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US11309161B2	Charged particle beam apparatus and adjustment method for charged particle beam apparatus A charged particle apparatus includes: a specimen chamber which is maintained at vacuum and in which a specimen is disposed; a preliminary exhaust chamber that is connected to the specimen chamber via a vacuum gate valve; an exhaust device that exhausts the preliminary exhaust chamber; charged particle beam source an optical system; a detector; a transporting device that transports the specimen from the preliminary exhaust chamber to the specimen chamber; and a control unit. The control unit performs: adjustment processing in which at least one of the optical system and the detector is adjusted in a state where the specimen is housed in the preliminary exhaust chamber; and transporting processing which is performed after the adjustment processing and in which the vacuum gate valve is opened and the transporting device transports the specimen to the specimen chamber.
US11309155B2	Molded case circuit breaker The present disclosure relates to a molded case circuit breaker, and particularly, to a molded case circuit breaker having an enhanced arc protecting function. The molded case circuit breaker includes: a power side terminal portion provided at a front side of an enclosure and having a fixed contact arm; a finger assembly coupled to the fixed contact arm, and disposed on a front surface of the power side terminal portion; and a base bus supporter coupled to an upper surface and a lower surface of the power side terminal portion, and having a finger hole through which the finger assembly is exposed. The base bus supporter is provided with a protection unit configured to enclose the finger assembly around the finger hole.
US11309154B2	Contact device and electromagnetic relay A first end portion includes a first contact. A second end portion includes a second contact. At least a first end portion, out of the first end portion and a second end portion, is curved to be folded back from a tip in one direction of the first end portion. The first contact is located in a folded-back part of the first end portion and faces the second contact.
US11309148B2	Weatherproof decorator cover with positive indicator A weatherproof switch cover includes a base plate, a rocker arm provided in the base plate and movable between a first position and a second position and a membrane provided below the rocker arm, the membrane providing a weatherproof seal.
US11309139B2	Bifacial light-harvesting dye-sensitized solar cell A bifacial light-harvesting dye-sensitized solar cell is provided and has: a first transparent substrate, a second transparent substrate, a working electrode, a first semiconductor layer, a second semiconductor layer, a third semiconductor layer, a counter electrode, a light-transmitting catalyst layer, and a liquid electrolyte. A photoelectric conversion efficiency of the dye-sensitized solar cell is improved by using a specific working electrode structure.
US11309137B2	Electrode for aluminium electrolytic capacitor, and production method therefor An electrode for an aluminum electrolytic capacitor and a method for producing the same are provided that enable improvement of water resistance of a chemical formation film having a withstand voltage of 400 V or higher. The electrode for an aluminum electrolytic capacitor is produced by performing a hydration step of bringing the aluminum electrode into contact with a hydration treatment liquid having a temperature of 78° C. to 92° C. to form a hydrated film on the aluminum electrode and a chemical formation step of performing chemical formation at a chemical formation voltage of 400 V or higher in a chemical formation solution having a temperature of 58° C. to 78° C. to form the chemical formation film on the aluminum electrode. In this method, the amount of the hydrated film is made appropriate. In this electrode for an aluminum electrolytic capacitor, the number of voids that are exposed on a cut surface when the chemical formation film is cut is 150 voids/μm2 or smaller, and thus the water resistance thereof is high.
US11309124B2	Method for producing electronic component A method for producing an electronic component includes a step of preparing a porous base body containing a ceramic and including an inner conductor disposed in the body; and a step of impregnating the base body with a resin emulsion.
US11309117B2	Inductive element and manufacturing method An inductive element includes a magnetic core, a flat coil wound on a middle column of the magnetic core, and a magnetic plastic package layer covering the magnetic core and the flat coil. Two electrodes connected to two pigtails of the flat coil are exposed outside of the magnetic plastic package layer. The flat coil is configured to enable a width direction of a flat wire of the flat coil to be perpendicular to an axial direction of the middle column of the magnetic core, and the flat wire is stacked layer by layer in the axial direction of the middle column. A manufacturing method for the inductive element is also disclosed herein. By using the wounding method of the flat coil of the inductive element, a height of a product may be reduced while obtaining a same DCR, so that the product is thinner.
US11309115B2	Magnetoresistance effect element A magnetoresistance effect element includes a first ferromagnetic layer, a second ferromagnetic layer, and a nonmagnetic spacer layer between the first ferromagnetic layer and the second ferromagnetic layer, in which at least one of the first ferromagnetic layer and the second ferromagnetic layer contains a metal compound having a half-Heusler type crystal structure, the metal compound contains a functional material, and X atoms, Y atoms, and Z atoms which form a unit lattice of the half-Heusler type crystal structure, and the functional material has an atomic number lower than an atomic number of any of the X atoms, the Y atoms, and the Z atoms.
US11309112B2	Solenoid valve drive device Provided is a solenoid valve drive device capable of accurately controlling a hysteresis value of a drive current for driving a solenoid valve. The solenoid valve drive device according to the present invention controls a set value of a hysteresis or a time width of the hysteresis based on a difference between an extreme value of the hysteresis in a peak hold period of a drive current and a set value of the extreme value.
US11309111B2	Magnetic sensing system for a rotary control device A control device includes a moving portion, a magnetic element coupled to the moving portion, at least one magnetic sensing circuit responsive to magnetic fields, and at least one magnetic flux pipe structure. The magnetic element may comprise alternating positive and negative sections configured to generate a magnetic field. The magnetic element may be any shape, such as circular, linear, etc. The magnetic sensing circuit may be radially offset from the magnetic element, and the magnetic flux pipe structure may be configured to conduct the magnetic field generated by the magnetic element towards the magnetic sensing circuit. The magnetic element may generate the magnetic field in a first plane, and the magnetic sensing may be responsive to magnetic fields in a second direction that is angularly offset from the first plane. The magnetic flux pipe structure may redirect the magnetic field towards the magnetic sensing circuit in the second direction.
US11309107B2	Anisotropic iron nitride permanent magnets Disclosed herein is a permanent magnet comprising: a plurality of aligned iron nitride nanoparticles wherein the iron nitride nanoparticles include α″-Fe16N2 phase domains; wherein a ratio of integrated intensities of an α″-Fe16N2 (004) x-ray diffraction peak to an α″-α″-Fe16N2 (202) x-ray diffraction peak for the aligned iron nitride nanoparticles is greater than at least 7%, wherein the diffraction vector is parallel to alignment direction, and wherein the iron nitride nanoparticles exhibit a squareness measured parallel to the alignment direction that is greater than a squareness measured perpendicular to the alignment direction.
US11309105B2	Apparatus for center twisting wires An apparatus configured to twist a first wire about a second wire is presented herein. The apparatus includes a securing mechanism configured to secure ends of the first wire and the second wire. The first wire is arranged parallel to the second wire along a longitudinal axis. The apparatus also includes a gripping mechanism configured to grip central portions of the first and second wires such that inner surfaces of the central portions of the first and second wires are in contact with one another and a rotating mechanism configured to rotate the gripping mechanism, thereby twisting the first and second wires about one another. A method of twisting a first wire about a second wire is also presented herein.
US11309094B2	Controlling a power output of a nuclear reaction without control rods A nuclear power system includes a reactor vessel that includes a reactor core that includes nuclear fuel assemblies configured to generate a nuclear fission reaction. A representative nuclear power system further includes a riser positioned above the reactor core and a primary coolant flow path that extends from a bottom portion of the reactor vessel, through the reactor core, and through an annulus between the riser and the reactor vessel. A primary coolant circulates through the primary coolant flow path to receive heat from the nuclear fission reaction and release the heat to a power generation system configured to generate electric power. The nuclear power system further includes a control rod assembly system positioned in the reactor vessel and configured to position control rods in only two discrete positions.
US11309087B2	Method for the computation of voronoi diagrams Two methods are provided for the automated derivation of Voronoi diagrams in 3D. The invention, implementable via various means such as a processing system, method, or data structure in a recording medium such as memory or as a self-contained electronic circuit, has wide ranging applicability to numerous fields such as big data analysis, computer graphics and animation, route planning, collision avoidance, computer vision, robotic vision, and etc. The first method of the invention details steps necessary to segment data according to a set of generators so as to produce a Voronoi partitioning of the data. The second method of the invention includes steps associated with the derivation of the mathematical specification of a 3D Voronoi diagram.
US11309084B1	Intelligent location estimation for assets in clinical environments A system can identify a first position of a tag in a clinical environment based on first times at which first receivers received a first wireless signal from the tag. The system can estimate a second position of the tag in the clinical environment based on second times at which second receivers received a second wireless signal from the tag. The system determines that a boundary is located between the first position and the second position, defines a path range around the first position of the tag based on an expected movement of the tag during a time interval between the first and second wireless signals, determines that the boundary lacks a door within the path range, adjusts the second position of the tag based on the boundary map, and transmits a message indicating that the tag is located at the adjusted position at the second time.
US11309080B2	System for monitoring compliant usage of negative pressure wound therapy Systems, methods, and apparatuses for treating a tissue site are described. In some embodiments, the system may include a dressing, a negative-pressure source, and a communication device. The communication device may be coupled to the negative-pressure source and configured to transmit operational data of the negative pressure source to a remote location for monitoring usage of the system.
US11309079B2	System and method for a patient dashboard Embodiments disclosed herein provide a system, method, and computer program product for providing a patient dashboard system in a patient care setting. The patient dashboard system collects and stores patient data from a variety of sources. The collected patient data is filtered, analyzed, and displayed. The patient dashboard system displays patient data that is relevant to the treatment of the patient, including recommended medical actions and pertinent positives and pertinent negatives.
US11309074B2	Systems and methods for processing images to prepare slides for processed images for digital pathology Systems and methods are disclosed for processing an electronic image corresponding to a specimen. One method for processing the electronic image includes: receiving a target electronic image of a slide corresponding to a target specimen, the target specimen including a tissue sample from a patient, applying a machine learning system to the target electronic image to determine deficiencies associated with the target specimen, the machine learning system having been generated by processing a plurality of training images to predict stain deficiencies and/or predict a needed recut, the training images including images of human tissue and/or images that are algorithmically generated; and based on the deficiencies associated with the target specimen, determining to automatically order an additional slide to be prepared.
US11309069B2	Aggregating data to identify diversion events In some examples, there may be provided systems, devices, and methods for using data from disparate sources to determine whether diversion events have occurred. A diversion event may be when a monitored unit intended for a target user is diverted away from the target user.
US11309067B2	System and method for query management and education A cloud-based, query management and education system enables provider organizations to query and educate clinicians on how to clarify clinical documentation, resulting in more accurate reimbursement, public reporting, research and policy decisions. Query authors create compliant queries from stored templates which may be supplemented by attaching and/or annotating selected documentation from the patient record. Clinician responses to such queries automatically generate addenda in the relevant patient record. All events around a query are tracked and reportable through a graphical performance scorecards and reporting dashboards.
US11309064B2	Individualized dosing technique with multiple variables A method to quantify and correct for drug-drug interaction, physiologic change, diet, weight, genetic data and compliance on Warfarin dosing. The International Normalized Ratio (INR), a lab value used to follow Warfarin use, will fluctuate in an unpredictable manner due to factors other than the current Warfarin dose. The method mathematically describes these changes and eventually adjusts for these interacting factors through the use of logistic regression (LR) or multiple linear regression analysis. By anticipating changes in INR, Warfarin dosing can be adjusted resulting in patients having their INR be therapeutic range. The technique can be used in any field that requires a specific measured quantity, with variables that change and the need to correct for changes with a mathematical model.
US11309061B1	Systems and methods for peptide identification Provided are parallel computational methods and their implementation on memory-distributed architectures for a peptide identification tool, called HiCOPS, that enables more than 100-fold improvement in speed over existing HPC proteome database search tools. HiCOPS empowers the supercomputing database search for comprehensive identification of peptides and all their modified forms within a reasonable timeframe. Searching Gigabytes of experimental mass spectrometry data against Terabytes of databases demonstrates peptide identification in minutes compared to days or weeks, providing multiple orders of magnitude improvements in processing times. Also provided is a theoretical framework for a novel overhead-avoiding strategy, resulting in superior performance evaluation results for key metrics including execution time, CPU utilization, and I/O efficiency.
US11309055B2	Power loss test engine device and method Apparatus and methods are disclosed, including test systems for memory devices. Example test systems and methods include power loss logic to determine when one or more test conditions have been met in a memory operation between a host device and a memory device under test. Example test systems and methods include a function to then instruct a power management device to trigger a power loss event.
US11309052B2	Read voltage calibration for copyback operation A system includes a memory device having a plurality of groups of memory cells and a processing device communicatively coupled to the memory device. The processing device is be configured to read a first group of memory cells of the plurality to determine a calibrated read voltage associated with the group of memory cells. The processing device is further configured to determine, using the calibrated read voltage associated with the first group of memory cells, a bit error rate (BER) of a second group of memory cells of the plurality. Prior to causing the memory device to perform a copyback operation on the plurality of groups of memory cells, the processing device is further configured to determine whether to perform a subsequent read voltage calibration on at least the second group of the plurality based, at least partially, on a comparison between the determined BER and a threshold BER.
US11309050B2	Memory controller and memory system having the same There are provided a memory controller and a memory system having the same. A memory controller includes: an internal memory for storing error injection information for an error test operation and error test information that is a result of the error test operation; and a central processing unit for receiving first sector data from a host, and performing an error test operation on a memory device according to the error injection information, when the error injection information is included in the first sector data.
US11309042B2	Method of improving read current stability in analog non-volatile memory by program adjustment for memory cells exhibiting random telegraph noise A method and device for programming a non-volatile memory cell, where the non-volatile memory cell includes a first gate. The non-volatile memory cell is programmed to an initial program state that corresponds to meeting or exceeding a target threshold voltage for the first gate of the non-volatile memory cell. The target threshold voltage corresponds to a target read current. The non-volatile memory cell is read in a first read operation using a read voltage applied to the first gate of the non-volatile memory cell that is less than the target threshold voltage to generate a first read current. The non-volatile memory cell is subjected to additional programming in response to determining that the first read current is greater than the target read current.
US11309041B2	Smart erase verify test to detect slow-erasing blocks of memory cells Apparatuses and techniques are described for determining if a block of memory cells is slow-erasing during an erase operation for the block. An erase operation performs an additional verify test in a specified erase-verify iteration to check the position of the upper tail of the threshold voltage distribution of the memory cells of a block. If the upper tail is too high, this indicates a slow-erasing block, even if the erase operation is successfully completed within an allowable number of erase-verify iterations. The additional verify test can be initiated using a prefix command which is transmitted with an erase command to the memory chip. Or, it can be initiated by a device parameter on the memory chip.
US11309036B1	Systems and methods of implementing a calibration wordline to compensate for voltage threshold shift in NAND flash memory Systems and methods that may be implemented for that may be implemented to compensate for NAND flash memory voltage threshold (Vth) shift by using one or more designated calibration wordlines that are programmed into the NAND flash memory with a pre-defined data pattern. In one example configuration, the disclosed systems and methods may be automatically implemented by a SSD controller when needed to compensate for flash memory voltage threshold (Vth) shift that occurs, e.g., due to NAND memory cell charge loss due to power-off data retention over an extended period of time.
US11309017B2	Memory systems and methods for improved power management A memory module with multiple memory devices includes a buffer system that manages communication between a memory controller and the memory devices. Each memory device supports an access mode and a low-power mode, the latter used to save power for devices that are not immediately needed. The module provides granular power management using a chip-select decoder that decodes chip-select signals from the memory controller into power-state signals that determine which of the memory devices are in which of the modes. Devices can thus be brought out of the low-power mode in relatively small numbers, as needed, to limit power consumption.
US11309015B2	Floating body DRAM with reduced access energy Memory devices, controllers and associated methods are disclosed. In one embodiment, a memory device is disclosed. The memory device includes storage cells that are each formed with a metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) transistor having a floating body. Data is stored as charge in the floating body. A transfer interface receives a read command to access data stored in a first group of the storage cells. Sensing circuitry detects the data stored in the first group of storage cells. The transfer interface selectively performs a writeback operation of the sensed data associated with the read command.
US11309013B2	Memory device for reducing resources used for training A memory device includes: first power pins in a first power area and configured to receive a first power voltage; data pins configured to transmit or receive data signals, the data pins being arranged in a first region and in a second region each including the first power area; control pins configured to transmit or receive control signals in the first region and in the second region; second power pins in a second power area between the first region and the second region and configured to receive a second power voltage different from the first power voltage; and ground pins in the second power area and configured to receive a ground voltage.
US11309004B2	Mechanism to improve driver capability with fine tuned calibration resistor Aspects of a storage device including a controller, a calibration resistor and a die having an output driver and a calibration circuit are provided, which allow for an output impedance of the output driver to be calibrated to a lower impedance than a minimum required for reading data across PVT variations of the die at maximum loading of the controller. To check whether slow corners may operate using the lower impedance, the controller determines whether the output impedance of the output driver can be calibrated to the lower impedance at a maximum temperature and minimum voltage applied to the die, or whether a calibration code generated from the calibration circuit exceeds a threshold at a nominal temperature and voltage applied to the die. Thus, slow corners are screened out from lower impedance use, while faster devices are designed with a smaller calibration resistance to benefit from increased memory and speed.
US11308999B2	Boost bypass circuitry in a memory storage device The present disclosure describes various exemplary memory storage devices that can be programmed to bypass one or more memory cells in a bypass mode of operation. The various exemplary memory storage devices can adjust, for example, pull-up or pull-down, the electronic data as the electronic data passes through these exemplary memory storage devices in the bypass mode of operation. In some situations, the various exemplary memory storage devices may introduce an unwanted bias into the electronic data as the electronic data passes through these exemplary memory storage devices in the bypass mode of operation. The various exemplary memory storage devices can pull-down the electronic data and/or pull-up the electronic data as the electronic data is passing through these exemplary memory storage devices in the bypass mode of operation to compensate for this unwanted bias.
US11308997B1	Method and system for direct access to flash modules A memory device includes a substrate, a controller disposed on the substrate and providing an external interface, and a plurality of flash memory dies connected to the controller through an internal interface. The external interface includes at least a bypass pin, a mode selection pin, and a data pin, and is used by an external host to direct access the plurality of flash memory dies through the controller. The bypass pin is used to enable the controller to enter in a direct access state in which the mode selection pin and the data pin are operational; and the mode selection pin is used to trigger the controller to receive a mode code on the data pin and to receive a mode code value on the data pin. The mode code indicates one of a plurality of predetermined input-output modes of the controller in the direct access state, and the mode code value determining information under the predetermined input-output mode indicated by the mode code.
US11308991B2	Image capture device, recording device, and display control device An image capture device for recording HDR (high dynamic range) image data obtained through image capture performs control so as to, when encoding HDR image data obtained by capturing an image with an image sensor, divide part of the HDR image data corresponding to a coding area to be encoded into a plurality of divided HDR image data, encode each of the plurality of divided HDR image data by using encoding means, and record the plurality of divided HDR image data that are encoded on a recording medium in a predetermined recording format.
US11308990B1	Selectively routing signals to data storage devices within a data storage system that includes a movable carriage An apparatus includes a housing, a data storage magazine configured to hold a plurality of data storage devices, and a movable carriage disposed within the housing that is configured to selectively couple the data storage devices to a host device. The data storage magazine includes a set of magazine signal paths configured to provide signals to the plurality of data storage devices. The movable carriage includes a set of carriage signal paths configured to provide signals to the plurality of data storage devices. The apparatus includes a controller configured to power the plurality of data storage devices by selectively routing the signals via the set of magazine signal paths or the set of carriage signal paths.
US11308983B2	Plate material, plate material tearing method, and suspension A plate material has a first portion, a second portion, and a fracture portion connecting the first portion and the second portion, and is separated into the first portion and the second portion by tearing the fracture portion. The first portion and the second portion are arranged in a first direction. The fracture portion has thin portions arranged in a second direction crossing the first direction. Widths in the second direction of the thin portions are different from each other.
US11308967B2	Audio signal processing method and apparatus using ambisonics signal Disclosed is an audio signal processing apparatus for rendering an input audio signal. The audio signal processing apparatus may include a processor configured to obtain an input audio signal including an ambisonics signal and a non-diegetic channel difference signal, render the ambisonics signal to generate a first output audio signal, mix the first output audio signal and the non-diegetic channel difference signal to generate a second output audio signal, and output the second output audio signal.
US11308963B2	Query endpointing based on lip detection Systems and methods are described for improving endpoint detection of a voice query submitted by a user. In some implementations, a synchronized video data and audio data is received. A sequence of frames of the video data that includes images corresponding to lip movement on a face is determined. The audio data is endpointed based on first audio data that corresponds to a first frame of the sequence of frames and second audio data that corresponds to a last frame of the sequence of frames. A transcription of the endpointed audio data is generated by an automated speech recognizer. The generated transcription is then provided for output.
US11308957B2	Account association with device Systems and methods for account data association with voice interface devices are disclosed. For example, when a host user/primary user and guest user have consented for account data to be associated with the primary user's devices, a request to associate the account data may be received. Voice and device-based authentication may be performed to confirm the identity of the guest user and the guest user's account data may be associated with the primary user's devices. During a guest session, voice recognition may be utilized to determine if a given user utterance is from the guest user or the primary user, and actions may be performed by the voice interface device accordingly.
US11308949B2	Voice assistant response system based on a tone, keyword, language or etiquette behavioral rule A method, computer system, and a computer program product for voice assistant responses is provided. The present invention may include configuring a behavioral rule. The present invention may include receiving a verbal request from a user and comparing the received verbal request to the behavioral rule. The present invention may then include determining that the received verbal request does not comply with the behavioral rule. The present invention may lastly include providing a response to the user based on determining that the received verbal request does not comply with the behavioral rule.
US11308943B2	Systems and methods for aligning lyrics using a neural network An electronic device receives audio data for a media item. The electronic device generates, from the audio data, a plurality of samples, each sample having a predefined maximum length. The electronic device, using a neural network trained to predict character probabilities, generates a probability matrix of characters for a first portion of a first sample of the plurality of samples. The probability matrix includes character information, timing information, and respective probabilities of respective characters at respective times. The electronic device identifies, for the first portion of the first sample, a first sequence of characters based on the generated probability matrix.
US11308939B1	Wakeword detection using multi-word model A system and method performs wakeword detection and automatic speech recognition using the same acoustic model. A mapping engine maps phones/senones output by the acoustic model to phones/senones corresponding to the wakeword. A hidden Markov model (HMM) may determine that the wakeword is present in audio data; the HMM may have multiple paths for multiple wakewords or may have multiple models. Once the wakeword is detected, ASR is performed using the acoustic model.
US11308931B2	Acoustic metamaterial A metamaterial comprising, a plurality of acoustic vector field sensors, each configured to sense an acoustic vector field of a fluid within a fluid-filled space in response to fluid waves, and producing an electrical signal corresponding to the sensed acoustic vector field; a processor configured to perform a time and space transform on the electrical signal; and at least one phased array transducer, configured to emit fluid waves according to a produced acoustic vector field pattern dependent on a result of the time and space transform, a within a portion of the fluid.
US11308908B2	Liquid crystal display panel and driving method thereof A liquid crystal display panel and a driving method thereof. The liquid crystal display panel comprises: a pixel unit module comprising a plurality of pixel units arranged in a matrix; a plurality of scanning lines, each of the scanning lines connected to at least two of the pixel units on a same row; a gate driving circuit connected to the plurality of scanning lines and providing gate signals for the scanning lines to control the pixel units, which the scanning lines are connected to, to be turned on; a plurality of data lines respectively connected to at least one pixel unit on different columns; a data driving circuit, which is connected to the plurality of data lines and provides data signals for the data lines to charge the turn-on pixel units which the data lines are connected to.
US11308907B2	Shift register and driving method of shift register, gate driving circuit and display panel and device Provided are a shift register and a driving method of a shift register, a gate driving circuit and a display panel and device. The shift register includes a first power signal input terminal, a second power signal input terminal, a first signal output terminal, a first node control device, a first output device, a first voltage stabilizing device and a first clock signal terminal, where a first terminal of the first voltage stabilizing device is electrically connected to an output terminal of the first node control device at a first node, a second terminal of the first voltage stabilizing device is electrically connected to a first control terminal of the first output device at a second node, and a control terminal of the first voltage stabilizing device is electrically connected to the first clock signal terminal.
US11308906B2	Circuit for providing a temperature-dependent common electrode voltage The present application discloses a circuit for providing a temperature-dependent common electrode voltage. The circuit includes a sensing sub-circuit coupled between a power-supply terminal and a ground terminal and configured to generate a first voltage for controlling a switching sub-circuit to connect the power-supply terminal to a first node. The circuit further includes a compensation sub-circuit coupled between the first node and the ground terminal and be enabled, when the first voltage decreases below a threshold as temperature increases above a threshold temperature, to output a temperature-dependent second voltage proportional to the temperature to a second node. Additionally, the circuit includes an output sub-circuit coupled to the second node combined with a first input-voltage terminal and further coupled to a second input-voltage terminal, to generate a temperature-dependent output voltage based on a weighted mixing of the temperature-dependent second voltage, a first input voltage, and a second input voltage.
US11308902B2	Spatial light modulator A spatial light modulator includes a panel and a driver board. The panel includes an ultra-high pixel density backplane and a liquid crystal layer. The ultra-high pixel density backplane includes a pixel array with at least 4000 PPI. The liquid crystal layer includes an ultra-high figure-of-merit liquid crystal material with a first figure-of-merit value. The driver board is connected to the panel for driving the panel by executing a fast panel driving procedure design to achieve low phase error.
US11308901B2	Pixel driving method, pixel driving apparatus and computer device A pixel driving method is provided. The method includes: acquiring an average pixel signal of sub-pixels of each color in each unit pixel in a pixel block, where the unit pixel includes a red sub-pixel, a green sub-pixel and a blue sub-pixel; acquiring a color signal of the pixel block according to the average pixel signal of the sub-pixels of each color; determining a color that the pixel block deflects to during display according to the color signal and a preset main color-rendering determination condition, and loading first-type gray-scale signals to a part of same-color sub-pixels in the pixel block and loading second-type gray-scale signals to the remaining same-color sub-pixels based on a preset rule according to the determination result, where the first-type gray-scale signals are not equal to the corresponding second-type gray-scale signals.
US11308899B2	Method and device for driving a display panel, and a display device The present disclosure discloses a method and a device for driving a display panel, and a display device. The method includes: obtaining a first difference value by comparing a current frame original data with the previous frame original data, and standardizing the first difference value to obtain a standard difference value; comparing a processed data of the current frame obtained by the color processing with a processed data of the previous frame to obtain a second difference value, comparing the magnitude of the standard difference value with the magnitude of the second difference value, and outputting a corresponding data according to the comparison result, to drive a data output from a chip for driving the display panel.
US11308891B2	Organic light emitting diode display device in which adjacent sub pixels share a single data line and driving method thereof wherein same-colored sub pixels continue to emit light based on a unit of horizontal periods Discussed is a display device including an organic light emitting diode display panel where sub pixels adjacent to each other along a direction of a gate line are paired and arranged to share a single data line. In order for the sub pixels to be driven according to a DRD method, a timing controller aligns image data and transmits the aligned image data to a data driver so that same-colored sub pixels continue to emit light based on a unit of a plurality of predetermined horizontal periods, and generates gate and data control signals and supplies the control signals to the gate and data drivers so that a predetermined driving period of the sub pixels is changed.
US11308883B2	Temperature based OLED sub-pixel luminosity correction In an example implementation according to aspects of the present disclosure, a system including a controller to receive a temperature value, from a temperature sensor corresponding to a sub-pixel in an organic light emitting display. The controller calculates a luminous value of the sub-pixel based on the temperature value and a function corresponding to a degradation of luminosity over time and temperature. The controller determines, based on the luminous value, a corrected luminous value corresponding to a target luminous value. The controller retrieves a voltage value from a second database, wherein the second database comprises a luminous-voltage relationship. The controller applies the voltage value to the sub-pixel.
US11308882B2	Organic light-emitting diode display panel and driving method thereof The present disclosure provides an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display panel and a driving method thereof. The OLED display panel includes a plurality of pixel circuits and an external compensation unit connected to the plurality of pixel circuits. The external compensation unit externally compensates the pixel circuits, obtains initial threshold voltages of driving thin-film transistors (TFTs) of each pixel circuits, obtains a sum data signal by summing up each of the initial threshold voltages and an input signal corresponding to each pixel circuits, and transmits the sum data signal to each pixel circuits. The external compensation compensates non-uniformity initial threshold voltages of each driving TFTs caused from manufacture of OLED display panel and compensates the permanent drift of the actual threshold voltage caused from external stress. The internal compensation instantly compensates relatively slight drift of actual threshold voltage occurring during the emitting of the OLED display panel.
US11308881B2	Display device and method for driving same The present application discloses a current-driven display device capable of preventing a decrease in display quality due to luminance gradient or the like caused by a voltage drop in a power supply line while preventing an increase in circuit and processing necessary for driving a pixel circuit. In an organic EL display device, at a connection point of a high-level power supply line ELVDD with a pixel circuit 15 (Pix(n,k)) (n=1 to N; k=1 to M) on each branch wire ELVk, a display control circuit calculates a voltage drop ΔVn=V0−Vn caused by a current flowing in the branch wire ELVk in a data write period for the pixel circuit Pix(n,k), corrects corresponding pixel data (pixel data for Pix(n,k)) dn in input image data based on the voltage drop ΔVn, and generates a driving image data signal Sdda to be given to a data-side drive circuit based on the corrected pixel data dcn.
US11308876B2	Pixel driving circuit, driving method thereof and display device A pixel driving circuit including: N pixel circuits each including a first node and a power supply terminal, N being an integer greater than 1; and N multiplexing circuits configured to selectively couple a data line to the first nodes of the N pixel circuits. A first one of the N multiplexing circuits includes a multiplexing control circuit, and a second one to an N-th one of the N multiplexing circuits include respective multiplexing control circuits and respective reset circuits. The reset circuit of a (j+1)-th one of the N multiplexing circuits is configured to reset the first node of a (j+1)-th one of the N pixel circuits with a power supply voltage in response to a j-th multiplexing control signal being active, j being an integer and 1≤j
US11308866B2	OLED pixel compensation circuit and OLED pixel compensation method The present disclosure proposes an OLED pixel compensation circuit and an OLED pixel compensation method. The OLED pixel compensation circuit includes an OLED, a driving transistor, a first TFT, a second TFT, a third TFT, a fourth TFT, a first capacitor, and a second capacitor. The present disclosure adopts 5T2C structure and the driving transistor is a double gate TFT to compensate the variance of the threshold voltage such that the luminance evenness is raised and the lifetime of the product is extended.
US11308861B2	Driving backplane, display panel and display device The present disclosure provides a driving backplane, including: a base substrate, a driving circuit arranged on the base substrate, an insulation layer on a side of the driving circuit facing away from the base substrate, a plurality of first tip structures arranged on a side of the insulation layer facing away from the base substrate, and a plurality of contact electrodes arranged on the side of the insulation layer facing away from the base substrate. The driving circuit includes a plurality of output terminals, the insulation layer includes a plurality of openings and the output terminals and the openings are in a one-to-one correspondence. The contact electrodes are electrically connected with the output terminals through the openings. Each of the contact electrodes covers the plurality of first tip structures to constitute a plurality of second tip structures having the same appearance as the first tip structures.
US11308860B2	Pixel circuit and driving method, pixel unit, display panel The present application discloses a pixel circuit and its driving method. The pixel circuit includes an input circuit, a control circuit, and 2N output circuits with N being a positive integer. The input circuit is configured to control a voltage level of a respective one of N control nodes under control of a gate-driving signal from each gate line and a first control signal. The control circuit is configured to respectively control a voltage level of each of 2N switching nodes under control of the N control nodes. The 2N output circuits are respectively connected to 2N data-signal terminals and the 2N switching nodes. Among the 2N output circuits, an i-th output circuit is configured to input an i-th data signal from an i-th data-signal terminal of the 2N data-signal terminals to an emission circuit under control of an i-th switching node of the 2N switching nodes.
US11308855B2	Display driving method, display panel and display device Provided are a display driving method, a display panel and a display device. The display driving method includes acquiring a to-be-displayed image; the to-be-displayed image is displayed by display pixels, and a vertical projection of each touch electrode on a plane in which the display pixels are located covers a plurality of display pixels; determining whether an area in which touch electrodes are located is in a display dark area according to the to-be-displayed image; and in response to determining that the area in which the touch electrodes are located is in the display dark area, stopping providing a touch driving signal for at least part of the touch electrodes disposed in the display dark area.
US11308821B2	Method and device for analysis of movement of a piece of sports equipment The invention relates to a method for the analysis of movement of a piece of sports equipment of a type of ball sport, in particular a racket, preferably a golf club, or a ball, preferably a golf ball, wherein a first virtual trajectory model is reproduced in a display device in a way that said first virtual trajectory model is displayed as a first line on the display device in superimposition with at least one, in particular in reality, visible section of the environment, particularly when a field of view is directed on the at least one section of the environment which is visible in reality.
US11308817B2	Optimisation method A computer-implemented method of optimizing the performance of a reconfigurable power system is provided. The method comprises the steps of: receiving an operating profile for the power system; partitioning the operating profile into a plurality of sub-phases; performing a coarse optimisation routine of the power system over each sub-phase of the operating profile to derive a respective coarsely optimised configuration of the power system; performing a fine optimisation routine of each coarsely optimised configuration over its respective sub-phase of the operating profile to derive a respective finely optimised configuration for that sub-phase; and defining settings of the power system to implement the finely optimised configurations thereon.
US11308813B2	Flight management system There is provided a flight management system for managing a flight plan of flying objects that fly among ports. The flight management system includes a plurality of port management apparatuses and a flight management apparatus that manages a flight plan of a plurality of flying objects that autonomously fly among the ports, in which each of the port management apparatuses includes determination means for determining whether or not landing or takeoff of the flying objects on or from the corresponding port is possible, and possibility information output means for transferring to the flying objects possibility information about the possibility, and the flight management apparatus includes flying object information reception means for receiving flying object information including flying object position information about a position of each of the flying objects, flight plan registration means for registering the flight plan for flying between the port as a start point and the port as a target point, flight plan change means for changing the flight plan based on the received flying object position information or changed another flight plan, and instruction information output means for outputting instruction information for instructing the flying object about the flight plan.
