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US11270279B1	Systems and methods for real-time biller posting services A provider computing system includes a bill pay application circuit configured to receive a request from a user to pay an amount of funds to a biller, determine a customer funds account number for the user, determine a biller funds account number for the biller, and generate a payment request. The provider computing system includes a transaction management system configured to receive the payment request from the bill pay circuit and provide a first post and a second post to a funds account circuit and generate a payment notification. The provider computing system includes a biller posting services circuit configured to receive the payment notification and determine a corresponding customer bill account number. The biller posting services circuit is configured to generate a data object that includes the payment notification and the customer bill account number and cause the data object to be provided to a biller computing system.
US11270278B2	Cardless payment transactions with multiple users A method of managing a cardless payment transaction between a customer and a merchant includes receiving, from a device of a customer, an indication of consent to join the customer to a cardless payment transaction, where the cardless payment transaction is between one or more other customers and the merchant; receiving from the customer device, location data indicating that the customer device is in proximity with the merchant; joining the customer with the cardless payment transaction between the one or more other customers and the merchant; receiving transaction data between the merchant and each customer; and submitting, for each customer associated with the cardless payment transaction, a transaction between the merchant and the customer to a financial service for authorization.
US11270273B2	Resources dispensing device and resources dispensing method The present disclosure relates to the field of Internet. Disclosed are resources dispensing device and resources dispensing methods. The system including: a sender client, a server cluster and at least one receiver client; the sender client is to generate n virtual packages through interacting with the server cluster, each virtual package is to distribute part of resources to be dispensed to the receiver client, wherein n is an integer larger than 1; the sender client is further to provide a pick-up message of the n virtual packages to the receiver client; the receiver client is to display at least two virtual packages of the n virtual packages in a user interface according to the pick-up message of the n virtual packages; the receiver client is further to pick up a target virtual package from the at least two virtual packages through interacting with the server cluster according to a pick-up operation received.
US11270270B2	Trusted secure electronic payment processing platform The present subject matter involves a system and method for producing and processing electronic transactions, including electronic checks, in a secure manner. Enrollment information is received from a payor, and a secure portal is provided to authenticate electronic payment instructions from the payor. When instructions for a payment are received via the portal, risk for the payment is assessed. If funding for the payment is positively assessed, the present subject matter composites a front and back image of the check and performs an endorsement of the check. Electronic images are obtained of front and back of the printed check, and check image pairs are created of the electronic images of the front and back of the printed check. Select data on the check image pairs is anonymized, and an electronic deposit is performed in the amount of the payment to at least one payee.
US11270267B2	Sensitive information management Information is identified as sensitive and a lapsed time job (Chron Job) is created that will allow the deletion of sensitive information after a period of time. The interval could be set to be longer than vacation or other planned use, and yet short enough to limit the period where risk to the organization or individual is incurred. The Chron Job could be integrated with the user's calendar, such that the Chron Job considers holiday time as a means of delaying execution of the Chron Job which would allow a shorter interval to be selected. In addition to deletion of the information identified as sensitive, additional steps could also be taken, such as the purging of the recycle bin, modification of the FAT, and optionally the deletion of related information. Once information is identified as sensitive, the information and derivative works are tracked and managed.
US11270265B2	Navigating a neighborhood using an interactive electronic map displayed on a graphical user interface (GUI) of a mobile software application executing on a wireless mobile computer device Navigating a neighborhood using an interactive electronic map displayed on a graphical user interface (GUI) of a mobile software application executing on a wireless mobile computer device. In some embodiments, a method may include receiving the interactive electronic map, automatically displaying the interactive electronic map with a neighborhood, a first selectable icon overlaying a first building, and a second selectable icon overlaying a second building, receiving a selection of the first selectable icon overlaying the first building, automatically displaying a name of the first current occupant, receiving a selection of the name of the first current occupant, and automatically displaying one or more additional current characteristics of the first current occupant.
US11270258B2	Dynamic inventory segmentation with predicted prediction time window A machine learning system for dynamically segmenting inventory includes a memory having instructions therein, and at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to, using a reinforcement learning agent (“RLA”): determine, based at least in part on first inventory data corresponding to at least a portion of a first prediction time window for the RLA, a second prediction time window for the RLA; segment a first supply of inventory, based at least in part on the second prediction time window and at least a portion of the first inventory data; determine, based at least in part on second inventory data corresponding to at least a portion of the second prediction time window, a third prediction time window for the RLA; and segment a second supply of inventory, based at least in part on the third prediction time window and at least a portion of the second inventory data.
US11270255B2	Electronic shelf label using visible light communications A method for ESL utilizing light communications includes selecting for ESL, a product stocked on shelf slotting space in a retail environment and querying a database with an identifier for the selected product and receiving in response to the querying, pricing data for the selected product. The method additionally includes selecting a frequency of communication above a specified strobe rate for a lighting system illuminating the retail environment and transmitting a directive to a controller for the lighting system directing the lighting system to communicate the pricing data to a shelf labeling module associated with the selected product. Thereafter, in response to the directive, the controller encodes the pricing data into a strobe pattern of the lighting system and activates the pattern thereby communicating the pricing data to the shelf labeling module which then decodes the pricing data from the strobe pattern and display the pricing data in a display.
US11270252B1	Predictive conversion systems and methods In one embodiment, a system and method of predicting sale transaction conversion rate of an item operates through a search of information in response to a query over a network. The item can be included in a category of items. Information for other relevant items of the category is available through network query and historical data, among others. Respective information for the other items of the category is available to the method. The system and method includes discovering available information of the item of interest, extracting certain of the available information of the item, analyzing the certain information for the item by comparing the information to other item information for the category of items, weighting the information for the commercial item in comparison to other items of the category, calculating a predictive score for the commercial item of interest, and presenting the information of the commercial item of interest ranked according to the predictive score as compared to other items of the category.
US11270251B2	Package management system with accelerated delivery The disclosure provides a system for delivering purchased items, with each item having an item identifier that includes the price, size and possibly a shape coefficient of the item, to customers by a service provider or store employee comprising, a plurality of lockers, each having a locking portion, a delivery code that associates one or more items with a transaction and a customer, a central control unit comprising an input device for reading a delivery code and open the number of lockers needed to accommodate the items designated in the delivery code. The central control unit communicates with a store management system to provide the customer an authentication code to subsequently retrieve the items. A method and system for picking and placing items in a locker bank for retrieval by a customer is also disclosed.
US11270250B2	Intelligent service and customer matching using an information processing system A computer implemented method for matching services to potential receivers of the services that includes registering at least one of service providers and service receivers as members to a service matching system. The service matching system collects data from the members. Permission to collect data from the members is revocable at any time by the members. The method further includes taking an order from a first service receiver to receive goods from a service provider; and calculating a route of the first service receiver to obtain the goods from the service provider. The method further includes matching the route of the first service receiver with a potential delivery route to a second service receiver having an order with the service provider; and offering a promotion to the first service receiver to deliver the order by the second service receiver with the service provider over the potential delivery route.
US11270249B1	Scheduling and operations optimization A system and method optimize delivery of a good from a seller to a buyer through a drop-off location. The system illustratively includes at least one processor, configured to identify at least one attribute of the good from a plurality of such attributes; identify at least one attribute of the drop-off location from a plurality of such attributes; compile a match between the identified at least one attribute of the good and the identified at least one attribute of the drop-off location; identify at least one attribute of the seller from a plurality of such attributes; identify at least one attribute of the buyer from a plurality of such attributes; compile a match between the identified at least one attribute of the seller and the identified at least one attribute of the buyer; and select the drop-off location as a delivery destination of the good based on the two matches.
US11270243B1	System and method for electrical grid management, risk mitigation, and resilience A system and method for providing risk mitigation and resilience to the electrical grid system by allowing bi-directional electricity usage from a distributed network of energy storage stations to form a large, distributed resource for the grid. A machine learning optimization module ingests various forms of data—from grid telemetry to traffic data to trip-to-trip data and more—in order to make informed spatiotemporal decisions about strategically placing and balancing energy stores across various regions to support optimum energy usage, risk mitigation, and grid fortification. Energy stores are then sent updated parameters as to the amount of energy to hold or release.
US11270240B2	Method and system for transfer order management Methods and systems for managing inventory movements are disclosed. Transfer orders are issued to move inventory from location to location in response to real-time demand events. One method includes receiving an inventory request in response to demand signals. The inventory request is analyzed to determine if inventory needs to be moved within the supply chain to satisfy the request. Origin locations are identified that have available stock of the requested items. Transfer orders are issued for each movement on an individual item basis regardless of the type of event that prompted the transfer. The transfer management system responds in real-time to inventory demands from both online and in-store sales.
US11270235B1	Routing system to connect a user with a qualified agent Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for providing a routing system to a user of a product. An example technique includes receiving from a user of a product a query and a personal ID. Based on the personal ID of the user, the user's profile is retrieved which comprises user attribute data, a clickstream history of the user, and a product SKU of the product. Based on the query and the user profile, processed user data is generated. Additionally, agent profile data for each available agent is retrieved, and based on the user attribute data, the processed user data, and the agent profile data of each agent, a predicted quality score is generated for each agent. The agent with the highest predicted quality score is determined, and the user is routed to the agent with the highest predicted quality score.
US11270228B2	Information processing method and information processing system An information processing method includes: deciding a configuration of a machine learning model, using a processor; performing first determination as to whether the machine learning model in the decided configuration meets a first performance requirement on hardware performance; performing learning using the machine learning model in the configuration determined to meet the first performance requirement, performing second determination as to whether a learned model obtained by the learning meets a second performance requirement on evaluation value of output of a machine learning model, and when the learned model is determined to meet the second performance requirement, outputting information indicating that both performance requirements are met; and when it is determined that the first performance requirement is not met, changing the configuration of the machine learning model, and performing the first determination as to whether the machine learning model in the changed configuration meets the first performance requirement.
US11270222B2	Quantum phase estimation of multiple eigenvalues Methods, systems, and apparatus for quantum phase estimation. In one aspect, an apparatus includes a quantum circuit comprising a first quantum register comprising at least one ancilla qubit, quantum gates, comprising at least (i) two Hadamard gates, (ii) a phase gate, (iii) a unitary operator, and (iv) a measurement operator, a second quantum register comprising one or more qubits, wherein the second quantum register is prepared in an arbitrary quantum state that is not an eigenstate of the unitary operator; and a phase learning system, configured to perform phase estimation experiments on the quantum circuit, comprising repeatedly measuring the state of an ancilla qubit for each phase estimation experiment to determine an expectation value of the state of the ancilla qubit and learn phases of the eigenvalues of the unitary operator.
US11270221B2	Unsupervised clustering in quantum feature spaces using quantum similarity matrices A method of performing unsupervised clustering of data points includes determining a number of qubits to include in a quantum processor based on feature dimensions of each data point. The method includes, for each pair of data points, executing a quantum circuit on a quantum processor having the determined number of qubits. The quantum circuit includes a feature map template circuit parameterized with a first plurality of rotations, a backward feature map template circuit parameterized with a second plurality of rotations, and a measurement circuit that outputs a similarity measure. The method includes creating a similarity matrix based on the similarity measure for each pair of data points, and inputting the similarity matrix to a classical clustering algorithm to cluster the data points. The feature map template circuit and the backward feature map template circuit each use quantum properties of superposition and entanglement of the qubits of the quantum processor.
US11270213B2	Systems and methods for extracting specific data from documents using machine learning A method includes generating, by one or more processors, a first graphical interface. The first graphical interface includes a card-based view with each card in the card-based view corresponding to a field of analysis from a plurality of fields of analysis. The method also includes transmitting, to a client device, the representation of the first graphical interface; receiving, from the client device, a selection of a particular card of the card-based view; and, based on the received selection, generating a representation of a second graphical interface that includes a detailed view of output data associated with a field of analysis that corresponds to the particular card. The method further includes transmitting, to the client device, the representation of the second graphical interface.
US11270212B2	Knowledge graph processing method and device Knowledge graph processing method and device are disclosed. The method includes steps of obtaining an entity set containing a first entity, a second entity, and relation information; acquiring text information and image information related to the first entity and the second entity; generating a first structural information vector of the first entity and a second structural information vector of the second entity, and creating a first text information vector of the first entity, a first image information vector of the first entity, a second text information vector of the second entity, and a second image information vector of the second entity; and building a joint loss function so as to attain a first target vector of the first entity, a second target vector of the second entity, and a target relation vector of the relation information between the first entity and the second entity.
US11270206B2	Incremental learning through state-based real-time adaptations in artificial intelligence systems A system for reconfiguring neural network architecture responsive to a system state is provided. A controller for modifying a neural network learning engine is configured to monitor a data stream having a data pattern by comparing the data pattern to a trained data pattern; identify a change in the data pattern of the data stream; determine a state of the neural network learning engine, the state defining one or more neural network parameters for monitoring the data stream with the neural network learning engine; and in response to identifying the change in the data pattern and determining the state, reconfigure an architectural configuration of the neural network learning engine by modifying the one or more neural network parameters.
US11270204B2	Systems and methods for barcode annotations for digital images A content-based image retrieval (CBIR) system and method is presented herein. The CBIR system generates a relatively short vector or array of data, referred to as a barcode, from an input image. The short vector or array data can be used to represent the content of the image for image retrieval purposes. The system obtains the image and applies a transform to the image to generate a plurality of image transform values. The system thresholds the plurality of image transform values to obtain compact image transform values. The system generates a barcode in accordance with the compact image transform values and representative of the image. The system may then transmit the barcode to a database for storage or draw the barcode on a display. The system may also compare barcodes to find and retrieve similar images associated with similar barcodes.
US11270202B2	Temporal memory using sparse distributed representation A processing node in a temporal memory system includes a spatial pooler and a sequence processor. The spatial pooler generates a spatial pooler signal representing similarity between received spatial patterns in an input signal and stored co-occurrence patterns. The spatial pooler signal is represented by a combination of elements that are active or inactive. Each co-occurrence pattern is mapped to different subsets of elements of an input signal. The spatial pooler signal is fed to a sequence processor receiving and processed to learn, recognize and predict temporal sequences in the input signal. The sequence processor includes one or more columns, each column including one or more cells. A subset of columns may be selected by the spatial pooler signal, causing one or more cells in these columns to activate.
US11270199B2	Analogue electronic neural network The present invention concerns a method of programming an analogue electronic neural network comprising a plurality of layers of somas. Any two consecutive layers of somas are connected by a matrix of synapses. The method comprises: applying test signals to inputs of the neural network; measuring at a plurality of measurement locations in the neural network responses of at least some somas and synapses to the test signals; extracting from the neural network, based on the responses, a first parameter set characterising the behaviour of the at least some somas; carrying out a training of the neural network by applying to a training algorithm the first parameter set and training data for obtaining a second parameter set; and programming the neural network by using the second parameter set. The invention also relates to the neural network and to a method of operating it.
US11270196B2	Multi-mode low-precision inner-product computation circuits for massively parallel neural inference engine Neural inference chips for computing neural activations are provided. In various embodiments, the neural inference chip is adapted to: receive an input activation tensor comprising a plurality of input activations; receive a weight tensor comprising a plurality of weights; Booth recode each of the plurality of weights into a plurality of Booth-coded weights, each Booth coded value having an order; multiply the input activation tensor by the Booth coded weights, yielding a plurality of results for each input activation, each of the plurality of results corresponding to the orders of the Booth-coded weights; for each order of the Booth-coded weights, sum the corresponding results, yielding a plurality of partial sums, one for each order; and compute a neural activation from a sum of the plurality of partial sums.
US11270193B2	Scalable stream synaptic supercomputer for extreme throughput neural networks A scalable stream synaptic supercomputer for extreme throughput neural networks is provided. The firing state of a plurality of neurons of a first neurosynaptic core is determined substantially in parallel. The firing state of the plurality of neurons is delivered to at least one additional neurosynaptic core substantially in parallel.
US11270188B2	Joint optimization of ensembles in deep learning Computer-implemented, machine-learning systems and methods relate to a combination of neural networks. The systems and methods train the respective member networks both (i) to be diverse and yet (ii) according to a common, overall objective. Each member network is trained or retrained jointly with all the other member networks, including member networks that may not have been present in the ensemble when a member is first trained.
US11270187B2	Method and apparatus for learning low-precision neural network that combines weight quantization and activation quantization A method is provided. The method includes selecting a neural network model, wherein the neural network model includes a plurality of layers, and wherein each of the plurality of layers includes weights and activations; modifying the neural network model by inserting a plurality of quantization layers within the neural network model; associating a cost function with the modified neural network model, wherein the cost function includes a first coefficient corresponding to a first regularization term, and wherein an initial value of the first coefficient is pre-defined; and training the modified neural network model to generate quantized weights for a layer by increasing the first coefficient until all weights are quantized and the first coefficient satisfies a pre-defined threshold, further including optimizing a weight scaling factor for the quantized weights and an activation scaling factor for quantized activations, and wherein the quantized weights are quantized using the optimized weight scaling factor.
US11270186B2	Systems and methods of activity target selection for robotic process automation A software robot is designed to carry out an activity (e.g., a mouse click, a text input, etc.) on a target element (e.g., a button, an input field, etc.) of a user interface. The robot's code specification is configured to include an on-screen image of the target element and a text displayed by the target element. The robot is configured to automatically identify the target element at runtime according to an element ID specified in the source code of the user interface, and when such identification fails, to identify the target element according to the text and image stored in the robot's code.
US11270180B2	Transponder A transponder with a disrupting signal source to shut down the transponder. The transponder may use an RFID chip. The disrupting signal source can be an electrical signal source electrically coupled to the RFID chip, for example capacitively coupled. The disruptive signal source can also be a radiation source, for example an infrared source. The disrupting signal source can be connected to a receiver to allow the transponder to be shut down remotely. Multiple transponders as described can be combined to form a multi-transponder device in which transponders can be shut down selectively.
US11270176B2	Configuring a set of applets on a battery-less transaction card A transaction card may power on the transaction card using electric current induced from an interaction of the transaction card with an electromagnetic field. The transaction card may establish a communication with a device. The communication may indicate that the transaction card has powered. The transaction card may receive, from the device, a set of instructions to configure a set of applets on the transaction card after notifying the device that the transaction card has powered on. The set of applets to be configured may be related to completing one or more different transactions. The set of applets to be configured may be different than another set of applets already configured on the transaction card. The transaction card may configure the set of applets on the transaction card according to the set of instructions after receiving the set of instructions.
US11270175B2	RFID system vehicle access control A Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tag according to one embodiment includes a housing configured for coupling to a vehicle; control circuitry coupled to the housing and operatively coupled to an electrical system of the vehicle; and a memory for storing information; where the control circuitry directly controls access to the vehicle via the operative coupling to the electrical system of the vehicle.
US11270172B2	Apparatus that operates with unit mounted therein and the unit An apparatus that operates with a detachable unit mounted therein, includes: a storage unit configured to store a public key; and a verification unit configured to verify data held by the mounted unit, based on the public key. The data includes attribute information indicating an attribute of the unit, and authentication information generated from target information including the attribute information with a secret key paired with the public key and from which the target information is restorable, and the verification unit is further configured to detect an anomaly in the attribute information or the authentication information included in the data, by determining whether the attribute information included in the target information restored from the authentication information using the public key matches the attribute information included in the data.
US11270165B2	System and method for generating realistic simulation data for training an autonomous driver A method for training a model for generating simulation data for training an autonomous driving agent, comprising: analyzing real data, collected from a driving environment, to identify a plurality of environment classes, a plurality of moving agent classes, and a plurality of movement pattern classes; generating a training environment, according to one environment class; and in at least one training iteration: generating, by a simulation generation model, a simulated driving environment according to the training environment and according to a plurality of generated training agents, each associated with one of the plurality of agent classes and one of the plurality of movement pattern classes; collecting simulated driving data from the simulated environment; and modifying at least one model parameter of the simulation generation model to minimize a difference between a simulation statistical fingerprint, computed using the simulated driving data, and a real statistical fingerprint, computed using the real data.
US11270162B2	Method and apparatus for detecting objects of interest in an environment A method is provided for generating training data to facilitate automatically locating an object of interest within an image. Methods may include: receiving sensor data including a plurality of images from at least one image sensor; receiving an identification, from a user, of an object visible within an image of the plurality of images, where at least a portion of the object is visible in one or more of the plurality of images; determining a predicted location of the object in the one or more of the remaining images of the plurality of images; identifying the object in the one or more of the remaining images of the plurality of images; and storing the plurality of images including an indication of the object at the object location within the one or more of the plurality of images.
US11270160B2	Image description generation method, model training method, device and storage medium Embodiments of this application disclose an image description generation method performed at a computing device. The method includes: obtaining a target image; generating a first global feature vector and a first label vector set of the target image; applying the target image to a matching model and generating a first multi-mode feature vector of the target image through the matching model, the matching model being a model obtained through training according to a training image and reference image description information of the training image; and generating target image description information of the target image according to the first multi-mode feature vector, the first global feature vector, and the first label vector set.
US11270157B2	System and method for classification determination The present disclosure provides a system and method for classification determination of a structure. The method may include obtaining image data representing a structure of a subject. The method may also include determining a plurality of candidate classifications of the structure and their respective probabilities by inputting the image data into a classification model. The classification model may include a backbone network for determining a backbone feature of the structure, a segmentation network for determining a segmentation feature of the structure, and a density classification network for determining a density feature of the structure. The method may further include determining a target classification of the structure based on at least a part of the probabilities of the plurality of candidate classifications.
US11270156B2	Machine learning for dynamically updating a user interface Methods, apparatus, systems, computing devices, computing entities, and/or the like for using machine-learning concepts to determine predicted recovery rates/scores for claims, determine priority scores for the claims, and prioritizing the claims based on the same, and updating a user interface based at least in part on the prioritization of the same.
US11270151B2	Method and image processing circuit for performing searching operations regarding images A method and image processing circuit for performing searching operations regarding an image are provided, wherein the image includes a plurality of blocks. The method includes: utilizing a grouping circuit to divide the plurality of blocks into a plurality of groups, wherein a group within the plurality of groups corresponds to a searching region within a target image, the group includes NB reference blocks within the plurality of blocks, the searching region includes NB sub-regions, and NB is an integer greater than one; utilizing a searching circuit to search for the NB reference blocks in the NB sub-regions, respectively, to generate NB searching results respectively corresponding to the NB reference blocks; and utilizing a selecting circuit to select a searching result from the NB searching results, for utilizing the searching result to represent a portion or all of the NB searching results.
US11270148B2	Visual SLAM method and apparatus based on point and line features Systems and methods of visual simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) based on point and line features are disclosed. The method includes: receiving a visual image frame input by a camera device; extracting feature points and feature lines from the visual image frame; predicting a first pose of the camera device using the feature points; observing an extracted first feature line to determine a feature line measurement of the first feature line; obtaining a global feature line state vector set of the camera device, where the global feature line state vector set includes feature line state vectors of N historical feature lines, and N is a positive integer; and updating the first pose using the feature line measurement and the global feature line state vector set. In this way, feature point-based motion estimations and observation features of feature lines observed in an environment are integrated to update a pose of the camera device in real time, thereby improving visual SLAM accuracy.
US11270139B2	Apparatus and method for training classifying model An apparatus for training a classifying model comprises: a first obtaining unit configured to input a sample image to a first machine learning framework, to obtain a first classification probability and a first classification loss; a second obtaining unit configured to input a second image to a second machine learning framework, to obtain a second classification probability and a second classification loss, the two machine learning frameworks having identical structures and sharing identical parameters; a similarity loss calculating unit configured to calculate a similarity loss related to a similarity between the first classification probability and the second classification probability; a total loss calculating unit configured to calculate the sum of the similarity loss, the first classification loss and the second classification loss, as a total loss; and a training unit configured to adjust parameters of the two machine learning frameworks to obtain a trained classifying model.
US11270137B2	Event detector and method of generating textural image based on event count decay factor and net polarity A method for producing a textural image from event information generated by an event camera comprises: accumulating event information from a plurality of events occurring during successive event cycles across a field of view of the event camera, each event indicating an x,y location within the field of view, a polarity for a change of detected light intensity incident at the x,y location and an event cycle at which the event occurred; in response to selected event cycles, analysing event information for one or more preceding event cycles to identify one or more regions of interest bounding a respective object to be tracked; and responsive to a threshold event criterion for a region of interest being met, generating a textural image for the region of interest from event information accumulated from within the region of interest.
US11270133B2	Object detection device, object detection method, and computer-readable recording medium An object detection device acquires a plurality of images captured by a camera mounted in a moving body and acquires movement information of the camera. The object detection device extracts an edge from a first image among the acquired images. The object detection device calculates a plurality of candidate points corresponding to the edge in a second image, based on the movement information and calculates candidate points corresponding to a plurality of heights as height candidates of the edge. The object detection device calculates a correlation index value between the edge and each of the plurality of candidate points and detects the candidate point with the largest correlation as a correspondence point of the edge. The object detection device detects an object at a position of the edge when the correlation index value of the detected correspondence point is equal to or smaller than a predetermined threshold.
US11270131B2	Map points-of-change detection device A map points-of-change detection device includes: a camera capturing an image of an area around a vehicle; a bird's-eye-view transformation section transforming the image into a bird's-eye view image; a map storage portion storing a road map including a road surface map; a collation processing section determining whether a point of change in the road surface map exits, the point of change being a position at which a change has occurred on an actual road surface; and a collation region identification section that determines a region for collation in a width direction of the vehicle from the bird's-eye view image.
US11270128B2	Adaptive visual intelligence outdoor motion/occupancy and luminance detection system A sensor fixed atop a structure. The sensor including an image-capturing device configured to collect image data, and an electronic processing device. The electronic processing device configured to receive, via the image-capturing device, the image data, determine a wobble state of the image data, perform a first timeout for a first predetermined time period when the wobble state is approximately equal to a wobble state level, and increment the first timeout to a second timeout for a second predetermined time period when the wobble state value is approximately equal to the wobble state level following the first timeout.
US11270118B2	Creating a valuable video clip using metadata flagging Methods, systems, devices and apparatuses for a video surveillance system. The video surveillance system includes a camera configured to detect first image data. The video surveillance system includes a memory. The memory is configured to store the first image data. The video surveillance system includes a processor. The processor is coupled to the camera and the memory and configured to identify one or more objects within the first image data. The processor is configured to generate metadata associated with the one or more objects within the first image data. The processor is configured to tag the metadata to the one or more objects within the first image data. The processor is configured to generate second image data that is a subset of the first image data based on the metadata tagged to the one or more objects.
US11270114B2	AR device and method for controlling the same Disclosed is an AR device and method for controlling the same. According to the present disclosure, an augmented reality (AR) device comprises a frame supported by a user's head, a processor providing an AR image, a display connected with the frame and overlaying and displaying the AR image received from the processor on a real world, a marker generator generating a marker corresponding to an AR object, and a marker display displaying the marker generated by the marker generator. The AR device of the present disclosure may be associated with an artificial intelligence module, a robot, a virtual reality (VR) device, a device related to a 5G service, and the like.
US11270107B2	Extraction of multi-modal online resources associated with research papers A method includes storing a research paper and a set of candidate resources including media content. The method further includes encoding each of one or more first content fields in the research paper into a first vector based on a first field type associated with each of the one or more first content fields. The method further includes encoding each of one or more second content fields in each of the parsed set of candidate resources into a second vector, based on a second field type associated with each of the one or more second content fields. The method further includes comparing the first vector with the second vector to determine a final set of resources based on the comparison. The method further includes controlling a display screen to output the determined final set of resources and the research paper.
US11270093B2	Display panel and display device The present disclosure provides a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes a plurality of fingerprint recognition circuits. At least one of the plurality of fingerprint recognition circuits includes a light sense signal obtaining unit and a subtracted. The light sense signal obtaining unit is configured to obtain a first light sense voltage value and a second light sense voltage value, the first light sense voltage value is related to a first power voltage value, the second light sense voltage value is related to a second power voltage value, and the first power voltage value is greater than the second power voltage value. The subtracted is configured to subtract the second light sense voltage value from the first light sense voltage value to obtain a light sense data value.
US11270088B2	Chipless RFID tag, a chipless RFID system, and a method for encoding data on a chipless RFID tag The present invention relates to a chipless RFID tag (T), comprising: —a dielectric substrate (1); and —electromagnetic resonators (3) excitable by an external electromagnetic field and respectively arranged on separate spatial locations of the dielectric substrate (1) forming a row, and configured to resonate at a common resonant frequency. The dielectric substrate (1) defines several predetermined encoding areas that include the separate spatial locations, so that data is encoded by the presence/absence of operative electromagnetic resonators (3) thereon. The present invention also relates to a system comprising the chipless RFID tag of the invention and a RFID reader (R) reading an encoded code by detecting the presence/absence of attenuation peaks on an electromagnetic wave providing the external electromagnetic field to the electromagnetic resonators (3). The present invention also relates to a method for encoding data on a chipless RFID tag defined according to the present invention.
US11270080B2	Unintended bias detection in conversational agent platforms with machine learning model A mechanism is provided for implementing a bias detection mechanism that mitigates unintended bias in a conversational agent by leveraging conversational agent definitions, a conversational agent chat logs, and user satisfaction statistics. One or more protected attributes are identified within an utterance from the conversational agent chat logs. Using the identified protected attributes, a replacement utterance with a replacement term is generated for at least one of the identified protected attributes in the utterance. A score is generated for the utterance and the replacement utterance using utterance level relative term importance for protected attributes and regular terms in the utterance and the replacement utterance. Utilizing the scoring, a determination is made as to whether unintended bias exists within the utterance. Responsive to unintended bias being detected, an action is implemented that causes a change to a machine learning model used by the conversational agent.
US11270076B2	Adaptive evaluation of meta-relationships in semantic graphs A method and system are provided for adaptive evaluation of meta-relationships in semantic graphs. The method includes providing a semantic graph based on a knowledge base in which concepts in the form of graph nodes are linked by semantic relationships in the form of graph edges. Metadata are encoded in the edges and nodes of the semantic graph, of weightings for measuring a meta-relationship, wherein the meta-relationship applies to the concepts of the semantic graph and is independent of the semantic relationship defined by the edges of the semantic graph. A graph activation is carried out for an input context relating to one or more concepts of the semantic graph, wherein the weightings are applied to a spreading activation signal through the semantic graph to produce a measure of the meta-relationship for a sub-set of concepts of the semantic graph.
US11270075B2	Generation of natural language expression variants Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to generation of natural language expression variants. In an embodiment, a computer-implemented method is disclosed. According to the method, a structured expression is determined for a source expression in a natural language by replacing a source key entity in the source expression with a predetermined symbol. At least one template structured expression is selected from a set of template structured expressions based on respective similarities between the structured expression and respective template structured expressions in the set. Each of the set of template structured expressions comprises the predetermined symbol to represent a key entity. At least one variant expression is generated for the source expression by replacing the predetermined symbol in the at least one selected template structured expression with the source key entity. In other embodiments, a system and a computer program product are disclosed.
US11270074B2	Information processing apparatus, information processing system, and information processing method, and program Implemented are an apparatus and a method that enable highly accurate intent estimation of a user utterance. An utterance learning adaptive processing unit analyzes a plurality of user utterances input from a user, generates learning data in which entity information included in a user utterance with an unclear intent is associated with a correct intent, and stores the generated learning data is a storage unit. The utterance learning adaptive processing unit generates learning data in which an intent, acquired from a response utterance from the user to an apparatus utterance after input of a first user utterance with an unclear intent, is recorded in association with entity information included in the first user utterance. The learning data is recorded to include superordinate semantic concept information of the entity information. At the time of estimating an intent for a new user utterance, learning data with similar superordinate semantic concept information is used.
US11270072B2	System and method for cross-domain transferable neural coherence model Systems and methods of automatically generating a coherence score for text data is provided. The approach includes receiving a plurality of string tokens representing decomposed portions of the target text data object. A trained neural network is provided that has been trained against a plurality of corpuses of training text across a plurality of topics. The string tokens are arranged to extract string tokens representing adjacent sentence pairs of the target text data object. For each adjacent sentence pair, the neural network generates a local coherence score representing a coherence level of the adjacent sentence pair of the target text data object, which are then aggregated for each adjacent sentence pair of the target text data object to generate a global coherence score for the target text data object.
US11270069B1	Collaboration synchronization across devices A method including receiving, in a server, a first proposal for modifying a document from a user in a first client device, is provided. The document is a collaboration between users hosted by the server, and includes evaluating the first proposal in view of a second proposal selected from a proposal queue that stores multiple proposals from the users, converting the first proposal into a fact when no conflict is identified between the first proposal and the second proposal, and updating a fact sequence in a fact history log to include the fact. The method also includes providing the fact sequence to the first client device for executing at least a portion of the sequence of documented actions. A system and a non-transitory, computer readable medium storing instructions to perform the above method are also provided.
US11270060B2	Generating suggested document edits from recorded media using artificial intelligence Artificial intelligence is introduced into document review to identify content suggestions from input to generate suggested annotations for the reviewed document. An approach is provided for receiving an electronic document that contains original content from an original electronic document for review and electronic mark-ups provided by a first user. One or more electronic mark-ups that represent content suggestions proposed by the first user are identified from the electronic document. For each electronic mark-up of the one or more electronic mark-ups identified a document portion of the original content that corresponds to the electronic mark-up is identified, and an annotation is generated for the electronic mark-up comprising the electronic mark-up and a first user ID for the first user and associating the annotation to the document portion identified. The original content with one or more annotations generated from the one or more electronic mark-ups is displayed, in electronic form, within a display window.
US11270055B1	Automation for monolithic 3D devices A method of designing a 3D Integrated Circuit, the method including: performing partitioning to at least a logic strata, the logic strata including logic, and to a memory strata, the memory strata including memory; then performing a first placement of the memory strata using a 2D placer executed by a computer, where the 2D placer is a Computer Aided Design (CAD) tool for two-dimensional devices, where the 3D Integrated Circuit includes a plurality of connections between the logic strata and the memory strata; and performing a second placement of the logic strata based on the first placement, where the memory includes a first memory array, where the logic includes a first logic circuit controlling the first memory array, where the first placement includes placement of the first memory array, where the second placement includes placement of the first logic circuit based on the placement of the first memory array.
US11270054B1	Method and system for calculating printed area metric indicative of stochastic variations of the lithographic process Systems and methods for calculating a printed area metric indicative of stochastic variations of the lithographic process are disclosed. Lithography is a process that uses light to transfer a geometric pattern from a photomask, based on a layout design, to a resist on a substrate. The lithographic process is subject to random stochastic phenomena, with the resulting stochastic randomness potentially becoming a major challenge. To characterize the stochastic phenomena, a printed area metric may be generated analytically (rather than via simulations) and comprise one or more defined moments for a printed area distribution associated with the printed area that are indicative of one or more aspects associated with printing. For example, the printed area metric may be indicative of the likelihood of printing within the printed area or the variance of printing within the printed area due to stochastic randomness in one or both of exposure or resist process.
