less than 20° C.
US11192833B2	Processes and apparatuses for toluene and benzene methylation in an aromatics complex This present disclosure relates to processes and apparatuses for toluene and benzene methylation in an aromatics complex for producing paraxylene. More specifically, the present disclosure relates to processes and apparatuses for toluene and benzene methylation within an aromatics complex for producing paraxylene wherein an embodiment uses a reactor having a refractory comprising a low iron content refractory.
US11192830B2	Seed coating to promote plant growth and method of increasing plant yield A seed coated with a seed grind, and optionally a source of sugar, a source of bicarbonate, and/or a source of fertilizer nutrient to supply plant roots with additional uptake-available carbon and energy to promote rapid growth. A method of coating seeds with the coating and a method of growing plants from the coated seed.
US11192823B2	Electronic devices including laser-textured glass cover members A laser-textured glass cover member suitable for use in an electronic device is disclosed. The laser-textured surface of the glass cover member may provide a smooth feel to an external surface of the electronic device without introducing a perceptible visual texture. Methods for making the laser-textured glass cover members are also disclosed.
US11192819B2	Mineral wool Mineral wool fibers having a mineral wool fiber composition are manufactured by introducing batch materials into a melter, melting the mineral batch materials in the melter to provide a melt and fiberizing the melt to form the mineral wool fibers. The batch materials comprise i) fibers having a first batch material composition which is different from the mineral wool fiber composition and consisting of scrap fibers which have broken at a bushing producing continuous fibers; and ii) one of more additional mineral batch materials.
US11192813B2	Filter system including an activated carbon block for removing particles, organic contaminants, and microorganisms from a fluid Systems and methods of filtering particulate matter from a fluid are provided. In one exemplary embodiment, a system for filtering particulate matter having suspended particles, organic contaminants, and microorganisms from a fluid comprises a main filter assembly having an activated carbon block disposed therein. The carbon block has distributed pores with a diameter of less than one micron. Further, the carbon block is operable to filter all of the particulate matter having a diameter or a non-spherical width of at least 0.45 microns from the fluid, and adsorb the particulate matter having a diameter or a non-spherical width of at least 0.003 microns from the fluid.
US11192811B2	Economical process for preparation of anaerobic granules for waste water treatment The present invention relates to an anaerobic formation of granules for waste water treatment. More particularly, the present invention relates to the use and development of microbial consortia for stimulation of anaerobic digestion of organic matter and to a method for enhancing the granulation rate of suspended anaerobic sludge using carbohydrate rich industrial effluent.
US11192805B2	Synergistic chemical oxidative and photocatalytic enhancer system (scopes) for wastewater remediation Leachate remediation is performed by synergistic chemical oxidation and photocatalytic-oxidation enhancer system (SCOPES) of municipal landfill leachate to a level that is safe for disposal within regulatory guidelines. The physico-chemical (chemical, spectroscopic, elemental, microstructural and thermal) characteristics of the pre- and post-treated landfill leachate have been investigated to examine the utility of advanced oxidation (AO) processes such as SCOPES to decontaminate the municipal landfill leachate and/or toxic organic wastewater. The experimental results demonstrated successful lowering of chemical oxygen demand (COD) and UV-Vis absorbance for constituent contaminants in the leachate and/or wastewater solutions.
US11192803B2	Method for the treatment of wastewater A system and method for backwashing a sand filter in a wastewater treatment system. In one aspect, the invention can be a system for backwashing a sand filter comprising: a sand filter configured to remove solids from an untreated wastewater; a container storing chlorine fluidly coupled to the sand filter by a chlorine supply manifold; a flow control mechanism positioned on the chlorine supply manifold between the container and the sand filter, the flow control mechanism alterable between a first position whereby chlorine cannot flow from the container to the sand filter and a second position whereby chlorine flows from the container to the sand filter, the flow control mechanism being biased into the first position; and a processor operably coupled to the flow control mechanism and configured to automatically actuate the flow control mechanism into the second position upon detecting that the sand filter is being backwashed.
US11192796B2	Formation of high quality titania, alumina and other metal oxide templated materials through coassembly A co-assembly method for synthesizing inverse photonic structures is described. The method includes combining an onium compound with a sol-gel precursor to form metal oxide (MO) nanocrystals, where each MO nanocrystal has crystalline and amorphous content. The MO nanocrystals are combined with templating particles to form a suspension. A solvent is evaporated from the suspension to form an intermediate or compound product, which then undergoes calcination to produce an inverse structure.
US11192795B2	ZnO-porous graphite composites, their use and manufacture High surface area 3D mesoporous carbon nanocomposites can be derived from Zn dust and PET bottle mixed waste with a high surface area. Simultaneous transformation of Zn metal into ZnO nanoparticles and PET bottle waste to porous carbon materials can be achieved by thermal treatment at preferably 600 to 800° C., and reaction times of from 15 to 60 minutes, after optionally de-aerating the reaction mixtures with N2 gas. The waste-based carbon materials can have surface areas of 650 to 725 m2/g, e.g., 684.5 m2/g and pore size distributions of 12 to 18 nm. The carbon materials may have 3D porous dense layers with a gradient pore structure, which may have enhanced photocatalytic performance for degrading, e.g., organic dyes, such as methylene blue and malachite green. Sustainable methods make ZnO-mesoporous carbon materials from waste for applications including photocatalysis, upcycling mixed waste materials.
US11192794B2	Production of pulverulent, porous crystalline metal silicates by means of flame spray pyrolysis The present invention relates to a process for preparing a pulverulent, porous crystalline metal silicate, comprising the following steps: a) hydrothermal synthesis in an aqueous mixture comprising (A) at least one silicon source, (B) at least one metal source and (C) at least one mineralizer to obtain an aqueous suspension comprising a porous crystalline metal silicate as reaction product; and b) calcination of the reaction product, characterized in that the calcination is conducted by means of flame spray pyrolysis at an adiabatic combustion temperature within a range of 450-2200° C., wherein the suspension having a solids content of 70% by weight which is obtained in step a) is sprayed into a flame generated by combustion of a fuel in the presence of oxygen to form a pulverulent, porous crystalline metal silicate.
US11192793B2	Method A method for modifying the surface of a molecular sieve, comprising reacting a molecular sieve with an aminosilane, wherein the reaction is carried out in an aqueous solvent. A modified molecular sieve obtained by the method is also described.
US11192791B2	Light hydrocarbon partial oxidation catalyst and carbon monoxide production method using same The present disclosure relates to a partial oxidation catalyst that causes a light hydrocarbon partial oxidation reaction to proceed readily with high activity and high selectivity and a high-yield carbon monoxide production method using the same. The present disclosure further relates to a light hydrocarbon partial oxidation catalyst containing a zeolite supporting cobalt and rhodium.
US11192786B2	Composition, composition reservoir, and method for producing composition A composition including hydrogen peroxide is provided, which can be used for semiconductor device manufacturing and which exhibits an excellent storage stability and has a reduced effect of defects on a semiconductor substrate. Further, a method is provided for producing the composition including hydrogen peroxide, and a composition reservoir for storing the composition. The composition includes hydrogen peroxide, an acid, and an Fe component, in which the content of the Fe component is 10−5 to 102 in terms of mass ratio with respect to the content of the acid.
US11192777B2	MEMS sensor package systems and methods Embodiments relate to sensor and sensing devices, systems and methods. In an embodiment, a micro-electromechanical system (MEMS) device comprises at least one sensor element; a framing element disposed around the at least one sensor element; at least one port defined by the framing element, the at least one port configured to expose at least a portion of the at least one sensor element to an ambient environment; and a thin layer disposed in the at least one port.
US11192776B2	Electronic assembly and pressure measurement device with improved durability A device having both an electronic assembly having an electronic component assembled on a first substrate, and also a body defining a cavity having a first end in fluid flow communication with a fluid, the electronic component extending inside the cavity and the first substrate including a portion in contact with a wall of the cavity. The coefficient of thermal expansion of the material of the first substrate is less than that of the electronic component, and the electronic component is assembled on the first substrate by a brazing type assembly method involving the application of heat. A method of making an electronic assembly. An assembly obtained by the method.
US11192774B2	Device for evacuating a container having pasty liquid A device for evacuating a container that contains a pasty liquid to avoid air inclusions or bubbles in the liquid while the container is being filled and/or to eliminate air between the liquid surface and a follower plate until the plate contacts the liquid surface during insertion of the plate into the container before removal of the liquid. The device comprises a cover assembly to close an opening of a container in a vacuum-tight manner and which has a connection device for connecting an evacuation pump. A collapse avoidance apparatus is provided to surround at least one region of the outer faces of the container walls with a seal to connect to the wall outer face in a vacuum-tight manner and form a vacuum-tight collapse avoidance chamber. A connection device is provided for connecting an evacuation pump to evacuate the chamber and apply a vacuum on the wall outer face.
US11192773B1	System and method for managing fuel dispensing account Described herein are systems and methods for managing a fuel dispensing account associated with fuel dispensing transactions. A fuel dispensing apparatus includes a receiver configured for wireless communication with a user device. The fuel dispensing apparatus receives a request to dispense fuel from the user device via the receiver and associates the fuel request with a primary user account stored in a user database. A notification is sent to one or more users of the primary account requesting instructions regarding the fuel request. Fuel is dispensed from the fuel dispensing apparatus if instructions are received from a user of the primary account authorizing the request.
US11192770B1	Self serve beverage by the glass Automated dispensing of beverages is provided by unattended software control. Grants are purchased or given from the administrative Portal (we call it Pass Manager, see screen shots in the ppt presentation). The redemption is initiated from the web page opened on a phone or tablet. Redemption can also be initiated by applying QR, bar code, RFID or CC cards to a Reader. dispensing tap may be accessed at the dispensing station interface or via a networked application interface. Authenticating the granting of automated access via a receipt includes acceptance of legal terms and conditions and assess limited by an access code. User may prepay for servings, with the tap remaining locked until the user specific access code is acknowledged. After dispensing, the tap is locked and the purchase or grant total updated.
US11192766B2	Quick-change coupling for a container treatment machine A quick-change coupling is described for a container treatment machine, in particular a capping machine, with an outer member and an inner member engaging therewith in a positive-fit manner, between which members torques in a working direction of rotation and axial forces can be transmitted. Due to the fact that the outer member and the inner member are connectable to each other by pushing one into the other and twisting, a simple connection/separation of the quick-change coupling is possible without tools, as well as reliable and play-free transmission of unidirectional torques and contact pressure forces.
US11192749B2	Operating panel for an elevator providing options of indicating additional floor information An elevator operation panel has a plurality of buttons for selecting target floors and a plurality of touch-sensitive areas, each area being associated with one of the buttons. The panel includes an output device, such as a display or a loudspeaker, for outputting information, a control unit connected to the buttons, to the areas and to the output device, and a data storage device storing at least one data folder for each target floor. Each folder contains information relating to the associated target floor. Upon triggering one of the touch-sensitive areas, the control unit reads the information in one of the folders relating to the target floor selectable by the button to which the area is associated and outputs the information at the output device. Subsequent triggering of the same area causes the control unit to read another folder related to the target floor and output the information therein.
US11192747B1	Flexible conduit dispenser case A flexible conduit dispenser case is disclosed. An outer body defines an inner chamber where flexible conduit can be coiled. The flexible conduit is coiled around a rotating hub, which makes the flexible conduit easier to dispense. The flexible conduit dispenser case can be locked to help to retain the flexible conduit. The flexible conduit emerges from an exit port on the handle of the flexible conduit dispenser case for ease of access and control. Also disclosed is a planar base which holds the flexible conduit dispenser case in position for increased ease of dispensing the flexible conduit and engagement members on the rotating hub increase the retention of the flexible conduit.
US11192746B2	Cutter blade dual side film sealing and packing assembly The present invention relates to an automatic package device, which may include a rack and a power control box provided on the rack. The cutter blade transportation device is provided on the rack along the X axis direction. Below the cutter blade transportation device and inside the rack, lower film feeding device is provided. At the rear side of the rack, the upper film feeding device is provided. At the front end of the cutter blade transportation device and on the rack are provided a blade feeding rail and cutter blade carrying device cooperating with each other. At the rear end of the cutter blade transportation device is provided a film sealing device which cooperates with the upper film feeding device and lower film feeding device. At the rear end of the film sealing device and on the rack is provided a dragging device fitting the blade strip. At the back side of the dragging device is provided a transverse cutting device fitting the blade strip. The present invention may achieve automatic feeding by the cutter blade carrying device. The dragging device may extend the upper and lower film material back and forth repeatedly. And the hot-pressing process may be accomplished by the film sealing device. The present invention may automatically seal the blades and the cutting device may separate the product one by one. At last the packaging process may be accomplished with high degree of automation and greatly improve production efficiency.
US11192736B2	Image forming device An image forming device includes an image forming unit to form an image on a work, a conveyance unit to convey the work in a predetermined conveyance direction, a conveyance guide member, a suction unit, and a suction control unit. The conveyance guide member is a plate-shaped member which has a plurality of suction holes and guides conveyance of the work by the conveyance unit from below. The suction unit includes a suction device which generates suction air by sucking air in a space on an upper side of the conveyance guide member via the plurality of suction holes, and closely contacts the work to the conveyance guide member by the suction air. The suction control unit changes a sucking force of the suction device according to a length in the work width direction of the work guided by the conveyance guide member.
US11192730B1	Material transfer system for machine A material transfer system for a machine having a conveyor adapted to transfer material into a material holding space of a receptacle. The material transfer system also includes an adjustable deflector positioned proximate to a discharge end of the conveyor. The material transfer system further includes a sensor positioned proximate to the discharge end of the conveyor. The sensor is configured to monitor the material holding space of the receptacle. The material transfer system includes a controller communicably coupled with the adjustable deflector and the sensor. The controller is configured to receive a first input signal from at least one of the sensor and a machine operator for adjusting a position of the adjustable deflector, determine an optimal position of the adjustable deflector based on receipt of the first input signal, and generate a first command signal for adjusting the position of the adjustable deflector to the optimal position.
US11192729B2	System and apparatus for print media manufacturing buffering and sorting, and corresponding method thereof Apparatuses, systems, and methods are described for providing a multiple process workflow. The system includes a first process device configured to convey at least a portion of a printed element and an apparatus. The apparatus includes a storage section, an input section configured to receive the at least a portion of the printed element, a gripper configured to selectively transport the at least a portion of the printed element from the input section to the storage section and to selectively transport the at least a portion of the printed element from the storage section, and an output section configured to selectively transfer the at least a portion of the printed element from the storage section. The system further includes a second process device configured to perform at least one operation on the at least a portion of the printed element.
US11192724B2	Inclined shaft continuous feeding system for solid filling materials An inclined shaft continuous feeding system for solid backfilling materials includes a surface loading system, an inclined shaft transportation system, and a downhole unloading system. The inclined shaft transportation system is arranged between the surface loading system and the underground unloading system. The inclined shaft transportation system includes a bottom unloading dumper, support guide wheels, a guide rail, a drive wheel, a reverse wheel, and a traction steel wire rope configured between the drive wheel and the reverse wheel. The present invention can realize a steady, continuous and efficient transportation of the solid backfilling materials from the surface to down hole. Moreover, the material transportation system does not wear easily, has long service life and low material transportation cost.
US11192723B2	Hygienic hollow frame assembly A cleanable frame and a method for making a cleanable frame having a simplified frame design. A hygienic conveyor frame assembly comprises a plurality of hollow tubular sections joined together to form an evacuated, sealed conveyor frame support structure that functions as a sterilization zone. An integral carryway is placed on the support structure. Lifters coupled to the conveyor frame can lift the carryway and conveyor belt for cleaning. Infeed and outfeed assemblies are also movable between operating and cleaning positions. A sensor can monitor the conditions of the frame interior to ensure that the vacuum is maintained and initiate a corrective action if the vacuum seal is breached.
US11192719B2	Automated decant system An automated decant system is disclosed for processing pallets of cased goods received at a facility, extracting packaging for the cases and transferring eaches within the cases to totes, possibly organized by SKU in sub-totes within the tote.
US11192715B2	Anti-splash vomit receptacle Disclosed is a bucket for receiving oral wastes of a user. The bucket includes a container and an Anti-splash back apparatus. The container receives the oral wastes of the user. The container incorporates a base and a container wall extending upward from the base, said container wall having an inner surface and an outer surface. The container incorporates an open top for receiving the oral wastes of the user. The Anti-splash back apparatus during intended usage is intended to maintain the oral wastes within the container. The Anti-splash back apparatus includes a first blade and a second base, both configured within the inner surface of the container sidewall. The first blade extends across the voluminous void of the container at an acute angle from the base meeting the inner surface of the container sidewall. The second blade extends across the voluminous void of the container at an obtuse angle from the base within the container sidewall. The first blade and the second blade are configured to extend along a path substantially parallel to the base. The first blade and the second blade intersect to form an Anti-splash back apparatus. Further, the bucket includes plurality of handles attached to outer surface of the container wall, which during intended usage allows the user to easily hold the container.
US11192712B2	Bulk material handling system for reduced dust, noise, and emissions Methods for handling bulk material in a manner that reduces dust, noise, and emissions are provided. The presently disclosed techniques use portable containers to transfer bulk material from a transportation unit to a blender inlet. The containers may be carried to the location on the transportation unit, where a hoisting mechanism is used to remove the container from the transportation unit and place it in a desired location. When bulk material is needed at the blender inlet, the hoisting mechanism may position the container of bulk material onto an elevated support structure. Once on the support structure, the container may be opened to release bulk material to a gravity feed outlet, which routes the bulk material from the container directly into the blender inlet. The disclosed containerized bulk material transfer system and method allows for reduced dust, noise, and emissions on location.
US11192708B2	Thermally insulated container A thermally insulated container includes a container main body having a storage section and an opening, a lid body that covers the opening of the container main body, and an inner box stored in the storage section. The lid body has a convex portion arranged along a periphery of the opening of the container main body and protruding toward an inside of the storage section when the lid body covers the opening. The convex portion faces the inner box, with a gap between the convex portion and the inner box when the lid body covers the opening.
US11192703B2	Machine and method for packaging single-use capsules or pods A pack including at least one single-use capsule or pod for a portioned beverage which has two opposite bases, and a side wall connecting the two bases defining therewith a chamber for containing an aromatic substance; the pack has a sealed container for containing the capsule or pod housed in a protective inert gas atmosphere; more specifically the sealed container copies at least in part the shape of the capsule or pod.
US11192689B2	Stacked storage container latch At least one locking groove in a first storage container for receiving a sliding mechanism combined to a second storage container. The sliding mechanism selectively engages the locking groove of the first storage container to connect and hold the first storage container to the second storage container such that a portion of the sliding mechanism extends laterally away from the side surface of the container when the sliding mechanism is disengaged from the locking groove and wherein the portion of the sliding mechanism is coplanar with the side surface of the container when the sliding mechanism is engaged with the locking groove.
US11192688B2	Packaging container with stacking members A lid component for a paperboard packaging container, the lid component comprising a lid part and a connecting part, the lid part comprising a top portion and a side wall portion, the top portion having an outer lid surface, an inner lid surface opposite to the outer lid surface, and a peripheral edge surrounding the outer lid surface; and the connecting part comprising an upper portion and a lower portion and having a lower edge surface. Stacking members are arranged on the outer lid surface and comprise a lid component stacking step and a container stacking step, the lid component stacking step being arranged laterally outboard and below the container stacking step. The lower portion of the connecting part is adapted to be supported by the lid component stacking step. A lid component comprising a locking arrangement and paperboard packaging container comprising a lid component are also disclosed.
US11192678B2	Closures for carton board packaging of gable top type and sealing thereof The invention is an improvement of the well-known gable top packaging, commonly seen in milk and juice products. The improvement lies in the opening and closing of such packaging with a pull-to-open type opening. This invention addresses the problem that this type of packaging not is water tight after opening. The invention solves this leaking problem by adding a so called zip lock fastener in the opening area of the package. Zip lock fasteners are characterized by having an interlocking groove and ridge that form a tight seal when pressed together. When the user is folding in the pouring spout the zip lock fasteners meet and form a liquid tight joint. The invention is concerning the type and function of the zip lock and its placement. The invention describes as well how to produce gable-top packaging with this new liquid tight zip lock closure.
US11192675B2	Label applying apparatus and methods of use A method of printing and applying a label to an item moving in a conveyance direction along a conveyance path involves: utilizing a print and labeling assembly that includes a label stock path that feeds label stock past a printer to print on a label of the label stock to produce a printed label that is dispensed in a first direction onto a label applying belt that moves in a second direction, wherein the first direction is substantially perpendicular to the second direction such that the printed label moves onto the label applying belt from a lateral side of the label applying belt; and the label applying belt moves the printed label into position to engage with the item as it moves along the conveyance path. A label print and apply system and apparatus is also provided.
US11192670B2	Packaging system A cyclic packaging system for packaging product groups in folded boxes includes a supply device for supplying the product groups, a store for providing a plurality of folded box blanks, and a packing device for packaging the product groups in associated folded boxes, the packing device being arranged on the side of the supply device facing the store. The packaging system further comprises an additional packing device for packing product groups in folded boxes, the additional packing device being arranged on the side of the supply device facing away from the one packing device. Irrespective of whether the two packing devices are loaded with product groups from the same supply device, the two stores of the packing devices can be arranged on the same side of the packaging systems.
US11192667B2	Multi-layered self-healing material system towards impact mitigation Various embodiments provide multi-layered self-healing materials, capable of repairing puncture damage. The multi-layered self-healing materials, capable of repairing puncture damage of the various embodiments may be constructed by sandwiching a reactive (e.g., oxygen sensitive) liquid monomer formulation between two solid polymer panels, such as a polymer panel of Barex 210 IN (PBG) serving as the front layer panel and a polymer panel of Surlyn® 8940 serving as the back layer panel. The various embodiments may provide methods to produce multi-layered healing polymer systems. The various embodiments may provide a two-tier, self-healing material system that provides a non-intrusive capability to mitigate mid to high velocity impact damage in structures.
US11192666B2	Magnetic damping for space vehicles after end-of-life A space vehicle includes one or more magnetorquers operable to change an attitude of the space vehicle in an external magnetic field, each magnetorquer comprising a coil, and a switching circuit for short-circuiting the coil of at least one of the magnetorquers so that a closed electric circuit comprising said coil is formed, for damping tumbling motion of the space vehicle in the external magnetic field. The switching circuit is configured to short-circuit the coil of the at least one magnetorquer upon occurrence of a condition indicative of end-of-life or failure of the space vehicle. The application further relates to a corresponding method of operating a space vehicle.
US11192663B2	Shearing machine for dismantling a large aircraft and working vehicle for dismantling a large aircraft As shearing blades of a first jaw portion, a shearing machines includes: a tip blade; a pair of first parallel shearing blades bent at an obtuse angle to the biting direction of the tip blade and disposed both sides of the blade width; and a pair of second parallel shearing blades bent at an obtuse angle to an attaching portion of the first parallel shearing blades and disposed on both sides of the blade width. As a tip blade, the shearing machine includes: a point blade a pair of tip tapered blades disposed on both sides of an end portion and whose blade width is increased toward the rear end; and a pair of tapered blades bent at an obtuse angle to an attaching portion of the rear end portion of the tip tapered blades and disposed toward the first parallel shearing blades.
US11192658B2	Evacuation slide ramp barrier readiness indicator An inflatable slide may comprise a ramp portion and a slide portion having a head end attached to the ramp portion and a toe end opposite the head end. A ramp barrier readiness indicator may include a bendable portion located proximate the head end of the slide portion. The ramp barrier readiness indicator may be configured to pivot between a raised position and a lowered position in response to inflation of the slide portion.
US11192652B1	Passenger seat dress cover with integrated adjustable lumbar support device A dress cover installable over a seatback of a passenger seat and having an integrated adjustable lumbar support device is disclosed. In embodiments, the dress cover includes a fabric outer shell and a seat cushion within the outer shell. The lumbar support device is disposed inside a pocket set into the dress cover and corresponding to the lumbar area of the seat occupant. The pocket extends laterally between left-side and right-side slots, each slot held closed by a zipper within which a slider tracks up and down to adjust the lumbar support device. As the slider tracks along the zipper it opens and closes the zipper within the body of the slider, maintaining its slot in a closed configuration. By adjusting the sliders up or down, the occupant may adjust the position of the lumbar support device through the dress cover.
US11192647B2	Visual and audible signature reduction of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to minimize detection during long duration surveillance operations The invention comprises of a UAV designed to limit visually contrast and audibility in flight for covert surveillance operations, a method of configuring the UAVs structure to further reduce its visual signature to take account for the atmospheric and terrestrial environment it will operate in and a method of conducting a covert surveillance operation to actively minimise the UAVs visual & auditory signature from the viewpoint of an individual under surveillance. Both passive and active illumination are used to reduce the visual signature of the UAV. The UAV is actively camouflaged using lighting techniques that utilises the limitations of the human visual system and the optical effects of light interacting with the terrain, atmosphere and aircraft. The visual camouflage is directional. The audible signature of the UAV is reduced through the design of the propulsion system and the mode in which the UAV is operated.
US11192643B2	Method for predicting vibrations of an aircraft A method for predicting vibrations in an aircraft comprising an active vibration reduction system includes estimating a first vibration amplitude or frequency resulting from adjustments by the active vibration reduction system and the respective sensitivities of the aircraft depending on the flying state using a statistical mathematical process, recording a second vibration amplitude or frequency by a sensor, generating a pseudo-vibration profile by combining the first and second vibration amplitudes or frequencies, comparing the pseudo-vibration profile with a predefined target vibration profile, and outputting a signal when a specific threshold value has been exceeded.
US11192640B2	System for emergency extension of aircraft landing gear An emergency extension system for extending at least one aircraft undercarriage, the emergency extension system comprising both electromechanical actuators, each electromechanical actuator having an identification component arranged to allocate an identifier to said electromechanical actuator, which identifier depends in particular on a function performed by said electromechanical actuator, and also an electrical card having a delay component arranged to delay actuation of a the electromechanical actuator by an actuation delay that depends on the identifier allocated to the electromechanical actuator, the electromechanical actuators of the emergency extension system thus being arranged to be actuated in succession in an actuation sequence that is defined by the actuation delays.
US11192636B2	Aerodynamic redundant actuation system for aircraft An actuation system for a control surface of an aircraft includes a drive lever. The drive lever includes a coupling end configured to pivotably couple to a plurality of wing attach fittings and a lever end. The lever end includes a first actuator fitting configured to pivotably couple to a first actuator on a forward side of the drive lever; a second actuator fitting configured to pivotably couple to a second actuator on an aft side of the drive lever; a first drive link fitting configured to couple, via a first drive link, to a control surface of an aircraft; and a second drive link fitting configured to couple, via a second drive link, to the control surface of the aircraft.
US11192629B2	Rotational joint for an aircraft folding wing An aircraft (2) including a wing (1), the wing (1) having a fixed wing (3) and a wing tip device (4) at the tip of the fixed wing (3), the wing tip device (4) being rotatable relative to the fixed wing (3) between flight and ground configurations, the aircraft including a rotational joint (10) with a rotation mechanism (11) that rotatably couples the wing tip device (4) to the fixed wing (3) and a locking mechanism including a locking bore (53, 54) and a locking pin (51) that is receivable in the locking bore to lock the wing tip device (4) in one of the flight or ground configurations, wherein the rotational joint includes an alignment mechanism including an alignment pin (61) and an alignment bore (62, 63) and at least one of the alignment pin and alignment bore is tapered such that engagement of the alignment pin (61) in the alignment bore acts to guide the locking bore and locking pin into alignment.
US11192628B2	Articulated flap support forward fairing An articulating flap support housing includes a flap connected to a wing with the flap having a range of deployed positions. An aft fairing is connected to the flap and configured to rotate with the flap through the range of deployed positions. A forward fairing is rotatably connected to the aft fairing. The forward fairing acts as a counterbalance to the aft fairing and flap.
US11192622B2	Unmanned aerial vehicle and heat dissipation structure A heat dissipation structure includes a housing configured to receive a heat generating device. The housing includes a first air inlet, a first air outlet, and an alloy heat dissipation device disposed in the housing and including heat dissipation fins disposed in parallel. A heat dissipation air channel is formed between two adjacent heat dissipation fins. The heat dissipation air channel includes a second air inlet and a second air outlet, the second air outlet being connected with the first air outlet. The heat dissipation structure further includes a heat dissipation fan configured to provide a heat dissipation air flow to an inside space of the housing. The heat dissipation fan is disposed inside the housing, and includes a third air inlet and a third air outlet. The third air inlet is connected with the first air inlet and the third air outlet is connected with the second air inlet.
