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US11277948B2	Conformally shielded power inductor and other passive devices for 4/5G envelope tracker modules and/or other power management modules A circuit assembly includes a printed circuit board (PCB), and a power management arrangement positioned on and electrically coupled to the PCB. The power management arrangement includes a substrate, a power management circuit chip positioned on and electrically coupled to the substrate, and a shield can positioned over the substrate and providing electromagnetic shielding for the power management chip. The circuit assembly further includes a self-shielded coil positioned on and electrically coupled to the PCB, wherein the self-shielded coil is positioned adjacent to the power management arrangement.
US11277947B2	Electromagnetic and radiation shielding system An electromagnetic and radiation shielding system includes an enclosure shaped to define a room interior which is accessible through a single passageway, and a door assembly for selectively enclosing the passageway. The door assembly includes a frame mounted within the passageway in conductive contact with a metal skin incorporated into the enclosure, a door with a conductive rear face which is adapted to selectively enclose the passageway, and a seal for selectively establishing continuous, peripheral contact between the frame and the rear face of the door when the door is disposed in its closed position. In this manner, the door assembly cooperates with the enclosure to form an electromagnetic barrier around the room interior in all directions. Additionally, both the enclosure and the door are constructed with a layer of radiation-shielding material to form a radiation barrier around the room interior in all directions.
US11277946B2	Housing for an inverter having a cooling system for an electric drive A housing for an inverter includes circuit elements and a cooling system, wherein the housing has four openings and the cooling system includes two channels arranged in the housing, each of which is connected to two different openings, and a condenser is arranged below the housing, wherein two openings from different channels are connected for communication by means of a connecting element arranged outside the housing and the connecting element is of rigid design and extends past the side of the condenser.
US11277941B1	Thermal-control system of a video-recording doorbell and associated video-recording doorbells This document describes a thermal-control system that is integrated into a video-recording doorbell. The thermal-control system includes a combination of heat spreaders and materials with high thermal conductivity. The thermal-control system may spread and dissipate energy from a thermal-loading condition effectuated upon the video-recording doorbell to concurrently maintain temperatures of multiple thermal zones on or within the video-recording doorbell at or below prescribed temperature thresholds.
US11277937B2	Re-entrant flow cold plate A fluid-cooled re-entrant cold plate for thermal management of heat dissipating electronic devices or assemblies. The fluid leaves the cold plate's outer perimeter, fills a sealed cavity between the cold plate outer perimeter and the mating component/assembly, provides direct cooling of the electronic component, then re-enters the cold plate.
US11277930B2	Method of manufacturing display substrate and display substrate motherboard A method of manufacturing a display substrate and a display substrate motherboard. The method of manufacturing the display substrate includes: providing a base substrate including a first main surface and a second main surface opposite to each other and divided into at least one active region and a dummy region located around the active region; forming a magnetic layer on at least one of the first main surface within the dummy region and the second main surface; and forming an element layer on the first main surface.
US11277923B2	Printed wiring board and method for manufacturing printed wiring board A printed wiring board includes a conductor layer, an outermost resin insulating layer having a first surface and a second surface on the opposite side with respect to the first surface and laminated on the conductor layer such that the second surface faces the conductor layer, and metal posts formed in the outermost resin insulating layer such that the metal posts are penetrating through the outermost resin insulating layer and reaching the conductor layer. The metal posts include first metal posts and second metal posts such that each of the first metal posts has a first upper surface positioned above the first surface of the outermost resin insulating layer and having an entirely flat surface and that each of the second metal posts has a second upper surface positioned above the first surface of the outermost resin insulating layer and having a partly flat surface.
US11277922B2	Circuit board with bridge chiplets Various circuit boards and methods of fabricating and using the same are disclosed. In one aspect, a system is provided that has a circuit board with a pocket and a conductor layer. A chiplet is positioned in the pocket. The chiplet has plural bottom side interconnects electrically connected to the conductor layer and plural top side interconnects adapted to interconnect with two or more semiconductor chips.
US11277920B2	Method for mechanical contacting of a potting frame on a printed circuit board The invention relates to a method for mechanical connecting especially of a potting frame to a printed circuit board of an electrical/electronic module. The potting frame includes a metal contact area. The printed circuit board includes a surface area structured metallically corresponding to the contact area. The method includes positioning the mechanical component with the contact area facing the corresponding surface area, and soldering the mechanical component to the printed circuit board via the contact area and the surface area. The method the advantage that a material saving encapsulation can be provided for electrical/electronic modules in explosion endangered regions. An additional process step for mechanical connecting of the encapsulation to the printed circuit board can be omitted, since the mechanical connecting of the potting frame can be performed in one process step together with the soldering of the additional electrical/electronic components to the printed circuit board.
US11277919B2	Resin substrate and method for producing resin substrate A resin substrate includes a resin base material including a first main surface, electrode pads provided on the first main surface, circuit conductor patterns, a resist film, and a coverlay film. The resist film includes, on the outer circumference, a plurality of protruding portions each of which has a tapered shape with a vertex. A portion of the circuit conductor patterns are covered with the resist film, and the coverlay film covers a portion of the resist film including the protruding portions and exposed portions of the circuit conductor patterns. The protruding portions are located at positions sandwiching the exposed portions of the circuit conductor patterns.
US11277917B2	Embedded component package structure, embedded type panel substrate and manufacturing method thereof An embedded component package structure including a circuit substrate, an embedded component and a stress compensation layer is provided. The circuit substrate includes a core layer and an asymmetric circuit structure, and the core layer has a first thickness. The embedded component is disposed in the core layer. The stress compensation layer is disposed on one side of the core layer, and the stress compensation layer has a second thickness between 4 μm and 351 μm.
US11277914B2	Printed circuit board assembly A printed circuit board assembly includes a first printed circuit board with first surface and second surface with a slit portion and a second printed circuit board with third surface and fourth surface with a first end portion and a second end portion. The first end portion is fitted in the slit portion and a tip of the first end portion protrudes from the second surface. The first printed circuit board includes first electrodes arranged along the slit portion in a longitudinal direction of the slit portion on the second surface. The second printed circuit board includes second electrodes arranged in the first end portion on the third and fourth surfaces. The second electrodes are joined to the first electrodes with solder. The first printed circuit board includes a support fixed to the first surface. The second printed circuit board is attached to the support by an adhesive substance.
US11277911B2	Ceramic copper circuit board and method for manufacturing the same A ceramic copper circuit board according to an embodiment includes a ceramic substrate and a first copper part. The first copper part is bonded at a first surface of the ceramic substrate via a first brazing material part. The thickness of the first copper part is 0.6 mm or more. The side surface of the first copper part includes a first sloped portion. The width of the first sloped portion is not more than 0.5 times the thickness of the first copper part. The first brazing material part includes a first jutting portion jutting from the end portion of the first sloped portion. The length of the first jutting portion is not less than 0 μm and not more than 200 μm. The contact angle between the first jutting portion and the first sloped portion is 65° or less.
US11277903B2	Pattern-edged metal-plane resonance-suppression Apparatuses and methods are provided for mitigating radio frequency interference and electromagnetic compatibility issues caused by the resonance of metal planes of a circuit board. A method for controlling impedance at an edge of a circuit board includes creating a cut at an edge of a plane of the circuit board. The cut extends from the edge of the plane to a point at a depth into the plane. The method can further include creating a cut pattern in the edge of the plane by repeating the cut along the edge of the plane such that an impedance of the plane at the depth is different, or lower, than an impedance of the plane at the edge of the plane. Other aspects are described.
US11277898B2	Retrofit light emitting diode, LED, lighting device for connection to a ballast, wherein said LED lighting device is arranged to detect a dip in said mains voltage using a zero current detector A retrofit Light Emitting Diode, LED, lighting device for connection to a ballast, wherein said ballast is arranged to be connected to a mains voltage and arranged to provide for a ballast current, wherein said LED lighting device is arranged to detect a dip in said mains voltage using a zero current detector.
US11277871B2	Initial access channel for scalable wireless mobile communication networks Physical layer structures and access schemes for use in such networks are described and in particular initial access channel (IACH) structures are proposed. A spectrum efficient downlink (DL) IACH design supports different types of User Equipment (UE) capabilities and different system bandwidths. An IACH includes the synchronization channel (SCH) and broadcast-control channel (BCH). A non-uniform SCH for all system bandwidths is provided, as well as scalable bandwidth BCH depending on system bandwidth. An initial access procedure is provided, as well as an access procedure.
US11277867B2	Wireless communication device and wireless communication method According to one embodiment, a wireless communication terminal includes: at least one antenna; a receiver; a transmitter; a communication processor; a network processor; and a memory. The transmitter is configured to transmit a first frame including information to specify a plurality of frequency components. The communication processor is configured to determine whether or not a second frame is received via each of the plurality of frequency components. The transmitter is configured to transmit a third frame including first information concerning a first value range which is used to determine whether to respond to the first frame, the first value range being dependent on a number of frequency components via which the second frame has been received. The first frame or the third frame includes the first data cached in the memory or information based on the first data.
US11277866B2	Communication device and random access control method A communication device used as a first communication device in a wireless communication system including the first communication device, a second communication device communicating with the first communication device, and a user equipment communicating with the first communication device, includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a parameter used for performing a random access procedure from the second communication device; and a control unit configured to transmit, in the case of receiving a random access preamble from the user equipment in a random access channel indicated by the parameter, information indicating that the random access preamble indicated by the parameter is received from the user equipment to the second communication device.
US11277857B2	Discontinuous reception and scheduling techniques in wireless communication systems using multiple transmission time intervals Described techniques provide for communications using multiple different transmission time intervals (TTIs) while in a configured DRX mode that allows efficient scheduling and allocation of resources, and relatively efficient power usage at a user equipment (UE). In some cases, two or more available TTIs for transmissions between a base station and a UE may be identified, and a DRX cycle configured based at least in part on the available TTIs. During monitoring periods of a configured DRX cycle for a first TTI, the UE may be configured to monitor for control signal transmissions associated with a different TTI duration. In some cases, resources for a shorter TTI may be allocated using a two-stage grant. In some cases, multiple component carriers may be configured for one or more different TTIs, and one component carrier may be used to cross schedule resources on other component carriers.
US11277848B2	System and method of operating mobile platforms Disclosed herein is an operating system for operating a plurality of mobile platforms. The operating system includes: an operating terminal configured to allocate a bandwidth to a channel of each of the mobile platforms according to a mission of each of the mobile platforms to perform, the channel being used for the operating terminal to perform communications with each of the mobile platforms; and the plurality of mobile platforms each of which is configured to receive the mission from the operating terminal, and send a request to adjust and reallocate the bandwidth to the channel based on performance information about the mobile platforms. It is possible to operate the plurality of mobile platforms efficiently by using a limited frequency band.
US11277842B2	Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving wireless signal in wireless communication system The present invention relates to a wireless communication system and, more particularly, to a method comprising the steps of: generating a first complex symbol sequence corresponding to one time unit including a plurality of transmission symbols; generating a second complex symbol sequence by applying primary scrambling to the first complex symbol sequence on a modulation symbol basis; and repeatedly transmitting the second complex symbol sequence through a plurality of time units, wherein secondary scrambling is applied to the signals in each time unit on a transmission symbol basis, the transmission symbol including an OFDMA symbol or an SC-FDMA symbol; and an apparatus therefor.
US11277833B2	Method for generating preamble, method for configuring preamble and equipment thereof, random access method, device, user equipment and base station The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. The present application discloses a method for generating a preamble, comprising the following steps of: receiving dedicated preamble configuration information and random access preamble configuration information, wherein the dedicated preamble configuration information comprises root sequence configuration information and/or cyclic shift value configuration information; determining dedicated root sequence configuration information, dedicated cyclic shift value configuration information and dedicated preamble index according to the dedicated preamble configuration information and random access preamble configuration information.
US11277830B2	Configuration of soft time resources for an IAB node with multiple parent nodes Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a wireless node may receive association information for a set of soft resources of the wireless node. The association information may indicate one or more parent nodes associated with a soft resource of the set of soft resources. The set of soft resources may be configurable as schedulable or non-schedulable for the wireless node. The wireless node may determine one or more release indications associated with the soft resource. The wireless node may schedule on the soft resource based at least in part on determining the one or more release indications. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11277818B2	Wireless communication method and wireless communication device Disclosed are a wireless communication method and a wireless communication device. The wireless communication device comprises a processing circuit, wherein the processing circuit is configured to: detect broadcast information on a specific subchannel in an unlicensed frequency band; and broadcast time information on the specific subchannel when the broadcast information cannot be successfully detected, wherein the time the occupation of the specific subchannel by the wireless communication device ends can be determined according to the time information.
US11277816B2	Telecommunications apparatus and methods for paging of a mobile device A method of communicating data between a radio network infrastructure and a terminal device in a wireless telecommunications network. The method comprises establishing at a radio network infrastructure element there is data available for communication between the radio network infrastructure and the terminal device and transmitting a paging message for the terminal device from the radio network infrastructure element. The paging message comprises an indication of an identifier for the terminal device and an indication of a network allocated resource for use in subsequently communicating the data between the radio network infrastructure element and the terminal device. In response to receiving the paging message the terminal device transmits to the radio network infrastructure element a paging response indicating the terminal device received the paging message, after which the data is communicated between the radio network infrastructure element and the terminal device using the network allocated resource.
US11277814B2	Methods and apparatuses for paging a remote unit with a direct mobile connection Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for paging a remote unit that has a direct mobile connection to a relay unit. One apparatus includes a processor, a first transceiver that communicates with a mobile network, and a second transceiver that communicates with a remote unit via a direct mobile connection. The processor transmits a multicast address to the remote unit via the direct mobile connection. The processor determines to page the remote unit based on signaling from the mobile network. The processor also transmits a paging message for the remote unit to the multicast address.
US11277813B2	Paging in a communication network Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for paging in a communication network. The method comprises receiving mobility information of a terminal device by a core network node from an access network node serving the terminal device. The method further comprises determining a paging policy for the terminal device by the core network node according to the mobility information. According to the embodiments of the present disclosure, a terminal device can be paged differentially based at least in part on mobility information of the terminal device, so that system performance and energy efficiency of the communication network can be improved.
US11277812B2	Method for transmitting/receiving reference signal in wireless communication system, and device therefor A method whereby a user equipment transmits/receives a reference signal for distance measurement in a wireless communication system according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises: a step of receiving, from a base station, a downlink (DL) positioning reference signal (PRS) including sinusoidal components of different angular frequencies; a step of acquiring a phase difference between the sinusoidal components of the DL PRS; a step of transmitting a first uplink (UL) PRS indicating the phase difference, so as to measure a first distance between the user equipment and the base station at a first point of time; and a step of transmitting a second UL PRS so as to measure a second distance between the user equipment, the position of which has changed after the first point of time, and the base station, wherein the user equipment may configure the same phase difference, acquired via the DL PRS before the first point of time, for the second UL PRS, without receiving an additional DL PRS for measuring the second distance. The user equipment is capable of communicating with at least one of another user equipment, a user equipment related to an autonomous driving vehicle, the base station or a network.
US11277808B2	System and method for clock recovery in wireless communications A base station operating with a system clock includes a transmitter, a receiver, a phase error detector and a controller. The transmitter sends a first RF signal modulated onto a first RF carrier having a first phase over a first channel having a first variable phase delay to a mobile station. The mobile station recovers the first RF carrier, generates a second RF carrier, and synchronizes a local clock using the recovered first RF carrier and/or the second RF carrier. The receiver receives a second RF signal modulated onto the second RF carrier having a second phase over a second channel having a second variable phase delay. The phase error detector determines a phase error signal based on the first and second phases, and the controller generates a control signal based on the phase error signal. The control signal is applied to first and second inverse channel models.
US11277804B2	Method and device for wireless signal transmission or reception in wireless communication system The present invention relates to a wireless communication system and, specifically, to a method and a device therefor, the method comprising the steps of: transmitting a physical signal via one or more symbols; and performing a procedure for transmitting an SRS through each symbol over a plurality of symbols for beam alignment with a base station, wherein when the physical signal and the SRS overlap in a time domain and the physical signal has a higher priority than a priority of the SRS, an SRS transmission power of each symbol is equally reduced in all the plurality of symbols.
US11277800B1	Wireless access node uplink power control based on uplink error rate A wireless access node controls the uplink transmit power of wireless User Equipment (UEs). The wireless access node receives uplink data from the UEs. The wireless access node performs uplink error correction on the uplink data and transfers the corrected uplink data to network elements. The wireless access node determines received signal strengths at the access node for the wireless UEs. The wireless access node determines uplink error rates for the wireless UEs based on the uplink error correction. The wireless access node determines transmit power instructions for the wireless UEs based on their uplink error rates, their received signal strengths, and typically other metrics like backhaul throughput, noise, and interference. The wireless access node transfers the transmit power instructions to the wireless UEs which control their transmit power responsive to the power instructions.
US11277793B2	Method for indicating base station capability and apparatus Embodiments of the present invention provide a method for indicating a base station capability and an apparatus and relate to the communications field, so as to indicate whether a base station supports UE of a first type or a capability of coverage enhancement, so that the UE accesses the base station only when the requirement of the UE conforms to the capability supported by the base station. The method includes sending, by the base station, a first information block to user equipment UE, where the first information block carries first information, and the first information is used to indicate a capability of the base station.
US11277791B2	Method for user equipment initiated network slice registration and traffic forwarding in telecommunication networks The present disclosure relates to method and system for user equipment (UE)-initiated network slice registration and traffic forwarding in telecommunication networks. In an embodiment, for network slice registration, UE transmits a registration request to an AMF via a base station of telecommunication network. In response to the registration request, the AMF transmits a registration accept response comprising network slice selection assistance information (NSSAI) to the UE. For traffic forwarding, the UE transmits a PDU session establishment request comprising single NSSAI to the telecommunication network. The base station of the telecommunication network maps the single NSSAI to a Flow Label field of IPv6 header and transmits to DPAF via specific SLF of the telecommunication network. DPAF compares QoS transport characteristics of the single NSSAI with QoS transport characteristics of the NSSAI in the DPAF of the telecommunication network and transmits a PDU session establishment response to the UE based on comparison.
US11277789B2	Network slice-available area information acquisition method A communication scheme and system converges a 5G communication system supporting a data rate higher than that of a 4G system with an internet of things (IoT) technology. Applicable to intelligent services (e.g., smart homes, smart buildings, smart cities, smart cars, connected cars, health care, digital education, retails, and security and safety-related services), the communication scheme and system is based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology. Methods of operation a terminal and a network for facilitating a 5G terminal registration procedure in a wireless communication system are disclosed.
US11277774B2	Communication apparatus, control method of communication apparatus, and storage medium A communication apparatus acquires, from an outside, first setting information for controlling the communication apparatus, sets the first setting information in the communication apparatus, establishes wireless communication with a different communication apparatus, hands over second setting information, which indicates the authority of the different communication apparatus in the wireless communication, from the different communication apparatus via the established wireless communication, sets the second setting information in the communication apparatus, and controls the establishment of the wireless communication and the setting of the second setting information in the communication apparatus when the first setting information is set in the communication apparatus.
US11277771B2	Software defined cellular system with distributed antennas Embodiments describe methods and apparatuses for a software-defined cellular system with distributed antennas and baseband units (BBUs). The BBUs may be implemented with software defined network (SDN) technology in some embodiments. Embodiments include provision of a dynamic connection between distributed antennas and a BBU to serve a scheduled UE. In some embodiments, a BBU may select a scheduling set of antennas that may provide a desired connection with the UE. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US11277770B2	Method and system for steering bidirectional network traffic to a same service device A method and system for steering bidirectional network traffic to a same service device. Specifically, the disclosed method and system entail the maintaining and synchronization of link aggregation group (LAG) tables tied to a pair of LAG ports instantiated on a network element directly connected to a pair of peer linking service devices. Network traffic (i.e., MAC frames) arriving at the network element, from a first host and intended for a second host (e.g., indicative of a first direction of the network traffic), may be steered towards one of the pair of service devices based on hashing of information included in a received MAC frame in conjunction with the LAG table tied to the LAG port (of the pair of LAG ports) that which received the MAC frame.
US11277767B2	Method and device for processing buffer state report in wireless communication system using inter-ENB carrier aggregation technology The present invention proposes a method of processing a buffer state report when a wireless communication system uses inter-eNB carrier aggregation technology. According to the present invention, a terminal may be provided with a proper amount of uplink resource allocations by notifying base stations of a buffer state.
US11277765B2	Adaptive media service Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods and devices for adaptive media service. In example embodiments, a base station determines a throughput estimate associated with at least one terminal device served by the base station. The base station sends an indication of the determined throughput estimate, directly or indirectly, to one of the at least one terminal device to enable the terminal device to determine, based on the determined throughput estimate, a way for processing a media segment to be received via the base station from an application server. In this way, the media service delivery may be adapted dynamically and efficiently.
US11277763B2	Mobile terminal measurement system and communication management information display method A mobile terminal measurement system 1 tests a mobile terminal 30 corresponding to LTE and NR while controlling an LTE measurement device 10 and an NR measurement device 20 with a control device 50. The control device 50 includes an LTE operation display screen 70 for inputting a test setting value in the LTE measurement device 10, on which a test result corresponding to LTE is displayed, and an NR operation display screen 80 for inputting a test setting value in the NR measurement device 20, on which a test result corresponding to NR is displayed. The control device 50 displays communication management information (UE Capability Information) transmitted from the mobile terminal 30 to the LTE measurement device 10, on the LTE operation display screen 70 and the NR operation display screen 80.
US11277758B2	Communication apparatus and communication method It is difficult in related communication apparatuses to avoid degradation of communication quality due to fading and achieve sufficient throughput performance; therefore, a communication apparatus according to an exemplary aspect of the present invention includes fade avoidance rate calculation means for calculating, from a time variation in communication quality information and a transmission pattern in transmitting a communication packet repeatedly, a fade avoidance rate of a probability that the communication packet lies outside a fade duration, with respect to each transmission pattern; throughput calculation means for calculating, from the transmission pattern and the fade avoidance rate, a throughput of the communication packet with respect to each transmission pattern; and transmission pattern determination means for determining an optimum transmission pattern, of the transmission pattern, by which the throughput is maximized.
US11277756B2	Transmission of aggregated slots via multiple beamformed channels A base station (BS) can determine a beamforming configuration for communicating with a user equipment (UE) using aggregated slots or mini-slots, wherein the beamforming configuration can comprise multiple beamformed channels. The BS can then indicate, and the UE can identify, the beamforming configuration. The BS and the UE can then communicate with each other across the aggregated slots or mini-slots based on the beamforming configuration. Also, the BS and the UE can transmit and/or receive a transport block across the aggregated slots or mini-slots.
US11277746B2	Systems and method for micro network segmentation A wireless communication system includes an external provider subsystem and an electronic network subsystem in operable communication with the external provider subsystem. The electronic network subsystem is configured to provide a first microservice and a second microservice different from the first microservice. The wireless communication system further includes an in-home subsystem (i) separate from the external provider subsystem, (ii) in operable communication with the electronic network subsystem, and (iii) including a first micronet and a second micronet different from the first micronet. The first micronet is configured to operably interact with the first microservice, and the second micronet is configured to operably interact with the second microservice. The wireless communication system further includes at least one electronic device configured to operably connect with one of the first micronet and the second micronet.
US11277742B2	Method for operating authentication system and authentication system A vehicle authentication system for authenticating a portable ID transmitter with respect to an authentication arrangement of a vehicle in order to release vehicle functions for an operator, includes a portable ID transmitter that has at least one ID transmitter-UWB-antenna. The authentication device has at least one first vehicle-UWB-interface having one first UWB antenna and a second vehicle-UWB interface with a second UWB-antenna. Control for the authentication device are also provided so that an authentication method can be carried out. Optionally, the authentication system can also include LF interfaces with LF antennas and proximity sensors.
US11277740B1	Location based two-factor authentication delivery token A method, including, associating a wireless tracker with an asset, tracking a location of the asset via the wireless tracker, determining a recipient mobile device authorized to accept receipt of the asset, determining a recipient mobile device holder is authorized to accept receipt of the asset, determining if the location of the asset is within a defined delivery location, determining if the authorized recipient mobile device is within the defined delivery location, sending a passcode to the authorized recipient mobile device if the authorized recipient mobile device location and the location of the asset are within the defined delivery location, receiving an authenticated passcode from the authorized recipient mobile device within the defined delivery location and notifying a delivery agent that delivery of the asset is approved.
US11277738B2	MNO-specific 5G functionality delivery with eSIM stored encryption keys in user device Mobile network operator (MNO)-specific 5G functionality information may be distributed by an MNO to a user device. A request from a mobile network operator (MNO) to provide MNO-specific 5G functionality information of the MNO to a user device may be received. In turn, a messaging service may be directed to deliver the MNO-specific 5G functionality information to the user device for storage in an MNO-specific memory area allocated for the MNO in a trusted environment of the user device. The MNO-specific 5G functionality information may instruct the user device to use an encryption key stored in the trusted environment or an Embedded Subscriber Identity Module (eSIM) of the user device to encrypt or decrypt subscriber identifier information of the user device. The encrypted subscriber identifier information is used for 5G communications exchanged between the user device and a core network of a wireless carrier network operated by the MNO.
US11277737B2	Control resource set for UEs having different bandwidth capabilities Control channel decoding can consume a significant amount of power with respect to the device's total power battery lifetime, as well as being a factor in the complexity of device. Aspects of a method, apparatus, and computer-readable medium are presented herein that provide a solution to the problem of control channel decoding complexity and power requirements by improving the manner in which control channels are decoded. An apparatus configures an initial CORESET having a reduced bandwidth corresponding to a bandwidth capability of a first UE type. The reduced bandwidth having a narrower frequency range than a bandwidth capability of a second UE type. The apparatus may configure a first CORESET for a first UE having a first bandwidth capability and a second CORESET for a second UE having a second bandwidth capability. The apparatus transmits control channel(s) in the configured CORESET(s).
US11277733B2	Data transfer using a dual SIM phone A first subscriber identification module (SIM) of a dual SIM device is connected to a network. A small cell is informed that the dual SIM device is a dual SIM-type device and a first radio frequency device of the dual SIM device is attached to the network. A second radio frequency device of the dual SIM device is attached to the network. The small cell is configured to treat a second SIM as a control SIM and to treat the first SIM a data SIM. User data is transferred to the first radio frequency device, a control channel switch command is sent to the dual SIM device, and control information is transferred to the second radio frequency device.
US11277731B2	Apparatus and method for a mobile telecommunications system An apparatus comprising circuitry configured to generate a user equipment identifier which is unique on Anchor cell level or which is unique in RAN notified area level.
US11277727B1	Internet of Things communication service Disclosed is a method of gathering data from a wireless data device that isn't connected to the internet using a mobile device like a phone, laptop, or tablet. The wireless data device signals an device monitoring application on the smartphone to connect. The device monitoring application and the wireless data device trade passwords to establish a secure wireless connection. The data is sent from the wireless data device to the smartphone and stored in memory. The device monitoring application connects wirelessly to the internet through a cell tower. If cell service is not available, the device monitoring application waits till cell service is available to connect to the internet. The device monitoring application on the smartphone establishes a secure connection to a server located on the internet and sends the data to an device monitoring application executing on the server.
US11277725B2	Apparatus and method for interfacing with a mobile device Embodiments of the present invention provide a system, comprising first wireless interface means (170) for wirelessly communicating with a first mobile device (210) to receive identification information associated with the first mobile device (210), the first wireless interface means (170) being associated with a first zone (110) of an interior of a vehicle (100), first output means (165, 166, 167) associated with the first zone (110), first data interface means (260) for communicating data with the first mobile device (210), and control means (200) arranged to receive the identification information associated with the first mobile device (210), to associate the first mobile device with the first zone (110) and to direct data received from the first mobile device via the first data interface means to the first output means (165, 166, 167).
US11277724B2	Selection and use of backup communication mode for vehicle-to-vehicle messaging Techniques for determining an alternative communication mode for vehicle-to-vehicle communication at a host vehicle can include monitoring the primary mode of RF communication to ensure it is effectively communicating and, if not, intelligently selecting a backup communication mode comprising one or more other sensors and/or systems of the vehicle. The selection of the backup communication mode may take into account various factors that can affect the various modes of communication from which the backup communication mode is selected.
US11277722B2	Method for operating a roadside network unit and roadside network unit A method for operating a roadside network unit is provided, which includes: ascertaining useful data for transmission to at least one further roadside network unit; providing the useful data for transmission on a sidelink channel in a licensed frequency range and/or for transmission on an ad hoc channel in an unlicensed frequency range; and transmitting the useful data on the sidelink channel in the licensed frequency range and/or on the ad hoc channel in the unlicensed frequency range.
US11277721B2	Flexible security rating and decision mechanism for machine type communications Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided in one aspect there is provided a method. The method may include detecting, at a first node, an event; generating, at the first node, a message in response to the detected event; and sending, at the first node, the message to at least a second node to enable the second node to determine at least one of a reliability or an importance of the message. Related apparatus, systems, methods, and articles are also described.
US11277719B2	Band usage information generating and reporting method, charging method, eNodeB, and MME The present disclosure provides a band usage information generating and reporting method, a charging method, an eNB, a CN, a MME and a UE. The eNB and the UE can generate band usage information for charging, and report the band usage information to the CN, wherein the band usage information involves band usage of at least a first band and a second band, and traffic is assigned to respective bands by the eNB. The Counting entity at the eNB or UE can count the data volume of each band or ratio of data volume via different bands as the band usage information based on the scheduling information of the data. The Charging system located in the CN can process the charging and generate a bill according to the reported band usage information.
US11277712B2	Cellular global tracker for freight A device for tracking freight includes a housing configured for attachment to freight, adhesive disposed on one side of the housing, the adhesive configured for attachment to freight, a cellular network transmitter/receiver located within the housing, a global positioning system (GPS) processor for collecting location data about the device, the GPS processor located within the housing, a temperature sensor for collecting temperature data, the sensor located within the housing, a processor communicatively coupled with the cellular network transmitter/receiver, the GPS processor and the temperature sensor, the processor configured for reading said location data and said temperature data and transmitting said location data and said temperature data via the cellular network transmitter/receiver, and, a power source comprising a battery, the power source conductively coupled to the processor, the cellular network transmitter/receiver, the GPS processor and the temperature sensor.
US11277701B2	Microphone A microphone has a microphone capsule, wherein the microphone includes a test arrangement, the test arrangement including an undervoltage detector, a test signal generator unit and an adder. The microphone capsule may be connected to the adder via a first electrical line, a supply voltage line being connected to the undervoltage detector via a second electrical line. In the undervoltage detector the operating DC voltage of the microphone may be comparable with an internal reference DC voltage, the undervoltage detector being electrically connected to the test signal generator unit, and the test signal generator unit may be electrically connected to the adder.
US11277695B2	Prosthesis state and feedback path based parameter management A method including obtaining data based on a current and/or anticipated future state of a hearing prosthesis and adjusting a set gain margin of the hearing prosthesis based on the current or anticipated future state of the hearing prosthesis.
US11277689B2	Apparatus and method for optimizing sound quality of a generated audible signal The present disclosure generally provides an apparatus and method of controlling an audible signal generated by an audio device to improve the sound quality of the generated audible signal and/or sound quality perceived by a user. In some embodiments, the audio device is able to improve the sound quality generated by the audio device that is generating audible sound based on any type of audio signal. The processes described herein allow the audible signal processor to determine the acoustic fingerprint of the environment in which the audio device is positioned, and thus by use of the method steps disclosed herein to optimize the sound quality in one or more frequency bands of a generated audible signal in real time based on the determined acoustic fingerprint.
US11277684B2	Diffuser A diffuser which forms a first acoustic passage that sound waves propagate and which radiates the sound waves to an outer diameter direction between a diaphragm and an annular conical surface of a first reflection member, and forms a second acoustic passage the sound waves which pass the opening of the first reflection member propagate and which radiates the sound waves to an outer diameter direction between the annular concave surface of the first reflection member and a conical surface of a second reflection member.
US11277683B2	Determination of sound source direction An apparatus including circuitry configured to: provide a plurality of metrics associated with multiple directions, wherein the metrics are dependent, for the respective multiple directions, on an amount of direct-sound propagated; accumulate, for the respective multiple directions, values dependent upon the metrics associated with the respective multiple directions to enable determination of sound source directions.
US11277667B2	Methods, systems, and media for facilitating interaction between viewers of a stream of content Methods, systems, and media for facilitating interaction between viewers of a stream of content are provided. In some embodiments, the method comprises: receiving a request to begin presenting a stream of content, wherein the stream of content corresponds to a collection of videos presented sequentially; identifying a counter value associated with a duration of time elapsed since a creator of the stream of content initiated presentation of the stream of content; determining a playback position of the stream of content based on the counter value; causing the stream of content to be presented at the determined playback position; receiving an input to display a chat interface; and causing the chat interface to be presented in connection with the presentation of the stream of content, wherein the chat interface includes messages transmitted from a plurality of user devices that are also presenting the stream of content.
US11277666B2	Systems and methods to improve skip forward functionality Systems and methods are described to identify jump points indicative of potential time points from which to resume consumption of the media asset in response to receiving a request to skip a portion of a media asset being consumed. The jump points include a first jump point identified based on a content viewing profile and a second jump point identified based on a scene information associated with the media asset. A preview image is displayed at each of the identified jump points. Systems and methods are also described to pause the skipping operation at the identified jump points and provide a preview at the respective jump points. Systems and method are further described to identify jump points based on analysis of the portion of the media asset being skipped.
