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US11197525B2	Drink spiking prevention device A drink spiking prevention device comprising a hair accessory and a cover. The hair accessory having a band forming a circle and the band being elastic. The hair accessory further having a hair accessory fabric forming a tube that encapsulates the elastic band and a pouch coupled to the hair accessory fabric. The cover is stored in and removeable from the pouch. The cover includes a cover fabric that extends to a perimeter, an aperture formed in the cover fabric, and a cord extending from the perimeter and coupled to the hair accessory. The cover covers an opening of a cup by the perimeter stretching over and conforming to a diameter of the opening to prevent new material from being added to a liquid in the cup.
US11197523B2	Auxiliary handle for a walking assistance device An auxiliary handle for a walking assistance device has a tube seat and a handgrip tube. The tube seat utilizes the positioning space for accepting a crutch tube. When a user holds the handle portion of the handgrip tube and turns it downward; when the handgrip tube is turned, the positioning protrusion of the connecting portion moves from the stopping portion to the positioning portion and compresses the elastic member. When the handgrip tube is horizontal, the positioning protrusion passes over the stopping edge and inserts into the positioning portion for positioning to lock the handgrip tube and prevent the elastic member from rebounding. Meanwhile, the user holds a top grip on the top of the walking assistance device with one hand, and holds the handgrip tube with the other hand, and then applies force to support the body to get up and stand.
US11197522B2	Modular jewelry system The invention involves a modular jewelry system and method for constructing a modular jewelry system. The system includes a base having a bore, the side wall of the bore including a groove having a slight helix. The helix includes a small protrusion beyond which the helix flattens and the slot ends. A charm, stone or the like, has an outwardly extending stem; the stem including at least one outwardly extending tab. The tab is sized to cooperate with the groove, so that the stem is pulled into the bore as the stem is rotated until passing the protrusion, whereby the stem is locked into position in the bore.
US11197520B2	Fixing belt, fixing method, and fixing belt member A fixing belt which includes: a double-sided hook surface fastener having hook-like engaging elements on both surfaces thereof; and a double-sided loop surface fastener having loop-like engaging elements on both surfaces thereof. The double-sided hook surface fastener is an extrusion molding surface fastener, the double-sided hook surface fastener is folded back in a length direction in a shape of an alligator's mouth, and the double-sided hook surface fastener is fixed to a first mounting object at a folded-back portion by a rivet. One end portion of the double-sided loop surface fastener is tucked by the alligator's mouth, the double-sided loop surface fastener is folded back by an annular part fixed to a second mounting object, and the other end portion of the double-sided loop surface fastener engages with an outer side surface of the alligator's mouth.
US11197516B2	Shoes capable of adjusting heel height A shoe capable of adjusting heel height includes a front bracket, a rear bracket, a telescopic linkage rack, a telescopic support member, a linking member and a locking mechanism. The rear bracket is rotatably connected to the front bracket. The telescopic linkage rack is pivotally connected to the rear bracket, and can be telescoped with the movement of the rear bracket. The telescopic support member is fixedly connected to the telescopic linkage rack, and can be simultaneously telescoped in the same direction and in the same proportion with the telescoping degree of the telescopic linkage rack. The linked member is pivotally connected to the front bracket and the telescopic support member, and arranged spaced to the rear bracket, and the linked member is spaced to the rear bracket. The locking mechanism can removably fix the telescopic support member for limiting the telescopic support member.
US11197504B2	Aerosol generator providing easy and quick cleaning An aerosol generating apparatus includes a case including an insertion pipe for surrounding and supporting at least a portion of a cigarette and an extraction member that includes a disk for supporting a lower end of the cigarette, the extraction member being slidably installed on the case. The insertion pipe includes a step portion that is concaving away from an external surface to form an internal surface of the insertion pipe to allow mounting of the extraction member on the step portion, and based on the extraction member being removed from the case, the disk is configured to pressurize the lower end of the cigarette so that the cigarette is removed from the case.
US11197499B2	Electronic smoking article An electronic smoking article includes a liquid aerosol formulation, a heater operable to at least partially volatilize the liquid aerosol formulation and form an aerosol and a tubular filter segment downstream of the heater. The tubular filter segment is operable to selectively filter aerosol particles and vapors from the aerosol.
US11197493B2	Stabilized fat soluble nutrient compositions and process for the preparation thereof A stabilized composition of fat soluble nutrient(s) includes a water soluble polymer and at least one nutraceutically acceptable excipient. The composition can be in the form of significantly amorphous aqueous microparticulate mixtures or as a solid beadlet product. A process for preparation of a stabilized composition includes a fat soluble nutrient solubilized in an organic solvent embedded in an aqueous polymer phase by evaporation, so as to obtain an aqueous microparticulate mixture. This mixture is stable, soluble and can be formulated for end use or can be layered on inert core for example to obtain stable beadlet(s) for use in solid dosage forms. Such stabilized aqueous microparticulate and solid beadlet compositions exhibit good solubility and dispersibility. Stabilized compositions of fat soluble nutrients can be prepared using industrially convenient equipment and can be formulated as per requirement for use in health applications.
US11197491B2	Method for producing unsaturated decanals The present invention relates to a flavour mixture containing 2E,4Z,7Z- and 2E,4E,7Z-tridecatrienal. This flavour mixture can be produced advantageously from arachidonic acid or oils containing esters thereof.
US11197487B2	Device for heating and emulsifying beverages Device for heating and emulsifying beverages includes a pump (2), an air and water meeting zone (10), a device for producing steam, and a first conduit (5) for steam mixed with air that communicates with a steam wand (6) adapted to be immersed into a beverage (7) to be heated and emulsified. The device for producing steam includes an instant steam generator (4). The meeting zone (10) is positioned before the instant steam generator (4).
US11197462B2	Anti-marking pad An anti-marking system includes an absorber and a connector that removably attaches the absorber to an article, e.g., a collar, worn by the pet. The pet may be inhibited from marking by absorbing into the absorber the fluid or scent that the pet produces when the pet marks a location and then after absorbing the scent into the absorber, attaching the absorber to the article worn by the pet. In one implementation, the system includes a dog collar and an absorbent pad that is removably attached to the dog collar.
US11197460B2	Motorcycle pet carrier A detachable saddle bag pet carrier is disclosed. The carrier comprises a box-like container provided with an upper portion that forms part of the container top. The container includes a plurality of vent openings for circulating air flow inside the carrier. The carrier further comprises a lid hinged to the upper portion of the container. The lid includes one or more air vents that could be adjusted from wide open position to fully closed position. The upper portion comprises a skylight mounted on the lid through which a pet could see the outside environment. The carrier is further provided with a removable foam backed carpet placed underneath the container for the pet. The carrier is mounted on the vehicle using a frame assembly to hold the carrier to the vehicle, thereby a user carries the pet within the carrier.
US11197457B2	Designed complex endophyte compositions and methods for improved plant traits This invention relates to methods and materials for providing a benefit to a plant by associating the plant with a complex endophyte comprising a host fungus further comprising a component bacterium, including benefits to a plant derived from a seed or other plant element treated with a complex endophyte. For example, this invention provides purified complex endophytes, purified complex endophyte components such as bacteria or fungi, synthetic combinations comprising said complex endophytes and/or components, and methods of making and using the same.
US11197453B1	Soybean cultivar 95130716 A soybean cultivar designated 95130716 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 95130716, to the plants of soybean cultivar 95130716, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 95130716, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 95130716. 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 95130716. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 95130716, 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 95130716 with another soybean cultivar.
US11197451B1	Soybean variety 5PNBY64 A novel soybean variety, designated 5PNBY64 is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety 5PNBY64, cells from soybean variety 5PNBY64, plants of soybean 5PNBY64, and plant parts of soybean variety 5PNBY64. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety 5PNBY64 with another soybean plant, methods for introgressing a transgenic trait, a mutant trait, and/or a native trait into soybean variety 5PNBY64, methods for producing other soybean varieties or plant parts derived from soybean variety 5PNBY64, and methods of characterizing soybean variety 5PNBY64. Soybean seed, cells, plants, germplasm, breeding lines, varieties, and plant parts produced by these methods and/or derived from soybean variety 5PNBY64 are further provided.
US11197438B2	Lettuce variety 79-871 RZ The present invention relates to a Lactuca sativa seed designated 79-871 RZ. The present invention also relates to a Lactuca sativa plant produced by growing the 79-871 RZ seed. The invention further relates to methods for producing the lettuce cultivar, represented by lettuce variety 79-871 RZ.
US11197429B2	Plant illumination apparatus An object is to provide a plant illumination apparatus that can output light having a high degree of circular polarization in the target wavelength range. This object is achieved by having a reflective-type polarizing plate having an effective wavelength range, a light-emitting device, and a reflective plate configured to reflect light emitted from the light-emitting device and satisfying: λ1>λ2,λ2>λ3, and w>30 nm wherein λ1 is the center wavelength of the effective wavelength range of the reflective-type polarizing plate, λ2 is the center wavelength of the light-emitting device, w is the full width at half maximum of the transmittance of the reflective-type polarizing plate, and λ3 is the shorter wavelength of the wavelengths at the full width at half maximum.
US11197428B2	Baling vehicle with automated round bale ejection A self-propelled baling vehicle for forming a bale of material includes a drive system for propelling the baling vehicle, a baling system for forming the bale, and a control system coupled to the drive system and the baling system. The control system includes a controller configured to determine a proposed location for ejection of the bale, operate the drive system to maneuver the baling vehicle from a first position to a second position for ejection of the bale at the proposed location, operate the baling system to eject the bale at the proposed location, and operate the drive system to maneuver the baling vehicle back to the first position.
US11197424B2	Sorting table for a fruit harvester A sorting table for sorting fruit includes a frame with a first side member and a second side member, a plurality of conveying rollers carried by the frame, a plurality of sorting rollers carried by the frame and positioned downstream from the conveying rollers, and a pair of combs positioned respectively with the first side member or the second side member. Each comb includes slots associated with a respective one of the sorting rollers. Each of the combs is pivotally coupled with a corresponding one of the first side member or the second side member. An actuator is coupled with each of the combs for selectively moving the pair of combs in directions transverse to the crop flow direction. An electrical processing circuit coupled with the actuator is configured for controlling the actuator and thereby selectively increasing or decreasing a spacing between the sorting rollers.
US11197412B2	Automatic rank selection A controller communicates with a user interface and sends a first signal to a first actuator to unlock a first lock, sends a second signal to move a first ground-engaging implement into a stowed position, sends a third signal to the first actuator to lock first lock to retain the first ground-engaging implement in the stowed position, sends a fourth signal to inhibit flow through a first hose with a flow blocking element, sends a fifth signal to a second actuator to unlock a second lock, sends a sixth signal to move a second ground-engaging implement into a deployed position, sends a seventh signal to the second actuator to lock the second lock to retain the second ground-engaging implement in the deployed position, and sends an eighth signal to a second flow blocking element to permit flow through a second hose around the flow blocking element.
US11197407B2	Implement mounted sensors to increase seeding productivity An agricultural implement having a row unit and a material throw monitoring system. The row unit includes a ground engaging tool configured to engage with a ground at a ground engaging point to form a trench, and a conduit configured to deposit an agricultural product in the trench. The material throw monitoring system includes a sensor and a controller. The sensor is oriented toward the ground engaging point and configured to provide feedback to the controller based at least in part on material displaced by the ground engaging tool. The controller is configured to determine a throw distance of the material relative to the ground engaging tool based on the feedback from the sensor, determine an action to adjust operation of the agricultural implement based on a comparison of the throw distance with a threshold, and communicate the action with a controller coupled to the agricultural implement.
US11197403B2	Apparatus and method for land clearing and preparation A land preparation tool. The tool body can have a longitudinal axis, and include a first imaginary plane and a second imaginary plane. The first and second imaginary planes can intersect orthogonally at the longitudinal axis. The tool body can also include a concave cutting surface tapering from a proximal midpoint to a distal edge comprising a circular blade, and a multi-faceted surface mounting interface disposed on the tool body opposite the cutting surface. The mounting interface can have a plurality of beveled surfaces defining a first pair of V-shaped surfaces and a second pair of V-shaped surfaces, wherein a first apex of the first pair of V-shaped surfaces is disposed in the first imaginary plane and a second apex of the second pair of V-shaped surfaces is disposed in the secondary imaginary plane. A channel can be disposed into the mounting interface and extend into the tool body.
US11197402B2	System and method for detecting plugging of an agricultural implement based on disc scraper acceleration In one aspect, a system for detecting plugging of an agricultural implement may include a disc rotatably coupled to a frame member, with the disc configured to rotate relative to soil within a field as the implement is moved across the field. The system may also include a disc scraper coupled to the frame member, with the disc scraper configured to remove the soil from the disc as the disc rotates relative to the soil. Furthermore, the system may include a sensor configured to detect a parameter indicative of an acceleration of the disc scraper relative to frame member. Additionally, a controller of the system may be configured to monitor the acceleration of the disc scraper relative to the frame member based on data received from the sensor moreover. The controller may be further configured to determine when the disc is plugged based on the monitored acceleration.
US11202401B2	Component mounting device A component mounting device mounts an electronic component on a printed circuit board, and includes a sideview camera which takes an image of a side surface of a target, a mounting head having a nozzle shaft, and a driving device which moves the mounting head to a planar direction on a base. The nozzle shaft includes a shaft main body movably supported to a vertical direction with respect to the mounting head, and a suction nozzle attached at a tip of the shaft main body to suction and hold the electronic component, and an identification mark which identifies the suction nozzle is provided on a side surface of the suction nozzle.
US11202393B2	Multi-function adapting modules for electronics cooling A modular cooling system includes a fluid pump in fluid communication with one or more cooling elements to cool electronics components; a heat exchanger in fluid communication with the fluid pump; a heat exchanger valve upstream of the heat exchanger; and a fluid supply valve positioned between a cooling fluid supply and the one or more cooling elements. When the heat exchanger valve and the fluid supply valve are in a first position, fluid is directed from the cooling fluid supply to the one or more cooling elements, bypassing the heat exchanger and the fluid pump. When the heat exchanger valve and the fluid supply valve are in a second position, fluid is cut off from the cooling fluid supply and a cooling fluid return and circulated through the heat exchanger and the fluid pump.
US11202391B2	Heat dissipating structure capable of conducting heat from a detachable module to a case module, and electronic device therewith A heat dissipating structure is for conducting heat generated by a detachable module to a case module. The heat dissipating structure includes a driving component disposed on a side of the detachable module, a driven component pivotally disposed on the case module and a heat dissipating component connected to the driven component. The driving component is slidable relative to the case module along with the detachable module. The heat dissipating component is for abutting against the detachable module and the case module. When the detachable module slides relative to the case module along an installing direction, the driving component drives the driven component to pivot relative to the case module in a first pivoting direction to drive the heat dissipating component to abut against the detachable module and the case module for conducting the heat generated by the detachable module to the case module by the heat dissipating component.
US11202388B2	Living room convergence device A living room convergence device includes a case, a mainboard, a central processor, and a thermal solution. The case includes a bottom portion that includes air intake holes and a top portion that includes air exhaust holes. The thermal solution includes a heatsink sitting atop the mainboard of the living room convergence device, the heatsink to dissipate heat from the central processor. The thermal solution also includes a fan assembly including rotating fan blades and a motor that drives the rotating fan blades, creating a bottom-to-up swirling airflow starting from the air intake holes and exiting through the air exhaust holes.
US11202381B2	Connection device According to one embodiment, a connection device includes an engaging claw extending in a first direction from a first member, and a receiving portion provided in a second member. The engaging claw includes a pair of first side surfaces, and a pair of engaging protrusions projecting out from the respective side surface. Each engaging protrusion includes an inclined surface continuous from the first side surface and inclined to the first direction. The receiving portion includes a pair of slopes extending in the first direction and each including a second side surface engaging the first side surface, and an engaging projection connected to the second side surface, the engaging projection engaging the engaging protrusion.
US11202379B2	Electronic apparatus An electronic apparatus includes a flexible printed circuit board having a main body on which wiring pattern is formed, a connector having a connection terminal connected to the wiring constituting the wiring pattern, and a base body on which the connection terminal is fixed, and a casing. The main body is attached to the casing to be movable, the flexible printed circuit board has an extension part protruding from the main body and extending along with a ground included in the wiring pattern, the extension part bends in the middle of extending to be capable of expansion and contraction, and has a mounting part fixed to the casing on the tip side thereof, the mounting part is provided with a ground terminal connected to the ground extended, and the ground terminal is electrically connected to the casing in the state that the mounting part is fixed to the casing.
US11202378B1	Modular infrastructure for compute and storage clusters A computing and storage system includes a housing having power and cooling facility and a plurality of slots, each slot having interface connection. An interconnecting board is coupled to the interface connection of the plurality of slots. A plurality of baseboards are inserted, each in one of the slots wherein a board interface mates with the interface connection. All of the baseboards have the same form factor and the same board interface and each of the baseboards has a plurality of electronic devices, such that all of the electronic devices mounted onto one of the baseboards are the same. Using the interconnecting board, the various baseboards can be interconnected to form a computing and/or storage machine of different operational characteristics as required by a given task. In addition, the inter connection board is managed to adjust the networking resource allocations for different traffic characteristics and workload requirements.
US11202376B2	Electronic device including housing and method for manufacturing housing thereof An electronic device according to various embodiments of the present invention comprises: a housing including a first plate facing in a first direction, a second plate facing in a second direction, and a side part surrounding a space between the first plate and the second plate; a display exposed through the first plate; a wireless communication circuit; and a processor, wherein the second plate includes: a first metal member and a second metal member, wherein the first metal member further includes a first side part facing a portion of the non-metallic extension part, and the second metal member further includes a second side part facing the first side part or another portion of the non-metallic extension part, and wherein the second plate includes an oxidized layer. The electronic device described above and the method for fabricating a housing of the electronic device may be diversified according to embodiments.
US11202374B2	Method of mounting component A method of mounting a component includes an approaching step of causing the pair of clamping members to approach each other with the first body of the first component disposed between the paired clamping members, a clamping step of clamping the first component, and a mounting step of moving the pair of clamping members clamping the first component to the substrate and pressing out the first component clamped by the pair of clamping members with the pusher for mounting on the substrate, when the clamping members mount the first component on the substrate.
US11202366B2	Object having an electronic unit and conductor structures on a carrier structure An object has a first conductor structure, an electronic unit, a second conductor structure galvanically isolated from the first conductor structure and/or from the electronic unit but coupleable electrically thereto, and a carrier structure with a first pliable carrier layer having a first carrier layer region and with a second carrier layer region. The carrier structure is a layer stack in a base surface region including at least part of the carrier structure base surface and includes at least the first and second carrier layer regions. At least part of the conductor structures is in the base surface region. The first conductor structure and/or the electronic unit is joined with the first carrier layer region. The second conductor structure is joined with the second carrier layer region and coupleable electrically to the first conductor structure and/or the electronic unit by a layer stack surface region outside the electronic unit.
US11202355B2	Outdoor lighting fixture and camera systems One embodiment of the invention relates to an outdoor lighting fixture that includes a ballast for controlling the amount of current provided to a lamp. The lighting fixture also includes a fixture housing at least partially surrounding the ballast and the lamp and a mounting system for holding the fixture housing to at least one of a wall and a pole. The lighting fixture yet further includes a camera coupled to the housing and a control circuit wired to the camera. The lighting fixture also includes a radio frequency transceiver wired to the control circuit. The control circuit is configured to cause information from the camera to be wirelessly transmitted by the radio frequency transceiver.
US11202342B2	Battery unit, flavor inhaler, method of controlling battery unit, and program Provided is a battery unit including: a power supply; a detector configured to detect an output voltage of the power supply; a connecting configured to be connectable with a load for atomizing an aerosol source or heating a flavor source; and a controller capable of executing a power supply mode in which electric power is supplied to the load from the power supply. The controller executes a specific control different from the supply of electric power to the load based on am amount of change in the output voltage per a predetermined time period in the power supply mode.
US11202329B2	Communication system for use with guided groups Provided is a digital wireless private communication platform for use with groups. The communication platform includes a hub device, a lead device and a plurality of group devices. The hub device may establish an independent dedicated Wi-Fi network and may be configured to receive multiple inputs and multiple outputs. The lead device may operate a lead mobile application that couples the lead device to the hub device. The plurality of group device may operate group mobile applications that couple the plurality of group devices to the hub device. The hub device establishes the independent dedicated Wi-Fi network for connecting the lead device with the plurality of group devices and establishes a private communication link between the lead device and the plurality of group devices.
US11202325B2	Managing dynamic connection intervals for implantable and external devices A method, system and external instrument are provided. The method initiates a communication link between an external instrument (EI) and an implantable medical device (IMD), established a first connection interval for conveying data packets between the EI and IMD and monitors a connection criteria that includes at least one of a data throughput requirement. A battery indicator or link condition of the communications link is between the IMD and EI. The method further changes from the first connection interval to a second connection interval based on the connection criteria.
US11202313B2	Method of uplink control signaling for non-scheduled uplink operation over unlicensed spectrum Described is an apparatus of a User Equipment (UE). The apparatus may comprise a first circuitry and a second circuitry. The first circuitry may be operable to encode a Non-scheduled Physical Uplink Control Channel (N-PUCCH) in an Uplink (UL) burst transmission, and to encode a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) in the UL burst transmission. The second circuitry may be operable to initiate the UL burst transmission subject to a Listen-Before-Talk (LBT) protocol on a channel of the wireless network. The UL burst transmission may be initiated without a UL grant received from the eNB.
US11202312B2	Communication apparatus A base station apparatus controls an access scheme for each radio resource by using higher layer signaling such that only signals generated by a same type of a signal generation method are multiplexed for each radio resource.
US11202305B2	Method and apparatus for transmission and reception of data channel in wireless communication system A method and apparatus are provided for transmitting and receiving data and control information in a wireless communication system. A method performed by a terminal includes identifying a first idle subband and a second idle subband in an unlicensed band, wherein the first idle subband and the second idle subband are consecutive; and transmitting, to a base station, an uplink signal including uplink control information in at least one of the first idle subband and the idle second subband The uplink control information includes information indicating whether a guard band between the first idle subband and the second idle subband is used for uplink transmission. The uplink signal is decoded based on the uplink control information.
US11202294B2	Methods and devices for determining downlink resource set and sending resource position information The present application discloses methods and devices for determining a downlink resource set and sending resource position information, and particularly relates to a method for determining, by a terminal, a downlink control channel resource set, a method for sending, by a base station, a position related to a downlink control channel resource set, and related devices. A terminal obtains, in a predefined manner and/or by receiving a notification of a base station, a frequency domain position and a time domain position of a downlink control channel resource set corresponding to the terminal, so as to determine that the downlink control channel resource set corresponding to the terminal is a third downlink control channel resource set. The base station transmits a common downlink control channel and/or a terminal-dedicated downlink control channel on the frequency domain and time domain positions of the downlink control channel resource set determined by the terminal.
US11202289B2	Beam sweep measurement window The present disclosure relates to methods and arrangements for introducing a beam sweep measurement window comprising one or more measurement instants. When performed in a wireless device, the method comprises receiving (S61) one or more beams, each comprising at least one control signal comprising beam sweep properties and obtaining (S62) the beam sweep properties from the control signal. The method further comprises determining (S63), based on the obtained beam sweep properties, a beam sweep measurement window comprising one or more measurement instants.
US11202279B2	Method and apparatus for processing data in wireless communication system The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. One method provided for a transmitting device to pre-process data in a wireless communication system includes acquiring data, pre-processing the data in at least one layer of the transmitting device before receiving resource allocation information for transmitting the data, receiving the resource allocation information for transmitting the data, and generating a medium access control (MAC) protocol data unit (PDU) based on the pre-processed data and the received resource allocation information.
US11202278B2	Communication method, mobile terminal, core network node, non-transitory computer readable recording medium storing program, and system for selecting network resource The invention describes a method for detecting an inability to serve a UE in the selected serving node due to mismatch between the UE's DCN-related indication and the UE's DCN-related subscription and/or the UE's capabilities and/or due to serving node congestion. The method allows to update the UE's DCN configuration information, so that the UE can be assigned to an appropriate DCN during the next RRC/NAS request procedure.
US11202266B2	Method for reporting power headroom, method for receiving power headroom, user equipment, base station, medium and system Method for reporting or receiving power headroom, user equipment, base station, medium and system are provided. The method for reporting power headroom includes: determining a first carrier and a first time slot corresponding to the first carrier for transmitting a PHR; acquiring a second time slot for receiving transmission grant information and corresponding to at least one other carrier; acquiring the third time slot which the uplink data transmission is performed in and corresponds to the at least one other carrier; determining whether a time difference between the second and first time slots is less than a threshold; rejecting reporting power headroom corresponding to the third time slot, if it is less than the threshold; reporting the power headroom corresponding to the third time slot, if it is not less than the threshold. Power headroom may be accurately reported to prevent network and UE from misunderstanding the power headroom.
US11202263B2	User terminal and radio communication method A user terminal is disclosed including a receiver, a transmitter, and a processor. The receiver receives downlink control information including a transmission power control (TPC) command. The transmitter transmits an uplink signal using a transmission power that is controlled based on an accumulated value of the TPC command, accumulated independently of a length of a transmission duration of the uplink signal. The processor resets the accumulated value if a predetermined parameter is provided by higher layer signaling. In other aspects, a radio base station and a radio communication method for a user terminal are also disclosed.
US11202255B1	Cached entity profiles at network access nodes to re-authenticate network entities A method performed by a network access node (NAN) can re-authenticate a network entity for a telecommunications network with a locally cached profile. The NAN can receive a connection request of a wireless device to access the network, receive an indication that the network entity has been authenticated by the unified data management (UDM) to provide access to the network, fetch entity profile data from the UDM, and cache the entity profile data locally, along with an indication of a time period during which the cached profile data is available for re-authenticating the network entity without needing to re-fetch the entity profile data or check with the UDM.
US11202253B2	PLMN selection for mission critical devices A method for selecting a Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN) at a user equipment (UE), comprising receiving, from a network entity, a list of PLMN identifiers, attempting to register the UE with a network using at least one PLMN identifier from the list of PLMN identifiers, and if the attempt to register with the network is successful, performing a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) registration to an Internet Protocol (IP) Multimedia Sub-system (IMS) associated to the PLMN identifier.
US11202252B2	Inclusion of a message proxy in a service based architecture A method for handling a service discovery request for a service provided by a service based architecture communications network. The service discovery request is received from a client, the received service discovery request has a plurality of service related parameters. A service identifier is assigned to the service discovery request, the identifier linking the received service discovery request to the plurality of service related parameters. The plurality of service related parameters are stored. A service discovery response is transmitted to the client in response to the received service discovery request. A subsequent request related to the service is received. The plurality of service related parameters for the subsequent request based on the received service identifier present in the subsequent request and the stored plurality of service related parameters is determined. A list of processing entities capable of handling the subsequent request related to the service is determined.
US11202221B2	Methods and apparatus for use in adaptively rerouting user plane traffic for mobility using segment routing for IPV6 A control plane (CP) entity is to adaptively reroute user plane traffic of a mobile node (MN) with use of a segment routing (SR) for IPv6. A message indicating an attachment of the MN to the mobile network is received selecting a first user plane (UP) anchor node. A first set of home network prefixes (HNPs) are allocated to the MN. An IP traffic flow using a first HNP prefix is established between the MN and a correspondent node (CN) along a first network path—defined at least in part by the first UP anchor node and an anchor node of the CN. In response to a handover of the MN, a message indicating a subsequent attachment of the MN is received selecting a second UP anchor node. The second UP anchor node is instructed to host the first HNP prefix previously allocated by the first UP anchor node.
US11202218B2	Method for reporting measurement data, and terminal therefor A method for a terminal for reporting measurement data may comprise the steps of: receiving, from a base station, interference measurement resource (IMR) configuration data or sounding reference symbol (SRS) configuration data for measuring terminal-to-terminal (UE-to-UE) cross-link interference; measuring UE-to-UE cross-link interference on the basis of IMR or SRS configuration data; and transmitting a report containing the measured UE-to-UE cross-link interference measurement value to the base station.
US11202214B2	Operation of sectorized communications from aerospace platforms using reinforcement learning The disclosure provides a method of operating a communication network. The method includes receiving input data related to a state of the communication network and operation of the communication network. The method then includes determining a policy for the communication network based on the input data. The policy is a set of features for forming a plurality of communication links in the communication network over a time interval. The plurality of communication links provides one or more paths through the communication network. Determining the policy is based at least in part on utility values of previous policies. The utility values of previous policies are derived using simulation and/or real-world implementation of the previous policies. The communication network is then operated to implement the policy in the time interval.
US11202211B2	OAM multiplexing communication system and OAM multiplexing communication method In an OAM multiplexing communication system that subjects a plurality of signal sequences to multiplex transmission by using an OAM mode, a transmitting station includes a transmitting antenna using an M-UCA formed of a plurality of UCAs, and a unit performing basis transformation in each of the rotational direction dimension and a diameter direction dimension in a polar coordinate system having a center of UCAs as an origin, and subjecting the plurality of signal sequences to multiplex transmission for each complex mode formed by a combination of different bases in each dimension. A receiving station includes a receiving antenna using an M-UCA, and a unit receiving a signal subjected to multiplex transmission from the transmitting station, performing basis transformation in each of the rotational direction dimension and the diameter direction dimension by using the received signal, and demultiplexing the plurality of signal sequences subjected to the multiplex transmission.
US11202210B2	Facilitating model-driven automated cell allocation in fifth generation (5G) or other advanced networks Facilitating model-driven automated cell allocation in advanced networks (e.g., 5G and beyond) is provided herein. Operations of a method can comprise determining, by a system comprising a processor, a solution to an integer programming problem based on input data associated with a network inventory and configuration data for network devices of a group of network devices included in a communications network. Also, the method can comprise determining, by the system, respective cell identities and respective root sequence index assignments for the network devices. Further, the method can comprise implementing, by the system, a deployment of the respective cell identities and respective root sequence index assignments at the network devices.
US11202206B2	Managing resources in CBRS networks Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for improving resource management in Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) networks include a Spectrum Access System (SAS) in coordination with one or more CBRS devices (CBSDs) and a Digital Network Architecture center (DNA-C). Resource allocation decisions can be based on one or more policies such as a priority, a preemption capability index and/or a preemption vulnerability index associated with the CBSDs. Resource allocation can also be based on inter-access point (AP) coordination between two or more CBSDs and comparative performance indicators of the two or more CBSDs. Managing interference between two or more groups of CBSDs can be based on the inter-AP coordination and group identifiers associated with the two or more groups. Bandwidth allocation can be modified to the two or more CBSDs and seamless transition can be implemented using timers.
US11202197B2	Portable control device, control system, control method, and non-transitory storage medium storing control program Provided is a portable control device (100) comprising: a storage unit (105) for storing control data that includes a program for controlling a system and data used for the program; and a position control unit (104) for acquiring the position of the device itself. The portable control device (100) includes a main control unit (103) for deleting control data from the storage unit (105) when the position acquired by the position control unit (104) is outside a first area.
US11202194B1	Radio access network (RAN) affiliation list propagation A method of propagating a radio access network (RAN) affiliation list to mobile communication devices, where the RAN affiliation list informs the mobile communication devices what cell site they are to attach to and what radio frequencies they are to use. The method comprises receiving a RAN affiliation list by a cell site, where the RAN affiliation list has a RAN affiliation list identity and comprises information about cell site affiliation for mobile communication devices that is applicable to an operating area including the cell site, transmitting the RAN affiliation list identity by the cell site on a broadcast channel, receiving by the cell site a request to download the RAN affiliation list, transmitting the RAN affiliation list by the cell site, receiving a wireless communication service request by the cell site, authorizing the wireless communication service request by the cell site based on the RAN affiliation list.
US11202192B2	Registering user equipment with a visited public land mobile network User equipment is registered with a visited public land mobile network, VPLMN, in a process including: producing at the user equipment a concealed identifier; producing at the user equipment a freshness code; and sending by the user equipment to the VPLMN the concealed identifier and the freshness code; receiving by the user equipment an identity request from the VPLMN indicating that the long-term identifier must be transmitted to the VPLMN in a non-concealed form; receiving by the user equipment from the VPLMN a permission authenticator; and verifying at the user equipment if the permission authenticator has been formed with a cryptographic authentication of the home public land mobile network, HPLMN, and the user equipment or a subscription module at the user equipment indicating permission to transmit the long-term identifier to the VPLMN in the non-concealed form and if yes, transmitting the long-term identifier to the VPLMN in the non-concealed form.
US11202187B2	System and method for operating stealth mode of emergency vehicle A system, method and storage medium for operating a stealth mode of an emergency vehicle includes receiving input data including at least one of an input from an operator or one or more program input parameters; determining a data operation mode based on the received input data, wherein the data operation mode is one of a normal mode and one or more stealth modes; and generating a control signal based on the determined operation mode. When the data operation mode is one of the one or more stealth modes, the control signal is adapted to control a first device to suspend a transmission of at least one data group among candidate suspended data to at least one second device in communication with the first device.
US11202184B2	Method for controlling at least one device with which mobile device can communicate in wireless communication system, and mobile device The present disclosure relates to a technique for sensor network, machine to machine (M2M), machine type communication (MTC) and Internet of Things (IoT). This disclosure comprises transitioning to a first mode when a condition is satisfied connecting to at least one peripheral device, requesting status information from the connected at least one peripheral device and obtaining the same checking a connection state with a base station, transmitting, to the base station, the status information on the obtained at least one peripheral device when the connection with the base station is maintained, and transmitting host indication information to a peripheral device indicated by the host indication information when receiving the host indication information indicating one of the at least one peripheral device from the base station.
US11202183B2	Retuning for enhanced machine type communication Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. User equipment (UE) and base stations may support frequency hopping with fast retuning for enhanced machine type communication (eMTC). For example, a UE may need to retune portions of its receive or transmit chain to support operation on various frequency bands, and it may perform the retune within a few symbols. Both base station and UE may anticipate or account for the retuning delay and communicate accordingly. A base station may refrain from transmitting for a certain period of time, for example. A base station may also account for frequency hopping delays for uplink communications. Systems may employ other techniques to support eMTC. For example, UEs may leverage reference signal patterns in certain control channels for demodulation. In some cases, base stations may alter control channel transmissions to account for various types of UEs with in the system.
