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US11316417B2	Rotor of a claw pole machine A Rotor of a claw pole machine (12), having a rotor winding (5), which is surrounded by pole fingers of claw poles, for generating an excitation field, and having permanent magnets (8, 10), wherein two permanent magnets (8), which are arranged offset in the circumferential direction and have a magnetization in the circumferential direction, are allocated to a pole finger (3) in the axial direction next to the pole finger, a magnetic flux guiding element (9) being arranged between the two permanent magnets (8).
US11316412B2	Motor including sensor magnet A motor includes an annular sensor magnet rotated integrally with a rotation shaft of a rotor by a bushing, and a rotation detector arranged opposed to the sensor magnet to detect rotation information of the rotor. The bushing includes an annular fixing portion, which is fixed to the rotation shaft, and an extension, which extends from the fixing portion in an axial direction of the rotation shaft and is embedded in the sensor magnet. The extension includes an axial engagement portion engaged with the sensor magnet in the axial direction inside the sensor magnet.
US11316385B2	Wireless energy transfer An example operation may include one or more of determining an energy state of a system, generating a wireless energy transfer request based on the energy state, transmitting the wireless energy transfer request to another system, receiving wireless energy transfer information from the other system, performing a wireless energy exchange with the other system based on the wireless energy transfer information, and receiving a data block associated with the wireless energy exchange from the other system.
US11316379B2	Wireless charging system, wireless charging device and wireless powered device A wireless charging system is provided. The wireless charging system includes: a wireless charging device and a wireless powered device. The wireless charging device includes a light emitter configured to emit infrared light. The wireless powered device includes a surface with a light receiver disposed thereon, where the light receiver is configured to receive the infrared light emitted from the light emitter. The light receiver is further configured to convert light energy of the received infrared light into electrical energy and supply the electrical energy to power the wireless powered device.
US11316377B2	Wireless power transceivers for supplementing wireless power delivery and extending range Wireless transceiver devices are disclosed herein that enhance and otherwise extend the wireless power transmission range of a retrodirective wireless power transmission system. The wireless transceiver devices can be configured to operate, in whole or in part, as additional wireless power transmission systems enhancing range of the retrodirective wireless power transmission system and/or delivering supplemental wireless power to devices within range.
US11316373B2	Reactive power regulation of wireless power transfer network A wireless power transmission method of control where an electrical parameter of a resonant circuit, which is part of a transmitter antenna tuning and coupling unit, determines in some part the regulation current level target or power level target of the resonant circuit. By using an electrical parameter of a resonant circuit to establish a current or power regulation level of the resonant circuit, a maximum limitation is established for the electrical current and voltage of the antenna tuning and coupling unit in order to operate the electrical elements within safe design limits. Additionally, energy is managed entering the transmitter antenna tuning and coupling unit for variable load at the receiver.
US11316365B2	Modular uninterruptible power supply and power distribution system A system includes a converter unit and a power distribution unit (PDU) having at least one power outlet, a first power port configured to be coupled to an AC power source and second power port coupled to the converter unit. The PDU is further configured to selectively provide power to the at least one outlet from the first and second power ports. The PDU may include a power strip with an elongate enclosure and a plurality of receptacles at a face of the enclosure, and the converter may include a rack mountable converter unit coupled to the power strip by a power cable and a communications cable. The rack mountable converter unit may include an inverter and a battery.
US11316343B2	Interactive user control of power utilization Embodiments provide capabilities by which a user provides interactive inputs for allocating use of the available power budget of an IHS (Information Handling System) when a conflict in the power budget is detected. The power demand of the IHS processor(s) is monitored. When a USB device is coupled to the IHS, a power output to the USB device is enabled within the available power budget. Upon detecting an increase in the power demand of the processor, the power budget may be exceeded. The user is then prompted to specify whether to prioritize use of the power budget for performance of the IHS or for charging the USB device. Based on inputs provided by the user, the processor may be throttled or the power output to the USB device may be reduced. The user is thus provided a capability for resolving individual power budget conflicts based on the user's current preferences.
US11316341B2	Surge protection power supply clamping circuit, chip and communication terminal Disclosed are a surge protection power supply clamping circuit, a chip and a communication terminal. The power supply clamping circuit comprises at least one driving unit and discharging unit; the discharging units are connected to the corresponding driving units respectively, and the driving units are connected to the same time delay unit respectively; the time delay units and the discharging units are connected to a power supply voltage and a ground line respectively. The driving units or the discharging units are sequentially controlled in the power supply voltage wiring direction, so that the sum values of an equivalent conduction resistance and an equivalent metal wiring resistance of respective discharging units are the same, and therefore, the uneven conduction of an NMOS transistor caused by different metal wiring resistances due to different metal wiring lengths of the NMOS transistor of each discharging unit can be counteracted.
US11316338B2	Device for supplying energy to at least one load in a potentially explosive atmosphere The present disclosure relates to a device for supplying energy to at least one intrinsically safe load in a potentially explosive area, the device including: a housing with an electrical input and with at least one electrical output, the housing is encapsulated in a pressure-proof manner, the electrical input encapsulated in a pressure-proof manner, and the at least one electrical output being intrinsically safe; an ignition protection module arranged in the housing and electrically connected to the electrical input and to the at least one electrical output, wherein the ignition protection module converts an electrical voltage present at the electrical input into an intrinsically safe electrical voltage and provides it at least one electrical output there, wherein the ignition protection module converts an electrical current present at the electrical input into an intrinsically safe electrical current and provides it at the at least one electrical output there.
US11316332B2	Bracket for power transmission poles and a method of fabricating the same The present invention discloses a bracket (1) with enhanced loadbearing capacity for power transmission poles wherein protrusions (52) extending from loadbearing plates (12, 13) are inserted into horizontal and parallel slots made in the base plate (11), and protrusions (52) are bent behind the base plate (11). After insertion and bending, protrusions (52) portion of loadbearing plates (12, 13) are secured by welding on both sides namely the front and rear of the base plate (11). The bending of protrusions of loadbearing plates (12, 13) behind the base plate (11) and welding it on both sides considerably improve the strength of the joint, and thus the loadbearing capacity of the bracket is significantly enhanced.
US11316317B2	High power and multiple wavelength Raman laser of visible light A multi-wavelength laser device equipped with a linear cavity along which a first direction and a second direction opposite to the first direction are defined is disclosed. The apparatus includes, along the first direction, a first optical component, a gain and Raman medium, a sum frequency generation crystal, a first second-harmonic generation crystal and a second optical component. The first optical component allows a pumping light to transmit therethrough and be incident in the first direction. The gain and Raman medium receives the pumping light from the first optical component and generates a first infrared base laser light having a first wavelength and a second infrared base laser light having a second wavelength. The first and second optical components form a laser cavity for oscillation of these two infrared base laser lights. The sum frequency generation crystal receives the first and second infrared base laser lights and generates a first visible laser light having a third wavelength. The first second-harmonic generation crystal receives the first infrared base laser light and generates a second visible laser light having a fourth wavelength. The second optical element allows the first and the second visible laser lights to emit out along the first direction.
US11316310B2	Electrical connector An electrical connector includes an insulating housing, a center ground plate fastened in the insulating housing, a strengthening ground strap, and a terminal assembly fastened in the insulating housing. The strengthening ground strap is fastened to the insulating housing. The strengthening ground strap has a front slice and two lateral slices. The front slice is fastened to a front surface of the center ground plate. The top edge of the front slice is higher than a top surface of the center ground plate. A bottom edge of the front slice projects beyond a bottom surface of the center ground plate. The two lateral slices are disposed to two opposite sides of the center ground plate. The terminal assembly includes a plurality of high speed terminals disposed among the front slice and the two lateral slices.
US11316299B2	Electric power device with integrated safety measure In a particular implementation, an electric power device includes a body, a receptacle configured to receive a plug, and a source connector configured to be coupled to a power source. The electric power device further includes a casing coupled to the body and movable with respect to the body between a first position in which the casing defines an enclosed chamber and access to the receptacle is inhibited and a second position in which the casing is configurable to enable access to the receptacle for receipt of the plug. A transition from the first position to the second position is configured to cause the receptacle to be electrically decoupled from the source connector when the casing is at the second position, and a transition from the second position to the first position is configured to cause the receptacle to be electrically coupled to the source connector when the casing is at the first position.
US11316298B1	Safety socket to prevent electric shock Provided is a safety socket, including a first conductive seat, a second conductive seat, a first terminal, a first insulator, a second terminal, a second insulator, a first conductive sheet and a second conductive sheet. The first conductive seat includes a first elastic body. The first elastic body includes a first elastic connecting portion and two first elastic pieces. Both ends of the first elastic connecting portion are respectively integrally formed with the bottom ends of the first elastic pieces. The second conductive seat includes a second elastic body and a second socket terminal. The second elastic body includes a second elastic connecting portion and two second elastic pieces. Both ends of the second elastic connecting portion are respectively integrally formed with the bottom ends of the first elastic pieces. The elastic body can be reset by its own elastic force without a spring.
US11316297B2	Electrical plug connector An electrical plug connector includes a metallic shell, an insulated housing in the metallic shell, plug terminals held in the insulated housing, and a hook member. Hook portions of the hook member extend into the insertion cavity of the insulated housing. Each hook portion forms a first positioning portion and a second positioning portion. When the electrical plug connector is mated with an electrical receptacle connector, the electrical plug connector can be positioned with the electrical receptacle connector through multiple contacts, thereby preventing the electrical plug connector from shaking.
US11316294B2	Miniaturized electrical connector systems Miniaturized electrical connector systems are disclosed herein. In exemplary aspects disclosed herein, the connector system includes a twinaxial female connector having a housing and at least one dielectric positioned therein. The at least one dielectric defines two parallel channels configured to receive at least a portion of two conductors of a twinaxial cable. The twinaxial female connector includes an oval interface configured to orient and align the conductors of the twinaxial cable with mating pins of a male connector. The twinaxial female connector further includes two spring-type interconnects positioned within the oval interface, each configured to directly contact a conductor of the twinaxial cable and a mating pin of the male connector. The twinaxial female connector further includes a retaining clip attached to an exterior of the housing with a lever arm biased towards and pivotable from an engaged orientation. Such features reduce the manufacturing complexity, cost, and overall size.