US11277663B2	Systems and methods for providing survey data A method includes receiving, at a network server, a data package from a user mobile device, the data package comprising real-time survey user input associated with watching a video program and survey audio from the video program, the survey audio being recorded via a microphone of the user mobile device during the real-time survey, receiving an audio file associated with the video program, comparing the audio file with the survey audio to yield a comparison, aligning, based on the comparison, the survey audio with the audio file to yield an modified data package and providing the modified data package.
US11277662B2	Methods and apparatus to measure exposure to streaming media Methods and apparatus to measure exposure to streaming media are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a processor, and memory including machine readable instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to: extract a series of tags associated with media playing on a presentation device, different ones of the tags in the series of the tags embedded in the media at different temporal positions within a duration of the media; identify a first tag from the series of tags to report to a central facility, the first tag identified based on a temporal proximity of the first tag to an event associated with the media playing on the presentation device; and transmit the identified first tag to the central facility, other tags in the series of tags not being transmitted to the central facility.
US11277657B2	Systems and methods for customizing a display of information associated with a media asset Systems and methods are described for customizing a display of media asset information based on a user preference profile. In particular, media asset description information is customized by changing a term to a synonym that matches an event or keyword in the user preference profile.
US11277656B2	Methods and systems for providing relevant season series recording functionality Systems and methods are provided herein for scheduling a season recording. A series is provided to a user device, the series having a plurality of sequential seasons, and each season having a plurality of episodes. A request for recording the series is received from the user. In response, a last episode of the series watched by the user is identified. A relevant season of the plurality of seasons is then determined, such that the relevant season precedes another season of the plurality of seasons and includes the last episode watched by the user. Then, episodes of the relevant season that follow the last episode watched by the user are scheduled for recording, such that episodes of a season that precedes the relevant season are not scheduled for recording.
US11277653B2	Systems and methods for navigating vehicle inventory Embodiments of the present disclosure provide systems, methods, and devices for utilizing an application to alert a user to detected changes to inventory data. Example embodiments relate to a predictive model and development of a predictive model using machine learning techniques. Example embodiments of systems and methods may utilize web-based applications and plug-ins, extensions, or add-ons thereof for facilitating communication and presenting dynamic information to a user.
US11277649B2	Chunk-based filtering to optimize video streaming quality and data usage A processing system including at least one processor may obtain a selection of a desired perceptual quality for a video and selects a first video chunk from among a first plurality of video chunks, wherein the first plurality of video chunks is associated with a first time block of the video, wherein the selecting is based upon a manifest file of the video, wherein each video chunk of the first plurality of video chunks is associated with a respective perceptual quality and a respective encoding bitrate, wherein the first video chunk is part of a subset of the first plurality of video chunks for which the respective perceptual quality matches the desired perceptual quality within a predefined threshold tolerance, and wherein the respective encoding bitrate of the first video chunk is lower than a highest encoding bitrate associated with the subset of the first plurality of video chunks. The processing system may obtain the first video chunk from a server and store the first video chunk in a buffer.
US11277646B2	Reducing banding artifacts in backward-compatible HDR imaging Methods and systems for reducing banding artifacts when displaying high-dynamic-range images reconstructed from coded reshaped images are described. Given an input image in a high dynamic range (HDR) which is mapped to a second image in a second dynamic range, banding artifacts in a reconstructed HDR image generated using the second image are reduced by a) in darks and mid-tone regions of the input image, adding noise to the input image before being mapped to the second image, and b) in highlights regions of the input image, modifying an input backward reshaping function, wherein the modified backward reshaping function will be used by a decoder to map a decoded version of the second image to the reconstructed HDR image. An example noise generation technique using simulated film-grain noise is provided.
US11277641B2	Chroma transform skip and joint chroma coding enabled block in video coding A method of encoding video data includes determining a first rate-distortion value associated with encoding a first chroma block of a coding unit of the video data with a first transform type, determining a second rate-distortion value associated with encoding the first chroma block of the coding unit of the video data with a second transform type, determining that the first transform type provides better rate-distortion than second transform type based on the first rate-distortion value and the second rate-distortion value, based on the determination that the first transform type provides better rate-distortion, determining a third rate-distortion value associated with encoding the coding unit with joint coding of chroma residuals (JCCR) with the first transform type, and avoiding determining a fourth rate-distortion value associated with encoding the coding unit with JCCR with the second transform type, and encoding the coding unit with JCCR with the first transform type.
US11277639B2	Method and system for constraining slice header processing overhead in video coding A method for encoding a picture of a video sequence in a bit stream that constrains slice header processing overhead is provided. The method includes computing a maximum slice rate for the video sequence, computing a maximum number of slices for the picture based on the maximum slice rate, and encoding the picture wherein a number of slices used to encode the picture is enforced to be no more than the maximum number of slices.
US11277631B2	Flexible reference picture management for video encoding and decoding Innovations in flexible reference picture management are described. For example, a video encoder and video decoder use a global reference picture set (“GRPS”) of reference pictures that remain in memory, and hence are available for use in video encoding/decoding, longer than conventional reference pictures. In particular, reference pictures of the GRPS remain available across random access boundaries. Or, as another example, a video encoder and video decoder clip a reference picture so that useful regions of the reference picture are retained in memory, while unhelpful or redundant regions of the reference picture are discarded. Reference picture clipping can reduce the amount of memory needed to store reference pictures or improve the utilization of available memory by providing better options for motion compensation. Or, as still another example, a video encoder and video decoder filter a reference picture to remove random noise (e.g., capture noise due to camera imperfections during capture).
US11277626B2	Region of interest quality controllable video coding techniques Video coding techniques including differential bit rate or quality coding of one or more regions of interest and one or more non-regions of interest based on information including one or more of coordinates of the one or more regions of interest, a target complexity, residual encoder bit data, a requested quality, a difference between the current video data frame and a reconstructed video data frame, a target quality, a requested bit rate, frame target bit allocation and an as encoded bit rate.
US11277623B2	Block-level lossless video coding using in-loop reshaping To support lossless mode at the block level when in-loop reshaping (LMCS) is enabled, the following changes are proposed to the existing LMCS pipeline. In intra mode, encode lossless blocks in the original domain, thus bypassing inverse mapping after reconstruction in the decoder. In inter mode, encode lossless blocks in the original domain, thus bypassing both forward mapping after motion compensation and inverse mapping after reconstruction in the decoder. In both modes, disable any LMCS-related color scaling.
US11277619B2	Rate control for video splicing applications Rate control techniques are provided for encoding an input video sequence into a compressed coded bitstream with multiple coding passes. The final coding pass may comprise final splices with non-overlapping frames that do not extend into neighboring final splices. A final splice in the final coding pass may correspond to at least one non-final splice in a non-final coding pass. A non-final splice may have overlapping frames that extend into neighboring final splices in the final coding pass. The overlapping frames in the non-final splice may be used to derive complexity information about the neighboring final splices. The complexity information about the neighboring final splices, as derived from the overlapping frames, may be used to allocate or improve rate control related budgets in encoding the final splice into the compressed coded bitstream in the final coding pass.
US11277614B2	Entropy coding supporting mode switching A decoder for decoding a data stream into which media data is coded has a mode switch configured to activate a low-complexity mode or a high-efficiency mode depending on the data stream, an entropy decoding engine configured to retrieve each symbol of a sequence of symbols by entropy decoding using a selected one of a plurality of entropy decoding schemes, a desymbolizer configured to desymbolize the sequence of symbols to obtain a sequence of syntax elements, a reconstructor configured to reconstruct the media data based on the sequence of syntax elements, selection depending on the activated low-complexity mode or the high-efficiency mode. In another aspect, a desymbolizer is configured to perform desymbolization such that the control parameter varies in accordance with the data stream at a first rate in case of the high-efficiency mode being activated and the control parameter is constant irrespective of the data stream or changes depending on the data stream, but at a second lower rate in case of the low-complexity mode being activated.
US11277613B2	Method and an apparatus for encoding/decoding residual coefficient The encoding/decoding method and apparatus according to the present invention derives a residual coefficient of a residual block, calculates a quantization parameter for a residual block, performs dequantization on a residual coefficient using a quantization parameter, and performs inverse transform on a dequantized residual coefficient to reconstruct a residual sample of a residual block.
US11277612B2	Method and apparatus for encoding/decoding image using quantization parameter, and recording medium storing bitstream There is provided an image encoding/decoding method and apparatus. The image decoding method comprises decoding size information of a quantization group from a bitstream, acquiring a delta quantization parameter of a current block on the basis of the size information of the quantization group, and deriving a quantization parameter for the current block on the basis of the delta quantization parameter.
US11277611B2	Delta quantization parameter (QP) signaling in palette mode A method of decoding video data includes receiving encoded data for a current block of the video data, the current block comprising one or more escape mode encoded samples and decoding, from the encoded data, a value indicating that the current block includes the one or more escape mode encoded samples. The method further includes, in response to determining that the value indicates that the current block includes the one or more escape mode encoded samples and that a current tree type for the current block is not dual tree chroma, decoding an absolute value for a luma delta quantization parameter for the current block and a sign for the luma delta quantization parameter. The method further includes reconstructing the current block based on the absolute value for the luma delta quantization parameter for the current block and the sign for the luma delta quantization parameter.
US11277609B2	Systems and methods for partitioning video blocks for video coding A video coding device may be configured to perform video coding according to one or more of the techniques described herein. In one example, a method of partitioning video data for video coding, comprises receiving a video block including sample values, and partitioning the sample values according to the following set of partitioning modes: quadtree, horizontal or vertical symmetric binary tree, horizontal or vertical asymmetric binary tree, and horizontal or vertical triple tree.
US11277602B2	Method and system for display device with integrated polarizer An eyepiece unit for projecting an image to an eye of a viewer includes an eyepiece having a world side and a viewer side opposite the world side. The eyepiece includes an input coupling diffractive optical element, an orthogonal pupil expander diffractive optical element, and an exit pupil expander diffractive optical element. The eyepiece unit also includes a curved cosmetic lens disposed adjacent the world side of the eyepiece and a polarizer disposed adjacent the world side of the eyepiece.
US11277601B2	Dynamic range for depth sensing An example system includes a patterned light projector operable to direct first and second portions of patterned light toward first and second surfaces, respectively, in an environment. The first and second surfaces may be at first and second distances, respectively, from the structured light projector. A graduated optical filter may be situated along an optical path of the patterned light. The graduated optical filter includes first and second regions to attenuate an intensity of the first and second portions of the patterned light, respectively, by first and second amounts, respectively. The first amount is greater than the second amount. The system additionally includes an image sensor operable to generate image data based on at least the first and second portions of the patterned light and a processor configured to determine first and second values indicative of an estimate of the first and second distances, respectively, based on the image data.
US11277582B2	Mountable video player apparatus A mountable video player apparatus for placing video content in photo albums, scrap books, year books, and art includes a housing having a housing front side, a housing back side, a housing top side, a housing bottom side, a housing left side, and a housing right side defining a housing inside. An adhesive layer is coupled to the housing back side to secure the apparatus to a page. A CPU is coupled within the housing inside. A memory chip and a battery are coupled within the housing inside and are in operational communication with the CPU. A display screen is coupled to the housing front side and is in operational communication with the CPU. A plurality of control buttons is coupled within the housing front side and is in operational communication with the CPU.
US11277579B2	Image sensors and image processing systems using multilevel signaling techniques An image sensor includes a pixel array configured to generate a plurality of pixel signals, an analog to digital converter circuit coupled to the pixel array and configured to generate respective digital codes responsive to respective ones of the pixel signals, a plurality of memories, respective ones of which are configured to store respective bits of the digital codes, a signal processing circuit coupled to a plurality of memories and configured to generate analog signals responsive to the stored bits, each of the analog signals corresponding to multiple ones of the stored bits, and a comparator circuit configured to compare the analog signals to respective ones of a plurality of reference signals to generate digital signals corresponding to the multiple ones of the stored bits. Related image processing systems and methods are also described.
US11277577B2	Charge pump circuit and image sensor comprising the same A charge pump circuit includes a first pump unit and a second pump unit. The first pump unit includes a first capacitor and a first transistor, and generates a first node voltage by using a clock signal. The second pump unit includes a second capacitor, a second transistor, and a third transistor, and generates a negative output voltage by using the first node voltage. The clock signal and the first node voltage are each toggled between a low-level voltage and a high-level voltage. A magnitude of an absolute value of the negative output voltage is greater than a magnitude of an absolute value of the high-level voltage of the clock signal. A body of the third transistor is electrically isolated from a body of the second transistor.
US11277568B2	Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and information processing system for display of various types of information related to image capturing To present various types of information related to image capturing in a more suitable manner. An information processing apparatus including: a display control unit that causes an image captured by any of one or a plurality of imaging devices to be displayed in a captured image display region that is a part of a display unit, cause second information related to the one or plurality of imaging devices to be displayed in a captured image hiding region that is a part of the display unit and different from the captured image display region, and cause first information related to the one or plurality of corresponding imaging devices to be displayed in the captured image display region in accordance with the second information being displayed and the one or plurality of imaging devices being in a determined state.
US11277563B2	Camera module A camera module includes a gyro sensor generating shaking data, a first driver integrated circuit (IC) generating a driving signal to move a first lens barrel in one or more directions perpendicular to an optical axis direction, in response to the shaking data provided by the gyro sensor, and a second driver IC generating a driving signal to move a second lens barrel in one or more directions perpendicular to the optical axis direction, in response to the shaking data provided by the gyro sensor. Each of the first driver IC and the second driver IC operates in a normal mode and a low power mode, and when the first driver IC operates in the low power mode, whether to activate a communication path of the shaking data in the first driver IC is determined in response to a mode of the second driver IC.
US11277557B1	Privacy-aware capture and device Systems and methods are disclosed and an example system includes a digital image receiver for receiving a digital image, and an automatic obscuration processor coupled to the image receiver, and configured to determine whether the digital image includes a region that classifies as an image of a category of object and, upon a positive determination, to obscure the region and output a corresponding obscured-region digital image.
US11277556B2	Control device for automatic tracking camera Based on information on a tracking target, a tracking target detecting unit is configured to detect the tracking target from an image captured by an automatic tracking camera. An influencing factor detecting unit is configured to detect an influencing factor that influences the amount of movement of the tracking target and set an influence degree, based on information on the influencing factor. Based on the influence degree set by the influencing factor detecting unit and a past movement amount of the tracking target, an adjustment amount calculating unit is configured to calculate an imaging direction adjustment amount for the automatic tracking camera.
US11277543B1	Perceptual dithering for HDR video and images In a method for dithering image data, a processor receives an input image in a first color space and a first bit depth larger than 8 bits. The processor converts the input image into a first image in a perceptually uniform color space, such as the BT. 2100 ICtCp color space, with pixel values scaled to be within a target bit depth, it quantizes the first image to generate a quantized image, it generates an error image between the first image and the quantized image, and using a random threshold, it generates a dithered image based on the random threshold, the error image, and the quantized image, allowing to reduce the bit-depth representation for visually consistent reproduction by two bits.
US11277540B2	Non-transitory computer readable storage medium, information processing device and printing method Provided is technology by which an information processing device having an OS standard printing program installed therein causes a printer to perform collate printing without applying a load to the printer. In a case where a print instruction that causes a printer to execute printing of an image is output from an editing application to a general-purpose print program installed in an OS to cause the printer to execute collate printing in a job based on the print instruction an auxiliary program causes a CPU of a PC to acquire print data of one copy rasterized based on the image having the plurality of pages, and to cause the PC to transmit the acquired print data of the one copy to the printer as a transmission destination one copy by one copy over the N copies.
US11277539B2	Encoding information using disjoint highlight and shadow dot patterns In an example method, a first dot pattern of shadow dots and second dot pattern of highlight dots is generated. The first dot pattern and second dot pattern include information to be encoded across the image. The first dot pattern and the second dot pattern are mapped to a corresponding subset of the greyscale source pixels, the greyscale source pixels corresponding to an image to be printed. A value of a greyscale pixel in the subset of the greyscale source pixels is modified based on a predetermined threshold pixel value. The value of the greyscale pixel is set to a highlight dot value in response to detecting that the predetermined threshold pixel value is exceeded or set to a shadow dot value in response to detecting that the predetermined threshold value is not exceeded. The image including the subset of pixels with modified values is printed.
US11277532B2	Information processing apparatus and non-transitory computer readable medium An information processing apparatus includes a memory; and a processor configured to cause information indicating that a first user who has an authority to operate an apparatus is prohibited from operating the apparatus to be displayed on an operation screen of the first user in a case where the first user has commissioned a second user to operate the apparatus but attempts to operate the apparatus by himself or herself.
US11277531B2	Information processing apparatus, method of controlling the same, and storage medium The present invention provides an information processing apparatus and a method of controlling the same. The information processing apparatus has a console unit that accepts an instruction by a user via a button displayed on a screen. The information processing apparatus registers a setting for executing processing corresponding to the button, prompts a user to input identification information to be added to image data generated by a function corresponding to the button, and when the button is instructed via the console unit, the information processing apparatus outputs the image data to which the identification information has been added to a destination corresponding to the setting which is registered in association with the button.
US11277530B2	Inspection system, inspection method, and inspection program An inspection system includes: an inspection part that compares a scanned image obtained by scanning a sheet on which an image is formed on the basis of a job with a reference image prepared in advance and thereby performs inspection of the scanned image; and a hardware processor that sets an inspection target page to be a target of inspection and a non-inspection target page to be excluded from inspection, for the job, wherein the hardware processor causes the inspection part to perform inspection for the inspection target page and not to perform inspection for the non-inspection target page on the basis of the setting of the hardware processor, and the hardware processor creates an inspection report including scanned images of all pages of the job including the non-inspection target page.
US11277524B2	Toll-free telecommunications management platform A method including receiving a natural language input and determining a telecommunications routing code based at least in part on the natural language input. The telecommunications routing code is associated with routing calls to a telecommunications number. The method further includes populating the telecommunications routing code at a node of a call routing decision tree to generate a populated call routing decision tree comprising a call routing template.
US11277508B2	Method for generating an SMS message and equipment for implementing the method A computer-implemented method is proposed, which comprises generating at least one SMS message, wherein the at least one SMS message comprises a predefined character pattern followed by one or several character sequences respectively corresponding to actions responsive to the at least one SMS message suggested to a user recipient of the at least one SMS message.
US11277493B2	System and method for improving efficiency of a remote computing device The present disclosure discusses system and methods for improving the efficiency of a remote computing device. The system and methods include generate a profile and delivery schedule for the remote computing device. The system can dynamically update the delivery schedule of future requests the system transmits to the remote computing device based on responses to current request.
US11277490B2	Method and system for generating exchangeable user profiles A profile of a user may be constructed having at least one profile entry. A device having an integrated sensor assembly including at least one sensor may be associated with the user and operated according to a sensor configuration. Sensor data may be processed to extract a feature. Entry data may be determined for a profile entry based on the extracted feature so that the profile entry may incorporate the determined entry data. An exchangeable profile may be derived from the constructed profile, for example by using privacy data, and compensation from a third party may be received in return for the exchangeable profile.
US11277484B2	Systems and methods for restricting generation and delivery of insights to second data source providers The present disclosure relates to restricting generation and delivery of insights to data source providers. Electronic activities and record objects may be accessed. Each record object may correspond to a record object type and have one or more object field-value pairs. Node profiles may be maintained. Updates to a node graph or corresponding to a record object may be detected. A number of data source providers having respective electronic activities or record objects from which the update to the node graph or corresponding to the record object can be determined. Provisioning of a content item to a second data source provider may be restricted.
US11277481B1	Content selection through intermediary device The systems and methods described herein can enable the selection of customized content in networked systems that prevent the transfer of session data between different domains. The systems and methods described herein enable the exchange of data between third-party entities that would be blocked in networked systems that prevent cross-domain data exchange. The systems and methods can provide multi-sourced content without sacrificing security of the client device and browser environment.
US11277479B2	Communication method and communications device This application provides a communication method and a communications device. The method includes: obtaining a media access control (MAC) address that is of a terminal device and that is bound to a session and first route information of an interface, corresponding to the session, between a user plane function network element and a data network; and sending, to an application function network element or a gateway of the data network, the MAC address that is of the terminal device and that is bound to the session and the first route information.
US11277476B2	Internet of things gateway content receiver A method and a content receiver configured as an Internet of Things (IoT) gateway are provided. The content receiver receives a first signal transmitted by an IoT device in accordance with an IoT protocol and demodulates and decodes the first signal. The content receiver generates one or more Internet protocol (IP) packets or non-IP packets representative of the first signal and sends the one or more IP packets or non-IP packets to an external server.
US11277474B2	System for enabling cloud access to legacy application A system enabling cloud access to a legacy application, said system comprising a local system and a cloud system, wherein the local system comprises: a locally stored legacy application; a first storage comprising a first data store associated with the application; an adapter configured to retrieve data from the first data store; and a synchronization engine configured to synchronize the retrieved data with the cloud system; and the cloud system comprises: a second storage comprising a second data store associated with the legacy application; and an application programming interface, API, configured to receive the retrieved data from the local system and update the second data store based on the received data.
US11277473B1	Coordinating breaking changes in automatic data exchange A system, method implemented on a computer system, and computer program product for exchanging shared data. A consumer of shared data receives new shared data and determines whether the new shared data comprises a breaking change. In response to a determination that the new shared data does not comprise a breaking change, the new shared data is saved and set as the current shared data. In response to a determination that the new shared data does comprise a breaking change, the new shared data is saved but is not set as the current shared data. New shared data that was saved but not set as current shared data may be set as current shared data during deployment of new program code for the consumer.
US11277472B2	Information processing device and information processing system A client terminal and a server system having a plurality of processing units processing game applications are connected to each other via a network. In a game system as a cloud computing system, the server system makes the client terminal wait for a start of processing of an application when there is no processing unit assignable to the client terminal. When the processing unit becomes assignable, the client terminal displays a screen inquiring whether to start the processing of the application. When a user does not respond for a predetermined time, the server system cancels the waiting state of the user.
US11277469B2	Efficient and reliable host distribution of totally ordered global state An asynchronous distributed computing system with a plurality of computing nodes is provided. One of the computing nodes includes a sequencer service that receives updates from the plurality of computing nodes. The sequencer service maintains or annotates messages added to the global state of the system. Updates to the global state are published to the plurality of computing nodes. Monitoring services on the other computing nodes write the updates into a locally maintained copy of the global state that exists in shared memory on each one of the nodes. Client computer processes on the nodes may then subscribe to have updates “delivered” to the respective client computer processes.
US11277466B2	File transferring method and apparatus, interactive method and apparatus for implementing uploading in cloud storage application, machine device, and computer-readable storage medium A file transferring method is disclosed. The method includes activating a transferring area on a displayed user interface in response to triggering of file transferring; tracking drag trajectory according to a triggered dragging instruction on the user interface on which the transferring area is activated, and detecting, when the dragging is released, that the transferring area and a file icon overlap; and transferring a corresponding file in response to the file icon overlapping with the transferring area.
US11277464B2	Data restoration for datacenter failover A failover system can receive active data from user devices running an application specific to a service entity providing an application service. For each user device, the active data can indicate a current status. The failover system can transmit restoration data to the user devices for storage to restore the current status of the user devices in the case of a failover event. When a failover event occurs, the failover system can recover the restoration data from a first user device to restore the current status of the application service for the first user device.
US11277461B2	Methods and apparatus to monitor streaming media Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to monitor streaming media. An example apparatus includes a media calibrator to calibrate video data to a calibration time-base based on audio data, the video data and audio data associated with a media stream and a signature generator to generate a signature representative of the media stream based on the calibrated video data.
US11277457B2	Image processing method, server, client and image processing system The present disclosure relates to an image processing method, a server, a client and an image processing system. The image processing method is applicable to the server and includes: receiving an image processing request from the client, wherein the image processing request includes a to-be-processed image in a first image format; acquiring the to-be-processed image according to the image processing request, and processing the to-be-processed image to obtain a target image in a second image format; and generating a feedback message according to the target image, and sending the feedback message to the client.
US11277456B2	System and method for delivering an audio-visual con tent to a client device For delivering an audio-visual content to a client device, an interconnecting device interconnecting a first network to a second network, the client device being connected to the second network, an equipment adapted to provide the audio-visual content being connected to the first network, said equipment performs: receiving, from the client device, a first request for receiving the audio-visual content; transmitting a redirecting message to the client device, said redirecting message redirecting the client device toward an agent implemented in the interconnecting device. Furthermore, said agent performs: receiving, from the client device, a second request for receiving the audio-visual content; acting as a relay between said equipment and the client device.
US11277445B2	Programming target devices A security profile for programming target devices may be provided. A base security profile may be obtained that defines security parameter(s) having a configurable value. A first security profile, generated from the base security profile, may include security parameter(s) that are assigned with a value of a first set of values by: (i) retrieving the value of the first set of values from a first data storage location coupled to a computing device and setting the configurable value of the security parameter using the retrieved value, or (ii) associating the security parameter with an instruction to obtain the value of the first set of values and set the configurable value of the security parameter using the obtained value, the instruction selected from one or more instructions. A second security profile may be generated from the base security profile in response to receiving further input from for the security parameter(s).
US11277441B2	Infrastructure distributed denial of service protection A method of providing infrastructure protection for a server of a network organization, the method including announcing an IP address range associated with the network organization using a border gateway protocol on an edge router of a scrubbing center associated with the network organization. The method further including receiving an incoming network packet intended for a server of the network organization identified using a public IP address within the IP address range, the public IP address serving as a first anycast address for a plurality of scrubbing centers in a distributed network of scrubbing servers, the plurality of scrubbing centers including the scrubbing center. The method further including determining, by the scrubbing center, whether the incoming network packet is legitimate. The method further including, responsive to determining that the incoming network packet is legitimate, routing, by a processor, the incoming network packet to the server at a private IP address.
US11277438B2	Mitigating malware impact by utilizing sandbox insights Systems and methods for mitigating the impact of malware by reversing malware related modifications in a computing device are provided. According to an embodiment, a sandbox service running within a network security platform protecting an enterprise network receives a file containing malware and associated contextual information from an endpoint security solution running on an endpoint device, which has been infected by the malware. The sandbox service captures information regarding a first series of actions performed by the malware and based on the first series of actions generates a remediation script specifying a second series of actions that are configured to restore the endpoint device to a pre-infected state. The network security platform causes the endpoint device to be returned to the pre-infected state by causing the endpoint security solution to execute the remediation script on the endpoint device.
US11277436B1	Identifying and mitigating harm from malicious network connections by a container Identifying and mitigating harm from malicious network connections by a container. In some embodiments, a method may include receiving, from a shim, notifications of all network connections that a container has sought to establish through the shim. The method may also include monitoring all actual network connections established by the container. The method may further include comparing the notifications to the actual network connections to determine whether any actual network connection established by the container bypassed the shim. The method may also include, in response to determining that any actual network connection established by the container bypassed the shim, identifying the network connection established by the container that bypassed the shim as a malicious network connection, and performing a security action to mitigate harm from the malicious network connection.
US11277431B2	Comprehensive risk assessment Systems, methods, and related technologies for determining a comprehensive risk score or value are described. The risk score determination may include selecting an entity communicatively coupled to a network and determining a cyber-attack likelihood value and a cyber-attack impact value associated with the entity. A cyber-attack risk may then be determined based on the cyber-attack likelihood value and a cyber-attack impact value associated with the entity. An operational failure likelihood value and an operational failure impact value associated with the entity can be determined. An operational failure risk based on the operational failure likelihood value and the operational failure impact value associated with the entity can be determined. A risk value may then be determined for the entity based on the cyber-attack risk and the operational failure risk and the risk value for the entity can be stored.
US11277430B2	System and method for securing a network A system for generating a cyber-attack to penetrate a network. The system includes an identification module configured to identify at least one vulnerability of the network by examining at least one of a node of the network, data transmission within the network, or data received from a cyber defense mechanism; a generation module configured to generate a cyber-attack based on the at least one vulnerability of the network, and a goal to be achieved by the cyber-attack. The system includes a penetration module configured to penetrate the network with the cyber-attack and determine an effectiveness rating of the penetration; and a feedback module configured to provide a feedback to the identification module based on at least the effectiveness rating of the penetration.
US11277419B2	Method, system, and apparatus for verification of operation using GPS receiver input within integrated circuits and electronic systems using an operation navigation system A method and system for analysis of a facility may include providing an emulation host system, generating a pristine circuit model on the emulation host system, inserting a first hardware trojan model, emulating operation of the golden circuit model, and emulating operation of the first hardware trojan model, and determine a set of machine-learning models, detecting the presence of an unknown trojan as a function of the set of machine learning models and using the same to authenticate the integrity of a GPS signal.
US11277414B2	Trust relationships in a computerized system Methods and apparatuses for a computerized system are disclosed. A data processing device receives information from at least one source of log information in the computerized system and detects, based at least in part on said received log information, at least one security protocol related event at a first host device, the at least one security protocol related event being initiated by a second host device. Information is then stored for determination of a trust relationship record based on the detected at least one security protocol related event and information of the second host device.
US11277406B2	MTS-based mutual-authenticated remote attestation In one example a prover device comprises one or more processors, a computer-readable memory, and signature logic to store a first cryptographic representation of a first trust relationship between the prover device and a verifier device, the first cryptographic representation based on a pair of asymmetric hash-based multi-time signature keys, receive an attestation request message from the verifier device, the attestation request message comprising attestation data for the verifier device and a hash-based signature generated by the verifier device, and in response to the attestation request message, to verify the attestation data, verify the hash-based signature generated by the verifier device using a public key associated with the verifier device, generate an attestation reply message using a hash-based multi-time private signature key and send the attestation reply message to the verifier device. Other examples may be described.
US11277400B2	Reminder terminal apparatus and authentication method A reminder terminal apparatus and authentication method are disclosed. An example authentication method includes creating a table having letter strings contained in elements respectively, where the letter strings are created at random. The method also includes creating a registration letter string using the table and registering or newly registering the registration letter string as a password for a user name of the user at a resource server. The example method further includes prompting the user to use the access terminal to extract second elements from the table in accordance with the selection sequence, arrange second letter strings contained in the extracted second elements to obtain an authentication letter string, and apply the obtained authentication letter string as a password for requesting a utilization of a resource of the resource server under the user name.
US11277397B2	Method and system for user authentication The present disclosure relates to a method for user authentication. In particular, the present disclosure relates to a computer implemented method for session based one-time authentication of a client operating an electronic device, typically using one of a biometric data relating to the user and/or information provided at a remote electronic device. The disclosure device server also relates to a corresponding authentication system and to a computer program product.
US11277373B2	Security during domain name resolution and browsing Methods and systems provide for resolving domain names by employing a proxy server between the client device and the resolving server. The methods and systems may maintain user privacy by the proxy receiving the client identity and an encrypted domain name. After substituting an arbitrary query identifier for the client identity in the resolution request, the proxy forwards the anonymized resolution request to the resolving server. In return the proxy receives an encrypted internet protocol (IP) address with the arbitrary query identifier, which the proxy associates with the client identity and forwards the encrypted IP address to the client for decrypting. Methods and systems provide for receiving an assessment of a full uniform resource locator (URL) in a browser session in advance of the browser accessing the URL. Methods and systems further prevent the re-use of passwords.
US11277372B2	Name server management of domain name systems using virtual name servers A method and system for managing domain name system (DNS) name servers using virtual name servers is disclosed. A plurality of virtual name servers are mapped to a plurality of actual name servers of the DNS. Each actual name server stores at least one record identifying a domain and an Internet Protocol (IP) address of a computer hosting that domain. Information is received from a monitoring service computer identifying which actual name servers are unhealthy and which actual name servers are healthy. Based on this information, the mapping of each virtual name server that is mapped to an unhealthy actual name server is updated to map to one of the healthy actual name servers.
US11277356B2	Network buffer credit allocation A method for dynamically allocating buffer credits between a system and a storage area network (SAN). The method includes one or more computer processors determining a forecast of a change related to a pattern of network traffic that originates from a computing system that links to a storage area network (SAN) via a network connection. The method further includes determining whether the forecast change related to the pattern of network traffic dictates a change to a buffer credit allocation associated with the network connection. The method further includes responding to determining that the forecast change related to the pattern of network traffic dictates the buffer credit allocation change by determining a value for the buffer credit allocation associated with the change. The method further includes transmitting a request to a switch of the SAN to modify a buffer credit allocation value corresponding to a port of the switch linked to the network connection.
US11277352B2	Method, apparatus, and server for dynamically adjusting resource competition thresholds A method of adjusting a resource competition threshold for qualifying resource competition participants in resource competition is described. Processing circuitry of an apparatus obtains first competition data associated with a first time period, obtains a first optimal threshold according to the first competition data, and set the resource competition threshold according to the first optimal threshold. The processing circuitry obtains second competition data associated with a second time period, and obtains a second optimal threshold according to the second competition data. When a difference between the second optimal threshold and the resource competition threshold is greater than a difference threshold, the processing circuitry obtains third competition data and updates the resource competition threshold according to the third competition data.
US11277348B2	Route processing method, device, and system A route processing method includes obtaining, by a first network device, a flow effective time parameter and a route related to the flow effective time parameter, processing, by the first network device in the specified time interval, service traffic corresponding to the route related to the flow effective time parameter, generating a route control message, where the route control message carries the flow effective time parameter and the route, and sending, by the first network device, the route control message to a second network device.
US11277346B2	Method and apparatus for offloading packet classification processing of an access point in a residential gateway A method and apparatus for offloading packet classification processing of an access point in a residential gateway. A residential gateway includes a wireless access point and a processing circuit. The processing circuit receives a data packet from a network via a network port, processes the data packet to obtain packet classification information for the data packet, and sends the data packet with the packet classification information to the access point. The access point may process the data packet based on the packet classification information received from the processing circuit. The packet classification information includes at least one of a basic service set identifier, a station identifier, and an access category. The processing circuit may include a packet accelerator. The packet accelerator may write a cookie including the packet classification information in a packet descriptor for the data packet.