US11308805B2	Parking space notification device and method The present invention relates to a parking space notification device and method. The parking space notification device for checking parking sections and a parking space, which includes image sensors each configured to detect a parking section and a parking space using images, distance detection sensors each configured to detect a parking section and a parking space using distances to obstacles, a controller configured to process information about all of the parking sections and the parking spaces by using information about the parking section and information about the parking space which are detected by at least one of the image sensors or the distance detection sensors, and a memory storing information data about all of the parking sections and the parking space, which is processed by the controller. The controller detects a parking or leaving event using the image sensors and updates the information data stored in the memory when the event occurs.
US11308801B2	Driving assistance apparatus and driving assistance method In an apparatus for assisting a driver of a vehicle in driving the vehicle, a road sign recognizer is configured to recognize a road sign from an image captured by a vehicle-mounted imager. A turn detector is configured to detect a turning action of the vehicle. A notifier is configured to notify the driver of the vehicle of road sign information representing the road sign recognized by the road sign recognizer. The notifier is further configured to, if the turning action of the vehicle is detected by the turn detector, withhold notifying the driver of the vehicle of the road sign information representing the road sign recognized by the road sign recognizer within a predetermined period of time during the turning action.
US11308793B2	Remote control device and method for interacting with a controlled appliance via the BLE standard Remote control device and method for controlling interactions between the remote control device and a controlled appliance. The remote control device comprises a BLE interface and a battery for powering the BLE interface. Upon determination of a first condition being met, the remote control device sets the BLE interface in a standby mode where the power supplied by the battery to the BLE interface is limited to a minimal value. Upon determination of a second condition being met, the remote control device transmits one or more BLE advertising signal via the BLE interface. The remote control device receives a connection request from a controlled appliance via the BLE interface, establishes a connection between the remote control device and the controlled appliance through the BLE interface, and exchanges data with the controlled appliance via the BLE communication interface (e.g. transmission of a command for an actuator of the controlled appliance).
US11308790B2	Apparatus and methods for distributing and displaying emergency communications Methods and systems are disclosed for event management, allowing authorized users or authorities to distribute and display communications on digital displays. In one aspect, an event management communications system receives event data sent from a detection system comprised of a network of sensors. The event management communications system processes the event data to determine an event perimeter, and then selects one or more digital displays based upon the event data or the determined event perimeter. Next, the event management communications system authors one or more contextual communications corresponding to the one or more digital displays and sends said one or more authored communications to said one or more digital displays, thereby allowing the one or more digital displays to display the corresponding one or more communications to a relevant, identified audience.
US11308787B2	Information processing system, recording medium, and information processing method Provided is an information processing system that acquires context information representing at least one of a surrounding environment of a user having a device, a feeling of the user, a situation of the user, feelings of other people around the user, or situations of the other people, recognizes a context of the user on the basis of the context information, determines an action corresponding to the context, and determines a transmission method for the action to the user, the transmission method being suitable for the context and the action.
US11308785B1	Systems and methods for the mitigation of drowsy or sleepy driving Systems and methods for mitigating drowsy and/or sleepy driving may include utilizing vehicle-related and wellness-related telematics to detect and/or predict drowsy and/or sleepy driving states of a driver of a vehicle and take mitigating actions to thereby increase the safety of the driver and other people and/or vehicles in the vicinity of the driver's vehicle. Vehicle-related telematics data and wellness-related telematics data (which may include sleep data) may be collected via sensors that disposed on-board the vehicle, in the vehicle's environment, and at a personal health/fitness tracker of the driver. The collected data may be collectively interpreted to detect, predict, and/or otherwise discover information relating to a drowsy and/or sleepy state of the driver, and one or more mitigating actions may be automatically performed based on the discovered information to thereby mitigate undesirable effects of drowsy/sleepy driving and increase driving safety.
US11308784B2	Rescue time tracker A medical device system for tracking medical event times during patient treatment includes a medical device comprising a defibrillator/monitor and a mobile computing device including a communication interface configured to communicatively couple the mobile computing device to the medical device and receive patient data comprising medical information and time information comprising one or more medical events associated with the patient data, a display configured to provide a graphical user interface that provides the patient data and the time information, and one or more processors and associated memory, the one or more processors configured to control the graphical user interface to provide the patient data and the time information.
US11308779B1	Security device utilizing the electronic components of an electronic gadget to produce an alarm The anti-theft device for securing an electronic gadget against theft. A security sensor is attached to a rear surface of the electronic gadget. The security sensor is electrically coupled to the electronic gadget via a cable. A security software application is deployed on the electronic gadget. The security sensor is configured to transmit predefined security signal to the electronic gadget. The security application is configured to detect the predefined security signal. Responsive to detecting a security event, the security sensor stops transmitting the security signal. The security application is configured to transition the electronic gadget into an alarm state if the security application fails to receive the security signal.
US11308759B2	System and method for dynamically adjusting prizes or awards based on a platform One aspect of the disclosure relates to implementing a system to encourage cross platform operation in an online game. The online game may provide the ability to provide incentives for participating in cross platform game play. The system may monitor the player's performance on a particular console and provide incentives to accomplish tasks through game play on a different platform than the player is currently operating to play the game.
US11308754B1	Gaming systems and methods including feature for transforming non-randomly generated outcome into entertainment gaming outcome An entertainment gaming system and method for transforming a non-random number outcome into an entertainment gaming outcome. The entertainment gaming system comprises a central server, non-random number outcome generator machine, entertainment gaming machine, and database. The central server communicatively coupled with non-random number outcome generator machine and entertainment gaming machine. The entertainment gaming system collects non-random number based outcome from real-world events and transmitting it to the central server. The central server further utilizes an algorithm to process the received non-random number outcome into an entertainment gaming outcome. Further, the present entertainment gaming system comprises a database to store the received real-world non-random number based outcome and processed entertainment gaming outcome generated from the received non-random number based outcome. The central server then transmits the processed outcome in the form of an entertainment gaming outcome to the entertainment gaming machine to generate and render a game result.
US11308742B2	Electronic lock with slot antenna It is provided an electronic lock for selectively locking a barrier to a surrounding structure. The electronic lock comprises: a locking bolt, a housing comprising metallic material, wherein the housing comprises a through-hole through which the locking bolt can pass; and a wireless communication module. The housing comprises a cut-out forming a slot antenna, wherein the wireless communication module is connected to the housing and thus the slot antenna. The slot antenna is formed on the same surface of the housing through which the locking bolt can pass.
US11308733B2	Gesture detection using ultrasonic clicks Systems and methods for detecting gestures using ultrasonic clicks are described. For example, some methods include playing an ultrasonic click using an audio driver, wherein the ultrasonic click is a modulated audio pulse with a duration less than one hundred periods of a modulation frequency waveform of the ultrasonic click; accessing a recording, captured using a microphone, of the ultrasonic click; applying an ultrasonic bandpass filter to the recording to obtain a filtered signal; determining a classification of a gesture based on the filtered signal; and transmitting, storing, or displaying an indication of the classification of the gesture.
US11308732B2	Face recognition method and apparatus A face recognition method and apparatus are provided. The method is applicable to an electronic device including a sound receiving device and an image capturing device, and includes the following steps: detecting a direction of a sound source by using the sound receiving device, to capture an image in the direction by using the image capturing device; detecting and tracking a face in the image, to assign an image identification to the face according to a tracking result; determining whether the image identification exists in multiple cluster identifications recognized in a data set of face recognition; and in response to the image identification not existing in the data set, acquiring a feature value of the face and comparing the feature value of the face with a feature value of a face of each cluster identification to update a cluster identification to which the face belongs according to a comparison result.
US11308724B2	Optical character recognition technique for protected viewing of digital files Unlocking digital content embodied in digital readable form on a digital media carrier includes receiving a scanned image of a page from scanning a physical copy of content, evaluating the scanned image; and if the scanned image corresponds to a selected page of the digital content, unlocking the digital content.
US11308722B2	Method and system for determining an activity of an occupant of a vehicle A computer implemented method for determining an activity of an occupant of a vehicle comprises the following steps carried out by computer hardware components: capturing sensor data of the occupant using at least one sensor; determining respective two-dimensional or three-dimensional coordinates for a plurality of pre-determined portions of the body of the occupant based on the sensor data; determining at least one portion of the sensor data showing a pre-determined body part of the occupant based on the sensor data and the two-dimensional or three-dimensional coordinates; and determining the activity of the occupant based on the two-dimensional or three-dimensional coordinates and the at least one portion of the sensor data.
US11308707B2	Automated grading of clothing patterns of garment Provided is an automatic grading method including calculating a first strain ratio between a three-dimensional (3D) source avatar and a 3D target avatar, determining a mapping relationship between 3D source garment draped over the source avatar and a body portion of the source avatar, converting the source garment into 3D target garment draped over the target avatar, based on the first strain ratio and the mapping relationship, and outputting a two-dimensional (2D) target pattern constituting the target garment.
US11308706B2	Local augmented reality persistent sticker objects Systems and methods for local augmented reality (AR) tracking of an AR object are disclosed. In one example embodiment a device captures a series of video image frames. A user input is received at the device associating a first portion of a first image of the video image frames with an AR sticker object and a target. A first target template is generated to track the target across frames of the video image frames. In some embodiments, global tracking based on a determination that the target is outside a boundary area is used. The global tracking comprises using a global tracking template for tracking movement in the video image frames captured following the determination that the target is outside the boundary area. When the global tracking determines that the target is within the boundary area, local tracking is resumed along with presentation of the AR sticker object on an output display of the device.
US11308704B2	Mobile terminal for controlling VR image and control method therefor The present invention relates to a mobile terminal and a control method therefor, the mobile terminal comprising: at least one camera; a display unit placed toward the eyes of a user searing the mobile terminal and for displaying an image, the image comprising one of a VR (virtual reality) image and a 3D image; and a control unit for performing an action related to the image according to a gesture input sensed by the camera, wherein, when a first gesture input proceeding along a first plane opposite to the image is sensed or a second gesture input proceeding along a second plane orthogonal to the first plane is sensed by the camera, the control unit performs an action corresponding to the sensed first or second gesture input, thereby providing the user with an effect of providing more various VR related functions through the first gesture input made on a first plane space opposite to the image visible to the eyes of the user and the second gesture input made on a second plane space orthogonal to the first plane.
US11308697B2	Virtual reality based selective automation adoption One example of a computer-implemented method comprises analyzing data received from an automation control device to identify a plurality of automation devices communicatively coupled to the automation control device; determining a functionality of at least one of the plurality of automation devices not utilized by the user; presenting a gamification scenario associated with the determined functionality to a user in a virtual reality environment; monitoring interaction of the user with the gamification scenario; and enabling use of the determined functionality based on the monitored interaction of the user with the gamification scenario.
US11308695B2	Optical apparatus and augmented reality device An optical apparatus and an augmented reality device are provided. The optical apparatus includes an inner surface. The inner surface includes a predetermined region serving as a curved mirror with a predetermined optical parameter for reflection imaging of a virtual image of a virtual world. The optical apparatus further includes an outer surface. The outer surface and the inner surface are used for refraction imaging of a real image of a real world. The virtual image and the real image are integrated for forming a scene of augmented reality.
US11308692B2	Method and device for processing image, and storage medium Embodiments of the present disclosure relates to a method and device for processing an image, and a nonvolatile storage medium. The method includes: acquiring a first image and a first virtual object having a corresponding relationship with a preset standard model, the first image includes a target object; determining control information based on the target object and the standard model; obtaining a second virtual object matched with the target object by processing the first virtual object based on the control information; and generating a second image; the second image includes the target object fitted with the second virtual object.
US11308690B2	Information processing apparatus and non-transitory computer readable medium for determining attribute value of voxel An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to acquire volume data representing three-dimensional space using multiple voxels, data containing geometric layer and at least one attribute layer, geometric layer formed by geometric voxels included in multiple voxels, each geometric voxels assigned=a three-dimensional shape of a target object, at least one attribute layer formed by attribute voxels included in multiple voxels, each attribute voxels assigned attribute value of target object or attribute value around the target object, at least one attribute layer formed by voxels having multiple resolution levels, attribute, voxel position, and resolution level, and if voxel corresponding to the specified voxel position in an attribute layer corresponding to the attribute in the volume data and to a resolution level coinciding with the resolution level is absent, determine an attribute value of voxel corresponding to the specified voxel position and resolution level in attribute layer.
US11308687B1	System and method of providing simulated three-dimensional objects A device can receive an identification of an environmental model associated with a user navigating a website and receive an identification of an item model associated with an item requested by the user to be shown in connection with the environmental model on a client device. The environmental model could be a body model of the user or of another force like wind. The item model models how the item would move in connection with the environmental model. The device identifies movement associated with the environmental model and generates, based on the environmental model and the item model, frames each having respective data of the item as it would move on the environmental model according to the movement to yield movement key attributes. The device transmits the movement key attributes to the client device for rendering using a client device rendering engine.
US11308679B2	Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium The technique of this disclosure suppresses a reduction in visibility of a predetermined object in virtual viewpoint image data. An image processing apparatus includes: an image capturing information acquisition unit configured to acquire image capturing information indicating a position and orientation of each of a plurality of image capturing apparatuses; an object information acquisition unit configured to acquire object information indicating a position and orientation of an object to be captured by the image capturing apparatuses, the object having a specific viewing angle; and a determination unit configured to determine, based on the acquired image capturing information and the position and orientation of the object indicated by the acquired object information, an image to be used for generating a virtual viewpoint image according to a position and orientation of a virtual viewpoint among a plurality of images based on capturing by the image capturing apparatuses.
US11308673B2	Using three-dimensional scans of a physical subject to determine positions and/or orientations of skeletal joints in the rigging for a virtual character Systems and methods for using three-dimensional scans of a physical subject to determine positions and/or orientations of skeletal joints in the rigging for a virtual character. At least one articulation segment of a polygon mesh for the virtual character may be determined. The articulation segment may include a subset of vertices in the polygon mesh. An indicator of the position or orientation of the articulation segment of the polygon mesh may be determined. Based on the indicator of the position or orientation of the articulation segment, the position or orientation of at least one joint for deforming the polygon mesh may be determined.
US11308671B2	Method and apparatus for controlling mouth shape changes of three-dimensional virtual portrait Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method and apparatus for controlling mouth shape changes of a three-dimensional virtual portrait, relating to the field of cloud computing. The method may include: acquiring a to-be-played speech; sliding a preset time window at a preset step length in the to-be-played speech to obtain at least one speech segment; generating, based on the at least one speech segment, a mouth shape control parameter sequence for the to-be-played speech; and controlling, in response to playing the to-be-played speech, a preset mouth shape of the three-dimensional virtual portrait to change based on the mouth shape control parameter sequence.
US11308668B2	Interpolation of dynamic three-dimensional maps A method, including acquiring initial signals from selected positions in a heart, computing respective initial local values of a signal propagation metric at the selected positions, and interpolating the initial local values between the selected positions to compute initial interpolated values of the signal propagation metric at intermediate positions, between the selected positions. The method further includes acquiring subsequent signals from the positions, computing respective subsequent local values of the signal propagation metric at the selected positions, and spatially interpolating the subsequent local values of the signal propagation metric between the selected positions to compute subsequent interpolated values of the signal propagation metric at the intermediate positions. A map of the signal propagation metric is displayed, and when the subsequent interpolated values exceed a bound defined with respect to the initial interpolated values, an indication is provided on the map that the bound has been exceeded.
US11308659B2	View synthesis robust to unconstrained image data Provided are systems and methods for synthesizing novel views of complex scenes (e.g., outdoor scenes). In some implementations, the systems and methods can include or use machine-learned models that are capable of learning from unstructured and/or unconstrained collections of imagery such as, for example, “in the wild” photographs. In particular, example implementations of the present disclosure can learn a volumetric scene density and radiance represented by a machine-learned model such as one or more multilayer perceptrons (MLPs).
US11308656B1	Power line extraction using reference data Aspects of the invention include receiving a point cloud data set describing a target area. Receiving a first parameter describing a power line segment at an original location within the target area. Using the processor to extract from the point cloud data set a power line segment at an updated location distinct from the original location, wherein analysis of each candidate data point of the point cloud data set is constrained by the first parameter, and wherein the first parameter causes the power line segment at the updated location to be parallel with the power line segment at the original location. Generating a vector describing the updated location of the power line segment with respect to geospatial coordinates of the target area.
US11308655B2	Image synthesis method and apparatus Disclosed are an image synthesis method and apparatus, and an electronic device and a computer readable storage medium. The image synthesis method comprises: obtaining a virtual object; obtaining a video collected by an image sensor; identifying a hand in the video to obtain hand information; obtaining image rendering information corresponding to the virtual object and the hand information; and synthesizing and rendering the virtual object and the hand according to the image rendering information to generate a synthesized image. By means of the technical solution, the technical problems in the prior art that the virtual object cannot move along with the hand, and the mode that the virtual object is mounted on the hand is not flexible are solved.
US11308648B2	Compressing texture data on a per-channel basis Sampling circuitry independently accesses channels of texture data that represent a set of pixels. One or more processing units separately compress the channels of the texture data and store compressed data representative of the channels of the texture data for the set of pixels. The channels can include a red channel, a blue channel, and a green channel that represent color values of the set of pixels and an alpha channel that represents degrees of transparency of the set of pixels. Storing the compressed data can include writing the compress data to portions of a cache. The processing units can identify a subset of the set of pixels that share a value of a first channel of the plurality of channels and represent the value of the first channel over the subset of the set of pixels using information representing the value, the first channel, and boundaries of the subset.
US11308646B2	Extracting color from item images A system including one or more processors and one or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing computing instructions configured to run on the one or more processors and perform: obtaining an image of an item; removing background pixels from the image by removing white pixels from the image up to a first threshold; determining an item outline of the item in the image, wherein the item outline comprises aliased pixels along a periphery of the item in the image; removing grey pixels from the item outline in the image up to a second threshold to create a first updated image; removing shadows from the first updated image to create a second updated image based on a saliency map and a third threshold for shadow-like grey pixels; mapping each pixel in the second updated image to a respective mapped color in a predetermined color palette; and determining one or more dominant colors of the respective mapped colors based on one or more highest respective percentages of the respective mapped colors. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11308645B2	Apparatus and method for wide-range optical tracking during medical imaging Methods to quantify motion of a human or animal subject during a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) exam are provided. In particular, these algorithms make it possible to track head motion over an extended range by processing data obtained from multiple cameras. These methods make current motion tracking methods more applicable to a wider patient population.
US11308644B2	Multi-presence detection for performance capture The present description relates relate to recalibration of a sensor device for performance capture, by detecting a miscalibration problem with sensor device and assessment of the problem. A recalibration system includes sensor devices initially calibrated at a recording site. A recording site change occurs and afterwards, a failure to match virtual rays projected from one sensor device with virtual rays projected from the active marker is detected. In response to determining the failure, the active marker is signaled to emit a unique display of light. The failure of the rays to match is assessed based on whether sensor devices capture the unique display of light. Three-dimensional (3-D) coordinates of an active marker is reconstructed from marker data of the calibrated sensor devices. A problematic sensor device is recalibrated based on the assessment, using the 3-D coordinates of the active marker from marker data of the remaining calibrated sensor devices, without stopping the recording.
US11308637B2	Distance detection method, distance detection system and computer program product A distance detection method, a distance detection system and a computer program product are provided. The method includes: comparing a street view image with a real-time image according to a first distance; determining a distance between a vehicle and a target position in response to the comparison result of the street view image and the real-time image; and outputting the distance between the vehicle and the target position to prompt a user of the vehicle.
US11308631B2	Motion vector detection device When determining that a pixel of a future frame, which is included in a search range, includes a pixel on an outside of an effective image area, and determining that pixels inside an effective image area of a past frame are present at positions point-symmetric to pixels inside the search range and on an outside of the effective image area about a pixel of interest, a pixel selector selects pixels in an effective image area of a past frame, the pixels being located at the point-symmetric positions. The pixel selector calculates difference values between the pixel of interest and the selected pixels inside the effective image area of the past frame.
US11308629B2	Training a neural network to track viewer engagement with non-interactive displays Methods and systems are provided for training a neural network to track viewer engagement with a non-interactive display. Sensor data is obtained from one or more sensors, such as cameras, associated with a display device, and once a face is detected within the sensor data, a display sequence is initiated. The display sequence includes at least a first frame with a first visual feature and a second frame with a second visual feature. Using the sensor data obtained during presentation of the display sequence, viewer engagement with the sequence is tracked by determining eye movements and/or head movements. The detected eye movement and/or head movement is used to determine whether the person was actively engaged with the display sequence.
US11308624B2	Adhered substance detection apparatus An adhered substance detection apparatus determines whether a substance is adhered to an image-capturing apparatus. The adhered substance detection apparatus includes a controller configured to function as: an extractor that extracts candidate regions for being an adhered substance region in which the substance is adhered to the image-capturing apparatus, the candidate regions being extracted based on an edge that is detected from pixels in an image captured by the image-capturing apparatus; and a final determiner that finally determines whether the candidate regions are the adhered substance region, based on i) an area of the candidate region located in a first region of the captured image, the first region including a road surface region in the captured image and ii) an area of the candidate region located in a second region of the captured image, the second region including a region other than the road surface region in the captured image.
US11308614B2	Deep learning for real-time colon polyp detection A set of enhancements to further improve the performance of deep learning artificial intelligence algorithms trained to detect and localize colon polyps. The enhancements spanning training data mining efficiencies and automation, training data augmentation, early detection of polyps enable a more performant colon polyp detection solution for use on colonoscopy procedure recordings or live procedures in endoscopy centers.
US11308611B2	Reducing false positive detections of malignant lesions using multi-parametric magnetic resonance imaging Systems and methods for reducing false positive detections of malignant lesions are provided. A candidate malignant lesion is detected in one or more medical images, such as, e.g., multi-parametric magnetic resonance images. One or more patches associated with the candidate malignant lesion are extracted from the one or more medical images. The candidate malignant lesion is classified as being a true positive detection of a malignant lesion or a false positive detection of the malignant lesion based on the one or more extract patches using a trained machine learning network. The results of the classification are output.
US11308600B1	System and method for analyzing an integrity of a roof covering Methods and systems for analyzing an integrity of a roof covering are presented. One or more roof sections of a structure may be identified with one or more processors. An airflow may then be directed over one or more shingles or other discontinuous roof covering materials of the roof section by an airflow unit. A respective lift for each of the shingles may then be observed by an imaging unit. An adhesion score may then be determined for each of the one or more shingles using the one or more processors. This adhesion score may be based on the respective lift. An overall roof integrity rating may then be generated by the one or more processors, based on the one or more adhesion scores. The overall roof integrity rating may then be provided by the one or more processors to a user of a computing device.
US11308598B2	Quality assessment of an image A method for quality assessment of an image. The method includes generating an (i+1)th plurality of feature maps from an image, obtaining an (i+1)th feature set of a plurality of feature sets from the (i+1)th plurality of feature maps, and extracting a score distribution for a plurality of scores from the plurality of feature sets. The plurality of scores are associated with the image. The score distribution is extracted by feeding the plurality of feature sets to a first (1st) fully connected layer of a plurality of fully connected layers. The plurality of fully connected layers are associated with a convolutional neural network.
US11308595B1	Thermal anomaly detection and classification A set of images is received. A thermal anomaly is detected in the received set of images. The detected thermal anomaly is classified. Examples of classifications of thermal anomalies include: stationary targets, gas flares, agricultural anomalies, and wildfires. An action is taken based at least in part on the classified detected anomaly.
US11308590B2	Computational ultrasound for improved liver and kidney cancer diagnosis This disclosure provides a system and method for generating an ultrasound image. The method includes receiving a raw ultrasound signal output from an ultrasound device and performing operations to transform the raw ultrasound signal into an enhanced ultrasound image. The enhanced ultrasound image may be further processed by radial symmetry filtering to generate a radial symmetry image. Both the enhanced image and the radial symmetry image can be by a medical practitioner to make a liver or kidney cancer diagnosis exclusively based on ultrasound data.
US11308585B2	Noise reduction method for high dynamic range videos A method for denoising video content includes identifying a first frame block of a plurality of frame blocks associated with a first frame of the video content. The method also includes determining an average intensity value for the first frame block. The method also includes determining a first noise model that represents characteristics of the first frame block. The method also includes generating a denoising function using the average intensity value and the first noise model for the first frame block. The method further includes denoising the plurality of frame blocks using the denoising function.
US11308577B2	Reference image generation apparatus, display image generation apparatus, reference image generation method, and display image generation method Moving images of a space, which includes objects 34 and 35 of a display target, as viewed from reference points are created in advance as reference images, and they are combined in response to actual positions of the points of view to draw a moving image. When the object 35 is displaced as indicated by an arrow mark in the space, reference points of view 30a to 30e are fixed as depicted in (a). Alternatively, the reference points of view are displaced in response to the displacement like reference points of view 36a to 36e in (b). Then, the moving images from the reference points of view are generated as the reference images.
US11308574B2	Compute optimizations for low precision machine learning operations Embodiments described herein provide a graphics processor that can perform a variety of mixed and multiple precision instructions and operations. One embodiment provides a streaming multiprocessor that can concurrently execute multiple thread groups, wherein the streaming multiprocessor includes a single instruction, multiple thread (SIMT) architecture and the streaming multiprocessor is to execute multiple threads for each of multiple instructions. The streaming multiprocessor can perform concurrent integer and floating-point operations and includes a mixed precision core to perform operations at multiple precisions.
US11308564B2	Hierarchical generation of booking probability Systems and methods are provided for extracting a plurality of features for a listing from a datastore comprising a plurality of listings and a plurality of features for each of the plurality of listings, determining a cluster of similar listings to the listing and generating a set of cluster features for the cluster of similar listings, analyzing the set of cluster features for the cluster of similar listings based on a booking price, using a first trained machine learning model to determine a cluster-level probability of booking the listing on the given date, analyzing the plurality of features for the listing using the booking price, using a second trained machine learning model to determine a listing-level probability of booking the listing on the given date, and generating a final probability of booking by combining the cluster-level probability of booking and the listing-level probability of booking.
US11308560B2	Methods, apparatus, and systems for curve trading The described technology displays, at a GUI, a graph of one or more financial curves having one or more actionable indicators indicative of one or more tradable events associated with modeling and/or trading at least one market asset or financial instrument at a financial marketplace. The one or more indicators display a current real-time market value of a tradable event associated with the market asset or financial instrument. Input is received at the GUI from a trader to perform an action associated with the financial curve. In response to receiving the input, the action is initiated and the results are displayed at the GUI.
US11308553B2	Systems and methods for prevention of manipulation and gaming in electronic intraday auctions This disclosure provides systems and methods for prevention of manipulation and gaming in electronic intraday auctions. The system includes using at least one processing device for obtaining orders related to an asset from an electronic trading system. The system includes using at least one processing device for identifying a value for the asset to be used during an intraday auction involving the asset. The identified value is based on a detected order cross within the orders. The value is identified and set prior to the intraday auction. The value is located within a best bid and best offer spread (BBO) band. The system includes using at least one processing device for initiating the intraday auction involving the asset based on the identified and set value and the detected order cross. Changes to the BBO band during the intraday auction do not affect the identified and set value.
US11308551B1	Credit data analysis A computer system receives credit information relating to a consumer and a number of high scorers, and determines credit score factors associated with the consumer and the high scorers. The system may construct flippable score factor displays comprising consumer specific information specific to a credit category that may be reversed to display explanatory text regarding how that credit category affects their credit report. The score factor display may include a comparison between the consumer's scores and the high scorers' scores in a number of categories. Scores of high scorers may be periodically refreshed. Additionally, the group of high scorers may be limited according to a particular demographic, such as a geographic location, that may be selectable by a user.
US11308547B2	Method and system for generating a store planogram and identifying a suspect customer Disclosed are systems and methods for generating a planogram of a store. The systems and methods may include receiving a plurality of images and transaction data. At least one of the plurality of images may include user data representing a user proximate the product. The transaction data may be associated with a completed purchase of the product. Based on the transaction data and the user data, a probability of the user retrieving the product may be determined and used to generate the planogram of the store.
US11308544B2	System and method to generate shoppable content and increase advertising revenue in social networking using contextual advertising Methods and systems for increasing potential advertising revenue by incorporating shopping cart links into social media posts. The method may include receiving an input indicating a user request to add a shopping cart link to a social networking post associated with a user making the user request, the social networking post to be posted to one or more social networks, determining a cost for placing the shopping cart link in the social networking post, providing the determined cost to the user, receiving confirmation from the user to add the shopping cart link to the social networking post, and adding the shopping cart link to the social networking post. Any costs paid by the user to post the shopping cart link may be recovered from commissions or other similar payments received for each user that browses or purchases an item in the shopping cart link.
US11308540B2	Real time recommendation engine A system and method for providing recommendations to at least one user is disclosed. A user profile for the user is obtained. Data is identified in the user indicative of interests of the users. This is stored in a profile store. Activity profiles and profiles of reviewers of the activity are created. A match between the author profiles, the user profiles and the activity profiles are identified. From these matches a list of activities is generated and presented to the user to select an activity to engage in.
US11308539B2	Systems and methods of price comparison and optimization by novel search engines Systems and methods of dynamic searching, price comparison, and optimization utilizing novel search engines are provided. A search engine enables searching across multiple virtual private servers in a tailored group of geographical locations. Back-end architecture including one or more databases and tracking tools compares prices of a product or service in the tailored group of geographical locations. The system provides the lowest price for the product or service in the tailored group of geographical locations to a user in any geographical location. The search engine may be provided via a front-end mobile application. A user can drag a sticker icon over any search result to request price information for the product or service shown in the search result and be directed to a pop-up showing the price information for the product or service and/or a website providing the lowest price for the product or service. Disclosed systems and methods are particularly useful for people shopping for flights and other travel services.
US11308534B2	Automated third-party cost estimation and production A computer system for automated third-party cost estimation and production management receives a request for a particular packaging design template. The system identifies, with a continuous monitoring software application, current system capabilities. The continuous monitoring software application is configured to query multiple packaging production machines located on different networks and at different locations, gather current operating characteristics of each packaging production machine selected from the multiple packaging production machines, and query a queue memory space at each packaging production machine selected from the multiple packaging production machines. Based upon the current system capabilities, the system selects a particular packaging production machine selected from the multiple packaging production machines to produce the particular packaging design template. The system then produces the particular packaging design template.
US11308529B2	Apparatus and method for marketing and selling of goods A method and apparatus that provides for marketing and selling of goods by a computer application that interconnects with a media source that displays the goods.
US11308527B1	System and method for creating and managing multimedia sales promotions A multimedia dashboard application runs on a computing device that is in networked communication with an inventory database for a particular seller and is also in operative communication with a distribution server. The multimedia dashboard application includes an item selector, a multimedia recording module, multimedia editors, and a distribution controller. Without adding or opening any other application, the multimedia dashboard application is used to record multimedia segments, select segments to be uploaded to and downloaded from the inventory database, and edit the segments to produce multimedia promotions. The multimedia dashboard application also controls the distribution of the promotions. The system can be used collaboratively with multiple sales representative sharing multimedia segments through the inventory database. Marketing partners produce a base video and provide the sales representatives with access to the base segment through the multimedia dashboard application. Brand ambassadors submit their base videos for approval through the multimedia dashboard application.
US11308513B2	Habit-based rewards systems and methods The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for determining one or more incentives for a user. For example, a method that may include: receiving a selection of an objective from among a plurality of objectives from a user via a client device; presenting, based on the selected objective, one or more incentives from among a plurality of incentives to the user, the plurality of incentives being based on a machine learning model trained to determine the plurality of incentives based on past purchases; receiving a selection of at least one of the one or more incentives from the user via the client device; and determining whether to allocate the selected one or more incentives based on a performance of the user.
US11308512B2	Differential bid generation using machine learning Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for differential bid generation using machine learning. A bid management system generates an input based on features of a content item and. The bid management system uses the input to determine acceptance probability score distributions for a set of candidate users. The bid management system uses the acceptance probability score distributions along with user attributes describing the set of candidate users along with campaign parameters to determine a subset of the candidate users to receive an offer to view the content item along with bid values to offer to each candidate user.
US11308497B2	Detecting fraud using machine-learning A fraud detection model is used by a computer system to evaluate whether to grant a request to access a secure electronic resource. The fraud detection model is generated by the computer using a plurality of previously received requests. Each request is associated with a sender account of the computer system and a recipient account to which the computer system previously sent a message containing a link to the secure electronic resource.
US11308491B2	System, method, and apparatus for personalizing transactions Described herein are systems, methods, and apparatuses for personalizing transactions. The systems, methods, and apparatuses may include an acceptance device receiving an account credential, generating a transaction request message, transmitting the transaction request message, and receiving an authorization response message comprising a multimedia object associated with the account credential. The acceptance device may output the multimedia object.
US11308479B2	Automatically specifying alternative services for settling electronic payments There is provided an information processing method performed by one or more processors of a first information processing device that executes predetermined settlement processing corresponding to a predetermined settlement service. The information processing method includes electronically acquiring, from a second information processing device that scans an information code used for settlement, information concerning the information code, electronically specifying one settlement service from a plurality of settlement services on the basis of the information concerning the information code, when the specified settlement service is the predetermined settlement service, executing the predetermined settlement processing on the basis of settlement information included in the information code; and, when the specified settlement service is another settlement service, transmitting the settlement information included in the information code to another information processing device that executes settlement processing corresponding to the other settlement service.