US11270016B2	Ransomware encryption algorithm determination A computer implemented method of identifying an encryption algorithm used by a ransomware algorithm, the ransomware algorithm encrypting a data store of a target computer system using a searchable encryption algorithm, the method including intercepting an ordered plurality of messages communicated from the target computer system to a ransomware server computer system, each message including a payload storing an encrypted unit of data from the target computer system; inspecting a final byte in the encrypted unit of data in each message to identify a byte value used by an encryption algorithm of the ransomware as a padding byte to pad messages to the size of an integral multiple of units of encryption for the encryption algorithm; training an autoencoder based on a position of a message in the ordered plurality of messages and the padding byte to provide a trained autoencoder adapted to differentiate the encryption algorithm used by the ransomware from other different encryption algorithms.
US11270008B2	Collection folder for collecting file submissions A content management system for collecting files from one or more submitters in a collection folder. A collector, who generates the collection folder, can invite one or more submitters to submit one or more files to the collection folder. Facial recognition is applied to the submitted files. The one or more submitters have limited rights to the collection folder. The limited rights can include uploading rights and prohibiting a submitter from viewing files that other submitters associated with the collection folder submitted. Thus, the collection folder is able to store files from the one or more submitters, but prevent them from viewing other's submissions.
US11270006B2	Intelligent storage devices with cryptographic functionality A storage device can include processing and cryptographic capability enabling the device to function as a hardware security module (HSM). This includes the ability to encrypt and decrypt data using a cryptographic key, as well as to perform processing using such a key, independent of whether that processing involves data stored on the device. An internal key can be provided to the drive, whether provided before customer software access or received wrapped in another key, etc. That key enables the device to perform secure processing on behalf of a user or entity, where that key is not exposed to other components in the network or environment. A key may have specified tasks that can be performed using that key, and can be discarded after use. In some embodiments, firmware is provided that can cause a storage device to function as an HSM and/or processing device with cryptographic capability.
US11270002B2	Hardware trojan detection through information flow security verification Disclosed are various embodiments for detecting hardware Trojans through information flow security verification. A file comprising register transfer level (HDL) code for an intellectual property core is loaded from memory. An asset within the intellectual property core is identified. An integrity verification or confidentiality verification of the HDL code that represents the asset is performed. An integrity violation or confidentiality violation within the HDL code as a result of performance of the integrity verification or confidentiality violation on the HDL code that represents the asset is detected. A malicious control point or a malicious observation point linked to the asset is identified. Finally, a trigger circuit for a hardware Trojan is identified in response to identification of the malicious control point or malicious observation point.
US11270000B1	Generation of file digests for detecting malicious executable files A cybersecurity server receives an executable file that has bytecode and metadata of the bytecode. Strings are extracted from the metadata, sorted, and merged into data streams. The data streams are merged to form a combined data stream. A digest of the combined data stream is calculated using a fuzzy hashing algorithm. The similarity of the digest to another digest is determined to detect whether or not the executable file is malware or a member of a malware family.
US11269995B2	Chain of events representing an issue based on an enriched representation In some examples, a system constructs, based on event data representing a plurality of events in a system, a representation of the plurality of events, the representation including information relating the events, and computes issue indications corresponding to potential issues in the system. The system adds information based on the issue indications to the representation to form an enriched representation, and searches the enriched representation to find a chain of events representing an issue in the system.
US11269991B2	System for identifying suspicious code in an isolated computing environment based on code characteristics Providing an isolation system that allows analysts to analyze suspicious information in way that aids in preventing harmful information from spreading to other applications and systems on a network. A plurality of virtual containers may be used by analysts to analyze suspicious information. The suspicious information may first be hashed before being analyzed by the analyst. The hash for the suspicious information may be compared to stored hashes. When the hash meets a stored harmful hash the suspicious information may be determined to include harmful information without having to be further analyzed. When the hash meets a stored acceptable hash the suspicious information may be determined to be acceptable information without having to be further analyzed. Should the hash for the suspicious information fail to meet any stored hashes, then the suspicious information may be analyzed for harmful information within the virtual container.
US11269980B2	Authentication device and authentication method An authentication device authenticates a user using biometric information. The authentication device including: a storage unit, a first acquisition unit, a second acquisition unit, a controller, an authentication processing unit, and an update processing unit. When the first acquisition unit acquires identification information, and a combination for which the number of successes for the acquired identification information is greater than or equal to a predetermined number is present in combination information, the controller sets a threshold such that a false acceptance rate for erroneously authenticating a person other than a registered user becomes lower than when the combination is not present.
US11269979B2	System and method for virtual world biometric analytics through the use of a multimodal biometric analytic wallet The invention provides a system and method for virtual world biometric analytics through the use of a multimodal biometric analytic wallet. The system includes a virtual biometric wallet comprising a pervasive repository for storing biometric data, the pervasive repository including at least one of a biometric layer, a genomic layer, a health layer, a privacy layer, and a processing layer. The virtual biometric wallet further comprises an analytic environment configured to combine the biometric data from at least one of the biometric layer, the genomic layer, the health layer, the privacy layer, and the processing layer. The virtual biometric wallet also comprises a biometric analytic interface configured to communicate the biometric data to one or more devices within a virtual universe.
US11269975B2	System for authenticating a user using an application specific integrated circuit embedded within a user device Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for authenticating a user using an application specific integrated circuit embedded within a user device. The present invention is configured to receive an indication that a user has initiated an application on the user device; determine that the application is associated with the application specific integrated circuit embedded within the user device; activate the application specific integrated circuit based on at least determining that the application is associated with the application specific integrated circuit; receive an indication that the user has initiated an execution of an action, via the application, with an entity; and execute the action using the application specific integrated circuit based on at least receiving the indication that the user has initiated the execution of the action.
US11269973B2	Crossbar allocation for matrix-vector multiplications Repeating patterns are identified in a matrix. Based on the identification of the repeating patterns, instructions are generated, which are executable by processing cores of a dot product engine to allocate analog multiplication crossbars of the dot product engine to perform multiplication of the matrix with a vector.
US11269968B1	Systems and methods for optimizing automatic data selections Systems and methods for extracting data from digital messages for digital group compositions may include (1) identifying content that has been posted to a platform, (2) creating a social-engagement score for the content based on a measure of an amount of social engagement generated in response to the content, (3) determining that the social-engagement score surpasses a threshold, and (4) in response to determining that the social-engagement score surpasses the threshold, displaying the content within the platform as platform-recommended content. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US11269965B2	Extractive query-focused multi-document summarization A method, computer system, and computer program product for generating a multi-document summary is provided. The embodiment may include receiving a query statement, one or more documents, one or more summary constraints, and quality goals. The embodiment may include identifying one or more keywords within the query statement. The embodiment may include performing a sentence selection from the one or more documents based on the one or more identified keywords. The embodiment may include generating a plurality of candidate summaries of the one or more documents based on the performed sentence selection, the goals, and a cross entropy method. The embodiment may include calculating a quality score for each of the plurality of generated candidate summaries using a plurality of quality features. The embodiment may include selecting a candidate summary from the plurality of generated candidate summaries with the highest calculated quality score that also satisfies a quality score threshold.
US11269956B2	Systems and methods of managing an index Disclosed is a computer program stored in a computer readable storage medium according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure. The computer program executes operations for enhancing search performance of data when the computer program is executed by one or more processors and the operations may include: setting a traverse time stamp of an index search for searching a target index key; searching the index tree along a link connected from a root node of the index tree to a leaf node; writing in a time stamp table at least one index time stamp of the root node and the leaf node passed in the index search; determining whether a path of the index search needs to be changed; and determining a start node of re-search at least partially based on the time stamp table.
US11269949B1	System and method for searching, writing, editing, and publishing waveform shape information System and method are provided for searching, writing, editing, and publishing waveform shape information. The system comprises a display module configured for displaying a waveform shape defined by a plurality of breakpoints, each breakpoint comprising a pair of coordinates xValue, yValue and an interpolation value iValue; a control module configured for displaying customer-adjustable waveform shape parameters through the display module, the customer-adjustable parameters including the xValue, yValue, and iValue of the breakpoints; and a shape editor configured for receiving the customer-adjustable parameters and editing the waveform shape in response to the received parameters. The method comprises displaying a waveform shape defined by a plurality of breakpoints; displaying customer-adjustable waveform shape parameters through a display module; and receiving the customer-adjustable parameters and editing the waveform shape in response to the received parameters.
US11269941B2	Automated storyboarding based on natural language processing and 2D/3D pre-visualization Systems and methods are provided for a workflow framework that scriptwriters can utilize when developing scripts. A script can be parsed to identify one or more elements in a script, and various visual representations of the one or more elements and/or a scene characterized in the script can be automatically generated. A user may develop or edit the script which can be presented in a visual and temporal manner. Information parsed from the script can be stored in basic information elements, and used to create a knowledge bases.
US11269927B2	Transactional replicator A transactional replicator applying group commit and barrier concepts is disclosed. Group commit means that the transactional replicator commits multiple transactions in a group and is not restricted to committing single transactions one-at-a-time and is not limited to operating on a single state provider. Barrier means that the transactional replicator does not move forward to commit additional transactions until the previous group of transactions are completed. All state providers must apply their transactions and update state before additional transactions will be committed. A quorum acknowledgement “unlocks” any locks that were acquired to update the state within a state provider. However, as long as there are no lock conflicts, additional transactions can continue to create new group commits as necessary.
US11269925B2	Data synchronization in a data analysis system According to one embodiment, a method, computer system, and computer program product for data synchronization between a source database system and a target database system, the source database system including a source dataset and the target database system including a target dataset that is configured to include a copy of the source dataset. The embodiment may include configuring the target database system to detect data changes in the source dataset. The embodiment may include applying the detected data changes on the target dataset.
US11269924B2	System for live-migration and automated recovery of applications in a distributed system A method and apparatus for distribution of applications amongst a number of servers, ensuring that changes to application data on a master for that application are asynchronously replicated to a number of slaves for that application. Servers may be located in geographically diverse locations; the invention permits data replication over high-latency and lossy network connections and failure-tolerance under hardware and network failure conditions. Access to applications is mediated by a distributed protocol handler which allows any request for any application to be addressed to any server, and which, when working in tandem with the replication system, pauses connections momentarily to allow seamless, consistent live-migration of applications and their state between servers. Additionally, a system which controls the aforementioned live-migration based on dynamic measurement of load generated by each application and the topological preferences of each application, in order to automatically keep servers at an optimum utilisation level.
US11269920B2	Resource provisioning systems and methods A method and apparatus managing a set of processors for a set of queries is described. In an exemplary embodiment, a device provision a set of computing resources of a database system, the set of computing resources to process a set of queries of the database system and determines a utilization of the set of computing resources during processing of the set of queries. The device further updates the set of computing resources based on the utilization of the set of computing resources by the set of queries. Updating the set of computing resources includes updating a number of processors and a set of storage resources to process the set of queries of the database system, the set of storage resources being shared by each of the processors and processes the set of queries using the set of computing resources as updated.
US11269917B1	Secure cluster pairing for business continuity and disaster recovery Techniques are disclosed for providing backup protection. A first subnet is established for replication in a first cluster that includes a plurality of host devices. Each of the host devices includes a respective controller virtual machine, which together form a virtual local area network for replication. Each of the controller virtual machines is assigned an Ethernet interface. A replication Internet Protocol address is assigned to each of the Ethernet interfaces of the controller virtual machines. Route tables and firewall rules of the controller virtual machines are modified to allow communications between nodes of the first subnet. The first subnet is configured with information related to a second subnet for replication in a second cluster. A dedicated communication channel is generated for replication between the first cluster and the second cluster based on the configuring.
US11269916B2	Blockchain-based data processing method and device The present disclosure relates to blockchain-based data processing methods and devices to achieve balance between a service need and system resource consumption. In one example method, an amount of service data processed by consensus in a blockchain in a specified time period is monitored. A determination is made as to whether the monitored amount of processed service data in the specified time period is less than a specified first threshold or more than a specified second threshold. In response to determining that the monitored amount of processed service data in the specified time period is less than the specified first threshold or more than the specified second threshold, a block generation time for the blockchain is dynamically adjusted. A new block in the blockchain is then dynamically adjusted based on the adjusted block generation time.
US11269913B1	Reverse extract, transform, load (ETL) tool Provided herein are systems and methods for an application connector (also referred to as a reverse extract, transform, load (ETL) connector) in a database system. For example, a method includes retrieving an application connector corresponding to an application of a plurality of available applications. The application connector includes connector configuration information and connector code. A user-defined query is detected within the connector configuration information. The user-defined query is executed to obtain a query result. The query result is based on data stored in a storage device shared by the plurality of applications. The connector code of the application connector is executed to perform an update of the application, the update based on the query result.
US11269909B2	Information terminal, information presentation method for an information terminal, and information presentation program [Object] To enable a user to simply and easily confirm update information of a plurality of pieces of content data handled by a plurality of various application programs without any troublesome operation. [Solving Means] A plurality of update information display cards (51) are aligned and displayed on a display screen (50). The update information display cards (51) displayed on the display screen (50) are associated with different pieces of content data, and update information of the content data is individually arranged on the corresponding update information display card (51). Moreover, the update information display cards (51) on which the update information of the different types of content data are arranged are aligned and displayed on the display screen (50) in a chronological order of the updates of the content data.
US11269907B1	Object-centric data analysis system and graphical user interface Systems and methods for analyzing data stored using a data model. The system can receive a user selection of a first object type indicating to perform filtering operations on a first set of data objects, generate a list of object types linked to the first object type based on an ontology, receives a user selection of a second object type, generate a list of properties of the second object type based on an ontology, receive a user selection of a first property from the list of properties, perform a data query determining values associated with the first property, receive a user selection of a first value, and displays information of a subset of data objects being a portion of the first set of data objects that are linked to data objects in the second set of data objects that have a first property value of the first value.
US11269894B2	Topic-specific reputation scoring and topic-specific endorsement notifications in a collaboration tool A collaboration tool configured to: (1) automatically determine a topic-specific reputation score for one or more users of the collaboration tool, (2) to store the topic-specific reputation scores in a reputation database, (3) to access the reputation database in response to receiving a user input associated with a particular topic from another user, and (4) display to the other user a list of one or more users of the collaboration tool having topic-specific reputation scores exceeding a threshold.
US11269889B1	Graphical user interface driven programming development environment Data structures and applications are defined with the point-and-click visual tools or speech recognition and recorded as metadata descriptions, which are converted at runtime to generate underlying software code (e.g., C #, SQL, JavaScript, etc.) to implement the application. The data structures include application data elements described in a data serialization format, such as JSON, are stored in a NoSQL database. Each application data element includes fields that each represent an individual value. Each field is defined with a label, a data type, and attributes. The data structures also describe relationships or links between application data elements, as well as data-driven or time-based rules that drive further data manipulation and interactions within and external to the programming development environment through a variety of interfaces (e.g. HTTP, SMTP, SMS).
US11269883B2	Method and system for acquiring, tracking, and testing asset sample data Asset data is collected from one or more asset managers and stored in a known asset database. The known asset database enables tracking and maintenance of assets associated with each asset manager. One or more field technicians may also be associated with assets in the known asset database. A field technician is provided with access to a field asset management application on a mobile device, which allows the field technician to provide data associated with asset samples. Asset sample data is then correlated with asset data. Once an asset sample has been correlated with an asset, a field technician or other party is presented with an interface through an asset management application, allowing the party to place one or more requests for tests to be performed on one or more asset samples. Once the one or more tests are performed, test results data is provided.
US11269882B2	System and method for retrieving data from server computers A system for retrieving data from one or more server computers, comprising: a parser operable to generate a plurality of application programming interface, API, calls to one or more API endpoints of the one or more server computers from a query; an API call executor operable to execute the API calls and receive the results; and a query engine operable to execute the query on the received results.
US11269879B2	Optimal query scheduling according to data freshness requirements A process for optimal query scheduling includes receiving in an information retrieval data processing system, a request to accelerate query execution of a specified query to a time prior to a scheduled time. A specific field corresponding to data in a database is then identified in the query and a freshness of data requirement for the specific field retrieved along with a frequency of change the data corresponding to the specific field. Then, if execution of the specific query at the time prior to the scheduled time instead of the scheduled time is determined not to violate the freshness of data requirement based upon the frequency of change of the data corresponding of the specific field, the specific query is scheduled for execution at the time prior to the scheduled time. But otherwise, the scheduled time may be maintained for executing the specific query.
US11269871B1	Displaying multiple editable queries in a graphical user interface Systems and methods are disclosed for performing multiple queries in a single graphical user interface (GUI) displayed in a client browser. The client browser causes the display of a first user interface field in a first area of the GUI, where the first user interface field can be used to enter or edit a first query. The client browser also causes first query results generated by a data intake and query system executing the first query to be displayed in the first area. The client browser further causes the display of a second user interface field in a second area of the GUI, where the second user interface field can be used to enter or edit a second query. The client browser also causes second query results generated by the data intake and query system executing the second query to be displayed in the second area.
US11269850B2	Methods and systems for repairing recorded content Systems and methods are described for repairing recordings with at least a portion of a content item stored by a user device. If received metadata does not match reference metadata associated with a reference of the content item, one or more portions of the content stored by the user device may be damaged. The reference metadata and at least portions of the reference content item corresponding to the one or more portions of the content stored by the user device that are damaged may be received to replace the damaged content.
US11269846B2	Efficient database journaling using non-volatile system memory A database system may implement efficient database journaling using non-volatile system memory. An update to a database may be received, and log records indicating the update may be generated. A non-volatile portion of the system memory may be directly accessed to store the generated log records such that in the event of a failure of the database, the log records may be still maintained. Log records stored to the non-volatile portion of the system memory may be identified as durably persisted, in some embodiments. Log records may be identified and sent to block-based storage, in some embodiments. Recovery from a database system failure, in some embodiments, by obtaining log records from the non-volatile portion of system memory.
US11269845B1	Techniques to configure media packages Techniques to configure media packages are described. In one embodiment, an apparatus may comprise a client support component operative to receive search term information from a client device at a server device; and configure the client device with a selected one or more high-priority media items; a media server search component operative to transmit the search term information to a plurality of media servers; receive a plurality of media items from the plurality of media servers in response to the transmitting of the search term information to the plurality of media servers; and select the one or more high-priority media items from the plurality of media items based on priority weights; and a media item evaluation component operative to assign the priority weights to each of the plurality of media items. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US11269843B2	Object storage method and object storage gateway An object storage method includes: receiving an operation instruction, towards a target object, transmitted by a client terminal of a user; in response to the operation instruction, determining a storage area corresponding to the target object, where the storage area is located in a key-value storage database, the storage area is associated with a data table in the key-value storage database, and storage information of objects in the storage area is recorded in the data table; and processing the target object in the storage area of the key-value storage database according to the operation instruction, and modifying storage information of the target object in the data table according to a result of processing the target object.
US11269836B2	System and method for generating multi-category searchable ternary tree data structure Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed herein that generate a ternary tree data structure that includes multiple categories (e.g., terminologies) using dynamic array modifications that facilitate sharing of one or more nodes across categories. A plurality of different categories may be added and stored within a single ternary tree data structure such that each categories may be separately queried using the single ternary data structure.
US11269835B2	Customization and recommendation of tree-structured templates A computer-implemented method, according to one embodiment, is used to creating customized templates and template recommendations. The computer-implemented method includes: extracting text content from user information which corresponds to a user, and using the text content extracted from the user information to generate feature vectors. The feature vectors are further used to form one or more clusters of existing user editions. For each of the one or more formed clusters, a tree structure is generated for each user edition in the cluster. Moreover, the tree structures in the cluster are combined into a merged tree structure. A customized template is generated for each of the one or more formed clusters using the respective merged tree structure, and at least one of the customized templates is recommended to the user based on the user information.
US11269834B2	Detecting quasi-identifiers in datasets Quasi-identifiers (QIDs) are detected in a dataset using a set of computing tasks. The dataset has a plurality of records and a set of attributes. An index is generated for the dataset. The index has an indicator for each attribute value of each record in the dataset. Each indicator specifies all the records in the dataset having the same value for the attribute. Each task is assigned an attribute combination and a subset of the plurality of records in the dataset and is passed to a thread for execution on computing resources. The executing task inspects the set of records specified by the index indicator for each attribute value in the attribute combination to produce a result. The result of at least one task identifies a unique record for the associated attribute combination. The attribute combination producing the unique record is a QID.
US11269833B2	Data storage architecture for an enterprise communication system Various embodiments are directed to group-based data storage systems configured for maintaining data exchanged between client devices within channel-specific shards each corresponding with one or more group-identifiers to provide group-based access to those channel-specific shards and for applying group-specific policies for data stored within those channel-specific shards. Membership of particular users within particular groups and within particular channels may be monitored such that access to particular channel shards may be controlled based on group-memberships of the users, and access to data stored within particular channel shards may be controlled based on channel-memberships of the users.
US11269830B2	Generating a Venn diagram using a columnar database management system Venn diagrams are computed for a given plurality of input sets. The process of computing the Venn diagrams is executed on columnar database systems for efficient execution. The computation of various subsets of the Venn diagrams is performed by determining subsets of various combinations of the input sets and computing set differences of the intersection sets. The process orders the execution of various steps of computing the subsets for the Venn diagram in an order that reduces the number of times an input set is loaded. Information describing various subsets of a Venn diagram is used to render the Venn diagram for display, for example, on a client device.
US11269823B1	Migrating data between databases Data is migrated between a source database and a target database. The source database management system (“DBMS”) remains operational during the migration. A user selects the source DBMS and target DBMS, provides connection information used to connect to the database management systems and selects a virtual machine instance to perform the migration in conjunction with a database migration service. After the setup is complete, the virtual machine instance in conjunction with the database migration service performs data type transformations, and other operations, without user intervention. The database migration service also converts, without user intervention, the source schema and code to a format compatible with the target DBMS. Any code that is not converted is marked to assist the user of the database migration service identify where manual re-coding is required. The database migration service can also provide recommendations as to a target DBMS that is a suitable target DBMS.
US11269820B1	Integration of model execution engine containers with a model development environment An analytic model generated in a data scientist model acquisition toolbench is received. An analytic model is translated using a structuring tool. An execution simulation for testing the translated analytic model is performed for executing the model in the data scientist model acquisition toolbench.
US11269818B2	Smart versioning for files A system enabling smart versioning of files is provided. Techniques disclosed herein enable a system to snap to new versions of a file based on one or more measures of user interactions with the file. For instance, a system can create a new version number for a file based on an amount of time a user has spent editing the file, a number of saves that have occurred, and/or a quantity of data applied to edits of the file. The techniques disclosed herein can also utilize telemetry data to fine tune weightings that are applied to data measuring specific types user activity to provide results that best serve a range of use scenarios and file types. By providing version numbers of a file that are based on user interactions, a system can provide more meaningful version numbers that are aligned with the contents of a file.
US11269815B2	Warning for potential loss of data on logout Embodiments of the disclosure provide systems and methods for detecting and providing warnings of potential data loss on termination of a client application of a cloud-based storage system. According to one embodiment, an attempt to log out or otherwise terminate the cloud services client application can be detected and local files at risk of losing data can be identified. A warning can then be presented to the user. For example, a warning can be presented on a display of the client device identifying local files at risk of data loss for various reasons such as those files that are still open by an application, files that are in the process of, but not yet finished, being synchronized, and files that cannot be synchronized. The user can then be given the option to continue or can cancel the termination and attempt to remedy the situation(s) creating the risk of data loss.
US11269810B2	Computerized methods of data compression and analysis A computerized method and apparatus compresses symbolic information, such as text. Symbolic information is compressed by recursively identifying pairs of symbols (e.g., pairs of words or characters) and replacing each pair with a respective replacement symbol. The number of times each symbol pair appears in the uncompressed text is counted, and pairs are only replaced if they appear more than a threshold number of times. In recursive passes, each replaced pair can include a previously substituted replacement symbol. The method and apparatus can achieve high compression especially for large datasets. Metadata, such as the number of times each pair appears, generated during compression of the documents can be used to analyze the documents and find similarities between two documents.
US11269789B2	Managing connections of input and output devices in a physical room A device management server computer (“server”) and processing methods are disclosed. In some embodiments, the server is programmed to manage a plurality of input devices and output devices in a physical room. The server is programmed to analyze media data capturing actions performed by a user in real time as a participant in the physical room, determine how the user would like to connect at least one of the input devices and one of the output devices from the analysis, and enable the connection. The sever is programmed to interpret the actions and derive commands for connecting two or more devices based on predetermined data regarding the input devices and output devices and rules for referring to and connecting these devices.
US11269788B2	Managing memory in an electronic device There is described a method of managing memory in an electronic device, the method comprising creating a set of equally sized logical regions in a logical address space, each logical region comprising a plurality of consecutive logical addresses, and mapping a subset of consecutive logical addresses within each logical region to a set of physical addresses within a corresponding physical memory region, the subset of consecutive logical addresses comprising the first logical address within the logical region, said first logical address being mapped to a base address within the corresponding physical memory region. Furthermore, there is described a controller for managing memory in an electronic device and a method of determining a physical memory address in a physical memory region using such a controller.
US11269777B2	Systems and methods for efficient data buffering In one embodiment, a system may include a memory unit, a first processing unit configured to write data into a memory region of the memory unit, a second processing unit configured to read data from the memory region, a first control unit configured to control the first processing unit's access to the memory unit and, and a second control unit configured to control the second processing unit's access to the memory unit. The second control unit may be configured to obtain, from the first control unit, a first memory address associated with a data writing process of the first processing unit, receive a read request from the second processing unit, the read request having an associated second memory address, and delay execution of the read request based on a comparison of the first memory address and the second memory address.
US11269776B2	Direct input/output path to compressed data Techniques for providing a direct IO path to compressed data on storage media of a storage system. The techniques include triggering a transaction cache to perform a flush operation for updating mapping metadata for a storage object containing the compressed data. Having updated the mapping metadata for the storage object, the techniques further include issuing, by a copier module, an IO read request for the compressed data of the storage object to a namespace layer, which issues the IO read request to a mapping layer. The techniques further include forwarding the IO read request to a logical layer of the mapping layer, bypassing the transaction cache. The techniques further include reading, by the logical layer, the compressed data of the storage object from the storage media, and providing, via the mapping layer and the namespace layer, the compressed data to the copier module for transfer to a destination storage system.
US11269775B2	Responsive cache to improve latency in service-based architectures Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media for receiving, by a service, a request for data, transmitting, by the service, a data request to a data source, determining, by the service, that usable data is stored within a fuzzy cache of the service, and in response: calculating supplemental data based on the usable data, and transmitting an initial response including the supplemental data, the initial response being displayed at a client that had transmitted the request for data, and receiving, by the service and from the data source, requested data in response to the request for data, and transmitting, by the service, an updated response including the requested data.
US11269764B2	Storage system and method for adaptive scheduling of background operations A storage system and method for adaptive scheduling of background operations are provided. In one embodiment, after a storage system completes a host operation in the memory, the storage system remains in a high power mode for a period of time, after which the storage system enters a low-power mode. The storage system estimates whether there will be enough time to perform a background operation in the memory during the period of time without the background operation being interrupted by another host operation. In response to estimating that there will be enough time to perform the background operation in the memory without the background operation being interrupted by another host operation, the storage system performs the background operation in the memory.
US11269757B2	Production data in continuous integration flows The present disclosure relates to software development and, more specifically, to continuous integration (CI) based software development systems, methods, and computer program products in which a system-under-test (SUT) is populated with production data that has been filtered or transformed, or both. In accordance with this approach, the filtered or transformed production test data can be automatically generated and seamlessly integrated into a continuous integration process. In some examples, the resulting filtered or transformed test data closely reflects real production data while, at the same time, consuming less data storage space and protecting an individual's sensitive information.
US11269753B2	Multi-layered computing system attribute dependency A method, computer program product, and a system where a processor(s) obtains, from a data source, a list of objects at different layers of a computing system. The processor(s) generates exploration lists from the list (each exploration list with objects for a layer). The processor(s) identifies updated and new data at the layers associated with the objects on the list; the identified data comprises attributes for each layer. The processor(s) applies machine learning algorithm(s) to enrich the data by identifying dependencies between the attributes for each layer as influencers for one or more key performance indicators of the computing system. The processor(s) generates, from the enriched data, a hierarchy matrix. The processor(s) determines, based on the hierarchy matrix that an event associated with one or more computing resources of the computing system will influence a particular key performance indicator.
US11269747B2	Method, system and apparatus for assessing application impact on memory devices A method of assessing impact of applications executed by a computing device on a memory of the computing device includes: storing, in the memory, (i) a plurality of reference write operation sizes, and (ii) for each reference write operation size, a corresponding reference endurance indicator defining a write endurance; executing, at a processor of the computing device interconnected with the memory, a monitor application simultaneously with a test application; via execution of the monitor application at the processor: generating a usage profile for the test application, the usage profile defining a measured write operation size and a measured write operation rate for write operations initiated by the test application; determining an impact indicator for the test application based on the usage profile, the reference write operation sizes and the reference endurance indicators; and presenting the impact indicator.
US11269744B2	Network storage failover systems and associated methods Failover methods and systems for a networked storage environment are provided. A filtering data structure and a metadata data structure are generated before starting a replay of a log stored in a non-volatile memory of a second storage node, during a failover operation initiated in response to a failure at a first storage node. The second storage node operates as a partner node of the first storage node to mirror at the log one or more write requests received by the first storage node prior to the failure, and data associated with the one or more write requests. The filtering data structure identifies each log entry and the metadata structure stores a metadata attribute of each log entry. The filtering data structure and the metadata structure are used for providing access to a logical storage object during the log replay from the second storage node.
US11269737B2	Incrementally updating recovery map data for a memory system The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and computer-readable media for generating and updating a recovery map that includes information that enables a computing device to recover a current state of memory. For example, systems disclosed herein may iteratively update segments of a memory snapshot based on a recent state of memory corresponding to discrete portions of a memory system. In addition, systems disclosed herein may discard outdated segments of the memory snapshot in addition to outdated journal updates at incremental checkpoints that facilitate a gradual update process that may significantly reduce recovery time upon experiencing an untimely power loss event. The systems described herein provide additional processing flexibility, reduce utilization of processing resources, and reduce media wear while accomplishing one or more benefits associated with efficient recovery of a current state of memory.
US11269736B2	Method to manage database failure Disclosed is a non-transitory computer readable medium storing a computer program. When the computer program is executed by one or more processors of a computing device, the computer program performs procedures for database failure management, and the procedures may include: receiving backend failure information for at least one backend of one or more backends; receiving an event from a client after receiving the backend failure information; verifying whether the event is an event corresponding to a failed backend; verifying a type of the event if the event is an event corresponding to a failed backend; determining a method of processing the event corresponding to the failed backend based on the type of event, while backend failure occurs; receiving recovery information about the failed backend; and processing an event received from the client after receiving the recovery information about the backend.
US11269733B2	Synthetic full backups and deduplication backup storage with landing zone A method, a system, and a computer program product for executing synthetic backup processes and deduplication backup storage with landing zone. A synthetic backup of a data file is received. A partial re-synthesis of the synthetic backup of the data file is performed. A total size of the partial re-synthesized backup of the data file and the received synthetic backup is determined. A size of a complete re-synthesis of the synthetic backup of the data file is computed. The complete re-synthesis of the synthetic backup of the data file is performed when the determined total size exceeds the computed size of the complete re-synthesis of the synthetic backup of the data file.
US11269732B2	Managing structured data in a data storage system According to certain aspects, a secondary computing system can be configured to perform a full backup on database data, generate incremental backups comprising log files associated with modifications to the database data, and create a differential full backup copy of the database data using the full backup copy and changed blocks identified using the log files from the incremental backups.
US11269718B1	Root cause detection and corrective action diagnosis system Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for automatically detecting root causes of anomalies occurring in information technology (IT) systems are disclosed. In some embodiments, data of a service graph depicting dependencies between nodes or services of the IT infrastructure is traversed to determine propagation patterns of anomaly symptoms/alarms through the IT infrastructure. Also, a causal inference model is used to determine probabilities that an observed propagation pattern corresponds to a stored propagation pattern, wherein a close correspondence indicates that the current anomaly is likely caused by a similar root cause as a past anomaly that caused the stored propagation pattern.
US11269709B2	Automated incident handling for software components Embodiments relate to an incident handling system for individual components of an overall software system. In particular, an engine receives error data information from a source of error information in a software component. That error information source may comprise a log entry, a formal error message, an exception, or a system crash. In response, the engine queries an underlying metadata description of the software system to receive a query result with additional metadata (e.g., unique artifact identifier, name) relevant to the error. Analysis of the error data and error metadata allows the engine to create an incident that is dispatched to an existing error tracking system, for support ticket creation and handling by the appropriate party. Adapter(s) allow the incident handling system to convert error data into generic form for search/analysis, and then to convert the incident information back into the specific format expected by the existing error tracking system.
US11269704B2	Memory system and control method thereof A memory system includes a non-volatile memory and a controller. The controller is configured to perform an error correction on data read from a memory region of the non-volatile memory, and set a value of a parameter corresponding to a number of parity bits to be added to write data to be written into the memory region based on a number of data bits corrected in the error correction of the read data in a case where the error correction is successful.
US11269698B2	User interface systems and methods for a wearable computing device Systems and methods for providing inter-process communication in a wearable computing device are disclosed. A hardware abstraction layer is provided for a plurality of physical devices. An application program accesses the plurality of physical devices via the hardware abstraction layer. A unique inter-process communication context is created for each application program and physical device pair. A socket interface is provided for each unique inter-process communication context.
US11269691B2	Load distribution for integration scenarios The disclosure generally describes methods, software, and systems for handling integration flows. A set of flows is initially deployed to a single worker set. A load balancing issue is identified that is associated with initial runtime interactions by workers with the single worker set. In response to identifying the load balancing issue, the load balancing issue is analyzed to determine whether to autoscale or generate a new worker set. Load balancing is performed to initiate at least one new worker set. At least one flow to be moved to the at least one new worker set is identified. Movement of the identified at least one flow from a current worker set to a new worker set is performed.
US11269685B2	Managing memory buffer allocation in multi-processor system In an approach for managing physical processor usage of a shared memory buffer, a processor receives a request for memory. A processor receives a request for memory from a process running on a physical processor. A processor determines whether the request for memory is less than or equal to a pre-determined threshold, wherein the pre-determined threshold is based on characteristics of a server on which the physical processor resides, needs of the server, and a frequency of requests of each memory size. Responsive to determining the request for memory is greater than the pre-determined threshold, a processor identifies a node on which the physical processor resides. A processor identifies a memory buffer of a set of memory buffers allocated to the node on which the physical processor resides. A processor allocates the memory buffer.
US11269679B2	Resource-governed protocol and runtime for distributed databases with consistency models Distributed transactions are performed over a collection of servers operating as replicas of a data set, where a successful transaction involves meeting a quorum count of replicas that locally commit the transaction. However, performance constraints of data sets and consuming applications may vary (e.g., sensitivity to latency, scalability, and/or consistency), and the performance characteristics of the server set may be partly determined by the transactional commitment and quorum selection. The distributed transaction may be applied by designating the replicas as a set of followers and a leader that initiates the transaction and receives acknowledgments of local commits by each follower. On condition of the acknowledgments meeting a quorum count for the data set according to the performance characteristics of the application, the leader locally commits the transaction and delivers a result. The transaction may also be applied over collections of replica sets using a second-level quorum to achieve nested consensus.