US11277342B2	Lossless data traffic deadlock management system A lossless data traffic deadlock management system includes a first networking device coupled to a second networking device and a third networking device. The first networking device provide a lossless data traffic flow on a first data traffic path via the second networking device and to a destination. The first networking device then receives a congestion communication from the second networking device that is indicative of a deadlock associated with the second networking device. In response, the first networking device identifies the first data traffic path as a congested route, and the identification of the first data traffic path as the congested route causes the first networking device to provide the lossless data traffic flow on a second data traffic path via the third networking device to the destination.
US11277341B2	Resilient segment routing service hunting with TCP session stickiness According to one aspect, a method includes obtaining a segment routing (SR) packet from an endpoint via a first router at a first server along a path, the SR packet including an SR list and a last address, the last address being an address of a requested service. The method also includes determining, at the first server, whether the requested service is available from the first server, wherein determining whether the requested service is available from the first server includes opening the SR packet, parsing an SR header of the SR packet, and performing a lookup in a service table. Finally, the method includes modifying the SR packet at the first server when it is determined that the requested service is not available from the first server; and forwarding the SR packet along the path.
US11277337B2	Systems and methods for routing network traffic using labels In one embodiment, a method includes detecting a request to route traffic to a service associated with an application. The method also includes identifying an application identifier associated with the application and selecting, using the application identifier, a label from a plurality of labels included in a routing table. The label includes one or more routes. The method further includes routing the traffic to the service associated with the application using the label.
US11277331B2	Updating connection-tracking records at a network edge using flow programming Some embodiments provide a method of performing stateful services that keeps track of changes to states of service nodes to update connection tracker records when necessary. At least one global state value indicating a state of the service nodes is maintained at the edge device. The method generates a record in a connection tracker storage including the current global state value as a flow state value for a first data message in a data message flow. Each time a data message is received for the data message flow, the stored state value (i.e., a flow state value) is compared to the relevant global state value to determine if the stored action may have been updated. After a change in the global state value relevant to the flow the method examines a flow programming table to determine if the flow has been affected by a flow programming instruction(s) that caused the global state value to change.
US11277317B2	Machine learning to predict quality-of-service needs in an operational data management system Operational data in a distributed processing system is managed by monitoring a workload of the system to establish a current assessment of operational data movement between data sources and data targets, receiving historical information on previous data movement including previous instances of movement resulting in a compromise of one or more quality-of-service criteria, determining from the current assessment and historical information that upcoming operational data actions will not meet a particular quality-of-service criterion, and responsively applying a data management optimization infrastructure (data backplane services) adapted to advance the particular quality-of-service criterion according to definitions for the data sources and data targets. The operational outcome is predicted using a cognitive system trained with historical information including historical operational factors correlated with historical operational outcomes relative to the quality-of-service criteria.
US11277312B2	Behavioral based device clustering One or more embodiments are directed behavioral based device clustering. A network traffic log of devices in the network is received. Features of devices are extracted from the network traffic log and aggregated into an aggregated feature matrix on a per device basis. By applying a topic modeling algorithm to the aggregated feature matrix, the devices are clustered into device groups according to behavior groups. A device is assigned to the device group to create an assignment.
US11277307B2	Configuring managed devices when a network management system (NMS) is not reachable Configuring managed devices when a Network Management System (NMS) is not reachable may be provided. First, a first network device in a network may determine that the first network device has a configuration issue. Determining the configuration issue may comprise determining that the first network device needs to be configured and determining that the first network device cannot connect to the NMS. Next, the first network device may determine, in response to determining that the first network device has the configuration issue, that a second network device in the network was configured by the NMS. Then, in response to determining that the second network device was configured by the NMS, the first network device may obtain second network device configuration data from the second network device. The first network device may then be configured with data comprising at least a portion of the second network device configuration data.
US11277302B2	PUCCH based beam failure recovery procedure A wireless device receives one or more messages comprising one or more configuration parameters indicating: one or more reference signals for a beam failure detection procedure; and a discontinuous reception (DRX) configuration for controlling transitions between a DRX inactive state and a DRX active state. The beam failure detection procedure is performed based on measurements of the one or more reference signals. A first value of a counter is determined based on detecting at least one beam failure instance during the DRX active state. A transition from the DRX active state to the DRX inactive state is made based on the DRX configuration. The beam failure detection procedure is stopped in response to the transitioning. The beam failure detection procedure continues with the first value of the counter after transitioning from the DRX inactive state to the DRX active state.
US11277293B2	Transmission method and transmission apparatus for packet format detection A transmission apparatus of the present disclosure comprises a packet generator which, in operation, generates a packet and a transmitter which, in operation, transmits the generated packet. The packet includes a legacy short training field, a legacy long training field, a legacy signal field (L-SIG), a repeated legacy signal field (RL-SIG), a first non-legacy signal field, a second non-legacy signal field, a non-legacy short training field, a non-legacy long training field and a data field, wherein the second non-legacy signal field is optionally present. The packet generator generates the packet by configuring the RL-SIG in different ways according to a presence or absence of the second non-legacy signal field in the packet.
US11277291B2	Method, apparatus, and device for determining phase tracking reference signal resource location An apparatus for constructing a pre-DFT sample sequence for an OFDM-signal is provided. The apparatus comprises: a processor configured to construct a pre-DFT sample sequence with a pre-defined length such that it comprises data; and a PTRS-group, wherein the last sample of the PTRS-group is placed within the pre-DFT sample sequence at a pre-defined position located B samples before the end of the pre-DFT sample sequence.
US11277288B2	Fixed-length probabilistic amplitude shaping This disclosure provides methods, devices and systems for encoding data for wireless communication to achieve probabilistic amplitude shaping. In some implementations, a transmitting device may achieve a fixed information block length (N), at least in part, by iteratively encoding the information bits until the number of amplitude-shaped bits combined with the number of unshaped bits is greater than or equal to a maximum payload length. For example, the maximum payload length may be equal to N. If the resulting number of amplitude-shaped bits plus the number of unshaped bits is less than N, the transmitting device may add one or more padding bits to the information block to achieve the fixed information block length.
US11277279B2	Systems and methods for incorporating a single-port ethernet device in a media protocol ring A system and method of identifying faulted devices in an Ethernet network of a building management system (BMS). The system includes a network manager device, a first client device, and a second client device. A first port of the first client device is connected to a first port of the network manager device, a first port of the second client device is connected to a second port of the first client device and a second port of the second client device is connected to a second port of the network manager device. A third port of the first client device is connected to a port of a device external to a ring of the network. The network manager device is configured to transmit a frame having a count field.
US11277273B2	Computer network service providing system including self adjusting volume enforcement functionality A Computer Network Service Providing System including Self Adjusting Volume enforcement functionality and methods for diminishing or minimizing volume leakage.
US11277269B2	System and methods for generating and authenticating verifiable network traffic System and methods for generating and authenticating verifiable network traffic. Specifically, the system and methods disclosed herein describe solutions for augmenting layer-2 (L2) frames with additional verifiable information entailing, for example, hash-based message authentication code encryption or digital signature authentication. These solutions may address scenarios where evidence of tampering, through deceptive practices, of network traffic data may prove difficult to detect.
US11277260B2	Off-chain notification of updates from a private blockchain An example operation may include one or more of creating, via chaincode, a link between a non-participant system and a data field stored on a private blockchain, where the data field comprises participant data of the private blockchain, detecting a change in a value of the participant data based on a read operation from the data field stored on the private blockchain, generating a notification of the changed value of the participant data, and transmitting the notification to the non-participant system based on the link between the non-participant system and the data field.
US11277244B2	Signaling sending method and device, and signaling receiving method and device Provided are a signaling sending method and device and a signaling receiving method and device. The signaling sending method includes: configuring N sets according to reference-signal-related information satisfying a predetermined channel characteristic requirement, where N is an integer greater than or equal to 1, and an element in the N sets is the reference-signal-related information; generating a first type of signaling, where the first type of signaling carries the N sets; and sending the first type of signaling to a second communication node, where the first type of signaling is used for notifying the second communication node to perform beam indication according to the N sets.
US11277235B2	Techniques for multiplexing or cascading control information and data within a transmission time interval Techniques are described for wireless communication. One method includes identifying a transmission time interval (TTI)-level control region, where the cascaded control region includes a TTI-level common control region and a TTI-level UE-specific control region, and where the TTI-level common control region has a pointer to a location of the TTI-level UE-specific control region; and demodulating at least one of the TTI-level common control region and the TTI-level UE-specific control region. Some techniques enable control information in a first region to point to a second region that includes additional control information. Some techniques enable two-stages of control. Semi-persistent scheduling/prescheduling control may be configured to cause an entity to refrain from demodulating one of the stages of control.
US11277230B2	Method and device for estimating a decodability of a code block to improve a retransmission process in a communication network A receiver is described which receives data from a transmitter. The data is included in a data block which includes at least one code block, and the code block has a plurality of parts. A first part of the code block is used for estimating a decodability of the code block at the receiver. The first part of the code block is arranged in the data block ahead of the remaining one or more parts of the code block. The receiver estimates, prior to receiving the entire data block, the decodability of the code block using the first part of the code block.
US11277228B2	Information processing device, communication system, information processing method, and program Wireless transmission paths are utilized efficiently. An information processing device includes a control section. If data destined for the own device is received from another device and if there exists undelivered data in the data, the control section performs control to transmit a retransmission request for the data to the other device. If there exists no undelivered data in the data destined for the own device and received from the other device, the control section performs control not to transmit a confirmation of reception.
US11277226B2	Wireless communication base station apparatus, wireless communication terminal, communication method of a wireless communication base station apparatus and communication method of a wireless communication terminal A transmitter apparatus wherein a simple structure is used to successfully suppress the degradation of error rate performance that otherwise would be caused by fading or the like. There are included encoding parts that encode transport data; a mapping part that performs such a mapping that encoded data sequentially formed by the encoding parts are not successively included in the same symbol, thereby forming data symbols; and a symbol interleaver that interleaves the data symbols. In this way, a low computational complexity can be used to perform an interleaving process equivalent to a bit interleaving process to effectively improve the reception quality at a receiving end.
US11277221B2	Optimized ACM trajectory systems and methods Systems and methods for ACM trajectory include receiving data at a communications receiver; decoding the received data based on a selected MODCOD; monitoring a number of iterations used to decode the data using the selected MODCOD; comparing the number of iterations used to decode the data using the first selected MODCOD to a reference number of iterations; and adjusting a SNR threshold value for the selected MODCOD where the number of iterations used to decode the data using the first selected MODCOD is greater than the reference number of iterations.
US11277220B2	Multiplexing of different traffic types in a telecommunications network Methods and systems for multiplexing of different traffic types in a telecommunications network are provided. According to one aspect, a method of operation of a network node comprises: determining that data is available for a Downlink (DL) transmission of a first traffic type to a User Equipment (UE); identifying a DL transmission of a second traffic type to be punctured; transmitting the DL transmission of the first traffic type by puncturing the identified DL transmission of the second traffic type; receiving a Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) Negative Acknowledgement (NACK) associated with the punctured DL transmission of the second traffic type; and excluding the HARQ NACK associated with the punctured DL transmission of the second traffic type from a DL Contention Window Size (CWS) adjustment operation of the network node.
US11277209B2	Method and system for ultrasonic proximity service A network service can detect an ultrasonic signal by an ultrasonic receptive component of a first device. The ultrasonic signal can be based on an ultrasonic output signal transmitted from an audio output component. In response to the detected ultrasonic signal, the network service can perform a network service operation.
US11277201B1	Coordinated satellite and terrestrial channel utilization Apparatuses, methods, and systems for coordinated satellite and terrestrial channel utilization, are disclosed. One wireless system includes a plurality of base stations, a plurality of hubs, and a controller. For an embodiment, the controller is operative to determine discrete communication delays for each base station based upon a maximum propagation delay between each base station and the one or more of the plurality of hubs, generate a channel sharing map that includes a timing of communication between each base station and the one or more of the plurality of hubs, communicate the channel sharing map to the plurality of base stations. Further, each of the plurality of base stations operates to time wireless communication with the plurality of hubs based on the channel sharing map, the discrete communication delays of the base station, and a communication delay of a preceding base station according to the channel sharing map.
US11277200B2	System and method for estimating a pointing error of a satellite antenna A system for estimating a pointing error of an antenna (ANT) of a satellite, the satellite includes a payload (CU) comprising a multichannel transmitter or receiver comprising a multichannel antenna (ANT), one analogue processing chain per channel and a set of digital integrated circuits (PN), the system comprising an estimation device (EST), implemented aboard the satellite or in a ground station, for estimating a pointing error of the antenna, the device for estimating a pointing error being configured to: acquire, for at least two channels of the transmitter or of the receiver, at least two test signals, each test signal having been transmitted or received by the antenna along a different direction (θA, θB), for at least one pair of acquired test signals, determine, for each test signal, a relative complex gain between the test signal received or transmitted respectively on two distinct channels, determine a comparative measurement between the two test signals from either the ratio between the two relative complex gains and/or the difference between the phases of the two relative complex gains, determine a pointing error (dθ) of the antenna on the basis of the comparative measurement, of the expected directions of transmission or of reception of the test signals (θA, θB) and of a model of the gain of the antenna for each channel and in a plurality of directions.
US11277196B2	Base station device, program, control device, and control method Provided is a base station device that is mounted in a flying object, forms a communication area on a ground, establishes a communication connection with a user terminal in the communication area, and provides a radio communication service to the user terminal, and comprises a connection control unit that, when the number of connected terminals is larger than a first threshold, performs admission control in response to a connection request received from the user terminal, and when the number of connected terminals is smaller than the first threshold and larger than a second threshold smaller than the first threshold, periodically selects a connection allowable group, executes a connection establishment process in response to a connection request from a user terminal included in the connection allowable group, and executes a request rejection process that rejects a connection request from a user terminal not included in the connection allowable group.
US11277192B2	Uplink timing compensation A user equipment (UE) may monitor multiple beam pair links (BPLs) including a first BPL currently used by the UE to communicate with a network node (e.g., a base station), and a second BPL. The first BPL comprises a first network beam and a first UE beam, and the second BPL comprises a second network beam and a second UE beam. The UE may decide to switch beams from using the first BPL to using the second BPL based on signaling from the network node or autonomously. When the beam switch is made, the UE switches uplink (UL) transmission from over the first UE beam to over the second UE beam. After the beam switch is made, the UE transmits in the UL over the second UE beam using UL timing adjusted based on the first and second propagation delays.
US11277190B2	Determination of a preferred beam in a cellular communication network employing signal beam-forming A method for acquiring an indication of a preferred beam of a wireless communication device is disclosed. The method is performed in a network node of a cellular communication network. The network node is adapted to support a plurality of beams of a signal beam-forming scheme and to communicate with the wireless communication device using at least one beam of the plurality of beams. A message indicative of the beam power setting is transmitted to the wireless communication device. Measurement signals are also transmitted. A report indicative of the preferred beam is received from the wireless communication device. The preferred beam is determined by the wireless communication device based on the measurement signals and the beam power setting. Corresponding methods for the wireless communication device, as well as corresponding arrangements, network node, wireless communication device, cellular communication network, and computer program products are also disclosed.
US11277187B2	Method and apparatus for CSI parameter configuration in wireless communication systems A method for operating a user equipment (UE) comprises receiving, from a base station (BS), CSI feedback configuration information including codebook parameters configured jointly via a single radio resource control (RRC) parameter, the codebook parameters comprising L, p, ν0, and β, wherein the parameter L determines a number of spatial domain (SD) basis vectors, the parameter β determines a maximum number of coefficients, and the parameters p and ν0 determine a number (Mν) of frequency domain (FD) basis vectors, wherein the parameter p is for a first rank set and the parameter ν0 is for a second rank set; generating the CSI feedback based on the CSI feedback configuration information, wherein the CSI feedback is generated for a rank value ν from one of the first and second rank sets; and transmitting, to the BS, the CSI feedback over an uplink channel.
US11277179B2	Determining channel state information in advanced networks Facilitating a determination of channel state information for advanced networks (e.g., 4G, 5G, and beyond) is provided herein. Operations of a system can comprise configuring a mobile device with a demodulation reference signal. The operations can also comprise transmitting a channel state information reference signal to the mobile device, wherein the channel state information reference signal configures a number of channel state information reference signal ports. Operations of another system can comprise determining a number of resources for a group of transmission ranks and determining a link quality metric for transmission ranks of the group of transmission ranks. The operations can also comprise selecting a transmission rank and a precoding matrix indicator and transmitting the precoding matrix indicator to a network device.
US11277174B2	Channel state feedback computation and beam training for full-duplex communication Aspects of the present disclosure relate to wireless communications, and more particularly, to channel state operations using full-duplex communication. One example method generally includes receiving at least one channel state information-reference signal (CSI-RS) from a base station, transmitting at least one sounding reference signal (SRS) to the base station, wherein the CSI-RS is received simultaneously with the transmission of the at least one SRS, and transmitting, to the base station, at least one channel state feedback message comprising channel state information based on the at least one CSI-RS.
US11277173B2	Radio distribution system A distributed antenna system for providing extended signal coverage within an indoor area is disclosed. In the system, a master unit receives a first modulated signal from an outdoor base transceiver station, and relays the modulated signal to a remote unit through a distribution network. The master unit also receives a base band signal originating outside the indoor area, and transmits the baseband signal to a micro base transceiver station through the distribution network. The micro base transceiver station modulates the base band signal and transmits the modulated base band signal to a terminal unit through an indoor antenna.
US11277168B2	Communication device and echo cancellation method A communication device is disclosed. The communication device includes a transceiver circuit, an echo canceler, and a processor. The transceiver circuit is configured to transmit a test signal to a channel. The echo canceler is configured to obtain a plurality of echo power of a reflected signal corresponding to the test signal. The processor is configured to obtain a plurality of positions on the channel according to a parameter value. The parameter value is N, a number of the plurality of positions is N, and the plurality of positions corresponds to the top N largest of the plurality of echo power. The echo canceler is further configured to eliminate part of the plurality of echo power corresponding to the plurality of positions according to the plurality of positions.
US11277167B2	Multi-bitrate video with dynamic blocks Methods, systems, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for providing dynamic block control of multi-bitrate video are described. In some embodiments, a computing device may determine transcoder conditions of a transcoder independent of a client device. The computing device may dynamically adjust a block size of one or more blocks of a stream based on the transcoder conditions. In some embodiments, a computing device may receive a stream. The client device may package the stream into a first packaged stream having a first block size and a second packaged stream having a second block size less than the first block size. In some embodiments, a client device may determine an actual minimum number of blocks to buffer prior to initiating content playback based on a received predicted network and/or transcoder quality of service forecast. The client device may adjust its preset minimum number of blocks to the actual minimum number of blocks.
US11277165B2	Radio frequency front-end transmission module, chip, and communications terminal Disclosed in the present invention are a radio frequency front-end transmission module, a chip, and a communications terminal. In the radio frequency front-end transmission method, an output matching circuit of at least one transmission channel is connected to a switch unit, and is connected to a radio frequency transmission path by using the switch unit; an output matching circuit of another at least one transmission channel is directly connected to the radio frequency transmission path. By means of the present invention, a matched transmission channel can be selected according to different frequency bands in different modes, and a control unit controls on and off of a corresponding amplification unit and the switch unit, to implement output of radio frequency signals of different frequency bands in different modes.
US11277162B2	Adjacent channel suppression based on adjacent channel properties in FM radio broadcast receivers Exemplary aspects are directed to FM-radio circuitries and systems in which, at the receiving end of an FM broadcast transmission, circuitry is used to set the bandwidth for receiving the desired channel of the FM broadcast signal based on measured signal properties of immediately-adjacent channel(s) and based on an inverse relationship between an indication of FM modulation level of the other channel(s) and the amount for which the bandwidth is to be set. FM-signal processing circuitry such as logic/CPU circuitry, then receives the desired channel, including information carried by the FM broadcast signal, in response to setting the bandwidth based on the measured signal properties.
US11277157B2	Radio frequency module and communication device A radio frequency module includes: a duplexer for a first communication band; a first power amplifier and a first low-noise amplifier connected to the duplexer; a second power amplifier and a second low-noise amplifier for a second communication band; and a switch that switches a connection of an antenna connection terminal between the second power amplifier and the second low-noise amplifier, wherein the first power amplifier and the second power amplifier are disposed on a first principal surface of a module substrate, the first low-noise amplifier and the second low-noise amplifier are incorporated in a semiconductor IC disposed on a second principal surface of the module substrate, and in a plan view of the module substrate, the distance between the first power amplifier and the semiconductor IC is greater than the distance between the second power amplifier and the semiconductor IC.
US11277148B2	Double-pass Lempel-Ziv data compression with automatic selection of static encoding trees and prefix dictionaries A method includes receiving an input data stream at a processor, and for each byte sequence from a plurality of byte sequences of the input data stream, a hash is generated and compared to a hash table to determine whether a match exists. If a match exists, that byte sequence is incrementally expanded to include one or more additional adjacent bytes from the input data stream, to produce multiple expanded byte sequences. Each of the expanded byte sequences is compared to the hash table to identify a maximum-length matched byte sequence from a set that includes the byte sequence and the plurality of expanded byte sequences. A representation of the maximum-length matched byte sequence is stored in the memory. If a match does not exist, a representation of that byte sequence is stored as a byte sequence literal in the memory.
US11277146B2	Analog-to-digital converter An analog-to-digital converter (ADC) configured to convert an analog signal to digital bits. The ADC includes a plurality of sub-ADCs that are cascaded in a pipeline. Each sub-ADC may be configured to sample an input signal that is fed to each sub-ADC and convert the sampled input signal to a pre-configured number of digital bits. Each sub-ADC except a last sub-ADC in the pipeline is configured to generate a residue signal and feed the residue signal as the input signal to a succeeding sub-ADC in the pipeline. At least one sub-ADC is configured to determine a most-significant bit (MSB) of the pre-configured number of digital bits while the input signal is sampled. The ADC may include a plurality of residue amplifiers for amplifying a residue signal. The sub-ADCs may be successive approximation register (SAR) ADCs or flash ADCs.
US11277139B2	Phase correcting device, distance measuring device, phase fluctuation detecting device and phase correction method A phase correcting device includes a local oscillator that includes an all digital phase-locked loop configured to output a local oscillation signal, a first phase detector configured to detect a phase of the local oscillation signal to output the phase of the local oscillation signal, a reference phase device configured to generate a quasi-reference phase corresponding to a reference phase of the local oscillation signal to output the quasi-reference phase, based on a reference clock, a second phase detector configured to detect a fluctuation amount of a phase of the local oscillator, based on the phase detected by the first phase detector and the quasi-reference phase, and a correction circuit configured to correct the phase of the inputted signal by using a detection result of the second phase detector.
US11277138B2	Hierarchical statistically multiplexed counters and a method thereof Embodiments of the present invention relate to an architecture that uses hierarchical statistically multiplexed counters to extend counter life by orders of magnitude. Each level includes statistically multiplexed counters. The statistically multiplexed counters includes P base counters and S subcounters, wherein the S subcounters are dynamically concatenated with the P base counters. When a row overflow in a level occurs, counters in a next level above are used to extend counter life. The hierarchical statistically multiplexed counters can be used with an overflow FIFO to further extend counter life.
US11277134B2	Semiconductor memory device According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory device includes: a memory cell array and a signal propagation circuit disposed on a propagation path of a signal or a control signal, wherein the signal propagation circuit includes: a first inverted signal output circuit; a second inverted signal output circuit including an input terminal connected to an output terminal of the first inverted signal output circuit; a third inverted signal output circuit including an input terminal connected to output terminals of the first inverted signal output circuit and the second inverted signal output circuit; a fourth inverted signal output circuit including an input terminal connected to an output terminal of the third inverted signal output circuit; and a fifth inverted signal output circuit including an input terminal connected to output terminals of the third inverted signal output circuit and the fourth inverted signal output circuit.
US11277133B1	Level shifter with isolation logic Various implementations described herein are related to a device having level shifter circuitry configured to receive isolation control signals in a first voltage domain and provide an output signal in a second voltage domain that is different than the first voltage domain. The device may include isolation logic circuitry configured to receive a data input signal in the first voltage domain and then provide the isolation control signals to the level shifter circuitry in the first voltage domain based on the data input signal. The isolation logic circuitry may include control passgates that enable the data input signal to propagate to the level shifter circuitry via the isolation control signals.
US11277128B1	High current solid-state bidirectional relay A high current solid-state bidirectional relay assembly includes a first conductor bar, a second conductor bar, and a third intermediate conductor bar. A plurality of MOSFET switching elements are disposed in two back-to-back arrays of switching elements. Either all of the source leads or all of the drain leads of the plurality of MOSFET switching element are electrically connected to the third intermediate conductor bar. The other leads of each MOSFET switching element in one of the arrays are electrically connected to the first conductor bar, and the other leads of each MOSFET switching element in the other array are electrically connected to the second conductor bar. A printed circuit board has control circuitry to control the bidirectional relay. All of the gate leads of the plurality of MOSFET switching elements are electrically connected to the control circuitry of the printed circuit board.
US11277123B2	Method for controlling transmission of electromagnetic wave on basis of light, and device therefor A device for controlling transmission of electromagnetic waves according to the present disclosure includes: a conductor line which is positioned on a signal layer and through which electromagnetic waves received via an input terminal travel; a ground layer electrically separated from the signal layer through a dielectric layer and electrically grounded; a shunt via including a first end and a second end and connected to the conductor line through the first end; and a photoconductive semiconductor connected between the second end of the shunt via and the ground layer and having a dielectric state or a conducting state, based on an input of an optical signal, wherein the conductor line is electrically connected to the ground layer via the shunt via and the photoconductive semiconductor in the conducting state, thereby causing reflection of electromagnetic waves from the shunt via.
US11277116B2	Multiplexer A multiplexer includes a transmit filter circuit, a receive filter circuit, and an additional circuit connected in parallel with a portion of the transmit filter circuit. The transmit filter circuit includes series resonators on a signal path connecting a common terminal and a first terminal, and parallel resonators on the signal path between a node and ground. The series resonator closest to the first terminal includes split resonators. The additional circuit includes a capacitor and a resonator group. The resonator group includes IDT electrodes side by side in the direction of acoustic wave propagation. A first end of the resonator group is connected to the common terminal with the capacitor interposed therebetween. A second end of the resonator group is connected to the signal path between two of the split resonators such that no capacitor is interposed between the second end and the signal path.
US11277115B2	Crystal vibration element, and crystal vibrator equipped with crystal vibration element A crystal vibration element that includes a crystal piece that has a prescribed crystal orientation, and a first direction and a second direction in a plan view thereof; and excitation electrodes that are respectively provided on front and rear surfaces of the crystal piece in order to excite a thickness shear vibration in the crystal piece upon application of an alternating electric field. A vibration distribution of the crystal piece has a vibration region that extends in a band-like shape in the second direction of the crystal piece and non-vibration regions that are adjacent to opposed sides of the vibration region in the first direction of the crystal piece.
US11277112B2	Micro-electro-mechanical device with reduced temperature sensitivity and manufacturing method thereof A microelectromechanical device having a mobile structure including mobile arms formed from a composite material and having a fixed structure including fixed arms capacitively coupled to the mobile arms. The composite material includes core regions of insulating material and a silicon coating.
US11277110B2	Fast frequency switching in a resonant high-Q analog filter A variable filter and method of switching a resonant frequency of the variable filter from an initial frequency to a desired frequency, where the variable filter has a tunable frequency and a variable Q. With the variable filter operating at the initial frequency and an initial Q, the variable filter is Q-spoiled toward a low-Q state. The variable filter is tuned toward the desired frequency and the tunable resonator is Q-enhanced from the low-Q state to achieve a desired filter response.
US11277108B1	Variable gain amplifiers with cross-couple switching arrangements An example VGA includes a transistor arrangement having a plurality of transistors configured to realize one or more gain step circuits of the VGA, and a cross-couple switching arrangement having a plurality of switches configured to selectively change the coupling of the terminals of at least some of the transistors depending on whether a given gain step circuit is supposed to be in an ON state or in an OFF state. Using the cross-couple switching arrangement advantageously allows keeping all of the transistors ON at all times during operation and changing the coupling of some transistor terminals to either realize an in-phase addition of currents flowing through various transistors to apply the maximum gain or realize a subtraction of currents to apply the minimum gain. Such a VGA may be inherently wideband, enabling a highly linear, wideband operation without having to resort to significant trade-offs with other performance parameters.
US11277102B2	Power amplifier module with temperature compensation A power amplifier module includes a power amplifier including an amplifier including an amplifying transistor configured to amplify an input signal, and output an output signal, and a bias circuit including a bias transistor configured to provide a bias current to the amplifying transistor; and a controller configured to provide a control current to the bias transistor, wherein the controller is configured to vary the control current based on a temperature of the amplifying transistor.
US11277086B2	Radially symmetric three-phase optimized power control PCB layout Various methods of optimizing the operation of a multiphase electric motor are disclosed, the methods including the step of: activating a series of bottom-side power switches during an off-time interval of the pulse measurement for each of a series of measurement pulse combinations of said motor.
US11277085B2	Apparatus and method for controlling motor An apparatus for controlling a motor may include: an inverter unit configured to output 3-phase AC currents through a plurality of switches to be switched by an input control signal to drive a 3-phase motor; a current detection unit including a plurality of current sensors configured to detect two or more phase currents among the 3-phase AC currents flowing through the 3-phase motor; and a control unit configured to receive respective fed-back phase currents detected by the plurality of respective current sensors, correct the phase currents by applying, to the fed-back phase currents, respective correction gains estimated in advance on the plurality of respective current sensors so as to compensate for a current detection deviation of each of the plurality of respective current sensors, and then control the inverter unit based on the corrected phase currents to control driving of the 3-phase motor.
US11277082B2	Multipurpose brake A motor drive system comprises a power converter arranged to supply an input voltage to a motor connected to the power converter by a cable arrangement. The cable arrangement includes first, second, and third conductors, each of said conductors being electrically coupled at one end to the power converter, and to the motor at the other end. A resistive portion is connected to a respective node of each of said first, second, and third conductors. A capacitive portion is connected to the resistive portion in series. A switching portion is connected in parallel to the capacitive portion and is operable in open and closed states. In the closed state, the capacitive portion is bypassed, providing for dissipation of regenerative energy from the motor. In the open state, the capacitive portion is not bypassed, and acts with the resistive portion to provide RC damper functionality to mitigate transmission line effects from the conductors.
US11277079B2	Bearing-less electrostatic flywheel A bearing-less flywheel both exchanges energy with a rotating flywheel using a regenerative controller via a rotating electrostatic field but also suspends the flywheel with an electrostatic field to provide a compact robust mechanism for energy storage.
US11277077B2	Power conversion device suppressing waveform distortion in an output voltage A power conversion device includes: a three-phase inverter including a plurality of switching elements; and a controller configured to PWM-control the three-phase inverter based on three phase voltage commands. The controller generates a zero-phase voltage command using a two-phase modulation scheme and a third harmonic component of the three phase voltage commands. The controller adds the generated zero-phase voltage command to each of the three phase voltage commands to thereby correct each of the three phase voltage commands. The controller compares each of the corrected three phase voltage commands with a carrier wave, to thereby generate a control signal for controlling switching of the plurality of switching elements.
US11277076B2	Converter and method for the control thereof A method controls a converter having a plurality of switching modules. Each of the switching modules has controllably interruptible semiconductor switches and an energy store. A switching frequency of the switching modules is regulated in consideration of at least one integral limiting value, wherein the at least one integral limiting value is variably determined over time, in accordance with the energy store voltages of the switching modules.
US11277069B2	Frequency controller A frequency controller for operating a switching power converter is provided. The frequency controller includes an output circuit, an operation signal generator, and a transition signal generator. The output circuit is to connect to a switching power converter. The startup signal generator is connected to the output circuit via a first connection line and configured to generate a startup signal with a startup-frequency during a startup period of the switching power converter. The operation signal generator is connected to the output circuit via a second connection line and configured to generate an operation signal with an operation-frequency during an operation period of the switching power converter. The transition signal generator is connected to the output circuit via a third connection line and configured to generate a transition signal with varied frequencies during a transition period between the startup period and the operation period.
US11277068B2	Switched-mode power controller with multi-mode startup A switched-mode power controller includes a primary side controller circuit configured in a startup mode of operation to generate a fixed switching frequency pulse width modulation (PWM) signal with incrementing duty-ratio value. The PWM signal drives a main-switch that charges an inductive device with stored energy and discharges the stored energy into a capacitor on a secondary side to generate a power controller output voltage. Based on a comparison of the power controller output voltage with a reference voltage, the primary side controller circuit is configured to stop the incrementing of the duty-ratio of the PWM signal and begin a quasi-resonant mode of operation during which the primary side controller circuit reduces a number of valleys detected in one or more off-times of the main-switch in one or more respective main-switch switching periods.
US11277065B2	Power supply with controlled shunting element An integrated circuit including a power supply including an AC input, an AC to DC rectifier, a DC output of the rectifier, a switch for shunting the AC input, and a controller including a first connection to the DC output, a second connection to the AC input, wherein the controller is configured to monitor the DC output, determine if the DC output is within a first threshold of a desired output, monitor instantaneous AC voltage across the AC input, determine if an absolute difference of the AC input from zero voltage is less than a second threshold, and if the DC output is within the first threshold and the absolute difference of the instantaneous AC input from zero voltage is less than the second threshold, then provide a command to the switch to shunt the AC input. Related apparatus and methods are also described.