US11308474B1	Smart node to node payment systems Methods for smartwatch-to-smartwatch payment systems is provided. Methods include receiving a transfer of funds initiation at a first smartwatch. The transfer of funds initiation may include an identifier, an amount and a personal identification number (“PIN”). Methods include transmitting the transfer of funds initiation from the first smartwatch to a second smartwatch. Methods may include receiving a notification on the second smartwatch. The notification may include a first smartwatch telephone number and the transfer of funds initiation. Methods may include transmitting a transfer of funds request from the second smartwatch to an entity. The transfer of funds request may include the first smartwatch telephone number, the transfer of funds initiation and the second smartwatch telephone number. Methods may include retrieving a first account and a second account from the entity. Methods may include transferring funds from the first account to the second account.
US11308473B2	Device for determining a transactional device, corresponding method and computer program A device and a method for determining a transactional device used for a transaction. More particularly, the device includes a data processor, a memory, an optical sensor, and a set of transactional interfaces. The method includes: obtaining at least one recording coming from the optical sensor), the recording being obtained when a user holds the transactional device in hand; determining at least one confidence score, the at least one confidence score being associated with at least one corresponding input of a structure of data for activating transactional interfaces present within the electronic device; and activating at least one transactional interface associated with the at least one input as a function of the at least one confidence score.
US11308464B2	Recording medium recorded with information processing program, information processing method, and information processing apparatus A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium recorded with an information processing program executable by a processor of an information processing apparatus, the information processing program causing the processor to perform operations including configuring an operation area on a display unit of the information processing apparatus, the operation area being associated with a payment target candidate user, determining a payment amount, based on an extent of an action in a user operation performed in the operation area, and transmitting information about a payment of the payment amount with respect to the payment target candidate user.
US11308458B2	Method for directing, scheduling, and facilitating maintenance requirements for autonomous vehicle A method for performing automatic maintenance of an autonomous vehicle is disclosed. The method includes receiving a maintenance request from the autonomous vehicle, wherein the maintenance request includes diagnostic data. Further, the method includes analyzing the diagnostic data to identify at least one recommended car service for the autonomous vehicle and comparing a vehicle location against a plurality of facility locations to identify a closest facility from a plurality of maintenance facilities, wherein the plurality of facility locations is associated with the locations of the plurality of maintenance facilities. Further, the method includes receiving a work schedule of the closest facility and generating an appointment reservation with the closest facility in the one or more facility locations based on the received one or more work schedules. Moreover, the method includes sending the appointment reservation to the autonomous vehicle.
US11308456B2	Feedback based automated maintenance system A system outputs data for performing an operation. The system confirms an identity of a device on which to perform the operation by receiving an input from the device and verifying that the input matches a known identifying information of the device. The system allows the operation to be performed on the device after confirming the identity of the device. The system receives feedback from a monitoring system that monitors states of a plurality of devices including the device, including a state of the device after the operation is performed on the device. The system determines whether the state of the device received in the feedback matches an expected state of the device after the operation is performed on the device. The system outputs data for performing a next operation after determining that the state of the device received in the feedback matches the expected state of the device.
US11308452B2	User interface for time entry Aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for providing a graphical user interface. Embodiments include displaying text input fields corresponding to days of a week. Embodiments include receiving a selection of a first text input field of the text input fields corresponding to a day of the week. Embodiments include displaying, based on the selection of the first text input field, an additional text input field for entering text related to the day of the week. Embodiments include receiving a selection of a second text input field of the text input fields corresponding to another day of the week. Embodiments include displaying, based on the selection of the second text input field, an additional text input field for entering text related to the other day of the week in place of the additional text input field related to the day of the week.
US11308451B2	Presenting daily task lists A range of dates is selected. For each date of the range of dates, a daily task list is displayed listing at least a portion of tasks having a start date or a due date matching the date. A user selection determines whether the daily task list includes only tasks having the start date or the due date for each date in the range of dates, or includes any task completed on each date. Appointments for each date in the range of dates may be presented, and the daily task list for each date may be displayed beneath, above, or alongside the appointments, or as part of a to do list. The tasks each may be assigned a color code allowing a task to be visually associated with another task or other object to which the color code also has been assigned.
US11308447B2	Cloud-based collaborative industrial automation design environment An industrial integrated development environment (IDE) supports collaborative tools that allow multiple designers and programmers to remotely submit design input to the same automation system project in parallel while maintaining project consistency. These collaborative features can include, for example, brokering between different sets of design input directed to the same portion of the system project, generating notifications to remote designers when a portion of the system project is modified, sharing of development interfaces or environments, facilitating involvement of outside technical support experts to assist with design issues, and other collaborative features.
US11308442B1	Joint inference determination of interaction using data from weight sensors Sensor data from load cells at a shelf is processed using a first time window to produce first event data describing coarse and sub-events. Location data is determined that indicates where on the shelf weight changes occurred at particular times. Hypotheses are generated using information about where items are stowed, weights of those of items, type of event, and the location data. If confidence values of these hypotheses are below a threshold value, second event data is determined by merging adjacent sub-events. This second event data is then used to determine second hypotheses which are then assessed. A hypothesis with a high confidence value is used to generate interaction data indicative of picks or places of particular quantities of particular types of items from the shelf.
US11308440B2	Maintaining information facilitating deterministic network routing A method of securing a container includes inserting, into a seal device at a container, an electronic bolt; reading, by the seal device, a serial number stored in the electronic bolt; communicating, from the seal device, to a user application, insertion of the bolt; scanning, by the user via a handheld device, a barcode on the seal device representative of an identification of the seal device; communicating, from the handheld device to the user application, the identification of the seal device; inputting, by a user at the container via the handheld device, information associated with the container; communicating, from the handheld device to the user application, the information associated with the container; associating, in a database by the user application, the information associated with the container with the bolt serial number and the identification of the seal device; communicating, by the user application, a confirmation to the seal device.
US11308430B2	Keeping track of important tasks A data processing system including a processor and machine-readable media including instructions for the processor. When executed by the processor, the instructions cause the processor to monitor events in a plurality of communications channels associated with a user, identify monitored events that are determined to be pertinent to the user, sort the identified events by priority to create a prioritized list of events, monitor interactions with the data processing system by the user for a task initiation signal, and, in response to detecting the task initiation signal, cause display of the prioritized list of events to the user on a display device.
US11308427B2	Event transcript presentation A computer system receives data that includes indications of a plurality of agenda items that correspond to the group event. During the group event, the system captures, by a media recording device, media data, converts the captured media data to a searchable version of the media data and searches the searchable version of the media data to determine a first time frame of the media data that corresponds to a first agenda item of the plurality of agenda items. The system displays, in a user interface that is accessible to at least one user associated with the group event, the representation of the media data. A first portion of the representation of the media data that corresponds to the first time frame is visually distinguished from at least a portion of the representation of the media data that does not correspond to the first time frame.
US11308426B2	Sequence modeling for searches The disclosed embodiments provide a system for performing sequence modeling for searches. During operation, the system obtains a sequence of jobs associated with activity by a member of an online system. Next, the system applies a word embedding model of a set of job histories to attributes of individual jobs in the sequence of jobs to produce embeddings for the individual jobs. The system then generates a set of power means from the embeddings. Finally, the system outputs the set of power means as an encoded representation of the sequence of jobs, wherein the set of power means is used in generating job recommendations related to the member.
US11308406B2	Method of operating neural networks, corresponding network, apparatus and computer program product A method of operating neural networks such as convolutional neural networks including, e.g., an input layer, an output layer and at least one intermediate layer between the input layer and the output layer, with the network layers including operating circuits performing arithmetic operations on input data to provide output data. The method includes: selecting a set of operating circuits in the network layers, performing arithmetic operations in operating circuits in the selected set of operating circuits by performing Residue Number System or RNS operations on RNS-converted input data by obtaining RNS output data in the Residue Number System, backward converting from the Residue Number System the RNS output data resulting from the RNS operations.
US11308399B2	Method for topological optimization of graph-based models A method may include receiving a graph-based model in a first format, including a static topology of the graph-based model. The method may also include encoding the graph-based model from the first format into a neural network topology optimizer (NNTO) readable format such that the topology of the encoded graph-based model is configured to be altered; creating a first group of entities based on at least a same portion of the encoded graph-based model; and performing a learning operation by tuning parameters of the first group of entities to produce an optimization score for each entity. Additionally, the method may include performing a validation operation; determining that an improvement in validation performance for at least one entity is within a threshold amount of improvement; selecting a solution entity; and adding the selected solution entity into the graph-based model in place of the same portion.
US11308381B2	Method for producing a radiofrequency device passive wire antenna A method for producing a radiofrequency device having a first antenna circuit connected to a radiofrequency chip and a second antenna circuit associated with, or coupled to, the first circuit, the method including the following steps: formation of the first antenna circuit in the form of a conductive wire deposited in a guided manner on a first substrate; and formation of the second antenna circuit in the form of a conductive wire deposited on the same first substrate in a guided manner and at a calibrated distance from the first antenna circuit.
US11308372B1	Efficient sheet map loading for print jobs System and methods for efficient sheet map loading for print jobs. In one embodiment, a preflight system processes a print job to build a first sheet mapping for rasterizing and printing the print job, and stores the first sheet mapping. A job controller determines an estimate time to load the first sheet mapping from the memory using job properties as input to estimator logic. In response to determining that the estimate time for loading the first sheet mapping from the memory is shorter than a time threshold, the first sheet mapping is loaded from memory, and provided for rasterizing and printing. Otherwise, if the estimate time is longer than the time threshold, the job controller builds a second sheet mapping, and provides the second sheet mapping in increments for the rasterizing and the printing of the print job as the building of the second sheet mapping is in progress.
US11308364B1	Automatic benchmarking of labeling tasks One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for evaluating labeled data. The technique includes selecting, from a set of labels for a data sample, a subset of the labels representing non-outliers in a distribution of values in the set of labels. The technique also includes aggregating the subset of the labels into a benchmark for the data sample. The technique further includes generating, based on a comparison between the benchmark and an additional label, a benchmark score associated with the data sample, and generating a set of performance metrics for labeling the data sample based on the benchmark score.
US11308360B2	Support vector machine prediction system A computer system selects a kernel and kernel parameters for a first Support Vector Machine (SVM) model, testing the SVM model on a feature matrix T of n feature vectors of length m to produce false positive (FP) data set and false negative (FN) data set by a computer processor, wherein n and m are integer numbers, copies the feature matrix T to produce a feature matrix T_best, and checking if a ratio (T_best sample number)/(SVM support vector number) is above a threshold for the SVM model on T_best. If the ratio is above the threshold, SVM predictions are performed using the SVM model on the feature matrix T_best. The first SVM model can be used classify the faces or the objects in the images. An image-product design can be created based on the faces or the objects in the images classified by the first SVM model using the feature matrix T_best.
US11308358B2	Method and system for automatically annotating and identifying a living being or an object with an identifier providing a subject identification The invention relates to a method for training a machine learning model to identify a subject having at least one machine readable identifier providing a subject ID, said method comprising: providing a computer vision system with an image capturing system comprising at least one image capturing device, and a reader system comprising at least one reader for reading said at least one machine readable identifier; defining said machine learning model in said computer vision system; capturing a first image using said image capturing system, said first image showing said subject; reading said subject ID using said reader system when capturing said first image, and linking said subject ID with said first image, said linking providing said first image with a linked subject ID, providing a first annotated image; capturing at least one further image showing said subject, linking said linked subject ID to said at least one further image providing at least one further annotated image, and subjecting said first annotated image and said at least one further annotated image to said machine learning model for training said machine learning model.
US11308354B1	Residual context refinement network architecture for optical character recognition Techniques for recognizing text in an image are described. An exemplary method may include receiving a request to recognize text in an image; extracting features from the image and generating a visual feature sequence from the extracted features; performing selective contextual refinement at least one selective contextual refinement block of a stack of selective contextual refinement blocks to generate a text prediction by: generating a contextual feature map and combining the contextual feature map with the visual feature sequence into a visual feature space, and applying a selective decoder that utilizes a two-step attention on the visual feature space to generate a text prediction, wherein the two-step attention includes performing a 1-D self-attention computation to generate attentional features and decoding the attentional features to generate the text prediction; and outputting the generated text prediction.
US11308347B2	Method of determining a similarity transformation between first and second coordinates of 3D features The invention is related to a method of determining a similarity transformation between first coordinates and second coordinates of 3D features, comprising providing a first plurality of 3D features having first coordinates in a first coordinate system which is associated with a first geometrical model of a first real object, wherein the first plurality of 3D features describes physical 3D features of the first real object, providing a second coordinate system, providing image information associated with a plurality of images captured by at least one camera, for each respective 3D feature of at least part of the first plurality of 3D features, wherein the respective 3D feature is captured by at least two of the plurality of images, determining camera poses of the at least one camera in the second coordinate system while the at least two of the plurality of images are captured, determining for the respective 3D feature a second coordinate in the second coordinate system according to the at least two of the plurality of images and the camera poses, and the method further comprising determining a similarity transformation between the first coordinates and the second coordinates of the at least part of the first plurality of 3D features, wherein the similarity transformation includes at least one translation, at least one rotation, at least one scale and/or their combinations in 3D space.
US11308333B1	Outdoor camera and neighborhood watch techniques Techniques are described for security and automation system. One method includes receiving, from an exterior camera located outside a structure, data associated with an occurrence of a security event associated with the structure, activating a light of the camera based at least in part on determining the received data is associated with the security event, and initiating an action at the first location based at least in part on determining that the received data is associated with the security event.
US11308330B2	Method and device for constructing autonomous driving test scenes, terminal and readable storage media Provided are a method and a device for constructing autonomous driving test scenes, a terminal and a readable storage media. Primitive scenes are extracted from real traffic scenes to establish a primitive scene description model. The values of the description variables are selected from distribution intervals of the description variables of the primitive scenes, and the description variables are randomly sampled based on the distribution of the description variables to generate test primitive scenes by adopting an importance sampling based Monte Carlo method. The test primitive scenes are recombined according to the parameters of the elements of the test scene to generate the test scene. The present invention can directly simulate the actual complex system, so as to avoid the result distortion caused by the simplification of the complex system.
US11308329B2	Representation learning from video with spatial audio A computer system is trained to understand audio-visual spatial correspondence using audio-visual clips having multi-channel audio. The computer system includes an audio subnetwork, video subnetwork, and pretext subnetwork. The audio subnetwork receives the two channels of audio from the audio-visual clips, and the video subnetwork receives the video frames from the audio-visual clips. In a subset of the audio-visual clips the audio-visual spatial relationship is misaligned, causing the audio-visual spatial cues for the audio and video to be incorrect. The audio subnetwork outputs an audio feature vector for each audio-visual clip, and the video subnetwork outputs a video feature vector for each audio-visual clip. The audio and video feature vectors for each audio-visual clip are merged and provided to the pretext subnetwork, which is configured to classify the merged vector as either having a misaligned audio-visual spatial relationship or not. The subnetworks are trained based on the loss calculated from the classification.
US11308325B2	Systems and methods for predicting real-time behavioral risks using everyday images A system includes a camera configured to generate image data and a computing device in electronic communication with the camera. The computing device includes at least one processor and is configured to receive, from the camera, one or more images representative of a location. The computing device is further configured to apply a trained classifier to the one or more images to classify the location into one of at least two risk categories, wherein the classification is based on a likelihood of a subject performing a target behavior based on presence of the subject in the location. The computing device is additionally configured to issue a risk alert responsive to the trained classifier classifying the location into a high-risk category.
US11308323B2	Micro-precision application of multiple treatments to agricultural objects Various embodiments relate generally to computer vision and automation to autonomously identify and deliver for application a treatment to an object among other objects, data science and data analysis, including machine learning, deep learning, and other disciplines of computer-based artificial intelligence to facilitate identification and treatment of objects, and robotics and mobility technologies to navigate a delivery system, more specifically, to an agricultural delivery system configured to identify and apply, for example, an agricultural treatment to an identified agricultural object. In some examples, a method may include, receiving data representing a policy specifying a type of action for an agricultural object, selecting an emitter with which to perform a type of action for the agricultural object as one of one or more classified subsets, and configuring the agricultural projectile delivery system to activate an emitter to propel an agricultural projectile to intercept the agricultural object.
US11308322B2	Locating a client device using ground truth image rendering Systems and methods are disclosed herein for determining a location of a device, for example, by receiving, from a client device, a rendering of an image captured by the client device. The systems and methods compare the received rendering to entries in a database of renderings, each respective entry including a respective rendering and a respective associated location, and determine, from the comparing whether the received rendering matches a respective rendering included in a respective entry in the database of renderings. The systems and methods, in response to determining that the received rendering matches the respective rendering included in the respective entry, determine the location associated with the matching rendering, and transmit the location to the client device.
US11308315B2	Information processing apparatus, control method, and program An information processing apparatus (2000) includes a detection unit (2020), a state estimation unit (2040), and a height estimation unit (2080). The detection unit (2020) detects a target person from a video frame. The state estimation unit (2040) estimates a state of the detected target person. The height estimation unit (2080) estimates a height of the person on the basis of a height of the target person in the video frame in a case where the estimated state satisfies a predetermined condition.
US11308310B2	Electronic device including image sensor and method of operating the same An electronic device according to various embodiments may include an image sensor including a plurality of photodiodes, a display including a plurality of patterned openings, and a processor. The processor may be configured to control the electronic device to: acquire, through the image sensor, a first image using a plurality of incident light beams for a subject which pass through at least one of the plurality of openings, at least some of the plurality of incident light beams overlapping each other; acquire a second image representing the subject from the first image using a transfer function corresponding to the plurality of openings; and acquire information on the subject using the second image.
US11308302B2	Custom functional patterns for optical barcodes Systems and methods for custom functional patterns for optical barcodes are provided. In example embodiments, image data of an image is received from a user device. A candidate shape feature of the image is extracted from the image data. A determination is made that the shape feature satisfies a shape feature rule. In response to the candidate shape feature satisfying the shape feature rule, a custom graphic in the image is identified by comparing the candidate shape feature with a reference shape feature of the custom graphic. In response to identifying the custom graphic, data encoded in a portion of the image is decoded.
US11308300B2	Colour correction Methods are provided for generating a barcode with embedded colour palette for colour correction of a captured image in digital format. These methods comprise: generating an initial barcode according to a barcode standard and formed by light colour and dark colour encoding units jointly encoding a reference to storage location; splitting a predefined set of reference colours into reference dark and reference light colours depending on contrast threshold; modifying the initial barcode by replacing dark colour encoding units by reference dark colours and light colour encoding units by reference light colours; and updating the storage location with data representing the reference colours included in the modified barcode and positions of said reference colours in the modified barcode. Methods are provided for colour correction based on a barcode determined by said methods. Computer programs and systems are provided which are suitable for performing said barcode generation methods and colour correction methods.
US11308293B1	Optical polling platform methods, apparatuses and media An image associated with a poll may be acquired via a camera. One or more symbols indicating responses may be found by analyzing the image. The responses specified by the symbols may be determined and saved. The responses may also be displayed to the operator and/or to the respondents.
US11308286B2	Method and device for retelling text, server, and storage medium Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and a device for retelling a text, a server and a storage medium. The method includes: for each original sentence in an original text, selecting a synonymous word of each original word in the original sentence based on the synonymous words of respective original words contained in the original sentence and predetermined probabilities of different words appearing continuously; and connecting the selected synonymous words of respective original words in the original sentence sequentially to obtain a retold sentence of the original sentence.
US11308285B2	Triangulated natural language decoding from forecasted deep semantic representations Computer-implemented method includes developing, via a processor, a words model from a plurality of natural language text based articles relating to a subject and generating, via the processor, a static vector based upon the words model. The computer-implemented method further includes developing, via the processor, an actual articles model from actual articles, generating, via the processor, a bootstrapped vector using the actual articles model, generating, via the processor, a n-dimensional depth item using the static vector and the bootstrapped vector, and determining, via the processor, evidence based on the n-dimensional depth item. The computer-implemented method still further includes presenting, via the processor and a display, the evidence base upon an input query from a user.
US11308283B2	Lightweight tagging for disjoint entities Text data including at least named entities can be received. From the named entities, continuous entities, overlapping entities and disjoint entities can be identified. The overlapping entities can be transformed into continuous entities. The continuous entities, the transformed entities and the disjoint entities can be encoded. The encoded entities can be input to a machine learning language model to train the machine learning model to predict candidate entities. The predicted entities can be decoded to reconstruct the predicted entities.
US11308281B1	Slot type resolution process Techniques to be used in natural language understanding (NLU) are described. For example, a NLU service to receive a request to analyze a written or spoken utterance; tokenize the received utterance; generate one or more labels corresponding to a substring of the tokenized received utterance, each of the labels including one or more slot types, by: for each path of a grammar-based finite state transducer (FST) data structure that includes instructions, traversing the path as far as possible for matches from a previous breakpoint, while maintaining i) locations of branching points and snapshots at those branching points and ii) an indication of which paths have been traversed, and recording a result of each path traversal as a generated label; resolve the one or more generated labels into machine-readable values; and output a result is described.
US11308280B2	Capture and search of virtual machine application properties using log analysis techniques The capture and search of application properties for applications installed on virtual machines, includes obtaining a plurality of logs on a plurality of virtual machine images coupled to a network. For each given virtual machine image of the plurality of virtual machine images, the method includes: obtaining one or more logs on the given virtual machine image of the plurality of virtual machine images; analyzing each given log of the one or more logs to identify one or more concepts related to a set of application properties for one or more applications installed on the given virtual machine image; associating the one or more concepts and the set of application properties with an identity of the given virtual machine image; and storing the association of the one or more concepts and the set of application properties with the identity of the given virtual machine image in a virtual machine catalogue.
US11308274B2	Word grouping using a plurality of models A computer-implemented method is provided. The method includes acquiring a seed word; calculating a similarity score of each of a plurality of words relative to the seed word for each of a plurality of models to calculate a weighted sum of similarity scores for each of the plurality of words; outputting a plurality of candidate words among the plurality of words; acquiring annotations indicating at least one of preferred words and non-preferred words among the plurality of the candidate words; updating weights of the plurality of models in a manner to cause weighted sums of similarity scores for the preferred words to be relatively larger than the weighted sums of the similarity scores for the non-preferred words, based on the annotations; and grouping the plurality of candidate words output based on the weighted sum of similarity scores calculated with updated weights of the plurality of models.
US11308267B1	Artifacts reference creation and dependency tracking A computing device includes a processor and a memory configured to create one or more forms for an application in an environment. The processor and the memory are further configured to create one or more environment variables related to the one or more forms. The processor is further configured to utilize one or more paths to track a dependency reference between the one or more environment variables, wherein a data model includes the one or more paths and the one or more environment variables. The processor is further configured to execute the data model to recreate the dependency reference, between the one or more environment variables, for the application in a target environment.
US11308259B2	Web element retargeting A determination is made whether a source web element is to be retargeted. In response to the determination that the source web element is to be retargeted, one or more properties or attributes of the source web element is copied to a target web element and content of the source web element is routed to be rendered to the target web element. An event of the target web element is intercepted, and the intercepted event is provided to the source web element.
US11308253B2	Partitioning in post-layout circuit simulation The independent claims of this patent signify a concise description of embodiments. New techniques for the partitioning of big element blocks in a circuit are disclosed. The techniques partition both pre-layout and post-layout circuits. If a post-layout circuit has different simulation results from a pre-layout circuit, the techniques determine where and how “cross-talk” of the RC networks due to RC extraction is changing the circuit physics behavior from the original design of the circuit. A flow of the local circuit simulation of the pre-layout netlist and the post-layout netlist of the same design is presented. A flow of reference or relative or differential circuit simulation of a known design and a new design of the same kind is described. This Abstract is not intended to limit the scope of the claims.
US11308249B2	Hybrid support structures for additively printed parts A method, medium, and system to receive a specification defining a model of a part to be produced by an additive manufacturing (AM) process; execute an AM simulation on the model of the part to determine a prediction of thermal distortions to the part; execute a topology optimization (TO) to create TO supports that counteract the predicted thermal distortions; generate at least one rule-based support based on a geometry of the part to interface with the part at one or more regions other than the TO supports; combining the TO supports and the at least one rule-based support to generate a set of hybrid supports; save a record of the set of hybrid supports; and transmit the record of the set of hybrid supports to an AM controller to control an AM system to generate a support structure for an AM production of the part.
US11308241B2	Security data generation based upon software unreadable registers The present disclosure describes a security device including: a hardware-based data reading circuitry that acquires, through hardware-level interaction, security data source based on a software unreadable register; and a first security data generator that generates first security data based on the security data source. Furthermore, the present disclosure also describes a security device including: a second security data generator that generates second security data; and a hardware-based data writing circuitry that writes, through hardware-level interaction, the second security data into a software unreadable register.
US11308236B2	Managing obfuscation of regulated sensitive data In an approach to managing obfuscation of regulated sensitive data, one or more computer processors detect content for display on a computing device. One or more computer processors analyze the content for sensitive data. One or more computer processors retrieve one or more applicable regulations, where the regulations are associated with displaying sensitive data. One or more computer processors determine a location on the display for obfuscating the sensitive data in the content, based on the retrieved one or more applicable regulations. One or more computer processors identify one or more context rules applicable to the sensitive data in the content. One or more computer processors determine the one or more context rules override the one or more applicable regulations. One or more computer processors display the sensitive data in the content.
US11308231B2	Security control management for information security A device configured to receive a data storage request that identifies a data content type for a data element and a target data storage device. The device is further configured to determine the target data storage device does not match an approved data storage device. The device is further configured to determine a security level associated with the target data storage device and to determine vulnerability types associated with the determined security level of the target data storage device. The device is further configured to identify security controls based on the determined vulnerability types and to output the identified security controls. Each security control comprises a hardware configuration for data storage devices that are associated with mitigating one or more vulnerability types.
US11308228B1	Providing access for online content via secured URL Exemplary embodiments are directed to a method for allowing a user at a first client device to provide access to restricted content on a content provider server to a user at a second client device without providing identifying information of the second client device or the user to the content provider. The content provider receives a request from a messaging app on a first client device for sharing of a content item with a second client device and generates a metadata block comprising at least a link to the content item. The metadata block is sent to the first client device and, in response, a public key of a private/public key pair of the second client device is received from the first client device. A request for the content item, is then received and contains a data item digitally signed using the private key of the private/public key pair of the second client device. The public key is then used to verify the digitally signed data item, thereby confirming the identity of the second client device. Thereafter, the requested content item is sent to the second client device.
US11308223B2	Blockchain-based file handling Blockchain-based file handling is provided by receiving a data file from a user device, storing the data file to local storage of the blockchain peer, generating a file identifier of the data file, providing the file identifier to the user device, storing the file identifier to a synchronized ledger of the blockchain network, where the synchronized ledger tracks access to the data file, and distributing data of the data file to one or more other blockchain peers of the blockchain network.
US11308218B2	Open source vulnerability remediation tool A method and system for remediating vulnerable code libraries, including open source libraries, in a software application. An application that uses code libraries and information regarding known library vulnerabilities are received, then it identifies one or more libraries in the application that are vulnerable based upon the information. For each of the one or more vulnerable libraries, a library version that minimizes risk is determined. The determined library version is incorporated into the application to form a test application, and an application test is performed on the test application. If an application test score on the test application is below a predetermined threshold, the determined library version is incorporated into a final application precursor. A final application can be determined from the final application precursor for each of the one or more vulnerable libraries.
US11308212B1	Adjudicating files by classifying directories based on collected telemetry data Telemetry data from client file reputation queries is collected over time. Directories/sub-directories under which files of queries are located are identified. The files including the reputations for the files under a given directory/sub-directory are identified and used to calculate the reputation score for the directory/sub-directory. The directory/sub-directory is then classified based on the calculated score for the directory/sub-directory. After the classification of directories/sub-directories, reputation for a file with unknown reputation is then determined based on the classification of the directory/sub-directory under which the file is located.
US11308203B2	Side-channel protection In various examples there is a computing device in communication with at least one other computing device via a communications network. The computing device has a memory and a central processing unit having a trusted execution environment comprising trusted regions of the memory. The computing device has an operating system configured to create a memory mapping between a virtual address space of the memory and a memory of the at least one other computing device and to provide details of the memory mapping to the trusted execution environment. The trusted execution environment is configured to execute an application which is able to communicate with the other computing device directly using the memory mapping provided by the operating system.
US11308202B2	Intrusion detection systems An intrusion detection system, comprising a monitor to receive messages from a target over a low-latency communication link comprising a controlled access memory structure logically positioned between the target and the monitor using point-to-point interconnects, the controlled access memory structure to receive a message from the target indicating that the target has entered a controlled mode of operation.
US11308198B1	Blockchain-based credential vault system (CVS) Methods and systems are provided for blockchain-based credential vault system (CVS). In one novel aspect, the CVS identifies a set of credential of a trustor, verifies each credential, and stores the verified credentials to a CVS blockchain database such that the authorized beneficiary can obtain the trustor credentials from the CVS. In one embodiment, the CVS authenticates a trustor request from a trustor, wherein a trustor record in the CVS is uniquely identified by a trustor identification in a blockchain-based database of the CVS, processes submission from the authenticated trustor to generate a set of canonical credentials using a recurrent neural network (RNN) model, performs credential verification for each generated canonical credential in the authenticated trustor submission, and appends each verified canonical credential to the trustor record in the blockchain-based database of the CVS.
US11308196B2	Authentication of a device Pairing data associated with a second device may be received at a first device. The pairing data may be received from a server. A first authentication proof may be generated based on the pairing data received from the server. A second authentication proof may be received from the second device. Furthermore, an authentication status of the second device may be updated based on a comparison of the first authentication proof that is based on the pairing data received from the server and the second authentication proof that is received from the second device.
US11308193B2	System and method for translating custom entitlements An embodiment of the present invention is directed to a translation layer that intercepts a token and converts new group names into old entitlement verbiage based on data loaded at start-up (e.g., hash map, etc.) from a configuration file. The old entitlement verbiage may be loaded into the User Session just as it would have been if the entitlements had come from within the old application authorization structure. The remainder of the application is unaware that the authorization source has changed.
US11308189B2	Remote usage of locally stored biometric authentication data A method for biometric authentication is disclosed. Reference biometric data established at a first device can be stored at a backend server computer. The server computer can then provide the reference biometric data with a second device when needed for biometric authentication at the second device.
US11308186B1	Systems and methods for data correlation and artifact matching in identity management artificial intelligence systems Systems and methods for embodiments of artificial intelligence systems for identity management are disclosed. Embodiments of the identity management systems disclosed herein may support the correlation of identities determined authoritative source systems with uncorrelated accounts within an enterprise using artificial intelligence techniques.
US11308180B1	Fractional order dynamic inversion controller for non-linear systems A device, method, and non-transitory computer readable medium for fractional order dynamic inversion control of nonlinear systems under the influence of a disturbance. The method for fractional order dynamic inversion control includes receiving a mathematical model of a controlled device, the mathematical model including a set of movement trajectories, wherein the movement trajectories include control objectives, formulating a first set of linear, time-varying, fractional order differential equations from the mathematical model, the first set including dynamic constraints on the control objectives, transforming the first set into linear equations by differentiating a norm measure function along the movement trajectories, thus generating a second set of fractional order differential equations, and determining a control signal for controlling the movement trajectories in the presence of disturbances by dynamically inverting the second set of fractional order differential equations.
US11308174B2	Systems and methods to identify a filter set in a query comprised of keywords Systems and methods to identify a filter set in a keyword query are described. The system receives a query from a client machine. The system identifies filter sets based on the query and a based on rules. The filter sets include a first filter set that includes a first filter. The rules are utilized to associate at the least one keyword from the query to the first filter. The system further scores the filter sets based on probabilities to generate scores. The probabilities describe occurrences of attribute-value pairs in listings that respectively describe items that were previously transacted on a network-based marketplace. The system further identifies the first filter set from the filter sets based on the scores, generates a user interface including search results that are identified based on the identified first filter set, and communicates the user interface, over the network, to the client machine.
US11308173B2	Searching for ideograms in an online social network In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a first query comprising one or more n-grams inputted by the first user at the client system, accessing by the client system a plurality of ideograms each being associated with one or more tags matching at least one of the n-grams of the first query, where the one or more ideograms are ranked in an order based on their respective user-probabilities each being calculated based at least in part on a frequency of use associated with the respective ideogram, presenting one or more of the ideograms at the client system in ranked order where each ideogram is selectable by the first user, and receiving a selection of one of the presented ideograms at the client system.
US11308171B2	Apparatus and method for searching linked lists The invention introduces an apparatus for searching linked lists at least including: a memory arranged to operably store a linked list; a linked-list search engine arranged to operably search content of the linked list until a search success or fail and generate a search result; and a processing unit arranged to operably write the content of the linked list into the memory, drive the linked-list search engine to start a search on the linked list and obtain the search result from the linked-list search engine.
US11308163B1	Monitoring system control interface for asset tree determination An asset monitoring and reporting system (AMRS) implements an interface to establish an asset hierarchy to be monitored and reported against. The interface employs a search query of extant asset data from which definitional aspects of the asset hierarchy can be identified, and therefrom the interface automatically determines control information reflective of the asset hierarchy to direct the ongoing operation of the AMRS.
US11308159B2	Dynamic detection of custom linear video clip boundaries Described herein are systems and methods for generating a video clip. The video clip may be generated based on applying a query to content metadata to identify a match within a content item. A start boundary and an end boundary for the video clip are determined based on the match(es).
US11308153B1	Optimal photo selection There is disclosed a system, apparatus and methods for optimizing photo selection. When a photographer takes photos as requested in a shot list, the photos are automatically assigned a quality score which correlates to how prominently the photo would be displayed in an online search. The photos and the quality scores are displayed to the photographer so that when the photographer has shot a sufficiently high quality photo then the photographer can stop shooting. Photos with the highest quality scores are optimal. The shot lists include reference photos, and if a new photo has a higher quality score than the corresponding reference photo, the new photo becomes the reference photo.
US11308143B2	Discrepancy curator for documents in a corpus of a cognitive computing system Curation of a corpus of a cognitive computing system is performed by reporting to a user a cluster model of a parse tree structure of discrepancies and corresponding assigned confidence factors detected between at least a portion of a first electronic document and a second or more electronic documents in the information corpus. Responsive to a selection by the user of a discrepancy cluster model, drill-down details regarding the discrepancy are returned to the user, for subsequent user selection of an administrative action option for handling the detected discrepancy to curate the information corpus.