US11192617B1	Watercraft cooler system A personal watercraft has laterally spaced foot channels, a passenger seat, an engine compartment, and a back end. A receiver is universally positioned within the foot channels adjacent to the back end. A support member with a cylindrical knuckle and a strap is positioned within the engine compartment below the passenger seat thereby positioning a secondary end of the strap exteriorly of the engine compartment adjacent to the receiver. An insulated container with a closed bottom and an open top is removably positioned within the receiver. A lid is operably coupled to the open top. The receiver has a primary arm with a primary suction cup and a secondary arm with a secondary suction cup. The primary and secondary suction cups are provided for parallel alignment and vertical engagement with an exterior surface of the engine compartment.
US11192614B2	System and method for launch and recovery of a marine vessel The present invention provides a capturing mechanism for the recovery of at least one vessel to at least one marine platform; said at least one vessel having at least one engagement device either permanently or at least partially reversibly connectable to the same; said capturing mechanism comprising: a. at least one tensioned capturing line connected to said at least one marine platform; and b, at least one line maneuvering mechanism configured to displace said at least one tensioned capturing line in at least one direction selected from a group consisting of up, down, left, right, forward, backward, playable into said at least one marine plat form, playable out of said at least one marine platform, playable into and out of the water and any combination thereof.
US11192607B2	Electric front derailleur An electric front derailleur is basically provided with a base, a chain guide, a linkage and an electric motor unit. The base is configured to be mounted to a bicycle. The chain guide is configured to guide a chain. The linkage movably couples the chain guide to the base in a forward-rearward direction to move the chain guide between a retracted position and an extended position in a mounted state where the base is mounted to the bicycle. The electric motor unit is supported on the base and operatively coupled to the linkage to move the chain guide between the retracted position and the extended position. The electric motor unit is arranged at least partly closer to the bicycle than the chain guide.
US11192589B2	Subframe structure of front suspension A subframe structure of a front suspension that leads a subframe and a vehicle driving apparatus to the lower side after separation of a rear portion of the subframe due to a frontal collision without increasing weight and parts. A subframe structure of the front suspension provides a subframe that supports a vehicle driving apparatus in a mounting manner, and a rear portion of the subframe is mounted on a lower portion of a vehicle body via a fastening member. Fastening between the subframe and the fastening member is configured such that the rear portion of the subframe is separated when a collision load to a vehicle rear side is applied to the subframe. A leading guide portion that abuts against the fastening member and leads the subframe to a lower side after separation from the fastening member is integrally formed on the rear portion of the subframe.
US11192586B2	Lower vehicle-body structure of vehicle A lower vehicle-body structure of a vehicle includes a first cross member disposed on an intermediate portion of a front floor panel in a vehicle front-rear direction as a bridge in a vehicle width direction; a second cross member disposed in a kick-up portion between the front floor panel and a rear floor panel as a bridge in the vehicle width direction at a position in which at least a center portion in the vehicle width direction is higher than the first cross member; and a battery unit disposed below at least the front floor panel to a rear end position of the front floor panel. A high-strength portion for the front floor panel is formed on a rear end of the front floor panel on a lower end portion of the kick-up portion, and is coupled to both of a pair of left and right side sills.
US11192584B2	Method and apparatus for lateral movement control A method and apparatus that control lateral movement of a vehicle are provided. The method includes receiving vehicle information and path information of the vehicle, determining a center of vehicle rotation from the vehicle information, minimizing a path tracking error based on the path information of the vehicle, determining a road wheel angle command or a steering torque command using non-linear optimization based on the minimized path tracking error, and controlling an actuator according to the road wheel angle command or steering torque command.
US11192581B2	Controlling a steer-by-wire steering system A vehicle steering system includes a steering actuator which acts on steered wheels, an actuation unit, a feedback actuator to which a user request for a steering angle can be applied using a steering input means, which outputs a feedback signal to the steering input means in response to the request and a driving state of the vehicle. A signal transmission transfers the request to the actuation unit. The actuation unit actuates the steering actuator to deflect the wheels. When a monitor detects a malfunction of the feedback actuator as a fault situation, the feedback signal and the signal transmission is modified or generated according to multiple options.
US11192570B2	Apparatus and method for heating a steering wheel and for sensing contact with the steering wheel An apparatus for heating a steering wheel and for detecting a steering wheel contact comprises a steering wheel armature (10) made from electrically conductive material and an electric heating conductor (12) arranged outside of the steering wheel armature (10). The apparatus further comprises a control and evaluation device (18) connected to the steering wheel armature (10) and the electric heating conductor (10) by means of which control and evaluation device the electric heating conductor (12) is repeatedly operated temporarily during a heating operation as a heating element for heating the steering wheel and temporarily during a measuring operation as a sensor element for detecting a steering wheel contact. The control and evaluation device (18) is configured so as to maintain the steering wheel armature (10) on a predetermined and especially constant potential at least during each measuring operation.
US11192568B2	Removable seat attachment for a stroller A stroller is provided with the ability to removably couple and decouple a seat from the stroller as needed. The stroller can include a stroller frame. The stroller can also include one or more front wheels attached to the stroller frame and one or more rear wheels attached to the stroller frame. The stroller can also include a first seat couple to the stroller frame. The stroller can include first and second seat attachment housings. Each of the seat attachment housings can include a cavity for receiving a corresponding one of the first and second seat attachment adapters. Each of the seat attachment housings can also include a door or cover to prevent access to the respective cavity when not in use. The seat attachment adapters can be coupled to the respective seat attachment housings and a second seat can be coupled to the seat attachment adapters.
US11192563B2	Contextual autonomous vehicle support through written interaction An autonomous vehicle including a sensor system that outputs a sensor signal indicative of a condition of the autonomous vehicle. The vehicle also includes a user interface device with a display. A computing system determines, based upon a profile of the passenger, that support is to be provided textually to the passenger when the support is provided to the passenger. The computing system further detects occurrence of an event that has been identified as potentially causing discomfort to the passenger. The computing system yet further sets a predefined support message defined in an account corresponding to the event maintained in a database prior to occurrence of the event as a support message to be presented to the passenger. The computing system additionally causes the display to present the support message textually, wherein the textual support message solicits feedback from the passenger of the autonomous vehicle.
US11192560B1	Fair anomaly detection and localization Described are techniques for fair anomaly detection. The techniques include generating an anomaly detection model based on a Gaussian distribution of historical data, a mean vector of the Gaussian distribution, and a precision matrix of the Gaussian distribution. The mean vector and the precision matrix can be generated by reducing a function below a threshold, where the function can include the Gaussian distribution, a first regularization term configured to generate similar anomaly scores for inputs with similar fair features and independent of unfair features, and a second regularization term configured to generate similar anomaly localization scores for the inputs with the similar fair features and independent of the unfair features. The techniques further include inputting a new data to the anomaly detection model and generating an anomaly score and an anomaly localization score associated with the new data based on the Gaussian distribution, the mean vector, and the precision matrix.
US11192559B2	Driving assistance system A driving assistance system includes a driving readiness degree estimation unit configured to estimate a driving readiness degree relating to a driving consciousness of the driver based on the travel state of the vehicle or the driving operation of the vehicle by the driver and the traveling environment of the vehicle, a proportional gain calculation unit configured to calculate a proportional gain based on the driving readiness degree and the speed of the vehicle, and an assistance torque calculation unit configured to calculate the assistance torque according to a value obtained by multiplying a difference between the target steering angle and the actual steering angle by the proportional gain. If the speed is constant, the proportional gain calculation unit is configured to calculate the proportional gain as a smaller value as the driving readiness degree becomes lower.
US11192556B2	Vehicle driving apparatus A vehicle driving apparatus, configured to drive a vehicle including first and second wheels, includes first and second motors, first and second power transmission mechanisms, and a controller. The first motor is configured to generate first driving torque that rotates the first wheel. The second motor is configured to generate second driving torque that rotates the second wheel in a direction same as a direction in which the first wheel is rotated. The first and second power transmission mechanisms are configured to transmit the first and second driving torque from the first and second motors to the first and second wheels, respectively. The controller is configured to perform torque distribution control in a case where a gear rattle occurrence condition is satisfied. The torque distribution control drives the first motor to thereby decrease the first driving torque and drives the second motor to thereby increase the second driving torque.
US11192549B2	Warning and adjusting the longitudinal speed of a motor vehicle based on the recognized road traffic lights An automotive adaptive cruise control system for a host motor vehicle configured to operate in at least two different operating modes comprising a first operating mode, in which a current speed of the host vehicle is controlled to maintain a cruise speed, and a second operating mode, in which the current speed of the host vehicle is controlled to maintain a cruise distance to a leading vehicle, wherein the system is configured to: detect approaching to a traffic light and determine a light signal emitted thereby, signal to the driver the presence of the detected traffic light and the determined light signal, if the traffic light emits a red or amber light signal, estimating a driver reaction time, determining a higher threshold distance and a lower threshold distance from the traffic light, and warning the driver of the host vehicle of the need to slow it down if, after the driver reaction time has elapsed: i) the host motor vehicle has not decreased its speed by more than a calibratable threshold, ii) the current speed of the host vehicle is higher than a minimum speed, iii) either the distance of the host vehicle from the traffic light is lower than the higher threshold distance and the light signal emitted by the traffic light is red, or the distance of the host vehicle from the traffic light is between the higher and lower threshold distances and the light signal emitted by the traffic light is amber, and iv) a service brake of the host vehicle is unoperated.
US11192542B2	Parking of autonomous vehicles Methods, systems and computer program products for parking autonomous vehicles are provided. Aspects include determining, by an autonomous vehicle, an expected period of time that the autonomous vehicle will be idle and identifying, by the autonomous vehicle, a first parking area and a first parking threshold time associated with the first parking area. Based at least in part on a determination that the first parking threshold time is greater than the expected period of time, aspects include moving the autonomous vehicle to the first parking area. Based at least in part on a determination that the first parking threshold time is less than the expected period of time, aspects also include identifying, by the autonomous vehicle, a second parking area and moving the autonomous vehicle to the second parking area.
US11192532B2	Vehicle control system, method of controlling the same, and breaking device Disclosed herein is a vehicle control system capable of improving driving stability and providing safe fun driving to a driver by varying and controlling a regenerative braking torque generated by a motor during coasting. The vehicle control system according to an embodiment of the disclosure includes: a motor configured to provide a driving force to a wheel; a wheel sensor configured to detect a rotational speed of the wheel; and a controller configured to control the motor to generate a first regenerative braking torque during coasting, and to control the motor to generate a second regenerative braking torque lower than the first regenerative braking torque when a wheel slip of the wheel is detected based on an output of the wheel sensor.
US11192521B2	Vehicular seat belt device A vehicular seat belt device includes a first pretensioner provided in a retractor and configured to apply tensile force to a shoulder belt portion of a webbing, a second pretensioner provided in a belt anchor part and configured to apply tensile force to a lap belt portion of the webbing, a third pretensioner provided in a side portion of the vehicle seat opposite to the belt anchor part and configured to apply tensile force to the lap belt portion via a buckle, and a controller. The controller is configured to activate the first pretensioner at a time of predicting vehicle collision, and activate the second pretensioner and the third pretensioner after detection of collision.
US11192519B2	Gas generator Provided is a gas generator including the housing with a gas discharge port. The housing has a circular shape and includes a top plate, a bottom plate, and a peripheral wall, the housing having a ratio of an axial length L to an outer diameter D satisfying L/D≤1.1. The gas discharge port includes first opening portions having low burst pressure (P1) of the closing member and second opening portions having burst pressure (P2) higher than the burst pressure (P1). The first opening portions and second opening portions are formed on a circumference of a same circle in at least one of the peripheral wall or the top plate, and the first opening portion and the second opening portion, which are adjacent to each other in a circumference direction, are arranged such that an angle (θ1) formed by a first center line extending from a center of the same circle to a center of the first opening portion and a second center line extending from the center of the same circle to a center of the second opening portion is in a range from 15° to 65°.
US11192517B2	Curtain airbag including external cinching loop An assembly includes an airbag having an inflation chamber. The inflation chamber is defined by a first inflatable section, a second inflatable section, and a duct fluidly connecting the first inflatable section and the second inflatable section. A tether is external to the inflation chamber. The tether has a cinching loop encircling the duct. The tether has a tail extending from the cinching loop and the tail is fixed to the airbag.
US11192505B2	Rocker exterior component structure A rocker molding includes a vertical wall portion provided under a rocker in a vehicle upper-lower direction, a bottom wall portion extending from a lower end portion of the vertical wall portion to an outer side in a vehicle width direction, and a side wall portion extending upwardly in the vehicle upper-lower direction from an outer end portion of the bottom wall portion in the vehicle width direction. A sound absorbing material is provided in a penetrating portion that is provided in a grange from a portion of the vertical wall portion to an inner portion of the bottom wall portion in the vehicle width direction.
US11192503B2	Integrated gravitational anti-spill container system Systems and apparatus for preventing spilling of a container inside a vehicle. The system includes an arm connected to a device or surface within the vehicle. The system also includes an engagement device connected to the arm and configured to engage a carrying device holding the container, the arm having a length such that the carrying device is suspended and avoids contact with any object inside of the vehicle.
US11192497B1	Vehicle warning system A vehicle warning system is for use with a vehicle having an air horn (30) and a vehicle speed sensor (19) which provides a vehicle speed signal to a vehicle data bus (20). The vehicle warning system has at least one brake pressure sensor (22) to provide a brake pressure signal, an air valve (26), and a controller (24). The controller determines that the brake pressure signal indicates an excessive brake pressure and that the vehicle speed signal indicates an excessive vehicle speed, and opens the air valve to activate the air horn. The controller may read the vehicle speed from the vehicle data bus at periodic intervals or when it determines that there is an excessive brake pressure. The brake pressure is considered to be excessive if it exceeds a brake pressure threshold. The vehicle speed is considered to be excessive if it exceeds a vehicle speed threshold.
US11192486B2	Cup holder for a vehicle with wireless charging capability The vehicle-mounted cup holder with a wireless charging function includes a shell. The shell is formed with a cup holding body and a mobile phone accommodating chamber. The mobile phone accommodating chamber includes a mobile phone supporting face that is forward inclined, and both sides of the mobile phone supporting face bend upwards so as to respectively form a side board. Electricity supply coils are tightly fixed on the lower end of the mobile phone supporting face, and the electricity supply coils are electrically connected with a circuit board mounted in the shell. The circuit board is provided with a power supply input wire. A side wall of the shell is provided with one or more charging ports connected with the circuit board.
US11192485B2	Vehicle control system, vehicle control method, and storage medium A vehicle control system includes an object placement portion in which an object can be placed, an automated driving controller configured to execute automated driving for automatically controlling at least one of acceleration or deceleration and steering of a vehicle, and an object placement controller configured to change the object placement portion from a first mode to a second mode in which the object placement portion is more easily used by an occupant of the vehicle than in the first mode in accordance with a control state of automated driving executed by the automated driving controller.
US11192479B1	Seat assembly having a telescoping tube joint and method of manufacture A seat assembly and a method of manufacture. The seat assembly may include a seat bottom frame that has a perimeter tube assembly that may define an opening and a cross tube assembly that may extend across the opening. The perimeter tube assembly, the cross tube assembly, or both may have a telescoping tube joint.
US11192478B2	Device and method for producing an edge strip for a seat cover A device for producing an edge strip may have a supply unit with at least two openings for separately supplying an edge strip core and a material strip of a casing for the edge strip core. The material strip may be provided with a decorative element, an adapter unit, and a processing unit. The supply unit arranges the edge strip core on a surface side of the material strip which forms the inner face of the casing, and the adapter unit is designed to fold the material strip around the edge strip core. Free ends of the casing protrude from the edge strip core and lie one over the other, and the processing unit connects the free ends lying one over the other together. A method for producing an edge strip using such a device and to a seat cover with an edge strip is also included.
US11192477B2	Seat with pad The present disclosure relates to a seat that may have a support structure and a pad having a support wire attachable to the support structure. A retainer may be provided which is fixed at one end through an opening in the support structure and at the opposite end onto the support wire. The retainer may have a mounting member to fix through the opening and a hook to catch the support wire, the mounting member having a use position and a mounting position that is inclined relative to the use position. The mounting member and the hook may be joined by a spacer bar.
US11192476B2	Vehicle seat having a residual spring travel controller A vehicle seat having a residual spring travel controller and an air spring, the residual spring travel controller and the air spring each having a first end that is connected to a first connecting link of the vehicle seat and each having a second end that is connected to a second connecting link of the vehicle seat, and the residual spring travel controller comprising a piston element that is connected to the first end of the residual spring travel controller and a rod element that is connected to the second end of the residual spring travel controller, it being possible to bring the piston element into contact with a valve element or a switch element by means of a rotary and/or sliding movement with respect to the rod element to adjust an amount of air of the air spring.
US11192470B2	Vehicle device system A vehicle device system for a motor vehicle, having at least one vehicle device, in particular a vehicle seat or vehicle table, and comprising a mount fastened or fastenable to a vehicle body for detachably locking the vehicle device to the vehicle body, and comprising a key-operated switch, which establishes or interrupts at least one electrical contact between the vehicle device and the vehicle depending on its switching position. It is provided that the key-operated switch is fastened on the vehicle device, which is longitudinally displaceably mounted/mountable on the mount, and interacts with a contact carriage, which is longitudinally displaceably mounted on the mount.
US11192466B2	Electric charge management system and method for a vehicle An electric charge management device for a vehicle includes a display screen and circuitry. The circuitry sets a first threshold value for a first discharge level of a battery of the vehicle. The first discharge level is greater than a zero state of charge (SOC) of the battery. The circuitry sets a second threshold value for a second discharge level of the battery based on first information associated with the vehicle and/or a user of the vehicle. The circuitry determines a first energy cost for an energy amount between the second discharge level and a current SOC of the battery. The circuitry controls the vehicle to transfer the energy amount to an external electric power system, which is different from the electric charge management device, based on the determined first energy cost.
US11192465B2	Charging station for charging multiple electric vehicles, in particular electric cars A method for operating a charging station for charging a plurality of electric vehicles, in particular electric automobiles, wherein the charging station is connected to an electricity supply grid at a grid connection point in order thereby to be supplied with electrical energy from the electricity supply grid, the grid connection point is arranged on a first grid section of the supply grid and at least one further electrical consumer is connected to at least one second grid section of the supply grid, the first and the second grid section are connected to one another, the at least one further consumer and/or the at least one second grid section are able to be influenced by the charging station, the charging station is controlled such that a grid voltage in at least one of the grid sections is controlled, and/or a power flow at least in the at least one second grid section is controlled.
US11192464B2	Vehicle-mounted power source device A vehicle-mounted power source device includes: a power storage unit; a charging unit; a discharging unit; and a control unit which controls operations of the charging unit and the discharging unit in accordance with an activation signal. When the control unit receives the activation signal, the terminal voltage of the power storage unit becomes the first voltage through a charging operation of the charging unit, and when the control unit finishes receiving the activation signal, the discharging unit starts a discharging operation, and the terminal voltage of the power storage unit is reduced to a second voltage lower than the first voltage. The charging unit applies a third voltage lower than the second voltage to the power storage unit between (i) when the terminal voltage of the power storage unit becomes lower than the second voltage or when a predetermined length of time has elapsed since the terminal voltage of the power storage unit became lower than the second voltage and (ii) when the control unit receives the activation signal again.
US11192460B2	Power transmitting method and power transmitter for communication with power receiver A method and power transmitter for efficiently controlling power transmission to one or more power receivers in a wireless multi-power transmission system are provided. The method includes performing, when a predetermined measurement cycle arrives, a load measurement; comparing a current load measurement value with a previous load measurement value; determining whether the current load measurement value is increased over the previous load measurement value by at least as much as a first predetermined threshold; gradually increasing, when the load measurement value is increased over the previous load measurement value by at least as much as the first threshold, a transmission power value until a request for a subscription to a wireless multi-power transmission network from a power reception target within a predetermined time limit; and stopping, when the request for the subscription is not received before the time limit is exceeded, power transmission to the power reception target.
US11192459B2	Method and charging apparatus for charging a traction energy storage device of an electrically driven vehicle A method for charging a traction energy storage device of an at least partially electrically driven vehicle includes detecting an interruption of a charging process, and determining a parameter which represents a reason for the interruption of the charging process. The method also includes performing at least one of the following measures as a function of the determined parameter: continuing the charging process in an unchanged or changed fashion, and performing a specific signaling process.
US11192457B2	Charging control device for charging electric vehicle A charging control device for charging an electric vehicle according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises: a first switch unit for receiving a first control signal from the outside; a first control unit for receiving the first control signal through the first switch unit; a second switch unit for receiving a second control signal from the outside; a second control unit which is woken up by the first control unit and receives the second control signal through the second switch unit; and a motor control unit which is controlled by the second control unit and controls driving of a motor for a charging flap, wherein the second control unit disables the first switch and enables the second switch when the second control unit is woken up by the first control unit.
US11192451B2	Methods and systems for energy management of a transport climate control system A method for managing energy to a transport climate control system from a vehicle electrical system is provided. The vehicle electrical system includes a vehicle power network and an auxiliary power network connected to a transport climate control load network via a DC regulated bus. The method includes monitoring a vehicle voltage of the vehicle power network and determining whether the vehicle power network requires holdover assistance based on the vehicle voltage. Also, the method includes the bus sending vehicle power energy generated by the vehicle power network to the transport climate control load network without assistance of the auxiliary power network when the controller determines that the vehicle power network has sufficient power capacity available, and the bus sending the vehicle power energy and auxiliary power energy stored by the auxiliary power network to the transport climate control load network when the controller determines that the vehicle power network requires holdover assistance.
US11192448B2	Axle assembly for frame rail vehicles An axle assembly for frame rail vehicles is described herein. The axle assembly includes a drive unit that includes a first drive unit assembly, a second drive unit assembly, a first axle shaft, and a second axle shaft. The first drive unit assembly includes a first electric machine, a first output assembly, and a first offset gear reduction assembly. The second drive unit assembly includes a second electric machine, a second output assembly, and a second offset gear reduction assembly. The first electric machine and the second electric machine are orientated in a same direction, and spaced such that the axle centerline axis is positioned between the first electric machine and the second electric machine. The first offset gear reduction assembly is spaced from the second offset gear reduction assembly such that the axle centerline axis is positioned between the first offset gear reduction and the second offset gear reduction.
US11192447B2	Volume tank A volume tank that houses a material is provided. The volume tank can include a first bulk head, a second bulk head opposite the first bulk head, a non-symmetrical frustoconical shell section, a cylindrical shell section and a transition section in between the non-symmetrical frustoconical shell section and the cylindrical shell section. The volume tank is configured to be coupled to a portion of a frame of a vehicle, and in a non-limiting embodiment, to a school bus.
US11192443B2	Transmission for a hybrid drive arrangement, hybrid drive arrangement, vehicle, method for operating the hybrid drive arrangement, computer program and storage medium The invention relates to a transmission (100) for a hybrid drive arrangement which can be coupled to two drive assemblies (7, 8), comprising an input shaft (10) and an output shaft (11), at least one first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh shifting element (SE1, SE2, SE3, SE4, SE5, SE6, SE7), and at least one planetary gear (5). The input shaft can be coupled to a first transmission shaft (16) by means of the first shifting element (SE1) and the input shaft can be coupled to a second transmission shaft (17) by means of the second shifting element (SE2), and the first transmission shaft (16) can be coupled to the second transmission shaft (17) by means of the third shifting element (SE3), and the first transmission shaft (16) can be coupled to the sun gear of the planetary gear (5) by means of the fourth shifting element (SE4), the first transmission shaft (16) can be coupled to the ring gear of the planetary gear (5) by means of the fifth transmission shaft (SE5), the second transmission shaft (17) can be coupled to the planet carrier of the planetary gear (5) by means of the sixth shifting element (SE6) and the second transmission shaft (17) can be coupled to the sun gear of the planetary gear (5) by means of the seventh shifting element (SE7), the output shaft (11) being coupled to the planet carrier of the planetary gear (5).
US11192440B2	Hybrid vehicle A hybrid vehicle includes an internal combustion engine, an electric-power generator, an electric motor and a transmission device. The transmission device includes an input gear, an output gear, an intermediate gear, a case and a connection-disconnection device. The connection-disconnection device is configured to switch between connecting and disconnecting a path along which the drive force is inputted to the input gear. When viewed from a direction long a rotational axis, a rotational axis of an intermediate gear is positioned vertically higher than a straight line that links a rotational axis of the input gear and a rotational axis of the output gear.
US11192439B2	Battery assembly with plate having compression limiting feature This disclosure relates to a battery assembly with a plate having a compression limiting feature, and a corresponding electrified vehicle and method. An example battery assembly includes a wall having an inner surface and an outer surface. The wall also has a central opening. The battery assembly further includes a plate abutting the outer surface of the wall and covering the central opening. The plate also includes a main body and a post projecting from the main body toward the inner surface of the wall. Among other benefits, this arrangement limits compression of the wall and increases the ease of mounting components, such as electrical or fluid connectors, to the battery assembly.
US11192428B2	Vehicle air-conditioning device A vehicle air-conditioning device is provided which is capable of eliminating or suppressing vibration and noise generated due to the application of a counterpressure to an opening/closing valve. The vehicle air-conditioning device includes a refrigerant circuit R having a compressor 2, a radiator 4 to perform heat exchange between a refrigerant and air, an outdoor heat exchanger 7, a heat absorber 9, and a solenoid valve 40. The compressor 2 and the solenoid valve 40 are controlled to air-condition a vehicle interior. A decompression speed at a refrigerant inflow side of the solenoid valve when the compressor 2 is stopped and the solenoid valve 40 is closed is faster than that at a refrigerant outflow side thereof. When operation is stopped from a state in which the compressor 2 is operating with the solenoid valve 40 being in an opened state, the opened state of the solenoid valve 40 is maintained even after the compressor 2 is stopped.
US11192414B1	Suspension system Multi-link suspension systems for vehicle are described having various linkage arms that connect to distinct points of a wheel mount. Each of the linkage arms are preferably coupled to the wheel mount via a spherical ball joint and mounted such that they can independently move with respect to the other linkage arms. A shock assembly is preferably mounted between two of the linkage arms on a separate links that is configured to vary its length based on movement of one or both of the two linkage arms.
US11192407B2	Pilot operated regulator with adjustable minimum delivery pressure A regulator for establishing outlet fluid pressure. The regulator includes a valve body having a fluid pressure inlet in selective fluid communication with a fluid pressure outlet. A pilot pressure inlet is formed in the valve body and in fluid communication with a source of pilot pressure. Valving structure in the valve body establishes outlet fluid pressure as a function of pilot pressure. First adjustable structure within the valve body may establish a minimum outlet fluid pressure threshold without regard to pilot pressure. Second adjustable structure within the valve body may establish outlet fluid pressure offset relative to pilot pressure.
US11192406B2	Neutralization device for vehicles A neutralization device that neutralizes static electricity on a portion of a vehicle exposed to outside. The neutralization device causes corona discharge according to a positive potential thereof. The neutralization device is attached to a surface exposed outwardly widthwise of the vehicle in at least one of an inner circumferential portion of a tire and a predetermined point of an outer surface of tire wheel.
US11192400B2	Sealing device for a wheel hub unit Sealing device for a wheel hub unit is disclosed herein, wherein the sealing device being able, during use, to form a static seal for protecting the wheel hub unit from any environmental pollutant and being provided with a screen, which is engaged with a collar of the wheel hub unit and has a bottom wall, a cylindrical side wall integral with and more or less perpendicular to the bottom wall. The sealing device is designed and structured to protect the wheel hub unit from any environmental contaminant that the wheel hub unit may be exposed to during usage.
US11192391B2	Medium supporting structure and recording device A feeding tray includes a first member supported, via a housing member, by a main body of a recording device configured to perform recording onto a medium, and a second member that includes a second support surface configured to support the medium and is coupled to the first member to be movable relatively to the first member, with a transport direction of the medium being a movement direction. The second member includes a second frame body forming an outer peripheral portion of the second member, and a plurality of second ribs spanning across the second frame body to form the second support surface.
US11192389B2	System and method for laser marking substrates A laser marking system comprises at least one controller to control an array of optical devices, between a laser source and a scan head. The array applies a selected pattern of portions of the received spatial profile of the laser beam to the substrate to achieve a second intensity different from the first intensity of laser beam at a rate of power deposition relative to a rate of thermal diffusion in the substrate for a predetermined time interval to thermally heat locations of the substrate with the selected pattern of the portions. The second intensity effectuates carbonization of materials of the substrate to create a mark without ablation.
US11192386B2	Image processing apparatus, image processing method and storage medium To predict more accurately whether ink dots formed on the surface of paper by two nozzles arranged in a nozzle row and located at positions close to each other overlap. A luminance amount for each unit area surrounding each chart is derived from scanned data obtained by reading results of printing a plurality of charts (two-dot line chart corresponding to a nozzle pair of a nozzle of interest and a neighboring nozzle thereof among the plurality of nozzles) associated with a plurality of nozzles respectively. Then, based on the luminance amount for each unit area, the dot formation state in a dot formation line by the plurality of nozzles is determined.