US11277062B2	System and method for an electric motor/generator with a multi-layer stator/rotor assembly Disclosed are various embodiments for a new and improved electric motor/generator including a toroidal magnetic cylinder centered on the longitudinal axis, and a coil assembly including a first coil assembly support positioned within the toroidal magnetic cylinder, and a second coil assembly support positioned within the toroidal magnetic cylinder.
US11277050B2	Electric motor An electric motor, especially for a fluid-handling system, comprises an external stator and an internal rotor mounted to rotate around an axis. The said external stator comprises a multiplicity of ferromagnetic pole pieces disposed around the axis and having winding cores extending substantially radially, an injection-molded plastic structure having a bushing and, molded thereon, winding supports enveloping the winding cores, as well as stator windings received on the winding supports. The bushing comprises a sleeve having a closed inner face extending radially inside the pole pieces and an end piece that closes the sleeve in the end region. The rotor is disposed inside the sleeve and mounted in a bearing disposed in the end piece.
US11277046B2	Rotary electric machine A rotary electric machine includes a stator core having a plurality of teeth arranged in a row along a circumferential direction of the stator core, and a stator coil composed of a winding wire wound around the teeth. The stator coil includes coil end portions extending, outside the stator core in an axial direction thereof, along a substantially circumferential direction of the stator core, and straight portions extending along the axial direction, the straight portions being at least partially housed in a slot which is a void defined by two adjacent teeth of the plurality of teeth. In the rotary electric machine, a cooling groove is formed at least in the straight portion, the cooling groove functioning as a cooling channel through which a cooling fluid flows, and each straight portion includes only one cooling channel.
US11277044B2	Compressor The invention relates to a compressor for refrigerant having a compressor housing, said compressor housing being provided with a suction inlet and a pressure outlet, said compressor comprising a compression unit, arranged in a compression housing section of said compressor housing and an electric motor arranged in a motor housing section of said compressor housing, said electric motor comprising a stator arranged within a stator receiving sleeve of said motor housing section and a rotor surrounded by said stator and arranged on a drive shaft of said electric motor for rotation about an axis of rotation together with said drive shaft, said stator comprising a stator core having a stack of laminations and extending parallel to said axis of rotation from a first front side to a second front side, said stator having windings extending through said stator core and forming end windings arranged in front of said front surfaces, and a channel for guiding at least a portion of said refrigerant entering through said suction inlet along an outer side of said stator before entering said compression unit.
US11277043B2	Winding structure of electrical machine, magnetic conductive member of electrical machine, ferromagnetic lamination and electrical machine A ferromagnetic lamination, a magnetic conductive member of an electrical machine, an electrical machine having the magnetic conductive member of the electrical machine, a winding structure of an electrical machine, an electrical machine having the winding structure of the electrical machine, and an electric energy and magnetic energy conversion device are provided. The magnetic conductive member of the electrical machine includes winding slots, and multiple cavities are formed on an inner wall of each of the winding slots. With the magnetic conductive member of the electrical machine, a liquid insulating medium can be effectively retained and fixed by means of a cavity structure when an insulating treatment is performed on the magnetic conductive member of the electrical machine, and a rooted intermediate elastic base is formed at a ferromagnetic boundary after the liquid insulating medium is solidified, thereby effectively preventing the insulating medium from peeling, splitting or falling off.
US11277038B2	Apparatus and method for RF beamforming wireless power transmission based on TDD communication A power transmitting unit (PTU) for wireless power transmission (WPT) includes a communication transceiver and a power controller. The communication transceiver connects a communication link with at least one power receiving unit (PRU) through legacy communication and exchanges parameters necessary for the WPT through the connected communication link. The power controller is configured to transmit, to the PRU, a PTU beacon containing information about a dedicated power slot (DPS) allocated to the PRU in a super frame including a plurality of DPSs, to receive a PRU beacon from the PRU, to extract a phase difference between a plurality of antennas by analyzing a continuous wave (CW) of the PRU beacon, and to transmit power to the PRU in the allocated DPS in consideration of the phase difference.
US11277035B1	Automatic gain control for communications demodulation in wireless power transmitters A wireless transmission system includes a transmitter antenna, a sensor, a demodulation circuit, and a transmitter controller. The sensor is configured to detect electrical information associated with AC wireless signals, the electrical information including, at least, a voltage of the AC wireless signals. The demodulation circuit is configured to receive the electrical information from the at least one sensor, detect a change in the electrical information, determine if the change in the electrical information meets or exceeds one of a rise threshold or a fall threshold, if the change exceeds one of the rise threshold or the fall threshold, generate an alert, and output a plurality of data alerts. The transmitter controller is configured to receive the plurality of data alerts from the demodulation circuit and decode the plurality of data alerts into the wireless data signals.
US11277033B1	Wireless power receiver with in-band virtualized wired communications Wireless power transfer systems, disclosed, include a wireless power transmission system and a wireless power receiver system. The wireless power transmission system includes a transmitter antenna configured to couple with a receiver antenna to transmit alternating current (AC) wireless signals to the receiver antenna. Antenna coupling may be inductive and may operate in conformance to a wireless power and data transfer protocol. A transmission controller drives the transmitter antenna at an operating frequency, and either the wireless power transmission system or the wireless power receiver system may damp the wireless power transmission to create a data signal containing a serial asynchronous data signal.
US11277032B2	Electronic apparatus, power supply system and power supply control method According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes power transmission circuitry, and detection circuitry. The power transmission circuitry transmits power by an electromagnetic wave with a first frequency band. The detection circuitry receives a reception signal and performs carrier sense with a second frequency band different from the first frequency band. The detection circuitry includes interference avoidance circuitry that eliminates a signal having a third frequency band which is a part of the second frequency band from the reception signal.
US11277028B2	Wireless electrical energy transmission system for flexible device orientation Various embodiments of inductor coils, antennas, and transmission bases configured for wireless electrical energy transmission are provided. These embodiments are configured to wirelessly transmit or receive electrical energy or data via near field magnetic coupling. The embodiments of inductor coils comprise a figure eight configuration that improve efficiency of wireless transmission efficiency. The embodiments of the transmission base are configured with at least one transmitting antenna and a transmitting electrical circuit positioned within the transmission base. The transmission base is configured so that at least one electronic device can be wirelessly electrically charged or powered by positioning the at least one device in contact with or adjacent to the transmission base.
US11277027B2	VAR control for inductive power transfer systems Disclosed herein is an inductive power transfer (IPT) compensation circuit and method for reflecting a controlled reactance to a primary conductor at a selected operating frequency, compensating for reactive loads reflected to the primary conductor by one or more other pick-ups inductively coupled with the primary conductor in use. The compensation circuit comprises a first switch means coupled to a resonant circuit and operable to reflect a capacitive reactance to the primary conductor; a second switch means coupled to the resonant circuit and operable to reflect an inductive reactance to the primary conductor; and control means adapted to control operation of the first and second switch means to compensate for inductive and capacitive reactances, respectively, in the primary conductor.
US11277020B2	Motor vehicle having an AC charging device with a precharge circuit for a smoothing capacitor An AC charging device for a motor vehicle has a neutral conductor, at least one phase conductor, and at least one rectifier. The neutral conductor and the phase conductor are connected to the rectifier and the rectifier is furthermore electrically connected to at least one smoothing capacitor. The AC charging device includes a precharge circuit arranged between a mains connection of the AC charging device and the smoothing capacitor. The precharge circuit is designed to precharge the smoothing capacitor. The phase conductor, in a connection section, is connected to at least one further phase conductor of the AC charging device by way of a cross-connection line, which has a cross-connection switch for disconnecting the phase conductor and the further phase conductor. The precharge circuit is arranged between a mains connection of a first phase conductor of the phase conductors and the connection section.
US11277014B1	Smart connection device, start-up power supply, and battery clamp The present disclosure provides a smart connection device, a jump starter and a battery clamp. The smart connection device includes a power connection terminal, a load connection terminal, a switch circuit, and a reverse connection detection module. The power connection terminal and the load connection terminal are respectively electrically coupled to the battery assembly and the external load. The reverse connection detection module outputs, when it detects that the external load is reversely coupled to the load connection end, a first control signal to control the switch circuit to disconnect an electrical connection between the battery assembly and the external load, so as to prevent the battery assembly from providing a discharge output to the external load.
US11277004B1	Supplying off-grid power to a remote facility An off-grid power system includes a first renewable electrical power assembly configured to produce direct current (DC) electrical power from a first renewable source; a second renewable electrical power assembly configured to produce DC electrical power from a second renewable source; an electrical power circuit that electrically couples the first and second renewable electrical power assemblies together and changes the DC electrical power to at least one of a DC power supply or an alternating current (AC) power supply; and an off-grid hydrocarbon production or processing facility electrically coupled to the electrical power circuit to receive the at least one of the DC power supply or the AC power supply from the electrical power circuit.
US11277003B2	Multi-phase EMI and transient protection circuits and synchronous rectification control for compressors of refrigeration systems A drive for a mobile compressor includes EMI and transient protection circuits, second chokes, converters and an inverter. The EMI and transient protection circuits include respectively common mode chokes and at least one component. Each of the common mode chokes is configured to receive a first direct current voltage and is connected to first and second grounds. The at least one component is connected to a third ground. The first, second and third grounds are at different voltage potentials. The second chokes are connected downstream from the common mode chokes. The converters are connected to outputs of the second chokes and are configured to collectively provide a second direct current voltage to a direct current bus. The inverter is connected to the direct current bus and configured to convert the second direct current voltage to an alternating current voltage to power the mobile compressor downstream from the inverter.
US11277002B2	Surge protection device for the protection of multiple DC or AC power lines A circuit arrangement for a surge protection device for protecting multiple DC or AC power lines. The circuit arrangement includes a plurality of DC or AC power line inputs, a negative potential or neutral input, a ground potential input, a surge protection component having one or more surge elements, a rectification circuit including a plurality of diodes, and an alarm circuit for receiving a status output from the surge protection component.
US11276996B1	Configurable electrical outlet cover enclosure An electrical outlet cover with a lid having a configurable protrusion or recess to accommodate different uses and weather resistance states. The electrical outlet cover includes a base coupled to an electrical outlet and a lid hingedly coupled to the base along a first side. The lid includes a frame with a central aperture and a telescoping enclosure with a flange at a front edge of a sleeve, the flange extending outward from the sleeve. The sleeve may include a ledge extending outward from the sleeve adjacent a back edge of the sleeve on at least two sides of the sleeve. The sleeve is slidably coupled within the central aperture and movable between an expanded position and a collapsed position. The flange may abut the frame in the collapsed position and the ledge may abut the frame in the expanded position.
US11276994B2	Rejuvenation of subsea electrical cable insulation Described is a cable rejuvenation apparatus for a cable used in a subsea environment. The apparatus applies a bias signal to a conducting element of the cable, the bias signal being selected to improve the insulation properties of the cable. The bias signal is generated by a bias signal generator that includes a voltage source that generates a bias voltage having a time varying component. The bias voltage promotes an electrochemical reaction between the conducting element and the salt containing liquid of the subsea environment resulting in the formation of a barrier material at the fault location restricting further leakage current flow and enhancing the insulation resistance of the cable. The bias signal is a voltage selected such that the electrochemical reaction promoted by the bias voltage maintains the presence of the barrier material at the fault location.
US11276993B2	Cable-jacket removal tool A cable-jacket removal tool is described. The tool includes cutting unit that provides a cutting cylinder that carries a blade and a die. The blade is adjustable to provide a desired depth of cut into the cable jacket. The die is interchangeable and selectable based on a diameter or gage of cable to be stripped. A drive unit that is adapted to be driven by a common, handheld, battery operated drill is also provided. The drive unit rotates the cutting cylinder and the blade carried thereby about the circumference of the cable. The drill is coupled to the drive unit such that the axis of rotation of the drill and the cutting cylinder are substantially parallel and an operator can easily apply a force on the tool via the drill in a direction substantially parallel to those axes of rotation.
US11276990B2	Electrical cabinet An electrical cabinet includes a frame hinge fixed to a frame of the cabinet and a door hinge fixed to a door of the cabinet. The frame hinge forms an insertion window for receiving the door hinge. A hinge pin is inserted through aligned seats of the frame hinge. The door hinge is inserted into the insertion window around the hinge pin. A blocking screw or pin is inserted through a third seat in a direction substantially perpendicular to the hinge pin to block the hinge pin and secure the door to the frame.
US11276986B2	Photo-sensing reflectors for compact display module assembly comprising a reflective coating on a light receiving surface of a reflective photodiode Techniques are provided to reduce the form factor of laser-based systems by multi-purposing a photodiode used to help control the output of a laser. A reflective photodiode comprises a light receiving surface and a reflective coating. The light receiving surface is configured to absorb some incident light and to convert it into electrical current. The reflective coating is disposed on the light receiving surface and is configured to reflect some of the incident light away from the light receiving surface. The reflective coating also permits some of the incoming light to pass therethrough for absorption.
US11276974B2	Socket for electrical component An IC socket (11) comprises contact pins (14) disposed in the socket body (13) to be disjunctive to terminals of the IC package (12), an opening and closing body (19A,19B) rotatably provided in the socket body (13), the opening and closing body (19A,19B) having a pressing member (23a,23b) for pressing a top surface of the IC package (12) accommodated on an accommodating surface portion (16d) of the socket body (13); and an operating member (20) for opening and closing the opening and closing body (19A,19B) disposed up and down movably with respect to the socket body (13). A first opening and closing body (19A) having a heat sink (23a) for pressing an entire of the top surface of the IC package (12) and a second opening and closing body (19B) having a block (23b) for pressing the heat sink (23a) are disposed at different positions mutually.
US11276962B2	Connector and manufacturing method thereof A connector (1) includes first terminals (3A), a first resin core (2A), second connector terminals (3B), second resin cores (2B) and an outer resin part (4). Base ends (312) of inner end parts (31A) of the first terminals (3A) face a second exposed surface (21B) of the second resin core (2B) with a clearance (S) formed between the base end parts (312) and the second exposed surface (21B). Tips (311) of the inner end parts (31A) of the first terminals (3A) are formed with bent tips (311A) projecting away from the second exposed surface (21B). The second exposed surface (21B) has a size to entirely surround the inner end parts (31A) of the first terminals (3A).
US11276961B2	Connector housing, connector housing assembly and connector assembly The application relates to a connector housing, a connector housing assembly and a connector assembly. The connector housing has a housing body and a shroud. The housing body encloses an accommodating cavity. The shroud is disposed around and connected to the housing body. A gap is formed between the shroud and the housing body to form a slot. The connector housing is further provided with one of a lug or a sliding groove. The lug or the sliding groove is positioned in the slot. According to the connector housing assembly and the connector assembly in the application, the lugs are matched with the sliding grooves to guide the first connector housing and the second connector housing during plug-in connection, so as to avoid failure of installation in place due to relative deflection of them.
US11276958B2	Connector A connector includes a casing, a locking member and a sliding actuation frame. The casing has a housing, the housing has a mounting portion. The locking member is pivoted to the mounting portion and can rotate under a force, and has a front section and a rear section at opposite ends. The sliding actuation frame is provided in the mounting portion and can move between a normal position and an operated position relative to the housing, and includes an unlocking bar and a locking bar. When the sliding actuation frame is in the normal position, the locking bar abuts against the front section and the unlocking bar leaves the rear section to position the front section in the locking position and the front section cannot move toward the unlocking position. When the sliding actuation frame is operatively moved rearwardly from the normal position to the operated position along the front-rear direction, the locking bar leaves the front section and the unlocking bar abuts against the rear section so as to make the front section move to the unlocking position.
US11276957B2	Electrical connection point An electrical connection point including a functional block that includes a functional faceplate and a rear electrical plug and including a base that includes a housing to receive the functional block in a plugged in position. To reduce the risk of accidental detachment of the functional block, while improving the removable character of its fixing, the electrical connection point includes a lock with a ring that surrounds the functional faceplate and is disposed so as to be accessible from the outside of the housing when the functional block is received in the housing, the ring being rotatable relative to the rear electrical plug between an unlocking position to place the lock in the unlocking configuration and a locking position to place the lock in the locking configuration when the functional block is in the plugged in position.
US11276950B2	Mounting device with a heating device for receiving at least one preparation vessel for food A mounting device (1) for receiving at least one preparation vessel (2) for food with a heating device having at least one receiving portion (4) for the preparation vessel (2) and at least three contact sockets (5a, 5b, 5c, 5d, 5e) for at least partially receiving corresponding contact pins (6a, 6b, 6c) on the preparation vessel (2). A mounting device (1) for receiving at least one preparation vessel (2) for food with a heating device, in which the user safety is improved, is realized in that at least one first of the contact sockets (5c) including at least one signaling means (8), that the signaling means (8) generates at least one insertion signal when one of the contact pins (6b) is inserted at least partially into the first contact socket (5c), that when the insertion signal is present, at least one other of the contact sockets (5a, 5b, 5d, 5e) can be supplied with a working voltage, and that without the insertion signal being present, none of the contact sockets (5a, 5b, 5c, 5d, 5e) can be supplied with a working voltage.
US11276940B2	Waveguide slot array antenna A dielectric substrate is provided between a first waveguide member and a second waveguide member. The second waveguide member includes a plurality of slots for radiating a horizontally polarized wave. The dielectric substrate is provided with a plurality of line-shaped conductors arranged obliquely with respect to the waveguide axial direction and waveguide wall conductors as waveguide wall surfaces, and includes conductor-removed portions that function as vertically-polarized-wave radiation slot parallel to the waveguide axial direction. The waveguide wall conductors are connected by vias.
US11276939B2	Phased array antenna system including a modular control and monitoring architecture A phased array antenna system includes a plurality of radio frequency (RF) tile sub-arrays. Each RF tile sub-array includes a multiplicity of RF elements, a tile control integrated circuit, a multiplicity of RF integrated circuits and a configuration storage device. The configuration storage device stores data including calibration and configuration information that is unique to the RF tile sub-array and the tile control integrated circuit. The multiplicity of RF integrated circuits, the multiplicity of RF elements, and the configuration storage device are disposed on a single associated RF tile sub-array. The system also includes an antenna controller configured to process data for steering or tracking one or more RF beams by the multiplicity of RF elements. The calibration and configuration information that is unique to the RF tile sub-array is downloaded from the configuration storage device through the tile control integrated circuit to an RF element compensation table.
US11276933B2	High-gain antenna with cavity between feed line and ground plane An antenna device includes a conductive patch antenna element and a conductive feed line. The conductive feed line and the conductive patch antenna element are separated by one or more first dielectric layers. The antenna device also includes a ground plane. The ground plane is separated from the conductive feed line by a spacer structure that defines one or more walls of a cavity between the conductive feed line and the ground plane. The spacer structure includes one or more second dielectric layers.
US11276931B2	Antenna device and antenna array The invention relates to an antenna device having a printed circuit board and at least one antenna radiator which is arranged on the printed circuit board and can be excited by the printed circuit board or a coupling window arranged thereupon, which radiator is designed in such a manner that it comprises at least two polarisations, which are preferably orthogonal to each other, and at least two resonance frequency ranges which are continuous or different to one another and at an interval from one another, wherein the antenna radiator comprises: at least one first dielectric body mounted on the printed circuit board and designed as a resonator, having a first relative permittivity, at least one second dielectric body designed as, having a second relative permittivity, wherein the first relative permittivity is greater than the second relative permittivity and wherein the second dielectric body is formed in such a manner that it is arranged over the at least one first dielectric body in such a manner that it bundles or scatters the electrical field in a plane orthogonal to the main beam direction at least in one of the resonance frequency ranges. The invention also relates to an antenna array.
US11276928B1	Calibrating/monitoring method and apparatus for phased array antenna employing very near field A monitoring/calibrating system is provided based on the amplitude and/or phase of electric and/or magnetic fields measurements. In transmitter mode of AUT, one or more probe sets are placed very close to the AUT around the radiation aperture of AUT to prevent probes effects on the AUT performance. For each amplitude/phase state of AUT controller, the near field data are measured and compared with a previously stored dataset. A successive method can reduce the error by changing the amplitude/phase of AUT controller. Moreover, a machine learning method can be used to classify the errors in near field data, errors in amplitude/phase of AUT controller, and automatically tuning the AUT controller. In receiver mode of AUT, the system is the same but the probe sets are working as transmitters to make a known near field around the AUT.
US11276927B2	Moveable antenna apparatus The present technique provides an antenna apparatus and a method of operating an antenna apparatus comprising a first antenna array and a second antenna array. Antenna positioning circuitry is used to move the first antenna array relative to the second antenna array about a common axis of rotation to facilitate positioning of the first and second antenna arrays in a chosen deployment configuration between a first limit and a second limit. Antenna array control circuitry is used to coordinate operation of the first antenna array and the second antenna array dependent on the chosen deployment configuration.
US11276922B2	Antenna structure for a wireless device This invention refers to an antenna structure for a wireless device comprising a ground plane and an antenna element, wherein the ground plane has the shape of an open loop. The invention further refers to an antenna structure for a wireless device, such as a light switch or a wristsensor or wristwatch, comprising an open loop ground plane having a first end portion and a second end portion, the open loop ground plane defining an opening between the first end portion and the second end portion; and an antenna component positioned within the opening defined between the first end portion and the second end portion and overlapping at least one of the first end portion or the second end portion. Further the invention refers to a corresponding wireless device and to a method for integrating such an antenna structure in a wireless device.
US11276921B2	Electronic device including multiband antenna An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes an outer housing that comprises a first surface facing a first direction, a second surface facing a second direction opposite to the first direction, and a side surface surrounding a space between the first surface and the second surface, a display adapted to expose at least a portion of the display through the first surface of the outer housing, a PCB arranged between the second surface and the display in an interior of the outer housing, a communication circuit arranged on or over the PCB, a first conductive structure formed of at least one of the first surface or at least a portion of the side surface is electrically connected to the communication circuit, and a second conductive structure formed of the portion of the display electrically connected to the first conductive structure.
US11276919B2	Radome for vehicles The radome for vehicles comprises a substrate (1) and a cover (2) joined to each other, said radome defining a field of view (F) for a radar, and it is characterized in that the substrate (1) and the cover (2) are made from the same material and in that the substrate (1) and the cover (2) are joined to each other by welding and by a sealing element (4), said sealing element (4) being placed outside said field of view (F). The attachment process is simplified by transferring the water tightness responsibility to the sealing element, while the welding provides the attachment control between the different parts.
US11276911B2	High-density low-loss cable and connector assembly In accordance with embodiments disclosed herein, there is provided a high-density low-loss cable and connector assembly. A cable assembly includes a first cable connector, a bulk cable section, and a first cable transition section. The bulk cable section includes a first plurality of conductive wires of a first wire thickness. The first cable transition section includes a second plurality of conductive wires that has a first distal end connected to the bulk cable section and a second distal end connected to the first cable connector. Each of the second plurality of conductive wires transitions from the first wire thickness at the first distal end to a second wire thickness that is less than the first wire thickness at the second distal end. Each of the second plurality of conductive wires in the first distal end is connected to a corresponding conductive wire of the first plurality of conductive wires.
US11276909B2	Nonreciprocal circuit element, manufacturing method of the same, and communication apparatus using the same Disclosed herein is a nonreciprocal circuit element that includes a magnetic rotator disposed between first and second ground conductors, and a permanent magnet that applies a DC magnetic field to the magnetic rotator. The magnetic rotator includes a first ferrite core having a first surface covered with the first ground conductor, a second ferrite core having a second surface covered with the second ground conductor, a first center conductor directly fixed to a third surface of the first ferrite core positioned opposite to the first surface, and a second center conductor directly fixed to a fourth surface of the second ferrite core positioned opposite to the second surface.
US11276906B2	Battery module The battery module has a structure in which a plurality of batteries are arranged at fixed positions by a battery holder, a lead plate is connected to a projecting electrode of each of the batteries, a potting resin is thermally coupled to the lead plate, the battery holder includes an outer peripheral cover having an electrode window to expose the projecting electrode, the lead plate has a connection recess that is locally formed in a planar part to let a protrusion face protrude toward the projecting electrode through the electrode window, and a sealing label is put into intimate contact with the planar part of the lead plate to close an opening of the connection recess. This structure prevents the potting resin from flowing into an outlet formed in the projecting electrode.
US11276900B2	Nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery and method of producing the same A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes a flat wound electrode body that includes a positive electrode sheet, a negative electrode sheet, and a separator sheet, and a nonaqueous electrolyte. The wound electrode body includes a filling layer containing a thermal polymerization product of a resin having electrolyte solution swellability between the negative electrode sheet and the separator sheet.
US11276895B2	Top cap for secondary battery, secondary battery, and method for manufacturing the secondary battery A top cap for a secondary battery includes a circumferential area which defines an outer circumferential surface of the top cap, a central area which defines a central portion of the top cap, a connection area which connects the circumferential area to the central area, and a protrusion area which protrudes downward from the circumferential area, the central area, or the connection area. The top cap is assembled with a battery case, an electrode assembly positioned therein, and a through-hole formation member to form a secondary battery, in which at least a portion of the protrusion area of the top cap is positioned within a through-hole of the through-hole formation member.
US11276888B2	Secondary battery inspection apparatus and method A secondary battery inspection apparatus includes a support unit configured to support a secondary battery set including at least one secondary battery, an X-ray source configured to radiate an X-ray beam to the secondary battery set, and an X-ray detector configured to detect the X-ray beam generated from the X-ray source and passing through the secondary battery set, wherein the secondary battery set is divided into an interest area and a non-interest area, the support unit rotates the secondary battery set in place, and at least one selected from a division angle between a plurality of X-ray radiation points and an X-ray radiation time is differentiated depending on whether the X-ray source photographs the interest area or whether the X-ray source photographs the non-interest area.
US11276885B2	Thin film-based energy storage devices The disclosed technology generally relates to thin film-based energy storage devices, and more particularly to printed thin film-based energy storage devices. The thin film-based energy storage device includes a first current collector layer and a second current collector layer over an electrically insulating substrate and adjacently disposed in a lateral direction. The thin film-based energy storage device additionally includes a first electrode layer of a first type over the first current collector layer and a second electrode layer of a second type over the second current collector layer. A separator separates the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer. One or more of the first current collector layer, the first electrode layer, the separator, the second electrode layer and the second current collector layer are printed layers.
US11276882B2	Electrolyte for rechargeable electrochemical battery cells An electrolyte for a rechargeable non-aqueous electrochemical battery cell having a negative electrode and a positive electrode is described. The electrolyte contains sulfur dioxide and comprises a conducting salt, and a battery cell therefore has almost no capacitance loss over the cycles. Furthermore, a corresponding battery cell and a method for producing the electrolyte are described.
US11276878B2	Anode for lithium ion secondary battery and lithium ion secondary battery A lithium ion secondary battery includes a cathode, an anode, and an electrolytic solution. The anode includes a cyclic compound and the cyclic compound includes one or more of a first cyclic compound, a second cyclic compound, and a third cyclic compound.
US11276877B2	Stabilized birnessite cathode for high power and high energy density applications A battery comprises a housing, an electrolyte disposed in the housing, an anode disposed in the housing, a stabilized cathode disposed in the housing and comprising a cathode material. The cathode material comprises a composition selected from birnessite or layered-polymorph of manganese dioxide (δ-MnO2), the composition being stabilized by bismuth and copper ions, a conductive carbon, and a binder. The anode can be at least 50% (m/m) lithium, magnesium, aluminum, or zinc.
US11276873B2	Superwide pouch type secondary battery with double tabs Provided is a superwide pouch type secondary battery comprising an electrode assembly including a cathode plate, an anode plate, and a separator; a pouch surrounding the electrode assembly; and electrode tabs connected to both ends of the electrode assembly and protruding outward of the pouch, wherein the electrode tabs connected to the both ends of the electrode assembly include one or more cathode tabs and anode tabs, respectively, and width of battery cell is more than 4 times longer than height of battery cell such that loading efficiency of the pouch type secondary battery into a vehicle and an energy density may be improved without increasing an internal electrode.
US11276872B2	Fuel cell stack A fuel cell stack includes a stack body formed by stacking a plurality of fuel cells together in a stacking direction. A second end plate is provided at one end of the stack body in the stacking direction. A pair of coolant supply passages are provided at upper and lower positions of the second end plate for allowing a coolant to flow into the fuel cells. A coolant supply manifold member is attached to the second end plate, and an insulating plate is provided between the second end plate and the coolant supply manifold member.
US11276864B2	Cartridge for firing The present invention relates to a firing cartridge, and more particularly, to a firing cartridge in which multiple slit grooves are formed in lateral portions positioned between an upper end portion and a lower end portion, and solid fuel cell electrodes are inserted into the slit grooves, such that the number of cells, which may be fired at the same time, is increased, and thus productivity of a solid fuel cell may be improved.
US11276863B2	Gas diffusion layer for fuel cell and method for manufacturing the same Disclosed is a gas diffusion layer for a fuel cell that may be made thinner by integrally forming a base and a fine pore layer, and a method for manufacturing the same. A gas diffusion layer for a fuel cell which constitutes a unit cell of the fuel cell includes: a base layer formed by impregnating a first slurry, in which carbon powder and polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) are mixed, in the interior of a carbon fiber base; and a fine pore layer formed by coating a second slurry, in which carbon powder and polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) are mixed and which has a viscosity that is higher than the viscosity of the first slurry, on a surface of the base layer.
US11276857B2	Positive active material, positive electrode, nonaqueous electrolyte energy storage device, method of producing positive active material, and method of producing nonaqueous electrolyte One aspect of the present invention is a positive active material containing an oxide containing lithium and a transition metal element M, in which the transition metal element M is cobalt, iron, copper, manganese, nickel, chromium, or a combination thereof, and in an X-ray diffraction pattern of the oxide, a ratio (Ia/Ib) of peak intensity Ia appearing in a range where 2θ is 20 to 25° and peak intensity Ib appearing in a range where 2θ is 30 to 35° is 0.2 or more and 0.8 or less.
US11276853B2	Particle-based silicon electrodes for energy storage devices Electrodes, energy storage devices using such electrodes, and associated methods are disclosed. In an example, an electrode for use in an energy storage device can comprise porous disks comprising a porous material, the porous disks having a plurality of channels and a surface, the plurality of channels opening to the surface; and a structural material encapsulating the porous disks; where the structural material provides structural stability to the electrode during use.
US11276844B2	Optical filter for preventing reflection and organic light-emitting device The present application relates to an optical filter and an organic light-emitting display device. The optical filter of the present application has excellent omnidirectional antireflection performance and color characteristics on the side as well as the front, and the optical filter can be applied to an organic light-emitting device to improve visibility.
US11276842B2	Light-emitting device A light distribution of light from a light-emitting device (10) has a higher luminous intensity in a first direction (D1) compared to a reference direction (R), the first direction (D1) being different from the reference direction (R). The reference direction (R) is a center direction of the light distribution, for example, a direction along the thickness direction of a substrate (100), a direction along the width direction of each layer (for example, an EML (126)) of a resonator (150), or a normal direction of a second surface (104) of the substrate (100). In addition, the light distribution has a higher luminous intensity in a second direction (D2) compared to the reference direction (R), the second direction (D2) being on an opposite side of the first direction (D1) with respect to the reference direction (R).
US11276840B2	Display device having an optically transparent plate A display device includes a protection coating having a precisely controlled thickness. The display device includes: a display panel including a display area, a terminal area on which terminals are disposed, and a bent area located between the display area and the terminal area, wherein the bent area is bent such that the terminal area is located below the backside of the display area; a film on the frontside of the display area; a film on the frontside of the display area; an optically transparent plate on the frontside of the film; and a protection coating disposed on the frontside of the bent area, wherein one end of the film faces one end of the protection coating, and the optically transparent plate covers the end of the protection coating and is bonded to the end of the protection coating.
US11276837B2	Manufacturing method for electronic device The present invention addresses the problem of providing a manufacturing method for an electronic device that is provided with an organic thin film functioning as a sealing film against moisture permeation in an electronic device such as an organic electroluminescence element. This manufacturing method for an electronic device is a manufacturing method for an electronic device that has at least an organic functional layer, an elution prevention film, and a sealing film in this order, said manufacturing method being characterized by having: a step in which, after coating is performed with a silicone resin, the result is irradiated with vacuum ultraviolet rays to form the elution prevention film; and a step in which, after the elution prevention film is coated with a liquid mixture of a metal alkoxide and a fluoroalcohol, the result is irradiated with vacuum ultraviolet rays to form the ultraviolet rays to form the sealing film.
US11276833B2	Method for manufacturing quantum dot layer, method for manufacturing luminescence device including the quantum dot layer, and display device including the quantum dot layer A method for manufacturing a quantum dots layer including providing a substrate on which a first electrode, a second electrode, and a third electrode are disposed; providing a first mixed solution including a first quantum dots, which have been surface-treated to have a first polarity, on the first to third electrodes; providing a second polarity opposite to the first polarity to the first electrode resulting in deposition of the first quantum dots on the first electrode; and drying the first mixed solution to form a first quantum dots layer.
US11276831B2	Flexible display apparatus and manufacturing method thereof A method of manufacturing a flexible display apparatus includes: preparing a substrate; forming a first charge adhesive layer having a first charge on the substrate; forming a second charge adhesive layer having a second charge, which is opposite to the first charge, on the first charge adhesive layer; forming a first charge adhesive pattern and a second charge adhesive pattern by removing an edge of each of the first charge adhesive layer and the second charge adhesive layer; forming a flexible substrate on the substrate on which the first charge adhesive pattern and the second charge adhesive pattern are formed; forming a display unit on the flexible substrate; cutting the substrate, the first charge adhesive pattern, the second charge adhesive pattern, the flexible substrate, and the display unit along a cutting line; and separating the substrate and the flexible substrate.