US11308129B2	Container clustering in a container-based architecture Implementations provide for container clustering in a container-based architecture. A method of the disclosure includes generating by a processing device executing a container deploying an instance of an application image, a domain name server (DNS) query to request identification of other containers in a container cluster. The other containers deploy other instances of the application image. The method also includes in responsive to the DNS query, receiving the identification of each of the other containers in the container cluster. The method further includes configuring, without manual intervention, the container as a member of the container cluster in view of the identification of each of the other containers.
US11308127B2	Log-based distributed transaction management For a given cross-data-store transaction request at a storage service, a coordinator transmits respective voting transition requests to a plurality of log-based transaction managers (LTMs) configured for the respective data stores to which writes are directed in the transaction. The LTMs transmit responses to the coordinator based on data-store-specific conflict detection performed using contents of the voting transition requests and respective data-store-specific state transition logs. The coordinator determines a termination status of the cross-data-store transaction based on the LTMs' responses, and provides an indication of the termination status to the LTMs.
US11308122B2	Remote copy system A first storage system of a remote copy system includes a data volume, a journal volume, and a storage controller. When an operation is received from a first server system, based on the operation, the storage controller executes any of a work of storing the update content by the operation in the journal volume or a work of executing the operation when the operation is received.
US11308121B2	Method and system for cell operations using a blockchain data network A method and system for performing operations on cells on an instrument comprises providing a peer to peer network of instruments for performing operations on cells, maintaining a distributed database in at least a plurality of the instruments in the peer to peer network, storing at least one protocol in the database for use by at least one instrument in the peer to peer network for performing operations on cells and storing results from the performance of the operations on cells by the at least one instrument in the distributed database. The results stored in the distributed database is then usable to later authenticate the results from the at least one instrument.
US11308120B2	Automated performing of replication tasks in a multiple database system Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for the performing of a replication task in a multi-database system, by a replication agent, for replicating a location range of columns in a table in a source repository data object, to a location range of columns in a target table in a target repository data object. An embodiment operates by using a data provisioning agent, remote source connection, and replication task controller in sequence to set up a replication task for execution.
US11308118B2	File system warnings The present technology pertains to a organization directory hosted by a synchronized content management system. The corporate directory can provide access to user accounts for all members of the organization to all content items in the organization directory on the respective file systems of the members' client devices. Members can reach any content item at the same path as other members relative to the organization directory root on their respective client device. In some embodiments novel access permissions are granted to maintain path consistency.
US11308117B2	Relationship analysis and mapping for interrelated multi-layered datasets A system stores original datasets in a datastore. The system generates first derivative datasets from the original datasets, and generates second derivative datasets from at least the first derivative datasets. The system determines relationships among the original datasets, the first derivative datasets, and the second derivative datasets, based on an analytical relationship between two datasets, a similarity relationship between two datasets, a modification relationship between two datasets, and a user-interaction relationship between two datasets. Then, the system generates a node map including at least part of the original datasets, the first derivative datasets, and the second derivative datasets as a node, and at least part of the determined analytical, similarity, modification, and user-interaction relationships between two nodes as a link.
US11308110B2	Systems and methods for pushing content Methods and systems for presenting contextually relevant push content when a user is passively engaged with an application are described herein. The system detects that the user is engaged with an application on a device and monitors the user's level of engagement with the application. If the system determines that the user is passively engaged, the system prepares to insert push content into the current output. The system identifies a region on the current output into which to insert push content, for example a region unoccupied by content or a particular object. The system identifies a context of the current output and selects a push content item based on the context of the current output. Then, the system inserts the push content item into the empty region on the current output.
US11308109B2	Transfer between different combinations of source and destination nodes According to a present invention embodiment, items are transferred between source and destination nodes. A search is performed for one or more source nodes and one or more destination nodes based on search criteria. Graphical representations of the source and destination nodes resulting from the search are generated and presented on a user interface. A graphical connector is manipulated to connect a first quantity of source nodes to a second quantity of destination nodes on the user interface, wherein at least one from a group of the first quantity and the second quantity represent a plurality of nodes from the user interface. One or more items are transferred from the first quantity of source nodes to the second quantity of destination nodes based on connections indicated by the graphical connector.
US11308103B2	Data analyzing device and data analyzing method To make it possible to automatically generate an objective variable so that even those who are unskilled in data processing can freely conduct an analysis. It is recognized whether a type of an attribute value of each attribute of analysis target data is a numeric type indicating that it is a numeric value or a category type indicating that it is a category. At least one attribute that is a numeric type is set as an attribute of an aggregation target, at least one attribute that is a category type is set as an attribute of an aggregation unit, and for each category value of the attribute of the aggregation unit, a numeric value of the attribute of the aggregation target is aggregated based on a previously prepared aggregation function to generate a new objective variable candidate.
US11308094B2	Virtual segment parallelism in a database system and methods for use therewith A method for execution by a node of a computing device includes determining a plurality of queries for concurrent execution. A plurality of sets of segments required to execute the plurality of queries is determined, and a set of virtual segments in the plurality of sets of segments is determined. A subset of the set of virtual segments is be determined by identifying ones of the set of virtual segments that are required to execute multiple ones of plurality of queries. A locally rebuilt set of rows for each of the set of virtual segments is generated by utilizing a recovery scheme. For each one of the set of virtual segments included in the subset, in response to generating the locally rebuilt set of rows, concurrent partial execution of corresponding multiple ones of the plurality of queries is facilitated.
US11308079B2	Maintaining data stream history for generating materialized views Materialized views may be generated at a managed materialized view platform that accepts data streams as a source. When updating a materialized view with a data stream as a source, a stored portion of the stream is used to maintain a history of changes to be made. When a join operation needs to utilize the data stream source to determine an update to the materialized view, the data stream is preserved to complete the join and update the materialized view.
US11308078B2	Triggers of scheduled tasks in database systems Systems, methods, and devices for executing a task on database data in response to a trigger event are disclosed. A method includes executing a transaction on a table comprising database data, wherein executing the transaction comprises generating a new table version. The method includes, in response to the transaction being fully executed, generating a change tracking entry comprising an indication of one or more modifications made to the table by the transaction and storing the change tracking entry in a change tracking stream. The method includes executing a task on the new table version in response to a trigger event.
US11308077B2	Identifying source datasets that fit a transfer learning process for a target domain A method for quantifying a similarity between a target dataset and multiple source datasets and identifying one or more source datasets that are most similar to the target dataset is provided. The method includes receiving, at a computing system, source datasets relating to a source domain and a target dataset relating to a target domain of interest. Each dataset is arranged in a tabular format including columns and rows, and the source datasets and the target dataset include a same feature space. The method also includes pre-processing, via a processor of the computing system, each source-target dataset pair to remove non-intersecting columns. The method further includes calculating at least two of a dataset similarity score, a row similarity score, and a column similarity score for each source-target dataset pair, and summarizing the calculated similarity scores to identify one or more source datasets that are most similar to the target dataset.
US11308075B2	Surgical network, instrument, and cloud responses based on validation of received dataset and authentication of its source and integrity A system for validating data purportedly generated in a medical procedure is disclosed. The system includes a medical hub, at least one remote server communicatively coupled to the medical hub, and a medical instrument communicatively coupled to the medical hub. The system is configured to access the data, validate the data to determine if the data is validly generated by the medical procedure, determine that the data contains at least one flaw or error, and improve data integrity by preventing the at least one flaw or error from being integrated into a larger dataset associated with the at least one remote server.
US11308068B2	Control systems for draft lifecycle A system includes identification of editing of an active document by a user, and, in response to the identified editing, setting of enqueue locks on the active document, creating a draft document corresponding to the active document and an enqueue context associated with the draft document, storing the enqueue context with the draft document and attaching the enqueue context to a request session, determining an eTag of the active document and storing the eTag with the draft document, and associating the user with the draft document as its exclusive user.
US11308067B2	Associating flows in different states to a database record Disclosed are examples of systems, apparatuses, methods and computer program products for maintaining flows to manage tasks assigned to a user of a database system. Further disclosed are examples of systems, apparatuses, methods and computer program products for sharing execution logic, including but not limited to running instances of flows, across different users of a database system.
US11308065B2	Condenser framework In entity transition from legacy systems to a big data distributed data platform, numerous system-based architectural gaps have surfaced. There exists a need for a bridge component for each of the architectural gaps in order to support the entity transition to the big data distributed data platform. These bridge components include a variety of frameworks that are configured to automate certain processes that are needed for the transition. These processes have only become necessary as a result of the Hadoop platform. The automated processes include a snapshot load platform. The snapshot load platform enables the addition of a new view to the historical tables. The platform includes replacing the entire table in a truncated scenario. The platform includes replacing cases in a refresh or update scenario.
US11308062B2	Index update method and system, and related apparatus An index update method, including: receiving an index update request, where the index update request is used to instruct to create or delete a target index that is associated with a field in a logic table of a tenant; updating metadata information of the logic table in a database in response to the index update request; notifying a coordination service, where the coordination service is used to notify a second data access node to perform a local synchronization update; and after all second data access nodes finish local synchronization updates, performing a data asynchronization update. After the metadata information is updated in the database, an index is updated in two steps. In a first step, a local synchronization update is performed. In a second step, after all data access nodes finish local synchronization updates, a data asynchronization update is performed.
US11308060B2	Method, apparatus, device and storage medium for managing index Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method, apparatus, device and computer readable storage medium for managing an index are provided. The method for managing an index may include: determining a target index for target data stored in a database, the target index having a corresponding index tag for identifying a stored version of the target index. The method may further include acquiring, based on the target index, the target data stored in the database, the target data having a corresponding data tag for identifying a stored version of the target data. The method may further include determining, in response to the index tag not matching the data tag, an operation associated with the target index.
US11308057B2	System and method for multiplexer tree indexing Described herein is a system and method for multiplexer tree (muxtree) indexing. Muxtree indexing performs hashing and row reduction in parallel by use of each select bit only once in a particular path of the muxtree. The muxtree indexing generates a different final index as compared to conventional hashed indexing but still results in a fair hash, where all table entries get used with equal distribution with uniformly random selects.
US11308056B2	Systems and methods for SNP analysis and genome sequencing In some embodiments, techniques for identifying one or more species in an undifferentiated environmental sample comprising a plurality of nucleic acid sequences are provided. One or more indices that represent a plurality of reference nucleic acid sequences may be provided, and data may be received comprising digital representations of respective nucleic acid sequences. The respective nucleic acid sequences may be aligned, if possible, using the indices. A respective alignment ration may be calculated for each one of the reference nucleic acid sequences, based on the number of nucleic acid sequences aligned to the respective reference nucleic acid sequence and the total number of nucleic acid sequences in the received data.
US11308053B2	Buffered data-loading in column-partitioned database tables A system and method for loading data into column-partitioned database tables. The system and method incorporate a mechanism for buffering data extracted from the rows of a source table in column-oriented fashion within an in-buffer memory, enabling an efficient bulk-write of large arrays of values from the buffer into column-partitioned database tables. The system and method may also include optimizations for grouping columns according to data types and altering the order in which columns are inserted into the database tables.
US11308050B2	Conversion mechanism for complex cohabitation databases Embodiments of the invention are directed to systems, methods, and computer program products for streamlining the processes involved with the cohabitation of relational database management system component versions. The system is further configured to automate the performance of edition downgrades of relational database management system services as well as automate edition downgrades for relational database management system server reporting services, server integration services, and server analysis services. Furthermore, the system is configured to launch command line interface on a user device, connect to target relational database components, retrieve necessary information, and automatically detect relational database management software versions. During the system processes, the system is designed to automatically performs pre-validation tasks and generate backup script files in chronological order.
US11308048B2	Database migration method, apparatus, device, and computer-readable medium The present specification discloses a database migration method, including: copying metadata from a first server of a database, the metadata including identification information of synthetic data; receiving a service instruction sent by a client after the copying the metadata from the first server of the database; determining, based on the service instruction, whether the synthetic data needs to be retrieved from the first server of the database; and in response to it is determined that the synthetic data needs to be retrieved from the first server of the database, copying the synthetic data from the first server of the database based on the identification information of the synthetic data. According to the present disclosure, the service instruction sent by the client is received in advance, and the synthetic data is copied from the first server of the database based on the identification information of the synthetic data, thereby reducing time taken for database migration.
US11308036B2	Selection of digest hash function for different data sets Techniques for processing data may include: receiving a plurality of data chunks for a data set; performing data deduplication processing for the plurality of data chunks; determining, in accordance with one or more criteria, whether a frequency distribution of a frequency histogram of digest byte frequencies is sufficiently uniform; and responsive to determining that the frequency distribution of the frequency histogram is not sufficiently uniform, performing processing to update data deduplication settings for the data set. Updating the data deduplication settings may include using a stronger hash algorithm and/or a larger size digest when generating subsequent digests. The data deduplication processing may include: determining, using a current hash algorithm, a plurality of digests for the plurality of data chunks of the data set; and updating the frequency histogram of digest byte frequencies for the data set in accordance the plurality of digests.
US11308025B1	State machine block for high-level synthesis An architecture for a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) that better supports the designs of finite state machines (FSMs) generated by High-Level Synthesis (HLS) tools. The architecture is based on categorizing states of a FSM into branch free path states and independent states. A memory unit stores next state information for independent states and an accumulator unit computes next state information for branch free path states. A control unit selects the next state based on either the memory unit or the accumulator unit. An input sequence encoder encodes external inputs and current state values into encoded sequence signals that are input to the memory unit. Also disclosed is a state assignment algorithm that assigns state values to states of the FSM by first identifying branch free paths that terminate on the same state and then eliminating overlap between paths. States along the same branch free path are assigned sequential values.
US11308022B2	Support for common motherboard configuration for USB retiming A motherboard may utilize a retimer device to condition signals used for high-speed USB data transfers. Motherboard embodiments include a common footprint for USB retiming capabilities. A motherboard that supports high-speed USB transfers, such as transfers of 10 Gbps or greater, utilizes a retimer in the footprint. A motherboard that supports lower-speed USB transfers, such as 5 Gbps, utilizes a passive bridge component in the footprint, where the bridge may be formed from a dielectric substrate. During manufacture of an IHS (Information Handling System) a common motherboard is selected that includes a retimer footprint, where the motherboard includes traces that couple the footprint to a USB connector and traces that couple the footprint to a USB controller. Based on the USB transfer speeds to be supported by the motherboard, a USB retimer or a passive bridge is installed in the retimer footprint.
US11308015B2	Host-safe firmware upgrade of a PCI express device A method and a computer readable medium comprising instructions for upgrading a firmware of a peripheral device connected to a host device via a Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) bus from the operating system (OS) of the host device is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method and computer readable medium instructions includes halting host device access to the peripheral device after detecting the peripheral device has completed a shutdown sequence, and resetting the peripheral device after a predetermined time period after completion of the shutdown sequence. The method and computer readable medium instructions further includes initializing the firmware stored in a persistent storage location of the peripheral device, and re-establishing a connection between the peripheral device and the host device. In one embodiment, the predetermined time period is greater than a time it takes for the host device to detect the peripheral device has completed the shutdown sequence. In one embodiment, the peripheral device is a Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe)-compliant data storage device.
US11308012B2	Adapter and signal transmission method thereof An adapter configured to transmit signal of the first electronic device to the second electronic device is provided. The adapter includes a first USB type-C controller, a second USB type-C controller and pleural USB type-C data transmission lanes connected to the second USB type-C controller and the first USB type-C controller. The second USB type-C controller is configured to: (1) obtain a first transmission specification supported by the second electronic device; and (2) transmit the first transmission specification to the first USB type-C controller. The first USB type-C controller transmits the first transmission specification to the first electronic device. The first electronic device transmits a control command to the first USB type-C controller according to the first transmission specification. The first USB type-C controller further uses a corresponding number of data transmission lanes according to the control command.
US11308011B2	Signal collection method and signal collection device The signal collection method is a method that collects internal states indicated by signals in an electronic circuit device including a bus, the signal collection method including: storing the internal states with a fine resolution data storage by obtaining the internal states per a first period; per a second period, which is longer than the first period: obtaining a first data transfer amount, which is a data amount transferred by the bus, via a coarse resolution data storage; calculating a difference between a second data transfer amount and the first data transfer amount obtained in the obtaining, the second data transfer amount being calculated in advance and obtained from a cycle pattern generator; and determining whether the difference calculated in the calculating is within a predetermined range to stop storing in the storing when it is determined that the difference is not within the predetermined range.
US11307991B2	Apparatus and method and computer program product for generating a storage mapping table The invention introduces an apparatus for generating a storage mapping table at least including a direct memory access controller for reading first physical location (PL) address corresponding to a logical location of the storage mapping table; an expanding circuit for obtaining the first PL address and expanding the first PL address into second PL address by appending data bits that originally provide different information from a physical address of the flash memory unit to the first PL address; and a controller for transmitting the second PL address without transmitting the first PL address stored in the flash memory unit to a host.
US11307984B2	Optimized sorting of variable-length records Optimized techniques are disclosed for sorting variable-length records using an optimized amount of memory while maintaining good locality of references. The amount of memory required for sorting the variable length records is optimized by reusing some of the memory used for storing the variable length records being sorted. Pairs of input runs storing variable length records may be merged into a merged run that contains the records in a sorted order by incrementally scanning, sorting, and copying the records from the two input runs being merged into memory pages of the merged run. When all the records of a memory page of an input run have been processed or copied to the merged run, that memory page can be emptied and released to a cache of empty memory pages. Memory pages available from the cache of empty memory pages can then be used for generating the merged run.
US11307977B2	Technologies for direct matrix read and write operations Technologies for directly performing read and write operations on matrix data in a data storage device are disclosed. The data storage device receives a request to perform a read or write operation on matrix data stored in one or more memory units of the data storage device. Each memory unit is associated with a column address for the matrix data. The data storage device determines whether the request specifies to read or write a column or a row in the matrix data. The data storage device performs, in response to a determination that the request specifies to read or write a column in the matrix data, the read or write operation on the matrix data on the column.
US11307974B2	Horizontally scalable distributed system for automated firmware testing and method thereof A system and method for automated firmware testing. The system includes test stations for testing firmware products. The stations split into pools, with each pool including multiple test stations. The system also includes multiple execution instances, each execution instance for executing tests corresponding to the associated pool. Each of competing test stations delivers a test start event to a corresponding execution instance. The corresponding execution instance receives test start events from the competing test stations, and executes a run test command on a select test station among the competing test stations such that the select test station performs test execution based on a test sequence.
US11307973B2	Method and device for testing robustness and stability of SMM, and storage medium There are provided a method and a device for testing robustness and stability of an SMM, and a computer readable storage medium. In the method, a target variable is firstly obtained, and it is judged whether an SMI is triggered. Once it is judged that the SMI is triggered, the SMM is entered. In the SMM, a target testing model corresponding to a current value of the target variable is determined, and a target SMM function is tested with the target testing model pre-stored in a system management memory, and serial port information is printed by using firmware to determine the robustness and stability of the SMM, thereby achieving the testing for the robustness and stability of the SMM.
US11307970B2	Systems and methods for quality control application and testing from profile discovery A system including: at least one processor; and at least one memory having stored thereon instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, controls the at least one processor to: profile a plurality of existing data structures to generate existing profile metadata; identify a data quality level assigned to the plurality of existing data structures; access a new data structure; profile the new data structure to generate new profile metadata; determine a data quality level for the new data structure by comparing the new profile metadata to the existing profile metadata; and generate a plurality of customized data quality tests for the new data structure based on the determined data quality level for the new data structure.
US11307956B2	Autonomous behavior reasoning analysis A computer implemented method of adapting an application according to user interaction comprising using one or more processors for executing a code for collecting autonomously a plurality of action events describing a plurality of actions taken by a plurality of users to navigate through a plurality of pages presented by an application to accomplish one or more goals of the application, the plurality of pages are presented on a GUI at a plurality of user devices used by the plurality of users, analyzing the action events to identify one or more behavioral patterns of at least some of the users for accomplishing the goal(s) and generating automatically one or more recommended adaptations for the application according to the behavioral pattern(s) to adapt a layout of the application in order to increase a probability for one or more users to successfully accomplish the goal(s).
US11307955B2	Graphical user interface and analysis system for determining platform stability and resiliency Embodiments of the invention are directed to a system, method, or computer program product structured for determining platform stability and resiliency. In some embodiments, the system is structured for, for each of a plurality of applications deployed or scheduled to be deployed on a platform, gathering data, evaluating stability factor(s), evaluating resiliency factor(s), determining an overall stability score for the application from the stability factor(s) and overall resiliency score for the application from the resiliency factor(s), and determining a data quality score and criticality score for the application from the stability factor(s) and resiliency factor(s); generating a first GUI including selectable filters; receiving a selection of at least one filter; identifying a subset of applications using the selected filter(s); determining an aggregated stability score, resiliency score, data quality score, and criticality score for the identified subset; and generating a second GUI including the aggregated scores.
US11307953B2	Block-based anomaly detection in computing environments An anomaly service receives log data from nodes in a computing environment, which includes a sequence of information indicative of log messages produced by the nodes. The anomaly service identifies dominant patterns in the sequence of information that are representative of non-anomalous blocks of the log messages. Having identified the dominant patterns, the service is able to extract the non-anomalous blocks from the log data to reveal anomalous blocks that do not fit the dominant patterns. The service may then generate anomaly vectors based on the anomalous blocks, which can be distributed to the nodes to detect anomalies.
US11307950B2	Computing device health monitoring system and methods A data health monitoring system and method are provided which may be configured to monitor different indicators or parameters of a computing device which may affect the health of the computing device, such as which may be used in looking for early warning signs that could indicate future data loss or corruption. The system may periodically query certain data health indicators, such as S.M.A.R.T. status, disk temperature, read and write errors, etc. The system may also monitor data as it is being accessed keeping track of other indicators such as: files that are modified, when the last backed up was, protection status of the file, type of changes made to the file, which application is making changes, etc. Preferably, the combined status of each data health indicator may be rolled up into a simple message and shown to the user via notifications, reports, logs or a user interface.
US11307942B2	Memory system, memory controller and method for operating memory controller A memory system, a memory controller and an operating method are disclosed. By dividing a read count table including read count values respectively for a plurality of memory blocks into one or more read count table segments each including one or more read count values of a resolution, and managing one or more flags respectively corresponding to the read count table segments, and set the flag corresponding to the read count table segment in which at least one read count value is changed among the read count table segments, it is possible to minimize additional operational costs required to recover the read count table upon occurrence of an SPO.
US11307937B1	Efficient space reclamation in deduplication systems A method, computer program product, computer system, and the like that provide for the efficient reclamation of storage space in a deduplication system are disclosed. The method, for example, includes identifying one or more storage constructs of a number of storage constructs and generating an indication that a reclamation operation is to be performed with respect to the one or more storage constructs. In an embodiment, each of the plurality of storage constructs includes metadata and a number of units of data. The one or more storage constructs are identified, at least in part, by determining that a portion of the number of units of data of each of the one or more storage constructs is in a state, wherein the determining is based, at least in part, on at least a portion of the metadata.
US11307934B1	Virtual backup and restore of virtual machines Systems and methods for backing up and restoring virtual machines in a cluster environment. An instrumentation interface enables configuration data to be stored with save sets during backup and enables the configuration of the destination to be adjusted based on the stored configuration during a restore.
US11307904B2	Configurable peripherals A system-on-chip (SOC), includes a memory, a partition access module coupled to the memory, a partition requesting unit coupled to the partition access module, and a first input-output (IO) device coupled to the partition access module. The partition access module creates a first partition of the SOC. The first partition includes a first portion of a first processor, the first IO device, and a first portion of the memory. Based upon a partition request, the partition access module repartitions the SOC to create a dynamic partition. The dynamic partition includes the first portion of the first processor, the first input-output (IO) device, the first portion of the memory, and a second IO device not included in the first partition.
US11307902B1	Preventing deployment failures of information technology workloads A method for orchestrating a provisioning of a computer workload includes determining characteristics of a computing pattern, determining health data of a computing environment based on the characteristics of the computing pattern, determining a confidence score based on the health data, and determining whether to proceed with provisioning the computer workload based on the confidence score.
US11307901B2	Auto-scaling for allocation of cloud service resources in application deployments Described embodiments provide systems and methods of allocating cloud resources for application deployments. A resource allocator may identify a first metric indicating usage of cloud resources by clients in a first release environment for an application update. The resource allocator may generate, using the first metric, a resource capacity model for predicting usage of the cloud resources by clients in a second release environment for the application update. The resource allocator may determine, using the resource capacity model, a metric predicting the usage of the cloud resources by the clients in the second release environment. The resource allocator may generate instructions to set an allocation of the cloud computing resources for performing deployment of the application update to the second release environment based on the second metric.
US11307900B2	Adjustment of the number of central processing units to meet performance requirements of an I/O resource A plurality of central processing units (CPUs) are allocated as a set of dedicated CPUs for processing tasks of an input/output (I/O) resource. In response to determining that a CPU utilization for the set of dedicated CPUs is less than a first predetermined threshold, at least one CPU of the set of dedicated CPUs is configured as a reserved CPU to execute tasks for one or more entities other than the I/O resource. In response to determining that a CPU utilization for the set of dedicated CPUs is greater than a second predetermined threshold, the reserved CPU is configured as a dedicated CPU to process tasks for the I/O resource.
US11307893B2	Pipelining for step input dataset and output dataset According to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, a computer program stored in a computer readable storage medium is disclosed. The computer program includes instructions which cause a processor to execute steps, the steps including: classifying a first group and a second group by executing static analysis to a code including plural steps stated in Job Control Language (JCL), the first group including one or more steps where pipelining is available, the second group including one or more steps where pipelining is unavailable; determining a sequential or parallel execution of the plural steps based on a classification result; and transferring an output data of a first step to an input stream of a second step based on an order of steps included in the first group when processing steps included in the first group among the plural steps.
US11307892B2	Machine-learning for state determination and prediction Without timely reminders, certain individuals may be highly unlikely to complete various tasks scheduled for completion. For example, medicinal therapy regimen patients often have difficulty in remembering to take their prescribed medications in accordance with care provider specified instructions. By providing a reminder prompt generation system that utilizes machine-learning and/or artificial intelligence to determine appropriate reminder times and modalities for providing automated-prompting notifications to users, the users' adherence to scheduled task completions can be significantly increased.
US11307880B2	Assisting users with personalized and contextual communication content In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a first user input by a first user at a client system associated with the first user, wherein the first user input is associated with a first language register, selecting a first language-register model from a plurality of language-register models based on the first language register by the client system, wherein the plurality of language-register models are each personalized with respect to the first user, and presenting a personalized first communication content generated based on the selected first language-register model at the client system.
US11307876B1	Automated remedial action to expose a missing target and/or anchor(s) for user interface automation Automatic anchor determination for target graphical element identification in user interface (UI) automation is disclosed. A context-based mechanism assists in discriminating between duplicate target UI element candidates. More specifically, additional anchors may be determined and automatically added for a target UI element that provide context and are visible in an area surrounding the target. During design time, a target UI element may be indicated by a user of a designer application and a corresponding anchor may be determined. When a pair of UI elements is found having the same or similar characteristics and/or relationships to the target-anchor pair, an additional anchor is automatically identified without requesting user input. The additional anchor may be selected from the UI elements within a radius of the target UI element.
US11307870B2	Wearable device and method of controlling the same A wearable device includes first and second electronic modules, a connection module configured to electrically connect the first electronic module to the second electronic module, and a length adjusting module of which length is adjustable to bring the connection module in contact with a user. The length adjusting module comprises first and second fastening units configured to be assembled and disassembled and configured to be locked together in a fastened position when assembled. When the first and second fastening units are assembled, the first fastening unit is electrically connected to the second fastening unit and a length of the length adjusting module is adjusted.
US11307868B2	Techniques for switching between operating systems Various embodiments are generally directed to an apparatus, method and other techniques for receiving information to invoke a transition from a first operating system to a second operating system, copying a system context for the second operating system from a location of a non-volatile memory to a volatile memory, the location associated with the second operating system and transitioning from the first operating system to the second operating system using the system context for the second operating system.
US11307860B1	Iterating group sum of multiple accumulate operations Methods, systems and apparatuses for performing walk operations of single instruction, multiple data (SIMD) instructions are disclosed. One method includes initiating, by a scheduler, a SIMD thread, where the scheduler is operative to schedule the SIMD thread. The method further includes fetching a plurality of instructions for the SIMD thread. The method further includes determining, by a thread arbiter, at least one instruction that is a walk instruction, where the walk instruction iterates a block of instructions for a subset of channels of the SIMD thread, where the walk instruction includes a walk size, and where the walk size is a number of channels in the subset of channels of the SIMD thread that are processed in a walk iteration in association with the walk instruction. The method further includes executing the walk instruction based on the walk size.
US11307859B2	Probabilistic techniques for formatting digital components Methods, systems, and apparatus, including an apparatus for using probabilistic techniques to provide reformatted versions of digital components. In one aspect, a process includes obtaining data specifying a distribution parameter limit for a given reformattable digital component that is eligible for reformatting using a set of digital component extensions. For each of multiple digital component requests, a determination is made that a given digital component extension has an additional selection requirement that, when combined with a base selection requirement for the given reformattable digital component, would exceed the distribution parameter limit. A determination is made, using a probabilistic technique, a probability at which the given digital component extension will be selected for use in generating a reformatted version of the given reformattable digital component such that an aggregate selection requirement for distributing the given reformattable digital component in response to requests over time is within the distribution parameter limit.
US11307850B2	Efficient change analysis in poly-lingual corpus hierarchies Techniques to determine deltas of a target data structure against a source data structure. One technique includes obtaining directory level checksums and rolling checksums for a source set of code in a first data structure, obtaining directory level checksums and rolling checksums for a target set of code in a second data structure, comparing the directory level checksums and the rolling checksums obtained for the target set of code against the directory level checksums and the rolling checksums obtained for the source set of code, identifying a location of change data of the target set of code at directory level within the second data structure based on the comparison of the directory level checksums and the rolling checksums obtained for the target set of code against the directory level checksums and the rolling checksums obtained for the source set of code, and outputting the location of the change data.
US11307849B2	Method for creating hyperledger fabric network, controller and storage medium Embodiments of the present disclosure relates to the field of block chain technology, and provides a method for creating a Hyperledger Fabric network, a controller and a storage medium. The method may include: acquiring a configuration file required to create a Hyperledger Fabric network in a Kubernetes cluster; and creating the Hyperledger Fabric network in the Kubernetes cluster according to the configuration file and a preset state machine. Embodiments of the present disclosure are applicable to the procedure of creating the Hyperledger Fabric network.
US11307848B2	System for electronic integration and deployment of computer code in a code development network A system provides electronic integration and deployment of computer code in a code development network. The system may comprise a multilayered distributed ledger structure and may perform real-time source code conflict checks by combining the latest nonce from a primary distributed ledger with the genesis block of a working distributed ledger into a hash algorithm. Depending on whether the output of said hash algorithm satisfies the cryptographic challenge set by the distributed ledger system, the system may be able to detect mismatches between the source code found in a working distributed ledger and the source code found in the primary distributed ledger. Furthermore, the system may include production systems as nodes of the primary distributed ledger such that the production systems may maintain updated copies of the source code throughout the software development process.
US11307840B2	Software version determinations based on release notes and support file Example implementations relate to software versions for a software-upgradeable device, such as a networking device. In an example, a software version and release notes of the software version are registered into a knowledge base. A support file is received from the software-upgradable device. Based on the release notes and the support file, a determination is made as to whether the software version is beneficial to the software-upgradable device.
US11307835B2	Method for controlling the flow execution of a generated script of a blockchain transaction The invention provides a computer-implemented method (and corresponding system) for generating a blockchain transaction (Tx). This may be a transaction for the Bitcoin blockchain or another blockchain protocol. The method comprises the step of using a software resource to receive, generate or otherwise derive at least one data item; and then insert, at least once, at least one portion of code into a script associated the transaction. Upon execution of the script, the portion of code provides the functionality of a control flow mechanism, the behaviour of the control flow mechanism being controlled or influenced by the at least one data item. In one embodiment, the code is copied/inserted into the script more than once. The control flow mechanism can be a loop, such as a while or for loop, or a selection control mechanism such as a switch statement. Thus, the invention allows the generation of a more complex blockchain script and controls how the script will execute when implemented on the blockchain. This, in turns provides control over how or when the output of the blockchain transaction is unlocked.
US11307831B2	Neural code completion via re-ranking A code completion system uses neural components to rank the unordered list of code completion candidates generated from an existing static analyzer. The candidates represent the next sequence of tokens likely to complete a partially-formed program element as a developer is typing in a software development tool. A re-ranking component generates a ranked order of the candidates based on a context embedding of the code context and candidate embeddings of the candidates, where both embeddings are based a common token encoding.
US11307829B2	Programming assistance device, programming assistance method, and computer-readable recording medium In the present invention, a map information table is displayed as a list on a display screen. The map information table associates a reference name field representing each of the plurality of device ports with a set value field for each device port. It is determined whether a set value has been written on the set value field for each of the device ports regarding a first program in a first programming language. Writing of a set value on the set value field is prohibited regarding a second program in a second programming language, which is different from the first programming language, for a device port for which it is determined that a set value has been written on the set value field regarding a first program in the first programming language.
US11307818B2	System and method for reprintable items A printing system may generate custom user designs for printing. The designs may be associated with a selected print medium. The printing system may generate a custom template for a secondary printing on the print medium. The custom template may define print areas based on the print medium and the custom user design.
US11307814B2	Portable terminal device and non-transitory computer readable medium storing program A portable terminal device includes a determination section that determines whether or not a notification of designation information for designating print data is required, in accordance with a determination criterion relating to a printing desire of a user to output the print data by printing, and a notification section that notifies the user of the designation information of the print data, of which a notification is determined to be required.
