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US11211651B2	Battery cooling control device The quietness requirement level of a charging point is determined based on the position information on the charging point where an in-vehicle battery is fast charged by an external power supply. For an air conditioner that cools the in-vehicle battery through a drive power of an electric compressor when the in-vehicle battery is charged, an upper limit of a rotation speed of the electric compressor is set in such a way that the upper limit of the rotation speed of the electric compressor is set lower when the in-vehicle battery is charged by the external power supply at a charging point where the quietness requirement level is equal to or higher than a predetermined value than when the in-vehicle battery is charged by the external power supply at a charging point where the quietness requirement level is lower than the predetermined value.
US11211647B2	Onboard battery An onboard battery includes battery modules each containing battery cells, a housing case that houses the battery modules, and an air intake duct configured to send cooling air into the modules. Of the battery modules, at least two are disposed apart from each other in a vertical direction and at least two are disposed apart from each other in a front-rear direction. Cooling air is taken into the battery modules from rear via the air intake duct. Cooling air taken into the battery modules is emitted to an internal space of the housing case. A rear portion of the housing case is provided with an exhaust hole configured to let out cooling air emitted from the battery modules to the internal space. Of emission flows of cooling air emitted from the battery modules, the emission flow of cooling air from at least one of the modules disposed most forward is the largest.
US11211633B2	Coin-type secondary battery, manufacturing method therefor, and apparatus for charging/discharging coin-type secondary battery The present disclosure relates to a method for manufacturing a coin-type secondary battery. The method includes at least: bonding one or more solid electrolytes to an anode upper case; forming an anode active material layer on an anode current collector; sequentially stacking the anode current collector on which the anode active material layer is formed and the anode upper case to which the one or more solid electrolytes are bonded on an anode bottom case to obtain an anode part; sequentially stacking the anode part, a separator, a cathode current collector, and a second case including one or more openings on a first case; bonding the first case to the second case; and introducing an ion-containing solution containing sodium, lithium, magnesium, and a combination thereof from the outside of the second case into an interior thereof.
US11211631B2	Fuel cell system A fuel cell system that can prevent impurities from intensively collecting near inlets of fuel cells. The fuel cell system includes a fuel cell stack formed by stacking fuel cells, each fuel cell having a power generation portion, a stack manifold with a fuel gas inlet communication hole disposed at an end of the fuel cell stack in the stacking direction of the fuel cells, a mixed gas supply channel communicating with the fuel gas inlet communication hole for supplying a mixed gas of a fuel gas and fuel off-gas to the fuel cell stack, a stirring mixer for swirling the mixed gas provided in the mixed gas supply channel, and a guide rib provided on the inner wall of the fuel gas inlet communication hole of the stack manifold, on the side opposite to the side of the power generation portions of the fuel cells.
US11211626B2	Polymer electrolyte membrane, membrane electrode assembly, and solid polymer electrolyte fuel cell A polymer electrolyte membrane of the present disclosure comprises a perfluorosulfonic acid resin (A), wherein the polymer electrolyte membrane has a phase-separation structure having a phase where fluorine atoms are detected in majority and a phase where carbon atoms are detected in majority, in an image of a membrane surface observed under an SEM-EDX, and the polymer electrolyte membrane has a phase having an average aspect ratio of 1.5 or more and 10 or less in an image of a membrane cross-section observed under an SEM.
US11211615B2	Alkaline battery having a dual-anode Various embodiments are directed to an electrochemical cell having a non-homogeneous anode. The electrochemical cell includes a container, a cathode forming a hollow cylinder within the container, an anode positioned within the hollow cylinder of the cathode, and a separator between the cathode and the anode. The anode comprises at least two concentric anode portions, defined by different anode characteristics. For example, the two anode portions may contain different surfactant types, which provides the two anode portions with different charge transfer resistance characteristics. By lowering the charge transfer resistance of a portion of an anode located proximate the current collector of the cell (and away from the separator) relative to an anode portion located adjacent the separator, improved cell discharge performance may be obtained.
US11211609B2	Electrode having an interphase structure Methods are disclosed for manufacturing an electrode for use in a device such as a secondary battery. Electrodes may include a first layer having first active particles adhered together by a binder, a second layer having second active particles adhered together by a binder, and an interphase layer interposed between the first and second layers. In some examples, the interphase layer may include an interpenetration of the first and second particles, such that substantially discrete fingers of the first layer interlock with substantially discrete fingers of the second layer.
US11211576B2	Organic light emitting device and method of manufacturing the same An organic light-emitting device including an anode electrode, a hole injection layer on the anode electrode, a hole transport layer on the hole injection layer, an emissive layer on the hole transport layer, and a cathode electrode on the emissive layer. A material of the hole injection layer includes a nitrogen-containing compound having a quinoid structure and a nitrogen-containing compound having a benzenoid structure. A ratio of a peak intensity IB to a peak intensity IA (IB/IA) in a Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) spectrum of the material of the hole injection layer ranges from 1.5 to 2.5, the peak intensity IA and the peak intensity IB being further defined.
US11211574B2	Light emitting device and fabrication method thereof, and electronic apparatus A light emitting device and a fabrication method thereof and an electronic apparatus are disclosed. The light emitting device includes: a first electrode, a second electrode, an electroluminescent layer and a quantum dot light conversion layer; the second electrode is provided on the first electrode; the electroluminescent layer and the quantum dot light conversion layer are provided between the first electrode and the second electrode; and the quantum dot light conversion layer is provided at a light output side of the electroluminescent layer, and generates, under being excited by light from the electroluminescent layer, light having a same color as that of light from the electroluminescent layer and having a wavelength range narrower than that of the light from the electroluminescent layer.
US11211573B2	Manufacturing methods for flexible display screens and composite substrates for flexible display screens The present disclosure relates to a composite substrate adapted for manufacturing a flexible display screen. The composite substrate includes a base substrate, a sacrificial layer, and a flexible layer. The sacrificial layer is located on the base substrate. The flexible layer is located on the sacrificial layer. The sacrificial layer is an inorganic layer which contains hydrogen element and is semi-transparent. The present disclosure further provides a method for manufacturing a flexible display screen, comprising: depositing a sacrificial layer on a base substrate, the sacrificial layer is an inorganic layer, the inorganic layer contains hydrogen element and is semi-transparent; forming a flexible layer on the sacrificial layer; forming electronic components on the flexible layer; and irradiating the sacrificial layer by a laser beam to cause the hydrogen element in the sacrificial layer to form hydrogen gas bubbles, so as to separate the base substrate and the sacrificial layer.
US11211572B2	Mask plate and manufacturing method thereof, flexible substrate stripping apparatus and flexible substrate stripping method A mask plate and a manufacturing method thereof, a flexible substrate stripping apparatus and a flexible substrate stripping method are provided. The mask plate includes a laser-transmitting substrate and a patterned laser-shielding layer located on the laser transmitting substrate.
US11211567B2	Heterocyclic compound and organic light-emitting device including the same A heterocyclic compound represented by Formula 1 and an organic light-emitting device including the same are provided: When the nitrogen atom of the acridine moiety is combined (e.g., coupled) with an sp2 carbon atom of the pentagonal ring, either directly or through a pi-conjugated carbocyclic group, the compound may be electron rich and may easily transport charges. The heterocyclic compound represented by Formula 1 may be used as a delayed fluorescence emitter in the organic light-emitting device, and the device may have a low driving voltage, a high efficiency, a high luminance, and a long lifespan.
US11211559B2	Materials for controlling the epitaxial growth of photoactive layers in photovoltaic devices There is disclosed ultrathin film material templating layers that force the morphology of subsequently grown electrically active thin films have been found to increase the performance of small molecule organic photovoltaic (OPV) cells. There is disclosed electron-transporting material, such as hexaazatriphenylene-hexacarbonitrile (HAT-CN) can be used as a templating material that forces donor materials, such as copper phthalocyanine (CuPc) to assume a vertical-standing morphology when deposited onto its surface on an electrode, such as an indium tin oxide (ITO) electrode. It has been shown that for a device with HAT-CN as the templating buffer layer, the fill factor and short circuit current of CuPc:C60 OPVs were both improved compared with cells lacking the HAT-CN template. This is explained by the reduction of the series resistance due to the improved crystallinity of CuPc grown onto the ITO surface.
US11211553B2	Magnetoresistive devices and methods of fabricating such devices An integrated circuit (IC) device includes a logic portion including logic circuits in multiple vertically stacked metal layers interconnected by one or more via layers, and a memory portion with a plurality of magnetoresistive devices. Each magnetoresistive device is provided in a single metal layer of the multiple vertically stacked metal layers of the IC device.
US11211547B2	Spin-orbit-torque type magnetization rotating element, spin-orbit-torque type magnetoresistance effect element, and magnetic memory A spin-orbit-torque type magnetization rotating element includes: a spin-orbit torque wiring extending in a first direction; and a first ferromagnetic layer laminated on the spin-orbit torque wiring, wherein the spin-orbit torque wiring includes a metal oxide whose electrical conductivity properties exhibit a metallic behavior with respect to temperature, and an oxygen concentration in a region on the first ferromagnetic layer side and an oxygen concentration in a region opposite to the first ferromagnetic layer are asymmetrical with respect to a center of the spin-orbit torque wiring in a thickness direction thereof.
US11211545B2	Vibration controller A vibration controller includes: a piezoelectric element fixed to an object of control; and a quasi-inductor circuit and a negative resistance circuit connected in series to the piezoelectric element.
US11211544B2	Actuator or sensor device based on an electroactive or photoactive polymer An actuator or sensor device comprises an electroactive polymer (EAP) arrangement which extends between fixed opposite ends. The electroactive polymer arrangement comprises a passive carrier layer and an active electroactive polymer layer, wherein at or adjacent the ends, the passive carrier layer and the active EAP layer are mounted with one over the other in a first order, and at a middle area between the ends, the carrier layer and the active EAP layer are mounted in an opposite order. This enables internal stresses and moments within the electroactive polymer arrangement to be used more effectively to contribute to displacement or actuation force.
US11211539B2	Thermoelectric conversion element and thermoelectric conversion module The present invention provides thermoelectric conversion elements and thermoelectric conversion modules which are possible to effectively use oxide materials having high Seebeck coefficient, and excellently improve their outputs. The present invention provides thermoelectric conversion elements which comprise at least a charge transport layer, thermoelectric conversion material layers and electrodes, wherein the charge transport layer comprises a graphite treated to dope charge-donating materials so that the graphite has an n-type semiconductor property, or a graphite treated to dope charge-accepting materials so that the graphite has a p-type semiconductor property, and provides thermoelectric conversion modules using the thermoelectric conversion elements.
US11211531B2	Light-emitting device A light-emitting device includes: a mounting substrate including a mounting surface; a light-emitting element disposed on the mounting surface; a light transmissive component disposed on the light-emitting element; and a resin component that covers a side surface of the light-emitting element and a side surface of the light transmissive component. The resin component includes a cover portion that covers an outer edge portion of a topmost surface of the light transmissive component. A height from the mounting surface to a top of the cover portion is greater than a height from the mounting surface to the topmost surface of the light transmissive component. The topmost surface of the light transmissive component includes an exposed region that is exposed from the resin component. The cover portion is disposed continuously along one side of the light transmissive component.
US11211528B2	Light emitting device for display and display apparatus having the same A light emitting device for a display including first, second, and third LED stacks, and bump pads disposed on the first LED stack, in which each LED stack includes a first semiconductor layer and a second semiconductor layer exposing a portion of the first semiconductor layer, the first LED stack includes upper through-holes and the second LED stack includes lower through-holes, the bump pads include a first bump pad electrically connected to the second semiconductor layer of the first LED stack, a second bump pad electrically connected to the second semiconductor layer of the second LED stack through the upper through-hole, a third bump pad electrically connected to the second semiconductor layer of the third LED stack through the upper through-hole and the lower through-hole, and a common bump pad electrically connected to the first semiconductor layers of each LED stack in common.
US11211527B2	Light emitting diode (LED) devices with high density textures Light emitting diode (LED) devices comprise: a patterned substrate comprising a substrate body, a plurality of integral features protruding from the substrate body, and a base surface defined by spaces between the plurality of integral features; a selective layer comprising a dielectric material located on the surfaces of the integral features, wherein there is an absence of the selective layer on the base surface; and a III-nitride layer comprising a III-nitride material on the selective layer and the base surface.
US11211520B2	Fluidic assembly using tunable suspension flow Embodiments are related to systems and methods for fluidic assembly, and more particularly to systems and methods for increasing the efficiency of fluidic assembly.
US11211511B1	Multijunction metamorphic solar cell for space applications A method of manufacturing a multijunction solar cell having an upper first solar subcell composed of a semiconductor material having a first band gap; a second solar subcell adjacent to said first solar subcell and composed of a semiconductor material having a second band gap smaller than the first band gap and being lattice matched with the upper first solar subcell; a third solar subcell adjacent to said second solar subcell and composed of a semiconductor material having a third band gap smaller than the second band gap and being lattice matched with the second solar subcell; a graded interlayer adjacent to the third solar subcell; and a fourth solar subcell adjacent to said graded interlayer and composed of a semiconductor material having a fourth band gap smaller than the third band gap and being lattice mismatched with respect to the third solar subcell; wherein the fourth subcell has a direct bandgap of greater than 0.75 eV.
US11211508B2	Thin-film solar module with improved shunt resistance A thin-film solar module with a substrate and a layer structure applied thereon. The layer structure has a rear electrode layer, a front electrode layer, and an absorber layer arranged between the rear electrode layer and the front electrode layer. The absorber layer has doping of a first conductor type, while the front electrode layer has doping of a second conductor type. Serially connected solar cells are formed in the layer structure by patterning zones having a first patterning trench subdividing the rear electrode layer, a second patterning trench subdividing the absorber layer, and a third patterning trench subdividing the front electrode layer.
US11211506B2	Self-bypass diode function for gallium arsenide photovoltaic devices Embodiments of the invention generally relate to photovoltaic devices. In one embodiment, a method for forming a gallium arsenide based photovoltaic device includes providing a semiconductor structure, the structure including an absorber layer comprising gallium arsenide. A bypass function is provided in a p-n junction of the semiconductor structure, where under reverse-bias conditions the p-n junction breaks down in a controlled manner by a Zener breakdown effect.
US11211503B2	Memory arrays In an example, a memory array may include a memory cell around at least a portion of a semiconductor. The memory cell may include a gate, a first dielectric stack to store a charge between a first portion of the gate and the semiconductor, and a second dielectric stack to store a charge between a second portion of the gate and the semiconductor, the second dielectric stack separate from the first dielectric stack.
US11211499B2	Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof It is an object to provide a semiconductor device with less power consumption as a semiconductor device including a thin film transistor using an oxide semiconductor layer. It is an object to provide a semiconductor device with high reliability as a semiconductor device including a thin film transistor using an oxide semiconductor layer. In the semiconductor device, a gate electrode layer (a gate wiring layer) intersects with a wiring layer which is electrically connected to a source electrode layer or a drain electrode layer with an insulating layer which covers the oxide semiconductor layer of the thin film transistor and a gate insulating layer interposed therebetween. Accordingly, the parasitic capacitance formed by a stacked-layer structure of the gate electrode layer, the gate insulating layer, and the source or drain electrode layer can be reduced, so that low power consumption of the semiconductor device can be realized.
US11211498B2	FinFETs with wrap-around silicide and method forming the same A device includes isolation regions extending into a semiconductor substrate, with a substrate strip between opposite portions of the isolation regions having a first width. A source/drain region has a portion overlapping the substrate strip, wherein an upper portion of the source/drain region has a second width greater than the first width. The upper portion of the source/drain region has substantially vertical sidewalls. A source/drain silicide region has inner sidewalls contacting the vertical sidewalls of the source/drain region.
US11211495B2	Semiconductor devices A semiconductor device may include first and second channel patterns on a substrate, first and second source/drain patterns in contact respectively with the first and second channel patterns, and first and second gate electrodes respectively overlapping the first and second channel patterns. The first gate electrode may include a first segment between first and second semiconductor patterns of the first channel pattern. The first segment may include a first convex portion protruding toward the first source/drain pattern. The second gate electrode may include a second segment between third and fourth semiconductor patterns of the second channel pattern. The second segment may include a concave portion recessed toward a center of the second segment.
US11211493B2	Apparatus and method of modulating threshold voltage for fin field effect transistor (FinFET) and nanosheet FET Apparatus and method are provided. The apparatus includes at least one field effect transistor (FET), wherein the at least one FET comprises at least one gate overlaying at least one non-linear fin, wherein the non-linear fin is formed via modulating a mandrel by producing cut-outs in the mandrel via optical proximity correction (OPC). The method includes receiving a semiconductor wafer, forming source and drain areas for each of at least one FET on the semiconductor wafer; and forming at least one gate overlaying at least one non-linear fin in each of the at least one FET, wherein the non-linear fin is formed via modulating a mandrel by producing cut-outs in the mandrel via OPC.
US11211492B2	Method of manufacturing semiconductor devices having a SiGe epitaxtial layer containing Ga A semiconductor device includes a field effect transistor (FET). The FET includes a channel region and a source/drain region disposed adjacent to the channel region. The FET also includes a gate electrode disposed over the channel region. The FET is an n-type FET and the channel region is made of Si. The source/drain region includes an epitaxial layer including Si1-x-yM1xM2y, where M1 is one or more of Ge and Sn, and M2 is one or more of P and As, and 0.01≤x≤0.1.
US11211483B2	Method for forming an insulation layer in a semiconductor body and transistor device A method and a transistor device are disclosed. The method includes: forming a trench in a first surface in an edge region of a semiconductor body; forming an insulation layer in the trench and on the first surface of the semiconductor body; and planarizing the insulation layer so that a trench insulation layer that fills the trench remains, wherein forming the insulation layer comprises a thermal oxidation process.
US11211481B2	III-V semiconductor device A heterojunction device, includes a substrate; a III-nitride semiconductor region located longitudinally above or over the substrate and including a heterojunction having a two-dimensional carrier gas; first and second laterally spaced terminals operatively connected to the semiconductor; a gate structure of first conductivity type located above or longitudinally over the semiconductor region and laterally spaced between the first and second terminals; a control gate terminal operatively connected to the gate structure, a potential applied to the control gate terminal modulates and controls a current flow through the carrier gas between the terminals, the carrier gas being a second conductivity type; an injector of carriers of the first conductivity type laterally spaced away from the second terminal; and a floating contact layer located over the carrier gas and laterally spaced away from the second terminal and operatively connected to the injector and the semiconductor region.
US11211475B2	Semiconductor device and formation method thereof A method of forming a method of forming a semiconductor device includes providing a semiconductor structure, etching back each gate structure of a plurality of gate structures to form an opening, forming a barrier layer over the dielectric layer, forming a sacrificial layer over the barrier layer, planarizing the sacrificial layer till a surface of the sacrificial layer is substantially flat, and using a gas cluster ion beam (GCIB) process to planarize the sacrificial layer and the barrier layer, and to remove the sacrificial layer and to provide a planarized barrier layer. The semiconductor structure includes a semiconductor substrate, a fin, the plurality of gate structures, and a dielectric layer over the semiconductor substrate between adjacent gate structures. A top of the dielectric layer is coplanar with a top of each of the plurality of gate structures.
US11211471B1	Method of manufacturing a semiconductor device The present invention discloses a metal gate process. A sacrificial nitride layer is introduced during the fabrication of metal gates. The gate height can be well controlled by introducing the sacrificial nitride layer. Further, the particle fall-on problem can be effectively solved.
US11211470B2	Semiconductor device and method An improved dummy gate and a method of forming the same are disclosed. In an embodiment, the method includes depositing a first material in a trench, the trench being disposed between a first fin and a second fin; etching the first material to expose an upper portion of sidewalls of the trench; and depositing a second material on the first material without the second material being deposited on the exposed upper portion of the sidewalls of the trench.
US11211469B2	Third generation flash memory structure with self-aligned contact and methods for forming the same A memory device and method of making the same are disclosed. The memory device includes a first split gate memory cell including a first memory stack located over a substrate. The first memory stack includes a first floating gate and a first control gate located above the first floating gate. The split gate memory cell also includes a first select gate located adjacent to the first floating gate and the first control gate and a contact etch stop located over a portion of a top surface of the first select gate. The contact etch stop enables a narrowing of the drain contact via during an etch process. By narrowing the drain contact via, the density of split gate memory cells may be increased.
US11211462B2	Using selectively formed cap layers to form self-aligned contacts to source/drain regions A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a plurality of gate structures on a semiconductor fin, and forming a plurality of source/drain regions adjacent the plurality of gate structures. In the method, a germanium oxide layer is formed on the plurality of gate structures and on the plurality of source/drain regions, and portions of the germanium oxide layer on the plurality of source/drain regions are converted into a plurality of dielectric layers. The method also includes removing unconverted portions of the germanium oxide layer from the plurality of gate structures, and depositing a plurality of cap layers in place of the removed unconverted portions of the germanium oxide layer. The plurality of dielectric layers are removed, and a plurality of source/drain contacts are formed on the plurality of source/drain regions. The plurality of source/drain contacts are adjacent the plurality of cap layers.
US11211439B2	Stretchable polymer and dielectric layers for electronic displays A display device includes a display layer having a plurality of organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) and an encapsulation layer covering a light-emitting side of the display layer. The encapsulation layer includes a plurality of first polymer projections on display layer, the plurality of first polymer projections having spaces therebetween, and a first dielectric layer conformally covering the plurality of first polymer projections and any exposed underlying surface in the spaces between the first polymer projections, the dielectric layer forming side walls along sides of the first polymer projections and defining wells in spaces between the side walls.
US11211435B2	Display substrate, manufacturing method thereof, and display device The present disclosure provides a display substrate, a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device. The method includes: forming a pixel definition layer transitional pattern on a base substrate, the pixel definition layer transitional pattern being provided at a lateral surface with an undercut; forming a common layer, which is broken at the undercut, on the base substrate; removing the undercut to obtain a pattern of a pixel definition layer; and forming a cathode on the base substrate.
US11211433B2	In-display sensors and viewing angle adjustment microassemblies Cameras are located within the display area of a display. In-display cameras allow for thinner display bezels. In-display cameras allow for the creation of ultra-high resolution images. The ability to capture an object from multiple perspectives allows for holographic image recording and playback. Multiple views of an image can be captured with varying depths of focus, allowing an image's depth of field to be adjusted during post processing. In-display cameras can also be used for user authentication, touch detection and three-dimensional gesture recognition. Thermal sensors located within the display area allow for control of the display temperature, improved control over system performance, and compensation for micro-LED degradation that can occur due to aging or increased temperature. Microlens assemblies located above pixels can adjust the viewing cone angle of the display or a portion of the display and microassemblies located under individual pixels or pixel arrays can adjust a viewing angle.
US11211431B2	Display device A first subpixel and a second subpixel that are adjacent to each other in a row direction, a third subpixel, and a fourth subpixel and a fifth subpixel that are adjacent to each other in the row direction are provided. Each of the first subpixel and the fourth subpixel that are arrayed in a column direction includes a first-color light-emitting layer. Each of the second subpixel and the fifth subpixel that are arrayed in the column direction includes a second-color light-emitting layer. The third subpixel including a third-color light-emitting layer is adjacent in a diagonal direction to or adjacent in the column direction to at least two of the first subpixel, the second subpixel, the fourth subpixel, and the fifth subpixel.
US11211430B2	Display panel for improving display effect in low-resolution area, manufacturing method thereof, and display device The present disclosure provides a display panel, a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device. The display panel includes a first area and a second area. A pixel density of the first area is greater than that of the second area. In the second area, each pixel includes a first sub-pixel, a second sub-pixel, a third sub-pixel, and a fourth sub-pixel. The first sub-pixel, the third sub-pixel, and the fourth sub-pixel are in a same sub-pixel row. The first sub-pixel is between the third sub-pixel and the fourth sub-pixel. The first sub-pixel and the second sub-pixel are in a same sub-pixel column. The first sub-pixel and the second sub-pixel are respectively in adjacent sub-pixel rows. The first sub-pixel and the second sub-pixel has a same emission color. The first sub-pixel, the third sub-pixel, and the fourth sub-pixel have different emission colors.
US11211419B2	Composite bsi structure and method of manufacturing the same Various embodiments of the present application are directed towards image sensors including composite backside illuminated (CBSI) structures to enhance performance. In some embodiments, a first trench isolation structure extends into a backside of a substrate to a first depth and comprises a pair of first trench isolation segments. A photodetector is in the substrate, between and bordering the first trench isolation segments. A second trench isolation structure is between the first trench isolation segments and extends into the backside of the substrate to a second depth less than the first depth. The second trench isolation structure comprises a pair of second trench isolation segments. An absorption enhancement structure overlies the photodetector, between the second trench isolation segments, and is recessed into the backside of the semiconductor substrate. The absorption enhancement structure and the second trench isolation structure collectively define a CBSI structure.
US11211410B2	Solid-state image-capturing device and production method thereof, and electronic appliance A high degree of phase difference detection accuracy can be obtained using a phase difference pixel with a simpler configuration. A solid-state image-capturing device includes a pixel array unit in which a plurality of pixels including a phase difference pixel which is a pixel for focal point detection and an image-capturing pixel which is a pixel for image generation are arranged in a two-dimensional array. In this case, a predetermined layer between a light shielding layer and a micro lens formed in the image-capturing pixel has a higher refraction index than a refraction index of the predetermined layer formed in the phase difference pixel. The technique of the present disclosure can be applied to, for example, a back-illuminated-type solid-state image-capturing device and the like.
US11211409B2	Solid-state imaging device to improve photoelectric efficiency A solid-state imaging device includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and a photoelectric conversion film that is formed between the first electrode and the second electrode and includes an organic semiconductor and an inorganic material.
US11211408B2	Wiring layer and manufacturing method therefor To provide a miniaturized semiconductor device with low power consumption. A method for manufacturing a wiring layer includes the following steps: forming a second insulator over a first insulator; forming a third insulator over the second insulator; forming an opening in the third insulator so that it reaches the second insulator; forming a first conductor over the third insulator and in the opening; forming a second conductor over the first conductor; and after forming the second conductor, performing polishing treatment to remove portions of the first and second conductors above a top surface of the third insulator. An end of the first conductor is at a level lower than or equal to the top level of the opening. The top surface of the second conductor is at a level lower than or equal to that of the end of the first conductor.
US11211406B2	Semiconductor device and method for controlling semiconductor device To provide a semiconductor device having a thin-film BOX-SOI structure and capable of realizing a high-speed operation of a logic circuit and a stable operation of a memory circuit. A semiconductor device according to the present invention includes a semiconductor support substrate, an insulation layer having a thickness of at mast 10 nm, and a semiconductor layer. In an upper surface of the semiconductor layer, a first field-effect transistor including a first gate electrode and constituting a logic circuit is formed. Further, in the upper surface of the semiconductor layer, a second field-effect transistor including a second gate electrode and constituting a memory circuit is formed. At least three well regions having different conductivity types are formed in the semiconductor support substrate. In the presence of the well regions, a region of the semiconductor support substrate below the first gate electrode and a region of the semiconductor support substrate below the second gate electrode are electrically separated from each other.
US11211399B2	Electronic apparatus with an oxide-only tunneling structure by a select gate tier, and related methods A vertical structure extends through a tiered structure of alternating conductive and insulative materials. The vertical structure includes a channel structure and a tunneling structure. At least one of the conductive materials of the tiered structure provides a select gate tier (e.g., including a control gate for a select gate drain (SGD) transistor). Adjacent the select gate tier of the tiered structure, the tunneling structure consists of or consists essentially of an oxide-only material. Adjacent the word line tiers of the tiered structure, the tunneling structure comprises at least one material that is other than an oxide-only material, such as a nitride or oxynitride. The oxide-only material adjacent the select gate tier may inhibit unintentional loss of charge from a neighboring charge storage structure, which may improve the stability of the threshold voltage (Vth) of the select gate tier.
US11211398B2	Method for in situ preparation of antimony-doped silicon and silicon germanium films A process for forming an antimony-doped silicon-containing layer includes: (a) depositing by chemical vapor deposition the antimony-doped silicon-containing layer above a semiconductor structure, using an antimony source gas and a silicon source gas or a combination of the silicon source gas and a germanium source gas; and (b) annealing the antimony-doped silicon-containing layer at a temperature of no greater than 800° C. The antimony source gas may include one or more of: trimethylantimony (TMSb) and triethylantimony (TESb). The silicon source gas comprises one or more of: silane, disilane, trichlorosilane, (TCS), dichlorosilane (DCS), monochlorosilane (MCS), methylsilane, and silicon tetrachloride. The germanium source gas comprises germane.
US11211395B2	3D memory array having select lines A device comprises a column of cells disposed in multiple levels of word lines including a pillar comprising a first vertical conductive line, a second vertical conductive line, and a vertical semiconductor body disposed between and in contact with the first and second vertical conductive lines. A pillar select line is adjacent to and separated by a gate dielectric from the vertical semiconductor body to form a pillar select switch, the pillar select line disposed beneath the first and second vertical conductive lines. A bottom select line is disposed beneath the first and second vertical conductive lines and insulated from the pillar select line and the first and second vertical conductive lines. The bottom select line is in current-flow contact with the vertical semiconductor body of the pillar.
US11211388B2	Array boundfary structure to reduce dishing A semiconductor structure including a semiconductor substrate and at least one patterned dielectric layer is provided. The semiconductor substrate includes a semiconductor portion, at least one first device, at least one second device and at least one first dummy ring. The at least one first device is disposed on a first region surrounded by the semiconductor portion. The at least one second device and the at least one first dummy ring are disposed on a second region, and the second region surrounds the first region. The at least one patterned dielectric layer covers the semiconductor substrate.
US11211386B2	Semiconductor structure and manufacturing method thereof A semiconductor structure and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The semiconductor structure includes a substrate, a dielectric layer disposed on the substrate, bit lines disposed on the dielectric layer, spacers and a contact. The substrate has active areas arranged in parallel with each other. The bit lines are arranged in parallel with each other. Each bit line is partially overlapped with the corresponding active area. Each bit line has first portions and second portions arranged alternately in an extending direction thereof, and a width of the first portions is smaller than that of the second portions. The spacers are disposed on the sidewalls of each bit line. The contact is disposed between the adjacent bit lines and adjacent to the corresponding first portion of at least one of the adjacent bit lines, penetrates through the dielectric layer, and is in contact with the corresponding active area.
US11211384B2	Memory cells, arrays of two transistor-one capacitor memory cells, methods of forming an array of two transistor-one capacitor memory cells, and methods used in fabricating integrated circuitry A two transistor-one capacitor memory cell comprises first and second transistors laterally displaced relative one another. A capacitor is above the first and second transistors. The capacitor comprises a conductive first capacitor node directly above and electrically coupled to a first node of the first transistor. A conductive second capacitor node is directly above the first and second transistors and is electrically coupled to a first node of the second transistor. A capacitor insulator is between the first and second capacitor nodes. The second capacitor node comprises an elevationally-extending conductive pillar directly above the first node of the second transistor. The conductive pillar has an elevationally outer portion that is of four-sided diamond shape in horizontal cross-section. Other memory cells, including arrays of memory cells are disclosed as are methods.
US11211379B2	Fabrication of field effect transistors with different threshold voltages through modified channel interfaces A method of fabricating a plurality of field effect transistors with different threshold voltages, including forming a cover layer on a channel region in a first subset, forming a first sacrificial layer on two or more channel regions in a second subset, forming a second sacrificial layer on one of the two or more channel regions in the second subset, removing the cover layer from the channel region in the first subset, forming a first dummy dielectric layer on the channel region in the first subset, and forming a second dummy dielectric layer on the first dummy dielectric layer and the first sacrificial layer on the channel region in the second subset.
US11211377B2	Resistive element A resistive element includes: a semiconductor substrate; a lower insulating film deposited on the semiconductor substrate; a resistive layer deposited on the lower insulating film; an interlayer insulating film covering the resistive layer; a pad-forming electrode deposited on the interlayer insulating film, and including a first edge portion connected to one edge portion of the resistive layer and a second edge portion opposite to the first edge portion to be in electrical Schottky contact with the semiconductor substrate; a relay wire having one edge connected to another edge portion of the resistive layer to form an ohmic contact to the semiconductor substrate; and a counter electrode provided under the semiconductor substrate, wherein the resistive element uses a resistance value between the pad-forming electrode and the counter electrode.
US11211370B2	Bonded assembly with vertical power and control signal connection adjacent to sense amplifier regions and methods of forming the same A bonded assembly includes a memory die containing a memory device and a plurality of bit lines, and logic die bonded to the memory die. The logic die contains a control circuit configured to control operation of the memory device. The control circuit contains a peripheral circuit region, a sense amplifier region, and a power and control signal region located adjacent to the sense amplifier region and containing at least one power and control signal interconnect structure which is configured to provide a power or control signal to or from the peripheral circuit region.
US11211367B2	Display panel and method for fabricating the same A display panel includes a first substrate used to connect with at least one other substrate, a plurality of first light-emitting elements and a first patterned conductive layer. The first substrate includes a first light output surface and a first sidewall connecting to the first light output surface, wherein the first sidewall forms a non-180° angle with the first light output surface. The plurality of first light-emitting elements are disposed on the first light output surface. The first patterned conductive layer is disposed on the first sidewall.
US11211365B1	Mini LED backlight panel and backlight module A mini light emitting diode (LED) backlight panel is provided, which includes a plurality of backlight sub-panels in a docking way. A light-filling region is disposed between the arbitrary adjacent two backlight sub-panels. Fluorescent powder or quantum dots are filled in the light-filling region. The mini LED backlight panel emits light to excite material of the light-filling region to emit light. Secondly, adopting design solutions of large and small light emitting angles in mixed arrangement on different heights of the light emitting surfaces in the mini LED backlight panel, improving brightness on the splicing position, thereby improving quality of light emitted from the mini LED backlight panel, and meanwhile is advantageous for an ultra-thin design of the backlight module.
US11211358B2	Packaged semiconductor devices and packaging methods Packaged semiconductor devices and methods of packaging semiconductor devices are disclosed. In some embodiments, a packaged semiconductor device includes an integrated circuit die, a first molding material disposed around the integrated circuit die, and a through-via disposed within the first molding material. A first side of a redistribution layer (RDL) is coupled to the integrated circuit die, the through-via, and the first molding material. A second molding material is over a second side of the RDL, the second side of the RDL being opposite the first side of the RDL. The packaged semiconductor device includes an antenna over the second molding material.
US11211354B2	Systems and methods for semi-flexible eutectic bonder piece arranegments In an embodiment, a system includes: a circular frame comprising a first side and a second side opposite the first side, wherein the circular frame comprises an aperture formed therethrough; an insert disposed within the aperture; a first wafer disposed over the insert; a second wafer disposed over the first wafer, wherein both the first wafer and the second wafer are configured for eutectic bonding when heated; two clamps disposed on the first side along the circular frame, wherein the two clamps are configured to contact the second wafer at respective clamp locations; and a plurality of pieces configured to secure the insert within the aperture, the plurality of pieces comprising both fixed and flexible pieces, the plurality of pieces comprising two fixed pieces disposed respectively adjacent to the clamp locations along the second side of the circular frame.