US11192385B2	Liquid discharging apparatus A liquid discharging apparatus has: a liquid storing chamber storing a liquid to be discharged from a discharge opening; a supply flow path supplying the liquid to the liquid storing chamber; a discharge flow path discharging the liquid from the liquid storing chamber; a circulation controller controlling a circulation operation to circulate, to the supply flow path, the liquid discharged through the discharge flow path; and a discharge controller controlling a discharge operation to discharge the liquid from the discharge opening. The circulation controller lowers the flow velocity of the liquid in the circulation operation below the flow velocity of the liquid in the circulation operation with the discharge operation being in progress, after which the circulation controller stops the circulation operation.
US11192382B2	Liquid cartridge including circuit board and restricting surface positioned below liquid passage A liquid cartridge includes: a housing; a liquid passage extending in a first lateral direction from the housing when the housing is in an operational posture; a sealing member provided in the liquid passage; a circuit board including an electrical contact; and a restricting surface positioned below the liquid passage. The restricting surface is capable of preventing the housing from moving in a second lateral direction opposite the first lateral direction. When the housing is in an operational posture, the liquid passage is positioned closer to the restricting surface than the circuit board is to the restricting surface with respect to a vertical direction perpendicular to the first lateral direction; and the circuit board and the restricting surface are positioned further in the second lateral direction relative to the sealing member.
US11192381B2	Liquid ejection apparatus and liquid filling method A liquid ejection apparatus includes: a recording head that ejects liquid; a sub-tank that is connected to the recording head and temporarily stores the liquid to be supplied to the recording head; a liquid tank that communicates with the sub-tank and is able to be filled with the liquid; a first atmosphere opening unit that is provided in the liquid tank; and a second atmosphere opening unit that is provided in the sub-tank. The second atmosphere opening unit is closable when the liquid tank is filled with the liquid, and the first atmosphere opening unit and the second atmosphere opening unit are able to open the liquid tank and the sub-tank to the atmosphere, respectively, when the sub-tank is filled with the liquid filled in the liquid tank by a hydraulic head pressure.
US11192379B2	Printing apparatus, control method of the same, and transportation method of the same There is provided a printing apparatus. A cap caps an ink ejection surface of a printhead. An ink suction path is connected to the cap and sucks the ink in the cap. An ink tank stores the ink to be supplied to the printhead. An ink supply path connects the printhead to the ink tank. A first closing unit closes the ink suction path. A second closing unit closes the ink supply path. A control unit is able to execute a first control mode in which the first closing unit closes the ink suction path and a second control mode in which the second closing unit closes the ink supply path.
US11192375B2	Drop-on-demand ink delivery systems and methods in card processing systems DOD ink delivery systems and methods are described herein that are used in DOD card printing systems of card processing systems for supplying ink for DOD printing on plastic cards of the type that bear personalized data unique to the intended cardholder and/or which bear other card information. The DOD ink delivery system is configured to recirculate the ink, or have a second pressure damper container that provides damping to eliminate large and abrupt spikes in ink pressure which can disturb the meniscus of the ink in each nozzle of the print head generated by a vacuum system, or simultaneously operate a supply pump at a lower flow rate than a return pump during an autofill/autodrain procedure on the ink delivery system.
US11192373B2	Printing apparatus and control method thereof According to the present invention, a printing apparatus is provided, the printing apparatus comprises a printhead including an ink discharge surface on which plurality of orifices for discharging ink are arranged and configured to print an image, a cap configured to cap the ink discharge surface, and a supply unit configured to selectively supply one of a plurality of types of liquids into the cap.
US11192372B2	Ink jet head assembly and apparatus for processing a substrate An apparatus for processing a substrate may include a stage on which a substrate is placed, an ink jet head assembly for discharging chemical liquid onto the substrate, and a gantry for holding the ink jet head assembly over the substrate on the stage. The ink jet head assembly may include an ink jet head for discharging the chemical liquid onto the substrate, a supporting member for holding the ink jet head, a fixing member being combined with supporting member to fix the supporting member to the fixing member, a protruding member disposed on the fixing member, and a receiving member provided in the supporting member to receive the protruding member.
US11192364B2	Electro-mechanical transducer, liquid discharge head, liquid discharge device, and liquid discharge apparatus An electro-mechanical transducer includes a diaphragm plate on a substrate, a first electrode on the diaphragm plate, an electro-mechanical transducer film on the first electrode, and a second electrode on the electro-mechanical transducer film. One of the first electrode and the second electrode is a common electrode. Another of the first electrode and the second electrode is an individual electrode. At least a portion of the common electrode is laminated on and in contact with the diaphragm plate. The common electrode has a plurality of holes penetrating the common electrode in a lamination direction.
US11192363B2	Liquid ejection head, liquid ejection apparatus, and printing apparatus An element substrate of a liquid ejection head includes an ejection opening array in which multiple ejection openings are arranged along a predetermined direction, pressure chambers communicating with the ejection openings, and heat generating elements for ejecting liquid, supplied to the pressure chambers, through the ejection openings. The element substrate also includes a predetermined supply path extending in the predetermined direction and communicating with the pressure chambers, a predetermined collection path communicating with the pressure chambers, multiple liquid supply ports communicating with the supply path at different positions in the predetermined direction, and a liquid collection port communicating with the collection path. Among the multiple liquid supply ports, at least a liquid supply port located at an end portion in the predetermined direction has an opening area larger than the opening area of the liquid collection port.
US11192361B2	Liquid discharging head and liquid discharging apparatus A liquid-discharging-head includes a nozzle having a first-nozzle-portion having a first-sectional-area and a second-nozzle-portion having a second-sectional-area larger than the first-sectional-area, a liquid chamber which communicates with the nozzle, and a piezoelectric-element which changes a pressure inside the liquid chamber, in which the piezoelectric-element is driven from the control section, and the liquid-discharging-head executes a first control in which an apex of a liquid surface is drawn into the second-nozzle-portion in a state in which an inner wall surface of the first-nozzle-portion is covered by a liquid film by decreasing the pressure inside the liquid chamber, and a second control in which a shape of the apex of the liquid surface is inverted to a protruding shape towed the opening and the droplet is discharged from the nozzle by increasing the pressure inside the liquid chamber in a state in which the inner wall surface is covered by the liquid film.
US11192359B2	Liquid discharge apparatus, control method for liquid discharge apparatus, and medium storing program executable by liquid discharge apparatus A liquid discharge apparatus includes: a head which discharges a plurality of kinds of liquids; and a controller. The controller is configured to: calculate a total discharge amount of the liquids for a unit area of a recording medium based on discharge data for the unit area; determine whether the total discharge amount exceeds a predefined amount; in a case that the controller has determined that the total discharge amount exceeds the predefined amount, divide the discharge data into a plurality of pieces of divided discharge data, each of the pieces of divided discharge data indicating the total discharge amount of not more than the predefined amount; and perform a plurality of divided discharges for the unit area based on the pieces of divided discharge data.
US11192357B2	Printing apparatus and method of controlling same Although a conventional method of inspecting an ink discharge state in which the temperature change of the heater is detected enables accurate and high-speed inspection, due to the situation in which the inspection was performed, appropriate post-processing depending on the situation cannot be executed based on a result of the inspection. Therefore, it is necessary to determine the ink discharge state in detail. A plurality of modes are provided in accordance with the purpose of performing an inspection of the ink discharge state, and a discharge inspection threshold is provided for each of these modes. By selectively executing or continuously executing these modes, it is possible to determine the ink discharge state in more detail.
US11192353B2	Smoke and soot removal systems for additive manufacturing An intake manifold for an additive manufacturing system includes a body defining a flow channel therein. The body includes an inlet end defining an inlet configured to intake gas and/or particles from a build area of the additive manufacturing system, and an outlet end defining an outlet that is fluidly connected to the inlet through the flow channel. The outlet is configured to be in fluid communication with an uptake manifold of the additive manufacturing system. The intake manifold also includes at least one mount extending from the outlet end of the body that is configured to rotatably mount the body to the uptake manifold.
US11192351B2	Peel ply for surface preparation and bonding method using the same A method for surface preparation of a composite substrate prior to adhesive bonding. The surface preparation method includes applying a resin-containing peel ply onto a composite substrate, followed by co-curing. The resin-containing peel ply contains a non-removable textile carrier and a removable woven fabric embedded therein. After co-curing, the peel ply is removed from the composite substrate such that the removable woven fabric is removed but the non-removable textile carrier and a film of residual resin remain on the composite substrate, thereby creating a modified, bondable surface on the composite substrate. The composite substrate with the modified surface can be bonded to another composite substrate, whereby the textile carrier remains an integrated part of the final bonded structure.
US11192347B2	High performance plastic magnetic materials and preparation method thereof The invention discloses a high performance plastic magnetic material, comprising a low surface energy layer, a magnetic layer and a printable layer, wherein the magnetic layer and the printable layer are arranged successively on a first side of the low surface energy layer; the low surface energy layer is an organic silicon pressure sensitive adhesive layer. The invention further discloses a preparation method, comprising the following steps: pretreating a magnetic powder with a coupling agent; mixing the pretreated magnetic powder with matrix components and auxiliaries to gain a mixture; extrusion compositing the gained mixture with a printable layer to gain composite paper having the printable layer and a magnetic layer; and applying a low surface energy layer on a side of the magnetic layer, opposite the printable layer. As no UV layer and no adhesive residue, the material of the invention is environmentally friendly and highly reliable.
US11192344B2	Thermoplastic epoxy materials with core shell phase A composite article (30), comprising at least one fibrous layer (12), and at least one thermoplastic epoxy web layer (14) located in direct planar contact with the at least one fibrous layer (12), the at least one thermoplastic epoxy web layer (14) being adapted to substantially phase separate during a molding and/or curing process.
US11192343B2	Self-destructive irreversible security packaging film An irreversibly self-destructive security packaging water soluble film and method for manufacturing the same. The water soluble packaging film is embedded with various security elements, which will get irreversibly destroyed upon final usage as the whole package along with its contents will dissolve in water. This process of self-destruction will control the duplication of the package or alteration of the product inside the package.
US11192341B2	Method for producing a curved composite glass pane having a thin glass pane A method for producing a composite glass pane, includes placing a first glass pane having a thickness less than or equal to 1 mm on a support mould, wherein the first glass pane is curved into a shape determined by the support mould; placing at least one thermoplastic film on the first glass pane; placing a curved second glass pane having a thickness greater than or equal to 1.5 mm on the thermoplastic film; and joining the first glass pane to the second glass pane via the thermoplastic film to form a composite glass pane by lamination.
US11192332B2	Backing layer of a thermal insulation panel for building having increased adhesion properties to an insulating layer A backing layer (10) of a multilayer thermal insulation panel (100) for building constructions includes a glass fiber reinforcement layer (1) having a first surface (F1) and an opposite second surface (F2). The reinforcement layer is interposed between a first coating layer (2) attached to the first surface (F1) of the reinforcement layer and a second coating layer (3) attached to the second surface (F2) of the reinforcement layer (1). The first (2) and second (3) coating layers are manufactured by a mixture including an organic binder.
US11192324B2	Composite material for vehicle interior A composite material for vehicle interior, including: a skin material disposed at one outermost side of the composite material, and having a first principal surface and a second principal surface opposite the first principal surface; and a backing material disposed at the other outermost side of the composite material, so as to face the second principal surface of the skin material. The skin material is formed of a fiber structure body, and has a plurality of first fold lines of folding with the first principal surface of the skin material outward, and a plurality of second fold lines of folding with the first principal surface inward. The first fold lines adjacent to each other are parallel to each other or form an acute angle θ1 of 10° or less, the second fold lines adjacent to each other are parallel to each other or form an acute angle θ2 of 10° or less, and the first fold line and the second fold line adjacent to each other are parallel to each other or form an acute angle θ12 of 10° or less.
US11192316B2	Hierarchical honeycomb core with sandwich cell walls A hierarchical sandwich core and a method of making it where a macroscopic honeycomb with a first macroscopic cell with first sandwich cell walls is connected to neighbouring macroscopic cells with neighbouring sandwich cell walls. The first and neighbouring sandwich cell walls are made of a sandwich material having a width, a mesoscopic core, and a first skin layer on a first major surface and a second skin layer on a second major surface of the sandwich material, both skin layers being attached to the mesoscopic core forming each sandwich cell wall of the macroscopic honeycomb. The first and the neighbouring cell walls have a height determined by the width of the sandwich material, both skin layers of the first sandwich cell wall being connected to both skin layers of at least one neighbouring cell wall along the height of the first cell wall.
US11192314B2	Method for hybrid preforms A hybrid preform comprises a bundle of unidirectionally aligned fibers, and at least one partial cut that extends part of the way, but not all of the way, through a transverse cross section of the bundle of fibers at least one location along the length of the bundle.
US11192313B2	Production method for a pultruded article A method for producing a pultruded article includes: a step in which an activation sheet having a sliding surface capable of sliding with the inner surface of a mold is arranged on the surface of an intermediate molded article comprising reinforcing fibers that are impregnated with a thermosetting resin and the intermediate molded article and the activation sheet are introduced into a mold together; and a step in which a pultruded article generated by heating and hardening the intermediate molded article in the mold is pultruded together with the activation sheet from the mold.
US11192308B2	Printer filament feed monitoring A filament feed monitor and method of remediating a printing error in a 3D printer is provided. The method may include detecting motion of a trailing gear by an optical sensor. The printing error may be detected by a controller connected to the optical sensor in response to a determination that rotational motion of a filament feed roller has exceeded a predetermined threshold, which may be determined based on the detected motion of the trailing gear. A command may be generated and executed by the controller to remediate the printing error.
US11192297B2	Composite continuous filament for additive manufacturing A composite filament for use in additive manufacturing such as fused filament fabrication is described along with methods of its construction and use. The composite filament includes a single continuous filament (e.g., a continuous carbon roving) and a polymer (e.g., a high glass transition polymer) in intimate contact. The composite filament is formed through immersion of the continuous filament in a solution of the polymer. The composite filament can be combined with an additional formation material in an additive manufacturing process.
US11192294B2	Three-dimensional printing system with integrated scan module calibration A three-dimensional printing system for solidifying a photocurable resin in a layer-by-layer manner at a build plane includes a scan module, a transparent plate, a sensor, and a controller. The scan module is configured to scan the light beam along two axes to address the build plane. The transparent plate is positioned in the optical path between the scan module and the build plane. The transparent plate has at least one reflective feature in the optical path. The sensor is mounted above the glass plate and is positioned to receive light reflected from the reflective feature. The controller is configured to operate the scan module to scan the light beam across the build plane, receive a signal from the sensor when the light beam impinges upon the reflective feature, and analyze the signal to verify a proper alignment of the light beam to the build plane.
US11192291B2	Manufacturing apparatus and manufacturing method for shaft-shaped composite member A core metal includes, on an outer circumference thereof, a plurality of attachment surfaces to which a plurality of strings are attached, and a plurality of guided portions are formed along an axial direction of the core metal and disposed between two of the attachment surfaces. A string supply device includes a string supply unit that supplies the strings to the outer circumference of the core metal, an attaching unit that arranges and attaches the strings on the attachment surfaces of the core metal in a circumferential direction of the core metal, and a plurality of guiding units, in contact with the guided portions of the core metal, which guides the core metal.
US11192290B2	Machine for thermoforming and method for thermoforming A thermoforming machine and a thermoforming method are provided, in particular for producing capsules for obtaining beverages. The capsules (C) are produced from a film (F) of thermoformable material by thermoforming one or more predefined portions (X) of the film. The one or more predefined portions (X) of the film of thermoformable material are pre-heated, i.e. they are heated before being subjected to thermoforming so as to minimize the probability that the film of thermoformable material tears or breaks during thermoforming or after thermoforming.
US11192289B2	Reinforced fuel tank and method for reinforced fuel tank construction A method for manufacturing a fuel tank is described herein. The method includes subsequent to molding of a housing of a fuel tank, positioning a strut inside the housing. The method additionally includes snap-fitting a flexible projection of the strut with a corresponding flange section in a first wall of the housing, the flange section surrounding an opening in the first wall of the housing and the flexible projection including a surface overlapping an interior surface of the flange section subsequent to the snap-fitting.
US11192278B2	Mixture, a process and a mold for manufacturing recyclable and degradable articles The disclosed subject matter concerns earth based mixtures, methods of preparing mixtures, and a process of forming articles of manufacture, as well as a process of manufacturing articles in molds configured for compression molding of earth based mixtures in accordance with the disclosed subject matter, including mixtures containing one or more of, e.g., sand, silt, clay, minerals, or any combination thereof.
US11192277B2	3D ceramic printer and a method using the same The present invention relates to a 3D printer wherein a printing material is placed and hardened on a transparent film and a 3D printing method using the same. The 3D printer of the present invention is composed of the film supplying part to provide a transparent film; the material supplying part to provide a printing material on the transparent film; the photo-hardening part to solidify the printing material provided onto the transparent film as a designed form; and the film collecting part to collect the transparent film and the remaining printing material after the printing material has been hardened by the photo-hardening part.
US11192274B2	Efficient method and apparatus for producing compressed structural fiberboard An efficient method and apparatus for making a compressed structural fiberboard from agricultural fibrous matter. The method and apparatus provides a conveyor having variable drives for carrying the agricultural fibrous matter; a hopper having variable drives for conditioning and delivering the agricultural fibrous matter to an extruder; the extruder having a cyclic ram with linear actuators and a floating plate to drive the cyclic ram between an extended position, wherein the agricultural fibrous matter is compacted into the compressed structural fiberboard, and a retracted position, wherein the agricultural fibrous matter is delivered to the extruder; synthetic oil heaters for heating the compressed structural fiberboard; a heat sink track cooler for cooling the compressed structural fiberboard; and a water jet cutting system for cutting the compressed structural fiberboard into individual boards.
US11192265B2	System and method for a robotic manipulator system A robotic arm control system including a robotic arm configured to deploy one or more tools in an operating space, one or more sensors, and a control system operably configured to: scan the operating space with the one or more sensors, identify a surface of the operating space based at least in part upon information sensed by the one or more sensors, establish a virtual barrier offset from the surface, and limit movement of the robotic arm based at least in part upon the virtual barrier.
US11192254B2	Robot system and adjustment method therefor The present disclosure is a robot system including a robot that performs work on a workpiece; a controller that controls the robot; a first camera that captures an image of the workpiece while being moved relative to the workpiece by means of the operation of the robot; and a second camera that is capable of acquiring, in synchronization with image capturing by the first camera, an image that represents the relative positional relationship between the first camera and the workpiece. The controller includes a correcting unit that corrects, on the basis of the image acquired by the second camera, the image-capturing timing of the first camera so that an image is captured at a position at which the workpiece is appropriately captured in the field of view of the first camera.
US11192247B2	Robot controller for controlling arc motion of robot A robot controller controls an arc motion of a robot. The robot controller includes an interpolation point setting unit that sets an interpolation point between movement points in an operation program. The robot controller includes a movement-point angle calculation unit that calculates an angle relating to a reference direction for determining the orientation of the robot, and an interpolation-point angle calculation unit that calculates an angle relating to the reference direction at an interpolation point by interpolating angles relating to the reference direction at the movement points. The reference direction is a direction independent from the positions of the movement points and is set in an operation program in a predetermined coordinate system.
US11192245B2	Independent end-effector control and operation Systems and methods are provided for controlling robots and their end effectors. One embodiment is a method for controlling a robot. The method includes: maneuvering a robot via a robot controller that is dedicated to operating the robot, thereby altering a position of an end effector mounted to the robot, communicating from the robot controller to an end effector controller that is disposed at the end effector and is dedicated to operating the end effector, determining a position of the end effector via the end effector controller, and operating the end effector via the end effector controller based on the position of the end effector.
US11192244B2	Robot system, robot controller, and method for withdrawing robot A robot system includes a robot, a sensor, and a processor. The sensor is configured to detect an external force acting on the robot. The processor is configured to move the robot in a forward direction such that a representative point of the robot moves along a motion track in the forward direction; move the robot in a reverse direction such that the representative point moves along the motion track in the reverse direction opposite to the forward direction when the external force satisfies a first condition which includes a condition that the external force is larger than a first threshold force; and move the robot to reduce the external force when the external force satisfies a second condition which includes a condition that the external force is larger than a second threshold force even after the robot has been moved in the reverse direction.
US11192243B2	Method, constraining device and system for determining geometric properties of a manipulator A method and system for determining geometric properties of a manipulator (2). The manipulator (2) is controlled to perform constrained motions exhibiting force interaction with the environment, or between different links of the manipulator (2), such that a kinematic chain is formed mechanically. The chain may include peripherals and external axes of motion. A constraining device, enables motions that facilitate the determination of geometric properties. A unified model of joint and link compliances facilitates determination of stiffness parameters. The force interaction is controlled with awareness of friction such that non-geometric properties are possible to identify, thereby enabling separation of non-geometric effects from the geometric ones, which improves accuracy.
US11192237B2	Exosuit systems and methods Exosuit systems and methods according to various embodiments are described herein. The exosuit system can be a suit that is worn by a wearer on the outside of his or her body. It may be worn under the wearer's normal clothing, over their clothing, between layers of clothing, or may be the wearer's primary clothing itself. The exosuit may be assistive, as it physically assists the wearer in performing particular activities, or can provide other functionality such as communication to the wearer through physical expressions to the body, engagement of the environment, or capturing of information from the wearer.
US11192221B2	Curved-tip screwdriver and screwdriver bit Various embodiments of a curved-tip screwdriver bit are presented. The bit may include a shank, a body connected with the shank, and a tip disposed at an end of the body. The tip may include curved blades that project from the end of the shaft. A first curved blade may have a first arc shaped cross section. A second curved blade may have a second arc shaped cross section. A radius of the second arc-shaped cross section may be greater than a radius of the first arc-shaped cross section of the first curved blade.
US11192217B2	Tool sharpener with tiltable sharpening stage Apparatus and method for sharpening a cutting tool, such as but not limited to a knife. A sharpener has a housing with a sharpener stage adapted to facilitate a sharpening operation upon the cutting tool responsive to retraction, by a user, of the cutting tool along a longitudinal drawing axis. A tiltable sharpening mechanism is disposed within the housing adjacent the sharpening stage. The tiltable sharpening mechanism has a central body that is rotatable about a transverse rotational axis nominally orthogonal to the longitudinal drawing axis. The rotatable central body supports at least a first sharpening element. In some cases, the central body supports a pair of intersecting sharpening elements. A biasing member exerts a biasing force to urge the central body of the tiltable sharpening mechanism to a neutral position within the housing. The central body can be locked in neutral, positive rake and negative rake positions.
US11192213B2	Automated assembly method and automated assembly apparatus An automated assembly apparatus, system and method of use thereof, characterized by comprising an assembly robot having a plurality of hands, the plurality of hands being movable in an X-axis direction and a Y-axis direction by an X-axis moving unit and a Y-axis moving unit, and a plurality of workbenches which are provided with Z-axis moving unit and which are movable in a Z-axis direction by the Z-axis moving unit. A work area is independently provided for the plurality of workbenches, a width of a predetermined work area among the work areas is larger than clearance widths of the plurality of hands, widths of the work areas other than the predetermined work area are smaller than the clearance widths of at least some of the plurality of hands, and the hand which performs a job on the predetermined work area is disposed at a lowermost level in the Z-axis direction.
US11192205B2	Self-leveling container for laser welding A self-leveling container that contains argon gas for laser welding of a work piece includes a base surface, a plurality of pleated sidewalls, each comprising an associated distal sidewall end and an associated proximate sidewall end, where the proximate sidewall end is sealed to the base surface. A frame includes a plurality of frame segments, each secured to an associated one of the distal sidewall ends. A plurality of actuators, each located with one intersection of the plurality of frame segments, linearly move its associated one intersection of the plurality frame segments so a plane formed by the frame segments remains parallel to a planar surface.
US11192203B2	Sensor device for scanning laser processing of a workpiece by means of a laser beam deflected about a pivot point The invention relates to a sensor device for scanning laser processing of a workpiece by means of a laser beam deflected about a pivot point, said device comprising a holding device and at least two sensors, wherein the holding device is formed by a matrix- or honeycomb-shaped arrangement of sleeves, consisting of individual sleeves whose sleeve axes intersect at a point of intersection (P) outside the holding device, and the at least two sensors each being arranged in one of the sleeves such that their sensor axis coincides with the sleeve axis. The holding device advantageously is a monolithic component produced in a generative manufacturing process.
US11192202B2	Gas diffuser assemblies for nozzle assemblies having multiple attachment methods A welding torch having a nozzle assembly with multiple attachment methods is disclosed. The nozzle assembly includes a nozzle shell, an electrically insulating sleeve, and a nozzle insert. The nozzle insert is configured for attachment to gas diffuser assemblies with different attachment mechanisms (e.g. a slip-on mechanism relying on frictional force, and/or screw-on mechanism relying on torque).
US11192199B2	System and method for weld-training system A system includes one or more sets of reflective visual markers, a light source configured to emit light, and a controller communicatively coupled to the light source. Each set of reflective visual markers is coupled to a component of a welding system. Each reflective visual marker is configured to reflect the emitted light received from the light source towards one or more cameras. The controller is configured to control illumination settings of the light source based at least in part on a status of the welding system being utilized to perform a live-arc welding operation.
US11192198B2	Shaving processing method and shaving processing apparatus for gear A shaving processing method and apparatus for a gear are provided which reduce a load at the time of processing a tooth surface, thereby reducing a transmission error of the gear. Embodiments include a method for finishing the tooth surface of the gear in a state where the gear and a shaving cutter are engaged with each other and the shaving cutter is rotated. The gear has a pair of end surfaces facing each other in the tooth width direction. A first shaving step of processing the tooth surface is performed so that a processing region gradually expands from one end surface of the pair of end surfaces toward the other end surface, and a second shaving step of processing the tooth surface is performed so that a processing region gradually expands from the other end surface of the pair of end surfaces toward the one end surface.
US11192188B2	Method of manufacturing aluminum alloy articles A method for making an article is disclosed. The method involves inputting a digital model of an article into an additive manufacturing apparatus comprising an energy source. The additive manufacturing apparatus applies energy from the energy source to successively applied incremental quantities of a powder to fuse the powder to form the article corresponding to the digital model. The powder includes an aluminum alloy having 2.00-9.00 wt. % cerium, 0.25-3.00 wt. % silicon, 0.25-0.75 wt. % magnesium, 0-0.75 wt. % iron, 0-0.05 wt. % other alloying elements, and the balance of aluminum, based on the total weight of the aluminum alloy.
US11192185B2	Method of producing product A method of producing a product includes a preparation step of preparing a member that constitutes a part of the product, a fixing step of positioning and fixing the member on a plate, a mounting step of positioning and mounting the plate on which the member has been fixed on an additive manufacturing apparatus, a shaping step of forming a shaped portion adhering to the upper surface of the member, a dismounting step of dismounting the plate on which the member bearing the shaped portion formed thereon is fixed from the additive manufacturing apparatus, and a separation step of separating the member bearing the shaped portion formed thereon from the plate.
US11192184B2	Engineered platelets for additive manufacturing The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for producing a metal-containing powder useful for additive manufacturing. The metal-containing powder includes a plurality of metal-containing platelets having a defined physical geometry and a defined aspect ratio. The metal platelets may be produced by depositing a metal layer on a substrate that includes one or more recessed or raised surface features. The one or more recessed or raised surface features create a fracture pattern in a metal layer deposited across at least a portion of the one or more surface features. By separating the metal layer from the substrate and fracturing the metal layer along the fracture pattern, a plurality of metal platelets are produced. In some embodiments, a release agent may be disposed between the metal layer and the substrate to facilitate the separation of the metal layer from the substrate.
US11192182B2	Method and substrate for easy release of parts made by cold spray A substrate for 3D printing using a cold spray technique. The substrate of the present invention has a porous surface with the size of pores smaller than approximately 24.4 times the mean particle size of feedstock powders for cold spray processing and larger than or equal to approximately 6.84 times the mean particle size. Due to no adhesion of a 3D-printed part to the porous regions of the substrate, the parts fabricated by cold spray can be easily removed from the porous substrate without cutting.
US11192179B2	Levitation melting method using an annular element The invention relates to a levitation melting process and an apparatus for producing castings comprising a ring-shaped element of a conductive material for introducing the casting of a molten batch into a casting mould. In the process, the ring-shaped element is introduced into the region of the alternating electromagnetic field between the induction coils in order to cast the molten batch, thereby initiating a targeted run-off of the melt into the casting mould by influencing the induced magnetic field.
US11192174B2	Side sealing device, twin-roll continuous casting apparatus, and method of manufacturing cast strip A side sealing device for a twin-roll continuous casting apparatus, which supplies molten metal to a molten metal pool portion formed by a pair of rotating mold rolls and a pair of side weirs through an immersion nozzle and causes solidified shells to be formed and to grow on peripheral surfaces of the mold rolls to manufacture a cast strip, seals end surface sides of the mold rolls by each side weir. The side sealing device includes a side weir pressing unit that presses the side weir against end surfaces of the mold rolls, and a side weir lifter that pulls the side weir at least upward in a vertical direction.