US11316291B2	Board mounting connector with inclination suppressing structure A board mounting type connector includes a housing, a plurality of contact portions to be extending from the housing toward a circuit board, and a plurality of protrusions to be protruding from the housing toward the circuit board. The plurality of contact portions are aligned along a width direction at a first position in a fitting direction. The connector and a mating connector are to be fit each other in the fitting direction. The width direction intersects the fitting direction. The plurality of protrusions are aligned along the width direction at a second position in the fitting direction. A distance between the first position and a position of a center of gravity of the connector in the fitting direction is longer than a distance between the second position and the position of the center of gravity in the fitting direction.
US11316277B2	Lens, lens antenna, remote radio unit, and base station This application provides implementations related to lenses. In one implementation, a lens comprises a substrate layer and a metal layer, wherein at least one surface of the substrate layer is a concave surface or a convex surface; the metal layer exists on the at least one surface of the substrate layer; the metal layer comprises a metal part and a hollow-out part, and the metal part or the hollow-out part is presented by using a graphics array; the graphics array comprises a plurality of first rings, the first ring comprises a plurality of graphic units, and a larger ring encircles a smaller ring in the plurality of first rings; and at least one of the following are different: size of graphic units comprised in two adjacent first rings, rotation angle of graphic units comprised in two adjacent first rings, or two adjacent first intervals, wherein the first interval is an interval between the two adjacent first rings.
US11316274B2	Semiconductor device package and method of manufacturing the same A semiconductor device package includes a substrate, a first molding compound and antenna layer. The substrate has a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The first molding compound is disposed on the first surface of the substrate. The antenna layer is disposed on the first molding compound. The substrate, the first molding compound and the antenna layer define a cavity.
US11316267B2	Devices and methods for mitigating external passive intermodulation sources in base station antennas The present disclosure describes an antenna mount kit. The antenna mount kit includes an antenna mount and a pipe clamp coupled to the antenna mount. The pipe clamp includes a front shell half and a rear shell half, the front shell half and the rear shall half having a front shell half inner surface and a rear shell half inner surface configured to cooperate with each other such that the mounting structure can be secured within the pipe clamp, at least two threaded bolts, a plurality of washers, and a plurality of nuts. The antenna mount kit may further include at least two isolation fasteners. The front shell half inner surface and the rear shell half inner surface each include a plurality of jagged teeth formed of a non-metallic material, at least two front shell bolt apertures through the front shell half, and at least two rear shell half bolt apertures through the rear shell half. The front shell half bolt apertures align with the rear shell half bolt apertures when securing the mounting structure within the pipe clamp. Antenna mount assemblies and methods for reducing external passive intermodulation from an antenna mount kit are also provided.
US11316260B2	Antenna arrangement for an aircraft An antenna arrangement for an aircraft for fastening to an outer side of an exterior skin of the aircraft has a body and side wall sections and a connecting section. The body is U-shaped or H-shaped if viewed from a predefined direction and can be flowed through with a low aerodynamic drag by a flow along the predefined direction. The antenna arrangement has one or more antennas in the form of a printed circuit board and of which each is fastened to the body and is fastenable directly to the outer side of the aircraft exterior skin at two first edges of the side wall sections which form two free ends of the U-shape or H-shape on a first side of the connecting section or, for the U-shape, on the connecting section and/or regions of the side wall sections, which regions adjoin the connecting section directly as the predefined direction is parallel to the flow direction during flight.
US11316255B2	Antenna and terminal device An antenna comprising a metal frame and at least one resonating structure. The metal frame includes a first radiating element and a second radiating element. The first radiating element includes a radiation arm coupled to a feedpoint. The second radiating element includes a suspended radiation arm. Each resonating structure includes a suspended radiation arm and a resonating component, and the suspended radiation arm is coupled to a ground point by using the resonating component.
US11316254B2	Apparatus and method for multi cell communication using beamforming in wireless communication system A multicell access method using beamforming in a wireless communication system is provided. In the method for operating a terminal, an access procedure for accessing a first base station using a first antenna and accessing a second base station using a second antenna is performed. Communication with the first base station is performed using the first antenna. Communication with the second base station is performed using the second antenna.
US11316246B2	Antenna device and display device provided with same There are provided an antenna device with improved antenna performance while suppressing a decrease in yield and a decrease in viewability, and a display device including the same. The antenna device includes an antenna substrate, a first antenna pattern formed on a first main surface of the antenna substrate, and a second antenna pattern formed on a second main surface opposite to the first main surface of the antenna substrate. The first antenna pattern and the second antenna pattern are formed such that positions on the front and back of the antenna substrate coincide with each other, and at least a part of the antenna substrate is transparent to transmit an image.
US11316245B2	Base station antenna The present disclosure relates to base station antennas. One example base station antenna includes at least two antennas, at least two outer cover structures, a fastening assembly, a connection assembly, and an upper cover, and each antenna is independently packaged in a radome. The fastening assembly includes a pole and a base. A bottom of the pole is mounted on the base. The connection assembly includes an antenna connection assembly, an outer cover connection assembly, and a pole connection assembly. The pole connection assembly is disposed on the pole, a top of the antenna is connected to the pole by using the antenna connection assembly and the pole connection assembly, and a bottom of the antenna is fastened on the bottom of the pole. Each of the outer cover structures is connected to the pole by using the outer cover connection assembly and the pole connection assembly.
US11316239B2	Waveguide transition between front and rear windows connected by a tapered plate to form upper and lower chambers that define an energy path through the transition The present invention features a waveguide transition. A waveguide transition is used to join two dissimilar segments of waveguide, in this case coplanar waveguide to rectangular waveguide, and vice-versa. Care taken during the design of the waveguide transition ensures that the reflection of electromagnetic waves, which may be traveling along the coplanar waveguide segment and toward the waveguide transition and subsequent rectangular waveguide segment, is minimized.
US11316238B2	High frequency film transmission line, antenna including the same and antenna-integrated image display device A film transmission line includes a dielectric layer including at least one of a liquid crystal polymer (LCP) structure or a cyclo olefin polymer (COP) structure, and an electrode line on the dielectric layer. A signal loss level (S21) defined of the film transmission line is −1.5 dB or more at a frequency in a range from 20 GHz to 30 GHz. The film transmission line may be applied to a high frequency thin film antenna and an image display device.
US11316231B2	Battery separators with improved conductance, improved batteries, systems, and related methods In accordance with at least selected embodiments, the present disclosure or invention is directed to improved battery separators, high conductance separators, improved lead-acid batteries, such as flooded lead-acid batteries, high conductance batteries, improved systems, and/or, improved vehicles including such batteries, and/or methods of manufacture or use of such separators or batteries, and/or combinations thereof. In accordance with at least certain embodiments, the present disclosure or invention is directed to improved lead acid batteries incorporating the improved separators and which exhibit increased conductance. Particular, non-limiting examples may include lead acid battery separators having structure or features designed to improve conductance, lower ER, lower water loss, and the like.
US11316226B2	Battery module A battery module includes: a cell stack including a first surface being a surface on one end in the first direction, a second surface being a surface on the other end in the first direction, a third surface being a surface on one end in a second direction that is a direction orthogonal to the first direction, a fourth surface being a surface on the other end in the second direction, a fifth surface being a surface on one end in a third direction orthogonal to the first direction and the second direction, and a sixth surface being a surface on the other end in the third direction; and a restraining member that restrains the cell stack. The restraining member includes: a pair of restraining plates restraining the cell stack in the first direction; and a pair of sandwiching plates sandwiching the cell stack in the third direction.
US11316225B2	Battery container having a floating connector A battery container is adapted to be disposed at a battery charging station for containing a battery which has a charging port. The battery container includes a container body, a floating connector, and a coupling board. The container body includes a rear wall that is formed with a through hole. The floating connector extends movably through the through hole of the rear wall. The coupling board is secured co-movably to the floating connector and is slidable on the rear wall. The floating connector and the coupling board are movable relative to the container body and along a plane parallel to the rear wall when the battery is inserted into a receiving space of the container body to electrically connect the charging port of the battery to the floating connector.
US11316216B2	Modular heat exchangers for battery thermal modulation A modular heat exchanger for battery thermal management having a plurality of similarly constructed heat exchange elements affixed to a cover plate and fluidly coupled with one another via a single external manifold structure that functions as both an inlet manifold and an outlet manifold for each of the heat exchange elements. Rigidity is improved with alternating tabs or overlapping tabs between adjacent elements, and/or side edges between adjacent elements having cutouts for receiving stiffening ribs formed in the cover plate. The external manifold structure provides additional stiffening for the interconnected heat exchange elements.
US11316209B2	Electric batteries The present invention relates to an arrangement 10 comprising plural electric battery cell modules. Each of the electric battery cell modules comprises at least one electric battery cell 12 and a module antenna 14. The arrangement further comprises a transmission line 16 operative as an antenna. The arrangement 10 is configured to provide near field electromagnetic coupling of data between the transmission line 16 and each of the plural battery cell modules by way of the module antenna 14.
US11316205B2	Lithium ion secondary battery and method of manufacturing the same A lithium ion secondary battery includes at least a positive electrode, a separator, a first intermediate layer, a second intermediate layer, and a negative electrode. The separator is arranged between the positive electrode and the negative electrode. The first intermediate layer is arranged between the separator and the negative electrode. The second intermediate layer is arranged between the first intermediate layer and the negative electrode. The first intermediate layer and the second intermediate layer are each a porous layer. The first intermediate layer contains at least a metal organic framework. The second intermediate layer is electrically insulating.
US11316200B2	Method for drying and purifying lithium bis(fluorosulfonyl)imide salt A method for drying and purifying a lithium bis(fluorosulfonyl)imide salt. Also, a method for producing a lithium bis(fluorosulfonyl)imide salt which is then dried and purified by the method. Further, a composition containing lithium bis(fluorosulfonyl)imide salt having a water content by mass of between 5 and 45 ppm. And, the use of the composition C in Li-ion batteries.
US11316194B2	Gel polymer electrolyte composition, gel polymer electrolyte prepared thereby, and lithium secondary battery including the gel polymer electrolyte The present invention relates to a gel polymer electrolyte composition and a lithium secondary battery including the same, and particularly, to a gel polymer electrolyte composition, in which flame retardancy is improved by including an ionic liquid, instead of a non-aqueous organic solvent, as well as a lithium salt, a polymerization initiator, and an oligomer having a specific structure, and a lithium secondary battery in which high-temperature stability is improved by including the same.
US11316193B2	Lithium borosilicate glass as electrolyte and electrode protective layer A lithium borosilicate composition, consisting essentially of a system of lithium oxide in combination with silicon oxide and boron oxide, wherein said lithium borosilicate comprises between 70-83 atomic % lithium based on the combined atomic percentages of lithium, boron and silicon, and wherein said lithium borosilicate is a glass, is disclosed.