US11307800B2	Supporting file exclusions and commits in disk-based write filters A disk-based write filter can include a filter driver that is loaded below the file system driver to thereby provide write filter functionality at the disk level, and a supporting driver that is loaded above the file system driver. When an excluded file is opened, the supporting driver can obtain the file's disk sector information and provide it to the filter driver to cause the filter driver to pass through I/O requests that target sectors defined in the file's disk sector information. When the excluded file is closed, the supporting driver can again obtain the file's disk sector information and provide it to the filter driver to allow the filter driver to identify any additional sectors that may have been allocated to the file. The filter driver can copy any such sectors from an overlay to disk and commence passing through I/O requests that target these sectors.
US11307797B2	Storage device and information processing system According to one embodiment, a storage device is accessible by an external device via an interface and includes a nonvolatile memory including one or more blocks, and a controller electrically connected to the nonvolatile memory. The controller receives from the external device a request and a notification indicating that a response performance of the request is to be lowered. In response to receiving the request and notification, the controller determines a response time longer than a processing time of the request, and executes a first performance lowering process that executes a block managing process of the nonvolatile memory by using an idle time which is a difference between the response time and the processing time of the request or executes a second performance lowering process that lowers the response performance so as to process the request by spending the response time.
US11307794B2	Memory system, memory controller, and operation method of memory system Memory systems, memory controllers, and operation methods of the memory systems are disclosed. In one example aspect, the memory system may suspend a target operation, such as a program operation or an erase operation, based on whether or not to execute a first operation of resetting a reference read bias when a failure occurs in a read operation executed after the target operation is suspended, and a number of times the target operation is suspended. In this way, the memory system may reduce a delay associated with the suspension of program operations and erasure operations.
US11307790B2	Method, device, and computer program product for managing data placement The present disclosure relates to a method, device and computer program product for managing data placement. In the method for managing data placement, in response to receiving a backup request for backing up raw data, the raw data is stored in a first storage system so as to form a raw copy. Metadata corresponding to the raw data is obtained, the metadata comprising abstract information of the raw data. The metadata is stored in a blockchain system in a second storage system so as to form a metadata copy, the first storage system and the second storage system being independent storage systems provided by a first vendor and a second vendor respectively. The raw data is managed by using the raw copy and the metadata copy. In the present disclosure, the raw copy and the metadata copy are stored to different storage systems, so that it may be judged whether a copy has been tampered with, and further higher security may be provided.
US11307788B2	Sampling fingerprints in bins In some examples, a system associates a plurality of buffers in a memory with respective multiple bins of a fingerprint index in persistent storage. The system computes fingerprints for incoming data units, and selects, based on an adaptive sampling indication, a subset of the fingerprints. The system adds fingerprint index entries corresponding to the selected subset of the fingerprints to a respective subset of the multiple bins, wherein adding a fingerprint index entry to a bin of the respective subset of the multiple bins comprises adding the fingerprint index entry to the buffer of the bin.
US11307785B2	System and method for determining available post-package repair resources A dual in-line memory module (DIMM) includes a memory storage device having data rows and redundant rows. The DIMM further includes a post-package repair module configured to remap an address within the DIMM physical address space from a data row to a redundant row. A memory controller is configured to determine an exact number of un-remapped redundant rows.
US11307781B2	Managing replicas of content in storage systems Replicas of content can be managed in storage systems. In one example, a storage system can determine an amount of load on the storage system based on values for performance metrics indicating a performance of the storage system. Next, the storage system can determine that the storage system is to have a target number of replicas of content based on the amount of load on the storage system. The storage system can then adjust itself to have the target number of replicas of the content.
US11307778B2	Power management for solid state drives in a network In one embodiment, a network of SSDs includes a switch with a plurality of powered ports configured to be communicatively coupled to a controller and a host client and a plurality of SSDs configured to be communicatively coupled to the plurality of powered ports. The switch is configured to deliver up to a predefined power level to each of the plurality of SSDs via the plurality of powered port. Each of the plurality of SSDs consumes power. The controller is configured to manage the predefined power level for each of the plurality of SSDs by identifying the power consumed by each of the plurality of SSDs and allocating a new power level to each of the plurality of SSDs based on the power consumed by each of the plurality of SSD. In one embodiment, the switch and the plurality of SSDs are configured to occupy a server rack space.
US11307777B2	Memory system and operating method thereof Embodiments of the disclosure relate to a memory system and an operating method thereof. The memory system may decrypt first firmware which is stored in the memory device and is encrypted using a symmetric-key encryption algorithm, with a first key stored in the memory device, may generate a second key based on second firmware, which is obtained by decrypting the first firmware, first data stored in a first area in the memory controller, and second data stored in a second area in the memory device, and may drive the second firmware when the first key and the second key are the same.
US11307764B2	Contextually inferred talking points for improved communication Generating talking points on behalf of a user and providing the talking points to the user is provided. Talking points can help users to quickly and easily start a personalized conversation that enables participants of the conversation to make a connection, thus eliciting better communication and collaboration. Talking points can be generated based on commitments or requests identified in a previous conversation, anomalies or patterns identified in context data, or information items of interest collected from various data sources. One or more top-ranking talking points are surfaced to the user to help the user start a new conversation or to continue a previous conversation.
US11307760B2	Terminal interface display method and terminal This application provides a terminal interface display method and a terminal. A specific solution includes: determining, by a terminal, a frequently used touch area on a first side of the terminal in response to a first gesture input by a user on a first interface, where the first gesture is a gesture input by a finger on a first side of the user, the frequently used touch area is a touch area that is on a terminal interface and that has undergone user operation whose frequency or quantity of times is greater than a first threshold, and the first interface includes at least two application icons; and displaying, by the terminal, at least one frequently used application icon of the at least two application icons in the frequently used touch area on the first side.
US11307746B2	Image manipulation A method includes displaying an image on a first area of a touch-sensitive electronic display and receiving touch input on a second area of the display, comprising the first area. A gesture type is detected from the touch input by detecting a larger component of motion of the touch input along one of first and second axes of the display than along the other of the axes. Detecting a second gesture type comprises detecting a larger component of motion of the touch input along the other of the axes than along the one of the axes. If the gesture type is the first gesture type, a display characteristic of the image is adjusted, during displaying the image. If the gesture type is the second gesture type, the display ceases to display the image and displays a further image. A computing system is provided.
US11307742B2	Interactive personalized graphical feedback overlay Provided herein are systems, methods and computer readable media for providing an interface configured to provide a consumer with a number of promotions. In providing such functionality, the system can be configured to, for example, monitor and detect a consumer's selection of a preferred promotion. Upon determining the selection of a preferred promotion, a interactive feedback overlay may be configured to provide an indication acknowledging the consumer's selection of the preferred promotion. In some embodiments, the system may be configured to receive an indication corresponding to a user's desire to remove a particular promotion from a promotional interface.
US11307738B2	Method and system for navigating through an application in a user device Disclosed herein is method and application navigation system for navigating through an application. The method includes detecting at least one of an operating hand of a user holding a user device and a number of touch points on one or more screens of the application. The application includes a plurality of menu options on each of one or more screens. Thereafter, the method includes selecting a menu option, from the plurality of menu options on one or more screens. The selected menu option corresponds to detecting at least one of the operating hand of the user and the number of touch points on one or more screens. Once the menu option is selected, one or more menu options associated with each selected menu option is provided on a screen subsequent to one or more screens thereby navigating through the application.
US11307737B2	Media browsing user interface with intelligently selected representative media items The present disclosure generally relates to navigating a collection of media items. In accordance with one embodiment, a device displays a plurality of content items in a first layout, including a first content item at a first aspect ratio and a first size, a second content item, and a third content item. While displaying the plurality of content items in the first layout, the device detects a user input that includes a gesture, wherein the user input corresponds to a request to change a size of the first content item. In response to detecting the user input, and as the gesture progresses, the device changes the size of the first content item from the first size to a second size while concurrently gradually changing an aspect ratio of the first content item from the first aspect ratio to a second aspect ratio.
US11307732B1	Integrated method and system for creation of a diagram compilation book and exporting the book for use as content in a visual presentation tool A system and method for providing integrated play diagram compilation visualization and assembly that includes a visual graphic diagramming tool having a visual workspace for creating play diagrams and an add-on play diagram compilation tool that provides a graphical user interface in combination with the visual workspace of the visual graphic diagramming tool.
US11307731B2	Computer implemented platform, software, and method for drawing using augmented reality A computer-implemented method of the present invention allows the user to draw images using augmented reality. The method is implemented by a processor executing a marker-less tracking algorithm stored in a memory of a mobile computing device. The method comprises detecting, by a page detector, an image of a drawing area; initializing a marker-less tracker, wherein said initializing comprises (a) capturing, via the page detector, a frame of the drawing area, (b) displaying, via a graphical user interface (GUI) of the mobile computing device, the frame of the drawing area, and (c) uniformly distributing on the GUI a template patch over the frame of the drawing area, and wherein the template patch is a fragment of texture of a template image used for surface tracking. The method further comprises executing a template patch tracking, wherein a perspective transformation of the template image to the frame as a current image is evaluated in video streaming on the GUI of the mobile computing device.
US11307729B2	Information processing system, information processing apparatus, and method of processing information An information processing system includes a device, and a server. The server includes circuitry configured to receive, in a case of changing one application, a designation of association between a first parameter before changing the one application and a second parameter after changing the one application for the device; and in response to receiving the designation of the association, set a setting value of the first parameter for each user to a setting value of the second parameter associated with the first parameter.
US11307727B2	Touch control display panel, touch control display apparatus, touch substrate, and method of fabricating touch control display panel A touch control display panel is provided. The touch control display panel includes a base substrate; and a black matrix layer on the base substrate and in an inter-subpixel region of the touch control display panel. The black matrix layer includes a non-sensing portion, and a plurality of sensing portions spaced apart from the non-sensing portion. The touch control display panel further includes a first electrode layer including a plurality of first electrode blocks respectively between the plurality of sensing portions and the base substrate; and a second electrode layer including a plurality of second electrode blocks respectively on a side of the plurality of sensing portions away from the first electrode layer. A respective one of the plurality of sensing portions is configured to undergo a restorable change in electrical resistivity in response to a pressure from a touch.
US11307723B2	Touch panel A touch panel is provided. the touch panel includes a substrate, a sensing electrode, and a driving electrode. The sensing electrode and the driving electrode are disposed on the substrate insulated from each other. The sensing electrode includes a plurality of sensing sub-electrodes electrically connected to each other. The driving electrode includes a plurality of driving sub-electrodes electrically connected to each other. A length of each sensing sub-electrode is less than 500 μm. A length of each driving sub-electrode is less than 500 μm.
US11307711B2	Nyquist signal to noise reduction A method for avoiding noise in a display involves scanning a display at a sampling rate that is less than the Nyquist level sampling. After scanning the signals received at less than the Nyquist level, the measured signals are processed in order to determine where noise may be present. Subsequently, future scans are performed at a Fast Fourier Transform is performed on the results. This is used to determine at which frequencies there is noise. Subsequent scans can be taken to determine touch events that avoid locations where noise is present.
US11307709B2	Touch driving circuit and touch display device for reducing noise of touch sensing signal according to display driving The present disclosure of the disclosure are related to a touch driving circuit and a touch display device, in a touch sensor structure performing a touch sensing based on a mutual-capacitance, as performing a touch sensing based on a self-capacitance and a touch sensing based on the mutual-capacitance, a performance of a touch sensing may be improved. Furthermore, as driving channels of X-touch electrode line of Y-touch electrode line partially in a period performing a touch sensing based on the self-capacitance, the number of channels driven in each period is reduced and a noise according to a display driving may be reduced when performing a touch sensing based on the self-capacitance.
US11307708B2	Touch sensing system and display system including the same A touch sensing system is provided. The touch sensing system includes a touch panel including touch sensors arranged in a grid along row and column directions; a touch controller including at least one transmission circuit to transmit a signal to the touch sensors and at least one reception circuit to detect a signal from the touch sensors; and a switching circuit to selectively connect each of the touch sensors to the at least one transmission circuit and the at least one reception circuit in accordance with an operation mode. The switching circuit connects each of the touch sensors to the at least one reception circuit in a touch mode and connects a first portion of the touch sensors to the at least one reception circuit and a second portion of the touch sensors to the at least one transmission circuit in a proximity mode.
US11307698B2	Touch display device, driving circuit and driving method thereof Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to touch display devices, driving circuits, and driving methods, and more specifically, to a touch display device, a driving circuit, and a driving method for enabling the functionality of a micro control unit to be minimized and power consumption to be reduced by allowing one or more combined integrated circuits to generate a touch sensing control signal and provide the generated signal to a plurality of combined integrated circuits. Further, according to embodiments of the present disclosure, touch display devices, driving circuits, and driving methods are provided for enabling power consumption of a touch power integrated circuit to be reduced by using a touch sensing control signal generated by one or more combined integrated circuits as a load-free driving signal.
US11307694B2	Display device According to one embodiment, a display device includes a display portion including a first electrode, a second electrode, first pixel electrodes overlapping the first electrode, and second pixel electrodes overlapping the second electrode, first wiring lines connected to the first electrode, second wiring lines connected to the second electrode, and a control unit electrically connected to the first wiring lines and the second wiring lines. The display portion has a first end portion farthest from the control unit and a second end portion nearest to the control unit. The first electrode is adjacent to the first end portion. The second electrode is adjacent to the second end portion. The number of first wiring lines is a same as the number of second wiring lines.
US11307681B2	Fingerprint sensing system and method for providing user input on an electronic device using a fingerprint sensor A method for providing user input on an electronic device comprising a fingerprint sensor comprising an array of sensing elements. Acquiring partial fingerprint images of a finger touching a finger touch surface of the fingerprint sensor from at least two sub-groups of sensing element. Determining a respective force value indicative of a force applied on the finger touch surface at each of the sub-groups of sensing elements when the partial fingerprints were acquired, based on the partial fingerprint images acquired from the respective sub-group of sensing elements. Determining a force value difference between a pair of the determined force values. Determining a user input based on the determined force value difference, and based on the relative location between the sub-groups of sensing elements in the pair associated with the force value difference.
US11307680B2	Computer mouse adapter and associated methods The computer mouse adaptor holds a computer mouse thereon. The computer mouse includes an optical system to detect relative movement over a surface. The computer mouse adaptor includes a base to hold the computer mouse thereon. The base includes an optical device to interface with the optical system of the computer mouse and allow the computer mouse to provide its functionality while being held by the base. A charging system may be included to couple the charging interface of the computer mouse to a power source.
US11307675B2	Button configuration and function learning A keypad capable of being configured with multiple button configurations with buttons of various heights is configured to recognize the button configuration through actuations of the buttons. The keypad is placed in a configuration mode by inputting an unresolvable condition to the keypad. Once in the configuration mode, the buttons are individually actuated in a predefined order to configure the size and function of each button.
US11307665B2	Wink gesture based control system A wink gesture based control technique for entering text, selecting, controlling and manipulating virtual objects and smart applications on a display using facial gestures of the user, in particular winking, blinking and squinting movements of the eyes. The wink gesture based control technique utilizes wink gestures of a user to select, control, and manipulate virtual objects on a display. A head mounted device is adapted to allow detection and classification of specific wink gestures. The head mounted device in some embodiments may also be adapted to recognize certain characteristics of the wink gestures, such as duration or amplitude, to allow enhanced navigation of a computer interface.
US11307654B1	Ambient light eye illumination for eye-tracking in near-eye display Techniques disclosed herein relate to eye illumination for eye tracking in a near-eye display system. One example of an eye illumination system includes a substrate transparent to visible light and infrared light and configured to be placed in front of an eye of a user, and a shortwave-pass filter on a first surface of the substrate. The shortwave-pass filter includes regions configured to transmit visible light and reflect infrared light in ambient light, and a plurality of windows configured to transmit both visible light and infrared light in the ambient light.
US11307653B1	User input and interface design in augmented reality for use in surgical settings Various embodiments of an apparatus, methods, systems and computer program products described herein are directed to an Interaction Engine. According to various embodiments, the Interaction Engine generates within a unified three-dimensional (3D) coordinate space: (i) a virtual 3D model container; (ii) a virtual 3D medical model positioned according to a model pose within the virtual 3D model container; and (iii) a virtual 3D representation of at least a portion of at least one of a user's hands. The Interaction Engine renders an Augmented Reality (AR) display that includes concurrent display of the virtual 3D medical model container, the virtual 3D medical model and the virtual 3D representation of the user's hands. The Interaction Engine detects one or more physical gestures associated with the user and one or more types of virtual interacts associated with a detected physical gesture(s).
US11307651B2	Immersion control system for extended reality systems Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, assembling an extended reality (XR) immersive experience for a user, determining a user experience level for the user, adjusting an immersion detail level for the XR immersive experience according to the user experience level, and communicating data defining the XR immersive experience to XR equipment of the user. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11307634B1	Maintaining historical power level metadata for dynamic voltage and frequency scaling of processor instructions Maintaining historical power level metadata for dynamic voltage and frequency scaling of processor instructions is disclosed. A power predictor receives, from a power controller that controls voltage and/or frequency of a processor core of a processor device, a processor core power quantifier that corresponds to a voltage or frequency of the processor core while executing a processor instruction. The power predictor, based on the processor core power quantifier, stores an instruction power level in association with the processor instruction. The power predictor subsequently determines that the processor instruction is to be executed by the processor core at a future point in time. The power predictor accesses the instruction power level previously stored in association with the processor instruction. The power predictor, prior to the processor instruction being executed by the processor core, communicates to the power controller a proposed power level based on the instruction power level.
US11307631B2	Dynamic voltage frequency scaling based on active memory barriers A processing unit includes compute units partitioned into one or islands that are provided with operating voltages and clock signals having clock frequencies independent of providing operating voltages or clock signals to other islands of compute units. The processing unit also includes dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS) hardware configured to compute one or more numbers of active memory barriers in the one or more islands. The DVFS hardware is also configured to modify the operating voltages or clock frequencies provided to the one or more islands in response to a change in numbers of active memory barriers in the one or more islands. In some cases, the operating voltage or clock frequency provided to an island is increased in response to the number of active memory barriers in the island decreasing. The operating voltage or clock frequency provided to the island is decreased in response to the number of active memory barriers in the island increasing.
US11307628B2	Multi-level CPU high current protection Methods and apparatus relating to multi-level CPU (Central Processing Unit) high current protection are described. In one embodiment, different workloads may be assigned different license types and/or weights based on micro-architectural events (such as uop (micro-operation) types and sizes) and/or data types. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.
US11307623B2	System, controller, and method for operating system to determine amount of current for multiple power domain modules Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a system, a controller, and a method for operating the same. The amount of current that each of multiple power domain modules can use may be determined, and information regarding the amount of usable current may be indicated to each power domain module, thereby controlling the total sum of peak power used by the multiple power domain modules at a specific timepoint to be equal to or lower than a configured value.
US11307596B2	Reconfigurable autonomous ground service vehicles and control system A ground service vehicle system employs autonomous vehicles that can be reconfigured with interchangeable service modules to provide different services. The autonomous service vehicles can be remotely controlled and dispatched in swarms to provide different services at a location.
US11307592B2	Management system of work site and management method of work site A management system of a work site includes a guidance unit which outputs, to a manned vehicle of a work site, guidance data for guiding the manned vehicle to an unmanned vehicle stopped due to occurrence of an abnormality at the work site.
US11307586B2	Offroad travel assistance system for a vehicle An offroad travel assistance system for a user vehicle includes one or more processors and a memory communicably coupled to the one or more processors and storing a user vehicle configuration evaluation module including computer-readable instructions that when executed by the one or more processors cause the one or more processors to determine if user vehicle configuration information describing the user vehicle is consistent with ride information similar to the user vehicle configuration information and describing a traversal of an offroad trail by a reference vehicle and, responsive to a determination that the user vehicle configuration information is not consistent with the ride information, autonomously control at least one portion of the user vehicle so as to prevent operation of the user vehicle to traverse the offroad trail.
US11307585B2	Introspective competence modeling for AV decision making A first method includes detecting, based on sensor data, an environment state; selecting an action based on the environment state; determining an autonomy level associated with the environment state and the action; and performing the action according to the autonomy level. The autonomy level can be selected based at least on an autonomy model and a feedback model. A second method includes calculating, by solving an extended Stochastic Shortest Path (SSP) problem, a policy for solving a task. The policy can map environment states and autonomy levels to actions and autonomy levels. Calculating the policy can include generating plans that operate across multiple levels of autonomy.
US11307568B2	Estimating the remaining useful life for cooling fans based on a wear-out index analysis The disclosed embodiments provide a system that estimates a remaining useful life (RUL) for a fan. During operation, the system receives telemetry data associated with the fan during operation of the critical asset, wherein the telemetry data includes a fan-speed signal. Next, the system uses the telemetry data to construct a historical fan-speed profile, which indicates a cumulative time that the fan has operated in specific ranges of fan speeds. The system then computes an RUL for the fan based on the historical fan-speed profile and empirical time-to-failure (TTF) data, which indicates a TTF for the same type of fan as a function of fan speed. Finally, when the RUL falls below a threshold, the system generates a notification indicating that the fan needs to be replaced.
US11307551B1	Methods, systems and computer program products for generating implementable sequential function charts codes for process control systems The invention provides, methods, systems and computer program products that enable generation of executable sequential function charts, for subsequent retrieval and implementation by a process control system. In an embodiment, generating an executable sequential function chart comprises (i) receiving equipment selection data representing a selected equipment for implementing operating functions within a sequence flow, (ii) receiving operation data representing a set of operating functions intended to be implemented by the selected equipment, (iii) assigning values to one or more configuration parameters, (iv) receiving control statement data representing a set of control statements intended to be implemented for process flow control during implementation of the set of operating functions, (v) assigning values to one or more control statement configuration parameters, and generating machine readable SEBOL program code for implementing the set of operating functions.
US11307550B2	Sequence control of program modules A method for sequence control of program modules, includes providing a control means and a description file having a configuration for controlling a program sequence. The method further includes providing a plurality of program modules which can be executed by a real-time operating system, the program modules being created using one or different programming languages. The method furthermore includes initiating selected program modules by executing specifications in the description file using the control means.
US11307549B2	Distributed control system A system includes a plurality of control devices that respectively control the states of a plurality of apparatuses and are connected to each other via communication lines. When each of the control devices determines a state target value of its own apparatus using the current state indicator value of the own apparatus, and the distributed controller input which is a function of the state indicator value of an apparatus adjacent to the own apparatus and the state indicator value of the own apparatus, the control gain which adjusts contribution of the distributed controller input to the state target value is determined based on a communication delay time between the control devices.
US11307544B2	Autonomous L1-adaptive controller with exact pole placement Embodiments relate to a predictor device for controlling at least one actuating variable of a plant having at least one actuator, which can be controlled by the actuating variable, and a state with at least one controlled variable that can be detected by a sensor. The predictor has an adaptation device and an L1-adaptive control apparatus. The predictor has a state modelling device for estimating a behavior of the plant and outputs an estimated state with at least one estimated variable. The embodiments relate to an aircraft with such a control device for flight control. The embodiments also relate to an L1-adaptive control method using an L1-adaptive control apparatus, an adaptation device generating a matched uncertainty signal and an unmatched uncertainty signal, and a predictor having a state modelling device. The embodiments relate to an aircraft with a control device for flight control, which executes such a method.
US11307541B2	Decision support method and apparatus for machinery control A decision support method for machinery control includes extracting entities and relations from information sources, and creating subject-predicate-object (SPO) triples. Each SPO triple includes a subject entity and an object entity, and a relation between the subject entity and the object entity. The method further includes constructing a knowledge graph (KG) based on the SPO triples. The KG includes a plurality of nodes corresponding to the entities, and a plurality of links corresponding to the relations between the entities. The method also includes predicting missing links between the nodes and adding the predicted links to the KG, and performing diagnostic and prognostic analysis using the KG, including analyzing plain text description of MCS situations to obtain relevant information concerning key components from the KG, recognizing sensor observations and component conditions to diagnose situations of other related components, and providing prognostics by analyzing the present trending/symptom in the MCS operating process.
US11307539B1	Method of extended state observer based fractional order controller design for integer high order systems A method and system for set point tracking control of an nth order integer control system. A first feedback compensated input signal is generated from an input signal, r(t), and a first negative feedback signal. A fractional order controller generates a set point modified signal from the first feedback compensated input signal. A second feedback compensated input signal is generated from the set point modified signal and a second negative feedback signal. A process variable is generated from the second feedback compensated input signal and applied to a non-linear plant which is affected by a disturbance which carries over into an output signal, y(t). An extended state observer receives the process variable and the output signal and generates the first second negative feedback and the second negative feedback signal to cancel the disturbance.
US11307534B2	Holographic projector There is provided a holographic projection system arranged to project light to a rectangular replay field. The holographic projection system comprises: a spatial light modulator, comprising an array of pixels, arranged to receive a computer-generated hologram and output spatially-modulated light forming a holographic reconstruction at the rectangular replay field, wherein each pixel is rectangular; and a light source arranged to illuminate the plurality of pixels to form the spatially-modulated light forming a holographic reconstruction at the replay field, wherein the rectangular replay field is spatially separated from the spatial light modulator and the aspect ratio of the rectangular replay field is substantially equal to the aspect ratio of each pixel but orthogonally orientated.
US11307532B2	Cartridge with a mechanism for transmitting a force to a developing roller of the cartridge A control member 76 for controlling transmission and blocking of a rotational force by a clutch is rotatably supported by a supporting member which supports a developing frame. a locking portion provided on the control member 76 rotates between a position retracted from a locked portion of the clutch and a position for engaging with the locked portion.
US11307531B2	Cartridge, process cartridge and electrophotographic image forming apparatus A process cartridge detachably mountable to an electrophotographic image forming apparatus including a main assembly side drive transmission member and a main assembly side urging member, the cartridge including a rotatable photosensitive drum; a rotatable developing roller for developing a latent image formed on the drum, the developing roller contactable to and spaceable from the drum; an urging force receiving portion for receiving an urging force from the urging member to space the roller from the drum; a cartridge side drive transmission portion capable of coupling with the main assembly side drive transmission member to receive a rotational force for rotating the roller; a releasing member capable of urging the main assembly side drive transmission member to decouple the cartridge side drive transmission member from the main assembly side drive transmission member by the urging force receiving portion receiving the urging force from the main assembly side urging member.
US11307527B2	Process cartridge having drum cartridge, toner cartridge and waste toner conveyor tube A process cartridge having a drum cartridge and a toner cartridge is provided. The drum cartridge includes a photosensitive drum, a cleaner, a conveyer tube, a developing roller, and a developing device. The toner cartridge is attachable to the drum cartridge and is located on a side of the developing roller opposite to the photosensitive drum in an attaching direction. The toner cartridge includes a waste toner container to store the toner conveyed through the conveyer tube and a toner container to store the toner to be supplied to the photosensitive drum. The toner container communicates with a developing chamber in the developing device and is located at least partly between the waste toner container and the developing chamber. The conveyer tube extends in the attaching direction and is arranged to overlap the photosensitive drum, the toner container, and the waste toner container in a view along an axial direction.
US11307524B2	Sheet feeding apparatus, and image forming apparatus A sheet feeding apparatus includes a sheet stacking portion on which a sheet is stacked, and a conveyance portion to convey the sheet stacked on the sheet stacking portion. The conveyance portion includes a roller to convey the sheet and a shaft supporting the roller. The roller includes an end surface formed on a downstream end side in a detaching direction which is a direction of detaching the roller, an extension portion extending downstream in the detaching direction beyond the end surface, an engage portion formed on the extension portion and engageable with the shaft, and a grip portion extending downstream in the detaching direction beyond the end surface and disposed outside, in a radial direction orthogonal to the axial direction, from the extension portion. The grip portion includes a hole portion penetrating through in the radial direction.
US11307504B2	Humidity control in EUV lithography A layer is formed over a wafer. The layer contains a material that is sensitive to an extreme ultraviolet (EUV) radiation. A first baking process is performed to the layer. The first baking process is performed with a first humidity level that is greater than about 44%. After the first baking process, the layer is exposed to EUV radiation. A second baking process is performed to the layer. The second baking process is performed with a second humidity level that is greater than about 44%. The layer is rinsed with a liquid that contains water before the second baking process or after the second baking process. After the exposing, the layer is developed with a developer solution that contains water.
US11307501B2	Extreme ultraviolet light generating apparatus, extreme ultraviolet light generating method, and electronic device manufacturing method An extreme ultraviolet light generating apparatus for generating extreme ultraviolet light in a chamber according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a piezoelectric element provided in the chamber; a pressure sensor configured to detect pressure in the chamber; a gas introducing unit configured to introduce gas into the chamber; an exhaust unit configured to exhaust the gas from the chamber; and a control unit configured to control application of a voltage to the piezoelectric element. The control unit is configured to determine whether or not to apply a voltage to the piezoelectric element based on information on the pressure in the chamber obtained by the pressure sensor.
US11307492B2	Method for forming photomask and photolithography method A method for forming a photomask is provided. The method includes forming a light blocking layer over a transparent substrate. The light blocking layer has a first portion, a second portion, and a connection portion. The method includes forming a mask layer over the first portion and the second portion of the light blocking layer. The method includes removing the connection portion. The method includes removing the mask layer. The second portion of the light blocking layer is removed during removing the mask layer, while the first portion remains. The method includes after removing the mask layer and the second portion, removing the third portion of the transparent substrate to form a first recess in the transparent substrate. The method includes forming a light blocking structure in the first recess.
US11307485B2	Switchable imager lens cover An imager module for a vehicle includes an imager having an imager lens. The imager is configured to collect image data from at least one of inside and outside the vehicle. A cover is disposed proximate the imager lens and configured to allow the imager to capture image data through the cover. The cover is operable between a first condition, wherein the imager is generally visible through the cover, and a second condition, wherein the imager is generally concealed from view by the cover.
US11307482B2	Dynamic privacy using a system integrated louver film structure A louver film display structure, including: a first and a second electrode; a plurality of louver structures extending between the first and the second electrodes light transmissive elements positioned between adjacent louver structures of the plurality of louver structures, wherein: when a first voltage level is applied to the first and the second electrodes, the louver structures provide a first viewing angle of each unit area of light of each light transmissive element based on a first state of the louver structures, and when a second voltage level is applied to the first and the second electrodes, the louver structures provide a second viewing angle of each unit area of light of each light transmissive element based on a second state of the louver structures, wherein the first voltage level is greater than the second voltage level and the second viewing angle is greater than the first viewing angle.
US11307481B2	Silicon-based optical modulator A silicon-based optical modulator. An optical modulator of a Mach-Zehnder type includes an optical coupler configured to separate a single optical signal into two optical signals having same output power, two phase shifters having a PN junction through which the two optical signals separated through the optical coupler pass respectively, a plurality of electrodes configured to apply an electrical signal to the two phase shifters, and two PN diodes disposed between the two phase shifters and configured to adjust an operating bandwidth of the optical modulator. The optical signals respectively passing through the two phase shifters have phases that change as a width of a depletion region changes based on a magnitude of a reverse voltage provided to the two phase shifters through the electrodes and a refractive index changes.
US11307478B2	Wavelength tunable optical filter, optical module, and electronic apparatus An optical filter includes a substrate, a first reflective film provided on the substrate, a second reflective film disposed to face the first reflective film, and a supporting portion provided on the substrate and supporting the second reflective film. The first reflective film is protected with a first protective film so as not to be exposed and the second reflective film is protected with a second protective film so as not to be exposed.
US11307471B2	Array substrate, manufacturing method thereof, and display An array substrate, a display, and a manufacturing method are provided. The array substrate is provided with a first notch on at least one of two sides in a width direction of the second fan-out line, wherein a portion of the insulating layer fills into the first notch in a direction towards the second fan-out line to form a recess part corresponding to the first notch, the recess part defining a groove. A protruding part is provided on at least one of two sides in a width direction of the first fan-out line, where a part of the protruding part fills into the groove in a direction towards the insulation layer to form a protrusion corresponding to the groove.
US11307467B2	Electrostatic discharge circuit and display panel An electrostatic discharge circuit and a display panel. The electrostatic discharge circuit includes a first conductive path and a second conductive path. An input end of the first conductive path is connected to a data signal of the display panel, and an output end is connected to a first power voltage for releasing positive charge accumulated in the display panel. An input end of the second conductive path is connected to the data signal of the display panel, and an output end is connected to a second power voltage for releasing negative charges accumulated in the display panel.
US11307465B2	Display device A display device includes a first substrate, first signal lines, and a first signal pad array. The first signal pads each includes a first pad portion connected to a corresponding first signal line, a second pad portion having a width larger than that of the first pad portion, and a third pad portion connecting the first pad portion with the second pad portion and having a width smaller than the width of the second pad portion. The first signal pads are disposed in a shape symmetrical with respect to an imaginary line. Each first signal pad has an angle between a direction in which the third pad portion is extended and a direction in which the second pad portion is extended. The angle of a first signal pad closer to the imaginary line is smaller than the angle of another first signal pad further away from the imaginary line.
US11307458B2	Display device A display device is provided, including two substrates and a liquid crystal layer. Each of the substrates has two opposite surfaces and two opposite sides. The liquid crystal layer is sandwiched between the two substrates. At least one of the two substrates has an inclined portion on at least one of the two opposite sides which is connected to one of the two opposite surfaces, and has an included angle greater than 90 degrees and less than 180 degrees in association with the connected surface.
US11307454B2	Electronic device An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a backlight module, a display panel, an adhesive layer, and a flexible circuit board. The display panel is disposed on the backlight module. The adhesive layer is disposed between the backlight module and the display panel. The adhesive layer includes an opening. The flexible circuit board is electrically connected to the display panel. The flexible circuit board overlaps the opening.