US11192173B2	Core shooting apparatus and method for controlling core shooting apparatus A core shooting machine (1) for producing cores by a process of shooting a core sand mixture (21) into a at least one cavity (19) in a core box (18), the core shooting machine (1) having a source of compressed air (10) at an adjustable initial machine pressure (P0), a shooting head (13) fluidically coupled to the source of compressed air (10) by at least one conduit (12) that includes an electronically controlled shot valve (11), the shooting head (13) being configured for containing an amount of the core sand mixture (21), resulting in a filling degree of the shoot head (13), and a computing device (50,60) associated with the core shooting machine (1) and being configured to perform a simulation of the process.
US11192172B2	Additively manufactured interlocking casting core structure with ceramic shell A method of forming a cast component and a method of forming a casting mold. The method is performed by connecting at least one wax gate component to a ceramic core-shell mold. The ceramic core-shell mold includes at least a first core portion, a first shell portion, and a second shell portion, wherein the first shell portion is adapted to interface with at least the second shell portion to form at least one first cavity between the core portion and the first and second shell portions. The core-shell mold may be inspected and assembled prior to connection of the wax gate component. At least a portion of the ceramic core-shell mold and the wax gate component is coated with a second ceramic material. The wax gate component is then removed to form a second cavity in fluid communication with the first cavity.
US11192152B2	Cleaning apparatus and method of cleaning and drying an object A compact versatile cell-type cleaning device and cell-type drying device is provided. A cleaning apparatus includes: a cover having a loading port formed on a wall surface of a cleaning chamber, and an unloading port formed on a wall surface of a drying chamber; a partition plate having an intermediate transfer port for dividing into the cleaning chamber and the drying chamber; an intermediate door that opens and closes the intermediate transfer port; a turntable disposed inside the drying chamber and having a first gripping device that grips an object, and a moving device having a gripping device that grips the object through a loading port, cleans the object inside the cleaning chamber while gripping the object, and moves the object to the turntable.
US11192142B1	Material handling processing machine having interchangeable components for providing multi-functionality A material handling machine includes a substantially cylindrical tub having an inlet and outlet where the tub includes a ring configured internally to the tub. A hopper is used for directing materials entering the inlet and a grate covers the inlet for controlling the amount of material into the tub. An impeller is rotated using a motor for processing material singulated by the impeller and a basket sifts material from the impeller. The impeller is supported by the main spindle such that the at least one impeller and basket are interchangeable depending on the type of material.
US11192130B2	Thermoplastic extrusion markings A thermoplastic extrusion vehicle for continuous processing of thermoplastic material used for applying lines and stripes to a roadway. Heated oil from a burner is directed to a common reservoir having a section for oil distributed to the extremities of the vehicle and a main section for heating of melting kettles; the common reservoir having a divider wall capable of maintaining two different temperatures within the reservoir. A programmable logic controller displays and records the mil thickness of lines that is calculated according to the volume of material consumed at the rate of application based upon the speed of the vehicle.
US11192124B2	Fluidic scanner nozzle and spray unit employing same A fluidic nozzle of the scanner type has its outlet spray pattern skewed from its chamber axis (A) by an amount determined by the asymmetry of its outlet orifice (23, 33) about that axis. A spray assembly (70, 90) of such nozzles, such as a showerhead, can be designed using nozzles with selected pattern skew angles to achieve desired spray coverage. Indexing tabs (97) and slots (96) are used to angularly position the nozzles in the showerhead. A portion of each nozzle may be formed with the showerhead faceplate (71) as an integral piece.
US11192122B2	Cyclonic air treatment member and surface cleaning apparatus including the same A cyclonic air treatment member comprises a cyclone and a dirt collection chamber external to the cyclone chamber. The cyclone chamber extends longitudinally in an axial direction between a cyclone first end and a cyclone second end. The cyclone chamber includes an axially extending dirt outlet. A removable dirt outlet insert member may be removably receivable by a portion of the dirt outlet.
US11192117B2	Mill A mill, in particular a pendulum mill or roller mill, having a classifier, wherein the mill has a mill housing with an interior in which there is situated a milling space B1 in which a milling device having at least one milling tool is arranged. The classifier is arranged above the milling device in a classifying space B3. At least one drop device is provided which connects the classifying space B3 to the milling space B1. Arranged below the classifier is at least one distribution plate which has at least one drop opening on which the at least one drop device is arranged.
US11192098B2	Ion exchange membrane and method for manufacturing same A method for manufacturing an ion exchange membrane is provided. The method for manufacturing an ion exchange membrane, according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprises the step of electrospinning a support fiber producing solution and an ion exchange fiber producing solution respectively to prepare a laminate in which a support fiber mat consisting of a support fiber and an ion exchange fiber mat consisting of an ion exchange fiber are alternatively laminated. According to the present invention, it is possible to simply control factors, such as the thickness, electroconductivity and mechanical strength of the membrane, and the diameter/ratio of a pore, etc. to be suitable for the use of ion exchange membrane during the manufacturing process, to simplify the manufacturing process. As such, the ion exchange membrane manufactured by the method can be utilized as a universal ion exchange membrane which has a large ion exchange capacity, a small electrical resistance, and a small diffusion coefficient as well as excellent mechanical strength and durability.
US11192096B2	High silica AEI zeolite Provided are a novel form of AEI zeolite, a novel synthesis technique for producing pure phase AEI zeolite, a catalyst comprising the AEI zeolite in combination with a metal, and methods of using the same. The AEI aluminosilicate zeolite has a cuboid morphology and a silica-to-alumina ratio of 20 to 50.
US11192093B2	Two-dimensional nitrogen-doped carbon-based titanium dioxide composite material, and preparation method and application thereof for degrading and removing organic pollutants in water A preparation method of a two-dimensional nitrogen-doped carbon-based titanium dioxide composite material includes: (1) etching Ti3AlC2 with LiF/HCl to prepare two-dimensional transition metal carbide nanosheet; (2) preparing a nanosheet aggregate by electrostatic self-assembly of a two-dimensional transition metal carbide nanosheet and a positively charged nitrogen-containing cationic compound; (3) calcining the nanosheet aggregates to prepare a two-dimensional nitrogen-doped carbon-based titanium dioxide composite material. A method for degrading and removing organic pollutants in water includes (1) etching Ti3AlC2 with LiF/HCl to prepare two-dimensional transition metal carbide nanosheet; (2) preparing a nanosheet aggregate by electrostatic self-assembly of a two-dimensional transition metal carbide nanosheet and a positively charged nitrogen-containing cationic compound; (3) calcining the nanosheet aggregates to prepare a two-dimensional nitrogen-doped carbon-based titanium dioxide composite material; (4) placing the two-dimensional nitrogen-doped carbon-based titanium dioxide composite material into water containing organic pollutants to degrade and remove organic pollutants in water.
US11192087B2	Product for oil pollution remediation The invention is both a product and a method for the safe, harmless and effective remediation of oil spills on water and on land. The oil can then be successfully recovered from the product for use. The invention also allows for the reuse of two waste products—post consumer plastics and coal combustion product—into a material that is used for the clean-up of oil spills and for site remediation. Furthermore, the used product can be reprocessed post use into more usable product.
US11192085B2	Block copolymer, and method for preparing graphene using same The present invention relates to a method for preparing graphene using a novel block copolymer. The present invention has features that, by using the block copolymer to mediate graphene that is hydrophobic and a solvent of a feed solution that is hydrophilic, the exfoliation efficiency of graphene as well as the dispersion stability thereof can be increased during high-pressure homogenization.
US11192083B2	Flow cells with chambers, depressions, and capture sites An example of a flow cell includes a substrate, a plurality of chambers defined on or in the substrate, and a plurality of depressions defined in the substrate and within a perimeter of each of the plurality of chambers. The depressions are separated by interstitial regions. Primers are attached within each of the plurality of depressions, and a capture site is located within each of the plurality of chambers.
US11192074B2	Mulling device and method for treating bulk material released from portable containers In accordance with presently disclosed embodiments, systems and methods for efficiently managing bulk material are provided. The disclosure is directed to systems and methods for efficiently combining additives into bulk material being transferred about a job site. The systems may include a support structure used to receive one or more portable containers of bulk material, and a mulling device disposed beneath the support structure to provide bulk material treatment capabilities. Specifically, the mulling device may facilitate mixing of coatings or other additives with bulk material that is released from the portable containers, as well as transfer of the mixture to an outlet location.
US11192067B2	Process and apparatus to remove carbon-14 from carbon-dioxide in atmospheric gases and agricultural products grown in controlled environments This invention relates to a process and apparatus for growing agricultural products with a reduced abundance of radioactive carbon-14 (14C) by employing centrifugal separation of atmospheric gases to selectively remove carbon dioxide (CO2) with 14C. Agricultural products with reduced 14C content can be grown in controlled environments with filtered atmospheric gases for the benefit of reducing harmful damage to human DNA that is unavoidable with our current food chain, due to the natural abundance of 14C in atmospheric gases. Bilateral and unilateral compression helikon vortex apparatus provide efficient and economical removal of CO2 with 14C from atmospheric gases with a single filtration pass, which is ideally suited for large scale agricultural production.
US11192053B2	Filter cartridges; features and methods of assembly; air cleaner assemblies; and, filter cartridge combinations Filter cartridge arrangements, features thereof and assembly for use therewith, are provided. Selected filter cartridge features are disclosed. Methods of assembly and systems for use are described.
US11192050B2	Multistage fiber filtering apparatus capable of selectively filtering The present invention relates to a multistage fiber filtering apparatus capable of selectively filtering depending on turbidity of raw water, in which a first filtration mode where the raw water passes through a fiber ball medium, a second filtration mode where the raw water passes through a fiber yarn medium, or a third filtration mode where the raw water passes through both of the fiber yarn medium and the fiber ball medium may be selectively operated.
US11192043B2	Mold device for kids The present invention relates to a mould (1) for kids for making jewelry from a granular water-sensitive product, comprising: —a hollow body (2) having an opening (3) defining a respective forming zone; —a first element (4) combined with the hollow body (2) for closing-opening the opening (3) at a first side of the forming zone; —a second element (5) combined with the hollow body (2) for closing, and possibly opening, the opening (3) at a second side of the forming zone; wherein at least one among the hollow body (2), the first element (4) and the second element (5) comprises a plurality of holes (6) which are open in the forming zone, such that the forming zone is fluidically communicating with the environment outside of the mould (1).
US11192041B2	Interactive tower attraction systems and methods A ride attraction system includes a tower track and a ride vehicle configured to accommodate one or more riders. The ride vehicle is coupled to and configured to move relative to the tower track and the ride vehicle includes one or more user input devices. The ride attraction system further includes an image system configured to display a ride environment, wherein the user input devices are configured to enable the one or more riders to interact with elements of the ride environment via the one or more user input devices. The ride attraction system further includes a controller communicatively coupled to the ride vehicle and the image system and configured to control movement of the ride vehicle relative to the tower track based on signals from the one or more user input devices.
US11192040B2	Free fall simulator cooling system A free fall simulator comprising: a wind tunnel system; a flight chamber connected to the wind tunnel allowing for a continuous flow of circulating air, and a cooling system for cooling of the air circulating in the wind tunnel system, wherein the cooling system comprises: an air inlet sucking in a part of the air circulating in the wind tunnel system; at least one heat exchanger comprising a coolant; and at least one air outlet adapted such that the cooled air leaves the cooling system through the at least one air outlet. The cooling system further comprises: a closed pressure chamber comprising a cooling area having pressure higher than atmospheric pressure, and at least one auxiliary fan. The at least one heat exchanger is located inside of the closed pressure chamber so that the cooling of the circulating air takes place in the cooling area.
US11192033B1	Systems and methods for providing and using proof of in-game participation by unique digital articles Systems and methods to provide and use proof of in-game participation by unique digital articles are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may execute instances of a game; manage player accounts associated with the players; record usage information pertaining to player-owned unique digital articles on a permanent registry; determine whether in-game player-controllable virtual items participated in in-game events; generate sets of video information depicting the in-game player-controllable virtual items participating in the in-game events; and record references to the sets of video information on the permanent registry such that the video information is accessible for viewing by users of the permanent registry.
US11192024B1	Accurate end-to-end latency measurement Various aspects of the subject technology relate to systems, methods, and machine-readable media for measuring latency. The method includes receiving, at a microcontroller, a first signal from a first device at a first time. The first device may include a device under test (DUT) having a gaming system. The method also includes comparing, through the microcontroller, a timing of a second signal with the first signal. The second signal may either be sent to a second device, or received from the second device. The second signal may be either sent or received at a second time. The method also includes calculating, through the microcontroller, a latency of the first device based on a difference in the timing of the first signal and the second signal.
US11192021B1	Chess game with position-triggered consequence cards A chess game kit includes a chessboard defining opposed edges, a lateral axis of symmetry bisecting the chessboard, and a top surface extending between the opposed edges. The top surface defines a plurality of chessboard squares defining a plurality of ranks. The ranks adjacent to the lateral axis of symmetry define two central ranks that together comprise a battle zone. Chessboard squares located outside of the battle zone alternate between a first color and a second color, and chessboard squares located within the battle zone alternate between the first color and a third color. The kit further includes a plurality of cards each reciting a chess game consequence to occur as a result of a player moving a capturing chess piece from a first chessboard position outside of the battle zone to a second chessboard position inside the battle zone to capture an opposing chess piece.
US11192019B2	Skateboard modular electric powertrain A modular motorized wheel system is provided for replacing a conventional wheel of a conventional skateboard. The wheel is retained on the axle of the skateboard by an end nut removably attachable to the outside end of the axle. The system includes a motor shaft having an axial bore therethrough. The bore is sized to make the motor shaft concentrically and removably mountable on the axle. The motor shaft has an exterior end formed in an open cylindrical shape, the exterior end including an axially displaced shoulder sized to receive and abut the end nut, by which the motor shaft is secured on the axle. Other embodiments are provided.
US11192011B1	Relay race training apparatus The present disclosure relates to a physical training apparatus, and in particular to a relay race training apparatus. The relay race training apparatus includes a tread mill, a column disposed at a side of the tread mill through a linear driving device, a swinging device disposed on the column, and a catching and releasing device connected to the swinging device, wherein the swinging device is used to simulate swinging and turning over of the catching and releasing device by a baton passer or a baton receiver in a running process, the catching and releasing device includes a catching and releasing body, a holding groove for holding a baton is disposed on the catching and releasing body, a limiting plate for limiting the position of the baton and a driving mechanism for driving the limiting plate to move along the baton are disposed in the holding groove.
US11192005B2	Golf club head with improved inertia performance A golf club head that is capable improving on the inertia properties of a golf club head all while also improving the Center of Gravity (CG) location is disclosed herein. More specifically, the golf club head in accordance with the present invention achieves a relative low Moment of Inertia (MOI) about the Z-axis (MOI-Z) as well as a relatively low MOI about the Shaft-axis (MOI-SA), all combined with a high MOI about the X and Y-axis (MOI-X and MOI-Y) and maintaining a consistently and relatively low CG location measured along a direction tangent to the hosel axis along the X-Y plane (CG-B).
US11191998B2	Method, system and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium for measuring ball spin According to one aspect of the invention, there is provided a method for measuring ball spin, the method comprising the steps of: detecting information on a mark appearing in a region corresponding to a ball hit by a user in each of a plurality of images in which the ball is photographed; determining whether it is possible to directly calculate physical quantities related to spin of the ball on the basis of the information on the mark; and when it is determined that it is not possible to directly calculate the physical quantities related to spin of the ball on the basis of the information on the mark, estimating the physical quantities related to spin of the ball on the basis of physical quantities related to at least one of a speed and an angle of the ball or a club hitting the ball.
US11191994B2	System and method of treatment using a universal cage apparatus A system and a method of treatment using a universal cage creating a coordinate method of exercise. Physical therapy or fitness exercises are provided to a patient through a system of cords, blocks and belts disposed on a plurality of grid panels through a plurality of mounting devices. Placement of the mounting devices on the grid panel is determined by which muscle groups are receiving therapy and the type of movement required. Once the placement for each movement is determined, the coordinates of the mounting device are captured so that the mounting devices can be preset consistently for each therapy session.
US11191986B2	Wall-mountable spray head unit A wall-mountable spray head unit (11) is described. The spray head unit comprises a rotatable spray head assembly (81, 82; FIG. 9, 83; FIG. 17) which comprises a spray manifold (181, 182; FIG. 9) rotatable about a first axis (17), a spray nozzle (19) supported by the spray manifold and orientated to deliver fire-suppressant material radially in a plane in a plane defined by the first axis and a second axis which is perpendicular to the first axis, and at least one thermal sensor (20).
US11191983B2	Fire suppressing device A fire suppressing device including a torus container with a main body defining an interior chamber and a discharge port, the interior chamber configured to receive and retain metal organic framework materials. The fire suppressing device also includes an inductor coil extending through the interior chamber of the torus container and surrounding the metal organic framework materials. The inductor coil is configured to heat the metal organic framework materials to form a fire suppressing substance that is conveyed through the discharge port.
US11191980B2	Automated magnetic resonance image segmentation for ultrasound thermal therapy control A system and method for acquiring magnetic resonance (MR) images, with an MR system, of tissue proximal to a target treatment region in a patient, the tissue including a non-spatially uniform subcutaneous fat layer; in a computer comprising a hardware-based processor, automatically determining a thickness of the subcutaneous fat layer using a trained neural network, the neural network trained using manually-segmented MR images from previous patients; in the computer, automatically adjusting a treatment parameter based on the thickness of the subcutaneous fat layer; and delivering thermal therapy to the target treatment region with a high-intensity focused ultrasound system based on the adjusted treatment parameter.
US11191964B2	Dual patient controllers Devices, systems, and methods incorporate the most-used functions of an electrical stimulator's controller into a small, thin pocket controller that is not only comfortable to carry in a pocket, but can also be attached to a key ring, lanyard, or other such carrying device for ease of daily use. A separate patient controller charger is used to charge and control the implanted medical device.
US11191963B2	Personalized network searching Personalized network searching, in which a search query is received from a user, and a request is received to personalize a search result. Responsive to the search query and the request to personalize the search result, a personalized search result is generated by searching a personalized search object. Responsive to the search query, a general search result is generated by searching the general search object. The personalized search result and the general search result are provided to a client device, an advertisement is selected based at least in part upon the personalized search object, and the advertisement, the personalized search result, and the general search result are displayed.
US11191962B2	Stimulus coil and pulse generator for wireless glaucoma therapy An improved stimulus coil for use in wireless stimulation of biological tissue (e.g., nerves, muscle tissue, etc.) and, in one exemplary implementation, to glaucoma therapy based on the wireless administration of energy to the eye of a mammalian subject (e.g., human, rodent, etc.) to reduce an elevated intraocular pressure (IOP) involving the use of an improved stimulus coil. The improved stimulus coil may be implanted in the eye of a mammalian subject or positioned on the exterior of the eye, such as (by way of example) by being disposed within a contact lens worn by a mammalian subject.
US11191960B2	Noise reduction for implantable hearing prostheses Presented herein are techniques for time interleaving the sampling of input signals with the delivery of stimulation signals to a recipient of an implantable electrically-stimulating hearing prosthesis. The input signals, which are received via one or more input channels and sampled by a sound processing unit, are susceptible to electrical feedback from the stimulation signals. As such, in accordance with embodiments presented herein, the sampling of the input signals by the sound processing unit, and the delivery of the stimulation signals to the recipient, are synchronized with one another so as to avoid stimulation-evoked electrical feedback within the input signals.
US11191957B2	Living body stimulation device A living body stimulation device includes an outputting unit that outputs a stimulation signal to a living body. The stimulation signal is a signal in which a positive pulse group and a negative pulse group appear alternately at predetermined intervals. The positive pulse group is constituted by a plurality of pulses whose potential rises toward the plus-side. The negative pulse group is constituted by a plurality of pulses whose potential falls toward the minus-side.
US11191955B2	Devices and systems for accessing cardiac tissue Devices, systems, and methods for accessing the internal and external tissues of the heart are disclosed. At least some of the embodiments disclosed herein provide access to the external surface of the heart through the pericardial space for localized delivery of substances to the heart tissue. In addition, various disclosed embodiments provide access to the internal surface of the heart for aspiration and delivery of substances to a targeted region without disturbing or interfering with nearby structures or surfaces.
US11191948B2	Methods and devices for cellular activation An apparatus includes multiple first reservoirs and multiple second reservoirs joined with a substrate. Selected ones of the multiple first reservoirs include a reducing agent, and first reservoir surfaces of selected ones of the multiple first reservoirs are proximate to a first substrate surface. Selected ones of the multiple second reservoirs include an oxidizing agent, and second reservoir surfaces of selected ones of the multiple second reservoirs are proximate to the first substrate surface.
US11191942B2	Catch assembly for releasably connecting fluid conduits Disclosed herein are embodiments of a connector system for releasably connecting together tubes, for example medical tubing, and methods of making and using such a connector system, whereby the connector system includes a female coupler having a first passageway; a male coupler having a second passageway; and a catch assembly comprising a catch movably coupled to the female coupler, a catch-biasing member which biases the catch, and a follower responsive to a cam, whereby the catch is responsive to the follower and correspondingly, the cam.
US11191941B2	Systems and connectors for hemostasis valves and related methods Systems and connectors for hemostasis valves and associated methods are disclosed herein. According to an aspect, a connector for a medical device includes a body defining a first opening, a second opening, and a channel. The channel provides passage between the first opening and the second opening. The body is configured to engage an inlet port of a hemostasis valve at the first opening when the body and the hemostasis valve are arranged in one or more positions with respect to each other. The connector also includes a clip attached to the body and configured to fasten the body to the hemostasis valve when the body and the hemostasis valve are arranged in one of the positions.
US11191939B2	Stabilizing connector devices for vascular access and methods of using the same A stabilizing connector includes a connector portion and a stabilization portion. The connector portion is configured to couple to an access device. The connector portion defines at least one lumen that is configured to be placed in fluid communication with a lumen of the access device. The stabilization portion is coupled to the connector portion. The stabilization portion is configured to be placed in contact with a surface of a patient's skin to stabilize at least one of the stabilizing connector or the access device.
US11191938B2	Introducer sheath and methods A medical device for accessing body tissue or fluid is disclosed. The medical device may include an introducer sheath and a valve that impedes the flow of fluid through the introducer sheath. An assembly for selectively coupling components of a medical device is also disclosed. The assembly may comprise two components configured to engage with one another by at least a snap fit-type connection. This connection may facilitate disengagement of the two components via actuation of a release mechanism.
US11191935B2	Implant delivery system with hydration promotor capability The invention pertains to apparatuses, means and methods to promote uptake of biocompatible fluids into a reservoir of an implantable drug delivery system though a porous membrane. Embodiments of the invention promote fluid uptake by creating a pressure differential between the reservoir of the drug delivery device and the biocompatible fluid outside the device.
US11191934B2	Devices and methods for delivery of pharmaceutical compositions Described herein are devices for delivering pharmaceutical compositions to individuals in need thereof. Also described herein are methods of using the devices described herein to deliver pharmaceutical compositions to individuals in need thereof.
US11191932B2	Non-compliant medical balloon A non-compliant fiber-reinforced medical balloon comprises a first fiber layer and a second fiber layer embedded in a continuous matrix of thermally-weldable polymer material defining a barrel wall, cone walls and neck walls. The fibers of the first fiber layer run substantially parallel to one another and substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis. The fibers of the first fiber layer have a pattern of different lengths and are divisible into a first group and a second group based on length.
US11191927B2	Dilator with engagement region An example dilator is disclosed. The example dilator includes a hub and an elongate shaft having a distal end region, a proximal end region and a cross-sectional profile. Additionally, the proximal end region of the elongate shaft is coupled to the hub and the elongate shaft is configured to extend through at least a portion of a lumen of an expandable introducer sheath. Additionally, the cross-sectional profile of the elongate shaft includes at least one engagement portion and at least a portion of the expandable introducer sheath extends into the at least one engagement portion of the dilator.
US11191922B2	Method and system for inducing sleep The method for inducing sleep by a sleep inducing system includes acquiring brain signals of a user as sleeping time passes; calculating a functional connectivity value between two channels for each frequency based on the acquired brain signals and performing brain network analysis; determining the stage of sleep of the user based on features of the analyzed brain network; determining a target frequency according to the determined stage of sleep and generating a binaural beat with which the brain signals of the user are induced to the target frequency; combining the generated binaural beat with ASMR information; providing the combined auditory stimulus information to the user; and determining whether the current stage of sleep of the user is maintained at an appropriate proportion with respect to total sleep time, determining whether or not to induce the next stage of sleep, and performing feedback according to the result of determination.
US11191920B2	Breathable gas valve device for respiratory treatment apparatus A respiratory valve, such as a positive end expiratory pressure valve, permits pressure control for respiratory apparatus such as a ventilator or positive airway pressure device. The valve may include a flexible gas passage cover. The cover may be configured with a first side surface to operatively block and open an aperture of the gas passage at a valve seat to respectively prevent and permit gas flow through the aperture defined by the valve seat. The cover may include a second side surface opposite the first surface. The second surface may include at least one drop section forming a reduction in thickness of the cover between the first surface and the second surface. The first surface may include a coating to reduce friction of a membrane material of the first surface. The rim of the valve seat may comprise a variation in height relative the flexible cover.
US11191909B2	Feature assigned inhalation aid The present invention relates to a feedback for inhalation. In order to further improve feedback and instructions to further support the correct use of an inhaler, a feedback apparatus (10) for inhalation is provided that comprises an inhaler interface (11), a processor (14), a feedback device (16), and a feature assigner (13). The inhaler interface is configured to temporarily attach the feedback apparatus to an inhalation apparatus. The feedback device is configured to provide a feedback to the user to aid in inhalation with the inhalation apparatus. The feature assigner is configured to identify a type of a predetermined feature of the attached inhalation apparatus, and the feedback device is configured to provide the feedback in dependency of the identified type of feature to instruct the user to adjust inhalation maneuver adapted to the attached inhalation apparatus. In an example, the predetermined feature is a device type of the inhalation apparatus, and the feature assigner is configured as an inhalation device type assigner (70) to identify the type of a currently used inhalation device. In another example, the predetermined feature is an accessory type of the inhalation apparatus, and the feature assigner is configured as an accessory type assigner (72) to identify the type of a currently used accessory.
US11191904B2	Plungers for drug delivery devices A plunger configured as described herein provides geometry optimizations to minimize friction magnitude and variability during use by maintaining low deformation under large extrusion forces. More specifically, plunger embodiments described herein minimize a contact area between the plunger and a syringe or chamber, while also maintaining high contract pressures to maintain container closure integrity. Moreover, the plunger embodiments are configured to have minimal or no increase in the contact area under high loads associated with the delivery of viscous products.
US11191902B2	Combination plunger device for a dual chamber mixing syringe A combination plunger, a mixing device and a mixing syringe including the same are provided. The mixing syringe includes concentric outer and inner barrels that form an outer chamber, the inner barrel having an inner chamber. The combination plunger includes a mixing plunger and a delivery plunger and a biasing means. The mixing plunger is slidably located in the outer chamber and translated by coordinated depression of the delivery plunger to transfer a first substance from the outer chamber to mix with a second substance in the inner chamber. After the mixing stage is complete, the delivery plunger is disengaged from the mixing plunger and permitted, such as by rotation, to be further depressed in the axial direction to deliver fluid contents of the mixing syringe to a recipient. The mixing syringe needle is then retracted as result of engagement by the delivery plunger and activation of the biasing means.
US11191901B2	Medicament delivery device A medicament delivery device is disclosed having a housing, an actuation mechanism capable of delivering doses of medicament from a medicament container and arranged with a delivery member, a shield, a guard movable within the housing, wherein the guard is operably connected to the actuation mechanism. A protective cap is releasably arranged on the housing and having a shield remover. A blocking element on the guard is movable between a blocking position and a release position and has an engagement surface to engage a proximal area of the housing. The blocking element engages with a surface of the shield remover to retain the blocking element in the blocking position. The engagement surface causes a blocking of the guard from movement and removal of the protective cap enables a movement of the blocking element to a release position when the engagement surface engages the proximal area allowing the member guard to move.
US11191900B2	Intravenous infusion system with real-time infusion rate monitoring and closed-loop infusion rate control An intravenous infusion system with real-time infusion rate monitoring and closed-loop infusion rate control is disclosed. The intravenous infusion system comprises: an infusion module, providing drug solution through an intravenous catheter; a flow sensor module, installed around an outer periphery of the intravenous catheter, transmitting ultrasounds to the intravenous catheter and receiving ultrasounds reflected or penetrated therefrom to determine a real-time volumetric flow rate of the drug solution in the intravenous catheter, and converting the real-time volumetric flow rate into a flow rate electronic signal; and a communicating module, electrically and signally connected with the flow sensor module, receiving the flow rate electronic signal and delivering the flow rate electronic signal to an external agent connected thereto.