US11269673B2	Client-defined rules in provider network environments Methods and apparatus that allow clients to specify custom network rules for their resource instances or network constructs in a provider network environment. Services and interfaces may be provided that allow a client to provide an executable module that implements custom rules for their resources, or alternatively to specify or select custom rules for their resources. The module may be installed on a host device, and may apply the custom rules to packets to and from the client's resources. Alternatively, the client-defined rules may be applied to packet flows according to the custom rules specified by the client and applied by a client rules service implemented on the provider network external to the host device or on a client resource instance on the host device. The custom network rules may, for example, extend or modify standard network rules for the client's resources on the host device.
US11269660B2	Methods and systems for integrated development environment editor support with a single code base Systems and methods for discovering a unique identifier for an integrated development environment editor for receiving a single code base with a same functionality from a plug-in are disclosed herein. Exemplary implementations may include: accessing an integrated development environment's plug-in registry using publicly available tools and publicly available published information; identifying a unique identifier for the integrated development environment's editor using the plug-in registry; adding the unique identifier for the integrated development environment editor to a plug-in; and repeating the process for other integrated development environment editors, allowing functions developed for the integrated development environment editor to be available in the other integrated development environments.
US11269652B2	Opportunistic vehicle controller restart scheduling A memory is configured to store statistics indicative of historical vehicle use patterns. A processor is programmed to identify a next reboot time and top locations at which reboot is allowed according to the statistics, and upon transition to a keyoff state, reboot a vehicle controller responsive to confirmation that a current time has reached at least the next reboot time and that the vehicle is located at one of the top locations.
US11269646B2	Instruction scheduling patterns on decoupled systems Apparatuses and methods for instruction scheduling in an out-of-order decoupled access-execute processor are disclosed. The instructions for the decoupled access-execute processor comprises access instructions and execute instructions, where access instructions comprise load instructions and instructions which provide operand values to load instructions. Schedule patterns of groups of linked execute instructions are monitored, where the execute instructions in a group of linked execute instructions are linked by data dependencies. On the basis of an identified repeating schedule pattern configurable execution circuitry adopts a configuration to perform the operations defined by the group of linked execute instructions of the repeating schedule pattern.
US11269639B2	Methods and apparatus for intentional programming for heterogeneous systems Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed for intentional programming for heterogeneous systems. An example apparatus includes a code lifter to identify annotated code corresponding to an algorithm to be executed on the heterogeneous system based on an identifier being associated with the annotated code, and convert the annotated code in the first representation to intermediate code in a second representation by identifying the intermediate code as having a first algorithmic intent that corresponds to a second algorithmic intent of the annotated code, a domain specific language (DSL) generator to translate the intermediate code in the second representation to DSL code in a third representation when the first algorithmic intent matches the second algorithmic intent, the third representation corresponding to a DSL representation, and a code replacer to invoke a compiler to generate an executable including variant binaries based on the DSL code.
US11269631B2	Extending fused multiply-add instructions Extending fused multiply-add instructions, the method comprising: receiving an extended fused multiply-add (FMA) instruction indicating one or more operands of a fused multiply-add (FMA) operation and one or more transformations to be applied to the one or more operands; and performing, based on the extended FMA instruction, the one or more transformations and the FMA operation.
US11269628B2	Processor cores using packet identifiers for routing and computation Processor cores using packet identifiers for routing and computation are disclosed. One method includes executing a complex computation using a set of processing cores. The method includes routing a set of packets using a set of packet identifiers and executing a set of instructions. The set of instructions are defined using a set of operand identifiers. The operand identifiers represent packet identifiers in the set of packet identifiers. In specific implementations the set of the operand identifiers represent packet identifiers in the set of packet identifiers in that a set of memories on the set of processing cores stores data values in common association with both the set of packets, and a set of operands identified by the set of operand identifiers. In specific implementations the set of operand identifiers and packet identifiers are unambiguously mapped to an underlying set of application datums of the complex computation.
US11269627B1	System and method of resource management and performance prediction of computing resources In one or more embodiments, a system and/or a method may implement: receiving data representing different performance behavior metrics that are associated with software instances that are respectively associated with consumer computers and that specify values of performance factors of the software instances as the consumer computers interoperate with the software instances; determining data throughput values that represent processing throughput of the software instances; determining relative capacity values of the software instances; adapting each of prediction models to the relative capacity values; determining correlation coefficients from the prediction models and the multiple data throughput values; executing a prediction model of the prediction models associated with a correlation coefficient closest to a value of “1” to result in outputting threshold values associated with the performance factors; and transmitting the threshold values to a particular consumer computer among the consumer computers as part of a change recommendation message having a hyperlink.
US11269622B2	Methods, systems, articles of manufacture, and apparatus for a context and complexity-aware recommendation system for improved software development efficiency Apparatus, systems, articles of manufacture, and methods for a context and complexity-aware recommendation system for efficient software development. An example apparatus includes a current state generator to generate a representation of a current state of a new function, an instruction predictor to generate a first recommended software component based on the current state of the new function, a complexity cost determiner to rank the first recommended software component based on a weighted sum of associated partial cost values, the software component to be ranked against second recommended software components based on a comparison of partial cost values corresponding to respective ones of the second recommended software components, a risk identifier to detect vulnerabilities based on an attack surface of a portion of the first recommended software component, and a ranking determiner to generate a third recommended software component, the third recommended software component corresponding to respective ranking metrics.
US11269612B2	Low latency dynamic content management Methods and systems are presented for providing low latency dynamic content updates to applications, by separating presentable content from the programming logic of an application. The programming code associated with the application without at least a portion of the presentable content may be released to an application hosting server for distributing to end-users. The presentable content may be published to a content delivery network separate from the application hosting server. Once the application is downloaded to a user device, the application may retrieve the presentable content from the content delivery network. The application may incorporate the retrieved presentable content into the application such that the presentable content would be presented on the user device as intended when the application is accessed.
US11269599B2	Visual programming methods and systems for intent dispatch A system includes a processor, an input device, and a memory storing instructions that, when executed, cause the system to display a palette and receive a user selection of one or more actions, and store the selected actions in association with the palette in an electronic database. In another aspect, a non-transitory computer readable medium includes program instructions that when executed, cause a computer to display, on a graphical user interface, a palette, receive, via the input device, a user selection of one or more actions, and store the selected one or more actions in association with the palette in a database. A method includes displaying a palette and receiving, via the input device, a user selection of one or more actions, and storing the selected one or more actions in association with the palette in an electronic database.
US11269575B2	Devices, methods, and graphical user interfaces for wireless pairing with peripheral devices and displaying status information concerning the peripheral devices An electronic device having a display, radio frequency (RF) circuitry, and one or more input devices, displays a first user interface on the display. While displaying the first user interface, the electronic device detects a pairing request to pair a first peripheral with the electronic device. In response to detecting the pairing request, the electronic device pairs the first peripheral with the electronic device, and after the first peripheral is paired with the electronic device, the electronic device concurrently displays status information of the first peripheral and a second peripheral, wherein the first peripheral is coupled to the second peripheral, or the first peripheral and second peripheral are both coupled to a third peripheral.
US11269569B2	Image forming apparatus and apparatus An image forming apparatus includes an acquisition unit and a determination unit. The acquisition unit acquires a print setting about at least one of items including a size of a recording medium used for printing, a type of the recording medium, and a conveyance speed of the recording medium. The determination unit determines a printing method to be executed among a plurality of printing methods including a first printing method for drawing an image having a density and a second printing method for drawing an image having a density that is higher than the density of an image printed by the first printing method. Where the print setting is acquired by the acquisition unit, the determination unit determines whether to permit execution of printing by the second printing method based on the print setting acquired by the acquisition unit.
US11269566B2	User interface for depletion level selection Examples of a user interface (UI) for depletion level selection are described herein. In some examples, a control element is displayed in a UI to select a color depletion level for a color printing substance of a printing device. A predicted cost-per-page to print is displayed in the UI based on based on a selected color depletion level. A color map for the printing device is determined based on the selected color depletion level and a separate black depletion level.
US11269556B2	Semiconductor memory device and memory controller having randomizer A memory controller for controlling an operation of a semiconductor memory device including a memory block including a plurality of sub-blocks. The memory controller includes a randomizer. The randomizer includes: seed table storage configured to store a plurality of seed tables respectively corresponding to the plurality of sub-blocks, and to generate a seed, based on sub-block information of received original data; a random sequence generator configured to generate a random sequence, based on the seed generated by the seed table storage; and an operating component configured to generate random data, based on the random sequence and the original data.
US11269551B2	Semiconductor memory device and method of operating the same A semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell array, a peripheral circuit, and a control logic. The memory cell array includes a plurality of planes. The peripheral circuit is configured to perform a plane interleaving operation for the plurality of planes. The control logic controls the peripheral circuit to reset an operation of at least one plane of the plurality of planes based on a type of an operation reset command received by the control logic.
US11269541B2	Efficient utilization of storage resources on data recovery sites using machine learning Embodiments for dynamically allocating journal space for Do streams across multiple applications. A shared Do stream process has a dynamic block allocation component that provides a certain amount of buffering of a data flush for an application, using space that would normally be allocated for, but unused by, other applications, thus preventing the need for one or more of the applications to move to fast-forward mode when possible. Certain machine learning techniques are used in order to predict the required Do stream for each application according to past experience with the application, and this prediction is used to intelligently allocate Do Streams between the different applications.
US11269526B2	Interconnected memory grid with bypassable units A device for executing a software program by at least one computational device, comprising an interconnected computing grid, connected to the at least one computational device, comprising an interconnected memory grid comprising a plurality of memory units connected by a plurality of memory network nodes, each connected to at least one of the plurality of memory units; wherein configuring the interconnected memory comprises: identifying a bypassable memory unit; selecting a backup memory unit connected to a backup memory network node; configuring the respective memory network node connected to the bypassable memory unit to forward at least one memory access request, comprising an address in a first address range, to the backup memory network node; and configuring the backup memory network node to access the backup memory unit in response to the at least one memory access request, in addition to accessing the respective at least one memory unit connected thereto.
US11269516B1	Pattern detection system and method A method, computer program product, and computing system for receiving content on a high-availability storage system. The content is compared to one or more entries in a static database associated with a cache memory system of the high-availability storage system. If the content does not match the one or more entries in the static database, the content is compared to one or more entries in a dynamic database associated with the cache memory system. If the content does not match the one or more entries in the dynamic database: the content is written to the cache memory system and a representation of the content is written to a temporal database associated with the cache memory system and maintained for a defined period of time.
US11269514B2	Memory fabric software implementation A hardware-based processing node of an object memory fabric can comprise a memory module storing and managing one or more memory objects within an object-based memory space. Each memory object can be created natively within the memory module, accessed using a single memory reference instruction without Input/Output (I/O) instructions, and managed by the memory module at a single memory layer. The memory module can provide an interface layer below an application layer of a software stack. The interface layer can comprise one or more storage managers managing hardware of a processor and controlling portions of the object-based memory space visible to a virtual address space and physical address space of the processor. The storage managers can further provide an interface between the object-based memory space and an operating system executed by the processor and an alternate object memory based storage transparent to software using the interface layer.
US11269510B2	Identification in touch systems A touch sensor system includes touch sensors, drive-sense circuits (DSCs), memory, and a processing module. A DSC drives a first signal via a single line coupling to a touch sensor and simultaneously senses, when present, a second signal that is uniquely associated with a user. The DSC processes the first signal and/or the second signal to generate a digital signal that is representative of an electrical characteristic of the touch sensor. The processing module executes operational instructions (stored in the memory) to process the digital signal to detect interaction of the user with the touch sensor and to determine whether the interaction of the user with the touch sensor compares favorably with authorization. When not authorized, the processing module aborts execution of operation(s) associated with the interaction of the user with the touch sensor. Alternatively, when authorized, the processing module facilitates execution of the operation(s).
US11269509B2	Force sensing system and method A force sensing system for determining if a user input has occurred, the system comprising: an input channel, to receive an input from at least one force sensor; an activity detection stage, to monitor an activity level of the input from the at least one force sensor and, responsive to an activity level which may be indicative of a user input being reached, to generate an indication that an activity has occurred at the force sensor; and an event detection stage to receive said indication, and to determine if a user input has occurred based on the received input from the at least one force sensor.
US11269504B2	System and method for market visualization A system for visualization of financial market comprises a data processor for receiving financial data belonging to a plurality of stocks from an external data source. The financial data includes a plurality of available indicator values, where each indicator value corresponds to information relevant to the stocks. A visualization module is configured to provide a navigation bar on a user's display device, enabling the user to select a plurality of indicators from a list of available indicator values, for visualization of the indicators on the user's display device. The visualization module further provides information for displaying a plurality of tiles on the display device, each tile representing a stock from a selected universe of stocks, wherein each tile includes a multi-dimensional information corresponding to one or more indicators from the user selected indicators. The first dimension of information is position of the tile on the display device depending on a value of a first selected indictor. The second dimension of information is the background color of the tile on the display device depending on a value of a second selected indicator. The third dimension is visibility of the tile depending on a value of a third selected indicator.
US11269499B2	Electronic apparatus and control method for fine item movement adjustment An electronic apparatus performs control such that an item to be displayed in a display unit is displayed so as to move according to a touch operation, and performs control to not move the position of the item displayed in the display unit even if a touch operation has been started, and, in response to a movement of a touch position having been detected, move the item from the position at which the item was displayed in accordance with a movement amount of the touch position, and after the touch position has been moved, when a position of the touch panel that is in a first direction from a set reference position of the touch panel is tapped, move the item in the first direction by an amount corresponding to a predetermined amount, every time a tap is performed.
US11269491B2	Bookmarking shared file and folder links A document management system that is adapted to allow users to share files or folders by: (1) creating a link to the files or folders; and (2) sharing the link with other users. In particular embodiments, the system is adapted to keep track of any links generated by, sent by, and/or received by a particular user. The system may display a listing of the links upon request by a user, so that the user may re-use or deactivate the links, or modify attributes of the links. Having a centralized listing of the links may be particularly advantageous in helping a user keep track of the files and folders that they have shared and received.
US11269489B2	Document processing system and non-transitory computer readable medium storing document processing program A document processing system includes a first device capable of executing a document processing application, the first device including a first display control unit that controls a first display unit so as to display an electronic document to be processed and plural object attachment buttons, to which attachment commands of plural types of objects attachable to the electronic document are respectively assigned, in the document processing application, and a second device capable of executing the document processing application, the second device including a second display control unit that controls a second display unit having a size smaller than a size of the first display unit so as to display an electronic document to be processed and selection object attachment button to which attachment commands of selection objects, which is an object selected by a user among the plural types of objects corresponding to the plural object attachment buttons, are assigned.
US11269485B2	System and method for management of an online group A system and method for management of online communication may include presenting a first screen enabling a user to communicate in a group chatroom over an instant messaging platform and, based on a single click on a button in the first screen, presenting a second screen enabling the user to view group's shared content over a social media platform is presented. An embodiment may revert to the first screen based on a single click on a button in the second screen.
US11269482B2	Application association processing method and apparatus Embodiments of the present invention provide an application association processing method and apparatus. The method includes: detecting a first operation instruction; and when it is determined that the first operation instruction is to perform a first preset operation on first content displayed on a display interface, displaying prompt information of second content associated with the first content, where the first preset operation is an operation gesture preset by the user, the prompt information is used to inform an association relationship exists between the first content and the second content, where when the first content is an application icon, the second content is an icon of at least one control included in an application corresponding to the application icon; or when the first content is an icon of a control, the second content is an icon of an application to which the control belongs. User operation complexity can be reduced.
US11269474B2	Touch devices The present disclosure discloses a touch device, including a display region and a transmission region. The transmission region is arranged on at least one side around the display region. The touch device includes a first flexible film, a first low-resistance conductive layer, a first adhesive layer, a second flexible film, a second low-resistance conductive layer, a second adhesive layer, and a transparent cover plate sequentially from bottom to top. The first low-resistance conductive layer includes a first touch conductive layer and a first wire integrally formed. The second low-resistance conductive layer includes a second touch conductive layer and a second wire integrally formed. The first touch conductive layer and the second touch conductive layer correspond to the display region. The first wire and the second wire correspond to the transmission region.
US11269462B2	Electrostatic capacitance-type sensor-equipped display device and method of driving the same According to one embodiment, an electrostatic capacitance-type sensor-equipped display device includes a display panel with a display surface which displays an image. The sensor includes a plurality of detection electrodes disposed in a matrix, the detection electrodes being mutually electrically independently provided above the display surface and being configured to detect a variation in electrostatic capacitance, and a plurality of lead lines provided above the display surface, connected to the detection electrodes in a one-to-one correspondence, and formed of a metal.
US11269456B1	Enhanced mutual capacitance touch screen display with water compensation and methods for use therewith A capacitive touch screen display operates by: receiving a plurality of sensed signals indicating variations in mutual capacitance associated with a plurality of cross points formed by a plurality of electrodes; generating capacitance image data associated with the plurality of cross points that includes positive capacitance variation data corresponding to positive variations of the capacitance image data from a nominal value and negative capacitance variation data corresponding to negative variations of the capacitance image data from the nominal value; identifying a presence of water on the touch screen display based on the positive capacitance variation data, and the negative capacitance variation data; generating compensated capacitance image data to compensate for effects of the water on the touch screen display in the capacitance image data; and processing the compensated capacitance image data to determine a proximal condition of the touch screen display.
US11269450B2	Electrostatic capacitance sensor An electrostatic capacitance sensor includes: at least one detection electrode; drive electrodes, capacitors being respectively formed between the drive electrodes and the at least one detection electrode; a driver capable of causing voltages of the drive electrodes to change independently from each other; a reference voltage generator that generates a reference voltage; a detection signal generator that transfers charge so that a voltage of the at least one detection electrode approaches the reference voltage and that generates a detection signal according to the transfer of the charge; and a controller that controls the driver. The driver is capable of applying the reference voltage to each of the drive electrodes. When the driver causes a voltage of one or more of the drive electrodes to change, the controller controls the driver so as to apply the reference voltage to the remaining drive electrodes.
US11269447B2	Touch display device and control method thereof A touch display device includes a controller, a source driver, several multiplexers, and several touch sensors. The source driver is configured to output several data signals. The multiplexers are coupled to the controller and the source driver, and are configured to transmit the plurality of data signals to an active area according to at least one enable period of a multiplexing signal. The touch sensors are coupled to the controller, and are configured to receive a touch signal outputted from the controller. The touch signal includes a touch pulse. A touch pulse starting-time interval and a touch pulse ending-time interval of the touch pulse are located in at least one disable period of the multiplexing signal, and the touch pulse and the at least one enable period partially overlap in time sequence.
US11269446B2	Touch display device and method for manufacturing the same A display device, and a method of manufacturing the same, includes an encapsulation layer on a display area and a routing area, a touch insulation film on the encapsulation layer and including a plurality of grooves in a first area of the routing area, the routing area including the first area overlapping a folding area of a substrate and a second area not overlapping the folding area, a touch cover on the touch insulation film, a plurality of touch electrodes, at least part of which is disposed at a position overlapping an active area between the encapsulation layer and the touch insulation film or between the touch insulation film and the touch cover, and a plurality of touch signal lines in the routing area and respectively in the plurality of grooves or between the plurality of grooves in the first area, extending in the second direction.
US11269445B2	Touch window for touch sensor and home appliance having same A touch window for a touch sensor includes: a touch member having a front surface and a rear surface, the front surface configured to be pressed by a user, a plurality of conductive printed portions printed on the rear surface of the touch member, the conductive printed portions being configured to respectively contact a plurality of conductive electrodes of the touch sensor, and a non-conductive film attached to the rear surface of the touch member and defining one or more through-holes. Inner surfaces of the one or more through-holes are configured to respectively surround the conductive printed portions and the conductive printed portions and the non-conductive film have different thicknesses from each other such that surface condensation on the conductive printed portions and surface condensation on the non-conductive film are spaced apart from each other.
US11269439B2	Touch panel and fabrication method thereof and touch display device A touch panel comprises a first substrate (1), a second substrate (2) opposite to the first substrate (1), and spacers (5) between the first substrate (1) and the second substrate (2). At least one of the spacers (5) comprises a piezoelectric material. The piezoelectric material is a graphene-polyborosiloxane composite.
US11269438B2	Electronic device An electronic device which can simplify operation when displaying an active window or an inactive window is provided. The active window or the inactive window is displayed on a display section arranged in a position different from an operation input section based on a comparison of a pressing force to the operation input section and a reference value. Therefore, the active or inactive window can be displayed by one action, and thereby operation can be simplified.
US11269433B2	Display device having integrated touch sensitive elements and method of fabrication A display device includes a display element including a first electrode, a protective layer arranged on the first electrode, a second electrode arranged on the protective layer at a pixel area and contacting a thin film transistor. A sensing line is arranged on the protective layer and contacts the first electrode through a contact hole exposing the first electrode through the third protective layer. The sensing line comprises a first conductive layer arranged on the protective layer and contacting the second electrode through the contact hole, and a second conductive layer arranged on the first conductive layer.
US11269432B2	Display module and display system Disclosed is a display module including a transparent display panel and a frame to fix a side of the transparent display panel, wherein the frame has a communication unit to receive data from the outside, a controller to process the received data and to output a drive command corresponding to the processed data and a display drive unit to drive the transparent display panel in response to the drive command from the controller. A display system includes a system body and a display module detachably mounted in the system body.
US11269431B2	Electronic-scribed input An apparatus, the apparatus comprising at least one processor, and at least one memory including computer program code, the at least one memory and the computer program code configured, with the at least one processor, to cause the apparatus to perform at least the following: based on one or more determined input manner characteristics of user electronic-scribed input, associate the user electronic-scribed input with a function to be performed using the user electronic-scribed input.
US11269429B2	Executing gestures with active stylus In one embodiment, a stylus with one or more electrodes and one or more computer-readable non-transitory storage media embodying logic for transmitting signals wirelessly to a device through a touch sensor of the device has one or more sensors for detecting movement of the stylus.
US11269428B2	Changing a mode of operation of a computing device by a pen device The disclosure herein describes changing a mode of operation of a computing device using signals from a pen device. The pen device obtains gesture input data from at least one sensor of the pen device and the obtained gesture input data is compared to at least one gesture pattern. Based on the gesture input data matching the at least one gesture pattern, the pen device transitions to an active state. The pen device detects, via an electrostatic communication channel, an uplink signal from the computing device and sends a signal to change a mode of operation of the computing device by at least one of a network interface or a communication channel, other than the electrostatic communication channel. Changing modes of operation of a computing device provides a flexible, stream-lined way to enhance the user experience of using a computing device with a pen device (e.g., performing an initial pairing process).
US11269426B2	Systems, methods, and apparatus for enhanced presentation remotes In accordance with some embodiments, systems, apparatus, interfaces, methods, and articles of manufacture are provided for ascertaining aspects of a presentation and/or of an audience member. A presentation remote can be used to obtain information about the presentation and provide it to the audience member.
US11269420B1	Techniques for detecting acknowledgment from a driver of a vehicle Disclosed embodiments include techniques for detecting an acknowledgement from a driver of a vehicle. A driver state and reaction tracking system determines that a detected condition exceeds a threshold hazard potential with the vehicle. The driver state and reaction tracking system detects a gesture, by a driver, associated with the detected condition. The driver state and reaction tracking system, in response to detecting the gesture, reduces an urgency level for alerting the driver of the detected condition to generate a reduced urgency level. The driver state and reaction tracking system determines whether to issue an alert to the driver based on the reduced urgency level. The driver state and reaction tracking system may transmit an acknowledgement to other systems associated with pedestrians, bicyclists, motorcyclists, semiautonomous vehicles, manually driven vehicles and/or the like. to confirm that the driver has seen the pedestrian, bicyclist, motorcyclist, or vehicle associated with the other system.
US11269416B2	Touch communication device The present disclosure provides touch communication devices that can convey touch information to a human user and/or receive touch information from the human user. As one example, a touch communication device can include a plurality of tactile units. The touch communication device can individually control each of the tactile units to apply a respective pressure to a surface adjacent to such tactile unit. For example, the touch communication device can control the plurality of tactile units to convey a touch communication to a human user that has the touch communication device adjacent to a portion of his body. As another example, the touch communication device is configured to determine a counter-pressure applied to each tactile unit by the surface adjacent to such tactile unit. The touch communication device can generate information descriptive of a touch communication performed by the human user on the touch communication device.
US11269408B2	Wireless head mounted display with differential rendering A method is provided, including: receiving captured images of an interactive environment in which a head-mounted display (HMD) is disposed; receiving inertial data processed from at least one inertial sensor of the HMD; analyzing the captured images of the interactive environment and the inertial data to determine a predicted future location of the HMD; using the predicted future location of the HMD to adjust a beamforming direction of an RF transceiver in a direction that is towards the predicted future location of the HMD; tracking a gaze of a user of the HMD; predicting a movement of the gaze of the user; generating video depicting a view of a virtual environment for the HMD; wherein the regions of the view are rendered differently based on the predicted movement of the gaze of the user; wirelessly transmitting the video via the RF transceiver to the HMD using the adjusted beamforming direction.
US11269406B1	Systems and methods for calibrating eye tracking A method for calibrating eye tracking data for a head wearable optical device includes receiving eye tracking data from an imaging device oriented towards a combiner. The method includes determining a gaze direction of an eye of a user based on the eye tracking data. The method includes receiving calibration data from the imaging device that includes an indication of positions of one or more calibration indicators. The method includes determining the gaze direction based at least in part on the calibration data received from the imaging device (or factors adjusted by the calibration data).
US11269400B2	Positioning system A motion tracking system configured to determine a rendering of a simulation object representing a real object (1) in a real environment (5, 6, 7, 8, 9), the positioning system comprising: an imaging device (24) mounted to the real object and configured to capture a series of images of a plurality of irregularly positioned markers (30) located in the real environment; an image processing unit communicatively coupled to the imaging device for receiving the series of images; the image processing unit being configured to determine the real location of the real object by: creating a three-dimensional model of a constellation formed by the markers visible in the series of images; and mapping the patterns of markers visible in successive images captured by the imaging device to the model and thereby determining the motion of the imaging device relative to the markers; and to determine the rendering of the simulation object so that the rendering mimics the determined motion of the imaging device.
US11269397B2	Power configuration component including selectable configuration profiles corresponding to operating power characteristics of the power configuration component A power management system includes a memory component storing a plurality of configuration profiles. A plurality of configuration pins are operatively coupled to the memory component. One or more of the plurality of configuration pins receive one or more signals to selectively activate one of the plurality of configuration profiles.
US11269382B2	Electronic apparatus An electronic apparatus is disclosed. The electronic apparatus includes a first chassis member, a second chassis member detachably connected to the first chassis member, a hook, which is supported in a floatable manner with respect to the first chassis member, protrudes from an inner surface of the first chassis member, and an engagement hole, which is provided on an inner surface of the second chassis member, is engageable with the hook.
US11269380B2	Flexible display device A flexible display device includes a flexible display module including a flexible display panel; a first frame and a second frame supporting the flexible display module; and a fixing coupler and an aligning coupler coupling the flexible display module with the first frame and the second frame, and the fixing coupler includes: a first fixing coupler fixing at least a portion of the first frame and at least a portion of the flexible display module; and a second fixing coupler fixing at least a portion of the second frame and at least a portion of the flexible display module, and the aligning coupler includes: a first aligning coupler fixed to another portion of the flexible display module; and a second aligning coupler fixed to another portion of the first frame and detachably coupled to the first aligning coupler.
US11269376B2	Electronic device An input component for an electronic device can include a dial that defines an exterior surface and a shaft affixed to the dial. The dial and the shaft can be rotatable about a central axis of the shaft and the shaft can include a protruding portion that defines a channel. A collar can surround a portion of the shaft and can be at least partially disposed in the channel. A bushing can be positioned between the collar and the protruding portion of the shaft, with the bushing defining a groove.
US11269374B2	Electronic device with a cover assembly having an adhesion layer A cover assembly for an electronic device has a cover member including a glass ceramic material. An adhesion layer couples an interior coating to the cover member. The adhesion layer includes an oxide-based layer, such as a silicon oxide-based layer, and a coupling agent.
US11269370B2	Device for controlling the flight of an aircraft The invention provides a device comprising a control lever associated with a body carrying a first plate connected to the body, a second plate connected to the first plate with the control lever being connected to the second plate, a first transmission shaft pivotally mounted relative to the body, a first connection mechanism connecting the control lever to the first transmission shaft in such a manner that pivoting of the control lever about the first axis causes the first shaft to pivot about the fourth axis, a second transmission shaft pivotally mounted relative to the body, a second connection mechanism connecting the control lever to the second transmission shaft in such a manner that pivoting of the control lever about the second axis causes the second shaft to pivot about the sixth axis, and a platform connected to the body, the second connection mechanism being pivotally mounted on the platform and being pivotally mounted on the control lever.
US11269368B2	Flipped gate voltage reference and method of using A voltage reference includes a flipped gate transistor configured to receive a first current. The voltage reference further includes a first transistor configured to receive a second current, the first transistor having a first leakage current, wherein the first transistor is connected with the flipped gate transistor in a Vgs subtractive arrangement. The voltage reference further includes an output node configured to output a reference voltage, the output node connected to the first transistor. The voltage reference further includes a second transistor connected to the output node, the second transistor having a second leakage current, wherein the first leakage current is substantially equal to the second leakage current.
US11269363B2	Pressure regulator A pressure regulator includes an outlet pressure sensor, loading and unloading electromagnetic valves, and a regulator control circuit operatively connected to the loading and unloading electromagnetic valves and configured to pilot the loading and unloading electromagnetic valves to cancel an error signal given by a difference between an inlet signal corresponding to a desired outlet pressure and a feedback signal provided by the outlet pressure sensor. The pressure regulator includes an engaging current analysis circuit to detect and store reference characteristics of the engaging current of the solenoid of the loading electromagnetic valve in a stable inlet pressure condition, monitor the engaging current to detect any variation of its characteristics with respect to the corresponding reference characteristics, and, in the event of variation, provide a pilot modulation signal to at least one of the loading or unloading electromagnetic valves or a pressure variation signal to the regulator control circuit.
US11269360B2	Diaphragm check valve A check valve, including a valve and a valve support surface, to permit a fluid to move through the check valve in a first direction and resist a fluid flow through the valve in a second direction, the valve having a valve diaphragm and an isolating bridge, with a portion of the valve engaging against valve support surface to resist deformation or stretching of the valve when a backflow of fluid into the check valve occurs. The valve support surface having a first support surface and a second support surface, and the valve positioned with the valve diaphragm spaced apart from the first support surface, and the isolating bridge spaced apart from the second support surface.
US11269351B2	Modifying navigation commands A method, computer system, and computer program product for using sensor data to modify navigation commands. The method may include predicting a user's navigational action and modifying a navigation command based on comparing the user's predicted navigational action to a recommended navigational action. The modifying the navigation command may include communicating a navigation command to a user based on the user's predicted navigational action deviating from a predetermined navigational action. The modifying the navigation command may include suppressing a queued navigation command to a user based on the user's predicted navigational action conforming to a predetermined navigational action. Predicting the user's navigational action may be based on information received from one or more sensors embedded in a vehicle. The modifying the navigation command may include increasing a frequency of communicating a queued navigation command to a user or decreasing a frequency of communicating a queued navigation command to the user.
US11269349B2	Automatic working system and control method thereof The present invention relates to an automatic working system, including a self-moving device and a positioning device. The self-moving device includes a movement module, a task execution module. The positioning device is configured to detect a current position of the self-moving device. The automatic working system includes: a storage unit, configured to store a working area map, and: a map confirmation procedure, which including: providing a drive circuit instruction to move along a working area boundary, and receiving a confirmation signal from a user to complete the map confirmation procedure; and a working procedure including providing a drive circuit instruction to move within a working area defined by the map and execute the working task; and a control module, configured to monitor an output of the positioning device to execute the map confirmation procedure and execute the working procedure after the map confirmation procedure is completed.
US11269346B2	3-d image system for vehicle control A control system uses visual odometry (VO) data to identify a position of the vehicle while moving along a path next to the row and to detect the vehicle reaching an end of the row. The control system can also use the VO image to turn the vehicle around from a first position at the end of the row to a second position at a start of another row. The control system may detect an end of row based on 3-D image data, VO data, and GNSS data. The control system also may adjust the VO data so the end of row detected from the VO data corresponds with the end of row location identified with the GNSS data.
US11269345B2	Vehicle control system A vehicle control system includes a control device configured to execute specific automatic driving control; an image capturing device configured to capture a surrounding image of a vehicle; a display device configured to display the surrounding image; and a recording device configured to record the surrounding image. The control device includes: a first determining unit configured to determine whether the vehicle is present on a road where the specific automatic driving control is executable; and a second determining unit configured to determine whether a request to display the surrounding image is present. In a case where the first determining unit determines that the vehicle is present on the road where the specific automatic driving control is executable and the second determining unit determines that the request to display the surrounding image is absent, the recording device records the surrounding image.
US11269340B2	Method for determining a vehicle control parameter, apparatus for the same, vehicle on-board controller, and autonomous vehicle Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a method for determining a vehicle control parameter, an apparatus for the same, a vehicle on-board controller, and an autonomous vehicle. An embodiment of the method comprises: obtaining a lateral offset sequence of a vehicle and a control input sequence of a controller for controlling a lateral output of the vehicle, wherein a lateral offset in the lateral offset sequence is for characterizing an offset between an actual lateral output of the vehicle and a desired lateral output; executing a step of determining a vehicle control parameter; wherein the executing the step of determining the vehicle control parameter includes: with the lateral offset sequence as an input and the control input sequence as the desired output, training a pre-established vehicle dynamic model to obtain a trained vehicle dynamic model; and determining the vehicle control parameter from the trained vehicle dynamic model.
US11269339B2	Method and control unit for controlling a vehicle during a collision A method for controlling an ego vehicle during a collision of the vehicle with another vehicle includes an ascertainment of a driving direction of the other vehicle, a determination of a steering signal for aligning a driving direction of the ego vehicle with the driving direction of the other vehicle and a provision of the steering signal to an interface of a steering unit for steering the ego vehicle.
US11269338B2	Apparatus and method for warehouse zoning Described herein is an apparatus and a corresponding method for performing warehouse zoning and further monitoring the zoned warehouse. The apparatus includes circuitry that partitions a workspace into a plurality of zones based on an area of the workspace, and a number of transportation vehicles and a number of item racks that are to be deployed in the workspace. A location of each zone within the workspace is determined based on a location of a first type of station that is disposed outside the workspace. The apparatus determines for each zone, an area of the zone and receives a signal indicating occurrence of an event in one of the zones. Further, the apparatus determines a degree of criticality of the occurred event which indicates whether workspace operation in the zone can be continued, and initiates an operation at a timing that is based on the determined degree of criticality.