US11307450B2	Display panel having micro LEDs, and method for controlling display panel having micros LEDs Disclosed are a display panel, a method for controlling a display panel, and a display device. The display panel includes a light-emitting substrate and an optical modulation structure which are laminated; and the optical modulation structure supports a first state and a second state which are switchable. In the first state of the optical modulation structure, a first light-emitting unit forms an image at a first position. In the second state of the optical modulation structure, the first light-emitting unit forms an image at a second position. According to the present disclosure, with the optical modulation structure, each light-emitting unit is enabled to form two images at different positions in different states. In this way, the state of the optical modulation structure can be continuously switched without increasing the number of light-emitting units, thereby improving a display effect of the display panel.
US11307446B2	Display device having touch sensor and method of driving same A display device is disclosed that has a touch sensor, which includes a display panel, an integrated driving circuit, a common voltage ring line, and a common voltage feedback line. The integrated driving circuit outputs a touch driving signal and a display common voltage for respectively driving a touchscreen and the display panel. The integrated driving circuit outputs the display common voltage through a common voltage ring pad in a period in which the display panel is driven and outputs a load-free common voltage having a form different from that of the display common voltage through the common voltage ring pad in a period in which the touchscreen is driven.
US11307437B2	Method of designing and placing a lens within a spectacles frame Described herein are methods and systems for customizing and personalizing eyewear. The methods and system consider optimal parameters for each wearer's personal visual situation and configures frames around them.
US11307429B2	Single RGB combiner with large field of view An optical combiner includes an optical substrate. An in-coupler grating is positioned to receive an incident light with a FOV and couple a first portion of the incident light into a first propagation path within the optical substrate and a second portion of the incident light into a second propagation path within the optical substrate. The first light portion includes light of a first color, while the second light portion excludes light of the first color. The optical combiner includes fold gratings to expand the first light portion and second light portion and direct the expanded light towards an out-coupler grating, which couples the expanded light out of the optical substrate at multiple exit pupils.
US11307424B2	Virtual reality/augmented reality rapid deployment system A system includes a head-mounted virtual reality/augmented reality (VR/AR) display system, comprising a processor, wherein the processor is configured to display an image on a graphical display of the head-mounted VR/AR display system. The system further includes a scaffolding system comprising a headpiece configured to be worn by a user; wherein the headpiece comprises at least one fastener configured to fasten and unfasten the head-mounted VR/AR display system to the headpiece, and configured to fasten and unfasten a headgear to the headpiece.
US11307412B1	Audio visualizer eyewear device System, method, and non-transitory computer readable medium for presenting audio-based visual overlays on see-through optical assemblies. Overlays are presented by capturing, via a camera of an eyewear device, initial images of a scene, receiving an audio signal, modifying the initial images responsive to the audio signal to create overlay images, and displaying, via a see-through optical assembly of the eyewear device, the overlay images to a wearer of the eyewear device over the scene in a viewing area of the eyewear device.
US11307402B2	User wearable fluorescence enabled visualization system A user-wearable fluorescence based visualization system comprising a multi-light lamp assembly that provides for the selected output of light using multiple light emitting sources, wherein the outputted light may be tailored to generate response wavelength by the interaction of the emitted light and a tissue illuminated by the emitted light, through the process of fluorescence, and a viewing system that allows a practitioner view the fluorescent light generated by the tissue, and distinguish between healthy and diseased tissues.
US11307396B2	Virtual image display apparatus A virtual image display apparatus includes a display device (image forming unit), a first mirror member configured to reflect imaging light from the display device, a second mirror member configured to reflect imaging light reflected by the first mirror member, and a third mirror member of a transmissive type configured to reflect imaging light reflected by the second mirror member toward a position of an exit pupil. One of the first mirror member and the second mirror member is a refractive reflective optical member that includes a refractive member including a refractive surface, and a mirror surface formed at a non-refractive surface of the refractive member.
US11307390B2	Optical lens An optical lens includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens and a fifth lens arranged in order from a magnified side to a minified side. A sum of refractive powers of the first lens and the second lens is negative, and a sum of refractive powers of the third lens, the fourth lens and the fifth lens is positive. The first lens is a glass lens with a negative refractive power, the second lens is a plastic lens, and the third lens, the fourth lens and the fifth lens are composed of one glass lens with an Abbe number of larger than 60 and two plastic lenses.
US11307385B2	Optical imaging system, image capturing unit and electronic device An optical imaging system includes four lens elements which are, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element and a fourth lens element. Each of the four lens elements of the optical imaging system has an object-side surface facing toward the object side and an image-side surface facing toward the image side. The object-side surface of the first lens element is concave in a paraxial region thereof and has at least one convex shape in an off-axis region thereof. The object-side surface of the first lens element is aspheric. The image-side surface of the fourth lens element is concave in a paraxial region thereof. The optical imaging system has a total of four lens elements.
US11307375B2	Imaging lens set with plastic lens element, imaging lens module and electronic device An imaging lens set includes a plastic lens element. The plastic lens element having a central axis includes an object-side surface and an image-side surface, wherein the image-side surface is located opposite to the object-side surface. Each of the object-side surface and the image-side surface includes an effective optical section and a lens peripheral section in order from the central axis to an edge of the plastic lens element. The effective optical section is for being passed through by an imaging light and aspheric. The lens peripheral section surrounds the effective optical section. At least one of the lens peripheral section of the object-side surface and the lens peripheral section of the image-side surface includes at least one annular groove structure, wherein the annular groove structure includes a plurality of stepped surfaces and is not in contact with the optical elements.
US11307374B2	Lens device, imaging system, movable object, and control method A lens device includes a first lens system including a first lens, a second lens system including a second lens, a moving member configured to move in an optical axis direction of the first lens, and a physical structure configured to move the first lens in the optical axis direction and move the moving member in a direction opposite to a movement direction of a center of gravity of a physical system that includes the first lens.
US11307360B2	Dual interlocking shutter system for a fiber optic connector and adapter A fiber optic connector has a fiber optic connector shutter that rotates about a first axis and an adapter for the fiber optic connector also has an adapter shutter that rotates about a second axis in the adapter. When the fiber optic connector and the adapter are mated to one another, the axes for the fiber optic connector shutter and the adapter shutter are aligned and the fiber optic connector shutter and the adapter shutter rotate about a single axis. The fiber optic connector shutter and the adapter shutter include structure to maintain engagement during the mating and un-mating of the fiber optic connector and the adapter.
US11307359B2	Ingress protected, outdoor rated connector with integrated optical connector plug frame An outdoor rated ingress protected ruggedize connector with molded inner body configured with a plug frame to accept a ferrule. A ferrule assembly has a flange that accepts one or more alignment members formed as part of the inner body. The alignment members and align the ferrule assembly under the force of a bias spring supported by a spring push integrated into a back body.
US11307357B2	Overcoating slanted surface-relief structures using atomic layer deposition Techniques for overcoating slanted structures and devices obtained using the techniques are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method of forming an overcoat layer on a surface-relief structure on a substrate includes receiving the substrate with the surface-relief structure. The surface-relief structure includes a plurality of ridges slanted with respect to the substrate, and a plurality of grooves each between two adjacent ridges. The method further includes depositing, in each cycle of a plurality of cycles, a uniform layer of an overcoat material on surfaces of the plurality of ridges and bottoms of the plurality of grooves. The deposited layers of the overcoat material and the plurality of ridges collectively form a light-coupling structure on the substrate. A surface of the overcoat layer is planar.
US11307355B2	90-degree optical hybrid A 90-degree optical hybrid includes two optical splitters that respectively split inputted light into two beams, two optical combiners that respectively combine two beams of inputted light and thereby output two beams of interfering light respectively, and four arm waveguides that input light splitted by any of the two optical splitters into any of the two optical combiners. Each of the four arm waveguides has a bend waveguide arranged at its center and a plurality of optical waveguides including a tapered waveguide having a width that decreases toward the bend waveguide. Both ends of each of the plurality of optical waveguides are respectively in contact with a end surface of any one of the two optical splitter, the two optical combiners, the bend waveguide and the other of the plurality of optical waveguides, and each of the plurality of waveguides is the tapered waveguide or a linear waveguide.
US11307351B2	Apparatus and method for shaping optical waveform Provided are an optical waveform shaping apparatus and an optical waveform shaping method. According to an embodiment, the optical waveform shaping apparatus includes a multiplexer/demultiplexer (D/MUX) unit demultiplexing an optical signal in which optical signals of a plurality of wavelengths are multiplexed, a micro lens system refracting the demultiplexed optical signal into a collimated beam of light, and a wavelength level controller unit shaping a waveform of the optical signal. The wavelength level controller unit includes a 2D LCoS for adjusting and reflecting an amplitude or a phase value of the demultiplexed optical signal to have a distribution that is desired for each cell, and a controller for controlling the distribution.
US11307349B2	Backlight module and display module A backlight module and a display module are provided. The backlight module includes a back plate, a light guide plate, and a light source. The back plate includes a receiving cavity. One side of the back plate is formed with a through hole. The light guide plate is disposed in the receiving cavity. A light incident surface of the light guide plate corresponds to the through hole, the light source is disposed in the through hole, and the light source corresponds to the light incident surface of the light guide plate. By forming the through hole on one side of the back plate and providing the light source in the through hole, a side frame is not required to be provided, a thickness of a frame of the backlight module is reduced, and a narrow frame is realized.
US11307345B2	Superimposed diffraction gratings for eyepieces Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to techniques for manufacturing an eyepiece (or eyepiece layer) by applying multiple, different diffraction gratings to a single side of an eyepiece substrate instead of applying different gratings to different sides (e.g., opposite surfaces) of the substrate. Embodiments are also directed to the eyepiece (or eyepiece layer) that is arranged to have multiple, different diffraction gratings on a single side of the eyepiece substrate. In some embodiments, two or more grating patterns are superimposed to create a combination pattern in a template (e.g., a master), which is then used to apply the combination pattern to a single side of the eyepiece substrate. In some embodiments, multiple layers of patterned material (e.g., with differing refraction indices) are applied to a single side of the substrate. In some examples, the combined grating patterns are orthogonal pupil expander and exit pupil expander grating patterns.
US11307338B2	Polarizing plate for minimizing reflecting properties in organic light emitting device Provided are a polarizing plate and a display. The illustrative polarizing plate may exhibit desired characteristics in a wide range of wavelengths, and have excellent reflection and visibility at an inclined angle. For example, the polarizing plate may be used in a reflective or transflective liquid crystal display or an organic light emitting device.
US11307333B2	Asymmetric turning film with top-hat light output distributions An optical system including a light guide and a turning film that includes a first major surface, where the first major surface is substantially smooth and a second major surface including a plurality of asymmetric microstructures each respective asymmetric microstructure including a first side, where the first side is substantially planar, and a second side including a first surface segment defining a substantially planar surface and a second surface segment defining a non-planar surface.
US11307330B2	Variable focal length optical system A variable focal length optical system includes: an imaging lens configured to condense a parallel beam of light from an objective lens to form an intermediate image; a relay system including, in sequence from an object side, a first relay lens and a second relay lens and configured to relay the intermediate image to infinity; and a lens system of a liquid resonant type which is located between the first relay lens and the second relay lens. A front principal point of the lens system is located to be conjugated with an exit pupil of the objective lens and an expression, 1.90≤fTube/fR1≤2.15, is satisfied. In the expression, fTube denotes a focal length of the imaging lens and fR1 denote a focal length of the first relay lens.
US11307310B2	Methods for managing neighbor relations and coordinating physical cell identifiers for moving high altitude platform systems Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for managing neighbor relations and coordinating physical cell identifier (PCIs), for example, for moving high altitude platform systems are provided.
US11307307B2	Reflector matching algorithm based on triangle perimeter matching A reflector matching algorithm based on triangle perimeter matching includes recording the position information of known reflectors in a map one by one, generating a scene coordinate point layout, taking points of the recorded reflectors and freely combining basic triangles with all side lengths not exceeding twice of the maximum detection distance of a laser sensor; recording all the combined basic triangles, then recording the corresponding side lengths, the position of each vertex, and the perimeter of each basic triangle, and saving the records in an AGV; reading the angle and distance information of the reflectors and freely combining detection triangles for the detected reflectors; and respectively calculating the side lengths and perimeters of the detection triangles, and searching and pairing in the basic triangle combination to determine the real-time position of the laser sensor.
US11307298B2	Position, navigation, and timing (PNT) methods and systems The present disclosure relates to position, navigation and timing (PNT) methods, systems, and transmitters. A method comprises receiving radio-frequency (RF) signals from a plurality of virtual transmitters and determining PNT information of a target object based on information obtained from the RF signals. A system comprises a plurality of virtual transmitters and a receiver. The plurality of virtual transmitters is configured to transmit radio-frequency (RF) signals that include PNT information. The receiver is configured to determine PNT information of a target object based on the PNT information. A transmitter comprises a high-frequency (HF) carrier generator, a waveform generator, and an antenna system. The HF carrier generator generates an HF carrier signal. The waveform generator generates a waveform that includes PNT information. The antenna system transmits the HF carrier signal to generate a subject ionospheric duct. The antenna system is further configured to transmit the waveform through the ionospheric duct.
US11307294B2	Scanning assembly for a detection system A scanning assembly for a detection system for a vehicle has a scanning fixture including a first mirror. The scanning fixture is attached to a first pivot. A reflective surface of the first mirror provides a first field of view between the detection system and a surrounding environment. A central member has a first end attached to the first pivot and a second end attached to a second pivot to couple the first pivot to the second pivot. A base is configured to attach the scanning assembly to the vehicle. The base is further attached to the second pivot. The scanning fixture is coupled to the base exclusively through attachment of the first pivot to the second pivot via the central member, the second pivot in turn being attached to the base.
US11307286B1	Wireless fingerprint reconstruction for accurate location confirmation Disclosed are various embodiments for estimating missing wireless attributes of a wireless fingerprint generated for a given location and confirming that the given location is a correct location. A collection of wireless fingerprint samples for the given location can be used to train an attribute prediction model that can estimate missing attributes in wireless fingerprints. For example, a wireless fingerprint may be incomplete as the fingerprint may fail to include attribute data for some AP devices associated with the given location. The attribute prediction model can be used to reconstruct wireless fingerprints to include the missing attributes. The reconstructed wireless fingerprints can then be used to train a location confirmation model which can be used for accurate location confirmation.
US11307285B2	Apparatus, system and method for spatially locating sound sources An apparatus comprising at least one first microphone (10) which is movably arranged, at least one second stationary microphone (11) and at least one sensor (16) is described. The microphones can capture the sound waves emitted by acoustic sources, and the sensor can capture spatial coordinates of the first microphone. A corresponding method and a system having the apparatus mentioned are also described.
US11307280B2	Methods for correcting motion-encoding gradient nonlinearities in magnetic resonance elastography Described here are systems and methods for correcting motion-encoding gradient nonlinearities in magnetic resonance elastography (“MRE”). In general, the systems and methods described in the present disclosure compute gradient nonlinearity corrected displacement data based on information about the motion-encoding gradients used when acquiring magnetic resonance data.
US11307270B2	Spin valve with built-in electric field and spintronic device comprising the same Exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure provide a spin valve and a spintronic device comprising the same. The spin valve may comprise two or more magnetic layers stacked in sequence, wherein the spin valve further comprises at least one pair of nonmagnetic semiconductor layers arranged between any two adjacent magnetic layers among the two or more magnetic layers, wherein a built-in electric field is formed between the at least one pair of nonmagnetic semiconductor layers.
US11307264B2	Phase selection for traveling wave fault detection systems Phase selection for traveling wave fault detection systems is disclosed herein. Intelligent electronic devices (IEDs) may be used to monitor and protect electric power delivery systems by detecting and acting upon traveling waves. A phase of the electric power delivery system may be selected based on the relative polarity of the traveling waves detected. The amplitude and/or polarity of the selected phase may be compared with the amplitudes and/or polarities of the other phases to determine a fault condition. For instance, the IED may determine a single-phase-to-ground fault based on the relative polarities and magnitudes of the detected traveling waves, send a protective action to the identified faulted phase, and/or continue to monitor the system for a continuation of the event or identification of a different event, such as a three-phase fault, using incremental quantities.
US11307253B2	Self-test of an asynchronous circuit An indication of an operating mode of an asynchronous circuit may be received. A determination may be made as to whether the operating mode of the asynchronous circuit corresponds to a self-test of the asynchronous circuit. In response to determining that the operating mode of the asynchronous circuit corresponds to the self-test, a first clock signal may be provided to a first portion of a self-test component in a feedback path of the asynchronous circuit and a second clock signal may be provided to a second portion of the self-test component in the feedback path of the asynchronous circuit. Furthermore, a test value may be generated based on the first clock signal and the second clock signal.
US11307252B2	Perfect detection of concurrent faults in CMOS circuits by exploiting reversible and preservative gates A method of perfect detection of concurrent faults in CMOS circuits, using reversible gates and preservative gates is provided. The concurrent faults occurring in the CMOS circuits are detected without being masked by the method. The method includes the following steps: Carrying out functions using the reversible gates and the preservative gates, transforming the reversible gates and the preservative gates into CMOS circuit equivalents.
US11307250B2	Creating time-resolved emission images of integrated circuits using a single-point single-photon detector and a scanning system A Scanning Time-Resolved Emission (S-TRE) microscope or system includes an optical system configured to collect light from emissions of light generated by a device under test (DUT). A scanning system is configured to permit the emissions of light to be collected from positions across the DUT in accordance with a scan pattern. A timing photodetector is configured to detect a single photon or photons of the emissions of light from the particular positions across the DUT such that the emissions of light are correlated to the positions to create a time-dependent map of the emissions of light across the DUT. The scanning system is configured to update the time-dependent map of the emissions based on combinations of the emissions of light at certain locations.
US11307246B2	Probing apparatus and method of operating the same A probing apparatus includes a chuck supporting a DUT, and a platform with an opening above the chuck. The probing apparatus further includes first and second rails positioned at first and second sides of the platform, respectively. The probing apparatus further includes a probing device, the probing device includes a probing module slidably along the first and second rails, and a first motor system configured to automatically align a probe card with the DUT. The probing module includes a third rail with two ends slidably attached to the first and second rails, respectively, a probing stage slidably attached to the third rail, and the probe card attached to the probing stage. The first motor system includes a first motor configured to control movement of the probing stage along the third rail, and a second motor configured to control movement of the probing module along the first and second rails.
US11307245B2	Method for measuring an electric property of a test sample The method may be used for measuring an electric property of a magnetic tunnel junction used in an embedded MRAM memory for example. The method uses a multi point probe with a plurality of probe tips for contacting a designated area of the test sample, which is electrically insulated from the part of the test sample which is to be tested. Electrically connections are placed underneath the magnetic tunnel junction and goes to the designated area.
US11307244B2	Adaptive voltage scaling methods and systems therefor The present techniques disclose a logic gate for an adaptive voltage scaling monitor, the logic gate comprising an inverting output and further comprising an imbalance between the drive strength of an NMOS component and a PMOS component thereof, and wherein the imbalance is operable to cause a switching delay of the gate to be primarily dependent on one of the NMOS component or the PMOS component.
US11307241B2	Maintaining stable optical output of solid state illumination system A method is disclosed for maintaining a desired optical output in a solid state illumination device, where the device is configured to accommodate multiple light emitting diodes (LEDs) and to combine light from the LEDs to produce a single optical output. The method includes testing the LEDs before adding them into the device. The testing produces characterizing information that describes how one or more optical properties (e.g., optical power and/or peak wavelength) of the tested LED change with temperature. This characterizing information is stored in a computer-based memory of the device, and the tested LED is added (connected) into the device. Then, during operation, temperature sensors measure a temperature associated with each respective LED in the device, and electrical current to one or more of the LEDs can be adjusted based on the measured temperatures associated with each LED and its stored characterizing information.
US11307235B2	In-tool ESD events selective monitoring method and apparatus An embodiment of the invention provides an apparatus for detecting electrostatic discharges (ESD) events, comprising: an ESD detector configured to determine at least one process window that will permit the ESD detector to detect an ESD event; at least one antenna coupled to said ESD detector; and said ESD detector calibrated for at least one discharge energy. Another embodiment of the invention provides: a method for detecting electrostatic discharges (ESD) events, comprising: determining at least one process window that will permit an ESD detector to detect an ESD event; and calibrating the ESD detector for at least one discharge energy.
US11307230B2	System and method for providing the amplitude and phase delay of a sinusoidal signal Disclosed is a system and method that provide an amplitude value and a phase delay value which relate to a sinusoidal signal to be measured. For this purpose, phase values of a reference signal, at which the signal to be measured exceeds or falls below the reference signal, are collected and transmitted to a computation unit. The computation unit determines the amplitude and delay values from the collected phase values. The system can be implemented in a cost-effective manner, in particular using an ASIC circuit or an FPGA circuit.
US11307227B2	High speed digital transient waveform detection system and method for use in an intelligent electronic device A system and a method is provided for the detection and capture, and in particular for an ultra high speed detection and capture, of transients in input voltages by an intelligent electronic device. The system and method detects transients for input voltages in either phase to phase or phase to neutral measurements and permits a user to set threshold levels for detecting transients in input voltages. In an embodiment, the system and method further provides a field programmable gate array as a controller for managing transient detection. The field programmable gate array includes a state machine for determining the state of the sampled signal with respect to a threshold level at a specified waveform sample period.
US11307226B2	Method for monitoring electrical energy in traction power networks The present invention provides a method for monitoring electrical power in high-speed rail traction power supply networks/systems, comprising: collecting voltage and current analog signals from a traction power supply system, and converting the voltage and current analog signals into voltage and current digital signals; obtaining, by a processing unit, digital signals and transfer commands; compressing, by the processing unit, the digital signals according to the transfer commands to digital signal frames; and constructing a data link between the processing unit and a storage unit and transmitting the compressed digital signal frame to the storage unit. The processing unit may use run-length coding algorithm to compress the digital signal to be stored to obtain several compressed digital signal frames. Under different conditions of data link, transmission of compressed digital signal frames is adjustable to improve the reliability of digital signal transmission.
US11307206B2	Functionalized metal-labeled beads for mass cytometry Beads for use as a control, calibration and/or quantification probe in a mass cytometry assay, wherein the beads are labeled with a heavy metal selected from the group comprising osmium or ruthenium. Also disclosed are beads labeled with a heavy metal exhibiting a surface functionalization that allows for the binding of an affinity reagent, such as a metal-conjugated antibody. Methods are described for the labeling of the beads and usage of the beads for quantification of cell surface receptors or for a compensation of channel crosstalk in mass cytometry assays.
US11307202B1	Antibody binding detection method for detecting MERS-CoV A method for detecting MERS-CoV at high sensitivity and specificity using IgY antibodies that bind to MERS-CoV N protein, its fragments and domains. Isolated or purified IgY monospecific antibodies to MERS-CoV N protein.
US11307183B2	Methods for determination of polar pesticides by chromatography The disclosure relates to a reversed-phase chromatography method for the determination of at least one of glyphosate or AMPA in a sample. The method includes obtaining the sample comprising the at least one of glyphosate or AMPA in a sample matrix and introducing the sample to a reversed-phase chromatography system. The reversed-phase chromatography system includes a reversed-phase column having a stationary phase material contained inside the column. The stationary phase material includes a phenyl functional group. The method also includes flowing the sample with a mobile phase eluent through the reversed-phase column, wherein the at least one of glyphosate or AMPA is substantially resolved and retained. The mobile phase eluent has a pH between about 1.5 to about 2.5. The at least one of glyphosate or AMPA are detected using a detector.
US11307181B1	HPLC system with mixed-mode columns for measuring charged analytes in complex mixtures Disclosed is a HPLC system including a first dimension column, a second dimension column, a high pressure switching valve installed along the mobile phase flow path with the usual detector. At a predetermined time after injection of a sample into the mobile phase stream, the valve is actuated so that late eluted components, while still in the first dimension column, are back-flushed to waste by the flow of mobile phase while the analytes get separated in the second dimension column. Mixed-mode cation exchange and anion exchange columns are particularly suited for this application.
US11307160B2	Quality detection device, quality detection method, and integrated probe assembly The present disclosure relates to a welding quality detecting field, and specifically relates to a quality detection device. The quality detection device includes an integrated probe set, a driving module and a collecting module. The integrated probe set includes a plurality of integrated probe assemblies. The integrated probe assemblies are disposed in pairs and each integrated probe assembly includes a driving end and a collecting end. The driving end of one integrated probe assembly is matched with the driving end of another integrated probe assembly disposed in pairs with the one integrated probe assembly. The collecting end of one integrated probe assembly is matched with the collecting end of another integrated probe assembly disposed in pairs with the one integrated probe assembly.
US11307159B2	Ionic-conducting resistor for exhaust constituent sensors A resistor-assembly includes a substrate, a heater, a resistor-element, and conductive-leads. The substrate is formed of a ceramic-material. The heater heats the resistor-assembly. The resistor-element is formed of an ion-conducting material that overlies the substrate. The conductive-leads are formed of a catalytic-metal that are in communication with a gas and in electrical contact with the resistor-element. The resistor-element is characterized by a resistance-value influenced by an oxygen-presence in the gas when the resistor-element is heated by the heater such that a resistor-temperature is greater than a temperature-threshold.
US11307157B2	Method and apparatus for minimum ignition energy testing A minimum-ignition-energy testing apparatus includes a combustion tube and a bottom assembly coupled to a lower end of the combustion tube. A top assembly is coupled to an upper end of the combustion tube. The top assembly includes a first sparge plate coupled to the top base plate. The first sparge plate has a first aperture formed therein. The top assembly also includes a second sparge plate coupled to the first sparge plate. The second sparge plate has formed therein a second aperture that aligns in registry with the first aperture. A channel is formed in the second sparge plate about a perimeter of the third aperture. The channel has a plurality of holes disposed therein that are formed through a thickness of the second sparge plate. A tube is formed through in the second sparge plate, the tube fluidly coupling the channel to a gas source.
US11307154B2	Methods and systems for measuring the density of material including an electromagnetic moisture property detector The subject matter described herein includes methods, systems, and computer program products for measuring the density of a material. According to one aspect, a material property gauge includes a nuclear density gauge for measuring the density of a material. A radiation source adapted to emit radiation into a material and a radiation detector operable to produce a signal representing the detected radiation. A first material property calculation function may calculate a value associated with the density of the material based upon the signal produced by the radiation detector. The material property gauge includes an electromagnetic moisture property gauge that determines a moisture property of the material. An electromagnetic field generator may generate an electromagnetic field where the electromagnetic field sweeps through one or more frequencies and penetrates into the material. An electromagnetic sensor may determine a frequency response of the material to the electromagnetic field across the several frequencies.
US11307153B2	Method and device for acquiring tomographic image data by oversampling, and control program In order to increase reproducibility of a reconstructed tomographic image without increasing the computational load, detection is performed by oversampling in (N+n) directions during imaging for detection by N detection elements. A vector having N×(N+n) elements is obtained, and vector decimation step is performed in which a total of n×N elements corresponding to a sequence {k} 30 denoting a decimation order are removed. In a discrete Radon transform step, a corresponding discrete Radon inverse matrix WSQ−140 is operated, and in an image data generation step, de-vectoring is performed, thereby tomographic image data are acquired. When oversampling is used, a discrete Radon inverse matrix WSQ−1 is obtained. Therefore, a tomographic image is obtained by matrix computation without resorting to iterative approximation.
US11307146B2	Systems and methods for detection of chemtiluminescent reactions Methods, devices and kit for analyzing a sample comprising 1,5-anhydroglucitol and a first analyte via one or more chemiluminescent reactions. Certain embodiments include measuring a first light response resulting from a first chemiluminescent reaction and measuring a second light response resulting from a second chemiluminescent reaction. Certain embodiments also include comparing the first light response to the second light response to determine a ratio of 1,5-anhydroglucitol and the first analyte.
US11307141B2	Spatially resolved ligand-receptor binding assays A method for analyzing the results of a ligand-receptor binding assay comprising the steps of: (a) providing the results of a ligand-receptor binding assay; and (b) qualifying the results of a ligand-receptor binding assay. More particularly, the ligand-receptor binding assay involves the steps of combining appropriate reagents in which receptors attached to a solid support, a sample suspected of containing a ligand, and a conjugate comprising a label form a complex in which the label is present at a concentration that is directly proportional to the amount of ligand present in the sample. Alternatively, the ligand-receptor binding assay involves the steps of combining appropriate reagents to perform a ligand-receptor binding assay in which receptors attached to a solid support, a sample suspected of containing a ligand, and a conjugate comprising a label form a complex in which the label is present at a concentration that is inversely proportional to the amount of analyte present in the sample.
US11307140B2	Signal acquisition device A signal acquisition device includes: a light source that oscillates pulsed laser light at a specific repetition period; an optical system that focuses the laser light onto a sample, and that collects generated fluorescence; a photodetector that detects the fluorescence collected by the optical system; an A/D converter that samples an intensity signal of the detected fluorescence, in synchronization with the repetition period of the light source unit, at a period that is an integer multiple of the repetition period, and that generates a digital intensity signal; and one or more processors comprising hardware, the one or more processors being configured to: obtain a fluorescence lifetime waveform on a basis of the generated digital intensity signal; and calculate a fluorescence lifetime coefficient from a waveform obtained by removing a region not corresponding to an exponential function from the obtained fluorescence lifetime waveform.
US11307132B2	Integrated biocontainment cell sorter Disclosed is an integrated biocontainment cell sorter that isolates portions of the cell sorter that can create contamination. Two containment systems are utilized. A main cabinet containment system contains input samples. An aerosol management containment area includes a nozzle chamber with a nozzle and a sort chamber with sort plates and collection media that collect a droplet stream from the nozzle. The main cabinet is maintained at a first low pressure and clean air is recirculated under a positive pressure. The aerosol management containment area is kept at a second low pressure, which is lower than the first pressure, so that contamination does not leak from the aerosol management containment area into the main cabinet containment area. A sliding sash window is located over an access opening in the main cabinet and can be moved to access different portions of the main cabinet without changing the substantially constant first low pressure in the main cabinet.
US11307130B2	Indicating soil additives for improving soil water infiltration and/or modulating soil water repellence The present invention is related to a method for indicating soil additives for improving soil water infiltration and/or modulating soil water repellence, a corresponding arrangement and the use thereof.
US11307127B2	Power consumption detection system A power consumption detection system includes a controller, a rubber sampling module, a rubber calender, a temperature control module, a mooney sensor, and a power meter. The rubber sampling module samples a rubber material according to a weight value and obtains a rubber to be tested. The rubber calender continuously calenders the rubber to be tested at least six times. The temperature control module maintains the rubber to be tested with a temperature value. The mooney sensor obtains an actual viscosity index and the controller controls the calendaring number of the rubber calender until the target viscosity index is consistent with the actual viscosity index. The power meter records a power consumed by the rubber calender and obtains a power consumption value.
US11307121B2	Analytic substrate coating apparatus and method An apparatus and method for producing a coated analytic substrate using a compact and portable automated instrument located in the laboratory setting at the point of use which can consistently produce one or a plurality of coated analytic substrates “on demand” for using the analytic substrate immediately after coating, preferably without a step of rinsing the coated analytic substrate before use. The apparatus preferably uses applicator cartridges having a reservoir containing the coating compositions used to form the coatings. Preferably the cartridges are removable and interchangeable to facilitate the production of individual analytic substrates having different coatings or different coating patterns. These coated analytic substrates have superior specimen adhesion characteristics due to the improved quality of the coatings applied by the coating apparatus and due to the quickness with which the coated analytic substrates can be used in the lab after production.
US11307113B2	Method and device for determining the status of passivation layers of an encapsulation A method is used for determining a status of an encapsulation and/or a passivation layer of the encapsulation. The encapsulation forms a multi-layer system from multiple passivation layers arranged on top of one another and electrically contacted intermediate layers arranged between the passivation layers. The multi-layer system protects an implant surrounded by the encapsulation. In the method, an electrical measurement is carried out between a reference potential and at least one electrically contacted intermediate layer, and at least one current flowing between the reference potential and the at least one electrically contacted intermediate layer is detected. The at least one detected current is compared with at least one pre-determined threshold value. If the detected current falls below or exceeds the at least one threshold value, this indicates a functional state of a passivation layer adjacent to the at least one electrically contacted intermediate layer.
US11307098B2	Systems and approaches for obtaining temperature measurements using thermal imaging A temperature detection system includes a housing, a thermal imaging system at least partially disposed within the housing, an arm operably coupled with and extending from the housing, and a reference illumination system operably coupled with the arm. The thermal imaging system is adapted to capture at least one thermal image of a subject. The reference illumination system includes a substrate having at least one reference calibration unit operably coupled therewith such that the substrate is at least partially constructed from a solid metal embedded therein. The at least one reference calibration unit is visible to the thermal imaging system.
US11307091B2	Apertureless spectrometer A hard-apertureless spectrometer includes a housing, a collimator configured to collimate light provided from a soft-aperture of a target, a diffraction grating configured to spectroscopically analyze the collimated light, a condenser configured to condense the spectroscopically analyzed light, and a photodetector configured to receive the condensed light output from the condenser and detect a target characteristic.
US11307083B2	Electronic device including scattering member and light receiving element obtaining light scattered by scattering member and method of controlling same Various embodiments of the disclosure relate to a proximity-illuminance sensor and an electronic device including the same to increase the accuracy of the illuminance sensor and addressing crosstalk issues. According to an embodiment, an electronic device comprises a transparent member, a scattering member disposed under a portion of the transparent member to scatter light incident at a designated angle from an outside of the electronic device through the transparent member, a light receiving element disposed under the portion and configured to obtain scattered light which is scattered by the scattering member from at least a part of incident light, and a control circuit configured to determine a brightness of the incident light based on, at least, the scattered light obtained through the light receiving element. The electronic device may be implemented in various manners according to embodiments of the disclosure.
US11307081B2	Method and device for determining an estimate of the total mass of a motor vehicle A method determines the total mass of an automotive vehicle on the basis of data of a communication network and parameters of the vehicle, in which an estimation of the total laden mass (mv,est) of the vehicle, of the speed of the vehicle (vest) and of the slope of the road (αest) is determined at an instant (k) by applying the fundamental equation of dynamics and as a function of the values of the total mass of the vehicle, of the speed of the vehicle and of the slope of the road at a previous instant (k−1).