US11316191B2	Electrochemical secondary cells for high-energy or high-power battery use An electrochemical cell for a secondary battery, preferably for use in an electric vehicle, is provided. The cell includes a solid metallic anode, which is deposited over a suitable current collector substrate during the cell charging process. Several variations of compatible electrolyte are disclosed, along with suitable cathode materials for building the complete cell.
US11316182B2	Fuel cell module A fuel cell module has: a first stacked body including a plurality of unit cells stacked on each other; and a second stacked body including a plurality of magnetic body sheets stacked on each other. The magnetic body sheets includes a coil. The first stacked body is superposed on the second stacked body so as to be electrically connected to the coil. A conductor serving as a part of the coil is embedded in each magnetic body sheet. The conductor has a first end portion and a second end portion exposed from surfaces of each magnetic body sheet on opposite sides from each other. The first end portion of the conductor of one of a set of magnetic body sheets adjacent to each other, among the magnetic body sheets, contacts the second end portion of the conductor of the other of the set of magnetic body sheets.
US11316178B2	Checking method of resin-framed membrane electrode assembly A checking method of a resin-framed membrane electrode assembly includes checking whether there is breakage in one of short sides of a first rectangular peripheral shape of a clearance provided in the resin-framed membrane electrode assembly without checking whether there is breakage in any other part of the clearance, the resin-framed membrane assembly including a solid polymer electrolyte membrane, a gas diffusion layer provided on the solid polymer electrolyte membrane, and a resin frame member that has a second rectangular peripheral shape and surrounds the solid polymer electrolyte membrane and the gas diffusion layer to provide the clearance between the resin frame member and the gas diffusion layer, the solid polymer electrolyte membrane being made from a solid polymer electrolyte membrane roll in which a solid polymer electrolyte membrane sheet is wound in a winding direction, long sides of the rectangular peripheral shape extending in the winding direction.
US11316177B2	Fuel cell joint separator and fuel cell A fuel cell joint separator includes a passage bead and an outer bead. In a dual seal section where the passage bead and the outer bead extend next to each other, a ridge protruding from one surface of a metal separator is formed integrally with the metal separator, between the passage bead and the outer bead. The height of the ridge is smaller than the height of the bead seal compressed by the tightening load. A joining line is provided between the outer bead and the ridge.
US11316174B2	Fuel cell stacks and methods for forming same for providing uniform fluid flow A fuel cell stack for providing uniform fluid flow through a plurality of plates is provided. The fuel cell stack includes a plurality of plates that define a plurality of fuel cells stacked with each other, each plate having a fuel inlet hole for receiving fuel and a fuel outlet hole for discharging fuel. The fuel cell stack includes a fuel inlet insert extending into the fuel inlet hole of at least some of the plurality of plates. The fuel inlet insert has an upstream end and a downstream end relative to a direction of fuel flow through the fuel inlet holes. The upstream end of the fuel inlet insert has a porosity and permeability less than a porosity and permeability of the downstream end of the fuel inlet insert such that the fuel insert provides uniform fuel flow through the plurality of plates.
US11316171B2	Conductive, anti-corrosive magnesium titanium oxide material A fuel cell bipolar plate (BPP) includes a metal substrate having a bulk portion and a surface portion comprising an anticorrosive, conductive material having oxygen vacancies and a formula (I): MgTi2O5-δ (I), where δ is any number between 0 and 3 optionally including a fractional part denoting the oxygen vacancies, the material having an electronic conductivity of about 2-10 S/m at room temperature in an ambient environment.
US11316170B2	Redox flow battery cell and redox flow battery A redox flow battery cell includes: an electrode to which an electrolyte solution is supplied; and a bipolar plate with which the electrode is arranged, wherein the bipolar plate has at least one groove portion through which the electrolyte solution flows, on a face on the electrode side, the electrode is made of a carbon fiber aggregate containing carbon fibers, and has a buried portion that is pressed toward the bipolar plate side and buried into the groove portion, and an amount of burial of the buried portion is not less than 0.2 mm and not more than 1.4 mm.
US11316169B2	Methods for forming electrocatalyst structures and electrodes comprising same Described herein are methods of forming an electrocatalyst structure on an electrode, comprising depositing a first layer on the electrode using atomic layer deposition (ALD), wherein the first layer comprises a plurality of discrete nanoparticles of a first electrocatalyst, and depositing one or more of a second layer on the first layer and the electrode using ALD, wherein the one or more second layer comprises a second electrocatalyst, wherein the first layer and the one or more second layers, collectively, form a multi-layer electrocatalyst structure on the electrode. Also described are electrodes having a multi-layer electrocatalyst structure. This abstract is intended as a scanning tool for purposes of searching in the particular art and is not intended to be limiting of the present disclosure.
US11316167B2	Anode electrode and electrochemical device containing the same The present application relates to an anode electrode and an electrochemical device containing the same. The anode electrode comprises: a current collector, including a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface; an insulation layer being disposed on a peripheral portion of the first surface and/or a peripheral portion of the second surface; and a protection layer being disposed on the insulation layer and covering the first surface and/or the second surface. According to an embodiment of the present application, the insulation layer and the protection layer are disposed in the anode electrode of the electrochemical device to construct a seal cavity, which defines a space of the deposition of lithium metal on the anode electrode, thereby resolving the safety problem caused by the irregular deposition of the lithium metal.
US11316165B2	Solid-state battery layer structure and method for producing the same There is provided a solid-state battery layer structure which may include an anode current collector metal layer, an anode layer arranged on the anode current collector metal layer, a solid electrolyte layer arranged on the anode layer laterally, a cathode layer arranged on the solid electrolyte layer, and a cathode current collector metal layer, and a plurality of nanowire structures comprising silicon and/or gallium nitride, wherein said nanowire structures are arranged on the anode layer and, wherein said nanowire structures are laterally and vertically enclosed by the solid electrolyte layer, wherein the anode layer comprises silicon and a plurality of metal vias connecting the plurality of nanowire structures with the anode current collector metal layer. Methods for producing solid-state battery layer structures are also provided.
US11316164B2	Microbattery with through-silicon via electrodes Batteries include an anode structure, a cathode structure, and a conductive overcoat. The anode structure includes an anode substrate, an anode formed on the anode substrate, and an anode conductive liner that is in contact with the anode. The cathode structure includes a cathode substrate, a cathode formed on the cathode substrate, and a cathode conductive liner that is in contact with the cathode. The conductive overcoat is formed over the anode structure and the cathode structure to seal a cavity formed by the anode structure and the cathode structure. At least one of the anode substrate and the cathode substrate is pierced by through vias that are in contact with the respective anode conductive liner or cathode conductive liner.
US11316160B2	Supercapacity lithium ion battery cathode material, preparation method therefor and application thereof A supercapacity lithium ion battery cathode material, a preparation method therefor and an application thereof. The supercapacity lithium ion battery cathode material consists of a transition metal-containing lithium ion cathode material and carbon which is coated on the surface of the lithium ion cathode material. The transition metal on the surface of the lithium ion cathode material is coordinated with carbon by means of X—C bonds to form transition metal-X—C chemical bonds, such that carbon stably coats the surface of the cathode material, wherein C is SP3 hybridization and/or SP2 hybridization, and X is at least one selected from among N, O and S. The supercapacity lithium ion battery cathode material connects the lithium ion cathode material and the carbon by means of the transition metal-X—C chemical bonds, and utilizes the transition metal-X—C chemical bonds to repair boundary of lattices on the surface of the cathode material, such that an interface between the lithium ion cathode material and a carbon layer can be optimized, to form an interface that can store Li, thereby increasing the per gram capacity of the cathode material, and laying the foundation for preparing a supercapacity lithium ion battery.
US11316147B2	Negative electrode active material, mixed negative electrode active material, negative electrode for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery, lithium ion secondary battery, and method for producing negative electrode active material A negative electrode active material includes: particles of negative electrode active material, the particles of negative electrode active material contain particles of silicon compound containing a silicon compound (SiOx:0.5≤x≤1.6); the particles of silicon compound contain at least one kind or more of Li2SiO3 and Li4SiO4; the particles of negative electrode active material contain Li2CO3 and LiOH on a surface thereof; and a content of the Li2CO3 is 0.01% by mass or more and 5.00% by mass or less relative to a mass of the particles of negative electrode active material and a content of the LiOH is 0.01% by mass or more and 5.00% by mass or less relative to the mass of the particles of negative electrode active material. Thus a negative electrode active material is capable of improving initial charge/discharge characteristics and the cycle characteristics when used as a negative electrode active material of the secondary battery.
US11316144B1	Lithium-ion batteries with solid electrolyte membranes Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for lithium-ion batteries with solid electrolyte membranes. In one embodiment, a battery cell may include a copper current collector, a first layer in contact with the copper current collector, the first layer comprising polyvinylidene fluoride, an anode comprising a first lithiated polymer binder configured to conduct lithium ions, where the first layer is disposed between the copper current collector and the anode, and a lithiated polymer electrolyte membrane in contact with the anode. The battery cell may include a cathode in contact with the lithiated polymer electrolyte membrane and comprising a second lithiated polymer binder configured to conduct lithium ions, a second layer in contact with the cathode, the second layer comprising polyvinylidene fluoride, and an aluminum current collector disposed adjacent to the second layer, wherein the aluminum current collector is a positive current collector.
US11316137B2	Flexible display panel, method for fabricating the same and display device A flexible display panel, a method for fabricating the same, and a display device are provided. A protruding structure located is formed in a via-hole area on a flexible base substrate so that both the protruding structure, and the portions of an organic light-emitting functional film and a top electrode layer covering the protruding structure can be removed. Thereafter an encapsulation thin film covering the patterns of the organic light-emitting functional film and the top electrode layer is formed. After the encapsulation thin film is formed, the step of removing the pattern of the encapsulation thin film in the via-hole area can be further performed to expose the flexible base substrate in the via-hole area, and after the flexible base substrate in the via-hole area is removed, a via-hole can be formed in the flexible base substrate.
US11316133B2	Organic light-emitting display apparatus and manufacturing method of the same An organic light-emitting display apparatus includes a substrate, an inorganic insulation film on the substrate, an organic insulation film on the inorganic insulation film, an organic light-emitting device on the organic insulation film, and an encapsulation unit including a first inorganic film covering the organic light-emitting device and having a first boundary portion contacting the organic insulation film, an organic film covering the first inorganic film and having a second boundary portion contacting the inorganic insulation film, and a second inorganic film covering the organic film and having a third boundary portion contacting the substrate.