US11269337B2	Management system of work site and management method of work site A management system of a work site includes a guidance unit which outputs, to a manned vehicle of a work site, guidance data for guiding the manned vehicle to an unmanned vehicle stopped due to occurrence of an abnormality at the work site.
US11269333B2	Automatic drive assist apparatus An automatic drive assist apparatus includes a storage, an own-vehicle position estimator, a route-information input device, a traveling route setter, and an automatic drive controller including a rerouting request determiner, a course comparator, and a course-change achievability determiner. The automatic drive controller causes an own vehicle automatically traveling along a traveling route determined by the traveling route setter. When the rerouting request determiner determines that a new traveling route is reconstructed in response to a rerouting request, the course comparator reads a candidate route of the new traveling route, compares the candidate route with the traveling route determined before the reconstruction, and determines whether a route change is set. When the route change is determined not to be achievable by the course-change achievability determiner, the automatic drive controller causes the own vehicle to keep automatically driving along the traveling route determined before the reconstruction.
US11269322B2	Failure diagnosis system A failure diagnosis system flexibly responds to a change in a diagnosis target by using a difference in measurement data before and after maintenance in predictive failure diagnosis. A pre-maintenance data DB stores measurement data before maintenance, and a post-maintenance data DB stores measurement data after maintenance. A feature detection algorithm group DB is provided where a plurality of feature detection algorithms are stored. A first feature is detected based on the measurement data by using each of the plurality of feature detection algorithms read from the feature detection algorithm group DB. An algorithm search unit selects one of the plurality of algorithms based on the feature thus detected. A second feature is detected from the measurement data by using the feature detection algorithm, and a sign predictive of failure of diagnosis of target equipment is diagnosed using the detected second feature.
US11269317B2	System and method for supporting production management A support system displays, on the basis of management information as a past record which shows, for each product loaded in a production system in which a plurality of different models of products are loaded and a sequential order of two or more of a plurality of steps is different depending on the model, an execution time of each of the steps, at least one of a first holistic chart (having a time axis and showing a feature value of production situation of the product during a display target period on a per predetermined unit basis) and a second holistic chart (showing a relationship between a plurality of steps with respect to a flow of a plurality of models of products). The support system selects at least one of a model and a step for one of the holistic charts, and displays step element information.
US11269313B2	Controller and control system that stores data in current control cycle for output in next control cycle A controller includes a processor and a communication circuit. The controller controls an object of control by sequentially repeating, on a predetermined control cycle, the transmission of the output data, the reception of the input data, and execution of a control program for generating the output data using the input data. In the transmission of the output data, the processor executes: storing of the output data in a frame, the output data having been generated by the execution of the control program in a previous control cycle; and control of the communication circuit such that the frame, in which the output data is stored, is transmitted to the object of control. The processor executes, in a current control cycle, at least a part of the storing of the output data in a frame that is to be executed in a next control cycle.
US11269305B2	Efficient control and/or linking of smart devices Efficient control and/or linking of smart network connected devices. Some implementations are directed to rendering, within an active application that enables control of multiple smart devices from multiple parties, both: (1) an interactive graphical interface element that, when interacted with, causes corresponding control of smart device(s) of a third-party (3P); and (2) a selectable element that, when selected, causes execution of a deeplink to cause a 3P application to open in a state that presents additional information for the smart device(s). Some implementations are additionally or alternatively directed to, in response to determining that a application is installed at a client device, but a smart device topology lacks any entries for 3P smart devices of the 3P, efficiently adding one or more particular smart devices of the 3P to the smart device topology.
US11269302B2	System for providing an access area for a data storage library An enclosure configured to at least partially surround a data storage library, and a system including a data storage library and enclosure(s). The enclosure includes at least one surface configured to surround the at least one library access opening and form a chamber and to permit movement of the movable panel to permit access to the interior of the data storage library, and at least one enclosure access opening in the at least one of the surface to permit access to the interior of the chamber. The enclosure is configured to resist environmental conditions from intruding into the interior of the enclosure, and is further configured to permit exterior environmental conditions from within the interior of the library to intrude into the chamber of the enclosure.
US11269299B2	Machine control computer intercommunicatively connected to machine, machine system, base software application, computer-readable recording medium, data structure, and machine control method A base software application and an operation software application are installed in a machine control computer. The base software application includes a first communication unit being a program portion, a second communication unit being a program portion, and an information conversion unit being a program portion. The information conversion unit enables a CPU of the computer to convert first machine information specific to a machine into second machine information specific to the operation software application, based on a data model or the like corresponding to a category of the machine or the like.
US11269294B2	Portable common path shearing interferometry-based holographic microscopy system with augmented reality visualization Portable common path shearing interferometry-based holographic microscopy systems. The system includes a light source, a sample holder, a microscope objective lens, a shear plate and an imaging device positioned in a common path shearing interferometry configuration. A housing is configured to receive and hold the shear plate and maintain a position of the shear plate relative to the microscope objective lens.
US11269290B2	Drum unit, cartridge and coupling member A process cartridge includes a photosensitive drum, a developing roller configured to develop a latent image on the photosensitive drum with toner, and a coupling member having a rotational axis, with the coupling member being operatively connected to the photosensitive drum. The coupling member includes a cylindrical portion having an outer surface and an inner surface that extends about the rotational axis of the coupling member, an arm portion extending from the inner surface of the cylindrical portion, and a projection projecting from the arm portion in a direction toward the rotational axis of the coupling member. The arm portion and the projection are movable relative to the inner surface.
US11269289B2	Process unit A process unit includes a drum frame supporting a photoconductor drum and a development frame supporting a development roller. The development cartridge is swingably supported by the drum frame at a coupling joint provided at a first side of the development frame and a support portion provided at a second side of the development frame. A center of rotation of the development roller is located in a position shifted from a line segment connecting a center of rotation of the coupling joint and a center of rotation of the photoconductor drum to an upstream side with respect to a direction of rotation of the coupling joint as viewed in an axial direction of the development roller, such that the development roller is pressed against the photoconductor drum by the action of the rotatory force received by the coupling joint.
US11269286B2	Free stop based hinge apparatus A hinge apparatus is provided. The hinge apparatus includes a rotation axis device configured to pivotably support a part of a display, and a free stop hinge device configured to pivotably support an other part of the display coaxially spaced apart from the part of the display. The rotation axis device includes a curved protrusion for controlling an eccentricity between a central axis line of the rotation axis device and a central axis line of the free stop hinge device.
US11269284B2	Pattern discharge to photoconductor Examples disclosed herein relate to an imaging device. The imaging device to include a discharge member to discharge a first pattern on a photoconductor; and a writing engine to control the discharge member to discharge a second pattern to the photoconductor to obscure any latent pattern formed from the first pattern remaining on the photoconductor.
US11269281B2	Image carrier, image carrier unit, and image formation apparatus An image carrier according to one or more embodiments may include: a cylindrical image carrier member including an outer circumferential surface formed with an image carrier layer configured to carry a developer image; one or more silencers disposed in the image carrier member; and a bonding member that bonds the one or more the silencers to an inner circumferential surface of the image carrier member. For each silencer, the inner circumferential surface of the image carrier member includes one or more bonding areas to which the bonding member is attached. A bonding range, in which the one or more bonding areas are fit, for each silencer, has a length thereof in an axial direction of the silencer being greater than a length thereof in a circumferential direction of the silencer.
US11269257B2	Apparatus and method for generating extreme ultraviolet radiation An apparatus for generating extreme ultraviolet (EUV) radiation includes a droplet generator configured to generate target droplets. An excitation laser is configured to heat the target droplets using excitation pulses to convert the target droplets to plasma. An energy detector is configured to measure a variation in EUV energy generated when the target droplets are converted to plasma. A feedback controller is configured to adjust parameters of the droplet generator and/or the excitation laser based on the variation in EUV energy.
US11269255B2	Photosensitive composition and color converting film The present invention relates to a photosensitive composition, and a color conversion film. The present invention further relates to a use of the photosensitive composition in a color conversion film fabrication process, and to a use of the color conversion film in an optical device. The invention further more relates to an optical device comprising the color conversion film and method for preparing the color conversion film and the optical device.
US11269251B2	Resist composition and patterning process A resist composition comprising a base polymer and a sulfonium salt of thiophenecarboxylic acid offers a high sensitivity, minimal LWR and improved CDU independent of whether it is of positive or negative tone.
US11269244B2	System and method for calibrating a display system using manual and semi-manual techniques The invention provides a system and method that reduces the precision of the manual alignment process. Users select correspondences between projectors or components of a projector, to form a common coordinate. Using models of the display system, and projectors, the common coordinate system can be mapped quickly to the entire display. The process avoids a need to measure screen points, and allows the user to move significantly fewer points. Alternatively, the invention allows introduction of machine-vision style algorithms into manual calibration techniques to improve performance. This overcomes the tediousness of prior systems by introducing models of the display into the manual alignment process, allowing selection of a small number of points on each projector, and avoiding selection of precisely measured screen points. The system conversely finds correspondences between projectors, allowing mapping of the projectors into a common coordinate system, and quick warping of the coordinate system to the screen.
US11269241B2	Spatial light modulator for reduction of certain order light A novel spatial light modulator (SLM) includes a cover glass, and modulation layer, and a plurality of pixel mirrors, and separates unwanted, reflected light from desired, modulated light. In one embodiment, a geometrical relationship exists between the cover glass and the pixel mirrors, such that light that reflects from the cover glass is separated from light that reflects from the pixel mirrors and is transmitted from the SLM. In one example, one of the cover glass or the pixel mirrors is angled with respect to the modulation layer. In another example embodiment, the cover glass has a particular thickness, which introduces destructive interference between light that reflects from the top and bottom surfaces of the cover glass. In another embodiment antireflective coatings are disposed between optical interfaces of the SLM. In another embodiment, light from the SLM is directed through an optical filter to remove unwanted light.
US11269239B2	Extendible L-plate for camera equipment A two-piece extendable L-plate provides clearance between a camera and a quick-release receiver securing the camera to a support permitting a camera having cables connected to the side of the camera's body to be secured in either a landscape or a portrait orientation.
US11269231B2	Pulse-width modulation for clearing electro-optic device A controller system configured to clear an electro-optic device may include an electro-optic device having a first substrate having a first surface and a second surface, the second surface having a first layer of electrically conductive material disposed thereon; a second substrate having a first surface having a second layer of electrically conductive material disposed thereon, and a second surface, the second substrate being approximately parallel to the first substrate such that a chamber is defined by the first and second substrates; and an electro-optic medium disposed in the chamber defined by the first and second substrates and in contact with the first and second layers of electrically conductive material; a controller in communication with the electro-optic device, wherein the controller is configured to control electrical power supplied to the electro-optic device and a potentiometer in communication with the electro-optic device and with the controller.
US11269225B2	Display apparatus and control method thereof, and display device Disclosed are a display apparatus and a control method thereof. The display apparatus includes a light-transmitting substrate, a backlight source, a liquid crystal layer and a grate-like structure. The liquid crystal layer is disposed between the light-transmitting substrate and the backlight source. The grate-like structure is disposed on a side of the light-transmitting substrate proximal to the liquid crystal layer. The grate-like structure is reused as both an electrode configured to control an equivalent refractive index of the liquid crystal layer and a grating. The backlight source includes a light guide plate and a collimated light source which is disposed on a side of the light guide plate. The grate-like structure is disposed on a side of the liquid crystal layer distal from the light guide plate and reused as both an electrode configured to control the refractive index of the liquid crystal and a grating.
US11269220B2	Polarized-light irradiation device and method for manufacturing liquid crystal display device The present invention provides a polarized light irradiation device capable of setting an alignment azimuth angle θ of liquid crystal molecules to be a desired angle even when the incident angle of polarized light on a substrate is not 0° in irradiation of a photo alignment film with polarized light, and a method for manufacturing a liquid crystal display device by using the polarized light irradiation device. The polarized light irradiation device is used in alignment treatment of a photo alignment film provided on a substrate, the device including: a stage including a placement surface on which the substrate is placed; and a polarized light irradiation unit configured to irradiate the placement surface with polarized light through a polarizer in a direction tilted relative to the normal of the placement surface, wherein a polarization azimuth angle α, which is an angle of the polarization axis of the polarizer when the polarization axis of the polarizer is projected onto the placement surface, satisfies 30°<α<45°, 45°<α<60°, −60°<α<−45°, or −45°<α<−30°, as viewed in an irradiation axis direction of the polarized light with the longitudinal direction of the substrate taken to be 0°.
US11269212B2	Polarizer, method of producing polarizer, and optical laminate including the polarizer An object of the present invention is to provide a polarizer having a neutralized hue without any increase in transmittance. A polarizer of the present invention having a transmittance parameter represented by the equation (1) of 0.8 or more and a hue parameter represented by the equation (2) of 5 or less: Transmittance parameter=T420/T550 (1) in the equation (1), T420 represents a parallel transmittance at a wavelength of 420 nm and T550 represents a parallel transmittance at a wavelength of 550 nm; Hue parameter=(a2+b2) (2) in the equation (2), a represents a parallel hue value ‘a’ and b represents a parallel hue value ‘b’.
US11269209B2	Electronic device and method for manufacturing the same An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a third substrate and a fourth substrate. The first substrate includes a first portion. The second substrate is disposed on the first substrate, and the first portion protrudes outward a boundary of the second substrate. The third substrate is disposed adjacent to the first substrate. The fourth substrate is disposed on the third substrate and includes a second portion protruding outward a boundary of the third substrate. The second portion overlaps the first portion. The first substrate includes a first side surface facing the third substrate. The fourth substrate includes a second side surface facing the second substrate. The first side surface and the second side surface are at least partially grinded.
US11269206B2	Flexible display substrate and flexible display device The present disclosure relates to a flexible display substrate and a flexible display device. The flexible display substrate includes a flexible base substrate and a pixel layer. The flexible base substrate includes: a plurality of opening regions, as well as a plurality of island regions and a plurality of bridge regions divided by the plurality of opening regions; and a pixel layer including a plurality of display units arranged in the plurality of island regions respectively, in which each of the plurality of display units is provided with a first groove, the first groove divides the corresponding display units into a display section and a dam section, and at least a part of the dam section is located between the display section and the bridge region adjacent to the display section.
US11269192B2	Optical element, having holographic material layer, display device, and method for manufacturing optical element A deflection optical element, which diffracts incident light, includes a substrate having translucency, and a holographic material layer disposed so as to overlap the substrate, the holographic material layer being formed with a diffraction grating composed of interference fringes, wherein the holographic material layer is formed with an alignment mark where the interference fringes are discontinuous, and the alignment mark is located in an optically effective area where the holographic material layer diffracts the incident light.
US11269190B2	Lens for eye-tracking applications and head-worn device The present invention relates to a lens for eye-tracking applications. The lens comprises a first protective layer, arranged to face towards the eye to be tracked when the lens is used for eye-tracking. It also comprises at least one light source, at least partly arranged in the first protective layer, arranged to emit a first light from the first protective layer in a direction towards the eye. Moreover, it comprises at least one image capturing device, at least partly arranged in the first protective layer, arranged to receive the first light within the first protective layer. The lens further comprises an absorptive layer, arranged on the far side of the first protective layer seen from the eye to be tracked when the lens is used for eye-tracking, adapted to be absorptive for wavelengths of the majority of the first light.
US11269183B2	Display information on a head-mountable apparatus corresponding to data of a computing device According to examples, an apparatus may include a camera, a transparent panel, and a processor being mounted on a housing to be mounted on a user's head. The processor may access an image captured by the camera of a label and spatial markers displayed on a screen of a computing device, determine data identified in the label, communicate the determined data to an information source, receive, from the information source, information corresponding to the determined data, determine locations of the spatial markers with respect to a display area of the panel, identify a section of the display area defined by the spatial markers, and display an item corresponding to the received information on the panel outside of the identified section.
US11269176B2	Optical phase shifter A optical phase shifter is provided for adjusting an optical phase of light propagating therethrough along an optical axis. The optical phase shifter includes first and second transparent slides defining a cavity therebetween. A sheet is received in the cavity and has first and second sides. The sheet includes a rigid inner portion alignable with the optical axis and is moveable along the optical axis between a first position and a second position. A tuning structure is operatively engageable with the rigid inner portion of the sheet to selectively move the rigid inner portion of the sheet along the optical axis so as to adjust the optical phase of light propagating through the optical phase shifter.
US11269175B2	Eyepiece optical system and device with large field-of-view angle and high image quality The present invention relates to an eyepiece optical system and device with a large field-of-view angle and high image quality, comprising a first lens group and a second lens group arranged successively along an optical axis from a human eye observing side to a micro display. The first lens group is composed of one or more lenses, and the second lens group comprises a Fresnel lens. The Fresnel lens comprises a Fresnel surface. By the use of a combination of a novel optical surface shape, i.e., the Fresnel surface shape, and traditional optical spherical and aspherical surface shapes, when focal lengths of various lenses and lens groups meet particular conditions, significant elimination of system aberration, reduction of the sensitivity of various optical components, and easy processing and assembly of the components can be achieved.
US11269172B2	Method and system for reconstructing a field of view Embodiments of present disclosure discloses system and method for reconstruction of FOV. Initially, presence of one of single object and distinct objects in FOV of image of sample comprising one or more objects is determined based on sharpness of one or more objects. A single optimal representation of FOV may be generated when presence of single object is determined. At least one of single optimal representation and a depth-based enhanced representation of FOV may be generated when presence of distinct objects is determined. For generating depth-based enhanced representation, one or more first optimal images associated with each of distinct objects in FOV may be retrieved. An optimal representation of each of distinct objects is generated based on corresponding one or more first optimal images. Further, optimal representation of each of distinct objects is placed at corresponding optimal depth associated with respective distinct object to generate depth-based enhanced representation.
US11269168B2	Printed catadioptric high numerical aperture lens and method A catadioptric high-aperture optical element includes a substrate made of a transparent material; and a lens formed on the substrate. The lens includes, plural refractive features formed on a central portion of the lens, and plural reflective features formed on a ring portion of the lens. The plural refractive features are shaped to refract light incoming from the substrate and the plural reflective features are shaped to achieve total internal reflections with the light incoming from the substrate.
US11269165B2	Zoom lens and imaging apparatus having the same A zoom lens includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens unit having a positive refractive power, a second lens unit having a negative refractive power, and a subsequent unit having a positive refractive power as a whole. A distance between adjacent lens units changes during zooming. The first lens unit includes a single lens, and the subsequent unit includes a third lens unit having a positive refractive power closest to the object side in the subsequent unit and a lens unit LP having a positive refractive power closest to the image side among the zoom lenses. During zooming from a wide-angle end to a telephoto end, the second lens unit moves toward the object side. A predetermined condition is satisfied.
US11269163B2	Zoom optical system, optical apparatus and imaging apparatus using the zoom optical system, and method for manufacturing the zoom optical system A zoom optical system ZL comprises, in order from an object: a first lens group (G1) having a positive refractive power; a second lens group (G2) having a negative refractive power; a third lens group (G3) having a positive refractive power; and a subsequent lens group (GR), wherein upon zooming, distances between the lens groups change, the subsequent lens group (GR) comprises a focusing lens group that moves upon focusing, and conditional expressions 0.18<(−fF)/f1<0.30, and 0.84<(−f2)/f3<1.20, are satisfied, where fF: a focal length of the focusing lens group, f1: a focal length of the first lens group (G1), f2: a focal length of the second lens group (G2), and f3: a focal length of the third lens group (G3).
US11269161B2	Optical imaging system having six lenses of +−+−+− refractive powers An optical imaging system includes: a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, and a sixth lens sequentially arranged from an object side. The optical imaging system satisfies 0.354.8; and TTL/(2*IMG HT)<0.70, where R1 is a radius of curvature of an object-side surface of the first lens, f is an overall focal length of the optical imaging system including the first to sixth lenses, N2 is a refractive index of the second lens, N3 is a refractive index of the third lens, N4 is a refractive index of the fourth lens, TTL is a distance from the object-side surface of the first lens to an image capturing surface of an image sensor, and IMG HT is half of a diagonal length of the image capturing surface of the image sensor.
US11269160B2	Optical imaging system including seven lenses of +--- +-+ or +--++-+ refractive powers An optical imaging system includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens having a convex image-side surface, a sixth lens, and a seventh lens disposed in order from an object side, and a distance from the image-side surface of the fifth lens to an object-side surface of the sixth lens is shorter than a distance from an image-side surface of the sixth lens to an object-side surface of the seventh lens.
US11269159B2	Optical imaging lens assembly An optical imaging lens assembly is provided. The optical imaging lens assembly includes, sequentially along an optical axis from an object side to an image side, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, and a fourth lens. The first lens has a negative refractive power. The third lens has a positive refractive power. At least one of the second lens or the fourth lens has a positive refractive power. A center thickness CT2 of the second lens on the optical axis and a center thickness CT4 of the fourth lens on the optical axis satisfy: CT2/CT4<0.5.
US11269144B2	Stacked waveguides having different diffraction gratings for combined field of view In one aspect, an optical device comprises a plurality of waveguides formed over one another and having formed thereon respective diffraction gratings, wherein the respective diffraction gratings are configured to diffract visible light incident thereon into respective waveguides, such that visible light diffracted into the respective waveguides propagates therewithin. The respective diffraction gratings are configured to diffract the visible light into the respective waveguides within respective field of views (FOVs) with respect to layer normal directions of the respective waveguides. The respective FOVs are such that the plurality of waveguides are configured to diffract the visible light within a combined FOV that is continuous and greater than each of the respective FOVs.
US11269143B2	Multi-axis positioner A parallel position manipulator includes a top plate, a baseplate and a plurality of prismatic joint actuators. Each actuator includes an actuator joint having five Degrees of Freedom (DOF) at either the base plate or the top plate. When one or more of the actuators extends or contracts, the pivot points, or five DOF actuator joint, of the remaining actuators are allowed to shift in any axis other than that actuator's primary axis of motion.
US11269141B2	Photonic IC chip A photonic integrated circuit chip includes vertical grating couplers defined in a first layer. Second insulating layers overlie the vertical grating coupler and an interconnection structure with metal levels is embedded in the second insulating layers. A cavity extends in depth through the second insulating layers all the way to an intermediate level between the couplers and the metal level closest to the couplers. The cavity has lateral dimensions such that the cavity is capable of receiving a block for holding an array of optical fibers intended to be optically coupled to the couplers.
US11269139B2	Waveguide type optical interferometer circuit A dependency of a characteristic of an optical circuit on an optical signal intensity occurring due to input of a high intensity optical signal is reduced in a waveguide type optical interferometer circuit. The waveguide type optical interferometer circuit is a waveguide type optical interferometer circuit formed in one plane, and includes an input waveguide, an optical branching unit, an optical coupling unit, an output waveguide, and optical waveguides having different lengths from each other and being interposed between the optical branching unit and the optical coupling unit. A light intensity compensating region is formed on an optical path extending from the optical branching unit to the optical coupling unit, and the light intensity compensating region is formed by using a light intensity compensating material having a light intensity coefficient different from a light intensity coefficient of an optical distance relative to an incident light intensity in the optical path.
US11269138B2	Single mode optical fiber and manufacturing method thereof T/C, which is a ratio of an area T of a skirt part outside the boundary to an area C of the core region in a refractive index distribution, is 4% or more and 30% or less, the boundary is defined at a position where an absolute value of a change amount of the index becomes maximum between the center of the core region and the outer peripheral part of the first clad region, the area C of the core region is defined in a range from the center of the core region to the boundary in the radial direction, the area T of the skirt part is defined in a range from the boundary to the outer peripheral part of the first clad region.
US11269137B2	Wavelength selective filtering with non-radial array of microstructure elements A non-radial array of microstructure elements provides enhanced wavelength selective filtering. The elements are arranged along a line that does not intersect the center of the core. In this configuration, the first coupling element in an array that is nearest to the core is a non-integer array unit spacing from the main waveguide where the array unit spacing is defined as the flat to flat distance of a hexagonal cell.
US11269136B1	Hollow core optical fiber array launcher with sealed lens block A beam combiner array assembly including an array block having a back wall and a front surface and a plurality of aligned and sealed channels extending from the back wall to the front surface. A lens array including a plurality of lenses is secured to the front surface of the block so that one of the lenses is aligned with each channel, and a plurality of fiber flanges are secured to the back wall of the block so that a separate one of the flanges is aligned with each channel. A hollow core fiber extends through each flange and the back wall so that an end of the fiber is positioned within one of the channels. A beam that propagates down each fiber is emitted into the channel, focused by the lens and emitted from the assembly as a collimated beam.
US11269120B2	Photo resist as opaque aperture mask on multispectral filter arrays An apparatus (e.g., a multi-spectral optical filter array, an optical wafer, an optical component) has an aperture mask printed directly thereon, the aperture mask including a positive or negative photoresist. The apparatus includes a substrate having the aperture mask printed on at least one of a light entrance surface or a light exit surface of the substrate so as to provide an aperture over a portion of the substrate. The photoresist from which the aperture mask is formed is photo-definable or non-photo-definable, and is deposited/printed to form the aperture mask on the substrate.
US11269119B2	Monolithic double diffractive kinoform doublet A monolithic double diffractive kinoform doublet and a method for making such optical element is disclosed. In one embodiment, the optical element includes a first lens and a second lens. The first lens has a first refractive index. The first lens also has a first surface and a second surface. The first surface is a continuous, potentially flat surface for optical radiation to enter. The second lens has a second refractive index different from the first refractive index. The second lens has a first surface and a second surface. The first surface is in contact with the second surface of the first lens. The optical element has a peak diffraction efficiency at a first wavelength and at a second wavelength different than the first wavelength.
US11269113B2	Modeling of oil and gas fields for appraisal and early development A method, apparatus, and program product model address a modeling gap existing between basin and reservoir modeling through the use of a Reservoir Fluid Geodynamics (RFG) model usable for simulations conducted at a relatively fine spatial resolution and over a geological timescale.
US11269110B2	Computing system assessment of geological similarity of wells employing well-log data Computing system assessment of geological similarity of wells employing well-log data includes receiving logs with chronostratigraphic markers, and extracting signatures from the logs using the chronostratigraphic markers. A distance matrix is generated from the signatures using dynamic time warping. Using the distance matrix, a set of clusters are generated. The set of clusters are presented with an image.
US11269107B2	Sensor assessment network using magnetic field sensors A security portal includes magnetic field sensors in a sensor assessment network (SAN) for tracking a magnetic dipole target. Each sensor includes a sensor transducer, a sensor coil, and a digitally controlled potentiometer. A sensor controller applies a stepped voltage, samples an output frequency at each stepped voltage value, generates a magnetic sensor response curve, and converts a non-linear response of the sensor transducer to a magnetic field value for each x, y and z channel as a function of frequency for a specific potentiometer setting based upon the sensed magnetic dipole that is tracked in the security portal. A SAN controller receives the magnetic field values from each channel and determines the magnetic field vectors of the target over each sample.
US11269104B2	Fluid substitution A method of fluid substitution, wherein an initial data set is provided, wherein a substituted data set is provided, wherein a rock physics model is provided, wherein the initial data set includes initial data of a geophysical parameter and initial fluid data, and wherein the substituted data set includes substituted fluid data. The method includes using the model and the initial data set to calculate first calculated data of the geophysical parameter, using the model and the substituted data set to calculate second calculated data of the geophysical parameter, calculating the difference between the first calculated data of the geophysical parameter and the second calculated data of the geophysical parameter, and applying the difference to the initial data of the geophysical parameter to produce substituted data of the geophysical parameter.
US11269102B2	System and method for seismic sensor response correction A method for processing seismic data includes receiving, by a seismic data processing system, signals representing seismic data recorded at a remote location. In addition, the method includes receiving, by the seismic data processing system, identification of a sensor via which the signals were acquired. Further, the method includes retrieving, by the seismic data processing system, a sensor transfer function that corresponds to the sensor and relates the motion of the sensor to the signals. The method also includes generating, by the seismic data processing system, based on the sensor transfer function and a reference transfer function, an inverse filter that when applied to the signals changes parameters of the signals to correspond to the reference transfer function. Moreover, the method includes applying, by the seismic data processing system, the inverse filter to the signals to conform the parameters of the signals to the reference transfer function.
US11269100B2	Hybrid optimization of fault detection and interpretation A method includes receiving a training selection of a first set of faults located in a first subset of a seismic dataset for a subsurface geologic formation, detecting a second set of faults in the seismic dataset based on fault interpretation operations using a first set of interpretation parameters, and determining a difference between the first set of faults and the second set of faults. The method also includes generating a second set of interpretation parameters for the fault interpretation operations based on the difference between the first set of faults and the second set of faults, and determining a feature of the subsurface geologic formation based on fault interpretation operations using the second set of interpretation parameters.
US11269096B2	Mitigation of distributed acoustic sensing gauge length effects using inversion A method to generate a vertical seismic profile includes acquiring a set of distributed acoustic sensing measurements from a set of overlapping measurement channels on an optical fiber, wherein each of the set of distributed acoustic sensing measurements are measured at a gauge length. The method also includes generating a set of virtual seismic measurements corresponding with subdivisions in the set of overlapping measurement channels based on the set of distributed acoustic sensing measurements and generating the vertical seismic profile based on the set of virtual seismic measurements.
US11269086B2	System and method for radon detection The present disclosure provides a system for detection and measuring of a radioactive gas within a target environment. In certain embodiments, the system comprises a data processing system and a monitoring device disposed within the target environment. In some forms the monitoring device comprises: a radiation sensor configured to detect the concentration of a radioactive gas in the target environment, a transmitter electrically coupled to the radiation sensor and configured for transmitting a signal to the data processing system, and a receiver for receiving signals from the data processing system, wherein the monitoring device is configured to detect the concentration of the radioactive gas at least every twenty minutes.
US11269085B2	Radiation measurement device First and second pulse height detection circuits output pulse height detection signals which rise when a detection pulse obtained from a radiation detector becomes greater than a lower threshold Lsh or an upper threshold Hsh, and fall when the detection pulse is smaller than the lower threshold Lsh or the upper threshold Hsh. Next, first and second rising and falling detection circuits detect rising and falling edges of the pulse height detection signals from the first and second pulse height detection circuits in synchronization with a clock pulse from a crystal oscillator, and a combining circuit outputs a signal corresponding to the detection pulse that is within a range between the lower threshold Lsh and the upper threshold Hsh by combining both outputs from the first and second rising and falling detection circuits, in synchronization with the clock pulse.
US11269083B2	Method for determining a position of a motor vehicle A method for determining a position of a motor vehicle includes receiving a first signal containing an absolute position of the motor vehicle, receiving a second signal containing a change in the position of the motor vehicle, generating first position information corresponding to the absolute position from the first signal when the first signal is available, and continued from the second signal according to the change in position when the first signal is not available, generating second position information corresponding to the first position information at the beginning of first time segments and continued over the first time segments from the second signal according to the change in position, and determining an error in the first position information using the second position information.
US11269074B2	Electro-optical distance meter and electro-optical distance measurement method An electro-optical distance measurement method includes: a light emitting step of switchably outputting a first distance measuring light and a second distance measuring light; a photodetection step of receiving a first reflected distance measuring light and a second reflected distance measuring light; an arithmetic step of frequency-converting a photodetection signal to generate a first difference frequency signal and a second difference frequency signal; and a determining step of determining whether identification information indicating a host device is included in the photodetection signal, wherein the light emitting step involves driving a light emitting element so that the identification information is included in a light emission signal, and the arithmetic step involves calculating the distance value when it is determined in the determining step that the identification information is included in the photodetection signal.
US11269068B2	Detection of noise-induced ultrasonic sensor blindness Piezoelectric sensor controllers may facilitate detection and identification of various potential fault states including noise-induced sensor blindness. In one illustrative embodiment, a sensor controller includes: a transmitter to drive a piezoelectric element during actuation intervals to generate acoustic bursts; a receiver to sense a response of the piezoelectric element to echoes of each acoustic burst, the receiver including a front-end amplifier; a processing circuit coupled to the transmitter and to the receiver, the processing circuit operable to apply echo-detection processing to said response; and a blindness detector to detect saturation of the front-end amplifier during or prior to the measurement intervals.
US11269062B2	Laser illumination device and peripheral monitoring sensor provided with same A laser illumination device includes a light source component, a micro-element lens, and a meniscus lens. The light source component emits a laser beam. The micro-element lens spreads out the laser beam. The meniscus lens has an incident face on which the laser beam from the micro-element lens is incident, and a light emission face that is provided on the opposite side from the incident surface and includes a convex shape, and the meniscus lens has a negative power for spreading out the incident laser beam from the micro-element lens.
US11269057B2	System and method for radar object simulation A system for radar object simulation is provided. The system comprises a filter unit with a plurality of filter paths, a processing unit and a communication interface. In this context, each of the plurality of filter paths comprises a number of coefficients corresponding to the distance of a simulated object. In addition, the processing unit is configured to select a filter path of the plurality of filter paths based on the number of coefficients.
US11269050B2	Radar system, integrated radar circuit and method for a radar system A radar system includes a first integrated radar circuit having a plurality of first transmission paths and a local oscillator configured to generate a local oscillator signal. The first integrated radar circuit has a first terminal configured to output an oscillation signal based on the local oscillator signal. The radar system includes a second integrated radar circuit having a second transmission path and a second terminal. The radar system includes a partially reflective element coupled to the first terminal via a first line section and to the second terminal via a second line section. The partially reflective element is configured to reflect back a first portion of the oscillation signal as a reflected signal via the first line section to the first terminal and to pass on a second portion of the oscillation signal as a forward signal via the second line section to the second terminal.
US11269049B2	Distributed aperture automotive radar system A distributed radar system, apparatus, architecture, and method is provided for coherently combining physically distributed radars to jointly produce target scene information in a coherent fashion without sharing a common local oscillator (LO) reference by configuring a first (slave) radar to apply fast and slow time processing steps to target returns generated from a second (master) radar, to compute an estimated frequency offset and an estimated phase offset between the first and second radars based on information derived from the fast and slow time processing steps, and to apply the estimated frequency offset and estimated phase offset to generate a bi-static virtual array aperture at the first radar that is coherent in frequency and phase with a mono-static virtual array aperture generated at the second radar, thereby achieving better sensitivity, finer angular resolution, and low false detection rate.
US11269047B2	Three dimensional object-localization and tracking using ultrasonic pulses with synchronized inertial position determination A tracking method is disclosed. The method may include displaying visual content on a screen. A base station may be stationary with respect to the screen while the visual content is being displayed. In contrast, one or more objects may move with respect to the screen while the visual content is being displayed. The one or more objects may be tracked so that the movement thereof may be used to alter the visual content. Such tracking may involve the base station and the one or more objects sending and/or receiving one or more ultrasonic pulses. The tracked object also determines information using an inertial sensor assembly that receives a synchronization signal coordinated with the one or more ultrasonic pulses. Time-difference-of-arrival and/or time-of-flight of the one or more ultrasonic pulses may then be used to estimate a relative location and/or a relative orientation of the one or more objects with respect to the base station in three dimensional space, so that the estimate is fused with information determined by the inertial sensor assembly using the synchronization signal.