US11191895B2	Device and system for dispensing a fluid under aseptic conditions A device (1) for dispensing a fluid, in particular under aseptic conditions, preferably to a patient. The device comprises a conveying device (2) for conveying the fluid to a dispensing opening (3). The device (1) also comprises a coupling element (4) for coupling a syringe (5). The fluid can be conveyed from the syringe (5) to the dispensing opening (3) via the coupling element (4) and the conveying device (2) exclusively by the effect of the conveying device (2). The invention further relates to a system for dispensing a fluid under aseptic conditions, comprising such a device (1) and to a syringe (5) that can be coupled to the coupling element (4).
US11191891B2	Infusion pump system and method Some embodiments of an infusion pump system may be configured to detect when at least one component of the pump system is exposed to an impact above a threshold level. In particular embodiments, the infusion pump system can be equipped with a drive system detection system configured to detect when one or more components of the drive system are damaged or inoperable.
US11191889B2	Anti-snagging infusion sets Anti-snagging components for use in infusion sets are provided. The anti-snagging component includes a sliding surface that guides an infusion set component past an obstruction when the infusion set is moved during manufacture or use. An anti-snagging structure may be integrally formed as a portion of an infusion set component or the anti-snagging structure may be a separate component that connects or attaches to an infusion set component. Some anti-snagging structures include a covering portion to cover a needleless connector and a tail portion to connect to a length of tubing. The covering portion may include an anti-microbial coating.
US11191883B1	Method and system for controlled hyperthermia Methods and for treatment of cancer and other diseases including complications from late stage viral infections by inducing hyperthermia in a patient relying on withdrawing blood from the patient and returning the withdrawn blood to the patient to establish an extracorporeal flow circuit. Blood is heated by passing through the extracorporeal circuit at a controlled rate until a target body core temperature in is achieved. Usually, the blood will be subjected to a continuously re-circulating dialysis to balance electrolytes. Additionally, the blood will be subjected to a continuously recirculating regeneration through a carbon sorbent column where toxins and contaminants are removed. The blood temperature is maintained at the target blood temperature for a treatment period, and the blood is cooled after the treatment period has been completed. The method can also be effective in treating rheumatoid arthritis, scleroderma, hepatitis, sepsis, the Epstein-Barr virus, and patients with life threatening complications from other viruses, including the COVID-19 virus. A method for removing viruses from the blood supply in an external circuit is also presented.
US11191877B2	Biosorbable endoprosthesis A biosorbable magnetisable endoprosthesis, may be useful in the therapy of restenosis. A method for the treatment of prevention of restenosis or a disease of the coronary artery, comprises fitting a patent with an endoprosthesis according to the invention, which has either been magnetized prior to placement in the body or which is magnetized in situ, and administering to the patient magnetized cells capable of repairing an artery.
US11191866B2	Dressing enabling the controlled and prolonged release of metformin The subject matter of the present invention is, according to a first aspect, a dressing comprising an interface layer, characterised in that said interface layer comprises a weave coated with an elastomeric matrix comprising metformin, the salts and the complexes thereof. The subject matter of the invention is also a dressing comprising metformin, characterised in that the percentage of metformin released after 72 hours is between 40 and 100% of the quantity of metformin inserted in the dressing. Moreover, the subject matter of the invention is a method for producing said dressing as well as the use thereof for healing a wound.
US11191864B1	Device to provide personal, portable, and continuous supply of sterilized/purified breathable air and to disinfect exhaled air A device to provide sterilized and purified breathable air and to disinfect exhaled air and includes a housing having a first and second opening. The housing includes at least one partition having a plurality of holes, and within the housing such that a plurality of compartments is formed between the first opening and the second opening, and at least one ultraviolet (UV) light source positioned in each of the plurality of compartments. The UV light source is UVC LED lights to emit UVC light of a predefined wavelength within the plurality of compartments to sterilize and purify the air while flowing through the housing. The device includes a mask fluidically coupled to the second opening of the housing using a flexible second pipe to provide the purified air. The device includes one-way valves at the second opening of the housing, and two one-way valves at the outlets of the mask.
US11191860B2	Sterilization system comprising independent pump module and sterilization method thereof A sterilization system comprises a chamber module and an independent pump module that is external to the chamber module in an independent form, is connected to the chamber module, and has a built-in pump, wherein the chamber module comprises a chamber built in the chamber module and storing a target object and a vaporizer built in the chamber module and connected to the chamber to supply a vaporized sterilant, wherein the chamber built in the chamber module is connected to the pump built in the independent pump module and exhausted.
US11191849B2	Compositions and methods for delivering messenger RNA The present invention provides compositions comprising nucleic acid molecules, such as mRNA molecules, encapsulated within lipid particles. The compositions are useful, for example, to introduce the mRNA molecules into a human subject where they are translated to produce a polypeptide that functions to ameliorate one or more symptoms of a disease.
US11191847B2	Gene therapy for treating hemophilia B Compositions for the treatment of hemophilia B are provided. In certain embodiments, the composition is a recombinant adeno-associated virus (rAAV) comprising an AAVrh10 capsid and a vector genome packaged therein, wherein the vector genome comprises an AAV 5′ inverted terminal repeat (ITR), a coding sequence for a human Factor IX (F9) having coagulation function operably linked to regulatory elements which direct expression of the human Factor IX in liver cells, and an AAV 3′ ITR.
US11191846B2	Methods of treatment utilizing biocompatible nanoparticles and therapeutic agents The invention pertains to a therapeutic, prophylactic or diagnostic method comprising, administering a pharmaceutical compound followed by administering a biocompatible nanoparticle comprising an oligomer of albumin, wherein the longest or largest dimension of the nanoparticle is between about 4 nm and about 500 nm. In preferred embodiments, administering the biocompatible nanoparticles is performed between more than 5 minutes and about 72 hours after administering the pharmaceutical compound. In particular embodiments, the pharmaceutical compound is a pharmaceutical antibody, such as a monoclonal antibody, a drug conjugated antibody, an engineered antibody and a multispecific antibody. According to the methods of the invention, administering the biocompatible nanoparticle comprising oligomers of albumin after administering the pharmaceutical compound maintains or increases the therapeutic benefit and reduces toxicity of the pharmaceutical compound when compared to the therapeutic benefit and toxicity induced by administering the pharmaceutical compound alone.
US11191827B1	COVID-19 peptide specific T-cells and methods of treating and preventing COVID-19 The invention relates to pharmaceutical compositions that contain COVID-19 peptide specific cytotoxic T cells, and to methods for treating or preventing COVID-19 infection.
US11191817B2	Treatment of infection by human enterovirus D68 The present disclosure provides compositions and methods for treating an infection by EV-D68. In particular, the present disclosure provides methods that entail administering agents having an anchoring domain that anchors the compound to the surface of a target cell, and a sialidase domain that can act extracellularly to inhibit infection of a target cell by EV-D68.
US11191810B2	Treatment of chronic ulcers The present invention provides a pharmaceutical formulation comprising LL-37 or a pharmaceutically-acceptable salt thereof and one or more pharmaceutically-acceptable diluent or carrier system, for use in a method of treatment of a chronic ulcer wound (such as a hard-to-heal venous leg ulcer or a diabetic foot ulcer), which method comprises: (a) topical application of the formulation to the ulcer; followed by (b) application of a dressing, and wherein the application of the formulation provides for a dose of LL-37 at the wound site that is below about 80 μg of LL-37 applied per cm2 of wound area, and/or below about 26.7 μg of LL-37 applied per cm2 of wound area, per day of treatment.
US11191803B2	Laminin receptor peptides for therapy The present invention relates, to a laminin receptor peptide for use in the treatment of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), which is also known as Motor Neurone Disease (MND) and can include Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD). The invention also encompasses the laminin receptor peptide, nucleic acids encoding the laminin receptor peptide, vectors comprising the nucleic acids and compositions comprising the laminin receptor peptide.
US11191802B2	Composition for controlled release of therapeutic agents Provided are novel peptides, methods of their preparation and their use in controlled release of pharmaceutically active compounds.
US11191796B2	Nozzles for essential element extraction method and apparatus The present disclosure includes a nozzle and methods for using the nozzle in ways that may increase the efficiency of extraction of essential elements from plant matter. The nozzle may also be used to increase the efficiency of drying solvent saturated plant matter after an extraction has been completed. The nozzle may include an elongated tube with a plurality of holes that allow solvent and/or a gas to be provided or pumped/provided into an apparatus that includes plant matter. Nozzles consistent with the present disclosure may be optimized for extracting cannabis from cannabis plant matter or from other types of plants that include cannabinoids. In certain instances, nozzles may also be used when processing cannabinoid containing concentrates that were extracted from plant matter using any type of extraction technique.
US11191790B2	Biologically pure Faecalibacterium butyricigenerans strain, composition including the same and method for treating ulcerative colitis Provided are a biologically pure Faecalibacterium butyricigenerans strain AF52-21 deposited under CGMCC Accession No. 1.5206 and a composition including the same and a carrier. A method for treating an inflammation-related disease in a subject in need thereof is also provided. The Faecalibacterium butyricigenerans is useful for treating ulcerative colitis and related disorders.
US11191787B2	Composition for treating inflammatory disease induced by hyperimmune response Provided is a cell therapeutic agent for treating an inflammatory disease induced by a hyperimmune response, more specifically, a composition for treating an inflammatory disease induced by a hyperimmune response, which comprises (i) a chondrocyte or a cell capable of differentiating into a chondrocyte; and (ii) a cell into which a gene encoding TGF-β is introduced, wherein the cell in (ii) is derived from human embryonic kidney 293 (HEK-293) cell.
US11191785B2	Lymph node as a site for transplantation, organogenesis and function for multiple tissues and organs The present invention relates to methods and compositions for transplanting non-lymphoid tissues into lymphoid organs. It may be used to cultivate organ tissues including for the purpose of supplementing or reconstituting organ function. Tissues that may be propagated in this manner include but are not limited to lung, kidney, thyroid, intestine, and brain.
US11191784B2	Methods and composition for gene delivery using an engineered viral particle The present invention provides compositions and methods for transducing cells (e.g. T cells or immune cells). Also provided herein are methods of treating a disease in a subject in need thereof.
US11191778B2	Multifunctional linker technology containing an N4 group In some aspects, the present disclosure provides compositions comprising an N4-based MMC ligand, a cell targeting group, and a fluorophore or a therapeutic compound comprising a formula: wherein the variables are as defined herein. In some embodiments, these compositions may be used in the imaging techniques or in the treatment of a disease or disorder such as cancer.
US11191771B2	Combinations of PBD-based antibody drug conjugates with FLT3 inhibitors This invention relates to treatment of cancer using a antibody drug conjugates that comprise PBD molecules in combination with FLT3 inhibitors.
US11191767B2	Pharmaceutical composition for stimulating stem cell division and suppressing bacterial virulence Scope: The invention relates to organic and bioorganic combinatorial chemistry and pharmacia, namely to new combinatorial library of dipiridamol derivative and supramolecular structures based on them, which when being used not separated in individual components, have high bioactivity as a means of stem cell fission encouragement as pharmaceutical compositions combined with phosphodiesterase inhibitors and histone deacetylase inhibitors, as well as pharmaceutically acceptable excipients. The composition can also be used to struggle with resistant microorganisms by establishing their sensitivity to antibiotics.
US11191764B2	Formulations of 5-fluorocytosine and uses thereof The disclosure provides an extended release formulation of 5-fluorocytosine. In another aspect, a method of treating a fungal disease is provided. The method comprises administering to a subject in need thereof a fungus-treating effective amount of a composition comprising 5-fluorocytosine. In yet another aspect, a method of treating a cancer is provided. The method comprises administering to a subject in need thereof a sufficient amount of an expression vector to induce expression of cytosine deaminase which is capable of converting 5-fluorocytosine to 5-fluorourcail in cells of the cancer and a cancer-treating effective amount of a composition comprising 5-fluorocytosine.
US11191763B2	HIV post-exposure prophylaxis Disclosed is the use of a nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor, a nucleotide reverse transcriptase inhibitor, and an integrase inhibitor after exposure to a potential human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection to inhibit or prevent an HIV infection. In some embodiments, a pharmacologically effective amount of emtricitabine (FTC), a pharmacologically effective amount of tenofovir alafenamide (TAF) or tenofovir disproxil fumarate (TDF), a pharmacologically effective amount of the integrase inhibitor elvitegravir (EVG), and optionally cobistat (COBI) are used to inhibit or prevent an HIV infection, wherein these agents are administered only after a potential exposure to HIV. In specific non-limiting examples, only one or two doses of the anti-retroviral viral agents are administered to a subject after the potential exposure to HIV.
US11191762B2	Alkyl substituted triazole compounds as agonists of the APJ Receptor Compounds of Formula I and Formula II, pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, stereoisomers of any of the foregoing, or mixtures thereof are agonists of the APJ Receptor and may have use in treating cardiovascular and other conditions. Compounds of Formula I and Formula II have the following structures: (I), (II) where the definitions of the variables are provided herein.
US11191759B2	Therapeutic agent for fibrosis Provided are a therapeutic agent and a pharmaceutical composition exerting an excellent prophylactic or therapeutic effect on fibrosis and symptoms associated with fibrosis. The therapeutic agent for fibrosis comprises 4-[2-fluoro-4-[[[(2-phenylacetyl)amino]thioxomethyl]amino]-phenoxy]-7-methoxy-N-methyl-6-quinolinecarboxamide or a salt thereof as an active ingredient.
US11191758B2	Use of selective serotonin 5-HT1A receptor agonists for treating side-effects of VMAT inhibitors The present invention relates to the reduction of the side-effects induced by tetrabenazine or other inhibitors of vesicular monoamine transporter (VMAT), in the treatment of central nervous system disorders such as Huntington's disease, L-DOPA-induced dyskinesias in Parkinson's disease, Tourette's syndrome or tardive dyskinesia. The invention comprises administering to a patient in need thereof an effective amount of activates selective serotonin 5-HT1A receptors agonist, whereby the side-effects of depression or Parkinsonism induced by tetrabenazine or other VMAT inhibitors are minimized.
US11191757B2	Combination of pimavanserin and cytochrome P450 modulators A method for treating a disease or disorder in a patient who is currently taking a cytochrome P450 inhibitor comprising administering to the patient a dose of pimavanserin or a pharmaceutical acceptable salt thereof, wherein the dose is at least 20% lower than a dose of pimavanserin or a pharmaceutical acceptable salt thereof that would otherwise have been recommended to the patient if the patient were not currently taking the cytochrome P450 inhibitor.
US11191740B2	Methods for treating inflammatory skin conditions The present application relates to a method of treating an inflammatory skin condition by administering a pharmaceutical composition comprising a reduced dose of minocycline to a subject in need thereof, wherein said administration provides an effective plasma or interstitial fluid concentration of minocycline for treating the inflammatory skin condition.
US11191731B2	Film coating composition and methods of making and using the same A film coating composition comprising a cellulosic polymer, an opacifying agent, and a fatty acid is disclosed herein. Also disclosed is a film coating composition comprising a cellulosic polymer, an opacifying agent, a plasticizing agent, and a polyol. The disclosed film coating compositions may be mixed with a solvent to produce a film coating suspension. The film coating suspension can be applied to a substrate, such as a nutritional supplement, pharmaceutical, tablet, capsule, softgel, granule, particle, food confectionary form, agricultural seed, and the like to form a film coating on the substrate. Methods of coating a substrate with the film coating suspensions are also provided.
US11191730B2	Abuse resistant forms of immediate release hydromorphone, method of use and method of making An abuse resistant oral pharmaceutical composition, comprising: a barrier layer, comprising a first polymer; a diffusion layer, comprising a second polymer, substantially covering the barrier layer, wherein the diffusion layer is bonded to the barrier layer and comprises a drug that is substantially homogeneously distributed within the second polymer and diffuses from the diffusion layer within the gastrointestinal (GI) tract; and optionally an expansion layer comprising an expandable polymer, wherein the expansion layer is substantially covered by the barrier layer. Methods of making the same and methods of using the same are also provided.
US11191721B1	Particle delivery via small-scale morphology materials for antibacterial applications Disclosed herein is a particle delivery system comprising electrospun nanofiber comprised of coaxial fiber with a microfluidic core. Iron-doped apatite nanoparticles (IDANPs) have demonstrated a unique influence over phage killing of bacteria, whereby, IDANP-exposed bacterial cultures experience 2× the bacterial death as controls. IDANPs consist of hydroxyapatite (HA) doped with iron. HA is a mineral known to be biocompatible and analogous to the inorganic constituent of mammalian bone and teeth and has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for many applications in medicine and dentistry. Previous work has shown that for IDANPs to enhance antibacterial activity of phage to the greatest extent, bacterial cultures should be exposed to IDANPs for 1 hr prior to phage introduction. Biocompatible polymer materials which encase IDANPs and/or phage can be used to disseminate IDANPs and/or phage in a controlled manner into a physiological system for treatment of bacterial infection. When components of said materials contain micro- or nano-scale components, high surface-to-volume ratio for treatment delivery is garnered.
US11191716B1	Process for preparing potent plant based cosmetic actives and application to an antiperspirant active A process for preparing a potent plant based active, the process includes creating a plant salt, a plant tincture, and a plant essential oil and adding the salt either alone or with the essential oil and/or tincture to a cosmetic product as an active ingredient.
US11191715B2	Hair conditioner composition utilizing a heat styling responsive film A hair care composition having a combination of a high melting point wax to provide a hydrophobic film (frizz resistance) and thermo-pliable film (heat styling response), along with a lightweight conditioner, to produce a hair care composition that is far less susceptible to buildup than traditional products currently marketed.
US11191705B2	Personal cleansing compositions Cleansing compositions can include hinokitiol; and a 2-pyridinol N-oxide material; wherein the ratio by weight of the 2-pyridinol N-oxide material to the hinokitiol is about 1:4 to about 2:1 and the combination of the 2-pyridinol N-oxide material and hinokitiol includes about 9 ppm or more by weight of the cleansing composition.
US11191704B2	Compositions and methods for controlled moisturizing and release of active ingredients The subject matter of the present invention is a cosmetic or pharmaceutical composition for controlled moisturizing and release of active molecule(s), comprising at least one emulsifier having an enzyme cleavable bound, at least one emollient, at least one polar solvent, and water, forming together a macroscopically homogenous liquid crystals emulsion. In some embodiments of the invention, the composition also includes at least one ingredient having a cosmetic or pharmaceutical activity.
US11191703B2	Non-sticky body surface patch A non-sticky body surface patch is provided, which is attachable on a body surface to add a look of fullness to the body surface, exhibits excellent followability to skin deformation, and imposes little burden on body surfaces and thus is widely applicable to body surfaces. The non-sticky body surface patch includes a silicone rubber having a thickness in the range from 50 to 600 μm, wherein the silicone rubber consists of a silicone rubber composition having a rubber hardness of 20 or less measured with a Type A durometer as defined in JIS K6249 standard.
US11191698B2	Apparatus and method for processing platelet rich fibrin A tray for processing platelet rich fibrin includes a base having at least one alignment structure, a screen attachment having at least one alignment structure for engagement with the base, and a lid having at least one alignment structure for engagement with the base and the screen attachment. The screen attachment includes a screen offset between the top and bottom surface of the screen. When the screen attachment is placed on the base with the top surface facing upward, the lid is configured to compress a fibrin clot placed on the screen to a first thickness, and when the screen attachment is placed on the base with the bottom surface facing upward the lid is configured to compress a fibrin clot placed on the screen to a second thickness different from the first thickness.
US11191693B2	Therapeutic device for post-operative knee A method for exercising a joint and a limb including the following: preventing movement of an exercise device actuation member in a first direction unless pressure exerted by the limb against the actuation member is equal to or greater than a predetermined first target pressure; permitting movement of the actuation member in the first direction at a first predetermined speed when pressure exerted by the limb against the actuation member is equal to or greater than the predetermined first target pressure; preventing movement of the actuation member in a second direction unless pressure exerted by the limb against the actuation member is equal to or greater than a predetermined second target pressure; and permitting movement of the actuation member in the second direction at a second predetermined speed when pressure exerted by the limb against the actuation member is equal to or greater than the predetermined second target pressure.
US11191691B2	Frame module and motion assistance apparatus including the same A frame module includes a frame configured to enclose a portion of a user, and at least one reinforcement belt of which both end portions are connected to both sides of the frame, thereby restricting a splaying level of the frame in a predetermined direction.
US11191690B2	Device and method for a portable prone surgical positioning A method and a portable prone surgical positioning device are provided which includes: a base frame assembly having a length varying assembly; a pair of chest supporting frames for a patient to lay in prone position thereupon; a width varying assembly connected to the pair of chest supporting frames; and a curvature varying assembly, connected to the base frame assembly and the width varying assembly, operable to change a curvature of the pair of chest supporting frames.
US11191676B2	Device and method for producing stretchable laminate for wearable article There are disposed, in a width direction of an anvil roll, a plurality of first projections for producing joint portions where a pair of sheets are jointed to each other; each of the first projections extends in a circumferential direction of the anvil roll and includes a carrying groove carrying an elastic member while the elastic member has entered in the groove; and between one first projection and another first projection adjacent to each other in the width direction, at least one receiving part for receiving the pair of sheets is arranged.
US11191674B2	Apparatus and method for forming an absorbent pad A method for forming an absorbent pad including a first layer, a second layer and an absorbent material interposed between the first and the second layer and arranged according to a spreading pattern M1 having at least one channel which is free of absorbent material, includes a step of feeding a first web, intended to form the first layer of the pad; a step of feeding a second web, intended to form the second layer of the pad; a step of spreading the absorbent material on the first web according to the spreading pattern M1; a step of joining the first and second webs, a step of removing any absorbent material that may be present in the channel.
US11191669B2	Tapered structure in a phacoemulsification device for node placement Disclosed is a surgical instrument directed to phacoemulsification for cataract eye surgery. The instrument generally includes a hollow titanium needle extending from a vibration generating handpiece. Together, the hollow needle and handpiece form an aspiration pathway to suck cataractous debris from an eye. A piezoelectric transducer in the handpiece generates both high and low ultrasonic frequency vibrations that rings the needle. The low frequency produces a node-free standing wave along the needle and the high frequency produces a standing wave along the needle with a node of minimum amplitude along the needle. Both frequencies produce a high anti-node at the needle's tip. The low frequency causes higher cavitation for emulsifying the cataract and the high frequency facilitates fragmentation of the cataract with a low heat portion of the needle at the eye incision point. The placement of the node along the needle can be tailored by way of a tapered section in a step horn region of the handpiece.
US11191662B2	Ostomy device, apparatus, and system Devices for insertion into a stoma formed in a patient's body are provided, comprising a tube having distal and proximal ends and defining a path for movement of waste. To retain the device in the stoma and seal the stoma, the tube includes a retention mechanism located on the distal end and/or a sealing mechanism extending along a length of the tube between the proximal and distal ends. Collection apparatus for collecting waste from a patient's body also are provided, comprising a waste pouch and a connector for connecting the collection apparatus to a device inserted into a stoma. Additionally, waste collection systems for collecting waste from a patient's body are provided, comprising a tube for insertion into a stoma and a waste pouch. Each system may comprise a separate tube and waste pouch or the tube and waste pouch may be formed as an integral, inseparable component.
US11191660B2	Method of rehabilitating an injured leg of a quadruped A method of rehabilitating an injured leg of a quadruped. The method can include attaching a strap to the foreleg and hindleg on the same side of the quadruped. The strap causes the un-injured leg to applying a moving force to the injured leg. This force moves the injured leg and requires the quadruped to more fully use the injured leg leading to rehabilitation.
US11191659B2	Joint brace with improved range of motion stop An improved joint support for limiting the range of motion of an anatomical joint comprises intermeshing gears for allowing adjustment of the range of motion of the joint, and comprises plural mechanisms for securing the gears in engagement with one another, whereby adjustment can be made without tools and without disassembly of any components.
US11191657B2	Thumbwheel actuated vascular intervention device delivery system A vascular intervention device delivery system, such as for implanting a self expanding stent, includes a thumbwheel rotatably mounted in a handle. A catheter has a proximal end attached to the handle and a distal carrier segment for mounting a stent thereon. A retractable sheath is movable to a position retracted proximally to uncover the distal carrier segment. A pull with a curved cross section extends between the thumbwheel and the retractable sheath. An idler wheel with a perimeter notch is rotatably mounted in the handle proximal to the thumbwheel. A pin is movably in the handle between a first position received in the perimeter notch to block rotation of the idler wheel, and a second position outside of the perimeter notch to permit rotation of the idler wheel. The pull wraps around the idler wheel to return in a direction for being wound onto a spool of the thumbwheel.
US11191651B1	Implant removal tool An implant removal tool (1) used to remove a femoral implant (17) from a femur bone (18) by providing a substantially U-shaped body (2) having a substantially rectangular-shaped opening (9) located thereon that allows the substantially U-shaped body to be placed over a neck (21) of a femoral implant so a sharpened front edge (5) of the substantially U-shaped body makes direct contact with an inner surface of the stein of the femoral implant. The U-shaped body may have front side edges (26, 27) that extend beyond a front edge (5) to allow the front side edges to cut anterior and posterior surface of the implant.
US11191642B2	Cardiac valve loading devices and systems A loading device configured to radially collapse an expandable medical implant may include an operating handle having an opening therein extending along a longitudinal axis, a native sheath coupled to the operating handle and partially extending into the opening, such that the native sheath is configured to translate relative to the operating handle parallel to the longitudinal axis, a removable sheath removably coupled to the native sheath, an actuation rod extending parallel to the longitudinal axis at least partially through the opening, a lumen of the native sheath, and a lumen of the removable sheath, a distal end of the actuation rod being configured to be removably coupled to the expandable medical implant, and a first control element movable relative to the operating handle and coupled to the native sheath, the first control element being configured to translate the native sheath and the removable sheath relative to the operating handle.
US11191641B2	Inductance mode deployment sensors for transcatheter valve system A delivery system for an implantable medical device includes an outer shaft defining an outer shaft lumen and an inner shaft translatable within the outer shaft lumen, the inner shaft defining a lumen extending through the inner shaft. An actuation mechanism extends through the lumen and includes a coupler, a force translation rod that extends proximally from the coupler and a plurality of push pull rods that extend distally from the coupler and that releasably couple to the implantable medical device. The force translation rod includes a transition in electromagnetic permeability. The delivery system includes an inductive coil disposed relative to the force translation rod and positioned to detect a change in inductance resulting from the transition in electromagnetic permeability passing through the inductive coil.
US11191637B2	Blended extended depth of focus light adjustable lens with laterally offset axes A Light Adjustable Lens (LAL) comprises a central region, centered on a central axis, having a position-dependent central optical power, and a peripheral annulus, centered on an annulus axis and surrounding the central region, having a position-dependent peripheral optical power; wherein the central optical power is at least 0.5 diopters different from an average of the peripheral optical power, and the central axis is laterally shifted relative to the annulus axis. A method of adjusting the LAL comprises implanting a LAL; applying a first illumination to the LAL with a first illumination pattern to induce a position-dependent peripheral optical power in at least a peripheral annulus, centered on an annulus axis; determining a central region and a corresponding central axis of the LAL; and applying a second illumination to the LAL with a second illumination pattern to induce a position-dependent central optical power in the central region of the LAL.
US11191633B2	Modular multibranch stent assembly and method The techniques of this disclosure generally relate to an assembly including a single branch stent device and a modular stent device configured to be coupled to the single branch stent device. The single branch stent device includes a main body and a branch coupling extending radially from the main body. The modular stent device includes a main body configured to be coupled inside of the main body of the single branch stent device, a bypass gate extending distally from a distal end of the main body of the modular stent device, and an artery leg extending distally from the distal end of the main body of the modular stent device.
US11191631B2	Dual endovascular filter and methods of use A removable dual endovascular filter that may be introduced into arteries of the heart during surgery to allow sufficient blood flow to a cerebral vascular system while minimizing or preventing embolic material from traveling throughout a body circulatory system. The removable dual endovascular filter reduces the risk of stroke while minimizing obstruction of the patient's aorta.
US11191628B2	Implantable device for internal urinary control An apparatus for treating a urinary retention of a patient by discharging urine from a mammal urinary bladder through a mammal urethra. The apparatus comprises an expandable member adapted to be implanted inside the urinary bladder of the patient, a control device adapted to control the volume of the expandable member for emptying the mammal urinary bladder, and an implantable restriction devices adapted to close each ureter of a patient when discharging urine from the urinary bladder.
US11191621B2	Dental implant structure The present invention relates to an implant and, more specifically, has a fixture having a circular ball shape and a socket structure of an abutment body coupled to the fixture, and thus enables improvement of the matching between the fixture and an abutment which are an implant structure during an implant procedure.