US11316132B2	Display device with multiple hardening layers and manufacturing method thereof A display panel and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The display panel includes a substrate, a thin film transistor (TFT) device layer, a luminescent device layer, and a thin film encapsulation layer, wherein the thin film encapsulation layer includes a first inorganic layer, a first hardening layer disposed on the first inorganic layer, a second inorganic layer disposed on the first hardening layer, an organic planarization layer disposed on the second inorganic layer, a second hardening layer disposed on the organic planarization layer, a third inorganic layer disposed on the second hardening layer, and a third hardening layer disposed on the third inorganic layer, thereby realizing a cover window and encapsulation structure characteristics at the same time, and achieving ultra-thin encapsulation.
US11316124B2	Organic light-emitting device An organic light-emitting device and a flat panel display device, the organic-light emitting device including an anode; a cathode; and an organic layer therebetween including an emission layer, a hole transport region between the anode and the emission layer, the hole transport region including at least one of a hole injection layer, a hole transport layer, and an electron blocking layer, an electron transport region between the emission layer and the cathode, the electron transport region including at least one of a hole blocking layer, an electron transport layer, and an electron injection layer, and a buffer layer between the emission layer and the electron transport region, wherein the buffer layer includes a biscarbazole-based derivative and triphenylene-based derivative, and a triplet energy (ET1) of the biscarbazole-based derivative or the triphenylene-based derivative and a triplet energy (ET2) of a dopant of the emission layer satisfy the following relationship: ET1>ET2.
US11316122B2	OLED display panel having light-emitting layer comprising organic host material, organic light-emitting material and amorphous fluoropolymer and manufacturing method thereof, and OLED device having the same The present invention provides an OLED display panel and a manufacturing thereof, and an OLED device. The OLED display panel adopts organic host materials, organic light-emitting materials, and amorphous fluoropolymers to produce a light-emitting layer, so that amorphous polymers improve thermal stability and solvent resistance of the light-emitting layer, and the light-emitting layer is not damaged by solvents when an electron transport layer is formed by solvents, thereby resolving the process of processing OLED devices by solvents having damage to the light-emitting layer causing poor display performance in the prior art.
US11316119B2	Curved display apparatus and method of manufacturing the same Disclosed are a curved display apparatus and a method of manufacturing the same, which improve a luminance difference between a flat part and a curved part. The curved display apparatus having a flat part and a bending part extending from one side of the flat part, either of the flat part and the bending part defining a plurality of emission areas therein, wherein the curved display apparatus comprises: a light emitting device layer including a plurality of light emitting devices to form the emission areas, wherein a slope film is provided in the bending part such that an emission surface of the emission areas in the bending part is almost parallel to an emission surface of the emission areas in the flat part.
US11316112B2	Electron-accepting compound and composition for charge-transporting film, and luminescent element using same The present invention provides with an electron-accepting compound having a structure of the following formula (1):
US11316107B2	Semiconductor devices and related methods Electrical contacts may be formed by forming dielectric liners along sidewalls of a dielectric structure, forming sacrificial liners over and transverse to the dielectric liners along sidewalls of a sacrificial structure, selectively removing portions of the dielectric liners at intersections of the dielectric liners and sacrificial liners to form pores, and at least partially filling the pores with a conductive material. Nano-scale pores may be formed by similar methods. Bottom electrodes may be formed and electrical contacts may be structurally and electrically coupled to the bottom electrodes to form memory devices. Nano-scale electrical contacts may have a rectangular cross-section of a first width and a second width, each width less than about 20 nm. Memory devices may include bottom electrodes, electrical contacts having a cross-sectional area less than about 150 nm2 over and electrically coupled to the bottom electrodes, and a cell material over the electrical contacts.
US11316103B2	Combined physical and chemical etch to reduce magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) sidewall damage A process flow for forming magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) nanopillars with minimal sidewall residue and minimal sidewall damage is disclosed wherein a pattern is first formed in a hard mask that is an uppermost MTJ layer. Thereafter, the hard mask sidewall is etch transferred through the remaining MTJ layers including a reference layer, free layer, and tunnel barrier between the free layer and reference layer. The etch transfer may be completed in a single RIE step that features a physical component involving inert gas ions or plasma, and a chemical component comprised of ions or plasma generated from one or more of methanol, ethanol, ammonia, and CO. In other embodiments, a chemical treatment with one of the aforementioned chemicals, and a volatilization at 50° C. to 450° C. may follow an etch transfer through the MTJ stack with an ion beam etch or plasma etch involving inert gas ions.
US11316090B2	Thermoelectric generator A thermoelectric generator has a heat conducting body that exchanges heat with the environment according to environmental temperature changes, a heat storing body, and a thermoelectric conversion unit and thermal resistance body arranged between the heat conducting body and the heat storing body. One end of the thermal resistance body and one end of the thermoelectric conversion unit are in contact with each other. The other end of the thermal resistance body is in contact with the heat conducting body, and the other end of the thermoelectric conversion unit is in contact with the heat storing body. The surface of the heat storing body is covered by a covering layer having certain heat insulation properties. The temperature difference generated between the heat conducting body and the heat storing body is utilized to extract electric energy from the thermoelectric conversion unit.
US11316087B2	Light emitting device A light emitting device includes a mount board that includes a wiring pattern on an upper surface, and light emitting elements that are mounted at corresponding one of mounting positions on the wiring pattern to be connected in series and/or in parallel to each other through the wiring pattern. The light emitting elements each include a pair of electrodes on a back surface side thereof. The mounting positions include four or more connection terminals that are electrically separated from each other to connect the electrodes of their corresponding light emitting element to each other. Series connection and parallel connection numbers are determined in accordance with orientations of the light emitting elements in which each electrode straddles at least adjacent two of the four or more connection terminals that are spaced away from and adjacent to each other.
US11316083B2	Backlight module and display device An embodiment of the present invention discloses a backlight module and a display device. The backlight module includes a circuit board. A side surface of the circuit board is provided with a plurality of light emitting elements spaced apart from each other. A light output surface of at least one of the light emitting elements is covered with a first encapsulation layer. A side surface of the first encapsulation layer away from the at least one light emitting elements is a curved surface.
US11316080B2	Light emitting device and method of manufacturing light emitting device A light emitting device includes a light emitting element, a light guide member, a reflecting member, a wavelength conversion member. The light emitting element has a light emitting surface and lateral surfaces. The light guiding member is provided on at least a portion of the lateral surfaces of the light emitting element. The reflecting member is provided on the lateral surface of the light emitting element with the light guiding member interposed therebetween. The wavelength conversion member is provided on the light emitting surface of the light emitting element, the light guiding member and the reflecting member. The wavelength conversion member is provided with a recess between an outer lateral surface of the wavelength conversion member and the light guiding member. The reflecting member is provided in the recess.
US11316079B2	Emissive nanocrystal particle, method of preparing the same and device including emissive nanocrystal particle An emissive nanocrystal particle includes a core including a first semiconductor nanocrystal including a Group III-V compound and a shell including a second semiconductor nanocrystal surrounding the core, wherein the emissive nanocrystal particle includes a non-emissive Group I element.
US11316077B2	Radiation-emitting device A radiation-emitting device includes a semiconductor layer sequence having an active layer that emits a primary radiation during operation, a decoupling surface on a surface of the semiconductor layer sequence, a wavelength conversion layer on a side of the semiconductor layer sequence facing away from the decoupling surface, containing at least one conversion material that converts the primary radiation into secondary radiation, and a mirror layer on the side of the wavelength conversion layer facing away from the semiconductor layer sequence, wherein the at least one conversion material is electrically conductive and/or embedded in an electrically conductive matrix material.
US11316074B2	Light emitting unit and display device A display device is disclosed, wherein the display device includes a light emitting unit, including: a first semiconductor layer; an active layer disposed on the first semiconductor layer; a second semiconductor layer disposed on the active layer; and a protecting layer disposed on the second semiconductor layer, wherein the protecting layer has a region in which oxygen atomic percentages decrease toward the second semiconductor layer.
US11316070B2	Illumination device and display device According to an aspect, an illumination device configured to be arranged opposing an image display surface of a reflective display device, includes: a translucent substrate; a plurality of light emitting elements that is provided to the translucent substrate; an anode electrode that is electrically coupled to the light emitting elements; and a cathode electrode that is electrically coupled to the light emitting elements. The anode electrode includes: a plurality of first partial anode electrodes having recessed structures in which the light emitting elements are arranged; and a second partial anode electrode that has a width less than widths of the first partial anode electrodes and couples the first partial anode electrodes.
US11316067B2	Semiconductor body A semiconductor body is disclosed. In an embodiment a semiconductor body includes an n-doped region comprising a first layer sequence comprising pairs of alternating layers, wherein a first layer and a second layer of each pair differ in their doping concentration, and wherein the first and second layers of each pair have the same material composition except for their doping and a second layer sequence comprising pairs of alternating layers, wherein a first layer and a second layer of each pair differ in their material composition, an active region, wherein the second layer sequence is disposed between the first layer sequence and the active region and a p-doped region, wherein the active region is disposed between the n-doped region and the p-doped region.
US11316061B2	Photovoltaic devices, photovoltaic modules provided therewith, and solar power generation systems n-type amorphous semiconductor layers (4) and p-type amorphous semiconductor layers (5) are alternately disposed on the back surface of a semiconductor substrate (1) so as to be separated from each other at a desired interval paralleled with the direction of the surface of the semiconductor substrate (1). An electrode (6) is disposed on the n-type amorphous semiconductor layer (4), and an electrode (7) is disposed on the p-type amorphous semiconductor layer (5). A protective film (8) includes an insulating film, and is disposed on a passivation film (3), the n-type amorphous semiconductor layer (4), the p-type amorphous semiconductor layer (5), and the electrodes (6, 7), so as to be in contact with the passivation film (3), the n-type amorphous semiconductor layer (4), the p-type amorphous semiconductor layer (5), and the electrodes (6, 7).
US11316058B2	Stacked multi-junction solar cell with a metallization comprising a multilayer system A stacked multi-junction solar cell with a metallization comprising a multilayer system, wherein the multi-junction solar cell has a germanium substrate forming a bottom side of the multi-junction solar cell, a germanium subcell, and at least two III-V subcells, the multilayer system of the metallization has a first layer, comprising gold and germanium, a second layer comprising titanium, a third layer, comprising palladium or nickel or platinum, with a layer thickness, and at least one metallic fourth layer, and the multilayer system of the metallization covers at least one first and second surface section and is integrally connected to the first and second surface section, wherein the first surface section is formed by the dielectric insulation layer and the second surface section is formed by the germanium substrate or by a III-V layer.