US11202167B2	Time-delimited action suggestion system Systems and methods for providing time-delimited action suggestions are provided. In one example embodiment, a method includes receiving, by one or more computing devices from a user device, data indicative of a user-requested time-bound activity. The time-bound activity is associated with a time period. The method includes identifying, by the one or more computing devices, one or more parameters associated with a user that requested the time-bound activity. The method includes determining, by the one or more computing devices, a suggested action based at least in part on the one or more parameters associated with the user and the time period associated with the time-bound activity. The method includes providing, by the one or more computing devices, an output indicative of the suggested action to the user device.
US11202146B1	IP speaker system An IP speaker system is disclosed that includes an IP speaker connected to one or more external analog speakers. The IP speaker comprises a CPU that provides an audio data stream for transmission to a first amplifier and a second amplifier. The first amplifier outputs a first analog audio signal at a first power level for driving an internal driver of the IP speaker, and the second amplifier outputs a second analog audio signal at a second power level for driving one or more external drivers of the one or more external analog speakers. The CPU supervises the one or more external analog speakers so as to detect any speaker failure, disconnection, short or other change in operational status. The IP speaker also comprises a power circuit that receives electrical power transmitted over a network cable as its input power and provides output power available for consumption by the IP speaker and the one or more external analog speakers. The power circuit measures the input power and decreases the output power if the measured input power exceeds a predetermined power level.
US11202145B1	Speaker assembly for mitigation of leakage A speaker assembly presents audio content to an ear canal of a user. A speaker of the speaker assembly generates positive and negative acoustic pressure waves. A first vent assembly of the speaker assembly ports the positive acoustic pressure waves to an entrance of the ear canal of the user, whereas a second vent assembly ports the negative acoustic pressure waves to an area behind a pinna of the user. The first and second vent assembly are configured to provide improved audio content playback to the user.
US11202141B2	Button sound-emitting apparatus and electronic device Disclosed are a button sound-emitting apparatus and an electronic device. The button sound-emitting apparatus comprises a cap part, a exciter, and an elastic component; said elastic component is arranged at an edge of the cap part; said exciter is provided in the middle of the cap part; the elastic component is connected to a housing of the electronic device; the exciter is suspended in the housing; the elastic component is configured for providing an elastic restoring force; the exciter is configured to be used for providing a driving force. The button sound-emitting apparatus is simple in structure and eliminates the need to arrange a front acoustic cavity and a sound outlet hole, and ensures good sound performance.
US11202130B1	Offline video presentation A method, system, and computer program product for generating and presenting an offline video presentation is provided. The method includes executing service software code within a service orchestration and programmability framework layer of a telecom network. Communications with static and dynamic hardware and software resources are established and dynamic video presentations with respect to channels generated with respect to selective broadcast control channels of the telecom network are generated. Video contents of the dynamic video presentations are retrieved logical channels associated with virtual network functions are generated. Information associated with the video contents fare transferred from a channel to physical network functions of the telecom network. Connections associated with detecting offline video streams are allocated and a connection to a logical network is established. The video contents are associated with an offline video stream in response to the connection. The video contents are presented with the offline video stream.
US11202123B2	Systems and methods for switching content providers to maintain streaming experience Systems and methods are described herein for selecting content providers based on performance scores of the respective content providers. The system monitors the performance of a content provider, where the performance is based on the quality of service for receiving a media content item from the content provider. Based on the monitored performance, the system may determine if an adequate performance is not achievable. In response to determining that an adequate performance is not achievable, the system compares the performance of the content provider to the performance of a second content provider and provides, on the user device, the media content item from the second content provider.
US11202118B2	Video distribution system, video distribution method, and storage medium storing video distribution program for distributing video containing animation of character object generated based on motion of actor A video distribution system according to one aspect is a video distribution system for distributing a video containing animation of a character object generated based on a motion of an actor, the video distribution system including: one or more computer processors; and a storage for storing a candidate list including candidates of decorative objects to be displayed in the video in association with the character object. The one or more computer processors execute computer-readable instructions to: in response to reception of a first display request from a viewing user, the first display request being sent for requesting display of a first decorative object among the decorative objects, add the first decorative object to the candidate list, and display the first decorative object in the video upon selection of the first decorative object from the candidate list.
US11202103B1	Techniques for limiting the influence of image enhancement operations on perceptual video quality estimations In various embodiments, a tunable VMAF application reduces an amount of influence that image enhancement operations have on perceptual video quality estimates. In operation, the tunable VMAF application computes a first value for a first visual quality metric based on reconstructed video content and a first enhancement gain limit. The tunable VMAF application computes a second value for a second visual quality metric based on the reconstructed video content and a second enhancement gain limit. Subsequently, the tunable VMAF application generates a feature value vector based on the first value for the first visual quality metric and the second value for the second visual quality metric. The tunable VMAF application executes a VMAF model based on the feature value vector to generate a tuned VMAF score that accounts, at least in part, for at least one image enhancement operation used to generate the reconstructed video content.
US11202094B2	Image encoding/decoding method and device using same The image decoding method according to the present invention comprises the steps of: determining the availability of a block adjacent to a current block; configuring a merge candidate list for the current block on the basis of the result of the determined availability; and performing motion compensation for the current block on the basis of the merge candidate list, wherein the step of determining availability comprises the steps of inducing block availability information on the adjacent block and inducing the availability of motion information on the adjacent block, and the step of determining the availability of the adjacent block is such that when there is more than one adjacent block, the availability of adjacent blocks can be determined in accordance with a predetermined order restriction.
US11202091B2	Method for encoding/decoding a quantization coefficient, and apparatus using same The present invention relates to a method for encoding/decoding a quantization coefficient, and to an apparatus using same. The decoding method can include the steps of: decoding initial quantization parameter information and quantization parameter range information of a slice; and obtaining a quantization parameter limitation range applied to an encoding unit included in the slice using the initial quantization parameter information and the quantization parameter range information. Accordingly, the efficiency of encoding and decoding an image can be improved during encoding/decoding.
US11202088B2	Image processing apparatus and method There is provided an image processing apparatus and method allowing suppression of a decrease in coding efficiency. Coded data obtained by coding a captured image captured by a moving body with an image capturing section is transcoded on the basis of positional information indicating a position where the captured image has been generated. For example, the positional information includes at least one of GPS information indicating the position of the moving body or IMU information indicating movement of the moving body, and captured images are coded in frame images of a moving image on the basis of the information. For example, the present disclosure can be applied to an image processing apparatus, an image coding apparatus, a communication apparatus, an information processing apparatus, an image capturing apparatus, or the like.
US11202085B1	Low-cost hash table construction and hash-based block matching for variable-size blocks Innovations in hash table construction and hash-based block matching for image encoding or video encoding are described. For example, an encoder determines hash values for base-size candidate blocks in a reference picture. The encoder stores, in a hash table, the hash values for the base-size candidate blocks. The encoder encodes a trial-size current block in a current picture. In some cases, the trial-size current block has a block size larger than the base block size. As part of the encoding, the encoder uses hash-based block matching, between base-size current blocks of the trial-size current block and the base-size candidate blocks, to identify a trial-size matching block, if any, in the reference picture. The encoder stores hash values only for the base-size candidate blocks. This can significantly reduce the computational cost and memory cost for hash table construction during encoding, without hurting compression efficiency or the overall speed of encoding.
US11202084B2	Systems and methods for rendering and pre-encoded load estimation based encoder hinting Systems and methods for hinting an encoder are disclosed in which a server monitors for information related to changes in frame rendering, calculates tolerance boundaries, rolling average frame time and/or short-term trends in frame time, and uses those calculations to identify a frame time peak. The server then hints a codec (encoder) to modulate the quality settings of frame output in proportion to the size of the frame time peak. In certain embodiments, a renderer records one or more playthroughs in a game environment, sorts a plurality of frames from one or more playthroughs into a plurality of cells on a heatmap, and collects the list of sorted frames. A codec may then encode one or more frames from the list of sorted frames to calculate an average encoded frame size for each cell in the heatmap, and associate each average encoded frame size with a per-cell normalized encoder quality setting.
US11202078B2	Dynamic point cloud compression using inter-prediction A system comprises an encoder configured to compress attribute information for a dynamic point cloud and/or a decoder configured to decompress compressed attribute information for a dynamic point cloud. The dynamic point cloud may include multiple versions of the point cloud at multiple moments in time Attribute values for the point cloud may be compressed at a reference frame using an intra-prediction process and may be compressed at one or more reference frames using an inter-prediction process that takes advantage of temporal relationships between different frames (e.g. versions) of the dynamic point cloud at the different moments in time.
US11202077B2	Motion vector prediction method and device A motion vector prediction method and device, includes determining a motion vector type of the motion vector of the current block based on a reference frame type of the reference frame, obtaining a motion vector type of a first motion vector of at least one spatially adjacent prediction block of the current block when the at least one spatially adjacent prediction block is an inter-frame prediction block, and when the obtained motion vector type of the first motion vector is different from all motion vector types of motion vectors of the current block, determining a second motion vector of a spatially adjacent pixel block of the current block based on decoding information of the spatially adjacent pixel block, and using the second motion vector or a scaling value of the second motion vector as a candidate motion vector predictor of the current block.
US11202066B2	Video data encoding and decoding method, device, and system, and storage medium A video data encoding method is provided for an encoding device. The method includes obtaining first video data, and encoding the first video data to generate a plurality of sequentially arranged groups-of-pictures. A frame type of a first frame of an initial group-of-pictures in the plurality of groups-of-pictures is an I frame, frame types of first frames of the other groups-of-pictures are GF frames, and each GF frame is configured to record change information of a current frame of a corresponding group-of-pictures relative to an I frame or a GF frame in a previous group-of-pictures. The method also includes successively outputting the plurality of groups-of-pictures according to a sequence of the plurality of groups-of-pictures, to obtain second video data.
US11202065B2	Extended merge prediction A video coding or decoding method includes using history-based motion vector prediction (HMVP) for conversion between multiple video blocks including a current block of video and a bitstream representation of the multiple video blocks such that for a uni-predicted block that for which a single reference picture is used for motion compensation, refraining from updating a look-up table for HMVP candidates for the uni-predicted block. The video coding or decoding method further includes performing the conversion using look-up tables for the multiple video blocks.
US11202062B2	Methods and systems of determining quantum efficiency of a camera A system and method for colorimetric calibration is described herein. A system for performing color calibration is described, comprising at least one broad spectrum light emitting diode, at least one light diffuser plate, at least one interference filter, and a camera, the camera comprising at least one sensor for detection of colors, wherein a spectral response within 5% error of a ground truth method can be achieved. A method for performing color calibration is described, comprising transmitting light from at least one broad spectrum light emitting diode, scattering light with at least one light diffuser plate, filtering light with at least one interference filter, detecting light at a camera sensor, mapping an intensity value for each pixel of the camera sensor, and creating a quantum efficiency curve for each of red, green, and blue channels.
US11202060B2	Device and method for pre-compensating a fast tunable lens A multifocal display device has a focus tunable lens (FTL) and a controller configured to shift a focus of the FTL from a first focal plane to a second focal plane by applying a compensated control signal to the FTL. The controller is configured to generate a current compensated control signal value, which is a value of the compensated control signal for a current point in time, based on one or more previous compensated control signal values, which are values of the compensated control signal at one or more previous points in time.
US11202056B2	Optical system with multiple light emitters sharing a field of view of a pixel detector An optical system for collecting distance information within a field is provided. The optical system may include lenses for collecting photons from a field and may include lenses for distributing photons to a field. The optical system may include lenses that collimate photons passed by an aperture, optical filters that reject normally incident light outside of the operating wavelength, and pixels that detect incident photons. The optical system may further include illumination sources that output photons at an operating wavelength.
US11202052B2	Method for displaying, on a 2D display device, a content derived from light field data The present disclosure concerns a method for displaying, on a 2D display device, a content derived from 4D light field data, based on a viewing position of a user. The 4D light field data corresponds to data acquired by either several cameras or by a plenoptic device. The method comprises: obtaining a volume in front of said 2D display device in which no disocclusions are present, said volume being defined according to optical and geometry parameters of an acquisition device that has acquired said 4D light field data, a size of a screen of said 2D display device, and an anchor plane in said content, said anchor plane being perceived as static in case of movement of a user relative to said 2D display device; determining a modified volume from said volume, comprising modifying a size of said volume, for modifying possible movements of a user positioned within the modified volume compared to movements of said user within said volume; providing means for guiding said user within said modified volume according to said viewing position of said user.
US11202047B2	Systems and methods for digital photography A system, method, and computer program product are provided for rendering a combined image. In use, two or more source images including at least one strobe image and at least one ambient image are loaded. A pixel-level correction is estimated for at least one of the two or more source images based on a pixel level correction function. At least one pixel of the two or more source images is color-corrected based on the pixel-level correction. A first blend weight associated with the two or more source images is initialized, and a first combined image from the two or more source images is rendered based on the color-correction and the first blend weight. Additional systems, methods, and computer program products are also presented.
US11202045B2	Image processing apparatus, imaging apparatus, image processing method, and program An apparatus and a method that perform a false color correction according to image characteristics of a color image in units of image regions are provided. Included therein is an image processor that receives inputs of a color image and a white (W) image photographed by a W array imaging element whose all pixels are placed in a white (W) pixel array and executes an image process that reduces false colors included in the color image. Together with a frequency-corresponding parameter calculation unit that receives an input of the white (W) image and calculates a frequency-corresponding parameter in units of image regions, and a positional deviation-corresponding parameter calculation unit that receives inputs of the white (W) image and the color image and calculates a positional deviation-corresponding parameter of the two input images in units of image regions, the image processor executes a blending process and calculates a corrected pixel value.
US11202043B1	Self-testing display device A self-calibrating display can detect and compensate for binocular disparity or other visual imperfection of the display. The display includes a pair of projection units for projecting test light carrying test images through waveguides, which are normally used to carry images to left and right eyes of a user. A detection unit detects the test light propagated through the waveguides, and extracts the test images. Position of reference features in the detected test images may be used to determine binocular disparity, and luminance and color distribution across the test images may be used to determine the illumination and color uniformity of the images displayed to the user. After the visual defects have been detected, they may be reduced or compensated for by pre-emphasizing or shifting images to be displayed to the left and right eyes of the user.
US11202040B2	System and method for monitoring a sample A system and technique are described, for use in optical monitoring of objects. The system comprising: a collection unit comprising at least one optical arrangement and at least one detector array arranged for defocused collection of light returning from a selected region on the object; and image data collection circuitry configured for receiving electronic signals associated with data piece collected by pixels of the at least one detector array and for generating output data indicative of correlation function between image frames collected by the detector array at two or more different temporal instances. The technique thereby enables determining of correlation between image data pieces with reduced computational complexity.
US11202039B2	Indicia and camera assembly for a vehicle A vehicle indicia assembly includes a vehicle indicia element having an indicia surface with indicia established thereat and having an attaching surface opposite the indicia surface. The attaching surface of the vehicle indicia element is configured to be mounted at a vehicle with the indicia surface facing outwards away from the vehicle. The vehicle indicia element has a light transmitting portion. A vehicle camera is disposed at the attaching surface of the vehicle indicia element. The vehicle camera is positioned at the vehicle indicia element so that the vehicle camera views through the light transmitting portion and is operable to capture image data. When the vehicle indicia assembly is mounted at a vehicle, the vehicle camera is disposed at the vehicle and views through the light transmitting portion of the vehicle indicia element and is operable to capture image data representative of a scene exterior the vehicle.
US11202036B2	Merged reality system and method A merged reality system comprises servers in a cloud to edge infrastructure configured to store and process data and models of virtual replicas of real world elements that provide self-computing capabilities and autonomous behavior to the virtual replicas. The data and models are input through a plurality of software platforms, software engines, and sensors connected to things and user devices. The server is further configured to merge the real and virtual data and models in order to augment the real data with the virtual data. A method thereof comprises mapping the real world into a virtual world, generating virtual replicas of the real world; adding models and data of the virtual replicas; connecting the virtual replicas to corresponding real elements in order to enrich and synchronize the virtual replicas with the real-world elements; merging the real and virtual data; and augmenting the real data with the virtual data.
US11202033B2	Image sensor and transmission system with collision detection based on state of collision detection line Provided is an image sensor that is connected to a data bus to which another image sensor is connected and image data is transmitted, and a collision detection line to which the another image sensor is connected and which is pulled up to a voltage at a first level through a register. The image sensor determines, on a basis of a state of the collision detection line, whether a collision of pieces of the image data is to occur on the data bus when the image data is output, and then outputs the image data to the data bus.
US11202031B2	Indication of trickplay availability via remote control device A system that incorporates teachings of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method for receiving a controllability indicator at a portable communication device, the controllability indicator received from a stationary communication device. The controllability indicator indicates whether a trickplay feature is available for controlling a presentation of multimedia content, and is determined from a characterization of the multimedia content. The method further includes presenting a trickplay indicator at the portable communication device according to the controllability indicator to indicate whether the trickplay feature is available. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11202027B2	Analog-to-digital conversion (ADC) circuit and CMOS image sensor including the same An analog-to-digital conversion (ADC) circuit and a CMOS image sensor are disclosed. The ADC circuit includes a first column line configured to receive a first pixel signal from a first pixel, a second column line configured to receive a second pixel signal from a second pixel located adjacent to the first pixel, and a correlated double sampling (CDS) circuit configured to perform a CDS operation by comparing the first pixel signal, the second pixel signal, a first ramp signal, and a second ramp signal with one another. The CDS circuit may perform the CDS operation on the first pixel signal by selecting the first column line in a first operation period, and may perform the CDS operation on the first pixel signal and the second pixel signal by selecting the first column line and the second column line in a second operation period.
US11202003B1	Switchable cloud-optimized real-time stitching multiple imager method and system A computer-implemented method for performing stitching of images to form a panoramic video stream is disclosed. The method comprises capturing images with a camera; and selectively switching between first and second modes of operation wherein corresponding to said first mode at least some of the captured images are sent to circuitry of the camera for performance of a stitching operation to stitch together the images to form a panoramic video stream and wherein corresponding to the second mode at least some of the captured images are transmitted over a network to an image optimization server provisioned in a cloud for performance of said stitching operation.
US11201996B2	Camera, accessory apparatus, and their control methods A camera is usable while a plurality of accessory apparatuses are connected to the camera. The camera includes a camera communication unit connected to a data communication channel used for a data communication between the camera and each of the plurality of accessory apparatuses, and a camera controller configured to perform the data communication with each of the plurality of accessory apparatuses via the data communication channel. The camera controller transmits to at least one sleep target accessory apparatus among the plurality of accessory apparatuses which is selected based on authentication information acquired from each of the plurality of accessory apparatuses, a sleep request command for shifting the sleep target accessory apparatus from an operation state for performing processing in response to a data transmission from the camera to a sleep state that does not perform the processing regardless of the data transmission.
US11201991B1	Binocular robot for bridge underwater detection based on 5G communication The invention discloses a binocular robot for bridge underwater detection based on 5G communication. The robot includes a body, a base, a power arm, a video collection component, a communication component and a power component. The underwater part of the bridge may be collected in the form of a video by the configured video collection component, and the robot may be driven by the power component to move underwater. Driven by a first motor, a binocular camera may rotate to observe various orientations underwater, and meanwhile may drive a cleaning component coordinated with an electric top block to wipe the lens of the binocular camera, so that the video information may be collected clearly underwater. Finally, the video information may be transmitted to a worker on the water through the communication component to achieve the effect of remote detection, which saves the underwater detection cost and improves detection efficiency.
US11201980B2	Image forming apparatus with power control based on human detection, method for controlling image forming apparatus, and recording medium An image forming apparatus capable of switching power state between a first power state and a second power state, which is lower in power than the first power state, shifts from the second power state to the first power state. In a case where the image forming apparatus shifts to the second power state in response to a current time reaching a set time, the image forming apparatus is controlled not to shift from the second power state to the first power state in response to an object approaching the image forming apparatus being detected.
US11201972B2	Image forming apparatus which accepts multiple types of test sheets for calibration of image density and geometric characteristics An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit configured to form an image, a conveying unit configured to convey a sheet on which the image is formed, a reader configured to read the sheet conveyed by the conveying unit and a controller. The controller is configured to execute first calibration in which a density of an image to be formed by the image forming unit is controlled based on a result of reading by the reader, and execute second calibration in which a geometric characteristic of an image to be formed by the image forming unit is controlled based on a result of reading by the reader. The controller allows usage of a sheet of a first type in the first type of calibration, wherein the controller prevents usage of a sheet of a second type in the first type of calibration.
US11201970B2	System, apparatus and computer program product for detecting image defects based on angles of respective vectors of a plurality of pixels and reference colors An image forming system includes: a reading unit configured to read a test image, the test image having a determination image formed by overlapping a plurality of colors and a plurality of reference images formed with each of a plurality of reference colors; and a determination unit configured to determine a first color value of each of the plurality of reference colors based on a reading result of the reference images, determine a second color value of a plurality of pixels included in the determination image based on a reading result of the determination image, and determine whether an image defect has occurred based on an angle of a second vector corresponding to the second color value of the plurality of pixels with respect to a first vector corresponding to the first color value of each of the plurality of reference colors.
US11201962B2	Calling on a multi-display device Examples that relate to calling on a computing device are disclosed. One example provides a computing device, comprising, a first display a second display, a sensor system a logic subsystem and a storage subsystem comprising instructions executable by the logic subsystem to output, via one or both of the first display and the second display, a notification of an incoming phone call at the computing device, and based on output from the sensor system indicating a relative angle between the first display and the second display being changed to an angle greater than a predetermined angle, answer the incoming phone call.
US11201956B2	Inactive state security support in wireless communications system According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method, comprising: storing a security context comprising a first key for wireless data transmission, and applying a timer for defining validity of the security context for the data transmission during an inactive state.
US11201951B2	Multi-role group inheritance for interacting computer systems In some embodiments, a method receives a first interaction group that includes a plurality of roles. The plurality of roles comprise a first plurality of interaction modules that each define an activity. The method receives a second interaction group that includes a second plurality of interaction modules. The second interaction group identifies the first interaction group, and interaction modules in the second plurality of modules identify a role in the plurality of roles of the first interaction group. Then, an activity of the second plurality of interaction modules is generated for the second interaction group by retrieving the activity of an interaction module in the first plurality of interaction modules identified by a respective role for the interaction module in the second plurality of interaction modules.
US11201940B2	Technologies for flow rule aware exact match cache compression Technologies for flow rule aware exact match cache compression include multiple computing devices in communication over a network. A computing device reads a network packet from a network port and extracts one or more key fields from the packet to generate a lookup key. The key fields are identified by a key field specification of an exact match flow cache. The computing device may dynamically configure the key field specification based on an active flow rule set. The computing device may compress the key field specification to match a union of non-wildcard fields of the active flow rule set. The computing device may expand the key field specification in response to insertion of a new flow rule. The computing device looks up the lookup key in the exact match flow cache and, if a match is found, applies the corresponding action. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US11201937B2	Message broker customization with user administered policy functions A message broker customization system and method with user administered policy functions. The system uses user defined and controlled policy functions to programmatically, customize the behaviors of a message broker's processing of messages and further allowing for that customization to take place on a per channel basis. This provides for greater functionality and flexibility to the users of a message system, especially when the users of the message system do not have administrative control over the message broker.
US11201936B2	Input and output schema mappings Optimizations are provided for interconnecting event sources with event subscribers in a seamless manner so that the native formatting/schema methodologies used by event sources and subscribers will not need to be natively modified. An event grid service is provided as a routing and mapping service. This event grid service receives event data that may be organized in any kind of format. By analyzing the format, the event grid service determines whether the format correlates with a format used by a consumer of that event data. If the formats conform, then the event grid service extracts relevant data from the event data and pushes it to the subscriber. If the formats do not conform, the event grid service intelligently generates a mapping to map the two formats together.
US11201934B2	Methods, device, server and computer program products for pushing data in a network environment comprising cache servers The present invention relates to pushing at least one resource associated with a main resource, in response to a request for this main resource. After having received a request for a main resource and obtained from the cache memory a list of at least one resource linked to the main resource, an indication being associated with the at least one resource, the indication comprising a push policy defined by an application server, the at least one resource stored in the cache memory is pushed in response to a comparison of the indication associated with the at least one resource with a recommendation comprising a preferred push policy.
US11201922B2	Systems and methods to provide digital amenities for local access One embodiment includes a network apparatus at a store for allowing digital amenities to be accessed at the store by a mobile device of a user. The network apparatus includes a network interface, a storage module to keep digital amenities and a computing module. The network interface can be designed to couple to the mobile device at the store, and to a computing device outside the store. The network interface can be designed to recognize the mobile device at the store based on a piece of software related to the store in the mobile device. The computing module can be designed to help the mobile device to access a first digital amenity from the storage module in view of the piece of software. Based on the access, a second digital amenity from the computing device can be pre-stored at the storage module.
US11201912B2	Communication device for improved establishing of a connection between devices A communication device (100) being part of a proximity-based sharing network (400), said communication device comprising a controller (210) and a radio frequency interface (230), wherein the controller is configured to: detect that a second communication device (100B) is in an immediate proximity and in response thereto automatically establishing a connection (430) for sharing content.
US11201908B2	Uploading data from mobile devices A method of transferring data includes connecting a mobile device to each of a plurality of network devices at separate respective times and via a respective network connection for each network device. Each of the network devices is connected to a separate respective logical computing network. The method also includes transferring a different respective portion of a data file from the mobile device to each respective network device via the respective network connection and storing the respective portion of the data file on the respective logical computing network. The method further includes disconnecting the mobile device from each respective network connection before connecting to any other one of the network devices. It is also contemplated that the method can account for instances where disconnection of the mobile device from a network device results in incomplete or corrupt transfer of data.
US11201907B1	Access control center auto launch Methods and systems provide indirect and temporary access to a company's IT infrastructure and business applications. The methods/systems involve establishing an access control center (ACC) to control the access that technical support personnel may have to the company's IT infrastructure and business applications. Thin client terminals with limited functionality may then be set up in the ACC for use by the technical support personnel. The thin client terminals connect the technical support personnel to workstations outside the ACC that operate as virtual desktops. The virtual desktops in turn connect the technical support personnel to the IT infrastructure and business applications. An ACC application may be used to automatically establish the connection between the thin client terminals and the virtual desktops and the virtual desktops and the IT infrastructure and business applications.
US11201904B2	Coverage optimized content buffering Described herein are systems and methods for optimizing buffering of streamed content based on upcoming coverage. For example, during a trip, the bit rate for transmission and receipt of streamed content can be dynamically adjusted based on the upcoming coverage such that when the upcoming network coverage is limited, the bit rate of the streamed content can be increased to ensure the buffer is sufficiently large to allow the user to experience (or appear to experience) uninterrupted streaming during the limited network connectivity. The bit rate can be calculated based on calculating a buffer size that can provide content at the play rate for the duration that the device is in a minimal or no network coverage area.
US11201903B1	Time synchronization between live video streaming and live metadata Techniques are described for synchronizing video of a live event with separately generated metadata relating to the live event. Timing information representing a delay associated with the encoding and packaging pipeline is determined for each origin that produces a set of content streams, and then provided in the form of a synchronization offset in the client manifest for various streaming technologies. The client device requests the metadata, and synchronizes the metadata with content segments using timing information associated with each and the synchronization offset communicated in the manifest.
US11201900B1	Methods and systems for multimedia communication while accessing network resources Methods and systems configured to enable communications among user concurrently accessing a website are described. A communication system detects that at least a first user and a second user are concurrently accessing a third party website via respective first user and second user devices. At least partly in response to detecting that the first user and the second user are concurrently accessing the third party website, corresponding indications are transmitted to the first user device and the second user device. The first user and the second user are enabled to communicate with each other via one or more communication channels and to securely share content with each other.
US11201899B1	Systems and methods for secure, controlled virtual visitation with confinement institution inmates Secure, controlled, interactive virtual visitation for confinement institution inmates is provided using computing devices connected through a network by managing the scheduling of visitation sessions and use of shared visitation session resources, ensuring the identities of the inmate and the person with whom the inmate is to interact in the virtual visitation session, and by monitoring the interactions and communications during the virtual visitation sessions to detect prohibited activities. Another embodiment of the invention uses a virtual desktop shared from a remote server to ensure that an inmate does not have access to prohibited applications or content during a virtual visitation session.
US11201892B1	Enhanced crawling of unexposed web applications Techniques are disclosed for enhanced crawling of unexposed web applications for vulnerability scanning purposes. A response to a request to a web application is received and a web application framework detection routine is executed on the response. A determination is made that a web application framework is part of the response and the response is loaded in a web browser associated with the web application. A custom web application framework hook for the web application framework is injected into a web page of a web browser and a list of Document Object Model (DOM) elements and corresponding event handlers is received. A determination is made, based on the list, to execute DOM events to discover functionality of the web application. The DOM events are executed, and network activity of the web browser during execution of the DOM events is recorded.
US11201887B1	Systems and methods for low latency stateful threat detection and mitigation Disclosed are systems and methods for securing a network. A method may include obtaining, by a detection engine, an encapsulated image defining an action for a predetermined data packet of interest; determining, by the detection engine, that the action defined by the encapsulated image should be applied to one or more data packets accessed by the detection engine; generating and deploying, by the detection engine, an action state including one or more attributes associated with the accessed data packet and the encapsulated image; determining, at a first execution engine executing parallel with the detection engine, that the one or more data packets comprises attributes matching the one or more attributes included in the deployed action state; and executing, by the first execution engine, the action included in the deployed action state on a received data packet to generate a processed data packet.
US11201873B2	Multi-factor authentication with geolocation and voice command A method of multi-factor authentication is performed by an access control device. In response to detecting a voice command, the access control device sends a query to a location server for a current location of a user equipment (UE) included in a list of trusted UEs. The access control device may then receive an indication of the current location from the location server and in response thereto, the access control device may determine whether the current location of the UE is within a threshold distance of the access control device. If so, the access control device may generate an access signal that indicates that a user associated with the UE is authorized to access a protected resource.
US11201869B2	Secure zone for secure purchases An apparatus according to the present disclosure may comprise a secure zone configured to execute a task having a subtask. The task and subtask may have respective executable code and may be digitally signed by respective code providers. The secure zone may be further configured to apply respective sets of permissions while the respective executable code of the task and subtask are executed. The respective set of permissions for the task may be based on at least one of information associated with the signed task and information in a digital certificate of the respective code provider for the task. The respective set of permissions for the subtask may be based on at least one of information associated with the signed subtask and information in a digital certificate of the respective code provider for the subtask.
US11201860B2	Information processing system, information processing apparatus, and data output apparatus An information processing system includes a data output apparatus and an information processing apparatus. The data output apparatus includes processors and memories to store instructions which cause the processors to receive a first authentication information, request authentication based on the first authentication information, and transmit the first authentication information authenticated in response to the authentication request and a transmission request of information indicating storage locations to store data output from the data output apparatus. The information processing apparatus includes processors and memories to store instructions which cause the processors to receive a second authentication information, request authentication based on the second authentication information, determine whether the second authentication information authenticated in response to the authentication request and the first authentication information transmitted from the data output apparatus have a predetermined relationship, and transmit information indicating the storage locations when the first and the second authentication information have the predetermined relationship.
US11201857B2	Domain transcendent file cryptology network A domain transcendent file cryptology network includes a first data cryptology node in a first data domain having a first security protocol. A hardware processor of the first data cryptology node executes a first instantiation of a software code to receive a request to transfer a data file from the first data domain to a second data domain having a second, different, security protocol, obtain one or more characteristics of the data file, and generate an authentication tag for the data file based on the characteristic(s). The first instantiation of the software code also encrypts the data file and transmits the encrypted data file, the authentication tag, and a decryption key to a second data cryptology node in the second data domain. The decryption key and the authentication tag enable decryption of the encrypted data file by a second instantiation of the software code on the second data cryptology node.
US11201856B2	Message security A method, computer system, and a computer program product for securing message transmission is provided. The present invention may include linking, by a first terminal device, a communication interface to a first communication channel for a target application. The present invention may include, in response to a first message being inputted in the communication interface, encrypting, by the first terminal device, the first message with a key for the first communication channel. The present invention may include, transmitting, by the first terminal device, the encrypted first message via the first communication channel.
US11201853B2	DNS cache protection Some embodiments provide a method for detecting that a domain name service (DNS) cache on a data compute node (DCN) has been attacked. The method, during a first operational phase of an agent executing on the DCN, builds a DNS cache that stores entries that include (i) network address to domain name mappings and (ii) policies for the entries received from a centralized service. During a second operational phase of the agent, the method detects that an entry of the DNS cache has been modified by a DNS response such that the modified entry violates the policy for the entry. Based on the detection, the method sends an alert to the centralized service. The centralized service performs additional analysis on the modification to determine whether to allow the DCN to use the modified DNS cache entry.
US11201848B2	DNS-based ranking of domain names Provided is a method for domain name ranking. An example method includes receiving Domain Name System (DNS) data, which includes domain names. The DNS data is processed to obtain multiple metric values for each of the domain names. The metric values can include a query count (QC), a client count (CC), and a network count (NC). The method proceeds with calculating a score for each of the domain names based on the metric values. The calculation can be performed using the following equation: Score=NC·CC·(1+log(QC)). Furthermore, the method ranks the domain names based on the score for each of the domain names. The ranking can be based on normalization of the scores or based on converting the scores into respective percentile ranks.
US11201845B2	Electronic device and method for displaying e-mail in electronic device According to various embodiments, an electronic device comprises a display, a memory, and a processor, wherein the processor is configured to generate a first file in a chat mail view format, wherein the first file is capable of displaying content of a first email including at least one original message in chat view, and display, through the display, the content of the first email in chat view, based on the first file. Other embodiments are possible.
US11201843B1	Dynamic migration of conversations between communication platforms A computer-implemented method for dynamically migrating an email thread from an email platform to a message thread on messaging platform includes: monitoring an ongoing email thread; and migrating the email thread from an email platform to a messaging platform in response to an attribute associated with the email thread reaching and/or exceeding a predetermined threshold level, wherein migrating the email thread includes converting the contents of the email thread into one or more message threads on the messaging platform.