US11211351B2	Apparatuses including redistribution layers and related microelectronic devices A multi-device package includes a substrate, at least two device regions, a first redistribution layer, an external chip and a plurality of first connectors. The two device regions are formed from the substrate, and the first redistribution layer is disposed on the substrate and electrically connected to the two device regions. The external chip is disposed on the first redistribution layer, and the first connectors are interposed between the first redistribution layer and the external chip to interconnect the two.
US11211346B2	Semiconductor device and method of manufacture A semiconductor device has a top metal layer, a first passivation layer over the top metal layer, a first redistribution layer over the first passivation layer, a first polymer layer, and a first conductive via extending through the first polymer layer. The first polymer layer is in physical contact with the first passivation layer.
US11211345B2	In-package RF waveguides as high bandwidth chip-to-chip interconnects and methods for using the same In-package radio frequency (RF) waveguides as high bandwidth chip-to-chip interconnects and methods for using the same are disclosed. In one example, an electronic package includes a package substrate, first and second silicon dies or tiles, and an RF waveguide. The first and second silicon dies or tiles are attached to the package substrate. The RF waveguide is formed in the package substrate and interconnects the first silicon die or tile with the second silicon die or tile.
US11211336B2	Integrated fan-out package and method for fabricating the same An integrated fan-out package includes an integrated circuit, a plurality of semiconductor devices, a first redistribution circuit structure, and an insulating encapsulation. The integrated circuit has an active surface and a rear surface opposite to the active surface. The semiconductor devices are electrically connected the integrated circuit. The first redistribution circuit structure is disposed between the integrated circuit and the semiconductor devices. The first redistribution circuit structure is electrically connected to the integrated circuit and the semiconductor devices respectively. The first redistribution circuit structure has a first surface, a second surface opposite to the first surface, and lateral sides between the first surface and the second surface. The insulating encapsulation encapsulates the integrated circuit and the semiconductor devices and covers the first surface and the second surface of the first redistribution circuit structure. Furthermore, methods for fabricating the integrated fan-out package are also provided.
US11211333B2	Through silicon via optimization for three-dimensional integrated circuits The present disclosure describes a semiconductor structure includes a first chip with a first conductive line and a first conductive island formed on the first conductive line. The first chip also includes a first plurality of vias formed in the first conductive island and electrically coupled to the first conductive line. The semiconductor structure further includes a second chip bonded to the first chip, where the second chip includes a second conductive line and a second conductive island formed on the second conductive line. The second chip also includes a second plurality of vias formed in the second conductive island and electrically coupled to the second conductive line.
US11211331B2	Semiconductor structure having a via and methods of manufacturing the same A semiconductor structure and a method for manufacturing the same are provided. The semiconductor structure includes a substrate and a seed layer on the substrate. The substrate includes a base and a composite layer encapsulating the base. The semiconductor structure also includes an epitaxial layer on the seed layer. The semiconductor structure also includes a semiconductor device on the epitaxial layer, and an interlayer dielectric layer on the epitaxial layer. The interlayer dielectric layer covers the semiconductor device. The semiconductor structure further includes a via structure that penetrates at least the composite layer of the substrate and is in contact with the base.
US11211324B2	Via contact patterning method to increase edge placement error margin An example via contact patterning method includes providing a pattern of alternating trench contacts and gates over a support structure. For each pair of adjacent trench contacts and gates, a trench contact is electrically insulated from an adjacent gate by a dielectric material and/or multiple layers of different dielectric materials, and the gates are recessed with respect to the trench contacts. The method further includes wrapping a protective layer of one or more dielectric materials, and a sacrificial helmet material on top of the trench contacts to protect them during the via contact patterning and etch processes for forming via contacts over one or more gates. Such a method may advantageously allow increasing the edge placement error margin for forming via contacts of metallization stacks.
US11211322B2	Printed circuit board and electronic equipment A plurality of lands is formed apart from each other on a surface of a package substrate. Another plurality of lands is formed apart from each other on a surface of a printed wiring board. The surface of the package substrate and the surface of the printed wiring board face each other. The plurality of lands and another plurality of lands are bonded to each other with solder having a height of 30% or less of a diameter of a solder bonding portion at the corresponding land. A ratio of a solder bonded area of at least each of lands, among another plurality of the lands, of which distance value to a corresponding one of the lands is larger than an average distance value between the lands and another lands, to a solder bonded area of the corresponding one of the lands is 56% or more and 81% or less.
US11211320B2	Package with shifted lead neck A semiconductor package includes a pad and leads having a planar profile shaped from a planar base metal, a semiconductor die attached to the pad, a wire bond extending from the semiconductor die to a respective lead, and mold compound covering the semiconductor die, the wire bond, and a first portion of the respective lead, wherein a second portion of the respective lead extends beyond the mold compound. A shape of the respective lead within the planar profile includes a notch indented relative to a first elongated side of the shape of the respective lead and a protrusion protruding outwardly relative to a second elongated side of the shape of the respective lead. The notch and the protrusion are each partially covered by the mold compound and partially outside the mold compound.
US11211316B1	Wiring structure and method for manufacturing the same A wiring structure and a method for manufacturing the same are provided. The wiring structure includes a conductive structure and at least one conductive through via. The conductive structure includes a plurality of dielectric layers and a plurality of circuit layers in contact with the dielectric layers. The conductive through via extends through at least a portion of the conductive structure. At least one of the circuit layers includes a first portion in contact with the conductive through via and a second portion in contact with the dielectric layer. A surface roughness of the first portion of the circuit layer is greater than a surface roughness of the second portion of the circuit layer.
US11211315B2	Semiconductor package with terminal pattern for increased channel density Described examples include an apparatus, including: a substrate having a first surface configured to mount at least one integrated circuit and having a second surface opposite the first surface, the second surface having a plurality of terminals arranged in rows and columns, and at least one row of the plurality of terminals disposed adjacent a first side and extending generally along the length of the substrate arranged in a pattern extending along a longitudinal line, the pattern including a first group of consecutive terminals extending in a first direction at a first angle to the longitudinal line and directed towards an interior of the substrate, a second group of consecutive terminals extending in a second direction at a second angle and extending towards the periphery of the substrate, and a third group of consecutive ones of the terminals extending from the second group in the first direction.
US11211312B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device includes a first conductive plate, a second conductive plate, first switching elements, second switching elements, a first supply terminal and a second supply terminal. The first and second conductive plates are spaced apart from each other in a first direction. The first switching elements are bonded to the first conductive plate, and are electrically connected to the second conductive plate. The second switching elements are bonded to the second conductive plate. The first supply terminal is bonded to the first conductive plate. The second supply terminal has a region that overlaps with the first supply terminal as viewed in a plan view. The second supply terminal is spaced apart from the first conductive plate and the first supply terminal in a thickness direction perpendicular to the first direction. The second supply terminal is electrically connected to the second switching elements.
US11211308B2	Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof A semiconductor device and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The semiconductor device includes a substrate, a transistor and a heat dissipation structure. The substrate includes first and second semiconductor layers, and includes an insulating layer disposed between the first and second semiconductor layers. The substrate has a recess extending into the insulating layer from a surface of the first semiconductor layer. The transistor includes a hetero-junction structure, a gate electrode, a drain electrode and a source electrode. The hetero-junction structure is disposed on the second semiconductor layer. The gate, drain and source electrodes are disposed over the hetero-junction structure. The gate electrode is located between the drain electrode and the source electrode, and an active area of the hetero-junction structure located between the drain electrode and the source electrode is overlapped with the recess of the substrate. The heat dissipation structure is disposed on the surface of the first semiconductor layer, and extends into the recess.
US11211306B2	Synthetic diamond plates A synthetic diamond plate comprising a polygonal plate formed of synthetic diamond material, the polygonal plate of synthetic diamond material having a thickness in a range 0.4 mm to 1. mm, and rounded corners having a radius of curvature in a range 1 mm to 6 mm. A mounted synthetic diamond plate is also disclosed comprising a polygonal synthetic diamond plate as described and a base to which the polygonal synthetic diamond plate is bonded, wherein the base comprises a cooling channel. An array of mounted synthetic diamond plates is also described, comprising a plurality of mounted synthetic diamond plates described above, wherein the cooling channels of the mounted synthetic diamond plates are linked to form a common cooling channel across the array of mounted synthetic diamond plates.
US11211302B2	Semiconductor device package A semiconductor device package comprises a carrier, a stop layer, a barrier layer and an encapsulant. The carrier has a first surface and a second surface recessed with respect to the first surface. The stop layer is disposed on the second surface of the carrier. The barrier layer is disposed on the stop layer and protruded from the first surface of the carrier. The encapsulant is disposed on the first surface of the carrier. Further, the encapsulant has a side surface disposed on the barrier layer.
US11211297B2	Method for testing bridging in adjacent semiconductor devices and test structure Bridging testing method between adjacent semiconductor devices includes forming patterned diffusion region on semiconductor substrate, and forming first conductive layer over diffusion region. First conductive layer is patterned in same pattern as patterned diffusion region. Second conductive layer formed extending in first direction over first conductive layer. Second conductive layer is patterned to form opening extending in first direction in central region of second conductive layer exposing portion of first conductive layer. First conductive layer exposed portion is removed exposing portion of diffusion region. Source/drain region is formed over exposed portion of diffusion region, and dielectric layer is formed over source/drain region. Third conductive layer is formed over dielectric layer. End portions along first direction of second conductive layer removed to expose first and second end portions of first conductive layer. Electrical resistance across first conductive layer between first and second end portions of first conductive layer is measured.
US11211296B2	Comparing method and laser processing apparatus A comparing method includes a processing trace forming step of positioning a condenser at a reference height and a plurality of heights by moving the condenser, and forming a plurality of processing traces in one surface of a workpiece by irradiating different positions of the one surface with a laser beam according to each of the heights, a calculating step of calculating at least one of an average of widths in a plurality of predetermined directions of each of the plurality of processing traces and an area ratio of each of the plurality of processing traces to a circle of a predetermined diameter by analyzing an image of the plurality of processing traces by an image analyzing section, and a comparing step of quantitatively comparing deviations of the plurality of processing traces from a predetermined shape on the basis of at least one of the average and the area ratio.
US11211291B2	Via formation with robust hardmask removal A semiconductor device includes a base structure including a first interlayer dielectric (ILD) layer and a contact including a conductive liner disposed along a conductive core, a conductive plug disposed on the conductive liner between the conductive core and the first ILD layer to a height of the base structure, and a metallization level including a conductive line and a self-aligned via underneath the conductive line disposed on the contact and the conductive plug. The conductive plug protects underlying material and increases connectivity between the self-aligned via and the contact that was reduced due to misalignment.
US11211286B2	Airgap formation processes Processing methods may be performed to form an airgap spacer on a semiconductor substrate. The methods may include forming a spacer structure including a first material and a second material different from the first material. The methods may include forming a source/drain structure. The source/drain structure may be offset from the second material of the spacer structure by at least one other material. The methods may also include etching the second material from the spacer structure to form the airgap. The source/drain structure may be unexposed to etchant materials during the etching.
US11211285B2	Method of producing bonded wafer and bonded wafer In a method of producing a bonded wafer, the amount of depression of the polishing cloth is 50 μm to 90 μm, and the surface hardness (ASKER C) of the polishing cloth is 50 to 60. In the bonded wafer, the polycrystalline silicon layer has a thickness variation Δt of 5% or less, and the support substrate wafer has a GBIR of 0.2 μm or less and an SFQR of 0.06 μm or less after the polycrystalline silicon layer is polished.
US11211273B2	Carrier substrate and packaging method using the same A carrier substrate and a packaging method, the carrier substrate including a first layer; a second layer; and a first glue layer between the first layer and the second layer, wherein the first glue layer is removably attached to the first layer.
US11211272B2	Contaminant detection tools and related methods A method of contaminant detection comprises exposing a wafer comprising one or more contaminants to microdroplets of an oxidizer to form an oxide on a surface of the wafer, exposing the oxide to an etchant to remove the oxide and leave the one or more contaminants on the surface of the wafer, and determining a composition of the one or more contaminants. Additional methods and related tools are also disclosed.
US11211271B2	Systems and methods for semiconductor structure sample preparation and analysis Systems and methods are provided for determining defects in a semiconductor structure sample that is prepared for analysis by microscopy. A semiconductor structure sample preparation and analysis system includes a semiconductor structure sample that includes a structure, a protective capping layer on the structure, and a gap filler material on the protective capping layer. A microscopy apparatus acquires an image of the semiconductor structure sample. Sample defect recognition circuitry determines the presence of a defect in the semiconductor structure sample based on the acquired image.
US11211259B2	Structure and method for embedded gettering in a silicon on insulator wafer A representative method of manufacturing a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) substrate includes steps of depositing an etch stop layer on a dummy wafer, growing an epitaxial silicon layer on the etch stop layer, forming a gettering layer on the epitaxial silicon layer, bonding a buried oxide layer of a main wafer to the gettering layer, and removing the dummy wafer and etch stop layer to expose the epitaxial silicon layer. The SOI substrate has an epitaxial silicon layer adjoining the gettering layer, with the gettering layer interposed between the buried oxide layer and the epitaxial silicon layer.
US11211258B2	Method of addressing dissimilar etch rates A method for DRIE matched release and/or the mitigation of photo resist pooling, comprising: depositing a first mask layer over a first surface of a silicon substrate; exposing a first portion and second portion of the first mask layer to a first etch process, wherein the exposing forms a first exposed layer; depositing a second mask layer over the first mask layer; exposing a third portion of the second mask layer to a second etch process, wherein the exposing forms a second exposed mask layer, and wherein the third portion overlaps the first portion of the first mask layer; developing the second mask layer and etching the third portion of the second mask layer and developing the first portion of the first mask layer; etching the first portion of the first mask layer to a first depth; and developing the first mask layer to reveal exposed portions of the first mask layer and etching the second portion of the silicon substrate to a second depth.
US11211249B2	Herbal extracts and flavor systems for oral products and methods of making the same The invention provides a method for preparing an herbal extract and a flavor system comprising an herbal extract produced by the process. The invention also provides a flavor system comprising an herbal extract comprising thymol, eugenol, carvacrol and eucalyptol. The invention further provides a flavor system comprising a thyme extract having a minimum inhibitory concentration of less than about 3%. Additionally, the invention provides an oral product comprising a flavor system.
US11211246B2	Method and composition for selectively modifying base material surface A method for selectively modifying a base material surface, includes applying a composition on a surface of a base material to form a coating film. The coating film is heated. The base material includes a surface layer which includes a first region including silicon. The composition includes a first polymer and a solvent. The first polymer includes at an end of a main chain or a side chain thereof, a group including a first functional group capable of forming a bond with the silicon. The first region preferably contains a silicon oxide, a silicon nitride, or a silicon oxynitride. The base material preferably further includes a second region that is other than the first region and that contains a metal; and the method preferably further includes, after the heating, removing with a rinse agent a portion formed on the second region, of the coating film.
US11211234B2	Arc suppression and pulsing in high power impulse magnetron sputtering (HIPIMS) An apparatus for generating sputtering of a target to produce a coating on a substrate is provided. The apparatus has a magnetron including a cathode and an anode. A power supply is operably connected to the magnetron and at least one capacitor is operably connected to the power supply. The apparatus also includes an inductance operably connected to the at least one capacitor. A first switch and a second switch are also provided. The first switch operably connects the power supply to the magnetron to charge the magnetron and the first switch is configured to charge the magnetron according to a first pulse. The second switch is operably connected to discharge the magnetron. The second switch is configured to discharge the magnetron according to a second pulse.
US11211227B2	Multi charged particle beam evaluation method and multi charged particle beam writing device In one embodiment, a multi charged particle beam evaluation method includes writing a plurality of evaluation patterns on a substrate by using multi charged particle beams, with a design value of a line width changed by a predetermined change amount at a predetermined pitch, measuring the line widths of the plurality of evaluation patterns thus written, and extracting a variation in a specific period of a distribution of differences between results of a measurement value and the design value of each of the line widths of the plurality of evaluation patterns. The predetermined change amount is equal to or larger than data resolution and smaller than a size of each of pixels, each of which is a unit region to be irradiated with one of the multi charged particle beams.
US11211226B2	Pattern cross-sectional shape estimation system and program The present disclosure provides a pattern cross-sectional shape estimation system which includes a charged particle ray device which includes a scanning deflector that scans a charged particle beam, a detector that detects charged particles, and an angle discriminator that is disposed in a front stage of the detector and discriminates charged particles to be detected, and an arithmetic device that generates a luminance of an image, and calculates a signal waveform of a designated region on the image using the luminance. The arithmetic device generates angle discrimination images using signal electrons at different detection angles, and estimates a side wall shape of a measurement target pattern.
US11211221B2	Chip-type fuse A chip-type fuse includes a main body portion composed of an insulating material, a fuse conductor that is disposed inside the main body portion and that has both end portions exposed at the main body portion, and a pair of outer electrodes that cover respective end portions of the main body portion and that are connected to respective end portions of the fuse conductor. A hollow portion is present inside the main body portion, and the fuse conductor has a fusing portion disposed along the wall surface of the hollow portion.
US11211214B2	DC circuit breaker A DC circuit breaker according to various embodiments may comprise: a first terminal unit connected to a power source; and a second terminal unit connected to the first terminal unit and connected to a load, wherein the first terminal unit includes at least a pair of first terminals connected to each other in parallel and connected to the power source, and the second terminal unit includes at least a pair of second terminals corresponding respectively to the first terminals and connected to each other in parallel so as to be connected to the load.
US11211213B2	Safety switch with detection of the end stroke of the unlocking mechanism A safety switch with detection of the end-stroke of the unlocking mechanism adapted to supervise a safety access of a machine or industrial plant comprises a switching device (2) adapted to be associated to the fixed part of an access to be supervised and having switching means (5) adapted to be operatively connected to one or more control and/or service circuits of the plant for the control thereof, an operating device (3) associated to a movable part of the access to interact with the switching means (5) at the time of opening/closing of the access for opening/closing of one or more circuits, an unlocking mechanism (13) housed in the switching device (2) and having an unlocking pin (14) adapted to translate with maximum predetermined stroke from a blocking position of the access to an unlocked position to determine the opening of the switching means (5), means (17) for the detection of the stroke of the unlocking pin (14) comprising a first detector (18) adapted to detect the start of the stroke of the unlocking pin (14) and a second detector (19) adapted to detect the end of the stroke of the unlocking pin (14).
US11211209B2	Methods and systems for DC current interrupter based on thermionic arc extinction via anode ion depletion A system for isolating a fault in a direct current (DC) grid using thermionic arc extinction. The system includes a DC grid that includes a transmission line. The DC grid also includes a plurality of current interrupters disposed on the transmission line. Each of the plurality of current interrupters on the transmission line are electrically coupled to one another in series. At least one of the current interrupters includes a fixed terminal end and a moveable terminal end. Further, at least one of the current interrupters has an arc shield housing at least two arcing contacts. At least one of the arcing contacts comprises a first conducting material that has a first vaporizing point.
US11211205B2	Method of negative electrode pre-lithiation for lithium-ion capacitors The present invention is directed to a method for pre-lithiation of negative electrodes during lithium loaded electrode manufacturing for use in lithium-ion capacitors. There is provided a system and method of manufacture of LIC electrodes using thin lithium film having holes therein, and in particular, to the process of manufacturing lithium loaded negative electrodes for lithium-ion capacitors by pre-lithiating electrodes with thin lithium metal films, wherein the thin lithium metal films include holes therein, and the lithium loaded negative electrodes are manufactured using a roll-to-roll lamination manufacturing, process.
US11211200B2	Inductive communication coil design A coil is produced by winding a wire that is clad with an electrical insulation so as to form a coil bundle of successive windings. The coil bundle has at least one first winding formed by a first end section of the wire and at least one second winding formed by a second end section of the wire. A portion of the electrical insulation of the at least one first winding is removed to expose a portion of the first end section of the wire for forming a first electrical contact of the coil, and a portion of the electrical insulation of the at least one second winding is removed to expose a portion of the second end section of the wire for forming said second electrical contact of the coil. There is also described a coil.
US11211198B2	Method for manufacturing powder magnetic core, and method for manufacturing electromagnetic component A method for manufacturing a powder magnetic core includes: a step of preparing a soft magnetic powder and an oxide powder and preparing, as a raw material powder, a mixed powder of the soft magnetic powder and the oxide powder, the soft magnetic powder containing composite soft magnetic particles containing pure iron and an Fe-α alloy having an element α more oxidizable than Fe, the composite soft magnetic particles each having a core-shell structure where a core is made of one of pure iron and the Fe-α alloy and a shell is made of the other, the oxide powder containing oxide particles containing at least one selected from Fe and an element β that forms an oxide having higher electrical resistance than Fe3O4; a step of compacting the mixed powder into a green compact; and a step o sintering the green compact at 900° C. or more and 1300° C. or less.
US11211193B2	Electronic component An electronic component includes a magnetic body including a resin and first magnetic powder and having a recess on a lower surface of the magnetic body, an internal coil portion embedded in the magnetic body, and external electrodes disposed on opposing ends of the magnetic body in a length direction of the magnetic body and connected to ends of the internal coil portion, wherein the first magnetic powder disposed on a surface of the recess may have a cut surface.
US11211191B2	Transformer radiator This invention concerns a transformer radiator. The radiator includes an inlet manifold, an outlet manifold and a heat exchange fin. The find extends between and is connected to the inlet and outlet manifolds. The heat exchange fin defines at least one oil flow passage to convey transformer oil, which, in use, enters the radiator through the inlet manifold, to the outlet manifold. The heat exchange fin is further provided by a single component having a continuously undulating profile and the manifolds extend transversely to the turns of the undulating profile.
US11211188B2	Multilayer coil component In a stepwise structure formed in a multilayer coil component, a difference occurs in a shrinkage amount between a maximum film thickness portion in which the number of layers is large and a minimum film thickness portion in which the number of layers is small due to portions different in the number of layers of coil parts (that is, upper coil part, lower coil part, and connecting part) adjacent to each other like the maximum film thickness portion and the minimum film thickness portion, readily causing a crack by an inner stress due to the difference in the shrinkage amount. In a multilayer coil component according to the present disclosure, a stress relaxation part overlapping with a maximum film thickness portion whose shrinkage amount is large is provided to relax inner stress in a stepwise structure, resulting in prevention of a crack.
US11211180B2	Anti-scatter grid device and method for making the same A system and method for making an anti-scatter grid device is provided. The method may include providing a mold including one or more orientation structures arranged in first positions. The method may also include placing a plurality of plates including a first material into at least one of the orientation structures, and injecting a second material into a first cavity in the mold formed by the plurality of plates and the orientation structures. The method may further include separating the plurality of plates and the hardened second material from the mold to generate a first module.
US11211179B2	Drying spent nuclear fuel based on evaluation of drying characteristics obtained using gas spectroscopy Apparatus and method for drying spent nuclear fuel loaded in a cavity of a canister. A non-reactive gas discharged from the canister is selectively circulated through one of a contaminated circulation system and a non-contaminated circulation system according to a measured radiation dose rate.
US11211175B2	Hydrodynamic pin for centering a nuclear reactor core A centering pin for a nuclear reactor core within a reactor vessel includes a central part having a radially inner edge oriented toward the core and a horizontal thickness along the radially inner edge. The pin includes an upper hydrodynamic profile, which is disposed above the central part and forms a vertical wing leading edge extending from the central part and having an upper height above the central part. The pin includes a lower hydrodynamic profile, which is disposed below the central part and forms a vertical wing trailing edge extending from the central part and having a lower height below the central part. The upper height has a maximum variation of more or less 25% relative to the horizontal thickness. The lower height has a maximum variation of more or less 25% relative to the horizontal thickness.
US11211170B2	Second opinion network Systems and methods are provided to facilitate consultations between a referral source (e.g., labs, pathologists and patients) and a consultant (e.g., pathologist, radiologist, or other digital image analyst). Links between the various referral sources and consultants are established through a scanning center via a data communication network such as the Internet. The referral source sends a slide to the scanning center where the corresponding digital slide is posted for review and analysis by the consultant. Upon completion of the analysis and report, a digital slide conference is conducted through the scanning center that provides a venue for direct communication regarding the consultation. The scanning center may also facilitate payment from the referral source to the consultant.
US11211169B2	Finding precise causal multi-drug-drug interactions for adverse drug reaction analysis Mechanisms are provided for implementing a framework to learn multiple drug-adverse drug reaction associations. The mechanisms receive and analyze patient electronic medical record data and adverse drug reaction data to identify co-occurrences of references to drugs with references to adverse drug reactions (ADRs) to thereby generate candidate rules specifying multiple drug-ADR relationships. The mechanisms filter the candidate rules to remove a subset of one or more rules having confounder drugs specified in the subset of one or more candidate rules, and thereby generate a filtered set of candidate rules. The mechanisms further generate a causal model based on the filtered set of candidate rules. The causal model comprises, for each ADR in a set of ADRs, a corresponding set of one or more rules, each rule specifying a combination of drugs having a causal relationship with the ADR.
US11211168B2	Systems and methods for identifying content based on user interactions Disclosed is an intelligent recommendation system for identifying and/or providing personalized one or more independent applications and/or healthcare related media content (e.g., multimedia content and applications involved in healthcare or the treatment of various health conditions of a user) to a plurality of user devices and/or client devices.
US11211163B2	Methods and systems for providing the proximity of a process requirement metric to a system process requirement Methods and systems are presented for indicating the proximity of a process requirement metric to a corresponding system process requirement in a physiological monitor. Metrics are determined based on a received physiological signal, such as a PPG signal. At least one of the metrics is compared to a corresponding system process requirement, such as a threshold, which can be used to trigger a system process, such as an alarm, a recalibration, or a measurement. The proximity of the metric to the corresponding system process requirement is calculated and indicated. Indicating the proximity to a system process requirement may provide valuable information to clinicians and allow them to manually trigger system processes, such as measurements or recalibrations, when a metric is close to a system process requirement for a significant period of time.
US11211162B1	Methods and systems for identifying body part or body area anatomical landmarks from digital imagery for the fitting of compression garments for a person in need thereof Various examples are provided related to identification of anthropometric information for fitting of compression garments. In one example, a method of generating compression garment fit information includes acquiring images including a selected body part or body area in need of compression therapy; processing the acquired images along with a library of compression garment fit information; generating a 3D reconstruction of the selected body part/area; deriving anthropometric information for the selected body part/area from the 3D reconstruction; providing a compression value corresponding to a prescribed or intended amount of compression therapy applied to the selected body part/area; and generating compression garment fit information for the selected body part/area. In another example, a library of compression garment fit information includes anthropometric information generated for individuals in need of compression therapy; information associated with a health condition for the individuals; and compression garment fit instructions provided by a compression garment manufacturer.
US11211160B2	Systems and methods of automatically processing electronic images across regions Systems and methods are disclosed for using an integrated computing platform to view and transfer digital pathology slides using artificial intelligence, the method including receiving at least one whole slide image in a cloud computing environment located in a first geographic region, the whole slide image depicting a medical sample associated with a patient, the patient being located in the first geographic region; storing the received whole slide image in a first encrypted bucket; applying artificial intelligence to perform a classification of the at least one whole slide image, the classification comprising steps to determine whether portions of the medical sample depicted in the whole slide image are healthy or diseased; based on the classification of the at least one whole slide image, generating metadata associated with the whole slide image; and storing the metadata in a second encrypted bucket.
US11211152B2	System and a method for managing information relating to sample test requests within a laboratory environment A system and method for managing information relating to requests for a number of tests to be made of at least one sample within a laboratory environment are disclosed. The system may include a sample reception unit, a pre-analytical unit to scan, sort and/or aliquot the sample on request according to respective test requirements included within a respective sample order, an analytical unit to run at least one test on a sorted and/or aliquoted sample, and at least one decision unit. The decision unit acts as a connecting component for interconnecting the sample reception unit, the pre-analytical unit and the analytical unit as both an intermediary and coordinator such that tests can be performed via a recursive workflow until the sample is completely measured. The decision unit is further configured to collate the test results appropriately with the sample and to give a respective report towards a host component.
US11211147B2	Estimation of circulating tumor fraction using off-target reads of targeted-panel sequencing Methods, systems, and software are provided for estimating a circulating tumor fraction for a test subject. Sequence reads are obtained from a panel-enriched sequencing reaction, including sequences for a first plurality of cfDNA fragments corresponding to probe sequences and a second plurality of cfDNA fragments not corresponding to probe sequences. Bin-level coverage ratios are determined from the sequences. Segments are formed by grouping adjacent bins based on similar coverage ratios and segment-level coverage ratios are determined based on bin-level coverage ratios for bins in the segment. For each simulated circulating tumor fraction in a plurality of circulating tumor fractions, segments are fitted to an integer copy state by identifying the integer copy state that best matches the segment-level coverage ratio. The circulating tumor fraction for the test subject is determined using error optimization between segment-level coverage ratios and integer copy states across the simulated circulated tumor fractions.
US11211144B2	Methods and systems for refining copy number variation in a liquid biopsy assay Methods, systems, and software are provided for validating a copy number variation in a test subject. A first dataset is obtained comprising bin-level sequence ratios, segment-level sequence ratios and segment-level measures of dispersion. Bins representing regions of a human reference genome are determined from sequencing cell-free nucleic acids in a liquid biopsy sample and reference samples. Segments encompass subsets of adjacent bins, where segment-level sequence ratios and measures of dispersion are determined using bin-level sequence ratios. A copy number status annotation for a segment is validated by applying the first dataset to a plurality of filters comprising a measure of central tendency bin-level sequence ratio filter, a confidence filter, and a measure of central tendency-plus-deviation bin-level sequence ratio filter. When a filter is fired, the copy number status annotation of the segment is rejected; and when no filter is fired, the copy number status annotation of the segment is validated.
US11211141B2	Storage system with multiple components and method for use therewith A storage system with several integrated components and method for use therewith are provided. In one embodiment, a storage system comprising: a plurality of non-volatile memory devices; a controller in communication with the plurality of non-volatile memory devices; a plurality of data buffers in communication with the controller and configured to store data sent between the controller and an input/output bus; and a command and address buffer configured to store commands and addresses sent from a host, wherein the command and address buffer is further configured to synchronize data flow into and out of the plurality of data buffer; wherein at least three of the above components are integrated with each other.
US11211129B2	Nonconsecutive sensing of multilevel memory cells Apparatuses and methods for nonconsecutive sensing of multilevel memory cells include methods of sensing a unit of information from a multilevel memory cell (MLC) using a sensing signal. The unit of information can correspond to a page of information. The MLC can store a plurality of units of information corresponding to a plurality of pages of information. The sensing signal can change from a first sensing magnitude to a second sensing magnitude and from the second sensing magnitude to a third sensing magnitude. The second sensing magnitude can be nonconsecutive from the first sensing magnitude and/or the third sensing magnitude can be nonconsecutive from the second sensing magnitude with respect to a plurality of sensing magnitudes corresponding to a plurality of charge storage states of the MLC.
US11211128B1	Performing threshold voltage offset bin selection by package for memory devices An example memory sub-system includes a memory device and a processing device, operatively coupled to the memory device. The processing device is configured to initialize a block family associated with the memory device; program a first block in a first die of the memory device and a second block in a second die of the memory device, wherein the first die and the second die are assigned to a die group; associate the first block and the second block with the block family; and associate the die group with a first threshold voltage offset bin.
US11211124B2	Multifunctional memory cells The present disclosure includes multifunctional memory cells. A number of embodiments include a gate element, a charge transport element, a first charge storage element configured to store a first charge transported from the gate element and through the charge transport element, wherein the first charge storage element includes a nitride material, and a second charge storage element configured to store a second charge transported from the gate element and through the charge transport element, wherein the second charge storage element includes a gallium nitride material.
US11211120B2	Bit line and word line connection for memory array Various embodiments of the present application are directed towards an integrated chip. The integrated chip includes an array overlying a substrate and including multiple memory stacks in a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns. Each of the memory stacks includes a data storage structure having a variable resistance. A plurality of word lines are disposed beneath the array and extend along corresponding rows of the array. The word lines are electrically coupled with memory stacks of the array in the corresponding rows. A plurality of upper conductive vias extend from above the array of memory stacks to contact top surfaces of corresponding word lines.
US11211111B1	CAM device with 3D CAM cells A content-addressable memory (CAM) storage element includes bit storage cell bit comparison cells. The bit storage cell is arranged on a first die tier and includes at least one transistor, one or two bit lines, and a storage node. The bit comparison cell is arranged on a second die tier and has a match line, complementary search lines, and at least three transistors. The complementary search lines are decoupled from the bit line(s). A 3D connection couples the storage node to one of the transistors of the second die tier. The CAM cell performs at least one CAM search per clock cycle using at least four transistors per search, including the at least one transistor of the bit storage cell and the at least three transistors of the bit comparison cell, and to output results of the at least one CAM search on the match line.
US11211109B2	Access schemes for protecting stored data in a memory device Methods, systems, and devices for protecting stored data in a memory device are described. In one example, a memory device may include a set of memory cells coupled with a digit line and a plate line. A method of operating the memory device may include performing an access operation on a selected memory cell of the set of memory cells, and performing an equalization operation on a non-selected memory cell of the plurality of memory cells based on performing the access operation. The equalization operation may include applying an equal voltage to opposite terminals of the non-selected memory cell via the digit line and the plate line, which may allow built-up charge, such as leakage charge resulting from the access operation, to dissipate. Such an equalization operation may reduce a likelihood of memory loss in non-selected memory cells after access operations.
US11211105B2	Memory device comprising programmable command-and-address and/or data interfaces A memory device comprising a programmable command-and-address (CA) interface and/or a programmable data interface is described. In an operational mode, two or more CA interfaces may be active. In another operational mode, at least one, but not all, CA interfaces may be active. In an operational mode, all of the data interfaces may be active. In another operational mode, at least one, but not all, data interfaces may be active. The memory device can include circuitry to select: an operational mode; a sub-mode within an operational mode; one or more CA interfaces as the active CA interface(s); a main CA interface from multiple active CA interfaces; and/or one or more data interfaces as the active data interfaces. The circuitry may perform these selection(s) based on one or more bits in one or more registers and/or one or more signals received on one or more pins.
US11211099B2	Disk device with wiring board on outer surface of housing and connected to motor and sealing configuration According to one embodiment, a disk device includes a housing with a bottom wall, magnetic disks supported on a hub of a motor, a printed circuit board provided on an outer surface of the bottom wall, and a wiring board attached on the outer surface of the bottom wall. The bottom wall includes a recess formed in the outer surface, a step located on border between the outer surface and the recess, and through holes opened to the recess. The wiring board includes one end portion disposed in the recess and connection pads on the one end portion, connected to lead wires of a coil. An adhesive is filled into the recess and the through holes, and covers the one end and a solder joint and seals the through holes.
US11211098B2	Repetitive-motion activity enhancement based upon media content selection Systems, devices, apparatuses, components, methods, and techniques for repetitive-motion activity enhancement based upon media content selection are provided. An example media-playback device for enhancement of a repetitive-motion activity includes a media-output device that plays media content items, a plurality of media content selection engines, and a repetitive-activity enhancement mode selection engine. The plurality of media content selection engines includes a cadence-based media content selection engine and an enhancement program engine. The cadence-based media content selection engine is configured to select media content items based on a cadence associated with the repetitive-motion activity. The enhancement program engine is configured to select a media content items according to an enhancement program for the repetitive-motion activity. The repetitive-activity enhancement mode selection engine is configured to select a media content selection engine from the plurality of engines and to cause the media-output device to playback media content items selected by the selected engine.