US11276823B2	Spirobifluorene compounds for organic electroluminescent devices The present invention relates to spirobifluorene compounds of the formula (1) which are suitable for use in electronic devices, in particular organic electroluminescent devices, and to electronic devices which comprise these compounds.
US11276821B2	Variable resistance memory device A semiconductor device includes a plurality of first conductive lines disposed on a substrate, a plurality of second conductive lines intersecting the plurality of first conductive lines, and a plurality of cell structures interposed between the plurality of first conductive lines and the plurality of second conductive lines. At least one among the plurality of cell structures includes a first electrode, a switching element disposed on the first electrode, a second electrode disposed on the switching element, a first metal pattern disposed on the second electrode, a variable resistance pattern interposed between the first metal pattern and at least one among the plurality of second conductive lines, and a first spacer disposed on a sidewall of the variable resistance pattern, a sidewall of the first metal pattern and a sidewall of the second electrode.
US11276820B2	Memristor and neural network using same Provided is a memristor that can be manufactured at a low temperature, and does not include metals of which resources might be depleted. This memristor includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and a memristor layer of an oxide having elements of Ga, Sn, and oxygen, disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode. When voltage is applied to the first electrode with respect to the second electrode, the voltage being positive or negative, a current flows; when voltage of a data-set voltage value is applied, a state is transitioned from a high-resistance state to a low-resistance state; and when voltage of a data-reset voltage value that is of an opposite sign to that of the data-set voltage value is applied, the state is transitioned from a low-resistance state to a high-resistance state.
US11276819B2	Metal landing on top electrode of RRAM Some embodiments relate to an integrated circuit including one or more memory cells arranged over a semiconductor substrate between an upper metal interconnect layer and a lower metal interconnect layer. A memory cell includes a bottom electrode disposed over the lower metal interconnect layer, a data storage or dielectric layer disposed over the bottom electrode, and a top electrode disposed over the data storage or dielectric layer. An upper surface of the top electrode is in direct contact with the upper metal interconnect layer without a via or contact coupling the upper surface of the top electrode to the upper metal interconnect layer. Sidewall spacers are arranged along sidewalls of the top electrode, and have bottom surfaces that rest on an upper surface of the data storage or dielectric layer.
US11276818B2	Phase change memory structure and the same The present disclosure provides a phase change memory structure, including a bottom electrode, a first phase change material contacting a top surface of the bottom electrode, a first switch over the first phase change material, a second phase change material over the first switch, and a top electrode over the second phase change material.
US11276815B2	Spin-orbit torque type magnetization reversal element, magnetic memory, and high frequency magnetic device A spin-orbit torque type magnetization reversal element including a magnetoresistance effect element that comprises a first ferromagnetic layer, a non-magnetic layer and a second ferromagnetic layer which are laminated in this order; and a spin-orbit torque wiring that laminates on the magnetoresistance effect element; wherein a first surface of the spin-orbit torque wiring on the magnetoresistance effect element side is parallel to a plane orthogonal to a laminating direction, and a second surface opposite to the first surface is non-parallel to the plane perpendicular to the stacking direction.
US11276813B2	Coating liquid composition for orientational piezoelectric film, orientational piezoelectric film and liquid ejection head Use of a barium titanate based coating liquid composition comprising: (a) a sol-gel source material containing (i) at least a barium component selected from a group consisting of barium alkoxides, hydrolyzates of barium alkoxides and condensates of hydrolyzates of barium alkoxides and (ii) at least a titanium component selected from a group consisting of titanium alkoxides, hydrolyzates of titanium alkoxides and condensates of hydrolyzates of titanium alkoxides; and (b) a β-keto ester compound expressed by general formula (1) shown below: where R1 and R2 independently represent respective alkyl groups having not less than 1 and not more than 6 carbon atoms.
US11276804B2	Light emitting structure and solar photovoltaic power generation system The light emitting structure of the present invention includes a sheet-shaped structure which absorbs excitation light and emits light with wavelength conversion and which has a maximum emission wavelength of 400 nm or more; and an antireflection material provided on a side surface of the sheet-shaped structure.
US11276803B2	Optoelectronic semiconductor device having a side face as mounting side In an embodiment an optoelectronic semiconductor device includes a semiconductor chip having a semiconductor layer sequence with an active region, a radiation exit surface arranged parallel to the active region and a plurality of side faces arranged obliquely or perpendicular to the radiation exit surface. The device further includes a contact track electrically connecting the semiconductor chip to a contact surface configured to externally contact the semiconductor device, a molding and a rear side of the semiconductor chip remote from the radiation exit surface, the rear side being free of a material of the molding, wherein one of the side faces is configured as a mounting side face for fastening of the semiconductor device, and wherein the contact track partially runs on one of the side faces.
US11276800B2	Method of manufacturing light emitting diodes and light emitting diode A method for manufacturing light emitting diodes and a light emitting diode are disclosed. In an embodiment a method includes growing an n-conductive n-layer, growing an active zone for generating ultraviolet radiation, growing a p-conductive p-layer, producing a p-type semiconductor contact layer having a varying thickness and having a plurality of thickness maxima directly on the p-type layer and applying an ohmic-conductive electrode layer directly on the semiconductor contact layer, wherein each the n-layer and the active zone is based on AlGaN, the p-layer is based on AlGaN or InGaN and the semiconductor contact layer is a GaN layer, wherein the thickness maxima have an area concentration of at least 104 cm−2 in a top view, and wherein the p-layer is only partially covered by the semiconductor contact layer in the top view.
US11276795B2	Light converting systems employing thin light absorbing and light trapping structures with lens arrays A light converting optical system employing a planar light trapping optical structure illuminated by a source of monochromatic light. The light trapping optical structure includes a photoabsorptive layer including quantum dots. The photoabsorptive layer is configured at a relatively low thickness and located between a broad-area optically transmissive surface configured to reflect light using a total internal reflection and an opposing broad-area reflective surface formed by a thin sheet of material configured to diffusely reflect light. The opposing surfaces confine and redistribute light within the light trapping structure, causing multiple transverse propagation of light through the photoabsorptive layer and enhanced absorption and light conversion. The light trapping optical structure may further incorporate an array of lenses or other optical elements located on a light path between the light source and the photoabsorptive layer.
US11276790B2	Semiconductor light receiving element A semiconductor light receiving element of back-illuminated type comprises a light absorbing portion formed in the vicinity of the main surface of the semiconductor substrate transparent to the incident light, and a first convex lens portion larger than the light absorbing portion and having a radius of curvature R1 formed on a back surface of the semiconductor substrate, a second convex lens portion smaller than the light absorbing portion and having a radius of curvature R2 smaller than the radius of curvature R1; the second convex lens portion formed on the first convex lens portion and having a focal point between the second convex lens portion and the light absorbing portion; light incident on the second convex lens portion is diffused from the focal point toward the light absorbing portion.
US11276787B2	Semiconductor device for light detection A semiconductor device for light detection comprises: a photodiode comprising an optical active region; and a resistor connected to said photodiode and overlapping at least a part of said optical active region, wherein the resistor comprising an anti-reflective coating for reducing reflection loss.
US11276784B2	Semiconductor device In a Schottky barrier diode region, a Schottky barrier diode is formed between an n-type drift layer and a metal layer, and in a body diode region, a p-type semiconductor region, a p-type semiconductor region, and a p-type semiconductor region are formed in order from a main surface side in the drift layer, and a body diode is formed between the p-type semiconductor region and the drift layer. An impurity concentration of the p-type semiconductor region is decreased lower than the impurity concentration of the p-type semiconductor regions, thereby increasing the reflux current flowing through the Schottky barrier diode and preventing the reflux current from flowing through the body diode.
US11276783B2	Semiconductor device and radio receiver using the same A semiconductor device includes: a first conductivity type semiconductor of a nanostructure; a first electrode that is in ohmic junction with an end part of the first conductivity type semiconductor; a second electrode that is coupled to the first electrode and is provided over a side surface of the first conductivity type semiconductor; and a depletion constituent that controls expansion of a depletion layer inside the nanostructure, wherein the depletion layer is expanded inside the first conductivity type semiconductor by the depletion constituent in a direction intersecting a movement direction of a carrier.
US11276774B2	Semiconductor device, inverter circuit, driving device, vehicle, and elevator An embodiment of a semiconductor device including a silicon carbide layer having a first and a second planes; a first silicon carbide region of first conductivity type in the silicon carbide layer; a second silicon carbide region of second conductivity type in the silicon carbide layer between the first silicon carbide region and the first plane; a third silicon carbide region of the first conductivity type in the silicon carbide layer located between the second silicon carbide region and the first plane; a first electrode located on a side of the first plane; a second electrode located on a side of the second plane; a gate electrode; an aluminum nitride layer containing an aluminum nitride crystal between the second silicon carbide region and the gate electrode; and an insulating layer between the aluminum nitride layer and the gate electrode and having a wider band gap than the aluminum nitride layer.
US11276769B2	Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device may include: forming a fin-shaped structure on a substrate; forming a supporting layer on the substrate having the fin-shaped structure formed thereon, and patterning the supporting layer into a supporting portion extending from a surface of the substrate to a surface of the fin-shaped structure and thus physically connecting them; removing a portion of the fin-shaped structure close to the substrate to form a first semiconductor layer spaced apart from the substrate; growing a second semiconductor layer with the first semiconductor layer as a seed layer; and in at least a fraction of the longitudinal extent, removing the first semiconductor layer, and cutting off the second semiconductor layer on sides of the first semiconductor layer away from the substrate and close to the substrate, respectively, so that the cut-off second semiconductor layer acts as a fin of the device.
US11276765B2	Composite-channel high electron mobility transistor A HEMT comprises a composite channel, made up of a plurality of channel/barrier layer heterojunctions. That is, two or more channel/barrier layer pairs are deposited on a substrate, under a gate contact. A separate 2DEG is formed in each channel layer at the heterojunction with the barrier layer. The HEMT channel is effectively divided among a plurality of parallel 2DEGs. A high total charge density—required for high power operation—is divided among the plurality of 2DEGs. Since each 2DEG does not have a large charge density, it can sustain the high saturated electron velocity required for very high frequency operation. The composite-channel HEMT thus operates with high gain, at high power levels, and at high frequencies.
US11276763B2	Contacts for highly scaled transistors A semiconductor device and methods of forming the same are disclosed. The semiconductor device includes a substrate, first and second source/drain (S/D) regions, a channel between the first and second S/D regions, a gate engaging the channel, and a contact feature connecting to the first S/D region. The contact feature includes first and second contact layers. The first contact layer has a conformal cross-sectional profile and is in contact with the first S/D region on at least two sides thereof. In embodiments, the first contact layer is in direct contact with three or four sides of the first S/D region so as to increase the contact area. The first contact layer includes one of a semiconductor-metal alloy, an III-V semiconductor, and germanium.
US11276757B2	Silicon carbide semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same A silicon carbide semiconductor device includes an insulated-gate electrode structure that is formed inside a gate trench that goes through a base region and reaches a upper portion of a current transport layer to control a primary current flowing through the base region; a current suppression layer of the second conductivity type embedded within an upper portion of the current transport layer; a control electrode isolation insulating film filled into a control electrode isolation trench that goes through the base region and reaches an upper portion of the current suppression layer; and a control electrode pad disposed on the control electrode isolation insulating film, wherein an upper portion of the current suppression layer abuts a sidewall of the control electrode isolation insulating film, and a lower portion of the current suppression layer covers at least bottom corners of the control electrode isolation insulating film.
US11276755B2	Field effect transistors with gate electrode self-aligned to semiconductor fin Monolithic FETs including a fin of a first semiconductor composition disposed on a sub-fin of a second composition. In some examples, an InGaAs fin is grown over GaAs sub-fin. The sub-fin may be epitaxially grown from a seeding surface disposed within a trench defined in an isolation dielectric. The sub-fin may be planarized with the isolation dielectric. The fin may then be epitaxially grown from the planarized surface of the sub-fin. A gate stack may be disposed over the fin with the gate stack contacting the planarized surface of the isolation dielectric so as to be self-aligned with the interface between the fin and sub-fin. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US11276754B2	Semiconductor device including trench structure and manufacturing method An embodiment of a semiconductor device includes a silicon carbide semiconductor body including source and body regions of opposite conductivity types. A trench structure extends from a first surface into the silicon carbide semiconductor body along a vertical direction, and includes a gate electrode and a gate dielectric. A contact is electrically connected to the source region at the first surface. The source region includes a first source sub-region directly adjoining the contact at a source contact area of the first surface, a second source sub-region, and a third source sub-region. The second sub-region is arranged between the first and third sub-regions along the vertical direction. A doping concentration profile along the vertical direction of the source region includes a doping concentration minimum in the second sub-region and a doping concentration maximum in the third sub-region. Each of the second and third sub-regions overlaps with the source contact area.
US11276748B2	Switchable metal insulator metal capacitor A switchable metal insulator metal capacitor (MIMcap) and a method for fabricating the MIMcap. In another aspect of the invention operating the MIMcap is also described. A first capacitor plate and a second capacitor plate are separated by a capacitor dielectric and disposed over a substrate. A first via is electrically connected to the first capacitor plate and comprised of phase change material (PCM). The PCM is deposited in an electrically conductive state and convertible by application of heat to an insulating state. A first heater is proximate to and electrically isolated from the PCM in the first via. When the first heater is activated it converts the PCM in the first via to the insulating state. This isolates the first capacitor plate from an integrated circuit.
US11276743B2	Display apparatus A display apparatus includes: a substrate including a display area in which a plurality of pixel areas is arranged, and a peripheral area adjacent to the display area and in which a pad portion including a plurality of pad electrodes is arranged; a first signal line and a second signal line in the display area on the substrate; a first connecting line electrically connected to the first signal line and connected to the pad portion, at least a portion of the first connecting line being in the display area; and a dummy line on a same layer as the first connecting line.
US11276741B2	Display substrate and display device The present disclosure discloses a display substrate and a display device. The package structure of the display component includes: a base substrate, a display component arranged on a surface of the base substrate, and a package layer covering the display component, in which the display component includes a display area and a peripheral area surrounding the display area, and the peripheral area is provided with a signal line pattern having an inclined side along a direction perpendicular to an extending direction of the signal line pattern with a slope angle of less than 90 degrees.
US11276738B2	Display panel including an open area for a component and a plurality of grooves provided in a multi-layered film with a step difference adjacent to the open area, and a display apparatus including the same A display panel includes: a substrate including a first area, a second area, and a third area between the first area and the second area; a first structure located in the second area and including a pixel electrode, an opposite electrode, an intermediate layer between the pixel electrode and the opposite electrode, and at least one organic material layer; and a plurality of grooves located in the third area and separating the at least one organic material layer and the opposite electrode, wherein a first groove of the plurality of grooves is provided in a multi-layered film including a lower layer and an upper layer, wherein the upper layer includes an inorganic material layer and a first step adjacent to the first groove, the first step having an elevation higher than an upper surface of the lower layer.
US11276737B2	Pattern part, method for forming pattern part and method for manufacturing display device using same A method of forming a pattern part includes forming a first film on a target object, the first film having a first cure shrinkage ratio, forming a second film on the first film, the second film having a second cure shrinkage ratio greater than the first cure shrinkage ratio, and patterning the first film and the second film to form a pattern.
US11276732B2	Semiconductor memory devices formed using selective barrier metal removal A method for manufacturing a semiconductor memory device includes depositing a bottom metal line layer on a dielectric layer, and patterning the bottom metal line layer into a plurality of bottom metal lines spaced apart from each other. In the method, a plurality of switching element dielectric portions are formed on respective ones of the plurality of bottom metal lines, and a top metal line layer is deposited on the plurality of switching element dielectric portions. The method further includes patterning the top metal line layer into a plurality of top metal lines spaced apart from each other. The plurality of top metal lines are oriented perpendicular to the plurality of bottom metal lines.
US11276725B2	Active-pixel sensor array An active pixel sensor is provided including a two-dimensional array of photodiodes arranged in at least two rows and a plurality of columns; a plurality of groups of photodiodes each having a floating diffusion region coupled thereto and being configured to receive electrons generated by photodiodes in the group; wherein the plurality of groups includes at least one first group disposed on a first row of the array, and at least one second group disposed on a second row of the array; and wherein the first group includes at least one photodiode on a first column and at least one photodiode on a second column, and the second group includes at least one photodiode on the second column and at least one photodiode on a third column.
US11276721B2	CMOS image sensors with per-pixel micro-lens arrays An image sensor includes an array of CMOS pixels and a plurality of micro-lens arrays. Each micro-lens array of the plurality of micro-lens arrays includes a plurality of horizontally adjacent micro-lenses. Each micro-lens array of the plurality of micro-lens arrays is situated above a respective CMOS pixel in the array of CMOS pixels.
US11276710B2	Panel, electronic device and transistor A panel comprises a substrate; a transistor disposed on the substrate and including: a source electrode, a drain electrode, a gate electrode, a gate insulation layer, an active layer, an auxiliary source electrode configured to electrically connect one end of the active layer to the source electrode, and an auxiliary drain electrode configured to electrically connect an other end of the active layer to the drain electrode; and a capacitor disposed on the substrate and including a first plate and a second plate. The first plate of the capacitor is made of a same material as the auxiliary source electrode and the auxiliary drain electrode.
US11276707B2	Semiconductor memory device and method for manufacturing semiconductor memory device According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory device includes a stacked body disposed in a first tier, the stacked body including a plurality of conductive layers stacked via an insulating layer; a first pillar that extends in the stacked body in a stacking direction of the stacked body; a first upper structure disposed in a second tier upper than the first tier; and a misalignment mark for inspecting misalignment between the first tier and the second tier, wherein the misalignment mark includes a second pillar that extends the first tier of the misalignment inspection region in the stacking direction, and a second upper structure disposed in the second tier of the misalignment inspection region and superposed on the second pillar in a top view.
US11276705B2	Embedded bonded assembly and method for making the same A semiconductor structure includes a first semiconductor die containing a recesses, and a second semiconductor die which is embedded in the recess in the first semiconductor die and is bonded to the first semiconductor die.
US11276703B2	Semiconductor memory device A semiconductor memory device includes a logic circuit disposed on a substrate having a cell region and a peripheral region outside the cell region; a source plate defined over the logic circuit; a slit separating the source plate into a cell source plate in the cell region and a dummy source plate in the peripheral region; and a memory cell array defined on the cell source plate. The dummy source plate is maintained at a constant voltage independent of operations of the memory cell array and the logic circuit.
US11276701B2	Memory arrays comprising strings of memory cells and methods used in forming a memory array comprising strings of memory cells A method used in forming a memory array comprising strings of memory cells comprises forming a stack comprising vertically-alternating first tiers and second tiers above a substrate. Horizontally-elongated trenches are formed into the stack to form laterally-spaced memory-block regions. Catalytic material is formed in a bottom region of individual of the trenches. Metal material is electrolessly deposited onto a catalytic surface of the catalytic material to individually fill at least a majority of remaining volume of the individual trenches. Channel-material strings are formed and extend through the first tiers and the second tiers. Other embodiments, including structure independent of method, are disclosed.
US11276700B2	Semiconductor memory device A semiconductor memory device includes first conductive layers stacked on a substrate; second conductive layers stacked on the substrate and apart from the first conductive layer in a direction; third conductive layers stacked on the substrate and electrically connected to the first and second conductive layers; first insulating layers arranged in the direction to sandwich the first conductive layers; second insulating layers arranged in the direction to sandwich the second conductive layers; slit regions that sandwich the third conductive layers; and memory pillars disposed on the first and second insulating layers. The slit region is disposed between an end portion of one of the first insulating layers and an end portion of one of the second insulating layers.
US11276694B2	Transistor structure with indium phosphide channel An integrated circuit with at least one transistor is formed using a buffer structure on the substrate. The buffer structure includes one or more layers of buffer material and comprises indium, gallium, and phosphorous. A ratio of indium to gallium in the buffer structure increases from a lower value to a higher value such that the buffer structure has small changes in lattice constant to control relaxation and defects. A source and a drain are on top of the buffer structure and a body of Group III-V semiconductor material extends between and connects the source and the drain. A gate structure wrapped around the body, the gate structure including a gate electrode and a gate dielectric, wherein the gate dielectric is between the body and the gate electrode.
US11276689B2	Semiconductor device and amplifier module A semiconductor device includes two cell rows, each of which is formed of a plurality of transistor cells aligned in parallel to each other. Each of the plurality of transistor cells includes a collector region, a base region, and an emitter region that are disposed above a substrate. A plurality of collector extended wiring lines are each connected to the collector region of a corresponding one of the plurality of transistor cells and are extended in a direction intersecting an alignment direction of the plurality of transistor cells. A collector integrated wiring line connects the plurality of collector extended wiring lines to each other. A collector intermediate integrated wiring line that is disposed between the two cell rows in plan view connects the plurality of collector extended wring lines extended from the plurality of transistor cells that belong to one of the two cell rows to each other.
US11276688B2	Monolithic multi-channel diode array An electronic device includes a first-conductivity-type substrate and a second-conductivity-type epitaxial layer having a first dopant concentration. A first substrate region includes a second-conductivity-type buried layer and is enclosed by a first deep isolation structure. Within the first substrate region are a first doped region having the second conductivity type and a dopant concentration greater than the first dopant concentration and a second doped region having the first conductivity type. A second substrate region includes a first-conductivity-type buried layer and is enclosed by a second deep isolation structure. Within the second substrate region is a third doped region having the second conductivity type and a dopant concentration greater than the first dopant concentration.
US11276684B2	Recessed composite capacitor Some embodiments relate to an integrated circuit (IC) that includes a semiconductor substrate. A shallow trench isolation region downwardly extends into the frontside of the semiconductor substrate and is filled with dielectric material. A first capacitor plate and a second capacitor plate are disposed in the shallow trench isolation region. The first capacitor plate and the second capacitor plate have first and second sidewall structures, respectively, that are substantially parallel to one another and that are separated from one another by the dielectric material of the shallow trench isolation region.
US11276673B2	Multi pixel LED packages A multi-pixel LED package is disclosed. The multi-pixel LED package includes: n pixel groups (where n is a natural number equal to or greater than 2), each of which includes a plurality of pixels, each of which includes a first LED chip, a second LED chip, and a third LED chip; and a substrate on which the n pixel groups are arrayed. The substrate includes first individual electrodes individually connected to first conductive electrodes of the first LED chips in the pixel groups, second individual electrodes individually connected to first conductive electrodes of the second LED chips in the pixel groups, third individual electrodes individually connected to first conductive electrodes of the third LED chips in the pixel groups, common electrodes connected in common to second conductive electrodes of the first LED chips, the second LED chips, and the third LED chips in the pixel groups, first connectors connected to all of the first individual electrodes in the pixel groups, second connectors connected to all of the second individual electrodes in the pixel groups, third connectors connected to all of the third individual electrodes in the pixel groups, fourth connectors individually connected to all of the common electrodes in the pixel groups, first power terminals individually connected to the first connectors, second power terminals individually connected to the second connectors, third power terminals individually connected to the third connectors, and fourth power terminals individually connected to the fourth connectors.
US11276671B2	Multilayered memory device with through-silicon via(TSV), semiconductor device and method for manufacturing the same A memory device, a semiconductor device and their manufacturing methods are provided. One of the methods may include: providing a first die and a plurality of second dies, the first die having a first pad, each of the plurality of second dies having a second pad; stacking the plurality of second dies on the first die, the second pads and the first pad arranged in a stepwise manner, and projections of the second pads of any two adjacent second dies on the first die partially overlapped; forming a connecting hole passing through the second dies; and forming a conductive body filling the connecting hole and connecting the first pad and the second pads. This method simplifies the manufacturing process of a semiconductor device, reduces the cost thereof, and improves the production yield.
US11276669B2	High capacity semiconductor device including bifurcated memory module A semiconductor device is disclosed including wafers of stacked integrated memory modules. A semiconductor device of the present technology may include multiple memory array semiconductor wafers, and a CMOS controller wafer, which together, operate as a single, integrated flash memory semiconductor device. In embodiments, the CMOS controller wafer may include semiconductor dies comprising ASIC logic circuits integrated together with memory array logic circuits.
US11276666B2	Systems and methods for optimizing looping parameters and looping trajectories in the formation of wire loops A method of forming a wire loop in connection with a semiconductor package is provided. The method includes the steps of: (1) providing package data related to the semiconductor package to a wire bonding machine; (2) providing at least one looping control value related to a desired wire loop to the wire bonding machine, the at least one looping control value including at least a loop height value related to the desired wire loop; (3) deriving looping parameters, using an algorithm, for forming the desired wire loop; (4) forming a first wire loop on the wire bonding machine using the looping parameters derived in step (3); (5) measuring actual looping control values of the first wire loop formed in step (4) corresponding to the at least one looping control value; and (6) comparing the actual looping control values measured in step (5) to the at least one looping control value provided in step (2).
US11276662B2	Compressible foamed thermal interface materials and methods of making the same Disclosed are exemplary embodiments of compressible foamed thermal interface materials. Also disclosed are methods of making and using compressible foamed thermal interface materials.
US11276656B2	Integrated fan-out structure and method of forming Semiconductor devices and methods of forming are provided. A molding compound extends along sidewalls of a first die and a second die. A redistribution layer is formed over the first die, the second die, and the molding compound. The redistribution layer includes a conductor overlying a gap between the first die and the second die. The conductor is routed at a first angle over an edge of the first die. The first angle is measured with respect to a straight line that extends along a shortest between the first die and the second die, and the first angle is greater than 0.
US11276655B2	Ground reference shape for high speed interconnect Apparatus and methods are provided for providing provide high-speed interconnect using bond wires. According to various aspects of the subject innovation, the provided techniques may provide a ground shape to shield a high-speed signal wire from the substrate in a semiconductor assembly. In an exemplary embodiment, there is provided an assembly that may comprise a substrate, a semiconductor die attached to the substrate, a signal bond wire connecting a bond pad on the semiconductor die and a bond finger on the substrate, and a ground shape on the substrate to shield the signal wire from the substrate.
US11276650B2	Stress mitigation structure A device and substrate are disclosed. An illustrative device includes a substrate having a first surface and an opposing second surface, a solder material receiving curved surface exposed at the second surface of the substrate, a solder resist material that at least partially covers the solder material receiving curved surface such that a middle portion of the solder receiving curved surface is exposed and such that an edge portion of the solder material receiving curved surface is covered by the solder resist material and forms an undercut, and a solder material disposed within the solder material receiving curved surface and within the undercut.
US11276646B2	Electronic component module An electronic component module includes a first substrate mounted on an upper surface of a second substrate such that at least a portion of a lower surface of the first substrate is exposed externally of the second substrate and electronic devices mounted on the first substrate and the second substrate, including at least one electronic device mounted on the upper surface of the second substrate.
US11276643B2	Semiconductor device with backside spacer and methods of forming the same Semiconductor device and the manufacturing method thereof are disclosed. An exemplary semiconductor device comprises a dielectric layer formed over a power rail; a bottom semiconductor layer formed over the dielectric layer; a backside spacer formed along a sidewall of the bottom semiconductor layer; a conductive feature contacting a sidewall of the dielectric layer and a sidewall of the backside spacer; channel semiconductor layers over the bottom semiconductor layer, wherein the channel semiconductor layers are stacked up and separated from each other; a metal gate structure wrapping each of the channel semiconductor layers; and an epitaxial source/drain (S/D) feature contacting a sidewall of each of the channel semiconductor layers, wherein the epitaxial S/D feature contacts the conductive feature, and the conductive feature contacts the power rail.
US11276642B2	Method for forming three-dimensional integrated wiring structure and semiconductor structure thereof Embodiments of methods and structures for forming a 3D integrated wiring structure are disclosed. The method can include forming an insulating layer on a front side of a first substrate; forming a semiconductor layer on a front side of the insulating layer; patterning the semiconductor layer to expose at least a portion of a surface of the insulating layer; forming a plurality of semiconductor structures over the front side of the first substrate, wherein the semiconductor structures include a plurality of conductive contacts and a first conductive layer; joining a second substrate with the semiconductor structures; performing a thinning process on a backside of the first substrate to expose the insulating layer and one end of the plurality of conductive contacts; and forming a conductive wiring layer on the exposed insulating layer.
US11276637B2	Barrier-free interconnect structure and manufacturing method thereof Semiconductor devices and method of forming the same are disclosed herein. A semiconductor device according to the present disclosure includes a first dielectric layer having a first top surface and a contact via extending through the first dielectric layer and rising above the first top surface of the first dielectric layer.
US11276630B2	Planar integrated circuit package interconnects Generally discussed herein are systems, methods, and apparatuses that include conductive pillars that are about co-planar. According to an example, a technique can include growing conductive pillars on respective exposed landing pads of a substrate, situating molding material around and on the grown conductive pillars, removing, simultaneously, a portion of the grown conductive pillars and the molding material to make the grown conductive pillars and the molding material about planar, and electrically coupling a die to the conductive pillars.
US11276618B2	Bi-layer prepreg for reduced dielectric thickness An apparatus is provided which comprises: a woven fiber layer, a first resin layer on a first surface of the woven fiber layer, a second resin layer on a second surface of the woven fiber layer, the second surface opposite the first surface, and the first and the second resin layers comprising cured resin, a third resin layer on the first resin layer, and a fourth resin layer on the second resin layer, the third and the fourth resin layers comprising an uncured resin, and wherein the fourth resin layer has a thickness greater than a thickness of the third resin layer. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.
US11276615B2	Semiconductor device package with a cap to selectively exclude contact with mold compound A described example includes: a die with an active surface; a cap mounted over a portion of the active surface of the die; and mold compound covering the cap and covering portions of the die, the cap excluding the mold compound from contact with the portion of the active surface of the die.
US11276613B2	Methods of forming semiconductor structures comprising thin film transistors including oxide semiconductors A method of forming a semiconductor structure comprises forming an array of vertical thin film transistors. Forming the array of vertical thin film transistors comprises forming a source region, forming a channel material comprising an oxide semiconductor material over the source region, exposing the channel material to a dry etchant comprising hydrogen bromide to pattern the channel material into channel regions of adjacent vertical thin film transistor structures, forming a gate dielectric material on sidewalls of the channel regions, forming a gate electrode material adjacent to the gate dielectric material, and forming a drain region over the channel regions. Related methods of forming semiconductor structures and an array of memory cells are also disclosed.
US11276611B2	Top via on subtractively etched conductive line A method for fabricating a semiconductor device including a self-aligned top via includes subtractively etching a conductive layer to form at least a first conductive line on a substrate. After the subtractive etching, the method further includes forming a barrier layer along the substate and along the first conductive line, planarizing at least portions of the barrier layer to obtain at least an exposed first conductive line, recessing at least the exposed first conductive line to form a first recessed conductive line, and forming conductive material in a via opening on the first recessed conductive line.
US11276608B2	Semiconductor structure and forming method thereof A semiconductor structure and a forming method thereof are provided. The forming method includes: providing a base, where a mask material layer is formed on the base, a plurality of first trenches disposed at intervals are formed in the mask material layer, an extension direction of the first trenches is a first direction, the plurality of first trenches are arranged in parallel along a second direction, and the second direction is perpendicular to the first direction; forming a first side wall covering layer and a barrier layer, where the first side wall covering layer is located on a side wall of the first trench, the barrier layer is located in at least one of the first trenches, the barrier layer divides the first trench in the first direction, and the first side wall covering layer exposes side walls of the barrier layer on two sides in the first direction; forming a second side wall covering layer on the side walls of the barrier layer exposed by the first side wall covering layer; and etching the mask material layer between the adjacent first trenches by using the first side wall covering layer, the second side wall covering layer and the barrier layer as a mask to form a second trench, where the second trench is isolated from the first trench by the first side wall covering layer. According to the present disclosure, the barrier layer is protected by the second side wall covering layer, thereby improving the accuracy of pattern transfer.
US11276607B2	Selective patterning of vias with hardmasks Methods and structures for forming vias are provided. The method includes forming a structure that includes an odd line hardmask and an even line hardmask. The odd line hardmask and the even line hardmask include different hardmask materials that have different etch selectivity with respect to each other. The method includes patterning vias separately into the odd line hardmask and the even line hardmask based on the different etch selectivity of the different hardmask materials. The method also includes forming via plugs at the vias. The method includes cutting even line cuts and odd line cuts into the structure. The even line cuts and the odd line cuts are self-aligned with the vias. The vias are formed at line ends of the structure.
US11276605B2	Process for smoothing the surface of a semiconductor-on-insulator substrate A method of fabricating a semiconductor substrate includes the following activities: a) providing a donor substrate with a weakened zone inside the donor substrate, the weakened zone forming a border between a layer to be transferred and the rest of the donor substrate, b) attaching the donor substrate to a receiver substrate, the layer to be transferred being located at the interface between the donor substrate and the receiver substrate; c) detaching the receiver substrate along with the transferred layer from the rest of the donor substrate, at the weakened zone; and d) at least one step of smoothing the surface of the transferred layer, wherein the semiconductor substrate obtained from step c) is kept, at least from the moment of detachment until the end of the smoothing step, in a non-oxidizing inert atmosphere or in a mixture of non-oxidizing inert gases. Semiconductor substrates are fabricated using such a method.