US11201827B2	Method and apparatus for performing retransmission after discarding procedure in wireless communication system The present invention relates to a method for transmitting a signal by a user equipment in a wireless communication system. In particular, the method includes the steps of: receiving a discard indication for a data unit from an upper layer; discarding the data unit in a buffer; if the buffer becomes empty upon discarding the data unit, selecting a specific data unit among data units received from the upper layer before a reception of the discard indication; including a status report request indicator into the specific data unit; and transmitting the specific data unit to a network.
US11201817B2	Traffic steering in fastpath A method may include an instruction to route the data to a destination. The method may additionally include inspecting the data to identify metadata associated with the data. The method may further include identifying, based on the metadata, a first routing path and a second routing path that both lead to the destination. The first routing path may include a first communication link associated with a first link classification, and the second routing path may include a second communication link associated with a second link classification. The method may also include selecting the first routing path based on a configuration preference and based on the first routing path including the first communication link associated with the first link classification. The method may additionally include transmitting the data along the first routing path via the first communication link.
US11201816B2	Optimal routing in a communications network A method of determining an optimal route for communication between nodes in a communications network. The method comprises assigning a plurality of link potential values (Pab) to a respective plurality of direct links (lab) between respective first and second nodes a and b in the network, wherein a link potential value (Pab) represents a likelihood that the corresponding direct link will be used for future communication requests. The method comprises determining an optimal route between nodes based on the plurality of link potential values (Pab).
US11201809B1	Network topology generation using traceroute data Embodiments provide systems, methods, and computer program products to generate a network topology. Internet Protocol (IP) addresses may be collected that immediately precede a first IP address in a set of IP-address-sequences to obtain a first set of previous-hop IP addresses, where each IP-address-sequence in the set of IP-address-sequences comprises a sequence of IP addresses traversed by at least one packet. Next, each IP address in the first set of previous-hop IP addresses may be associated with a first logical node in the network topology.
US11201801B2	Machine learning-based determinations of lifespan information for devices in an internet of things environment Methods, apparatus, and processor-readable storage media for machine learning-based determinations of lifespan information for devices in an Internet of Things (IoT) environment are provided herein. An example computer-implemented method includes automatically obtaining device telemetry data from one or more IoT-enabled devices within an IoT network, automatically determining lifespan-related information pertaining to at least a portion of the one or more IoT-enabled devices by applying a machine learning model to the device telemetry data, and initiating at least one automated action in response to the determined lifespan-related information.
US11201799B2	Intelligent selection of vantage points for monitoring subservices based on potential impact to services A method includes configuring services as respective collections of subservices on network devices of a network, and decomposing definitions of the services into subservice dependency graphs each indicating the subservices and dependencies between the subservices that collectively implement a respective one of the services. The method further includes traversing the subservice dependency graphs to identify, at one or more intersections of the subservice dependency graphs, one or more shared subservices among the subservices of the services, wherein the one or more shared subservices are shared by the services. The method also includes monitoring subservice health states of the one or more shared subservices, and determining health states of the services based on the subservice health states of the one or more shared subservices.
US11201795B2	Declarative and reactive data layer for component-based user interfaces Each of a plurality of wire web components predicted to be included in a graphical user interface (GUI) for presentation at a client machine. Each data object instance may be associated with a respective data object instance identifier and a respective one or more data object fields. A wire web component graph that includes a plurality of nodes may be constructed. A node may correspond to a wire web component, a data object field, or an application procedure interface (API). One or more of the data values may be retrieved from the respective APIs based on the wire web component graph. A GUI message including the retrieved data values and the wire web component graph may be transmitted to the client machine.
US11201784B2	Artificial intelligence-based networking method and device for fog radio access networks An artificial intelligence-based networking method for fog radio access networks, which includes: a central computing logic module receives reported data which includes measurement report data from user terminals, wireless transmission data from base stations, and operation and maintenance data from a radio access network. Based on these reported data and proper machine learning algorithms, the central computing logic module configures an operating mode of a radio access network that matches user behavior, service attributes, and radio access network performance indicators. According to the operating mode, an edge computing logic module determines whether to optimize a current configuration of an edge communication entity and allocation of radio resources, computing resources, and caching resources. With proper machine learning algorithms, the proposed networking method meets various service requirements. By configuring the radio access network flexibly, the method enables the radio access network to adapt to different application scenarios and performance objectives.
US11201780B2	Configurations associated with segmentation of one or more packets for wireless communication Some aspects provide for establishing a radio connection for the wireless communication, determining a configuration for whether to segment one or more packets for the wireless communication using the established radio connection, and communicating the one or more packets based on the determined configuration. Some aspects provide for assembling a first frame comprising one or more packets, transmitting the first frame, determining whether a portion of one or more packets was truncated during the assembling of the first frame, and transmitting a second frame comprising at least the truncated portion of the one or more packets of the first frame. Some aspects provide for receiving a first frame comprising one or more packets, determining that a portion of one or more packets is truncated, and determining whether to ignore as padding at least the truncated portion of the one or more packets of the first frame.
US11201766B2	Detector circuit and system for galvanically isolated transmission of digital signals A detector circuit for galvanically isolated transmission of digital signals. The detector circuit includes two differential signal inputs, one input common-mode voltage connection, one alternating voltage coupling, and one differential stage. The detector circuit also includes one operating voltage connection, one operating ground connection, one signal output, one bias current connection, and one rectifier stage. The alternating current coupling includes two capacitors and two resistors. The differential stage includes a first n-channel transistor and a second n-channel transistor. The bias current connection is connected to the differential stage via a third n-channel transistor. The bias current connection is connected to the rectifier stage via a fourth n-channel transistor and a fifth n-channel transistor. The rectifier stage includes five p-channel transistors.
US11201764B2	Communication method and communications apparatus A communication method includes: determining, by a first device, a phase tracking reference signal (PTRS) pattern, where the PTRS pattern includes one or more PTRS chunks, and each PTRS chunk includes one or more PTRS samples; and mapping, by the first device, a PTRS to one or more symbols, and sending the one or more symbols to a second device.
US11201759B1	Reconfigurable dual-ring network redundancy A network communication system may include intelligent electronic devices (IEDs) in a dual-ring communication network. A software-defined network (SDN) device may be programmed by a removable or disconnectable SDN controller to control the flow path of data packets to the IEDs in the dual-ring network. A first ring of the dual-ring communication network may be dedicated to high priority data packets, and a second ring of the dual-ring communication network may be dedicated to low priority data packets. The SDN device may implement various levels of redundancy depending on the number and location of link failures detected. A first level of redundancy may direct high priority data packets in the opposite direction, and a second level of redundancy may direct high priority data packets onto the other ring normally used for low priority data packets.
US11201750B2	Virtual network system, control apparatus, control method, and control program A system according to this invention is directed to a virtual network system that prevents unauthorized registration, alteration, or occurrence of erroneous registration even if an operator is to create a network system including a virtual network function produced by a third party. The virtual network system includes an instructor that instructs activation or change of a virtual network function preregistered of providing one of functions included in a virtual network service, an authenticator that authenticates, based on authentication information generated to authenticate a provider of the virtual network function at a time of registering the virtual network function, that the virtual network function instructed to be activated or changed has been validly registered or updated, and a setting unit that sets, when the authenticator authenticates that the virtual network function has been validly registered or updated, the instructed virtual network function as the one of the functions included in the virtual network service.
US11201749B2	Establishing a security association and authentication to secure communication between an initiator and a responder Provided are a computer program product, system and method embodiments for secure communication between an initiator and a responder over a network. The initiator sends a security association initialization message to the responder to establish a security association including key material used to generate a key for the security association. In response to receiving a security association initialization response to accept the security association, the initiator sends an authentication message to the responder to establish authentication between the responder and the initiator. In response to receiving an authentication message response to the authentication message, the initiator is programmed with the security association. An authentication done message is received from the responder after receiving the authentication message response. The initiator activates the security association to use the key to secure communication between the responder and initiator in response to receiving the authentication done message.
US11201746B2	Blockchain access control system A system may receive a credential token and an access command. The access command may identify access logic to modify a datablock stored in a blockchain. The credential token may be mapped to a role token included in a role-based access control model. The system may determine a role-based access control framework authorizes the access command by identifying an authorization token in the role-based access control model, and the system may determine the role token is mapped to the identified authorization token in the role-based access control model. The system may determine the datablock includes the identified authorization token. The system may validate the identified authorization token. The system may authorize execution of the access logic to modify the datablock in response to the access command being authorized by the role-based access control framework, and validation of the identified authorization token included in the datablock.
US11201733B2	Method and device for transferring data in a topic-based publish-subscribe system Provided is a method for transferring data in a topic-based publish-subscribe system, including a key distribution server and a number of local client systems that can be coupled to the key distribution server, including: providing a group key by the key distribution server for a group selected from the local client systems, locally deriving a first-order sub-group key for a first-order subgroup of the group by key derivation parameters at least comprising the provided group key and a certain topic of the publish-subscribe system by means of the particular client system of the first-order sub-group, and transferring at least one message cryptographically protected by the derived first-order sub-group key between the client systems of the first-order sub-group. Differentiation within group communication according to topic by specific cryptographic keys is thereby enabled.
US11201718B2	Numerology indication for radio access networks There is disclosed a method of operating a network node in a radio access network. The method includes transmitting first numerology information indicating a first numerology for a carrier, the first numerology having a first subcarrier spacing and a first frequency reference. The method also includes transmitting a frequency shift indication indicating a second frequency reference for a second numerology for the same carrier, the frequency shift indication indicating the second frequency reference in relation to the first frequency reference. The disclosure also pertains to related methods and devices.
US11201707B2	Secured independent hosted payload operations Systems, methods, and apparatus for secured independent hosted payload operations are disclosed. In one or more embodiments, a disclosed method for payload operations comprises receiving, by a command receiver on a vehicle, host commands from a host satellite operations center (SOC). The method further comprises commanding a hosted payload on or off according to the host commands. Also, the method comprises reconfiguring a host payload according to the host commands. In addition, the method comprises transmitting, by a host payload antenna, host user data to a host user antenna. Additionally, the method comprises receiving, by a hosted payload antenna on the vehicle, hosted commands from a hosted payload (HoP) operation center (HOC). Also, the method comprises reconfiguring the hosted payload according to the hosted commands. Further, the method comprises transmitting, by the hosted payload antenna, hosted user data to a hosted user antenna.
US11201704B2	Interlace hopping in unlicensed band Methods and arrangements for determining a next interlace having a next structure to be applied during a next transmission interval in an unlicensed spectrum are disclosed. The next structure is to be applied for a transmission over a wireless interface in a wireless communications network operating in an unlicensed spectrum, wherein a first interlace is applied during transmission in a first transmission interval and wherein the first interlace has a first interlace structure formed by a plurality of physical resource blocks, PRBs, that are arranged with a given subcarrier spacing in one of a set of interlaces. The method includes defining a frequency shift based on the number of PRBs per interlace and a maximum allowed power for a single interlace and determining the next interlace structure by shifting the first interlace structure by the defined frequency shift.
US11201696B2	Method and device for retransmission Embodiments related to retransmission in a communication system are described and depicted. In one embodiment, a retransmission entity repeats a transmission of a data transfer unit by the device after a predetermined number of other transmitted data transfer units has been transmitted. The retransmission entity may also determine whether a measure for a time period since the first transmission of the data transfer unit by the device has exceeded a predetermined threshold and to provide a final transmission of the data transfer unit based on the determining that the measure for the time period has exceeded the predetermined threshold.
US11201674B2	Apparatus and method to improve optical reach in bidirectional optical transmission systems employing single-laser coherent transceivers Optical networks, transponders and single-laser coherent transceiver are described. The single-laser coherent transceiver includes a wavelength source, a transmitter and a receiver. The wavelength source is tuned to supply a first optical signal having a first wavelength. The transmitter receives the first optical signal and encodes client data into the first optical signal to generate a second optical signal. The receiver receives the first optical signal from the wavelength source and a fraction of the second optical signal.
US11201667B2	Optical fiber characterization measurement systems and methods Systems and methods for characterizing an optical fiber performed in part by an optical node (12) in an optical line system (10) include performing one or more measurements to characterize the optical fiber (16, 18) with one or more components (50, 52) at the optical node (12), wherein the one or more components (50, 52) perform functions during operation of the optical node (12) and are reconfigured to perform the one or measurements independent of the functions; and configuring the optical node (12) for communication over the optical fiber (16, 18) based on the one or more measurements. The one or more components can include any of an Optical Service Channel (OSC), an Optical Time Domain Reflectometer (OTDR), and an optical amplifier. The configuring can include setting a launch power into the optical fiber based on the one or more measurements.
US11201664B2	Adjusting repeater gain based on antenna feedback path loss Technology for a repeater is disclosed. The repeater can include a first port and a second port. The repeater can include a transmitter communicatively coupled to the first port and a receiver communicatively coupled to the second port. The transmitter can transmit a path loss signal. The receiver can receive the path loss signal transmitted by the transmitter. The repeater can include a controller. The controller can identify a first power level of the signal transmitted from the transmitter. The controller can identify a second power level of the signal received at the receiver. The controller can determine an antenna feedback path loss of the repeater based on the first power level and the second power level. The controller can set a maximum gain level for the repeater based on the antenna feedback path loss to avoid an oscillation in the repeater.
US11201660B2	Method and apparatus for transmissions via multiple beams in a wireless communication system A method for a wireless communications system is disclosed. In one example, user equipment (UE) (e.g. a mobile phone) receives an indication from a network (for example, by way of a transmission and reception point (TRP)) indicating whether a first transmission and a second transmission to the UE can be combined for decoding. The UE also receives the first transmission via a first UE beam and the second transmission via a second UE beam. The first transmission and the second transmission are received concurrently. The first and second transmissions can arrive via different serving beams and/or different TRPs of the same cell. Based on the indication, the UE combines the first and second transmissions for decoding purposes.
US11201657B2	Reference signals for initial acquisition in 5G systems Disclosed herein are apparatuses, systems, and methods for reference signal design for initial acquisition, by receiving a first primary synchronization signal (PSS) and a first secondary synchronization signal (SSS) from a first transmit (Tx) beam, in first contiguous orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols of a downlink subframe. A UE can receive at least a second PSS and a second SSS from a second Tx beam in contiguous OFDM symbols of the downlink subframe. A UE can then detect beamforming reference signals (BRSs) corresponding to the first Tx beam and the second Tx beam, based on identification of physical cell ID information and timing information processed from the first PSS, the second PSS, the first SSS, and the second SSS. The UE can select the first Tx beam or the second Tx beam that was received with the highest power, based on the BRSs. Other embodiments are described.
US11201656B2	Method and device in UE and base station for multi-antenna transmission The disclosure provides a method and a device in a User Equipment (UE) and a base station for multi-antenna transmission. The UE transmits a first radio signal in a first time interval, and receives a second radio signal in a second time interval; and then monitors a third radio signal in a third time interval. The first radio signal includes first information, and the second radio signal includes second information. Target information is used for receiving the third radio signal. A time-domain position of the second time interval is used for determining whether the target information is the first information or the second information. A time-domain position of the third time interval is associated to a time-domain position of the first time interval. The UE can select a beam direction corresponding to a downlink channel according to its measurement, thereby improving efficiency and performances of downlink transmission.
US11201655B2	Wireless communication method and wireless communications apparatus This application discloses a data transmission solution. A terminal device generates channel state information and data for transmission in a data channel. The transmit power of the data channel is determined based on the number of bits used to transmit the data and the number of bits used to transmit the channel state information. The solution of this application reduces bit error probability and improves data decoding accuracy.
US11201645B2	Massive multiple-input multiple-output system and method A detection method is presented that combines two non-linear approaches, the Sphere Decoder (SD) and the K-best algorithms, to identify symbols transmitted over a communication channel in a multiple input-multiple output (MIMO) communication system. A parallel implementation on a x86 computer system is presented, which reduces the number of evaluations by branching over plural symbols and diversifies the search process, which may rapidly reduce the radius and thus, the time complexity of the computer system.
US11201644B2	Cooperative wireless networks A cooperative multi-user multiple input, multiple output (MIMO) antenna array comprises a MIMO subspace processing system communicatively coupled by a fronthaul network to a set of antennas residing on multiple ones of a plurality of geographically distributed wireless terminals in a Radio Access Network. The MIMO subspace processing system can comprise a distributed computing system. The MIMO antenna array is adapted by updating the set of antennas to produce a second set of antennas; reconfiguring the fronthaul network; selecting an updated set of distributed computing resources to perform MIMO subspace processing; and reconfiguring the MIMO subspace processing to employ channel state information of the second set to enable multiple non-interfering subspace channels occupying a common frequency.
US11201642B2	Method and device for power adjustment in UE and base station A method and device for power adjustment in a user equipment and a base station are disclosed in the present disclosure. The user equipment receives first information which is used to trigger a first operation, and then receives K piece(s) of target information and transmits a first wireless signal. A transmission power value of the first wireless signal is a first power value; the first power value is irrelevant to all piece(s) of target information received prior to triggering the first operation. The K piece(s) of target information is(are) received after triggering the first operation. The sum of K power offset value(s) is used to determine the first power value. The K power offset value(s) are respectively indicated by the K piece(s) of target information.
US11201639B2	Instruments and methods of detecting intermittent noise in a cable network system Cable network test instruments are disclosed. The test instruments are configured to collect signal data at a node from a cable network system and analyze the collected data to determine whether intermittent noise is present. Methods of locating intermittent noise are also disclosed.
US11201638B2	Systems and methods for ultra wideband impulse radio transmitters Ultra-Wideband (UWB) technology exploits modulated coded impulses over a wide frequency spectrum with very low power over a short distance for digital data transmission. Today's leading edge modulated sinusoidal wave wireless communication standards and systems achieve power efficiencies of 50 nJ/bit employing narrowband signaling schemes and traditional RF transceiver architectures. However, such designs severely limit the achievable energy efficiency, especially at lower data rates such as below 1 Mbps. Further, it is important that peak power consumption is supportable by common battery or energy harvesting technologies and long term power consumption neither leads to limited battery lifetimes or an inability for alternate energy sources to sustain them. Accordingly, it would be beneficial for next generation applications to exploit inventive transceiver structures and communication schemes in order to achieve the sub nJ per bit energy efficiencies required by next generation applications.
US11201636B2	Cradle apparatus for use with a mobile communications device A cradle apparatus cradles a mobile communications device, detects spatial distances from target objects positioned in adjacency to the cradle apparatus, and communicates with the mobile communications device for selectively powering off or powering on the visual display of the mobile communications device based on its distance from a target object. The cradle apparatus includes a cradle assembly, at least one distance sensor, and sensor support circuitry. The cradle assembly is configured for receiving and cradling the communications device and displaying a visual display of the communications device as cradled by the cradle assembly. Each distance sensor is positioned by the cradle assembly for detecting the relative distance of select objects positioned in adjacency to the visual display. The sensor support circuitry communicates each distance sensor to a switch or circuit board for powering off or powering on the visual display depending on its distance from the target object.
US11201630B2	Method and apparatus for a frequency-selective antenna Examples disclosed herein relate to an antenna system. The antenna system has a transceiver unit adapted to receive a composite communication signal, wherein the composite communication signal is a mix of multiple individual communication signals transmitted at different frequencies, a radiating structure comprising multiple subarrays of radiating elements, each subarray responsive to a different frequency, and an antenna controller adapted to map each communication signal to a user equipment and adjust an electrical parameter of the radiating elements within each subarray so as to direct each individual communication signal in the composite communication signal to a corresponding user equipment.
US11201629B2	Low latency sequential list decoding of polar codes There is provided a method of recursive sequential list decoding of a codeword of a polar code comprising: obtaining an ordered sequence of constituent codes usable for the sequential decoding of the polar code, representable by a layered graph; generating a first candidate codeword (CCW) of a first constituent code, the first CCW being computed from an input model informative of a CCW of a second constituent code, the first constituent code and second constituent code being children of a third constituent code; using the first CCW and the second CCW to compute, by the decoder, a CCW of the third constituent code; using the CCW of the third constituent code to compute a group of symbol likelihoods indicating probabilities of symbols of a fourth (higher-layer) constituent code having been transmitted with a particular symbol value, and using the group of symbol likelihoods to decode the fourth constituent code.
US11201623B2	Unified programmable computational memory and configuration network Examples generally relate a programmable device having a unified programmable computational memory (PCM) and configuration network. In an example, a programmable device includes a die that includes a PCM integrated circuit having a PCM tile. The PCM tile includes a configuration memory (CM) and combinational logic (CL). The CM is capable of storing configuration data received via a node in the PCM tile. The CL is configured to receive internal control signal(s) and first and second input signals and to output a result signal. The CL is capable of outputting the result signal resulting from a logic function that is responsive to the internal control signal(s) and a signal of a group of signals including the first and second input signals. The CL is configured to receive the first input signal via the node in the PCM tile.
US11201612B2	Switch control systems for light emitting diodes and methods thereof System and method for controlling one or more light emitting diodes. For example, the system for controlling one or more light emitting diodes includes a current generator configured to generate a first current flowing through one or more light emitting diodes. The one or more light emitting diodes are configured to receive a rectified voltage generated by a rectifying bridge coupled to a TRIAC dimmer. Additionally, the system includes a bleeder configured to receive the rectified voltage, and a controller configured to receive a sensing voltage from the current generator and output a control signal to the bleeder. The sensing voltage indicates a magnitude of the first current.
US11201601B2	Transversely-excited film bulk acoustic resonator with multiple diaphragm thicknesses and fabrication method Filter devices and methods are disclosed. A filter device includes a substrate having a surface. A back surface of a single-crystal piezoelectric plate is attached to the surface of the substrate, portions of the single-crystal piezoelectric plate forming a plurality of diaphragms spanning respective cavities in the substrate. A conductor pattern is formed on a front surface of the piezoelectric plate, the conductor pattern including a plurality of interdigital transducers (IDTs) of a plurality of resonators. Interleaved fingers of at least a first IDT of the plurality of IDTs are disposed on a diaphragm having a first thickness, and interleaved fingers of at least a second IDT of the plurality of IDTs are disposed on a diaphragm having a second thickness less than the first thickness.
US11201587B2	Piezoelectric oscillator and piezoelectric oscillation device A piezoelectric oscillator includes a base member; a piezoelectric resonator mounted on an upper surface of the base member; a lid member joined to the upper surface so as to hermetically seal the piezoelectric resonator; an electronic component mounted on a lower surface of the base member; a mounting frame joined to the lower surface so as to surround the electronic component; and a heat conduction path disposed on the base member and/or the mounting frame. The heat conduction path is electrically isolated from both of the piezoelectric resonator and the electronic component in the piezoelectric oscillator and has heat conductivity. The heat conduction path includes a first heat conduction portion inside where the base member and the mounting frame overlap, and a second heat conduction portion connected to the first heat conduction portion and disposed outside where the base member and the mounting frame overlap.
US11201584B2	Junction box for a photovoltaic module A junction box for an electrical connection of a photovoltaic module, comprising a plug-in module and a housing module. The plug-in module comprises a plug element and a connection element, wherein the plug element enables a plug-in connection with an external electrical connection line, and the connection element provides a connection option for an internal electrical supply line into the photovoltaic module. The housing module can be connected to, and detached from, the plug-in module and can also be attached to the photovoltaic module in order to offer protection of a connection area of the photovoltaic module against outer influences.
US11201583B2	Waterless cleaning system and method for solar trackers using an autonomous robot A solar tracker waterless cleaning system for cleaning solar panels of a solar tracker being able to be positioned at a pre-determined angle, including a docking station and an autonomous robotic cleaner (ARC), the docking station coupled with an edge of the solar tracker, the ARC including at least one rechargeable power source, at least one cleaning cylinder, at least one edge sensor, at least one cleaning cylinder direct current (DC) drive motor including a built-in encoder, a cleaning cylinder drive belt and a controller, the cleaning cylinder including a plurality of fins which rotates for generating a directional air flow for pushing dirt off of the surface of the solar tracker without water, the cleaning cylinder DC drive motor for driving the cleaning cylinder, the controller for controlling a cleaning process of the ARC, the built-in encoder for determining a revolutions per minute (RPM) of the cleaning cylinder.
US11201582B2	Tracking type portable thin-film solar power generating device The present invention relates to new energy field, and more particularly to a tracking type portable thin-film solar power generating device. Conventionally, commercially available thin-film solar power generation devices have a fixed inclination angle and do not have a tracking function, which results in a low power generation capacity. Therefore, it is difficult to satisfy the needs of outdoor activities. Since photoelectric conversion rate is difficult to be effective improved in the short-term, how to increase the power generation of thin-film solar cells has become an urgent technical problem in the field of thin-film solar power generation. The present invention uses folded type and assembled type thin-film solar cells, articulated devices, and a driving device to form a movable support, so that an inclination angle of an integrated polygonal thin-film solar cell can be changed with time for tracking the sun.
US11201577B2	Drive with integrated dynamic load control A drive with integrated dynamic load control includes a three-phase asynchronous motor having three phase legs connected in a star circuit, each phase leg having a winding having a coil end connected to a common star point. A load control circuit has a regulating module, an ammeter, a voltmeter and first and second switches. The ammeter and voltmeter detect a phase current and a phase voltage in one phase leg. The regulating module calculates an active power of the phase leg and a total active power of the motor responsive to the phase current and phase voltage. The switches are arranged in two of the phase legs between the respective coil end and the star point and the regulating module interrupts the two phase legs by using the switches when the active power, the total active power or a torque calculated from the total active power exceeds an adjustable limit value.
US11201576B2	Motor driving apparatus and refrigeration cycle equipment In a motor driving apparatus including a DC power supply circuit of variable output voltage value, an inverter of variable frequency, and a connection switching device for selecting connection, switching of the connection switching device is performed in a state where an output voltage of the DC power supply circuit is increased, a rotational speed of a motor is increased, and a current flowing through the motor is made not greater than a predetermined threshold. For example, the switching of the connection switching device is performed in a state where the current through the motor is made zero. For example, the switching is performed in a state where the output voltage of the DC power supply circuit is set at a value corresponding to the rotational speed of the motor during the switching. It is possible to prevent increase in apparatus size and switch the connection of windings while the motor is rotating.
US11201566B2	Switch protection The bridge circuit comprises input terminals (102.1, 102.2) for connecting a power source (103), a first branch (104) connected between the input terminals (102.1, 102.2). The first branch includes a first and a second section (108.1, 108.2). The first section (108.1) includes a first switch (107.1) and the second section (108.2) includes a second switch (107.2). The method comprises the steps of determining a measured value by measuring a current flowing in or a voltage across one of the two sections (108.1, 108.2), comparing the measured value with a threshold and controlling a switching of the first and the second switch (107.1, 107.2) of the first branch (104) in dependency of a result of said comparison.
US11201563B2	Multi-level multi-quadrant hysteresis current controllers and methods for control thereof Systems and methods for multilevel hysteresis current control for a cascaded multilevel converter having a plurality of power cells connected in series with a positive integer number of output voltage levels, and to control any shape of AC/DC current in the load, transfer electrical power from energy storage elements of the power cells to that load and recover the energy back to the storage elements. Systems and methods for voltage balancing on energy storage elements of the power cells to determine whether to inject energy into or extract energy from a selected storage element, and for zero switching state rotation technique of switching elements in each power cell of cascaded multilevel converter.
US11201557B2	Control system for synchronous rectifying transistor of LLC converter A control system for synchronous rectifying transistor of LLC converter, the system comprising a voltage sampling circuit, a high-pass filtering circuit, a PI compensation and effective value detection circuit, and a control system taking a microcontroller (MCU) as a core. When the LLC converter is operating at a high frequency, a drain-source voltage VDS(SR) of the synchronous rectifying transistor delivers, via the sampling circuit, a change signal of the drain-source voltage during turn-off into the high-pass filtering circuit and the PI compensation and effective value detection circuit to obtain an effective value amplification signal of a drain-source voltage oscillation signal caused by parasitic parameters, and the current value is compared with a previously collected value via a control circuit taking a microcontroller (MCU) as a core, so as to change a turning-on time of the synchronous rectifying transistor in the next period.
US11201554B2	Flyback power converter and ZVS control circuit and control method thereof A ZVS (zero voltage switching) control circuit for controlling a flyback power converter includes: a primary side controller circuit, for generating a switching signal to control a primary side switch; and a secondary side controller circuit, for generating a synchronous rectifier (SR) control signal to control a synchronous rectifier switch. The SR control signal includes an SR-control pulse and a ZVS pulse. The primary side controller circuit determines a trigger timing point of the switching signal according to a first waveform characteristic of a ringing signal, to control the primary side switch to be ON. The secondary side controller circuit determines a trigger timing point of the ZVS pulse according to a second waveform characteristic of the ringing signal, to control the synchronous rectifier switch to be ON for a predetermined ZVS time period, thereby achieving zero voltage switching of the primary side switch.
US11201551B2	Power control converter and method for controlling power between two AC power units A power transmission unit for controlling a flow of electric energy between two AC power units is provided. The power transmission unit comprises a main transformer having a first winding and a second winding as well as a switchable auxiliary AC unit for applying a tunable auxiliary AC voltage across an auxiliary AC side of the auxiliary AC unit. The auxiliary AC side is connected in series with the first winding of the main transformer to form a series connection. Further, a power conversion unit comprising the power transmission unit and two AC power units as well as a method for controlling a flow of electric energy by using such a power conversion unit are provided.
US11201548B2	Single-stage interleaved soft switching converter According to a single-stage interleaved software switching converter, power factor is controlled and battery charging and current are integrally controlled on the basis of a PFC circuit of a single-stage interleaving type so that efficiency of a charging device is enhanced and the cost is reduced. Further, it is possible to remove harmful electromagnetic radiation; enhance power density and durability by using a film-type capacitor instead of the conventional electrolytic capacitor; reduce switching loss by soft switching operation and to reduce the volume of a filter unit; design magnetizing current to be small by removing a low-frequency component of a transformer and to reduce the volume; and perform high-power charging according to the number of windings of the transformer.
US11201545B2	Power conversion system control device and control system A control device is applied to a power conversion system including a first power conversion device and a second power conversion device connected in parallel with a common power supply target. The control device acquires a load output including a load current or power to be supplied to the power supply target, and control operation of the first power conversion device and the second power conversion device based on at least any of a voltage parameter including any of an input voltage and an output voltage and the load output.
US11201537B2	Method for suppressing common mode impulse current for inverter generated when switching on alternating current switch and application device thereof A method for suppressing a common mode impulse current for an inverter generated when an alternating current switch is switched on and a device for applying the method are provided. Before the alternating current switch is switched on for the inverter, a target value of a common mode voltage between the inverter and ground is calculated based on at least one of a voltage between an alternating current port and ground, a voltage between the inverter and ground and a voltage across the alternating current switch sampled in real time. Then, a compensation power supply arranged between a main circuit of the inverter and ground is controlled to change the common mode voltage to the target value, so that a common mode voltage difference between two ends of the alternating current switch is zero. Subsequently, the inverter is controlled to switch on the alternating current switch.
US11201536B2	Switching control circuit and semiconductor device A semiconductor device having a first switching device and a second switching device respectively on a power supply side and a ground side of the semiconductor device, for driving a load of the semiconductor device, and a switching control circuit that controls switching of the first and second switching devices. The switching control circuit includes a signal output circuit that outputs a set signal and a reset signal for turning on and off the first switching device, respectively, in response to an input signal of the semiconductor device, a level shift circuit that shifts a level of each of the set and reset signals, a drive circuit that drives the first switching device in response to an output from the level shift circuit, and a power supply circuit including a plurality of transistors that are Darlington-coupled, and are configured to generate a power supply voltage of the signal output circuit.
US11201533B2	Planar positioning device A planar positioning device having three degrees of freedom (X, Y, Rz) includes a static base having a flat bearing surface and a moveable stage. The stage is moveable over the bearing surface in an XY-plane. The moveable stage includes air bearings and is supported without contact by the bearing surface via said air bearings. The device includes a linear motor acting in the X-direction and a linear motor acting in the Y-direction, and at least one additional linear motor acting in the X-direction or in the Y-direction. Each of the linear motors includes a magnet assembly arranged on the moveable stage and a coil assembly arranged on the base. The base includes a slider track extending in the X-direction and a slider track extending in the Y-direction. The sliders each have a reluctance actuator arranged on it to cooperate with (ferro)magnetic material on the moveable stage.
US11201530B2	Actuating device and method of making the same Disclosed herein are permanent magnetic AC machine direct-drive resonant flapper system for flapping wing micro air vehicles and flapping fin autonomous underwater vehicles.
US11201523B2	Motor unit A motor unit includes a motor including a rotor to rotate about a motor axis, a reduction gear including an intermediate gear to rotate about an intermediate axis and connected to the motor, a differential including a ring gear to rotate about a differential axis and connected to the reduction gear, a housing including a housing space to house the motor, the reduction gear, and the differential, oil in a vertically lower region of the housing space, and an oil passage to lead the oil from the vertically lower region of the housing space to be fed to the motor. The housing includes a ceiling portion directly above the reduction gear and the differential. At least a portion of the ring gear is lower than a liquid surface of the oil in the vertically lower region of the housing space. The motor axis, the intermediate axis, and the differential axis extend in parallel with one another along a horizontal direction. Each of the intermediate axis and the differential axis is lower than the motor axis. The ceiling portion is substantially parallel to an imaginary line imaginarily joining the motor axis and the differential axis when viewed in an axial direction of the motor axis.
US11201522B2	Motor-driven compressor A compressor includes a housing, a stationary block, a drive shaft, a motor mechanism, a stationary scroll, and a movable scroll. The stationary block is fixed to the housing and is arranged between the motor mechanism and the movable scroll. The motor mechanism includes a stator and a rotor. The drive shaft is provided with a balance weight. The balance weight extends in the radial direction of the drive shaft and is arranged between the stationary block and the stator. The stator includes a stator core and a coil end. The balance weight covers a part of the coil end in the radial direction and the axial direction of the drive shaft.