US11316048B2	Tin oxide layer, TFT having the same as channel layer, and manufacturing method for the TFT Provided are a tin oxide layer, a thin film transistor (TFT) having the same as a channel layer, and a method for manufacturing the TFT. The TFT comprises a gate electrode, a tin oxide channel layer disposed on the gate electrode and being a polycrystalline thin film with preferred orientation in a [001] direction, a gate insulating film disposed between the gate electrode and the channel layer, and source and drain electrodes electrically connected to both ends of the channel layer, respectively.
US11316032B2	Integrated circuit and standard cell library Provided is an integrated circuit including at least one cell, the at least one cell includes first and second active regions spaced apart from each other, a dummy region disposed between the first and second active regions, at least one first active fin disposed in the first active region and extending in a first direction, at least one second active fin extending along the first direction over the entire length of the second active region, and an active gate line extending in a second direction that is substantially perpendicular to the first direction, wherein the active gate line vertically overlaps the first active region and the dummy region and does not vertically overlap the second active region.
US11316030B2	Fin field-effect transistor device and method A method includes forming a doped region on a top portion of a substrate, forming a first epitaxial layer over the substrate, forming a recess in the first epitaxial layer, the recess being aligned to the doped region, performing a surface clean treatment in the recess, the surface clean treatment includes: oxidizing surfaces of the recess to form an oxide layer in the recess, and removing the oxide layer from the surfaces of the recess, and forming a second epitaxial layer in the recess.
US11316028B2	Nitride-based transistors with a protective layer and a low-damage recess Transistors are fabricated by forming a nitride-based semiconductor barrier layer on a nitride-based semiconductor channel layer and forming a protective layer on a gate region of the nitride-based semiconductor barrier layer. Patterned ohmic contact metal regions are formed on the barrier layer and annealed to provide first and second ohmic contacts. The annealing is carried out with the protective layer on the gate region. A gate contact is also formed on the gate region of the barrier layer. Transistors having protective layer in the gate region are also provided as are transistors having a barrier layer with a sheet resistance substantially the same as an as-grown sheet resistance of the barrier layer.
US11316018B2	Compound semiconductor substrate including electron transition layer and barrier layer A compound semiconductor substrate includes a SiC (silicon carbide) layer, a AlN (aluminum nitride) buffer layer formed on the SiC layer, an Al (aluminum) nitride semiconductor layer formed on the AlN buffer layer, a composite layer formed on the Al nitride semiconductor layer, a GaN (gallium nitride) layer as an electron transition layer formed on the composite layer, and an Al nitride semiconductor layer as a barrier layer formed on the GaN layer. The composite layer includes C—GaN layers stacked in a vertical direction, and an AlN layer formed between the C—GaN layers.
US11316016B2	Composite oxide semiconductor and transistor A novel material is provided. A composite oxide semiconductor includes a first region and a second region. The first region contains indium. The second region contains an element M (the element M is one or more of Ga, Al, Hf, Y, and Sn). The first region and the second region are arranged in a mosaic pattern. The composite oxide semiconductor further includes a third region. The element M is gallium. The first region contains indium oxide or indium zinc oxide. The second region contains gallium oxide or gallium zinc oxide. The third region contains zinc oxide.
US11316009B2	Electronic power device with super-junction An integrated electronic device includes a first terminal and a second terminal, a Schottky diode having a first threshold voltage and coupled between the first terminal and the second terminal, a derivation component having a second threshold voltage greater than the first threshold voltage and coupled between the first terminal and the second terminal. The derivation component comprises a super-junction.
US11316000B2	Array substrate including metal strip, manufacturing method thereof and display device An array substrate, a manufacturing method thereof and a display device are disclosed. The array substrate includes a base substrate; a first metal layer on the base substrate; a first insulating layer on the first metal layer; a second metal layer on the first insulating layer; and a second insulating layer located on the second metal layer. The array substrate includes a display region and a peripheral region surrounding the display region, the first metal layer includes a plurality of signal lines in the peripheral region, the second insulating layer includes at least one groove overlapping at least two signal lines, the second metal layer includes a metal strip in the peripheral region, and in the area where the groove overlaps the signal lines, an orthographical projection on the base substrate fall into the orthographic projection of the metal strip on the base substrate.
US11315985B2	Display panel and method for manufacturing the same, and display device The present disclosure provides a display panel and a method for manufacturing the same, and a display device. The display panel includes: a substrate; a pixel unit array disposed on one side of the substrate, wherein the pixel unit array comprises a plurality of pixel units, at least one of the plurality of pixel units comprising an anode layer, a cathode layer, and a light emitting layer located between the anode layer and the cathode layer, the cathode layer defining an opening configured to transmit a light emitted from the light emitting layer; and at least one sensor disposed on one side of the pixel unit array away from the substrate and configured to detect a light transmitted through the opening.
US11315982B2	Light emitting diode with a patterned scattering layer and fabrication method thereof, display substrate and display panel A light emitting diode includes a pixel unit. The pixel unit may include a first sub-pixel configured to emit white light. The first sub-pixel may include a first microcavity adjustment layer, a scattering layer, a first transparent electrode layer, a first emitting layer, and a first semi-transparent electrode layer. The scattering layer includes a plurality of patterns formed on a surface of the scattering layer. The scattering layer may be configured to reduce color cast of the first sub-pixel to be less than about 0.025 at viewing angles in a range of about −50 degree to +50 degree.
US11315978B2	Image sensor and method of manufacturing the same An image sensor includes a substrate having a first surface and a second surface opposite to each other, a first floating diffusion region provided in the substrate and being adjacent to the first surface, a through-electrode provided in the substrate and electrically connected to the first floating diffusion region, an insulating structure, a bottom electrode, a photoelectric conversion layer, and a top electrode sequentially stacked on the second surface, a color filter buried in the insulating structure, and a top contact plug penetrating the insulating structure to connect the bottom electrode to the through-electrode.
US11315961B2	Field-effect transistor, method for producing same, display element, display device, and system (Object) To miniaturize a field-effect transistor. (Means of Achieving the Object) A field-effect transistor includes a semiconductor film formed on a base, a gate insulating film formed on a part of the semiconductor film, a gate electrode formed on the gate insulating film, and a source electrode and a drain electrode formed in contact with the semiconductor film, wherein a thickness of the source electrode and the drain electrode is smaller than a thickness of the gate insulating film, and the gate insulating film includes a region that is not in contact with the source electrode or the drain electrode.
US11315960B2	Thin film transistor structure and manufacturing method thereof, circuit structure, display substrate and display device A thin film transistor structure and a manufacturing method thereof, a circuit structure, a display substrate and a display device are provided. The thin film transistor structure includes: a base plate, and a first thin film transistor and a second thin film transistor stacked on the base plate. The first thin film transistor and the second thin film transistor share a same active layer.
US11315957B2	Light emitting display apparatus A light emitting display apparatus is disclosed. The light emitting display apparatus includes: a substrate; and a plurality of pixels disposed on a pixel area on the substrate. Each of the plurality of pixels includes: a first circuit layer including a first pixel circuit including a driving transistor; a second circuit layer overlapping the first circuit layer, wherein the second circuit layer includes a second pixel circuit including a data supply transistor configured to supply a data signal to the first pixel circuit; a circuit insulating layer between the first circuit layer and the second circuit layer; and a light emitting diode layer including a light emitting diode electrically connected with the first pixel circuit.
US11315955B2	Thin film transistor substrate, display device having the same, method of manufacturing thin film transistor substrate, and method of manufacturing display device A thin film transistor substrate, a display device, a method of manufacturing a thin film transistor substrate, and a method of manufacturing a display device, the thin film transistor substrate including a substrate; a first thin film transistor on the substrate, the first thin film transistor including a first active pattern, and a first gate electrode arranged to overlap at least a part of the first active pattern; and a second thin film transistor on the substrate, the second thin film transistor including a second active pattern that includes a plurality of protrusions on an upper surface thereof, and a second gate electrode arranged to overlap at least a part of the second active pattern.
US11315950B2	Semiconductor memory device A semiconductor memory device includes a conducting layer and an insulating layer that are disposed above a semiconductor substrate, a plurality of pillars that extend in a direction which crosses a surface of the semiconductor substrate, and a plate that is disposed between the plurality of pillars and extends in the same direction as the pillars. A surface of the plate, which faces the pillars, has convex portions and non-convex portions.
US11315949B2	Charge-trapping sidewall spacer-type non-volatile memory device and method Disclosed are a semiconductor structure, which includes a charge-trapping sidewall spacer-type non-volatile memory (CTSS-NVM) device, and a method of forming the structure. The CTSS-NVM device includes asymmetric first and second sidewall spacers on opposing sidewalls of a gate structure above a channel region in a semiconductor substrate. The second sidewall spacer is wider than the first and includes multiple dielectric spacer layers, one of which is made of a charge-trapping material, is separated from the substrate (e.g., by a thin oxide layer), and has a bottom end closest to the substrate with a maximum width that is sufficient to achieve charge-trapping for proper CTSS-NVM device operation. The CTSS-NVM device further includes an epitaxial semiconductor layer for a source/drain region on the semiconductor substrate adjacent to the first sidewall spacer and a metal silicide layer for a Schottky barrier on the semiconductor substrate adjacent to the second sidewall spacer.
US11315932B2	Memory structure and method for forming the same A method for forming a memory structure includes: providing a substrate including a memory array region and a peripheral circuit region; forming a plurality of bit line structures in the memory array region; forming a dielectric layer in the peripheral circuit region; forming a plurality of contacts between the bit line structures; depositing a protective layer on the substrate; depositing a hard mask layer on the protective layer; etching back the hard mask layer to form a hard mask spacer on the first top surface of the protective layer and immediately adjacent to the peripheral circuit region; and etching the protective layer with the hard mask spacer as an etching mask to leave a protective feature at the boundary between the memory array region and the peripheral circuit region.
US11315928B2	Semiconductor structure with buried power line and buried signal line and method for manufacturing the same The present disclosure provides a semiconductor structure. The semiconductor structure comprises a substrate having a first top surface. An active region is surrounded by an isolation region in the substrate. A buried power line and a buried signal line are disposed within the substrate and in the active region. A first circuit layer is disposed on the first top surface of the substrate to cover the buried power line and the buried signal line. A second circuit layer is disposed on the first top surface of the substrate and separated from the first circuit layer. A cell capacitor is disposed on and electrically coupled to the first circuit layer.