US11307079B2	Device for determining the weight of a capsule arranged in a capsule holder of an incrementally rotated conveyor wheel The invention relates to a device (50; 50a to 50c) for determining the weight of a capsule (10) arranged in a receptacle (26) of a capsule holder (25) of an incrementally rotated conveyor wheel (21), comprising a transfer device (52; 52a to 52c) for transferring at least one capsule (10) from the capsule holder (25) into a capsule receiver (55) having a plurality of receptacles (54) for respectively one capsule (10), and back again, wherein the capsule receptacle (55) has a movable arrangement in a plane parallel to the conveyor plane of the conveyor wheel (21).
US11307066B2	Method and device for calibrating a sensor of a vehicle A method for calibrating a sensor of a vehicle is provided. In this method, a sensor measured value that includes a measuring position and a measurement time is received by a data processing unit. Based on the measuring position and the measurement time, the sensor measured value is assigned to at least one reference measured value, which has been ascertained with a reference sensor of a reference vehicle at a reference position and at a reference measurement time, if the measurement time of the sensor measured value and the reference measurement time deviate from one another by a maximum of 30 minutes. In addition, at least one reference calibration value of the reference sensor is communicated to the vehicle and/or provided to the vehicle, so that an instantaneous calibration value of the sensor may be adapted based on the reference calibration value.
US11307061B2	Electrical measurement device An electrical measurement device for measuring at least one electrical signal is described, the electrical measurement device comprising an electrical measurement unit for measuring the electrical signal and for deriving at least one measurement parameter from the measured electrical signal, an acoustic processing unit for processing a signal obtained from the electrical measurement unit, and a loudspeaker for outputting an acoustic signal representative of the signal obtained from the electrical measurement unit. The acoustic processing unit is configured to generate the acoustic signal to be outputted by the loudspeaker. The acoustic processing unit is further configured to modulate a predetermined acoustic signal by the at least one measurement parameter.
US11307050B2	Measuring method and device An apparatus and method determine movement information for a user that carries an accelerometer whilst moving. The apparatus receives acceleration data from the accelerometer defined relative to a frame of reference of the accelerometer. A transformation is determined and applied to the acceleration data or to data derived from the acceleration data to determine acceleration data is a user frame of reference that includes a user direction of travel and a side to side direction transverse to the user direction of travel. The acceleration data or data derived from the acceleration data is analyzed to determine a time period corresponding either to a user stride period or to a step period as the user is walking or running; and information about accelerations in the side to side direction are used to disambiguate whether the determined time period corresponds to the user stride period or to the user step period.
US11307045B2	Method and system to determine navigation actions based on instructions from a directional dialogue A computer implemented method, system and computer program product are provided that obtain a directional dialogue comprising a series of instructions that at least partially defines a pathway through an environment, determine navigation actions associated with the pathway based on the series of instructions, track movement of an electronic device (ED) based on one or more of GPS data and non-GPS data; and present the navigation actions based on the movement.
US11307033B2	Vibrator device, electronic apparatus, and vehicle Provided is a vibrator device including a vibrator structure body. When the A axis, the B axis, and the C axis are three axes orthogonal to each other, the vibrator structure body includes a vibrator element and a support substrate that is aligned with the vibrator element along the C axis. The vibrator element includes vibrating arms configured to flexurally vibrate along a plane parallel to the A axis and the B axis and along the A axis. The support substrate includes a base that supports the vibrator element, a support that supports the base, and a beam that couples the base and the support. A relationship f0
US11307027B2	Determining a characteristic of a substrate A method is described in which a reflection is obtained of a laser light pattern reflected from a substrate. A reflection of diffuse light may be obtained from the substrate. A first parameter may be determined, relating to the substrate from the reflected laser light pattern. A second parameter may be determined, relating to the substrate from the reflected diffuse light and a characteristic of the substrate may be determined from the first and second parameters. A print apparatus and a machine-readable medium are also disclosed.
US11307026B2	Alignment inspection apparatus for electrode assembly and alignment inspection method for electrode assembly using the same An alignment inspection apparatus for the electrode assembly including a laminate, in which a first separator, an internal electrode, a second separator, and an upper electrode are sequentially laminated, includes a camera disposed above a central portion of the electrode assembly to photograph and inspect the electrode assembly and side lights obliquely irradiating light onto each of both ends of the upper electrode. The side lights are symmetrical to each other with respect to the central portion of the electrode assembly.
US11307019B2	Self-mix module utilizing filters A system and method for generating, enhancing, and detecting the amplitude and phase modulation of a laser under a condition of self-mixing is provided. The system may comprise a laser and a detector to extract the characteristic self-mix signal, which is then interpreted using algorithms implemented in hardware or software. In the case of the laser being a Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting laser (VCSEL), the output signal can be detected by monitoring the surface light emission by means of a beam splitter, or in some embodiments as emission from the bottom surface of the laser. In some embodiments, the system may further comprise a wavelength filter such as an etalon in the signal path.
US11307018B2	Two-degree-of-freedom heterodyne grating interferometry measurement system A two-degree-of-freedom heterodyne grating interferometry measurement system, comprising: a single-frequency laser device for emitting a single-frequency laser, and the single-frequency laser can be split into a beam of reference light and a beam of measurement light; an interferometer mirror group and a measurement grating for forming a reference interference signal and a measurement interference signal from the reference light and the measurement light; and a receiving optical fiber for receiving the reference interference signal and the measurement interference signal, wherein a core diameter of the receiving optical fiber is smaller than a width of an interference fringe of the reference interference signal and the measurement interference signal, so that the receiving optical fiber receives a part of the reference interference signal and the measurement interference signal. The measurement system has advantages of insensitivity to grating rotation angle error, small volume, light weight, and a facilitating arrangement.
US11307016B2	Device and method for measuring the concentricity of an internal toothing of a shaft A device and a method can be utilized to measure concentricity of an internal toothing of a component. Such a device may include a determination segment, which can determine a concentricity deviation, that includes a spindle unit comprising a tapping spindle with a gauge gear wheel arranged thereon and intended for tapping the concentricity of the internal toothing, and an output spindle for transmitting the tapped concentricity from the tapping spindle to a measuring unit. The output spindle may be arranged directly or indirectly on the tapping spindle. A spindle holder may hold and position the tapping spindle, the output spindle, or the spindle unit. An adjusting element may position the gauge gear wheel, and the measuring unit may compare the tapped concentricity with reference values.
US11307004B2	Tail portion for fin-stabilized projectile A tail portion for a fin-stabilized projectile includes at least two deployable fins, which are inclined. The fins are arranged in at least two sections, which are arranged adjacent to another in the axial direction.
US11306991B2	Universal pintle mount for a weapon A method and apparatus for mounting a weapon to a support structure comprising a pintle assembly including a slide block; a pintle coupled to the slide block; a pintle lever with a handle and a rod rotatably coupled to the slide block; and a clamp assembly including a fixed jaw having a first end and a second end forming at least one knuckle; a moveable jaw having a first end and a second end forming a pin; and a clamp lever that releasably couples the first end of the fixed jaw with the first end of the moveable jaw; wherein the pin of the moveable jaw is rotatably coupled to the at least one knuckle of the fixed jaw; the pintle lever is rotatably coupled to the fixed jaw of the clamp assembly; and the pintle assembly and the clamp assembly are rotatably and releasably coupled to each other.
US11306990B2	Systems and methods for coupling a barrel and handguard to a firearm Systems and methods for coupling a barrel to a firearm are disclosed, including firearms incorporating the systems. In an embodiment, the firearm includes a receiver including a cavity and an internal thread disposed within the cavity. In addition, the firearm includes a barrel including a first threaded connector that is threadably engaged with the internal thread within the cavity and a second threaded connector. Further, the firearm includes a barrel nut including an internal thread and an external thread. The internal thread of the barrel nut is threadably engaged with the second threaded connector of the barrel.
US11306988B1	Hammer extension for a muzzle loading firearm A hammer extension design for use with various firearms, including specifically muzzle-loading firearms, that makes operating the hammer easier, faster, and safer. The present invention discloses a muzzle-loading firearm which includes a stock, a barrel fastened to said stock, a pivot mounted to said stock, a trigger and hammer mechanism comprising of a hammer and a lever arm both secured to said pivot.
US11306983B2	Single and multi-layer mesh structures for enhanced thermal transport This disclosure describes single and multi-layer woven meshes designed to enable sucking flow condensation and capillary-driven liquid film boiling, respectively, for instance, in use in heat spreaders. The single-layer woven meshes can include a nanostructure coating and a hydrophobic coating, while the multi-layer meshes can include a microcavity coating and optionally a hydrophilic coating.
US11306975B2	Vapor chamber water-filling section sealing structure A vapor chamber water-filling section sealing structure. The vapor chamber water-filling section sealing structure includes a main body and a capillary structure. The main body has a first plate body and a second plate body, which are correspondingly mated with each other to together define an airtight chamber and a water-filling section. A flange is disposed along an outer periphery of the main body. The water-filling section has a water-filling notch and a water-filling passage. Two ends of the water-filling passage are respectively connected with the flange and the water-filling notch to communicate with the airtight chamber. A portion of the water-filling passage that is connected with the flange is pressed to have a height equal to the height of the flange or lower than the height of the flange. The capillary structure is disposed in the airtight chamber of the main body.
US11306974B2	Temperature plate and heat dissipation device A temperature plate includes a plate body and at least two supporters. The plate body has a first plate and a second plate, and a vacuum chamber is defined by the first plate and the second plate. The first plate has a first external surface, and the plate body is bent to form at least two bent portions with the first external surface being a compressive side, and the supporters are disposed inside the vacuum chamber and connected to an inner wall of the vacuum chamber to enhance a structural strength of the bent portions and also to improve heat conduction, wherein the temperature plate is combined with a cooling fin assembly, the cooling fin assembly is disposed on the first external surface. When the number of the bent portions are two, the configuration of the two bent portions allows the plate body to clip the cooling fin assembly.
US11306972B2	Shell and tube heat exchangers A heat exchanger in one aspect includes a longitudinal shell and a transverse shell oriented transversely thereto. A J-shaped tube bundle carrying a tube-side fluid extends through the longitudinal and transverse shells from a first tubesheet in the longitudinal shell to a second tubesheet in the transverse shell. The first and second tubesheets are oriented perpendicular to each other. In a related aspect a dual heat exchanger unit includes a first longitudinal shell, a second longitudinal shell, and a common transverse shell extending transversely between and fluidly coupled to the longitudinal shells. The longitudinal shells may be parallel to each other. The shells are fluidly coupled directly together to form a common shell-side space between pairs of inlet and outlet tubesheets. A pair of J-shaped tube bundles is disposed in the dual heat exchanger unit for heating two tube-side fluids.
US11306970B2	Stackable dry cooler assembly with heat exchanger panels A heat exchanger assembly has a frame including first and second legs laterally spaced apart, a lower transversal member extending laterally and interconnecting the legs, first and second upstanding members laterally spaced apart and extending upwardly from the lower transversal member, an upper transversal member extending laterally and disposed above the lower transversal member and connected to the first and second upstanding members, and first and second upper retaining members laterally spaced apart and being connected to the upper transversal member and extending transversally to the upper transversal member. First and second heat exchanger panels are connected to the first and second upper retaining members. The heat exchanger panels are disposed in a V-configuration such that a distance between upper ends thereof is greater than a distance between lower ends thereof. A fan has a fan rotation axis extending generally parallel to the first and second upstanding members.
US11306969B2	Sintering furnace for components made of sintered material, in particular dental components The invention relates to a sintering furnace (1) for components (15) made of a sintered material, in particular for dental components, comprising a furnace chamber (2) having a chamber volume (VK), wherein a heating device (5), a receiving space (9) having a gross volume (VB) located in the chamber volume (VK) and delimited by the heating device (5), and a useful region (10) having a useful volume (VN) located in the gross volume (VB), are disposed in the furnace chamber (2). The furnace chamber (2) has an outer wall (3) consisting of a plurality of walls having a wall portion (7) to be opened for introduction of a component to be sintered having an object volume (VO) into the receiving space (9). In the furnace chamber (2) the heating device (5) has a thermal radiator (6) having a radiation field (13) which is disposed on at least one side of the receiving space (9). At least the useful volume (NV) disposed in the receiving space (9) is disposed in the radiation field (13) of the radiator (6), wherein the maximum possible distance (d) of the component (15) to be sintered from the radiator (6) corresponds to at most twice the dimension (Dy) of the maximum useful volume (VN).
US11306967B2	Drawer gasket seal assembly A drawer assembly of a refrigerator includes a gasket assembly having a base portion with opposed first and second sides. A mounting portion extends outwardly from the first side of the base portion, and a contact lobe outwardly extends from the second side of the base portion. The contact lobe includes a body portion comprised of a first material having an outer surface with one or more ribs comprised of a second material that is less rigid than the first material. The one or more ribs extend outwardly from the outer surface of the body portion of the contact lobe and are configured to seal against a textured front surface of a cabinet structure of the refrigerator.
US11306965B2	Hybrid pigmented hot stitched color liner system A method of making a liner for an appliance is provided. The method includes mixing a polymeric capping layer precursor and a pigment additive to form a color capping layer. The method also includes extruding a polymeric base resin to form a polymeric base layer at a base layer formation temperature. The method further includes laminating the polymeric base layer and the color capping layer to form the liner at about the base layer formation temperature.
US11306960B2	Refrigerator having detachable cooling module A refrigerator including a cabinet in which a storeroom is formed and including a duct opening; a cooling module detachably coupled to the cabinet and including an evaporator, a condenser, a compressor, a module body having a space in which the evaporator is accommodated, and a duct module detachably coupled to the module body to guide cold air produced from the evaporator to the storeroom, wherein the duct opening, the duct module and the storeroom are arranged so that, when the duct module is detached from the module body, the duct module is passable through the duct opening to be removed through the storeroom.
US11306957B2	Liquid nitrogen-based cooling system A liquid nitrogen-based cooling system features a cooling circuit and a liquid nitrogen-based heat sink. Heat absorbed by fluid flowing in the cooling circuit is subsequently absorbed by liquid nitrogen within the heat sink, which causes the liquid nitrogen to vaporize. The vaporized nitrogen is condensed back to liquid form, e.g., by means of a helium-based cryo-refrigeration system. The heat-sink includes at least a first vessel that contains the liquid nitrogen, with the cooling circuit including a series of coils passing around the first vessel in heat-exchanging contact with an exterior surface thereof so that heat can be transferred into the liquid nitrogen. The first vessel and coils may be contained within a second, outer vessel that minimizes heat transfer from the ambient environment to the fluid flowing in the cooling circuit and the liquid nitrogen within the first vessel.
US11306952B2	Refrigeration cycle apparatus A refrigeration cycle apparatus includes a refrigerant circuit in which refrigerant circulates in the order of a compressor, an oil separator, a first heat exchanger, a decompressing apparatus, and a second heat exchanger and returns to the compressor. The refrigeration cycle apparatus further includes: an oil reservoir that stores refrigeration oil; a first pipe that connects the oil separator and the oil reservoir, the first pipe sends the refrigeration oil separated by the oil separator to the oil reservoir; a second pipe that connects the oil reservoir and a suction side of the compressor; a third pipe that connects the oil reservoir and the suction side of the compressor at a position lower than a position at which the second pipe is connected to the oil reservoir; and a heater that heats the refrigeration oil separated by the oil separator.
US11306947B2	Temperature control system in a passenger service unit A temperature control system in an aircraft passenger service unit is disclosed. In embodiments, the system includes a swirl chamber configured to receive an inlet air stream, and a vortex tube configured to receive the inlet air stream from the swirl chamber and separate the inlet air stream into a warmer air stream and a cooler air stream. In embodiments, the system further includes a nozzle configured to direct a temperature-controlled air stream into a passenger space of an aircraft; wherein the nozzle is configured to be selectably adjusted in order to selectively blend the warmer air stream and the cooler air stream in order to generate the temperature-controlled air stream.
US11306941B2	Retrofit damper optimized for universal installation A damper assembly for use in a round forced air duct feeding a register vent through a register boot includes a damper frame having a frame periphery with a first side and a second side that is at least substantially parallel with the first side, the first side and the second side each having a length that is greater than a distance between the first side and the second side. A damper blade is pivotable relative to the damper frame about an axis of rotation, at least substantially parallel with the first side and the second side, between an open position and a closed position. A flexible outer seal extends outwardly from the frame periphery of the damper frame and is at least substantially circular in order to seal against an inner surface of the round forced air duct.
US11306938B2	Communication control system and air-conditioning apparatus A dedicated wireless access point is not required, and an air-conditioning apparatus can be paired with a wireless access point simply by operating at hand an operating device that is separate from the air-conditioning apparatus. A remote control (15) is provided with a pairing request instruction button for instructing an air conditioner (12) to cause a first communicator serving as a wireless device of the air conditioner (12) to transmit pairing request data, and upon receiving, from the remote control (15), a signal indicating that the pairing request instruction button has been operated, the air conditioner (12) transmits pairing request data through the first communicator, completes a pairing upon receiving authentication data from a wireless AP (13), and connects to the wireless AP (13).
US11306934B2	Air-conditioning system control apparatus using degree of influence between air-conditioning indoor units The air-conditioning system control apparatus includes an influence-degree calculation unit that calculates a degree of influence between two air-conditioning indoor units that are selected from a plurality of air-conditioning indoor units as a pair of air-conditioning indoor units, based on operation data on the pair of air-conditioning indoor units.
US11306923B2	Intra-day rolling scheduling method for integrated heat and electricity system An intra-day rolling scheduling method for an integrated heat and electricity system including: establishing an objective function for scheduling of the integrated heat and electricity system, the objective function aiming to make operating costs of the integrated heat and electricity system to be a minimum; establishing constraints for a steady-state safe operation of the integrated heat and electricity system; and solving the objective function based on the constraints by an interior point method, to obtain an active power and a heating power of each combined heat and power unit, an active power of each thermal power unit, a heating power of each heat pump, and an active power consumed by each circulating pump.
US11306920B2	Fire enclosures with adjustable wind shields A representative enclosure includes: a base defining an interior configured to receive combustible materials, the base having an aperture defining an opening, which communicates with the interior, the opening being configured to receive therethrough the combustible materials; a spark screen configured to prevent access to the interior via the opening when in a closed position in which the spark screen engages the base, the spark screen being further configured to permit a flow of air into and out of the interior; and a wind shield, mounted to the base, having a shield portion extending upwardly from the base and disposed exterior to the spark screen, the shield portion being movable relative to the base.
US11306914B2	Gas combustor having function of adjusting combusting angle A gas combustor having function of adjusting combusting angle includes: a fixed housing having a top end thereof transversally formed with a rod hole; and a rotary housing pivoted with the fixed housing, where one side of the rotary housing is formed with a shaft hole having a plurality of annularly-arranged teeth slots for receiving a locking mechanism having an unlocking press button, a connection rod extrudes from an inner surface of the unlocking press button to pass the shaft hole, be sleeved with a stretch spring and enter the rod hole, the connection rod is connected to a passive member in the fixed housing, the passive member has at least one convex tooth protruding toward the plurality of teeth slots, and each of the at least one convex tooth is to be inserted and positioned in one of the teeth slots to form a locked status.
US11306910B1	Electric lighting system with removably couplable power device An example electric lighting system includes a lighting device that includes a housing including a lighting element and a power device holding portion. The power device holding portion includes a cavity. The cavity includes a first and a second electrical contact disposed within the cavity. The power device includes a third and a fourth electrical contact. The power device includes a coupling component. The coupling component is removably couplable to the power device holding portion such that an electrical communication is established when the power device is inserted into the cavity at any rotational position relative to the lighting device about a shared central axis. The power device is operable to power the lighting device through the electrical communication. The electrical communication is established between the first electrical contact and the third electrical contact and between the second electrical contact and the fourth electrical contact.
US11306909B2	Driver assembly for a lighting fixture A driver assembly (200) for a lighting fixture (100) is provided. The driver assembly (200) includes a housing (220) defining a cavity (234). The driver assembly (200) includes a driver circuit (210) disposed within the cavity (234). The driver circuit (210) can be configured to provide power to one or more light emitting diodes (116) of the lighting fixture (100). The driver assembly (200) can include a potting material (237) disposed within the cavity (234). The driver assembly (200) can include a base (260) attached to the housing (220) to enclose the driver circuit (210) and the potting material (237) within the cavity (234).
US11306904B1	Stand light A portable light including an elongate body having a first end and a second end, a plurality of extension poles slidably received in the elongate body, a light head pivotably coupled to an end of one of the plurality of extension poles, and a head assembly housing fixed to the first end of the elongate body. The portable light further includes a collar positioned around a portion of the elongate body, a movable handle coupled to the collar, and a plurality of legs pivotably coupled to the collar. Each leg includes a first end hingedly coupled to the collar. Each leg is also pivotally coupled to the second end of the elongate body by a leg link, wherein each leg link includes a pair of parallel members connected together by an offset portion, and wherein the offset portion extends perpendicularly from a longitudinal axis of the leg link.
US11306894B2	Optical element and light emitting device An optical element includes a bottom surface, a total reflection surface above the bottom surface, a recess recessed from the bottom surface toward the total reflection surface and first and second light exit surfaces. The optical element has a central axis perpendicular to the bottom surface. The total reflection surface has a peripheral boundary away from the central axis. The first light exit surface is connected to the peripheral boundary of the total reflection surface and extends toward the bottom surface away from the central axis. The second light exit surface is connected to the first light exit surface, extends away from the central axis, and is connected to the bottom surface. Each of the first and second light exit surfaces is consisted of at least one linear sub-refractive surface. Each linear sub-refractive surface is a straight line in any cross section passing through the central axis.
US11306881B2	Tangle-resistant decorative lighting assembly A decorative lighting assembly comprises a first power wire electrically connected to a first power contact and a second power wire electrically connected to a second power contact. The first power wire and the second power wire cooperate to surround a display area of the decorative lighting assembly. Lamp assemblies are distributed across the display area. The lamp assemblies include a first row of lamp assemblies aligned along a first line, a second row aligned along a second line, a third row aligned along a third line, and a fourth row of lamp aligned along a fourth line. A first cord is disposed along a first zig-zag path connecting the lamp assemblies in the first row with the lamp assemblies in the second row. Intermediate wires are disposed along a second zig-zag path connecting the lamp assemblies in the second row with the lamp assemblies in the third row.
US11306874B2	Gas supply system and method for estimating infernal pressure of gas tank A gas supply system includes: a gas tank; an unbalanced pressure reducing valve that reduces a pressure of the gas supplied from the gas tank; a pressure sensor that detects an outlet-side pressure of the pressure reducing valve; a flow rate changing unit that changes an outlet-side flow rate of the pressure reducing valve; and a control unit. The control unit changes the outlet-side flow rate between first and second flow rates, obtains a first pressure, which is a detection value of the pressure sensor when the outlet-side flow rate is the first flow rate, and a second pressure, which is a detection value of the pressure sensor when the outlet-side flow rate is the second flow rate, and estimates an inlet-side pressure of the pressure reducing valve using the relationship among the first flow rate, the second flow rate, and the difference between the first and second pressures.
US11306858B2	Powered emergency released coupling control and monitoring system The present invention relates to a pneumatically, high pressure gas powered emergency release coupling control and monitoring system (S) comprising a powered emergency released coupling (1) arranged in a fluid-supply line (32) for conveying hazardous fluids, said powered emergency released coupling (1) comprising a couple of coupling members (10, 11) provided with mating faces (10A, 11A) for sealing engagement of the coupling members (10, 11) and formation of a pressurizable chamber (12) between said coupling members (10, 11), said system (S) comprising an actuation line (7) connected at its one end to the pressurizable chamber (12) and at its other end to a source (C) of high pressure gaseous media (GH), preferably high pressure nitrogen gas, an first actuating device (4A, 4B) arranged in the actuation line (7), wherein said system (S) provides a gaseous media at a pilot pressure level to said pressurizable chamber (12) and to said actuation line (7) in a position downstream the first actuation device (4A, 4B) or via said pressurizable chamber (12) for detection of any leakage of gas in the control and monitoring system (S), said pilot pressure gaseous media preferably being 15 low pressure nitrogen gas. The invention further relates to a pneumatically, high pressure gas powered emergency release coupling (1) and a control and monitoring method for such a system (S).
US11306855B2	Fluid conduit connector A connector includes one or more spirals securing a fluid conduit to the connector for fluid communication with another hollow object such as another fluid conduit. The spiral(s) press/compress and seal the conduit around an outer circumference of an end of rigid, hollow insert of the connector. Another portion of the connector may include spiral(s) that press/compress and seal a second conduit around a second end of the insert, or may include a hose-coupler that connects to a second conduit. Thus, two fluid conduits may be fluid-sealed to an inner-passageway of the insert, by tightened spiral(s) or by tightened spiral(s) and coupler combination, so the conduits are in fluid communication with each other. The spiral(s) may be retained in, and released from, the tightened condition, by a ratchet-based latching and unlatching system.
US11306843B2	Commissioning a diaphragm valve A method for determining the end-of-travel positions of a diaphragm in a diaphragm valve having an actuator: initiating displacement of the diaphragm into a first end-of-travel position; ascertaining the first end-of-travel position of the diaphragm, wherein said first end-of-travel position is ascertained by monitoring an actuating current value, wherein the first end-of-travel position is reached when a predefined current value is reached; saving the first end-of-travel position; moving autonomously, preferably in the opposite direction, towards a second end-of-travel position of the diaphragm; ascertaining the second end-of-travel position of the diaphragm, wherein said second end-of-travel position is ascertained by means of a predefined travel length (a) of the diaphragm from the first end-of-travel position; saving the second end-of-travel position.
US11306840B2	Switched nozzle valve A switched nozzle valve (SNV) for gas flow regulation includes a nozzle and a valve element. The nozzle includes an orifice with a fixed cross-section and a converging section converging towards the orifice for achieving sonic velocity of the gas in the orifice. The valve element is movable between a fully closed position seated on the nozzle at a valve seat and a fully open position spaced from the valve seat. The SNV further includes a control for controlling an operator for switching the valve element between the fully open and fully closed positions at a switching frequency by using a pulse-width-modulation (PWM) signal to regulate a time-averaged flow of the gas.
US11306826B2	Slide gate with reinforcement ribs Example aspects of a slide gate, a slide gate assembly, and a method of using a slide gate assembly are disclosed. The slide gate can comprise a gate body defining a first face, a second face, and a sliding groove; and a plurality of reinforcement ribs extending from the second face, the reinforcement ribs comprising: an exterior rib frame; and an interior rib grid comprising an annular reinforcement rib, wherein the interior rib grid is oriented within a boundary of the exterior rib frame.
US11306825B2	Valve assembly A valve assembly having an inner and outer concentric valve seat. The inner valve seat is arranged radially inward of the outer valve seat to provide an annular opening therebetween. A movable plunger moves between a closed position and an open position to vary a flow restriction at the inner and outer valve seats and simultaneously seal the inner and outer valve seats in the closed position. An inner and outer valve member comprise the inner and outer valve seats and are separate components mounted in fixed relation to one another. The inner and outer valves seats are radially aligned to maintain concentricity of the inner valve seat relative to the outer valve seat and axially aligned to maintain axial alignment of the inner valve seat relative to the outer valve along an axis, wherein the axis is substantially orthogonal to a plane of the inner and outer valve seats.
US11306819B2	Gasket-mounting structure A gasket includes a first slope at a first axial end. The fluid device includes a second slope that contacts the first slope. The first slope and the second slope have different gradients. The first slope allows at least the first axial end to be deformed along the second slope. The first slope contacts the second slope with a gradient that varies depending on a gradient of the second slope to seal a gap between the first slope and the second slope.
US11306817B2	Control apparatus for vehicle A control apparatus for a vehicle that includes an engine; a transmission; a damper and a clutch. The transmission has a gear ratio that is variable in a range including a torque-fluctuation insufficient absorption region in which a damper spring of the damper is elastically deformed to a certain maximum limit when a misfire occurs in the engine. The control apparatus includes: a misfire determination portion configured to determine occurrence of the misfire in the engine; and a misfire-case shift control portion configured, upon determination of the occurrence of the misfire in the engine by the misfire determination portion when the gear ratio of the transmission is in the torque-fluctuation insufficient absorption region, to cause the transmission to execute a shift-down action such that the gear ratio becomes higher than a higher threshold value of the torque-fluctuation insufficient absorption region.
US11306815B2	Continuously variable transmission A vehicle may include a continuously variable transmission which requires non-recycled air. The continuously variable transmission may provide non-recycled air to a first number of sheaves of the continuously variable transmission with a second number of air supply conduits, the second number being less than the first number. A cover of the continuously variable transmission may have a unitary body.
US11306811B2	Lubrication for a planetary gearset The invention concerns an epicycloidal gear train comprising a central pinion (26), an outer crown (28) and satellite pinions (32) in engagement with the central pinion (26) and the outer crown (28) and each mounted freely rotatable on a satellite carrier (36), the gear train (10) comprising means for lubricating the teeth and axes (34) of the satellite pinions (32), these means including an annular cup (56) integral with the satellite carrier (36) opened radially inward. According to the invention, an annular bailer (64) is arranged radially inside the cup (56) and applied annularly sealingly to it, the annular bailer (64) being fixed in rotation to the central pinion (26).
US11306807B2	Maintenance free extended life cam follower for a necker machine A cam follower for a ram of a metal can necker machine is provided. The cam follower has an outer ring and an inner ring coaxially disposed in the outer ring. A plurality of rolling elements is disposed in an annular cavity between the outer ring and the inner ring. The plurality of rolling elements is disposed between a first seal and a second seal. A shaft is received in a bore in the inner ring and is fixed relative thereto about the shaft axis. The outer ring is received in a tire. The tire has a thickness and a crown radius. The composition of the tire includes a metallic material, a plastic material, a non-metallic material, and combinations thereof.
US11306799B2	Inner roller feeding device for a baseplate of counter-roller driving power spinning equipment An inner roller feeding device for a baseplate of a counter-roller driving power spinning equipment includes an inner roller column, an inner roller top plate, an inner roller upper plate, an inner roller lower plate, a cam, a cam mounting cylinder, inner rollers, inner roller shafts, a feed screw, a servo motor and a baseplate. According to the inner roller feeding device, a brake motor serves as a power source, the inner roller is driven by the cam through a worm gear drive to feed along a radial direction of a workpiece, such that an inner roller mechanism is small in size, large in adjustment range and high in positioning precision.
US11306788B2	Carrying device and fixing method of carrying device A carrying device and, a fixing method of a carrying device are provided. The carrying device includes a body and an electromagnet fixing module disposed on the body; wherein the electromagnet fixing module is configured to fix the carrying device. The present application uses the electromagnet fixing module to fix the carrying device, which can avoid downtime of an exposure machine caused by shaking of the carrying device when a robot arm of the exposure machine picks or places the mask form the carrying device so as to improve throughput.
US11306772B2	Radial foil bearing A radial foil bearing includes a bearing housing that has an insertion hole into which a shaft is inserted, a back foil that is disposed on an inner peripheral surface of the insertion hole, a top foil that is supported by the back foil, and a protrusion portion that protrudes toward an inner side in a radial direction of the insertion hole from the inner peripheral surface of the insertion hole and is configured to allow supporting of the top foil.
US11306771B2	Radial foil bearing The radial foil bearing (3, 3A, 3B, 3D) includes: a wave sheet-shaped back foil (11); and an intermediate foil (10) supported by the back foil, and the intermediate foil includes a flat portion (10b) facing a hill part (11c) of a wave sheet shape of the back foil, and a protruding part (39, 40, 40a, 40b, 40B) protruding toward the back foil via branching at a position in a circumferential direction between a top of at least one hill part and a top of a hill part adjacent to the one hill part in the wave sheet shape of the back foil.
US11306763B2	Nut This nut (1) comprises a nut main body (3) having a substantially cylindrical shape and constituted by a plurality of nut segments (3a), an outer cover (4), a restraining ring (5), an inner cover (6) comprising a restraining plate (6a) at one end portion of the inner cover (6) and serving to cover an outer circumference of the nut main body (3), and a ring-shaped spring (7) serving to bias the nut main body (3) to cause the nut main body (3) to expand radially. Protrusions (8) protruding in a circumferential direction are formed on an inner surface of the inner cover (6). Grooves (9) are formed on an outer surface of the nut main body. The protrusions (8) and the grooves (9) have slant surfaces (10) that contact each other on the same side in the axial direction.
US11306761B2	Self-tapping screw A self-tapping screw includes a screw head, a screw shank having a shank body extending from the screw head along an axis, a self-tapping thread extending helically around an outer peripheral surface of the shank body and having a plurality of cutting edges continuously connected to one another and extending outwardly, radially and taperingly from the outer peripheral surface of the shank body, and a supporting unit including a plurality of supporting teeth each disposed between two adjacent ones of the cutting edges, and a plurality of concave surfaces respectively adjacent to the supporting teeth and extending inwardly from the outer peripheral surface of the shank body.
US11306755B2	Drain rod system and connectors therefor A drain rod system for connecting at least two rods together and/or to a peripheral device, said rods and/or devices connected or coupled together by one or more connection means which including a first male portion at least part of which includes a non-circular member and a second female portion at least part of which is configured to receive at least part of the non-circular member extending from an adjacent male portion. The connection means further including first and second threaded engagement members, said first threaded member including a thread or threaded portion and at least part of the second threaded member adapted to receive at least part of the thread or threaded portion, wherein at least one or both of said threaded members includes a grip portion to enable the user to engage or disengage the male and female portions and/or the first and second threaded members by hand.
US11306753B2	Board member fastener Board member fastener used to rivet first board member and second board member. First and second board members each have drilled therein a different diameter of hole. First board member provides first through hole. Second board member provides second through hole. Top of first through hole of first board member is formed with stop surface that tapers toward outer diameter so that when board member fastener is punch impacted, board member fastener sinks into interior of first through hole to cut second board member and to deform, and first board member is forced by sinking stress of board member fastener and tightly pressed on second board member upon punch impact, and thus, board member fastener, first board member and second board member are deformed and fitted to each other, achieving a riveting structure that can be applied to different materials and can overcome deformation caused by heat expansion and contraction.