US11201520B2	Drive device with circulating airflow A drive device includes an electric motor and a gear unit that is driven by the electric motor. The electric motor has a laminated stator core which includes stator windings and is accommodated in a stator housing. The stator housing has recesses that are axially uninterrupted, i.e. in particular in the direction of the rotor shaft axis, and the stator housing is surrounded, especially radially surrounded, by a housing of the drive device, in particular a tubular housing and/or a cup-shaped housing, and the housing is set apart from the stator housing, in particular such that an especially circulating airflow is able to be provided within the housing, the recesses in particular guiding the airflow through in the axial direction, and the airflow being returned in the opposite direction in the set-apart region between the stator housing part and the housing.
US11201510B2	Method and device for controlling wireless charging A method and a device for controlling wireless charging are provided. The method includes: acquiring charging quality of a wireless charging receiver at a current position relative to a wireless charging transmitter; acquiring charging qualities of the wireless charging receiver respectively at the first and second preset positions; determining relative position information of the wireless charging receiver relative to the wireless charging transmitter, based on the charging qualities at the current position, and at the first and second preset positions; acquiring position correction information of the wireless charging receiver corresponding to the relative position information; and upon correction of a position of the wireless charging receiver based on the position correction information, charging the wireless charging receiver at the corrected position.
US11201509B2	Wireless charging device, wireless charging method, and device to-be-charged Provided are a wireless charging device, a wireless charging method, and a device to-be-charged. The wireless charging device is configured to conduct wireless communication with the device to-be-charged through communication control circuits to adjust a transmission power of the wireless charging device. The device to-be-charged includes a battery, a wireless receiving circuit, a first charging channel, a detecting circuit, and a communication control circuit.
US11201501B2	Electromagnetic inductive power supply apparatus An embodiment of the present disclosure provides an electromagnetic inductive power supply apparatus comprising: an upper housing disposed on the upper side of a lower housing and having an elevating guide; a base disposed above the upper housing; a pressing support disposed on the lower side of the base part and having a guide bar which is coupled to the elevating guide so as to move up and down while being guided by the elevating guide, and one end of which is fastened to the lower housing; a lower core installed in the lower housing; and an upper core installed in the upper housing and forming a magnetic circuit inner space through which a line passes when the upper core is connected to the lower core.
US11201500B2	Efficiencies and flexibilities in inductive (wireless) charging A charger or power supply is provided that effects substantially continuous charging to one or more devices and/or batteries, on a surface of the charger or power supply. The charger or power supply comprises: a plurality of coils arrayed in one or multiple layers to provide substantially continuous charging or to supply wireless power over an effective charging area of the surface of the charger or power supply, wherein the effective charging area is larger than a single coil surface area, and the coils are arrayed such that any location on the effective charging area is at a distance equal to or less than a radius or a side-to-center length of at least one coil. Ferromagnetic and/or electrically conductive layers or structures positioned within the charger or power supply shield components within the charger or power supply (or shield the nearby environment of the charger or power supply).
US11201494B2	Systems and methods to provide enhanced diode bypass paths Systems and methods for efficiently allowing current to bypass a group of solar cells having one or more malfunctioning or shaded solar cells without overwhelming a bypass diode. This can be done using a switch (e.g., a MOSFET) connected in parallel with the bypass diode. By turning the switch on and off, a majority of the bypass current can be routed through the switch, which is configured to handle larger currents than the bypass diode is designed for, leaving only a minority of the current to pass through the bypass diode.
US11201491B2	Method for balancing frequency instability on an electric grid using networked distributed energy storage systems Embodiments of the present invention include control methods employed in multiphase distributed energy storage systems that are located behind utility meters typically located at, but not limited to, medium and large commercial and industrial locations. These distributed energy storage systems can operate semi-autonomously, and can be configured to develop energy control solutions for an electric load location based on various data inputs and communicate these energy control solutions to the distributed energy storage systems. In some embodiments, one or more distributed energy storage systems may be used to absorb and/or deliver power to the electric grid in an effort to provide assistance to or correct for power transmission and distribution problems found on the electric grid outside of an electric load location. In some cases, two or more distributed energy storage systems are used to form a controlled and coordinated response to the problems seen on the electric grid.
US11201482B2	Solenoid generator, corresponding electrical supply system and device A solenoid generator (11) comprises: —a first electrical winding (23) wound along a longitudinal axis (X11) of the generator; —a second electrical winding (24) wound along the aforesaid longitudinal axis (X11) of the generator around the first winding (23) so as to form, with respect to the first winding (23) a tubular chamber; and —an annular magnet (22) fitted around the first winding (23) and capable of relative movement with respect to the first winding (23) and to the second winding (24) in the aforesaid tubular chamber along the longitudinal axis (X11) of the generator. Preferential application is in power-supply systems for mobile/portable devices, such as mobile communication devices.
US11201479B2	Method and apparatus with battery management A battery management method and apparatus is disclosed. The battery management method of a master device includes transmitting, upon a determination of not receiving sensing data of a reference battery cell among a plurality of battery cells included in a first battery module, a request for the sensing data of the reference battery cell to a head slave device of a second battery module, and receiving the sensing data of the reference battery cell from the head slave device of the second battery module, wherein the sensing data of the reference battery cell is transferred through a tail slave device of the first battery module and a tail slave device of the second battery module.
US11201478B2	Management device and power supply system for improved cell voltage detection accuracy A management device manages an electricity storage module having: a first cell module and a second cell module each including a plurality of cells connected in series; and a conductive connection member for connecting the first cell module and the second cell module in series. A voltage detection circuit is connected to the nodes of the respective cells through voltage detection lines to detect the voltage of each of the cells and the voltage at both ends of the connection member. A control circuit distinguishes between and recognizes the voltage of each of the cells and the voltage at both ends of the connection member, which are detected by the voltage detection circuit.
US11201477B2	Electric device for supplying multiple power outputs and recharging multiple supply batteries having different operating voltages An electric device includes a first rechargeable battery and a second rechargeable battery that is lower, in a full charge voltage, than the first rechargeable battery; a first power source circuit that steps down a voltage output by the first rechargeable battery to a first voltage and outputs the first voltage; and a second power source circuit that steps down a voltage output by the second rechargeable battery to a second voltage that is lower than the first voltage and outputs the second voltage.
US11201476B2	Photovoltaic power device and wiring Various implementations described herein are directed to employing photovoltaic strings including a photovoltaic power device with a specialized wiring configuration, which enables high string efficiency without incurring excessive wiring costs. Implementations may include a cable built into photovoltaic generators that carry one portion of the current, and other portions of the current may be carried by direct-current (DC) or alternating-current (AC) cables bypassing the photovoltaic generators.
US11201467B2	Reduced flyback ESD surge protection Reduced flyback electrostatic discharge (ESD) surge protection is disclosed. An ESD protection circuit differentiates ESD events from normal power on based on supply rise time. During an ESD protection cycle, the ESD protection circuit briefly clamps a supply on an identified ESD edge to limit and protect an electronic device from high voltage and/or current. In some cases, a surge condition may occur as the ESD protection circuit becomes disabled, such as in the presence of a fast rise time power supply. When the power supply is also inductive, a flyback voltage overshoot at the sudden release of the ESD clamp can result in permanent over voltage-related device damage. An exemplary ESD protection circuit includes a controlled disable state which reduces or eliminates flyback during such a surge by gradually ramping down current from the ESD protection cycle.
US11201465B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device including a digital circuit, a first ground potential line provided corresponding to the digital circuit, an analog circuit, a second ground potential line respectively provided corresponding to the analog circuit, and a bidirectional diode group provided between the first ground potential line and the second ground potential line.
US11201461B2	Power control system and control device for restoring AC system from power failure A power system includes: a self-commutated power converter including a first arm and a second arm, each including switching elements; a first circuit breaker configured to interrupt a current flowing through a power transmission line provided between a first bus and a second bus; a first circuit breaker control unit configured to control the first circuit breaker; a converter control unit configured to stop the switching elements based on a first arm current value and a second arm current value; and a setting unit configured to set a voltage value of an AC voltage output from the power converter such that when a fault occurs in the power transmission line, the first circuit breaker is opened while the switching elements are not stopped. The converter control unit is configured to operate the switching elements such that an AC voltage with the set voltage value is output.
US11201451B2	Porous distributed Bragg reflectors for laser applications Embodiments described herein provide a layered structure that comprises a substrate that includes a first porous multilayer of a first porosity, an active quantum well capping layer epitaxially grown over the first porous multilayer, and a second porous multilayer of the first porosity over the active quantum well capping layer, where the second porous multilayer aligns with the first porous multilayer.
US11201434B2	Direct plug-in connector and direct plug-in connection The invention relates to a direct plug-in connector for making electrical contact with printed circuit boards, comprising a housing and at least one contact, which is connected to the housing, for insertion into a first passage opening of a printed circuit board, which first passage opening is electrically conductive on the inner wall, wherein at least one latching device for securing the housing on the printed circuit board is provided, wherein the latching device has at least one elastically resilient latching arm which is integrally connected to the housing and has a latching projection in the region of its free end, wherein the latching arm and the housing are separated by means of an intermediate space which runs perpendicularly to a supporting face of the direct plug-in connector on the printed circuit board and in a straight line.
US11201430B2	Power connection assembly comprising a connection module and electric cable terminations to be locked in/unlocked from the module in a desired insertion position, terminal block comprising a plurality of independent connection modules Power connection assembly including a connection module and electric cable terminations to be locked in/unlocked from the module in a desired insertion position. Terminal block includes a plurality of independent connection modules. A cavity in the body of a connection module is provided into which it is possible to insert an electric cable termination that is able to be fastened and locked in at least two separate insertion positions, preferably a multitude thereof, through sliding/translational movement of a locking plate over the body that is provided with reliefs, preferably ridges that interleave in complementary reliefs, preferably ridges of the sleeve of the termination.
US11201426B2	Electrical contact appearance and protection Methods of coating contacts to have a specific color. The color can be selected to match a color of a portion of a device enclosure for an electronic device housing the contacts. Examples can instead provide methods of coating contacts to have a color to contrast with a color of a portion of the device enclosure. These methods can provide electrical contacts having a low contact resistance and good corrosion and scratch resistance.
US11201420B2	Package protector with integrated guide pin Herein described are apparatuses and systems for facilitating alignment of computer component connectors. A package protector may include a body to at least partially surround an integrated circuit package of a circuit card when the package protector is mounted to the circuit card. The package protector may further include a guide pin component that extends from a side of the body, wherein the guide pin component is to be located adjacent to a header of the circuit card when the package protector is mounted to the circuit card, wherein a connector uses the guide pin component to align with the header via a guide pin.
US11201418B2	Multi-stage beam contacts An electrical connector has a first wafer having a first housing with a first plurality of contact beams extending from the first housing in a first plane. A second wafer has a second housing with a second plurality of contact beams extending from said second housing in a second plane substantially parallel to the first plane. A dividing panel member extends from the insulative housing between the first plurality of contact beams and the second plurality of contact beams. Each of the contact beams extending from the wafer pair is configured to mate with a corresponding backplane contact in a backplane connector. The contact beams extending from the wafer pair and the backplane contacts are configured such that each pair of corresponding contacts includes a first contact point and a second contact point. When the wafer pair is fully received by the backplane connector, contact between the contact beam and the backplane contact is maintained at both the first and second contact points. Each of the contact beams includes a pivot member configured such that the electrical connector has a low initial insertion force, but a high normal force when fully mated with the backplane connector.
US11201409B2	Patch antenna and antenna device A patch antenna includes a patch element and a ground conductor facing the patch element. The patch element is convex toward a side opposite to a side facing the ground conductor. Preferably, the patch element is convex while centering around at least one center line. Here, end portions on both sides of the patch element are positioned across the center line to face each other, and surfaces parallel to a direction toward the ground conductor from the respective end portions on the both sides at the shortest distance intersect or become a same surface.
US11201405B2	Cellular system A system includes a cellular transceiver to communicate with a predetermined target; one or more antennas coupled to the 5G or 6G transceiver each electrically or mechanically steerable to the predetermined target; a processor to control a directionality of the one or more antennas in communication with the predetermined target; and an edge processing module coupled to the processor and the one or more antennas to provide low-latency computation for the predetermined target.
US11201396B2	Antenna module and electronic device comprising the same An antenna module comprises a printed circuit board, a communication circuit disposed on a first surface of the printed circuit board, an array antenna configured to transmit/receive a signal in a specified high-frequency band with the communication circuit, wherein the array antenna includes, first conductive elements disposed on the first surface of the printed circuit board, and second conductive elements disposed on a second surface facing the first conductive elements, and a first molding layer covering the first conductive elements.
US11201395B2	Camouflaged single branch dual band antenna for use with power meter A dual band antenna is configured for use with a power meter having a power meter housing. The dual band antenna includes a flexible polymeric substrate and an adhesive layer that is secured relative to the flexible polymeric substrate. A first conductive element is disposed relative to the flexible polymeric substrate and has a first electrical length. A second conductive element is disposed relative to the flexible polymeric substrate and has a second electrical length. The first electrical length and the second electrical length are substantially the same.
US11201390B2	Antenna structure for optimizing isolation of signal and electronic device using same An antenna structure serving as an emitter in a radar device with optimized isolation of signal comprises antenna array as the radiating element. The antenna array includes array units. Each array unit includes radiating units connected by a feeder. Radiation area of each radiating unit gradually decreases from a center of array unit to ends of array unit. A specified distance is defined between centers of adjacent radiating units along an extending direction of the feeder. The feeder transmits a current signal to the array units, the radiating unit emits a radar scanning beam based on the current signal.
US11201381B1	Corporate power splitter with integrated filtering A filtering power divider includes a first partial transmission line having a first electrical length, a second partial transmission line having a second electrical length, and a third partial transmission line having the second electrical length. The first, second, and third partial transmission lines connect to form a T-junction, and a sum of the first and second electrical lengths is ninety degrees. Thus, the first and second partial transmission lines cooperate to act as a quarter-wave transmission line. Similarly, the first and third partial transmission lines cooperate to act as a quarter-wave transmission line. Additional transmission lines may be connected to the first, second, and third partial transmission lines to implement a filter between an input port and each of two output ports.
US11201371B1	Battery for multiple drones and system A battery for a drone, the battery includes a housing having an internal cavity, the housing having a first rail attached to and extending from a bottom of the housing; and a slide extending into a top surface of the housing; the first rail is to engage with a body of the unmanned aerial vehicle at a first location; and the slide is to engage with a second rail extending from the unmanned aerial vehicle at a second location; a power source secured within the housing; a lever extending through the housing and to engage with a control system of the unmanned aerial vehicle.
US11201368B2	Battery and method for manufacturing battery A battery capable of changing its form safely is provided. A bendable battery having a larger thickness is provided. A battery with increased capacity is provided. For an exterior body of the battery, a film in the shape of a periodic wave in one direction is used. A space is provided in an area surrounded by the exterior body and between an end portion of the electrode stack that is not fixed and an interior wall of the exterior body. Furthermore, the phases of waves of a pair of portions of the exterior body between which the electrode stack is located are different from each other. In particular, the phases are different from each other by 180 degrees so that wave crest lines overlap with each other and wave trough lines overlap with each other.
US11201362B2	Sensing substrate and battery module including the same According to the present invention, a dummy terminal is provided on a sensing substrate and sensing substrate may be thus commonly used on both side surfaces of a battery module, and as a result, since only one type of sensing substrate provided with the dummy terminal needs to be manufactured instead of manufacturing two types of sensing substrates having different arrangements of the substrate terminals, mass productivity of the sensing substrate and the battery module including the same may be significantly improved.
US11201356B2	Nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes a rectangular electrode group, a nonaqueous electrolyte, a band-shaped positive electrode collector lead, a band-shaped negative electrode collector lead, a flat plate-shaped positive terminal, a flat plate-shaped negative terminal and an outer body.
US11201352B2	Electrolytic solution for non-aqueous secondary battery, non-aqueous secondary battery, and metal complex Provided are an electrolytic solution for a non-aqueous secondary battery containing an electrolyte, an organic solvent, and a metal complex represented by General Formula (I), a non-aqueous secondary battery in which the electrolytic solution for a non-aqueous secondary battery is used, and a metal complex. In General Formula (I), M represents a transition metal. k represents an integer of 0 or more, m represents an integer of 0 to 4, and n represents an integer of 1 or more. Here, k+n represents a valence of M. R1 represents an alkyl group, an aryl group, an alkoxy group, a carbonyl group-containing group, a sulfonyl group-containing group, or a halogen atom. R2 and R3 represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group, an alkoxy group, a carbonyl group-containing group, a sulfonyl group-containing group, or a halogen atom. L represents a monodentate ligand.
US11201347B2	Secondary-cell manufacturing system for forming an electrode assembly using lamination The secondary-cell manufacturing system that forms the electrode assembly with lamination as demonstrated includes the unit-cell-forming device that forms a unit-cell from a separator roll, negative-cell roll, and positive-cell roll as stacked in the order of separator/negative cell/separator/positive cell/separator, the overturning device that forms an inverse unit-cell stacked in the order of separator/positive cell/separator/negative cell by overturning a portion of minimum 2 cells that are formed by the unit-cell-forming device, and the stacking device that performs stacking in the order of unit-cell/negative cell/inverse unit-cell/positive cell. Accordingly, the invention provides a secondary-cell manufacturing system that forms an electrode assembly, which simplifies the process for building the electrode assembly, reduces the defect rate for the built electrode assembly, and forms the electrode assembly with lamination.
US11201344B2	Method for manufacturing a membrane assembly for a fuel cell with catalyst free edge areas; membrane assembly and fuel cell with membrane assembly A method for manufacturing a membrane assembly for a fuel cell. To overcome a problem of chemical degradation at an edge of the membrane, the method comprises the following steps: positioning a first decal layer, which is made of the same material as a first catalyst layer, on a first side of the membrane, positioning a second decal layer, which is made of the same material as a second catalyst layer, on a second side of the membrane, pressing a compression pad, which is positioned on the first decal layer with the first decal layer and the second decal layer fully overlapping the compression pad, and the second decal layer against each other with the first decal layer and the membrane positioned in-between, whereby pressure on the first and the second decal layer is applied only in an area covered by the compression pad.
US11201342B2	Methods for fuel desulfurization A method of fuel desulfurization comprises receiving fuel from a source of fuel in a gaseous phase and condensing the fuel in the gaseous phase in a fuel condenser to convert at least a portion of the fuel into a liquid phase. The method further comprises delivering the fuel in the liquid phase directly to a reformer and returning the uncondensed portion of the fuel in the gaseous phase to the source of fuel to inert the source of fuel.
US11201341B2	Thermal management system for fuel cell vehicle having multiple fuel-cell stacks A vehicle includes first and second fuel-cell stacks, a first coolant circuit having conduit arranged to circulate coolant through the first fuel-cell stack, a second coolant circuit having conduit arranged to circulate coolant through the second fuel-cell stack, a heater in fluid communication with at least the first coolant circuit, and an isolation valve assembly configured to proportion a flow of coolant between the first and second coolant circuits. The isolation valve assembly includes valving. The valving has an isolation position in which the first and second circuits are isolated. The valving also has at least one mixing position in which the first and second circuits are in fluid communication.
US11201335B2	Noble metal nanoparticles on a support Provided is a method for forming noble metal nanoparticles on a support. In particular, the method includes heating precursors of the noble metal nanoparticles in a spiral glass tube reactor to reduce the precursors to form the noble metal nanoparticles on the support.
US11201329B2	Negative electrode for a rechargeable lithium battery and rechargeable lithium battery including the same A negative electrode and a rechargeable lithium battery, the negative electrode including a current collector; and a negative active material layer on the current collector, the negative active material including a carbon negative active material; wherein: an electrode density of the negative electrode is in the range of about 1.0 g/cc to about 1.5 g/cc, and a DD (Degree of Divergence) value as defined by the following Equation 1 is about 24 or greater, DD (Degree of Divergence)=(Ia/Itotal)*100 [Equation 1] wherein, in Equation 1, Ia is a sum of peak intensities at non-planar angles measured by XRD using a CuKα ray, and Itotal is a sum of peak intensities at all angles measured by XRD using a CuKα ray.
US11201328B2	Nickel active material precursor for lithium secondary battery, method for producing nickel active material precursor, nickel active material for lithium secondary battery produced by method, and lithium secondary battery having cathode containing nickel active material Provided are a nickel-based active material precursor for a lithium secondary battery including a porous core and a porous shell, wherein a porosity of the porous shell may be greater than a porosity of the porous core, and a dense intermediate layer may be disposed between the porous core and the porous shell, wherein a porosity of the dense intermediate layer may be lower than the porosity of the porous core and the porosity of the porous shell; a method of preparing the same; a nickel-based active material for a lithium secondary battery formed therefrom; and a lithium secondary battery containing a positive electrode including the same.
US11201326B2	Metal-ion secondary battery An object of the present disclosure is to provide a secondary battery having excellent cyclability by using a sulfur-based active material as a negative-electrode active material while preventing a reaction between an eluted polysulfide and a positive electrode. The metal-ion secondary battery comprises a negative electrode comprising a sulfur-containing compound as a negative-electrode active material, a positive electrode and an electrolyte, and has a polymer gel layer on a surface of the positive electrode.
US11201318B2	Method for battery tab attachment to a self-standing electrode The present disclosure is directed to methods of securing battery tab structures to binderless, collectorless self-standing electrodes, comprising electrode active material and carbon nanotubes and no foil-based collector, and the resulting battery-tab secured electrodes. Such methods and the resulting battery tab-secured electrodes may facilitate the use of such composites in battery and power applications.
US11201314B2	Low onset gain saturation OLED Embodiments of this invention relate to and, more particularly, to solid state lighting, digital displays, conversion of electrical energy to light, low onset gain saturated stimulate emission, light production with high efficiency and high output per area, and light production while limiting material degradation, and may also be applied in optical or quantum information processing and networking. Embodimenta of this invention comprise spectroscopic configurations having a radiative transition to a depopulated state and an optical configuration having sufficient Q such that the combination allows onset of gain saturation with a small excited state population or low current density, thus enabling production of light in a mode with near total output coupling, high efficiency, high output, low roll-off and attenuation of losses and degradation processes.
US11201308B2	Light-emitting device and method for manufacturing the same A highly reliable light-emitting device and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. A light-emitting element and a terminal electrode are formed over an element formation substrate; a first substrate having an opening is formed over the light-emitting element and the terminal electrode with a bonding layer provided therebetween; an embedded layer is formed in the opening; a transfer substrate is formed over the first substrate and the embedded layer; the element formation substrate is separated; a second substrate is formed under the light-emitting element and the terminal electrode; and the transfer substrate and the embedded layer are removed. In addition, an anisotropic conductive connection layer is formed in the opening, and an electrode is formed over the anisotropic conductive connection layer. The terminal electrode and the electrode are electrically connected to each other through the anisotropic conductive connection layer.
US11201307B2	Display panel and electronic apparatus including the same A display panel includes an insulating substrate in which at least one hole is defined, wherein the insulating substrate comprises a hole area in which the hole is defined, a display area surrounding the hole area, and a peripheral area adjacent to the display area, a plurality of pixels in the display area, a plurality of main signal lines in the display area and electrically connected to the pixels, and a plurality of sub-signal lines in the hole area and electrically connected to the pixels, wherein the hole area comprises a line area which surrounds the hole and in which the sub-signal lines are located, and a compensation area between the line area and the display area in a plan view and configured to display a black color.
US11201301B2	Base support plate and method of manufacturing the same, and method of manufacturing a flexible display panel A base support plate includes a support plate body. A support surface of the support plate body is configured to support a flexible base of a flexible display panel. The base support plate further includes a plurality of micro-structures disposed on the support surface of the support plate body, and the plurality of micro-structures are configured to diffuse incident light and transmit the incident light to the flexible base.
US11201297B2	Organic electroluminescence device and electronic device An organic electroluminescence device includes an anode, a second organic layer, a first organic layer, and a cathode in this order. The first organic layer contains a first compound and a second compound. The second organic layer contains a third compound. The first compound is a compound represented by a formula (1). The second compound is a delayed fluorescent compound. The third compound is a compound represented by a formula (3). In the formula (1), X is a nitrogen atom or a carbon atom bonded to Y, Y being a hydrogen atom or a substituent. In the formula (3), n is an integer ranging from 1 to 4, XB is a group represented by a formula (3A). In the formula (3A), Ar1 and Ar2 are each independently a monovalent or polyvalent aromatic hydrocarbon group, and Cz is a group represented by a formula (3B-1) or the like.
US11201279B2	Piezoelectric material, piezoelectric element, vibration wave motor, optical apparatus, and electronic apparatus A piezoelectric material which is low in load on the environment, and also satisfies both the requirements of a high piezoelectric constant and a high mechanical quality factor. The piezoelectric material comprises a plurality of crystal grains containing Ba, Ca, Ti, Zr, Mn, and O. An average equivalent circle diameter of the crystal grains is not smaller than 1.0 μm and not larger than 10 μm. The crystal grains include crystal grains A each having a first domain with a width of not smaller than 300 nm and not larger than 800 nm, and crystal grains B each having a second domain with a width of not smaller than 20 nm and not larger than 50 nm.
US11201278B2	Josephson Junction using molecular beam epitaxy According to various implementations of the invention, a vertical Josephson Junction device may be realized using molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) growth of YBCO and PBCO epitaxial layers in an a-axis crystal orientation. Various implementations of the invention provide improved vertical JJ devices using SiC or LSGO substrates; GaN, AlN, or MgO buffer layers; YBCO or LSGO template layers; YBCO conductive layers and various combinations of barrier layers that include PBCO, NBCO, and DBCO. Such JJ devices are simple to fabricate with wet and dry etching, and allow for superior current flow across the barrier layers.
US11201262B2	Light-emitting element A light-emitting element includes: a base member including a first side and a second side, the first side and the second side being along a first direction, wherein a second direction from the first side toward the second side is orthogonal to the first direction; a semiconductor stacked body that is not electrically connected to the base member in a third direction, the third direction being orthogonal to a plane including the first direction and the second direction, the semiconductor stacked body comprising a p-type semiconductor layer, a light-emitting layer, and an n-type semiconductor layer; a first pad electrode that is not electrically connected to the base member in the third direction; a second pad electrode that is not electrically connected to the base member in the third direction; a first conductive layer; and a second conductive layer.
US11201259B2	Enhancement film and lens array of quantum dot display panel The present invention provides a quantum dot display panel and a manufacturing method thereof. The quantum dot display panel includes a pixel layer having retaining walls and quantum dots, a lens layer having a lens array, and an enhancement film having a prism array. When ambient light enters the quantum dot display panel, it will be will be converged and collimated through the enhancement film, and focused onto the retaining walls with light absorption characteristics. The lens array maintains contrast of the quantum dot display panel, and the enhancement film enhances a display effect of wide viewing angle of the quantum dot display panel.
US11201258B2	Method for manufacturing light emitting device A method for manufacturing a light emitting device includes: providing an intermediate structure including first and second layered structures arranged in a first direction in a light reflecting member, wherein each of the layered structures includes a first and second electrodes arranged in a second direction, and wherein the intermediate structure has a first surface at which the first and second electrodes are exposed; on the first surface, forming a first hole in the light reflecting member between the first electrodes as viewed in the second direction; on the first surface, forming a second hole in the light reflecting member between the second electrodes as viewed in the second direction; forming a conductive film on exposed surfaces of the first and second electrodes, and in the first and second holes; and severing the light reflecting member and the conductive film at positions that pass through the first and second holes.
US11201255B2	Concentrator photovoltaic module, concentrator photovoltaic panel, and concentrator photovoltaic apparatus A concentrator photovoltaic module includes: a concentrating portion configured by arranging a plurality of Fresnel lenses that concentrate sunlight; a plurality of power generating elements arranged at positions corresponding respectively to the plurality of Fresnel lenses; a plurality of ball lenses corresponding respectively to the plurality of power generating elements and guide the sunlight concentrated by the plurality of Fresnel lenses to the plurality of power generating elements; and a housing that contains the plurality of ball lenses and the plurality of power generating elements. The housing includes a resin frame body, and a metal bottom plate that is fixed to the frame body, and on the inner surface of which the plurality of ball lenses and the plurality of power generating elements are arranged. The groove portion for reducing thermal expansion of the inner surface side of the bottom plate is on the inner surface of the bottom plate.
US11201253B2	High photovoltaic-conversion efficiency solar cell, method for manufacturing the same, solar cell module, and photovoltaic power generation system To Provide a back contact type solar cell with high photovoltaic-conversion efficiency which can be easily manufactured with good yield at low cost. The high photovoltaic-conversion efficiency solar cell of the present invention includes on a back surface, as a non-light receiving surface, of a first conductive type semiconductor substrate: a first conductive type diffusion layer where first conductive type impurities are diffused; a second conductive type diffusion layer where second conductive type impurities are diffused; and a high resistive layer or an intrinsic semiconductor layer formed between the first conductive type diffusion layer and the second conductive type diffusion layer.
US11201252B2	Solar cell module A solar cell module includes an upper substrate, a lower substrate opposite the upper substrate, a solar cell panel positioned between the upper substrate and the lower substrate, the solar cell panel including a plurality of solar cells which are arranged in a matrix form and are connected to one another through a wiring member, a passivation layer configured to package the solar cell panel, a frame configured to surround an outer perimeter of the solar cell panel, a connection terminal configured to connect two adjacent strings in the solar cell panel, and a cover member configured to cover the connection terminal.
US11201250B2	Schottky barrier diode and method for manufacturing the same A Schottky barrier diode includes a substrate, a first semiconductor layer formed on the substrate, a second semiconductor layer formed on the first semiconductor layer, and a metal layer formed on the second semiconductor layer to form a Schottky barrier, wherein the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer are formed of different materials, and a conduction band offset between the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer is less than a set value.
US11201247B2	LTPS type TFT and method for manufacturing same The present disclosure provides an LTPS type TFT and a method for manufacturing the same. The TFT includes a first contact hole and a second contact hole, where the first contact hole and the second contact hole pass through the third insulating layer, the second insulating layer, and a portion of the first insulating layer, such that a portion of the heavily doped area is exposed. In addition, a transparent electrode is electrically connected to the source/drain electrode or the second gate electrode and a portion of the heavily doped area.
US11201245B2	Method and apparatus improving gate oxide reliability by controlling accumulated charge A method and apparatus are disclosed for use in improving the gate oxide reliability of semiconductor-on-insulator (SOD metal-oxide-silicon field effect transistor (MOSFET) devices using accumulated charge control (ACC) techniques. The method and apparatus are adapted to remove, reduce, or otherwise control accumulated charge in SOI MOSFETs, thereby yielding improvements in FET performance characteristics. In one embodiment, a circuit comprises a MOSFET, operating in an accumulated charge regime, and means for controlling the accumulated charge, operatively coupled to the SOI MOSFET. A first determination is made of the effects of an uncontrolled accumulated charge on time dependent dielectric breakdown (TDDB) of the gate oxide of the SOI MOSFET. A second determination is made of the effects of a controlled accumulated charge on TDDB of the gate oxide of the SOI MOSFET. The SOI MOSFET is adapted to have a selected average time-to-breakdown, responsive to the first and second determinations, and the circuit is operated using techniques for accumulated charge control operatively coupled to the SOI MOSFET. In one embodiment, the accumulated charge control techniques include using an accumulated charge sink operatively coupled to the SOI MOSFET body.
US11201241B2	Vertical field effect transistor and method of manufacturing a vertical field effect transistor A method of forming a vertical transport field-effect transistor (VFET) is provided. The method includes forming vertical fin channels by etching part way through a substrate. The method further includes forming a bottom source/drain electrode partially into the substrate and beneath the vertical fin channels. A gate dielectric layer is then formed on the vertical fin channels. A gate conductor layer is then formed on the gate dielectric layer. A height of the gate conductor layer is less than a height of the vertical fin channels. The method further includes forming a spacer layer on a top surface of the gate conductor layer. The method also includes forming a top source/drain electrode on a top surface of the vertical fin channels. A gap exists between the top source/drain electrode and the spacer layer.
US11201239B2	Semiconductor device including saturation current suppression layer A semiconductor device including a semiconductor element is provided. The semiconductor element includes a saturation current suppression layer formed above a drift layer and including electric field block layers arranged in a stripe manner and JFET portions arranged in a stripe manner. The electric field block layers and the JFET portions are alternately arranged. The semiconductor element includes trench gate structures. A longer direction of the trench gate structure intersects with a longer direction of the electric field block layer and a longer direction of JFET portion. The JFET portion includes a first layer having a first conductivity type impurity concentration larger than the drift layer and a second layer formed above the first layer and having a first conductivity type impurity concentration smaller than the first layer.
US11201237B2	Semiconductor with unified transistor structure and voltage regulator diode A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor layer that has a transistor structure including a p type source region, a p type drain region, an n type body region between the p type source region and the p type drain region, and a gate electrode facing the n type body region and a voltage-regulator diode that is disposed at the semiconductor layer and that has an n type portion connected to the p type source region and a p type portion connected to the gate electrode, in which the transistor structure and the voltage-regulator diode are unified into a single-chip configuration.
US11201236B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor body having opposing first and second surfaces in a vertical direction, a first semiconductor region of a first doping type electrically coupled to a first terminal, a second semiconductor region of a second doping type electrically coupled to a second terminal, and a third semiconductor region of the second doping type, but less highly doped than the second semiconductor region, extending in an active region of the semiconductor device from the first to the second semiconductor region in the vertical direction. A horizontal field-stop-region of the first doping type extends in an edge region of the device from the first semiconductor region into the semiconductor body in the vertical direction, such that it directly adjoins the first and second semiconductor regions. A horizontal compensation region of the first doping type extends from the horizontal field-stop-region into the second semiconductor region in a horizontal direction.
US11201232B2	Semiconductor structure with metal containing layer Semiconductor structures and method for forming the same are provided. The semiconductor structure includes a substrate and a gate structure formed over the substrate. The semiconductor structure further includes a source/drain structure formed adjacent to the gate structure in the substrate and a contact formed over the source/drain structure. The semiconductor structure further includes a metal-containing layer formed over the contact and a dielectric layer covering the gate structure and the metal-containing layer. The semiconductor structure further includes a first conductive structure formed through dielectric layer and the metal-containing layer and landing on the contact. In addition, a bottom surface of the metal-containing layer is higher than a top surface of the gate structure.