US11269042B2	Radar apparatus and target determination method Radar receiver calculates a first reception power in each of a predetermined number of beam directions by using a reflected wave signal in a first cell among a plurality of cells into which a region represented by at least one of a distance component and a Doppler frequency component is divided, calculates a second reception power on the basis of reception powers of reception array antennae by using the reflected wave signal in a peripheral cell of the first cell among the plurality of cells, and determines whether or not a target is present in the first cell on the basis of a comparison result between the first reception power and a first threshold value that is a value obtained by multiplying the second reception power by a first coefficient.
US11269034B2	Basic field magnet arrangement for a magnetic resonance tomography system A basic field magnet arrangement for a magnetic resonance tomography system can include a plurality of basic field magnet segments spatially separated from one another, each being configured to generate an intended magnetic field having a defined segment main field direction. At least two basic magnet segments of the plurality of the basic field magnet segments are arranged relative to one another such that the respective segment main field directions of their intended magnetic fields extend at a deflection angle to one another such that the intended magnetic fields of the at least two basic field magnet segments produce an intended basic magnetic field. The intended basic magnetic field including a basic magnet main field direction can have a ring-shaped profile.
US11269032B2	Method of reducing spatial extent of gradient coil current feeding connectors A magnetic resonance (MR) imaging system includes: a main magnet configured to generate a volume of magnet field suitable for forming MR imaging; a transmit radio frequency (RF) coil assembly configured to transmit at least one RF signal; a receive radio frequency (RF) coil assembly configured to, in response to the at least one RF pulse, receive MR signals; a gradient coil assembly comprising (i) windings of coils arranged in a radial layer, and (ii) a first set of connectors embedded in the radial layer to reduce a radial extent occupied by the gradient coil assembly, the first set of electrical connectors configured to drive the windings of coils; and a control unit coupled to the transmit RF coil assembly, the receive RF coil assembly, and the gradient coils, the control unit configured to synchronously operate the gradient coil assembly, the transmit coil assembly, and the receive coil assembly.
US11269030B2	Receiving useful signals in the magnetic resonance frequency band A method for determining an item of evaluation information from a reception signal received by a magnetic resonance apparatus, a computer program product for carrying out such a method, and a magnetic resonance apparatus generate a useful signal having a first frequency band. The magnetic resonance apparatus is configured to generate a magnetic resonance signal in a second frequency band. The first frequency band lies at least partially, (e.g., completely), within the second frequency band. A reception signal is received by a receiving unit of the magnetic resonance apparatus. From the reception signal, an item of evaluation information is determined which characterizes the useful signal.
US11269029B2	Magnetic resonance examination system with a moveable patient carrier In a magnetic resonance examination system, the patient carrier is mounted moveably in a direction transverse to the support surface and an RF antenna has a fixed geometrical relation to the support surface.
US11269022B2	Magnetic controller for device control Systems, methods and apparatus for using a magnetic controller to control a device. In one aspect, a system includes a magnetic controller external to a device, the magnetic controller including: a magnetic device for altering a surrounding magnetic field of a device; one or more input actuators, each operatively coupled to the magnetic device and that when actuated cause the magnetic device to alter the surrounding magnetic field according to a predefined change associated with the input actuator; and a model executable by the device and that models as device inputs the differences in the surrounding magnetic field of the device caused by the actuation of the one or more input actuators.
US11269018B2	Apparatus and method for preventing short circuit An apparatus for preventing short circuit including an input/output terminal electrically connected, via a second external power line, to an external apparatus that is electrically connected to one of a driving voltage supply or a ground via a first external power line; an internal power line electrically connecting one of the driving voltage supply or the ground to the input/output terminal; a switch mounted on the internal power line to energize or block the internal power line; a variable resistor mounted on the internal power line; and a controller determining whether the input/output terminal is shorted based on a measurement current value of a current flowing through the internal power line and controlling a set resistance value of the variable resistor based on whether the input/output terminal is shorted.
US11269008B2	Commanded JTAG test access port operations The disclosure describes a novel method and apparatus for improving the operation of a TAP architecture in a device through the use of Command signal inputs to the TAP architecture. In response to a Command signal input, the TAP architecture can perform streamlined and uninterrupted Update, Capture and Shift operation cycles to a target circuit in the device or streamlined and uninterrupted capture and shift operation cycles to a target circuit in the device. The Command signals can be input to the TAP architecture via the devices dedicated TMS or TDI inputs or via a separate CMD input to the device.
US11269006B2	Exposure monitor device The disclosed technology generally relates to integrated circuit devices with wear out monitoring capability. An integrated circuit device includes a wear-out monitor device configured to record an indication of wear-out of a core circuit separated from the wear-out monitor device, wherein the indication is associated with localized diffusion of a diffusant within the wear-out monitor device in response to a wear-out stress that causes the wear-out of the core circuit.
US11269002B2	High-voltage lead-through device and arrangement for handling data of a high-voltage lead-through device A high-voltage lead-through device includes an insulator body having a solid exterior and including insulation, a main conductor passing therethrough, a sensor adjacent the main conductor inside the insulator body measuring a physical property of the device and a communication unit adjacent the main conductor outside the insulator body, wherein the main conductor has a first electric potential, a section of the solid exterior of the insulator body faces a second electric potential, the communication unit is connected to the sensor using a signal conductor as a first electrical communication medium and the communication unit employs a different communication medium for communicating with a data distribution device at a third electric potential.
US11268998B1	Dynamic bridge diagnostic An apparatus is provided, comprising: a plurality of terminals for coupling the apparatus to a sensing bridge; a switching circuitry that is coupled to at least one of the plurality of terminals; and a processing circuitry that is configured to: cause the switching circuitry to couple the plurality of terminals to a voltage source, a ground source, and the processing circuitry in accordance with a first connection profile; detect a failure of the sensing bridge or a connection between the sensing bridge and any of the plurality of terminals; select a second connection profile based on a type of the failure; and cause the switching circuitry to couple the plurality of terminals to the voltage source, the ground source, and the processing circuitry in accordance with the second connection profile.
US11268995B2	Intelligent electronic device control using wirelessly transmitted multi-phase electrical measurements Systems, methods, and devices are provided for controlling part of an electric power distribution system using an intelligent electronic device that may rely on communication from wireless electrical measurement devices. Wireless electrical measurement devices associated with different phases of power on an electric power distribution system may send wireless messages containing electrical measurements for respective phases to an intelligent electronic device. When wireless communication with one of the wireless electrical measurement devices becomes inconsistent or lost, the intelligent electronic device may synthesize the electrical measurements of the missing phase using electrical measurements of remaining phases. The intelligent electronic device may use the synthesized electrical measurements to control part of the electric power distribution system.
US11268990B2	Current measurement circuit for optimization of power consumption in electronic devices An electrical current measurement circuit is provided. The electrical current measurement circuit is configured to receive a sense current proportionally related to an electrical current of interest to continuously charge a capacitor to a sense voltage. The electrical current measurement circuit is configured to determine whether the sense voltage reaches a predefined voltage threshold and reduce the sense voltage to below the predefined voltage threshold in response to the sense voltage reaching the predefined voltage threshold. The electrical current measurement circuit counts each occurrence of the sense voltage reaching the predefined voltage threshold and quantifies the electrical current based on a total count of the sense voltage reaching the predefined voltage threshold during the predefined measurement period. By incorporating the electrical current measurement circuit in an electronic device, it may be possible to accurately monitor and thus help to optimize power consumption and battery life of the electronic device.
US11268988B2	Detection substrate, assembly, and method for manufacturing detection substrate A detection substrate 150 has a body film 1a having a through hole 91; a winding wire part 10 provided on a surface of one side of the body film 1a, on a surface of another side of the body film 1a and in the through hole 91, and disposed so as to surround a current to be detected; and a winding return wire part 50, provided on the body film 1a, connected at a terminal end part of the winding wire part 10 and returning from the terminal end part toward a starting end part side.
US11268980B1	Method and system for detecting stuck components in automated test systems An inference engine determines whether a device under test has become stuck in a test socket of an automated test system by analyzing measurement data sampled during normal execution of a production test program for the device. The inference engine is trained to identify stuck patterns in the measurement data for a particular device design. In the event a stuck condition is detected by the inference engine, testing by the automated test system is halted and an alert is transmitted to an operator.
US11268978B2	Tip-enhanced Raman spectroscope system The present disclosure provides a tip-enhanced Raman spectroscope system. The system includes a laser emitting unit, a laser excitation unit, a first dichroic beam splitter, a first Raman spectrometer, and a confocal detecting unit. The laser excitation unit includes a sample stage and a first scanning probe. The sample stage is configured to have a sample disposed thereon such that a first incident laser beam emitted from the laser emitting unit is transmitted to the sample to excite first scattered light. The first dichroic beam splitter is configured to split a first Raman scattered light from the first Rayleigh scattered light. The first Raman spectrometer is disposed on a first Raman optical path of the first Raman scattered light. The confocal detecting unit is disposed on a first Rayleigh optical path of the first Rayleigh scattered light to image the sample.
US11268976B2	Electrode layer partitioning A MEMS sensor includes a proof mass that is suspended over a substrate. A sense electrode is located on a top surface of the substrate parallel to the proof mass, and forms a capacitor with the proof mass. The sense electrodes have a plurality of slots that provide improved performance for the MEMS sensor. A measured value sensed by the MEMS sensor is determined based on the movement of the proof mass relative to the slotted sense electrode.
US11268972B2	Sample consumable and loader A sample consumable that carries a microvolume of sample to a sample loader. The consumable is precisely aligned utilizing a double-alignment feature to the loader. The loader is based on a crank-slider geometry and allows for simple, one-handed operation for the user. Overall, the consumable and sample loader increase reproducibility of in-line sample loading and offers ease-of-use.
US11268963B2	Protein sequencing methods and reagents Described are optical methods and reagents for sequencing polypeptides. A probe that exhibits different spectral properties when conjugated to different N-terminal amino acids is conjugated to the N-terminal amino acid of a polypeptide. Sequentially detecting one or more spectral properties of the probe conjugated to the N-terminal amino acid and cleaving the N-terminal amino acid produces sequence information of the polypeptide. The use of super-resolution microscopy allows for the massively parallel sequencing of individual polypeptide molecules in situ such as within a cell. Also described are probes comprising hydroxymethyl rhodamine green, an isothiocyanate group and a protecting group.
US11268959B2	Bovine herpesvirus detection and treatment Methods, compositions, devices, and kits are described herein that are useful for detecting BoHV-1 infection in animals and/or for distinguishing animals that may benefit from administration of BoHV-1 tmv vaccine.
US11268954B2	Immunoassay apparatus An immunoassay apparatus may include: a sample dispenser part that dispenses a sample into a first reaction container; a reagent dispenser part that dispenses, into the first reaction container: a solid-phase reagent containing a solid-phase carrier; a labeled reagent; and a releasing reagent that releases, from the solid-phase carrier, an immune complex including a target substance and a labeled substance; a measurement part that measures a signal based on the labeled substance in the immune complex in a second reaction container; a container supply part that stores a plurality of reaction containers; a transfer part that transfers the first reaction container so that the sample dispenser part and the reagent dispenser part perform a dispensing operation to the first reaction container, and that transfers the second reaction container so that the immune complex dispended from the first reaction container is dispensed into the second container.
US11268951B2	CHO host cell protein assay The present invention provides compositions, kits, and methods for the detection of host cell proteins (HCPs) in biological samples. In some embodiments, the present invention utilizes immunization of aves hosts with proteins derived from non-aves host cells to produce aves antibodies specific for non-aves HCPs.
US11268944B2	Method for determining gas saturation of tight reservoir The present invention a method for determining the gas saturation of a tight reservoir. The method comprises the steps of: determining the pore size distribution of the tight reservoir rock sample, and calculating the free water saturation; calculating the water-membrane water saturation; calculating the corner water saturation; calculating the gas saturation of the tight reservoir rock sample according to the following equation: Sg=100−Sw wherein Sw is the water saturation in %; Sw is the sum of the free water saturation, the water saturation and the corner water saturation; Sg is the gas saturation in %. The method for determining the gas saturation of a tight reservoir uses model calculations, which avoids errors in the determination results of the gas saturation caused by water volatilization, surface adsorption, and observation of water flow during experiments.
US11268938B2	Monolithic sorbents having a metal cladding The invention relates to monolithic sorbents which are clad with tubes made of metal. The metal cladding can be applied directly to the monolithic sorbents by cold forming. This enables very mechanically stable cladding of the monolithic sorbents with minimal dead space.
US11268929B2	Sensor element and gas sensor A sensor element includes a porous reference gas introduction layer for introducing a reference gas as a reference for detecting a specific gas concentration of a measurement-object gas from an entrance and allowing the reference gas to flow to a reference electrode disposed at the back, wherein the reference gas introduction layer is divided by a partition position defined to be in the range of 50 to 95% of the full length of the reference gas introduction layer from the entrance toward the inside, into a back side portion and an entrance side portion, the reference electrode is accommodated in the back side portion, and the diffusion resistance Rb of the entrance side portion is higher than the diffusion resistance Ra of the back side portion.
US11268925B2	Intertwined electrical input signals Devices and methods for determining one or more analyte concentrations in a sample, determining a sample type, and/or accounting for interference species in a sample are disclosed that include intertwining a first input signal, via a first electrode having a reagent, with a second input signal, via a second electrode lacking a reagent, by applying to the sample the first input signal having at least two excitations and a relaxation, and applying to the sample the second input signal having at least two excitations and a relaxation, such that the excitations of the first input signal are nonconcurrent with the excitations of the second input signal. The method further includes measuring a first output signal responsive to the first input signal and a second output signal responsive to the second input signal.
US11268907B2	Devices and methods for minimizing false results for test sample reagents on instrument-based systems Methods of detecting compromise of at least one analyte reagent upon reaction with a test sample are disclosed. Also disclosed are reflectance spectroscopic diagnostic instruments that perform the method, and systems that contain same.
US11268903B2	Laser-scatter measurement instrument having carousel-based fluid sample arrangement An instrument determines a concentration of bacteria in a plurality of fluid samples, and comprises a housing, a rotatable platform, a plurality of fluid containers, a light source, a sensor, and a motor. The rotatable platform is within the housing. The fluid containers are located on the rotatable platform. Each fluid container holds a corresponding one of the plurality of fluid samples, and has an input window and an output window. The light source provides an input beam for transmission into the input windows of the fluid containers and through the corresponding fluid samples. The input beam creates a forward-scatter signal associated with the concentration of bacteria. The motor rotates the rotatable platform so that the input beam sequentially passes through each fluid sample. A sensor within the housing detects the forward-scatter signal exiting from the output window associated with the fluid sample receiving the input beam.
US11268895B2	Dustproof test device and dustproof test method A dustproof test device includes a test box and a dust supply apparatus, where the test box includes a sample cabin, where the dust supply apparatus is connected to the test box through a dust tube, and where the dust supply apparatus is configured to transport dust into the sample cabin under the action of compressed air.
US11268890B2	Parameters for use in particle discrimination Aspects of the present disclosure include methods for characterizing particles of a sample in a flow stream. Methods according to certain embodiments include detecting light from a sample having cells in a flow stream, generating an image of an object in the flow stream in an interrogation region and determining whether the object in the flow stream is an aggregate based on the generated image. Systems having a processor with memory operably coupled to the processor having instructions stored thereon, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to generate an image of an object in a flow stream and to determine whether the object is an aggregate are also described. Integrated circuit devices (e.g., field programmable gate arrays) having programming for practicing the subject methods are also provided.
US11268888B1	Systems and methods for determining concrete strength In one embodiment, a concrete strength testing system includes a core drill having a core barrel, a press associated with the core drill that is configured to drive the core barrel into concrete to be tested, a force sensor associated with the core drill that is configured to measure a force with which the core barrel is driven into the concrete by the press, and a depth measurement device configured to measure a depth into the concrete to which the core barrel is driven by the press.
US11268880B1	Method of detecting the cleanliness of a lens using differential flat field correction of pupil incidence A method for detecting lens cleanliness of a lens in a flat-field optical path, the flat-field optical path includes a light source, the lens, a camera, the light source is a narrow-band multispectral uniform surface light source, the camera's light-sensitive surface is disposed perpendicular to an optical axis of the lens and in the light position of the lens and a pupil interposed between the lens and the light source, the method including collecting the bright-field image data and dark-field image data for a plurality of pupil aperture sizes through the lens; for each pixel, performing a pupil differential flat field correction to yield a plurality of PiPj pupil differentials; and displaying the pupil differentials in the form of a plurality of images to show uniformity of each image, wherein a non-uniform area on each image is determined to have been caused by an impurity of the lens.
US11268879B2	Adjustable liquid trap for liquid waste drainage under differential pressure conditions A wind tunnel device may include a waste disposal unit configured to collect fluid from a droplet extractor positioned in a wind tunnel. The waste disposal unit may include a drain line and a liquid trap integrated in the drain line. The liquid trap may be adjustable during operation of the wind tunnel to accommodate different tunnel operating conditions (e.g., wind speeds) such that liquid waste does not backflow into the wind tunnel.
US11268875B2	Method and apparatus for fluid leak detection Provided is a method of testing for a leak in a fluid system. The method includes submerging at least a portion of an electrically conductive body in an electrolyte solution, with the electrically conductive body and electrolyte solution being in an internal chamber of a device. The method further includes directing an electrical signal to the electrically conductive body, causing a reaction between the electrically conductive body and the electrolyte solution to produce hydrogen. The method further includes injecting the hydrogen into the fluid system for leak detection.
US11268872B2	Method for producing a sensor housing for a force or pressure sensor and sensor housing, force or pressure sensor, and use of an additive manufacturing device The invention relates to a method for producing a sensor housing for a pressure sensor and to a sensor housing for a pressure sensor, to a pressure sensor having such a sensor housing, and to the use of an additive production device for producing such a sensor housing. A sensor body and/or at least one membrane stamp is applied to a provided metal plate by means of additive production. The additive production produces an integrally joined, in particular planar joint connection between the sensor body and/or the at least one membrane stamp, on the one side, and the metal plate, on the other side.
US11268865B2	Temperature measuring device and method for measuring temperature A temperature measuring device includes first and second semiconductor elements each of which has a p-n junction, a transistor group including a plurality of transistors of which respective sources are connected to a power source and of which respective gates are connected to each other, the plurality of transistors constituting a current source, the transistor group being configured to output a first current and a second current having a different magnitude from the first current to the first and second semiconductor elements, respectively, and a selector configured to select at least one first transistor and a plurality of second transistors different from the first transistor, from among the plurality of transistors.
US11268864B2	Sensor unit for detecting a spatial temperature profile and method for producing a sensor unit A sensor unit for detecting a spatial temperature profile, having at least one substrate with a first surface and a second surface situated at least regionally opposite the first surface. The substrate is configured at least regionally to be flexible. At least one adhesion means is arranged at least regionally on the first surface and/or on the second surface for attaching the sensor unit to at least one measurement body. At least one sensor field is arranged on the second surface of the substrate. One aspect also relates to a method for producing a sensor unit.
US11268856B1	Enhanced co-registered optical systems An imaging optical system including a plurality of imaging optical sub-systems, each having at least one optical element and receiving light from a source, and a plurality of spectrometer optical sub-systems, each spectrometer optical sub-system receiving light from at least one of the imaging optical sub-systems, each imaging optical sub-system and spectrometer optical sub-system combination having a spatial distortion characteristic, each spatial distortion characteristic having a predetermined relationship to the other spatial distortion characteristics.
US11268846B1	Luggage scale strap The luggage scale strap attaches to a luggage item as a shoulder strap. The luggage scale strap weighs the luggage item, detects changes in the weight of the luggage item, and alerts an appropriate authority when a weight change has been detected by the luggage scale strap in the luggage item. The presumption of the disclosure at bar is that a weight change in the luggage item indicates to the appropriated authority that something has been inappropriately added to or removed from the luggage item. The luggage scale strap comprises a shoulder strap, a control circuit, a personal data device, and the luggage item. The shoulder strap contains the control circuit. The shoulder strap attaches to the luggage item. The control circuit monitors the weight of the luggage item. The control circuit notifies the appropriate authority about weight changes in the luggage item through the personal data device.
US11268844B2	Continuous electro-optic fluid level sensor comprising plural light detectors oppositely disposed at the second end portion of a body An electro-optic fluid level sensor includes a body having a first end portion and an oppositely disposed second end portion. A light source is disposed at the first end portion of the body. A first light detector is disposed at the second end portion of the body. A second light detector is disposed at the second end portion of the body. The second light detector is axially offset from the first light detector.
US11268826B2	Environmental state estimation device, method for environmental state estimation, and environmental state estimation program An environmental state estimation device according to one embodiment of the present disclosure includes an environmental state estimation unit configured to estimate an environmental state of a prescribed area, based on information regarding a surrounding environmental state acquired by a plurality of vehicles in the prescribed area. A method for environmental state estimation according to another embodiment of the present disclosure includes an estimation step of an environmental state estimation device estimating an environmental state of a prescribed area, based on information regarding a surrounding environmental state acquired by a plurality of vehicles in the prescribed area. An environmental state estimation program according to still another embodiment of the present disclosure causes an environmental state estimation device to execute an estimation step of estimating an environmental state of a prescribed area, based on information regarding a surrounding environmental state acquired by a plurality of vehicles in the prescribed area.
US11268818B2	Crowd sourced mapping with robust structural features A location and mapping service is described that creates a global database of indoor navigation maps through crowd-sourcing and data fusion technologies. The navigation maps consist of a database of geo-referenced, uniquely described features in the multi-dimensional sensor space (e.g., including structural, RF, magnetic, image, acoustic, or other data) that are collected automatically as a tracked mobile device is moved through a building (e.g. a person with a mobile phone or a robot). The feature information can be used to create building models as one or more tracked devices traverse a building.
US11268814B2	Movement information calculating device, movement information calculating method and movement information calculating program A movement information calculating device includes a positioning sensor, a velocity sensor, an attitude sensor and processing circuitry. The positioning sensor is configured to calculate a position of the positioning sensor on a movable body. The velocity sensor is configured to calculate a velocity of the movable body. The attitude sensor is configured to calculate an attitude of the movable body. The processing circuitry is configured to calculate a center-of-gravity position and a center-of-gravity velocity of the movable body by using the position, the velocity, and the attitude, and calculate one of a turning center position and a pivoting position of the movable body by using the center-of-gravity position and the center-of-gravity velocity.
US11268808B2	Detection device for detecting lens surface in stitching interferometer A detection device adapted to detect lens surface and a stitching interferometer including the same are disclosed. The detection device includes: a cylindrical detection frame comprising support bosses arranged on an inner wall of the detection frame in a circumferential direction of the detection frame, the lens to be detected being placed on the support bosses; and a plurality of support units mounted at a bottom of the detection frame in the circumferential direction of the detection frame, each of the support units comprising: a support mechanism configured to be movable in an axial direction of the detection frame and cooperate with the support bosses so as to support the lens to be detected together; and a balance mechanism configured to provide a balancing force for balancing with force of the support mechanism for supporting the lens to be detected, so that axial support force of each supporting unit for the lens to be detected is equal to axial support force of each support boss for the lens to be detected in both cases where the axial direction of the detection frame is parallel to a gravity direction of the lens to be detected and inclined with respect to the gravity direction of the lens to be detected.
US11268803B2	Position detection device The present disclosure provides a position detection device including an IC package, a terminal line and a sensor housing. The IC package includes a magnetic detection element, a sealing portion sealing the magnetic detection element, and a lead line protruding from the sealing portion and electrically connected to the magnetic detection element. The lead line is fixed to the terminal line. The sensor housing is formed separately from the IC package and supports the terminal line.
US11268800B2	Method for calibrating a measuring probe in a gear cutting machine The present application discloses a method for calibrating a measuring probe in a gear cutting machine by using a workpiece received in a workpiece holder of the gear cutting machine, wherein the measuring probe includes a measuring probe tip which is movably arranged on a measuring probe base, wherein the deflection of the measuring probe tip relative the measuring probe base can be determined via at least one sensor of the measuring probe, and wherein the measuring probe is traversable relative to the workpiece holder via at least two axes of movement of the gear cutting machine. The method comprises rotating the workpiece via an axis of rotation of the workpiece holder and traversing the measuring probe via the at least two axes of movement of the gear cutting machine such that in the case of a perfect calibration the touch point of the measuring probe tip on the tooth flank would remain unchanged.
US11268797B2	Gauge inspection jig and gauge inspector A coupling portion has one end coupleable to a distal end of a measurement spindle. The measurement spindle is disposed on a gauge inspector and movable in a measurement axis direction. A cylindrical stem is insertable into a gauge holding member to hold the inserted stem. The stem slidably holds a spindle having a distal end on which a contact point of a gauge is disposed. A frame has a first end coupled to a second end of the coupling portion and has a second end to which the gauge holding member is mountable. The gauge holding member is held to the frame such that an axis of the stem runs along the measurement axis direction. As a result, inspection is performed easily and accurately in a reverse posture with a contact point facing upward when a gauge is inspected.
US11268792B2	Modular tray system for counting and/or storing ammunition components A modular tray system for counting and/or storing ammunition components is described. Embodiments of the modular tray system can include, but are not limited to, a base tray, one or more spacers, one or more adapter trays, and a cover. The one or more spacers and the one or more adapter trays can each be configured to operate in combination with the base tray. The cover can be configured to be placed over outer edges of the base tray.
US11268789B2	Device controlling shooting based on firearm movement New systems, devices and methods for extremely precise aiming and shooting of firearms by relatively unskilled users are provided. In some embodiments, shots may be planned in advance. In some embodiments, a device including specialized computer hardware and software aids a user in planning a shot(s), evaluating the accuracy of the planned shot(s), adjusting the location of the planned shot(s), and executing the planned shots. In some embodiments, the system may prevent shots where motion, acceleration and positioning of the device and/or firearm relative to the planned shot location(s) and/or the surrounding environment may cause an inaccurate shot, but execute shots where those factors facilitate a highly accurate shot. In some embodiments, the control system may similarly account for, counteract and/or otherwise adjust for any other relevant ballistic and other accuracy-impacting factors with a position-actuable firing mechanism to maintain a projected flight path of such a point of impact.
US11268780B2	Transmission of power for archery Described is an archery device for transmitting power aimed at transmitting power from at least one limb to at least one arrow using at least one cam which is operatively connected to two or more flexible, substantially inextensible elements, designed to withstand tensile stress (cables and strings or tracts thereof), simultaneously operating at least one string tract and several cable tracts, the latter, in different directions to each other, wherein the net radial moment is determined by the combination of tensions and directions of the elements connected to it. This increases the design freedom when positioning the cam and reduces the friction linked to its rotation against a support, if necessary, making it possible to do without a support, thereby eliminating friction and improving efficiency.
US11268773B2	Dual heat exchangers with integrated diverter valve A heat exchanger assembly includes first and second heat exchangers integrated with a thermally actuated control valve assembly having first and second surfaces to which the first and heat exchangers are attached at various orientations to each other, including at 90 and 180 degrees to each other, and side-by-side. The valve assembly has two fluid ports for connection to an external fluid source, and two fluid ports in fluid communication with inlet and outlet manifolds of each heat exchanger. The heat exchangers may be a transmission oil heater and a transmission oil cooler, and the valve assembly controls the flow of transmission oil to the heat exchangers depending on the oil temperature. One or both of the heat exchangers may be brazed or mechanically secured to the valve assembly. The housing of valve assembly may be segmented, with each heat exchanger being brazed to one of the segments.
US11268769B2	Heat exchanger A heat exchanger includes plural heat exchange units arranged in series in a flowing direction of external fluid. A tube of the heat exchange units has a tube body and a protrusion. A dimension of the protrusion in a tube stacking direction is smaller than a dimension of the tube body in the tube stacking direction. A dimension of the protrusion in an air flowing direction is larger than a thickness of the tube body. An outer fin is joined to both the upstream tube and the downstream tube arranged in the air flowing direction. The protrusion of the upstream tube is connected to an upstream end of the tube body in the air flowing direction. The protrusion of the downstream tube is connected to a downstream end of the tube body in the air flowing direction.
US11268768B2	Evaporative cooling system An evaporative cooling system for a radiator and method for retrofitting an existing radiator with an evaporative cooling system is provided. The cooling system includes at least one spray nozzle configured to be connected to the radiator upstream of a radiator core and configured to distribute a mist of water to the radiator core; a water source configured to hold water for conveyance to the at least one spray nozzle; and a conduit assembly for conveying water from the water source to the at least one spray nozzle. The evaporative cooling system provides a quick and inexpensive solution for cooling radiators in situations where short-term extreme temperature events occur.
US11268761B2	Horizontal pyrolysis furnace A horizontal pyrolysis furnace has a kiln and two barrels. The two barrels are respectively a processing barrel rotatably disposed in the kiln and a takeover barrel detachably connected with the processing barrel. Each one of the two barrels has a gate assembly and at least one spiral guiding plate. The gate assembly of the processing barrel is mounted on an end of the processing barrel, and extends out from the kiln. The two gate assemblies of the two barrels are detachably connected such that the two barrels are able to rotate synchronously. The at least one spiral guiding plate is fixed on an inner surface of one of the two barrels, and the spiral guiding plates of both barrels have an identical helical direction.
US11268758B2	Dryer A dryer for drying hair or clothes is disclosed. The dryer includes a head and a handle attached to the head. The dryer further includes ultrasonic devices, a controller, a vacuum pump, and a reservoir. The head has a surface on which inlet holes are formed. The ultrasonic devices are positioned on the surface of the head. The ultrasonic devices produce ultrasonic vibrations that break down water molecules into mist. The controller controls an operation of the ultrasonic devices.
US11268756B2	Process integration for natural gas liquid recovery This specification relates to operating industrial facilities, for example, crude oil refining facilities or other industrial facilities that include operating plants that process natural gas or recover natural gas liquids.
US11268755B2	Process integration for natural gas liquid recovery This specification relates to operating industrial facilities, for example, crude oil refining facilities or other industrial facilities that include operating plants that process natural gas or recover natural gas liquids.
US11268743B2	Air-conditioning apparatus having heating-defrosting operation mode An air-conditioning apparatus includes a main circuit in which a compressor, a load side heat exchanger, a first pressure reducing device, and a plurality of parallel heat exchangers connected in parallel with each other are connected by pipes, a bypass pipe diverting a portion of refrigerant discharged by the compressor, a flow switching unit connecting a parallel heat exchanger to be defrosted to the bypass pipe, a plurality of flow rate control devices controlling flow rates of refrigerant flowing through the plurality of parallel heat exchangers, and a controller which controls, in the heating-defrosting operation mode or in the heating operation mode after execution of the heating-defrosting operation mode, the flow rate control devices to control, in accordance with a frost state of a parallel heat exchanger functioning as an evaporator among the plurality of parallel heat exchangers, the flow rate of refrigerant flowing through the parallel heat exchanger.
US11268742B2	Refrigerant charging tool and method Gas vaporizer for flashing liquid to vapor received from a source prior to introduction into a compressor or the like, such as in air conditioning or refrigeration systems. In certain embodiments the vaporize includes an adapter member for connection to a liquid source, a connector member having a plurality of flow passages for facilitating the transfer of heat to fluid present therein to vaporize the same, a body portion providing visual access such as via one or more sight glasses to an internal chamber therein for visual confirmation that liquid has been vaporized, and a hose connecting member for connection to a point of destination such as a compressor. In certain embodiments, the connector has an axial bore containing a high thermal conductive material.
US11268738B2	Advanced metal hydride heat transfer system utilizing an electrochemical hydrogen compressor An electrochemical heat transfer device for a hot water tank utilizes an electrochemical hydrogen compressor to pump hydrogen into and out of a tank having a metal hydride forming alloy therein. The absorption of hydrogen by the metal hydride forming alloy is exothermic, produces heat, and the desorption of the hydrogen from the metal hydride forming alloy is endothermic and draws heat in. An electrochemical hydrogen compressor may be configured between to tanks and pump hydrogen back and forth to form a heat transfer device, such as a hot water heater. A heat transfer device may be coupled with the tank or may comprise the outer surface of the tank to transfer heat to an object or to the surroundings. A closed loop may be configured having two tanks and one or two electrochemical hydrogen compressors to pump the hydrogen in a loop around the system.
US11268736B2	Shut-off flap and corresponding heating, ventilation and/or air conditioning installation The present invention relates to a damper door (1) having an axis of rotation (3), a first face (5), and a second face opposite the first face (5), said first (5) and second faces of the damper door (1) defining a plane, said damper door (1) comprising: a rotation shaft (9) projecting from each side of the plane defined by the first (5) and second faces of the damper door (1), and at least one side wall (11) having a flat surface arranged radially with respect to the rotation shaft (9), characterised in that the rotation shaft (9) has, in the plane of the at least one side wall (11), a semi-elliptical shape (13) extending over the side wall (11) and comprising a large diameter (G1) coinciding with the axis of rotation (3) of the damper door (1) and a small radius (P1) parallel to the plane of the at least one side wall (11).
US11268730B2	Energy management system controller and method A technical adapter system operates to wirelessly, remotely control a conventional thermostat and/or components of an HVAC system, HVAC/R system or both, to which the conventional thermostat is connected, and optimizing energy efficiency of the HVAC system components. This effectively heats and/or cools a space or volume that the HVAC and/or HVAC/R system is configured to heat and/or cool. An adapter device includes a processor, a memory and an adapter application program component, the adapter device configured to connect to the conventional thermostat, the HVAC system or both. A hand-held electronic device including a smart device application program component that operates to enable a hand-held electronic device user to wirelessly connect to the adapter device, and remotely control and command the adapter device.
US11268728B2	Ventilation system A ventilation system includes a plurality of ventilation devices, a sensor, a setting unit, and a transmitter-receiver. The sensor is attached to a predetermined ventilation device of the plurality of ventilation devices. The sensor detects a state of air. The setting unit sets, from the plurality of ventilation devices, a first ventilation device to which the sensor is to be attached, and a second ventilation device with which a detection signal of the sensor is to be shared. The transmitter-receiver receives the detection signal of the sensor and transmits the detection signal to control devices of the first and second ventilation devices. The first and second ventilation devices are set in the setting unit. Each of the control devices of the first and second ventilation devices controls an associated one of the ventilation devices based on the detection signal transmitted from the transmitter-receiver.
US11268727B2	Selective zone air condition setpoint mode interface systems and methods A control system of a heat, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system. In some embodiments, the HVAC system includes an electronic display configured to concurrently display a plurality of zone icons that indicate a current setpoint mode corresponding to a plurality of building zones, wherein the current setpoint mode comprises a home setpoint mode and an away setpoint mode. Additionally, the HVAC system may include a control circuitry communicatively coupled to the electronic display. The control circuitry may be configured to toggle the current setpoint mode associated with the plurality of building zones between the home setpoint mode and the away setpoint mode based on a received user input. Further, the control circuitry may be configured to control operation of the HVAC system based on the current setpoint mode associated with each building zone of the plurality of building zones.