US11191614B2	Method of forming a dental prosthesis A processing machine and a method of using the processing machine to process a block to form a dental prosthesis is provided. The processing machine includes a polishing jig. The polishing jig is for machining tools which makes it possible for a deteriorating machining tool to be used again without detaching the machining tool, with which the processing machine is equipped, from the processing machine. The polishing jig for machining tools comprises an attachment part to be attached to the processing machine; and a polishing face that is at least part of a surface of the polishing jig, the polishing face adapted to polish a processing part of a machining tool.
US11191611B2	Marking device and implantation system Marking device (100) for implantation into a tissue (260), having a support structure (102) which is formed by at least one elastic metal wire, is compressible and is self-expanding and which, in an expanded state, encompasses an interior space (104), characterized in that the marking device (100) is designed to transform itself on its own from a compressed state into an expanded state, even against a tissue pressure prevailing at a tissue site to be marked, and the marking device (100) in the expanded state has a hollow, approximately spherical shape.
US11191608B2	Aerodynamically shaped surgical lighting suspension A support arm for supporting a surgical device in an operating room. The support arm is comprised of an elongated, tubular extrusion having an inverted, generally tear-drop shaped outer surface that has an airfoil shape. The airfoil shape is symmetrical about an axis extending from a leading end of the airfoil to a trailing end of the airfoil shape.
US11191596B2	Foot controller A foot controller includes a stationary portion and a cradle member that can receive a foot of a user. The cradle member is moveable to of different positions along paths, such as a left position, a right position, a front position, or a back position. One or more paths have a left-right direction of the controller and at least one of the paths has a forward-back direction of the controller. Sensors sense the cradle member at a particular position and output sensor signals indicative of that position. A function provided by a system is activated based on the sensed position.
US11191585B2	Electrosurgical apparatus to perform a tissue cut on the body of a human or animal patient An electrosurgical apparatus performs a cut or incision on epithelial tissue of the body of a human or animal patient. The apparatus includes a generator system configured to generate a radio-frequency electric signal, and a hand piece held by an operator and having an end provided with a single active electrode electrically connected to the generator system. The electric signal generates a cut or an incision when the active electrode comes into contact with epithelial tissue of the body. The electric signal has a power ranging from 0.5 W-20 W and a frequency ranging from 40 kHz-90 kHz. The energy emitted by the signal is transferred from the active electrode to the tissue of the body through capacitive coupling. The tissue is cut at a peripheral temperature ranging from 45° C.-60° C. The electric circuit is closed to ground through a capacitive effect, as the apparatus does not use a return plate.
US11191581B2	Longitudinally-adjustable bone anchors and related methods Longitudinally-adjustable bone anchors and related methods are disclosed herein. The ability to adjust a bone anchor longitudinally can allow the surgeon to bring an implanted bone anchor up to the rod instead of or in addition to bringing the rod down to the bone anchor, which can simplify or eliminate the rod contouring step and reduce or eliminate reduction forces. For example, the surgeon can use a pre-bent rod or put “ideal contours” into a rod, lay the rod across a series of bone anchors, and adjust each bone anchor longitudinally to meet the rod. As another example, coarse adjustment of the fixation system can be achieved by contouring the rod and then fine adjustments can be made by bringing each bone anchor up or down to the rod. Various adjustment mechanisms are disclosed, including bone anchors with telescoping portions and bone anchors with risers or spacers.
US11191580B2	Implantation aid for the use of surface-sensitive implants The present application relates to an implantation set including a tool or an aid, and at least one bone contact member adapted thereto, therefore a device designed for direct contact with a bone, the bone contact member having a greater hardness in a region intended for contact by the tool or aid than the tool or aid in a region intended for contact with the bone contact member.
US11191566B2	Introducer with partially annealed reinforcement element and related systems and methods The present disclosure illustrates an introducer sheath with a partially annealed metal frame. The introducer sheaths described herein include a hub coupled to a shaft. The shaft comprises a braided wire frame with (i) an annealed distal portion that prevents the braided wire frame from unraveling at a distal end, and (ii) a second portion that is unannealed; a jacket encompassing the braided wire frame; and a liner forming an inner wall.
US11191564B2	Unipolar cannula The application provides a unipolar cannula that can have a metal cannula tube, a body part made of an electrically insulating plastic, attached to the proximal end of the cannula tube, a connector disposed on the body part for the introduction of a liquid into the cannula tube, and a stimulation cable, an electroconductive wire of which electrically contacts the cannula tube in the region of the body part. The stimulation cable can be mounted laterally on the body part by a mounting part made of an electrically insulating plastic, where the mounting part has an electroconductive contact element which is connected conductively to the wire, and where the contact element engages into a recess of the body part and contacts the cannula tube when the mounting part is mounted on the body part.
US11191555B2	Retrieval of material from vessel lumens Devices for removing clot material from a blood vessel lumen and associated systems and methods are disclosed herein. A clot retrieving device may include, for example, an elongated shaft, a capture structure, a cover, and a connector coupled to the elongated shaft proximal of the capture structure. The connector may include an inner band and an outer band, wherein (a) the inner band at least partially surrounds a portion of the distal zone of the elongated shaft, (b) the outer band at least partially surrounds the inner band, and (c) the first portion of the cover is secured between the inner band and the outer band.
US11191551B2	Surgical bur with soft tissue protective geometry A surgical bur includes a body and a drill point. The body includes flutes and lands. Each of the flutes includes a cutting edge, a rake face, and a clearance surface. Each of the lands is convex-shaped and disposed between a pair of the flutes. The drill point includes axial relief surfaces. Each of the axial relief surfaces has a planar area, is distinct from the lands and borders (i) a distal portion of one of the cutting edges, (ii) one of the lands, and (iii) one of the clearance surfaces.
US11191549B2	Tangential fit of patient-specific guides A bone preparation guide including a first patient-specific portion based on image data of a specific patient's bone and configured to match the patient's specific bone surface. A second patient-specific portion is based on image data of the specific patient's bone and configured to match the patient's specific bone surface. A patient-generic portion is configured to be a bone-facing portion supported by the first and the second patient-specific bone contacting members at a portion of the patient's bone surface not imaged during preparation of a preoperative plan.
US11191548B2	Method and apparatus for intraluminally occluding hollow or tubular body structures Catheter-based devices and methods for endoluminally accessing and occluding hollow anatomical structures are disclosed. Occlusion clips are contained in one or more needles that pierce opposing walls of the anatomical structure to deploy the clips externally of the structure. The clips then are drawn together to press the opposing anatomical walls together.
US11191545B2	Staple formation detection mechanisms A surgical stapling instrument comprising an end effector, an RFID tag, and a control circuit is disclosed. The end effector comprises an anvil, a staple cartridge, and a contact assembly configured to contact tissue. The staple cartridge comprises staples removably stored therein. The anvil and the staple cartridge are configurable between an open configuration and a closed configuration. The RFID tag is configured to store information about the staple cartridge. The control circuit is operably coupled to the contact assembly. The control circuit is configured to interrogate the RFID tag to determine the information about the staple cartridge, transmit an electrical signal to tissue contacting the contact assembly, determine a characteristic of the tissue contacting the contact assembly based on the electrical signal, and change an operational parameter of the surgical stapling instrument based on the characteristic of the tissue.
US11191543B2	Assembly comprising a lock An end effector is disclosed comprising a cartridge channel, a staple cartridge positionable in the cartridge channel, and a firing assembly configured to lock itself if the staple cartridge is not positioned in the cartridge channel. Moreover, the firing assembly is configured to lock itself if the staple cartridge has been at least partially spent.
US11191536B2	Device, system, and method to secure an article to a tissue A device for securing an article to a tissue may include a body, transitionable from a deployment state to a securing state, having a first portion, a second portion, and a medial portion therebetween. The first portion and the second portion may each have an end configured to pierce the tissue. The device in the deployment state may have a linearly extended or a U-shaped structure. In the securing state, the first portion may be embedded in the tissue and the medial portion may contact the article. A system for securing the article to the tissue may releasably engage the device while in the deployment state. A method for securing the article may include contacting the article with a tissue surface and releasing the device from the system so that the device, in the securing state, may anchor the article to the tissue.
US11191533B2	Retraction assembly for surgery A retraction assembly for use in retracting soft tissue during spine surgery having a reactor blade having a blade body and proximal and distal ends, a support member engagable with the blade body and having proximal and distal ends. The proximal end engages a passage in the blade body and the second end of the support member includes an anchorage capable of anchoring the assembly to an anatomical structure while allowing movement of the support member. The retractor blade is capable of detachable engagement with and movement relative to the support member. The retractor blade is capable of detachable engagement with and movement relative to the support member. The first end of the support member includes operating nuts to adjust the support member rotationally and vertically.
US11191520B2	Ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus, image processing apparatus, and image processing method An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus according to an embodiment includes an ultrasonic probe and processing circuitry. The ultrasonic probe collects reflected wave data in a time series manner from a region of a subject in motion. The processing circuitry generates time-series volume data from the reflected wave data collected by the ultrasonic probe. The processing circuitry calculates at least either of volume information and motion information on a region of interest of the subject by performing processing including tracking using the volume data. The processing circuitry sets one or more feature positions that represent anatomical features in the region of interest. The processing circuitry displays an MPR image that passes through at least one of the feature positions. The processing circuitry outputs at least either of the volume information and the motion information that includes the feature positions as boundaries.
US11191517B2	Invasive sense measurement in prosthesis installation A system and method for allowing any surgeon, including those surgeons who perform a fewer number of a replacement procedure as compared to a more experienced surgeon who performs a greater number of procedures, to provide an improved likelihood of a favorable outcome approaching, if not exceeding, a likelihood of a favorable outcome as performed by a very experienced surgeon with the replacement procedure. Force sensing is included to aid in quantifying installation of an implant, particularly a cup into a pelvic bone.
US11191513B2	Mobile X-ray device and method for controlling power in mobile X-ray device In a mobile X-ray apparatus including a power supply supplying operation power, the power supply may include: a battery pack including a plurality of battery cells; a battery management system configured to control the operation power to be supplied from the battery pack to at least one component of the mobile X-ray apparatus; and a monitoring integrated circuit configured to monitor a voltage of the plurality of battery cells and control monitoring power supplied from the plurality of battery cells, based on whether the operation power is supplied to at least one component of the mobile X-ray apparatus.
US11191504B2	X-ray diagnosis apparatus comprising a blood vessel running information acquiring function, a position specification function, and a diaphragm control function According to one embodiment, an X-ray diagnosis apparatus includes an X-ray generator, an X-ray diaphragm, an X-ray detector, an image capturing unit, a blood vessel running information acquiring unit, a device position specifying unit, and a diaphragm controller. The X-ray generator emits X-rays. The X-ray diaphragm restricts a region to be irradiated with X-rays emitted from the X-ray generator. The X-ray detector detects X-rays emitted from the X-ray generator. The image capturing unit acquires an X-ray image based on a detection result obtained by the X-ray detector. The blood vessel running information acquiring unit acquires blood vessel running information. The device position specifying unit specifies the position of a device in the X-ray image. The diaphragm controller controls the X-ray diaphragm based on the blood vessel running information and the position of the device.
US11191502B2	Upright x-ray breast imaging with a CT mode, multiple tomosynthesis modes, and a mammography mode A multi-mode system and method for imaging a patient's breast with x-rays in one or more of a CT mode, a narrow-angle tomosynthesis mode, a wide angle tomosynthesis mode, and a mammography mode, using essentially the same equipment, on one or more compressions or immobilizations of the breast.
US11191496B2	Scattered X-ray detection to detect misuse and prevent harm An apparatus and related method for supporting X-ray imaging. The apparatus comprises an input interface (IN) for receiving an X-radiation scatter measurement obtained by an X-ray sensor (SXi) during operation of an X-ray imager (XI) for imaging a first object (PAT). A predictor component (PC) is configured to predict, based on said measurement, whether or not: i) a second object (P) is present, or ii) there is sufficient X-ray exposure of said first object (PAT). The apparatus comprises an output interface (OUT) for outputting a predictor signal indicative of an outcome of said prediction.
US11191491B2	Feedback device and method for providing thermal feedback using the same A method for providing a thermal feedback, includes executing a virtual reality application providing a virtual space that includes a virtual area to which an area temperature attribute is assigned, and a virtual object to which an object temperature attributed is assigned. An area event that reflects that a player character enters the virtual area is detected. A feedback device is controlled to output thermal feedback associated to the area temperature attribute when the area event is detected, the feedback device outputting the thermal feedback using a thermoelectric element performing a thermoelectric operation. An object event reflecting the player character is influenced by the virtual object is detected. The feedback device is controlled to override the thermal feedback associated to the area temperature attribute and output thermal feedback associated to the object temperature when the object is detected while the player character is in the virtual area.
US11191490B2	Personalized assessment of patients with acute coronary syndrome A computer-implemented method for personalized assessment of patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) includes extracting (i) patient-specific coronary geometry data from one or more medical images of a patient; (ii) a plurality of features of a patient-specific coronary arterial tree based on the patient-specific coronary geometry data; and (iii) a plurality of ACS-related features from additional patient measurement data. A surrogate model is used to predict patient-specific hemodynamic measures of interest related to ACS based on the plurality of features of the patient-specific coronary arterial tree and the plurality of ACS-related features from the additional patient measurement data.
US11191480B2	Device for biorhythm detection, method for biorhythm detection, and recording medium recording program for biorhythm detection A device for biorhythm detection, includes: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to perform operations of: acquiring activity amount data indicating an amount of activity of a test subject which is measured by an activity amount meter configured to measure the amount of activity of the test subject; and detecting, as a frequency derived from a biorhythm of the test subject, a frequency that indicates peak power in a result which is obtained through frequency analysis of a first time waveform of the activity amount data.
US11191470B2	Systems and methods of determining location using a medical device A medical device includes a sensor interface for measuring one or more physiological signals of the patient; at least one motion detector for detecting movement of the device; a processor coupled to the sensor interface and the at least one motion detector; and a memory communicatively coupled to the processor and comprising instructions that cause the processor to receive movement information comprising at least acceleration information and heading information from the at least one motion detector; detect movement of the medical device from the movement information, wherein the movement of the medical device comprises a distance traveled by the medical device and a direction traveled by the medical device; and estimate a current location of the medical device relative to a previous location of the medical device using dead reckoning based at least in part on the distance and direction traveled by the medical device.
US11191466B1	Determining mental health and cognitive state through physiological and other non-invasively obtained data Physiological variables, metrics, biomarkers, and other data points can be used, in connection with a non-invasive wearable device, to screen for, and predict, mental health issues and cognitive states. In addition to metrics such as heart rate, sleep data, activity level, gamification data, and the like, information such as text message and email data, as well as vocal data obtained through a phone and/or a microphone, may be analyzed, provided user authorization. Applying predictive modeling, one or more of the monitored metrics can be correlated with mental states and disorders. Identified patterns can be used to update the predictive models, such as via machine learning-trained models, as well as to update individual event predictions. Information about the mental state predictions, and updates thereto, can be surfaced to the user accordingly.
US11191464B2	Device system and method for fluid sample collection A system and method for preparing a diagnostic fluid sample for use with a fluid assay system. The method comprises the steps of: amplifying the fluid sample to increase the number of cells subject to being tested; drawing a first volume of the fluid sample into a first syringe of a dual-barrel syringe and dispensing the first volume of the fluid sample through a media filter. The method further comprises the steps of placing the bacteria-laced filter into a lysis module; dispensing a first portion of a lysis buffer into the lysis module from the second syringe of the dual-barrel syringe; and dispensing a second portion of the lysis buffer through the media filter into a disposable cartridge of a fluid assay system.
US11191463B2	Systems, devices, and methods related to the individualized calibration and/or manufacturing of medical devices Systems, devices, kits, and methods are provided herein in the form of example embodiments that relate to calibration of medical devices. The medical devices can be sensors adapted to sense a biochemical attribute. The embodiments can be used to determine calibration information specific to an individual medical device. The embodiments can determine the calibration information by reference to one or more parameters obtained during manufacturing of the medical device. The embodiments can also determine the calibration information by reference to in vitro testing of the medical devices. The embodiments also apply to systems incorporating those medical devices in their use in the field. Also described are embodiments of modifications to surfaces of sensor substrates, such as through applied radiation and/or the creation of a well, to aid in the placement and/or sizing of a sensor element on the substrate.
US11191459B2	ECG-based analyte assessments with adjustments for variances in patient posture Systems, methods, and other techniques for estimating the level of an analyte present in a patient during a time interval using electrocardiogram (ECG) signals. The estimate can be improved using information about the patient's posture.
US11191458B2	Low oxygen in vivo analyte sensor The present invention relates generally to systems and methods for measuring an analyte in a host. More particularly, the present invention relates to systems and methods for transcutaneous and subcutaneous measurement of glucose in a host.
US11191456B2	On-demand testing for selected conditions A device is used to monitor, in real-time, one or more environment conditions of an environment in which a user is located. Based on the monitoring, an alert condition relating to the environment is detected. Based on detecting the alert condition, on-demand testing of a sensory component of the user is initiated. The on-demand testing tests for a selected condition relating to the health of the user.
US11191451B2	Wearable monitoring system and methods for determining respiratory and sleep disorders with same A wearable monitoring system and associated method that is configured to (i) determine three dimensional displacement of the spine of a subject's chest wall with respect to the subject's spine, (ii) process the three dimensional anatomical data, (iii) determine at least one respiratory parameter associated with the monitored subject and value thereof as a function of the three dimensional anatomical data, and (iv) determine a respiratory disorder as a function of the determined respiratory parameter and value thereof.
US11191445B2	Reflector markers and systems and methods for identifying and locating them Markers and related systems and methods are provided for localizing lesions within a patient's body, e.g., within a breast. The marker includes one or more photosensitive diodes for transforming light pulses striking the marker into electrical energy, one or more antennas, and a switch coupled to the photodiodes and antennas such that the light pulses cause the switch to open and close and modulate radar signals reflected by the marker back to a source of the signals. The antenna(s) may include one or more wire elements extending from a housing, one or more antenna elements printed on a substrate, or one or more chip antennas. Optionally, the marker may include a processor coupled to the photodiodes for identifying signals in the light pulses or one or more coatings or filters to allow selective activation of the marker.
US11191443B2	Detecting cutaneous electrode peeling using electrode-skin impedance Apparatus for transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation in a user, the apparatus comprising: stimulation means for electrically stimulating at least one nerve; an electrode array connectable to said stimulation means, said electrode array comprising a plurality of electrodes for electrical stimulation of the at least one nerve, said electrodes having a pre-formed geometry and known electrode-skin contact area size when in complete contact with the user's skin; monitoring means electrically connected to said stimulation means for monitoring the impedance of the electrical stimulation through said electrode array; and analysis means for analyzing said impedance to estimate a change in the electrode-skin contact area.
US11191438B2	Measurement apparatus and measurement method A measurement apparatus for measuring biological information includes a sensor that executes selectively at least a first detection mode or a second detection mode, and a controller. The controller controls switching to the second detection mode based on output of the sensor while the sensor is in the first detection mode.
US11191437B2	Fluid control device A fluid control device (10) includes a container (13), a pump (11), a solenoid valve (12), and a capacitor. The pump (11) is driven by a main power source, and is capable of pressurizing or depressurizing the inside of the container (13). A suction port and a discharge port of the pump (11) internally communicate with each other. The solenoid valve (12) is connected at both ends thereof to the container (13) and the pump (11). If the voltage of the main power source is reduced or lost, the solenoid valve (12) releases pressure in the container (13) by being driven by the power stored in the capacitor or secondary battery.
US11191419B2	Dishmachine The present disclosure relates to a dishmachine that includes one or more features directed to water, energy or material savings. The disclosed dishmachines are still capable of meeting the soil demands of the articles to be cleaned.
US11191413B2	System and method of monitoring consumable wear components of semi-autonomous floor care equipment In some embodiments, a method of monitoring, analyzing, and/or validating the lifecycle and maintenance schedule of consumable wear components used in or by a semi-autonomous cleaning device can include scanning a unique identifier associated with a consumable component and receiving, at the cleaning device, data associated with the unique identifier. A signal associated with the data is sent from the cleaning device to a host device. After scanning the unique identifier, the consumable component is installed in or on the cleaning device. During use of the cleaning device, a status of the consumable component is monitored and a signal is sent to the host device in response to one or more characteristics associated with the consumable component meeting a criterion.
US11191408B2	Docking station for cleaning robots with roller brush The present application provides a docking station including a cleaning system disposed in a base thereof. The cleaning system includes a cutting chamber, an upper end cover, and a lower end cover; and the cutting chamber is configured to receive a to-be-cleaned object, and the upper end cover is detachably connected to an upper end of the cutting chamber; the lower end cover is disposed at a lower end of the cutting chamber and rotatably connected with the cutting chamber; the to-be-cleaned object is detachably fixed to the lower end cover; and a blade assembly configured to clean the to-be-cleaned object is provided at an inner wall of the cutting chamber. The docking station may clean the to-be-cleaned object, such as a roller brush of a robot cleaner, while charging the robot cleaner, which provides an auxiliary function, extends the applicability and is more convenient for home use.
US11191406B2	Cleaner A cleaner for collecting dust is provided. The cleaner includes a suction head, a dust collector having a first end mounted on the suction head and including a first dust collecting chamber, an extension member slidably mounted on the dust collector at the other end opposite to the first end of the dust collector, and a first dirt removing member disposed at one end of the extension member and having elasticity.
US11191404B2	Cleaner A cleaner comprising: a housing having the shape of a hollow cylinder, a barrier for dividing the inner space of the housing into an upper space and a lower space; a barrier through-hole provided so as to penetrate the barrier; an intake portion provided on the circumferential surface of the housing; an exhaust portion provided to penetrate the housing; a housing discharge port penetrating the bottom surface of the housing; a cover for closing the housing discharge port; an alien-substance separating portion provided in the lower space so as to provide a channel that guides air introduced to the intake portion to the barrier through-hole; a fan provided to comprise an impeller positioned in the upper space; a rotating shaft to which the impeller is fixed, and a motor for rotating the rotating shaft; and a storage portion provided to be attachable to/detachable from the housing.
US11191401B2	Cleaning apparatus A cleaning apparatus having a cleaning head and a handle. The cleaning head having a paddle with a planar central portion, a plurality of corners, and a peripheral edge. The handle affixed to the cleaning head via hinged connection. The plurality of corners are at a downward angle relative to the central portion. Additionally, the cleaning head includes a compressive material substrate and a cleaning element, the compressive material substrate located between the paddle and the cleaning element.
US11191399B2	Toilet seat According to the embodiment, a toilet seat including: a bottom plate; a top plate including a sidewall part and a seating part; and a bonding member bonding the bottom plate and the sidewall part and having an exposed surface, the sidewall part including a sidewall base, a first hanging part extending downward from a lower end of the sidewall base, and a second hanging part provided to be separated from the first hanging part at the lower end of the sidewall base to provide a recess recessed upward between the first and second hanging parts, the second hanging part being disposed at a position not overlapping the bottom plate in a vertical direction, the bonding member being provided in the recess, the exposed surface being disposed between the second hanging part and the bottom plate, a width of the second hanging part decreasing downward from the sidewall base.
US11191389B2	Oil-filtration system with electronic safety locking system The present invention is a cooking-oil filtration system for automated cooking apparatus which has a solids-removing filter for cleaning cooking oil from the food-fryer and returning oil to the cooking apparatus. The system comprises a solids-removing filter enclosure which includes a plurality of doors having electronically controlled locks with lock-state feedback, a controller including memory and software for controlling the system and a user interface, a number of electrically-controlled pumps, valves, actuators and sensors, the user interface comprising screens with icons representing system set-up, status, and actions. The screens include a main screen, an operator controls screen with controls including door-lock controls displaying door-lock status and controls to lock and unlock the doors, such unlocking permitted only when at least one pump is off and the filter-chamber pressure is below a predetermined pressure, one or more status screens displaying filter operation status, and one or more setup screens.
US11191381B2	Tether In some embodiments, an elongated tether may comprise an anchor end, a retention end, and a stretchable elastic section configured to allow stretching along a length of an elongated tether. The retention end may comprise a plurality of retention apertures each characterized by a retention-aperture diameter, and a retention terminus characterized by a retention diameter that is greater than the retention-aperture diameter. The retention end may be configured to enable the retention terminus to be compressed and manipulated through a first or second retention aperture to form a compression fit and a loop of a first size and a loop of a second, larger size. The stretchable elastic section may be configured such that an overall length of the elongated tether does not exceed a maximum length when subjected to a given amount of stretching force.
US11191378B2	Lockable knife block The lockable knife block comprises a knife block and one or more knives. The knife block is a mechanical structure that stores one or more knives. The lockable knife block is a locking structure. The locking knife block comprises an interlock mechanism that inhibits an individual from removing an individual knife selected from the one or more knives from the knife block without releasing the interlock mechanism. The interlock mechanism is a lockable structure.
US11191373B2	Mounting device for wall-mounted articles A mounting device is provided for hanging articles on a wall or other mounting surface. The disclosed mounting device includes a bracket having a raised center portion arranged between two side portions formed integral and contiguous with the raised center portion, and a fastener having a flattened head and a shaft extending therefrom. The raised center portion of the bracket includes a first pair of opposing sidewalls, and the flattened head of the fastener includes a second pair of opposing sidewalls. When the flattened head of the fastener is slidably engaged with the raised center portion of the bracket, each of the second pair of opposing sidewalls is arranged adjacent and parallel to a respective one of the first pair of opposing sidewalls. This prevents substantial rotational movement of the bracket around the fastener to ensure that the wall-mounted article remains at a desired location and orientation on the wall.
US11191359B2	Cabinet A cabinet having a front part, which closes access to the inner region of the cabinet and is mounted movably relative to the cabinet carcass, and supporting inner or side walls or a side cheek arranged vertically in relation to the floor on which the item of furniture is standing. An access opening is formed between the front part and the side cheek, between the front part and at least one further front part, or between the front part and an upper side, which is formed as a table top. A profile is arranged to the rear of the access opening such that it is impossible to see into the inner region of the cabinet through the access opening, the profile having a first part and a second part, each having a face visible through the access opening, the visible faces arranged such that a shadow gap is formed therebetween.
US11191355B2	Wine bottle positioning device and wine storage apparatus A wine bottle positioning device includes a sleeving component and a door cover. The sleeving component includes a positioning base and a positioning sleeve connected to the positioning base. The door cover is movably disposed at the positioning base. Another wine bottle positioning device is also provided. A wine storage apparatus is also provided.
US11191347B1	Tool system A tool system including a handle assembly, a swiveling butt end assembly, a ring assembly, and a tether is disclosed. When using tools at elevated heights there is often accidents involved in which tools drop and possibly injure pedestrians down below. The tool system prevents such events from occurring. The handle assembly importantly includes a swiveling butt end assembly with a ring assembly attached. The ring assembly receives the tether which is attached to a user and to a tool. The tether keeps the tools within reach of the use if there is an accidental dropping. With the swiveling butt end assembly the tether does not tangle or break. The swiveling butt end assembly allows for the handle to freely rotate while tied to the tether. This prohibits tension on the tether to prevent damage to the tether. Also, eliminating the chance of dropping the tool from an elevated height.
US11191346B2	Method and apparatus for deterring unauthorized mounting of a motorcycle An apparatus for providing a motorcycle straddle deterrence, said apparatus comprising: a back-pack of foldable material with a back surface, a front surface, one side, another side, a slit on each side, a bottom surface, a top surface with a draw-string opening for accessing at least one compartment, and at least one over-the-shoulder strap disposed on the back surface; the back-pack with the draw-string drawn configured to be folded-in such that the one side and the other side unite to be secured in place by a side-release buckle, wherein the backpack is compact or cylindrical in shape while worn by an operating motorcyclist; said back-pack with the draw-string un-drawn and un-buckled configured to fold out and said back-pack back surface to rest on a top surface of a seat of the motorcycle, wherein the folded-out back-pack covers at least a partial surface of the seat of the motorcycle; a first strap affixed securely to a first side of the motorcycle and said first strap terminating with a hook and a second strap affixed securely to a second side of the seat of the motorcycle and said second strap terminating with a buckle; each of the first strap and second strap inserted through each of the slits disposed on each of the sides of the back-pack gaining access into the at least one compartment of the back-pack and the hook of the first strap hooked into the buckle of the second strap from access through the un-drawn top opening of the back-pack; and draw the top portion of the back-pack closed and lock the top portion closed securing the back-pack housing the helmet on the seat of the motorcycle in an unattended state and deterring unauthorized mounting of the motorcycle and restricting access into the compartment for access to at least one of the helmet and/or buckles for un-buckling the straps and removing the back-pack from the seat of the motorcycle by anyone unauthorized.