US11276604B1	Radical-activated etching of metal oxides The present disclosure describes methods and systems for radical-activated etching of a metal oxide. The system includes a chamber, a wafer holder configured to hold a wafer with a metal oxide disposed thereon, a first gas line fluidly connected to the chamber and configured to deliver a gas to the chamber, a plasma generator configured to generate a plasma from the gas, a grid system between the plasma generator and the wafer holder and configured to increase a kinetic energy of ions from the plasma, a neutralizer between the grid system and the wafer holder and configured to generate electrons and neutralize the ions to generate radicals, and a second gas line fluidly connected to the chamber and configured to deliver a precursor across the wafer. The radicals facilitate etching of the metal oxide by the precursor.
US11276602B2	Electrostatic chuck and processing apparatus According to one embodiment, an electrostatic chuck includes a ceramic dielectric substrate, a base plate, and a first porous part. The ceramic dielectric substrate includes first and second major surfaces, and at least one groove. The second major surface is opposite to the first major surface. The base plate supports the ceramic dielectric substrate and includes a gas feed channel. The first porous part is provided between the groove and the gas feed channel. The ceramic dielectric substrate includes holes communicating with the groove and the gas feed channel and piercing the ceramic dielectric substrate in a first direction from the base plate toward the ceramic dielectric substrate. The first porous part includes at least one porous region including pores, and at least one dense region denser than the porous region. The porous region further includes at least one dense part.
US11276599B2	Load port apparatus, EFEM, and method of installing load port apparatus A load port apparatus includes an installation section, a frame section, a first wheel, a second wheel, and a supporter. The installation section includes an installation surface for installing a container for containing a substrate. The frame section is disposed on one side of the installation section, extends upward from this one side, and includes a lower fixation unit located below the installation surface. The first wheel is attached below the installation section and has a first diameter. The second wheel is attached below the installation section and further away from the frame section than the first wheel and has a second diameter smaller than the first diameter. The supporter is attached below the installation section and further away from the frame section than the first wheel and has a vertically adjustable distance from the installation surface to a lower end of the supporter.
US11276598B2	Substrate transport apparatus A transport apparatus including a drive section connected to a frame and including a multi-drive shaft spindle, with a coaxial shaft spindle, at least one interchangeable composite motor module of more than one different interchangeable motor modules arranged in a series, each having a motor operably coupled thereto and defining a corresponding independent drive axis, and a can seal disposed between the stator and rotor of each motor module at least one of the motor modules is selectable, for coupling to the coaxial shaft spindle, from other different interchangeable composite motor modules, each having a different predetermined characteristic, independent of coupling to the coaxial shaft spindle, that defines a different predetermined drive characteristic of one or more of the corresponding drive axis, independent of shaft spindle location, so that selection of the at least one composite motor module determines the different predetermined drive characteristic of the coaxial shaft spindle.
US11276597B2	Transport vehicle An overhead transport vehicle includes a fall prevention mechanism including a first rotary member, a fall prevention member, and a second rotary member. The first rotary member includes a base end portion supported so as to be rotatable about a first rotation shaft extending along direction Y. The fall prevention member is provided in a tip end portion of the first rotary member and is movable to a space below a cassette. The second rotary member includes a base end portion supported so as to be rotatable about a second rotation shaft extending along direction Z, and a tip end portion to which the first rotary member is attached.
US11276590B2	Multi-zone semiconductor substrate supports Exemplary support assemblies may include a top puck and a backing plate coupled with the top puck. The support assemblies may include a cooling plate coupled with the backing plate. The support assemblies may include a heater coupled between the cooling plate and the backing plate. The support assemblies may also include a back plate coupled with the backing plate about an exterior of the backing plate. The back plate may at least partially define a volume, and the heater and the cooling plate may be housed within the volume.
US11276586B2	Semiconductor manufacturing apparatus and method for manufacturing semiconductor device A semiconductor manufacturing apparatus includes a mounting unit arranged to mount an annular member, having an annular shape, to a work substrate including a first substrate and a second substrate bonded to each other so that the annular member surrounds the first substrate. The apparatus further includes a holding unit arranged to hold the work substrate having the annular member mounted thereto. The apparatus further includes a first fluid supply unit arranged to supply a first fluid to the second substrate of the work substrate held by the holding unit.
US11276581B2	Textile patterning for subtractively-patterned self-aligned interconnects, plugs, and vias Embodiments of the invention include methods of forming a textile patterned hardmask. In an embodiment, a first hardmask and a second hardmask are formed over a top surface of an interconnect layer in an alternating pattern. A sacrificial cross-grating may then be formed over the first and second hardmasks. In an embodiment, portions of the first hardmask that are not covered by the sacrificial cross-grating are removed to form first openings and a third hardmask is disposed into the first openings. Embodiments may then include etching through portions of the second hardmask that are not covered by the sacrificial cross-grating to form second openings. The second openings may be filled with a fourth hardmask. According to an embodiment, the first, second, third, and fourth hardmasks are etch selective to each other. In an embodiment the sacrificial cross-grating may then be removed.
US11276571B2	Method of breaking through etch stop layer A photo resist layer is used to protect a dielectric layer and conductive elements embedded in the dielectric layer when patterning an etch stop layer underlying the dielectric layer. The photo resist layer may further be used to etch another dielectric layer underlying the etch stop layer, where etching the next dielectric layer exposes a contact, such as a gate contact. The bottom layer can be used to protect the conductive elements embedded in the dielectric layer from a wet etchant used to etch the etch stop layer.
US11276570B2	Multi-layer deposition and treatment of silicon nitride films Exemplary processing methods may include forming a first deposition plasma of a silicon-and-nitrogen-containing precursor. The methods may include depositing a first portion of a silicon nitride material on a semiconductor substrate with the first deposition plasma. A first treatment plasma of a helium-and-nitrogen-containing precursor may be formed to treat the first portion of the silicon nitride material with the first treatment plasma. A second deposition plasma may deposit a second portion of a silicon nitride material, and a second treatment plasma may treat the second portion of the silicon nitride material. A flow rate ratio of helium-to-nitrogen in the first treatment plasma may be lower than a He/N2 flow rate ratio in the second treatment plasma. A first power level from a plasma power source that forms the first treatment plasma may be lower than a second power level that forms the second treatment plasma.
US11276562B2	Plasma processing using multiple radio frequency power feeds for improved uniformity A system for modifying the uniformity pattern of a thin film deposited in a plasma processing chamber includes a single radio-frequency (RF) power source that is coupled to multiple points on the discharge electrode of the plasma processing chamber. Positioning of the multiple coupling points, a power distribution between the multiple coupling points, or a combination of both are selected to at least partially compensate for a consistent non-uniformity pattern of thin films produced by the chamber. The power distribution between the multiple coupling points may be produced by an appropriate RF phase difference between the RF power applied at each of the multiple coupling points.
US11276560B2	Spacer etching process Systems and methods for processing a workpiece are provided. In one example, a method includes placing a workpiece on a workpiece support in a processing chamber. The workpiece has at least one material layer and at least one structure thereon. The method includes admitting a process gas into a plasma chamber, generating one or more species from the process gas, and filtering the one or more species to create a filtered mixture. The method further includes providing RF power to a bias electrode to generate a second mixture and exposing the workpiece to the second mixture to etch a least a portion of the material layer and to form a film on at least a portion of the material layer.
US11276553B2	Device for measuring emission angle of particle beam A device for measuring the emission angle of a particle beam. The device includes a shell, a data acquisition board, a data collector, a data processor and a data synchronization display. The shell is hollow tubular. The data acquisition board is fixed to the front end of the shell. The data collector and the data processor are fixed together and fixed to the back end of the shell. The data collected by the data acquisition board is transmitted to the data collector through the data line collector, and the data processor transmits the processed data to the data synchronization display. The ion accelerator to be measured is located in front of the data acquisition board, and the particles emitted by the ion accelerator bombard the front of the data acquisition board. The data acquisition board comprises an insulating ring, an array insulating board and a pressure sensor.
US11276548B2	Charged particle beam device and charged particle beam adjustment method Provided are a charged particle beam device and a charged particle beam adjustment method capable of observing or inspecting a change in observation conditions in a more appropriate beam state while preventing an increase in a time required for each measurement point. The charged particle beam device includes a condenser lens 3 and an objective lens 14 configured to focus an electron beam 4 emitted from an electron source 2, a primary beam scanning deflector 5 or a secondary electron deflector 15, an adjusting element 13 configured to adjust an axis of the electron beam 4, and a control device 9 configured to supply a signal representing a control amount to the adjusting element 13 for control. The control device 9 is configured to determine the control amount by using a change amount of an intensity of the condenser lens 3, the objective lens 14, the primary beam scanning deflector 5, or the secondary electron deflector 15, and a calculation formula or a table showing a relation between the change amount of the intensity and the control amount.
US11276547B2	Charged particle optical apparatus for through-the-lens detection of particles Disclosed is a charged particle optical apparatus. The charged particle optical apparatus has a liner electrode in a first vacuum zone. The liner electrode is used to generate an electrostatic objective lens field. The apparatus has a second electrode which surrounds at least a section of the primary particle beam path. The section extends in the first vacuum zone and downstream of the liner electrode. A third electrode is provided having a differential pressure aperture through which the particle beam path exits from the first vacuum zone. A particle detector is configured for detecting emitted particles, which are emitted from the object and which pass through the differential pressure aperture of the third electrode. The liner electrode, the second and third electrodes are operable at different potentials relative to each other.
US11276536B2	Power relay assembly A power relay assembly is provided. A power relay assembly according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention comprises: an upper case having at least one electric element mounted on one surface thereof; a lower case coupled to the upper case; and at least one bus bar electrically connected to the electric element, disposed between the upper case and the lower case, and including a bottom portion that is in surface contact with at least one of the upper case and the lower case, wherein at least one side of the bottom portion contacts a portion made of a plastic material having heat dissipation and insulation properties in the upper case and the lower case.
US11276534B2	Switch seat body structure A switch seat body structure includes a main body for assembling with a switch component. The main body is composed of a metal head section in the form of a thin sheet structure and a nonmetal belly section. The main body is defined with an axis. The metal head section has a first wall normal to or inclined from the axis and a second wall connected with the first wall and parallel to or inclined from the axis. The first and second walls together define a space. The nonmetal belly section fills the space to connect with entire sections of the first and second walls as an integrated body. The switch seat body assembling structure improves the problems that the processing and manufacturing processes are time-consuming and troublesome and the material cost is higher.
US11276529B2	Electronic component and board having the same mounted thereon An electronic component and a board having the same mounted thereon are provided. The electronic component includes: a body; an electrode disposed on an end of the body in a first direction; a metal frame including a support layer bonded to the external electrode, a mounting portion extending in the first direction in a lower end of the support layer and having a protruding portion on a lower surface, and a coating film formed to cover an upper surface of the protruding portion on an upper surface of the mounting portion and including titanium (Ti).
US11276528B2	Electronic component An electronic component includes a multilayer capacitor, including a capacitor body and first and second external electrodes disposed on both ends of the capacitor body, respectively, in a first direction, and a interposer including an interposer body and first and second external terminals in a second direction. The capacitor body includes a plurality of dielectric layers and a plurality of first and second internal electrodes exposed through the both ends of the capacitor body, respectively. The first and second external terminals each include a first layer including CuNi, a second layer covering the first layer and including copper (Cu), a third layer covering the second layer and including nickel (Ni), and a fourth layer covering the third layer and including tin (Sn), which are sequentially disposed from a respective inner side of the first and second external terminals.
US11276523B2	Ignition coil for internal combustion engine An ignition coil includes a primary coil, a secondary coil, a primary bobbin, a secondary bobbin, a center core, and a mold resin. The center core has a pair of collar portions protruding from a main body of the center core respectively to opposite sides in a protruding direction. The primary bobbin has a collar portion at least partially sandwiched between the collar portions of the center core and the secondary bobbin in a coil axial direction. The collar portion of the primary bobbin includes an overlapping portion that overlaps the collar portions of the center core in the coil axial direction and is bonded to the collar portions. The primary bobbin is formed of a thermoplastic resin and dispersed-phase particles dispersed in the thermoplastic resin. In the overlapping portion of the primary bobbin, there is formed a specific separating layer that separates adjacent layers in the coil axial direction.
US11276510B2	Protection component and protection method A protection component (10) according to this disclosure configured to surround and protect a part to be protected of an object to be protected (60) has a first housing (20) and a second housing (30) capable of being fitted together and a filler (50) loaded into at least one of the housings, and the filler (50) loaded supports the object to be protected (60).
US11276506B2	Producing method of radioisotope and radioisotope producing apparatus There is provided a method of producing a radioisotope with a production time shortened. There is provided a producing method of a radioisotope, the method including: irradiating a target substance with a radiation beam; and extracting the radioisotope which is generated by irradiating the target substance and flowing a gas over the substance to transport the radioisotope in gas phase toward an outlet.
US11276505B2	Material configuration enabling flexibility of a structure using rigid components A light-weight radiation protection panel comprising radiation protection layer and a flexible material. The radiation protection layer comprises a plurality of a shielding material distributed in repeated and adjacent units of geometrical shapes, the light-weight radiation protection panel being able to be embodied in a wearable garment providing flexibility.
US11276495B2	Systems and methods for predicting multiple health care outcomes Systems and methods for predicting multiple health care outcomes are provided. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving clinical data relating to a patient, calculating, with a multi-tasking deep neural network model, a plurality of health outcomes for the patient based on the received clinical data, and displaying one or more of the plurality of health outcomes. In this way, the richness of health care data may be leveraged to predict multiple health care outcomes with a single predictive model.
US11276492B2	Health management devices and methods Methods and devices and systems including a communication module operatively coupled to a data collection module for communicating the stored analyte related data after the analyte related data is stored in the data collection module over a predetermined time period, and a user interface unit configured to communicate with the communication module to receive from the communication module the stored analyte related data in the data collection module over the predetermined time period, and to output information associated with the monitored analyte level, where the user interface unit is configured to operate in a prospective analysis mode including substantially real time output of information associated with the monitored analyte level, or a retrospective analysis mode including limited output of information during the predetermined time period wherein no information related to the monitored analyte level is output during the predetermined time period, are provided.
US11276480B2	Methods and systems for sequence calling The present disclosure provides methods and systems for accurate and efficient context-aware base calling of sequences. In an aspect, disclosed herein is a method for sequencing a nucleic acid molecule, comprising: (a) sequencing the nucleic acid molecule to generate a plurality of sequence signals; and (b) determining base calls of the nucleic acid molecule based at least in part on (i) the plurality of sequence signals and (ii) quantified context dependency for at least a portion of the plurality of sequence signals.
US11276473B2	Coarse calibration based on signal and noise characteristics of memory cells collected in prior calibration operations A memory device to perform a calibration of read voltages of a group of memory cells. For example, the memory device can measure signal and noise characteristics of a group of memory cells to determine an optimized read voltage of the group of memory cells and determine an amount of accumulated storage charge loss in the group of memory cells. Subsequently, the memory device can perform a read voltage calibration based on the determined amount of accumulated storage charge loss and a look up table.
US11276466B2	Semiconductor storage device A semiconductor storage device includes a first memory cell electrically connected to a first bit line and a first word line, a second memory cell electrically connected to a second bit line and the first word line, and a first circuit configured to supply voltages to the first word line. During a reading operation to read a page of memory cells including the first memory cell and the second memory cell, the first circuit supplies a first voltage to the first word line while the first memory cell is selected as a read target during a first time period, and supplies a second voltage greater than the first voltage to the first word line while the second memory cell is selected as a read target during a second time period that is different from the first time period, and directly thereafter, supplies the first voltage to the first word line.
US11276457B2	Processing in memory An example apparatus includes a processing in memory (PIM) capable device having an array of memory cells and sensing circuitry coupled to the array. The PIM capable includes a row address strobe (RAS) component selectably coupled to the array. The RAS component is configured to select, retrieve a data value from, and input a data value to a specific row in the array. The PIM capable device also includes a RAS manager selectably coupled to the RAS component. The RAS manager is configured to coordinate timing of a sequence of compute sub-operations performed using the RAS component. The apparatus also includes a source external to the PIM capable device. The RAS manager is configured to receive instructions from the source to control timing of performance of a compute operation using the sensing circuitry.
US11276445B2	Data storage device and operating method thereof A data storage device includes a nonvolatile memory device including dies including word line groups in which word lines are grouped; and a controller. The controller includes a word line health rating logic configured to determine a health rating of each word line and a health rating of each word line group based on state information on each of health rating factors associated with the word lines; a memory including a word line health rating table in which the health rating of each word line and the health rating of each word line group are stored; and a mapping logic configured to generate a management target logical super block by mapping one word line group having a lowest health rating and word line groups having a highest health rating, and generate a normal logical super block by mapping word line groups having intermediate health ratings.
US11276439B2	Apparatuses and methods for performing logical operations using sensing circuitry The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods related to performing logical operations using sensing circuitry. An example apparatus comprises an array of memory cells and sensing circuitry coupled to the array. The sensing circuitry is configured to perform a logical operation using a data value stored in a first memory cell coupled to a sense line as a first input and a data value stored in a second memory cell coupled to the sense line as a second input. The sensing circuitry is configured to perform the logical operation without transferring data via a sense line address access.
US11276431B1	Data storage device executing just-in-time refresh A data storage device is disclosed comprising a head actuated over a magnetic media comprising a plurality of data tracks, wherein each data track comprises a plurality of data sectors. A plurality of access commands are stored in a command queue, and an access command is selected from the command queue. When the selected access command is a write command to a target data track and at least part of a first data track proximate the target data track needs to be refreshed, a refresh read command is executed to read data from at least part of the first data track prior to executing the write command to the target data track.
US11276422B2	Magnetic recording head with non-magnetic conductive structure The present disclosure generally relates to data storage devices, and more specifically, to a magnetic media drive employing a magnetic recording head. The head includes a trailing shield, a main pole, an STO disposed between the trailing shield and the main pole, and a non-magnetic conductive structure (or non-magnetic conductive layers) adjacent to the main pole and in contact with the STO. The non-magnetic conductive structure provides additional paths for electrical currents to flow to the STO. The non-magnetic conductive structure enables higher current density to the STO without creating hot spots at the MFS. Maximum current efficiency and uniformity can be achieved with the non-magnetic conductive structure.
US11276418B2	Acoustic signature generation by embedding user sentiments Aspects of the invention include acoustic signature generation via user sentiment embedding. An example method includes an audio signal of user speech, obtaining a user context and a user state space for at least one user, generating a sentiment vector from the user context and the user state space, generating a set of sentiment signals for based on the sentiment vector, and embedding the audio signal with the set of sentiment signals to generate an embedded sentiment signal.
US11276414B2	Method and device for processing audio signal using audio filter having non-linear characteristics to prevent receipt of echo signal An electronic device includes an audio input module, an audio output module, and a processor. The processor is configured to provide a first signal and a second signal into which a first audio signal is processed, output the first audio signal through the audio output module, acquire an external audio signal comprising the first audio signal of the electronic device, acquire a first output value through a first input channel of an audio filter, acquire a second output value through a second input channel of the audio filter, and provide a second audio signal, based at least on a first difference value between the magnitude value corresponding to the first frequency of the external audio signal and the first output value and a second difference value between the magnitude value corresponding to the second frequency of the external audio signal and the second output value.
US11276404B2	Speech recognition device, speech recognition method, non-transitory computer-readable medium storing speech recognition program A speech recognition device of the present disclosure recognizes an uttered speech of a user, and includes a controller configured to control output of any disturbance sound according to whether uttered content requested to the user is content desired not to be heard by a third party, and stop the output of the disturbance sound in response to end of an utterance of the user.
US11276398B1	System and method for providing natural language recommendations A system that includes a stand-alone device or a server connected client device are in communication with a server and provide recommendations. The device includes an input component, a storage component, a processor and an output component. The server-connected client device includes an input component that receives the user's request, a communication component that communicates the request to the server and receives the recommendation from the server, and an output component that provides the recommendation to user.
US11276393B2	Chat bot registration with search results integration Systems, methods, and computer-executable instructions for verifying a chat bot. Registration information for the chat bot is received that includes keywords. Queries are submitted to the chat bot and responses to the queries are received. The responses are classified using a classifier. Verification that the responses are classified as approved responses are done. The registration information is stored and the registration of the chat bot is completed based upon the verified responses. A search query that includes a search keyword is received. The search keyword is matched to the keywords associated with the chat bot. Search results that include a link to the chat bot that are based upon the search query are provided.
US11276388B2	Beamforming system based on delay distribution model using high frequency phase difference A beamforming system comprises an input module, a phase-difference module, a delay distribution module, and a delay estimation module configured to make a final delay estimation based on the delay distribution. The final delay estimation is applied to align one of two selected channels and combine the two channels to obtain a signal of interest. The phase-difference module calculates phase differences for a range of frequency bins. The delay estimation module considers all possible delays derived from the phase differences, including multiples of ±2π to overcome the ambiguity in high frequency bins when the spacing between two acoustic sensors is longer than the half of the wavelengths.
US11276381B1	Systems and methods for onboard, real-time pickup blending for electric guitars and basses Systems and methods for onboard, real-time pickup blending for electric guitars/basses may utilize every possible tonal combination that double coil pickups can offer. The industry standard pickup toggle switch may be removed from electric guitar/bass instruments. Instead of a user being limited to only using one pickup at a time to be selected, the user may mix in any combination of the pickups (top, bottom, or both) at any time. Accordingly, multiple pickups can be on at the same time and/or the user may blend in (or out) any percentage of any of the pickups that the user wishes to create a large combination of tones.
US11276377B2	Electronic apparatus An electronic apparatus includes a touch panel, a vibration generator configured to vibrate the touch pane, a sound generator, and a controller. In response to an operation by the user onto the operation unit, in addition to a control provided to the vibration generator to cause the touch panel to vibrate, the controller performs (i) a control provided to the display screen to change displaying of the operation unit, or (ii) a control provided to the sound generator to generate a sound, or (iv) both the control provided to the vibration generator and the control provided to the sound generator.
US11276375B2	System and method for prioritizing AR information based on persistence of real-life objects in the user's view Systems and methods described herein in accordance with some embodiments may display augmented reality (AR) information related to an object based on a predicted persistence of the object within view of the user. In some embodiments, display of AR information is prioritized based upon a prediction of how soon an object will disappear from view, perhaps if the predicted disappearance will occur sooner than some threshold time. Systems and methods described herein in accordance with some embodiments extend to mixed reality (MR) systems, and provide for displaying an image of an object that has become obstructed or has disappeared from view and/or for displaying AR information related to an object that has become obstructed or has disappeared from view.
US11276370B2	Gamma voltage generating circuit, source driver and display device including the same A display device including a display unit including a scan line, a data line, and a pixel, a gate driver supplying a scan signal, and a source driver supplying a data voltage, in which the source driver includes a gamma voltage generator generating different gamma voltages in response to a gamma enable signal, a digital-to-analog converter generating the data voltage corresponding to a gray scale value using the gamma voltages, and a source buffer outputting the data voltage, the gamma voltage generator includes a first resistor string setting a range of the gamma voltages, gamma buffers outputting selected voltages among divided voltages within the voltage range, and a second resistor string including tabs to divide a voltage between the tabs to generate the gamma voltages, and at least some of the gamma buffers are turned on in a first period and are turned off in a second period.
US11276369B2	Electronic display burn-in detection and mitigation Systems, methods, and devices are provided to reduce a likelihood of image burn-in on an electronic display. Such an electronic device may include image processing circuitry and an electronic display. The image processing circuitry may receive image data and analyze the image data for risk of image burn-in and, based at least in part on the analysis of the image data, reduce a risk of image burn-in at least in part by reducing a local maximum pixel luminance value in at least one of a plurality of regions of the image data over time or by reducing a dynamic range headroom of the image data. The electronic display may display the image data with a reduced risk of image burn-in on the pixels of the electronic display.
US11276368B2	Techniques for applying color transforms in rendering visual content Examples described herein generally apply color transforms to visual content. A set of color transforms in a graphics pipeline that are requested by a plurality of applications can be determined. At least one of the set of color transforms or an ordering of the set of color transforms can be modified, based on one or more arbitration rules, to generate an arbitrated set of color transforms. The visual content can be generated for display based at least in part on applying the arbitrated set of color transforms in the graphics pipeline.
US11276360B2	Display device and mobile body A display device includes a first display panel, a second display panel, and a controller. The first display panel includes a plurality of first subpixels which are aligned in a grid-like layout in an x-direction and a y-direction. The second display panel includes a plurality of second subpixels which are aligned in a grid-like layout along the x-direction and the y-direction at a same pitch as that of the plurality of first sub pixels. The controller controls the plurality of first subpixels and the plurality of second subpixels based on image data. At least one of the first display panel and the second display panel that is arranged on a user side is a transmissive display panel. Each of the plurality of first subpixels is superimposed on any of the plurality of second subpixels in a normal direction of the first display panel.
US11276359B2	Display device A display panel for displaying an image is provided with a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix. Each pixel includes one or more units each including a plurality of subunits. Each subunit includes a transistor in which an oxide semiconductor layer which is provided so as to overlap a gate electrode with a gate insulating layer interposed therebetween, a pixel electrode which drives liquid crystal connected to a source or a drain of the transistor, a counter electrode which is provided so as to face the pixel electrode, and a liquid crystal layer provided between the pixel electrode and the counter electrode. In the display panel, a transistor whose off current is lower than 10 zA/μm at room temperature per micrometer of the channel width and off current of the transistor at 85° C. can be lower than 100 zA/μm per micrometer in the channel width.
US11276351B2	Display device A display device includes a display panel including an opening and a plurality of pixels that display an image, a crack detection line disposed along a periphery of the opening, and a plurality of data lines connected to the plurality of pixels. The crack detection line is connected to one of the plurality of data lines, and detects a crack at the periphery of the opening through a single pixel array connected to the one of the plurality of data lines.
US11276350B2	Display device An embodiment provides a display device including: a display area including a plurality of pixels; a dummy area adjacent to an edge of the display area; a reference voltage supplying line in the dummy area and to supply a reference voltage; and a wire area in which a wire to supply a signal applied to the display area is located, wherein a pixel of the plurality of pixels includes a light emitting diode coupled between a driving voltage line to which a driving voltage is to be applied and a common voltage line to which a common voltage is to be applied, and a driving transistor coupled between the driving voltage line and the light emitting diode, and wherein the reference voltage is to be supplied to a first electrode of the driving transistor.
US11276345B2	Display device with feedback via parallel connections from distributed driver circuits to a single wire interface Embodiments relate to a display device that includes a control circuit, an array of light emitting diode (LED) zones, and an array of zone integrated circuits that are distributed in the display area. The zone integrated circuits may comprise integrated LED and driver circuits with embedded sensors or the zone integrated circuits may comprise dedicated sensor devices. The zone integrated circuits are arranged in groups that are coupled to a shared single wire communication line. The control circuit provides control signals that control the driver circuits to drive the LED zones and may provide commands to request feedback data from the zone integrated circuits. Responsive to the commands, the zone integrated circuits output feedback data that is provided to the control circuit via the shared single wire communication line.
US11276344B2	Pixel circuit, driving method, and display apparatus The present application discloses a pixel circuit for a light-emitting diode display panel. The pixel circuit includes a reset sub-circuit configured to initialize voltage levels of some nodes. Additionally, the pixel circuit includes a data-input and compensation sub-circuit configured to load a data signal and adjust the voltage levels of the nodes for determining a driving current flown through a driving sub-circuit. The pixel circuit further includes a voltage-control sub-circuit for controlling a switch sub-circuit to determine whether the driving current is flowing or not. Moreover, the pixel circuit includes an emission-control sub-circuit configured to control a partial time span in one scan for passing the driving current to the light-emitting diode to drive light emission. The one scan is one of multiple different scans in one cycle time of displaying one frame of image.
US11276334B2	Rolling information display apparatus including a temperature monitor and indicator A rolling information display apparatus configured to rotate on the rolling surfaces of a roller grill is provided. The apparatus includes a tubular shaped body configured to roll in contact with the rolling surfaces of a roller grill. The apparatus further includes a calibrated cook timer, a temperature monitor, a temperature indicator, and an information medium removably positioned on the tubular shaped body. The calibrated cook timer includes a printed circuit board that is calibrated to rise in temperature in a similar manner to a food item that is cooked on said roller grill. The apparatus is used to display product information, to monitor the temperature of food items in close proximity to the apparatus, and to indicate when the food item is no longer suitable for consumption and sale.
US11276330B2	Hysterectomy model A surgical simulator for surgical training is provided. The simulator includes a frame defining an enclosure and a simulated tissue model located inside the frame. The simulated tissue model is adapted for practicing a number of surgical procedures including but not limited to transanal excisions and transvaginal hysterectomies. Portions of the frame comprises a material adhesively compatible with the material of portions of the simulated tissue model to secure and suspend the simulated tissue model within the frame. The simulated tissue model may also include simulated vasculature configured to loop through apertures in the frame to secure and suspend the simulated tissue model within the frame.
US11276325B2	Systems and methods for flight simulation A method includes receiving, at a display device, simulated flight data from a flight control system on-board an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) when the UAV is in a simulation mode; and displaying, on a visual display of the display device, simulated flight state information of the UAV in response to the simulated flight data. The display device is configured to display real flight data when the UAV is in a flight mode.
US11276322B2	Method for educating users by gamification A method for educating users by gamification performed by at least one apparatus, is inter alia disclosed said method comprising: repeatedly generating data pertaining to a user interface element; and providing said data pertaining to said user interface element, said user interface element allowing a user using a first software section or a user interface thereof upon activation of said user interface element to access a second software section or a user interface thereof for educating users by gamification.
US11276314B2	Fallback requests for autonomous vehicles Aspects of the present disclosure relate to a system having a memory, a plurality of self-driving systems for controlling a vehicle, and one or more processors. The processors are configured to receive at least one fallback task in association with a request for a primary task and at least one trigger of each fallback task. Each trigger is a set of conditions that, when satisfied, indicate when a vehicle requires attention for proper operation. The processors are also configured to send instructions to the self-driving systems to execute the primary task and receive status updates from the self-driving systems. The processors are configured to determine that a set of conditions of a trigger is satisfied based on the status updates and send further instructions based on the associated fallback task to the self-driving systems.
US11276309B2	Vehicle control device A vehicle control device includes a plurality of imaging units that images an outside world of a vehicle, a surrounding screen image composition unit that combines a plurality of captured images captured by the plurality of imaging units to generate a surrounding screen image, a collision determination unit that determines whether an obstacle is present on a traveling route of the vehicle, an alarm screen image generation unit that selects, from a plurality of captured images, a captured image in which the obstacle is imaged to generate an alarm screen image including the selected captured image, and a display screen image switching unit that performs a process of displaying the surrounding screen image when the collision determination unit determines that the obstacle is not present, and displaying the alarm screen image when the collision determination unit determines that the obstacle is present.
US11276306B1	Location tracking after power loss A system for locating a vehicle event recorder after power loss includes an interface and a processor. The interface is configured to receive an indication of disconnection from a vehicle power source. The processor is configured to determine location information for a vehicle event recorder and indicate to transmit the location information.
US11276304B2	Systems and methods for addressing a moving vehicle response to a stationary vehicle System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to dynamically determining an appropriate responsive action for a moving vehicle in accordance with local traffic regulations. In one embodiment, the disclosed system identifies a stationary vehicle in an environment of the subject vehicle based at least in part on information from a plurality of sensors disposed on the subject vehicle and classifies a type of the stationary vehicle as valid or abandoned based at least in part on the information from the plurality of sensors. A classification of valid indicates that a traffic regulation requires the subject vehicle to undertake a responsive action toward the stationary vehicle. The disclosed system obtains a local traffic regulation based on a location of the subject vehicle and modifies a trajectory of the subject vehicle based on the local traffic regulation when the type of the stationary vehicle is determined to be valid.
US11276299B2	DIT monitoring apparatus and method The present disclosure relates to a software application used on mobile devices that enables professional monitoring services to DIY monitoring systems that lack an ability to communicate with remote monitoring facilities. In one embodiment, alert messages are transmitted by a monitoring system gateway and received by a personal communication device. The alert messages indicate occurrences of events at a monitored premises. When the software application determines that an incoming communication is an alert message, an indication is provided to a user of the mobile device that an event has occurred at the premises, and giving the user a predetermined time period in which to respond to the indication. If the user fails to respond to the indication within a predetermined time period, a message is transmitted to a remote monitoring facility, alerting the remote monitoring facility of the event.
US11276296B2	Safe-wash device A safe-wash device to assist in washing hands at a handwashing station. The safe-wash device includes a housing, a sensor, a speaker, a display unit and a controller. The housing is mounted to a wall near or at the handwashing station. The sensor is disposed at least partially within the housing and is configured to detect movement of a user at the handwashing station. The speaker is disposed at least partially within the housing and configured to play music. The display unit is disposed at least partially within the housing and is configured to display a handwashing time period. The controller is in communication with the sensor, the speaker and the display unit. The controller is configured to activate the display unit and the speaker once the sensor detects movement of the user at the handwashing station.
US11276280B2	In-vehicle apparatus, data processing method, and recording medium An in-vehicle apparatus includes a first pulse generator configured to generate a first pulse in accordance with predetermined equipment before a data stream transmitted from the equipment is received; a second pulse generator configured to generate a second pulse based on the received data stream; an output device configured to output a warning sound based on the first pulse or the second pulse; and a switching device configured to output the first pulse to the output device before the data stream is received, and output the second pulse to the output device as of when the first pulse and the second pulse coincide.
US11276278B2	Systems and methods for using transparent surfaces in an automated teller machine The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for using transparent surfaces at an automated teller machine. In one implementation, a method of visualizing a deposit at an automated teller machine includes receiving a command to deposit at least one depository element; determining an amount associated with the command; displaying, on a transparent surface of the automated teller machine configured to allow a user of the automated teller machine to view the at least one depository element, a visual representation of the determined amount; and receiving, concurrent with or after displaying, a verification of the amount.