US11268726B2	Air handling unit and rooftop unit with predictive control An air handling unit (AHU) or rooftop unit (RTU) or other building device in a building includes one or more powered components and is used with a battery, and a predictive controller The battery is configured to store electric energy and discharge the stored electric energy for use in powering the powered components. The predictive controller is configured to optimize a predictive cost function to determine an optimal amount of electric energy to purchase from an energy grid and an optimal amount of electric energy to store in the battery or discharge from the battery for use in powering the powered components at each time step of an optimization period.
US11268708B2	Outdoor unit for central air conditioner and central air conditioner having same An outdoor unit for a central air conditioner and a central air conditioner having the same are provided. The outdoor unit includes a unit body and at least One panel. One side of the unit body is open, and the panel is arranged on the side of the unit body to open and close the unit body. One end of the panel is pivotally and detachably connected to the unit body through a pivot structure. The pivot structure includes a base provided on the unit body and a pivot seat provided on the panel. A top of the base has a pivot shaft spaced apart from the unit body and extending upward, and the pivot seat is provided with a pivot hole having an open bottom and configured to be detachably fitted with the pivot shaft.
US11268704B2	Oven having a dielectrically coated glass substrate that absorbs electromagnetic radiation and emits heat radiation into the oven cavity The present disclosure relates to an oven cavity having a dielectrically coated glass or glass-ceramic substrate that absorbs electromagnetic radiation thereby increasing the temperature of the substrate and the dielectric coating composition, and emits heat radiation into the oven cavity.
US11268696B2	Slot cooled combustor A combustor for use in a gas turbine engine comprising: an outward shell; an inward shell located radially inward of the outward shell, the inward shell and the outward shell defining a combustion chamber therebetween; an aft outward panel located proximate the outward shell, the aft outward panel extending from an aft end of the combustion chamber to an outward panel joint; an aft inward panel located proximate the inward shell, the aft inward panel extending from the aft end of the combustion chamber to an inward panel joint; and a forward panel located proximate a forward end of the combustion chamber, the forward panel comprising: an outward wall located proximate the outward shell; an inward wall located proximate the inward shell; and a forward wall located proximate the forward end of the combustion chamber, the forward wall extending from the inward wall to the outward wall.
US11268695B2	Method and system for starting an intermittent flame-powered pilot combustion system A flame powered intermittent pilot combustion controller may include a first power source and a second power source separate from the first power source, a thermal electric and/or photoelectric device, an igniter and a controller. The thermal electric and/or photoelectric device may charge the first power source when exposed to a flame. The controller and the igniter may receive power from the first power source when the first power source has sufficient available power, and may receive power from the second power source when the first power source does not have sufficient available power.
US11268694B2	Motor controller for draft inducer motor in a furnace and method of use A motor controller for a draft inducer motor that operates an inducer blower in a furnace is provided. The motor controller includes a communication interface operable to receive a signal from a system controller. The signal represents a command to operate the draft inducer motor. The motor controller includes a processor operable to operate the draft inducer motor in accordance with a predefined motor speed profile during at least one of an ignition stage and a combustion stage of the furnace.
US11268684B1	Dimmable tamper-resistant nightlight A dimmable tamper resistant nightlight may include a body comprising at least one light emitting diode (LED). Plug blades may extend from the body. A dimming switch may be coupled to the at last one LED, the dimming switch configured to move between a first position that activates about 50% luminosity of the at least one LED, a second position that deactivates about 100% luminosity of the at least one LED, and a third position that activates about 100% luminosity of the at least one LED. A housing may be coupled to the body, the housing comprising an access opening through which the dimming switch may be moved among the first position, the second position, and the third position. A housing may also comprise a locking element configured to prevent the dimmable tamper resistant nightlight from being removed from the electrical receptacle.
US11268679B2	Downlight apparatus with heat dissipation A downlight apparatus includes a light module, connecting arms and a driver box. The connecting arms are fixed to a back cover of the light module. The connecting arm has a guiding top and a lateral stopper for entering a receiver slit of the driver box. The lateral stopper and the guiding top may be made of one metal piece, and the lateral stopper is protruding at a lateral side of the connecting arm so that to fix the connecting arm to the driver box.
US11268673B2	Method and apparatus for an adaptable vehicle light fixture A method and apparatus for an adaptable vehicle light fixture is provided to activate directional illumination aspects of the light fixture based upon sensed characteristics of the vehicle. The vehicle may automatically sense its position, speed, acceleration, heading and angular velocity and may command the light fixture to emit symmetric and/or asymmetric beam patterns based upon the sensed vehicle characteristics. Directional light incident upon the light fixture may also be detected to allow intensity control thereby reducing glare to oncoming traffic. A vehicle light fixture may be pre-configured with lenses and wirelessly programmed for manual and/or automatic operation that is responsive to the pre-configuration. A plurality of vehicles with light fixtures mounted thereon comprise a network of light fixtures that are manually or adaptively controlled as a group.
US11268672B2	Light distribution control apparatus for vehicle A light distribution control apparatus comprises an irradiating apparatus and an irradiation control apparatus. When a vehicle is travelling on an own lane, the irradiation control apparatus lightens a first region including a region right in front of the vehicle using the irradiating apparatus. When a request for lane change to a target lane occurs under a situation where the vehicle is travelling on the own lane, the irradiation control apparatus lightens a second region using the irradiating apparatus, the second region including a region-at-a-lane-change-side positioned at a target lane side with respect to the first region and a reduced region which is a region where the first region is reduced to a region near the vehicle as well as control the irradiating apparatus so that illuminance in the reduced region becomes less than or equal to illuminance in the reduced region before the request for lane change occurs.
US11268671B2	Optical device for headlight, automotive lighting device and automobile An optical device for the headlight includes a left-hand drive optical element and a right-hand drive optical element. The left-hand drive optical element includes a left-hand drive light incident part and a left-hand drive transmission part which is arranged in the light emergent end region of the left-hand drive light incident part and extends in the light emergent direction; the light emergent end of the left-hand drive transmission part is provided with a left-hand drive cut-off part capable of forming a left-hand drive cut-off line. The right-hand drive optical element is similarly arranged. The disclosure further relates to the automotive lighting device including the optical device and the automobile including the automotive lighting device.
US11268668B2	LED-based lighting fixture providing a selectable chromaticity The disclosed invention is embodied in an improved LED-based lighting fixture for projecting a beam of light having a substantially uniform intensity, rotationally, and a selectable, substantially uniform chromaticity. The lighting fixture includes (1) a concave reflector having circumferential facets, a focal region, an aperture, and a central opening; and (2) a light source assembly including two or more groups of LEDs mounted at the forward end of an elongated, thermally conductive support. The light source assembly is mounted relative to the reflector with the elongated support's longitudinal axis aligned with the reflector's longitudinal axis and with the groups of LEDs located at or near the reflector's focal region. Each of the two or more groups of LEDs includes a plurality of LEDs arranged in a specific pattern such that they cooperate with the faceted concave reflector to project a beam of light having a selectable, substantially uniform chromaticity.
US11268663B2	Travel solar lighting devices Lighting devices are described and may include a housing, a solar panel, and at least one speaker. The housing may include a cover and a base coupled to the cover. The lighting device may also include at least one rechargeable battery, a microprocessor, and a plurality of light sources, such as LEDs, configured to emit light towards the cover. The solar panel, the rechargeable battery, the microprocessor, the speaker, and the plurality of light sources may be in electronic communication with one another. Further, for example, the microprocessor may be configured to control at least one operating mode of the plurality of light sources and at least one operating mode of the speaker.
US11268659B2	Lighting apparatus A lighting apparatus comprises: a board, a plurality of light-emitting units disposed on the board, and a package structure enclosing all of the light-emitting units and having a volume less than 5000 mm3. The lighting apparatus has a light intensity greater than 150 lumens.
US11268656B2	Calculation of remaining usage time of a gas cylinder A method for calculating the remaining usage time of a gas cylinder equipped with a pressure reducer, the method comprising the following steps: (a) measuring the pressure of the gas in the cylin-der; (b) calculating the variation of pressure of the gas in the cylinder over time while gas is out-putted; (c) calculating a remaining usage time Tr based on the measured pressure in the cylinder and the calculated variation of pressure. Step (c) takes into account characteristics of the pressure reducer relative to variations of its nominal flow rate along the decrease of its inlet pressure while emptying the cylinder.
US11268655B2	Cryosphere Methods, apparatus, and device, for a cryogenic storage system that stores and/or transports a liquid or gas at a temperature below ambient temperature. The cryogenic storage system has an enclosure and a cavity. The cryogenic storage system has a dewar that is positioned within the cavity of the enclosure. The dewar has a payload area that is configured to hold a liquid below ambient temperature. The dewar is configured to hold a liquid below ambient temperature and passively stabilize in an upright position. The dewar is formed with an inner wall and an outer wall and has an opening that allows access to the payload area.
US11268654B2	Liquid methane storage system and method Systems and methods for controlling the temperature and pressure of a cryogenic liquid methane storage unit are provided. The disclosed systems and methods generate methane gas from a reservoir of liquid methane stored within the methane storage unit, vent the methane gas through one or more outlet valves connected to the methane storage unit, and generate electric power using the vented methane gas. The generated electric power can then be used to initiating a cooling cycle, which reduces the temperature of said reservoir of liquid methane and reduces the pressure in said methane storage unit. Micro anaerobic digesters and methane storage units may be configured in a networked environment with a central controller that monitors remote units.
US11268645B2	Material for use in lining pipes A material for use in lining pipes is disclosed. A warp-knitted tubular fabric (24, 64) in which the stitch used (for example a tricot stitch) is of a type that reconfigures as the tube is expanded radially to contract longitudinally is sufficiently flexible and compressible to enable it to conform to pipe structures. The fabric of this invention is infused with resin, which is cured once the liner is in place within the pipe. Potentially, this fabric may be thinner than known prior art materials, but exhibits comparable strength and conformability, which are necessary characteristics in the repair or rehabilitation of pipes. The use of a thinner fabric material reduces constriction of the pipe bore by repair and also offers the potential for cheaper lining material, as less resin is required. The fabric may be knitted from glass fibre yarn, which is non-toxic and a stronger material than generally used in the prior art.
US11268644B2	Flow stopping tool for pipelines A flow stopping tool for pipelines is disclosed, wherein the flow stopping tool comprises an inflatable balloon-like element that is in connection to a pressure rod. A hose is used for inflating the balloon-like element with a gas or a fluid, such that the balloon-like element can block a flow in a pipeline. A first end of the hose is in connection to the pressure rod and a second end of the hose is in connection to the balloon-like element. A part connecting the hose with the inflatable balloon-like element, but outside said balloon-like element, comprises a shock absorber for securing the hose-balloon connection.
US11268637B2	Drain mast seal assembly with seal wedge(s) An assembly is provided for an aircraft propulsion system. A first seal wedge is configured with a first wedge-shaped cross-sectional geometry when viewed in a reference plane. A first aperture extends along a first axis within the first seal wedge. A second seal wedge is configured with a second wedge-shaped cross-sectional geometry when viewed in the reference plane. A second aperture extends along a second axis within the second seal wedge. A first drain tube supports the first seal wedge and is fluidly coupled with the first aperture. A second drain tube supports the second seal wedge and is fluidly coupled with the second aperture. A manifold is configured with an outlet. The manifold supports the first drain tube and the second drain tube. The manifold fluidly couples the first drain tube and the second drain tube in parallel with the outlet.
US11268634B1	Clamp for a vehicle A clamp includes a body extending between a receiver end and an engagement end, an outer receiver member extending outward from the body to define a receiver proximate to the receiver end between the outer receiver member and the body, an engagement feature coupled to the body proximate the engagement end and configured to be received by the receiver, and a gusset feature coupled to the body and the outer receiver member. The gusset feature extends across the receiver from the outer receiver member to the body.
US11268632B2	Microfluidic analysis component and production method A microfluidic analysis device and manufacturing method are provided. The microfluidic analysis device includes a capillary substrate, a cover substrate adjacent to a cover side of the capillary substrate and/or a bottom substrate adjacent to a bottom side of the capillary substrate, a capillary structure with at least one capillary, forming a hollow channel, in the interior of the capillary substrate and/or at the interface of the capillary substrate with the cover substrate and/or at the interface of the capillary substrate with the bottom substrate and also a fluid-conducting arrangement for conducting a fluid through the capillary structure. The fluid-conducting arrangement may be designed for compartmenting the fluid by way of controlled pressure pulses. A linear sensor element, which extends toward a capillary of the capillary structure and/or away from it and/or along the capillary, and a fluid contact end of which and at least an adjacent part of its feed lie in an identical plane to the capillary, may be integrated in the microfluidic analysis device, the element finishing with its fluid contact end flush against a side wall of the capillary or extending into the hollow channel thereof.
US11268631B2	Microfluidic valve and a chip or system comprising the microfluidic valve A microfluidic valve provided herein is configured to mix or capable of mixing a sample and/or a reagent in addition to controlling liquid flow. In one embodiment, the microfluidic valve comprises a rotor (3) and one or more micro-structures (2) that move with the rotation of the rotor (3). In one embodiment, the one or more micro-structures (2) stir and/or mix content in a mixing chamber (5) formed by the rotor (3), a base (1), and a sleeve (4) of the microfluidic valve. A microfluidic chip or chip system comprising one or more of the microfluidic valves, and methods of use, are also provided.
US11268630B2	Direct-drive flexure-mechanism vacuum control valve A valve including a first member including a fluid flow aperture therethrough; a second member movably connected to the first member between an open position and a closed position relative to the fluid flow aperture; at least one electromagnetic actuator connected between the first member and the second member, where the at least one electromagnetic actuator is configured to move the second member between the open position and the closed position, where the at least one electromagnetic actuator includes a first electromagnetic actuator having a stationary portion connected to the first member and a movable portion connected to the second member; and at least one mechanical flexure connected between the first member and the movable member of the actuator, where the at least one mechanical flexure constrains motion of the movable member to along a substantially straight line.
US11268625B2	Valve actuators principally for water-circulation systems of swimming pools or spas Multi-position valve actuators principally for water-circulation systems of pools and spas are detailed. At least some actuators may indicate position of an associated valve in a non-electronic manner, as by using a handle visible externally of the actuator and directly or indirectly mechanically coupled to the valve so as to move therewith. Hence, even if power to an actuator is disrupted, positioning of the valve may be determined by viewing the handle.
US11268623B2	Valve gearbox cover systems and methods A valve includes a cover that is transparent and configured to allow a valve orientation to be visible through the valve cover. The cover may couple to existing mounting bolts of the valve operator housing such that the cover may be retrofitted onto existing valves. The cover may be sized and shaped to prevent water, or other weather, ingress into the valve operator housing.
US11268619B2	Sealing arrangement A liquid control valve including a body comprising an inlet port, an outlet port, and an interior chamber, the body defining a liquid passageway between the inlet and outlet ports. Also included is a plunger comprising a groove provided on an external wall, the plunger being configured to reciprocate within the interior chamber of the body between a first position where the valve is closed and a second position where the valve is open. Also provided is a sealing arrangement within the groove configured to seal between the plunger and the interior chamber of the body. The sealing arrangement includes a first sealing element on the external wall of the plunger and spaced apart from an inner wall of the internal chamber, and a second sealing element on the inner wall of the internal chamber and spaced apart from the external wall of the plunger.
US11268616B2	Envelope gasket An envelope gasket features a bonded construction. In one example, a virgin PTFE envelope is bonded to a pair of microcellular or expanded PTFE filler material annular rings. The PTFE filler annular rings are then bonded together around a corrugated metal insert ring (on the inner and outer diameter), thus sealing inside microcellular or expanded PTFE. Alternatively, when using expanded graphite filler material annular rings, the PTFE envelope is bonded to the expanded graphite filler rings by pressure and heat, and the filler rings are bonded to each other by pressure during the bonding process.
US11268614B2	Working vehicle A working vehicle includes a traveling clutch to be switched between an engaging state and a disengaging state, a brake to brake the traveling device according to an operation of a brake operator, and a controller to perform a braking control to perform the braking, and an auto-switching controller to switch the traveling clutch from the engaging state to the disengaging state. The controller performs a first processing to switch the traveling clutch from the engaging state to the disengaging state when the brake operator is operated in a case where the auto-switching control is valid and a vehicle speed is less than a threshold, and a second processing to prevent the traveling clutch from being switched from the engaging state to the disengaging state even when the brake operator is operated in a case where the vehicle speed is equal to or higher than the threshold.
US11268613B2	Apparatus and method for controlling transmission of vehicle An apparatus and a method for controlling a transmission of a vehicle may include a determining device configured to determine whether a curved road is present within a predetermined distance in front of the vehicle, based on information on a front road, a calculating device configured to correct, based on information on a gradient of the curved road, a vehicle speed in starting cornering of the vehicle on the curved road, determine an expected lateral acceleration based on the corrected vehicle speed and information on a curvature of the curved road, and determine a pattern correcting coefficient based on the determined expected lateral acceleration, a pattern correcting device configured to correct a gearshifting pattern of the transmission, which is preset, based on the pattern correcting coefficient, and a control device connected to the determining device, the calculating device and the pattern correcting device and configured to control the transmission based on the corrected gearshifting pattern when the vehicle enters the curved road.
US11268610B2	Drive device and motor vehicle having a drive device A drive device and a motor vehicle, having at least one drive machine and at least one gearbox. The drive device has at least one cooling system, which is designed to apply a cooling medium to the at least one drive machine and to the at least one gearbox, at least in regions. The disclosure further relates to a motor vehicle having a drive device.
US11268604B2	Gear device and manufacturing method for gear device A gear device includes an internal gear and an external gear that meshes with the internal gear, in which the internal gear is made of a resin, the external gear is made of a material having a smaller linear expansion coefficient than the resin, and PCDs of the internal gear and the external gear before use of the gear device are set such that lost motion becomes 0 min or more and 15 min or less due to a difference in a thermal expansion amount between the internal gear and the external gear at a time of use of the gear device.
US11268603B2	Harmonic drive A harmonic drive (1), including a wave generator (8), a flexible, externally toothed gear component (14), in particular in the form of a flex ring, which can be deformed by said wave generator, and at least one internally toothed gear component (4, 5) that meshes with the flexible, externally toothed gear component (14). The flexible, externally toothed gear component (14) has a non-circular basic shape in relation to its mechanically non-loaded state.
US11268589B2	Cylinder-piston unit with load-dependent throttle A cylinder-piston unit with load-dependent damping includes a piston longitudinally displaceable in a cylinder. The piston has a first piston channel and a second piston channel, which each connect a compensation space on one side of the piston to a displacement space side on an opposite side of the piston. On the displacement space side a throttle channel connects one first piston channel to the piston lateral surface. On its displacement space side the piston has a piston journal, which carries a resiliently deformable piston disc. The piston disc is displaceable and covers the throttle channel at least partially. The displacement space side has at least one relief portion deviating from a piston end face plane. The relief portion is delimited on a number of sides by a plurality of boundary lines running concentrically with respect to the central axis. Each of these boundary lines can be differentiated continuously.
US11268588B2	Air spring sleeve The present invention is directed to an air spring sleeve comprising: an outer layer, at least one reinforcing layer, and an inner layer that form the sleeve; the outer layer and the inner layer are formed of an elastomeric composition, with the proviso that the elastomeric composition does not comprise epichlorohydrin; and the at least one reinforcing layer comprises a plurality of reinforcing elements disposed between a layer of the elastomeric composition, wherein the elastomeric composition of the at least one reinforcing layer is identical to the elastomeric composition of the outer layer and the inner layer.
US11268586B2	Brake using magnetorheological transmission and brake-by-wire The present invention discloses a brake-by-wire actuator based on motor-magnetorheological fluid clutch. The system includes a motor, a transmission mechanism and a floating-caliper disc mechanism. The transmission mechanism includes a magnetorheological fluid clutch, a planetary gear set and a ball screw set. The ball screw set includes balls, a ball screw and a sleeve. The floating-caliper disc mechanism includes a brake pad back plate, left and right brake pads, a caliper body, a brake disc and a guide rail. The motor and the magnetorheological fluid clutch cascaded in series, the linear motion of the sleeve of the ball screw set is achieved by the magnetorheological fluid clutch and the transmission mechanism. The sleeve pushes forward the brake pad back plate of the floating-caliper disc mechanism to clamp the brake disc by left and right brake pads, which accomplishes braking. The present invention uses a brake-by-wire actuator based on motor-magnetorheological fluid clutch, which not only has the advantages of fast response and improved braking security, but also solves the problem of the motor stalling during long time braking.
US11268583B2	Friction assembly, brake caliper and manufacturing method A friction assembly has a support plate, at least one brake pad and at least one reinforcing foil of the plate. The brake pad and the support plate are co-moulded from at least one heat-resistant resin. The reinforcing foil is fixed to the support plate via anchoring projections, joined to and which extend away from the foil, embedded in the resin to prevent or limit deformations of the support plate in the use of the assembly.
US11268579B2	Hybrid dual-clutch transmission A hybrid dual-clutch transmission includes a first countershaft sub-transmission, a second countershaft sub-transmission, a first clutch assigned to the first countershaft sub-transmission, a first actuating chamber, a first centrifugal oil chamber, a first power transmission region, a first inner lamella carrier, and a first outer lamella carrier. The transmission also includes a second clutch assigned to the second countershaft sub-transmission, a second actuating chamber, a second centrifugal oil chamber, a second power transmission region, a second inner lamella carrier, and second outer lamella carrier. The transmission further includes a third clutch to connect to an internal combustion engine and which has a third actuating chamber, a third centrifugal oil chamber, a third power transmission region, a third inner lamella carrier, and a third outer lamella carrier. The first, second, and third power transmission regions are arranged radially stacked one on top of the other and axially at least partially overlapping.
US11268575B2	Generator assemblies, integrated drive generators, and methods of making generator assemblies A generator assembly includes a rotor carrying a magnetic element, a bearing assembly supporting the rotor for rotation about a rotation axis, a bearing support structure extending circumferentially about the bearing assembly and configured for fixation to a housing, and a sleeve member. The sleeve member is arranged radially between the bearing assembly and the bearing support structure to limit a clearance defined radially between the bearing assembly and the bearing support structure. Integrated drive generators and methods of making generator assemblies are also described.
US11268567B2	Sealing element for a ball-and-socket joint A sealing element for a ball joint has a sealing area on the housing side and a sealing area a distance away therefrom in an axial direction of the sealing element on the stud side. Arranged between the housing-side sealing area and the stud-side sealing area is an outlet opening which extends through the sealing element to allow the passage of spent lubricant. The outlet opening extends in the axial direction of the sealing element, passing all the way through the sealing element in the axial direction. Further, the sealing element is incorporated in a ball joint which is incorporated in a two-point control arm.
US11268565B2	Foldable device A foldable device includes a flexible display including first, second, and third portions; a body including first, second, and third support portions which respectively supports the first, second, and third portions; a hinge including a first rotation axis which connects the first support portion to the third support portion, and a second rotation axis which connects the second support portion to the third support portion; and a slot hole which is rotatably coupled with the first and second rotation axes, and which moves the first rotation axis and the second rotation axis when the first support portion and the second support portion rotate with respect to the third support portion. The first and second rotation axes allow the first and second support portions to rotate with respect to the third support portion when the flexible display changes from an open state to a closed state.
US11268561B2	Installation tool and fastener for roof truss framing and construction system An installation tool and fastener is particularly adapted for fastening a top plate to a roof support member and other structural connections. The installation tool comprises a telescopic tool assembly which transfers torque from a power driver tool to a fastener drive coupler. The installation tool has a receiver guide which is configured to concentrically guide a fastener into driver engagement with a fastener coupler. The coupler may have a driver tip with radial projections, a Philips driver tip or a square driver tip. In one embodiment, the installation tool fastener has a head with a maximum head diameter equal to the major thread diameter and a recess for coupling with the drive coupler.
US11268558B2	Injection mortar Injection mortar for anchoring a fastening element containing a chemical composition that can cure in a curing process, and means for initiating the curing process characterized in that the chemical composition cures when irradiated with electromagnetic radiation, the means for initiating the curing process is formed by a radiation source for electromagnetic radiation, and the radiation source is placed within the anchoring zone.
US11268555B1	Multi-layer laminate load ring A laminated load ring for a balloon assembly includes a plurality of ring stacking units stacked one on top of the other. Each of the ring stacking units can include a main body having a central opening, a plurality of arms, and at least one weld line. The plurality of arms may each extend away from the main body around a circumference of the main body. The at least one weld line can be formed on the main body. The plurality of arms of the plurality of ring stacking units may be aligned with one another. The weld line of each of the plurality of ring stacking units may be offset from the weld line of a directly adjacent ring stacking unit in a direction extending around the circumference of the laminated load ring.
US11268554B2	Nut fastener The present application provides a nut fastener, comprising a mounting nut and an adjustment bolt. The mounting nut comprises retaining arms and a nut receiving passage. The adjustment bolt is configured to be at least partially received in the nut receiving passage and comprises a bolt receiving passage. A bushing is arranged in the bolt receiving passage of the adjustment bolt and over molded onto a side wall of the bolt receiving passage by means of two-shot injection molding. The nut fastener in the present application is easy to mount and use.
US11268545B2	Hydraulic control arrangement for supplying pressure medium to at least two hydraulic consumers A hydraulic control arrangement for simultaneously supplying at least two hydraulic consumers with predefinable individual pressure medium flow rates includes a hydraulic pump having an adjustable swept volume, and at least two valve arrangements each including a variable metering restrictor and a pressure balance arranged downstream of the variable metering restrictor. Each pressure balance is configured to be acted on in an opening direction by pressure downstream of the respective variable metering restrictor and to be acted on in a closing direction by a highest load pressure or by a pressure derived therefrom. Each valve arrangement is arranged between a pump line, which leads away from the hydraulic pump, and a consumer of the at least two hydraulic consumers. The arrangement further includes an electronic control device, by which the hydraulic pump is actuatable such that it conveys a sum of the predefinable individual pressure medium flow rates.
US11268532B2	Electric blower, electric vacuum cleaner, and hand dryer An electric blower includes a motor including a rotor having a rotation shaft, and a stator provided to surround the rotor, a moving blade mounted at one end side of the rotation shaft in the axial direction of the rotation shaft, a bearing portion provided between the moving blade and the stator in the axial direction and rotatably supporting the rotation shaft, and a frame. The frame includes a motor housing portion housing the stator, a bearing housing portion housing the bearing portion, a wall formed between the motor housing portion and the bearing housing portion and facing the moving blade, and a hole passing through the wall. The electric blower further includes a first air path outside the frame, and a second air path inside the frame. An air volume in the first air path is larger than an air volume in the second air path.
US11268517B2	Pump and impeller with auxiliary blades on the underside of the impeller and a permanent magnet rotor To provide a pump device configured such that the impeller can be prevented from being moved toward a case body by which a pump chamber is defined. An impeller is arranged in a pump chamber defined by a case body and an end wall portion of a motor. The impeller includes back blades protruding from a shroud toward the end wall portion of the motor. When the impeller is driven to circulate fluid through the pump chamber, a fluid is drawn out by the back blades from a clearance between the impeller and the end wall portion of the motor. Therefore, the impeller is moved by the negative pressure toward the end wall portion of the motor. The back blades function as a suction power generation mechanism configured to generate suction power sucking the impeller toward the end wall portion.
US11268516B2	Gas-lock re-prime shaft passage in submersible well pump and method of re-priming the pump A well fluid centrifugal pump has a shaft passage in the shaft. The shaft passage has an open upper end above the impellers and a closed lower end below the impellers. An outlet port extends laterally from the shaft passage. A gas-lock re-priming device in the shaft passage diverts a portion of well fluid in the discharge adapter bore through the shaft passage and out the outlet port. The re-priming device may be a pressure actuated valve that is biased to a closed position and opens when the pressure in the discharge adapter bore drops below a minimum. Alternately, the re-priming device may be an orifice member with an orifice passage that continuously diverts a portion of the well fluid in the discharge adapter bore out the outlet port.
US11268515B2	Turbopump with axially curved vane A turbopump includes an impeller (22) that is rotatable about an axis (A). A discharge collector (28) is located radially outward of the impeller. A passage (30) fluidly connects the impeller to the discharge collector. The passage is curved.
US11268514B2	Motor vehicle vacuum pump An automobile vacuum pump includes a pump chamber with a pump rotor, an outlet chamber, a partition wall separating the pump chamber from the outlet chamber, and an outlet valve in the partition wall. A compressed gas is discharged from the pump chamber into the outlet chamber via the outlet valve. The outlet valve is formed by a valve opening in the partition wall, a valve seat arranged around the valve opening, and a leaf spring provided as a valve body. The leaf spring includes a spring body which includes a fastening site where the spring body is fixed to the partition wall, and a spring-body-side stopper. The spring-body-side stopper is arranged so that a first distance between the spring-body-side stopper and the fastening site is larger than a second distance between the fastening site and an opening edge of the valve opening which is closest to the fastening site.
US11268510B2	Fluid compressor having discharge port and valve A fluid compressor is provided. The fluid compressor includes a case including an inlet configured to introduce fluid to be compressed, a compression unit including a compression chamber configured to compress the fluid introduced into the case, and a discharge port configured to discharge the compressed fluid to the outside of the compression chamber, a motor configured to drive the compression unit, and a valve configured to open and close the discharge port. The valve includes a fastening portion coupled to the compression unit to be spaced a first distance from the discharge port.
US11268508B2	Variable displacement pump A variable displacement pump according to the present invention is notably configured such that the opening area of a variable metering orifice (MO) is variably controlled by a second control valve (6) as a spool valve having a second spool valve body (61). According to this type of the second control valve (6), a larger amount of movement (stroke movement) of the second spool valve body (61) can be ensured. Consequently, the opening area of the variable metering orifice (MO) can be controlled without being restricted by a range of variation in a proper discharge amount based on an amount of movement of a cam ring (2), thereby achieving sufficient energy conservation of the pump.
US11268504B2	Linear compressor comprising a stator defining a cylinder space for a cylinder supported by a support member with a cylindrical portion, a first bent portion, and a second bent portion configured to support an area of the cylinder in an axial direction A linear compressor includes a mover which linearly reciprocates, a stator generating a driving force to allow the mover to linearly reciprocate and having a cylinder space formed on an inner circumferential surface thereof, a cylinder inserted into the cylinder space of the stator and having a compression space compressing a refrigerant, a piston reciprocating in an axial direction inside the cylinder, a frame provided on one side of the stator in an axial direction and supporting the stator in the axial direction, and a cylinder support member separated from the frame, provided between an inner circumferential surface of the stator and an outer circumferential surface of the cylinder, having one end fixed to the stator and the other end fixed to the cylinder, and supporting the cylinder with respect to the stator in the axial direction.
US11268500B2	Linear compressor with a plurality of spring strands A linear compressor includes a piston that reciprocates on a spring central axis extending in an axial direction and a spring that axially elastically supports the piston. The spring includes a plurality of spring strands. The spring strands each include a spring body spirally extending along a spring central axis C, a front spring link forming an end of the spring body by extending from a side of the spring body, and a rear spring link forming the other end of the spring body by extending from the other side of the spring body. Of the spring strands, the front spring links are disposed axially in the same plane P1 and the rear spring links are disposed axially in the same plane P2.
US11268497B2	Assembly, an installation package and a method for use in installation of an installation unit in a wind turbine tower An assembly, installation package and method for installing a wind turbine tower. The assembly (139) comprises an installation unit (114) having unit guides (140), each configured to engage a corresponding engagement guide (130) adjacent to an upper inner edge of the tower section (110) to guide the assembly while it is lowered into the tower section. The assembly also includes a yoke (136) releasably connected to the installation unit and comprising yoke guides (146), each configured to engage a corresponding engagement guide (130) adjacent to the upper inner edge of the tower section to guide the assembly while it is lowered into the tower section (110). The assembly (139) is configured such that at least one of the unit guides (140) and/or the yoke guides (146) is or are substantially continuously engaged with the engagement guides (130) from when the assembly (139) enters the tower section (110) until the assembly reaches its installation position within the tower section.
US11268486B2	Igniter for gas turbine engine There is disclosed an igniter for a gas turbine engine including: a base, a glow plug heater rod, the glow plug heater rod extending from the base along an axis and terminating in a rod end, a sleeve extending circumferentially around the glow plug heater rod along at least a portion of a length of the glow plug heater rod, the sleeve having an inner surface spaced from the glow plug heater rod to provide a gap between the inner surface and the glow plug heater rod, the gap extending radially relative to said axis.
US11268482B2	Fuel system having pumping and filtration fuel module and flow housing for same A fuel module for pumping and filtration of a fuel in a fuel system includes a flow housing, and each of an electrically powered pump, a first cartridge filter, and a second cartridge filter in sealed, direct engagement with the flow housing. The fuel module is applied in a low pressure fuel circuit feeding fuel to a high pressure fuel circuit for pressurization to an injection pressure. Electronic closed loop control techniques for the pump are also disclosed.
US11268479B2	Rollover shutoff valve assembly for carburetor A rollover shutoff valve assembly used with a carburetor inhibits leaking of fuel from the carburetor in circumstances where the vehicle has rolled over so that the carburetor is inverted from the normal operating position. The rollover shutoff valve assembly includes a fluid passage, a race and a plug received in the race. The plug is movable in the race to inhibit liquid flow through the passage when the shutoff valve assembly rotates from an upright position to an inverted position. The races are closed except at the passage.
US11268472B2	Methane safety systems for transport refrigeration units A system comprising a refrigeration engine (132) and regulator (250, 350, 450, 550, 650) positioned within a housing (144, 244), the regulator (250, 350, 450, 550, 650) controlling fuel to the engine through a fuel line (354), a lock-off valve connected to the regulator (250, 350, 450, 550, 650) to shut off fuel supply through the regulator (250, 350, 450, 550, 650), a controller operably connected to the lock-off valve and/or the regulator (250, 350, 450, 550, 650), a guide (462, 562) positioned within the housing (144, 244) and proximate to the refrigeration engine (132), the regulator (250, 350, 450, 550, 650), and/or the fuel line (354) to direct gases leaking from the refrigeration engine (132), regulator (250, 350, 450, 550, 650), and/or at least one fuel line (354), and a methane sensor (566, 666A) positioned within the guide (462, 562) to detect the presence of methane within the guide (462, 562) that is directed by the guide (462, 562), the methane sensor (566, 666A) in communication with the controller and configured to transmit a signal to the controller when methane is detected by the methane sensor (566, 666A). The controller performs a safety action when the signal from the methane sensor (566, 666A) is received.
US11268469B2	Misfire detection device for internal combustion engine, misfire detection system for internal combustion engine, data analysis device, controller for internal combustion engine, method for detecting misfire of internal combustion engine, and reception execution device A misfire detection device for an internal combustion engine including a crankshaft mechanically connected to a motor generator includes a storage device and processing circuitry. The storage device stores mapping data. The mapping data is data specifying a mapping that outputs a misfire variable using a rotation waveform variable and a damping variable as an input. The misfire variable is a variable related to a probability that a misfire has occurred. The rotation waveform variable is a variable including information on a difference between values of instantaneous speed corresponding to short angular intervals differing from each other. The damping variable is a variable related to a state of a damping process that controls a torque of the motor generator to reduce vibration of a power transmission system of a vehicle.