US11201230B2	Semiconductor device structure with metal gate stacks A semiconductor device structure is provided. The semiconductor device structure includes a first metal gate stack and a second metal gate stack over a semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor device structure also includes a dielectric layer surrounding the first metal gate stack and the second metal gate stack. The semiconductor device structure further includes an insulating structure between the first metal gate stack and the second metal gate stack. The insulating structure has a first convex surface facing towards the first metal gate stack.
US11201225B2	Structure and formation method of semiconductor device with stressor A semiconductor device structure and a method for forming a semiconductor device structure are provided. The semiconductor device structure includes multiple semiconductor nanostructures over a substrate and two epitaxial structures over the substrate. Each of the semiconductor nanostructures is between the epitaxial structures. The semiconductor device structure also includes a gate stack wrapping around the semiconductor nanostructures. The semiconductor device structure further includes a stressor structure between the gate stack and the substrate. The epitaxial structures extend exceeding a top surface of the stressor structure.
US11201223B2	Semiconductor device, inverter circuit, drive device, vehicle, and elevator each having a threshold-voltage-increasing portion in silicon carbide layer A semiconductor device according to an embodiment includes a gate electrode, a gate insulating layer, and a silicon carbide layer. The silicon carbide layer includes at least one first element selected from the group consisting of S, Se, Te, Ti, Zr, Hf, V, Nb, Ta, Cr, Mo, and W. The first distance between a first position and an interface between the gate insulating layer and the silicon carbide layer is equal to or less than 20 nm, and the first position is a position where a concentration of the first element is maximized. The second distance between a second position and the interface is equal to or less than 20 nm, second position is a position where a concentration of the first element is 1/10 of a concentration of the first element at the first position, and the second position is farther from the interface than the first position.
US11201218B2	Silicon carbide epitaxial substrate, method of manufacturing thereof, silicon carbide semiconductor device, and method of manufacturing thereof A silicon carbide epitaxial substrate including a silicon carbide semiconductor substrate of a first conductivity type, a first semiconductor layer of the first conductivity type, and a high-density foreign element region. The first semiconductor layer is provided at a front surface of the silicon carbide semiconductor substrate and has an impurity concentration lower than that of the silicon carbide semiconductor substrate. The high-density foreign element region is provided in the silicon carbide semiconductor substrate at a predetermined depth from the front surface thereof. The high-density foreign element region contains an element other than carbon and silicon, at a density higher than that of the silicon carbide semiconductor substrate.
US11201214B2	Semiconductor device and manufacturing method of the semiconductor device A semiconductor device includes a stack structure including conductive layers and insulating layers that are alternately stacked with each other, a first channel layer passing through the stack structure and including a metal oxide-based semiconductor, and a second channel layer adjacent to the first channel layer and including the metal oxide-based semiconductor, wherein the first channel layer has a higher oxygen content than the second channel layer and has a different thickness from the second channel layer.
US11201213B2	Channel all-around semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same A channel all-around semiconductor device and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. The semiconductor device includes a plurality of gate structures and a multi-connected channel layer. The gate structures have the same extension direction, and each of the gate structures has opposite first end and second end. The gate structures are all surrounded by the multi-connected channel layer, and the plane direction of the multi-connected channel layer is perpendicular to the above extension direction, so that the channels of the gate structures are connected to each other.
US11201211B2	Method of manufacturing a super junction structure and super junction structure A method of manufacturing a super junction structure includes etching a material to define a trench, wherein the trench has a tapered profile. The method further includes implanting dopants into sidewalls and a bottom surface of the trench to define a doped region, wherein the doped region surrounds the trench. The method further includes depositing an undoped material into the trench. The method further includes performing a thermal process, wherein the thermal process drives the dopants from the doped region into the undoped material to form a conductive pillar in the trench.
US11201206B2	Semiconductor device including metal insulator metal capacitor A semiconductor device includes a substrate. The semiconductor device further includes a circuit layer over the substrate. The semiconductor device further includes a test line on the circuit layer. The semiconductor device further includes a capacitor on the substrate. The capacitor includes a first conductor, wherein the first conductor is on a portion of the substrate exposed by the circuit layer; a second conductor; and an insulator between the first conductor and the second conductor, wherein the insulator surrounds the first conductor and the second conductor.
US11201197B2	Display device including a trench and manufacturing method thereof A display device includes: a substrate; a plurality of pixels on the substrate; an insulating film on the substrate; a bank on the insulating film, wherein the bank partitions the plurality of pixels; a first trench in the bank; and a second trench in the insulating film. A method of manufacturing a display device includes: forming a first lower metal layer and a second metal layer in patterns on a substrate; forming a first insulating film on the first lower metal layer and the second lower metal layer; forming a second insulating film on the first insulating film; forming a first trench to expose the second lower metal layer by performing a first etching process; and forming a second trench by performing a second etching process to etch the second lower metal layer exposed from a bottom of the first trench.
US11201196B2	Display panel having camera and normal display sub-areas A display panel includes a display area. The display area includes a camera sub-area and a normal display sub-area. The display panel further includes a substrate, a thin film transistor layer, an organic light emitting layer, and an encapsulation layer disposed in sequence. A thickness of a region of the substrate corresponding to the camera sub-area is less than a thickness of a region of the substrate corresponding to the normal display sub-area. A via hole is provided in regions of the thin film transistor layer and the organic light emitting layer corresponding to the camera sub-area.
US11201190B2	RRAM memory cell with multiple filaments The present disclosure, in some embodiments, relates to an integrated chip. The integrated chip includes a conductive element disposed within a dielectric structure over the substrate. The conductive element has a top surface extend between outermost sidewalls of the conductive element. A first resistive random access memory (RRAM) element is arranged within the dielectric structure and has a first data storage layer directly contacting the top surface of the conductive element. A second RRAM element is arranged within the dielectric structure and has a second data storage layer directly contacting the top surface of the conductive element.
US11201189B2	Semiconductor device having rare earth oxide layer and method of manufacturing the same A semiconductor device includes a first rare earth oxide layer, a first magnetic layer adjacent to the first rare earth oxide layer, a second rare earth oxide layer, a second magnetic layer adjacent to the second rare earth oxide layer, and a nonmagnetic layer. The first magnetic layer is disposed between the first rare earth oxide layer and the nonmagnetic layer and is oriented in a crystal surface which is the same as a crystal surface of the nonmagnetic layer. The second magnetic layer is disposed between the second rare earth oxide layer and the nonmagnetic layer and is oriented in a crystal surface which is the same as a crystal surface of the nonmagnetic layer. The nonmagnetic layer is disposed between the first magnetic layer and the second magnetic layer.
US11201186B2	Solid-state imaging device, driving method therefor, and electronic apparatus The present technology relates to a solid-state imaging device, a driving method therefor, and an electronic apparatus capable of acquiring a signal to detect phase difference and a signal to generate a high dynamic range image at the same time. The solid-state imaging device includes a pixel array unit in which a plurality of pixels that receives light of a same color is arranged under one on-chip lens. The plurality of pixels uses at least one pixel transistor in a sharing manner, some pixels out of the plurality of pixels are set to have a first exposure time, and other pixels are set to have a second exposure time shorter than the first exposure time. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a solid-state imaging device or the like.
US11201177B2	Array substrate, manufacturing method of array substrate, and display panel An array substrate of the present invention includes: a first metal layer; an insulating layer on the first metal layer; an amorphous silicon layer on a surface of the insulating layer away from the first metal layer; an amorphous silicon doped layer arranged on a surface of the amorphous silicon layer away from the insulating layer; a second metal layer including a first portion and a second portion, the first portion arranged on a surface of the amorphous silicon doped layer away from the amorphous silicon layer, a second portion arranged on the first surface and in contact with the first metal layer; a protective layer arranged on the first metal layer and the second metal layer; a first transparent electrode connected to the first metal layer through the protective layer; and a second transparent electrode connected to the second metal layer through the protective layer.
US11201163B2	High-density NOR-type flash memory The present invention provides architectures of high-density NOR flash memory consisting of arrays of memory cells (i.e., field effect transistors) with uniquely designed sidewall charge-storage structures to solve the leakage problem typically associated with overerase in traditional NOR flash memory. This feature is particularly useful for applications such as embedded flash memory.
US11201159B2	SRAM structure and connection A semiconductor structure includes SRAM cells, bit-line edge cells, and word-line edge cells, wherein the SRAM cells are arranged in an array, bordered by the bit-line edge cells and the word-line edge cells, each of the SRAM cells including two inverters cross-coupled together and a pass gate coupled to the two inverters, and the pass gate includes a FET; a first bit-line of a first metal material, disposed in a first metal layer, and electrically connected to a drain feature of the FET; a first word-line of a second metal material, and electrically connected to a gate electrode of the FET, and disposed in a second metal layer; and a second bit-line of a third metal material, electrically connected to the first bit-line, and disposed in a third metal layer. The first metal material and the third metal material are different from each other in composition.
US11201157B2	Bonded semiconductor devices having processor and static random-access memory and methods for forming the same Embodiments of semiconductor devices and fabrication methods thereof are disclosed. In an example, a semiconductor device includes a first semiconductor structure including a processor and a first bonding layer including a plurality of first bonding contacts. The semiconductor device also includes a second semiconductor structure including an array of static random-access memory (SRAM) cells and a second bonding layer including a plurality of second bonding contacts. The semiconductor device further includes a bonding interface between the first bonding layer and the second bonding layer. The first bonding contacts are in contact with the second bonding contacts at the bonding interface.
US11201156B2	Semiconductor devices and methods for fabricating the same A semiconductor device includes a substrate that includes a cell region and a peripheral circuit region, a cell insulating pattern disposed in the cell region of the substrate that defines a cell active region, and a peripheral insulating pattern disposed in the peripheral circuit region of the substrate that defines a peripheral active region. The peripheral insulating pattern includes a first peripheral insulating pattern having a first width and a second peripheral insulating pattern having a second width greater than the first width. A topmost surface of at least one of the first peripheral insulating pattern and the second peripheral insulating pattern is positioned higher than a topmost surface of the cell insulating pattern.
US11201148B2	Architecture for monolithic 3D integration of semiconductor devices A three-dimensional (3D) integrated circuit (IC) includes a substrate having a substrate surface, a power rail provided in the substrate, and a first tier of semiconductor devices provided in the substrate and positioned over the power rail along a thickness direction of the substrate. A wiring tier is provided in the substrate, and a second tier of semiconductor devices is provided in the substrate and positioned over the wiring tier along the thickness direction. The second tier of semiconductor devices is stacked on the first tier of semiconductor devices in the thickness direction such that the wiring tier is interposed between the first and second tiers of semiconductor devices. A first vertical interconnect structure extends downward from the wiring tier to the first tier of semiconductor devices to electrically connect the wiring tier to a device within the first tier of semiconductor devices. A second vertical interconnect structure extends upward from the wiring tier to the second tier of semiconductor devices to electrically connect the wiring tier to a device within the second tier of semiconductor devices.
US11201142B2	Semiconductor package, package on package structure and method of froming package on package structure A semiconductor package includes a die, an insulation layer, a plurality of first electrical conductive vias, a plurality of second electrical conductive vias, a plurality of thermal conductive vias and a connecting pattern. The die includes a plurality of first pads and a plurality of second pads. The insulation layer is disposed on the die and includes a plurality of openings exposing the first pads and the second pads. The first electrical conductive vias and the second electrical conductive vias are disposed in the openings and contact the first pads and the second pads respectively. The thermal conductive vias are disposed on the insulation layer. The connecting pattern is disposed on the insulation layer and connects the first electrical conductive vias and the thermal conductive vias. The thermal conductive vias are connected to the first pads through the connecting pattern and the first electrical conductive vias.
US11201139B2	Semiconductor structure containing reentrant shaped bonding pads and methods of forming the same A first semiconductor die includes first semiconductor devices located over a first substrate, first interconnect-level dielectric material layers embedding first metal interconnect structures and located on the first semiconductor devices, and a first pad-level dielectric layer located on the first interconnect-level dielectric material layers and embedding first bonding pads. Each of the first bonding pads includes a first proximal horizontal surface and at least one first distal horizontal surface that is more distal from the first substrate than the first proximal horizontal surface is from the first substrate and has a lesser total area than a total area of the first proximal horizontal surface. A second semiconductor die including second bonding pads that are embedded in a second pad-level dielectric layer can be bonded to a respective distal surface of the first bonding pads.
US11201134B2	Method of manufacturing semiconductor device A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes the following steps. A device wafer having a product-obtaining part and an edge part surrounding the product-obtaining part is provided. A passivation layer is formed to cover the device wafer. A first oxide cap layer is formed to cover the passivation layer. An edge trimming process is performed to polish an edge part of the first oxide cap layer, an edge part of the passivation layer and the edge part of the device wafer. A removing process is performed to remove the first oxide cap layer after the edge trimming process is performed. A second oxide cap layer is formed to cover the first oxide cap layer and the edge part of the device wafer.
US11201127B2	Device comprising contact to contact coupling of packages A device that includes a first package and a second package coupled to the first package. The first package includes a first integrated device, a first encapsulation layer encapsulating the first integrated device, a plurality of vias traveling through the first encapsulation layer, a first redistribution portion comprising a first plurality of redistribution interconnects, wherein the first redistribution portion is coupled to the first encapsulation layer, and a first plurality of contacts coupled to the first integrated device. The second package includes a passive device, a second encapsulation layer encapsulating the passive device, a second redistribution portion comprising a second plurality of redistribution interconnects, wherein the second redistribution portion is coupled to the passive device and the second encapsulation layer, and a second plurality of contacts coupled to the passive device, wherein the second plurality of contacts is coupled to the first plurality of contacts from the first package.
US11201124B2	Semiconductor devices, semiconductor wafers, and methods of manufacturing the same The present disclosure provides a semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate and a first deep trench isolation (DTI) structure filled with a dielectric material formed on the semiconductor substrate. The first DTI structure is disposed in the first seal ring region and is extended into the semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor substrate has a pixel array region and a first seal ring region. The first seal ring region is proximate to an edge of the semiconductor substrate and surrounds the pixel array region. The first DTI structure is formed in the first seal ring region and surrounds the pixel array region.
US11201120B2	Display having an amorphous silicon light shield below a thin film transistor In embodiments of the present disclosure, there is provided a display substrate assembly including: a base substrate; a light shielding layer on the base substrate; and an active layer of a thin film transistor, above the base substrate. An orthographic projection of the active layer on the base substrate in a thickness direction of the base substrate is within an orthographic projection of the light shielding layer on the base substrate in the thickness direction of the base substrate, and the light shielding layer includes an ion-doped amorphous silicon layer. In embodiments of the present disclosure, there is also provided a method of manufacturing a display substrate assembly and a display apparatus including the display substrate assembly.
US11201114B2	Methods of forming thin film resistor structures utilizing interconnect liner materials Methods/structures of forming thin film resistors using interconnect liner materials are described. Those methods/structures may include forming a first liner in a first trench, wherein the first trench is disposed in a dielectric layer that is disposed on a substrate. Forming a second liner in a second trench, wherein the second trench is adjacent the first trench, forming an interconnect material on the first liner in the first trench, adjusting a resistance value of the second liner, forming a first contact structure on a top surface of the interconnect material, and forming a second contact structure on the second liner.
US11201112B2	Fully-aligned skip-vias An interconnect structure includes a first electrically conductive via portion on an upper surface of a substrate, the first electrically conductive via elongated along a first direction, and a first ILD material on the substrate and covering the first electrically conductive via portion. The first ILD material includes an ILD upper surface exposing a via surface of the first electrically conductive via portion. A second electrically conductive via portion is on the ILD upper surface and the via upper surface thereby defining a contact area between the first electrically conductive via portion and the second electrically conductive via portion. The second electrically conductive via portion elongated along a second direction orthogonal with respect to the first direction. A second ILD material is on the ILD upper surface to cover the second electrically conductive via portion. The first and second electrically conductive via portions are fully aligned at the contact area.
US11201111B2	Three-dimensional memory device containing structures for enhancing gate-induced drain leakage current and methods of forming the same A three-dimensional memory device includes an alternating stack of insulating layers and electrically conductive layers located over a substrate, where the electrically conductive layers comprise word lines located between a source select gate electrode and a drain select gate electrode, a memory opening vertically extending through each layer of the alternating stack to a top surface of the substrate, a memory film and vertical semiconductor channel having a doping of a first conductivity type located in the memory opening, and an active region having a doping of a second conductivity type that is an opposite of the first conductivity type and adjoined to an end portion of the vertical semiconductor channel to provide a p-n junction. The end portion of the vertical semiconductor channel has a first thickness, and a middle portion of the vertical semiconductor channel has a second thickness which is less than the first thickness.
US11201103B2	Vapor chamber on heat-generating component A vapor chamber device is provided. The vapor chamber device includes a heat-generating component, a first metallic layer deposited directly on the heat-generating component, and a second metallic layer deposited so as to contact the first metallic layer at a perimeter. The first and second metallic layers fully enclose an internal void formed therein.
US11201100B2	Solid-state storage device A solid-state storage device includes a housing, a wiring board and a semiconductor package unit. The housing is formed with a heat-dissipating recess thereon. The wiring board is fixed in the housing. One side of the semiconductor package unit is mounted on the wiring board, and the other side of the semiconductor package unit is embedded in the heat-dissipating recess. A top surface and lateral surfaces surrounding the top surface of the semiconductor package unit are all thermally connected to the housing in the heat-dissipating recess.
US11201078B2	Substrate position calibration for substrate supports in substrate processing systems Methods and apparatus for substrate position calibration for substrate supports in substrate processing systems are provided herein. In some embodiments, a method for positioning a substrate on a substrate support includes: obtaining a plurality of backside pressure values corresponding to a plurality of different substrate positions on a substrate support by repeatedly placing a substrate in a position on the substrate support, and vacuum chucking the substrate to the substrate support and measuring a backside pressure; and analyzing the plurality of backside pressure values to determine a calibrated substrate position.
US11201074B2	System and method for semiconductor device print check alignment A system includes a controller communicatively coupled to an optical inspection sub-system, the controller configured to: receive training images of a sample; identify alignment targets in the master die; receive a first set of reference images of a first die row of a sample, the first die row including a master die and a first set of reference die; align the first set of reference die to the master die via fine alignment processes to generate a first set of aligned reference images of the first row; receive a second set of reference images of a second die row of the sample; align the second set of reference die to the master die based on the alignment targets and the training images using a course alignment offset value; and align the second set of reference die to the master die via a fine alignment process.
US11201073B2	Substrate transport apparatus A substrate processing apparatus comprising a transport arm having serially connected arm links, at least one of the arm links having a predetermined arm link height, at least a first pulley and a second pulley, where the second pulley is fixed to an arm link of the serially connected arm links, and at least one torque transmission band extending longitudinally between and coupled to each of the first pulley and the second pulley, the at least one torque transmission band having a corresponding band height for the predetermined arm link height and a variable lateral thickness such that the at least one torque transmission band includes a segment of laterally increased cross section for the corresponding band height.
US11201071B2	Fume-removing device The present invention relates to an apparatus for removing fume which includes, a wafer cassette for stacking wafers; and an exhaust for exhausting the fume of the wafers stacked in the wafer cassette, wherein the wafer cassette includes stacking shelves provided at both sides for stacking wafers; and a front opening for incoming and outgoing of the wafers which are being stacked in the stacking shelf, wherein the stacking shelves include multiple inclined ramp portions which are slanted towards the wafers stacked in the stacking shelves as they travel towards the front opening, wherein a purge gas outlet is provided in the inclined ramp portion for supplying purge gas for the wafers stacked in the stacking shelves. According to the present invention, the residual process gases on wafers can be removed efficiently.
US11201057B2	Techniques and apparatus for anisotropic stress compensation in substrates using ion implantation A method may include providing a substrate, where the substrate includes a first main surface and a second main surface, opposite the first main surface. The second main surface may include a stress compensation layer. The method may include directing ions to the stress compensation layer in an ion implant procedure. The ion implant procedure may include exposing a first region of the stress compensation layer to a first implant process, wherein a second region of the stress compensation layer is not exposed to the first implant process.
US11201055B2	Semiconductor device having high-κ dielectric layer and method for manufacturing the same A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a semiconductor layer on a substrate, forming a high-κ dielectric layer directly on the semiconductor layer as formed, and annealing the semiconductor layer, the high-dielectric layer, and the substrate. The semiconductor layer is a Group III-V compound semiconductor.
US11201047B2	Time-of-flight mass spectrometer To acquire a mass spectrum for a wide mass range, a normal analysis execution controlling unit controls components to repeatedly perform measurement while changing setting m/z by a predetermined m/z at a time, and a mass spectrum summarizing processing unit summarizes data pieces each obtained by each time of measurement to generate the mass spectrum. Radio-frequency voltage applied to an ion guide and the like is changed based on the setting m/z. The radio-frequency voltage for the setting m/z is determined using a table in which a relationship between a position on an axis between upper and lower limits of the mass range and the radio-frequency voltage is substantially the same regardless of the mass range.
US11201040B2	Substrate supporting unit and film forming device having the substrate supporting unit A substrate supporting unit is provided. The substrate supporting unit possesses a shaft, a first heater, and a stage. The first heater is located in the shaft and is configured to heat an upper portion of the shaft. The stage is located over the shaft and includes a first plate, a second plate over the first plate, and a second heater between the first plate and the second plate.
US11201038B2	Support assembly and support assembly assembling method A support assembly includes an electrostatic chuck, a lower electrode, one or more conductive members and a ring-shaped insulating member. The lower electrode has a chuck support surface which supports the electrostatic chuck and a ring support surface which supports an edge ring and surrounds the chuck support surface. A contact electrode is formed on the ring support surface. The conductive members electrically connect the contact electrode and the edge ring. The insulating member is interposed between the ring support surface of the lower electrode and the edge ring while enclosing the conductive members.
US11201033B2	Charged particle beam device and electrostatic lens To provide a charged particle beam device capable of preventing generation of geometric aberration by aligning axes of electrostatic lenses with high accuracy even when center holes of respective electrodes which constitute the electrostatic lens are not disposed coaxially. The charged particle beam device according to the invention includes an electrostatic lens disposed between an acceleration electrode and an objective lens, wherein at least one of the electrodes which constitutes the electrostatic lens is formed of a magnetic body, and two or more magnetic field generating elements are disposed along an outer periphery of the electrode.
US11201030B2	Distributed X-ray light source and control method therefor, and CT equipment A distributed X-ray light source comprises: a plurality of arranged cathode assemblies used for emitting electron beams; an anode target used for receiving the electron beams emitted by the cathode assemblies; and compensation electrodes and focusing electrodes provided in sequence between the plurality of the cathode assemblies and the anode target, the compensation electrode being used for adjusting electric field strength at two ends of a grid structure in each cathode assembly, and the focusing electrode being used for focusing the electron beams emitted by the cathode assemblies, wherein the focusing electrode corresponding to at least one cathode assembly in the plurality of the cathode assemblies comprises a first electrode and a second electrode which are separately provided, and an electron beam channel is formed between the first electrode and the second electrode.
US11201026B2	Protection device and circuit protection apparatus containing the same A protection device comprises a substrate, a fusible element and a heating element. The substrate comprises a first electrode and a second electrode on its surface. The fusible element is disposed on the substrate and connects to the first electrode and the second electrode at two ends. The fusible element comprises a first metal layer and a second metal layer disposed on the first metal layer. The second metal layer has a lower melting point than that of the first metal layer. The heating element is disposed on the substrate. In the event of over-voltage or over-temperature, the heating element heats up to melt and blow the fusible element. The second metal layer is 40-95% of the fusible element in thickness.
US11201023B2	Change-over switch and switch device A change-over switch includes a swing member configured to swing in response to an operation from the outside, a contact member configured to swing about the swing axis identical to the axis of the swing member and including a plurality of movable contacts extending in different directions, and a substrate on which a fixed contact is formed, the fixed contact configured to contact the plurality of movable contacts of the contact member. In the change-over switch, the movable contact that contacts the fixed contact formed on the substrate is changed over by swinging of the contact member in conjunction with swinging of the swing member. A switch device includes a power source switch configured to open and close a circuit which supplies electric power to a power load, and a change-over switch configured to change over electric power supplied to the power load.
US11201022B2	Key structure The disclosure provides a key structure including a base plate, a keycap, and a compressible supporting mechanism. The keycap is disposed above the base plate. The keycap has a top surface and a bottom surface opposite to each other and includes a bonding member protruding from the base surface. The bonding member has a groove and a guiding surface. The compressible supporting mechanism is disposed between the base plate and the keycap. The compressible supporting mechanism is assembled into the groove as being guided by the guiding surface. In the key structure provided by the disclosure, since the compressible supporting mechanism is guided by the guiding surface, interference generated when the compressible supporting mechanism and the keycap are assembled may be reduced, so that the bonding member is prevented from being damaged or collapsing when being pressed in a process of assembling.
US11201014B2	Multi-layer ceramic electronic component and circuit board A multi-layer ceramic electronic component that satisfies the following: 30 μm≤Ts≤100 μm, 6 μm≤T≤18 μm, and 0.19≤(2T+t)/Ts≤1.55, where Ts represents a dimension of a ceramic body measured along a first axis, T represents a mean value of thickness dimensions of upper and lower portions of an external electrode measured along the first axis that cover edges of top and bottom surfaces of the ceramic body, and t represents a sum of thickness dimensions of internal electrodes drawn to and in contact with the external electrode.
US11201008B2	Electrical assembly comprising a capacitive element The object of the invention is an electrical assembly, in particular a capacitive block, comprising a capacitive element, at least one electric connector secured to said capacitive element and a casing having a bottom, a side wall and an aperture through which the capacitive element is inserted, said casing comprising at least one shoulder on the side of the aperture, said shoulder forming a stop configured to receive in abutment said at least one electric connector, so as to support said capacitive element.
US11201006B1	Bobbin for edge-mounted magnetic core An edge mount magnetic component includes a bobbin and two E-core halves. The bobbin is configured to receive the two E-core halves when body portions of the two E-core halves are positioned vertically. The bobbin includes a first outer flange, a second outer flange, and a passageway spanning therebetween. The bobbin further includes first, second, third, and fourth pin supports. The first and second pin supports are connected to an outer surface of the first end flange and are spaced apart by at least a width of the passageway. The third and fourth pin supports are connected to an outer surface of the second end flange and are spaced apart by at least the width of the passageway. The bobbin further includes slots for routing a winding to a pin and includes walls to ensure the winding is electrically separated from the E-core halves.
US11200998B2	X-ray chopper wheel assembly An x-ray chopper wheel assembly includes a disk chopper wheel and a source-side scatter plate that has a solid cross-sectional area that absorbs x-ray radiation and is substantially smaller than a solid cross-sectional area of the disk chopper wheel. The assembly also includes a support structure that secures the source-side scatter plate substantially parallel to the disk chopper wheel, with a source-side gap between the scatter plate and the disk chopper wheel being a distance that substantially prevents x-ray leakage. An additional, output-side scatter plate may also be provided to reduce x-ray leakage further. Embodiments enable safe operation while significantly reducing weight, which is advantageous for a variety of disk-chopper-wheel-based x-ray scanning systems, especially hand-held x-ray scanners.
US11200997B2	Semiconductor device with epitaxial liftoff layers for directly converting radioisotope emissions into electrical power A device for producing electricity. In one embodiment, the device comprises a doped germanium or a doped GaAs substrate and a plurality of stacked material layers (some of which are doped) above the substrate. These stacked material layers, which capture beta particles and generate electrical current, may include, in various embodiments, GaAs, InAlP, InGaP, InAlGaP, AlGaAs, and other semiconductor materials. A radioisotope source generates beta particles that impinge the stack, create electron-hole pairs, and thereby generate electrical current. In another embodiment the device comprises a plurality of epi-liftoff layers and a backing support material. The devices can be connected in series or parallel.
US11200992B2	Dry stand-by liquid control system for a nuclear reactor A boiling water reactor system includes a reactor vessel including a reactor core. A steam line is in communication with the reactor core and a turbine that is connected to an electrical generator. A dry standby liquid control system includes a standby vessel containing dry powder containing boron and including a high pressure water supply in communication with the standby vessel via a first closed valve, wherein the standby vessel is in communication with the reactor vessel via a second closed valve.
US11200983B2	Pathway planning system and method A system and method for planning a pathway through an anatomical luminal network of a patient including a computing device having at least one processor; a display device in communication with the computing device; and a user interface configured for display on the display device and configured to guide a user through a pathway planning procedure. The user interface includes a patient selection window configured to receive a user input to select a patient having CT image data on which to perform pathway planning; a target selection window configured to receive a user input to select at least one target from the CT image data; and an airway finder window configured to generate at least one pathway from the at least one target to an entry point of the anatomical luminal network in response to a user input.
US11200972B2	System, apparatus, and method for dispensary management A computerized dispensary management system and method enhances dispensary product management and are supported by a blister pack separation apparatus. The system and method operate according to a computer-implementable application and at least one computer. A scanner system further cooperates with the application and computer for scan-inputting product- and person-identifying machine-readable code information to the application for processing. The person-identifying code is scannable to identify a person and a product regimen for the person. The application provides a series of sequential screenshots based upon basic filler and dispenser screenshots for filler and dispenser side product management, guiding the user through a regimen-filling and administration. The processes are characterized by screenshot re-arrangements occurring thereto as each successive code is scanned. The blister pack separation apparatus operates to simultaneously sever individual blister pack units therefrom, which units are then outfitted with machine-readable code and thus made scannable by the system.
US11200960B2	Memory system, data processing system and operation method of the same A memory system includes a memory device including a plurality of memory blocks, each block having a plurality of pages to store data; and a controller suitable for detecting a number of error bits from data stored in the plurality of pages; summing the number of error bits; generating a bad word line list based on the sum of the error bits; and performing a test read operation on the plurality of pages based on the bad word line list.
US11200944B2	Semiconductor memory apparatus operating in a refresh mode and method for performing the same A semiconductor memory apparatus includes a plurality of memory cells. Each memory cell includes a switching element and a storage capacitor. The semiconductor memory apparatus further includes a first word line extended from a part of the plurality of memory cells, a second word line which is enabled after the first word line is enabled in a refresh mode for refreshing data stored in the storage capacitor, a word line control circuit configured to enable and disable the first word line. The word line control circuit comprises at least one switch that couples and decouples the first word line and the second word line.
US11200939B1	Memory with per die temperature-compensated refresh control Memory devices, systems, and associated methods with per die temperature-compensated refresh control, and associated methods, are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a memory device includes a plurality of memory cells and a sensor configured to measure a temperature of the memory device. The memory device determines a frequency at which it is receiving refresh commands. The memory device is further configured to skip refresh operations of the memory cells based, at least in part, on the determination and on the temperature of the memory device.
US11200938B2	Memory devices with selective page-based refresh Several embodiments of memory devices and systems with selective page-based refresh are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a memory device includes a controller operably coupled to a main memory having at least one memory region comprising a plurality of memory pages. The controller is configured to track, in one or more refresh schedule tables stored on the memory device and/or on a host device, a subset of memory pages in the plurality of memory pages configured to be refreshed according to a refresh schedule. In some embodiments, the controller is further configured to refresh the subset of memory pages in accordance with the refresh schedule.
US11200936B2	Read-once memory A volatile memory circuit includes a first flip-flop, a second flip-flop having a set input coupled to an output of the first flip-flop. Logic circuitry of the memory circuit logically combines an output of the second flip-flop and information representative of the output of the first flip-flop to generate an output of the memory circuit. In response to a read command, the first flip-flop is reset and content of the second flip-flop is output by the circuit.
US11200935B2	Three-dimensional memory device with static random-access memory Embodiments of 3D memory devices with a static random-access memory (SRAM) and fabrication methods thereof are disclosed herein. In one example, the method for operating a 3D memory device having an input/output circuit, an array of SRAM cells, and an array of 3D NAND memory strings in a same chip. The method may include transferring data through the input/output circuit to the array of SRAM cells, storing the data in the array of SRAM cells, and programming the data into the array of 3D NAND memory strings from the array of SRAM cells.
US11200932B2	Non-volatile memory device, controller and memory system A non-volatile memory device is provided. The non-volatile memory device includes a clock pin, a clock signal being received from a controller through the clock pin; a first input/output pin; a second input/output pin, data being received from the controller in synchronization with the clock signal through the second input/output pin; a command/address buffer configured to operate at a first operating speed and buffer a command and an address received through the first input/output pin in synchronization with the clock signal; a memory cell array including a plurality of memory cells; and a control logic configured to control operations with respect to the plurality of memory cells, based on the command and the address buffered in the command/address buffer.
US11200929B1	Time division multiplexing (TDM) based optical ternary content addressable memory (TCAM) Systems and methods for an optical ternary content addressable memory (TCAM) are provided. The optical TCAM implements a time-division multiplexing (TDM) based encoding scheme to encode each bit position of a search word in the time domain. Each bit position is associated with at least two time slots. The encoded optical signal comprising the search word is routed through one or more modulators configured to represent a respective TCAM stored word. If a mismatch between at least one bit position of the search word and at least one TCAM stored word occurs, a photodetector or photodetector array will detect light.
US11200928B2	Memory controller and operating method with read margin control circuit determining data valid window A read margin control circuit is provided. The read margin control circuit includes a delay circuit that delays a data input/output signal and generates delay signals having different phases from each other, a sampler that samples the delay signals based on a data strobe signal to generate sampling values, and a determiner configured to determine a data valid window of the data input/output signal based on the sampling values.
US11200922B2	Memory multiplexing techniques Various implementations described herein are related to a device having memory circuitry and multiplexer circuitry. The memory circuitry may include a single bank of memory cells that are arranged in multiple columns, and each column of the multiple columns may provide singe-bit data. The multiplexer circuitry may include multiplexer logic that receives the single-bit data from each column of the multiple columns and provides selected data as output data.
US11200919B2	Providing a user interface for video annotation tools Implementations generally provide a user interface for video annotation tools. In some implementations, a method includes obtaining at least one video of at least one object performing at least one action displaying one or more portions of the at least one video in a user interface. The method further includes displaying a plurality of annotation tracks in the user interface, where each annotation track of the plurality of annotation tracks is associated with one or more of the at least one object and the at least one action in the at least one video. The method further includes obtaining one or more annotations associated with the at least one video based on the plurality of annotation tracks.