US11306751B2	Apparatus and methods for connecting tubes in transport structures Apparatus and methods for joining tubes in transport structures are presented herein. A part having an attached node with a socket can be joined with tubes. The tubes can be placed along nonparallel axes within the socket; and a wedge can be used to secure the tubes to the socket. The wedge can be secured between the tubes by using a fastener, such as a blind fastener; alternatively, or additionally, the wedge can be secured between the tubes using an adhesive.
US11306741B2	Cross flow fan A cross flow fan includes a fan frame and a rotor having a hub, a shaft connected with the hub at its rotation center, a plurality of blades, and a disk structure connected with the blades and hub within the fan frame. The fan frame has a frame wall having a lateral flow inlet to the rotor and a lateral flow outlet from the rotor, a base carrying the rotor and frame wall, a cover on one side of the frame wall opposite to the base, and a partition structure disposed between the blades and an inner wall surface of the frame wall. A normal line of the lateral flow inlet and a normal line of the lateral flow outlet are not parallel to an extension direction of the shaft. The blades directly face the lateral flow inlet and the lateral flow outlet along radial directions of the shaft.
US11306739B2	Fan device A fan device configured to be assembled to chassis having engagement slot and including casing, fan, clip, handle, and trigger. Casing includes bottom plate, front plate and top plate. Top plate at least partially covers bottom plate and has through hole. Opposite sides of front plate are respectively connected to bottom plate and front plate. Fan is disposed on casing. Clip includes elastic part, engagement part and pressed part. Elastic part has fixed side and movable side that are opposite. Fixed side is disposed on top plate. Movable side is located closer to top plate than fixed side. Engagement part is connected to movable side. Engagement part is disposed through the through hole to be engaged with engagement slot. Pressed part is connected to movable side. Handle is disposed on front plate. Trigger is movably disposed on handle.
US11306738B2	Methods and systems for cooling a pressurized fluid with a reduced-pressure fluid Systems and methods for reducing the pressure of a first pressurized fluid, thereby reducing the temperature of the pressurized fluid, and utilization of the reduced-pressure and temperature fluid to cool a second fluid. Such an approach can enable a reduction in the size and weight of a hydraulic system, utilize waste energy in a system, and/or minimize electrical power requirements of a system, among other benefits.
US11306731B2	Fan bodies with pressure regulating chambers Examples herein relate to fan bodies with pressure regulating chambers. For instance, in some examples a fan body can define an outlet, an inlet, a fan chamber that is in fluidic communication with the inlet and the outlet, and a hollow pressure regulating chamber having an opening that is in fluidic communication with the fan chamber.
US11306724B2	Fluid pump assembly A self contained battery operated pump assembly to be installed in fluid communication between a shower arm and a shower head includes a pump; a pump motor connected with the pump for, when energized, driving the pump; and a battery that is electrically connected with the pump motor for energizing the pump motor. An inlet fitting is in fluid communication with the pump for directing water from the shower arm to the pump, the inlet fitting being configured for connection with the shower arm. An outlet fitting is in fluid communication with the pump for directing water under pressure from the pump to the shower head, the outlet fitting being configured for connection with the shower head.
US11306722B2	Compressor with mechanical seal A compressor includes: a casing with an inner wall defining a compression chamber, an inlet leading into the compression chamber, and an outlet leading out of the compression chamber; a rotor rotatably coupled to the casing for rotation relative to the casing; and a gate coupled to the casing for movement relative to the casing. The gate may be pivotally, or translationally coupled to the casing. A hydrostatic bearing may be disposed between the gate and casing. A plurality of compressors may be mechanically linked together such that their compression cycles are out of phase.
US11306715B2	Screw-spindle pump, fuel delivery assembly, and fuel delivery unit A screw-spindle pump includes: a first (drive) screw spindle and a second (running) screw spindle that runs oppositely with respect to the first screw spindle; and a pump housing configured to receive the first and second screw spindles. The first and second screw spindles form, together with at least the pump housing, delivery chambers, which move from a suction side of the pump to a pressure side of the pump due to a rotation of the first and second screw spindles. The pump housing has a first abutment insert for the first screw spindle and a second abutment insert for the second screw spindle, and at least one of the first and second abutment inserts is set angled with respect to a first plane of the pump, to counteract operationally induced crossing of the first and second screw spindles.
US11306714B2	Liquid feeding pump operation monitor A liquid feeding pump operation monitor includes: a liquid gauge that measures a remaining amount of a liquid to be fed by a liquid feeding pump; and an operation detector configured to detect a reduction of the remaining amount, which is measured by the liquid gauge, of the liquid to be fed, and to detect an operation of the liquid feeding pump based on the detection of the reduction.
US11306713B2	Hydraulic pump with speed and pressure compensation A pump system includes a pressure compensator and a speed compensator for controlling the displacement of a variable displacement pump having an inlet and an outlet. The variable displacement pump is driven by a drive shaft powered by an electric motor. The pressure compensator adjusts the displacement of the variable displacement pump based on a pump pressure at the pump outlet. The speed compensator adjusts a maximum magnitude of the displacement of the variable displacement pump based on a speed of the electric motor.
US11306706B2	Shape memory alloy actuators and methods thereof SMA actuators and related methods are described. One embodiment of an actuator includes a base; a plurality of buckle arms; and at least a first shape memory alloy wire coupled with a pair of buckle arms of the plurality of buckle arms. Another embodiment of an actuator includes a base and at least one bimorph actuator including a shape memory alloy material. The bimorph actuator attached to the base.
US11306702B2	Transitioning wind turbine A transitioning wind turbine for land or offshore use having a tower base; a wind turbine tower attached to the tower base; a wind turbine attached to the wind turbine tower having a hub and an outer perimeter with spokes disposed between the hub and outer perimeter; a set of vanes carried by the spokes; a generator configured to engage the outer perimeter of the wind turbine and convert a rotational energy of the outer perimeter into power; a lifting tower having a pivot disposed at a proximal end of the lifting tower; a cable attached between the lifting tower and the wind turbine tower; and, wherein the lifting tower is configured to transition from the upright position to the tilted position as the wind turbine tower transitions between the horizontal position to the vertical position.
US11306696B2	Wind turbine blade A wind turbine blade comprises a flexible external skin and an internal support structure, together defining an aerodynamic profile of the wind turbine blade. At least a portion of the internal support structure is adjustable to thereby vary the aerodynamic profile.
US11306695B2	Device and method for swinging power generation and vibration suppression by using arc-shaped wing plates with rough surfaces The present disclosure relates to a device and a method for swinging power generation and vibration suppression by using arc-shaped wing plates with rough surfaces. The device consists of two parts, namely, a rotary swinging system and a collector system. The rotary swinging system includes a collector riser, steering bearings, nanometer material arc-shaped power generation wing plates, and flexible tail plates. The collector system includes telescopic power generation cylinders, a waterproof electric slip ring, and a waterproof power transmission line. The suppression of energy-consumption-free vortex-induced vibration is realized under the combined action that the nanometer material arc-shaped power generation wing plates divide a flowing space and adjust a flow direction, the nanometer material arc-shaped power generation wing plates drive the flexible tail plates to swing to destroy a tail vortex street, and hemispherical bulges and trumpet-shaped deflector holes disturb a boundary layer around flow.
US11306691B2	Air box with integrated filter media An apparatus and a method are provided for an air box with an integrated air filter to communicate air flow from an exterior of the air filter to an air intake of an automobile engine. The air filter comprises a filter material that surrounds at least a portion of an interior cavity of the air filter. An end cap is affixed to a distal end of the filter material, and a wire support extends along at least a portion of the exterior surface of the filter material. The air box comprises a housing portion and a mount portion. The housing portion is configured to direct air drawn through the filter material into the interior cavity of the air filter and then into the air intake of the automobile engine. The mount portion is configured to support the air box and the air filter once installed within an automobile engine bay.
US11306687B2	Engine exhaust manifold An engine exhaust manifold including exhaust inlet parts at four locations corresponding to a plurality of exhaust ports, one exhaust outlet part, and an exhaust confluence part to collect exhaust gas from each of the exhaust inlet parts and send to the exhaust outlet part. An EGR passage part to send EGR gas toward an intake passage is formed.
US11306686B2	Fluid control valve A fluid control valve includes a housing body, a valve member, and a cap. The housing body includes a pipe part and a valve housing part. The valve housing part includes a valve opening, a pair of flat surfaces and an open end. In addition, the valve housing part houses the valve member configured to open and close the valve opening. The valve housing part has a central axis oriented perpendicular to a central axis of the pipe part. The cap closes the open end of the valve housing part. The flat surfaces are formed on opposite sides of a plane including the central axis of the valve housing part and the central axis of the pipe part. Each of the flat surfaces extend perpendicularly to the central axis of the valve housing.
US11306682B2	Concentric turbomachine with trailing edge An axial flow turbomachine (102) for producing thrust to propel an aircraft is shown. The turbomachine has an inner duct (202) and an outer duct (204), both of which are annular and concentric with one another. An inner fan (206) is located in the inner duct, and is configured to produce a primary pressurised flow (P). An outer fan (207) is located in an outer duct, and is configured to produce a secondary pressurised flow (S). The outer fan has a hollow hub (208) through which the inner duct passes. A swept area of the outer fan is from 2 to 20 times greater than a swept area of the inner fan.
US11306670B1	Systems and methods for relative humidity sensor diagnostics Methods and systems are provided for diagnosing a humidity sensor in an engine. In one example, a method may include heating intake air entering an intake passage of an engine using heat recirculated from an exhaust system of the engine. A response of the humidity sensor to the heating of the intake air may be used to assess an integrity of the humidity sensor.
US11306663B2	Gas turbine engine A gas turbine engine for an aircraft, including the following: a core engine including a turbine, a compressor, and a core shaft connecting the turbine to the compressor; a fan, which is positioned upstream of the core engine, wherein the fan includes a plurality of fan blades; and a gear box which can be driven by the core shaft, wherein the fan can be driven at a lower rotational speed than the core shaft by means of the gear box, wherein the core shaft is designed as a drive shaft for the gear box and has at least one axial first region which has a diameter greater than the diameter of at least one axial second region, wherein the at least one first region is arranged axially between the drive side of the gear box and a mounting and/or attachment on a static part of the gas turbine engine.
US11306660B2	Transfer tube manifold with integrated plugs A gas turbine engine fuel supply system has a plurality of fuel nozzles fluidly connected to a source of fuel by transfer tubes extending between the fuel nozzles. At least one plug extends between first and second adjacent nozzles of the set of fuel nozzles. The plug has a first end plugging a port on the first adjacent nozzle and a second end plugging another port on the second adjacent nozzle.
US11306659B2	Plug resistant effusion holes for gas turbine engine An effusion cooling hole for a component associated with a gas turbine engine extends along a longitudinal axis. The effusion cooling hole includes an inlet section spaced apart from a first surface of the component. The inlet section includes a face orientated transverse to the first surface and defines an inlet through the face that has a first diameter. The effusion cooling hole includes an outlet at a second surface of the component and downstream from the inlet section. The effusion cooling hole includes a diverging section downstream from the inlet section and upstream from the outlet. The diverging section is defined substantially external to a thickness of the component, and the effusion cooling hole transitions from the first diameter to a second diameter at the diverging section. The effusion cooling hole includes an intermediate section that fluidly connects the diverging section to the outlet.
US11306651B2	Method of operating an internal combustion engine A method of operating a rotary engine including a rotor engaged to a shaft and rotationally received in a housing to define a plurality of working chambers of variable volume, including delivering a pilot quantity of fuel into a pilot cavity in successive communication with the working chambers, igniting the pilot quantity of fuel within the pilot cavity, and delivering a main quantity of fuel into the working chambers downstream of the successive communication of the pilot cavity with the working chambers, where at least one of the pilot quantity and the main quantity is varied between successive rotations of the shaft.
US11306650B2	Combustion chamber structure of engine An engine system includes a combustion chamber including a cylinder formed in an engine and a piston configured to reciprocate inside the cylinder, a spark plug disposed in a ceiling part of the combustion chamber, and a water injection device configured to inject water into the combustion chamber through a plurality of nozzle holes facing the inside of the combustion chamber. The piston has a cavity in an upper surface thereof. The water injection device injects water into the cavity in a compression stroke at a timing when an extension of axes of at least some of the nozzle holes intersects the cavity. The cavity has a bottom part where the water injected by the water injection device collides, and a raising part configured to raise the water spreading along the bottom part toward the water injection device.
US11306649B2	Engine system Provided is an engine system including: a bypass pipe (bypass flow passage) connecting an upstream side and a downstream side of the turbine on an exhaust flow passage; a bypass valve configured to open and close the bypass flow passage; and a catalytic activation controller configured to control the bypass valve and a compression ratio of a combustion chamber.
US11306645B2	Cooling water control valve device A housing unit includes a cylindrical passage member, through which cooling water flows. A valve unit includes a valve main body rotatable around its axis and a valve opened portion formed in an outer peripheral surface of the valve main body, through which the cooling water can pass. A valve seat unit includes a positioned member and a valve seat surface. An outer peripheral surface of the positioned member is positioned in a radial direction by an inner peripheral surface of the cylindrical passage member and the positioned member is movable in an axial direction in a reciprocal manner. The valve seat surface holds a fluid tight condition between the valve seat surface and the valve main body when it is in contact with the outer peripheral surface of the valve main body. A biasing member biases the valve seat unit in such a way that the valve seat surface is pushed to the outer peripheral surface of the valve main body. The cylindrical passage member includes a groove formed in an inner peripheral surface thereof at least in a part of an overlapping area, at which the cylindrical passage member and the positioned member overlap each other in the axial direction. The groove is recessed in a radial-outward direction from the inner peripheral surface.
US11306640B2	Abnormality detection apparatus for electrically heated catalyst The electrically heated catalyst to which the present disclosure is applied is provided in a hybrid vehicle capable of switching its running mode between EV mode and HC mode and supplied with electrical energy before the internal combustion engine is started. An abnormality detection apparatus calculates an electrical energy parameter relating to the integrated value of electrical power actually supplied to the electrically heated catalyst (actually supplied electrical power) over a specific period of time from the time when supply of electrical power to the electrically heated catalyst is started and detects an abnormality of the electrically heated catalyst by comparing the electrical energy parameter with a threshold. The threshold is set according to the rate of decrease of the charge level of a battery (charge level decrease rate) during a period in which electrical power is supplied to the electrically heated catalyst.
US11306637B1	Heat transfer device, system and method to boost fuel economy in diesel powered vehicles A heat exchanging device uses a shell and tube structure whereby a portion of a diesel fuel line with or without a portion of a diesel exhaust fluid line, is placed in heat-exchanging relationship with a portion of the shell. Hot fluid flowing through the shell in a vortex-like fashion heats the diesel fuel line and the diesel exhaust fluid line to improve diesel fuel mileage and diesel exhaust efficiency.
US11306636B2	Plant and air pollution control method A plant according to an embodiment includes a gas turbine; a heat recovery unit that includes a primary heat recovery steam generator in which a primary heat exchanging unit generates primary steam by exchanging heat that is the thermal energy of the flue gas from the gas turbine, and a secondary heat recovery steam generator that is installed independently from the primary heat exchanging unit, and in which a secondary heat exchanging unit generates secondary steam by exchanging heat that is the thermal energy of the flue gas partly having exchanged heat in the primary heat exchanging unit included in the primary heat recovery steam generator; a primary steam turbine; a CO2 recovery unit; and a first reboiler heat supply line.
US11306634B2	Arrangement with internal combustion engine and heat exchanger The present disclosure describes an arrangement for a motor vehicle including an internal combustion engine, a heat exchanger for cooling exhaust gas present in the internal combustion engine, and an exhaust system for discharging the exhaust gas. The heat exchanger has a channel system including at least one exhaust gas channel, through which an exhaust path leads, and at least one coolant channel, through which a coolant path of a coolant leads, fluidically separate from the exhaust gas path and arranged in a heat-transferring manner with the exhaust gas path for heat exchange during operation. A cooling gas outlet, opening into the exhaust gas path upstream of the channel system, is provided for introducing a cooling gas into the exhaust gas path upstream of the channel system.
US11306633B2	Oil separating device The present invention relates to an oil separating device for crankcase ventilation of an internal combustion engine, comprising an oil separator having a gas inlet line, which has an outlet end, and a gap-defining element, wherein the gas inlet line for flowing blow-by gas has an inner wall and an outer wall, wherein an inner annular gap is formed or can be formed between the gap-defining element and the outlet end on the inner wall of the gas inlet line and an outer annular gap is formed or can be formed between the gap-defining element and the outlet end of the outer wall of the gas inlet line, wherein, in the flow direction, an inner baffle is arranged behind the inner annular gap and an outer baffle is arranged behind the outer annular gap.
US11306622B2	Coal fired power generation system and supercritical CO2 cycle system thereof A coal-fired power generation system and a supercritical CO2 cycle system thereof are provided. The supercritical CO2 cycle system includes a compressor unit and a turbine unit. The turbine unit includes a preceding stage heater, a preceding stage turbine, a last stage heater and a last stage turbine successively connected in series. An exhaust port of at least one of compressors in the compressor unit is in communication with the turbine unit through a split flow pipe, and a communication position between the split flow pipe and the turbine unit is located downstream of a suction port of the preceding stage turbine. An auxiliary regenerator and an auxiliary heater are provided at the split flow pipe, and the auxiliary regenerator is located upstream of the auxiliary heater.
US11306619B2	Seal support structure for a circumferential seal of a gas turbine engine A seal support structure is provided for a circumferential seal. In one embodiment, the seal support structure includes an engine support structure, a seal support, and a shoulder joining the engine support and seal support. The shoulder offsets the engine support from the seal support, and the shoulder and the seal support structure are configured to dampen vibration for the circumferential seal. The seal support structure may employ one or more dampening elements or materials to interoperate with a seal support structure to dampen vibration to a seal system.
US11306617B2	Shroud for a gas turbine engine Shrouds and shroud segments for gas turbine engines are provided. In one embodiment, a shroud segment for a gas turbine engine having a rotor blade stage and a nozzle stage is provided. The shroud segment comprises a forward end defining an outer wall of the rotor blade stage and an aft end defining an outer wall of the nozzle stage. The aft end defines at least a portion of an opening therethrough for receipt of a nozzle, and the forward end and the aft end form a single, continuous component. In another embodiment, a gas turbine engine is provided, having a shroud with a forward end positioned near a leading edge of a plurality of rotor blades of a rotor blade stage and an aft end positioned near a trailing edge of a plurality of nozzles of a nozzle stage. Methods of assembling a gas turbine engine also are provided.
US11306604B2	HPC case clearance control thermal control ring spoke system A case clearance control system comprising a blade outer air seal support structure having a plurality of protrusions extending radially from the blade outer air seal support structure opposite a blade outer air seal proximate the blade outer air seal support structure; a thermal control ring coupled to the blade outer air seal support structure, the thermal control ring including a plurality of receivers configured to couple with the plurality of protrusions; a thermal break formed between the plurality of protrusions and the plurality of receivers, the thermal break configured to control heat transfer between the blade outer air seal support structure and the thermal control ring; and a plurality of flow passages formed between the blade outer air seal support structure, the thermal control ring and the plurality of protrusions, the plurality of flow passages configured to allow cooling air flow to condition the thermal control ring and maintain thermal control ring dimensions.
US11306603B2	Steam turbine A steam turbine includes a rotary shaft configured to rotate about an axis, a rotor blade including a rotor blade body extending radially outward from the rotary shaft, and a shroud on an end outside in a radial direction, a casing enclosing the rotor blade from outside in the radial direction and including a cavity accommodating the shroud on an inner circumference of the casing, a plurality of seal fins protruding radially inward from an opposing surface that faces the shroud in the cavity such that a clearance is between an outer circumferential surface of the shroud and the plurality of seal fins, and a plurality of swirl breaks upstream of the plurality of seal fins located furthest upstream in a direction of the axis in the cavity, the plurality of swirl breaks being arranged at intervals in a circumferential direction.
US11306592B2	Reverse cycle machine provided with a turbine A reverse compression cycle machine includes an evaporator, a compressor and a condenser arranged in series along a path of a working fluid in the machine, further including a boundary layer turbine placed between the condenser and the evaporator. The turbine includes a set of power disks mounted on a shaft which rotates inside a volume of a rotor casing, an inlet opening for introducing a working fluid in a stator volume, a stator nozzle, which accelerates the flow in a direction that is tangential to the power disks, and a discharge of a working fluid. The rotor casing includes a drain of a liquid fraction of the working fluid from the peripheral part of the power disks in order to avoid its concentration in the peripheral part of the volume of the rotor casing.
US11306588B2	Method of treating tunnel collapse using pavilion support A method of treating tunnel collapse includes leveling a collapse body and moving a pavilion support under the collapse cavity, lifting a shield plate until a lower edge of the shield plate surpasses a contour line of an initial supporting arch of a tunnel, connecting a bottom column and inserting a padding plate under a column. If the hydraulic prop retracts, the column, the bottom column, the padding plate and the hydraulic prop bear a load from the shield plate. Mounting and connecting the initial supporting arch, welding the intersection point of the column and the initial supporting arch, cutting off the column in the initial supporting arch. Transferring the load of the shield plate from the pavilion support to an initial supporting shed, spraying fast-setting concrete to a grid arch to form a closed shell, and pumping filling material to fill the space of the collapse cavity.
US11306579B2	Mud angle determination by equalizing the response of buttons for electromagnetic imager tools Aspects of the subject technology relate to systems and methods for identifying a mud angle associated with an electromagnetic imager tool based on variations in mud effect removed quantities of tool measurements made by the electromagnetic imager tool. Tool measurements made through one or more measurement units of an electromagnetic imager tool can be received. The one or more measurement units can have azimuthal sensitivity and the electromagnetic imager tool can operate to log a wellbore in a formation in making the measurements. One or more mud effect removal techniques can be applied to the tool measurements across a plurality of mud angle estimates to generate mud effect removed quantities for the one or more measurement units across the plurality of mud angle estimates. A mud angle associated with the electromagnetic imager tool can be identified from the plurality of mud angle estimates based on an amount of variation between the mud effect removed quantities across the one or more measurement units for each of the plurality of mud angle estimates.
US11306575B2	Releasably connectible downhole flow diverter for separating gases from liquids A reservoir production assembly for disposition within a wellbore that extends into a subterranean formation is disclosed. The reservoir production assembly includes a flow diverter including a cavity. The flow diverter defines a reservoir fluid receiver, a reservoir fluid-conducting space, a reservoir fluid discharge communicator, a gas-depleted reservoir fluid receiver, a gas-depleted reservoir fluid-conducting space, and a gas-depleted reservoir fluid discharge communicator. The reservoir production assembly includes a downhole-disposed reservoir fluid-supplying conductor for receiving the reservoir fluid from a downhole wellbore space and conducting the received reservoir fluid to the reservoir fluid receiver, and an on-off tool effecting releasable coupling of the reservoir fluid receiver of the flow diverter to the downhole-disposed reservoir fluid-supplying conductor with effect that fluid coupling of the flow diverter to the downhole-disposed reservoir fluid-supplying conductor is effected. At least a portion of the on-off tool is disposed within the cavity of the flow diverter.
US11306563B2	Drilling rig communication systems, devices, and methods Systems, devices, and methods for carrying out communications on a drilling rig are presented. A drilling collaboration platform may be used to schedule tasks on the drilling rig and communicate with third parties. The drilling collaboration platform may be configured to generate vendor lists, send notifications and alerts to third parties, generate forms required for completing tasks, and gather data from the drilling rig.
US11306560B2	Apparatus, systems and methods for isolation during multistage hydraulic fracturing A flow control apparatus is provided comprising: a housing including a port; a housing passage disposed within the housing; a flow control member, displaceable, relative to the port, for effecting opening of the port; and a co-operating member. The flow control member and the co-operating member are co-operatively configured such that displacement of the flow control member, relative to the port, is with effect that a force is applied by the flow control member to the co-operating member, with effect that a seating surface is obtained for receiving a flow communication interference body that is being conducted through the housing passage. The seating surface is obtained in response to a deformation effected by the applied force.
US11306558B1	Rotating and reciprocating swivel apparatus and method What is provided is a method and apparatus wherein a rotating and reciprocating swivel of adjustable stroke length and shearable by ram blow out preventers can be detachably connected to an annular blowout preventer thereby separating the lower wellbore from the riser. In one embodiment the mandrel of the swivel extends through a sleeve/housing. The sleeve/housing has a wiping arrangement of improved configuration that wipes debris from the mandrel, preventing entry of the debris into the sleeve/housing. Ports enable discharge of the removed debris from the area of the sleeve/housing.
US11306557B2	Subsea tree with rotatable production outlet A Christmas tree may include a body and a sleeve. The body may include a production flowbore therethrough, a longitudinal flowbore intersecting the production flowbore, and optionally one or more annulus passageways, crossover passageways, or chemical injection passageways intersecting at least one of the production flowbore and the longitudinal flowbore. The sleeve may be attached to and circumferentially rotatable about at least a portion of the body and may include a transverse flowbore therethrough. An annular fluid gallery may be formed between the body and the sleeve. At least one of the longitudinal flowbore and the one or more annulus passageways, crossover passageways, or chemical injection passageways may include a flowpath connecting to the annular fluid gallery or is configured to be connected to a flowpath connecting to the annular fluid gallery.
US11306552B2	Control system for a well drilling platform with remote access A control system and method for a well drilling platform having a plurality well platform systems is provided. The control system includes at least one remote communication unit (RCU), and a controller. The controller is in communication with the well platform systems, and has at least one processor, and a memory device that is coupled to the processor and that stores the instructions. When executed by the processor, the instructions cause the controller to communicate with the well platform systems to receive information from one or more well platform systems and to send system control commands to the one or more well platform systems. The controller and the at least one RCU are configured to electronically communicate with one another information relating to at least one of the well platform systems.
US11306543B2	Drill bit cutter fitted with a threaded member Methods and systems for maintaining a drill bit includes positioning a cutter within a recess of a drill bit body so that an initial edge is positioned at a first location that is a radially outward location relative to a blade of the drill bit. A threaded member extended through a central bore of the cutter can be rotated to releasably secure the cutter to the drill bit. The subterranean well is drilled with the drill bit. The threaded member can be rotated in a second direction so that the cutter can be rotated relative to the recess and the initial edge of the cutter is positioned at a second location that is rotationally offset from the first location. The threaded member can be rotated to releasably re-securing the cutter to the drill bit and the subterranean well can continue to be drilled with the drill bit.
US11306542B2	Thermally stable polycrystalline diamond and methods of making the same A method of making a cutting element includes subjecting a mixture of diamond particles and a carbonate material to high-pressure high-temperature sintering conditions to form a sintered carbonate-polycrystalline diamond body having a diamond matrix of diamond grains bonded together and carbonates residing in the interstitial regions between the diamond grains, the carbonate material having a non-uniform distribution throughout the diamond matrix. The carbonate-polycrystalline diamond body is subjected to a controlled temperature, a controlled pressure condition or a combination thereof, to effect an at least partial decomposition of the carbonate material.
US11306538B2	Fluid operated drilling device and a method for drilling a hole using a fluid operated drilling device A fluid operated drilling device for drilling a hole said device having a hammer, a rotation device and a drill rod. The hammer includes a tubular main body, a back head, a cylindrical piston housing, a reciprocating piston, a space, a valve unit and a fluid pressure supply unit. A hollow portion of the piston is open to lead pressurized operating fluid directly to the hollow portion from the fluid pressure supply passage. The hammer includes an axial exhaust passage formed between the main body and the piston housing. The valve unit includes a valve exhaust passage and the piston has a lower part and an upper part detachably connected to each other. The invention also relates to a method for drilling a hole using the fluid operated drilling device.
US11306527B2	Furniture fitting A furniture fitting includes a first fitting portion to be fixed to a furniture panel, and a second fitting portion to be fixed to a movably-mounted furniture part, the second fitting portion being pivotally connected to the first fitting portion. The first fitting portion includes a mounting portion having a fastening device for mounting the mounting portion to the furniture panel, and the first fitting portion includes a coupling portion hingedly connected to the second fitting portion. The coupling portion is releasably connected to the mounting portion, and the mounting portion includes a housing. The coupling portion, when connected with the mounting portion, is received within the housing. The coupling portion is releasably connected to the mounting portion by a locking device, the locking device including a movably-mounted locking element for releasably locking the coupling portion, and the locking element is pressurized by a force storage member.
US11306526B2	Hinges A hinge is provided with two elements pivotally connected together for relative rotational movement about a hinge axis. The hinge has a spring formed of bent wire. The spring is mounted on one of the elements and a mechanism causes it to apply a biassing force between the two elements over at least part of their relative rotational movement. The biassing force is transmitted via a finger on the spring. A spreader is arranged to fit over the finger for engagement with the other element. The spreader extends continuously over the finger and engages substantially the whole of the finger.
US11306523B2	Pinch-preventing safety hinge for hinged door The present invention provides a pinch-preventing safety hinge for a hinged door, which connects a door to a doorjamb mounted in a wall so that the door is opened or closed while rotating about the doorjamb and which includes a hinge unit including a fixing member secured to the doorjamb and a rotary member secured to one side end of the door and hingedly coupled to the fixing member so as to rotate, and a shielding unit rotatably coupled to a rotary shaft of the fixing member or the rotary member, the shielding unit being fixed to the fixing member by hinge motion of the hinge unit.
US11306520B2	Handle device There is provided a handle device. The handle device includes a base member, a handle member, and a swing member. The handle member has a grasp portion. The swing member includes a handle-side abutting portion, a base-side abutting portion, and a rotational pivot portion. As the handle-side abutting portion comes away from a bottom portion of the base member, the base-side abutting portion comes close to the bottom portion of the base member.
US11306510B2	Cylinder assembly with rotating winged latch bolt for sliding door lockset Cylinder assembly with rotating winged latch bolt for sliding door lockset includes a special latch bolt that holds in an extended position and holds in a retracted position which alternates back and forth by pressing the latch bolt with your finger. The special latch bolt rotates ninety degrees by turning the doorknob, door handle, thumb turn, or coin turn and rotates back ninety degrees by turning the doorknob, door handle, thumb turn, or coin turn back. The special latch bolt has a special winged shape that catches within the strike plate when rotated ninety degrees and releases from the strike plate when rotated ninety degrees back. Also there is a special face plate or cylinder face plate with tabs or notches that serve as a two-position mechanical stop to prevent the latch bolt from over rotating beyond ninety degrees in either direction.
US11306502B2	Sunshade support and sunshade A sunshade support and a sunshade, which includes an intermediate connecting tube, a buckle structure and a connecting piece, wherein the top end of the intermediate connecting tube is connected with the connecting piece, a top folding tube is distributed along the circumferential direction of the connecting piece; the bottom end of the intermediate connecting tube is inserted into the buckle structure, a supporting short tube is distributed along the circumferential direction of the buckle structure and the end of the supporting short tube away from the buckle structure is connected with the corresponding top folding tube, respectively; a button part is provided on the buckle structure, the intermediate connecting tube is inserted into the buckle structure when pressing or pushing the button part, and the buckle structure is capable of being fixed on the intermediate connecting tube when the applied force on the button part is released.
US11306501B2	Trampoline retrofit with side walls and canopy A retrofit trampoline into a gazebo, covered shelter, or the like is created by attaching upward-oriented and/or sideways oriented poles to existing vertical poles of a trampoline. A removable cap is attached to the top of the vertical poles onto which the upward-oriented and/or sideways oriented poles can attach. The sideways oriented polls can be a rollable fabric which can be unrolled to form sidewalls. The upward-oriented poles can meet and/or cross at a horizontal center of the trampoline and/or support a canopy cover which is solid and/or mesh. Seats, such as circumferential seats, which extend around the perimeter of the trampoline inside of the side walls can be added. In some embodiments, a tensioning rope attaches the removable cap to a lower section of the trampoline or ground for support and in some embodiments a tensioning rope is used to hold the cap to the vertical poles.
US11306498B2	In-airport guitar kiosk and related methods An in-airport guitar kiosk and related methods for allowing air travelers an opportunity to relax and play guitar before or after flights (to improve the passenger journey) as well as the opportunity to try a novel travel guitar uniquely suited for air travel.
US11306493B2	Formwork brace and method of constructing a formwork brace Disclosed herein is a concrete formwork suitable for use in shuttering formwork. The formwork comprises a base and a plurality of clamping brackets. The clamping brackets further comprise clamping members that are engageable with the clamping brackets to define clamping portion that are aligned with openings on the base. The base is pivotally connected to a shuttering contact member which is supported by two braces. Also disclosed herein is a method of constructing the disclosed formwork.
US11306490B1	Roofing safety system The roofing safety system is a safety device. The roofing safety system is configured for use with a pitched roof. The roofing safety system forms an anchor point to which individuals and materials are attached during the installation of the pitched roof. The roofing safety system comprises a plurality of anchor plates, a master spar, and a shingle shelf. The plurality of anchor plates secure the roofing safety system to the pitched roof. The plurality of anchor plates attach to the master spar. The shingle shelf attaches to the plurality of anchor plates. The plurality of anchor plates removably attach to the pitched roof. Any individuals on the pitched roof are anchored to the master spar using a cord and a carabiner. Any roofing materials, such as a plurality of shingles, located on the pitched roof are secured using the shingle shelf.
US11306489B2	Electronic trowel Electronic trowels, systems and methods of applying a layer of material using the present electronic trowels. The various electronic trowels include a handle, at least one blade, and one or more sensors residing on or within the trowel. The trowel is for applying a layer of material over a surface area, whereby the one or more sensors detect and collect material installation data during application of the layer of material over the surface area. One or more electronic devices coupled to the one or more sensors receive and analyze the collected installation data for monitoring and controlling the application of the layer of material to ensure a desired end product is achieved. Application errors may be detected before, during, or after the installation process.

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