US11268467B2	Controller and control method for internal combustion engine A controller includes a memory device and an execution device, which executes an operation of an operated unit of an internal combustion engine. The execution device executes a first calculation process that uses adapted data sets in order to calculate an operated amount on the basis of a detected value of a state variable, a second calculation process that calculates, as the operated amount, a value that is determined by a relationship defining data set and the state variable, a reinforcement learning process that updates the relationship defining data set, first and operation processes that operate the operated unit in accordance with a calculated value of the operated amount, and a switching process that switches a process that operates the operated unit between the first operation process and the second operation process in accordance with the state of the vehicle.
US11268463B2	Techniques for improving fuel economy in dedicated EGR engines One embodiment is a system comprising an engine including a dedicated EGR cylinder configured to provide EGR to the engine via an EGR loop, a non-dedicated cylinder, a plurality of injectors structured to inject fuel into the dedicated EGR cylinder and the non-dedicated EGR cylinder, and an electronic control system operatively coupled with the fueling system and the ignition system. The electronic control system is configured to evaluate engine operating parameters including an engine load and an engine speed. The electronic control system is responsive to variation of the engine operating parameters to control operation of the fueling system to vary combustion in the at least one dedicated cylinder between rich of stoichiometric and stoichiometric.
US11268460B2	Method for operating a gas engine The invention relates to a method for operating a gas engine having at least one combustion chamber, in particular for a motor vehicle, wherein a gaseous fuel is injected directly into the combustion chamber in order to operate the gas engine, the gaseous fuel being injected directly into the combustion chamber within a working cycle of the gas engine during at least two phases spaced apart from each other in time, the at least two phases beginning and ending before the first ignition occurring within the working cycle.
US11268459B2	Fugitive gas detection system A fugitive gas detection system is provided. The system includes a cloud service, a plurality of reach-based components, a plurality of wireless gas sensors. The reach-based components comprise backhauls and gateways. The wireless gas sensors are acted as nodes to acquire sensor data in a local mesh network and the nodes are connected to the cloud service through the reach-based components, one node can transmit the sensor data to other sensor nodes of the local mesh network. The system measures flammable gas levels with speed, economy and accuracy.
US11268457B2	Outboard motor An outboard motor, including an engine having a cylinder containing a combustion chamber, an intake pathway connected to the combustion chamber, a piston disposed in the cylinder, a crankshaft connected to the piston, a fuel injection device connected to the intake pathway, and an ignition device connected to the combustion chamber. The outboard motor further includes a controller that is configured to receive a signal indicating an engine speed from a sensor, control the fuel injection device to suspend fuel supply and control the ignition device to suspend ignition, upon determining that the engine is in an over-revolution state, control the fuel injection device to release the suspension of the fuel supply upon determining that the engine has recovered from the over-revolution state, and control the ignition device to release the suspension of the ignition after lapse of a number of cycles of the engine since the release of the suspension of the fuel supply.
US11268455B2	Throttle body with fluid flow control A throttle body may have a main bore for supplying a fuel and air mixture to an engine. A throttle valve head may be received in the main bore and movable between idle and wide open positions to control fluid flow through the main bore. A main fuel outlet and a boost venturi may open to the main bore and a flow directing feature may alter the velocity and/or direction of fluid flow in the main bore relative to the fuel outlet or boost venturi. The flow directing feature may be carried by the body, the throttle valve head, or the boost venturi.
US11268444B2	Turbine cooling arrangement A cooling system for a component of a gas turbine engine includes a first airflow passage configured to direct a first airflow to a mixing chamber and a second airflow passage to configured direct a second airflow to the mixing chamber, the second airflow having a higher temperature than the first airflow, and a cooling airflow passage to direct a cooling airflow from the mixing chamber to the component, the cooling airflow comprising the first airflow and the second airflow. The airflow passages are configured and sized to allow an amount of cooling airflow for unrestricted engine operation. When the first airflow passage is disabled, the second airflow passage and cooling airflow passage are configured and sized to allow an amount of cooling airflow which is adequate to permit continued safe engine operation restricted to within only a portion of its normal parameters and operating envelope.
US11268436B2	Method and vehicle system using such method The invention relates to a method of controlling transient behaviour of an internal combustion engine (10) being provided with a turbocharger (110) and a variable inlet guide vanes assembly (130) arranged upstream a compressor (120) of the turbocharger (110). The method comprises determining a current operational condition indicative of transient behaviour, and, if said transient behaviour requires compressor acceleration: determining a desired operational condition of the compressor (120), and controlling the position of the variable inlet guide vanes assembly (130) based on the desired operational condition of the compressor (120).
US11268435B2	Structural arrangement in a low-temperature turbocompressor for an internal combustion engine A low-temperature turbocompressor structural arrangement for an internal combustion engine for using energy that is available but unused during operation to cool the air supplied to the engine by supercharging. The temperature of the air compressed by the compressor is reduced by a cooling system and the air is then conveyed to a further turbine actuated by the intake air flow of the engine. The structural arrangement may be mounted in full or in part, and also each component may be fitted into existing systems.
US11268434B1	Method and system for extending dilution limit of a prechamber spark ignition engine A system includes an engine having a main combustion chamber and a prechamber containing a spark plug. The prechamber is in fluid communication with the main combustion chamber through at least one orifice. An engine intake line provides intake air to the engine. An engine exhaust line receives exhaust gases from the engine. An exhaust gas recirculation line transports a portion of the exhaust gases from the engine exhaust line to the engine intake line, forming an exhaust gas recirculation loop through the engine. The system includes a reformer having a reactor containing a catalyst-coated substrate. The reformer generates a gaseous reformate from a fuel. The system includes a prechamber feed line to transport a stream of the gaseous reformate from the reformer to the prechamber.
US11268427B2	Aspiration systems for work vehicles including exhaust tubes having airflow area modifiers In one aspect, an aspiration system for a work vehicle includes an exhaust tube extending along a flow direction and an aspiration tube in flow communication with the exhaust tube at an aspiration zone of the exhaust tube such that the aspiration tube is configured to receive an aspirated airflow. The system also includes an airflow area modifier provided in operative association with the aspiration zone and actuatable to adjust a cross-sectional flow area of the exhaust tube within the aspiration zone. The system includes an actuator provided in operative association with the airflow area modifier such that the actuator is configured to alter an orientation of the airflow area modifier such that the cross-sectional flow area of the exhaust tube within the aspiration zone is adjusted.
US11268423B1	Two-part two-stage mixer A mixer comprises a first subassembly including a first holder fixed to a first mixing element. The first holder includes a base interconnecting a first sidewall with a spaced apart second sidewall. The first mixing element includes a base interconnecting first and second spaced apart mounting flanges that are fixed to the first and second sidewalls. A second subassembly includes a second holder fixed to a second mixing element. The second holder includes a base interconnecting a third sidewall with a spaced apart fourth sidewall. The second mixing element including a base interconnecting third and fourth spaced apart mounting flanges that are fixed to the third and fourth sidewalls. Distal ends of the first sidewall and the third sidewall are fixed to one another. Distal ends of the second sidewall and the fourth sidewall are fixed to one another.
US11268413B2	Method and system for gasoline particulate filter Methods and systems are provided for depositing one or more layers of ash on a surface of a new or cleaned gasoline particulate filter (GPF) prior to installation of the GPF in an engine and first use of the GPF. In one example, a method may include coating the GPF with the one or more layers of ash via an atomic layer deposition (ALD) technique in which two precursors react to form a layer of ash on the GPF surface.
US11268411B2	System and method for engine valve lash calibration A method for adjusting a valve lash in an internal combustion engine includes receiving a first signal generated by a sensor secured to the internal combustion engine, the first signal being indicative of a closing of a valve, receiving a second signal indicative of at least one of an engine speed of the internal combustion engine or a position of a camshaft of the internal combustion engine, and automatically determining an adjusted amount of lash associated with the valve based on the received first signal and the received second signal. The method also includes comparing the adjusted amount of lash to at least one predetermined threshold, and providing, in response to determining that the adjusted amount of lash is greater than the at least one predetermined threshold, a valve lash re-adjustment notification.
US11268406B2	Movement-limiting device for a turbine engine and associated method A movement- and/or load transfer-limiting device for a turbine engine, comprises a first fitting including a retention member, with the first fitting being engaged with a fancase surrounding a turbine engine fan blade system. A second fitting is engaged with a fancowl disposed radially outward of the fancase. The second fitting includes a constraint member arranged to be received by the retention member. The retention member is arranged to limit radially outward movement of the fancowl via engagement with the constraint member. The constraint member comprises at least one of (i) a hook member arranged to limit radially inward movement of the first fitting in relation to the fancowl or (ii) a laterally-extending shaft having opposed ends and a flange engaged with at least one of the ends, arranged to limit lateral movement of the retention member in relation to the first fitting. Associated devices and methods are also provided.
US11268405B2	Bearing support structure with variable stiffness A method of manufacturing a bearing support structure of a gas turbine engine, includes: obtaining a bearing support and a casing assembly, the casing assembly having first and second casings extending around a central axis and connected together via struts, the bearing support securable to the first casing at attachment points; selecting a distance between the attachment points of the bearing support and the struts as a function of a required stiffness of the bearing support structure; and adjusting a position of the bearing support relative to the casing assembly until the attachment points are distanced from the struts by the selected distance and joining the bearing support to the casing assembly at the attachment points.
US11268404B2	Thermal insulation features for gas turbine engines A hot section of a gas turbine engine includes a stator housing wall and an at least one insulating standoff attached to the stator housing wall, extending radially away from the stator housing wall. The hot section includes an accessory module attached to an opposite end of the at least one insulating standoff away from the stator housing wall.
US11268403B2	Gas turbine engine induction system, corresponding induction heater and method for inductively heating a component An induction heater is employed with a gas turbine engine in order to heat a static component of the gas turbine engine. The heating of the static component is performed prior to the ignition of the gas turbine engine and during transient conditions. This minimizes thermal differences between the components of the gas turbine engine during transient conditions to thereby increase the life span of the components.
US11268398B2	Gas turbine with axially moveable outer sealing ring with respect to housing against a direction of flow in an assembled state A gas turbine includes a housing and an outer sealing ring. In an assembled state of the housing and the outer sealing ring, a first planar structure of the outer sealing ring is axially moveable with respect to a second planar structure of the housing against a direction of flow through the gas turbine.
US11268394B2	Nozzle assembly with alternating inserted vanes for a turbine engine A nozzle assembly for a gas turbine engine and methods for assembling a nozzle assembly are provided. In one example aspect, the nozzle assembly includes an outer wall and an inner wall radially spaced from the outer wall. The outer wall defines a plurality of mounting openings spaced circumferentially from one another. The inner wall defines a plurality of mounting openings spaced circumferentially from one another. The mounting openings defined by the inner wall are positioned circumferentially between adjacent mounting openings defined by the outer wall. The nozzle assembly includes vanes that are inserted through the mounting openings of the outer wall in a radially inward direction and vanes that are inserted through the mounting openings of the inner wall in a radially outward direction in an alternating manner.
US11268373B2	Estimating natural fracture properties based on production from hydraulically fractured wells To estimate natural fracture properties based on production from hydraulically fractured wells, a computer system receives hydrocarbon reservoir production information associated with a naturally fractured hydrocarbon reservoir with entrapped hydrocarbons in which a wellbore has been formed to produce the hydrocarbons. The information includes a wellbore pressure measured over production time. From the wellbore pressure, the computer system determines a time rate of change of the wellbore pressure over the production time. From a plot of a logarithmic time rate of change of the wellbore pressure over logarithmic production time, the computer system identifies multiple plot sections, each representing a respective flow regime of a flow of the hydrocarbons from the reservoir. For each plot section, the computer system determines a corresponding time rate of change of the wellbore pressure intersect value and a reservoir parameter for each corresponding time rate of change of the wellbore pressure intersect value determined for each plot section.
US11268369B2	Smart system for selection of wellbore drilling fluid loss circulation material A smart system for circulating LCM can implement a method. While a wellbore is being drilled in a geologic formation, drilling parameters identifying wellbore drilling conditions of a wellbore drilling system drilling the wellbore are received. The wellbore drilling system flows a wellbore drilling fluid including particulates of different size distributions. The particulates operate as LCM to reduce loss of the wellbore drilling fluid in the geologic formation. Size distributions of the particulates in the wellbore drilling fluid flowing through multiple different wellbore fluid flow pathways of the wellbore drilling system are received. The size distributions represent a concentration of the particulates in the wellbore drilling fluid. A release of certain particulates into the wellbore drilling fluid is controlled based, in part, on the received drilling parameters and the received size distributions of the particulates.
US11268367B2	Fracturing a wellbore with enhanced treatment fluid placement in a subterranean formation Energy created by a propellant can form a fracture in a subterranean formation. For example, a treatment fluid can be introduced into a subterranean formation. A propellant can be positioned in the subterranean formation. The propellant can be detonated to generate a fracture in the subterranean formation for receiving at least part of the treatment fluid. The treatment fluid may include an acid, a hydrolysable in-situ acid generator, a chelating agent, a hydrolysable in-situ chelating agent generator, or mixtures thereof.
US11268361B2	Separation assembly Provided is an assembly including a vessel having first and second ends and an interior, an inlet diverter disposed in the interior at the first end, at least one flow baffle disposed in the interior and having a gas section including a plurality of gas openings extending through the baffle, a liquid section below the gas section including a plurality of liquid openings extending through the baffle, and a bottom surface spaced from a bottom interior surface of the vessel to define a fluid flow path between the bottom surface and the bottom interior surface, and at least one vane section disposed in the interior downstream of the at least one flow baffle, the at least one vane section having a bottom surface spaced from the bottom interior surface of the vessel to define a fluid flow path between the bottom surface and the bottom interior surface.
US11268356B2	Casing conveyed, externally mounted perforation concept Provided is a downhole perforating device, a well system, and a method for perforating a well system. The downhole perforating device, in one aspect, includes a perforating structure for surrounding at least a portion of an outer surface of a wellbore casing. The downhole perforating device, according to this aspect, includes one or more perforation elements at least partially embodied within the perforating structure, the one or more perforation elements positioned to perforate the wellbore casing to an inside thereof, and electronics at least partially embodied within the perforating structure, the electronics for triggering the one or more perforation elements.
US11268352B2	Controlling fluid volume variations of a reservoir under production Techniques for controlling a hydrocarbon production system include determining a first estimate of a prior FVC detectability probability map based on a plurality of reservoir data that includes four-dimensional (4D) seismic data of a subterranean reservoir; determining a second estimate of the prior FVC detectability probability map under seismic data noise conditions; determining an updated detectable FVC probability based on the 4D seismic data; determining an updated FVC probability based on the updated detectable FVC probability and the first and second estimates of the prior FVC detectability probability maps; and generating a control instruction for at least one of a fluid injection system or a hydrocarbon production assembly based on the updated FVC probability.
US11268350B2	Intelligent energy management system of a drilling rig A system may include a top drive coupled to a mast on a drilling rig. Additionally, a common bus may be coupled to the top drive. A drawworks may be coupled to the common bus and the top drive, and the drawworks lowers and raises the top drive throughout the mast. A generator may be coupled to the common bus, and the generator transmits electric power to the drawworks. Further, a controller may be coupled to the top drive, common bus, the generator, and the drawworks. The common bus may transmit the electric power between the top drive, drawworks, and the generator. The controller may manage a transmission of stored power in the top drive to the drawworks.
US11268349B2	Systems and methods for cloud-based automatic configuration of remote terminal units A remote terminal unit (RTU) may control one or more operations a well device associated with a hydrocarbon well. The RTU may include a processor that may broadcast a request to communicatively couple to a cloud-computing system. The processor may then receive a confirmation from the cloud-computing system indicating that the RTU has successfully communicatively coupled to the cloud-computing system and send one or more attributes regarding the RTU, the well device, the hydrocarbon well, or any combination thereof to the cloud-computing system. The processor may then receive one or more software packages from the cloud-computing system based on the attributes. Using the software packages, the processor may control the operations of the well device.
US11268346B2	Fuel, communications, and power connection systems Embodiments of systems and methods for supplying fuel, enabling communications, and conveying electric power associated with operation of a hydraulic fracturing unit of a plurality of hydraulic fracturing units are disclosed and may include a fuel line connection assembly configured to be connected to the first hydraulic fracturing unit and to supply fuel from a fuel source to a gas turbine engine connected to the hydraulic fracturing unit. A system also may include a communications cable assembly configured to be connected to the hydraulic fracturing unit and to enable data communications between the hydraulic fracturing unit and a data center or another hydraulic fracturing unit. A system further may include a power cable assembly configured to be connected to the hydraulic fracturing unit and to convey electric power between the hydraulic fracturing unit and a remote electrical power source or the plurality of hydraulic fracturing units.
US11268341B2	Wellbore plugs that include an interrogation device, hydrocarbon wells that include the wellbore plugs, and methods of operating the hydrocarbon wells Wellbore plugs that include an interrogation device, hydrocarbon wells that include the wellbore plugs, and methods of operating the hydrocarbon wells are disclosed herein. The wellbore plugs include a plug body, an interrogation device, and a sealing structure. The interrogation device is contained within the plug body and includes a sensor configured to detect at least one parameter of the hydrocarbon well. The hydrocarbon wells include a wellbore, a downhole tubular, the plug, and a communication device configured to receive communication data from the interrogation device. The methods include releasing an interrogation device from a plug, detecting at least one parameter within the hydrocarbon well with the interrogation device, transmitting communication data from the interrogation device, and receiving the communication data with a communication device.
US11268338B2	Radial conduit cutting system An apparatus housing for a cutting system for radially projecting a flow of heated gas to cut from an internal surface through an external surface of a conduit. The cutting system adapted to be positioned within the conduit comprising an igniter, an extension housing, and an apparatus housing. The apparatus housing has a movable sleeve section and a nozzle assembly. The nozzle assembly comprises a conical head with through holes for evenly dispersing the flow of heated gas. A retainer abuts a diverter. The diverter imposes a 90-degree bend in the direction of the flow of the heated gas to cause the flow of heated gas to move the sleeve section away from the apparatus housing to expose a circumferential diverter gap through which the flow of heated gas projects radially to perform the cutting function. A spindle provides structure for the nozzle assembly and maintains the position of the nozzle assembly in the apparatus housing.
US11268334B2	Real-time downhole drilling mud viscosity and density estimations Methods and systems for enhancing workflow performance in the oil and gas industry may estimate the properties of drilling muds (e.g., density and/or viscosity) located downhole with methods that utilize real-time data, estimated drilling mud properties, and mathematical models. Further, the methods described herein may optionally account for the uncertainties induced by sensor readings and dynamic modeling. For example, a method may include circulating a drilling mud through a mud circulation system; performing a plurality of measurements from various sensors in a mud circulation system; modeling in real-time drilling mud flow dynamics in the drilling mud using a mathematical dynamics model; predicting physical states of the drilling mud with the mathematical dynamics model, thereby producing model physical state predictions; inputting the measurements into the mathematical dynamics model; and adjusting discrepancies between the model physical state predictions and the measurements using the mathematical dynamics model.
US11268331B2	Gear rod rotator systems The disclosure is directed to top caps for gear rod rotators and polished clamps. Disclosed top caps include an elongated top cap body extending along a central vertical axis, the top cap body including a top face, a bottom face, and an exterior perimeter surface defining an outer perimeter of the top cap body, and a polished rod opening extending along the central vertical axis of the top cap body, the polished rod opening defining an interior circumferential surface of the top cap body and configured to receive a polished rod. Additionally, disclosed top caps include a nesting region along the top face, the nesting region configured to receive at least a portion of the polished rod clamp, and a mounting rim on the bottom face and extending outwardly from the bottom face along a longitudinal axis of the top cap body, the mounting rim including a mounting rim outer diameter, a mounting rim inner diameter, and a mounting rim bottom face. Disclosed top caps also include a top cap sensor mounting port hole configured to receive a top cap sensor module comprising a sensor including a position sensor, a temperature sensor, and a vibration sensor.
US11268330B2	Wired swivel in wellbore drilling A swivel includes a male segment, a female segment, and a lock pin. The male segment can mate with the female segment, and the lock pin can pass through the female segment and engage with the male segment to prevent relative axial movement of the male segment and the female segment while allowing relative rotational movement of the male segment and the female segment. The male segment includes a first conductive ring configured to couple to a first wire. The female segment includes a second conductive ring configured to couple to a second wire. Contact between the first and second conductive rings establishes an electrical connection between the first and second wires.
US11268328B2	Double-walled drill pipe and drilling machine A double-walled drill pipe includes an outer drill pipe, an inner drill pipe and a drill pipe sealing apparatus. The outer drill pipe includes an axial through hole and a wall surface through hole, and the wall surface through hole is disposed in a wall surface of the outer drill pipe to connect the outside of the double-walled drill pipe and the axial through hole. The inner drill pipe is rotatably disposed in the axial through hole, and includes a fluid guiding hole connected to the wall surface through hole. The drill pipe sealing apparatus is disposed between the outer drill pipe and the inner drill pipe. The drill pipe sealing apparatus is axially located between a driving end and a connecting port of the wall surface through hole connected to the axial through hole. A drilling machine including the double-walled drill pipe is also provided.
US11268326B2	Multi-path combined high-low voltage plasma drilling power source and drillling system An embodiment of the present disclosure provides a multi-path combined high-low voltage plasma drilling power source and drilling system. The multi-path combined high-low voltage plasma drilling power source comprises a high-voltage DC circuit, low-voltage DC circuits, high-voltage breakdown modules and an upper computer; wherein the high-voltage DC circuit is connected with the low-voltage DC circuits through cables; the low-voltage DC circuits and the high-voltage breakdown modules simultaneously supply power to plasma generators through cables; the upper computer monitors the low-voltage DC circuits in real time; and the same power source comprises a plurality of low-voltage DC circuits and high-voltage breakdown modules.
US11268321B2	LED slat device A window blind assembly to provide illumination to the interior of a room and to prevent sunlight from entering the room includes a multitude of the light emitting diode (LED) slats mounted in the window opening of a window frame and being rotatably connected to the window frame: a controller being embedded in the window blind assembly and configured to control the function of each row of the LED slats.
US11268308B1	Fenestration lock assemblies and methods Fenestration lock assemblies, fenestration units including the lock assemblies, and methods of operating the lock assemblies. The lock assemblies offer a lock assembly construction that is capable of being assembled, installed, and used in a purely manual mode (i.e., in the absence of any driving unit such as, e.g., a motor, solenoid, etc.) or that may be assembled, installed, and used with a driving unit such that the lock assembly can be operated manually or in a driven mode, with the manual and driven modes of operation being unaffected by each other.
US11268306B2	Methods for preventing unintended operation of pivoting door handle A flush mounted handle assembly is provided for a power slide door of a vehicle. The handle assembly includes a case fixed to the door, the case defining a rear wall and opposing side portions. A bell crank is provided configured to coordinate selective power and manual operational modes of the assembly. The assembly includes a handle base having a first end and a second opposing end. The first and seconds ends are configured for selective pivotal movement in opposite directions about a fixed pivot axis to engage the bell crank. A pair of weighted paddles is provided, each rotatable about an axis independent from the handle base axis. One or more paddle biasing members is provided to bias the weighted paddles against the handle base, minimizing movement of the handle base in the manual operational mode upon an impact, or during an unintended rotational movement of the handle base.
US11268302B2	Locking device Locking device having first and second combined connection carriers for establishing a detachable connection. A rotation element is rotatably attached at the first connection carrier and is provided in an inner region thereof. The inner region is centered with respect to a center axis and has a full radius. Elastic blocking heads are attached at the first connection carrier at the inner region, and are movable from a blocking to a release position. The rotation element includes segments extending up to the full radius and segments extending at a maximum up to a smaller inner radius. The segments extending up to the full radius move blocking heads into the release position and the segments extending up to the inner radius leave blocking heads in the blocking position. Key tongues move bordering ones of the blocking heads into the release position and allow rotation of the rotation element.
US11268300B2	Energy harvesting lock system An exemplary method includes transmitting a wireless power signal from an electrical device connected to line power, receiving the wireless power signal at an electronic access control device, and operating the electronic access control device using electrical power harvested from the wireless power signal. In certain forms, the method further includes adjusting an orientation of the antenna by which the wireless power signal is transmitted.
US11268294B2	Snap fit posts for fence panels balustrades and the like A post for a fit together panel comprising at least one said post and at least one slat, the post comprising a base member and a cover member, the cover member comprising a pair of sidewalls and an interconnecting end wall, the interconnecting end wall containing a plurality of openings through which the end of a slat can pass, the sidewalls adapted for extension over the channel member, the base member comprising a base wall and opposed sidewalls, at least one sidewall comprising a clamping leg adapted for clamping engagement against the end of a said slat passing through a said opening in the cover member, and snap fitting means on the channel member and/or the cover member to enable the channel member and the cover member to be snap fitted together.
US11268288B2	Triple latching horizontal scaffold member with three triggers A horizontal scaffold member having a primary end connector and a secondary end connector. Each end connector is configured to couple to a cup or rosette on a vertical scaffold member. Each end connector includes a wedge assembly having a handle and a wedge, movable with respect to the connector to a latched and unlatched position. The primary wedge assembly has a primary and tertiary handles, with the tertiary handles connected to the secondary wedge assembly by a cable, and configured so that moving the primary and tertiary handles simultaneously to an unlatched position also moves the secondary wedge assembly to an unlatched position.
US11268287B2	Anti-slip, noise reducing pad directly applied and adhered to the back of flooring materials and method Flooring material has an anti-slip, noise reducing pad directly self-adhered to a bottom surface. The pad is formed by applying a foamable PVC material is directly on the bottom surface of the flooring and heating the PVC material to foam the PVC material. The PVC material may then be cooled to form the pad with a definite formed shape having a resilient outer surface layer and a spongy foamy inner structure.
US11268283B2	Spraying and seaming assembly A combined roof spraying and seaming assembly that is easy, safe, and efficient to operate. The assembly is able to provide consistent coating thickness to the surface of a roof, while being able to fully coat all surfaces on the roof. The assembly can readily seam various types of roof surface conditions, such as those having channeled, corrugated, and/or ribbed surfaces.
US11268275B2	Floating body device for suppressing vibration of tower A floating body device for suppressing vibration of enclosure includes a floating body surrounding the enclosure and an excitation device which can excite the floating body to float up and down. The excitation device includes a tether connected to the floating body to prevent the floating body from falling off from the enclosure. When the floating body floats up and down, an airflow boundary layer on an outer wall of a tower can be destroyed, and a cause of vortex-induced vibration can be directly suppressed. In addition, a change of an aerodynamic configuration is obtained. The up and down floating of the floating body disrupts both upper and lower sections of a nearby flow field, thus weakening a combined action thereof, thereby preventing the vortex induced vibration of the tower.
US11268271B2	Adjustable floor drain A drain assembly including a shroud, a shank having a cylindrical radially inward facing surface defining an axis, a grate defining a plurality of openings, a frame positioned axially between the shank and the grate, and where the frame is configured to support the grate. The drain assembly also includes a cover removably coupleable to the drain assembly and configured to prevent material from coming into contact with the grate, where the cover includes an axial height defining an axial envelope, and where the grate is positioned within the axial envelope.
US11268267B1	Sink strainer assembly A sink strainer assembly for attachment to a clamping ring of a sink waste valve assembly comprising a strainer sized to fit within and be attachable to the clamping ring by a locking bar attachable to the clamping ring and at least one or more screws affixing the strainer to the locking bar, the improvement to which comprises (a) the strainer comprising a cylindrical body having top and bottom surfaces provided with passageways extending from the top surface and extending through the bottom surface to permit fluids to pass through the strainer, a channel cut in the bottom surface and having a post cavity of greater depth than the channel, a screw passageway extending from the bottom of the post cavity through the top surface of the strainer body; (b) the locking bar comprising an elongated slat member having a width greater than the depth of the channel and a length sized to fit in the channel, the slat having a post member sized to fit into the post cavity, the post member having an axial passageway formed by a threaded interior wall and positioned on the slat member to be aligned to the screw passageway when the locking bar is positioned in the channel, the slat having its opposing end sections forming a shoulder extendable beneath the clamping ring lower rim when the strainer is positioned in the clamping ring; and (c) a screw sized and shaped to fit into the screw passageway and be operatively engaged with the threaded interior wall of the post member.
US11268266B2	Fluid-dispensing systems and methods related thereto Fluid-dispensing systems and methods relating thereto are described. A method of dispensing fluid includes: (i) receiving, from a temperature encoder, a temperature signal; (ii) receiving, from a flow rate encoder, a flow rate signal; (iii) providing, based on the temperature signal and the flow rate signal, a first amount of power required by a first motor; (iv) providing, based on the temperature signal and the flow rate signal, a second amount of power required by a second motor; (v) opening, based on the first amount of power, the first valve by a first amount of valve opening; (vi) opening, based on the second amount of power, the second valve by a second amount of valve opening; and (vii) facilitating admixing of a first fluid flow at a first fluid flow rate, received from the first valve, and a second fluid flow at a second fluid flow rate, received from the second valve, to create an admixed fluid stream.
US11268264B2	Control system for work vehicle, control method, and work vehicle A control system for a work vehicle includes a controller. The controller receives actual topography information of a work target. The controller determines a design surface that is positioned below the actual topography. The controller generates a command signal to move the work implement along the design surface. The controller determines if slip of the work vehicle has occurred. The controller raises the design surface when the blade tip of the work implement is positioned below an initial target surface when the slip occurs. The initial target surface is the design surface before the occurrence of the slip.
US11268260B2	Cutting assembly Provided is a cutting wheel assembly comprising: a frame having two spaced support pillars, each having an intermediate portion at an angle to upper and lower portions; a pair of outer cutting wheels arranged either side of an inner cutting wheel all supported on the lower portions of the support pillars about a common axis of rotation; each cutting wheel having a central hub portion about which an annular cutting portion is provided having a respective cutting diameter; the inner cutting wheel having a different cutting diameter to that of the outer cutting wheels, and the central hub portions of neighboring cutting wheels defining a respective gap in which the intermediate portion of a respective pillar is received; at least one of the annular cutting portions of the inner and/or the outer cutting wheels having one or more rim portion(s) that overlap each gap so the annular cutting portions provide a cutting action along a continuous line of cut.
US11268255B2	Soil-displacement drill, method for converting a soil-displacement drill and method for forming a foundation pile Soil-displacement drill (1) for soil-displacing drilling in a surface (10) in order to form a foundation pile (2), comprising a drill pipe (3), a drill head (4) at an end of the drill pipe (3) with several flap leaves (5) which are pivotable between a closed position for closing off the end of the drill pipe (3) and an open position for making this end freely accessible and one or several closing elements (6) to keep these flap leaves (5) in their closed position and prevent pivoting of the flap leaves (5) which are configured to fail during drilling into the surface (10) in such a way that these closing elements (6) do not impede pivoting of the flap leaves (5). In addition, the present invention relates to an assembly of a drill head (4) and one or several closing elements (6) for such a soil-displacement drill (1), a method for soil-displacing drilling and a method for converting a soil-displacement drill (1) to form such a soil-displacement drill (1).
US11268246B2	System and method for securing tuned mass dampers to rail A tuned mass damper for damping airborne vibrations at one or more rail frequencies from a rail generated by movement of wheels over the rail. The tuned mass damper includes one or more damper elements including a damper element material, and a body element including a body material. The damper elements are at least partially embedded in the body element. The body element has inner and lower exterior surfaces formed to fit within first and second pockets on opposite first and second sides of the rail defined by a web portion and a foot. The damper element material and the body material are selected and formed so that the tuned mass damper vibrates in response to movement of the wheels over the rail at one or more damper frequencies that at least partially interferes with the rail frequencies.
US11268242B2	Yankee adhesive compositions and methods of using these compositions The invention relates to a method of transferring a tissue web with residual moisture to a Yankee cylinder and final removal of the dried tissue web from the Yankee cylinder using a doctor blade and collecting the dried web on a reel-up machine forming a tissue reel. The invention also relates to the Yankee adhesive composition per se. The method involves preparation of a water solution of a Yankee adhesive composition with less than 10% final solids content to be applied on the surface of the Yankee cylinder ahead of transferring the tissue web with residual moisture to the Yankee cylinder. The inventive method applies an aqueous PVOH solution with a very high molecular weight polyvinyl alcohol as a part of the solid content of the Yankee adhesive in an amount ranging from 20-65% of the final solids content of the Yankee adhesive. The aqueous PVOH solution with the very high molecular weight polyvinyl alcohol establish a viscosity ranging from 90 cP to 300 cP.
US11268241B2	Method for manufacturing inorganic particle composite fiber sheet The present invention provides a method for reducing web break caused in preparing, by continuous paper making, a fiber sheet containing a high content of functional inorganic substance. The composite fiber sheet manufacturing method includes: generating composite fibers composed of cellulosic fibers and inorganic particles by synthesizing the inorganic particles in slurry containing the cellulosic fibers; and continuously generating a sheet by supplying composite-fiber-containing slurry including the composite fibers to a continuous paper machine. In the composite fiber generating step, at least one of (i) slurry containing cellulosic fibers having a length of 1.2 mm to 2.0 mm in an amount of 16% or more in terms of length-weighted fiber length distribution (%) and (ii) slurry containing cellulosic fibers having a length of 1.2 mm to 3.2 mm in an amount of 30% or more in terms of length-weighted fiber length distribution (%) is used.
US11268237B2	Elastic artificial leather and production method therefor Disclosed herein is a method for producing an elastically stretchable artificial leather, which includes the steps of forming microfiberizable fibers into a web, entangling the obtained web to produce an entangled nonwoven fabric, converting the microfiberizable fibers in the nonwoven fabric to microfine fibers thereby producing a substrate for artificial leather, producing an artificial leather from the obtained substrate for artificial leather, bringing the obtained artificial leather into close contact with an elastomer sheet stretched in a machine direction by 5 to 40%, shrinking the artificial leather in the machine direction simultaneously with the elastomer sheet by relaxing elongation of the elastomer sheet to obtain an artificial leather in shrunk state, heat treating the artificial leather in shrunk state, and then peeling the heat treated artificial leather off from the elastomer sheet.
US11268228B2	Washing apparatus and controlling method thereof Disclosed herein is a washing apparatus includes a drum, a pulsator, a drum drive motor rotates the drum in a first direction or a second direction, a pulsator drive motor rotates the pulsator in the first direction or the second direction, and a controller controls the drum drive motor to rotate the drum in the first direction and to rotate the drum in the second direction when an operation period expires. When a drum drive current value is greater than a first reference current value during the first direction rotation of the drum, the controller controls the drum drive motor so that the drum drive motor stops rotating the drum in the first direction. When the operation period expires the controller controls the drum drive motor so that the drum is rotated in the second direction.