US11315920B2	Array substrate, electrostatic discharge protection circuit and display apparatus An array substrate includes a base substrate, at least one first signal line and at least one second signal line disposed at a first side of the base substrate, and at least one electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection device disposed at the first side of the base substrate. Each ESD protection device includes a first electrode coupled to one first signal line, a second electrode coupled to one second signal line, and an insulating medium disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode. An orthographic projection of the first electrode on the base substrate at least partially overlaps with an orthographic projection of the second electrode on the base substrate, and the ESD protection device is configured to discharge electrostatic charges on one of the first signal line and the second signal line that are coupled to the ESD protection device to the other one.
US11315914B2	Three-dimensional semiconductor memory device A semiconductor memory device includes: a first pad layer in a surface of a memory chip including a cell region in which a memory cell array coupled to a plurality of row lines and a step region including staggered step portions of the plurality of row lines, and including a plurality of first pads that are coupled to the step portions; a second pad layer in a surface of a circuit chip bonded to the surface of the memory chip, and having a plurality of second pads coupled to a plurality of pass transistors defined in the circuit chip; a first redistribution line disposed in the first pad layer that couples one of the step portions and one of the pass transistors; and a second redistribution line disposed in the second pad layer that couples another one of the step portions and another one of the pass transistors.
US11315913B2	Light emitting device and method of manufacturing the light emitting device A light emitting device includes: a base comprising a first lead, a second lead, and a supporting member; a light emitting element mounted on the first lead; a protection element mounted on the second lead; a wire including a first end and a second end, wherein the first end is connected to an upper surface of the first lead, and the second end is connected to a first terminal electrode of the protection element; a resin frame located on an upper surface of the base, wherein the resin frame covers at least part of the protection element and surrounds the light emitting element and the first end of the wire; a first resin member surrounded by the resin frame and covering the light emitting element and the first end of the wire; and a second resin member covering the resin frame and the first resin member.
US11315910B2	System and method for the characterization and dispersal of emissive elements A method is provided for the selective harvest of microLED devices from a carrier substrate. Defect regions are predetermined that include a plurality of adjacent defective microLED devices on a carrier substrate. A solvent-resistant binding material is formed overlying the predetermined defect regions and exposed adhesive is dissolved with an adhesive dissolving solvent. Non-defective microLED devices located outside the predetermined defect regions are separated from the carrier substrate while adhesive attachment is maintained between the microLED devices inside the predetermined defect regions and the carrier substrate. Methods are also provided for the dispersal of microLED devices on an emissive display panel by initially optically measuring a suspension of microLEDs to determine suspension homogeneity and calculate the number of microLEDs per unit volume. If the number of harvested microLED devices in the suspension is known, a calculation can be made of the number of microLED devices per unit of suspension volume.
US11315894B2	Semiconductor stack and method for manufacturing the same A semiconductor stack and a method for manufacturing the same are disclosed. The semiconductor stack includes a lower chip, an upper chip disposed over the lower chip, an upper lateral-side passivation layer surrounding side surfaces of the upper chip, and a plurality of bonding pads and a bonding passivation layer disposed between the upper chip and the lower chip.
US11315892B2	Power semiconductor device load terminal A power semiconductor device, a power semiconductor module and a power semiconductor device processing method are provided. The power semiconductor device includes a first load terminal structure, a second load terminal structure, and a semiconductor structure electrically coupled to each load terminal structure and configured to carry a load current. The first load terminal structure includes a conductive layer in contact with the semiconductor structure, a bonding block configured to be contacted by at least one bond wire and to receive at least a part of the load current from the at least one bond wire and/or the conductive layer, a support block having a hardness greater than the hardness of the conductive layer and the bonding block. The bonding block is mounted on the conductive layer via the support block, and a zone is arranged within the conductive layer and/or the bonding block, the zone exhibiting nitrogen atoms.
US11315887B2	Semiconductor structure having dummy pattern around array area and method of manufacturing the same The present disclosure provides a semiconductor structure and a method of manufacturing the semiconductor structure. The semiconductor structure includes a substrate defined with a peripheral region and an array area at least partially surrounded by the peripheral region, wherein the substrate includes a plurality of fins protruding from the substrate and disposed in the array area, and a first elongated member protruding from the substrate and at least partially surrounding the plurality of fins; an insulating layer disposed over the plurality of fins and the first elongated member; a capping layer disposed over the insulating layer; and an isolation surrounding the plurality of fins, the first elongated member, the insulating layer and the capping layer.
US11315865B2	Circuit board structure and manufacturing method thereof A method of manufacturing circuit board structure includes forming a sacrificial layer having first openings on a substrate; forming a metal layer on the sacrificial layer; forming a patterned photoresist layer having second openings over the sacrificial layer, in which the second openings are connected to the first openings and expose a portion of the metal layer; forming a first circuit layer filling the second openings and the first openings; forming a first dielectric layer over the sacrificial layer and covering the metal layer, in which the first dielectric layer has third openings exposing the first circuit layer; forming a second circuit layer filling the third openings and covering a portion of the first dielectric layer; removing the substrate to expose the sacrificial layer, a portion of the metal layer and a portion of the first circuit layer; and removing the sacrificial layer and the metal layer.
US11315860B2	Semiconductor package and manufacturing process thereof A package manufacturing process and semiconductor packages are provided. An interposer having a crystal structure is provided. A first die and a second die are bonded on the interposer. The second die is positioned to be spaced apart from the first die with a gap extending direction that is perpendicular to a shortest distance of the gap, and the gap extending direction is not parallel with a crystallographic orientation of the crystal structure of the interposer. A molding compound is formed over the interposer covering the first and second dies. The molding compound and the interposer are cut into packages.
US11315848B2	Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing semiconductor device A semiconductor device, includes: a semiconductor element including an element main surface and an element back surface facing opposite sides in a thickness direction; a wiring part electrically connected to the semiconductor element; an electrode pad electrically connected to the wiring part; a sealing resin configured to cover a part of the semiconductor element; and a first metal layer configured to make contact with the element back surface and exposed from the sealing resin, wherein the semiconductor element overlaps the first metal layer when viewed in the thickness direction.
US11315843B2	Embedded component and methods of making the same Various embodiments disclosed relate to a substrate for a semiconductor device. The substrate includes a first major surface and a second major surface opposite the first major surface. The substrate further includes a cavity defined by a portion of the first major surface. The cavity includes a bottom dielectric surface and a plurality of sidewalls extending from the bottom surface to the first major surface. A first portion of a first sidewall includes a conductive material.
US11315840B2	Assembly and method for performing in-situ endpoint detection when backside milling silicon based devices An assembly for monitoring a semiconductor device under test comprising a mill configured to mill the device, a sensor configured to measure an electrical characteristic of the device, and a computer configured to determine the amount of strain in the device from the electrical characteristic when the mill is milling the device and detect an endpoint of milling at a circuit within the device. In use the endpoints of the milling process of the semiconductor device are detected measuring an electrical characteristic of the device with a sensor during milling determining the amount of strain in the device from the electrical characteristic and detecting an endpoint of the milling process within the device based on the amount of strain.
US11315835B2	Methods of forming an IC product comprising transistor devices with different threshold voltage levels One illustrative method disclosed herein includes forming a conformal SMCM layer above a conformal high-k gate insulation layer within each of first and second replacement gate cavities (RGC), removing the SMCM layer from the first RGC while leaving the SMCM layer in position within the second RGC, forming a first conformal metal-containing material (MCM) layer above the gate insulation layer within the first RGC and above the SMCM layer in position within the second RGC, removing the first conformal MCM layer and the conformal SMCM layer positioned within the second RGC while leaving the first conformal MCM layer within the first RGC, and forming a second conformal MCM layer above the first conformal MCM layer positioned within the first RGC and above the gate insulation layer positioned within the second RGC.
US11315833B2	Wafer processing method including a test element group (TEG) cutting step A wafer processing method includes a sheet bonding step of placing a polyolefin or polyester sheet on a front side of a wafer having a device area where devices are formed so as to be separated by division lines, the sheet having a size capable of covering the device area, and next performing thermocompression bonding to bond the sheet to the front side of the wafer, thereby protecting the front side of the wafer with the sheet. The method further includes a test element group (TEG) cutting step of applying a first laser beam through the sheet to the wafer along each division line thereby cutting a TEG formed on each division line, and a modified layer forming step of applying a second laser beam to a back side of the wafer along each division line, the second laser beam having a transmission wavelength to the wafer, thereby forming a modified layer inside the wafer along each division line.
US11315829B2	Amorphous layers for reducing copper diffusion and method forming same A method includes depositing an etch stop layer over a first conductive feature, performing a first treatment to amorphize the etch stop layer, depositing a dielectric layer over the etch stop layer, etching the dielectric layer to form an opening, etching-through the etch stop layer to extend the opening into the etch stop layer, and filling the opening with a conductive material to form a second conductive feature.
US11315827B2	Skip via connection between metallization levels A method for fabricating a semiconductor device including a skip via connection between metallization levels includes subtractively etching first conductive material to form a first via and a skip via on a first conductive line. The first via and the first conductive line are included within a first metallization level. The skip via is used to connect the first metallization level to a third metallization level above a second metallization level. The method further includes forming, on the first via from second conductive material, a second via disposed on a second conductive line. The second via and the second conductive line are included within the second metallization level.
US11315824B2	Trench isolation structure and manufacturing method therefor A method for manufacturing a trench isolation structure comprising forming a shallow trench having a wider upper section and a narrower lower section in a wafer surface, removing part of the silicon oxide by etching, forming a silicon oxide corner structure at a corner at a top corner of the shallow trench by thermal oxidation, depositing silicon nitride on the wafer surface to cover surfaces of the shallow trench silicon oxide and the silicon oxide corner structure, dry etching the silicon nitride on the shallow trench silicon oxide surface thereby forming masking silicon nitride residues extending into the trench, etching downwards to form a deep trench, forming silicon oxide layers on a side wall and the bottom of the deep trench, depositing polycrystalline silicon in the shallow and deep trenches, removing the silicon nitride, and forming silicon oxide in the shallow trench to cover the polycrystalline silicon.
US11315822B2	Porous chuck table A porous chuck table for holding a plate-like workpiece under suction includes a porous plate having a porous structure, the porous plate having a holding surface for holding the workpiece under suction thereon, and a frame surrounding the porous plate and having a face side lying flush with the holding surface. The porous plate is at least made of spherical glass particles, adjacent ones of the glass particles are partly joined together, and interstices between adjacent ones of the partly joined glass particles function as pores through which a fluid can flow.