US11211097B2	Generating method and playing method of multimedia file, multimedia file generation apparatus and multimedia file playback apparatus A generating method and a playing method of multimedia file, a multimedia file generation apparatus and a multimedia file playback apparatus are provided. The playing method of multimedia file includes following steps. A multimedia file including a panoramic video associated with a timeline is received. A first data track of the multimedia file is extracted to obtain object positions of the first image object in the panoramic video with respect to the timeline. When playing the panoramic video, an icon corresponding to the first image object is displayed in a display frame of a screen. In response to detecting a selection operation performed on the icon, a field of view (FoV) for playing the panoramic video is determined according to a first object position recorded in the first data track, and display frames including the first image object are played based on the determined FoV.
US11211088B2	Magnetic disc, aluminum alloy substrate for magnetic disc, and production method for aluminum alloy substrate Provided are a magnetic disk and a method of fabricating the magnetic disk. The magnetic disk includes an aluminum alloy plate fabricated by a process involving a CC method and a compound removal process, and an electroless Ni—P plating layer disposed on the surface of the plate. The aluminum alloy plate is composed of an aluminum alloy containing 0.4 to 3.0 mass % (hereinafter abbreviated simply as “%”) of Fe, 0.1% to 3.0% of Mn, 0.005% to 1.000% of Cu, 0.005% to 1.000% of Zn, with a balance of Al and unavoidable impurities. In the magnetic disk, the maximum amplitude of waviness in a wavelength range of 0.4 to 5.0 mm is 5 nm or less, and the maximum amplitude of waviness in a wavelength range of 0.08 to 0.45 mm is 1.5 nm or less.
US11211085B2	Disk device suspension having a load beam provided with a damper member to which an outrigger is attached A suspension for a disk device comprises a load beam, a flexure and a damper member. The flexure overlaps the load beam, and comprises a tongue on which a slider is mounted and an outrigger connected to the tongue. The damper member is attached to the load beam. The outrigger comprises an arm opposing the load beam, and a folded portion extending from the arm and folded back in a thickness direction of the arm. Further, the folded portion is attached to the damper member.
US11211077B2	Audio coding device, audio coding method, audio coding program, audio decoding device, audio decoding method, and audio decoding program An audio signal transmission device for encoding an audio signal includes an audio encoding unit that encodes an audio signal and a side information encoding unit that calculates and encodes side information from a look-ahead signal. An audio signal receiving device for decoding an audio code and outputting an audio signal includes: an audio code buffer that detects packet loss based on a received state of an audio packet, an audio parameter decoding unit that decodes an audio code when an audio packet is correctly received, a side information decoding unit that decodes a side information code when an audio packet is correctly received, a side information accumulation unit that accumulates side information obtained by decoding a side information code, an audio parameter missing processing unit that outputs an audio parameter upon detection of audio packet loss, and an audio synthesis unit that synthesizes decoded audio from the audio parameter.
US11211075B2	Service control method, service control apparatus and device The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a service control method, a service control apparatus and a device, the method including: determining an application service in operating state in an electronic device; and transmitting audio data captured by a microphone to the application service and a control service, where the application service is configured to perform multimedia information interaction according to the audio data, and the control service is configured to control the electronic device according to the audio data, thereby improving flexibility in controlling services in the electronic device.
US11211063B2	Multimedia device for processing voice command The present invention discloses a multimedia device capable of processing a recognized speech-based command. In one embodiment, the device may include a memory to store at least one application therein; an application manager for executing any of the at least one application stored in the memory; and a controller configured to receive from the application manager a list of at least one recognized speech-based command that can be executed by the executed application, wherein the controller is configured: to control a network interface module to transmit any speech-based data received from an outside and the list to the server; and to control the executed application or execute a function non-specific to the currently-executed application, based on a feedback result value received from the server via the network interface module.
US11211059B2	Artificial intelligence apparatus and method for recognizing speech with multiple languages Disclosed herein an artificial intelligence apparatus for recognizing speech with multiple languages including a microphone, and a processor configured to obtain, via the microphone, speech data including speech of a user with multiple languages, calculate a word recognition reliability of each word in the obtained speech data using an acoustic model of a main language, calculate a word recognition reliability of each word in the obtained speech data using an acoustic model of at least one sub language, select a language having a highest word recognition reliability for each word, convert the speech data into text in consideration of a word recognition result corresponding to the selected language for each word, and generate a speech recognition result corresponding to the speech data using the converted text.
US11211057B2	Interactive e-reader device, related method, and computer readable medium storing related software program A device interacts with a user by receiving an audio voice input from the user via a microphone, processing the received audio voice input, including determining whether the received audio voice input sufficiently phonetically matches with one or more stored words associated with a page being displayed on a display screen, controlling, if the received audio voice input does not sufficiently phonetically match the one or more stored words associated with the page being displayed on the display screen, at least one of a speaker to emit audio that provides audio assistance to the user, and the display screen to display a screen that provides visual assistance to the user, and controlling, if the received audio voice input does sufficiently phonetically match the one or more stored words associated with the page being displayed on the display screen, the display screen to display a screen indicating the sufficient phonetic match.
US11211050B2	Structured conversation enhancement Structured conversation enhancement can include determining an anticipated ebb point of a current conversation. The determination can be made in response to a predetermined triggering event indicating a start of the current conversation. Structured conversation enhancement also can include monitoring the current conversation using pattern recognition. A probable change in the anticipated ebb point can be determined in response to recognizing a predetermined word pattern indicating a change in the conversation. A response action can be initiated in response to the probable change in the anticipated ebb point.
US11211048B2	Method for sensing end of speech, and electronic apparatus implementing same Provided are an apparatus and a method, a variety of embodiments of the apparatus comprising a microphone, memory, and a processor functionally connected to the microphone or memory, wherein the processor is configured to: count end-point detection (EPD) time on the basis of a voice input; when the EPD time expires, determine whether the final word of the voice input corresponds to a previously configured word stored in memory; and, if the final word corresponds to the previously configured word, then extend the EPD time and wait for reception of a voice input. Additionally, other embodiments are possible.
US11211043B2	Audio enhanced hearing protection system An audio enhanced hearing protection system to be worn by a user includes an ambient noise reduction assembly having a primary noise reduction unit and a secondary noise reduction unit. The audio enhanced hearing protection system also includes an audio input assembly having one or more environmental microphones to receive raw environmental audio signals. The raw audio signals are transformed into processed audio signals via a digital signal processing assembly prior to transmission to a user. The audio enhanced hearing protection system also includes an audio output assembly having at least one speaker to transmit processed audio signals to a user.
US11211033B2	Agent device, method of controlling agent device, and storage medium for providing service based on vehicle occupant speech An agent device includes: an agent functional unit configured to provide a service including an output of a response to a voice to an outputter in response to a speech of an occupant of a vehicle; and a display controller configured to cause a display provided in the vehicle to display an animation regarding an agent corresponding to the agent functional unit. The display controller moves the animation between a first display area included in the display and a second display area of which a position is different from a position of the first display area in the vehicle in response to an instruction from the occupant.
US11211027B2	Driving circuit of display panel, driving method thereof, and display panel The present disclosure is related to a driving circuit of a display panel. The driving circuit may include a turn-on voltage adjusting circuit. The turn-on voltage adjusting circuit may include a control subcircuit and a switching and voltage division subcircuit. The switching and voltage division subcircuit may include a switching subcircuit and a basic voltage division subcircuit. The switching subcircuit may be configured to perform voltage division of a signal outputted by the output terminal of the control subcircuit to form a voltage division feedback signal of the corresponding resolution under control of the control signal and output the voltage division feedback signal to the voltage division feedback node.
US11211019B2	Driving method for display panel and display device A driving method for a display panel and a display device are provided. The driving method includes adopting drive data of relatively high voltage and drive data of relatively low voltage respectively for driving any two adjacent pixels; and with three columns of pixels as a repeater, adopting a first polarity arrangement drive for pixels in a first column, and adopting a second polarity arrangement drive for the rest two columns of adjacent pixels; the first polarity arrangement drive is to perform positive polarity drive, negative polarity drive, negative polarity drive and positive polarity drive on four sub-pixels in the pixel respectively; and the second polarity arrangement drive is to perform negative polarity drive, positive polarity drive, positive polarity drive and negative polarity drive on four sub-pixels in the pixel respectively. The display device uses such a driving method.
US11211016B2	Source driver A source driver is configured to drive an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display panel. The source driver includes a sensing circuit and an operational amplifier. The sensing circuit is configured to sense pixel information of an OLED pixel circuit through a sensing line of the OLED display panel. The operational amplifier includes an amplifier circuit and at least one switch circuit. The amplifier circuit includes at least one gain circuit. An input terminal of the amplifier circuit is coupled to an output terminal of the sensing circuit. Each of the at least one switch circuit is coupled between a pair of output terminals of a corresponding one of the at least one gain circuit.
US11211013B2	Gate driving circuit and display apparatus comprising the same A gate driving circuit and a display apparatus including the same are disclosed, in which a plurality of gate lines may be driven through one stage circuit. The gate driving circuit includes first to mth stage circuits outputting a plurality of scan signals by dividing the scan signals into a first signal group and a second signal group. The first to mth stage circuits are grouped into k number of stage groups having two adjacent stage circuits, stage circuits of jth stage group (j is a natural number of 1 to k−1) output the scan signals of the first signal group to be earlier than the scan signals of the second signal group, and stage circuits of (j+1)th stage group output the scan signals of the second signal group to be earlier than the scan signals of the first signal group.
US11211011B2	Display device for improving display quality The present inventive concept relates to a display device. Specifically, the display device according to an embodiment of the present inventive concept includes pixels; a scan driver supplying a first scan signal, a third scan signal, and a fourth scan signal at a first frequency and supplying a second scan signal at a second frequency that is a divisor of the first frequency; a data driver supplying a data signal at the second frequency; an emission driver supplying an emission control signal at the first frequency; and a timing controller.
US11211010B2	Display panel and driving method thereof, and display device A display panel and a driving method thereof, and a display device are provided. The display panel includes pixel circuits. Each pixel circuit includes a driving transistor, a data writing circuit, a light-emitting control circuit, a threshold compensation circuit and a bias adjustment circuit. The driving transistor includes a gate electrically connected to a first node, a first terminal electrically connected to a second node, and a second terminal electrically connected to the third node, and is configured to generate a driving current. The third node is connected to a light-emitting element through the light-emitting control circuit. The bias adjustment circuit is configured to provide a signal of a bias adjustment signal terminal to the second node under control of a signal of a first scanning signal terminal in such a manner that a bias state of the driving transistor is adjusted.
US11211008B2	Display device and driving method thereof A display device driven in one of a first mode and a second mode includes a first pixel area which includes first pixels, a second pixel area which includes the second pixels, a first boundary area which is included in the second pixel area and to be positioned between boundary portions of the first pixel area and the second pixel area, and a luminance controller which controls first boundary data corresponding to the first boundary area so that luminance of the first boundary area is gradually changed corresponding to a first data signal applied to the first pixels and the second pixels when the display device is driven in the second mode.
US11210997B2	Passive matrix LED display module and display with several passive matrix LED display modules In an embodiment a passive matrix LED display module includes n>1 first electrical lines connected to a respective first switch, m>1 second electrical lines connected to a respective second switch and at least m·n LED light sources, wherein each of the LED light sources is connected on an anode side to a first line and on a cathode side to a second line, wherein each of the first switches is a push-pull switch having a first terminal for connection to an LED supply voltage, a second terminal for connection to an adjustable discharge potential, a third terminal for receiving a switching signal and a fourth terminal for connection to an associated first line, wherein each of the second switches in a switched state is configured to allow current to flow to a reference potential, and wherein the second terminals of the push-pull switches are connected in common to an output voltage terminal of an adjustable voltage source.
US11210994B2	Driving method of display panel, display apparatus and virtual reality device The present application discloses a driving method of a display panel, a display apparatus and a virtual reality device. The display panel includes a middle display region and a peripheral display region at the periphery of the middle display region. The display panel is driven such that a display resolution of the middle display region is greater than a display resolution of the peripheral display region.
US11210992B2	Display controller having auxilary circuits in two FPGAs in connection A display controller is provided. The display controller includes n field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) (n is an integer greater than 1). A respective one of the n FPGAs includes a first input circuit and an output circuit and a first process circuit connected between the first input circuit and the output circuit. The first input circuit is configured to receive a respective one first sub-image corresponding to the respective one of the n FPGAs. The n first sub-images are combined to form one frame of initial image. The first process circuit is configured to enhance image-resolution of the respective one first sub-image to obtain a respective one second sub-image and the output circuit is configured to deliver the respective one second sub-image corresponding to the respective one of the n FPGAs to a timing-controller.
US11210991B2	Method of generating correction data for display device, test device, and display device In a method of generating correction data for each of a plurality of display devices, a characteristic distribution for initial display devices among the plurality of display devices may be obtained, center characteristic compensation data may be generated based on the characteristic distribution for the initial display devices, the center characteristic compensation data may be applied to subsequent display devices that are subsequent to the initial display devices among the plurality of display devices, mura correction data and image quality correction data may be generated by performing mura correction and image quality correction on each of the subsequent display devices to which the center characteristic compensation data are applied, and the center characteristic compensation data, the mura correction data and the image quality correction data may be written into each of the subsequent display devices.
US11210983B2	Display including multiplexer and control method thereof The present disclosure relates to a display, and more particularly, to a display including a multiplexer capable of implementing a high-voltage driving, a low-consumption power driving, and a high-speed switching. A display including a multiplexer according to the present disclosure includes a data driver for outputting image data; a multiplexer connected with the data driver through a driving line; a display panel connected with the multiplexer through a data line; and a gate driver connected with the display panel through a gate line, and the multiplexer includes a first TFT controlled by the charging and the discharging of a first mux line; and a second TFT controlled by the charging and the discharging of a second mux line.
US11210971B2	Light emitting diode display with tilted peak emission pattern LED packages and LED displays utilizing the LED packages are disclosed where the peak emission of the LED display can be tilted or shifted to customize its peak emission to the mounting height or location of the LED display. One embodiment of an LED display comprises a plurality of LED package where the peak emission from at least some of the LED packages is tilted off the package centerline. The LED packages are mounted within the display in such a way as to generate an image having a peak emission that is tilted off the perpendicular emission direction of the display.
US11210969B1	Center of gravity based control apparatus for research and education An educational tool for testing and demonstrating center of gravity based control. The educational tool includes a swing, a rod assembly operatively connected to the swing, a motor operatively connected to the rod assembly, at least one encoder for generating position signals, an interface box operatively connected to the motor and the encoder, and a computing device operatively connected to the interface box. The computing device receives the position signals from the interface box, analyze the position signals to determine a center of gravity of the swing and the rod assembly, and generate motor control signals to adjust the swing and the rod assembly to a stable pose. The interface box transmits the motor control signals to the motor and transmits the position signals from the encoder to the computing device.
US11210968B2	Behavior-based interactive educational sessions A computer system interacts with a user with a behavioral state. An activity performed by an entity with a behavioral state is determined. A virtual character corresponding to the entity and performing the determined activity of the entity is generated and displayed. A mental state of the entity responsive to the virtual character is detected. In response to detection of a positive mental state of the entity, one or more natural language terms are provided to the entity corresponding to the activity performed by the virtual character. Embodiments of the present invention further include a method and program product for interacting with a user with a behavioral state in substantially the same manner described above.
US11210966B2	Rehabilitation support system, rehabilitation support method, and rehabilitation support program A rehabilitation support system in which, when a trainee performs rehabilitation using a rehabilitation support apparatus, a training assistant who assists the trainee can give rehabilitation support while taking a motivation of the trainee into consideration is provided. A rehabilitation support system including a rehabilitation support apparatus includes an acquisition unit, an output unit, and a feedback unit. The acquisition unit acquires motivation information indicating a motivation for rehabilitation performed by a trainee using the rehabilitation support apparatus, the motivation information including at least line-of-sight information of the trainee. The output unit outputs a degree indicating the motivation of the trainee based on the motivation information acquired by the acquisition unit. The feedback unit feeds back the degree output from the output unit to the rehabilitation support apparatus.
US11210963B2	Method and apparatus for providing personalised audio-visual instruction A method of and apparatus (10) for providing a personalized audio-visual instructional aid for assisting a person (11) to emulate preferred positions and/or movements in undertaking an activity by capturing position and/or movement data of the person (11) or an object associated with and controlled by the person undertaking the activity using position and/or movement sensing devices such as MEMS sensors (13) on the person (11) or object and using a computer (16) to analyze and compare the captured data with pre-stored data relating to preferred positions and/or movement in undertaking the activity and generating a visual presentation (19) based on the differences between the captured position and/or movement of the person or object and the preferred positions and/or movement and adding to the generated visual presentation, audio instructional comments relating to the differences.
US11210959B2	Changing a quality parameter in a surveillance message in response to a reply message In some examples, a system that mounts on a vehicle includes a transceiver configured to transmit a first surveillance message including a first value for a quality parameter, wherein the first value indicates a first level of integrity or accuracy for the first surveillance message. The transceiver is also configured to receive a reply message to the first surveillance message. The system also includes processing circuitry configured to determine a second value for the quality parameter in response to the transceiver receiving the reply message, wherein the second quality parameter indicates a second level of integrity or accuracy for surveillance messages transmitted by the transceiver, and wherein the second level of integrity or accuracy is higher than the first level. The transceiver is configured to transmit a second surveillance message including the second value for the quality parameter in response to the processing circuitry determining the second quality parameter.
US11210955B2	Collision avoidance assist apparatus A collision avoidance assist apparatus is provided with: a determinator configured to determine whether or not one lane on which a host vehicle drives is inner than another lane that extends along the one lane and that a moving body exists, in a curve section, if there is the curve section ahead in a travel direction of the host vehicle; and a changer configured to change an operating condition for a collision avoidance operation such that a first condition, which is the operating condition in a first case in which it is determined that the one lane is not inner than the other lane in the curve section, is more easily satisfied than a second condition, which is the operating condition in a second case in which it is determined that the one lane is inner than the other lane in the curve section.
US11210950B2	Determining road safety A controller for a vehicle is configured to determine a driving behaviour of a first vehicle and a second vehicle. The controller is configured to receive data relating to at least one of a flow of traffic at the given location and a geography at the given location. If the controller determines that the driving behaviour of the first vehicle and the driving behaviour of the second vehicle are similar and the controller determines that at least one of the flow of traffic at the given location departs from a normal traffic flow and the geography at the given location increases the risk of accident, then the controller is configured to issue an alert.
US11210948B2	Vehicle and notification method A vehicle includes a communication unit configured to receive identification information for notification set for a user, an outside-vehicle notification unit configured to perform notification to the surrounding of the vehicle, and a controller configured to make the outside-vehicle notification unit perform notification of the identification information for notification to the surrounding of the vehicle. The vehicle further includes a positioning unit configured to measure a position of the vehicle. The communication unit is configured to further receive a predicted boarding position of the user to the vehicle. The controller is configured to, in a case where the measured position of the vehicle is included within a predetermined range from the predicted boarding position of the user, makes the outside-vehicle notification unit perform the notification of the identification information for notification to the surrounding of the vehicle.
US11210941B2	Systems and methods for mitigating anomalies in lane change detection System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to improving detection of lane changes for an ego vehicle. In one embodiment, a method includes, in response to detecting a surrounding vehicle from sensor data acquired about the surrounding environment by the ego vehicle, estimating a relative position of the surrounding vehicle in relation to the ego vehicle. The method includes determining a context of the surrounding vehicle in relation to a present roadway on which the ego vehicle is traveling. The method includes selectively grouping the surrounding vehicle into a change group according to the context. The change group including one or more vehicles for assessing movements of the ego vehicle. The method includes analyzing relative movements of vehicles in the change group to generate an indicator of whether the ego vehicle has performed a lane change.
US11210939B2	System and method for determining a vehicle classification from GPS tracks A method and system for classifying a vehicle based on low frequency GPS tracks. The method and system comprise retrieving a low frequency GPS track having a sampling interval of at least 20 seconds; deriving additional data from the low frequency GPS track, the additional data including interval speed and instantaneous acceleration of the vehicle; extracting a plurality of data sets from the low frequency GPS track and the additional data; generating a plurality of features from the extracted data sets; and providing the plurality of generated features to a classifier that classifies the vehicle into a predetermined class.
US11210933B2	Irrigation sprinkler body cover with an integrated battery-powered decoder An apparatus comprising an irrigation sprinkler body cover with an integrated battery-powered decoder is disclosed. A method of retrofitting existing irrigation systems to wirelessly communicate with one or more of the present apparatus is also disclosed. Concerning the present method, an irrigation controller provides message data to a gateway regarding the control of irrigation valves. The gateway contains configurable encoder software that encodes and then wirelessly transmits the message data, for example via long-range radio hardware at 902-928 MHz frequency. The encoded data is received by a present apparatus to which the message is addressed. The apparatus decodes the message data and subsequently provides a power signal via wire to one or more proximally-located DC latching solenoid valves to control the irrigation valves according to the user input.
US11210932B2	Discovery of and connection to remote devices A method includes identifying remote devices, at a host device, based on received signals that indicate locations and device types for the remote devices. The method also includes identifying visible devices in images of a location and matching a first visible device to a first remote device. The first visible device is matched with the first remote device based on presence of the first visible device within a search area of the images, the search area of the images is determined based on the location for the first remote device, the first visible device is matched with the first remote device based on the device type for the first remote device, and the first visible device is matched with the first remote device based on a machine recognizable indicator that is output by the first visible device. The method also includes pairing the first remote device with the host device.
US11210921B2	Graphical user interface and networked system for managing dynamic geo-fencing for a personal compliance-monitoring device A system performs compliance control. This may include a compliance-control device displaying a map, receiving a selection of a location from the map, determining an entity associated with the selection, generating a geo-fence boundary around the selection using a library of geo-fence shapes, and determining a compliance condition with the geo-fence boundary by communicating with a compliance-monitoring device. In various examples, the compliance-monitoring device may determine and transmit a compliance condition on a first time interval. In response to a breach event, the compliance-monitoring device may determine and transmit a set of subsequent compliance conditions on a second time interval that is shorter than the first time interval. The compliance-control device may display a graphical output that corresponds to the compliance condition and one or more of the subsequent compliance conditions.
US11210917B2	Vehicle-mountable child protective device A vehicle-mountable child protective system including a vehicle door mountable device including a flag portion which is raisable to a raised position above a roof of a vehicle and a flag positioning assembly operative to selectably lock the flag portion in the raised position when the vehicle door mountable device is mounted onto a vehicle door and the vehicle door is closed, a remote controller and electronic circuitry responsive to exceedance of a separation distance between the vehicle door mountable device and the remote controller for producing a yarning alert at least at the remote controller and retaining the flag portion in the raised position until the vehicle door is opened.
US11210915B2	Item location tracking device having anti-theft function An item location tracking device having anti-theft function is provided. An item location tracking device having anti-theft function according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises: a tracker body comprising a sensing part and a communication module for transmitting information acquired through the sensing part to the outside, the sensing part including a magnetic force detecting sensor for detecting a magnetic field, and at least one state detecting sensor for detecting state information of an item; a container-shaped bracket having an insertion space into which the tracker body is inserted, and fixedly installed to an item so that the tracker body can be fixed to the item; and a permanent magnet disposed in the insertion space so that a magnetic field for detecting whether the tracker body and the bracket are separated from each other can be provided toward the magnetic force detecting sensor.
US11210906B2	Centralized mobile wagering and video presentation Disclosed herein is a system and method for administering a centralized tournament game. The centralized tournament game is facilitated by a mobile wagering sub-system that communicates with a plurality of authorized mobile devices to provide each authorized mobile device access to participate in a bingo tournament session. The system and method include video presentation sub-system communicatively coupled to the mobile wagering sub-system and a stationary monitor. The video presentation sub-system receives bingo tournament results from the mobile wagering sub-system, and generates an integrated broadcast announcement. The integrated broadcast announcement includes the bingo tournament results and commentary about the bingo tournament session. The video presentation sub-system then communicates the integrated broadcast announcement to the stationary monitor client, which displays the integrated broadcast announcement.
US11210905B2	Systems and methods for providing a multi-game bingo game A gaming machine includes a processor configured to execute instructions, which when executed, cause the processor to at least control a display device to display a first subgame and a second subgame during a multi-game bingo game, evaluate a first bingo card to determine a first outcome for the first subgame, and evaluate a second bingo card to determine a second outcome for the second subgame. The instructions also cause the processor to control the display device to display the first outcome for the first subgame and the second outcome for the second subgame, and evaluate a game ending win (GEW) bingo card to determine whether a game ending win has been achieved by a player of the electronic gaming machine, where the GEW bingo card is different from the first bingo card and the second bingo card.
US11210901B2	Gaming device with prize symbols A gaming device comprises a display, a processor, and a memory storing instructions. When the instructions are executed by the processor, the instructions cause the processor to select a plurality of symbols from each of a plurality of reel strips, wherein at least one of the plurality of reel strips comprises a designated symbol, control the display to display the selected symbols of each of the plurality of reel strips in a corresponding column of symbol positions, and evaluate the selected symbols for winning combinations. The evaluation includes upon the selected symbols including the designated symbol and a first prize symbol, awarding a first prize, and upon the selected symbols including the designated symbol and a second prize symbol, awarding a second prize.
US11210888B1	Cash counter recycling apparatus and methods Apparatus and methods relating to a counter recycling device are described. The counter recycling device may contain a receiving pocket, a counter mechanism, an escrow section, and an escrow door. The receiving pocket is configured to accept currency and is connected to the counter mechanism. The counter mechanism may be configured to count the currency inserted into the receiving pocket. The counter recycling device may also include an escrow section, which may be configured to collect and hold the currency in a secure area. Additionally, the counter recycling device may include an escrow door configured to enclose the escrow section on a face of the counter recycling device, the escrow door being transparent and allowing currency within the escrow section to be viewable when the escrow door is in a closed position.
US11210876B2	Remote device interface and telephone entry system Methods and systems for granting access to a building are disclosed. The system includes a telephone entry system associated with the building, a processor in communication with the telephone entry system, a non-transitory computer readable medium. The non-transitory computer-readable medium includes one or more programming instructions that when executed by the processor, cause the processor to receive a request including an access code for access to the building code, determine whether the access code is valid, and transmit to the telephone entry system associated with the building a sequence of dual-tone multi-frequency (DTMF) tones to cause the telephone entry system to grant access to the building in response to determining that the access code is valid.
US11210871B2	System and method for remote emissions control unit monitoring and reprogramming Disclosed are methods, systems, and apparatus for remote reprogramming of an automotive controller using J2534 communications protocol, a local device, a client device, a technician device and a system server. The local device is connected to the automotive controller and is wirelessly connected to the client device. The client device is connected to the technician device through a system server. Programming configurations, including firmware, settings, and parameter updates, are selected from a technician device, sent to the system server, and uploaded to local device using J2534 communication protocol. The client device receives reprogramming data from the system server and sends the reprogramming data to the local device.
US11210870B2	On-board diagnostic monitor planning and execution A first controller receives a diagnostic recommendation from a cloud server. A second controller, in communication with the first controller over a vehicle bus, responsive to occurrence of a vehicle condition triggering execution of an on-board diagnostic (OBD) monitor, suspends the execution of the OBD monitor while the vehicle is within a region specified by the diagnostic recommendation. Locations in diagnostic result data are correlated to identify clusters of locations that include at least a predetermined number of executions of an on-board diagnostic (OBD) monitor. Responsive to a predicted probability of success of execution of the OBD monitor for one of the clusters of locations computed using the diagnostic result data being below an enablement threshold, a message is sent to a vehicle suspending further executions of the OBD monitor at the location.
US11210865B2	Visually interacting with three dimensional data in augmented or virtual reality An apparatus includes: a memory embodying three-dimensional data and computer executable instructions; sensors detecting a movable controller in a real space; at least one processor, operative by the computer executable instructions to facilitate: mapping the three dimensional data to a virtual space; tracking a real position and orientation of the movable controller using data from the sensors; converting the real position and orientation into a virtual position and orientation relative to the three dimensional data; identifying a selected region of the three dimensional data, which is tethered to the virtual position and orientation; and rendering the three dimensional data in the virtual space, with the selected region being rendered differently from the remainder of the three dimensional data; and showing a user the rendering of the three dimensional data in the virtual space by activating a virtual or augmented reality display that is activated by the at least one processor.
US11210859B1	Computer system for forensic analysis using motion video A computer system calibrates an image from digital motion video, which originated from a camera that has a view of a scene from a period of time, with an image rendered from a three-dimensional model of the scene for a view based on a location (position and orientation) of the camera in the scene. The calibrated image from the digital motion video can be overlaid on the rendered image in a graphical user interface. The graphical user interface can allow a user to modify opacity of the overlay of the calibrated image from the digital motion video on the rendered image. The overlaid image can be used as a guide by the user to provide inputs with respect to the three-dimensional model.
US11210848B1	Machine learning model for analysis of 2D images depicting a 3D object There is provided a method for unsupervised training of a machine learning model, comprising: receiving 3D images depicting a respective object, for each respective 3D image: dividing the 3D image into 3D patches, computing a first 2D image corresponding to a first orientation of the respective object, computing a second 2D image corresponding to a second orientation, automatically labelling pairs of 2D patches from the first and second 2D images with a patch measure indicative of likelihood of a certain 3D patch of the 3D image corresponding to a certain pair of 2D patches, training the ML model using a training dataset including the labelled patch pairs, for receiving patches extracted from first and second 2D images captured by an imaging sensor at the first and second orientations, and outputting an indication of likelihood of a visual finding in a 3D region of the object corresponding to the 2D patches.
US11210830B2	System and method for associating images and text A system and method automatically associates an image and passage from a text. In the system and method, a user can choose or supply an image and the system and/or method will choose a limited selection of relevant word passages for the image from a relatively large volume of potential passages. The system and method utilize a computer system wherein a concept generator and a passage generator processes the content of the image so as to assign words to describe the content, then weight the descriptive words (tags) and assign passages based on the tags and weighting. The passages can be filtered so as to remove inappropriate passages.
US11210822B2	Display apparatus, display method, and storage medium for displaying distinct display of relative position of specific point to three-dimensional range in three dimensional coordinate system Among twelve lines indicating a 3D space (Ad) (X-axis direction lines (Xa)(Xb)(Xc)(Xd), Y-axis direction lines (Ya)(Yb)(Yc)(Yd), Z-axis direction lines (Za)(Zb)(Zc)(Zd)), display colors of red (R), green (G) and blue (B) are allocated to three lines (three-dimensional directions), i.e. an X-axis direction line (Xa), a Y-axis direction line (Ya) and a Z-axis direction line (Za), which have, as starting points, a 3D space minimum point (M) at which each of an X value, a Y value and a Z value becomes minimum, and red gradation display (Rgr), green gradation display (Ggr) and blue gradation display (Bgr) (first origin direction distinct display) are executed such that the colors become darker toward an origin (O) of the 3D space (Ad) and become lighter away from the origin (O).
US11210814B2	Three-dimensional data encoding method, three-dimensional data decoding method, three-dimensional data encoding device, and three-dimensional data decoding device A three-dimensional data encoding method includes: generating encoded data by encoding third point cloud data that is a combination of first point cloud data and second point cloud data; and generating a bitstream including the encoded data and control information. The encoded data includes a piece of geometry information and pieces of attribute information of each of three-dimensional points included in the third point cloud data. One of the pieces of attribute information includes first information indicating whether a corresponding one of the three-dimensional points belongs to the first point cloud data or the second point cloud data. The control information includes second information indicating, among the pieces of attribute information, a piece of attribute information including the first information.
US11210807B2	Optimized shadows in a foveated rendering system A method for implementing a graphics pipeline. The method includes building a first shadow map of high resolution, and building a second shadow map based on the first shadow map of lower resolution. The method includes determining a light source affecting a virtual scene, and projecting geometries of objects of an image of the virtual scene onto a plurality of pixels of a display from a first point-of-view. The method includes determining a foveal region when rendering the image, wherein the foveal region corresponds to where an attention of a user is directed. The method includes determining a first set of geometries is drawn to a first pixel, determining the first set of geometries is in shadow based on the light source, and determining the first set of geometries is outside of the foveal region. The method includes rendering the first set of geometries using the second shadow map.
US11210803B2	Method for 3D scene dense reconstruction based on monocular visual slam The present invention provides a method of dense 3D scene reconstruction based on monocular camera and belongs to the technical field of image processing and computer vision, which builds the reconstruction strategy with fusion of traditional geometry-based depth computation and convolutional neural network (CNN) based depth prediction, and formulates depth reconstruction model solved by efficient algorithm to obtain high-quality dense depth map. The system is easy to construct because of its low requirement for hardware resources and achieves dense reconstruction only depending on ubiquitous monocular cameras. Camera tracking of feature-based SLAM provides accurate pose estimation, while depth reconstruction model with fusion of sparse depth points and CNN-inferred depth achieves dense depth estimation and 3D scene reconstruction; The use of fast solver in depth reconstruction avoids solving inversion of large-scale sparse matrix, which improves running speed of the algorithm and ensures the real-time dense 3D scene reconstruction based on monocular camera.
US11210801B1	Adaptive multi-sensor data fusion method and system based on mutual information An adaptive multi-sensor data fusion method based on mutual information includes: receiving an RGB image of a road surface collected by a camera; receiving point cloud data of the road surface collected synchronously by LIDAR; preprocessing the point cloud data to obtain dense point cloud data; and inputting the RGB image and the dense point cloud data into a pre-established and well-trained fusion network, to output data fusion results. The fusion network is configured to calculate mutual information of a feature tensor and an expected feature of input data, assign fusion weights of the input data according to the mutual information, and then output the data fusion results according to the fusion weights. In the new method, such information theory tool as mutual information is introduced, to calculate the correlation between the extracted feature of the input data and the expected feature of the fusion network.
US11210796B2	Imaging method and imaging control apparatus An imaging method includes determining a target position in an imaging frame of an image capturing mechanism connected with a positioning mechanism, outputting a capturing instruction to control the image capturing mechanism to capture a scene including a human face after the target position is determined, detecting the human face from the captured scene, and outputting a control instruction to position the detected human face at the target position by moving the positioning mechanism to move the image capturing mechanism.
US11210795B2	Pedestrian flow funnel generation method and apparatus, storage medium and electronic device The disclosure relates to the technical field of data processing. Disclosed are a pedestrian flow funnel generation method and apparatus, a storage medium and an electronic device. The method can comprise: acquiring a current frame of image, and tracking and updating, according to a multi-target tracking algorithm, a head and shoulder area in a tracking sequence set in the current frame of image; acquiring, according to a head and shoulder recognition model, a head and shoulder area in the current frame of image, and updating, according to the head and shoulder area in the current frame of image, the tracking sequence set; analysing a motion track of each head and shoulder area in the tracking sequence set so as to count pedestrians, and when the current frame of image is the last frame of image, generating a pedestrian flow funnel based on a counting result of pedestrians.