US11268223B1	Garment sleeve attachment systems and methods Various examples are provided related to attachment of bands about a garment opening. In one example, among others, a sleeve band can be attached to a garment by loading the sleeve band on a band guide, aligning an opening of a garment over the sleeve band, and attaching the band to the garment along the edge of the opening. Alignment of the edges of the opening and the sleeve band can be maintained by ply aligners during attachment. In another example, a garment holding system includes a garment holder that can receive a garment and a band positioning system includes a band guide that can receive a band. Edges of the opening of the garment and the band can be controlled and maintained with ply aligners of the band positioning system.
US11268218B2	Woven fabric A woven fabric including: a first region where a first fiber as an optical fiber is woven with a second fiber as a non-optical fiber; a second region adjacent to the first region, in which the first fiber is not woven; and a third region adjacent to the second region, in which the first fiber is connected to a light source.
US11268217B2	Wrappable end fray resistant woven protective textile sleeve and method of construction thereof An end fray resistant textile sleeve includes an elongate wall having warp yarns extending generally parallel to a longitudinal central axis of the sleeve and fill yarns extending circumferentially about the sleeve. The warp yarns include at least two different types of yarns, with one of the types of warp yarns including activateable yarns and another of the types of yarns including non-activateable yarns. The activateable yarns can be provided as being activateable by at least one of heat, fluid and/or pressure, such that upon being activated, the yarns are caused to bond with the adjacent non-activateable warp yarns, as well as with the weft yarns with which they make contact. As such, the activateable yarns, upon being activated, become fixed with abutting warp yarns and weft yarns, thereby inhibiting end fray from resulting during a subsequent cold-cutting operation as well as in use.
US11268210B2	Method for manufacturing transition metal chalcogenide and transition metal chalcogenide prepared thereby The present disclosure provides a method for preparing a transition metal chalcogenide including: a step of forming a transition metal chalcogenide thin film; and a step of controlling the defects of the transition metal chalcogenide thin film by injecting a processing gas including oxygen and nitrogen to the formed transition metal chalcogenide thin film.
US11268208B2	Electroplating system An electroplating system has a vessel assembly holding an electrolyte. A weir thief electrode assembly in the vessel assembly includes a plenum inside of a weir frame. The plenum divided into at least a first, a second and a third virtual thief electrode segment. A plurality of spaced apart openings through the weir frame lead out of the plenum. A weir ring is attached to the weir frame and guides flow of current during electroplating. The electroplating system provides process determined radial and circumferential current density control and does not require changing hardware components during set up.
US11268199B2	Core/shell-vacancy engineering (CSVE) of catalysts for electrochemical CO2 reduction The invention relates to a catalyst system for electrocatalyzing conversion of CO2 into multi-carbon hydrocarbons and/or alcohols, and to the method to produce it. The catalyst comprises a core-shell structure comprising a core that is composed of metal sulphide and a shell that is composed of a metal with vacancies.
US11268196B2	Lithium lanthanum zirconate thin films Forming a lithium lanthanum zirconate thin film includes disposing zirconium oxide on a substrate to yield a zirconium oxide coating, contacting the zirconium oxide coating with a solution including a lithium salt and a lanthanum salt, heating the substrate to yield a dried salt coating on the zirconium oxide coating, melting the dried salt coating to yield a molten salt mixture, reacting the molten salt mixture with the zirconium oxide coating to yield lithium lanthanum zirconate, and cooling the lithium lanthanum zirconate to yield a lithium lanthanum zirconate coating on the substrate. In some cases, the zirconium oxide coating is contacted with an aqueous molten salt mixture including a lithium salt and a lanthanum salt, the molten salt mixture is reacted with the zirconium oxide coating to yield lithium lanthanum zirconate, and the lithium lanthanum zirconate is cooled to yield a lithium lanthanum zirconate coating on the substrate.
US11268194B2	Metal-plated carbon material and manufacturing method thereof A metal-plated carbon material includes: a carbon material; and a metal layer covering a surface of the carbon material, in which, in the metal layer, crystal grains forming the metal layer have an average crystal grain size of 110 nm or less. A method of manufacturing a metal-plated carbon material, includes: a metal complex fixation step of immersing a carbon material in a supercritical fluid or subcritical fluid containing an organometallic complex of a first metal; and a first energization deposition step of energizing the metal-complex-fixed carbon material in an electroless plating solution containing a second metal.
US11268191B2	Atomic layer polishing method and device therefor An atomic layer polishing method is described. The method includes: scanning the surface of a specimen to measure a peak site on the specimen surface; spraying toward the measured peak site a gas containing an element capable of binding to a first atom, which is an ingredient of the material of the specimen to form a first reaction gas layer in which the first reaction gas binds to the first atom on the surface of the peak; and projecting ions of inert gas to the peak site on which the first reaction gas layer is deposited to separate the first atom bound to the first reaction gas from the specimen.
US11268190B2	Processes for depositing silicon-containing films using halidosilane compounds Processes for depositing silicon-containing films (e.g., silicon, amorphous silicon, silicon oxide, silicon nitride, silicon carbide, silicon oxynitride, silicon carbonitride, doped silicon films, and metal-doped silicon nitride films) are performed using halidosilane precursors. Examples of halidosilane precursor compounds described herein, include, but are not limited to, monochlorodisilane (MCDS), monobromodisilane (MBDS), monoiododisilane (MIDS), monochlorotrisilane (MCTS), and monobromotrisilane (MBTS), monoiodotrisilane (MITS). Also described herein are methods for depositing silicon containing films such as, without limitation, silicon, amorphous silicon, silicon oxide, silicon nitride, silicon carbide, silicon oxynitride, silicon carbonitride, doped silicon films, and metal-doped silicon nitride films, at one or more deposition temperatures of about 500° C. or less.
US11268180B2	Structure inflation using activated aluminum Aluminum can be used as a fuel source when reacted with water if its native surrounding oxide coating is penetrated with a gallium-based eutectic. When discrete aluminum objects are treated in a heated bath of eutectic, the eutectic penetrates the oxide coating. After the aluminum objects are treated, the aluminum objects can be reacted in a reactor to produce hydrogen which can, for example, react with oxygen in a fuel cell to produce electricity, for use in a variety of applications.
US11268178B2	Magnesium alloy sheet and method for manufacturing same An exemplary embodiment of the present invention relates to a magnesium alloy sheet and a manufacturing method thereof. The exemplary embodiment of the present invention provides a magnesium alloy sheet including 0.5 to 2.1 wt % of Al, 0.5 to 1.5 wt % of Zn, 0.1 to 1.0 wt % of Ca, and a balance of Mg and inevitable impurities, with respect to a total of 100 wt % of the magnesium alloy sheet.
US11268173B2	Magnesium alloy and magnesium alloy member A magnesium alloy containing Al, Sr, Ca, and Mn, with the balance being Mg and inevitable impurities, the magnesium alloy having: a structure having an α-Mg phase, and a precipitate dispersed in at least one of a grain boundary of the α-Mg phase and a cell boundary, the precipitate including: at least one phase selected from a group A consisting of an Al2Sr phase, an Al4Sr phase, a (Mg, Al)2Sr phase, and a (Mg, Al)4Sr phase; and at least one phase selected from a group B consisting of an Al2Ca phase and a (Mg, Al)2Ca phase, the magnesium alloy having, in a cross section, a total area rate of a group A precipitate and a group B precipitate of greater than or equal to 2.5% and less than or equal to 30%.
US11268171B2	Aluminum alloy foil, and method for producing aluminum alloy foil An aluminum alloy foil has a composition containing 1.0% to 1.8% by mass of Fe, 0.10% to 0.20% by mass of Si, 0.005% to 0.05% by mass of Cu, and Mn regulated to be 0.01% by mass or less, with the balance consisting of Al and incidental impurities. With regard to crystal grains surrounded by high inclination angle grain boundaries which are grain boundaries having a misorientation of 15° or more in analysis of crystal orientation per unit area using electron backscatter diffraction, an average grain size of the crystal grains is 10 μm or less, and a maximum grain size of the crystal grains/the average grain size of the crystal grains ≤3.0. When a thickness of the foil is 30 μm, elongations in directions making 0°, 45° and 90° with respect to a rolling direction are each 25% or more respectively.
US11268170B2	Nickel-based superalloy, single-crystal blade and turbomachine A nickel-based superalloy comprises, in percentages by mass, 4.0 to 5.5% rhenium, 3.5 to 12.5% cobalt, 0.30 to 1.50% molybdenum, 3.5 to 5.5% chromium, 3.5 to 5.5% tungsten, 4.5 to 6.0% aluminum, 0.35 to 1.50% titanium, 8.0 to 10.5% tantalum, 0.15 to 0.30% hafnium, 0.05 to 0.15% silicon, the balance being nickel and unavoidable impurities. A single-crystal blade comprises such an alloy and a turbomachine comprising such a blade.
US11268149B2	Diagnosis and treatment of inflammatory bowel disease This invention provides methods of diagnosis, predicting and diagnosing susceptibility to, predicting disease progression and treatment of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), including Crohn's disease and/or subtypes of Crohn's disease (CD) and/or Ulcerative Colitis (UC). In one embodiment, a method of the invention is practiced by determining the presence or absence of the genetic variants NOD2, TLR8, TLR2, CARD8, CARD15 and/or JAK3 to diagnose, predict and diagnose susceptibility and predict disease progression in an individual. In another embodiment, a method of the invention is practiced by determining the presence or absence of anti-Cbir1, anti-OmpC, ASCA, anti-I2 and/or pANCA in an individual. In another embodiment, the invention further associates the presence or absence of the risk variants with the expression of anti-Cbir1, anti-OmpC, ASCA, anti-I2 and/or pANCA for the diagnosis, prediction of susceptibility, prediction of disease progression and/or treatment of IBD, including CD and/or UC.
US11268142B2	Integrated device for nucleic acid detection and identification A disposable assay platform for detecting a target nucleic acid comprising multiple chambers and a method for operating the assay platform. Solutions containing the target nucleic acid move from one chamber to the next chamber by opening a vent pocket. The resulting pressure change enables the solution to flow to the next chamber. The platform comprises an electronic layer and one or more fluid layers bonded together. All heating operations can be performed by using resistive heating elements in the platform. All cooling operations are preferably passive. The platform is preferably operated when in a vertical orientation and can be docked to an external docking station that controls the operation of the platform.
US11268141B2	Methods for quantitative amplification Methods, sample vessels, and instruments are provided for quantitative and semi-quantitative amplification.
US11268140B2	Delayed pyrophosphorolysis activated polymerization Minimal-copy-ratio of templates is a problem in detecting early stage cancer where minimal copies of somatic cancer-specific mutations are targeted in the presence of large copies of wildtype genome DNA, commonly a 1/10,000 or even less minimal-copy-ratio between the mutant target and wildtype control templates. To overcome this problem, delayed pyrophosphorolysis activated polymerization (delayed-PAP) was developed which can delay product accumulation of the wildtype control to a much later time or cycle by up to 15 cycles or by 30,000 folds. In the multiplex format, delayed-PAP is particularly useful to amplify not only the wildtype control but also mutant target templates accurately and consistently in the minimal-copy-ratio situation.
US11268132B2	Barcoded molecular standards High throughput personal genomic testing has created a need for robust quality control mechanisms to track sample identity, reagent integrity, and other factors with significant influence on assay performance. A method of massively parallel sequencing using an accompanying barcoded molecular standard enables one to track nucleic acid analytes to identify them by project, lot, batch, or patient. The molecular standard contains sequences present in the analyte, allowing it to be processed simultaneously without any other additional reagents. Within the molecular standard, a calibrator sequence permits assessment of fidelity of sequence determination. Additional sequences in the molecular standard may be used to manipulate the molecular standard separate from the analyte. The molecular standard can be used to benchmark sequencing platforms and assess error rates.
US11268125B2	Devices and assays for estimating microbial load and differentiating microbial populations Devices, methods, kits and means for easy, accurate, and fast estimation of soil microbial load, including fungal load, and fungal to bacterial ratio are described. The methods include extracting soil biomass into an extraction fluid to obtain a soil extract and detecting the fungal fraction, the bacterial fraction, and the fungal to bacterial ratio in the soil extract. The devices typically include microBIOMETER®, devices for particle size discrimination, and devices for absorbance and reflectance detection. The difference in microscopic sizes or spectroscopic absorbance of the fungal particles relative to those of the bacterial particles is used to compute the contribution of each type of particle to the biomass. In one example, the relative coverage of the microBIOMETER® device membrane by the fungal and/or bacterial particles can be measured by and then calculated using a cell phone camera and application.
US11268124B2	Digital microbiology Methods, compositions, and kits are provided for rapidly analyzing microbial growth and/or number in a plurality of water-in-oil emulsion droplets.
US11268120B2	Identification of transglutaminase substrates and uses therefor According to one aspect, the present disclosure provides a method of identifying a substrate of a transglutaminase using a peptide array comprising a plurality of peptides. The method includes the steps of contacting the peptides in the peptide array with the transglutaminase, allowing the transglutaminase to bind to the peptides, and identifying the substrate of the transglutaminase.
US11268119B2	Copper supplementation for control of glycosylation in mammalian cell culture process The present invention pertains to a cell culture medium comprising copper as a media supplement, which was shown to control recombinant protein glycosylation and methods of using thereof. The present invention further pertains to a method of controlling or manipulating glycosylation of a recombinant protein of interest in a large scale cell culture.
US11268114B2	Method for producing anhydrous galactose derived from seaweed The present invention relates to a method for producing anhydrous galactose derived from seaweed, and provides an improved production yield rate of 3,6-anhydro-L-galactose by using microorganisms during acid treatment, neutralization, and purification after enzymatic hydrolysis, of agarose or agar.
US11268111B2	Compositions and methods for robust dynamic metabolic control of a biofermentation process The present disclosure provides compositions and methods for rapid production of chemicals in genetically engineered microorganisms in a large scale. Also provided herein is a high-throughput metabolic engineering platform enabling the rapid optimization of microbial production strains. The platform, which bridges a gap between current in vivo and in vitro bio-production approaches, relies on dynamic minimization of the active metabolic network.
US11268104B2	Transgenic plants with enhanced traits This disclosure provides transgenic plants having enhanced traits such as increased yield, increased nitrogen use efficiency and enhanced drought tolerance; propagules, progeny and field crops of such transgenic plants; and methods of making and using such transgenic plants. This disclosure also provides methods of producing seed from such transgenic plants, growing such seed and selecting progeny plants with enhanced traits. Also disclosed are transgenic plants with altered phenotypes which are useful for screening and selecting transgenic events for the desired enhanced trait.
US11268093B2	Therapeutic method for huntington's disease The present invention relates to anti-gene oligonucleotides adapted to hybridize to DNA in a HTT gene, which are based on locked nucleic acids, phosphorodiamidate morpholino oligomers, (PMO) or equivalent oligonucleotide analogues comprising a (CAG)n sequence, and whose target is a sequence where the majority of the repeats are CAG/CTG, for use in down regulating the expression of the HTT gene, resulting in reduced HTT mRNA and protein levels in afflicted subjects, or in diagnosis, treatment and/or prevention of Huntington's disease, and where the anti-gene oligonucleotides target non-canonical DNA structures, including hairpin and cruciform. The invention also relates to a delivery system comprising said oligonucleotides and said use thereof.
US11268087B2	Isolation and immobilization of nucleic acids and uses thereof Disclosed is a novel technique of directly isolating nucleic acids from a biological sample and use of the isolated nucleic acid complexes for various applications and assays such as biobanking and sequencing.
US11268084B2	Glycerol-free formulations for reverse transcriptases Glycerol-free enzyme formulations are described. In some embodiments, a glycerol-free enzyme formulation is stabilized by high salt concentration. The glycerol free enzyme formulation may comprise a reverse transcriptase enzyme.
US11268077B2	Materials and methods for treatment of hemoglobinopathies Materials and methods for treating a patient with hemoglobinopathy, both ex vivo and in vivo and materials and methods for deleting at least a portion of a human beta globin locus on chromosome 11 in a human cell by genome editing and thereby increasing the production of fetal hemoglobin (HbF).
US11268069B2	Reprogramming methods and cell culture platforms The invention provides compositions and methods for manufacturing pluripotent cells. In particular, the invention provides improved culture platforms for manufacturing pluripotent cells with ground state pluripotency. In various embodiments, the invention contemplates, in part, a composition comprising: (a) a Wnt pathway agonist; (b) a MEK inhibitor; and (c) a ROCK inhibitor. In certain embodiments, the composition further comprises bFGF or LIF.
US11268067B2	Methods of isolation and use of CD39 stromal stem cells Disclosed herein are methods of isolating SDC2+ stromal stem cells by expression of surface marker CD39. Also disclosed herein are stromal stem cells isolated by said methods.
US11268063B2	Method and apparatus for treating biogas Multiple risers are provided to perform different steps in a biogas water wash process. The risers may include absorption risers, flashing risers, and stripping risers. In each riser, the inlets to provide fluids to the riser and outlets to remove fluids from the risers are provided at one end of the riser. Each riser may then be located substantially below grade such that the end with the inlets and outlets is accessible at or just above the ground level. The risers within each step of the water wash process may be connected in series, parallel, or a combination thereof. The risers may also be constructed of a polyethylene material to reduce cost and weight of the water wash system.
US11268062B2	Whole stillage separation Spent stillage remaining after the fermentation of a feedstock for ethanol production may be processed to recover, use, and/or recycle the constituent components of the stillage. Stillage may be mixed, heated, and held at a desired temperature for a period of time. The stillage may then be cooled and treated with an enzyme. The enzymatically treated stillage may be emulsified with oil and water, and then permitted to settle into discrete layers. Individual layers may then be processed.
US11268054B1	Single chamber water-soluble refill dose article enclosing a concentrated cleanser composition and kits having same Single compartment water-soluble refill dose articles having a water-soluble film enclosing a liquid concentrated cleanser composition, methods of making the same, and kits are disclosed. The liquid concentrated cleanser composition includes a mixture of a rheology modifier, a first surfactant, a stabilizing amount of a first alkaline substance, a viscosity increasing amount of an additional alkaline substance that interacts with the rheology modifier, when diluted with water to form a cleanser, to increase the viscosity, and about 10% or less wt/wt water and about 20% or less by wt/wt glycol. The first alkaline substance is an ethoxylated amine and prevents the viscosity increasing amount of additional alkaline substance from reacting with the rheology modifier before water dissolves the water-soluble film. When dissolved in water at a 1:1 to 1:20 ratio, a cleanser has a viscosity within a range of 2000 cps to 50,000 cps is formed.
US11268052B2	Container systems with water-soluble pouches comprising a PVOH resin blend A container system including a closeable container with at least one pouch in an interior space of the container, where the pouch includes a water-soluble film including a polyvinyl alcohol (PVOH) resin blend, and a perfume and organic solvent containing household care composition at least partially enclosed in a compartment by the water-soluble film.
US11268051B2	Detergent or cleaning agent portion having at least two phases A detergent or cleaning agent, in particular a cleaning agent for hard surfaces, especially an automatic dishwasher detergent, having a water-soluble envelope with a continuously encircling sealing seam and two phases which are different from one another.
US11268047B2	Compositions containing an etheramine The present disclosure relates generally to cleaning compositions and, more specifically, to cleaning compositions containing an etheramine that is suitable for removal of stains from soiled materials.
US11268034B2	Lignin to liquid fuels and polyols using biomass-derived solvents A process of producing a distillate fuel from lignin includes: preparing a biomass-derived lignin solvent; dissolving the lignin in the biomass-derived solvent; and separating undissolved lignin and mineral matter to produce a syncrude. In certain embodiments, the process further includes subjecting the syncrude to a hydrotreatment/hydrogenation process to produce a distillate fuel. A process to improve direct lignin liquefaction includes: using a non-hydrogenated lipid in a direct lignin liquefaction process to facilitate lignin depolymerization. A process for using a biomass-derived feedstock as a hydrogen donor includes: providing a biomass-derived feedstock; modifying the feedstock to improve its usefulness as a hydrogen donor; and conducting a transfer hydrogenation process using the modified feedstock as a hydrogen donor.
US11268031B1	Direct biochar cooling methods and systems Apparatus and associated methods relate to cooling hot biochar based on applying cool gas directly to the hot biochar. The gas may be steam comprising water vapor. Biochar may be cooled in a cooling chamber by cool steam injected into a steam loop configured to cool the steam. The biochar cooled with steam may be dried in a drying chamber by dry gas injected from a gas loop. The gas may be hydrocarbon gas. Biochar may be heated in a processing chamber. Heated biochar may be cooled in a cooling chamber by cool hydrocarbon gas injected to the cooling chamber. Biochar in the processing chamber may be heated with heat recovered from cooling. Filtered byproducts and tail gas may be recovered from the cooling chamber. Tail gas may be recycled. Various direct biochar cooling implementations may produce biochar having enhanced carbon content, increased surface area, and a hydrogen stream byproduct.
US11268027B2	Liquid crystal composition, liquid crystal display element and liquid crystal display A liquid crystal composition, and a liquid crystal display element or liquid crystal display comprising the liquid crystal composition, and belongs to the field of liquid crystal display, wherein the liquid crystal composition comprises a compound represented by formula I, one or more compounds represented by formula II, one or more compounds represented by formula III, one or more compounds represented by formula IV, and at least one polymerizable compound, and has a large dielectric anisotropy (Δε) and a large optical anisotropy (Δn), and has an obvious advantage in the development of a liquid crystal display having a high transmittance and a low cell thickness.
US11268022B2	Nanostructures with inorganic ligands for electroluminescent devices The invention relates to highly stable nanostructures with inorganic ligands for electroluminescent devices, particularly nanostructure composition comprising at least one population of nanostructures; and at least one fluoride containing ligand bound to the surface of the nanostructure; wherein the fluoride containing ligand is selected from the group consisting of a fluorozincate, tetrafluoroborate, and hexafluorophosphate. The invention also relates to highly stable nanostructures comprising at least one population of nanostructures and fluoride anions bound to the surface of the nanostructure. The invention also relates to methods of producing such nanostructures.
US11268021B2	Multi-chromatic capped semiconductor nanocrystals Multi-chromatic photoluminescent, oxide-capped semiconductor nanocrystals and methods for forming such semiconductor nanocrystals. The method includes exposing one or more oxide-capped semiconductors, preferably type IV semiconductor nanocrystals, to electron beam radiation, wherein the radiation has an energy between 1 and 30 keV, the radiation introducing color centers in the oxide that exhibit photoluminescence in at least the green band of the visible spectrum.
US11268005B2	High density aqueous well fluids This invention provides zinc-free aqueous brine compositions. These zinc-free aqueous brine compositions have a density of about 14.3 pounds per gallon or more, and a true crystallization temperature of about 20° F. or less, and comprise water and one or more inorganic bromide salts, with the provisos that when calcium bromide is present, one or more other water-soluble inorganic salts are also present, when lithium bromide is present, calcium bromide is absent, when bismuth(III) bromide is present, one or more other water-soluble inorganic salts are also present, and for a true crystallization temperature of about 10° F. or less, when manganese(II) bromide is present, one or more other water-soluble inorganic salts are also present. Processes for forming these zinc-free aqueous brine compositions are also provided.
US11267998B2	Pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet Provided is a PSA sheet capable of suitably preventing bubble formation caused by outgassing. This invention provides a PSA sheet comprising a PSA layer that forms an adhesive face. In an aging test where the adhesive face is press-bonded to a glass plate and stored at 50° C. for 24 hours, the PSA sheet has at least 5% post-aging non-bonding area Sa, with Sa defined as the ratio of all areas non-bonding to the glass plate relative to the total area of the adhesive face. The non-bonding areas have parts linearly extending along the adhesive face.
US11267993B2	Polyurethane surfacing film Surfacing films and related processes are provided. These films include a first clear coat layer comprising a first crosslinked polyurethane that is the reaction product of an isocyanate; a polyol selected from the group consisting of: a caprolactone polyol, polycarbonate polyol, a polyester polyol, acrylic polyol, polyether polyol, polyolefin polyol, and mixtures thereof; and a hydroxy-functional silicone poly(meth)acrylate; a second clear coat layer comprising a crosslinked polymer that is essentially free of hydroxy-functional silicone poly(meth)acrylate; a bulk layer comprising a thermoplastic polyurethane; and an adhesive layer. The provided films overcome the problem of migration of solvents and other impurities into the polyurethane bulk layer because the clear coat layer is cured, and solvents removed, prior to the coating of the polyurethane bulk layer. Manufacturing of these films can provide substantially faster line speeds and reduced waste.
US11267988B2	Polishing liquid and chemical mechanical polishing method A polishing liquid is a polishing liquid used for chemical mechanical polishing, the polishing liquid including colloidal silica; and a buffering agent excluding phosphoric acid, in which the buffering agent is a compound having a pKa within a range of X±1 in a case where a pH of the polishing liquid is denoted by X, a zeta potential of the colloidal silica measured in a state where the colloidal silica is present in the polishing liquid is −20 mV or less, an electrical conductivity is 200 μS/cm or more, and a pH is 2 to 6.
US11267981B2	3-D printed devices formed with conductive inks and method of making A 3-D printed device comprising one or more interconnect structures, the interconnect structures comprising a plurality of conductive particles and one or more diblock or triblock copolymers; the diblock or triblock copolymers having an A-B, A-B-A, or A-B-C block-type structure in which the A-blocks and C-blocks are an aromatic-based polymer or an acrylate-based polymer and the B-blocks are an aliphatic-based polymer. These 3-D printed devices may be formed using a method that comprises providing a conductive ink composition; applying the conductive ink composition to a substrate in a 3-D solvent cast printing process to form one or more interconnect structures; and drying the one or more interconnect structures formed from the conductive ink composition. The dried interconnect structures exhibit a conductivity equal to or greater than 1×105 S/m without having to be subjected to any post-processing sintering treatment.
US11267972B2	Materials that resist fouling and methods for identifying same In general, the present invention is directed to materials that when in use resist fouling on their surfaces. Such materials may be used in the construction of various process equipment having surfaces exposed to a given fluid that contains a foulant or chemical substance that may deposit on, or adhere to, the surface and thereafter continue to grow on the surface resulting in deteriorated performance of the equipment and process. The materials are specifically selected using a method that takes into account the dielectric spectra of the fluid to which the surface is exposed and the surface itself. It has been unexpectedly found that if the dielectric spectra of the surface and the fluid are matched to within relative agreement, there should be no adhesion of the foulant on the surface. In some embodiments, the dielectric spectra to be matched include the intrinsic indexes of refraction.
US11267970B2	Asphalt modifier, asphalt composition, and asphalt mixture for road pavement An asphalt modifier comprising a polyolefin-based copolymer comprising an ethylene-derived monomer unit and a monomer unit having an epoxy group is disclosed. The content of the monomer unit having an epoxy group is 13% by mass or more based on the mass of the polyolefin-based copolymer.
US11267964B2	Thermoplastic resin composition and thermoplastic resin molded article prepared by using the same The present invention relates to a thermoplastic resin composition showing excellent transparency and whitening resistance. The thermoplastic resin composition of the present invention comprises (A) a graft copolymer having a multilayer structure and (B) a thermoplastic copolymer, wherein the graft copolymer having a multilayer structure (A) comprises a core of a conjugated diene-based rubber latex having a weight average particle diameter of 500 Å to 2,000 Å; an intermediate layer; and a graft layer. The glass transition temperature of the intermediate layer is 40° C. or less, the glass transition temperature of the graft layer is 80° C. or more, and the refractive index difference between the graft copolymer (A) and the thermoplastic copolymer (B) is less than 0.01.
US11267957B2	Modified resins and uses thereof Modified thermoplastic hydrocarbon thermoplastic resins are provided, as well as methods of their manufacture and uses thereof in rubber compositions. The modified thermoplastic resins are modified by decreasing the relative quantity of the dimer, trimer, tetramer, and pentamer oligomers as compared to the corresponding unmodified thermoplastic resin polymers, resulting in a product that exhibits a greater shift in the glass transition temperature of the elastomer(s) used in tire formulations. This translates to better viscoelastic predictors of tire tread performance, such as wet grip and rolling resistance. The modified thermoplastic resins impart remarkable properties on various rubber compositions, such as tires, belts, hoses, brakes, and the like. Automobile tires incorporating the modified thermoplastic resins are shown to possess excellent results in balancing the properties of rolling resistance, tire wear, snow performance, and wet braking performance.
US11267951B2	Stabilizer compositions containing substituted chroman compounds and methods of use Stabilizer compositions having a chroman-based compound according to Formula (V): and their use in processes for stabilizing organic materials subject to degradation and/or discoloration due to the effects from light, oxygen and heat, and in processes for producing articles from organic materials blended therewith, are provided herein.
US11267940B2	Aluminum-oxide-forming composition and method for producing same, and polyolefin-based polymer nanocomposite containing zinc oxide particles or aluminum oxide particles and method of producing same A method for producing aluminum oxide is provided. The method uses an aluminum-oxide-forming agent containing a partially hydrolyzed aluminum alkyl compound containing an aluminum trialkyl or a mixture thereof, and a solvent. It is thus possible to produce an aluminum oxide thin film or aluminum oxide particles on or in a substrate that is not resistant to polar solvents. A method of producing a polyolefin-based polymer nanocomposite containing zinc oxide particles or aluminum oxide particles using a solution containing a partially hydrolyzed zinc alkyl or a solution containing a partially hydrolyzed aluminum alkyl is also provided. The polyolefin-based polymer nanocomposite contains a polyolefin substrate and zinc oxide particles or aluminum oxide particles, and does not contain a dispersant. The zinc oxide particles or aluminum oxide particles have an average particle size of less than 100 nm.
US11267938B2	Method of making a shaped article comprising printing layers of a polymer composition comprising at least one PEEK-PEmEK copolymer A method of making a shaped article comprising printing layers of a polymer composition comprising at least one PEEK-PEmEK copolymer having RPEEK and RPEmEK repeat units in a molar ratio RPEEK/RPEmEK ranging from 95/5 to 45/55, the polymer composition optionally including at least one reinforcing filler, at least one additive, or a combination thereof, and shaped articles obtained from the method. Also described are methods of making the PEEK-PEmEK copolymer and methods of making the polymer composition.
US11267934B2	Polyester resin composition and preparation method thereof The present invention relates to a polyester resin composition capable of having an excellent shrinkage rate, being heat-shrunk at a low temperature, and improving adhesion properties, without impairing insulation properties in a state of heat-shrinkable films, and a method for preparing the same. The present polyester resin composition comprises: a copolymerized polyester resin including a dicarboxylic acid-derived residue including a residue derived from an aromatic dicarboxylic acid; and a diol-derived residue including a residue derived from 4-(hydroxymethyl)cyclohexyl methyl 4′-(hydroxymethyl)cyclohexane carboxylate, and a residue derived from 4,4-(oxybis(methylene)bis) cyclohexane methanol, an alkali metal compound, and an alkaline earth metal compound, wherein the alkali metal compound and the alkaline earth metal compound are contained in an amount that the content ratio of the alkali metal element/the alkaline earth metal element derived therefrom is 0.01 to 1.
US11267933B2	Method of preparing poly(ether ester) copolymer A method of preparing a poly(ether ester) copolymer is provided, and more particularly, a method of preparing a poly(ether ester) copolymer having a high content of a polyether and high viscosity by using a dicarboxylic acid as a starting material is provided. According to the present invention, a dicarboxylic acid of which production cost is low is used as a starting material to prepare a poly(ether ester) copolymer having a high content of polyether and having a high viscosity without solid-phase polymerization.
US11267927B2	Azido-alkyne click and oxysilane hybrid compositions The present invention provides alternative polyurethane composition comprising the reaction product of an azidated polyol and a poly(alkynyl carbamate) prepolymer, wherein the poly(alkynyl carbamate) prepolymer comprises the reaction product of a polyisocyanate, an alkynol, and an oxysilane. The reaction of the polyol and the prepolymer may occur in the presence of a catalyst or at a temperature of from 20° C. to 120° C. The inventive oxysilane and azido-alkyne hybrid click formulations provide comparable performance, and in some cases better performance, to/than urethane and azido-alkyne control click formulations in terms of pencil hardness, MEK double rubs, and glass transition temperature. The inventive alternative polyurethane compositions may be used to provide coatings, adhesives, sealants, films, elastomers, castings, and composites.
US11267926B2	Low-damping polyurethane elastomer The present invention relates to a method of preparing a polyurethane elastomer, said method comprising the step of reacting at least one isocyanate composition (ZI) and one polyol composition (ZP) comprising a poly-ε-caprolactone polyol and an α-hydro-ω-hydroxy-poly(oxytetramethylene) polyol to obtain an isocyanate-functional prepolymer and the step of reacting the prepolymer obtained as per step (i) with at least one chain extender (KV). The present invention further relates to a polyurethane elastomer obtained or obtainable according to a method of the invention and also to the method of using a polyurethane elastomer according to the invention or a polyurethane elastomer obtained or obtainable according to a method of the invention in the manufacture of a shaped article, especially a damping element, a shock absorber or a stop buffer or part of a shoe or of a shoe sole, for example part of an insert sole or of a midsole.
US11267910B2	Catalyst components for the polymerization of olefins A catalyst mixture made from or containing (a) particles of a solid catalyst component comprising Ti, Mg, Cl, and (b) from 0.5 to 5.0% by weight, based upon the total weight of the mixture, of particles of a solid compound having particle size ranging from 0.1 μm to 1 mm containing more than 50% by weight of SiO2 units.
US11267905B2	Chemically-locked bispecific antibodies Provided are bispecific antibody compounds having the Formula I: wherein, FAB1, FAB2, and —X— are as defined herein. The provided bispecific antibody compounds can be used a modulators of target molecules, including CD3, PSMA, CD19, CXCR5, CD33, PDL1, VEGFR2, cMet, or Ax1, and are useful in the treatment of one or more conditions.
US11267904B2	Method for controlling affinity of antibody for antigen, antibody whose affinity for antigen has been altered, and its production method Disclosed is a method for controlling affinity of an antibody for an antigen, comprising substituting at least 3 amino acid residues of framework region 3 (FR3) defined by the Chothia method with charged amino acid residues, in an antibody whose electrical characteristic of complementarity determining region (CDR) based on the amino acid sequence of the CDR is neutral or negatively charged.
US11267901B2	Compositions and methods for immunotherapy The present invention provides immunoresponsive cells, including T cells, cytotoxic T cells, regulatory T cells, and Natural Killer (NK) cells, expressing an antigen recognizing receptor and an inhibitory chimeric antigen receptor (iCAR). Methods of using the immunoresponsive cell include those for the treatment of neoplasia and other pathologies where an increase in an antigen-specific immune response is desired.
US11267891B2	Fc variant antibodies and their uses The invention relates to antibodies directed to α2β1 integrin and their uses, including humanized anti-alpha 2 (α2) integrin antibodies and methods of treatment with anti-α2 integrin antibodies. More specifically the present invention relates to humanized anti-α2 integrin antibodies comprising a heavy chain variable region, a light chain variable region, a human light chain constant region and a variant human IgG1 heavy chain constant region which exhibit altered effector function.

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