US11191337B2	Device for packaging and applying a product, notably a liquid cosmetic product The device for packaging and applying a product, notably a liquid cosmetic product, comprises a container delimiting an internal reservoir for storing said the product, and comprising an opening providing access to the reservoir, a closure member mounted removably on the container so as to move between a position in which the container is closed and an open position, and a member for applying the product. The closure member bears the application member. The container internally comprises a narrowing of the section delimiting the opening providing access to the internal reservoir of the container. The application member extends at least in part through the access opening, sealing the said opening closed when the closure member is in the closed position, the application member being situated outside the container when the closure member is in the open position.
US11191336B2	Rechargeable hair styling tool A rechargeable hair styling tool may be plugged into an electrical outlet to enable charging of each battery and operation of the hair styling tool. Electronics of the hair styling tool may enable it to alternately operate under power from the battery or batteries (i.e., stored power) while the hair styling tool is unplugged from an electrical outlet (e.g., a wall socket, etc.) and under power of an external source of electricity while the hair styling tool is plugged into the electrical outlet. Each heating element of such a rechargeable hair styling tool may be heated when the hair styling tool is plugged in and, once each heating element has been heated to a sufficient temperature, continue to function under power supplied by the battery or batteries of the rechargeable hair styling tool.
US11191335B2	Hair styling appliance A hair styling appliance for dual supply voltage operation is described comprising a body having at least one arm bearing a hair styling heater (560), wherein the hair styling heater comprises one or more heater electrodes (630,632,634,636) for heating the hair styling heater. A first power input is connectable to a battery power source (564) and a second power input is connectable to a mains powered source (561). The first power input and the second power input are each coupled to at least one of the one or more heater electrodes. Such a hair styling appliance is useable for styling when coupled to the mains powered source and when coupled to the battery power source increasing the versatility of the appliance.
US11191332B2	Folding piece of luggage Folding piece of luggage includes parallel first and second rigid panels; third and fourth rigid panels each mounted on and articulated to one of the first and second panels between a deployed position and a retracted position in which the third or fourth panel extends parallel to first and second panels; third and fourth panels defining with the first and second panels a rigid frame when third and fourth panels are in their deployed position; fifth and sixth panels each connects the first and second panels and define with the other panels an internal storage space of parallelepipedal shape; fifth and sixth panels being deformable in a direction x perpendicular to the first and second panels between an unfolded position and a folded position so that, when third and fourth panels are in their retracted position, first and second panels are able to move relative to one another.
US11191323B2	Shaper for flexible objects A shaper for a pliable object includes a flexible sleeve formed of a semipermeable material and containing a chamber in which a fibrous fill material and a semi-rigid member are arranged. The fibrous fill provides shape and structure to the flexible sleeve to generally match the configuration of an object into which the shaper will be placed. The semi-rigid member has a length-to-width ratio that is substantially similar to the length-toi-width ratio of the flexible sleeve. When the sleeve is arranged within an object, it substantially fills the object to provide the object with structure and shape retention.
US11191322B2	Motorized tensioning system with sensors A tensioning system for articles of footwear and articles of apparel is disclosed. The tensioning system includes a tensioning member that is tightened or loosened using a motorized tensioning device for winding and unwinding the tensioning member on a spool. The tensioning system may be used with various sensors to determine how the motorized tensioning device should be controlled.
US11191318B2	Sole provided with overturning anti-slipping means In an anti-slipping device for a shoe sole having an anti-slipping or anti-sliding component such as nails or spikes which are not secured to the sole but are secured on support elements which can be overturned to be hidden in slots made on the sole itself, each overturning support element is hinged at its ends on cubic blocks which are anchored to the sole due to a mushroom-shaped coupling element which is molded in once piece to the cubic block itself, made of the same thermo-polyurethane material as the support elements and which is snap-fitted in its seat arranged in the sole next to the slot where the overturning support element is accommodated after the overturning, without interfering with the integrity of the sole itself and thus allowing the replacement thereof without difficulty. Also included is a mechanism for avoiding the accidental loss of the support element when walking.
US11191315B2	Helmet having an evaporation cooler A helmet, in particular to a bicycle helmet, having a plurality of ventilation openings and at least one evaporation cooler that is arranged in a ventilation opening.
US11191313B2	Hats and attachment systems for use with hats A system for coupling an accessory to a hat having an interior surface and an opposite, exterior surface includes a brace configured to extend along the interior surface of the hat, a bracket configured to be positioned on the exterior surface of the hat, and a fastener configured to extend through the hat to thereby couple the bracket to the brace such that the accessory can be coupled to the bracket and thereby supported on the hat.
US11191312B2	Hair bundle apparatus and method of manufacturing same A hair bundle apparatus is provided. The hair bundle apparatus includes: a first section comprising a loop member, a first end and a second end, wherein the first section is constructed of a first material comprising one of synthetic hair, an elastic band, wire, and thread; a second section comprising a locking member; and a third section comprising a third end and a fourth end, wherein the third section is constructed of a second material comprising human hair.
US11191309B1	Integrated protective knee pad assembly A knee pad assembly includes a protective member, a hard shell member and a hinge member connecting the protective member and the hard shell member. A first end of the hard shell member is connected to the hinge member. A second end of the hard shell member opposing the first end has an upper lip member and a lower lip member, the upper lip member and the lower lip member defining a recessed member that extends from one side of second end of the hard shell member to an other side of the second end of the hard shell member.
US11191307B2	Article of infant clothing An article of clothing, comprising an infant clothing pod configured to contain an infant, the infant having a birth weight in a range of 1 pound to 11 pounds; the infant clothing pod having a cavity configured to contain upper appendages, lower appendages and torso of the infant, wherein the upper appendages comprise a left arm and a right arm, and the lower appendages comprise a left leg and a right leg; the infant pod having an openable and closeable infant ingress-egress aperture extending longitudinally along a length of the pod; and the infant pod having an anterior sub-torso aperture and a posterior sub-torso aperture which are positioned to be located between the left leg and the right leg of the infant.
US11191306B2	Adaptor for use with non-cylindrical vapor products A system for testing a vapor product with a mouthpiece that has a non-circular cross section includes an adaptor coupled to a neck portion of a filter pad holder. The adaptor includes a nose to receive the neck portion and an adaptor body coupled to the nose. An opening is defined by the adaptor body and the nose, the opening extending through the adaptor body and the nose and configured to receive the neck portion. A sealing member is configured to be received by the adaptor and the filter pad holder. The sealing member includes a sealing member nose configured to be received by the neck portion, and a sealing member body coupled to the sealing member nose and configured to be received by the opening. The sealing member body defines an orifice, the orifice extending through the sealing member body.
US11191301B2	Cigar ventilation implement A cigar ventilating implement includes both a cylindrical punch and a piercing member such as a needle or spike. The cylindrical punch and piercing member are each is extendable from an outer housing of the implement by gripping laterally extending flanges and pressing on an actuator in a manner similar to that used to operate a medical syringe. The cylindrical punch is extendable to a predetermined distance when pushing the actuator over a first section of its total range of movement after which the piercing member may be extended from the cylindrical punch by a further distance upon pushing the actuator over a second section of its total range against the bias provided by a coil spring. The restoring force of the coil spring causes the elongated piercing member to retract back into the cylindrical punch when pressure on the actuator is released.
US11191298B2	Aerosol source member having combined susceptor and aerosol precursor material An aerosol delivery device and an aerosol source member for use with an inductive heating aerosol delivery device are provided. The aerosol delivery device comprises a control body having a housing with an opening defined in one end thereof, a resonant transmitter located in the control body, a control component configured to drive the resonant transmitter, and an aerosol source member, at least a portion of which is configured to be positioned proximate the resonant transmitter. The aerosol source member may comprise a tobacco substrate and a plurality of porous susceptor particles, and the susceptor particles may be infused with an aerosol precursor composition.
US11191297B2	Smokeless products containing non-tobacco plant materials This document relates to smokeless products containing one or more non-tobacco plant materials. Certain embodiments described in this document relate to smokeless products containing one or more tobacco-alternative plant materials and having properties similar to tobacco-containing oral products.
US11191294B1	Apparatus and methods for making food products with improved hydraulic controls Apparatus and methods for making puffed food products are disclosed. In one implementation, an innovative process may include improved configurations and control of hydraulic drive cylinder(s) to more swiftly and precisely apply pressures to heatable mold elements during production of puffed food products. According to one particular implementation, in order to drive a first hydraulic piston to move at least one movable mold element to a desired position, a second hydraulic piston may be first positioned to set up an adjustable hard-stop based on the desired position, such that the first hydraulic piston may rapidly drive the moveable mold element to stop at precisely the desired position.
US11191286B2	Capsule, method and device for brewing a beverage A capsule for use in a brewing device is provided, comprising a body part, which defines a cavity and which has a flange, a lid which is attached to the flange and tea material enclosed within the capsule, characterized in that the shape of the flange is defined by two intersecting circular arcs when viewed from above. A brewing device which comprises a capsule holder for receiving the capsule is also provided, the capsule holder comprising a sidewall which is circular when viewed from above and which has an upper rim, a shelf on at least part of the inside of the sidewall, a filter and an openable and closable passage on the opposite side of the filter from the upper rim. A method of preparing a tea-based beverage in the brewing device using the capsule is also provided.
US11191284B2	Method and system for controlling and/or regulating the treatment of heat-sensitive liquid food products Controlling and/or treating heat-sensitive liquid food products ensures improved control of a filling level in an infuser container. Therefore, a constant dwell time of the product to be heated is reached in the event of product-fouling in the centrifugal pump. The pump is designed such that one part of a volume flow of the product, transported by an impeller wheel, regularly rinses the impeller wheel and the areas of a pump chamber that are directly adjacent to the impeller wheel. A reduction in the volume flow of the centrifugal pump is then counteracted by increasing the initial rotational speed if the reduction is simultaneously associated with a drop in temperature of the product. The increase of the initial rotational speed is carried according to the drop in temperature of the product and/or an increase in the temperature of the steam to constantly maintain at least the temperature of the product.
US11191273B2	Methods of making pyranopyrans such as pyranopyran nitrile and methods of using pyranopyrans such as pyranopyran nitrile Disclosed herein are methods of making (4aR,6S,8aR)-6-((R)-1-hydroxyethyl)-6,8a-dihydropyrano[3,2-b]pyran-2-(4aH)-one (2) and methods of making (4aR,6S,8aR)-6-cyano-6,8a-dihydropyrano-[3,2-b]pyran-2(4aH)-one (4). Other pyranopyrans were also synthesized. Also compositions containing (4aR,6S,8aR)-6-cyano-6,8a-dihydropyrano-[3,2-b]pyran-2(4aH)-one (4) (or other pyranopyrans described herein) and optionally a carrier. In addition, methods for killing microorganisms or weeds on or in an object or area involving contacting the object or area with an effective microorganisms or weeds killing amount of a composition containing (4aR,6S,8aR)-6-cyano-6,8a-dihydropyrano-[3,2-b]pyran-2(4aH)-one (4) (or other pyranopyrans described herein) and optionally a carrier.
US11191264B2	Mechanism of urea/solid acid interaction under storage conditions and storage stable solid compositions comprising urea and acid Solid rinsing, cleaning and/or sanitizing compositions for various applications are provided. In particular, solid compositions include a complex of urea and an acid having desireable storage stability previously unavailable in solid urea/acid compositions. Stable solid compositions are disclosed and methods of making the same to overcome conventional limitations associated with with forming kinetically and thermodynamically stable solids that utilize urea/acid compositions.
US11191242B1	Soybean cultivar 95450804 A soybean cultivar designated 95450804 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 95450804, to the plants of soybean cultivar 95450804, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 95450804, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 95450804. 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 95450804. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 95450804, 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 95450804 with another soybean cultivar.
US11191240B1	Soybean cultivar 91210615 A soybean cultivar designated 91210615 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 91210615, to the plants of soybean cultivar 91210615, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 91210615, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 91210615. 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 91210615. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 91210615, 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 91210615 with another soybean cultivar.
US11191237B2	Maize inbred PH4C1K A novel maize variety designated PH4C1K and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant comprise crossing maize variety PH4C1K with another maize plant are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PH4C1K through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby are provided. Hybrid maize seed, plants or plant parts are produced by crossing the variety PH4C1K or a locus conversion of PH4C1K with another maize variety.
US11191211B2	Residue monitoring system for an agricultural harvester and agricultural harvester A monitoring system for a combine harvester. The monitoring system includes a sensor configured to provide a measurement wave to a flow of crop residue on the harvester and to receive a response wave from the flow of crop residue. The monitoring system further includes a processor having an input terminal for receiving a response signal of the sensor representative of the response wave. The processor is configured to determine a crop parameter associated with the density of the flow of crop based on the response signal of the sensor. The processor further has an output terminal for outputting a density signal representing the crop parameter.
US11191206B2	Depth detection of a soil coulter Depth of penetration of a soil coulter is detected using a sensor being mounted on the side of the disk adjacent the edge such that the sensor as the disk rotates is located above the surface of the soil during a first part of its rotation and is located below the surface during a second part of its rotation. The sensor issues a signal which changes in response to whether the sensor is above or below the soil surface which is received by a controller which calculates from the signal a first time when the sensor enters below the soil surface and a second time when the sensor departs the soil surface and calculates from the first and second times the depth of penetration of the coulter in the soil. The system can also detect variations in depth indicative of a value of surface roughness.
US11197401B2	System and method for large-scale PCB production including continuous selective adhesion A method for the large-scale production of PCBs including a continuous selective adhesion process for creating printed circuit traces providing input to a production line. A roll of printed circuit traces is produced using rolls of flexible substrate, conductive layer, and conductive layer support by applying adhesive between the rolls of flexible substrate and conductive layer, bringing the rolls together, transferring a circuit pattern onto the flexible substrate, curing the adhesive through non-opaque areas of the circuit pattern, and separating the non-bonded areas. The resulting printed circuit traces are applied from the roll to mounts, and circuit components are applied from a roll to the traces as the mounts move along the line. Additional rolls of printed circuit traces and circuit components may be incorporated, and multi-layer PCBs may be produced. As part of the production line, the finished PCBs may be applied to flat or contoured products.
US11197398B2	Installation structure and installation method of plug-in switch tube An installation structure and an installation method of a plug-in switch tube is disclosed in the present invention, the installation structure comprises, a PCB board, a plug-in switch tube fixed on said PCB board, and a housing matching said PCB board and said plug-in switch tube, wherein the lower end surface of said housing is provided with a cooling liquid flow channel, and said plug-in switch tube is pressed against the side wall of the cooling liquid flow channel by an elastic pressing-piece. The installation structure according to the present invention has the advantages of small volume, excellent heat dissipation effect, simple assembly, low cost and light weight.
US11197396B2	Cooling system with curvilinear air to liquid heat exchanger An equipment assembly for cooling heat-generating electrical components is disclosed. The assembly includes a housing for containing a heat-generating electrical component. The housing includes an open end having a planar area. A closed-loop liquid cooling system includes a liquid coolant conduit in proximity to the heat-generating electrical component. The conduit allows circulation of a liquid coolant to extract heat from the heat-generating electrical component. A heat exchanger is fluidly coupled to the liquid coolant conduit to extract heat from circulated liquid coolant within the heat exchanger. The heat exchanger includes a shaped front facing the open end of the housing. The surface area of the shaped front is greater than the planar area of the open end. An air flow system propels ambient air through the shaped front of the heat exchanger.
US11197391B2	Water cooling head, water cooling radiator and electronic equipment The invention belongs to the technical field of water cooling radiators, and relates to a water cooling head, a water cooling radiator and an electronic equipment. The water cooling head includes a center module, a first water pump, a second water pump, and a heat exchange module. The center module is provided with a first water inlet channel, a second water inlet channel, a first water outlet channel, a second water outlet channel, a water inlet and a water outlet. The first water cavity is enclosed between the first water pump and the center module, and a second water cavity is enclosed between the second water pump and the center module, and a third water cavity is enclosed between the heat exchange module and the center module. The heat exchanging module is used for heat exchanging of the cooling liquid flowing through the third water cavity.
US11197390B1	Clip for securing cables and performing cable maintenance A clip for securing one or more cables in a cable aisle of a computing device comprises a housing portion and a sliding portion. The housing portion has a first sidewall and a second sidewall that are coupled via a base. A cable channel is defined between the first sidewall and the second sidewall. The cable channel is configured to accommodate the one or more cables. The sliding portion is coupled to the first sidewall of the housing portion. The sliding portion has a lifting member extending across the cable channel from the first sidewall to the second sidewall. The sliding portion is configured to be moveable between a lowered position and a raised position. The lifting member moves from a first end of the cable channel to a second end of the cable channel, when the sliding portion moves from the lowered position to the raised position.
US11197389B2	Server chassis A server chassis includes an outer case including a plurality of outer shells and an insertion space. The outer shell has an inner wall, and an outer rail structure is disposed on the inner wall of the outer shell. The outer rail structures including an outer rail-plate, an outer-rail and a set of ball slide rail. A chassis body is slidably coupled to the insertion space. The chassis body includes inner shells and an accommodating space. An inner rail structure includes an inner rail-plate, and the chassis body is capable of sliding with respect to the outer case through the inner rail-plate inserted in the outer-rail.
US11197386B2	Removable I/O module with diagnostics for a field device I/O connector A field device I/O connector includes a base and an I/O module removably mounted on the base for transmitting I/O signals along an I/O channel. A set of electrical connectors mounted on the base connect the base to a field device. The electrical connectors, the base, and the I/O module mounted on the base cooperate to define the I/O channel. The I/O channel includes a conversion circuit to convert between I/O signals and a digital data format output from the field device I/O connector. The base and I/O module also cooperate to define a diagnostic circuit connected to the portion of the I/O channel extending through the I/O module. The diagnostic circuit extends to a diagnostic logic circuit that may be included on the base, in the I/O module, or away from the field device I/O connector.
US11197381B2	Modular electronic housing for housing electronic components and a method for producing the same A modular electronic housing includes: a housing series body whose receiving chamber houses an electronic component; and a maintaining device for maintaining the electronic component on the housing series body, the maintaining device having at least one holding body for the electronic component, which holding body is materially bonded to the housing series body in a bonding position.
US11197371B2	Flexible printed circuit Provided is an FPC, including a first row of gold fingers and a second row of gold fingers disposed on a same layer, and multiple first connection lines. The first row of gold fingers includes multiple first gold fingers extending in a first direction and arranged in a second direction. The second row of gold fingers includes multiple second gold fingers extending in the first direction and arranged in the second direction. The multiple first connection lines are disposed in a different layer from the second row of gold fingers, electrically connected to the multiple first gold fingers, and insulated from the multiple second gold fingers and extend to an area where the second row of gold fingers is located. The first connection line includes a first wire and a second wire. The first wire includes a first portion, a second portion and a third portion connected in sequence.
US11197370B2	Flexible printed circuit film and stretchable display device including the same A stretchable display device comprises a display panel that includes a stretchable substrate where a plurality of emission elements is disposed, wherein the stretchable substrate is stretchable in at least one of a first direction and a second direction perpendicular to the first direction; a printed circuit film that includes a first driving circuit chip generating a drive control signal to be applied to the display panel and a second driving circuit chip receiving image data from outside and transferring the image data to the first driving circuit chip, wherein the printed circuit film is stretchable in at least one of the first direction and the second direction with respect to a stretch direction of the display panel.
US11197358B2	Method for reducing the maximum demand of the current received by an LED matrix A method for reducing the maximum demand of the current received by an LED matrix from a current source. Each LED of the LED matrix receiving a pulse width-modulated current from the current source, an activation period being assigned to each LED in an elementary period of the pulse width-modulated current, and/or a deactivation period is assigned, in which no current flows through the LED, the activation period and the deactivation period being able to be equal in length or shorter than the elementary period, and in the case that the activation period assigned to one of the LEDs and the deactivation period assigned to this LED are shorter than an elementary period, the activation period begins at an activation point in time and ends at a deactivation point in time, and the deactivation period begins at the deactivation point in time and ends at the activation point in time.
US11197355B2	Method and device for electromagnetic cooking using non-centered loads An electromagnetic cooking device includes a cavity in which a food load is placed, a plurality of RF feeds for introducing electromagnetic radiation into the enclosed cavity, and a controller configured to select a heating target including a plurality of unrotated resonant modes; detect asymmetries of the food load relative to a center of the enclosed cavity and select rotations for the plurality of unrotated resonant modes that compensate for the detected asymmetries of the food load to generate a plurality of optimized resonant modes; generate a heating strategy having a selected sequence of the optimized resonant modes; cause the RF feeds to excite the enclosed cavity with a selected set of phasors for a set of frequencies corresponding to each resonant mode of the selected sequence of optimized resonant modes; and monitor the created heating patterns using closed-loop regulation to selectively modify the sequence of optimized resonant modes.
US11197351B2	Levitation melting method using movable induction units The invention relates to a levitation melting process and a device for producing castings with movable induction units. In this process, induction units are used in which the opposite ferrite poles with the induction coils are movable and move in opposite directions. In this way, the induction units for melting the batches can be arranged close together in order to increase the efficiency of the induced magnetic field. When casting the molten batch, the induced magnetic field is reduced by increasing the distance between the ferrite poles with the induction coils, thus preventing the melt from touching the ferrite poles or the induction coils.
US11197343B2	Method and apparatus for adding notifications related with user equipment multicast group and leave Methods, apparatuses and computer program products are described that facilitate sending and receiving notifications related to user equipment being added to or leaving a multicast group or multicast stream in a network. A method can include receiving, from a session controller, a request for reporting when protocol data unit (PDU) sessions are added to/removed from a downlink replication tree associated with an internet protocol multicast flow; determining whether said PDU session has been added to or removed from the downlink replication tree associated with the internet protocol multicast flow; and, in response to said determining, transmitting a message to a session management function indicative of that said PDU session has been added to or removed from said downlink replication tree. The message can include an internet protocol address associated with a source of said added or removed multicast flow and/or the multicast destination of said internet protocol multicast flow.
US11197338B2	Power saving radio resource management (RRM) measurements in a wireless network A UE in a wireless network performs RRM measurements according to power saving schemes. The UE receives Synchronization Signal Blocks (SSBs), which are broadcast periodically from a base station to a cell served by the base station, and receives additional signal blocks transmitted periodically from the base station. The additional signal blocks and the SSBs use different time-and-frequency resources. The UE performs an RRM measurement according to information received within an RRM measurement window including at least one of the additional signal blocks and a corresponding one of the SSBs. Additionally or alternatively, the UE performs RRM measurements on SSBs with a first cycle period equal to a Discontinuous Reception (DRX) cycle period. In response to an indication that a predefined condition for the RRM measurements is satisfied, the UE performs the RRM measurements with a second cycle period which is at least two times of the first cycle period.
US11197333B2	Predictive bearers in a wireless communication network A method of establishing bearers for a device in a wireless communication network, including collecting for the device data over a period of time from communication sessions the device participates in, the communication sessions supported by a first and second bearer for the network wherein the first bearer transports packets of the second bearer between nodes of the network; calculating from the collected data a likelihood the first bearer will be established for the device at one or more different time values, and predicting the first bearer will be established for the device at a time value if the likelihood of establishment at that time value exceeds a specified threshold; and initiating establishment of the first bearer to establish the first bearer for the predicted time value.
US11197332B2	Separation of control plane and user plane in new radio (NR) systems Embodiments of a Next Generation Node B (gNB) are described herein. The gNB may be configured with logical nodes, including a gNB central unit (gNB-CU) and a gNB distributed unit (gNB-DU). The gNB-CU may include a gNB-CU control plane (gNB-CU-CP) for control-plane functionality, and a gNB-CU user plane (gNB-CU-UP) for user-plane functionality. The gNB may initiate an E1 interface setup procedure, a bearer context setup procedure, and a UE context setup procedure to establish a UE context that includes a signaling radio bearer (SRB) and a data radio bearer (DRB) configuration. The UE context setup request message may be configured to include quality-of-service parameters for the DRB configuration.
US11197331B2	Zero-round-trip-time connectivity over the wider area network A communication device (UE) conducting wired and/or wireless communications may issue service requests using zero-round-trip-time (zero-RTT) connectivity. The UE may obtain, prior to initiating an application, an address corresponding to a service and a security credential for use in accessing the service. The UE may receive, after initiating the application, an instruction to issue a service request, and generate the service request that may include a service identifier corresponding to the service, the address corresponding to the service, and the security credential for use in accessing the service. The UE may then transmit the service request to an edge server associated with the service. The edge server may route the service according to the service identifier. Multiple data centers/servers may advertise their services to the edge server associated with the service, facilitating fast routing of the service request by the edge server associated with the service.
US11197330B2	Remote profile manage for a vehicle A system and method for utilizing data and computational information from on-vehicle and off-vehicle sources. The system comprises an assigning authority engine, a remote profile manager toolset, a plurality of databases, a plurality of cloud sources, a vehicle and a CVD within the vehicle. The dynamic, temporal combinations access data from the plurality of cloud sources comprising third party data and vehicle, timing, event, and/or positioning (“VTEP”) data to inform a plurality of instruction sets delivered by the assigning authority. One or more elements of the VTEP data is used as the basis to synchronize timing between the data, or computational outputs of two or more sources of electronic information. A single coherent information picture is generated from fusing data and computational information from the on-vehicle sources and the off-vehicle sources.
US11197329B2	Method and system for generating fueling instructions for a vehicle A system (900) and method (1100) instructing a vehicle (910) where and when to refuel is disclosed herein. The system (900) comprises a server (925) for receiving a workflow for a vehicle (910). The workflow comprises an origination location (901) of the vehicle, a destination (950) of the vehicle (910), a route (905) to the destination, a cargo, a time of departure and a time of arrival. The server (925) determines a plurality of fuel stops (930) along the route (905).
US11197328B2	Methods and apparatus for testing alternative wireless connections and selecting a wireless connection A wireless terminal communicates test packets via alternative wireless access points, e.g., a WiFi access point, a 4G access point, a 5G access point, to a test server to evaluate alternative wireless links. Test scores are generated for each of the wireless links being evaluated based the performance of previous test packets transmitted over the link. In some embodiments, the controlled rate of test packet transmission over a wireless link is a function of WT speed and/or link score. Link test scores may be, and sometime are, conditionally cost adjusted based on the type of communications network, e.g., scores for more expensive networks, e.g., 4G cellular, are reduced to favor more inexpensive networks such as WiFi. The wireless terminal selects one or more of the alternative wireless connections to use for communication with a communications session end point based on the link scores.
US11197315B2	Random access for wireless communication For random access wireless communication, in response to receiving two or more first random access preamble instances, a method generates at least one unique random access response (RAR) for each first random access preamble instance. The time advance information for each first random access preamble instance is different from time advance information for each other first random access preamble instance.
US11197297B2	Method and apparatus for transmitting channel state information in wireless access system supporting machine type communication The present invention provides a method by which an MTC terminal measures channel state information (CSI), a method for transmitting CSI, and apparatuses supporting the same. A method by which the MTC terminal feeds back CSI in a wireless access system supporting machine type communication (MTC), according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprises the steps of: receiving allocation information on a limited MTC bandwidth allocated to the MK terminal; calculating CSI; and feeding back the CSI. Here, the CSI can include MTC wideband channel state information (MTC W-CQI) for the limited MTC bandwidth.
US11197294B2	Synchronization signal block and remaining minimum system information integration in unlicensed systems Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A base station and user equipment (UE) may implement techniques to integrate remaining minimum system information (RMSI) and synchronization signal block (SSB) delivery in a shared radio frequency spectrum band. For example, the base station may transmit SSBs and corresponding RMSI transmissions in a same transmission opportunity (TxOP) and configure resource allocations to reduce or eliminate transmission gaps. For example, the SSBs and the corresponding RMSI transmissions may be transmitted after a single, successful listen-before-talk (LBT) procedure. For each SSB, the associated RMSI control resources and RMSI shared channel resources may be nearby or continuous in time such that the SSB, control resource set, and the RMSI downlink shared channel signal are transmitted as a package.
US11197291B2	Polar coding for beam sweeping broadcast channel According to some embodiments, a method in a wireless transmitter comprises: obtaining a first set of bits (comprising a non-time-varying component) for wireless transmission; concatenating a second set of bits (comprising a time-varying component (e.g., beam identifier)) to the first set of bits; encoding the concatenated first and second set of bits using a channel code; and transmitting the encoded bits to a wireless receiver. In some embodiments, transmitting the encoded bits to the wireless receiver comprises transmitting a first beam. The method may further comprise: concatenating a third set of bits (comprising a time-varying component (e.g., beam identifier)) to the first set of wireless bits; encoding the concatenated first and third set of bits using a channel code; and transmitting the encoded bits to a wireless receiver using a second beam.
US11197284B2	User terminal and channel estimation method A terminal is disclosed including a receiver that receives downlink control information (DCI) including information indicating a mapping pattern of a demodulation reference signal, and a processor that controls reception of the demodulation reference signal based on the information indicating the mapping pattern of the demodulation reference signal. In other aspects, another terminal and a radio communication method are also disclosed.