US11210789B2	Diabetic retinopathy recognition system based on fundus image Some embodiments of the disclosure provide a diabetic retinopathy recognition system (S) based on fundus image. According to an embodiment, the system includes an image acquisition apparatus (1) configured to collect fundus images. The fundus images include target fundus images and reference fundus images taken from a person. The system further includes an automatic recognition apparatus (2) configured to process the fundus images from the image acquisition apparatus by using a deep learning method. The automatic recognition apparatus automatically determines whether a fundus image has a lesion and outputs the diagnostic result. According to another embodiment, the diabetic retinopathy recognition system (S) utilizes a deep learning method to automatically determine the fundus images and output the diagnostic result.
US11210786B2	Systems, methods, and devices for medical image analysis, diagnosis, risk stratification, decision making and/or disease tracking The disclosure herein relates to systems, methods, and devices for medical image analysis, diagnosis, risk stratification, decision making and/or disease tracking. In some embodiments, the systems, devices, and methods described herein are configured to analyze non-invasive medical images of a subject to automatically and/or dynamically identify one or more features, such as plaque and vessels, and/or derive one or more quantified plaque parameters, such as radiodensity, radiodensity composition, volume, radiodensity heterogeneity, geometry, location, and/or the like. In some embodiments, the systems, devices, and methods described herein are further configured to generate one or more assessments of plaque-based diseases from raw medical images using one or more of the identified features and/or quantified parameters.
US11210779B2	Detection and quantification for traumatic bleeding using dual energy computed tomography Systems and methods are provided for automatic detection and quantification for traumatic bleeding. Image data is acquired using a full body dual energy CT scanner. A machine-learned network detects one or more bleeding areas on a bleeding map from the dual energy CT scan image data. A visualization is generated from the bleeding map. The predicted bleeding areas are quantified, and a risk value is generated. The visualization and risk value are presented to an operator.
US11210766B2	Method of jitter detection and image restoration for high-resolution TDI CCD satellite images A method of jitter detection and image restoration for high-resolution TDI CCD satellite images. The method includes: obtaining a parallax image after a sub-pixel matching method relying on a correlation coefficient and least squares algorithm; transferring a jitter offset from an image space to an object space by an integral transformation function (ITF); dealing with a continuous push-broom mode of cameras in a discrete way with a denser sampling strategy according to a continue dynamic shooting model (CDSM), obtaining a specialized CDSM and feeding it back to the ITF; applying the accurate ITF to the obtained parallax image and conducting the jitter curve fitting to achieve the jitter detection; estimating a correspondent partial PSF according to the CDSM and the obtained jitter curve; carrying out an adaptive restoration based on context through optimal window Wiener filtering, by means of multiple input and single output to completes the image restoration.
US11210764B2	Apparatus for performing work on substrate An apparatus for performing work on a substrate includes an image processing device acquiring multiple images captured at different positions by performing imaging multiple times after a camera has been moved by a moving device such that a reference mark of a circuit board is within a range inside a field of view of the camera, creating a super resolution image using multi-frame super resolution processing, and recognizing the reference mark. The image processing device performs candidate region search processing of processing the image captured initially to search for a region within the image including a portion that has a possibility of being the reference mark as a candidate region after completion of the initial imaging, performs multi-frame super resolution processing on the candidate region after completion of final image capturing, creates a super resolution image of the candidate region, and recognizes the reference mark.
US11210759B2	Placement optimization for virtualized graphics processing Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for placement optimization for virtualized graphics processing are disclosed. A provider network comprises a plurality of instance locations for physical compute instances and a plurality of graphics processing unit (GPU) locations for physical GPUs. A GPU location for a physical GPU or an instance location for a physical compute instance is selected in the provider network. The GPU location or instance location is selected based at least in part on one or more placement criteria. A virtual compute instance with attached virtual GPU is provisioned. The virtual compute instance is implemented using the physical compute instance in the instance location, and the virtual GPU is implemented using the physical GPU in the GPU location. The physical GPU is accessible to the physical compute instance over a network. An application is executed using the virtual GPU on the virtual compute instance.
US11210749B2	Power management apparatus, power management system, power management method, and non-transitory storage medium The present invention provides a power management apparatus (10) including a request acquisition unit (12) that acquires a power consumption request specifying a power amount to be consumed, a time period during which power is consumed, and a power sales price P, a consumer information acquisition unit (11) that acquires consumer information including a power sales price for each time period of a power retailer selling power to each of a plurality of power consumers and specification information of a power storage system of each of the plurality of power consumers, and a determination unit (13) that determines a charging and discharging schedule of the power storage system of each power consumer on the basis of the consumer information and the power consumption request.
US11210741B1	Automated methods of inspection Methods and systems for providing automated methods of inspections that facilitate loss reporting and resolution are described. In some embodiments various remote evaluation tools are provided to collect information from remote locations. This information can be used to generate automated damage estimates which in turn can be used to direct the ordering of supplies, materials, and other resources. In addition, pre-damage and post-damage evaluations of an insured property may be collected using the remote evaluation tools. These evaluations can be used by adjusters (human adjusters and computer-based adjusters) to identify damage and process claims more efficiently.
US11210740B1	Systems and methods to quantify and differentiate individual insurance risk based on actual driving behavior and driving environment The present disclosure generally relates to systems and methods for generating data representative of an individual's insurance risk based on actual driving behaviors and driving environment. The systems and methods may include collecting data from personal electronic device sensors, vehicle sensors, driver inputs, environment sensors and interactions of the vehicle, the driver and the environment. The systems and methods may further include analyzing the data to generate data representative of an individual insurance risk. The systems and methods may further include presenting the data representative of the individual insurance risk to an individual.
US11210738B2	Systems and methods for using secondary market for primary creation and redemption activity in securities Systems and methods for transforming an electronic portfolio. A system includes an electronic crossing platform that receives data defining trade orders of the electronic portfolio during an initial time period; compares portions of the data to determine an imbalance of the trade orders remaining after the initial time period and receives, during a final time period, a final trade order from a fund agent device to offset the remaining imbalance. The platform receives, after the final time period, a benchmark value of the electronic portfolio from a fund device; compares the final trade order with the remaining imbalance to determine an adjustment value; converts the benchmark value to a final value by applying the adjustment value to the benchmark value; and transforms the electronic portfolio into the transformed portfolio by creating paired buy and sell orders among the trade orders received during the initial time period at the final value.
US11210729B2	Systems and methods for providing a customized webpage interface According to one aspect, embodiments of the invention provide a method for administering a virtual gift card, the method comprising acts of receiving a request from a server of a retailer, providing, in response to the request, an interface to a terminal operated by a purchaser, the interface comprising fields for receiving a value and a recipient for the virtual gift card, receiving from the terminal, in response to input from the purchaser, the value and the recipient for the virtual gift card, generating a code for the virtual gift card, and sending a message to the recipient of the virtual gift card, the message including the code for the virtual gift card.
US11210728B2	Systems and methods for searching retail products and locations using a universal search bar In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to searching retail products for purchase and locations of physical retail stores. In some embodiments, there is provided a system for searching both retail products for purchase and locations of physical retail stores including a user interface; a memory device; one or more databases; a universal search bar cooperatively operating with the user interface to provide a single search tool for a customer to search the one or more databases storing at least retail product inventories and a plurality of retail locations; and a control circuit configured to: receive a communication signal; autonomously determine a first term associated with the customer; and initiate entry of the first term in the universal search bar to automatically suggest a search term, thereby prompting customer engagement on the user interface.
US11210725B2	Determining pricing information from merchant data A service provider may receive item price information and/or point of sale (POS) transaction information from a plurality of merchant devices associated with a plurality of merchants. The service provider may categorize the plurality of merchants according to the types of items offered by the respective merchants, and may further categorize the merchants according to the locations at which they conduct business. The service provider may subsequently determine a price recommendation or other pricing information for a particular item offered by a particular merchant. A merchant device of the particular merchant may present the pricing information in a user interface that enables the merchant to view projected sales at various different price points. Further, the merchant may be able to specify one or more factors used for determining the recommend price, such as a desired business model, a desired clientele, a desired profit margin, or the like.
US11210716B2	Predicting a status of a transaction Methods, systems, and apparatus for predicting a status of a transaction are described. Feature data related to one or more transactions is collected and a subset of features is selected for use in predicting the status of the transaction. A model is trained using the collected feature data that corresponds to the selected features, and the model is applied to feature data of a selected transaction to generate a probability of the selected transaction attaining one or more defined statuses. Mitigating or preventive actions are performed based on the generated probability.
US11210713B2	Value-based data reputation management in data marketplace environment Techniques for value-based data reputation management in a data marketplace environment are provided. For example, a method comprises the following steps. In a data marketplace environment with at least one data producer and at least one data consumer, an electronic data storage area is established, by one of the data producer and the data consumer, for receiving and storing feedback data from the other of the data producer and the data consumer. The feedback data relates to a transaction between the data producer and the data consumer with respect to a given data set.
US11210700B2	Method and apparatus for managing advertisements Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method including receiving advertisements from a remote advertising content provider and pre-loading the advertisements at a communication device. An advertisement is selected for presentation at a presentation device, based on a user's advertising viewing history, the duration of the advertisement, the device location, the device environment, the user's demographic profile, or the user's activities. The presentation device presents the advertisement responsive to the trigger message. The effectiveness of the advertisement is determined, and the advertisement viewing history is updated; the advertisement is selected based in part on the effectiveness of a past presentation of the advertisement. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11210698B2	Systems and methods for automated mass media commerce Systems and methods for implementing point of advertising purchasing include using mass media publications configured for or containing service, product or vendor transmittable signals, such as from radio frequency identification tags. In a preferred arrangement, a consumer perceiving an advertisement of the mass media publication may activate a reader in a portable communications device, such as a smart mobile or cellular phone, to receive information from the radio frequency signal associated with the advertisement to identify a vendor, product or service associated with the radio frequency identification. The smart mobile phone or communications device of the consumer may communicate with a system of a vendor or vendors by way of a commerce data organization system across a network to order a product or product information from a system of the vendor over the network by using the information from the radio frequency identification.
US11210686B2	Management device, management method, and storage medium A management device includes a manager that is configured to manage information related to a price of securities, which is obtained by securitizing a part of a monetary value of a secondary battery provided to a user, a price assessor that is configured to access the price of the securities, and a provider that is configured to provide the price of the securities assessed by the price assessor.
US11210684B1	Accurately estimating causal effects for related events Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for accurately estimating causal effects for related events are disclosed. A plurality of estimates of causal effects of events are determined. The estimates are determined independently. A subset of the estimates are determined not to satisfy a relationship among the causal effects. A set of accurate estimates are generated based at least in part on the subset of the estimates. The accurate estimates are generated using a smoothing process, and the accurate estimates satisfy the relationship.
US11210679B2	Authentication of packaged products Methods are provided for producing an authenticated packaged product. A digital signature, dependent on unique message data for the product, is generated via a digital signature scheme using a secret signing key. The message data is provided on at least one of the product and packaging. The digital signature is provided on the other of the product and packaging, and the product is packed in the packaging. The digital signature can be generated via a fuzzy-message digital signature scheme having a verification algorithm for verifying the digital signature in relation to fuzzy data within a predetermined difference measure of the message data. Methods and systems for authenticating such packaged products are also provided.
US11210677B2	Measuring the effectiveness of individual customer representative responses in historical chat transcripts A method, computer system, and a computer program product for response effectiveness is provided. The present invention may include receiving a chat transcript. The present invention may include separating the chat transcript into a set of triplets, the set including two or more triplets. The present invention may include tagging each triplet in the set of triplets with one or more tags, wherein the one or more tags includes an intent, an entity, and a sentiment. The present invention may include generating at least one multi-dimensional success vector. The present invention may include aggregating the generated multi-dimensional success vectors to determine an overall satisfaction.
US11210671B2	User controlled event record system A user controlled mobile device for use in countering phantom billing fraud in connection with receiving health care services includes one or more components capturing and outputting biometric data and location data, a processor configured to determine a confidence score, and a data storage device holding an event record created without explicit user intervention indicating whether the particular user was at the particular location, the event record including the confidence score, a timestamp corresponding to events at or near a time of the timestamp including a time of capture of the biometric and location data, the biometric data and location data, where the stored event record serves as the personal audit trail evidencing an existence or absence of phantom billing.
US11210665B2	Managing customer uniqueness in tokenised systems According to one aspect there is provided a method comprising a secondary payment device: receiving a device primary account number (DPAN) and a funding source proxy (FSP) derived from a funding primary account number (FPAN) of a funding source according to a predetermined algorithm; and transmitting a secondary payment device transaction request comprising said DPAN and said FSP to a payment terminal. According to another aspect there is provided a method comprising a payment terminal: receiving a secondary payment device transaction request comprising a device primary account number (DPAN) and a funding source proxy (FSP) derived from a funding primary account number (FPAN) of a funding source according to a predetermined algorithm; responsive thereto, determining that the FSP is not present on a deny list stored at the payment terminal; and responsive thereto, authorizing said secondary payment device transaction request.
US11210656B2	Determining specific terms for contactless card activation Systems, methods, articles of manufacture, and computer-readable media for determining specific terms to activate a contactless card. An application executing on a server may receive a request from a device specifying a uniform resource locator comprising encrypted data, the encrypted data based at least in part on a private key assigned to a contactless card. The application may decrypt the encrypted data and determine a type of the contactless card. The application may determine a plurality of terms associated with the type of the contactless card and transmit the terms to a web browser on the device. The application may receive, from the web browser, an indication specifying acceptance of the plurality of terms. The application may store, based on the decryption of the encrypted data and the received indication specifying acceptance of the terms, an indication in a database specifying the contactless card is activated for use.
US11210652B2	Systems and methods for processing purchase transactions using a mobile device Systems and methods are provided for enabling an ecommerce purchase transaction on a mobile device without requiring a user to enter payment card information during each transaction. A payment card token may be generated by the mobile payment application in response to receiving payment card information associated with a payment card. A unique user code associated with the payment card token may be generated. A payment card token may be communicated via a magnetic stripe reader communicatively coupled to the mobile device. The ecommerce purchase transaction may be completed by sending the payment card token from the mobile device to an online merchant upon entering the requisite unique user code.
US11210646B2	Product management apparatus and product management method by product management apparatus According to an embodiment, a product management apparatus specifies a to-be-purchased product. The product management apparatus measures, where the specified product is a time-sensitive product, an elapsed time since the to-be-purchased product has been specified. The product management apparatus issues a notification in accordance with the measured elapsed time.
US11210627B1	Monitoring vehicle activity and communicating insights from vehicles at an automobile dealership An apparatus for managing information regarding an inventory of vehicles on an automobile dealership lot includes vehicle tracking devices installed in the vehicles. The tracking devices utilize a GPS receiver for generating vehicle location data and an accelerometer for generating vehicle motion data. Data from the vehicle tracking devices are received by a central server that uses the data to determine whether a vehicle is on a test drive, the identity of a salesperson who is with the vehicle, and the estimated time that the vehicle will return to the dealership. Preferred embodiments establish a geofence around the dealership location, detect when vehicles exit and reenter the geofence, and communicate the exit/return events back to the central server. The central server communicates the information to smartphones of dealership personnel to indicate availability of a particular vehicle. Some embodiments also aggregate the information from multiple sensors to report on key metrics for optimizing dealer sales performance.
US11210606B1	Optimization of investigator and site location identification A computer-implemented method includes a machine learning system receiving distinct types of data associated with multiple individual entities. For each of the individual entities, the machine learning system determines a first attribute that indicates a predicted attribute of the entity based on analysis of the data. The machine learning system also determines a second attribute that indicates a predicted quality attribute of the entity, based on analysis of the data. An attribute weighting module of the machine learning system generates weight values for each of the first attribute and the second attribute of the entity. The machine learning system generates a data structure that identifies a set of entities from among the multiple individual entities, where entities of the set are ranked based on a tier indicator that corresponds to either the first attribute, the second attribute, or both.
US11210605B1	Dataset suitability check for machine learning A processing device receives a dataset comprising a plurality of data points, wherein each data point of the plurality of data points comprises a representative vector for the data point and an associated classification for the data point. The processing device determines, for the dataset, a score representative of a degree of clustering of the plurality of data points. The processing device determines a suitability of the dataset for use in machine learning based on the score.
US11210594B1	Processor compiler A system receives a predictive model and receives one or more runtime constraints. The system generates a directed acyclic graph (DAG) of the predictive model indicating dependencies. The system compiles the predictive model into first instructions for a first processor based on the one or more runtime constraints and the DAG. The system packages first instructions, the one or more runtime constraints, and the DAG of the predictive model in a first binary. The system recompiles the predictive model into second instructions for a second processor based on the runtime constraints and the DAG stored in the first processor. The system packages the second instructions, the DAG, and the runtime constraints in a second binary.
US11210582B2	Neuromorphic device having a plurality of synapse blocks sharing a common logic element A neuromorphic device is disclosed. The neuromorphic device may include an input element; a synapse element having a plurality of synapse blocks; a logic element; and an output element. The plurality of synapse blocks may share the logic element.
US11210574B2	Printing apparatus and printing method A printing apparatus includes: a mechanism transporting a print medium; a first sensor outputting a signal indicating the presence or absence of a first mark; a first determining unit determining, on a first surface, a position of a second mark and a print position of an image based on the output signal; a first print head printing the second mark and the image at the determined print positions; a second sensor outputting a signal indicating the presence or absence of the first and second marks; a second determining unit locating a position of a predetermined one of the first and second marks, based on the signal output from the second sensor, and determines, on a second surface of the print medium, a print position of a target image based on the located position of the predetermined mark; and a second print head printing the target image at the determined print position.
US11210570B2	Methods, systems and media for joint manifold learning based heterogenous sensor data fusion The present disclosure provides a method for joint manifold learning based heterogenous sensor data fusion, comprising: obtaining learning heterogeneous sensor data from a plurality sensors to form a joint manifold, wherein the plurality sensors include different types of sensors that detect different characteristics of targeting objects; performing, using a hardware processor, a plurality of manifold learning algorithms to process the joint manifold to obtain raw manifold learning results, wherein a dimension of the manifold learning results is less than a dimension of the joint manifold; processing the raw manifold learning results to obtain intrinsic parameters of the targeting objects; evaluating the multiple manifold learning algorithms based on the raw manifold learning results and the intrinsic parameters to determine one or more optimum manifold learning algorithms; and applying the one or more optimum manifold learning algorithms to fuse heterogeneous sensor data generated by the plurality sensors.
US11210562B2	Machine learning based models for object recognition Machine learning based models recognize objects in images. Specific features of the object are extracted from the image using machine learning based models. The specific features extracted from the image assist deep learning based models in identifying subtypes of a type of object. The system recognizes the objects and collections of objects and determines whether the arrangement of objects violates any predetermined policies. For example, a policy may specify relative positions of different types of objects, height above ground at which certain types of objects are placed, or an expected number of certain types of objects in a collection.
US11210554B2	Artificial intelligence-based generation of sequencing metadata The technology disclosed uses neural networks to determine analyte metadata by (i) processing input image data derived from a sequence of image sets through a neural network and generating an alternative representation of the input image data, the input image data has an array of units that depicts analytes and their surrounding background, (ii) processing the alternative representation through an output layer and generating an output value for each unit in the array, (iii) thresholding output values of the units and classifying a first subset of the units as background units depicting the surrounding background, and (iv) locating peaks in the output values of the units and classifying a second subset of the units as center units containing centers of the analytes.
US11210550B2	Image-based feature detection using edge vectors Techniques are provided in which a plurality of edges are detected within a digital image. An anchor point located along an edge of the plurality of edges is selected. An analysis grid associated with the anchor point is generated, the analysis grid including a plurality of cells. An anchor point normal vector comprising a normal vector of the edge at the anchor point is calculated. Edge pixel normal vectors comprising normal vectors of the edge at locations along the edge within the cells of the analysis grid are calculated. A histogram of similarity is generated for each of one or more cells of the analysis grid, each histogram of similarity being based on a similarity measure between each of the edge pixel normal vectors within a cell and the anchor point normal vector, and a descriptor is generated for the analysis grid based on the histograms of similarity.
US11210548B2	Railroad track recognition device, program, and railroad track recognition method A railroad track recognition apparatus has an index calculating unit, an initial searching unit, a secondary searching unit, and a railroad track recognizing unit. The index calculating unit calculates an index value, for each pixel or pixel group of a captured image. The initial searching unit selects a line segment, having a larger evaluation value obtained from the index values, from a plurality of line segments in a first search area, and the secondary searching unit selects a line segment, having a larger evaluation value obtained from the index values, from a second area or a third area. The railroad track recognizing unit recognizes a railroad track based on reference points of the line segments selected by the initial and secondary searching units.
US11210543B1	System and method for dynamic thresholding for multiple result image cross correlation The present disclosure relates to a computer-implemented system and method for finding matching occurrences of an item of interest (or image or sub-image) within a document (or larger image) via cross correlation and setting a dynamic threshold for each document (or larger image). The described system and method are capable of matching and locating the one or more items of interest within each specific document (or larger image).
US11210542B2	Capturing digital images of documents Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for obtaining, in real-time from an image capture device, a video stream comprising images of a document by a computing device. The computing device provides, for display in an image preview window, the video stream overlaid with a graphical capture guide. In response to detecting a lighting artifact in at least one image of the video stream, the computing device modifies the graphical capture guide within the image preview window. The computing device captures one or more of the images of the document from the video stream.
US11210541B2	Liveness detection method, apparatus and computer-readable storage medium A liveness detection method includes: controlling a display screen to display a color according to a predetermined color display sequence, the color display sequence including at least two different colors; capturing an image of a target object in a color display process of the display screen; acquiring a color change sequence of a face of the target object in the image over time; and determining whether the target object is live based on a matching relationship between the color display sequence and the color change sequence.
US11210539B2	Detection and monitoring of active optical retroreflectors A system of detecting vehicle components in operation in a vehicle includes at least one light source configured to emit a predetermined wavelength of light onto structures within the vehicle, wherein at least one of the structures may include a passenger seat belt assembly having a pattern of reflection and retroreflective surfaces tuned to a predetermined wavelength at a preferred luminance. At least one 3-D time of flight camera is positioned in the vehicle to receive reflected light from the structures in the vehicle and provide images of the structures that distinguish the preferred luminance of the pattern from other structures in the vehicle. A computer processor connected to computer memory and the camera includes computer readable instructions causing the processor to reconstruct 3-D information in regard to respective images of the structures and calculate a depth measurement of the distance of the reflective pattern on the passenger seat belt assembly from the camera.
US11210527B2	Target object identifying device, target object identifying method and target object identifying program Monitoring target matching means 71 matches monitoring targets shown in video captured by one or more imaging devices, and identifies monitoring targets estimated to be the same monitoring target, as an identified monitoring target. Target object identifying means 72 identifies a desired target object from one or more identified monitoring targets captured, using imaging times of each of the one or more identified monitoring targets.
US11210522B2	Sample extraction method and device targeting video classification problem A sample extraction method targeting a video classification problem includes acquiring video data, parsing the video data to obtain a plurality of consecutive single-frame images corresponding to the video data, and extracting feature images from the plurality of consecutive single-frame images to compose samples, where the feature images are used to summarize content information of the video data, and the samples do not contain redundant image data.
US11210513B2	Detection method and detection device A computer-implemented detection method includes, in response to inputting a first image including a region of one or more objects to a learned model, identifying a first entire image corresponding to entirety of a first object as a detection candidate, the learned model being generated by learning training data including an image corresponding to a part of an object and an entire image corresponding to entirety of the object, detecting an existing region of the first target object in the first image in accordance with a comparison between the identified first entire image and the region of the one or more target objects, and determining, based on a specific image obtained by invalidating the existing region in the first image, whether another target object is included in the first image.
US11210511B2	Evaluating image-text consistency without reference Embodiments describing an approach to evaluate text and image consistency. Receiving one or more images. Receiving one or more text documents. Identifying relevant text in the one or more text documents. Determining the consistency between the one or more images and the one or more text documents. Creating one or more image and text consistency scores based on the determined consistency between the one or more images and the one or more text documents, and outputting the one or more image and text consistency scores for evaluating text and image consistency.
US11210506B2	Information processing apparatus and non-transitory computer readable medium An information processing apparatus includes first and second display controllers and a receiver. The first display controller performs control to display a first character recognition result. The first character recognition result is a character recognition result of a first element. The first element and a second element have a specific dependency relationship and are included in a form. The receiver receives a checking/correcting result of checking and/or correcting the first character recognition result. The second display controller performs control to display information that the checking/correcting result and a second character recognition result, which is a character recognition result of the second element, do not satisfy the dependency relationship if the checking/correcting result and the second character recognition result do not satisfy the dependency relationship.
US11210503B2	Systems and methods for facial representation Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media can align face images, classify face images, and verify face images by employing a deep neural network (DNN). A 3D-aligned face image can be generated from a 2D face image. An identity of the 2D face image can be classified based on provision of the 3D-aligned face image to the DNN. The identity of the 2D face image can comprise a feature vector.
US11210502B2	Comparison method and apparatus based on a plurality of face image frames and electronic device Implementations of the present specification disclose a comparison method and apparatus based on a plurality of face image frames and an electronic device. The method includes: obtaining a plurality of face image frames of a target object; selecting a first face image with a highest quality score from the plurality of face image frames, and adding the first face image to a candidate image set; in response to that a number of images in the candidate image set is less than a predetermined value, iteratively selecting, from the plurality of face image frames, a second face image that has a maximum average difference from all face images in the candidate image set in a predetermined parameter, to add the second face image to the candidate image set; and comparing the face images in the candidate image set with a stored face image of the target object.
US11210497B2	Occupant modeling device, occupant modeling method, and occupant modeling program An occupant modeling device includes: an acquisition section acquiring an image by imaging a region where there is a probability that a face of an occupant is present; a model fitting section generating a model of the face based on a first image acquired by the acquisition section; a tracking section adapting the model to a second image acquired after the first image; a determination section determining correctness of a facial part position included in the second image to which the model is adapted, by using learned information obtained through learning based on correct information and incorrect information regarding the facial part position; and a processing section determining whether a process in the tracking section is to be continuously executed or a process in the model fitting section is to be executed again according to a determination result in the determination section.
US11210496B2	Collation system A collation system of the present invention includes an imaging means for acquiring a captured image of a pre-passage side area with respect to a gate, a collation means for performing a collation process between a previously registered target and a target in the captured image, and a determination means for determining propriety of passage of the target with respect to the gate, on the basis of a result of the collation process. The collation means initiates the collation process on the basis of a condition, set to each area of the captured image, for the target located in the area.
US11210486B2	System and method for producing micro scale optical codes on jewelry and gemstones and scanning micro scale optical codes thereof for digital personalization According to the present disclosure, methods and systems for producing a microscale optical code on a precious object and reading the microscale optical code are disclosed. The method comprises the steps of providing an object, providing at least one marking unit, inscribing an array of micro-indents or micro-holes on the at least one surface of the object using at least one marking unit and generating a two-dimensional data matrix with the array of micro-indents or micro-holes. The two-dimensional data matrix has a plurality of rows and columns. The method further comprises generating a microscale optical code comprising the two-dimensional data matrix and additional four corners. The two-dimensional data matrix represents a binary code matrix of number 1 and 0 in the plurality of rows and columns with each micro-indent or micro-hole forming the binary number 1 and spot with no indent or hole forming binary number 0.
US11210484B1	Systems and methods for creating machine vision jobs including barcode scanning Methods for creating a machine vision job including barcode scanning are disclosed. An example method may be performed by one or more processors and includes detecting a first configuration of a barcode scanning tool including settings of the barcode scanning tool, wherein the first configuration, when executed by a first imaging device operating in a fixed scanning mode, causes the first imaging device to execute the barcode scanning tool in accordance with the settings. The method also includes upgrading the first configuration to a second configuration of the barcode scanning tool, wherein the second configuration, when executed by a second imaging device operating in a machine vision mode, causes the second imaging device to execute the barcode scanning tool in accordance with the settings. The method further includes displaying a user-selectable option to add the barcode scanning tool configured in accordance with the second configuration to the machine vision job.
US11210483B2	Method, apparatus, and system for characterizing an optical system Techniques for characterizing an optical system (for example, a printer verifier) are provided. In this regard, the optical system may be characterized for scanning a printed image. The characterization of the optical system includes determining an effective aperture size of the optical system, and correspondingly an effective resolution at which the optical system can be configured to scan a portion of the printed image according to verification requirements.
US11210469B2	Method, apparatus for event detection, device and storage medium A method and an apparatus for event detection, a device, and a storage medium. An event is formed by acquiring a plurality of texts including a target keyword; extracting phrases independently describing event information from titles of the plurality of texts; and clustering the extracted phrases and gathering texts where phrases belonging to a same cluster are located to form an event. The accuracy of the event detection and the recall rate for an event can be improved through the method provided by embodiments of the present application.
US11210462B1	Voice input processing Systems and methods are described for processing voice input to detect and remove voice recognition errors in the context of a product attribute query. Spoken-word input may be processed to tentatively identify a query regarding a product and an attribute. A hierarchical product catalog is then used to identify categories that include the identified product, and an affinity score is determined for each category to indicate the relative strength of the relationship between the category and the attribute. The affinity score for each category is determined based on historical questions submitted to a question and answer service with regard to other products in the category. An affinity score for the product-attribute pairing is then determined based on a weighted average of the affinity scores for the product categories, and the affinity score is used to determine whether the question is valid and the voice input has been correctly processed.
US11210458B2	Device, method, and graphical user interface for editing screenshot images An electronic device: displays a first portion of content within an application interface; detects a screenshot capture input; and, in response to detecting the screenshot capture input: captures a screenshot image of the first portion of the content; and displays a screenshot editing interface that includes the screenshot image of the first portion of the content within an image area and expansion affordances provided to expand the screenshot image. The electronic device also: while displaying the screenshot editing interface, detects an expansion input that corresponds to expanding the screenshot image in one or more dimensions; and, in response to detecting the expansion input, modifies the screenshot image by displaying a second portion of the content within the image area in addition to the first portion of the content, where the second portion of the content was not displayed before detecting the screenshot capture input.
US11210448B1	Mitigating timing yield loss due to high-sigma rare-event process variation Embodiments provide for mitigating parametric yield loss of an integrated circuit (IC) design. In certain embodiments, a delay distribution associated with at least one cell disposed in the design is determined. A pin slack distribution associated with paths in which the at least one cell is disposed is determined. A residual distribution is determined based at least in part on the delay distribution and the pin slack distribution. Yield loss associated with the at least one cell is determined based at least in part on the delay distribution and the residual distribution. When it is determined that that the yield loss associated with the at least one cell exceeds a yield loss threshold, the at least one cell may be identified as a candidate for replacement with a replacement cell.
US11210442B2	Systems and methods for network optimization in a distributed big data environment Systems and methods for network optimization in a distributed big data environment are provided. According to an aspect of the invention, a processor performs an optimization method by dividing a data set into a plurality of partitions. For each of the partitions, the processor generates a mathematical representation of a model by associating input data with elements of the model, wherein the mathematical representation includes an objective and at least one constraint. The processor forms a master objective by combining the objectives for the partitions, and forms a set of master constraints by combining the constraints for the partitions. The processor then generates an optimized solution based on the master objective and the master constraints.
US11210440B1	Systems and methods for RLGC extraction based on parallelized left-looking incomplete inverse fast multipole operations Machine assisted systems and methods for use in a solver are described. These systems and methods can use the solver to perform a setup phase, based on left-looking incomplete inverse fast multipole (LL-IFMM) operation on matrix A, and perform a solve phase for calculating a matrix-vector product for the matrix A based on a forward and backward substitution (FBS) method. The parallelization of the setup phase and the solve phase based on an elimination tree method. The parallelization of the setup phase and the solve phase being implemented using hybrid scheduling. The solver, once implemented, can provide timely solutions for ill-conditioned problems, such as circuits with thin conductors. The solver can also enhance a parasitic extractor accuracy when solving problems with a very large number of right-hand sides (RHS).
US11210434B2	Fault isolation A system includes an input/output interface, a processor, and a non-transitory computer-readable medium having instructions stored thereon. The instructions, when executed, cause the processor to receive a fault code, display on the input/output interface a first component of an aircraft that is associated with the fault code, upon selection by a user of a first hyperlink associated with the first component, display a physical layout of the aircraft in which the first component is indicated, and upon selection by the user of a second hyperlink associated with the first component, display a first wiring diagram of the aircraft in which the first component is indicated.
US11210431B2	Securely entering sensitive information using a touch screen device In some examples, a computing device may determine, based on sensor data, that the computing device is in a public environment. In response, the computing device may display an entry wheel to enable a user to enter a password. The entry wheel may include multiple input symbols arranged equidistant around a circle. In some cases, one or more geometric patterns linking a portion of the input symbols may be displayed. After receiving an individual character of the password, the computing device may display the entry wheel rotated a number of positions in either a clockwise or counter-clockwise direction and display zero or more of the geometric patterns. After all the characters of the password have been received, the computing device may determine if the password matches a previously stored password. If the password matches, the computing device may transition from a low power state to an active state.
US11210430B2	System and method to negotiate encryption responsibilities between an encryption capable controller and a self encrypting drive A system includes a storage device having a first encryption protocol, and a controller having a second encryption protocol. A processor implements the first encryption protocol or the second encryption protocol based on a strength of each encryption protocol, a topology of the system, a federal information processing standard certification status, a virtualization support, a multi-key support, a multi-band support, and an enterprise key management server support. Storage transactions may be encrypted using the implemented encryption protocol.
US11210416B2	System and method for maintaining graphs having a policy engine and blockchain Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a processing system including a processor and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of operations. The operations include: identifying a set of one or more graphs in a blockchain ledger, wherein each graph of the set of one or more graphs comprises a set of one or more nodes and a graph permission level, wherein each node in the set of one or more nodes comprises a unique identifier, a node permission level, data and zero or more edges, wherein each edge in the zero or more edges defines a relationship between the node and another node in the set of one or more nodes, wherein the node permission level defines a prerequisite to access the data, the node permission level, or the zero or more edges, and wherein the graph permission level defines a prerequisite to access the set of one or more nodes; receiving a request from equipment utilized by a user to access first data in one or more nodes in a first graph, comparing a user permission of the user to a first permission level of the first graph to ensure that the user permission meets or exceeds the first permission level; applying rules of a rules engine to ensure that the user permission meets or exceeds a second permission level defined by the rules; and providing security keys to the equipment utilized by the user responsive to the user permission meeting or exceeding the first permission level and the second permission level, wherein the security keys provide access to the first data. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11210415B2	Data sharing in a multi-tenant database system A method for sharing data in a multi-tenant database includes receiving, by a target account of a multiple tenant database, access rights of a share object in a first account of the multiple tenant database, wherein the share object having access rights to a database object of the first account and wherein access to the database object of the first account by the target account is based on the access rights of the share object. The method also includes receiving, by one or more processors of the target account, access rights to an alias object, wherein the alias object references the database object of the first account.
US11210411B2	Data transmission method and apparatus in tee systems Examples of a data transmission method and apparatus in TEE systems are described. One example of the method includes: obtaining first data; obtaining a write offset address by reading a first address; obtaining a read offset address by reading a second address; determining whether the number of bytes in the first data is less than or equal to the number of writable bytes, where the number of writable bytes is determined based on the write offset address and the read offset address, and each address corresponds to one byte; when the number of bytes in the first data is less than or equal to the number of writable bytes, writing the first data into third addresses starting from the write offset address; and updating the write offset address in the first address.