US11200916B2	Highlighting media through weighting of people or contexts Techniques and apparatuses for highlighting media through weighting of people or contexts are described. This document describes techniques that allow a user to quickly and easily highlight media, such as through generating a highlight reel. The techniques also enable selection of context and person weightings by which to tailor highlight reels.
US11200898B2	Dynamically assigning multi-modality circumstantial data to assistant action requests for correlating with subsequent requests Implementations set forth herein relate to an automated assistant that uses circumstantial condition data, generated based on circumstantial conditions of an input, to determine whether the input should affect an action been initialized by a particular user. The automated assistant can allow each user to manipulate their respective ongoing action without necessitating interruptions for soliciting explicit user authentication. For example, when an individual in a group of persons interacts with the automated assistant to initialize or affect a particular ongoing action, the automated assistant can generate data that correlates that individual to the particular ongoing action. The data can be generated using a variety of different input modalities, which can be dynamically selected based on changing circumstances of the individual. Therefore, different sets of input modalities can be processed each time a user provides an input for modifying an ongoing action and/or initializing another action.
US11200896B2	Multi-home shared media Certain aspects of the present disclosure are directed to techniques and apparatus for media coordination. One example method generally includes receiving, from a first user device, a command to play a voice message and media content at one or more second user devices, and determining whether one or more services accessible by the one or more second user devices can be used to play the media content. The method may also include coordinating the voice message and the media content to be played by the one or more second user devices based on the determination.
US11200890B2	Distinguishing voice commands Aspects of the present disclosure relate to distinguishing voice commands. One or more stored blocked directions of background voice noise from one or more audio output devices for a location of a voice command device are accessed. A voice input is received at the voice command device at the location and a determination is made that the voice input is received from a blocked direction. A status of an audio output device is queried to determine whether it is emitting audio. In response to a determination that the audio output device is currently emitting audio, an audio file is obtained from the audio output device, the audio file corresponding to a time when the voice input was received. The obtained audio file is compared with the received voice input. The received voice input is ignored if there is a substantial match with the obtained audio file.
US11200886B2	System and method for training a virtual agent to identify a user's intent from a conversation A system and method for training a virtual agent to identify a user's intent from a conversation is disclosed. The system and method use an iterative process of clustering multiple conversations (converted into feature representations) used for training a machine learning model into labeled clusters having similar user intents. Clustering enables labeling a large number of training conversations efficiently. The labeled clusters may be used to train a virtual agent to classify the conversational intent of a conversation. Then, the machine learning model can classify future conversations based on similarity to labeled clusters. By knowing a human user's intent, a virtual agent can deliver what the user desires.
US11200885B1	Goal-oriented dialog system A dialog manager receives text data corresponding to a dialog with a user. Entities represented in the text data are identified. Context data relating to the dialog is maintained, which may include prior dialog, prior API calls, user profile information, or other data. Using the text data and the context data, an N-best list of one or more dialog models is selected to process the text data. After processing the text data, the outputs of the N-best models are ranked and a top-scoring output is selected. The top-scoring output may be an API call and/or an audio prompt.
US11200882B2	Signal processing device, signal processing method, and storage medium for storing program A signal processing device according to an exemplary aspect of the present invention includes: at least one memory storing a set of instructions; and at least one processor configured to execute the set of instructions to: extract, from a target signal, a feature value representing a feature of the target signal; calculate, based on the extracted feature value, signal element bases capable of representing a plurality of object signals by linear combination, and information of the linear combination, weights each representing intensities of the plurality of object signals included in the target signal; derive, based on the weights, information of a target object signal included in the target signal, the target object signal being at least one type of the plurality of object signals; and output information of the target object signal.
US11200878B2	Noise cancellation using segmented, frequency-dependent phase cancellation Noise abatement within a signal stream containing unwanted signal referred to as noise is performed by acquiring a digitized noise signal and using a digital processor circuit to subdivide the acquired noise signal into different frequency band segments and thereby generate a plurality of segmented noise signals. Then individually for each segmented noise signal, the processor shifts in time the segmented noise signal by an amount dependent on a selected frequency of the segmented noise signal to produce a plurality of shifted segmented noise signals. The precise time shift applied to each noise segment considers the frequency content of the segment and the system processing time. Individually for each segmented noise signal, amplitude scaling is applied. The shifted and amplitude-scaled segmented noise signals are then combined to form a composite anti-noise signal which is output into the signal stream to abate the noise through destructive interference.
US11200876B2	Activity-based smart transparency A method performed by a head-mounted wearable audio output device is provided. The audio output device is worn on a head of a user and includes at least one sensor. The device detects a user activity based on motion of the user's body using the at least one sensor. The devices detects an orientation of the head of the user is one of upward or downward using the at least one sensor. The devices controls at least one of: a level of attenuation applied to external noise or audio output based on the detected user activity and the detected orientation of the head of the user.
US11200870B2	Homography transformation matrices based temperature calibration of a viewing system A calibration set is stored on a storage device, including a plurality of temperatures and a plurality of homography transformation matrices, each respective homography transformation matrix being for a respective temperature. A temperature is detected. A respective one of the homography transformation matrices is selected for a temperature matching the temperature. A geometric change is calculated based on the selected homography relationship. Data representing local content is received. A rendering of the local content is generated based on the geometric change and displayed to a user.
US11200859B2	Display device and electronic device An electronic device with reduced power consumption is provided. The electronic device has a function of transmitting data. First data and second data are supplied to the electronic device. The electronic device has a function of generating a first hash value from the first data, and transmitting the first data. The electronic device has a function of generating a second hash value from the second data, comparing the first hash value with the second hash value, transmitting the second data when the first hash value is different from the second hash value, and not transmitting the second data when the first hash value is the same as the second hash value.
US11200857B2	Methods and devices for pixel signal conversion A pixel signal conversion method, comprising: obtaining a corresponding first stimulus value signal, a corresponding second stimulus value signal, and a corresponding third stimulus value signal according to an initial first subpixel signal, an initial second subpixel signal and an initial third subpixel signal in a pixel signal. When the converted pixel signals are applied to a mixed color display consisting of W, R, G, and B four-color subpixels, the display effect is more approximate to actual presentation of original R, G, and B mixed colors, and the defect of large view color shift is overcome. Also provided is a pixel signal conversion device.
US11200854B2	Display control method, apparatus, and display panel The present disclosure proposes a display control method, an apparatus and a display panel. The display control method comprises: in response to turning on a display panel, acquiring a current first sensing voltage when a data voltage is equal to a first set data voltage; and compensating display data based on the current first sensing voltage. The display control method, apparatus and display panel according to the present disclosure may accurately compensate the display data of the display panel and improve the display effect.
US11200840B2	Display panel, manufacturing method thereof, maintenance method thereof and display device Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to an organic light emitting diode display panel, a manufacturing method thereof, a maintenance method and a display device. The organic light emitting diode display panel includes a base substrate and a plurality of subpixel units disposed on the base substrate, wherein each of the subpixel units includes a driving circuit and at least two light emitting regions; in each of the subpixel units, a same output terminal of the driving circuit is split into at least two sub output terminals; and the at least two light emitting regions are respectively connected with different sub output terminals.
US11200834B2	Display apparatus A display apparatus includes pixels arranged in a two-dimensional matrix pattern, each of which including a light-emitting unit and a drive circuit that drives the unit and includes a comparator circuit that compares a control pulse with potential based on signal voltage and outputs predetermined voltage based on the result, a transistor driving the unit in response to the predetermined voltage, and a current source that supplies current to the unit during driving of the transistor, includes a current-source transistor, a capacity unit connected to a gate electrode of the current-source transistor, a differential amplifier that detects a differential between voltage based on reference constant current and reference voltage, and a transistor controlling the voltage based on reference constant current depending on current flowing through the current-source transistor, and controls gate potential of the current-source transistor on the basis of output of the amplifier in synchronization with a scanning signal.
US11200824B2	Shift register unit, driving method thereof, gate driver circuit and display device The present disclosure provides a shift register unit, a driving method thereof, a gate driver circuit and a display device. The shift register unit includes: a first input subcircuit configured to transmit a first voltage signal to a pull-up node under a control of a first input signal; an output subcircuit configured to transmit a clock signal to a first output end and to transmit a second voltage signal to a second output end; a storage unit having a first end coupled to the pull-up node and a second end coupled to the first output end; a first pull-down subcircuit configured to pull down a voltage of the first output end and the second output end; and a second pull-down subcircuit configured to pull down a voltage of the first output end and the second output end.
US11200819B2	Display substrate and manufacturing method thereof, display panel, display motherboard and testing method thereof, and display device A display substrate and a manufacturing method thereof, a display panel, a display motherboard and a testing method thereof, and a display device are provided in the present disclosure. The display substrate is provided with a display region and at least a wiring region outside the display region. The display substrate includes a base substrate and a plurality of connection structures on the base substrate. The plurality of connection structures are connected to a plurality of edge signal terminals through a control module. All of the plurality of connection structures, the plurality of edge signal terminals and the control module are located in the wiring region. The plurality of edge signal terminals are located on an edge of the wiring region. The control circuit is configured to control the connection or disconnection between the plurality of signal terminals and the plurality of connection structures.
US11200814B2	Methods and systems for self-fulfillment of a dietary request A system for self-fulfillment includes at least a server. The at least a server is designed and configured to receive training data, wherein receiving the training data further comprises receiving at least a dietary request and at least a correlated alimentary process label. The at least a server is configured to receive at least a dietary request from a user device. The at least a server generates at least an alimentary instruction set as a function of the at least a dietary request from the user device and the training data. The at least a server generates at least a self-fulfillment instruction set as a function of the at least an alimentary instruction set containing at least a self-fulfillment action. The at least a server receives at least a user entry containing an alimentary self-fulfillment action.
US11200809B2	Unmanned vehicle proximity warning system A traffic control system is described that comprises a transceiver configured to receive a first signal comprising location data indicating a location of an unmanned vehicle (UV). The traffic control system further comprises a processor configured to determine a location of a second vehicle and determine a course of the second vehicle. The processor is further configured to cause, based on determining the location of the second vehicle and the course of the second vehicle, the transceiver to transmit a second signal to the UV directing the UV to avoid the course of the second vehicle.
US11200806B2	Display device, display control method, and storage medium A display device includes a display that displays an image, a display controller that causes the display to display a first image indicating at least one of route information and road information on a route to a destination of a vehicle, and a determiner that determines that a traveling lane in which the vehicle is present among one or a plurality of lanes included in the route is a branch lane which branches from the route or a merge lane which merges into another lane, wherein the display controller causes the display to display a second image indicating that a branch point or a merge point is present ahead in a travel direction of the vehicle without displaying the first image when the determiner has determined that the traveling lane is the branch or merge lane.
US11200801B1	Predictive traffic light warning system Methods and systems for providing advance warning of a change in status of a traffic light to drivers approaching an intersection. The systems and methods include secondary lights positioned in advance of a traffic light at an intersection so that they are visible to oncoming traffic; and using a controller to control the plurality of secondary lights to start flashing before the traffic light changes from green to yellow. Once activated, the lights flash in the direction of oncoming traffic to warn drivers approaching the intersection that a stop may be required and that caution should be exercised.
US11200799B2	Traffic management via internet of things (IoT) devices An Internet of Things (IoT) technique for vehicular traffic management, including an IoT sensor to measure traffic data of vehicular traffic, a traffic analyzer to determine a traffic event based on the traffic data, and an IoT gateway to issue a response based on the traffic event.
US11200797B2	Traffic flow simulator A simulation device that on the basis of: a traffic network (10) as a graph of route sections (3) and nodes (4), with starting places (1) and destinations (2). so as to determine the traffic volume on the route sections (3) performs the following steps: for each starting place (1) and for each of a multiplicity of traffic participants of the starting place (1): determining allocated to each of the destinations (2) respectively a traffic participant fraction, corresponding to an allocation of the traffic participants to the destinations; determining allocated to each of the destinations (2) respectively an optimal route (6) from the starting place (1) to the destination (2); determining for each of the destinations (2) and for each route section (3) of the optimal route (6) a dwell portion (5) of the traffic participant in the route section (3) as a function of the traffic participant fraction that is allocated to this destination (2); for each of the route sections (3) of the traffic network (10): determining the traffic volume on the route section (3) by means of summating the dwell portions (5) of all traffic participants in this route section (3).
US11200796B2	Automated highway system (AHS) A system and method for controlling vehicles and for providing assistance to operated vehicles is discussed and described herein.
US11200789B2	Gas monitoring and alarm systems and methods A gas monitoring and alarm system comprises a master monitor and at least one remote monitor. The master monitor is coupled to a master sensor that senses a concentration of a gas in a first area and sends data to the master monitor. The at least one remote monitor is communicatively coupled to the master monitor. The least one remote monitor is coupled to a remote sensor, which senses a concentration of gas in a second area. The at least one remote monitor receives data about the concentration of the gas in the second area from the remote sensor, and sends the data to the master monitor. The master monitor receives the data and triggers a first alarm status when the concentration of gas in at least one of the first area and the second area exceeds a first predefined alarm threshold.
US11200786B1	Canine assisted home monitoring Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for canine assisted home monitoring. The methods, systems, and apparatus include actions of: obtaining a reference signal from an animal at a property; determining whether an event occurred at the property corresponding to when the reference signal from the animal was received; in response to a determination that the event occurred at the property corresponding to when the reference signal from the animal was received, determining that the reference signal indicates that the event is likely occurring at the property; obtaining a sample signal from the animal at the property; determining whether the sample signal corresponds to the reference signal; and notifying a user that the event, which was determined to be indicated by the reference signal, is likely occurring again at the property.
US11200784B2	Pre-printed and pre-selected lottery tickets for point-of-sale purchase A method including receiving an activation request including an identifier uniquely identifying the pre-printed lottery ticket for a pre-printed lottery ticket from a point-of-sale terminal, accessing a record associated with the pre-printed lottery ticket, determining if the activation request is valid, determining a set of attributes associated with the pre-printed lottery ticket based upon the identifier uniquely identifying the pre-printed lottery ticket, determining a central gaming system responsible for administering a lottery with which the pre-printed lottery ticket is associated, and enrolling the set of attributes associated with the pre-printed lottery ticket in the lottery with the central gaming system.
US11200781B2	Rewards system using skill/amusement game play device to award prizes A “dual” gaming unit or machine is configured to implement both one or more traditional casino-style wagering games, such as games having outcomes determined primarily by chance and not skill, and one or more games which are traditionally not casino style games, such as amusement-type games or games having amusement-type game components, such as games where the outcome is determined substantially by skill. The wagering game portion of the gaming machine may award monetary awards to the player for winning wagering game outcomes, and the amusement portion of the gaming machine may be used to award promotional prizes to the player. A player rewards system may include such dual gaming units or other award dispensing mechanisms.
US11200779B2	Wagering apparatus, methods and systems A system, method, and non-transitory computer medium for processing a payment for a wager in connection with a wagering event. The system may receive, over a communications interface, a wager on a wagering event from a player via an input device. The system may monitor progress of the wagering event. The progress of the wagering event may include at least a current status. The system may determine that the wager is active and that the wagering event is in progress. The system may determine an amount of a cash out offer and that the player accepts the cash out offer at the determined amount. The system may transmit, over the communications interface, the amount of the cash out offer to the first input device.
US11200776B2	Wagering on event outcomes during the event Methods and systems are provided for managing a wagering system. In one exemplary embodiment, state information of a live event such as a sports game may be received in real time. During the event, a plurality of possible future states of the event and their associated probabilities (and odds) may be determined based on the state information, historical information, and current in-game information. A betting market is created for betting on the possible future states at determined odds. The betting market is closed, and winning and losing bets are resolved based on updated state information.
US11200772B2	Mechanical time delay product dispenser An apparatus for retaining and dispensing feminine products, the apparatus including a rack configured to hold a feminine product; a pushbutton that, when activated, is configured to move a push rod in a first direction, the push rod having teeth configured to engage a pinion gear as the push rod is moved along the first direction; a push member associated with the pinion gear, the push member being configured to engage the feminine product and thereby cause the product to dispense onto a release tray as the push rod is moved along the first direction; and a plunger associated with the pinion gear, the plunger being configured to contact a timing plate in response to the pinion gear rotating. The plunger is adapted to temporarily affix to the timing plate by a suction force for a period of time sufficient for the pushbutton to reset before a second feminine product can be dispensed.
US11200765B2	Luggage delivery system A luggage delivery system contains a sensor array and is configured to locate a receiving user using navigation data and, upon finding the receiving user, request identifying information from the receiving user, compare received identifying information to verifying information received from a remote computing device and/or control module, and, upon verifying that a receiving user is the designated receiving user, unlock to grant the receiving user access to the vehicle interior.
US11200754B1	Extended reality environment generation Examples of extended reality environment generation are provided. The techniques for extended reality environment generation may include receiving digital content and metadata associated with a physical environment and generating a digital layout of the physical environment by scaling the received digital content. Next, Global Positioning System (GPS) coordinates and functional coordinates are associated with placement locations in the digital layout. Further, a pre-defined placement of an asset is received in the digital layout and a set of GPS coordinates and a set of functional coordinates are identified for the asset placed in the digital layout. Next, the set of GPS coordinates and the set of functional coordinates are associated with metadata of the asset and the asset stored along with the metadata as a model linked with the digital layout. Further, an extended reality environment for the physical environment is generated with the assets by extracting the model.
US11200748B2	Systems, methods, and storage media for conveying virtual content in an augmented reality environment Systems and methods for conveying virtual content in an augmented reality environment comprising images of virtual content superimposed over physical objects and/or physical surroundings visible within a field of view of a user as if the images of the virtual content were present in the real world. Exemplary implementations may: obtain user information for a user associated with a presentation device physically present at a location of the system; compare the user information with the accessibility criteria for the virtual content to determine whether any portions of the virtual content are to be presented to the user based on the accessibility criteria and the user information for the user; and facilitate presentation of the virtual content to the user via presentation device of user based on the virtual content information, the field of view, and the correlations between the multiple linkage points and the reference frame of the virtual content.
US11200747B2	Inspection and cleanup of physical structures using augmented reality A method and system provide the ability to examine a three-dimensional (3D) structure. A physical 3D structure is acquired. A digital model of the 3D structure is acquired in an augmented reality (AR) system. The digital model is calibrated to match the 3D structure. The digital model is projected onto the 3D structure. A tool interacting with the 3D structure is tracked and the interaction is analyzed. A visualization of the projected digital model is updated based on the analysis.
US11200741B1	Generating high fidelity spatial maps and pose evolutions Techniques for generating a unified map and for determining a pose evolution are disclosed. A HMD generates images of an environment. Feature points can be identified from those images. The images and/or the feature points are used to generate a map of a previously unmapped environment. The images and/or feature points are also used to generate a pose evolution of the HMD. It may be the case that another map converges with the first map. If that is the case, then a unified map is generated by linking the two maps at the convergence point. The pose evolutions may also be linked. After action reviews are improved through the use of the unified map and pose evolution.
US11200732B1	Efficiently determining an absorption coefficient of a virtual volume in 3D computer graphics Disclosed is a method to derive the absorption coefficient, transparency, and/or the scattering coefficient from the user-specified parameters including roughness, phase function, index of refraction (IOR), and color by performing the simulation once, and storing the results of the simulation in an easy to retrieve representation, such as a lookup table, or an analytic function. To create the analytic function, one or more analytic functions can be fitted to the results of the simulation for the multiple parameters including roughness, phase function, IOR, and color. The lookup table can be combined with the analytic representation. For example, the lookup table can be used to represent the color, roughness, and phase function, while the IOR can be represented by an analytic function. For example, when the IOR is above 2, the lookup table becomes three-dimensional and the IOR is calculated using the analytic function.
US11200729B2	Content positioning in extended reality systems Methods, devices, and apparatuses are provided to facilitate a positioning of an item of virtual content in an extended reality environment. For example, a placement position for an item of virtual content can be transmitted to one or more of a first device and a second device. The placement position can be based on correlated map data generated based on first map data obtained from the first device and second map data obtained from the second device. In some examples, the first device can transmit the placement position to the second device.
US11200714B2	Virtual image distance measurement method, apparatus and device The present invention relates to a virtual image distance measurement method, apparatus and device. The method includes: disposing a light blocking element, a lens element and an imaging element along the optical axis of the lens element in sequence, wherein a light transmitting portion is formed on the light blocking element, and the virtual image position of a measured near-eye display does not coincide with the imaging position of the lens element; presenting, by a virtual image of the measured near-eye display, multiple images on the imaging element after passing through the light blocking element and the lens element; and determining a distance measurement parameter based on the multiple images, and substituting the distance measurement parameter into a preset distance calculation formula to obtain a virtual image distance.
US11200713B2	Systems and methods for enhancing vision A method for enhancing a user's vision is disclosed. The method includes: obtaining a first image corresponding to a left viewpoint of a scene and a second image corresponding to a right viewpoint of the scene; identifying a first central region of the first image corresponding to a central visual field of the user's left eye and a second central region of the second image corresponding to a central visual field of the user's right eye; applying a first image transformation to one of the first central region and a first peripheral region surrounding the first central region to obtain a first transformed image, wherein applying the first image transformation to a region of an image includes: detecting contours of objects in the region; generating graphical indications of the detected contours of the objects; and modifying the image to include the graphical indications; applying the first image transformation to one of the second central region and a second peripheral region surrounding the second central region to obtain a transformed second image; combining the transformed first and second images to obtain a third image; displaying the third image on a near-eye display.
US11200701B2	Method and apparatus for storage and signaling of static point cloud data A method, apparatus and computer program product access a video-based point cloud compression coded bitstream. The point cloud compression coded bitstream corresponds to a non-timed video-based point cloud compression representation that comprises one or more video point cloud compression units. The method, apparatus and computer program product encapsulate the one or more video point cloud compression units as one or more video point cloud compression unit items. The method, apparatus and computer program product also cause storage of the one or more video point cloud compression unit items in a file.
US11200695B2	System, jig, information processing device, information processing method, and program There is provided a system including one or a plurality of information processing apparatuses that individually or cooperatively realize functions including a first image acquisition function of acquiring a first image of an object, an angle information acquisition function of acquiring angle information indicating an angle of the object in the first image, a dictionary data generation function of generating dictionary data based on the first image and the angle information, a second image acquisition function of acquiring a second image of the object different from the first image; and an angle estimation function of estimating an angle of the object in the second image based on the second image and the dictionary data.
US11200689B1	Detailed 3D estimation from a single image A system configured to perform an accurate and fast estimation of an object shape from a single input image. The system may process image data representing a first surface of an object using image-to-image translation techniques. A first trained model may generate depth information for the object, such as front distance estimates and back distance estimates. The system may use the depth information to generate an output mesh shaped like the object, such as, in the case of a pliable object a reposable avatar. The system may improve depth estimation by including a loss on surface normals in the first trained model. A second trained model may generate color information to be applied to the output mesh to accurately represent the object. The output mesh may include detailed geometry and appearance of the object, useful for a variety of purposes such as gaming, virtual/augmented reality, virtual shopping, and other implementations.
US11200682B2	Target recognition method and apparatus, storage medium, and electronic device A method for identifying a target, a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, and an electronic device include: acquiring a first image and a second image, the first image and the second image each including a target to be determined; generating a prediction path based on the first image and the second image, both ends of the prediction path respectively corresponding to the first image and the second image; and performing validity determination on the prediction path and determining, according to a determination result, whether the targets to be determined in the first image and the second image are the same target to be determined.
US11200677B2	Method, system and apparatus for shelf edge detection A method of detecting an edge of a support surface in an imaging controller includes: obtaining image data captured by an image sensor and a plurality of depth measurements captured by a depth sensor, the image data and the plurality of depth measurements corresponding to an area containing the support surface; detecting preliminary edges in the image data; applying a Hough transform to the preliminary edges to determine Hough lines representing candidate edges of the support surface; segmenting the plurality of depth measurements to assign classes to each pixel, each class defined by one of a plurality of seed pixels, wherein the plurality of seed pixels are identified from the depth measurements based on the Hough lines; and detecting the edge of the support surface by selecting a class of pixels and applying a line-fitting model to the selected class to obtain an estimated edge of the support surface.
US11200670B2	Real-time detection and correction of shadowing in hyperspectral retinal images A method for real-time detection and correction of shadowing in hyperspectral retinal images may include capturing receiving, using a processor, a hyperspectral image of a retina of a patient, detecting, by the processor, a shadow in the hyperspectral image, determining, by the processor that the shadow of the hyperspectral image exceeds a threshold, and in response to determining that the shadow of the hyperspectral image exceeds the threshold, initiating, using the processor, a capture of an additional hyperspectral image of the retina of the patient. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US11200660B2	Holding apparatus, control system and inspection system According to one embodiment, a holding apparatus holds a moving body and changes a position of the moving body in a second direction perpendicular to a surface of a columnar body. The surface of the columnar body extends in the first direction. The moving body is movable along the first direction. The apparatus includes first and second holders separated from each other. The first holder includes first and second portions separated from each other, and a third portion. The second holder includes fourth and fifth portions separated from each other, and a sixth portion. The moving body is held by the first and second holders in a state in which the moving body is at a hold position. The hold position is where the moving body opposes the third and sixth portions and is between the first and second portions and between the fourth and fifth portions.
US11200656B2	Drop detection systems and methods A detection system is configured to detect improper handling of a wearable visualization device. The detection system includes a sensor coupled to the wearable visualization device, a light emitter coupled to the wearable visualization device, and a processor configured to receive a signal from the sensor. The processor is also configured to determine whether the signal indicates improper handling of the wearable visualization device, and to instruct illumination of the light emitter in response to determining that the signal indicates improper handling of the wearable visualization device.
US11200655B2	Wearable visualization system and method A wearable visualization system that includes a wearable visualization device. The wearable visualization device includes a housing. A display couples to the housing that displays an image for a user. A camera couples to the housing and captures the image. A computer system receives the image from the camera and compares the image to a master image to determine if the image matches the master image.
US11200646B2	Compensation for deformation in head mounted display systems The systems and methods described can include approaches to calibrate head-mounted displays for improved viewing experiences. Some methods include receiving data of a first target image associated with an undeformed state of a first eyepiece of a head-mounted display device; receiving data of a first captured image associated with deformed state of the first eyepiece of the head-mounted display device; determining a first transformation that maps the first captured image to the image; and applying the first transformation to a subsequent image for viewing on the first eyepiece of the head-mounted display device.
US11200645B2	Previewing a content-aware fill Embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods, and computer storage media for automatically synthesizing a content-aware fill using similarity transformed patches. A user interface receives a user-specified hole and a user-specified sampling region, both of which may be stored in a constraint mask. A brush tool can be used to interactively brush the sampling region and modify the constraint mask. The mask is passed to a patch-based synthesizer configured to synthesize the fill using similarity transformed patches sampled from the sampling region. Fill properties such as similarity transform parameters can be set to control the manner in which the fill is synthesized. A live preview can be provided with gradual updates of the synthesized fill prior to completion. Once a fill has been synthesized, the user interface presents the original image, replacing the hole with the synthesized fill.
US11200643B2	Image processing apparatus, image processing method and storage medium for enhancing resolution of image The image processing apparatus has: an image acquisition unit configured to acquire a captured image of an image capturing area in which an object is located; a determination unit configured to determine parameters to be used for image processing to improve resolution of an image of the object, by learning using a dataset of images of the object, wherein the dataset is generated based on object information indicating a degree of importance of the object; and a processing unit configured to perform the image processing to improve the resolution of an image of the object included in the acquired captured image, using the parameters determined by the determination unit.
US11200639B1	Apparatus and method for performing artificial intelligence encoding and decoding on image by using low-complexity neural network An artificial intelligence (AI) encoding apparatus includes a processor configured to execute one or more instructions stored in the AI encoding apparatus to: input, to a downscale deep neural network (DNN), a first reduced image downscaled from an original image and a reduction feature map having a resolution lower than a resolution of the original image; obtain a first image AI-downscaled from the original image in the downscale DNN; generate image data by performing a first encoding process on the first image; and output the image data.
US11200633B2	Systems and methods for watermarking digital images Systems and methods for applying and detecting cross dependent marks incorporated into an electronic or digital image to form a watermark. The electronic or digital image may include encoded information for example a machine-readable symbol. The watermarking may include an encoding and insertion sub-process that inserts one or more marks into an image at a first point in time for form a marked image, an extraction sub-process that extracts the marks at a second point in time, and a detection sub-process 108 that determines if any modifications have been made to the marked image. The marked image may be formed by determining a first original descriptor and first original mark within the image, determining a second original descriptor and second original mark within the image, and incorporating the first original mark into the second original descriptor and incorporating the second original mark into the first original descriptor.
US11200632B2	Image processing method and image processing apparatus An image processing apparatus includes a provisional model generation portion, a matching score obtaining portion, an evaluation portion, and a determination portion. The provisional model generation portion is configured to generate a plurality of provisional models. The matching score obtaining portion is configured to perform the pattern matching between each of the plurality of provisional models and each of a plurality of evaluation images, and obtain a first matching score group that is a set of first matching scores indicating a highest degree of similarity and a second matching score group. The evaluation portion is configured to calculate an evaluation value from the first matching score group and the second matching score group. The determination portion is configured to determine a matching model from among the plurality of provisional models on a basis of the calculated evaluation value.
US11200630B2	Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and storage medium An information processing apparatus includes: an information management unit that registers boarding information on a user regarding boarding acquired by a check-in procedure of the user; and a deadline setting unit that, based on the boarding information, sets a deadline for a procedure of the user up to the boarding.
US11200627B2	Conducting various actions indicated by a financial card An indicator associated with a financial card to tender payment for a transaction is received from a point of sale device. A storage device stores independent sets of information associated with the financial card. The sets of information indicate different actions to be performed and settings corresponding to the actions. The indicator received from the point of sale device is associated with one of the independent sets of information. The actions associated with the received indicator are performed in accordance with the corresponding settings in response to conducting a transaction with the financial card.
US11200626B2	Digital image analyzing system involving client-server interaction Techniques for scanning physical media on physical items and providing information about those physical items are provided. In one technique, based on a printed medium of a physical item, a mobile device generates digital scan data that reflects multiple individual items that are referenced on the printed medium. The mobile device sends, over a computer network, to a remote server, the digital scan data or data that identifies individual items. The remote server determines a toxicity metric for each individual item. The remote server generates, based solely on each toxicity metric, a safeness rating of the physical item. Rating data is generated based on the safeness rating and presented on a screen of the mobile device in association with data that identifies the physical item.
US11200621B2	Systems and methods for financial instrument inspection Systems and methods for user-configurable financial instrument inspection are provided. A user may select the type of financial performance information and presentation format of the financial performance information to be displayed when the user selects a particular financial instrument. The user may associate a set of financial performance information and presentation format with a particular financial market for financial instruments. The financial instrument inspector may also facilitate trading of financial instruments.
US11200616B2	Electronic file transmission method, device, system, and computer readable storage medium An electronic transmission method, device and system, and computer readable storage medium are provided. The electronic transmission method includes: receiving a first instruction for a target electronic file; after receiving the first instruction, dispatching the target electronic file from a first storage location on which it is stored currently to a second storage location, the network connectivity between the second storage location and a target terminal being better than the network connectivity between the first storage location and the target terminal; after receiving a second instruction for the target electronic file, transmitting the target electronic file from the second storage location to the target terminal. This method ensures that it will not be difficult for the target terminal to acquire the target electronic file in time due to poor network connectivity, which in turn improves the online transaction efficiency of electronic files.
US11200613B2	Systems and methods for a subscription service via autonomous vehicles Systems and methods for autonomous delivery management are disclosed. In various embodiments, the system includes one or more processors and a memory storing instructions which, when executed by the processor(s), cause the autonomous delivery management system to provide a user interface for a customer to enter subscription information, receive subscription information from the user interface where the subscription information includes an item and a time interval for regularly delivering the item to the customer, store the subscription information, determine a handling itinerary for the item that includes delivery of the item in compliance with the time interval, and communicate instructions to an autonomous vehicle based on the handling itinerary.
US11200604B2	Methods and systems for dynamic matching and communication between service providers and service requesters Methods, processes, and devices for dynamic service matching include collecting provider data from a plurality of providers, receiving a service request by a user, processing the service request based on the collected provider data, sending, via a network, the processed service request to at least one of the plurality of providers, receiving at least one service bid from the at least one of the plurality of providers wherein the at the least one service bid includes service data, filtering the at least one service bid based on the service data, sending, via a network, the at least one filtered service bid to the user, receiving a selection input from the user, and establishing a direct communication channel between the user and the provider based on the received selection input.
US11200597B2	Systems and methods for identification of predicted consumer spend based on historical purchase activity progressions Technologies for identifying prospective marketing targets based on payment vehicle-based payment transactions processed over electronic payment networks are disclosed. Payment vehicle-based payment transactions are analyzed to determine historical purchase activity progressions. Consumer behavior can be mapped to a historical purchase activity progression so that future spend behavior of the consumer can be identified.
US11200593B2	Predictive recommendation system using tiered feature data In general, embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods and computer readable media for a predictive recommendation system using predictive models derived from tiered feature data.
US11200582B2	Ensuring compliance of internet of things (IoT) devices Embodiments for ensuring compliance of Internet of Things (IoT) devices in an IoT environment by a processor. One or more solutions may be provided for those of a plurality of sensor based devices in an IoT network identified as having performance obligation deficiencies according to a knowledge domain describes the performance obligations for the plurality of sensor based devices.
US11200577B2	Convolutional neural networks for variable prediction using raw data While artificial neural networks can be used to predict particular values in certain contexts, convolutional neural networks are not typically used in these contexts—instead they may be employed for image recognition. However, raw transactional data may be structured to take advantage of convolutional neural network (CNN) techniques by arranging the data such that correlations are increased between nearby other data. In arranging data in this manner, the structured CNN (SCNN) can operate efficiently without having to make use of engineered data features, the generation and maintenance of which can be a time-consuming process.
US11200569B1	System, method and program product for making payments using fiat-backed digital assets The present invention generally relates to the use of stable value digital assets and/or fiat-backed digital assets as cryptocurrencies that can be linked to other digital assets using blockchain technology and/or through a peer-to-peer network. In embodiments, the present invention relates to specific applications of fiat-backed digital assets and/or stable value digital asset tokens tied to a peer-to-peer network, such as a blockchain network.