US11276269B2	Amusement game machine and method of play having a transmissive electronic display panel overlying play field A game machine featuring a play field, a light source and a transmissive electronic display covering at least a portion of the play field. The play field having a top and bottom and a translucent back panel having first and second sides. The back panel being located between the play field and the light source. The play field located between the back panel and the electronic display. The light source illuminating the electronic display through the back panel to present images over the play field.
US11276257B2	System and method for analyzing vehicle data A system and method are provided for analyzing vehicle data. The method is executed by a device having a processor and includes obtaining a set of vehicle data via a data interface, the set of vehicle data comprising a plurality of location measurements and a corresponding plurality of speed measurements for a vehicle. The method also includes associating the plurality of location measurements and the plurality of speed measurements with a geographic area to generate a geographic map image. The method also includes applying an image processing technique to the map image to identify at least one path and analyzing the at least one path and data associated with the geographic area, to identify at least one driving pattern within the geographic area. The method also includes providing an indication of the at least one driving pattern to contribute to a risk assessment associated with a driver of the vehicle.
US11276256B2	Traffic event recording and recreation A system for identifying and reporting traffic events is presented. Position and motion data from two or more vehicles are uploaded to a data center. The system identifies an accident between first and second vehicles by correlating the motion and position information of the first vehicle with the motion and position information of the second vehicle.
US11276253B2	Present invention concerns a system for controlling traffic A system (200) for controlling road traffic comprises measurement station (210) for determining air pollution in an urban area comprising pollution zones (221-223) with predetermined geographical boundaries. A central system is configured to charge a pollution fee to a vehicle (10) moving in the pollution zone when the air pollution exceeds a threshold value. Different vehicles are charged different fees, e.g. based on their function and emission. A variable message sign (240) warns of the increased fees, so most private cars choose alternative routes (232, 233) around the pollution zone (222, 223), but allow motorists willing to pay a substantial pollution fee to use route (231). Heavy diesel vehicles may be exempt from pollution fees along a direct route (231) through the pollution zone to keep them away from small roads and residential areas. A method using mobile devices for registering passengers for a passenger discount is also described.
US11276249B2	Method and system for video action classification by mixing 2D and 3D features A method, system, and computer program product provide for video action classification by selecting a first video frame and a first plurality of video frames from a received video to process the first video frame with a 2D convolutional neural network processing pathway to extract spatial features classifying the first video frame, and to process the first plurality of video frames with a 3D convolutional neural network processing pathway to extract spatiotemporal features classifying the first plurality of video frames so that the spatial features are combined with the spatiotemporal features to generate a classification label for the video action.
US11276246B2	Color space mapping for intuitive surface normal visualization A color mapping technique that provides an intuitive visualization of surface normals is described. The surface normals can be associated with a mesh for a virtual object to be displayed in augmented reality. The color mapping technique can map a unit sphere in a color space to an octahedron. The vertices of the octahedron can be aligned with prime colors of the color space. To perform the alignment, a rotation and shear matrix can be determined from coordinates for octahedron positions and coordinates of colors in the color space. The rotation and shear can provide that each region of the unit color sphere is dominated by a single prime color, with gradients between prime colors being visually balanced. Surface normals of a mesh for a virtual object can be visualized using the color mapping, and a viewer can readily determine how distant in terms of rotation two surface normals are from each other.
US11276245B2	Body shape display method for modeling of clothing A method of displaying a first body shape according to a body size input by a user and a second body shape according to a recommendation body size includes receiving a first body size for modeling of clothing from the user; determining a second body size similar to the first body size by using the first body size; generating a first body shape based on the first body size, and generating a second body shape based on the second body size; and displaying the first body shape and the second body shape.
US11276239B2	Method and apparatus for providing video information A method according to an aspect of the disclosure is performed by a computing device and includes rendering a video frame, displaying an object generated by user manipulation on the rendered video frame, calculating a relative position of the object with respect to a reference point of the video frame, and transmitting object information generated based on the relative position of the object. According to the method, even if the streaming screen continuously changes when streaming video between remote terminals, the shared 3D object can be placed at an accurate position, and objective position information of the shared 3D object can be provided regardless of the surrounding environment or situation.
US11276235B2	Method and system for projecting a pattern in mixed reality A method and a system for projecting a pattern onto a real surface, comprising: an image acquisition module; a video projector; a processor; and a memory comprising instructions that can be executed by the processor in order to: acquire an image on which a real surface is at least partially visible by means of said image acquisition module; determine a geometric transformation to be applied to said pattern such that once the pattern is projected by a video projector, it appears in a predefined location on the real surface, the determination of the geometric transformation taking into account the position of the video projector and the position of said real surface obtained by means of said acquired image; apply the geometric transformation to said pattern; and project the pattern by means of the video projector.
US11276232B2	Intervertebral disc modeling A method is disclosed for spinal anatomy segmentation. In one example, the method includes combining a fully convolutional network with a residual neural network. The method also includes training the combined fully convolutional network with the residual neural network from end to end. The method also includes receiving at least one medical image of a spinal anatomy. The method also includes applying the fully convolutional network with the residual neural network to at least one medical image and segmenting at least one vertebral body from the at least one medical image of the spinal anatomy.
US11276226B2	Artificial intelligence apparatus and method for synthesizing images Disclosed herein is an artificial intelligence apparatus including a memory configured to store image data, and a processor configured to acquire a human object image and a inanimate object image from the image data, generate a three-dimensional human model that matches the human object image, extract coordinate information of the image data, acquire a street view data matching the coordinate information, extract a reference object image, in which a inanimate object of the inanimate object image is photographed, from the street-view data, and acquire placement information of the human object image and the inanimate object image and place the three-dimensional human model on a street view image of the street view data using the placement information and the reference object image.
US11276224B2	Method for ray intersection sorting A system and a method are disclosed for ray tracing in a pipeline of a graphic processing unit (GPU). It is determined whether a ray bounce of a first ray intersects a first primitive that is the closest primitive intersected by the ray bounce. The first ray is part of a first group of rays being processed by a first single-instruction-multiple-data (SIMD) process. The first ray is assigned by a sorting or binning unit to a second group of rays based on the intersection of the first primitive. The second group of rays is processed by a second SIMD process. The first ray is assigned to the second group of rays based on a material identification of the first primitive, an identification of the first primitive intersected by the ray bound of the first ray, a pixel location, and a bounce number of the ray bounce intersecting the first primitive.
US11276220B2	Automatic and interactive animation driven by change-based heuristics Techniques for performing automatic interactive animation by automatically matching objects between multiple artboards, allowing an animator to link multiple artboards in a temporal sequence using time as a trigger and allowing an animator to preview an animation using intuitive drag controls via an input device such as a mouse or touch screen. An automatic animation process is performed by matching objects/nodes between artboards by determining a ranking of similarity between objects based upon a distance metric computed for a set of one or more attributes associated with each object in the artboards. If sufficient match is found, the matched objects can be treated as a single entity to be animated. In another embodiment, dominant direction of movement with respect to the matched objects is determined, and receipt of a drag event (mouse input or touch screen gesture input) in said dominant direction causes a preview of animation of that entity.
US11276215B1	Spatial audio and avatar control using captured audio signals An audio system in a local area providing an audio signal to a headset of a remote user is presented herein. The audio system identifies sounds from a human sound source in the local area, based in part on sounds detected within the local area. The audio system generates an audio signal for presentation to a remote user within a virtual representation of the local area based in part on a location of the remote user within the virtual representation of the local area relative to a virtual representation of the human sound source within the virtual representation of the local area. The audio system provides the audio signal to a headset of the remote user, wherein the headset presents the audio signal as part of the virtual representation of the local area to the remote user.
US11276206B2	Augmented reality effect resource sharing An augmented reality (AR) effect system can improve application of AR effects by sharing resources between AR effects. The AR effect system can employ manifests for AR effects that define which resources are required to render each AR effect. The AR effect system can organize rendering operations used by selected AR effects into a pipeline and can use the manifests of the AR effects to determine when each resource will be needed. Based on this pipeline, the AR effect system can create a cache order defining a resource schedule which specifies, when a resource is freed, conditions for whether to save the resource to a local cache or unload the resource. As rendering of the video with the AR effects progresses, the resource schedule can control whether resources not currently being used to render an AR effect should be unloaded or cached for fast access for future render operations.
US11276193B2	Information processing device An information processing device has a receiving section for receiving, from a second vehicle having started the tracking of a first person, the position information of the second vehicle and the image data photographed by the on-vehicle camera mounted on the second vehicle; a control section for searching for the image of the first vehicle included in the image data from the images photographed by monitoring cameras installed around the position indicated by the position information and for tracking the first vehicle searched for using the images photographed by the monitoring cameras; and a transmitting section for transmitting the tracking position information of the first vehicle being tracked by the control section.
US11276191B2	Estimating dimensions for an enclosed space using a multi-directional camera Certain examples described herein relate to estimating dimensions of an enclosed space such as a room using a monocular multi-directional camera device. In examples, a movement of the camera device around a point in a plane of movement is performed, such as by a robotic device. Using the monocular multi-directional camera device, a sequence of images are obtained at a plurality of different angular positions during the movement. Pose data is determined from the sequence of images. The pose data is determined using a set of features detected within the sequence of images. Depth values are then estimated by evaluating a volumetric function of the sequence of images and the pose data. A three dimensional volume is defined around a reference position of the camera device, wherein the three-dimensional volume has a two-dimensional polygonal cross-section within the plane of movement. The three dimensional volume is then fitted to the depth values to determine dimensions for the polygonal cross-section. These dimensions then provide an estimate for the shape of the enclosed space.
US11276190B2	Active image depth prediction An active depth detection system can generate a depth map from an image and user interaction data, such as a pair of clicks. The active depth detection system can be implemented as a recurrent neural network that can receive the user interaction data as runtime inputs after training. The active depth detection system can store the generated depth map for further processing, such as image manipulation or real-world object detection.
US11276185B2	Target tracking method and apparatus In one embodiment, a target tracking method includes: receiving a current frame of picture including a target object; determining, based on a drift determining model, whether a tracker drifts for tracking of the target object in the current frame of picture, where the drift determining model is obtained through modeling based on largest values of responses values of a training sample used to train the drift determining model, where the training sample is collected from a training picture that includes the target object, where the response value of the sample is a value indicating a probability that the training sample is the target object in the training picture; and outputting a tracking drift result, where the tracking drift result includes: drift is generated for the tracking of the target object, or no drift is generated for the tracking of the target object.
US11276178B2	Line segment detection method, apparatus, device, and computer-readable storage medium The present disclosure provides a line segment detection method, apparatus, device, and a computer-readable storage medium. Said method includes: extracting image features of an image to be processed, the image features including an image gradient angle and an image gradient amplitude; determining a plurality of seed points based on the extracted image features; for each seed point of the plurality of seed points, determining a current connected region of respective seed point according to a region growth rule, wherein the region growth rule needs to satisfy both a gradient amplitude growth rule and a gradient angle growth rule simultaneously; and performing line segment fitting on line segments within the current connected region of respective seed point.
US11276175B2	Determining a clinical target volume Disclosed is a medical image data processing method for determining a clinical target volume for a medical treatment, wherein the method comprises executing, on at least one processor (3) of at least one computer (2), steps of: a) acquiring (S1) first image data describing at least one image of an anatomical structure of a patient; b) acquiring (S2) second image data describing an indicator for a preferred spreading direction or probability distribution of at least one target cell; c) determining (S3) registration data describing a registration of the first image data to the second image data by performing a co-registration between the first image data and the second image data using a registration algorithm; d) determining (S4) gross target region data describing a target region in the at least one image of the anatomical structure based on the first image data; e) determining (S5) margin region data describing a margin around the target region based on the gross target region data; f) determining (S6) clinical target volume data describing a volume in the anatomical structure for the medical treatment based on the registration data, the gross target region data and the margin region data.
US11276170B2	Systems, methods, and devices for medical image analysis, diagnosis, risk stratification, decision making and/or disease tracking The disclosure herein relates to systems, methods, and devices for medical image analysis, diagnosis, risk stratification, decision making and/or disease tracking. In some embodiments, the systems, devices, and methods described herein are configured to analyze non-invasive medical images of a subject to automatically and/or dynamically identify one or more features, such as plaque and vessels, and/or derive one or more quantified plaque parameters, such as radiodensity, radiodensity composition, volume, radiodensity heterogeneity, geometry, location, and/or the like. In some embodiments, the systems, devices, and methods described herein are further configured to generate one or more assessments of plaque-based diseases from raw medical images using one or more of the identified features and/or quantified parameters.
US11276162B2	Surface defect identification method and apparatus Embodiments include a computer implemented method of processing images of material surfaces to identify defects on the imaged material surface, the method including training a neural network to generate reduced-defect versions of training images of material surfaces; acquiring an image of a subject material surface; inputting the acquired image to the neural network to generate a reduced-defect version of the acquired image; and comparing the reduced-defect version of the acquired image with the acquired image to identify differences. Defects on the subject material surface at locations of the identified differences are identifiable.
US11276148B2	Super resolution and color motion artifact correction in a pulsed fluorescence imaging system Systems, methods, and devices for super resolution and color motion artifact correction in a pulsed fluorescence imaging system are disclosed. A method includes actuating an emitter to emit a plurality of pulses of electromagnetic radiation and sensing reflected electromagnetic radiation resulting from the plurality of pulses of electromagnetic radiation with a pixel array of an image sensor to generate a plurality of exposure frames. The method includes detecting motion across two or more sequential exposure frames of the plurality of exposure frames, compensating for the detected motion, and combining the two or more sequential exposure frames to generate an image frame. The method is such that at least a portion of the plurality of pulses of electromagnetic radiation emitted by the emitter comprises one or more of electromagnetic radiation having a wavelength from about 770 nm to about 790 nm.
US11276144B2	Information processing apparatus, display control method, and storage medium An information processing apparatus realizing an enlargement function without system-level customization is provided. The information processing apparatus includes an application unit, an enlargement control unit, and a screen control unit. The application unit generates and draws an image in a normal display area. The enlargement control unit enlarges the image drawn in the normal display area, and generates and draws an enlarged image including part of the enlarged image in an expansion display area. The screen control unit displays the image drawn in the normal display area on a display when the enlargement function is invalid, and displays the enlarged image drawn in the expansion display area on the display when the enlargement function is valid.
US11276131B2	Property management system utilizing a blockchain network Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for controlling access to a property based on smart contract execution. One of the methods includes receiving credential data for a first entity requesting access to a property; in response to receiving the credential data, requesting execution of a smart contract associated with the property by a blockchain network, wherein the smart contract includes instructions to check a current status of a relationship between the first entity and a second entity associated with the property based on the credential data; receiving an execution result of the smart contract from the blockchain network; determining that the first entity is authorized to access the property based at least in part on the execution result; and in response to determining that the first entity authorized to access the property, enabling the first entity to access to the property.
US11276130B2	Information management and synchronous communications system An information management and synchronous communications system and method facilitates database equilibrium and synchronization with wired, wireless, and Web-based systems, user-friendly and efficient generation of computerized menus and reservations with handwritten/voice modifications for restaurants and other applications that utilize equipment with nonstandard graphical formats, display sizes and/or applications for use in remote data entry, information management and communication with host computer, digital input device or remote pager via standard hardwired connection, the internet, a wireless link, printer, or the like. Various operations employing automated telephone calls and/or messaging may, for instance, be performed. For example, desired reservation and/or appointment information may be automatically converted and conveyed to one or more entities via automated telephone call and/or messaging. As another example, information regarding reservation acceptability may be received and automatically converted via automated telephone can and/or messaging. Telephones may, for instance, be the only equipment required by the entities.
US11276128B2	Techniques for restaurant transaction processing Techniques for restaurant transaction processing are provided. A handheld device of a waiter is used to automatically associate a check with a table at a restaurant and to recall and modify that check. In an embodiment, two waiters use one or more handheld devices to automatically transfer a customer's check to one another.
US11276125B2	Systems and methods for assessing economic feasibility of an energy plant Systems and methods for generating graphical elements in a user interface are shown according to various embodiments. Various plant designs may be simulated under scenario conditions to predict energy usage and cost. A user may indicate to perform an economic feasibility analysis for one or more simulated plant designs. Financial performance data may be generated for the one or more plant designs according to one or more analysis parameters. Financial performance data may be a Net Present Value, Internal Rate of Return, or Payback period. A graphical element may be generated in a user interface to present the generated financial performance data. Financial performance data may be compared to threshold values to determine if the plant design is acceptable. Financial performance data can be compared for different plant designs to choose the optimal plant design.
US11276122B2	Payroll policy miner A method, apparatus, and computer program product for configuring a payroll system. The method identifies a subset of rules from a group of payroll rules. The subset of rules correctly correlates payroll input data to payroll output data for a legacy payroll system of an organization. The method translates the subset of rules into a group of policy configuration options for a group of payroll policy templates. The method receives a selection from the group of policy configuration options to create a policy instance for the payroll processing system. The method configures the payroll processing system according to the policy instance.
US11276110B2	Sales management and video chat system and method for a salesperson mobile device and a remote visitor web browser Sales management and video chat systems and methods use website listings that correspond to vehicles for sale at a place of business. A remote visitor clicks a “live video” button beside a desired consumer good, and schedules a time for a video chat, using their web browser. A salesperson receives an alert, via a sales application running on on the salesperson's mobile device. At the scheduled time, a video chat window opens in the visitor's web browser with live audio/video of the desired consumer good from the place of business in real-time. The website visitor uses their web browser for live communication, in real-time, to the salesperson on their sales application. After the video chat, the website visitor can use their browser to download and save a recording of the video chat session.
US11276109B2	Computerized systems and methods for large-scale product listing Systems and methods are provided for updating product information on a webpage. One method comprises receiving, from a first seller, a first request to list at least one first product for sale on the webpage and receiving, from the first seller, product information associated with the at least one first product for sale. The method further comprises receiving, from the first seller, at least one image associated with the at least one first product for sale and providing the received product information associated with the at least one first product for sale to a workflow system, wherein the workflow system is configured to begin a first workflow to enter the product information into a database and configured to process multiple workflows substantially simultaneously. The first workflow may include listing the at least one first product for sale on the webpage.
US11276105B2	Gift registry A social gift registry provides tools to aid those planning for major milestones in life to engage a network of friends, family, and others in communicating information about the life event, helping to identify and track gifts for the celebrants, and enabling the management of the activities involved in the celebration.
US11276102B2	Method and system for product discovery A method for generating recommendations for a user from a product database is provided. The method comprises determining a taxonomy for the product database, said taxonomy comprising a plurality of attributes assigned to each product in the product database; performing an exploratory procedure in which the user is systematically exposed to products from the product database in order to test the user's preference for products in the product database, wherein the user preference is tested based on a user action; and generating a style profile for the user based on the user's indicated preferences.
US11276097B1	Canonical order management system The methods and apparatuses described herein generally relate to providing a platform for allowing a website user to select a product for purchase at a non-merchant website. For example, a commerce engine can receive a request to review product information from a non-merchant website, and can translate the request into a format that can be understood by at least one merchant server using at least one type of commerce platform. The commerce engine can send the translated requests to at least one merchant server, and the merchant servers that receive the requests can determine information about the product (e.g., remaining inventory at particular merchants, product price, and/or other product details). The merchant servers can provide this information to the commerce engine, which can send the product information to the non-merchant website. The commerce engine can also facilitate a transaction with the merchant server, based on the product information returned by the non-merchant website.
US11276096B2	Apparatus, systems and methods for facilitating commerce An apparatus, system and method are provided for facilitating commerce. An audio query describing information requested by the user is received. The audio query is processed to identify at least one category corresponding to the information requested by the user. At least one selected from the group of an image, audio data, and textual information to be presented on a user interface of the device is transmitted over the network connection. The at least one of the image, the audio data, and the textual information is associated with the identified at least one category in response to the received audio query describing the information requested.
US11276090B2	Value map generation and processing A system receives value data to generate a value data object based on input received from a user. The input may include indications of priorities, descriptors, and descriptions related to known and unknown properties. The system uses the generated value data object and associated value gap score to generate property valuation prompts. The valuation prompts are utilized by the user to input evaluation data. Based on the evaluation data and the value data object, the user generates a value score for each visited property.
US11276063B2	System and method for linking bill payment service with remittance An enrollment of a receiver in a biometric authentication system is obtained. The receiver is challenged with a pre-remittance biometric challenge from the biometric authentication system prior to initiating a remittance to the receiver. An indication is obtained that the remittance has at least been initiated to a financial account of the receiver. The indication includes successful completion of the pre-remittance biometric challenge by the receiver. Responsive to obtaining the indication, at least one payee is automatically paid from the financial account.
US11276059B2	System and method for autonomous sustenance of digital assets A system and method for autonomous sustenance of digital assets, including but not limited to digital media, is described. The system may include one or more smart contracts which provide terms for executing a provision of a digital asset to a user on a permanent or duration limited basis. The method may include ensuring the terms of the smart contract are executed such that digital rights holders in the digital assets are paid for access to the digital asset.
US11276055B1	Cash delivery service The innovation disclosed and claimed herein, in one aspect thereof, comprises systems and methods of delivering cash to a subscriber of a cash delivery service by way of a courier. In another aspect, collection of cash from a subscriber by a courier is contemplated. Conversely, the subscriber prearranging to pick up cash at a kiosk is contemplated. For these and like embodiments, network servers host a cash delivery application and users/couriers utilize the application as clients.
US11276050B1	Providing augmented reality user interfaces for automated teller machine transactions Aspects of the disclosure relate to providing augmented reality user interfaces for ATM transactions. In some embodiments, a computing platform may receive presence information indicating that a mobile computing device is within a predetermined distance of a first ATM at a first location, authenticate a user of the mobile computing device to an online banking account, and generate a transaction-specific device identifier that uniquely identifies the first ATM at the first location. Thereafter, the computing platform may generate and send an augmented reality user interface to the mobile computing device, prompting the user to use the mobile computing device to capture the transaction-specific device identifier. Based on verifying that the user is authorized to perform a transaction at the first ATM, the computing platform may cause an NFC connection to be established between the mobile computing device and the first ATM, via which the transaction may be conducted.
US11276049B2	Systems and methods for creating dynamic sessions for mobile application integration Systems and methods for mobile application integration are described. These may include receiving a payment request a mobile application, sending a payment application detection request, receiving a detection response, and sending a customized user interface to the mobile device. The customized user interfaces are determined by whether an associated payment application is present on the mobile device and whether the mobile device is authenticated with the payment processing platform. These techniques can allow for a better user experience when interacting with the payment processing platform.
US11276048B2	Online payment processing method apparatus and system An online payment processing method, apparatus and system provide a simpler and less expensive online fund payment processing process. The method includes: sending a payment processing request from a merchant client to a payment request receiving server, the payment processing request carrying payment information; sending a uniform resource locator (URL) request to an open platform; processing payment by the open platform server based on the payment information obtained from the payment request receiving server and user information obtained from a user through a user client.
US11276047B2	Determining and distributing fuel credits using a computer-based immutable ledger A computer-implemented method including: creating, by a computer device, a database record for a user in a computer-based immutable ledger; updating, by the computer device, the database record with a beginning amount of fuel when the user rents a vehicle; receiving, by the computer device, fuel purchase information from a fuel dispenser at a filling station; updating, by the computer device, the database record with the fuel purchase information; updating, by the computer device, the database record with an ending amount of fuel when the user returns the vehicle; determining, by the computer device, an amount of overpayment for fuel by the user; and updating, by the computer device, the database record with a credit based on the determined amount of overpayment.
US11276046B2	System for insights on factors influencing payment A system, method, and computer-readable medium for performing a payment tracking operation. Factors, that include input, features and attributes of various customers are received and processed. The processing includes imputing, deleting and converting the factors for further refinement for machine learning. The machine learning processes the factors using succeeding layers that include random forest to categorize customers, multivariate regression to determine which factors have the greatest effects on payment. In addition, a recurrent neural network approach is used to further refine the factors and provide a more accurate analysis.
US11276041B2	Scheduling using potential calendars Scheduling one or more users via potential calendars is presented. In preparing a potential schedule request, one or more potential time slots in which the to-be scheduled event may be held are identified. The potential schedule is sent to the scheduled users and the potential time slots for the potential schedule event are added to the users' calendars. In response to clarifying information, one or more potential time slots of the potential schedule request may be removed from consideration for the potential schedule event. A selection is made regarding a potential time slot for the potential schedule event and the potential schedule event is promoted to the explicit calendars of the scheduled users to be held at the selected potential time slot. In promoting the potential schedule event to the explicit calendars, the potential event is removed from the potential calendars, including any remaining potential time slots.
US11276038B2	Distributed data store for managing media Described herein are various embodiments of a system for tracking interests in content using a distributed data store. By being “distributed,” there may be multiple different copies of the data store that each hold a portion or all of the data of the data store, with the different copies being continuously, periodically, or occasionally synchronized to ensure that data held in one matches the data held in another, but with no copy of the data store being treated as the official or canonical copy of the data store. The distributed data store may track the interests regarding the content in particular ways, including through storing information identifying the content and identifying interests in the content. The distributed data store may be used to track interests in media, such as to track ownership, management, or royalty interests in media like songs, to provide a mechanism for “Digital Rights Expression” (DRE).
US11276037B2	Search prioritization interfaces for communication platform users Systems, apparatuses, services, platforms, and methods are discussed herein that provide user search services to a communication platform. An example user search service receives a query indicted by a user to find users of a communication platform associated with one or more search terms. The example user search service also presents to the user a search result view comprising resultant users on the communication platform, where the search result view includes one or more graphical annotations in association with ones of the resultant users that indicate a quantity of common users on the communication platform between the user and the ones of the resultant users.
US11276030B2	Automated delivery device and handling method An autonomous delivery device can make unattended deliveries of customer orders to predetermined locations. The device includes a plurality of compartments containing portions of the order or all of the order or a number of separately deliverable orders. The device includes a compartment opening such that on arrival at the predetermined location the contents of the or each compartment may be automatically dispensed.
US11276028B2	System and method for dynamic pairing function optimization Provided are systems and processes for optimizing assignments of deliveries for perishable goods. In one aspect, a method is provided for pairing a set of created orders with a set of available couriers. The set of created orders may include orders confirmed by the merchant and the set of available couriers include couriers that are online with an active status. Feasible pairings are generated between each courier and each created order. Infeasible pairings are eliminated based on factors such as transportation mode. Possible routes for each pairing are generated and scored based on weighted factors. The scores are optimized to achieve a set of routes with a maximum score. The routes are then offered to the corresponding courier if the courier will arrive at or after the created order is completed by the merchant. A neural network may be implemented to recognize the optimal score for a given duration.
US11276022B2	Enhanced system and method for identity evaluation using a global score value The proposed system aims to perform regulatory identification in a given transaction context. Through this system, clients validate customers via multiple angles, specifically, risk-based authentication and identity risk analysis. Ultimately the output recommendation helps clients decide whether to proceed with the transaction. Clients use the system in a variety of contexts. In the KYC (Know Your Customer) context, clients often are legally required to vet prospective customers thoroughly. For instance, it might be illegal to do business with someone from a sanctioned country, or someone on a sanctioned list provided by OFAC. In the anti-fraud context, clients have a different set of concerns. They care more about the identity risk of the transaction. They might want to know if an identity they encountered is a synthetic identity, and stop the fraudulent transaction from going through. IDM can provide a recommendation on both of the contexts above, with a measure of estimated confidence. Regulatory identification incorporates the eDNA technology of the system and method disclosed herein and external third-party services, weighs all the factors appropriately depending on the context, and provides an expert view on the transaction.
US11276017B2	Method and system for estimating efforts for software managed services production support engagements The present disclosure provides a method and system that estimates size, effort and FTE of software Managed Services Production Support (MS-PS) engagements. It provides a method and system to categorize all applications in various bundles based on multiple parameters. Further the invention provides a method and system to estimates size of each bundle at an application level based on a set of variables. Further, the invention provides a method and system for utilizing the estimated MS-PS engagement size and organizational baseline productivity information for estimating the MS-PS engagement base effort which can then be adjusted based on multiple factors to arrive at the final effort. It estimates full time equivalent (FTE) of the MS-PS engagement using the final estimated effort of the applications and additional FTE impacting parameters. The invention furthermore provides a method and system to optimize the estimated FTE for a bundle and view the overall unutilized effort.
US11276016B2	Automatic wellbore activity schedule adjustment method and system A method can include determining an ideal activity speed profile of an activity for a well, where the ideal activity speed profile of the activity for the well corresponds to a length of the well; forecasting a start time and a stop time using the ideal activity speed profile of the activity; generating a drilling plan using the start time and the stop time where another activity commences after the stop time; during performance of the activity for the well, receiving data indicative of an actual activity speed of the activity for the well for a corresponding length of the well; during the performance of the activity, deciding to make an adjustment to the performance of the activity for the well using the ideal activity speed profile and the actual activity speed of the activity for the well; and adjusting the stop time of the drilling plan.
US11276011B2	Self-managed adaptable models for prediction systems Embodiments for self-managed adaptable models for prediction systems by one or more processors. One or more adaptive models may be applied to data streams from a plurality of data sources according to one or more data recipes such that the one or more adaptive models predict a plurality of target variables.
US11276003B2	Method for writing data in DNA based memories A method for writing data including a sequence of bits, the data being written in a form of DNA, by in-vitro enzymatically producing memory DNA from a strand of memory writing substrate DNA is disclosed. In one aspect, the method includes repeating of: receiving a sub-sequence of the sequence of bits, the sub-sequence including at least one bit; selecting memory nucleotides based on the sub-sequence; contacting, in liquid medium including the strand of memory writing substrate DNA contacted with an enzyme, the selected memory nucleotides and the enzyme; and synthesizing a portion of the memory DNA from a portion of the strand of memory writing substrate DNA by the enzyme and at least one of the memory nucleotides of the solution, thereby producing memory DNA including memory nucleotides corresponding to bits of the sequence of bits. The disclosed technology further relates to a micro-fluidic system including a microfluidic chip and a controller.
US11276001B1	Machine learning for interconnected surgical theater architecture Each of a plurality of edge computing devices are configured to receive data streams generated by at least one sensor forming part of a respective medical device (e.g., a sensor-equipped surgical tool, etc.) which, in turn, characterizes use of the respective medical device in relation to a particular patient. Each of the edge computing devices can execute at least one machine learning model which generates or from which model attributes are derived. The generated model attributes are anonymized using an anonymization technique such as k-anonymity. The anonymized generated model attributes are homomorphically encrypted and transmitted to a central server. Encrypted model attribute updates to at least one of the machine learning models are later received from the central server which results in the machine learning models executing on one or more of the edge computing devices to be updated based on the received encrypted model attribute updates.
US11275997B1	Weight loading in an array Disclosed herein are techniques for obtain weights for neural network computations. In one embodiment, an integrated circuit may include memory configured to store a first weight and a second weight; a row of processing elements comprising a first processing element and a second processing element, the first processing element comprising a first weight register, the second processing element comprising a second weight register, both of the first weight register and the second weight register being controllable by a weight load signal; and a controller configured to: provide the first weight from the memory to the row of processing elements; set the weight load signal to enable the first weight to propagate through the row to reach the first processing element; and set the weight load signal to store the first weight at the first weight register and the flush value at the second weight register.
US11275992B2	Special purpose neural network training chip Methods, systems, and apparatus including a special purpose hardware chip for training neural networks are described. The special-purpose hardware chip may include a scalar processor configured to control computational operation of the special-purpose hardware chip. The chip may also include a vector processor configured to have a 2-dimensional array of vector processing units which all execute the same instruction in a single instruction, multiple-data manner and communicate with each other through load and store instructions of the vector processor. The chip may additionally include a matrix multiply unit that is coupled to the vector processor configured to multiply at least one two-dimensional matrix with a second one-dimensional vector or two-dimensional matrix in order to obtain a multiplication result.
US11275991B2	Coordinated heterogeneous processing of training data for deep neural networks Systems and methods for training neural networks. One embodiment is a system that includes a memory configured to store samples of training data for a Deep Neural Network (DNN), and a distributor. The distributor identifies a plurality of work servers provisioned for training the DNN by processing the samples via a model of the DNN, receives information indicating Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) processing powers at the work servers, determines differences in the GPU processing powers between the work servers based on the information, and allocates the samples among the work servers based on the differences.
US11275982B1	Faraday enclosure for improved RFID detection An RFID reading enclosure having a Faraday cage including a cage floor and a cage hood hinged to the cage floor. The cage hood includes a RF blocking fabric formed on a frame with the interior of the Faraday cage having a volume between 4.5 and 30 ft3. There are at least two RFID antennas positioned to transmit signals into the Faraday cage, with the two RFID antennas having a transmission axis along different orientations.
US11275976B2	Medical image assessment with classification uncertainty Medical images may be classified by receiving a first medical image. The medical image may be applied to a machine learned classifier. The machine learned classifier may be trained on second medical images. A label of the medical image and a measure of uncertainty may be generated. The measure of uncertainty may be compared to a threshold. The first medical image and the label may be output when the measure of uncertainty is within the threshold.
US11275974B2	Random feature transformation forests for automatic feature engineering Embodiments for automated feature engineering by one or more processors are described. One or more selected transformations may be applied to a set of features in a dataset to create a set of transform features using random feature transformation forest (RFTF) classifiers. A transform feature may be selected from the set of transform features having a highest discriminative power as compared to other features of the set of transform features. At each node in a decision tree, store the selected feature, a split value, and the one or more selected transformations for the transform feature.