US11210394B2	Anomaly based malware detection In one respect, there is provided a system for training a neural network adapted for classifying one or more scripts. The system may include at least one processor and at least one memory. The memory may include program code that provides operations when executed by the at least one processor. The operations may include: reducing a dimensionality of a plurality of features representative of a file set; determining, based at least on a reduced dimensional representation of the file set, a distance between a file and the file set; and determining, based at least on the distance between the file and the file set, a classification for the file. Related methods and articles of manufacture, including computer program products, are also provided.
US11210393B2	Context data control A technology for mutually isolating accessors of a shared electronic device from leakage of context data after a context switch comprises: on making the shared electronic device available to the plurality of accessors, establishing a portion of storage as an indicator location for the shared electronic device; when a first accessor requests use of the shared electronic device, writing at least one device-reset-required indicator to the indicator location; on switching context to a new context, after context save, when a second accessor requests use of the shared electronic device, resetting context data of the shared electronic device to a known state and reconciling the first device-reset-required indicator and a second device-reset-required indicator for the new context.
US11210391B2	Application-level sandboxing on devices Execution of an application in an application-level sandbox is disclosed. A request to launch an application is received by an operating system executing on a device. A determination is made that a stored copy of the application should be executed within an application-level sandbox. The stored copy of the application is executed in the application-level sandbox.
US11210387B2	Detecting and preventing unauthorized credential change Techniques include securely maintaining data associated with a plurality of authentication credentials; generating, as a function of the data associated with a selected group of the plurality of authentication credentials, a secret data element; making available, the secret data element, to be embedded in a first authentication credential; identifying an attempt to change the first authentication credential, the attempt including new authentication credential data to replace data in the first authentication credential; validating, conditional on whether the new authentication credential data includes the secret data element, the new authentication credential data; and determining, based on the validating, whether to perform a control action based on the new authentication credential data.
US11210382B1	Quick-logon for computing device Methods and systems for verifying a user's identity on a computing device using two-factor authentication are described. More particularly, the system can use a personal identification number input by a user, together with one or more of a secure browsing feature, a device fingerprint, and a token generator to authenticate the user on the computer.
US11210379B1	Virtual notarization using cryptographic techniques and biometric information Methods and systems described in this disclosure electronically notarize a document. The system can receive biometric information from a user, extract characteristics from the biometric information, and compare the characteristics of the biometric information with previously stored characteristics of the user's biometric information. When the characteristics of the biometric information match the previously stored characteristics to a threshold, the system can create an identity of the user using the characteristics of the biometric information. The system can send a document to the user for cryptographic signature and receive an indication that the document has been signed. The cryptographic signature can be generated with a digest of the document, the identity, and a cryptographic key associated with the user. The system can inspect the digest of the document, the cryptographic key, and the identity associated with the document to verify authenticity of the document and the identity of the user.
US11210372B2	Method and system for verifying ownership of a digital asset using a distributed hash table and a peer-to-peer distributed ledger A computer-implemented method (600) and system (1) for verifying ownership of a computer software for installation using a distributed hash table (13) and a peer-to-peer distributed ledger (14). This may be the Bitcoin blockchain or an alternative blockchain implementation. The method includes determining (610) a second user public key associated with a second user (24) from a transaction record stored on the peer-to-peer distributed ledger (14). A second public key associated with the second user may be determined (620) from an entry on the distributed hash table (13). The method further includes comparing (630) the second user public key and the second public key, and verifying (640) the ownership of the computer software based on the comparing of the second user public key and the second public key.
US11210354B1	Intelligent, adaptive electronic procurement systems An improved electronic procurement system is disclosed. The electronic procurement system implements features such as real-time adaptive navigation. An Adaptive Navigation interface is suitable for a federated universal search environment in e-procurement. The system is configured to learn from past online browsing or transaction in a community and cause a display of specific information to a user navigating a website based on the profile and current search activity of the user.
US11210352B2	Automatic check of search configuration changes The invention relates to a method for automatically checking configuration changes intended to be applied to a search configuration. of a search engine of a search service. The method comprises creating a test search configuration, which comprises a copy of the search configuration. The intended configuration changes are applied to the copy of the search configuration. A set of sample documents and a set of test search queries are provided. The test search queries are executed on the set of sample documents using the test search configuration and performance indicators are determined for the execution. If the performance indicators satisfy a predefined criterion, the intended configuration changes are accepted for application to the search configuration.
US11210350B2	Automated assistance for generating relevant and valuable search results for an entity of interest Systems and methods are provided for identifying relevant information for an entity, referred to as a seed entity. A plurality of search queries can be generated each comprising a property of a seed entity or one of the entities associated with the seed entity (seed-linked entities). Preferably, a collection of search queries includes ones representing different properties of the seed entity and properties of different seed-linked entities. Optionally, the collection of search queries is optimized to reduce search burden. Searches can then be conducted with the search queries in one or more data sources to obtain a plurality of search results, wherein each search result comprises a hit entity and one or more entities associated with the hit entity (hit-linked entity). For each of the search results, a score can be determined taking as input (a) likelihood of match between the seed entity and the hit entity or between a seed-linked entity and a hit-linked entity, (b) presence of a new entity in the search result not present in the search queries or a difference between the new entity and an entity present in the search queries, and (c) characteristic of the new entity in the search result. Based on the scores, high priority search results can be presented a user for further analysis.
US11210339B1	Transient contextual music streaming Systems and methods for creating and providing transient contextual queues of music through a music service may include (1) providing a user of a device with a music service, (2) detecting a current context of the user, the current context including a characteristic of the user's environment, (3) creating a transient contextual queue of music including music compositions that are tailored to the current context, and (4) playing, via the device one or more music compositions from the transient contextual queue of music while the user is detected to be within the current context. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US11210324B2	Relation extraction across sentence boundaries Systems, methods, and computer-readable media provide entity relation extraction across sentences in a document using distant supervision. A computing device can receive an input, such as a document comprising a plurality of sentences. The computing device can identify syntactic and/or semantic links between words in a sentence and/or between words in different sentences, and extract relationships between entities throughout the document. A knowledge base (e.g., a table, chart, database etc.) of entity relations based on the extracted relationships can be populated. An output of the populated knowledge base can be used by a classifier to identify additional relationships between entities in various documents. Machine learning can be applied to train the classifier to predict relations between entities. The classifier can be trained using known entity relations, syntactic links and/or semantic links.
US11210320B1	Method and apparatus for potentially resolving target database constraint violations in a database replication system by replacing, converting or removing deferred database changes Target database constraint violations are potentially resolved in a database replication system by replacing, converting, or removing deferred database changes.
US11210317B2	System and method for high-availability in a distributed computing environment including multiple availability zones Systems and methods of distributing replicas within a data center are disclosed. A replica distribution scheme for one or more shards is received. The replica distribution scheme indicates a number of replicas of the one or more shards to be distributed within a data center. The data center comprises a plurality of hosts divided into at least a first hierarchical level and a second hierarchical level. A usage score is calculated for a plurality of nodes in the first hierarchical level of the data center and the plurality of nodes is sorted in the first hierarchical level based on the calculated usage score. A set of replicas is distributed to one or more of the plurality of nodes within the first hierarchical level based on the sorting of the plurality of nodes.
US11210315B2	System and method for storage and analysis of time-based data A system and method includes a data sensor providing sensor data. A database is configured to store the sensor data over time in rows of a table. A processor is configured to convert the table into a temporal format and collapse the rows in a temporal table. The temporal data can be normalized, and the normalized temporal data can be natively analyzed over normalized time periods, e.g., to improve an efficiency and/or accuracy of the analysis. The systems and methods can also be used to efficiently inter-operate with non-temporal data as needed.
US11210306B2	Dialogue system, a method of obtaining a response from a dialogue system, and a method of training a dialogue system A method of obtaining a response to a query inputted by a user, the method comprising: receiving a user inputted query; representing the user inputted query as a sequence of embedding vectors using a first model; encoding the sequence of embedding vectors to produce a context vector using a second model; retrieving responses with associated response vectors; scoring response vectors against the context vector, wherein the scoring is a measure of the similarity between the context vector and a response vector; and outputting the responses with the closest response vectors, wherein the first model is configured to segment a user inputted query into a sequence of units from a vocabulary of units and represent each unit in the sequence as an embedding vector, wherein at least one of the units in the vocabulary is an incomplete word, and wherein the first model comprises parameters that are stored using eight bits per parameter; and wherein the second model has been trained using corresponding queries and responses such that an encoding is used that maximises the similarity between the response vector and context vector for a corresponding query and response.
US11210304B2	Predicting a type of a record searched for by a user As part of providing the services to users, an online system stores multiple records that are accessible by users of the online system. When a user provides a search query, the online system extracts morphological and dictionary features from the query. The online system provides the extracted features to a machine learning model as an input. The machine learning model outputs a score for each potential entity type that indicates a likelihood that the search query is for a record associated with the entity type. The output from the machine learning model is used by the online system to select one or more entity types that the user is likely searching for. The online system searches the stored records based on the search query but limits the searching to records associated with at least one of the selected entity types.
US11210300B2	System and methods of generating structured data from unstructured data Systems and methods to infer or predict the proper placement of unstructured data (such as text, phrases, segments of phrases, alphanumeric characters) into a more structured format (such as a specific data field). In some embodiments, this is based on a user's prior assignment of similar unstructured data into a specific structure. In some embodiments, this may be based on other users' prior assignment of similar unstructured data into the specific structure. In yet other embodiments, this may be based on information obtained from business data used by a data processing platform to assist in operating the business (i.e., either business data or the output of a business application that processes the business data, such as an ERP, CRM, or eCommerce application).
US11210292B2	Search method and apparatus Embodiments of the present invention relate to the field of computer technologies, and provide a search method and apparatus to resolve a problem that a reference text, of a text in a professional field, that is determined by using the prior art has relatively low accuracy. The method includes: obtaining n named entities in a current to-be-analyzed target case (S300); determining a first characteristic and a second characteristic (S301); generating, based on the first characteristic and the second characteristic and according to a preset vector generation rule, a target characteristic vector corresponding to the target case (S302); obtaining each historical case in a database and a characteristic vector corresponding to each historical case (S303); and separately calculating a similarity between the target characteristic vector and the characteristic vector corresponding to each historical case, and selecting a historical case whose similarity result meets a preset condition as a reference case (S304).
US11210291B2	Differential indexing for fast database search Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for improving search speed and quality using differential indexing. One method includes an operation for building a first index for a database, the first index being for first tokens resulting from normalizing words in input data. Further, the method includes building a second index for the database, the second index being for second tokens comprising words of the input data eliminated from the first index during the normalizing. The method further includes operations for receiving a raw query for a search of the database, and for generating a search query based on tokens of the raw query. The search query comprises a combined search of the first index and the second index. A search is performed based on the search query, and results of the search are returned for presentation on a display.
US11210288B2	Systems and methods for reducing database query latency A system for reducing database query latency, the system comprising: a memory storing instructions; and at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to perform operations comprising: receiving data reflecting performance of a role on a virtual server; identifying tokens associated with terms in the received data; mapping an index comprising the tokens and the terms; storing the mapped index in a first database; storing a key-value pair in a second database, the key corresponding to the mapped index, and the value corresponding to a portion of the received data; receiving a query; optimizing the query to reduce query processing time; constructing a search key based on results obtained by running the optimized query against the first database; retrieving a result value from the second database corresponding to the search key.
US11210287B2	Systems and methods for a title quality scoring framework A system including one or more processors and one or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing computing instructions configured to run on the one or more processors and perform receiving a title of an item associated with an online catalog; interpreting, using a natural language model, one or more attributes of the predetermined set of attributes; determining a first title quality score for the title based on a first rule; determining a second title quality score for the title based on a second rule; determining an aggregated title quality score for the title based on at least the first title quality score and the second title quality score; generating a content quality list for the title; and sending instructions to display, on a user interface of an electronic device, a content quality dashboard comprising the content quality list for the title of the item. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11210286B2	Facet-based conversational search A method is provided. The method comprises receiving a search query that is part of a search conversation, the search query in an unstructured format; identifying a first list of facets with a first list of associated values from the search query; deriving a second list of facets with a second list of associated values from the first list of facets based on a context of the search query within the search conversation; generating a database query based on the second list of facets with the second list of associated values; causing a database search with the database query; transmitting a search result of the database search to a sender of the search query, wherein the method is performed by one or more computing devices.
US11210282B2	Data placement optimization in a storage system according to usage and directive metadata embedded within the data For improving data placement optimization in a computing storage environment, an application layer and/or a user are allowed to attach anticipated usage metadata and directive metadata to a file. The anticipated usage metadata contains a plurality of attributes describing characteristics of the file and the directive metadata contains directives comprising storage instructions for the file. Additionally, a set of metadata is added to the file at a time of creation. The core metadata includes characteristics such as an importance factor as to how essential the anticipated usage metadata and directive metadata should be followed when determining file placement with the computing storage environment.
US11210278B1	Asset group interface driven by search-derived asset tree hierarchy An asset monitoring and reporting system (AMRS) implements an interface to establish an asset hierarchy to be monitored and reported against. The interface employs a search query of extant asset data from which definitional aspects of the asset hierarchy can be identified, and therefrom the interface automatically determines control information reflective of the asset hierarchy to direct the ongoing operation of the AMRS. The interface further receives an identification of one or more asset nodes of an asset hierarchy for inclusion in an asset group, receives an identification of a group metric definition of a group metric of the asset group, and reflects in computer storage an asset group definition comprising an association of each of the one or more asset nodes and an association of the group metric definition.
US11210266B2	Methods and systems for natural language processing of metadata Systems and methods for collection and management of metadata are disclosed. The methods include maintaining a plurality of data storage systems in communication with an external metadata management system, and operating the metadata management system to store metadata corresponding to data residing on the plurality of data storage systems as a plurality of entries. Each of the plurality of entries include one or more facets of data corresponding to metadata stored in that entry and extracted using text analysis of that metadata.
US11210265B2	Engine to enable high speed context switching via on-die storage In an example, an apparatus comprises a plurality of execution units, and a first memory communicatively couple to the plurality of execution units, wherein the first shared memory is shared by the plurality of execution units and a copy engine to copy context state data from at least a first of the plurality of execution units to the first shared memory. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.
US11210264B2	Consolidation of expired snapshots using compute on cloud In some examples, a method for operating a data management system comprises acquiring a first full image snapshot and a set of incremental files corresponding with different point in time versions of a virtual machine. The method detects that a combined data size for expired snapshots within an archival data source has exceeded a threshold data size in response to detecting that the archival data source does not have access to compute resources. The method determines that a second full image snapshot should be transferred to the archival data source in response to detecting that the combined data size for the expired snapshots within the archival data source has exceeded the threshold data size. A second full image snapshot is generated using the first full image snapshot and one or more of the incremental files and transferred to the archival data source.
US11210262B2	Data ingestion application for internet of devices In some embodiments, an ingestion service processes messages from a set of devices that generate a first set of messages. The ingestion service is configured with a first profile for a first platform. First configuration properties in the first profile configure a first connection to first storage on the first platform to store information for the first set of messages and configure a first connection to a first event processing service on the first platform to process information in the first set of the messages. A selection is received for a second profile. The ingestion service is migrated to a second platform associated with the second profile. Second configuration properties are retrieved from the second profile for the second platform and installed on the ingestion service to configure a second connection to second storage and configure a second connection to a second event processing service on the second platform.
US11210261B2	Systems and methods for synchronizing frame processing within a multi-stage modular architecture An exemplary plurality of system nodes is arranged in a multi-stage modular architecture. A first system node performs a first frame processing task on a first frame of a frame sequence, and a second system node performs a second frame processing task on a second frame of the frame sequence. The first and second system nodes are included respectively, within first and second pipeline stages of the multi-stage modular architecture, and the first and second frame processing tasks are associated with the respective first and second pipeline stages. Subsequent to performing the first and second frame processing tasks, the first and second system nodes transmit the first and second frames to additional system nodes included within subsequent pipeline stages of the multi-stage modular architecture. These transmissions are synchronized so as to be performed within a predetermined threshold time of one another. Corresponding systems and methods are also disclosed.
US11210258B2	Trigger/array for using multiple cameras for a cinematic effect An apparatus includes a plurality of output ports and a processor. The output ports may each be configured to connect to a respective trigger device and generate an output signal to activate the respective trigger device. The processor may be configured to determine a number of the trigger devices connected to the output ports, determine a timing between each of the number of the trigger devices connected, convert the timing for each of the trigger devices to fit a standard timing using offset values specific to each of the trigger devices and perform a trigger routine to trigger the output signal for each of the trigger devices connected. The trigger routine may activate each of the trigger devices connected according to an event. The offset values may delay triggering the trigger devices to ensure that the trigger devices are sequentially activated at intervals that correspond consistently with the standard timing.
US11210248B2	System direct memory access engine offload Systems, devices, and methods for direct memory access. A system direct memory access (SDMA) device disposed on a processor die sends a message which includes physical addresses of a source buffer and a destination buffer, and a size of a data transfer, to a data fabric device. The data fabric device sends an instruction which includes the physical addresses of the source and destination buffer, and the size of the data transfer, to first agent devices. Each of the first agent devices reads a portion of the source buffer from a memory device at the physical address of the source buffer. Each of the first agent devices sends the portion of the source buffer to one of second agent devices. Each of the second agent devices writes the portion of the source buffer to the destination buffer.
US11210239B2	Protection key management and prefixing in virtual address space legacy emulation system A system is described to provide protection key access control in a system whose operating system and processor were not designed to provide a protection key memory access control mechanism. Such a system can be applied to an emulator or to enable a system that executes native applications to be interoperable with a legacy system that employs protection key memory access control.
US11210234B2	Cache access measurement deskew A processor includes a cache having two or more test regions and a larger non-test region. The processor further includes a cache controller that applies different cache replacement policies to the different test regions of the cache, and a performance monitor that measures performance metrics for the different test regions, such as a cache hit rate at each test region. Based on the performance metrics, the cache controller selects a cache replacement policy for the non-test region, such as selecting the replacement policy associated with the test region having the better performance metrics among the different test regions. The processor deskews the memory access measurements in response to a difference in the amount of accesses to the different test regions exceeding a threshold.
US11210230B2	Cache retention for inline deduplication based on number of physical blocks with common fingerprints among multiple cache entries Techniques are provided for inline deduplication based on a number of physical blocks having common fingerprints among multiple entries of a buffer cache. One method comprises storing input/output operations in a first cache comprising a plurality of entries each corresponding to a physical storage entity comprising a plurality of physical blocks. A given entry is maintained in the first cache based on a first number of physical blocks of the given entry having a duplicate fingerprint with at least one physical block of another entry in the first cache. A second number can be determined of the physical blocks of each entry having a fingerprint in a second cache, and a first ratio is determined for two entries in the first cache using the second number and the first number. A comparison of the first ratios can be performed to sort and possibly evict entries in the first cache based on the comparison.
US11210229B2	Method, device and computer program product for data writing Techniques perform data writing. Such techniques involve: in response to receiving a first write request, searching a cache for a target address associated with the first write request; in response to missing of the target address in the cache, determining a page usage rate in the cache; and in response to determining that the page usage rate exceeds an upper threshold, performing the first write request with a first available page in the cache. The first available page is reclaimed, independent of a refresh cycle of the cache, in response to completing the performing of the first write request.
US11210224B2	Flushing entries in a cache by first checking an overflow indicator to determine whether to check a dirty bit of each cache entry Techniques are provided for performing a flush operation in a non-coherent cache. In response to determining to perform a flush operation, a cache unit flushes certain data items. The flush operation may be performed in response to a lapse of a particular amount of time, such as a number of cycles, or an explicit flush instruction that does not indicate any cache entry or data item. The cache unit may store change data that indicates which entry stores a data item that has been modified but not yet been flushed. The change data may be used to identify the entries that need to be flushed. In one technique, a dirty cache entry that is associated with one or more relatively recent changes is not flushed during a flush operation.
US11210222B2	Non-unified cache coherency maintenance for virtual machines An example method of maintaining cache coherency in a virtualized computing system includes: trapping access to a memory page by guest software in a virtual machine at a hypervisor managing the virtual machine, where the memory page is not mapped in a second stage page table managed by the hypervisor; performing cache coherency maintenance for instruction and data caches of a central processing unit (CPU) in the virtualized computing system in response to the trap; mapping the memory page in the second stage page table with execute permission; and resuming execution of the virtual machine.
US11210218B1	Addressing for disaggregated memory pool A method for memory address mapping in a disaggregated memory system includes receiving an indication of one or more ranges of host physical addresses (HPAs) from a compute node of a plurality of compute nodes, the one or more ranges of HPAs including a plurality of memory addresses corresponding to different allocation slices of the disaggregated memory pool that are allocated to the compute node. The one or more ranges of HPAs are converted into a contiguous range of device physical addresses (DPAs). For each DPA, a target address decoder (TAD) is identified based on a slice identifier and a slice-to-TAD index. Each DPA is mapped to a media-specific physical element of a physical memory unit of the disaggregated memory pool based on the TAD.
US11210207B2	Performance counters for computer memory In some examples, performance counters for computer memory may include ascertaining a request associated with a memory address range of computer memory. The memory address range may be assigned to a specified performance tier of a plurality of specified performance tiers. A performance value associated with a performance attribute of the memory address range may be ascertained, and based on the ascertained performance value, a weight value may be determined. Based on the ascertained request and the determined weight value, a count value associated with a counter associated with the memory address range may be incremented. Based on an analysis of the count value associated with the counter, a determination may be made as to whether the memory address range is to be assigned to a different specified performance tier of the plurality of specified performance tiers. Based on a determination that the memory address range is to be assigned to the different specified performance tier, the memory address range may be assigned to the specified different performance tier.
US11210198B2	Distributed web page performance monitoring methods and systems Computing systems, database systems, and related methods are provided for tracking performance associated with loading or updating a web page in a distributed manner. An exemplary method involves a server providing the web page to a client over a network. The web page includes code executable by the client to provide requests to the server over the network, assign identifiers to the requests, and determine client-side performance metrics associated with the requests. The server provides one or more responses corresponding to the requests to the client over the network, determines server-side performance metrics associated with providing the responses, receives the client-side performance metrics from the client after providing the responses, and maintains the associations between the client-side performance metrics, the server-side performance metrics, and the respective server requests using the identifiers assigned by the client.
US11210196B1	Systems and methods for locally streaming applications in a computing system The present disclosure relates generally to a system that includes a storage component that stores data and a processor. The processor may install an application using a portion of the storage component, partition the portion of the storage component from a remaining portion of the storage component, and execute the application via the portion of the storage component.
US11210194B2	Distributed website load testing system running on mobile devices An instruction to perform load testing is sent to a mobile device where an application running on the mobile device determines whether the mobile device is in a state where load testing is permitted. In response to receiving the instruction, the application running on the mobile device performs load testing on a web server if the mobile device is in the state where load testing is permitted. Performance information associated with the load testing is received from the application running on the mobile device and the performance information associated with the load testing is displayed.
US11210191B2	Using steady-state changes to discern the operating performance of an individual machine operating on a commonly supplied electrical network connected to multiple machines A device, which may be embedded in a power distribution enclosure, enables analysis of the conditions of an electromechanical machine operating on a commonly supplied network with other electromechanical machines. The analysis preferably uses aggregate operating voltage and current signals supplied to or from such machines along with known changes in steady-state conditions of one or more machines to discern the discrete effect of one or more machines to the aggregate electrical signal. Such discrete effect can then be associated with the operating performance of the individual machine. And, since such voltage and current signals are normally readily available at the enclosure, wiring or any other communication means to any sensors on the electromechanical machines or devices are not necessary. The embedded device may optionally receive or transmit information to a computing or monitoring device remote from the enclosure.
US11210189B2	Monitoring performance of computing systems Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for monitoring performance of computing systems. In some implementations, a set of tasks for a server system to perform is identified. Multiple performance testing cycles are performed, in which each of the performance testing cycles includes: sending, for each task in the set of tasks, a request for the server system to perform the task; receiving a response from the server system for each of the requests, and storing a performance measure for each of the tasks based on the response received from the server system for the task. Based on the performance measures for the multiple performance testing cycles, an evaluation is performed whether conditions are satisfied for adjusting one or more operating parameters of the server system or for providing a notification regarding the operation of the server system.
US11210187B1	Computer cluster with adaptive quorum rules The fail-over computer cluster enables multiple computing devices to operate using adaptive quorum rules to dictate which nodes are in the fail-over cluster at any given time. The adaptive quorum rules provide requirements for communications between nodes and connections with voting file systems. The adaptive quorum rules include particular recovery rules for unplanned changes in node configuration, such as due to a disruptive event. Such recovery quorum rules enable the fail-over cluster to continuing to operate with various changed configurations of its node members as a result of the disruptive event. In the changed configuration, access to voting file systems may not be required for a majority-group subset of nodes. If no majority-group subset remains, nodes may need direct or indirect access to voting file systems.
US11210185B2	Method and system for data recovery in a data system The present teaching relates to request management and data recovery in a data system. In one example, a failure in connection with first data is detected at a first node in a data system. Information associated with a most recent transaction related to the first node is obtained from the persistent storage. Each of other nodes in the data system is requested to transmit one or more transaction requests previously sent to the first node after the most recent transaction. The one or more transaction requests are received from at least one of the other nodes. A sequence of one or more transactions associated with the one or more transaction requests is determined. The one or more transactions are executed according to the sequence in order to recover the first data at the first node.
US11210182B2	Multiple file system recovery using dynamic web server A method, apparatus, and system for performing file system restoration to a plurality of recovery destination virtual machines is disclosed. The operations comprise: receiving file system recovery requests associated with a same recovery source virtual machine from a plurality of recovery destination virtual machines; spawning a helper virtual machine to facilitate the recovery; configuring the helper virtual machine to host a web server; rebuilding a file system of the source virtual machine at the helper virtual machine; generating a web address served by the web server and associated with files of the rebuilt file system; transmitting the web address from the helper virtual machine to each of the plurality of recovery destination virtual machines through a backup server; downloading, at each of the plurality of recovery destination virtual machines, files of the rebuilt file system from the helper virtual machine to complete the recovery; and deleting the helper virtual machine.
US11210178B2	Synchronization storage solution after an offline event Disclosed are systems and methods of synchronization between a source and a target. The synchronization relationship can be quickly and easily be created for disaster recovery, real-time backup and failover, thereby ensuring that data on the source is fully-protected at an off-site location or on another server or VM, for example, at another data center, a different building or elsewhere in the cloud. Common snapshots available on both the source and target can act as common recovery points. The common recovery points can be used to locate the most recent snapshot in common, between the source and target, to enable a delta sync of all subsequently written data at the source to the target after an offline event.
US11210173B2	Fault tolerant device upgrade A technology is directed to embedded device updates. In one example of the technology, a partition of a memory is atomically updated. The partition includes partition tables including a primary partition table and a back-up partition table. The partition tables include entries for the images included in the partition, and information associated with the images included in the partition. Atomically updating the partition of the memory includes writing an updated version to the partition. The written updated version is verified. An updated partition table is written to the back-up partition table. The updated partition table is written to the primary partition table. If it is determined that a power, or other, fault occurred while the primary partition table was being written, the primary partition table is overwritten with the back-up partition table.
US11210170B2	Failed storage device rebuild method Methods and systems for rebuilding a failed storage device in a data storage system. For example, a method including identifying a first garbage collection group (GCG) in a storage array for garbage collection; extracting valid data and redundancy information from functioning storage devices in the storage array associated with the first GCG; reconstructing data of a failed storage device associated with the first GCG based on the extracted valid data and redundancy information from the functioning storage devices associated with the first GCG; consolidating the extracted valid data from the functioning storage devices and the reconstructed data of the failed storage device associated with the first GCG; writing the consolidated extracted valid data from the functioning storage devices and the reconstructed data of the failed storage device associated with the first GCG to a second GCG in the storage array; and reclaiming the first GCG identified for garbage collection.
US11210169B2	Data storage method, apparatus, and system Data storage method, apparatus, and system are disclosed. The data storage method includes: encoding a data block using an erasure coding to obtain corresponding multiple data fragments; separately writing the multiple data fragments to corresponding allocated storage nodes; and determining that writing of the data block is successful if a number of storage nodes to which data fragments is successfully written within a first defined time duration is greater than or equal to a defined value, wherein the defined value is greater than or equal to a number of data block fragments in the multiple data fragments and is less than or equal to a number of the multiple data fragments. As such, the latency of a data write can be reduced, and the performance stability can be improved when a storage node encounters a failure.
US11210164B2	Data storage system for improving data throughput and decode capabilities Systems and methods for storing data are described. A system can comprise a controller, one or more physical non-volatile memory devices, a bus comprising a plurality of input/output (I/O) lines. The controller configured to receive data, encode the received data into a codeword, and transfer, in parallel, different portions of the codeword to different physical non-volatile memory devices among the plurality of physical non-volatile memory devices.
US11210155B1	Performance data analysis to reduce false alerts in a hybrid cloud environment Aspects of the invention include a computer-implemented method that includes converting runtime data points that are indicative of an influence of the runtime data points on a robustness and performance of a computing system. The runtime data points are clustered, wherein each cluster respectively represents a temporal state of the computing system. Each cluster is translated into a three-dimensional representation based on a probability density of the runtime data points of each cluster. A time-based vector is generated, where the vector describes a transition from a first three-dimensional representation to a second three-dimensional representation. Each three-dimensional representation traversed by the time-based vector represents a respective state of the computing system. The time-based vector is compared with a baseline vector. An anomaly alert is issued based at least in part on the comparison.
US11210145B2	Systems and methods to manage application program interface communications Systems and methods for managing Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are disclosed. For example, the system may include one or more memory units storing instructions and one or more processors configured to execute the instructions to perform operations. The operations may include receiving a call to an API node. The operations may include determining that the call is associated with the first version of the API. The operations may include determining that the API node is associated with a second version of the API. The operations may include translating the call into a translated call using a translation model, the translated call being associated with the second version of the API.
US11210138B1	Dynamic resource allocation for computational simulation Systems and methods for automated resource allocation during a computational simulation are described herein. An example method includes analyzing a set of simulation inputs to determine a first set of computing resources for performing a simulation, and starting the simulation with the first set of computing resources. The method also includes dynamically analyzing at least one attribute of the simulation to determine a second set of computing resources for performing the simulation, and performing the simulation with the second set of computing resources. The second set of computing resources is different than the first set of computing resources.
US11210133B1	Workload mobility between disparate execution environments Providing workload mobility between disparate execution environments, including: identifying, by a workload migration module, a workload executing in a first environment, wherein the workload includes a software application that is being executed and data that is accessed by the software application; identifying, by a workload migration module, a second environment for servicing the workload; and deploying, by a workload migration module, the workload in the second environment.
US11210130B2	Adaptive write acknowledgment for storage devices Examples include techniques for managing high priority (HP) and low priority (LP) write transaction requests by a storage device. An embodiment includes receiving, at a storage controller for a storage device, a write transaction request from a requestor to write data to one or more memory devices in the storage device. When the write transaction request is for a high priority (HP) write, coalescing the write data into a transaction buffer in a memory of the storage device, sending an acknowledgment for the write transaction request to the requestor, and writing the write data into the one or more memory devices. When the write transaction request is for a low priority (LP) write, writing the write data into the one or more memory devices, and then sending an acknowledgment for the write transaction request to the requestor.
US11210128B2	Device virtualization security layer A processing system of a device having at least one processor may obtain a set of codes from a virtual machine orchestrator via a virtualization security controller of the processing system, obtain a first virtual machine configuration file from the virtual machine orchestrator via a hypervisor of the processing system, and pass at least one code of the set of codes from the virtualization security controller to the hypervisor. The processing system may then apply, via the hypervisor, a decryption to the first virtual machine configuration file using the at least one code, determine that a threshold percentage of content of the first virtual machine configuration file comprises dictionary-recognizable words in accordance with the decryption, and instantiate, via the hypervisor, a first virtual machine in accordance with the first virtual machine configuration file when it is determined that the threshold percentage of the content comprises dictionary-recognizable words.
US11210124B2	Movement of virtual machine data across clusters of nodes In an example, Virtual Machine (VM) attributes of a first VM are received. First VM data corresponding to the first VM is to be moved from a first cluster of nodes in which the first VM data is stored. Further, a movement value of the first VM is determined based on a movement model and the VM attributes of the first VM. The movement model indicates a dependence of movement value of a VM on VM attributes of the VM. The movement value of the first VM is indicative of a rank order for movement of the first VM data among a plurality of sets of VM data to be moved, where each set of VM data corresponds to a VM.
US11210122B2	Virtual network function management for creating sequence using dependency entry defined to confirm constrain violation A virtualization management/orchestration apparatus is provided with: a Network Function Virtualization Orchestrator (NFVO) that reads a Network Service Descriptor (NSD) in which an entry defining dependency between a VNF and a prescribed element is provided, and creates the VNF and the prescribed element according to the dependency defined in the NSD; and/or a VNF manager (VNFM) that reads a Virtualized Network Function Descriptor (VNFD) provided with an entry defining dependency between a VM and a prescribed element, and creates the VM and the prescribed element according to the dependency defined in the VNFD.
US11210119B2	Method and device for displaying interface, electronic equipment, server, and storage medium Aspects of the disclosure are directed to a system and method for displaying an interface, where interface data of a to-be-displayed interface of a first target application (APP) are acquired. A first request is sent to a server. At least one language resource returned by the server is received. For each interface element in the interface data, a target language resource corresponding to the each interface element in the interface data is determined in the at least one language resource. The to-be-displayed interface of the first target APP is displayed based on the interface data and the target language resource.
US11210115B2	Data visualization user interface with summary popup that includes interactive objects A method displays a first data visualization according to user placement of data fields in shelves of a user interface. Each shelf specifies a property of the data visualization and the data visualization includes visual data marks corresponding to data values for data fields in a dataset. A user selects a subset of the visual data marks. A popup summary is displayed that includes data value distributions for several data fields. In the popup summary, a second user input is detected corresponding to a first data field whose data value distribution is displayed in the popup summary. In response, the method displays a moveable icon corresponding to the first data field. The method detects a third user input to place the interactive moveable icon in a shelf in the user interface. In response, a second data visualization is displayed according to placement of data fields, including the first data field.
US11210111B2	Automatic user interface architecture Techniques are disclosed relating to automatically generating user interfaces. In some embodiments, input data to be displayed is grouped into components (e.g., based on depth within hierarchical code, coordinates in a display space, etc.). These components may be based on template information that defines a set of known component types. In some embodiments, the system formats the selected components according to display parameters and causes display of a user interface that displays the components based on the formatting. In various embodiments, the disclosed techniques may allow automatic creation of effective user interfaces without information specifying layout and formatting for input data. This may provide flexible, quality interfaces without requiring design or coding expertise. Further, disclosed techniques may allow the automatic interface generator to generate interfaces similar to other existing interfaces.
US11210107B2	Systems and methods of multi-stage configuration service for policy-driven transformation A multi-stage configuration service running in a cloud computing environment receives a transformation request from a client device. Based on a policy identified in the transformation request, the multi-stage configuration service constructs a configuration file containing key-value pairs representing settings of a requested transformation. The settings are set or constrained in accordance with zero or more facets contained in the policy that describe how an application feature is set or constrained in performing a transformation on a source file or files. The multi-stage configuration service determines, in accordance with the policy, whether the configuration file is structurally correct in view of a user-provided overriding property value and either enqueues the configuration file for a publishing agent in the cloud computing environment to perform the requested transformation or returns an error report to the client device.