US11315819B2	System apparatus and method for enhancing electrical clamping of substrates using photo-illumination A method may include providing a substrate on a clamp, and directing radiation from an illumination source to the substrate when the substrate is disposed on the clamp during substrate processing, wherein the radiation is characterized by a radiation energy, wherein at least a portion of the radiation energy is equal to or greater than 2.5 eV.
US11315814B2	Carrying apparatus and carrying method The present disclosure provides a carrying apparatus and a carrying method, the carrying apparatus includes: a carrying part configured to carry an object to be carried; an adhesive assembly disposed on the carrying part, a viscosity of the adhesive assembly is variable, and the carrying apparatus is configured to selectively adhere to or separate from the object to be carried according to a change of the viscosity; and a supporting part disposed on the carrying part and configured to support the object to be carried so that the object to be carried separates from the carrying part.
US11315802B2	Method for manufacturing semiconductor package having redistribution layer A method of manufacturing a semiconductor package includes forming a plurality of trenches at a first surface of a silicon substrate, forming a conductive pad inside each of the plurality of trenches, forming a redistribution layer on the first surface of the silicon substrate, forming an external connection terminal on a first surface of the redistribution layer, removing the silicon substrate to expose each conductive pad, mounting a semiconductor chip to be connected to the conductive pads, and forming an encapsulant to cover at least one surface of the semiconductor chip.
US11315793B2	Etching method and plasma processing apparatus An etching method is performed in a state where a substrate is placed on a substrate support provided in a chamber of a plasma processing apparatus. In the etching method, radio-frequency power is supplied to generate plasma from a gas in the chamber. Subsequently, a negative DC voltage is applied to a lower electrode of the substrate support during the supplying of the radio-frequency power to etch the substrate with positive ions from plasma. Subsequently, the applying of the negative DC voltage to the lower electrode and the supplying of the radio-frequency power are stopped to generate negative ions. Subsequently, a positive DC voltage is applied to the lower electrode in a state where the supply of the radio-frequency power is stopped to supply the negative ions to the substrate.
US11315789B2	Method and structure for low density silicon oxide for fusion bonding and debonding Described herein is a method of bonding and/or debonding substrates. In one embodiment, at least one of the surfaces of the substrates to be bonded is comprised of an oxide. In one embodiment, the surfaces of both substrates comprise an oxide. A wet etch may then be utilized to debond the substrates by etching away the layers that have been bonded. In one embodiment, a fusion bonding process is utilized to bond two substrates, at least one substrate having a silicon oxide surface. In one exemplary etch, a dilute hydrofluoric (DHF) etch is utilized to etch the bonded silicon oxide surface, allowing for two bonded substrates to be debonded. In another embodiment, the silicon oxide may be a low density silicon oxide. In one embodiment, both substrates may have a surface layer of the low density silicon oxide which may be fusion bonded together.
US11315777B2	Method and apparatus for concentrating ionised molecules The invention provides a method and apparatus subjecting an analyte in an ion concentrating chamber to an electric and velocity field to concentrate analyte ions into a smaller space.
US11315776B2	Automated inline preparation and degassing of volatile samples for inline analysis An analysis system includes a degassing cell, at least one first valve, and at least one second valve. The at least one first valve is fluidly coupled with a top of the degassing cell, the at least one first valve configured selectably connect the degassing cell to a displacement gas flow and to a vacuum source. The at least one second valve is fluidly connected with a lateral side of the degassing cell and separately fluidly connected with a bottom of the degassing cell. The at least one second valve is selectably coupled with any of a source of a sample-carrying fluid, a transfer line configured to deliver a sample to an analysis device, or a waste output.
US11315775B2	Variable discriminator threshold for ion detection An example system includes an ion detector and a signal processing apparatus in communication with the ion detector. The ion detector is arranged to detect ions during operation of the system and to generate a signal pulse in response to the detection of an ion. The signal pulse has a peak amplitude related to at least one operational parameter of the system. The signal processing apparatus is configured to analyze signal pulses from the ion detector and determine information about the detected ions during operation of the system based on the signal pulses. The signal processing apparatus includes a discriminator circuit. The signal processing apparatus is programmed to vary a threshold of the discriminator circuit based on the at least one operational parameter of the system during operation of the system.
US11315768B2	Loading apparatus and physical vapor deposition apparatus The present disclosure provides a loading apparatus and a physical vapor deposition (PVD) apparatus. The loading apparatus includes a pedestal configured to support a workpiece; and a first support member placed on the pedestal and configured to push up a cover ring when the pedestal is at an operation position to prevent an overlapping portion of a cover ring and the workpiece from contacting each other. In the loading apparatus and the PVD apparatus, the first support member supports the cover ring, such that the cover ring does not contact the workpiece, thereby reducing stress forces on the workpiece by external components.
US11315766B2	Plasma processing apparatus and method for measuring thickness of ring member In a plasma processing apparatus, a mounting table have a first mounting surface on which a target object or a jig is mounted and a second mounting surface on which a ring member is mounted. The jig is used for measuring a thickness of the ring member disposed around the target object and having a facing portion facing an upper surface of the ring member. Elevating mechanisms lift or lower the ring member with respect to the second mounting surface. An acquisition unit acquires gap information indicating a gap dimension between the second mounting surface and the facing portion of the jig. A measurement unit measures a lifted distance of the ring member from the second mounting surface. A thickness calculation unit calculates the thickness of the ring member based on the gap dimension and the measured lifted distance of the ring member.
US11315765B2	Plasma processing apparatus and plasma processing method Disclosed is a plasma processing apparatus including a processing chamber configured to perform a processing on a wafer by plasma, a VF power supply configured to change a frequency of a high frequency power to be supplied into the chamber, a susceptor configured to mount the wafer thereon, and a focus ring disposed to surround the wafer. A first route, which passes through the plasma starting from the VF power supply, passes through the susceptor, the wafer and the plasma, and a second route, which passes through the plasma starting from the VF power supply, passes through the susceptor, the focus ring and the plasma. The reflection minimum frequency of the first route is different from the reflection minimum frequency of the second route, and the frequency range changeable by the VF power supply includes the reflection minimum frequencies of the first and second routes.
US11315756B2	Fiducial design for tilted or glancing mill operations with a charged particle beam A method for analyzing a sample with a charged particle beam including directing the beam toward the sample surface; milling the surface to expose a second surface in the sample in which the end of the second surface distal to ion source is milled to a greater depth relative to a reference depth than the end of the first surface proximal to ion source; directing the charged particle beam toward the second surface to form one or more images of the second surface; forming images of the cross sections of the multiple adjacent features of interest by detecting the interaction of the electron beam with the second surface; assembling the images of the cross section into a three-dimensional model of one or more of the features of interest. A method for forming an improved fiducial and determining the depth of an exposed feature in a nanoscale three-dimensional structure is presented.
US11315754B2	Adaptive geometry for optimal focused ion beam etching A method of evaluating a region of a sample that includes alternating layers of different material. The method includes milling, with a focused ion beam, a portion of the sample that includes the alternating layers of different material; reducing the milling area; and repeating the milling and reducing steps multiple times during the delayering process until the process is complete.
US11315742B2	Freely detachable sticker-type electronic device, method of manufacturing the same, and method of forming electrode for the same A sticker-type electronic device which is freely detachably attachable to various bodies repeatedly is provided. The electronic device includes a main substrate which exhibits a surface adhesion property due to the properties of a material thereof and which provides an attachment/detachment surface to an article, and an electrode formed by being transferred from a temporary substrate to a surface that is opposite to the attachment/detachment surface of the main substrate to the article wherein the electrode is transferred directly to the main substrate using the adhesion property of the main substrate. The electronic device is freely detachably attachable to the surface of the article repeatedly using the surface adhesion property of the main substrate. The electronic device is formed directly on the surface of the substrate constituted by the material having the surface adhesion property, thereby providing a sticker-type electronic device which is freely repeatedly detachably attachable to various bodies.
US11315740B2	Solid electrolytic capacitor A solid electrolytic capacitor comprising a capacitor element is provided. The capacitor element comprises a sintered porous anode body; a dielectric that overlies the anode body; and a solid electrolyte that overlies the dielectric and that includes a conductive polymer and a depolarizer.
US11315732B2	Multi-layer ceramic electronic component A multilayer ceramic electronic component includes a ceramic body, and first and second external electrodes disposed on the surface of the ceramic body, respectively. The ceramic body includes a capacitance forming portion including a dielectric layer and internal electrodes, margin portions disposed on both sides of the capacitance forming portion, and cover portions disposed on both sides of the capacitance forming portion. The first and second external electrodes include first and second base electrodes, respectively, first and second conductive layers disposed on edges of the first and second base electrodes, respectively, and first and second terminal electrodes covering the first and second base electrodes, respectively.
US11315730B2	Multilayer electronic component A multilayer electronic component having an electrode facing portion in which a plurality of internal electrode layers face one another with a dielectric layer interposed therebetween. Each dielectric layer includes Ba, Ti, Si, Re, and M. M is at least one element selected from Mn, Ni, Co, Fe, Cr, Cu, Mg, Li, Al, Mo, W, and V. When the Ti is represented in an amount of 100 parts by mole the dielectric layer at the electrode facing portion has Si in an amount a of 0.01≤a≤0.1, Re in an amount b of 0.1≤b≤3.0, and M in an amount c of 0.2≤c≤5.0. A ratio m of the amount of Ba to the amount of Ti is 0.965≤m≤0.990.
US11315728B2	Method of increasing the coercivity of a sintered Nd—Fe—B permanent magnet A method of increasing coercivity of a sintered Nd—Fe—B permanent magnet includes a first step of providing a sintered Nd—Fe—B magnet block having a pair of block surfaces extending perpendicular to a magnetization direction. The method then proceeds with depositing an organic adhesive layer on one of the block surfaces. Next, the method proceeds with depositing a powder containing at least one heavy rare earth element on the organic adhesive layer. After depositing the powder, the sintered Nd—Fe—B magnet block is pressed to adhere the powder to the organic adhesive layer. Then, the method follows with a step of removing excess powder from the sintered Nd—Fe—B magnet block to form a uniform film. Then, the powder is diffused into the sintered Nd—Fe—B magnet is diffused into the sintered Nd—Fe—B magnet block to produce a diffused magnet block. Next, the method proceeds with aging the diffused magnet block.