US11200568B2	Computer-implemented method, a computer system and a cryptocurrency depository for enabling secure escrow and safekeeping of a cryptocurrency There is provided a computer-implemented method, a computer system and a cryptocurrency depository for enabling secure escrow and safekeeping of a cryptocurrency. The computer implemented method starts by establishing a secure communication between a first party device associated with a depositor of the cryptocurrency and a second party device associated with a secure cryptocurrency depository, in a cryptocurrency network. The secure cryptocurrency depository is a secure cryptocurrency escrow and/or a secure cryptocurrency vault. Further, the first party device and/or the second party device is enabled to transfer the available funds/tokens away from the multi-signature address using the second partially signed provisional transaction template and/or the first partially signed provisional transaction template in possession of the first party device and second party device respectively, in case the first party and/or second party private-keys/secrets and/or the hardware tokens are lost/stolen, thereby preventing theft.
US11200563B2	Account registration using a contactless card Account registration using a contactless card. A payment application executing on a device may receive a request to generate a payment account using a contactless card. The payment application may receive encrypted data from the contactless card and transmit the encrypted data to a server associated with the contactless card. The device may receive a push notification from the server and open an account application associated with the contactless card responsive to selection of the push notification. The account application may receive confirmation to generate the payment account using the contactless card and transmit the confirmation to the server. The device may open the payment application responsive to receiving verification of the encrypted data from the server. The payment application may fill form fields with account data received from the server and generate the payment account using the account data received from the server filled into the form fields.
US11200555B2	System and method for auctioning a first-in-wallet payment account status A system and method in accordance with exemplary embodiments may include systems and methods for providing first-in-wallet payment account auctioning. In an exemplary embodiment, a method for providing first-in-wallet payment account auctioning includes, receiving, via a network, consumer preference data, current consumer financial situation data associated with a plurality of payment accounts, and account terms associated with each of the plurality of payment accounts; scoring each of the plurality of payment accounts based on the consumer preference data, the current consumer financial situation data, and the account terms and determining an optimal payment account to be the first-in-wallet account out of the plurality of payment accounts based on the scoring.
US11200547B2	Payment collection control method and device, server, and computer-readable storage medium A method performed by one or more computers includes obtaining a collection order initiated by a user; determining a quantity of payers for the collection order; determining whether the user selects to invoke a one-click friends list, and if so, generating, a one-click friends list corresponding to the quantity of payers, wherein the one-click friends list is determined by collecting and analyzing cumulative behavioral data of the user based on historical collection orders of the user within a predetermined time period; and receiving user input from the user to determine that the one-click friends list matches an actual friends list for the collection order, and in response, initiating collection corresponding to the collection order.
US11200541B1	Systems and methods for processing and presentation of advisor-related data A method includes aggregating profile information corresponding to a plurality of advisors; receiving a search criteria from a first mobile device associated with a first advisor; determining a search result comprising one or more advisors from the plurality of advisors based on the profile information of the one or more advisors meeting the search criteria; receiving an indication of a selection of an advisor of the one or more advisors from the first mobile device; establishing a communication session between the first mobile device associated with the first advisor and a second mobile device associated with the selected advisor; monitoring and analyzing communications between the second mobile device associated with the selected advisor and the first mobile device associated with the first advisor; and generating a partnership agreement to formalize a wealth management business relationship between the first advisor and the selected advisor including the one or more terms.
US11200539B2	Automatic completion of robotic process automation workflows using machine learning Automatic completion of robotic process automation (RPA) workflows using machine learning (ML) is disclosed. A trained ML model may intelligently and automatically predict and complete the next series of activities in RPA workflows (e.g., one, a few, many, the remainder of the workflow, etc.). Actions users take while creating workflows over a time period may be captured and stored. The ML model may then be trained and used to match the stored actions with stored workflow sequences of actions in order to predict and complete the workflow. As more and more workflow sequences are captured and stored over time, the ML model may be retrained to predict a larger number of sequences and/or to more accurately make predictions. Auto-completion may occur in real-time in some embodiments to save time and effort by the user.
US11200536B2	Systems and methods for predictively managing collections of items Libraries are collections of books, periodicals, and other items that can be read in situ, checked out by patrons, and shared with other libraries. Collections are more useful when the items in the collection reflect user interests. Cluster analysis of the collection can be juxtaposed with cluster analysis of items taken from, borrowed from, or requested from the collection. The juxtaposition reveals differences between the collection and the user's desired collection. The collection can also be adapted to meet expected future needs by predicting future user needs based on past user behavior.
US11200530B2	Object detection An object is identified within a specified distance from a vehicle. The object is assigned a position in the vehicle and the object is detected in the position. Upon detecting the object in the position, a vehicle component is actuated.
US11200527B2	Platform for evaluating and recommending process automations A device may receive a process model and a reference process model. The process model may include a first plurality of nodes corresponding to a first plurality of stages of a particular process. The reference process model may include a second plurality of nodes corresponding to a second plurality of stages of a reference process. The device may map the process model to the reference process model, identify that a first stage corresponds to a second stage, determine a difference between a value, of a metric, associated with the first stage and a value, of the metric, associated with the second stage, cause an interactive user interface to display a visual representation of the difference, identify automation service(s) that compensate for the difference, determine a score for the process model, and cause the interactive user interface to display the score to enable selection of optimal automation service(s) to deploy.
US11200513B2	Real estate image analysis A method for scoring attractiveness of a real estate property including receiving an image from a subject real estate property; converting the image to RGB data; and identifying an attractiveness score from the RGB data. A real estate property attractiveness scoring application including an image processor to receive an image from a subject real estate property and convert the image to RGB data; a database of RGB data and an attractiveness score for the RGB data; and an artificial intelligence engine in communication with the image processor and the database to identify an attractiveness score in the database from the RGB data from the image processor.
US11200509B2	Method for processing information by intelligent agent and intelligent agent A method for processing information by an intelligent agent and the intelligent agent, where the method comprises: a first intelligent agent sends a request message to a second intelligent agent, where the request message includes an invitation message or a recommendation message; the first intelligent agent receives a decision message fed back by the second intelligent agent, where the decision message is determined according to the invitation message or the recommendation message and a knowledge model of the second intelligent agent; and the first intelligent agent updates, according to the decision message, a knowledge model of the first intelligent agent or sends a notification message to a first user account corresponding to the first intelligent agent. By using these technical solutions, information on a social network may be learned and processed by means of interaction with another intelligent agent, thereby implementing mining of data on the social network.
US11200497B1	System and method for knowledge-preserving neural network pruning Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for knowledge-preserving sparse pruning on neural networks are described. An exemplary method includes obtaining a pre-trained machine learning model trained based on a plurality of general-purpose training data; training a task-specific machine learning model by tuning the pre-trained machine learning model based on a plurality of task-specific training data corresponding to a task; constructing a student network based on the task-specific machine learning model; simultaneously performing (1) knowledge distillation from the trained task-specific machine learning model as a teacher network to the student network and (2) network pruning on the student network; and obtaining the trained student network for serving the task.
US11200490B2	Processing group convolution in neural network processor Embodiments relate to a neural processor circuit including neural engines, a buffer, and a kernel access circuit. The neural engines perform convolution operations on input data and kernel data to generate output data. The buffer is between the neural engines and a memory external to the neural processor circuit. The buffer stores input data for sending to the neural engines and output data received from the neural engines. The kernel access circuit receives one or more kernels from the memory external to the neural processor circuit. The neural processor circuit operates in one of multiple modes, at least one of which divides a convolution operation into multiple independent convolution operations for execution by the neural engines.
US11200488B2	Network endpoint profiling using a topical model and semantic analysis In one embodiment, a device in a network extracts words from traffic data for a particular endpoint node in the network. The device determines one or more topical categories associated with the particular endpoint node by applying a machine learning-based topical model to the extracted words. The device identifies one or more similar endpoint nodes in the network based on the determined one or more topical categories associated with the particular endpoint node and on one or more topical categories associated with the one or more similar endpoint nodes. The device determines a device type for the particular endpoint node based on a device type associated with the one or more similar endpoint nodes.
US11200484B2	Probability propagation over factor graphs Methods and apparatus are provided for implementing propagation of probability distributions of random variables over a factor graph. Such a method includes providing a spiking neural network, having variable nodes interconnected with factor nodes, corresponding to the factor graph. Each of the nodes comprises a set of neurons configured to implement computational functionality of that node. The method further comprises generating, for each of a set of the random variables, at least one spike signal in which the probability of a possible value of that variable is encoded via the occurrence of spikes in the spike signal, and supplying the spike signals for the set of random variables as inputs to the neural network at respective variable nodes. The probability distributions are propagated via the occurrence of spikes in signals propagated through the neural network.
US11200477B2	Wearable RFID device The wearable RFID device comprises a wearable arrangement, such as a wristband, an RFID buckle containing an RFID circuit and fitting onto the wristband, and a cover or cap for the RFID buckle. The RFID buckle comprises at least one side wall and a bottom wall, a cavity located inside the buckle. The buckle comprises a band retainer slot adjacent to the bottom wall, the band retainer slot receiving a portion of the wristband, the RFID buckle being removably located on the wristband. The RFID circuit is located in the buckle cavity. The removable cover is located on the RFID buckle, the cover closing the cavity. The wearable arrangement bands, buckles and covers are interchangeable with one another.
US11200460B2	Image learning device, image learning method, neural network, and image classification device An object of the invention is to provide an image learning device, an image learning method, a neural network, and an image classification device which can support appropriate classification of an image. In the image learning device according to an aspect of the invention, the neural network performs a first task of classifying a recognition target in a medical image and outputting a classification score as an evaluation result, and a second task different from the first task. The neural network updates a weight coefficient on the basis of a comparison result between the classification score output for the medical image of a first image group and a ground truth classification label, and does not reflect the classification score output for the medical image of a second image group in an update of the weight coefficient, for the first task. The neural network updates the weight coefficient on the basis of the evaluation result output for the medical image of the first image group and the evaluation result output for the medical image of the second image group, for the second task.
US11200455B2	Generating training data for object detection A method for generating training data for object detection is provided. The method includes dividing an image into a plurality of sliced images. The image includes meta information for an object in the image, the meta information including bounding box information associated with a bounding box surrounding the object, and marker information for markers associated with the object, the markers being located within the bounding box. The method includes designating at least one sliced object image from among the plurality of sliced images, at least a portion of the bounding box overlapping with each of the respective sliced object images. The method also includes designating at least one training data image from among the designated sliced object images based on the marker information. The method also includes generating the training data from the designated training data images.
US11200454B1	People selection for training set Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for selecting people for a training set. The methods, systems, and apparatus include actions of: obtaining an image of a user, obtaining an initial training set that includes the image of the user as a positive example and images of a subset of a set of other people as negative examples, training an initial classifier with the images of the initial training set, determining false positive classifications by the initial classifier, selecting people in the set of other people based on the false positive classifications, obtaining an updated training set that includes an image of the user, images of the subset of the set of other people, and images of the people that are selected, and generating an updated classifier with the updated training set.
US11200453B2	Information processing system, an information processing method and a computer readable storage medium An information processing system for improving detection of a relation between events is provided. A learning system (100) includes a training data storage (120) and a learning module (130). The training data storage (120) stores a training pair of a first and second event, and a relation between the training pair of the first and second events. The relation is a first or second relation. The learning module 130 learns a neural network for classifying a relation between a pair of the first and second events to be classified as the first or second relation, by using the training pair. The neural network includes a first layer to extract a feature of the first relation from features of the first and second events, a second layer to extract a feature of the second relation from the features of the first and second events, and a joint layer to extract a joint feature of the first and second relations from the features of the first and second relations.
US11200443B2	Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and image processing system An image processing apparatus extracts a first region and a second region from a medical image, identifies a third region that is included in the second region and that is at a distance greater than or equal to a threshold from the first region, and acquires a feature value that is a value indicating a feature of the second region on the basis of the third region.
US11200438B2	Sequential training method for heterogeneous convolutional neural network A method of training a heterogeneous convolutional neural network (HCNN) system includes identifying batch sizes for a first task and a second task, defining images for a first batch, a second batch, and a batch x for the first task, defining images for a first batch, a second batch, and a batch y for the second task, training the HCNN using the first batch for the first task, training the HCNN using the first batch for the second task, training the HCNN using the second batch for the first task, training the HCNN using the second batch for the second task. The sequential training continues for each of the batches and each of the tasks until the end of an epoch. When the epoch is complete, the images for each batch and each task are reshuffled.
US11200431B2	Method and apparatus for providing lane connectivity data for an intersection An approach is provided for providing lane-level connectivity data at an intersection. The approach involves, for example, retrieving probe data for an intersection with at least one upstream road link and at least one downstream link. The approach also involves performing a lane-level map-matching of the probe data to one or more upstream lanes of the at least one upstream road link, one or more downstream lanes of the at least one downstream link, or a combination thereof. The approach further involves generating a junction matrix for the intersection between the one or more upstream lanes of the at least one upstream road link and the one or more downstream lanes of the at least one downstream road link based on the lane-level map-matching of the probe data. The approach further involves determining lane-connectivity data for the intersection based on the junction matrix.
US11200428B2	Systems and methods for door error detection Systems and methods for monitoring an operation of a door of a public transportation vehicle are disclosed. In an embodiment, the system includes an optical sensor unit and a control unit. The optical sensor is arranged at a distance from the door and configured to record a movement of the door during an opening and/or a closing. The control unit is configured to (1) determine a position of a reference point of the door based on the recorded movement of the door, (2) determine a parameter of the movement of the door during the movement based on the determined position of the reference point, (3) determine a deviation of the parameter of the movement from a predetermined/allowed range of values of the parameter, and (4) determine an error in the operation of the door based on the determined deviation.
US11200421B1	Guided inspection system and method A system and method for a guided inspection of an apartment, home or other physical space is disclosed. The system and method use augmented reality to guide a user through a physical space. The system and method further use machine learning to automatically detect and classify damage to various physical structures in the physical space. In response to detected damage, the system may prompt a user to move closer to the detected damage for further inspection. The system can also detect obscured structures and prompt a user to make changes to the environment to increase the visibility of the obscured structures.
US11200412B2	Method and system for generating parsed document from digital document A method and system for generating a parsed document from a digital document. The method includes segmenting the digital document into at least one section; classifying the at least one section of the digital document into at least one of a class: text class, table class, figure class, noise class; identifying a reading order of the digital document; and processing each of the at least one section of the digital document. Furthermore, processing each of the at least one section of the digital document comprises extracting content from each of the at least one section based on the class; and structuring the extracted content based on the reading order to generate the parsed document.
US11200411B2	Training a card type classifier with simulated card images A computer model to identify a type of physical card is trained using simulated card images. The physical card may exist with various subtypes, some of which may not exist or be unavailable when the model is trained. To most robustly identify these subtypes, the training data set for the computer model includes simulated card images that are generated for the card type. The simulated card images are generated based on a semi-randomized background that varies in appearance, onto which an identifying marking of the card type is superimposed, such that the training data for the computer model includes additional randomized sample card images and ensure the model is robust to further variations in subtypes.
US11200407B2	Smart badge, and method, system and computer program product for badge detection and compliance A smart badge, and a method, system and computer program product for badge detection and compliance are disclosed. The method, carried out within a security system, includes capturing, using a camera, an image of a person. The captured image includes a face of the person within a first pixel region of the image. The method also includes performing facial recognition on the first pixel region to determine an identity of the person. The method also includes performing video analytics, on a second pixel region of the image, different than the first pixel region, to make a first determination that the identified person is wearing a badge, or to make a second determination that no badge is being properly worn by the identified person. The method also includes generating an alert, specific to the identified person, within the security system based at least in part on the first or second determination.
US11200404B2	Feature point positioning method, storage medium, and computer device This application relates to feature point positioning technologies. The technologies involve positioning a target area in a current image; determining an image feature difference between a target area in a reference image and the target area in the current image, the reference image being a frame of image that is processed before the current image and that includes the target area; determining a target figure point location of the target area in the reference image; determining a target feature point location difference between the target area in the reference image and the target area in the current image according to a feature point location difference determining model and the image feature difference; and positioning a target feature point in the target area in the current image according to the target feature point location of the target area in the reference image and the target feature point location difference.
US11200403B2	Next location prediction A method and system are provided for next location prediction. The method includes inferring, by a hardware processor, a store layout, based on user location data and user transaction data for a plurality of users. The method further includes clustering, by the hardware processor, the plurality of users based on the user transaction data to form a set of clusters. The method also includes ensembling, by the hardware processor, users within each of the clusters and building a location prediction model for each of the clusters. The method additionally includes predicting, by the hardware processor, a next location of a particular user from the plurality of users based on a weighted vote taken over the location prediction model for the cluster corresponding to the particular user. The cluster corresponding to the particular user includes at least one other user from the plurality of users in addition to the particular user.
US11200398B2	Display device and method of driving display device A display device including a display panel having a display area including a plurality of pixels and a non-display area surrounding at least one side of the display area, a light blocking layer at least partially overlapping the display area and including opening portions for selectively passing incident light, and a power supply device configured to supply power to the pixels and the light blocking layer, in which the power supply device is configured to apply control power having a different voltage value in correspondence with a type of an image to be displayed in the display area to the light blocking layer, during a display period.
US11200395B2	Graphic code recognition method and apparatus, terminal, and storage medium A graphic code recognition method includes: displaying a target image, the target image comprising at least two graphic codes; in response to receiving a graphic code recognition operation on the target image for selecting one of the at least two graphic codes to recognize, obtaining graphic code position information of the at least two graphic codes in the target image; determining a target graphic code indicated by the graphic code recognition operation according to the graphic code position information, the target graphic code belonging to the at least two graphic codes; and displaying a target graphic code recognition result corresponding to the target graphic code.
US11200392B2	Interleaved frame types optimized for vision capture and barcode capture A barcode reader configured to capture interleaved frame types optimized for vision capture and barcode capture are disclosed herein. An example barcode reader is configured to operate in a pre-determined repetitive pattern of capturing a first frame and capturing a second frame over a reading cycle having a fixed duration after a triggering event, wherein the first frame is captured over a first exposure period having a first duration, and the second frame is captured over a second exposure period having a second duration, and wherein the first frame is associated with a first brightness parameter, and the second frame is associated with a second brightness parameter.
US11200375B2	Delivering auto-play media content element from cross origin resources Systems and methods for delivering cross-site auto-play media are described herein. The server can receive, from a client device, a request for media content at a first domain embedded in a content element from a second domain. The request can include an identifier indicating that the client device is configured to restrict cross-domain redirection. The server can determine, responsive to identifying the identifier indicating that the client device is configured to restrict cross-domain redirection, that the request comprises a content type header having a first predetermined value. The server can generate, responsive to the determination, a response comprising the media content element in a body of the response. The server can transmit the response to the client device. Receipt of the response can cause the client device to extract the media content element from the body of the response and to render the media content element.
US11200373B2	Automatic translation of spreadsheets into scripts Systems and methods are provided for automatically translating one or more electronic spreadsheets into scripts. One or more electronic spreadsheets containing data arrays and formula arrays may be accessed. The electronic spreadsheet(s) may implement various logic using the data arrays and the formula arrays. The range(s) of the formula arrays may be determined. The range(s) of the data arrays may be determined based on the range(s) of the formula arrays. Conversion ranges may be determined based on the range(s) of formula arrays and the range(s) of data arrays. One or more dependencies between the conversion ranges may be determined and used to generate source code modeling the logic implemented by the electronic spreadsheet(s).
US11200362B2	3D resist profile aware resolution enhancement techniques Systems and techniques for three-dimension (3D) resist profile aware resolution enhancement techniques are described. 3D resist profile aware resolution enhancement models can be calibrated based on empirical data. Next, the 3D resist profile aware resolution enhancement models can be used in one or more applications, including, but not limited to, lithography verification, etch correction, optical proximity correction, and assist feature placement.
US11200361B1	Scalable model checking in functional verification by integrating user-guided abstraction A method, system and computer program product for appending abstractions to a testbench used for verifying the design of an electronic circuit. According to an embodiment of the invention, a method comprises identifying a set L of one or more support properties l for a set P of one or more properties p for a given electronic circuit; computing a plurality of hardware signals s of the given electronic circuit; and creating a plurality of abstract signals ABS, including declaring a fresh abstract signal abs_s for each of the hardware signals s, and creating a fresh abstract signal abs_l for each of the support properties l of the set L; for each of the properties p of the set P, creating an abstract property version abs_p; and appending the abstract signals ABS and the abstract property abs_p to the testbench to form an appended testbench.
US11200342B1	Method for training and testing obfuscation network capable of processing data to be obfuscated for privacy, and training device and testing device using the same A method for training an obfuscation network for obfuscating data is provided. The method includes steps of: a learning device (a) (i) inputting training data into an obfuscation network to obfuscate the training data and generate obfuscated training data, and (ii) inputting the obfuscated training data into a compression network to generate binary training data and generate compression adaptive obfuscated training data; (b) inputting the compression adaptive obfuscated training data into a learning network to apply learning operation and generate first characteristic information and inputting the training data into the learning network to generate second characteristic information and (c) training the obfuscation network such that first errors, calculated using the first and the second characteristic information, are minimized and such that second errors, calculated using (1) modified training data or modified obfuscated training data and (2) the obfuscated training data or the compression adaptive obfuscated training data, are maximized.
US11200340B2	Method and system for managing personal information within independent computer systems and digital networks A system and method for reliably and securely recording and storing all attributes of personal identification, for the identification and authorization of individual identity as well as attributes relating to it and personal data including but not limited to individual's physical description, bank details, travel history, etc. (the “Personally Identifiable Information “PII”). PII can be difficult to manage in networks where correlation between data sources is required. Thus, in some embodiments, the system combines a distributed database to create a framework for a robust security. The system manages the distributed database to associate transactions, or actions, using data, digital signatures, and/or cryptographic keys, which can be unique to an individual.
US11200332B2	Passive distribution of encryption keys for distributed data stores A distributed data store may implement passive distribution encryption keys to enable access to encrypted data stored in the distributed data store. Keys to encrypt a data volume stored in the distributed data store may be encrypted according to a distribution key and provided to a client of the distributed data store. Storage nodes that maintain portions of the data volume may receive the encrypted key from a client to enable access to the data volume. The storage nodes may decrypt the key according to the distribution key and enable access to the data volume at the storage nodes. In some embodiments, a key hierarchy may be implemented to encrypt the keys that provide access to the encrypted data. The key hierarchy may include a user key.
US11200331B1	Management of protected data in a localized device coordinator Systems and methods are described for implementing a coordinator within a coordinated environment, which environment includes set of coordinated devices managed by the coordinator. The coordinator can be provisioned with a set of tasks, each task corresponding to a segment of code that can be executed by the coordinator, such as to manage the coordinated devices. To assist in local storage and retrieval of protected data in the coordinated environment, the coordinator can include a protected data manager for storing protected data and managing access to the stored protected data. The protected data manager can communicate with a key manager to encrypt and decrypt the protected data. The set of tasks executing in the coordinated environment can access the protected data using unique security tokens.
US11200318B2	Methods and apparatus to detect adversarial malware Methods and apparatus to detect adversarial malware are disclosed. An example adversarial malware detector includes a machine learning engine to classify a first feature representation representing features of a program as benign or malware, a feature perturber to, when the first feature representation is classified as benign, remove a first one of the features to form a second feature representation, and a decider to classify the program as adversarial malware when the machine learning engine classifies the second feature representation as malware.
US11200288B1	Validating interests for a search and feed service A curation score associated with an entity is determined. A good interest probability value associated with the entity is determined. A content feed for a user that includes one or more web documents is generated based in part on the curation score and the good interest probability value.
US11200287B2	Global address list Configurations for providing a data feed of contact information updates, deletes, and additions to one or more clients are disclosed. A contact information server can maintain a log including respective log entries of different updates (e.g., in a log structure data store) performed on the contact information. The contact information server orders the log entries using associated timestamps in order to be consistent with the actual order of updates performed on the contact information. For synchronizing contact information, a client will submit a query and supply a timestamp to the contact information server to request the log of updates based on the timestamp (e.g., log entries corresponding to a set of updates since the included timestamp). The server will respond with one or more modifications to the contact information represented as the set of updates in respective log entries.
US11200282B1	Integrated views of multiple different computer program applications with action options In an embodiment, a computer-implemented method comprises accessing a plurality of different computer program applications that are associated with a single account and retrieving data items that are associated with the account from each different application among the plurality of applications; identifying a subset of the data items comprising relevant data items, at least a first data item of the subset being associated with a first application of the plurality of applications, and at least a second data item being associated with a second application of the plurality of applications that is different than the first application; causing displaying, using a computer display device, an integrated view comprising at least the first data item and the second data item of the subset of the data items; receiving a first input specifying a first action associated with the first data item, and a second input specifying a second action associated with the second data item; in response to the first input, signaling the first application to perform the first action; in response to the second input, signaling the second application to perform the second action.
US11200271B2	Dynamically ranking media effects based on user and device characteristics The present disclosure is directed toward systems and methods for ranking media effects. For example, systems and methods described herein enable a user to select and apply one or more media effects to a media communication such as a digital photograph or video. Systems and methods described herein identify and rank media effects based on characteristics associated with the user and the user's client-computing device. Furthermore, systems and methods described herein automatically present the top-ranked media effects to the user such that the user can easily select and apply one or more media effects that are tailored specifically to the user.
US11200268B2	Determining gaps in data Examples of techniques for performing a skill gap comparison between a first individual and a second individual (or group) are disclosed. In one example, a computer-implemented method includes receiving first data associated with the first individual and receiving second data associated with the second individual. The method further includes identifying preferences for performing the skill gap comparison and assigning a weight for each of a plurality of elements of the first data and the second data. The method further includes performing the skill gap comparison between the first individual and the second individual by comparing the first data to the second data. The method further includes generating a list of one or more skills for which there is a skill gap between the first individual and the second individual.
US11200257B2	Classifying social media users Methods and systems for classifying social media users. The system computes a plurality of subgraphs from a user's social graph network and considers which types of subgraphs are overly represented in the user's social network to determine whether a user belongs to a certain class. The system may also consider features based on metadata of the user's network and social interactions occurring in the user's network.
US11200250B2	Method and system for optimizing validations carried out for input data at a data warehouse This disclosure relates generally to a system and method to optimize a plurality of validations in an ETL workflow. The ETL workflow implements all types of validations expecting that there is erroneous data and that the validation would fail. Therefore, the actual execution of validation is made conditional based on a switch that can be turned on (validation is performed) or off (validation is skipped). The output of each instance of execution is recorded continuously at a repository. The means of identifying a specific validation that is eligible for being turned off requires a thorough analysis of all validations performed so far in the history. The thorough analysis includes how many times a validation has been performed on a particular field and to calculate an exposure value which is compared with a threshold value of exposure and determine specific validation that is eligible to be turned off.
US11200247B2	Method and system for keyword search using messaging service Methods and systems for a keyword search using a messenger service provide a search result to users based on instant messages transmitted and received through a messenger service.
US11200234B2	Non-disruptive dynamic ad-hoc database catalog services Approaches herein transparently delegate data access from a relational database management system (RDBMS) onto an offload engine (OE). The RDBMS receives a database statement referencing a user defined function (UDF). In an execution plan, the RDBMS replaces the UDF reference with an invocation of a relational operator in the OE. Execution invokes the relational operator in the OE to obtain a result based on data in the OE. Thus, the UDF is bound to the OE, and almost all of the RDBMS avoids specially handling the UDF. The UDF may be a table function that offloads a relational table for processing. User defined objects such as functions and types provide metadata about the table. Multiple tables can be offloaded and processed together, such that some or all offloaded tables are not materialized in the RDBMS. Offloaded tables may participate in standard relational algebra such as in a database statement.
US11200232B2	Querying a not only structured query language (NOSQL) database using structured query language (SQL) commands Techniques for querying a Not-Only/Non Structured Query Language (NoSQL) database using Structure Query Language (SQL) commands. A SQL query is received. The SQL query is transformed into one or more non-relational database scans having associated row key ranges. The one or more non-relational database scans are executed in parallel for each row key range. The results from the parallel scans of the non-relational database are combined. The combined results are presented as results of the SQL query.
US11200222B2	Natural language interface databases Embodiments are disclosed for correcting a natural language interface database (NLIDB) system. The techniques include receiving feedback indicating that an answer provided in response to a question for an NLIDB system is inaccurate. The techniques further include finding an ontology element for a datastore of the NLIDB system that matches to the feedback. The techniques also include selecting candidate annotations for the NLIDB system based on the ontology element and a data type of the ontology element. Additionally, the techniques include generating a question-answer (QA) pair for each of the candidate annotations. Further, the techniques include adding one of the candidate annotations to annotations for a natural language query (NLQ) engine of the NLIDB system based on a client verification of the QA pair.
US11200215B2	Data quality evaluation Methods and systems for data quality evaluation are disclosed. A method includes: receiving, by a computing device, at least one data set and a list of rule expressions to bind; building, by the computing device, candidate binding combinations between columns of the at least one data set and variables of each rule expression in the list of rule expressions; building, by the computing device, a new bound rule expression candidate based on the candidate binding combinations; generating, by the computing device, a new bound rule expression based on the new bound rule expression candidate and a data transformation applied to at least one of the columns of the at least one data set; and storing, by the computing device, the new bound rule expression.
US11200212B2	Documenting modifications to configuration file This disclosure describes documenting modifications to configuration file that can affect (e.g., change) behavior of a component of a service provided by a database management system. The service can collect metadata associated with a request to modify a configuration file affecting the behavior of the component of the service. The service can modify the configuration file in response to the request. The modification can change the behavior of the component of the service. The service can generate data representing documentation of the modification to the configuration file and the metadata. The data can represent the documentation being configured for storage by the database management system. Related apparatuses, systems, methods, techniques and articles are also described.
US11200210B2	Method of efficient backup of distributed file system files with transparent data access Examples include techniques for backing up a file to long term “cold” storage by using circuitry, and logic for execution by the circuitry, to receive a request to back up the file in a distributed file system to cold storage, to copy the file from at least one data node of the distributed file system to cold storage, to set a location of the file in cold storage in a name node of the distributed file system, and to set a length of the file to zero in the name node.
US11200209B2	Information processing apparatus, non-transitory computer readable medium, and information processing method An information processing apparatus includes a controller configured to control notification of a function executable with contents of plural files when the plural files are acquired. In a further modification of the invention, when a first file included in the plural files is stored in a storage unit and a second file included in the plural files is acquired, the controller may control notification of a function that is executable with contents of the first and second files.
US11200203B1	Accessing files stored in a firmware volume from a pre-boot application Standard I/O library functions for accessing files stored on mass storage devices are modified to enable access to files stored in firmware volumes. An application can be compiled against the modified standard I/O library functions to generate a pre-boot application. When the pre-boot application is executed within a pre-boot execution environment, it can utilize standard I/O library functions to access files stored in a firmware volume. In response to receiving a request to open a file from a pre-boot application, the called I/O function searches a file cross-reference table to locate the filename for the file. If the filename is in the file cross-reference table, the GUID associated with the filename is retrieved from the file cross-reference table and used to obtain a file handle to the file. The file handle can then be returned to the pre-boot application and used to perform other types of operations on the file.
US11200197B2	Method and device for data duplication cutover Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and device for data duplication cutover. The method includes initiating duplication of initial data from a source device to a destination device, wherein the initial data are data of a file system stored on the source device upon the initiating. The method further includes, in response to completing the duplication of the initial data, updating a session associated with the file system. Furthermore, the method includes, after updating the session, triggering the source device and the destination device into a data unavailable state to perform duplication of delta data from the source device to the destination device, wherein the delta data are data of the file system changed during duplication of the initial data. Utilization of the cutover mechanism proposed in the present disclosure enables effective reduction of data unavailable period of time.
US11200190B2	Command based on-die termination for high-speed NAND interface Systems, apparatus and methods are provided for multi-drop multi-load NAND interface topology where a number of NAND flash devices share a common data bus with a NAND controller. A method for controlling on-die termination in a non-volatile storage device may comprise receiving a chip enable signal on a chip enable signal line from a controller, receiving an on-die termination (ODT) command on a data bus from the controller while the chip enable signal is on, decoding the on-die termination command and applying termination resistor (RTT) settings in the ODT command to a selected non-volatile storage unit at the non-volatile storage device to enable ODT for the selected non-volatile storage unit.
US11200185B2	System and method of rerouting an inter-processor communication link based on a link utilization value In one or more embodiments, one or more systems, methods, and/or processes may configure multiple link registers, of a first semiconductor package of an information handling system (IHS), that configure an input/output (I/O) communication fabric of the first semiconductor package to route communications of multiple components of the first semiconductor package to multiple inter-processor communication link interfaces; may communicate with a second semiconductor package of the IHS via the multiple inter-processor communication link interfaces; may determine that a link utilization value of multiple link utilization values is at or above a threshold value; and may configure a link register of the multiple link registers, associated with the at least one component of the multiple components, that configures the I/O communication fabric to route communications of the at least one component of the multiple components to a second inter-processor communication link interface of the multiple inter-processor communication link interfaces.
US11200182B1	System and method for device synchronization A system includes a synchronizer circuit configured to monitor a first bus coupled between a memory and a first device to determine an occupancy threshold of the memory based on one or more write requests from the first device. The synchronizer circuit monitors a second bus between the memory and a second device to receive a first read transaction of a read request from the second device. The synchronizer circuit determines that the first read transaction is allowed to be sent to the memory based on the occupancy threshold of the memory. In response to the determination, the first read transaction is sent to the memory.
US11200181B2	Asymmetric-channel memory system An expandable memory system that enables a fixed signaling bandwidth to be configurably re-allocated among dedicated memory channels. Memory channels having progressively reduced widths are dedicated to respective memory sockets, thus enabling point-to-point signaling with respect to each memory socket without signal-compromising traversal of unloaded sockets or costly replication of a full-width memory channel for each socket.
US11200171B2	Memory systems having a cache system and a host controller having a host queue A memory system includes a host controller and a cache system. The host controller includes a host queue in which host data including a command outputted from a host are stored. The cache system includes a cache memory having a plurality of sets and a cache controller controlling an operation of the cache memory. The cache controller transmits status information on a certain set to which the host data are to be transmitted among the plurality of sets to the host controller. The host controller receives the status information from the cache controller to determine transmission or non-transmission of the host data stored in the host queue to the cache system.