US11275972B2	Image classification masking An embodiment of the invention may include a method, computer program product and computer system for image classification and masking. The method, computer program product and computer system may include computing device which may receive image data from one or more sources. The computing device may classify the image data utilizing visual recognition classification and identify one or more classified features, each classified feature being associated with one or more attributes. The computing device may analyze the classified image data to determine if one or more of images of the classified image data contains one or more sensitive attributes. In response to determining one or more images of the classified image data contains one or more sensitive attributes, the computing device may apply a masking technique and may generate one or more masked images.
US11275968B2	Super-sparse image compression using cross-bar non-volatile memory device Exemplary methods and apparatus are disclosed that implement super-sparse image/video compression by storing image dictionary elements within a cross-bar resistive random access memory (ReRAM) array (or other suitable cross-bar NVM array). In illustrative examples, each column of the cross-bar ReRAM array stores the values for one dictionary element (such as one 4×4 dictionary element). Methods and apparatus are described for training (configuring) the cross-bar ReRAM array to generate and store the dictionary elements by sequentially applying patches from training images to the array using an unstructured Hebbian training procedure. Additionally, methods and apparatus are described for compressing an input image by applying patches from the input image to the ReRAM array to read out cross-bar column indices identifying the columns storing the various dictionary elements that best fit the image. This may be done in parallel using a set of ReRAM arrays.
US11275965B2	Method for generation of an augmented point cloud with point features from aggregated temporal 3D coordinate data, and related device A method for generation of an augmented point cloud with point features from aggregated 3D coordinate data and related device. The method comprises receiving a current point cloud in the form of 3D coordinate data in ego coordinates from one or more detection and ranging (DAR) devices of a vehicle. Features are extracted from the current point cloud. A previous point cloud is transformed into ego coordinates using a current location of the vehicle. Each point in the previous point cloud is transformed to align with a corresponding point in the current point cloud to generate a transformed point cloud. The current point cloud is aggregated with the transformed point cloud to generate an aggregated point cloud. The current point features are aggregated with the point features of the transformed point cloud to generate aggregated point features.
US11275963B2	Image identification apparatus, image identification method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for storing image identification program An image identification apparatus includes: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory, the processor being configured to perform processing, the processing including: acquiring a contour image where pixels indicating a contour of a subject are extracted from an input image; detecting pixels of 3 points or more over the contour from each of regions in the contour image, which are separated by a predetermined distance in a vertical direction or a horizontal direction; calculating, for each combination of pixels of every 2 points among the detected pixels, an intersection point of a perpendicular bisector of a line segment having 2 points as end points and a distance between the intersection point and one of the detected pixels; and identifying, from the input image, a circle having the intersection point as a center of the circle and the distance as a radius.
US11275954B2	Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and information processing system An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire an image captured by an imaging device mounted in a vehicle, and a determination unit configured to perform image recognition on the image acquired by the acquisition unit to perform determination about whether or not a monitoring target registered in advance is included. The determination unit performs the determination on an image captured in a geographical range set in association with the monitoring target.
US11275952B2	Monitoring method, apparatus and system, electronic device, and computer readable storage medium A surveillance method, apparatus, system, electronic device and computer-readable storage medium are provided. In the surveillance method, a non-visible light image and a target image are obtained, wherein the target image is generated from a visible light signal captured during a capture period of the non-visible light image. The method then detects whether an object is present in the non-visible light image. When an object is detected in the non-visible light image, a second location area of the object in a visible light image is determined according to a first location area of the object in the non-visible light image, such that surveillance of the object is implemented based on the visible light image, wherein the visible light image is an image determined based on the target image.
US11275947B2	Image processing system, image processing method, and image processing program The present invention provides a technique suitable for the detection of small objects such as white canes. In order to solve this problem, one representative example of this image processing system comprises a video acquisition unit configured to input an input image acquired as a video, an estimation unit including a Fully Convolutional Network (FCN) learning model trained with respect to a region of a predetermined detection target, and configured to generate a region estimation image for the detection target by processing the input image with the learning model, and an image processing unit configured to detect the region of the detection target based on the region estimation image.
US11275944B1	External asset database management in an extended reality environment A mobile device is fitted with an extended reality (XR) software application program executing on a processor within an XR system, and optionally a camera. Via the XR software application program, various techniques are performed for interacting with a physical object via the XR environment. In particular, the XR software application program generates and displays visual representations of real-time metric data received from a data intake and query system along with auxiliary data received from an asset management system. In addition, the XR software application program detects user interactions with the XR environment. In response, the XR software application generates messages directed to the asset management system. The messages include commands to update the auxiliary data associated with the physical object.
US11275943B2	Enabling intelligent disposal Object disposal recommendations are generated by classifying an object within an image based on object recognition and metadata of the image and comparing the object and metadata to a corpus of object classification images. A current object state is determined relative to disposal recommendation, based on disposal policies. Responsive to determining disposal of the object in the current state is not recommended, one or more components of the object are identified, and a determination made as to a recommendation for disposal of the one or more object components. If a disposal recommendation is found for the one or more components of the object, the processor generates information to disassemble and prepare the one or more components of the object for disposal and provides disposal recommendation for the one or more components of the object.
US11275942B2	Method and system for generating training data A method for generating training data can include: determining a set of images; determining a set of masks based on the images; determining a first mesh based on the set of masks; optionally determining a refined mesh by recomputing the first mesh; optionally determining one or more faces of the refined mesh; optionally adding one or more keypoints to the refined mesh; optionally determining a material property set for the object; optionally generating a full object mesh; determining one or more scenes; optionally determining training data based on the one or more scenes; optionally training one or more object detectors using the training data; and detecting one or more objects using the trained object detector.
US11275939B2	Movement intelligence using satellite imagery A system for incorporating geographical data into a map-related system, adding objects being tracked while moving within a specific geographic area and automatically analyzing their movement characteristics; wherein the tracking is done by visual means from a sky-borne platform.
US11275930B2	Using identity information to facilitate interaction with people moving through areas A system receives a digital representation of a biometric for a person, uses the digital representation of the biometric to determine and/or otherwise retrieve identity information associated with the person, and uses the identity information to perform one or more actions related to the person's presence in one or more areas. For example, the system may estimate a path for the person and signal an agent electronic device based on the path. In another example, the system may determine a presence of a person within the area and/or transmit information to an agent electronic device regarding the determined presence. In still another example, the system may receive a request to communicate with the person and forward the communication to the person using the identity information.
US11275925B2	Violence detection system Disclosed herein are technologies for using computer vision for detection of violence, foreseeable, or imminent violence. The technologies can include a real-time human behavior detection system combined with object classification, which is to be used as an intelligent augmentation of security surveillance systems. The technologies can be used with security cameras, surveillance systems or unmanned aerial vehicles. The technologies can use various types of machine learning to enhance the technologies' violence detection. Also, the technologies can use a synergistic approach of combining different computer vision and machine learning technologies to provide highly accurate results.
US11275923B2	Ultrasonic fingerprint sensor with low-frequency vibration source An apparatus may include an ultrasonic sensor system, a low-frequency vibration source and a control system. The ultrasonic sensor system may include an ultrasonic receiver and an ultrasonic transmitter configured for transmitting ultrasonic waves in a first frequency range (e.g., 1 MHz to 30 MHz). The low-frequency vibration source may be configured for generating low-frequency vibrations in a second frequency range (e.g., the range of 5 Hz to 2000 Hz). The control system may be configured for synchronizing the generation of the first low-frequency vibrations and the transmission of the first ultrasonic waves.
US11275917B2	Reading device, reading method, reading program, and settlement processing method A reading device, a reading method and a reading program that can easily and quickly read a composite symbol, and a settlement processing method are provided. A moving image of a composite symbol which includes a plurality of symbols emerging in the same location and whose appearance changes depending on a viewing angle, is captured. The symbols included in the composite symbol are detected from the moving image obtained by image-capturing. Authenticity of the composite symbol is determined based on the obtained moving image.
US11275916B1	Methods and a device for processor optimizations during item scanning and transaction processing Processor utilization for a combined transaction terminal and scanner device is controlled during item code image capture, item code reading, and/or read item code communications. Item image capture rates, item image frame reads, and read item code communications are controlled to override preconfigured processing and to reduce processor utilization on the device. This frees up processor capacity for performing other operations during transactions on the device.
US11275913B2	Aim light assemblies for use in barcode readers and methods and systems associated therewith A method and apparatus for manipulating an aiming light of a reader to indicate the field-of-view (FOV) of an imager within the reader includes a window and an optical element. The FOV of the imager extends through the window. The optical element receives the aiming light from an aiming assembly and redirect the aiming light such that the central axis of the aiming light exiting the optical element is non-coaxial with the central aiming axis of the aiming assembly at the entry of the optical element. The optical element may be configured to project an image on a target that indicates the boundary of the FOV or project an image on the target that indicates the center of the FOV.
US11275907B2	Machine translation method, apparatus, computer device, and storage medium A machine translation method and an apparatus are provided. The method includes: obtaining, when translating a word fragment from a first language into a second language, a source representation vector of the word fragment. The source representation vector of the word fragment represents the word fragment in the first language. The method also includes obtaining a historical translation vector of the word fragment by querying historical translation information according to the source representation vector of the word fragment. The historical translation vector of the word fragment represents a historical translation situation corresponding to the word fragment. The method further includes translating the word fragment according to the historical translation vector of the word fragment.
US11275901B2	Context retrieval for chatbots A method for supplementing context in dialog flows for chatbot systems includes responsive to receiving identification information associated with a user and a topic for a chatbot conversation, initializing a chatbot conversation between a chatbot and the user. The method identifies a set of entities and a set of one or more relationships, wherein each relationship from the set one or more relationships is between two entities from the set of entities. The method determines an initial set of relevancy scores for each entity in the set of entities and the set of one or more relationships, wherein the initial set of relevancy scores are based at least on a domain for the topic of the chatbot conversation. The method generates a first response to the user based on the initial set of relevancy scores, wherein the first response includes at least one entity and at least one relationship.
US11275900B2	Systems and methods for automatically assigning one or more labels to discussion topics shown in online forums on the dark web Embodiments of a computer-implemented system for improving classification of data associated with the deep web or dark net are disclosed.
US11275899B2	Generating game environments from unstructured textual corpus for reinforcement learning Representative features representing actions and states described in text corpus comprising unstructured natural language data are generated. State properties associated with the states from the representative features and action properties associated with the actions from the representative features are generated. A state transition matrix with initial configurations is generated based on the state space and action space properties. A computer environment is bootstrapped based on the state space, the action space and the initial state transition matrix.
US11275893B1	Reference document generation using a federated learning system In some implementations, a device may receive a first document from a first client device. The device may parse the first document into first sentences. The device may receive a second document from a second client device. The device may parse the second document into second sentences. The device may select a first sentence of the first document and a second sentence of the second document. The device may convert the first sentence into a first vector and the second sentence into a second vector. The device may determine a similarity score associated with the first vector and the second vector. The device may determine, based on the similarity score, that a first word set in the first sentence and a second word set in the second sentence correspond to a reference annotation. The device may perform an action associated with the reference annotation.
US11275890B2	Method and system for stashing of document alteration information for quicker web preview Techniques are provided to enable quick previews of what a modified document would look like. In an implementation, a set of page images are stored. Each page image represents a page of a document, the page having been converted to a page image for a first version of the document to permit the document to be viewed in a viewer program. A command is received to modify the document. The requested modification may include, for example, reordering pages, deleting pages, or extracting pages. A preview is generated for a second version of the document. The preview reflects the modification and uses at least one page image from the set of page images created for the first version of the document. Reusing page images allows the preview to be generated very quickly.
US11275883B2	Machine learning-based classification in parasitic extraction automation for circuit design and verification This application discloses a computing system implementing a parasitic extraction tool to generate a parasitic model from physical design layout of an integrated circuit. The computing system also can implement a machine-learning classifier that, when trained with a training data set, can classify the physical design layout based on physical or electrical characteristics associated with the physical design layout, and can utilize the classification to select a set of scaling coefficients. The computing system can apply the selected set of the scaling coefficients to adjust coupling capacitances in the parasitic model and generate a parasitic netlist for the physical design layout. The computing system can generate the training data set by determining sets of the scaling coefficients from the test physical design layouts and labeling the test physical design layouts with the sets of the scaling coefficients.
US11275877B2	Hardware simulation systems and methods for reducing signal dumping time and size by fast dynamical partial aliasing of signals having similar waveform Hardware simulation systems and methods for reducing signal dumping time and size of by fast dynamical partial aliasing of signals having similar waveform are provided. One example system is configured to receive, in real-time, a first signal from a producer entity; determine a first signal signature associated with the first signal; determine, in real-time, a second signal signature associated with the second signal; upon determining that the first signal signature matches the second signal signature, designate the first signal as a master signal and designate the second signal as a slave signal; and stop dumping the second signal to a storage space.
US11275875B2	Co-simulation repeater with former trace data Example implementations described herein are directed to systems and methods that include the storage of I/F communication activity during a co-execution and a repeater to reproduce such I/F communication activity. Thus in a subsequent re-execution of the simulation or applications, one or more of the simulations or applications utilized can be replaced with a repeater without requiring the full execution of the simulation or application, thereby saving license usage as well as requiring fewer hardware resources for execution.
US11275866B2	Image processing method and image processing system for deep learning Disclosed herein is an image processing method and an image processing system for deep learning. The image processing method includes converting image data including at least one figure image into a vector image by changing a data format, encrypting at least one first attribute value for a position of the figure image in the vector image according to a selected encryption scheme, constructing a de-identified image for the image data by using a second attribute value which is changed by the encryption, and transferring the de-identified image to a cloud server in which a deep learning model is managed and processing deep learning operations of the de-identified image by the cloud server.
US11275864B2	Personal privacy protocols for sharing media on social media platforms A system and method for privacy identity control for sharing media on a social media platform includes receiving a digital image encoded with a privacy identification data from a media capturing device for sharing on the social media platform, retrieving a first key based on the privacy identification data for decrypting an encrypted personal privacy protocol, wherein the personal privacy protocol is encrypted using a second key, decrypting the encrypted personal privacy protocol using the first key to obtain a decrypted personal privacy protocol, and displaying the digital image on the social media platform based on the decrypted personal privacy protocol.
US11275854B2	Conversation print system and method A method, computer program product, and computing system for defining a conversation print for each of a plurality of known entities, thus defining a plurality of conversation prints. Voice-based content is received from a third-party. The voice-based content is compared to at least one of the plurality of conversation prints to identify the third party.
US11275850B1	Multi-faceted security framework for unstructured storage objects At an object storage service, one or more security rules to be implemented for a request directed to an unstructured object are identified, including a content query-based rule. The query-based rule indicates a query predicate and a security enforcement action. A value of an attribute is extracted from the unstructured object using a rule obtained via a programmatic interface, and used to verify that the predicate is satisfied. The security enforcement action is then implemented.
US11275847B2	Technologies for user-mode persistence of certificates and keys in resource-constrained devices Technologies for secure certificate management include a computing device that receives a keystore command related to an encryption key, converts the keystore command into an encrypted database command, unlocks an encrypted database stored by the computing device with an obfuscated passphrase, and executes the encrypted database command. The encrypted database includes a key table to store binary copies of encryption keys and a metadata table to store metadata related to the encryption keys. The computing device returns a response to the keystore command in response to executing the encrypted database command. The keystore command may be received and the response may be returned via a command-line interface or a machine-to-machine interface. The computing device may load multiple encoded passphrase segments from corresponding predetermined file system locations, decode the encoded passphrase segments, and compound the decoded passphrase segments to generate the passphrase. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US11275836B2	System and method of determining a trust level of a file Disclosed herein are systems and methods for determining trust levels of files on a computing device. In one aspect, an exemplary method comprises, selecting file names which are stable, generating at least one group of files from at least two files of the selected file names, the at least two files being components of a same application, searching for a presence of a dominant developer such that at least one private key of the dominant developer has been used to sign at least one file of the group of files that is generated, when a dominant developer is found, determining a trust level for all files of the group in accordance with verdicts associated with the dominant developer, and when the dominant developer is not found, determining the trust level for all the files of the group based on verdicts of outside services that have been assigned to the files of the group.
US11275833B2	System and method for detecting a malicious file using image analysis prior to execution of the file A system and a method for analyzing files using visual cues in the presentation of the file is provided. These visual aids may be extracted using a convolutional neural network, classified, and used in conjunction with file metadata to determine if a provided document is likely to be malicious. This methodology may be extended to detect a variety of social engineering-related attacks including phishing sites or malicious emails. A method for analyzing a received file to determine if the received file comprises malicious code begins with generating an image that would be displayed if the received file is opened by the native software program. Then the image is analyzed, and object boundaries data is generated. Metadata is also extracted from the received file. Then, a maliciousness score is generated based on the object boundaries data, the metadata, and a reference dataset.
US11275820B2	Locking device biometric access An electronic locking device includes an electronically controllable locking mechanism, a memory, a wireless transceiver configured to communicate wirelessly with a user device to receive an encrypted package containing a biometric template corresponding to an authorized user, and a processor. The processor is configured to decrypt the encrypted package and store the biometric template in the memory, receive a biometric input corresponding to a user attempting to access the electronic locking device, determine if the biometric input matches the biometric template of the authorized user, and activate the electronically controllable locking mechanism in response to a determination that the biometric input matches the biometric template of the authorized user.
US11275819B2	Generative adversarial network training and feature extraction for biometric authentication Embodiments of the present invention provide a system for generative adversarial network training and feature extraction for biometric authentication. The system collects electronic biometric data of a user from one or more data sources, and stores the collected electronic biometric data as a biometric user account for the user in a personal NoSQL database library associated with the user. A generative adversarial neural network system then determines improved biometric feature selection and improved model refinements for existing biometric authentication models based on the biometric account for the user in the personal library associated with the user. The system can then determine user exposure levels for different authentication channels, including certain biometric authentication channels. A custom adversarial strategy for general adversarial network attacks is then established based on the user exposure levels to generate a biometric authentication process that is more accurate and secure.
US11275818B2	Identifying copyrighted material using embedded copyright information A method includes generating, by a computing device, a unique identifier (ID) based on copyright information associated with digital content, wherein the copyright information and the digital content are recorded on a blockchain of a blockchain network; identifying a plurality of color values associated with one or more color attributes of at least a portion of the digital content; and embedding the unique ID in the digital content by changing one or more color values of the plurality of color values to be representative of the unique ID, wherein the embedding produces information-embedded digital content that enables retrieval of the copyright information from the blockchain based on the unique ID, and wherein a visual difference between the digital content and the information-embedded digital content is not apparent to an unaided human eye.
US11275796B2	Dynamic faceted search on a document corpus A query-focused faceted structure generation method, system, and computer program product for generating a query-focused faceted structure from a taxonomy for searching a document collection, including ingesting a document corpus, generating a vector space representation of a query and instances from a taxonomy of the document corpus, and producing a dynamic structure of a relevant facet categories and facet values using a two-vector space representation from the generated vector space representation.
US11275781B2	Program and syndicated content detection Content from multiple different sources can be divided into segments based on time. Matched segments associated with each source can be identified by comparing content included in a first segment associated with a first source, to content included in a second segment associated with a second source. Syndicated content can be identified and tagged based, at least in part, on a relationship between sequences of matched segments on different stations. Various embodiments also include identifying main sequences associated with each source under consideration, removing some of the main sequences, and consolidating remaining main sequences based on various threshold criteria.
US11275780B2	Image search device, image search method, electronic device and control method therefor An image search device receives an image search request and selects, from a plurality of images, a first group of images that match search conditions based on the search request. The image search device further selects, from the first group of images, a second group of images based on a score calculated by a predetermined evaluation formula, and outputs information about the second group of images as a search result. The predetermined evaluation criteria may be set so as to increase the score for an image in the first group of images based on positive engagement by many people on the predetermined internet service and based on the extent that the image is less similar to other images in the first group of images.
US11275767B2	Analyzing application behavior to determine relationships between data Application behavior is analyzed to determine relationships between data. Database objects accessed by an application are identified. Then, one or more relationships between the identified database objects are determined based on one or more from a group comprising statements of the application referring to the identified database objects and sets of the identified database objects accessed by different modules of the application.
US11275760B2	Online schema and data transformations Transforming a database while allowing the data in the database to be available to database users during the transformation of the database. A method includes creating a new version of metadata for an old copy of database items. The method further includes creating a copy of data items to be transformed in the old copy of database items while applying a transformation to the data while migrating data from the old copy of database items to the new copy of database according to the new version of metadata. The method further includes while migrating data from the old copy of database items to the new copy of database items, servicing user queries made against the old copy of database items to allow the database to remain online while transforming data items in the database.
US11275758B2	Exporting and importing database containers A computer-implemented method for exporting a database container from a database includes exporting database container metadata including artifact definitions in the metadata along with the actual metadata content to a database management system, exporting the database container including the database objects deployed therein to the database management system. The exporting of the database container includes exporting dependencies and structures of the database objects deployed therein, but not the actual content of the database objects. In some instances, however, exporting of the database container can include exporting the actual content of the database objects in response to user request. The method further includes packing the exported database container metadata and the exported database container in an archive. The data in the archive can be unpacked in substantially reverse order to import the database container into another database.
US11275751B2	System and method for connecting designers with suppliers in the construction industry A system and method for connecting architects and design professionals with building product suppliers or manufacturers in the construction industry is disclosed. An example embodiment is configured to: establish a data connection with at least one architect or design professional (A/DP) platform and at least one building material supplier, building product manufacturer, and other building product expert (BPE) platform; match an A/DP at the A/DP platform with a BPE at the BPE platform based on a correlation between the project geographical location, the project type, and the project section as related to specific building product genres and geographical locations in which the BPE has represented possession of product expertise; and enable communication between the A/DP and the matched BPE, the communication including an option of either an open or veiled chat session, the veiled chat session preventing the BPE from viewing private information of the A/DP and/or their project.
US11275749B2	Enhanced query performance prediction for information retrieval systems Techniques are disclosed for query performance prediction (QPP) in the fusion-based retrieval setting. Symmetric list similarity measures used in traditional QPP techniques do not properly account for relevance-dependent aspects of the relationship between a given (base) reference list generated using an information retrieval technique and a final fused list generated using a fusion technique, as such a relationship is actually asymmetric. Embodiments more properly model the asymmetric relationship of reference and fused lists using an asymmetric co-relevance model that estimates, assuming a reference list contains relevant information, the odds that the fused list will be observed. In particular, the asymmetric co-relevance between a reference list and a fused list may be determined by adjusting a symmetric co-relevance of the reference list and the fused list using an odds ratio between the symmetric co-relevance of the reference list and the fused list to the reference list's own relevance.
US11275746B2	Dynamic modifications of results for search interfaces The present disclosure is directed to apparatuses, systems, and methods for enhancing search results based on recent user interactions. As described herein, embodiments may infer various refinements for search queries; these refinements are based, at least in part, on the user's recent interactions with the search platform (e.g., within a current session). In other words, as the user is interacting with the search platform, one or more refinements may be inferred to help make the search results more relevant to the user.
US11275745B2	User interface displaying filtered information A trigger event is set, based on information in an information flow. One or more actions are set to occur in response to occurrence of the trigger event. The information flow is received. The set one or more actions are performed upon occurrence of the trigger event, and a user interface is displayed based on the information flow. The actions include, but are not limited to, filtering display of information from the information flow in response to occurrence of the trigger event.
US11275740B2	Efficient use of trie data structure in databases The invention provides a time-efficient way of performing a query in a database or information retrieval system comprising operations such as intersection, union, difference and exclusive disjunction on two or more sets of keys stored in a database or information retrieval system. In a novel execution model, all data sources are tries. Two or more input tries are combined in accordance with the respective set operation, to obtain the set of keys associated with the nodes of a respective resulting trie. An intersection operation performed in this way can be used for efficient range queries, in particular when two or more data items are involved in the query. The physical algebra of the implementation of tries based on bitmaps corresponds directly to the logical algebra for the set operations and allows for efficient implementation by means of bitwise Boolean operations.
US11275739B2	Prefix indexing A table organized into a set of batch units is accessed. A set of N-grams are generated for a data value in the source table. The set of N-grams include a first N-gram of a first length and a second N-gram of a second length where the first N-gram corresponds to a prefix of the second N-gram. A set of fingerprints are generated for the data value based on the set of N-grams. The set of fingerprints include a first fingerprint generated based on the first N-gram and a second fingerprint generated based on the second N-gram and the first fingerprint. A pruning index that indexes distinct values in each column of the source table is generated based on the set of fingerprints and stored in a database with an association with the source table.
US11275737B2	Assignment of objects to processing engines for efficient database operations In some examples, a system stores data in a logically disconnected data store. In response to a query for data in the data store, the system accesses metadata of objects stored in the data store, the metadata including information of a respective range of values of at least one clustering attribute in data contained in each respective object of the objects. The system partitions the objects across the plurality of processing engines based on the information of the respective ranges of values of the at least one clustering attribute in the data contained in the objects. The system assigns, based on the partitioning, the objects to respective processing engines of the plurality of processing engines.
US11275732B2	Extracting data utility requirements Various embodiments are provided for providing intelligent data utility constraint information in a computing environment are provided. One or more utility constraints may be extracted from a dataset and a set of queries and applications to infer one or more data transformations to apply to selected data.
US11275723B2	Reducing processing for comparing large metadata sets A computer system compares databases, where each data record includes values for a plurality of fields, by applying database operations on database tables of the data records to reduce computations being performed. For each data record in a reference set, candidate matches are identified from among the data records in a target set by performing a join operation on the sets on one or more selected, normalized fields from the sets. This significantly reduced set of candidate matches can be further analyzed to determine how similar they are to the data record from the reference set.
US11275721B2	Adaptive table placement in NUMA architectures Techniques and solutions are provided for performing adaptive database table placement in a non-uniform memory access (NUMA) architecture. The adaptive table placement can occur in response to changing workloads on the NUMA nodes. For example, if a particular NUMA node is saturated, a database table may be moved from the memory of the saturated NUMA node to the memory of another NUMA node that is underutilized. In some cases, an entire database table is moved, while in other cases the database table is partitioned and only part of the table is moved.
US11275712B2	SIMD controller and SIMD predication scheme In an embodiment, a method for processing data in a single instruction multiple data (SIMD) computer architecture is provided. A processing element (PE) may determine based on a masking instruction, a predication state indicative of one of a conditional predication mode and an absolute predication mode. The PE may receive a predicated instruction and, based on a value of a head bit of the bits of a predication mask and on the value indicative of the predication state whether to commit a computation corresponding to execution of the predicated instruction. In another embodiment, a SIMD controller stores loops and sections of a program as a separate instruction stream record for generating the memory address of the next instruction. For data streams, the SIMD controller records information for each data memory access that references the same register files that are used by the instruction streams.
US11275706B2	Storage system having multiple bridges corresponding to multiple operation modes and control method therefor According to an aspect of the present disclosure, SATA bridges in cascade connection and storage devices connected beyond the SATA bridges are identified. A setting of the operation mode of each of the SATA bridges is performed in accordance with a connection configuration of the SATA bridge and the storage device.
US11275702B2	Memory module and registered clock driver with configurable data-rank timing A memory system supports single- and dual-memory-module configurations, both supporting point-to-point communication between a host (e.g., a memory controller) and the memory module or modules. Each memory module includes an address-buffer component, data-buffer components, and two sets of memory dies, each set termed a “timing rank,” that can be accessed independently. The one memory module is configured in a wide mode for the single-memory-module configuration, in which case both timing ranks work together, as a “package rank,” to communicate full-width data. Each of two memory modules are configured in a narrow mode for the dual-memory-module configuration, in which case one timing rank from each memory module communicates data in parallel to appear to the host as single package ranks. The data-buffer components support separate and configurable write and read delays for the different timing ranks on each module to provide read and write leveling within and between memory modules.
US11275701B2	Secure timer synchronization between function block and external SOC Various embodiments include methods and systems performed by a processor of a first function block for providing secure timer synchronization with a second function block. Various embodiments may include storing, in a shared register space, a first time counter value in which the first time counter value is based on a global counter of the second function block, transmitting, from the shared register space, the stored first time counter value to a preload register of the first function block, receiving, by the first function block, a strobe signal from the second function block configured to enable the first time counter value in the preload register to be loaded into a global counter of the first function block, and configuring the global counter with the first time counter value from the preload register.
US11275686B1	Adjustable write policies controlled by feature control registers In one embodiment, a microprocessor, comprising: prediction logic comprising a branch predictor comprising a group of multi-set associative tables, each of the tables corresponding to branch pattern histories of different lengths; and control logic configured to provide an adjustable write policy for the prediction logic.
US11275683B2	Method, apparatus, device and computer-readable storage medium for storage management Example embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method, an apparatus, a device and a computer-readable storage medium for storage management. The method for storage management includes: obtaining an available channel mode of a plurality of channels in a memory of a data processing system, the available channel mode indicating availabilities of the plurality of channels, and each of the plurality of channels being associated with a set of addresses in the memory; obtaining a channel data-granularity of the plurality of channels, the channel data-granularity indicating a size of a data block that can be carried on each channel; obtaining a target address of data to be transmitted in the memory; and determining a translated address corresponding to the target address based on the available channel mode and the channel data-granularity.
US11275667B2	Handling of workload surges in a software application According to an aspect of the present disclosure, a correlation data correlating resource usage with workload signatures is maintained, each workload signature representing a cluster of block signatures, each block signature characterizing the transaction instances initiated in a corresponding block duration. For the transactions received in a current block duration, if a current block signature is not contained in the correlation data and if the current transaction arrival rate (TAR) is greater than an expected TAR, a resource requirement for the current block signature is computed. Actions to manage capacity to handle transaction instances are triggered if the resource requirement is greater than the resource allocation in the current block duration. As an unknown current block signature and a higher TAR may be indicative of a workload surge, triggering suitable actions for such block signatures facilitates such surges to be handled by the software application.
US11275666B1	Method and apparatus for identifying high importance devices of a consistency group A consistency group is defined to include a set of required devices on a set of storage systems. High activity devices are determined, and write dependencies between each high activity device and each low activity devices are monitored. A set of high importance devices is determined to include the high activity devices and low activity devices with a high write dependency on at least one of the high activity devices. Comparative write patterns between the high importance devices and low importance devices are used to determine a set of candidate devices for removal from the consistency group. The high importance devices, rather than all devices of the consistency group, are also used to determine a set of devices that have inadvertently not been included in the consistency group.
US11275661B1	Test generation of a distributed system A method of generating instructions to be executed by a plurality of execution engines that shares a resource is provided. The method comprises, in a first generation step: reading a first engine logical timestamp vector of a first execution engine of the execution engines, the logical timestamp representing a history of access operations for the resource; determining whether the first engine logical timestamp vector includes a most-up-to-date logical timestamp of the resource in the first generation step; based on the first engine logical timestamp vector including the most-up-to-date logical timestamp of the resource in the first generation step, generating an access instruction to be executed by the first execution engine to access the resource; and scheduling the first execution engine to execute the access instruction.
US11275660B2	Memory mirroring in an information handling system A method, an information handling system (IHS) and a memory mirroring system for operating a mirrored memory. The method includes detecting, via a memory controller, at least one uncorrectable data error (UCDE) in a first memory device. In response to detecting the at least one UCDE, a UCDE event counter is retrieved that tracks the number of UCDE events that have occurred and a UCDE event threshold is retrieved corresponding to a maximum number of allowed UCDE events. The method further includes determining if the UCDE event counter is greater than the UCDE event threshold and in response to determining that the UCDE event counter is not greater than the UCDE event threshold, continuing writing of data to the first memory device via a first memory channel and continuing writing of the data to a second memory device via a second memory channel to create a mirror of the data.
US11275657B2	Method and system for minimizing rolling database recovery downtime A method and system for minimizing rolling database recovery downtime. Specifically, the disclosed method and system entail migrating and recovering database data from backup storage to local host storage while enabling database access operations through live mounts mapped to the database data on the backup storage. Database downtime may subsequently be reduced through the rapid switching of file system references between database data stored on backup storage and database data copies recovered on local storage.
US11275656B2	Autonomous data protection Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to autonomous data protection. One or more input/output (I/O) streams can be received by one or more storage devices. One or more snapshots of each storage device can be obtained. One or more anomalies can be identified based on a change rate corresponding to each storage device's memory allocated to store user data included in the I/O streams.
US11275654B2	Methods and apparatus for providing hypervisor level data services for server virtualization A data center for data backup and replication, including a pool of multiple storage units for storing a journal of I/O write commands issued at respective times, wherein the journal spans a history window of a pre-specified time length, and a journal manager for dynamically allocating more storage units for storing the journal as the journal size increases, and for dynamically releasing storage units as the journal size decreases.
US11275653B2	Magnetic disk device According to one embodiment, a magnetic disk device includes a magnetic disk, a storage unit, a magnetic head, an error correction unit that, in a case where an error is detected in user data read by the magnetic head, performs error correction on a sector in which the error is detected in track units and acquires error correction data, and a control unit. The control unit controls reading/writing of user data, management data for managing a sector on which the error correction is performed in the track units, and the error correction data, and in a case where there is no host access, rewrites data on the track including the sector on which the error correction is performed, based on the user data stored in the track and the error correction data of the sector, in which the error is detected, of the track.
US11275650B2	Systems and methods for performing a write pattern in memory devices A semiconductor device may include a memory bank and a plurality of mode registers that communicatively couple to each of the plurality of memory banks. The plurality of mode registers may include a pattern of data stored therein. The semiconductor device may also include a bank control that receives a write pattern command that causes the bank control to write the pattern of data into the memory bank, send a signal to a multiplexer to couple the plurality of mode registers to the memory bank, and write the pattern of data to the memory bank via the plurality of mode registers.

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