US11210106B2	Simulated visual hierarchy while facilitating cross-extension communication To provide a hierarchical visual paradigm while maintaining the communication advantages of sibling extensions, a visual hierarchy simulation extension generates and maintains placeholders in a visually hierarchical manner, with the visual positioning of such placeholders informing the visual positioning of overlays of frames hosting the visual output of sibling extensions. Such a visual hierarchy simulation extension is utilized to layout and establish a desired visual hierarchy. One or more modules of computer-executable instructions are invoked to provide the relevant functionality, including the obtaining of the visual positioning of placeholders, the relevant visual translation between the visual positioning of placeholders and the visual overlaying of corresponding frames, the generation and movement of the corresponding frames, and the instantiation of extension content within the corresponding frames. The visual hierarchy simulation extension is hosted independently from the one or more modules.
US11210100B2	Coprocessor operation bundling In an embodiment, a processor includes a buffer in an interface unit. The buffer may be used to accumulate coprocessor instructions to be transmitted to a coprocessor. In an embodiment, the processor issues the coprocessor instructions to the buffer when ready to be issued to the coprocessor. The interface unit may accumulate the coprocessor instructions in the buffer, generating a bundle of instructions. The bundle may be closed based on various predetermined conditions and then the bundle may be transmitted to the coprocessor. If a sequence of coprocessor instructions appears consecutively in a program, the rate at which the instructions are provided to the coprocessor (on average) at least matches the rate at which the coprocessor consumes the instructions, in an embodiment.
US11210094B2	Method and apparatus for minimally intrusive instruction pointer-aware processing resource activity profiling Systems and methods for minimally intrusive instruction pointer-aware processing resource activity profiling are disclosed. In one embodiment, a graphics processor includes a grouping of processing resources and control logic that is associated with the grouping of processing resources. The control logic is configured to sample a state of at least one processing resource of the grouping of processing resources and to determine activity data from the state with the activity data including at least one of stalls and reason counts for stalling activity, instruction types, pipeline utilization, thread utilization, and shader activity.
US11210085B2	Method and device for updating software A method and an apparatus for updating software for operating vehicle equipment are provided. The apparatus includes a control unit, having a first data store, and multiple pieces of vehicle equipment, each having a further data store, wherein the control unit is configured for storing a first segment of segmented updated software for operating a piece of vehicle equipment in the first data store, and for storing at least one part of the first segment in a second data store of a first piece of vehicle equipment of multiple pieces of vehicle equipment by shifting or copying from the first data store into the second data store.
US11210082B2	Modification of terminal and service provider machines using an update server machine The method conducts a dialogue sequence using a service provider machine having a provider application with computer-executable instructions and code. The instructions can be directly executed on the service provider machine. The code must be translated before it can be executed on a computer processor of the service provider machine. The provider application conducts the following portion of the dialogue sequence. It first receives information associated with data entry associated with a dialogue sequence. At least a portion of the information is then stored. Second code is received that replaces or supplements the code to produce first updated code. The first updated code adapts the provider application to conduct the provider application's portion of a modified dialogue sequence. The second code must be translated before it can be executed on a computer processor of the service provider machine. Third code is then sent that facilitates a recipient's portion of the modified dialogue sequence. The third code comprises information that must be translated before it can be executed on a computer processor of the recipient.
US11210075B2	Software automation deployment and performance tracking Through the systems and methods described herein for provisioning a software automation and tracking performance of the software automation throughout its lifecycle. A realized benefit of deployment of the software automation can be determined and automatically reported according to a schedule. The reports may be provided to certain specified recipients such as project managers, executive officers, sales and/or vendor relations managers, and the like for analysis and processing by the various parties associated with the operation of the software automation. This all-in-one system provides a platform from which one or more software automation projects may be automatically managed through completion and deployment, improving efficiency of the project and management of all deployed software automations for a more cost-effective suite of such programs.
US11210069B2	Method and apparatus for an internet of things controller An Internet of Things Controller, and related tools. The tools address application development and deployment. An Application Meta-Data Editor permits a developer to specify meta-data, that guides the structure of actual data, that can be passed to the application, when invoked as a particular execution (or task) for a particular end-user. Once an application is developed, and has undergone a test deployment, the developer can upload the application to an online Application Store, from which the application can be downloaded and deployed by others. A Data Editor permits an end-user to create his/her own data, in accordance with the developer's meta-data, that adapts the execution to his/her particular needs. While permitting adaptation, the Data Editor ensures that the data created follows the overall pattern of the meta-data, as provided by the developer. Facilities for internationalization of a deployed application's documentation, on a crowd-sourced basis, are also provided.
US11210068B2	Automatic anonymization of workflow templates Methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer program products are described herein that generate and assist in managing templates (pre-generated user-customizable automated workflows) that can be used to easily and efficiently develop automated workflows in an automated workflow development system. An automated workflow template for publication that includes parameters is received. At least a portion of the parameters included in the automated workflow template are automatically anonymized to generate an anonymized automated workflow template. The anonymized automated workflow template is published.
US11210061B2	Non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing computer-readable instructions for causing information processing device to execute communication processing with image processing program and voice-recognition program, information processing device, and method of controlling information processing device A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing computer-readable instructions may be read by a controller of an information processing device in which an image processing program and a voice-recognition program have been installed. The computer-readable instructions may cause the information processing device to obtain the text data from the voice-recognition program in a case where the voice-recognition program creates the text data. The computer-readable instructions may cause the information processing device to determine whether the obtained text data includes a first string and a second string. The computer-readable instructions may cause the information processing device to cause a display of the information processing device to display a specific image in a case where it is determined that the text data includes the first string and the second string. The computer-readable instructions may cause the information processing device to instruct the image processing program to execute image processing.
US11210059B2	Audible command modification A method and system for modifying an audible command is provided. The method includes continuously receiving audible commands associated with a context of interactions between a user and individuals. The audible commands are analyzed with respect to associated actions and user attributes of the audible commands are identified. Specified information required for executing each command of the audible commands and portions of the specified information associated with specified individuals of the individuals are determined. Digital audio samples of the user are retrieved and assigned to the portions of the specified information with respect to each command. The associated actions are modified with respect to the specified individuals and self-learning software code comprising the modified actions is generated and executed such that the commands are executed with respect to the modified actions.
US11210058B2	Systems and methods for providing independently variable audio outputs A sound system for providing independently variable audio outputs is disclosed herein. The sound system may include a display device, an audio system, and a transmitter. The display device may receive an audio signal and transmit the audio signal to the audio system and the transmitter. The audio system may condition the audio signal based on different settings provided by users. The transmitter may wirelessly transmit conditioned audio signals to one or more audio devices.
US11210056B2	Electronic device and method of controlling thereof Disclosed is an electronic device. A disclosed method for controlling an electronic device may include: generating a dedicated audio output descriptor and a dedicated audio output thread corresponding to an application in response to a preset event associated with the application, applying an audio setting value stored in the dedicated audio output descriptor to audio data associated with the application using the dedicated audio output thread, and mixing and outputting the audio data output using the dedicated audio output thread with audio data output from another audio output thread.
US11210053B2	Portable playback device state variable Systems, methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to facilitate playback of multimedia content are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a network interface configured to receive audio content over a playback network. A processor comprising instructions which when executed, cause the processor to detect that a portable playback device has joined the playback network. The processor is to update a state variable to indicate that the portable playback device has joined the playback network. The processor is to play audio content received over the playback network based on the state variable. The processor is to detect that the portable playback device is not joined to the playback network. The processor is to, after detecting that the portable playback device is not joined to the playback network, update the state variable to indicate that the portable playback device is not joined to the playback network.
US11210033B2	Quality of service management in a distributed storage system One or more computing devices may comprise congestion management circuitry, one or more client file system request buffers, and DESS interface circuitry. The one or more client file system request buffers is/are operable to queue first client file system requests of a first priority level and second client file system requests of a second priority level, where the first priority level is higher priority than the second priority level. The DESS interface circuitry is operable to determine a choking level according to the load on a plurality of DESS resources. Individual load values of the DESS resources are mapped to a composite load value using a first function. The composite load value is mapped to a congestion contribution using a second function. And, the congestion contribution is mapped to a choking level using a third function.
US11210028B2	Method for accessing flash memory module and associated flash memory controller and electronic device The present invention discloses a method for accessing a flash memory module, wherein the flash memory module comprises a plurality of block, each block is implemented by a plurality of word lines, and each word line comprises a plurality of memory cells supporting a plurality of states. The method comprises the steps of: reading the memory cells of at least a first word line of a specific block of the plurality of blocks to obtain a cumulative distribution information of the states of the memory cells; determining a target decoding flow selected from at least a first decoding flow and a second decoding flow according to the cumulative distribution information; reading the memory cells of a second word line to obtain readout information of the second word line; and using the target decoding flow to decode the readout information of the second word line.
US11210027B2	Weighting of read commands to zones in storage devices The present disclosure generally relates to methods of operating storage devices. The storage device comprises a controller and a storage unit divided into a plurality of zones, each zone comprises a plurality of erase blocks. Data is written to an erase block of a zone to a program point that is less than the writeable capacity of the erase block. The data in the erase block is associated with various read weights dependent on the location of the data relative to the program point. Data stored closer to the program point has a higher read weight than data stored closer to the beginning of the erase block. The read weights indicate an error susceptibility of the data. When one or more read commands are received, the read weights of the data being read are accumulated to estimate the bit error accumulation until a predetermined value is reached.
US11210026B2	Digital device and method for controlling the same Disclosed are a digital device and a method for controlling the same. The digital device includes a first memory, a second memory used as a swap space for page data in the first memory, and a controller that controls the page data to be swapped out and written in the second memory, and controls the page data written in the second memory to be swapped into the first memory, wherein the controller prevents a write operation of the page data into the second memory, based on a state of the second memory associated with write of the page data, and allows a read-only operation of the page data written in the second memory.
US11210025B2	Memory device including concurrent suspend states for different operations Some embodiments include apparatuses and methods using memory cells and a control unit to suspend an erase operation performed on a first portion of the memory cells and to suspend a program operation performed on a second portion of the memory cells while the erase operation is suspended. The control unit includes register circuitry to store status information indicating that the program operation is suspended while the erase operation is suspended.
US11210022B2	Method, electronic device and computer readable storage medium of storage management Techniques involve: determining processing power of a plurality of storage devices in a plurality of storage pools, the storage devices in each of the storage pools having a same device type; dividing the plurality of storage devices into a plurality of sets based on the processing power, a difference in the processing power between the storage devices in each of the sets being below a predetermined threshold; and redistributing, among the plurality of sets, data stored in the plurality of storage devices based on workloads of the storage devices in the sets. Accordingly, load balancing of storage devices in the plurality of storage pools can be implemented, response speed of the storage system can be enhanced and storage resources in the plurality of storage pools can be exploited more sufficiently.
US11210014B2	Method and apparatus for processing I/O information of data, method and apparatus for analyzing I/O information of data, and related devices Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and an apparatus for processing I/O information of data, a method and an apparatus for analyzing I/O information of data, and related devices. The method includes: collecting I/O information of data in a storage engine by a process independent of the storage engine in a storage node; performing adjustment on the process in response to monitoring that a variation in usage of resource in the storage node exceeds a threshold, the adjustment being used to decrease a resource occupancy of the process; and sending the I/O information collected by the process to a target node, to enable the target node to analyze the I/O information. Embodiments of the present disclosure may reduce the complexity of the storage node, and avoid adding a load to the storage engine.
US11210011B2	Memory system data management The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods for memory system data management. A number of embodiments include writing data from a host to a buffer in the memory system, receiving, at the buffer, a notification from a memory device in the memory system that the memory device is ready to receive data, sending at least a portion of the data from the buffer to the memory device, and writing the portion of the data to the memory device.
US11210007B2	Deduplication of encrypted data within a remote data store Techniques are provided for deduplicating encrypted data. For example, a device has data to store in an encrypted state within a remote data store. A key is used to encrypt the data to create encrypted data. The data is hashed to create hashed data and the encrypted data is hashed to create hashed encrypted data. A probabilistic data structure of the data is generated. The key is encrypted based upon the data to create an encrypted key. The encrypted data is transmitted to the remote data store, along with metadata comprising the hashed data, the hashed encrypted data, the probabilistic data structure, and the encrypted key. The metadata may be used to implement deduplication for subsequent requests, to store data within the remote data store, with respect to the encrypted data.
US11210003B2	Method, device and computer program product for restoring data based on replacing child node identifiers with parent node identifier Embodiments of the present disclosure relates to restoring data. The embodiments comprise obtaining an index related to a group of data blocks, determining a node identifier set of a plurality of nodes in the index corresponding to a plurality of data blocks to be restored, determining, based on the index and the node identifier set, whether a first group of child node identifiers in the node identifier set related to a first group of child nodes of the plurality of nodes is to be replaced with a father node identifier of a father node of the first group of child nodes, and in response to replacing the first group of child node identifiers with the father node identifier, sending, to the backup server, a request for obtaining the plurality of data blocks to obtain the plurality of data blocks from the backup server, the request comprising the father node identifier.
US11209996B2	Mapped cluster stretching for increasing workload in a data storage system The described technology is generally directed towards stretching a mapped storage clusters by adding nodes to a mapped cluster of mapped nodes and storage devices mapped to a real cluster of nodes and storage devices. Stretching the mapped cluster can provide additional computing resources to a set of storage devices. In one implementation, one or more newly mapped nodes are added to increase the node count of an existing mapped cluster to form a stretched cluster, with the storage devices distributed among the increased number of nodes; a mapping table is updated to relate the stretched cluster nodes and storage devices to the real cluster nodes and storage devices. Also described is un-stretching a stretched cluster, or further stretching a stretched cluster.
US11209991B2	Tape library emulation with automatic configuration and data retention Disk based emulation of tape libraries is provided with features that allow easier management and administration of a backup system and also allow increased flexibility to both archive data on tape at a remote location and also have fast restore access to archived data files. Features include automatic emulation of physical libraries, and the retention and write protection of virtual tapes that correspond to exported physical tapes.
US11209986B2	Memory operations on data The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods related to memory operations on data. An example method can include executing an operation by writing a first managed unit to a second managed unit, and placing the first managed unit in a free state, wherein the first managed unit is located at a particular distance from the second managed unit.
US11209978B2	Recognition and processing of gestures in a graphical user interface using machine learning In an embodiment, a computer-implemented method comprises: displaying a particular view of a plurality of views of a continuous content stream of individually actionable content items; wherein the plurality of views, each including a different subset of the individually actionable content items, responds to different sets of signaling gestures; automatically recognizing, while the continuous content stream is being displayed, a mode change from a control mode to a signal mode in the particular view of the plurality of views; receiving a touch input in the particular view of the plurality of views and, in response, generating output data indicating a signaling gesture classification that is accepted by the particular view and is for the touch input; updating, according to the output data, the particular view of the plurality of views; wherein the method is performed by one or more computing devices.
US11209977B2	Quick data browsing method for an electronic device The present invention discloses a quick data browsing method for an electronic device. The electronic device stores a plurality of data set. The quick data browsing method includes: displaying initial data of the data set on a screen of the electronic device, the data set being cyclically arranged; receiving a gesture and determining whether the gesture is consistent with a preset gesture; when the gesture is consistent with the preset gesture, obtaining an offset based on an angle of the gesture relative to a central line of the screen; and finding target data based on the offset and displaying the target data. In the quick data browsing method, data can be quickly shifted through a specific gesture, and a user can quickly find required data.
US11209972B2	Combined tablet screen drag-and-drop interface A media rendering system includes a media rendering device and a controller device in communication via a network. The controller has a touch screen, presenting a portrait display mode when oriented in a first position, and a landscape display mode when oriented in a second position. The portrait mode displays either a first full screen presenting a first menu, or a second full screen presenting a second menu. The landscape mode displays a landscape full screen with two side-by-side tiles including a first tile presenting the first menu and a second tile presenting the second menu. Landscape mode provides drag-and-drop functionality for menu objects among the first and second, generating configuration commands to the media rendering device.
US11209969B2	Techniques for manipulating panoramas A multi-step animation sequence for smoothly transitioning from a map view to a panorama view of a specified location is disclosed. An orientation overlay can be displayed on the panorama, showing a direction and angular extent of the field of view of the panorama. An initial specified location and a current location of the panorama can also be displayed on the orientation overlay. A navigable placeholder panorama to be displayed in place of a panorama at the specified location when panorama data is not available is disclosed. A perspective view of a street name annotation can be laid on the surface of a street in the panorama.
US11209957B2	User interfaces for cycle tracking The present disclosure generally relates to cycle tracking. A notification for a respective recurrence of the recurring event is displayed. Representations of days are displayed with affordances for initiating processes for recording information corresponding to various days.
US11209955B2	Information processing apparatus and non-transitory computer readable medium for managing workflow An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to display a structure of a combined workflow including multiple workflows as elements by displaying an array of icons corresponding to the workflows as elements.
US11209942B2	Method for manufacturing capacitive touch control panel having a plurality of bridging structures A method for manufacturing capacitive touch control panel and a capacitive touch control panel are provided. The method includes forming a sensing circuit on a substrate and then forming a communicating structure on the substrate. The communicating structure is conductive, and is disposed to be near at least two adjacent side walls of the substrate. A gap is formed between the communicating structure and the plurality of the sensing electrodes that are near the communicating structure. The next step is to form a plurality of bridging structures for connecting the plurality of the sensing electrodes and the communicating structure. The last step is to remove a portion of the communicating structure by laser cutting to form a plurality of output cables.
US11209937B2	Error correction for seamless transition between hover and touch sensing A hover touch controller device includes a touch sensor having a touch surface and a proximity sensor. The touch sensor provides two-dimensional position information on when and where a user's finger touches the touch surface. The proximity sensor provides three-dimensional position information on pre-touch events. The pre-touch events corresponding to the user's finger hovering over the touch surface within some maximum depth. The hover touch controller device further includes a processor. The processor determines from the three-dimensional information a hover point projected on the touch surface and determines from the two-dimensional information a touch point on the touch surface. The processor communicates the hover point and the contact point to a display device. This can include correcting for any perceived user interaction issues associated an offset between the hover point and the touch point.
US11209932B2	Display device with built-in touch panel and driving method therefor A display device can extend a pause period by using a preset second setting period as a unit when a length of the pause period exceeds the second setting period. Further, detection of a touch position and specification of coordinates are interrupted when a vertical synchronization signal is received while specifying the coordinates of the touch position, and coordinates remaining in a coordinate calculation unit are discarded.
US11209928B2	Display device and pressure sensor structure A display device includes a display panel. A window is disposed on the display panel. A conductive sheet is disposed beneath the display panel such that the display panel is disposed between the window and the conductive sheet. A pressure sensor is disposed between the display panel and the conductive sheet. The pressure sensor includes a sensing area corresponding to a portion of the pressure sensor. A pressure concentration bump is disposed between the window and the conductive sheet. The pressure concentration bump overlaps the sensing area. The pressure sensor includes a first electrode disposed within the sensing area and a second electrode spaced apart from the first electrode.
US11209926B2	Device and method for proximity sensing on an input device A processing system comprises a first source amplifier and an analog front end. The first source amplifier comprises a first input electrically connectable to a first sensor electrode of a display panel and configured to generate a first drive signal based on a first grayscale voltage corresponding to a first pixel data and generate a first comparison output signal based on a first sensing signal from the first sensor electrode and a reference voltage. The analog front end is configured to generate a first digital detection data used for proximity sensing based on the first comparison output signal outputted from the first source amplifier.
US11209920B2	User interfaces with strike sensors In one example in accordance with the present disclosure, a user interface system is described. The system includes a user interface surface. A strike sensor disposed on an underside of the user interface surface detects a strike to the user interface surface and distinguishes between movement of the user interface device along the user interface surface and a strike to the user interface surface. A haptic feedback device generates haptic feedback responsive to a detected strike.
US11209918B2	Measuring light using a digital pen Apparatuses, methods, systems, and program products are disclosed for measuring light using a digital pen. An apparatus includes a processor and a memory that stores code executable by the processor. In one embodiment, the processor determines whether a digital pen that is configured to communicate with an information handling device is in a docked position. The processor receives a light measurement sensed by the digital pen and performs an adjustment to an output parameter of a display for the information handling device in response to receiving the light measurement. A method, system, and computer program product may perform the functions of the apparatus.
US11209912B2	Measuring device and configuration method A measuring device comprises a user input device, which comprises a first number of first user inputs for a user of the measuring device, a shortcut input device, which comprises a second number of shortcut user inputs for the user, and an assignment device, which assigns a respective one of the first user inputs to a respective one of the shortcut user inputs based on a received user command.
US11209911B2	Data replacement apparatus and program for head mounted display A data replacement apparatus according to one aspect of the present invention includes an acquisition unit, a determination unit, and a replacement unit. The acquisition unit acquires first control data having a value based on the position of a first device which can be mounted on a user's head and the position of a second device which can be gripped by a user. The determination unit determines whether or not a prescribed condition is satisfied. The replacement unit replaces the first control data with second control data when it is determined that the condition is satisfied. The second control data has a value not based on the position of the first device and/or the position of the second device.
US11209908B2	Information processing apparatus and information processing method Provided are an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program capable of further improving gesture recognition accuracy. There is provided an information processing apparatus including a context recognition unit that recognizes a context related to a user, a gesture recognition unit that recognizes a gesture of a user, and a setting change unit that dynamically changes a recognition setting of the gesture recognition unit based on recognition result of the context recognition unit.
US11209895B2	Electronic device, control method, and recording medium An electronic device includes a first display; a second display for which power consumption is lower than that of the first display; a first communicator; a second communicator for which power consumption is lower than that of the first communicator; a memory; a first processor; a second processor for which power consumption is lower than that of the first processor; and an operation acquirer to, when an operation from a user is acquired, send a wake-up signal that causes the first processor to recover from a sleep state in which power consumption is suppressed to a normal state. The first processor is configured to, when a condition for transitioning to a power suppression state is satisfied, send a power suppression notification to the second processor, stop displaying by the first display and communicating by the first communicator, and transition to the sleep state, and to, when the wake-up signal is received from the second processor or the operation acquirer, recover to the normal state from the sleep state, and start displaying by the first display and communicating by the first communicator. The second processor is configured to, when the second processor receives the power suppression notification from the first processor, start displaying by the second display and communicating by the second communicator, and to, when a condition for transitioning to the normal state is satisfied, send the wake-up signal to the first processor, and stop the displaying by the second display and the communicating by the second communicator.
US11209892B2	Interconnect fabric link width reduction to reduce instantaneous power consumption Described herein are various embodiments of reducing dynamic power consumption within a processor device. One embodiment provides a technique for dynamic link width reduction based on the instantaneous throughput demand for client of an interconnect fabric. One embodiment provides for a parallel processor comprising an interconnect fabric including a dynamic bus module to configure a bus width for a client of the interconnect fabric based on throughput demand from the client.
US11209873B2	Drop protection for display assistant device In a display assistant device, a display panel assembly has a plurality of first retention elements, and each first retention element is formed on a rear surface of the display panel assembly and adjacent to a respective first edge of the display panel assembly. A back cover is configured to hold the display panel assembly using a plurality of second retention elements. Each second retention element is arranged adjacent to a respective second edge of the back cover. When mated to each other, the first and second retention elements are configured to control an in-plane displacement of each second edge of the back cover in response to an impact of a force on the second edges, thereby limiting an out-of-plane displacement of each second edge of the back cover and protecting the first edges of the display panel assembly from falling apart from the second edges of the back cover.
US11209872B2	Electronic device module, method of manufacturing the same and electronic apparatus An electronic device module includes a substrate, a first component disposed on a first surface of the substrate, a sealing portion disposed on the first surface of the substrate, a second component disposed on the first surface of the substrate and embedded in the sealing portion, and a shielding wall at least partially disposed between the first component and the second component and including a portion having a height, with respect to the first surface of the substrate, that is lower than a height of the sealing portion.
US11209871B2	Explosion-proof tablet form closure housing An explosion-proof enclosure includes a front cover (first housing half or portion) and a rear cover (second housing half or portion) joined together by a retention member inserted into a passageway at least partially formed by structures of both the front cover and the rear cover. The enclosure includes an internal chamber for containing an associated electronic device. The passageway generally extends peripherally about the internal chamber. In one exemplary embodiment, the retention member is a ball-chain and the passageway completely surrounds the internal chamber such that respective end portions of the ball-chain overlap. A sealing element is provided for sealing respective mating surfaces of the front cover and rear cover. In another example, the retention member is a rigid split retention member.
US11209869B2	Attachable displays screen for electronic devices The present disclosure provides an attachable external display screen for use on electronic devices. The display screen may be removably mounted onto a surface of an electronic device to provide the user with an additional display screen. The attachable display screen utilizes a dual sliding mechanism that allows for the display screen to slide out to different lengths relative to the screen of the electronic device. The attachable display screen is also rotatable about a vertical axis, which allows a user to adjust the angle of the display screen.
US11209868B2	Display device and method of manufacturing a display device Provided is a display device including: a bottom member; a display panel on the bottom member, the display panel configured to emit light; a top member on the display panel; a touch screen panel on the top member; and a groove region formed by removing at least a portion of at least one of the top member and the bottom member at a bent portion of the display device.
US11209863B2	Magnetic configurations for flexible display computing devices Reconfigurable touch screen computing devices with folding configurations that include flexible and/or rigid displays made up of segments reconfigured from a compact state to an expanded state are described. The form factor of the compact state is the size of a handheld phone (including an integrated speaker and microphone). The form factor of the expanded state is the size of a tablet computer (including the mechanical functionality of a laptop). Both states provide a configuration including a touch screen display on a front side and a protective housing on a back side. The computing devices include sensors indicating the state and mechanisms for folding, alignment, and structural support, and magnets for the devices to be locked in the folded or unfolded state. A module attached to at least one segment may contain substantially all processing and memory, and a communications system, all which may be used in either state.
US11209848B2	Fast regulator architecture having transistor helper Apparatus and methods for assisting a voltage regulator. In an example, a voltage regulator can include an error amplifier configured to compare a reference voltage with a representation of an output voltage of the voltage regulator, an output transistor coupled to a supply voltage and configured to receive an output of the error amplifier and to provide the output voltage, and an auxiliary-current circuit including a helper transistor having a terminal coupled to the output voltage, the helper transistor configured to turn on when the output voltage drops due to current demand from the load and to provide charge current to the load in addition to current provided by the output transistor.
US11209839B1	Pump controller apparatus A control valve (10) includes a valve body with a plurality of ports (A, B, C, D, E, F) and a plurality of annular flow passages (53, 55,57). A piston (34) which includes a plurality of annular flow passages and a longitudinal flow passage is selectively movable within a bore (32) within the valve body through operation of a valve controller (70). The valve controller is selectively operative to control the position of the piston so as to enable liquid flow through a plurality of flow paths. A pump controller is operative to selectively control operation of a water well pump that supplies water to the control valve.
US11209836B1	Long line loiter apparatus, system, and method Physical and logical components of a long line loiter control system address control of a long line loiter maneuver conducted beneath a carrier, such as a fixed-wing aircraft. Control may comprise identifying, predicting, and reacting to estimated states and predicted states of the carrier, a suspended load control system, and a long line. Identifying, predicting, and reacting to estimated states and predicted states may comprise determining characteristics of state conditions over time as well as response time between state conditions. Reacting may comprise controlling a hoist of the carrier, controlling thrusters of the suspended load control system, and or controlling or issuing flight control instructions to the carrier so as not to increase the response time and or to avoid a hazard.
US11209832B2	Elevator interactions by mobile robot A mobile robot is configured for operation in a commercial or industrial setting, such as an office building or retail store. The robot can patrol one or more routes within a building, and can detect violations of security policies by objects, building infrastructure and security systems, or individuals. In response to the detected violations, the robot can perform one or more security operations. The robot can include a removable fabric panel, enabling sensors within the robot body to capture signals that propagate through the fabric. In addition, the robot can scan RFID tags of objects within an area, for instance coupled to store inventory. Likewise, the robot can generate or update one or more semantic maps for use by the robot in navigating an area and for measuring compliance with security policies.
US11209826B2	Anti-collision airport system Anti-collision airport system including a motorized mobile device to be moved close to an aircraft. The system includes a database to record structural characteristics of categories of aircraft and structural characteristics of the motorized mobile device. The controller is configured to identify a category corresponding to the aircraft and a positioning of the motorized mobile device with respect to the aircraft, search and retrieve, from the database, structural characteristics associated with the category corresponding to the aircraft and structural characteristics of the motorized device, calculate a trajectory for the movement of the motorized mobile device on the basis of the structural characteristics of the aircraft and of the motorized mobile device and of the positioning of the motorized mobile device with respect to the aircraft, and control the motorized mobile device according to the calculated trajectory.
US11209824B1	Navigation system and method for guiding an autonomous vehicle through rows of plants or markers A system and method to guide an autonomous vehicle through an area along a path. The area has path markers that define a guidance row. The vehicle has a steering system controlling a steerable wheel to move the vehicle along the path, a control system transmitting steering instructions to the steering system, a guidance system having a data gathering device engaging the path markers and a guidance computer, connected to the control system having a guidance program that calculates the position of the guidance row, the position of the vehicle, the location where the vehicle should be to be on the path and the necessary steering instructions to get on or stay on the path. The path markers can be the trunk of a plant, a post or other upwardly extending member and the data gathering devices can be a LIDAR, radar, camera or other object identification system.
US11209822B2	Techniques for contacting a teleoperator Techniques and methods for contacting a teleoperator. For instance, while navigating to a location, progress of an autonomous vehicle may stop. This may be caused by the autonomous vehicle yielding to another vehicle, such as at an intersection or when the other vehicle is located along a route of the autonomous vehicle. While yielding to the other vehicle, the autonomous vehicle may determine that the progress has stopped for a threshold amount of time. Additionally, in some circumstances, the autonomous vehicle may determine that the progress not been stopped due to traffic or a traffic light. Based at least in part on the determinations, the autonomous vehicle may send sensor data to the teleoperator, where the sensor data represents an environment for which the autonomous vehicle is located. Additionally, the autonomous vehicle may send an indication of the other vehicle to the teleoperator.
US11209821B2	Labeling autonomous vehicle data Sensor data collected from an autonomous vehicle data can be labeled using sensor data collected from an additional vehicle. The additional vehicle can include a non-autonomous vehicle mounted with a removable hardware pod. In many implementations, removable hardware pods can be vehicle agnostic. In many implementations, generated labels can be utilized to train a machine learning model which can generate one or more control signals for the autonomous vehicle.
US11209818B2	Method and device for automated driving with a safe stop point A method for controlling the operation of an automatic driving assistance system of a motor vehicle, which is designed for independent vehicle guidance. When at least one driving control takeover condition is met which brings about deactivation of the driving assistance system when driving control is taken over by the driver, at least one takeover request is output to the driver. If the driver does not react to this takeover request, replanning of the original route occurs with an original destination to a stopping point which can be approached in an automated manner. The replanning occurs in such a way that the stopping point constitutes, in the context of the present position of the motor vehicle with respect to the original destination, an optimum stopping point which is determined according to at least one optimality criterion.
US11209816B2	Autonomous long range aerial vehicles and fleet management system Autonomous airship fleet operation includes receiving a mission request. A fleet manager in response to receipt of a mission request, plans a mission having a corresponding mission path and corresponding mission tasks based on a vehicle occupancy map. The fleet manager selects one or more candidate vehicles for the mission based on a correlation of at least one vehicle capability to a capability requirement determined from the mission request. The fleet manager further coordinates operation of the selected vehicles for a duration of the mission request, thereby fulfilling the at least one mission objective of the mission request.
US11209810B2	Predicting noncompliance conditions of rotating machinery in aerial vehicles Aspects of the present disclosure provide a method and apparatus for predicting noncompliance conditions of rotating machinery in aerial vehicles. Embodiments include receiving records related to historical noncompliance conditions of a plurality of rotating machines. The records include deceleration time values related to the plurality of rotating machines. Embodiments include generating, based at least on the deceleration time values and the historical noncompliance conditions, a predictive model. Embodiments include receiving sensor data related to a rotating machine of an aerial vehicle. Embodiments include determining, based on the sensor data, a series of deceleration time values for the rotating machine. Embodiments include using the predictive model to determine whether a noncompliance condition is predicted to occur for the rotating machine based on the series of deceleration time values.
US11209807B2	Anomaly detection A method includes receiving a first time-dependent data characterizing measurement by a first sensor operatively coupled to an oil and gas industrial machine; determining a first anomaly score associated with a first portion of the first time-dependent data over a time period, the determination is based on a first value of an operating characteristic over the time period and a second value of the operating characteristic over the time period, wherein the first value of the operating characteristic is calculated from the first time-dependent data and the second value of the operating characteristic is detected at the oil and gas industrial machine; and rendering, in a graphical user interface display space, a visual representation indicative of the first anomaly score. Related apparatus, systems, articles, and techniques are also described.
US11209805B2	Machine learning system for adjusting operational characteristics of a computing system based upon HID activity Technologies are described for utilizing machine learning (“ML”) to adjust operational characteristics of a computing system based upon detected HID activity. Labeled training data is collected with user consent that includes data describing HID activity and data that identifies user activity taking place on a computing device when the data HID activity took place. A ML model is trained using the labeled training data that can receive data describing current HID activity and identify user activity currently taking place on another computing device based upon the current HID activity. The ML model can then select features of the other computing device that are beneficial to the identified user activity. The ML model can then cause one or more operational characteristics of the other computing device to be adjusted based upon the identified user activity, thereby saving valuable computing resources. A UI can also be presented that describes the identified features.
US11209804B2	Intelligent processing tools One or more first parameters associated with an electronic device manufacturing process are monitored. An artificial neural network associated with the one or more first parameters is determined. One or more second parameters are determined using the artificial neural network. The one or more first parameters are adjusted using the one or more second parameters.
US11209803B2	Firewall system and method for establishing secured communications connections to an industrial automation system A connection management device for establishing secured communications connections to an industrial automation system, wherein the device provides, in cases of a positive authorization verification outcome, access control information for establishing an encrypted communication connection between a first communication unit of a requesting user and a selected second communication unit, where the connection management device is formed by a server instance running on a firewall system, where data packets transmitted via an encrypted communications connection between the first communication unit of the requesting user and the selected second communication unit are encrypted for verification by the firewall system, based on specified security rules and, in cases of a successful verification, the data packets are forwarded encrypted to the first communication unit of the requesting user or to the selected second communication unit.
US11209782B2	Audible wristwatch assembly An audible wristwatch assembly for alerting a blind user of the time of day and calendar date includes a strap that is worn around a user's wrist. The strap is extended through a housing and the housing has a recess therein. An electronic clock is positioned within the housing to track the time of day and the calendar date. A speaker is coupled to the housing to emit audible sounds outwardly from the housing. An announcement button is movably coupled to the housing, and the announcement button is positioned in the recess to inhibit the announcement button from being inadvertently depressed. The speaker audibly emits the time of day and the calendar date when the announcement button is depressed to alert the user to the time of day and the calendar date.