US11197273B2	Cell information for access management A base station central unit receives an indication that one or more cells are associated with a first closed access group. Based on the indication, the base station central unit cell configuration parameters of the one or more cells for a wireless device that is allowed to access the first closed access group. The base station central unit sends, to the base station distributed unit, a context configuration message comprising the cell configuration parameters.
US11197263B1	Decentralized dynamic frequency selection (DFS) master service Network hardware devices organized in a wireless mesh network (WMN). The mesh network device receives, from a first device that is not part of the WMN, a first request to receive information about radar events in an area. The first request includes an identifier of a Dynamic Frequency (DFS) channel and first proximity data for at least one mesh network device in the vicinity of the first device. The mesh network device determines that i) the first device is located within the area; and ii) the first device is communicatively coupled with the at least one mesh network device and sends authorization to receive information about the radar events and coverage map data that identifies the area. The mesh network device sends, to the first device, first data about a first radar event in response to the radar event.
US11197260B2	Method and devices of notifying a first user equipment, UE, of a subscriber in a telecommunication network on a dialog status of a second UE of said same subscriber A method of notifying a first User Equipment, UE, of a subscriber in a telecommunication network on a dialog status of a second UE of said same subscriber, said method comprising the steps of receiving, by an Application Server, AS, in said telecommunication network a register message for indicating to said AS that said first UE has registered in said telecommunication network, wherein said register message comprises an indication that said first UE is capable to receive Dialog Event notifications regarding dialog status events of UEs associated with said same subscriber, retrieving, by said AS, and triggered by said receiving of said register message, said dialog status of said second UE of said same subscriber, and sending, by said AS, to said first UE, a notify message for notifying said first UE on said retrieved dialog status of said second UE.
US11197258B2	Timing advance group configuration A base station distributed unit may determine that a first uplink timing advance value for a first cell of a wireless device is different than a second uplink timing advance value for a second cell of the wireless device. The first cell and the second cell may belong to a first timing advance group. The base station distributed unit may transmit a first message to a base station central unit in response to the determining. The first message may comprise one or more information elements indicating a reconfiguration of a timing advance group configuration for the wireless device. The base station distributed unit may receive a radio resource control message from the base station central unit based on the reconfiguration for the wireless device.
US11197253B2	Channel access indication method and device to avoid unnecessary probe delay A channel access indication method and device. The method includes: receiving, by a first communications device, a channel synchronization request sent by a second communications device, where the channel synchronization request is used to request the first communications device to send a synchronization frame to the second communications device, and a wake-up receiver is configured for the second communications device; and according to the channel synchronization request and a time at which the second communications device is woken up and that is learned by the first communications device based on preset signaling, sending, by the first communications device when a channel is idle, the synchronization frame to the woken-up second communications device, where the synchronization frame is used to instruct the woken-up second communications device to access the channel after receiving the synchronization frame.
US11197248B2	Methods and apparatus to communicate with an end point device An end point (EP) device may communicate with multiple gateways via wireless signals, e.g. wireless broadcast signals. An EP device is controlled, under the direction of a control server, e.g., an application server, to communicate via a single gateway. The control server associates the EP device with a single target gateway and/or uses EP transmission power control training iterations to reduce the EP transmission power level until the EP device is only able to successfully communicate its wireless signals to a single gateway.
US11197246B2	Power control enhancements for multi-hop integrated access and backhaul Various embodiments disclosed herein provide for power control system in a multi-hop integrated access and backhaul network. In a multi-hop integrated access and backhaul network a donor node can communicate with user equipment devices and relay nodes that have varying power levels, and to avoid receiving uplink transmissions with varying power levels which can impact automatic gain control systems and lower overall throughput, the power control system disclosed herein can manage the power levels of the relay node in order to reduce the difference in power levels. In one embodiment, the power control system can schedule relay node devices to transmit uplink transmissions alongside UE devices that have a high signal strength. In another embodiment, the power control system can schedule relay nodes and UE devices to separate symbols within a time slot. In another embodiment, the power control system can perform closed loop power control management at the relay node to reduce the power level for the uplink transmission.
US11197240B1	Wireless access node usage based on mobile active users A wireless communication network serves a wireless User Equipment (UE) and comprises a wireless access node and a support access node. The wireless access node determines an amount of mobile active UEs for the support access node. The wireless access node determines an add threshold for the support access node based on amount of mobile active UEs for the support access node. The wireless access node determines an add value for the support access node and determines when the add value is greater than the add threshold. When the add value is greater than the add threshold, the wireless access node signals the support access node to serve the wireless UE and signals the wireless UE to attach to the support access node. In response, the support access node wirelessly transfers user data for a wireless communication service to the wireless UE.
US11197239B2	Restricted service type for restricted local operator services in a wireless network An session management function (SMF) receives, from an access and mobility management function, a packet data unit (PDU) session request message comprising: a first parameter indicating a restricted service type for restricted local operator services (RLOS); and a second parameter indicating a network slice selection assistance information (NSSAI) for the RLOS. A policy request comprising the first parameter and the second parameter is sent to a policy control function (PCF). A policy response comprising a policy and charging rule for the RLOS is received from the PCF.
US11197237B2	Optimization for priority-based network identifier scans Battery life of a user equipment (UE) can be extended when the UE is roaming internationally in a country that has multiple carrier networks each utilizing multiple public land mobile network (PLMN) identifiers. Scan control tables, stored in a universal integrated circuit card (UICC) of the UE, are populated with the identifiers of a PLMN having the highest priority in a defined area (e.g., Circle). A roaming control applet of the UICC can compare serving cell data with the scan control tables to determine if the UE is to perform a higher priority (HP) PLMN search. Utilization of the scan control table avoids unnecessary searches for HPPLMNs that are unavailable in the UE's current location and accordingly extends battery life of the UE.
US11197229B2	Non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing computer-readable instructions for communication device, communication device, and method executed by communication device A communication device may receive a predetermined signal from an external device in a situation where a specific wireless connection not via an access point is being established, determine whether a wireless communication via a first access point is executable with the external device, and supply a first disconnection instruction in a case where it is determined that the wireless communication via the first access point is executable with the external device. The communication device may execute the wireless communication with the external device using the first wireless connection in the case where it is determined that the wireless communication via the first access point is executable with the external device and execute a wireless communication with the external device using the specific wireless connection in the case where it is determined that the wireless communication via the first access point is not executable with the external device.
US11197228B2	Systems and methods for refining topology of a distributed unit mesh in a radio access network A system described herein may provide a technique for the discovery and connection of Mesh Distributed Units (“MDUs”), which may establish a mesh topology and perform wireless backhaul of data between a core network and a User Equipment (“UE”). Multiple MDUs in an MDU network may be connected to establish an MDU route. One or more connected MDUs may broadcast an indication that the MDU is available to connect, one or more performance metrics, or an MDU performance score based on performance metrics. This broadcast may iteratively repeat in order to refine the mesh network topology in an ongoing process.
US11197226B2	Low power communications system A wireless communications system which provides improved power consumption and fast synchronization for low power and small footprint wireless devices is described. System and methods are described to provide a fast synchronization, low latency and efficient communications capability for services that sip data. That is services that exchange small amounts of data on an infrequent or sporadic basis, or data that is communicated in bursts with relatively large periods of inactivity in between.
US11197200B2	Radio slice controller to support network slicing and quality of service A device receives performance profiles associated with multiple available distributed units (DUs) of a wireless station, where each of the performance profiles is based on at least one of a network slice or a quality of service (QoS) handled by each respective DU of the multiple available DUs. The device selects a first DU of the multiple available DUs based on the performance profiles, obtains a user equipment's (UE's) user profile and a network performance requirement of the application associated with transport involving the UE, and selects a first user plane function of multiple distributed user plane functions for transport along a first transport path, that includes the selected DU, based on the user profile and the network performance requirements of the application. The device initiates data transport involving the UE via the selected first DU and the selected first user plane function, over the first transport path.
US11197195B2	Load balancing of data traffic in a communications network There is provided mechanisms for load balancing data traffic between at least two carriers in a communications network supporting the at least two carriers. A method is performed by a system. The method comprises obtaining current channel quality information for a wireless device of the at least two carriers. The method comprises predicting a future volume of a data flow of the wireless device. The method comprises determining whether to offload the wireless device to a second carrier of the at least two carriers or not according to the current channel quality information and the predicted future volume.
US11197186B2	Method for setting measurement interval and network device A method for frequency measurement and a network device are provided. The method includes generating, by a first network device, indication information, where the indication information is used for indicating the terminal device to measure a first frequency at which a second network device is located, the first network device being a network device in a long term evolution (LTE) system, and the second network device being a network device in a new radio (NR) system; and transmitting, by the first network device, the indication information to the terminal device. In the implementations of the present disclosure, when needing the terminal device to measure the first frequency at which the second network device is located, the first network device transmits, to the terminal device, the indication information, which is used for indicating the terminal device to measure the first frequency.
US11197175B2	Forcasting time series data A method for enabling forecasting of key performance indicators, KPIs, in a communication network is presented. The method is performed by a network node and comprises collecting (S100) time series data of KPIs in the communication network, extracting (S110) k-principal components of the collected time series data, determining (S120) a principal component score, PCS, from the collected time series data and the extracted k-principal components, and building (S130) a PCS forecast model from the determined PCS and period of time-attributes. Network nodes and computer program products thereof are also presented.
US11197173B2	Multi-band cellular antenna system An antenna system may include a first phase shifting network to output a first set of component signals from a first component signal having a first frequency, a second phase shifting network to output a second set of component signals from a second component signal having a second frequency, the first frequency being less than the second, and an antenna array, the first phase shifting network to impart a first tilt angle for the first set of component signals, the second phase shifting network to impart a second tilt angle for the second set of component signals, and a single variable electrical tilt controller to control the first and second phase shifting networks and being configured to maintain a ratio between the first tilt angle and the second tilt angle, where the first tilt angle is greater than the second tilt angle, and where the ratio is less than one.
US11197164B2	Protocols for flexible channel utilization In some aspects, the disclosure is directed to methods and systems for utilizing protocols to enable two 802.11 devices to exchange their dynamically-changing local channel availability table and form a mutual channel availability table with time, frequency, and transmission rate domains available. This table may be used to make optimum opportunistic use of link resources by adapting packet duration, frequency utilization and transmission rate to channel conditions.
US11197155B2	Distributed ledger verification system using proof-of-life A system and method of verifying a user for participation in a block chain of a distributed network. The method includes receiving, by one or more validation devices of the distributed network, a request for participation in adding transaction records to the block chain, the request being received from a mobile communication device of the user and including behavioral data collected by the mobile communication device. In response to determining that the behavioral data satisfies a human characteristic threshold, determining that the behavioral data is not associated with another device of the distributed network. In response to both those conditions above, verifying the user and enabling the user to participate in the block chain distributed network by adding a block including transaction records to the block chain via the mobile communication device.
US11197150B2	Method and apparatus for supporting transfer of profile between devices in wireless communication system The present disclosure relates to a communication scheme and system for the convergence of a 5G communication system for supporting a higher data transfer rate after the 4G system and the IoT technology. The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services (e.g., a smart home, a smart building, a smart city, a smart car or connected car, healthcare, digital education, retain business, security and safety-related service) based on the 5G communication technology and IoT-related technology. The present disclosure provides methods and apparatus for supporting a profile transfer between terminals and methods and apparatus for supporting easy use of a communication product.
US11197146B2	System, method and apparatus for node selection of a sensor network A system, method and apparatus for node selection of a sensor network. Multiple sensor networks can operate in or around a monitored location. Nodes can be organized amongst the multiple sensor networks using remote configuration updates that are provided by a host system to a sensor network node.
US11197143B2	Virtual partner bypass A method and apparatus for bypassing a virtual partner is provided herein. During operation a device will have knowledge of a status of sensors connected to form a personal-area network (PAN) and/or have knowledge of a current incident type assigned to a user. The device will then bypass digital-assistant functionality based on the status of associated PAN devices and/or the incident type. Thus, virtual-partner functionality will be bypassed based on a fact that a public-safety event has occurred. As discussed, the public-safety event may comprise a current incident assigned to a user, or a status of at least one device/sensor connected to form a PAN.
US11197138B2	Method for discriminating between unicast device to device (D2D) communication and groupcast D2D communication Embodiments herein disclose a method for identifying a unicast Device to Device (D2D) communication. Further, the method includes generating, by a source User Equipment (UE), a D2D Media Access Control (MAC) Protocol Data Unit (PDU) comprising a unicast parameter. Further, the method includes transmitting, by the source UE, the D2D MAC PDU to the destination UE. Further, the method includes receiving, by the destination UE, the D2D MAC PDU. Further, the method includes detecting, by the destination UE, one of unicast parameters and groupcast parameters of the D2D MAC PDU. Furthermore, the method includes identifying, by the UE, the D2D MAC PDU is for one of the unicast D2D communication when the unicast parameters are detected, and the groupcast D2D communication when the groupcast parameters are detected.
US11197137B2	Electronic device and method for remotely providing profile to electronic device An example electronic device includes a communication interface; an embedded subscriber identity module; a processor electrically connected to the communication interface and the embedded subscriber identity module; and memory electrically connected to the processor. The memory, if during execution the processor determines the type of subscriber identification information stored in the embedded subscriber identity module and the subscriber identification information is the shared subscriber identification information according to the determination result, confirms at least one communication service providing server connectable in the electronic device among a plurality of communication service providing servers, and can store instructions for accessing a communication service providing server selected from at least one communication service providing server with has been confirmed, by means of the communication interface.
US11197124B2	Alert generation based on distance between two wirelessly connected electronic devices A first electronic device may determine that a distance between the first electronic device and second electronic device has exceeded a threshold distance. The first electronic device may determine whether movement of the first electronic device or movement of the second electronic device caused the distance to exceed the distance threshold. Based upon the determination of whether movement of the first electronic device or movement of the second electronic device caused the threshold to be exceeded, the first electronic device may generate one or more alert notifications to notify the user that the distance has exceeded the threshold.
US11197121B2	Tracking device location identification A last known location of a tracking device can be determined by using location information received at a tracking system. A disconnection event is received at the tracking system indicating that a tracking device has disconnected from a mobile device. In response, the tracking system can generate a last known location for the tracking device. Other relevant location updates, such as recent locations of the mobile device or locations of other mobile devices that connect to the tracking device are collected and associated with the disconnection event. Based on the location updates, a last known location of the tracking device can be computed and stored.
US11197119B1	Acoustically effective room volume This disclosure relates to techniques for generating physically accurate auralization of sound propagation in complex environments, while accounting for important wave effects, such as sound absorption, sound scattering, and airborne sound insulation between rooms. According to some embodiments, techniques may be utilized to determine more accurate, e.g., “acoustically-effective” room volumes that account for open windows, open doors, acoustic dead space, and the like. According to other embodiments disclosed herein, techniques may be utilized to perform optimized hybrid acoustical ray tracing, including grouping coherent rays by processing core. According to other embodiments disclosed herein, techniques may be utilized to translate simulated ray tracing results into natural-sounding reverberations by deriving and resampling spatial-time-frequency energy probability density functions that more accurately account for the laws of physics and then converting this data into a spatial impulse response function, which may then be used for realistic 3D audio reproduction, e.g., via headphones or loudspeakers.
US11197113B2	Stereo unfold with psychoacoustic grouping phenomenon The Stereo Unfold Technology solves the inherent problems in the stereo reproduction by utilizing modern DSP technology to extract information from the Left (L) and Right (R) stereo channels to create a number of new channels that feeds into processing algorithms. The Stereo Unfold Technology operates by sending the ordinary stereo information in the customary way towards the listener to establish the perceived location of performers in the sound field with great accuracy and then projects delayed and frequency shaped extracted signals forward as well as in other directions to provide additional psychoacoustically based clues to the ear and brain. The additional clues generate the sensation of increased detail and transparency as well as establishing the three dimensional properties of the sound sources and the acoustic environment in which they are performing. The Stereo Unfold Technology manages to create a real believable three-dimensional soundstage populated with three-dimensional sound sources generating sound in a continuous real sounding acoustic environment.
US11197108B2	Power management in low power wireless link in a hearing aid system A hearing aid system is configured for managing the power of a wireless link. The hearing aid system includes a first hearing aid device and a mobile device, each of the devices including a transmit and receive unit for establishing a short range wireless link between the devices. At least one of the devices includes: a microphone configured to receive an acoustical audio signal; a signal processor configured to process an audio signal based on the acoustical audio signal; and first link quality estimating circuitry configured to determine rate of change of a link quality signal. The at least one of the devices is configured to transmit the link quality signal to the other device, and the other device is configured to determine a power level of transmission of an information packet based on the rate of change of the link quality signal via a power controller comprised by the other device.
US11197107B2	Configurable hearing device for use with an assistive listening system A hearing device adapted for use by a wearer comprises an audio streaming circuit configured to receive electromagnetic audio streaming via a first communication link. A configuration circuit is configured to receive configuration parameters via a second communication link different from the first communication link for configuring the hearing device to receive the electromagnetic audio streaming. Control circuitry of the hearing device configures the hearing device to enable reception of the electromagnetic audio streaming in accordance with the received configuration parameters.
US11197100B2	Bone conduction speaker The present disclosure relates to a magnetic circuit assembly of a bone conduction speaker. The magnetic circuit assembly may generate a first magnetic field. The magnetic circuit assembly may include a first magnetic element, and the first magnetic element may generate a second magnetic field. The magnetic circuit may further include a first magnetic guide element and at least one second magnetic element. The at least one second magnetic element may be configured to surround the first magnetic element and a magnetic gap may be configured between the second magnetic element and the first magnetic element. A magnetic field strength of the first magnetic field within the magnetic gap may exceed a magnetic field strength of the second magnetic field within the magnetic gap.
US11197088B2	MEMS microphone with acoustic relief channels A MEMS transducer includes a transducer substrate, a back plate, a diaphragm, and an intermediate layer. The transducer substrate includes an aperture. The back plate is coupled to a first surface of the transducer substrate and covers the aperture. The diaphragm is oriented substantially parallel to the back plate and is spaced apart from the back plate to form a gap. The intermediate layer is coupled to the diaphragm and the back plate and includes an acoustic relief channel, which fluidly couples the gap to an environment surrounding the MEMS transducer.
US11197087B2	Frequency assignments for wireless microphone systems A system and method for determining assigned frequencies for wireless microphone systems (WMSs) at a venue. Each WMS comprises a transmitter and a receiver. Each transmitter may comprise an IoT device connected to the transmitters and a server via a network. A first input for requesting the assigned frequencies is received at a transmitter which sends the request to the server via the network. The server determines intermodulation free frequencies based on chained stages and predefined data describing the WMSs at the venue and transmits the intermodulation free frequencies to one or more transmitters at the venue. Each WMS receives an intermodulation free frequency as an assigned frequency. A second input for requesting validation of an assigned frequency is received at a transmitter which sends the request to the server. The server determines and sends a validation status of the assigned frequency to the transmitter which displays the validation status.
US11197086B2	Speaker device The present disclosure relates to a speaker device. The speaker device may include a speaker assembly and a supporting connector. The speaker assembly may include a speaker module and a button module. The supporting connector may be configured to contact with the human head and provide a vibration fulcrum for a vibration of the speaker assembly. A distance between a center of the button module and the vibration fulcrum may be not greater than a distance between a center of the speaker module and the vibration fulcrum.
US11197085B2	Earpiece with an earhook and add-on eartip An audio earphone device may include an earpiece configured to playback audio, an earhook attached to the earpiece, and an eartip removably attached to the earpiece. The earpiece may be configured to deliver audio to the ear with the removably attached eartip removed. The earhook may be configured to be placed around an ear to position an opening for a speaker of the earpiece over the cavum concha of the ear. The eartip may be configured to sit in the cavum concha of the ear and channel audio from the opening of the earpiece to the ear canal of the ear. The eartip may be removably attached to only a side of the earpiece that is configured to be proximate to the ear.
US11197084B2	Loudspeaker apparatus The present disclosure discloses a loudspeaker apparatus. The loudspeaker apparatus may include an ear hook, a core housing, and a circuit housing. The ear hook may include a first plug end and a second plug end. The ear hook may be surrounded by a protective sleeve. The protective sleeve may be made of an elastic waterproof material. The core housing may be used for accommodating an earphone core. The core housing may be fixed to the first plug end and elastically abutted against the protective sleeve. The circuit housing may be used for accommodating a control circuit or a battery. The circuit housing may be fixed to the second plug end. The control circuit or the battery may drive the earphone core to vibrate. The vibration of the earphone core may generate a driving force to drive a housing panel of the core housing to vibrate. The driving force may be not parallel to a normal line of the housing panel. In the present disclosure, the core housing may elastically abut against the protective sleeve surrounding the ear hook to improve the overall waterproof effect of the loudspeaker apparatus and simplify the manufacturing and assemble process of the loudspeaker apparatus.
US11197082B2	Sound output device To provide an excellent sound output device which is worn on an ear of a user and used. The sound output device includes a sound generation part and a holding part that has an opening portion and holds the sound generation part in the vicinity of an entrance of an ear canal of a user. The holding part includes a ring body having the opening portion, and a housing of the sound generation part is integrated with a part of the ring body. The sound generation part includes a sound generation element having a dynamic type driver, and has a hollow exhaust part joining with a rear surface of the housing of the sound generation part. The exhaust part extends from a rear surface side of the housing across an intertragic notch and has an exhaust hole outside an auricle.
US11197080B2	Earphone An earphone includes a housing, a first eartip, and a second eartip. The housing defines a vent hole therein. The first eartip is configured to be mounted on the housing and cover the vent hole. The second eartip is configured to be mounted on the housing and exposing the vent hole. The housing selectively cooperates with one of the first eartip and the second eartip.
US11197078B2	Portable radio with button over speaker A portable radio includes a printed circuit board, a frame positioned in front of the printed circuit board, a speaker positioned within the frame, a support platform positioned in front of the speaker and the frame, a button positioned in front of the support platform, and electrical components linked between the button and the printed circuit board. The button is movable between a first position where an electrical signal is sent through the plurality of electrical components to the printed circuit board, and a second position where the electrical signal is interrupted.
US11197074B2	Synchronized video annotation and control system for sexual stimulation devices A system and method for creating and sharing synchronized video control data for sexual stimulation devices that allows for automated synchronization with any video of sexual activity and allows for comprehensive personalization and customization of the video selection, synchronization, and sharing experience based on the user's preferences and biometric data.
US11197071B2	Methods and systems for automated media device communications configuration Methods and systems are provided for automatically establishing communications with a media device. One method involves a client device capturing and analyzing an image of a media device to obtain identification information associated with the media device, automatically configuring a network interface of the client device to communicate on a wireless network using at least a portion of the identification information associated with the media device obtained from the captured image, and thereafter establishing a peer-to-peer communication session with the media device via the wireless network. In one or more embodiments, a name or other identifier associated with the wireless network includes the portion of the identification information.
US11197070B2	Arrangement for CATV amplifier control A network element of a cable television (CATV) network, said network element comprising one or more amplifier units for amplifying downstream signal transmission for digital output into one or more output channels; means for detecting output power of all active digital output channels; means for providing a predetermined correlation between the detected output power of said active digital output channels and a corresponding minimum bias current for said one or more amplifier units; and means for adjusting the bias current of said one or more amplifier units on the basis of the predetermined correlation.
US11197068B1	Methods and systems for interactive queuing for shared listening sessions based on user satisfaction An electronic device stores a shared playback queue for the shared playback session, the shared playback queue comprising one or more media content items, including a first media content item requested by a first user. While the shared playback queue includes the first media content item, the device receives a second request, from a second user, to add a second media content item to the shared playback queue. The device determines an order of the shared playback queue based at least in part on the musical preferences indicated in a profile of a third user of the plurality of users participating in the shared playback session. The device provides, for playback in the shared playback session, the first media content item and the second media content item based on the order of the shared playback queue.
US11197067B2	System and method to enable users to voice interact with video advertisements Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device that has a processing system including a processor and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of operations, the operations including receiving a request from a viewer of a content stream displayed by a TV client, wherein the request is received via a digital assistant, determining an advertisement campaign being displayed in the content stream, retrieving information on a product associated with the advertising campaign, and sending the information to the TV client, wherein the TV client displays the information concerning the product. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11197063B2	Methods, systems, and media for modifying the presentation of video content on a user device based on a consumption of the user device Methods, systems, and media for modifying the presentation of video content on a user device based on a consumption mode of the user device are provided. In some embodiments, a computer-implemented method comprises: receiving, from a user device, a request to present a video content item, wherein the video content item includes an audio portion; identifying a segment of the audio portion as including a particular type of audio content (e.g., silent content, music content, speech content, theatrical content, non-musical content, etc.); determining a consumption mode associated with the user device; generating a modified video content item based on the consumption mode associated with the user device by removing a portion of the video content item that corresponds to the segment of the audio portion identified as including the particular type of audio content; and causing the modified video content item to be presented on the user device.
US11197061B2	Advertisement generation based on a user image A method includes receiving, at a computing device, first image data of a viewer of an output of user equipment. The method includes selecting, at the computing device based on a first item identified in the first image data, a background component to be included in multimedia content. The method also includes providing, from the computing device, the multimedia content to the user equipment for presentation to the viewer. The multimedia content includes the background component and a first foreground component, where the first foreground component has a first characteristic.
US11197059B2	System and method for recommending a content service to a content consumer A system for assisting a content consumer to select content services, the system including a processor that is configured to execute a matching algorithm. The matching algorithm comprises interviewing the content consumer for questions in a plurality of categories, determining a point system for answers obtained by the interviewing step, wherein the answers indicate entertainment interests of the content consumer calculating a service score for each content service based on the point system, wherein the service score indicates an agreement between a content service and the entertainment interests of the content consumer and selecting a pre-determined number of content services based on the service score.
US11197055B2	Supplemental services interface Examples are described for integrating interface functionality with other experiences. For example, if a user is interested in a particular item of scheduled or on-demand content (e.g., a television series episode), the user may also be interested in a web page devoted to the television series and/or other extras such as cast interviews, news, related theme apps, and the like. These types of experiences may be integrated into an interface by presenting the experiences as supplemental services that may be presented and/or selected.
US11197038B2	Systems and methods for synchronizing surface data management operations for virtual reality An exemplary virtual reality system includes a management device, a synchronization device, and a gatekeeper device communicatively coupled to the management device and the synchronization device by way of a network. The gatekeeper device is configured to receive, at a particular time, a frame of a surface data frame sequence that the gatekeeper device is responsible for processing. The gatekeeper device is also configured to transmit, to the synchronization device, the particular time at which the gatekeeper device received the frame, and to receive, from the synchronization device, a timeframe during which the gatekeeper device is to transmit the frame. The gatekeeper device is further configured to transmit, to the management device during the timeframe received from the synchronization device, the frame of the surface data frame sequence. Corresponding systems and methods are also disclosed.
US11197037B1	Real-time distributed MPEG transport stream system Embodiments include a system and method for a real-time distributed Transport Stream (TS) analysis that utilizes many parts of an available network to concurrently monitor TSs across a geographic region. Embodiments include the selection of a profile for each combination of a TS and a collection point where the profile includes one or more sets of acceptable transmission values or ranges associated with the combination. The profile may include for example, program service information tables, service information, TS transmission parameters, and/or general TS quality index analysis rules. Embodiments include real-time concurrent monitoring and analysis of multiple TSs from collection points distributed throughout the geographic region. As services associated with the TSs at different collection points evolve, the respective profiles and rules adapt accordingly to maintain the quality of service and performance associated with respective TS and collection point combinations.
US11197023B2	Method and apparatus for video coding Aspects of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for video encoding/decoding. In some examples, an apparatus for video decoding includes receiving circuitry and processing circuitry. For example, the processing circuitry receives a bitstream including bits corresponding to residues associated with a prediction of a block in a coding tree unit (CTU) and determines a maximum transform size based on the CTU size. The maximum transform size is used in a partition to form, from the residues, one or more transform blocks that are respectively encoded into the bits. Then, the processing circuitry reconstructs based on the maximum transform size and from the bits the residues associated with the prediction of the block, and then the processing circuitry reconstructs samples of the block based on the reconstructed residues and the prediction of the block.
US11197022B2	Method for encoding and/or decoding images on macroblock level using intra-prediction Conventional intra-prediction uses pixels from left and upper neighbour blocks to predict a macroblock (MB). Thus, the MBs must be sequentially processed, since reconstructed left and upper MBs must be available for prediction. In an improved method for encoding Intra predicted MBs, a MB is encoded in two steps: first, a first portion of the MB is encoded independently, without references outside the MB. Pixels of the first portion can be Intra predicted using DC mode. Then, the first portion is reconstructed. The remaining pixels of the MB, being a second portion, are intra predicted from the reconstructed pixels of the first portion and then reconstructed. The first portion comprises at least one column or one row of pixels of the MB. The encoding is applied to at least two Intra predicted MBs per slice, or per picture if no slices are used.

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