US11200155B2	System and method for automated application testing A system and method are provided for automated application testing. The method is executed by a device having a communications module and includes requesting via the communications module, from a repository for a development environment, a current build file for each of at least one device type. The method also includes receiving via the communications module, from the repository, the current build file for each device type; deploying via the communications module, each current build file on a respective device type; and initiating at least one test on each device type based on a simulation of the device operating according to the current build file.
US11200149B2	Waveform based reconstruction for emulation A process is disclosed to identify the minimal set of sequential and combinational signals needed to fully reconstruct the combinational layout after emulation is complete. A minimal subset of sequential and combinational elements is output from the emulator to maximize the emulator speed and limit the utilization of emulator resources, e.g., FPGA resources. An efficient reconstruction of combinational waveforms or SAIF data is performed using a parallel computing grid.
US11200147B2	Architecture agnostic replay verfication According to aspects of the disclosure a method is provided, comprising: generating a live execution trace log corresponding to a live execution of a computer program, the live execution being performed by using both hardware emulation and hardware acceleration; generating a first trace entry corresponding to a replay execution of the computer program, the replay execution being performed by using hardware emulation without hardware acceleration, the replay execution being performed based on a set of events that are recorded during the live execution of the computer program; detecting whether the first trace entry is valid based on the live execution trace log; and in response to detecting that the first trace entry is not valid, transitioning into a safe state.
US11200145B2	Automatic bug verification Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method, device and computer program product for software bug verification. In one embodiment, the method includes determining a test action for verification of a software bug to be verified based on an identification of the software bug. The method further includes determining similarities between the test action and a plurality of historical test actions. The method further includes in response to a similarity between the test action and at least one of the plurality of historical test actions exceeding a threshold similarity, associating the test action with a code fragment category associated with the at least one historical test action. The method further includes verifying the software bug by running one code fragment in the code fragment category.
US11200144B1	Refinement of static analysis of program code Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for refinement of static analysis of program code are disclosed. A report is received. The report was generated using initial static analysis of program code. The report indicates a plurality of warnings regarding the program code, at least some of which represent potential flaws, and the warnings are associated with a plurality of segments of the program code. Additional analysis of the segments of program code is performed. The additional analysis differs at least in part from the initial static analysis. Based at least in part on the additional analysis, at least some of the warnings are determined to represent false positives.
US11200141B2	Apparatus and method for troubleshooting poor part life zones in a datacenter An information handling system determines zones within a datacenter that exhibit poor component life. Components of the information handling system provide error indications and have error thresholds and warranty durations. The components organized into zones. A component life manager receives the error indications, fits the error indications to curves, determines end of life estimates based upon the curves and the error thresholds, determines end of life dates based upon the end of life estimates and dates that the first error indication is received, determines losses of life based on the end of life estimates and the warranty durations, determines component life scores based upon the losses of life and the warranty durations, determines zone life scores based upon an average of the component life scores, determines a datacenter life score based upon an average of the component life scores, determines that a zone has a zone life score that is below the datacenter life score by more than a threshold, determines a condition of the zone is associated with the low zone life score, and changes the condition of the zone to improve the zone life score of the zone.
US11200133B1	Intelligent device role discovery In one example, a network management system (NMS) and method discovers device roles for network devices. The NMS includes a learning module configured to include a learning model, the learning model trained to associate configuration segments for each of a plurality of network devices with device roles performed by the network devices. The NMS discovers a network service on a network, receives configuration information from the discovered network service and splits the configuration information received from the discovered network service into configuration segments based on a vendor neutral yang model associated with the discovered network service. The NMS then determines if the discovered network service performs one or more of the device roles performed by the network devices used to train the learning model, wherein determining includes applying the learning model to the configuration segments of the discovered network service.
US11200130B2	Automatic entity control in a machine data driven service monitoring system Automated discovery of relationships between entities within an IT environment. A technique is performed by a relationship module that performs a discovery search for entity relationships to produce a set of relationship search results. The relationship module then generates a set of relationship definitions from the set of relationship search results which are stored to a relationship collection in a data store. A technique for automatically updating entity and relationship definitions and removing outdated entity and relationship definitions stored to a data store. An update module automatically updates entity and relationship definitions at predetermined time intervals. The update history in each definition is also modified to reflect the update process. A retire module automatically removes outdated definitions using the update history in each definition.
US11200122B2	Barrierless snapshots A method is provided comprising: generating a snapshot of a volume in a storage system; generating a snapshot marker and adding the snapshot marker to a transaction log of the storage system; scanning the transaction log to identify one or more records that have been added to the transaction log before the snapshot marker, and marking each of the identified records as a splitflush record; flushing any record that is stored in the transaction log by: (a) detecting whether the record is marked as a splitflush record, (b) when the record is marked as a splitflush record, copying the record both to a data store and to the snapshot, and (c) when the record is not marked as a splitflush record, copying the record to the data store only.
US11200121B2	Performance efficient time locks on data in a storage controller Provided are a method, system, and computer program product in which a computational device stores a data structure that includes identifications of a plurality of volumes and identifications of one or more time locks associated with each of the plurality of volumes. The data structure is indexed into, to determine whether an input/output (I/O) operation from a host with respect to a volume is to be permitted.
US11200118B2	Semiconductor device with modified command and associated methods and systems Memory devices, systems including memory devices, and methods of operating memory devices are described, in which a host device may directly access a portion of memory array that is otherwise reserved for ECC functionality of a memory device. The memory array may correspond to a set of memory addresses, where each memory address of the set corresponds to a first portion of the memory array (e.g., user data plane) and to a second portion of the memory array (e.g., ECC plane). The second portion may be configured to store ECC data or second user data or metadata based on whether the ECC functionality is enabled or disabled. The memory device may determine a command directed to the memory address of the set is configured to access the first portion or the second portion based on a status of a pin associated with the command.
US11200115B2	Methods of bit-flagged sketch-based memory management and memory devices utilizing the same A memory device having a memory array and a controller operably coupled to the memory array is described. The controller is configured to store a sketch comprising d rows and w columns, wherein d and w are positive integers. Each row corresponds to a different one of d hash functions. The controller is also configured to detect an event associated with a memory address and to hash the memory address with each of the d hash functions to generate a corresponding d sketch locations. The controller is further configured, for each of the d sketch locations, to set a detection window flag, if it is not already set, and to adjust a stored sketch value by an amount corresponding to the event. The controller is also configured to evaluate a summary metric corresponding to the stored sketch value in each of the d sketch locations to determine if a threshold value has been reached.
US11200112B1	Method and apparatus to reduce bandwidth overhead of CRC protection on a memory channel A method and/or system for checking the bus/interface between a host and a memory system during memory access operations includes a memory system having one or more of the data memory devices and a spare memory device; providing a bus/interface between a host and the memory system; selecting information on a per memory device basis to associate with a spare memory device; disassociating the selected information from the one or more data memory devices and associating the selected information with the spare memory device; adding Cyclical Redundancy Check (CRC) code to the one or more data memory devices from which the selected information was disassociated; transferring the CRC code and information over the bus and interface between the host and the memory system; and checking the bus interface with the CRC code added to the one or more data memory devices.
US11200111B2	Memory system and operating method thereof A memory system includes: an ECC unit suitable for generating third data by correcting second data and a third DBI flag by correcting a second DBI flag, based on the second data, the second DBI flag, and a second parity, which are provided through a channel; a DBI unit suitable for generating fourth data by determining whether a plurality of third data bits respectively corresponding to a plurality of DBI flag bits constituting the third DBI flag are inverted, based on the third data and the third DBI flag; and a DM unit suitable for generating a DM flag indicating whether a write operation is performed on a plurality of fourth data bits constituting the fourth data, based on the second data.
US11200106B2	Data integrity for persistent memory systems and the like A data processing system includes a memory channel, a memory coupled to the memory channel, and a data processor. The data processor is coupled to the memory channel and accesses the memory over the memory channel using a packet structure defining a plurality of commands and having corresponding address bits, data bits, and user bits. The data processor communicates with the memory over the memory channel using a first type of error code. In response to a write access request, the data processor calculates a different, second type of error code and appends each bit of the second type of error code as a corresponding one of the user bits. The memory stores the user bits in the memory in response to a write command, and transfers the user bits to the data processor in a read response packet in response to a read command.
US11200103B2	Using a machine learning module to perform preemptive identification and reduction of risk of failure in computational systems Input on a plurality of attributes of a computing environment is provided to a machine learning module to produce an output value that comprises a risk score that indicates a likelihood of a potential malfunctioning occurring within the computing environment. A determination is made as to whether the risk score exceeds a predetermined threshold. In response to determining that the risk score exceeds a predetermined threshold, an indication is transmitted to indicate that potential malfunctioning is likely to occur within the computing environment. A modification is made to the computing environment to prevent the potential malfunctioning from occurring.
US11200097B2	Device and method for optimizing the utilization over time of the resources of an IT infrastructure The invention relates to a device for optimizing the utilization of the resources on an IT infrastructure (1), the IT infrastructure (1) including one or more IT structures (3) hosting a plurality of application components (2a, 2b, 2c, 2d), said device including a storage module (10) capable of storing a plurality of repositories, a load planning module (20) capable of calculating for a time period required resource levels, an IT structure selection module (30) configured to select IT structures (3) required for the time period and an optimization module (40) configured to generate at least one placement plan including data of IT structures to be used and at least one evolution plan listing resource changes to be made.
US11200093B2	Management of a geomechanical workflow of a geomechanics application in a computer system Systems are provided for management of a geomechanical workflow of a geomechanics application in a computer system. The systems can include a client computer system can be communicatively coupled via a computer network to a geomechanical data source including one or more sensors configured to measure geomechanical data characterizing one or more aspects of a geomechanical feature. The systems can further include sets of program codes for instantiating a Calculation Manager object, a Calculation Manager Extension object, and a Workflow Run object for reconstructing a geomechanical workflow in response to a changed event in the geomechanical data.
US11200091B2	Adaptive memory optimization for thin clients A memory optimizer service can be used to provide adaptive memory optimization. The memory optimizer service can be executed on a thin client or other user device to detect when low memory conditions exist. When it detects a low memory condition, the memory optimizer service can obtain process memory information for processes executing on the thin client and use the process memory information to calculate a trim amount to apply to the working set of processes with the highest amount of private bytes in their working sets. These trim amounts can be proportional to the amounts of private bytes and in sum can equal a total desired reduction in memory consumption.
US11200074B2	Command assistance Provided are techniques for new command assistance. A score is generated for each of a plurality of users based on a command execution history of a command by each of the plurality of users. A command template with the command and parameters of the command is generated in an order based on the command execution history of a user of the plurality of users having a high score. In response to receiving a portion of a new command, suggestions are provided for automatically completing the command using the command template.
US11200068B2	Methods and devices for the automatic configuration of an exchange field device in a process control system A method provides for the automatic configuration of a field device in a process control system. The process control system comprises one or more field devices and a configuration provider. The field devices and the configuration provider are communicatively coupled via a communication system. The method comprises: the automatic retrieval and provision of configuration data of the field devices via the configuration provider; the automatic recognition of the field device via the configuration provider after the removal of a second field device from the process control system and the replacement with the field device; and the automatic configuration of the field device using the provisioned configuration data of the second field device via the configuration provider. The method further comprises the recurrent sending of an introducing message from the configuration provider to the field devices to introduce the configuration provider to the field devices. The method further comprises the registration of the field devices with the configuration provider.
US11200064B2	Methods and systems for inter-pipeline data hazard avoidance Methods and parallel processing units for avoiding inter-pipeline data hazards wherein inter-pipeline data hazards are identified at compile time. For each identified inter-pipeline data hazard the primary instruction and secondary instruction(s) thereof are identified as such and are linked by a counter which is used to track that inter-pipeline data hazard. Then when a primary instruction is output by the instruction decoder for execution the value of the counter associated therewith is adjusted (e.g. incremented) to indicate that there is hazard related to the primary instruction, and when primary instruction has been resolved by one of multiple parallel processing pipelines the value of the counter associated therewith is adjusted (e.g. decremented) to indicate that the hazard related to the primary instruction has been resolved. When a secondary instruction is output by the decoder for execution, the secondary instruction is stalled in a queue associated with the appropriate instruction pipeline if at least one counter associated with the primary instructions from which it depends indicates that there is a hazard related to the primary instruction.
US11200061B2	Pre-instruction scheduling rematerialization for register pressure reduction Examples are disclosed herein that relate to performing rematerialization operation(s) on program source code prior to instruction scheduling. In one example, a method includes prior to performing instruction scheduling on program source code, for each basic block of the program source code, determining a register pressure at a boundary of the basic block, determining whether the register pressure at the boundary is greater than a target register pressure, based on the register pressure at the boundary being greater than the target register pressure, identifying one or more candidate instructions in the basic block suitable for rematerialization to reduce the register pressure at the boundary, and performing a rematerialization operation on at least one of the one or more candidate instructions to reduce the register pressure at the boundary to be less than the target register pressure.
US11200049B2	Automated test authorization management A method, system, and computer program product for automated test authorization management is provided. The method obtains a test result, as part of an issue record, for a test of a software product. The test result contains a set of test attributes and represents an issue affecting the software product. An authorized developer is identified to assign the issue record. The method updates an authorization attribute of the test based on the test result and the authorized developer and transfers the authorization attribute to the authorized developer. The method detects a status transition of the issue record from a first status to a second status and reverts the authorization attribute of the test based on detecting the second status.
US11200041B1	Remote installation, customization and deployment of mainframe components A method comprises packaging a plurality of mainframe software artifacts into a container image, wherein the plurality of mainframe software artifacts are created via installation of software on a first mainframe system using a mainframe installer configured for a first operating system. The method further comprises running a container, based on the container image, on a container distribution platform that uses a host operating system different from the first operating system; and executing one or more scripts within the container. The one or more scripts are configured to install and configure the packaged plurality of mainframe software artifacts onto a second mainframe system communicatively coupled to the container distribution platform, the second mainframe system running the first operating system.
US11200027B2	Virtual assistant configured to automatically customize groups of actions A method includes determining, by an assistant executing at one or more processors, a default group of actions that the assistant is configured to execute in response to receiving a particular audible command. The method includes determining, by the assistant, based on the default group of actions and a user profile associated with a particular user, a custom group of actions that the assistant is configured to execute in response to receiving the particular audible command from the particular user. The method also includes receiving, by the assistant, an indication of the particular audible command, and determining, by the assistant, whether the indication of particular audible command originated from the particular user. The method further includes, responsive to determining that the indication of particular audible command originated from the particular user, executing, by the assistant, each action from the custom group of actions.
US11200026B2	Wireless earpiece with a passive virtual assistant A system, method, and wireless earpieces for implementing a virtual assistant in response to user preferences. User preferences associated with a user of the wireless earpieces are received. Data and information about the user and an environment of the user are automatically captured by the wireless earpieces based on the user preferences. A determination is made whether to provide automatic assistance to the user based on the user preferences utilizing the virtual assistant of the wireless earpieces. The automatic assistance is generated through the virtual assistant of the wireless earpieces utilizing the data and the information. The automatic assistance is communicated to the user through the virtual assistant of the wireless earpieces.
US11200024B2	Playback device with device base Example techniques relate to changing a playback device mode based on a device base. In an example implementation, a first playback device operates in a first mode where it is connected to a first network and plays back audio content while in the first mode. The playback device detects connection of the first playback device to a device base and while the first playback device is on the device base, detects connection to a second network. The first playback device switches from operating in the first mode to operating in a second mode. The first playback device forms a stereo pair configuration with a second playback device over the second network in the second mode. While in the second mode, the first playback device plays back a first channel of audio content in synchrony with the second playback device playing back a second channel of the audio content.
US11200023B2	Override for OEM audio signal equalizer Apparatus and methods for processing an audio signal. The apparatus may include a digital signal processor (“DSP”) configured to receive an audio signal from a vehicular audio signal line. The audio signal may include a flat component and a compensatory component. The flat component may correspond to the audio signal in a state before combination with the compensatory component. The compensatory component may include an OEM EQ component. The apparatus may include a microprocessor in electronic communication with the DSP. The microprocessor may be configured to retrieve from the memory a restorative signal component. The microprocessor may be configured to instruct the DSP to apply the restorative signal component to the audio signal to reduce the audio signal to the flat component.
US11200017B2	Method for providing cloud print service and server A method for providing a cloud print service includes receiving, from an external apparatus, a print job that is to be transmitted to a printing apparatus, and registering in the cloud print service at least one or more printer objects that is used to transfer the received print job to the printing apparatus, transmitting, to the second cloud print service, a registration request to register at least one of the printer objects registered in the cloud print service as a cloud printer that is used by a second cloud print service different from the provided cloud print service, and transmitting, in a case where a cloud printer corresponding to the printer object is registered as the cloud printer of the second cloud print service based on the registration request, ability information indicating that a printing apparatus corresponding to the printer object supports a pass-through mode.
US11200012B2	Terminal device, access point, communication device, and computer programs therefor A terminal device (e.g., a smartphone) may use a private key to generate a first configuration object used for establishing a first wireless connection between the terminal device and an access point. The terminal device may also use the private key to generate a second configuration object used for establishing a second wireless connection between a communication device (e.g., a printer) and the access point. The terminal device may then transmit specific data (e.g., print data) to the communication device via the access point.
US11200010B2	System and method for increasing page yield of a replaceable toner cartridge An intelligent Print Device monitoring & manipulation method provided on a host computer that continually tracks in the connected/accessible print devices parameters like toner or ink cartridge/container along with identities & toner levels. As & when certain device statuses change, the invention will accordingly & progressively alter the density/resolution and such allied print device setting to achieve higher page yield from the available toner/ink present in cartridge. The alteration activity can be initiated automatically on-site &/or manually from remote location, when it is added as part of system platform that bridges client sites having print devices and the host computer to external service providers.
US11200003B2	Bounded latency and command non service methods and apparatus The present disclosure generally presents a method and apparatus to provide a bounded latency, where a device would report “non-service” of a command at the defined system level timeout or earlier if the device was unable to successfully return the data to the host.
US11199999B2	Management of write operations in a non-volatile memory device using a variable pre-read voltage level A processing device, operatively coupled with a memory device, is configured to receive a write request identifying data to be stored in a segment of the memory device. The processing device determines a write-to-write (W2W) time interval for the segment and determines whether the W2W time interval falls within a first W2W time interval range, the first W2W time interval range corresponds to a first pre-read voltage level. Responsive to the W2W time interval for the segment falling within the first W2W interval range, the processing device performs a pre-read operation on the segment using the first pre-read voltage level. The processing device identifies a subset of the data to be stored in the segment comprising bits of data that are different than corresponding bits of the data stored in the segment. The processing device further performs a write operation to store the subset of the data in the segment.
US11199985B2	Tracking storage capacity usage by snapshot lineages using metadata in a multi-level tree structure An apparatus comprises a processing device configured to identify a snapshot lineage comprising snapshots of a storage volume and to maintain, for the snapshot lineage, a multi-level tree structure comprising (i) a first level comprising a primary volume object representing the storage volume and snapshot volume objects representing the snapshots of the storage volume and (ii) additional levels comprising data objects, where the primary and snapshot volume objects comprise pointers to the data objects, the data objects comprising data of the storage volume and snapshots. The processing device is also configured to determine storage capacity usage by the snapshot lineage based on a collective size of the data objects pointed to by the primary and snapshot volume objects, to store the determined storage capacity usage as metadata associated with the primary volume object, and to dynamically update the metadata responsive to changes in the snapshot lineage.
US11199980B2	Techniques to provide run-time protections using immutable regions of memory Various embodiments are generally directed to an apparatus, method and other techniques for determining a region of the memory for which to store information, inserting the information into the region of the memory, and applying one or more characteristics to the region of the memory via an instruction set architecture (ISA) operation, the one or more characteristics comprising an immutable characteristic to prevent modification of the information in the region of the memory.
US11199978B2	Data protection with multiple site replication Systems and methods for replicating data from a first site to a second site remote from said first site are described. An embodiment includes storing compressed data on a hard disk appliance, reading said data without decompressing said data, sending said data over a wide-area-network (WAN) in a compressed state, and storing said data on a second hard disk appliance remote from said first hard disk appliance in its compressed state without performing an additional compression operation.
US11199974B2	Allocation of memory regions of a nonvolatile semiconductor memory for stream-based data writing A semiconductor storage device comprises a nonvolatile semiconductor memory with memory regions, threads, and a controller. Each thread includes a buffer region in which write data from a host are stored before the write data are written to one of the memory regions, and the buffer region of each thread is different from buffer regions of the other threads. The controller receives stream data from the host, each stream data being associated with one of multiple stream identifications, allocates each stream identification to one of the threads according to priority levels assigned to the stream identifications, such that a stream identification assigned a highest priority level is allocated to a thread to which none of other stream identifications are allocated, and writes each stream data stored in the buffer regions to one of the memory regions according to stream identification of the stream data.
US11199972B2	Information processing system and volume allocation method The present invention proposes an information processing system and a volume allocation method making it feasible to reduce overall system operation cost. A replication group to carry out replication is comprised of one or multiple nodes. A storage node classifies respective storage devices mounted thereon into plural storage hierarchies according to the drive type of each of the storage devices for management of the storage devices. A controller node allocates, to each node of the nodes constituting the replication group, a volume for which a storage device of a storage hierarchy suitable for a type of middleware that the node uses and a node type of the node acting in the replication group provides a storage area.
US11199965B2	Virtual keyboard One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for facilitating user input are provided. For example, a keyboard display trigger event for a computing device may be identified (e.g., a user interacting with a text input interface). Responsive to identifying the keyboard display trigger event, a virtual keyboard may be displayed through the computing device. The virtual keyboard may comprise virtual keys that are displayed along a periphery/edge of a screen of the computing device, such as side-by-side forming a parallelogram shape. Swipe gestures across the virtual keyboard may be used to transition to other virtual keyboards, such as a letter virtual keyboard, a numeric virtual keyboard, a symbol virtual keyboard, an emoji virtual keyboard, a virtual keyboard in a different language, etc.
US11199955B2	Enhanced techniques for building user interfaces Methods and systems for enhanced techniques for building user interfaces. An example method includes presenting a builder user interface to create a consumer user interface. The builder user interface receives information usable to filter data objects associated with a data object type. The information includes a variable associated with a property indicated by the data object type and the variable is associated with a first user interface element of the consumer user interface. An association between a second user interface element included in the consumer user interface and presentation of information generated based on data objects is received. Adjustment of the first user interface element causes filtering of the data objects via adjustment of the variable updating of the information. Access to the consumer user interface is enabled.
US11199952B2	Adjusting user interface for touchscreen and mouse/keyboard environments Aspects of the subject technology relate to dynamically adjusting a UI based on the current modality. Layout features of a UI may be determined based on an input modality of a computing device. The arrangement of the UI elements may be determined based on the layout features and respective importance scores of the UI elements. The UI elements arranged based on the arrangement may be provided for display of the computing device.
US11199949B2	Automation tool for generating web pages and links A method for a user interface for creating a preview content page is provided. Client identification, time period and campaign information are received via a user interface input field. An application programming interface is invoked to access a third party site's data content associated with the campaign information available during the time period. From the third party site, the data content associated with the campaign information available during the time period and metadata associated with the data content are received. The data content has advertisements. The advertisements are presented in the data content on the user interface's display window. A uniform resource locator (URL) link to the plurality of advertisements is generated, for allowing users to share the link on a public web site page. A computer readable storage medium and a user interface system are also provided.
US11199946B2	Information processing apparatus, control method, and program An information processing apparatus (2000) displays an operation image (20) on a display screen (50) associated with a head mounted display (100). First, the information processing apparatus (2000) acquires work information. The work information includes information for determining a work target which is a target of work performed by a user of the head mounted display (100). The information processing apparatus (2000) determines a work target satisfying a provision condition by using the work information. The information processing apparatus (2000) displays the operation image (20) for selecting the determined work target on the display screen (50) in an operable manner. The information processing apparatus (2000) detects an input operation on the operation image (20).
US11199943B2	Processing system having a machine learning engine for providing a selectable item availability output Aspects of the disclosure relate to enhanced selectable item availability processing systems with improved content and configuration update capability and enhanced selectable item availability output determinations. A computing platform may receive a selectable item availability configuration output comprising a configuration update to the selectable item availability output and a selectable item availability content output comprising a content update to the selectable item availability output. Based on the selectable item availability configuration output and the selectable item availability content output, the computing platform may generate an updated selectable item availability output. The computing platform may receive a request to access the selectable item availability output. The computing platform may generate one or more commands to cause display of the updated selectable item availability output and may send, to a user device, the updated selectable item availability output along with the one or more commands.
US11199931B2	Capacitive touch sensor It is disclosed a capacitive touch sensor (10) comprising a support layer (1) having a plurality of sensing threadlike elements (2) coupled thereto and configured to be electrically connected to a detection device (5) for evaluating the capacitance value (C) of each sensing threadlike element (2) of said plurality of sensing threadlike elements, characterized in that said sensing threadlike elements (2) comprise a plurality of electrically resistive threadlike elements (2r), wherein the electrical resistance per unit of length of each electrically resistive threadlike element (2r) is comprised between 10 kΩ/m and 10 MΩ/m. An article comprising the capacitive touch sensor (10) and a method for detecting a touch event on a support layer (1) are also disclosed.
US11199924B2	Electronic device including decoration structure According to various embodiments of the present invention, a decoration structure included in an electronic device may be enhanced, wherein the decoration structure comprises: a first member comprising a second projecting portion formed with a plurality of through holes and a first planar portion formed with at least one coupling hole; and a second member supporting the first member and comprising at least one coupling portion inserted into the at least one coupling hole, wherein the at least one coupling portion is bent while being inserted into the at least one coupling hole, so that the first member and the second member can be coupled to each other. Various other embodiments may be possible.
US11199917B2	Sensing screen, control circuit and control method thereof, and sensing screen apparatus A sensing screen, a control circuit and control method thereof, and a sensing screen apparatus are provided. The sensing screen includes a display screen, a first transparent medium layer, a transparent connection layer, and an antenna layer. The antenna layer includes multiple antenna units, and the antenna units include at least one first antenna unit and multiple second antenna units. The first antenna unit is configured to transmit a sensing signal, the second antenna units are configured to receive reflected signals of the sensing signal, and the reflected signals are generated by a touch object by reflecting the sensing signal. According to the present application, the antenna layer is arranged right above the display screen, so that a touch area of the sensing screen is fully utilized while screen display is not affected, so as to substantially increase an antenna size and increase an antenna gain.
US11199916B2	Operation support device An operation support device that supports an input operation to a coordinate input device for detecting a change in electrostatic capacitance, the operation support device, comprises: an operation member; a first rotation plate that moves in a vertical direction in conjunction with the operation member; and a first member that includes a conductive first shaft part that protrudes from the first rotation plate toward the coordinate input device, and a conductive first end part. In conjunction with a pressing operation performed on the operation member to a first stage, the first shaft part and the first end part come into contact with each other.
US11199914B2	Camera and sensor controls for remotely operated vehicles and virtual environments A hand controller that includes a control member mounted on a hand held base for commanding a remote vehicle or movement of a virtual object within a virtual environment includes an input device mounted for generating tilt commands for a sensor mounted on the remote vehicle or the virtual object, the input device being located on a front of the base and oriented to be displaced up and down to tilt the sensor or the virtual point of view when the base is held during operation.
US11199913B2	Finger computer display and controller device A processor connected to one or more displays shaped to affix to a fingernail for displaying an image.
US11199903B1	Systems and methods for providing haptic feedback when interacting with virtual objects Systems and methods for providing enhanced surface electrical neurostimulation and haptic feedback to a user within a simulation environment are provided. Enhanced surface electrical neurostimulation (eSENS) platforms are able to elicit distally referred tactile percepts while avoiding large charge densities as a method to deliver intuitive haptic feedback during functional tasks.
US11199902B2	Input device An input device includes a tracking target section having an outer surface on which a plurality of light emitting sections are provided; a housing constituting the outer surface of the tracking target section; a first substrate which is a rigid substrate disposed inside the housing; at least one light source mounted on a first surface of the first substrate; and a first light guide member that guides light from the at least one light source to positions of the plurality of light emitting sections on the outer surface of the housing.
US11199898B2	Gaze based interface for augmented reality environment In an embodiment, a processing system provides an augmented reality object for display by a head-mounted device (HMD) worn by a user. The processing system provides an augmented reality graphic for display by the HMD on a plane and overlaid on the augmented reality object. The processing system determines a gaze direction of the user using sensor data captured by a sensor of the HMD. Responsive to determining that the gaze direction intersects with the augmented reality graphic on the plane and remains intersecting for at least a period of time, the processing system determines a position of intersection between the gaze direction and the augmented reality graphic on the plane. The processing system provides a modified version of the augmented reality object for display by the HMD according to the position of intersection during the period of time.
US11199889B2	Bezel interface providing backup power to relay control circuitry An access control system includes a controller having a credential analyzer, a lock controlled by the controller, and a bezel. The bezel has a power jack electrically connected to the credential analyzer and lock such that the credential analyzer and lock can be operatively powered by an external power source through the power jack.
US11199888B1	System and method for mitigating liquid damage to an information handling system Methods, systems, and computer programs encoded on computer storage medium, for detecting, across a resistive sense circuit proximate to a venting system of an IHS, a first voltage at a first time, wherein the first voltage includes a state-steady voltage and a nominal voltage; comparing the first voltage to a voltage threshold, and determining that the first voltage is less than or equal to the voltage threshold and in response, maintaining a power state of the IHS; detecting, across the resistive sense circuit, a second voltage at a second time after the first time, wherein the second voltage includes the steady-state voltage and a low-voltage; comparing the second voltage to the voltage threshold, and determining that the second voltage is greater than the threshold voltage, and in response preparing a computer-implemented response to mitigate damage to the IHS from liquid contacting one or more computing components of the IHS.
US11199884B2	Optimization device and method of controlling optimization device utilizing a spin bit An optimization device includes: a processor; and search circuits configured to determine energy values for combinations of two state variables of a state variables, based on weight values each indicating strength of connection between the two state variables, and values of the two state variables, determine values of the state variables, based on results of comparison between evaluation values obtained by adding a noise value corresponding to a temperature to each energy value, and a threshold value, and be set to be equal to each other in connection states between the state variables based on the weight values, the processor is configured to: determine an exchange count, based on a difference between a temperature set for a search circuit corresponding to the lowest energy value, and a minimum temperature; set a temperature for each search circuit; and exchange the set temperatures between the search circuits for the exchange count.
US11199881B2	Computing device A device can include a housing that includes a bottom shell, a top shell and at least one shell opening; a processor disposed in the housing; memory accessible to the processor and disposed in the housing; audio circuitry disposed in the housing and operatively coupled to the processor; a human interface unit mounted to the housing, operatively coupled to the processor and accessible via the top shell of the housing; a speaker driver mounted to the housing and operatively coupled to the audio circuitry, where the speaker driver is in fluid communication with the at least one shell opening; and an internal acoustic cavity defined by at least one of the bottom shell and the top shell, where the internal acoustic cavity is in fluid communication with the speaker driver.
US11199879B2	Computing device water protection A device can include a housing that defines an interior space and an exterior space and that includes air passages between the interior space and the exterior space; electronic components disposed in the interior space of the housing, where the electronic components include a processor and memory accessible to the processor; and a material that, upon exposure to water, transitions from a first state to a second state that protects at least one of the electronic components from damage.
US11199877B2	Display apparatus A display apparatus includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels and configured to display an image; a housing module including a roller therein such that the display panel is configured to be wound on the roller to be housed in the housing module or unwound from the roller to extend from the housing module; a rolling module including a structure connected to the display panel and configured to wind or unwind the display panel according to a folding or unfolding of the structure; and a vibration device on the structure, the vibration device configured to vibrate the display panel in an unwound state.
US11199873B2	Protective case for foldable image display apparatus Provided is a protective case for a foldable image display apparatus which prevents the hinge breakage due to an external force action exceeding the allowable range in the folded state of the foldable image display apparatus and prevents scratching, stabbing, and other damages of the screen display surface due to foreign substances introduced into the folding space gap formed inside the folding inner surface. The protective case primarily supports and disperses an external force even when an external force is applied to the hinge part in the folded state, and the protective case occupies and closes the folding space gap which is an empty space area.
US11199871B2	Display device A display device includes a substrate including a display area, a non-display area, a first additional area connected to the non-display area at a first boundary, and a second additional area connected to the first additional area at a second boundary, pixels on the display area, an encapsulation film on the pixels, electrodes on the encapsulation film, pads on the second additional area, sensing wires connecting the electrodes and the pads, a first sensing insulating film on the encapsulation film, and a second sensing insulating film on the first sensing insulating film. The substrate includes a curved first side in the first additional area and the first additional area decreases in width from the first boundary to the second boundary, and a boundary of the first sensing insulating film is closer to the first side than a boundary of the second sensing insulating film is to the first side.
US11199866B2	Voltage regulator with power rail tracking Disclosed herein are related to an integrated circuit to regulate a supply voltage. In one aspect, the integrated circuit includes a metal rail including a first point, at which a first functional circuit is connected, and a second point, at which a second functional circuit is connected. In one aspect, the integrate circuit includes a voltage regulator coupled between the first point of the metal rail and the second point of the metal rail. In one aspect, the voltage regulator senses a voltage at the second point of the metal rail and adjusts a supply voltage at the first point of the metal rail, according to the sensed voltage at the second point of the metal rail.
US11199864B1	Voltage control circuit reducing signal interference A voltage controlled circuit includes a tracking circuit, an operational amplifier, a transistor, a feedback circuit and a sample and hold circuit. The tracking circuit generates an updated enabling voltage according to an enabling voltage, a sample enabling voltage and a sample reference voltage. The operational amplifier includes a first input terminal used to receive an input voltage, a second input terminal used to receive a feedback voltage, and an output terminal used to output a control voltage. The transistor includes a control terminal used to receive the control voltage, a first terminal used to receive a reference voltage, and a second terminal used to output a regulated voltage. The feedback circuit generates the feedback voltage according to the regulated voltage. The sample and hold circuit is used to sample the input voltage to generate the sample enabling voltage, and sample the feedback voltage to generate the sample reference voltage.

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