US11209780B2	Adjustable timer An adjustable timer teaches time in a simple manner to those having difficulty understanding the concept of time. The timer displays remaining and elapsed time. The timer may be set to rotate a shaft at different speeds. A colored disk is attached to the shaft. Boards having faces with different numerical indicia reside in a cavity and may be interchanged by a user. The exposed board face corresponds to the setting of the timer such that one full rotation of the shaft and disk corresponds to the numerical indicia of the exposed board face.
US11209778B2	Movement and timepiece A movement includes a first wheel which includes a wheel main body which is configured by a resin material and a conductive layer which is configured by a material containing a conductive polymer and is provided on an outer surface of the wheel main body, and a second wheel which is configured by a metal material, in which the movement transmits a drive force of an electric motor module which is driven using a battery as an electrical power source. It is preferable that the conductive polymer is a material selected from polythiophene, polyacetylene, polyaniline, polyparaphenylene, and polyparaphenylenevinylene which is doped with an impurity.
US11209777B2	Electronic timepiece and method of reporting state of electronic timepiece An electronic timepiece includes: a main unit having a reporting unit that reports information to a user; a crown that can be pulled out from and pushed back into a main unit by the user; a sensor that detects a state of the electronic timepiece; and a processor, wherein the processor detects a state of the crown and the state detected by the sensor and switches between a plurality of modes in accordance with the state of the crown, and wherein upon detecting that the crown has been pulled out or pushed back in, the processor causes the electronic timepiece to operate in a state reporting mode in which the reporting unit reports the state detected by the sensor to the user.
US11209771B2	Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes an image forming device, a sheet feeder, and a housing. The image forming device forms an image on a recording medium. The sheet feeder stores the recording medium and conveys the recording medium toward the image forming device. The housing accommodates an electrical device in the housing. The housing includes a housing body and a drawer that is drawn out from the housing body. The drawer includes a bottom plate on which the electrical device is placeable and a partition above the bottom plate on which the electrical device is placeable.
US11209767B2	Image-forming apparatus Toner contains toner base particles and an organosilicon polymer on the surface of the toner base particles, and silica particles are added to the toner as an external additive. The surface roughness Rz of an intermediate transfer belt, against which a blade abuts, in the width direction of the intermediate transfer belt perpendicular to the belt conveying direction is larger than the average particle diameter Ry of the organosilicon polymer and is smaller than the average particle diameter Rk of the silica particles.
US11209762B2	Method for error handling in the toner refill process An image forming apparatus is provided. The image forming apparatus includes a print engine to perform a print job by using a toner filled in a toner cartridge, a communication apparatus to communicate with a memory chip attached to a toner refill apparatus refilling the toner in the toner cartridge, and a processor to, based on an error being found in a toner injection process for the toner cartridge by using the toner refill apparatus, store information related to the error in the toner cartridge.
US11209751B2	Image forming apparatus including toner cartridge and developing unit having developing shutter A toner cartridge includes a toner lock member. A developing unit includes a developing lock member configured to lock a developing shutter in a first closed position in a state where the toner cartridge is detached from the developing unit. When the toner cartridge is detached from the developing unit, the toner lock member is in a lock position. When the toner cartridge is attached to the developing unit, the casing is pivotable relative to the developing unit between a first position and a second position. When the casing is at the first position, the toner shutter closes a toner opening and the developing shutter is at the first closed position. When the casing is at the second position, the toner shutter opens the toner opening, the toner lock member is in an unlock position, and the developing shutter is at the first open position.
US11209749B2	Process cartridge having toner receiving portion A process cartridge includes a photosensitive member and a developing unit. The developing unit includes a frame to store toner, a developing roller to carry the toner, a side seal to contact an end portion of the developing roller and prevent the toner from leaking out, and a sealing sheet to contact a center portion of the developing roller and prevent the toner from leaking out. A toner receiving portion of the frame includes an opening facing the developing roller and is disposed on an upstream side of the side seal and a downstream side of a contact portion where the developing roller contacts the photosensitive member, and moreover is disposed at a position overlapping with the side seal. The developing unit includes a blocking member to block at least a part of the opening, and the blocking member is disposed between the opening and the developing roller.
US11209745B2	Component movement mechanism for an image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus may include a photosensitive member, a developing device including a developing roller, pressing members configured to engage with the developing device and springs configured to urge the pressing members. In some examples, each of the pressing members may be configured to contact and move the developing device between various positions based on the urging of the springs. Additionally or alternatively, various ends of a contact surface of the developing roller configured to contact developer may be disposed relative to an axis line of the developing roller and pressing surfaces of the pressing members.
US11209743B2	Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes a first photosensitive drum, a first developing unit including a first developing roller configured to contact the first photosensitive drum, a second photosensitive drum, and a second developing unit including a second developing roller configured to contact the second photosensitive drum. The image forming apparatus includes a first movement mechanism configured to move the first developing unit so that the first developing unit is located at a first contact position and a first separation position, and a second movement mechanism configured to move the second developing unit so that the second developing unit is located at a second contact position, a second separation position, and an intermediate position between the second contact position and the second separation position.
US11209731B2	Imprint device and method for manufacturing article In order to provide an imprint device capable of reducing pattern defects, the imprint device which brings a mold into contact with an imprint material on a substrate and transfers a shape of a surface of the mold onto the substrate includes: a mold holding part which holds the mold; a substrate holding part which holds the substrate; and a measuring unit which measures a contact force generated when a part of the mold or the mold holding part is brought into contact with a predetermined contact part, wherein the contact part is installed at a position in a predetermined plane different from a position in the predetermined plane of the substrate held by the substrate holding part and is installed at a height position corresponding to a height of a surface of the substrate held by the substrate holding part.
US11209720B1	Camera module and electronic device having image-capturing function Provided is a camera module, including: a lens group including a lens barrel and a camera lens; and a driver assembly configured to drive the camera lens to move and including a magnetic portion. The camera lens includes a magnetic matching portion. The magnetic portion and the magnetic matching portion are respectively located at two ends of a side wall of the lens barrel in a thickness direction, and are connectable to each other through magnetic attraction, in such a manner that the camera lens is driven by the driver assembly to move along the optical axis of the camera lens. In this way, the side wall of the lens barrel is free of a through hole, so that light is prevented from entering the lens barrel via the through hole, thereby prolonging the lifetime of the camera module and improving the image-capturing effect.
US11209713B2	Electrochromic element and electrochromic dimming element To provide an electrochromic element, which contains: a first electrode; a second electrode; and an electrolyte provided between the first electrode and the second electrode, wherein the first electrode contains a polymer product obtained through polymerization of an electrochromic composition where the electrochromic composition contains a radical polymerizable compound containing triarylamine.
US11209711B2	Method for preparing multi-stable electroresponsive smart window A multi-stable electroresponsive smart window and preparation method thereof are disclosed. The multi-stable electroresponsive smart window comprises a first light transmitting conductive substrate, a parallel orientation layer, a positive polymer stabilized cholesteric texture layer, a positive cholesteric texture layer and a second light transmitting conductive substrate disposed in stack successively. The multi-stable electroresponsive smart window of the present disclosure can realize a diversified light transmission state such as colored and transparent state, colored and blur state, colorless and blur state, and colorless and transparent state by changing the magnitude of the access voltage, thereby satisfying the various demands in people's work and life. In addition, the multi-stable electroresponsive smart window of the present disclosure has the characteristics of simple production, rich patterns, energy saving and environmental protection, which has good application prospects in the fields of window glass, home glass window and glass curtain wall, and the like.
US11209708B2	Display device According to one embodiment, a display device includes a display area including a liquid crystal layer disposed in a display area, the liquid crystal layer including a polymer and a liquid crystal molecule, wherein when a direction of light incident on the display area from a light source element is defined as an incident direction and a direction in which pixels are selected sequentially is defined as a scan direction, the incident direction is opposite to the scan direction, and a direction in which the polymer extends linearly crosses both the incident direction and the scan direction.
US11209700B2	Method for manufacturing liquid crystal panel, method for manufacturing retardation plate, and wire grid polarizing plate A method for manufacturing a liquid crystal panel includes irradiating a film of a photo-alignment film material formed on a surface of a substrate with light emitted from a light source and polarized by polarizers, the polarized light irradiation being performed while the substrate and/or the light source is moved, each of the polarizers including a polarized light transmissive region and a light-shielding region that surrounds the polarized light transmissive region, the polarized light transmissive region including end portions where the width of the polarized light transmissive region in a Y direction decreases toward the ends in an X direction, the polarizers being coupled with each other such that at least one end portion of each polarized light transmissive region is superimposed on an end portion of an adjacent polarized light transmissive region as viewed in the Y direction, wherein the X direction and the Y direction are perpendicular to each other in a plane parallel to the main surfaces of the polarizers, and the Y direction is a moving direction of the substrate relative to the light source.
US11209694B2	Polarizing structure and display device Disclosed in the present disclosure is a polarizing structure, including a pressure sensitive adhesive layer having a smaller refractive index and provided with a plurality of grooves; an optical compensation film having a larger refractive index, on which are provided with a plurality of protruding structures associated with the grooves. Further provided is a display device.
US11209685B2	Display device A display device includes: a panel including a display screen and a side face that extends along a periphery of the display screen; a backlight located on a side of the panel opposite to the display screen to radiate light on the panel; a case, for containing the backlight, including a bottom that faces the panel with the backlight is between and a side wall that stands at a periphery of the bottom and faces the side face of the panel; and a combining member provided between the side face of the panel and the side wall to combine the panel and the case.
US11209676B2	Local dimming in a device An optical assembly is configured to receive visible scene light at a backside of the optical assembly and to direct the visible scene light on an optical path toward the eyeward side. The optical assembly also includes a dimming layer disposed on the optical path, where the dimming layer includes a photochromic material that is configured to darken in response to exposure to a range of light wavelengths. An activation layer, included in the optical assembly, is also disposed on the optical path and includes an in-field dimmer. The in-field dimmer is configured to selectively emit an activation light within the range of light wavelengths to activate a darkening of a region of the dimming layer to dim the visible scene light within the region.
US11209663B2	Camera module There is provided a camera module including a plurality of ball bearings to support the driving of a lens barrel at the time of compensating for unintended camera movement due to disturbance such as hand shake. The lens barrel may be driven in first and second directions, independently, by one driving force exerted in the first direction perpendicular to an optical axis and by another driving force exerted in the second direction perpendicular to both the optical axis and the first direction, thereby preventing driving displacement from being generated at the time of compensating for unwanted motion such as hand shake while securing reliability against external impact, and having reduced power consumption at the time of compensating for the disturbance.
US11209660B2	Projecting an image of an object on an image plane A system for projecting an image of an object on an image plane can include a beam splitter that outputs a first image beam and a second image beam in response to an input image beam, wherein the input image beam comprises an image of an object. The system can also include a Fourier transform lens to transform the second image beam into a Fourier image beam. The system can further include a bucket detector that is aligned in a light path of the Fourier image beam. The bucket detector asserts a control signal in response to detecting a threshold number of photons with an elevated probability of having a high spatial frequency within a timeframe and to de-assert the control signal in response to detecting less than the threshold number of photons with an elevated probability of having a high spatial frequency within the timeframe.
US11209645B2	Display device and method, head-up display system, means of transportation and storage medium A display device and method, a head-up display system, a means of transportation and a storage medium are disclosed. The display device includes a display module, an image analysis device and a controller. The display module includes a plurality of display subareas, and each of the display subareas includes at least one display pixel; the image analysis device is configured to perform an analysis of an input image received by the image analysis device, so as to obtain an information zone of the input image and a non-information zone outside the information zone; and the controller is configured to render brightness of a display pixel, with a lowest brightness in a first region, in the first region of the display module higher than brightness of any display pixel in at least part of a second region of the display module, when the display module displays the input image.
US11209638B2	Systems and methods for supporting and positioning body tissue samples in a microscope A stage apparatus is disclosed for supporting and positioning a body tissue sample in a microscope. The stage apparatus has (a) an elongated base mount having a longitudinal body extending between a first end and a second end, (b) means for attaching the first end of the base to a mount or platform associated with the microscope, (c) a tissue mount having a tissue well attached to an elongated mount stem, the tissue well of sufficient size and shape to store the body tissue sample, and (d) means for attaching the second end of the base mount and the tissue mount, the tissue mount being removable and separable from the base mount.
US11209635B2	Magnification compensation and/or beam steering in optical systems Techniques are disclosed for magnification compensation and/or beam steering in optical systems. An optical system may include a lens system to receive first radiation associated with an object and direct second radiation associated with an image of the object toward an image plane. The lens system may include a set of lenses, and an actuator system to selectively adjust the set of lenses to adjust a magnification associated with the image symmetrically along a first and a second direction. The lens system may also include a beam steering lens to direct the first radiation to provide the second radiation. In some examples, the lens system may also include a second set of lenses, where the actuator system may also selectively adjust the second set of lenses to adjust the magnification along the first or the second direction. Related methods are also disclosed.
US11209634B2	Optical system An optical system includes a splitting optic configured to receive a light beam from a light source and form a set of light bands radiating from the optical system at predetermined angles relative to illuminate a scene. The optical system further includes a lens configured to project a field of view of the scene into a two-dimensional format. The optical system further includes an optical sensor arranged offset from the central axis of the lens to capture a segment of the field of view projected by the lens.
US11209629B2	Camera optical lens comprising seven lenses of ++−−+−− or ++−−−+− refractive powers The present disclosure discloses a camera optical lens including a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens and a seventh lens. The camera optical lens further satisfies following conditions: 1.51≤f1/f≤2.50; 1.70≤n5≤2.20; 0.00≤f3/f4≤2.00; 3.00≤(R13+R14)/(R13−R14)≤10.00; and 1.70≤n6≤2.20; where f denotes focal length of the optical camera lens; f1 denotes focal length of the first lens; f3 denotes focal length of the third lens; f4 denotes focal length of the fourth lens; n5 denotes refractive index of the fifth lens; n6 denotes refractive index of the sixth lens; R13 denotes curvature radius of an object side surface of the seventh lens; and R14 denotes curvature radius of an image side surface of the seventh lens.
US11209628B2	Camera optical lens comprising seven lenses of ++-+-+- or +-+-+-refractive powers The present disclosure relates to optical lens, comprising from an object side to an image side in sequence: a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens and a seventh lens; the camera optical lens satisfies following conditions: 1.00≤f1/f≤1.50; 1.70≤n4≤2.20; −2.00≤f3/f4≤2.00; 0.50≤(R13+R14)/(R13−R14)≤10.00; and 1.70≤n7≤2.20; where, f denotes a focus length of the camera optical lens; f1, f3 and f4 denote focus lengths of the first lens, the third lens and the fourth length respectively; n4 denotes a refractive index of the fourth lens; n7 denotes a refractive index of the seventh lens; R13 and R14 denote curvature radiuses of an object side surface and an image side surface of the seventh lens, respectively.
US11209625B2	Camera optical lens The present disclosure relates to the technical field of optical lens and discloses a camera optical lens. The camera optical lens includes, from an object side to an image side: a first lens having a positive refractive power, a second lens having a negative refractive power, a third lens having a negative refractive power, a fourth lens, a fifth lens and a sixth lens. The camera optical lens satisfies following conditions: 10.00≤f2/f3≤20.00 and 1.00≤d2/d4≤3.00, where f2 denotes a focal length of the second lens; f3 denotes a focal length of the third lens; d2 denotes an on-axis distance from an image-side surface of the first lens to an object-side surface of the second lens; and d4 denotes an on-axis distance from an image-side surface of the second lens to an object-side surface of the third lens.
US11209624B2	Camera optical lens The present disclosure relates to the technical field of optical lens and discloses a camera optical lens. The camera optical lens includes, from an object side to an image side: a first lens, a second lens having a positive refractive power, a third lens having a negative refractive power, a fourth lens, a fifth lens and a sixth lens. The camera optical lens satisfies following conditions: 2.50≤f1/f≤6.00 and −20.00≤R11/d11≤−13.50, where f denotes a focal length of the camera optical lens; f1 denotes a focal length of the first lens; R11 denotes a curvature radius of an object-side surface of the sixth lens; and d11 denotes an on-axis thickness of the sixth lens. The camera optical lens can achieve a high imaging performance while obtaining a low TTL.
US11209616B1	Camera optical lens The present invention provides a camera optical lens including, sequentially from an object side to an image side: a first lens having a positive refractive power; a second lens having a negative refractive power; a third lens having a negative refractive power; a fourth lens having a positive refractive power; a fifth lens having a positive refractive power; and a sixth lens having a negative refractive power. The camera optical lens satisfies following conditions: 1.00≤d4/d6≤2.50; −5.00≤R6/R11≤−3.20; 22.00≤R7/d7≤33.00; and −2.00≤f3/f4≤−1.20. The camera optical lens can achieve high optical performance while satisfying design requirements for ultra-thin, wide-angle lenses having large apertures.
US11209614B2	Camera optical lens The present disclosure relates to the field of optical lenses and provides a camera optical lens. The camera optical lens includes, from an object side to an image side: a first lens having a positive refractive power; a second lens having a negative refractive power; a third lens having a positive refractive power; a fourth lens; a fifth lens; and a sixth lens. The camera optical lens satisfies following conditions: −3.00≤f2/f3≤−2.10 and 4.00≤d1/d3≤6.00, where f2 denotes a focal length of the second lens; f3 denotes a focal length of the third lens; d1 denotes an on-axis thickness of the first lens; and d3 denotes an on-axis thickness of the second lens. The camera optical lens can achieve a high optical imaging performance while obtaining a low TTL.
US11209610B2	Zoom lens and imaging apparatus The zoom lens consists of a positive first lens group, a negative second lens group moving during zooming, a positive third lens group moving during zooming, and a positive fourth lens group which does not move during zooming in order from an object side. Only the third lens group moves during focusing. A lens surface closest to an object is a convex surface. A conditional expression of 5
US11209589B2	Optical imaging system An optical imaging system (100) including an elongated lightguide (105) having pluralities of first and second light extractors (110) forming respective first and second patterns along the length of the lightguide is described. Light extracted by the first light extractors exit the lightguide primarily along a first direction toward a target location (150), and light extracted by the second light extractors exit the lightguide primarily along a second direction different from the first direction. The optical imaging system includes a first reflector (114) for receiving light exiting the lightguide primarily along the second direction and reflecting the received light toward the target location. The first reflector forms a first virtual image (132) of the second pattern behind the first reflector. The first pattern and the first virtual image are visible to a viewer (152) viewing the optical imaging system from the target location.
US11209582B2	Composition, curable composition, cured film, near infrared cut filter, infrared transmitting filter, solid image pickup element, infrared sensor, and camera module Provided are a composition that has excellent pigment dispersibility without affecting the color of a pigment in a visible range, a curable composition, a cured film, a near infrared cut filter, an infrared transmitting filter; a solid image pickup element, an infrared sensor, and a camera module. The composition includes: a pigment; a pigment derivative that includes a compound represented by Formula (1); and a solvent, in which R1 and R2 represent an aryl group or the like, R3 to R6 represent a cyano group, a heteroaryl group, or the like, R7 and R8 each independently represent —BR9R10 or the like, R9 and R10 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group, a heteroaryl group, an alkoxy group, an aryloxy group, or a heteroaryloxy group, L represents a single bond or a linking group, X represents an acidic group or the like, m represents an integer of 1 to 10, and n represents an integer of 1 to 10.
US11209578B2	Camera device A camera device includes a plurality of lenses and an annular body having a fixed hole. The plurality of lenses and the annular body are arranged between an object side and an image side along an optical axis. The annular body includes an annular main body, an outer circumferential portion, and an inner circumferential portion, wherein the annular main body connects to the outer circumferential portion and the inner circumferential portion, and the inner circumferential portion is non-circular and surrounds the optical axis to form the fixed hole. The camera device satisfies: EFL/√{square root over (4A/π)}=(EFL/Dx+EFL/Dy)×K1; K1≤0.49, where EFL is an effective focal length of the camera device, A is an area of the fixed hole, K1 is a coefficient, Dx is a maximum dimension of the fixed hole through which the optical axis passes, and Dy is a minimum dimension of the fixed hole through which the optical axis passes.
US11209577B2	Macro-scale features for optically black surfaces and straylight suppression Improved optically absorptive surfaces as well as surfaces and structures exhibiting reduced or minimized optical scattering or reflection, including an improved optically black surface that can be used for stray light suppression having macroscopic repetitive features with multiple facets and/or curved faces that direct near specular rays and scattered rays from one feature element to neighboring elements.
US11209573B2	Radio occultation aircraft navigation aid system One example includes an aircraft navigation system associated with an aircraft. The system includes a radio receiver configured to receive a radio signal that propagates from a remote transmitter through a portion of atmosphere to the aircraft. The system also includes an occultation processor configured to process the radio signal to determine a hazardous characteristic of the portion of the atmosphere through which the radio signal propagates. The system further includes an inertial navigation system (INS) configured to detect an intended flight path through the portion of the atmosphere and to provide a warning alarm in response to a determination of the intended flight path through the portion of the atmosphere comprising the determined hazardous characteristic.
US11209571B1	System and method for the calibration of a hydrophone line array in a quasi-diffuse ambient sound field A method is provided to measure a modulus of complex sensitivity of hydrophone data channels using a quasi-diffuse sound field. In the method, a radiation pattern representing shallow water sources directs to a location as a direct acoustic path and sound reflects to the location from the water bottom as a reflected acoustic path. At least one hydrophone receives the sounds at the location as acoustic signals with an acoustic intensity being the sound intensities along the acoustic paths. The sound intensity at the hydrophones also relates to a zenith angle and a bottom intensity reflection coefficient. The modulus of the frequency dependent sensitivity of the hydrophone is computed from measurements of the voltage output and voltages of reference hydrophones with the sound intensity as factor and with uncertainty reduced by averaging hydrophone sensitivities.
US11209568B2	Shield assembly for logging tool sensors A shield assembly for logging tool sensors includes a single piece cylindrical shield and first and second cylindrical end clamps deployed about opposing axial ends of the cylindrical shield. The cylindrical shield is deployed about a logging sensor disposed on a logging tool collar. At least one of the first and second end clamps includes one or more keys for engaging a corresponding slot in the shield and a corresponding pocket in an outer surface of the tool collar. Engagement of the key with the corresponding slot and the corresponding pocket is operative to prevent relative rotational and relative axial motion between the cylindrical shield, the first and second end clamps, and the tool collar.
US11209562B2	Method for deghosting seismic data acquired by a marine seismic source and receiver assembly In a method for deghosting seismic data acquired by a marine seismic source and receiver assembly effects of seismic reflections by the water surface, known as ghost signals, are removed by a deghosting algorithm, which transforms input seismic data with the surface ghost reflections into source- and receiver-deghosted seismic data using a sparse-inversion technique both for hydrophone and/or geophone recordings, which technique includes equation (26), thereby considerably improving usuable bandwidth and giving rise to a significant imaging uplift.
US11209558B2	Measurement of poroelastic pressure response Method for characterizing subterranean formation is described. One method involves injecting a fluid into an active well of the subterranean formation at a pressure sufficient to induce one or more hydraulic fractures. Measuring, via a pressure sensor, a poroelastic pressure response caused by inducing of the one or more hydraulic fractures. The pressure sensor is in at least partial hydraulic isolation with the one or more hydraulic fractures.
US11209553B2	Systems and methods for active supply chain monitoring Methods, devices, and systems for tracking an asset are provided. In particular, a device is provided that includes an array of sensors and communications modules configured to detect tracking information, including environmental conditions and physical events, and report the tracking information along with a geographical location of the device to a control server across a wireless network. Upon receiving the tracking information, the control server interprets the information and generates tracking reports for the device configured to be displayed to a graphical user interface of a third-party communication device.
US11209550B2	Band-spectrum interference visualizer in a global navigation satellite system receiver An apparatus for determining signal strength data within at least one allocated GNSS frequency band is provided. The apparatus includes a GNSS antenna. The GNSS antenna receives signals within the allocated GNSS frequency band. The apparatus further includes receiving circuitry. The receiving circuitry is for demodulating the received signals. The apparatus further includes a processor and memory for storing instructions, executable by the processor. The instructions include instructions for generating signal strength data for the received signals within the GNSS allocated frequency based on the demodulated signals, and for determining a position for a point of interest based upon the demodulated signals. Included in the apparatus is a display screen for displaying a graphical representation of the signal strength data of at least a portion of the at least one GNSS allocated frequency band. The graphical representation identifies interference within at least the portion of the at least one GNSS allocated frequency band.
US11209530B2	Method for imaging of nonlinear interaction scattering 1st and 2nd pulsed waves (103, 104) with 1st and 2nd center frequencies are transmitted along 1st and 2nd transmit beams so that the 1st and 2nd pulsed waves overlap at least in an overlap region (Z) to produce nonlinear interaction scattering sources in said region. The scattered signal components from at least the nonlinear interaction scattering sources are picked up by a receiver (102) and processed to suppress other components than said nonlinear interaction scattered signal components, to provide nonlinear interaction measurement or image signals. At least a receive beam is scanned in an azimuth or combined azimuth and elevation direction to produce 2D or 3D images of said nonlinear interaction scattering sources.
US11209521B2	Methods and systems for establishing prototype pulses Methods and systems for developing a prototype pulse in real-time. A method includes detecting, by a signal processor, a plurality of repetitive pulse signals carried in energy waves received at an antenna. The method further includes estimating time intervals corresponding to occurrences of the plurality of repetitive pulse signals and extracting a plurality of pulse signal segments detected by the signal processor during each of the time intervals over a time period. The signal processor selects a first pulse signal segment received during one of the time intervals and calculates respective time delays relative to the first pulse signal segment for each remaining pulse signal segment of the plurality of pulse signal segments. The signal processor then time-aligns the extracted pulse signal segments with the first pulse signal segment and averages the pulse signal segments to establish a prototype pulse signal.
US11209517B2	Mobile body detection device, mobile body detection method, and mobile body detection program A mobile body detection device: determines, in the case where a position of a first mobile body and a position of a second mobile body are approximately the same, that a mobile body is detected at the position; and determines, in the case where the position of the first mobile body and the position of the second mobile body are different and any of first reliability and second reliability exceeds a threshold, that a mobile body is detected at a position of a mobile body corresponding to the reliability exceeding the threshold.
US11209510B2	Unified coil (UNIC) systems and method for next generation magnetic resonance coils A unified coil assembly for magnetic resonance imaging is disclosed. The coil assembly includes an RF coil element and a shim coil array with a shim coil element. The shim coil element is physically separated or partially separated from the RF coil element. The shim coil element includes a DC current loop having a DC power supply connection to allow DC current to generate a local BO magnetic field. The unified coil array assembly is configured to simultaneously provide an RF mode for at least one of transmit or receive and a direct current mode to generate a local B0 magnetic field for B0 shimming Larger number of shim coils relative to the RF coil element provides superior shimming performance. The mutual inductance between the shim coil element and the RF coil element is minimized by proposed geometrical decoupling methods in order to minimize the RF interaction between the two.
US11209495B2	Method and device for monitoring a power electronic assembly A method for monitoring a power electronic assembly is improved to be more effective and versatile. It includes converting and/or modifying an electrical input into at least one electrical output by a conversion and/or modifying process which proceeds in connection with the power electronic assembly. During the conversion and/or modification a bit stream is generated by a delta-sigma modulator and represents the electrical value, that is to say the electrical input or the at least one electrical output. One bit stream each can also be generated by a plurality of delta-sigma modulators and represents the respective electrical value, that is to say the electrical input and the at least one electrical output. The power electronic assembly is monitored based on the one bit stream(s) thus generated and available as a result. The bit stream(s) is/are not demodulated, and therefore very meaningful information of the corresponding useful signal is provided.
US11209482B1	Methods and devices for testing comparators A device for a system on a chip (SOC), the device includes: a comparator that includes a first input port, a second input port, and an output port. A first input signal and a second input signal are split into N bit pairs that include one bit from the first input signal and one bit from the second input signal. The comparator is configured so a mismatch between the first input signal and the second input signal causes an output signal to assume a first expected state. The device further comprises a test controller to perform a first operability test by mismatching the N bit pairs and verifying that the output signal assumes the first expected state.
US11209476B2	Semiconductor inspection device An inspection system includes a light source, a mirror, Galvano mirrors, a casing that holds the mirror and the Galvano mirrors inside and includes an attachment portion for attaching an optical element, and a control unit that controls a deflection angle of the Galvano mirrors, wherein the control unit controls the deflection angle so that an optical path optically connected to a semiconductor device is switched between a first optical path passing through the Galvano mirrors and the mirror, and a second optical path passing through the Galvano mirrors and the attachment portion, and controls the deflection angle so that the deflection angle when switching to the first optical path has been performed and the deflection angle when switching to the second optical path has been performed do not overlap.
US11209461B2	Probe card device and neck-like probe thereof A probe card device and a neck-like probe thereof are provided. The neck-like probe includes a conductive pin and a ring-shaped insulator. The conductive pin includes a stroke segment and two end segments extending from the stroke segment. The stroke segment has two broad side surfaces and two narrow side surfaces, and each of the broad side surfaces has a long slot extending from one of the narrow side surfaces to the other one. The two long slots have a minimum distance therebetween that is 75%-95% of a maximum distance between the two broad side surfaces. The ring-shaped insulator surrounds a portion of the conductive pin having the two long slots, and a portion of the neck-like probe corresponding in position to a part of the ring-shaped insulator on the two broad side surfaces has a thickness that is 85%-115% of the maximum distance.
US11209460B2	Electrical connection device with a short-circuit wiring pattern that reduces connection wirings An electrical connection device includes: a plurality of probes (10) in which distal end portions contact an inspection object (2) during measurement; and a space transformer (30) including a plurality of connection wirings (33), in each of which a first terminal electrically connected to any of proximal end portions of the plurality of probes (10) is arranged on a first main surface (301), and a second terminal is exposed to a second main surface (302), and having a short-circuit wiring pattern formed on the first main surface, the short-circuit wiring pattern electrically connecting, to the same connection wiring (33), proximal end portions of a plurality of same-potential probes (10) set at a same potential during measurement among the plurality of probes (10).
US11209459B2	Common mode rejection ratio test system and method An electronic device test system includes a contactor having probe pairs with first and second conductive probes to couple to a respective conductive feature of a packaged electronic device or wafer die region. The system also includes a test circuit having a voltage source to provide a common mode voltage signal; a first buffer with a first input coupled to an output of the voltage source, an output coupled to a first conductive probe of a first probe pair, and a second input coupled to a second conductive probe of the first probe pair; and a second buffer with a first input coupled to the output of the voltage source, an output coupled to a first conductive probe of a second probe pair, and a second input coupled to a second conductive probe of the second probe pair.
US11209457B2	Abnormality detection device, abnormality detection method, and non-transitory tangible computer readable medium An abnormality is detected in a sensor system mounted on a vehicle and including first and second external sensors for acquiring external information and an internal sensor for acquiring internal information. An error, occurring in an internal motion physical quantity based on the internal information, is estimated based on the external information, and the error is corrected. A first external motion physical quantity based on the external information acquired by the first external sensor, a second external motion physical quantity based on the external information acquired by the second external sensor, and the internal motion physical quantity in which the error is corrected by the correction block are compared to determine an abnormality in the sensor system.
US11209456B2	Integrated movement measurement unit In one embodiment, a system includes an inertial measurement unit, a lidar sensor, and one or more processors configured to perform operations. The operations include receiving data from the lidar sensor. The operations include determining movement data based on the data received from the lidar sensor. The operations include receiving data from the inertial measurement unit. The operations include determining, based on the movement data and the data received from the inertial measurement unit, one or more calibration factors for the inertial measurement unit. The operations include applying the one or more calibration factors to a measurement received from the inertial measurement unit.
US11209449B2	Autosampler An autosampler includes: a sample cooling unit that is brought into thermally contact with a bottom surface of a sample rack so as to cool a sample accommodated in the sample rack; a condensed water receiver that has at least one hole on a bottom surface thereof, and is provided below the sample rack for receiving water condensed around the sample rack; a discharging passage configured in such a manner that a droplet falling from the at least one hole flows therein.
US11209444B2	Treatment for age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and pathogenic ocular neovascularization The present application is directed to the use of a VEGF-C inhibitor, a VEGFR-2 inhibitor and/or a VEGFR-3 inhibitor as a prophylactic or therapeutic for the treatment of eye disorders such as a maculopathy and pathogenic ocular neovascularisation. The application is also directed to the use of a VEGF-C measurement from a biological sample from a mammalian subject as a predictive marker, a selected marker, a responsive marker or a tracking marker for a disease or condition selected from the group consisting of a maculopathy and pathogenic ocular neovascularization.
US11209440B2	T cell balance gene expression, compositions of matters and methods of use thereof This invention relates generally to compositions and methods for identifying the regulatory network that modulates, controls or otherwise influences T cell balance, for example, Th17 cell differentiation, maintenance and/or function, as well compositions and methods for exploiting the regulatory network that modulates, controls or otherwise influences T cell balance in a variety of therapeutic and/or diagnostic indications. This invention also relates generally to identifying and exploiting target genes and/or target gene products that modulate, control or otherwise influence T cell balance in a variety of therapeutic and/or diagnostic indications.
US11209439B2	Identification of immunoglobulin free light chains by mass spectrometry This document relates to methods for identifying one or more immunoglobulin free light chains in a sample using mass spectrometry. For example, this document relates to a method for identifying one or more immunoglobulin free light chains in a sample that includes (a) providing a sample; (b) subjecting the sample to a mass spectrometry technique to obtain a mass spectrum of the sample; and (c) identifying the presence of the one or more immunoglobulin free light chains.
US11209435B2	Methods and compositions for identifying leukemic stem cells The present invention provides methods and compositions for identifying leukemic stem cells.
US11209430B2	Signal amplification in plasmonic specific-binding partner assays The present invention relates to analyte detection devices and methods of using such devices to detect minute quantities of a target analyte in a sample. In particular, the invention provides an analyte detection device comprising a plurality of composite metallic nanostructures conjugated to analyte binding partners and a surface containing a metallic nanolayer on which a plurality of capture molecules is immobilized. Methods of preparing composite nanostructures are also described.
US11209426B2	Method for diagnosing and treating Parkinson's disease via measurment of effector memory t-cells Methods and compositions for detecting and diagnosing Parkinson's disease are disclosed.
US11209424B2	Method for relative quantification of nucleic acid sequence, expression, or copy changes, using combined nuclease, ligation, and polymerase reactions The present invention is directed to methods for identifying the presence of one or more target nucleotide sequences in a sample that involve a ligation and/or polymerase reaction. In some embodiments, the ligation products formed in the ligation process of the present invention are subsequently amplified using a polymerase chain reaction. The ligated product sequences or extension products thereof are detected, and the presence of one or more target nucleotide sequences in the sample is identified based on the detection.
US11209423B2	Solid-state integrated real-time optical monitoring of biochemical assays The disclosed technology includes a planar device for performing multiple biochemical assays at the same time, or nearly the same time. Each assay may include a biosample including a biochemical, enzyme, DNA, and/or any other biochemical or biological sample. Each assay may include one or more tags including dyes and/or other chemicals/reagents whose optical characteristics change based on chemical characteristics of the biological sample being tested. Each assay may be optically pumped to cause one or more of luminescence, phosphorescence, or fluorescence of the assay that may be detected by one or more optical detectors. For example, an assay may include two tags and a biosample. Each tag may be pumped by different wavelengths of light and may produce different wavelengths of light that is filtered and detected by one or more detectors. The pump wavelengths may be different from one another and different from the produced wavelengths.
US11209415B2	Discrete element method for modelling a fracture evolution of a roadway surrounding rock A discrete element method for modelling fracture evolution of roadway surrounding rock is provided, which includes: taking rock cores from a coal seam in the field and recording RQD values, observing roadway deformation, and making a statistical analysis on distribution characteristics of fractures in the coal seam; testing mechanical parameters of coal-rock samples indoors, and calculating strength of a rock mass according to the RQD values; creating a numerical model by using a UDEC-Trigon module to adjust the parameters to match the strength of the rock mass, and correcting model parameters; and creating a numerical model of an engineering scale to adjust the parameters to match field deformation characteristics, and finally simulating fracture evolution of the roadway surrounding rock. The present invention provides accurate and basic mechanical parameters for discrete-element numerical simulation of roadway deformation, guaranteeing realistic and reliable simulation results.
US11209410B2	Dissolution tester assembly with integrated imaging system Dissolution tester assembly that tests pharmaceutical tablets includes a frame that operatively supports a vessel having an interior into which a tablet is placed, a camera assembly supported by the frame and including a shaft having a hollow portion and an end that extends into the vessel interior, and an imaging system for imaging the tablet during the dissolution process to enable display of the images on a monitor. The imaging system includes a first camera positioned in the hollow portion of the shaft and oriented to image downward toward a bottom of the vessel, and/or a second camera positioned on the frame at a location directly below the vessel and oriented to image upward toward the bottom of the vessel. An attachment, such as a paddle for stirring or a basket for retaining the tablet, may be positioned at the end of the shaft in the vessel.
US11209409B2	Bottle with sensors for probing and optimizing bottling line performance A bottle with sensors for probing and optimizing bottling line performance is disclosed. According to one embodiment a bottle, comprises an outer layer and a reservoir tube inside the outer layer that connects a reservoir inside the outer layer to a neck of the bottle. The bottle has a battery inside the outer layer and one or more sensors powered by the battery.
US11209408B2	Cooking oil pumping station with oil quality sensor A system for transporting and measuring the quality of cooking oil in a system. The system may include a fryer unit, a feed tank, a storage receptacle, and either a pumping station, direct flow pathway from the fryer unit to the storage receptacle, or both a pumping station and a direct flow pathway from the fryer unit to the storage receptacle. At least one oil quality sensor for measuring the quality of the oil, such as by measuring the electrical properties of the oil, may be placed in one of the various lines of the pumping station, in the direct flow pathway from the fryer unit to the storage receptacle, or any combination thereof.
US11209395B2	Baw sensing and filtration device and related methods A fluidic device incorporating at least one BAW resonator structure (e.g., a biosensing device) and a fluidic passage includes one or more features that provide filtration capability. Certain embodiments include at least one group of pillars extending into the fluidic passage which are arranged between an active region of the at least one BAW resonator structure and at least one fluidic port. Individual pillars are separated from one another by inter-pillar spaces that provide redundant fluid flow paths while preventing passage of obstruction media such as particulate matter, cells, and/or bubbles. Certain embodiments provide porous material arranged in fluid communication with at least one fluidic port and configured to filter contents of fluid supplied thereto. Porous material (e.g., porous membranes) may be provided in a cover structure of a fluidic device or within a filtration cartridge.
US11209390B2	Volumetric micro-injector for capillary electrophoresis A volumetric microfluidic injector for capillary electrophoresis (CE) for highly repeatable sample injection has been designed and built to eliminate known injection bias in hydrodynamic injection. A defined volume from 1-10 nL or 0.1-100 nL of sample is confined in a defined region of a micro-valve PDMS microfluidic injector chip and electrophoretic potential is applied to drive sample into a separation device such as an embedded fused silica capillary for separation and detection. Using a 75 μm ID capillary, the RSD of an absorbance peak area as low as 1.32% (n=11) is obtained. As a comparison, the time-dependent injection was tested using the same chip which resulted in an inferior repeatability.
US11209386B2	Electrochemical sensor An electrochemical sensor for potentiometric measurements in a measurement medium has a sensor head (201) at an end of a longitudinal sensor body (203). A sensing electrode (210) and a reference electrode (220) are disposed within the longitudinal sensor body. A liquid junction (223) is established between the reference electrode and the sensing electrode. The sensor is characterized by a protective outer shaft (250) with a polymeric sensor sleeve (230), which is electrically isolating, disposed within the protective outer shaft.
US11209385B2	Method for testing a gas sensor and gas-measuring device with a testing device for testing a gas sensor A method for testing a gas sensor and a gas-measuring device with a testing device for testing the gas sensor provides an improved analysis and evaluation of states of gas sensors. Due to a testing of a gas admission element, by monitoring measuring signals (35, (38) in a time course (400) in conjunction with dispensing (91, 91′, 91″) a quantity of test substance, it is made possible to check whether a gas supply to the gas sensor is possible (to check if the gas diffusion path is open) and given.
US11209379B2	Boron doped diamond based electrochemical sensor heads An electrochemical sensor comprising: a boron doped diamond electrode formed of boron doped diamond material; an array of non-diamond carbon sites disposed on a sensing surface of the boron doped diamond electrode; electrochemically active surface groups bonded to the non-diamond carbon sites for generating a redox peak associated with a target species which reacts with the electrochemically active surface groups bonded to the non-diamond carbon sites when a solution containing the target species is disposed in contact with the sensing surface in use; an electrical controller configured to scan the boron doped diamond electrode over a potential range to generate said redox peak; and a processor configured to give an electrochemical reading based on one or both of a position and an intensity of said redox peak.
US11209375B2	Annealing parameter determination This disclosure relates to determining a material transition point such as a melt-point, and to determining an annealing parameter based on the determined material transition point. Changes in a parameter associated with an electromagnetic circuit coupled to an object subject to heating are monitored. A material transition point is determined upon detecting a predetermined change in the parameter. The annealing parameter is derived from the determined material transition point.
US11209363B2	Integrated device for temporal binning of received photons An integrated circuit includes a photodetection region configured to receive incident photons. The photodetection region is configured to produce a plurality of charge carriers in response to the incident photons. The integrated circuit also includes at least one charge carrier storage region. The integrated circuit also includes a charge carrier segregation structure configured to selectively direct charge carriers of the plurality of charge carriers into the at least one charge carrier storage region based upon times at which the charge carriers are produced.
US11209347B2	Optical measurement apparatus The invention refers to an optical measurement apparatus (10) with an optical device (18,20,22) and a liquid sample vessel (12) for measuring an optical parameter of a liquid sample (13) in the liquid sample vessel (12), comprising a drying circuit circulating drying air for venting the sample vessel (12), wherein the drying circuit comprises a mechanical water stop means (100) in the course of the drying circuit, the water stop means (100) comprising a conduit body (102) with a water-absorbing swelling element (120) arranged within the conduit body (102). The water stop means is simple and inexpensive and reliably protects all elements downstream of the water stop means from a water ingress upstream of the water stop means.
US11209342B2	Tamper-resistant chemical sampling Methods, systems, and apparatuses are disclosed for a tamper-resistant collection and retention a chemical sample. In one embodiment, the tamper-resistant system comprises a container operable to collect and retain a chemical sample, a tamper-resistant mechanism operable to disengage at a first chemical sample to allow for a collection of a chemical sample, wherein the tamper-resistant mechanism is operable to record one or more of: a date, a time, and a location, of the chemical sample during the collection of the chemical sample, and wherein the tamper-resistant mechanism is further operable to re-engage and lock after the collection of the chemical sample to resist subsequent chemical samples after the first chemical sampling.
US11209338B1	Optical and functional metrology of microstructured optical fibers Described are systems and techniques for characterizing optical fibers. Disclosed systems and techniques employ optical metrology, functional metrology, or both to characterize microstructured optical fibers and determine fiber characteristics, errors, and quality control metrics. The characteristics, errors, and quality control metrics are useful for improving the manufacturing of optical fibers.
US11209334B1	Portable camera controller platform for use with pipe inspection system A pipe inspection system including a camera head, a push-cable, and a controller platform for use in inspecting pipes or other cavities is disclosed.
US11209326B2	Pressure sensor device formed in board and electronic device including the same An electronic device for detecting pressure is provided. The electronic device includes a printed circuit board (PCB) including at least one element or circuit pattern for driving the electronic device, at least one electrode pattern formed to detect a pressure in the wiring layer included in the PCB, an elastic member arranged to be at least partially overlapped with the electrode pattern, and a pressure sensor circuit electrically connected to the electrode pattern included in the PCB. The pressure sensor circuit is configured to apply a voltage to the electrode pattern and measure intensity of the pressure based on a change in the voltage applied to the electrode pattern.
US11209320B2	Temperature sensor A temperature sensor that includes an organic-inorganic composite negative temperature coefficient thermistor and a transistor. The organic-inorganic composite negative temperature coefficient thermistor includes a thermistor layer which includes spinel-type semiconductor ceramic composition powder containing Mn, Ni and Fe and an organic polymer component, and a pair of electrode layers. The semiconductor ceramic composition powder has a molar ratio of Mn to Ni of 85/15≥Mn/Ni≥65/35 and a Fe content of 30 parts by mole or less when a total molar amount of Mn and Ni is regarded as 100 parts by mole, and has a peak with a local maximum value of around 29° to 31° in its X-ray diffraction pattern, a half width of which peak is 0.15 or more. The transistor is electrically connected with either one of the pair of electrode layers.
US11209308B2	Semiconductor light detection device and method of detecting light of specific wavelength Provided is a semiconductor light detection device having a relatively high detection sensitivity to a light component of a specific wavelength. The semiconductor light detection device includes: a semiconductor light receiving element, in which a first conductive layer is formed on a surface of a semiconductor substrate, a second conductive layer is formed below the first conductive layer, a third conductive layer is formed below the second conductive layer, and a photocurrent based on the intensity of incident light is output from the third conductive layer while an input voltage is applied to the first conductive layer; and a semiconductor detection circuit configured to output an output voltage based on a current difference between a first photocurrent and a second photocurrent being output in response to the application of the first input voltage and the second input voltage, respectively.
US11209302B1	System with vertical cable and drag elements for measuring level of dry bulk material in container A system for measuring a level of dry bulk material within a container has at least one vertical cable with a plurality of drag elements supported at spaced locations along a length of the cable. The drag elements each have at least one opening through which the cable extends. The vertical cable can be a single cable extending through the center of the drag elements, or multiple cables extending through spaced apart openings in the drag elements. A load cell is arranged to measure a cumulative weight of the cable and drag elements plus the downward force applied by the dry bulk material to the drag elements to provide a load cell signal proportional to the level of dry bulk material in the container. The drag elements can be provided in various shapes and configurations, including circular disks or cap-shaped elements having substantially flat horizontal upper surfaces.
US11209300B2	Fluid monitoring system and methods of use A fluid monitoring system for monitoring a volume of a fluid source. The system includes a flow sensor coupled to a fluid line in hydraulic communication with the fluid source. The system includes a fluid monitor having a unit counter configured to: receive a flow signal from the flow sensor; and transmit a unit signal to a processor based on the flow signal and an adjustable unit value. The processor configured to determine a remaining volume value of the fluid source based on a first volume value and the unit signal. The monitor configured to calibrate the remaining volume value through adjustment of the unit value via a first set of binary rotary switches and adjustment of the first volume value via a second set of binary rotary switches. The system further includes a control panel having a plurality of flow monitors in communication with a plurality of flow sensors.
US11209294B2	Thin proximity sensing device A thin proximity sensing device includes a transparent plate and a light sensor. The transparent plate includes a first surface and a second surface. The first surface is provided with a light source and a light entering area. The light source is arranged on the first surface. The second surface is provided with a reflector. The light sensor includes a light receiving area. The light sensor is arranged on the transparent plate. The reflector is capable of correspondingly reflecting specific incident light. The specific incident light refers to light that enters the transparent plate through the light entering area on the first surface after the light emitted by the light source is reflected externally, and is incident to the reflector. After reflected by the reflector, the specific incident light is reflected one or more times within the thickness of the transparent plate and is transmitted to the light sensor.
US11209292B2	Remote sensing system A system 1 for remote sensing of information to be transmitted, said system 1 comprising; an optical time-domain reflectometer, OTDR, 2 adapted to transmit an optical probe signal OPS into an optical fiber 3 and to measure a backscattered signal power; and at least one electro-optical signaling unit 4 connected to said optical fiber 3, wherein the electro-optical signaling unit 4 is configured to change an attenuation and/or a reflection of the optical probe signal OPS depending on at least one signal provided by one or more signal sources 5 in response to the information to be transmitted.
US11209278B2	Alternative routes A method is disclosed for determining a route taken by a user at a decision point in a navigable network in an area covered by an electronic map. The map comprises a plurality of segments representing navigable segments of the navigable network in the area covered by the electronic map. A user is travelling along a main route from an origin to a destination. An upcoming decision point is identified, and one or more alternative routes between the decision point and the destination generated. Data indicative of each route is stored in a route pool, associated with data indicative of the outgoing segment at the decision point that forms part of the route. Each route passes along a different outgoing segment, and which segments are all different to an outgoing segment included in a continuation of the main route. When the user has passed through the decision point, it is determined whether the current position of the user lies on the outgoing segment forming the continuation of the main route. If so, the main route continues to be used as the main route after passing through the decision point. If not, it is determined whether the current position is on an outgoing segment associated with one of the stored alternative routes. If so, then this alternative route is used as the new main route after the decision point. If not, a new alternative route from the decision point to the destination passing along the outgoing segment on which the current position is found is generated, and used as the new main route after passing the decision point.
US11209276B2	Devices and methods for a sensor platform of a vehicle In one example, a vehicle includes a platform and a yaw sensor mounted on the platform. The yaw sensor provides an indication of a yaw rate of rotation of the yaw sensor. The vehicle also includes an actuator that rotates the platform. The vehicle also includes a controller coupled to the yaw sensor and the actuator. The controller receives the indication of the yaw rate from the yaw sensor. The controller also causes the actuator to rotate the platform (i) along a direction of rotation opposite to a direction of the rotation of the yaw sensor and (ii) at a rate of rotation based on the yaw rate of the yaw sensor. The controller also estimates a direction of motion of the vehicle in an environment of the vehicle based on at least the rate of rotation of the platform.
US11209275B2	Motion detection method for transportation mode analysis A method of determining a mode of transportation includes: collecting trip data utilizing sensors included in a mobile device during a trip; receiving contextual data related to a transportation system; forming one or more segments using the collected trip data; determining that at least one of the one or more segments is not associated with an airplane; determining that the at least one of the one or more segments is not associated with a train; determining that the at least one of the one or more segments is not associated with a bus; marking the at least one of the one or more segments as associated with a car.
US11209272B2	Circuit device, physical quantity measurement device, electronic apparatus, and vehicle A circuit device includes a detection signal terminal to which a detection signal from a vibrator is input, a digital signal terminal that performs at least one of an input and an output of a digital signal, a detection circuit, and a signal generation circuit that generates a noise reduction signal based on the digital signal. The detection circuit includes an amplification circuit that amplifies the detection signal. The amplification circuit performs addition processing of a signal obtained by amplifying the detection signal and the noise reduction signal.
US11209255B1	Press load process for warheads An improved process provides high-density pre-form billets that meet dimensional limitations required for case-load tooling. Previous isostatic fill procedures were improved in two ways to accommodate varying bulk densities or powder compositions. First, during the isostatic fill procedure, the powder fill is subject to both a high frequency vibration and a high amplitude, low frequency impulse. The combination of these two inputs is critical to ensure polymer bonded explosives pack to consistent densities. Second, unlike in conventional practices, the fill rate is kept constant throughout the entire fill process and the mold is completely filled by the time the required powder mass has been dispensed.
US11209250B2	Detonator retention system for boosters The present invention relates to a device, a system and a method for retaining detonators in an explosive booster, particularly a retention device for retaining a detonator in the blind hole of a booster which allows the safe extraction thereof from the booster. The retention device comprises a flexible holding means that is movable between a blocking position retaining the detonator inside the blind hole and an open position which allows extracting the detonator from the blind hole.
US11209246B2	Apparatus for a directed-energy weapon An apparatus for a directed-energy weapon comprises an assessment system arranged to, during an assessment phase, perform an assessment of a target environment, wherein the target environment comprises a target; and a controller arranged to, during the assessment phase, control the directed energy weapon to direct energy towards the target environment so that the assessment system can perform the assessment using the directed energy.
US11209245B2	Barrier for absorbing very high power bullets and uses thereof This disclosure is directed to an improved ballistic concrete mixture which is operable to be cast in many forms such as blocks. The improved ballistic concrete mixture provides an effective barrier for stopping projectiles with a kinetic energy of between about 1.0 kJ (750 foot-pounds) and 20.3 kJ (15,000 foot-pounds) in between about 3 inches and 10 inches such as a fifty-caliber round. The improved ballistic concrete mixture is useful in the erecting of new structures which need ballistics protection or for retrofitting existing structures with ballistics protection.
US11209242B2	Recoil spring guide mounted target marker In an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, a target marker for a firearm may comprise a module having a first portion, and a second portion electrically connected and coupled to the first portion. A light source may be disposed within and electrically connected to the second portion. An optical component may be coupled to the first portion at a first fixed distance from the light source. A circuit board may be electrically connected to the light source via at least one lead, wherein the lead may permit relative movement between the circuit board and the light source and may maintain a second fixed distance between the circuit board and the light source.
US11209221B2	Modified shaped heat exchanger inlets/outlets A modified shaped heat exchanger hot air inlet and hot air outlet comprising a first heat exchanger manifold surrounding said hot air inlet and a second heat exchanger manifold surrounding said hot air outlet; an array of shaped inlets and shaped outlets, each of said shaped inlets and shaped outlets being configured to align vertices with thermal load directions responsive to a thermal expansion mismatch between the hot air inlet and hot air outlet and respective first heat exchanger manifold and second heat exchanger manifold.
US11209217B2	Mechanical vapour compression arrangement having a low compression ratio The invention relates to a mechanical vapour compression (MVC) desalination arrangement having a low compression ratio, with latent-heat exchangers having a high latent-heat exchange coefficient, with a temperature gradient between primary vapour and secondary vapour of approximately 1° C. or less, a compression ratio of 1.11 or less, high vapour volume, low overheating and a low-temperature saline solution to be desalinated, which arrangement allows industrial desalination with less specific energy per unit of desalinated water and is coupled to 100% renewable off-grid energy sources.
US11209202B2	Storage container for storing ice cubes and for preventing or reversing ice cube clumping A refrigeration device, a freezer device, or a device having both, with a cooled interior space and with a storage container for ice cubes located in this interior space. The device includes an ice cube maker that produces ice cubes. The ice cubes are received in the storage container. A pulse generation is provided, in which one or multiple pulses are applied to the storage container.
US11209196B2	HFO-1234ZE, HFO-1225ZC and HFO-1234YF compositions and processes for producing and using the compositions A fluoropropene composition comprising Z-1,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene, E-1,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene, 1,1,3,3,3-pentafluoropropene, 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene, and optionally 1,1,1,3,3-pentafluoropropane wherein the 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene being present in an amount of 0.00001 to 1.0%. A method of producing the fluoropropene, methods for using the fluoropropene and the composition formed are also disclosed.
US11209191B2	Ejector cycle with dual heat absorption heat exchangers A system has a first compressor and a second compressor. A heat rejection heat exchanger is coupled to the first and second compressors to receive refrigerant compressed by the compressors. The system includes an economizer for receiving refrigerant from the heat rejection heat exchanger and reducing an enthalpy of a first portion of the received refrigerant while increasing an enthalpy of a second portion. The second portion is returned to the compressor. The ejector has a primary inlet coupled to the means to receive a first flow of the reduced enthalpy refrigerant. The ejector has a secondary inlet and an outlet. The outlet is coupled to the first compressor to return refrigerant to the first compressor. A first heat absorption heat exchanger is coupled to the economizer to receive a second flow of the reduced enthalpy refrigerant and is upstream of the secondary inlet of the ejector. A second heat absorption heat exchanger is between the outlet of the ejector and the first compressor.
US11209190B2	Hybrid heat pump system A hybrid heat pump system including first compression means operable to form a refrigerant vapor and increases the pressure of the refrigerant vapor; condensing means to receive pressurized vapor and condense the vapor to a liquid; pressure reduction means through which the liquid refrigerant passes to reduce the pressure of the liquid to form a mixture of liquid and vapor refrigerant; evaporator means to receive the mixture of liquid and vapor refrigerant to evaporate the remaining liquid; second compression means including first and second inlet ports and an outlet port to receive a portion of the refrigerant vapor from the evaporator means and the pressurized vapor from the first compression means; increase the pressure thereof; and pass the pressurized vapor to the condensing means through the outlet port; and a conduit to pass a portion of the refrigerant vapor leaving the first compression means to the second compression means.
US11209188B2	Fuel-fired appliance with exhaust dilution A fuel-fired heating appliance comprises a fuel source, an air source, a chamber in which fuel and air mix, a burner downstream from the mixing chamber, an igniter proximate the burner, a heat exchanger, a blower and a flue pipe. An ambient air inlet may be defined by at least one of the outlet end of the blower and the flue pipe extending between the interior of the flue pipe and an area ambient to the flue pipe. A flow rate of combustion gas may be controlled to a level below a steady-state flow rate during appliance warm-up.
US11209183B1	Systems and methods for configuring climate control system speed controls A method of controlling an HVAC system including a motor having five taps, an HVAC controller connected to the motor, and a mobile device includes receiving user input identification of the motor on a user interface of the mobile device. A plurality of operating conditions and more than five speed settings available for the identified motor are displayed on the user interface. The method includes receiving from the user a selected speed of the speed settings for a first operating condition of the plurality of operating conditions, and transmitting the selected speed and the associated first operating condition to the HVAC controller for use in controlling a speed of the motor during the plurality of operating conditions.
US11209178B2	Apparatus and method for passively cooling an interior A system passively cools, regulates humidity and/or rectifies diffusive transport of water vapor in an interior area within a structure. The system includes a membrane assembly covering a portion of the structure, wherein the membrane has an interior side facing the interior area and an exterior side. The membrane assembly defines a plurality of pores. When cooling, a supply of fluid is provided to the membrane assembly so that capillary action of the pores redistributes the fluid to create evaporation and, in turn, the desired heat flow. The membrane assembly can include an architectural membrane coated with a porous matrix coating to form the pores. A pump can provide the fluid to the interior side of the membrane assembly. Preferably, the architectural membrane is woven PTFE-coated fiberglass and the porous matrix coating is titanium dioxide, zeolites and/or silica gel.
US11209176B2	Thermoelectric dehumidifier A high efficiency, low noise thermoelectric dehumidifier that includes a heat pipe array, a condensing heat sink, an air intake duct, and a thermoelectric cooler. A first air flow is directed over the condensing heat sink that is cooled by the thermoelectric cool such that the first air flow is dehumidified by the cooled condensing heat sink. Heat is removed from a hot side of the thermoelectric cooler via the heat pipe array. A second air flow is directed over the heat pipe array such that the heat extracted from the hot side of the thermoelectric cooler is extracted and circulated back into the ambient environment.
US11209168B2	KSV 4 in 1 fire pit The KSV 4in1 Fire Pit can be used in four different ways. It comes standard as a portable fire pit. However, you can also add to the KSV Fire Pit a powder coated steel pan accessory which during the day turns makes it an ice chest and cooler. It's perfect for keeping your wine, beer, soda, water, hors d'oeuvres, etc. . . . cold throughout the day. When it's time to start a fire, the user removes the cooler safety sleeve and slides out the cooler pan, and then slides in the heavier gauge stainless steel fire pan followed by the stainless steel safety sleeve. When you've created enough hot coals in the pan, the user can add the KSV soap stone accessory for sauteing their favorite meat, fish or vegetables or insert the stainless steel grill that fits directly inside and on top of the stainless safety sleeve. Once the coals cool, the user can cover the fire pan with the coffee table top that turns the KSV Pit into a handsome coffee table for breakfast and morning coffee. That's 4 uses in 1 beautiful accessory to an outdoor living patio.
US11209163B2	Gas turbine combustor, manufacturing method for gas turbine and gas turbine combustor A gas turbine combustor that mixes fuel with compressed air guided from a compressor to burn the fuel mixed with the compressed air to generate a combustion gas and supplies the generated combustion gas to a turbine is provided with: an inner cylinder forming a combustion chamber thereinside; an outer cylinder that covers the inner cylinder and forms, between the outer cylinder and the inner cylinder, a cylindrical outer peripheral flow path through which the compressed air flows; an end cover closing the end of the outer cylinder on an opposite side from a side the turbine is located; and a turn guide provided at the end on the end cover side of the inner cylinder, protruding from the outer peripheral surface of the inner cylinder toward the outer cylinder and smoothly connected to the inner peripheral surface of the inner cylinder.
US11209161B2	Combustor, gas turbine including the same and method of distributing compressed air in combustor Disclosed herein is a combustor capable of improving impingement cooling performance by reducing the influence of a cross-flow on a jet flow. The combustor includes a combustion liner, in which fuel sprayed from fuel nozzles of a gas turbine is mixed with compressed air and the mixture is combusted, a sleeve surrounding the outer surface of the combustion liner while being spaced apart therefrom in order to form a flow passage for compressed air, a cooling hole formed in the sleeve to introduce compressed air discharged from a compressor into the flow passage, and a first auxiliary hole formed upstream of the cooling hole in the airflow direction. Compressed air discharged from the compressor is introduced into the flow passage through the first auxiliary hole, impinges with compressed air flowing through the flow passage, and forms an air column.
US11209157B2	Modular heat recovery steam generator system for rapid installation A modular heat recovery steam generator (mHRSG) comprises a first boiler module comprising a plurality of pipes having at least one pipe with a flanged end; a first piping deck comprising a plurality of pipes having at least one pipe with a flanged end, wherein the pipe with the flanged end is secured to the pipe with the flanged end of the first boiler module using bolts; a second boiler module comprising a plurality of pipes having at least one pipe with a flanged end; a second piping deck comprising a plurality of pipes having at least one pipe with a flanged end, wherein the pipe with the flanged end is secured to the pipe with the flanged end of the second boiler module using bolts; and a main stack. The first boiler module is operatively coupled to the second boiler module and the second boiler module is operatively coupled to the main stack.
US11209137B2	Spot downlight apparatus The spot downlight apparatus includes a power head, a tubular body, a back cover, a light source plate, a heat sink, in insulation layer and a lens module. The power head is connected to an external power source. The power head has a rotation structure. The tubular body is made of metal material. The tubular body has a front opening and a back opening. The tubular body is fixed to the rotation structure so as to be manually rotated with respect to the power head. The back cover is fixed to the back opening of the tubular body. The light source plate is mounted with a LED module. The heat sink has a platform holder and a sidewall. The lens module has a top part and a bottom wall.
US11209128B2	Plug-in lamp holder and lamp The present invention discloses a plug-in lamp holder and a lamp comprising the plug-in lamp holder. The plug-in lamp holder comprises a lamp cap, an insulation base, a top cover, an L-pole conductive cap, an L-pole conductive spring, at least two N-pole conductive caps and N-pole conductive springs, wherein the top cover is fixedly connected with the insulation base, the L-pole conductive cap extends from the bottom of the center of the insulation base and conducts electricity with an L-pole contact in a threaded lamp socket, the L-pole conductive spring compresses against the insulation base and the L-pole conductive cap, the lamp cap is sleeved on the outer wall of the insulation base, the lamp cap and the L-pole conductive cap are isolated by the insulation base, each N-pole conductive spring is electrically connected, the side wall of the lamp cap is provided with a conductive cap hole, the side wall of the insulation base is provided with an accommodating groove, the position of the conductive cap hole is adapted to the accommodating groove, the N-pole conductive spring is placed in the accommodating groove, and the N-pole conductive cap extends outwards from the conductive cap hole and resists the N-pole conductive spring to make it compressed so as to realize electric conduction with an N-pole threaded portion in a threaded lamp socket, and when the plug-in lamp holder is connected to the threaded lamp socket, axial plugging and unplugging can be performed.
US11209111B2	Lubrication system for pipe bursting A pipe pulling lubrication apparatus includes a pipe anchor having an anchor body. The anchor body includes a first coupling feature near an anchor body proximal portion and a distal pipe coupling feature near an anchor body distal portion. The distal pipe coupling feature is configured to couple and position a replacement pipe exterior surface near an anchor body exterior surface. The lubrication apparatus further includes a lubrication system including a lubricant conduit extending within the anchor body from the distal pipe coupling feature toward an anchor body intermediate portion between the first coupling feature and the distal pipe coupling feature. The lubrication system includes a lubricant distributor having one or more lubricant passages extending from the lubricant conduit toward the anchor body exterior surface, the lubricant distributor is configured to deliver a lubricant to the replacement pipe exterior surface.
US11209109B2	Crimp coupling for connecting a hose to a fitting A crimp coupling includes a crimping ferrule for connecting a hose to a fitting. The fitting includes an outwardly projecting stop collar and a groove which extends circumferentially around the fitting at a constant axial distance to the stop collar. The crimping ferrule, which can be slid onto the fitting, includes a flange, a tapering hinge section, and a cylindrical section. A distance between the stop collar and the groove of the fitting is dimensioned such that the flange, when abutting the stop collar, has a lower edge facing away from the stop collar above the groove. Due to a diameter reduction of the cylindrical section and the tapering hinge section, during crimping, the flange is pivoted such that the lower edge of the flange is turned into the groove by the pivotal movement of the flange.
US11209102B2	Microfluidic valve A microfluidic valve comprises a first reservoir, a second reservoir, an inertial pump and a channel connecting the first reservoir to the second reservoir. The second reservoir is to receive fluid from the first reservoir through the channel under a pressure gradient. The inertial pump is within the channel proximate the second reservoir and distant the first reservoir.
US11209098B2	Device for detecting fluid flow In a valve member, supply and discharge apertures of fluid are formed at a body having a fluid space E. A one electrode Da including a contact T is provided at an aperture edge of the supply aperture and/or a peripheral part of an aperture edge of the body. The body includes another electrode Db, and stores a valve member made of a conductor and opening and closing the supply aperture, and a coil spring made of a conductor and urges the valve member. A guide member made of a conductor is attached onto the valve member. The guide member is formed to secure a flow path of the fluid from the supply aperture to the discharge aperture while being slidable in the fluid space E, has a reception surface facing one end face of the fluid space E while receiving the fluid from the supply aperture.
US11209082B2	Self-preloading shift lever An exemplary shift lever includes a mounting assembly, a flexible member coupled to the mounting assembly, and an interface coupled to the flexible member. The flexible member is resilient so as to provide a selected biasing force at a predetermined deformation angle, and flexible enough to elastically deform across a selected angular range. The mounting assembly is configured for connection with the input shaft of a transmission, and the interface is configured for connection with an output of a drive selector.
US11209077B2	Inter-axle differential assembly An inter-axle differential (IAD) assembly including a unitary IAD case having one or more spaced-apart apertures extending therethrough, wherein each of the IAD case apertures defines a groove, and a spider having a plurality of radially, outwardly extending legs, wherein one or more of the legs include an opening at an outward end thereof, and wherein each IAD case apertures are aligned with each of the leg openings. The IAD assembly further includes a locking mechanism having one or more fastening elements, wherein the fastening elements are selectively inserted through the IAD case apertures and into the one or more leg openings and/or into the grooves of the IAD case apertures.
US11209074B2	Lower attachment for trimmable horizontal stabiliser actuator A lower attachment system for a trimmable horizontal stabiliser actuator (THSA) includes a screwshaft forming a part of or coupled to a main screw of the actuator, the screwshaft having an axial direction and a primary ballnut disposed on the screwshaft and forming a part of a primary load path of the lower attachment system. The THSA also includes a lower secondary nut and an upper secondary nut as well as a secondary connection arranged for axial and rotational movement and coupled to each of the lower secondary nut and the upper secondary nut. The secondary connection is arranged to be loaded when the secondary load path is loaded and the secondary load path also includes the upper and lower secondary nuts.
US11209073B2	Hybrid powertrain for vehicle A hybrid powertrain for a vehicle may include a first input shaft selectively connectable to an engine through a first clutch; a second input shaft selectively connectable to the engine through a second clutch and mounted to be coaxial with the first input shaft; a motor input shaft mounted to be coaxial with the first input shaft and to which a motor is connected; a first output shaft and a second output shaft each mounted in parallel to the first input shaft and the second input shaft; a center synchronizing unit mounted between the first input shaft and the motor input shaft and configured to interrupt a connection between the first input shaft and the motor input shaft; a plurality of pairs of circumscription gears configured to form a series of shift ratios used for driving of the vehicle; and a variable transmission mechanism.
US11209069B1	Dynamic balancing apparatus A dynamic balancing apparatus includes a dynamic balancing assembly and a plurality of damping particles. The dynamic balancing assembly includes at least two structural members separately arranged on a rotating shaft connected to a rotor, wherein each structural member includes at least one recess portion. The plurality of damping particles are introduced into at least one recess portion of each structural member, such that a centroid of each structural member deviates from the axis. Accordingly, each structural member generates inertial force and moment of inertia as rotation of the rotor to offset another inertial force and moment of inertia generated by centroid deviation of the rotor while rotating to achieve dynamic balance. The plurality of damping particles can move in the recess portion as rotation of the rotor to induce friction and collision so as to achieve the effects of vibration reduction and noise reduction.
US11209068B2	Hydraulic damper A compensating damper comprises opposed working end faces, a hermetically sealed chamber between the working end faces, and a set of plates in the chamber with a film of viscous fluid between each pair of adjacent plates. The damper has at least two different film thickness zones across the set of plates, each of the different film thickness zones providing a different resistance response when acted upon by an outside force exerted on at least one of the opposed working end faces. Multiple internal guide pins may extend axially from the opposed working end faces for engaging the plate stack partially from each of said working end faces to increase the stroke while providing for a compact damper. The plates may have a conical configuration to providing dampening in different plans.
US11209066B2	Damping bearing with axial preload A method of manufacturing a damping device, notably for a steering tie rod, the said device comprising a rod which extends along a main axis and which is intended to be connected to a first mechanical component, a securing portion which surrounds the said rod and which is intended to be connected to a second mechanical component, and a sleeve made of elastomeric material which is arranged between the rod and the fixing bushing so as, through elastic deformation thereof, to allow at least axial movement of the fixing bushing with respect to the rod, in which method the fixing bushing is offset axially with respect to the rod to force the elastic deformation of the sleeve and the introduction of a corresponding preload, then the sleeve is locked so as to keep it, when the device is at rest, in a state of permanent axial elastic deformation and preload.
US11209060B2	Electromechanical brake caliper with rolling friction motion converters Disk brake systems including disk brake systems that are motor actuated are discussed. As a part of these brake systems, various piston assemblies are also discussed, including piston assemblies that include a piston; a spindle; a ball screw assembly within the piston, wherein the spindle forms a lead screw with an interior surface of the ball screw assembly and the ball screw assembly and the lead screw are configured for the lead screw to move linearly followed by the ball screw assembly moving linearly to move the piston upon application of the brake. Additional embodiments of piston assemblies that include ball ramp actuators are also discussed.

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