US11315725B2	Current sensing coil electrostatic shielding The present disclosure relates to an electrostatic shield for providing electrostatic shielding for a current sensing coil. Current sensing coils are configured to enable the measurement of a current carried by an electrical conductor passing through a core of the current sensing coil. The electrostatic shield of the present disclosure is configured to provide electrostatic shielding to a core of the current sensing coil in order to reduce or eliminate electrostatic coupling between the electrical conductor and the current sensing coil, thereby improving the accuracy of current measurement that may be achieved by the current sensing coil.
US11315698B2	Tool for smoothing in a radioactive environment, comprising a vibrating grid The invention relates to a smoothing tool (3) configured for smoothing glass frit in a radioactive environment, in an induction-melting cold crucible. Smoothing tool (3) comprising a rod (30), a grid (50) configured to be in contact with glass frit (7) to be smoothed, and at least one vibrator (37, 55, 56) configured to make the grid (50) vibrate. The grid (50) is mechanically connected to the rod (30).
US11315696B2	Sealing bolt, locking system and method of locking/unlocking A sealing bolt for sealing a container (e.g. for fissile materials), the sealing bolt adapted to cooperate, in use, with a locking device for locking a container lid to a container body of the container. The sealing bolt includes an upper part (i.e. adapted to be manipulated by an operator using a tool), a lower part (cooperating with the locking device 46) and an axial rod connecting the upper and lower parts, the upper part, lower part and axial rod being arranged coaxially about an axis. An integrity element is disposed in the upper part and a release arrangement (a detachable conical end-piece 24 retained by a ball 34 and recess 32 arrangement) is disposed so as to be releasably attached to the lower part. The sealing bolt is movable, through a first operator actuation of the upper part, from a first state, in which the integrity element is intact, to a second state, in which the integrity element of the sealing bolt is visibly broken. The sealing bolt is movable, through a second operator actuation of the upper part, from the second state to a third state, in which the release arrangement is released, thereby enabling disengagement of the locking device and removal of the lid from the container body. A locking system for a container, a method of releasably sealing a container, and a method of unsealing a container, are also disclosed.
US11315691B2	Method for recommending continuing education to health professionals based on patient outcomes Methods and systems for providing health professionals with continued education are based on performance gaps identified from patient data available in transactional systems of record. The methods can include creating a repository of educational material, measuring patient and team level performance gaps, associating the identified performance gaps with appropriate educational material, alerting the person about the appropriate educational material, capturing a user's interaction with the educational materials, and issuing credits or rewards for substantial consumption of the educational materials.
US11315682B2	Real-time phase detection of frequency band Techniques are described for real-time phase detection. For the phase detection, a signal is correlated with a frequency component of a frequency band whose phase is being detected, and the correlation includes predominantly decreasing weighting of past portions of the signals.
US11315681B2	Reduced pressure therapy device operation and authorization monitoring Embodiments of a negative pressure wound therapy systems and methods for operating the systems are disclosed. In some embodiments, a system includes a pump assembly, canister, and a wound dressing configured to be positioned over a wound. The pump assembly, canister, and the wound dressing can be fluidically connected to facilitate delivery of negative pressure to a wound. The pump assembly can be configured to communicate data to a remote computer. The data can include location information, usage information, therapy information, and the like. Remote management and tracking of the pump assembly can be performed.
US11315677B2	Detection model training method and apparatus, and terminal device The present application discloses a detection model training method and apparatus. The method includes determining an initial training model; determining a training sample; determining whether a lesion target is present in a first user body organ image through the initial detection model according to a feature of the each first user body organ image, to obtain a detection result; and determining a domain that each user body organ image in the training sample belongs to through the adaptive model according to a feature of the each user body organ image, to obtain a domain classification result; calculating, a loss function value related to the initial training model according to the detection result, the domain classification result, a first identifier, a second identifier, and a third identifier; and adjusting a parameter value in the initial training model according to the loss function value, to obtain a final detection model.
US11315670B2	Method and monitoring device for monitoring operation of a drug delivery device The present invention relates to a method and to a monitoring device for monitoring operation of a drug delivery device, the monitoring device comprising of at least a first and a second sensor arranged at a distance from each other with regard to a first direction and being adapted to generate a first and a second electrical signal in response to an operation of the device, a processing unit configured to determine a time delay between the first and the second electrical signals and being adapted to determine at least one state parameter of the drug delivery device on the basis of said time delay.
US11315661B2	Methods and systems for providing epitope tagged biomolecules Aspects of the present disclosure include systems for use in preparing an epitope tagged biomolecule reagent. A reagent preparatory apparatus for preparing the epitope tagged biomolecule reagent from an activated biomolecule and activated epitope tag is also described. Methods for communicating and receiving an epitope tagged biomolecule reagent request and preparing the subject epitope tagged biomolecule reagents are also provided.
US11315653B2	Dynamic random access memory and method thereof The present disclosure provides a dynamic random access memory (DRAM) and method for controlling the DRAM. The DRAM has a first operation mode and a second operation mode. The DRAM includes a control module and a connecting module. The connecting module includes an input/output (I/O) pad and a determining circuit. The I/O pad is configured to receive a first input signal. The determining circuit includes a detector and a first determining unit. The detector is configured to compare the first input signal to a reference signal so as to generate a first signal. The first determining unit is configured to receive the first signal and generate a first output signal according to the first signal. The control module is configured to control the DRAM being operated under the first operation mode or the second operation mode according to the first output signal.
US11315650B2	Memory system, memory controller, and method of operating memory system A memory system is provided to include a memory device and a memory controller configured to control the memory device. The memory device includes a first data latch storing information about a state of the memory cell and is configured to: execute a first verification operation and a second verification operation on the memory cell in response to receiving, from the memory controller, a suspend command to suspend a program operation being performed on the memory cell; store, in the first data latch, a temporary value obtained based on a result value of the first verification operation and a result value of the second verification operation; and execute, a resumption command to resume the program operation, a third verification operation, and restore the result value of the first verification operation and the result value of the second verification operation.
US11315639B2	Memory device having vertical structure A memory device includes a cell wafer including a memory cell array; a first logic wafer bonded to one surface of the cell wafer, and including a first logic circuit which controls the memory cell array; and a second logic wafer bonded to the other surface of the cell wafer which faces away from the one surface, and including a second logic circuit which controls the memory cell array.
US11315629B2	Dual-port SRAM cell and layout structure thereof The present application provides a dual-port SRAM cell and a layout structure thereof, comprises a first and a second NMOS transistors, a first and a second PMOS transistors; the gates of the first and second NMOS transistors and the drains of the first and second PMOS transistors are connected to a word line; the source of the first NMOS transistor is connected to a first bit line; the source of the first PMOS transistor is connected to a second bit line; the source of the second NMOS transistor is connected to a third bit line; the source of the second PMOS transistor is connected to a fourth bit line; the drain of the first NMOS transistor and the gate of the first PMOS transistor are connected to a common input node of a latch.
US11315626B2	Sort operation in memory Examples of the present disclosure provide apparatuses and methods related to performing a sort operation in a memory. An example apparatus might include a a first group of memory cells coupled to a first sense line, a second group of memory cells coupled to a second sense line, and a controller configured to control sensing circuitry to sort a first element stored in the first group of memory cells and a second element stored in the second group of memory cells by performing an operation without transferring data via an input/output (I/O) line.
US11315609B2	Memory with high-speed and area-efficient read path A read path for a memory is provided that includes an integrated sense mixing and redundancy shift stage coupled between a sense amplifier and a data latch. The data latch is integrated with a level shifter.
US11315608B2	Semiconductor device and semiconductor memory device A semiconductor device may include a sudden power detection circuit and an operation circuit. The sudden power detection circuit may generate a power-off control signal in a sudden power-off state. The operation circuit may discharge a specific node based on the power-off control signal.
US11315607B2	Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and non-transitory computer readable medium An information processing apparatus includes a receiving unit that receives, during or after reproduction of a video, a predetermined operation with respect to the video, an associating unit that associates the received operation with a reproduction location where the received operation has been generated in the video, and a setting unit that sets in response to the received operation an importance degree of the reproduction location associated with the received operation.
US11315600B2	Dynamic generation of videos based on emotion and sentiment recognition Metadata about a movie is retrieved. The metadata includes a plurality of associated viewer responses from at least one previous audience viewing of the video. The plurality of associated viewer responses from the at least one previous audience viewing are associated with one or more segments of the video. A segment of the video associated with a type of viewer reaction based on emotion and sentiment recognition is identified. Additional media content based on the identified video segment is retrieved. A segment of the additional media content that exceeds a threshold of similarity with the segment of the video is determined. A video clip that includes the segment of the additional media content is created.
US11315599B2	Information processing device and information processing method An information processing device including a mode control unit that determines a replay mode from replay mode candidates including a user dependent mode where output and replay are performed dependently on a user's action and a user independent mode where output and replay are performed independently of the user's action, and a output control unit that controls output and replay of an image, based on the replay mode.
US11315597B1	Near-field transducer with separated bottom Au layer A plasmon generator (PG) is formed between a waveguide and main pole, and has a front portion (Au/Rh bilayer) wherein the upper Rh layer has a peg shape at an air bearing surface (ABS), and a tapered backside that is separated from a PG back portion by a dielectric spacer. The lower Au layer has a front side recessed from the ABS and curved sides self-aligned with the Rh layer sides. A key feature is that the back section of lower Au layer curved side forms a smaller angle with a plane aligned orthogonal to the ABS than a front section thereof thereby selectively enabling a deformation of the back end of the Au layer during a heat treatment to >300° C. at the wafer level. Accordingly, the front end of the lower Au layer is densified and provides an improved heat sink to improve reliability and area density capability (ADC).
US11315590B2	Voice and graphical user interface Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for voice and graphical user interfaces. One of the methods includes receiving an audio input, analyzing the audio input to determine a requested task, determining response data in response to the requested task, determining at least a first part of the response data to be presented as an audio output and at least a second part of the response data to be presented as a visual output, forwarding the first part of the response data to an audio output for presentation to a user, forwarding the second part of the response data to a visual output for presentation to a user; and forwarding to at least one of the audio output and the visual output data describing sources and/or assumptions used to construct the response data.
US11315588B2	Communication system for processing audio input with visual display A reference acoustic input is processed into a quantization representation such that the quantization representation comprises acoustic components determined from the reference acoustic input, wherein the acoustic components comprise amplitude, rhythm, and pitch frequency of the reference acoustic input. A visual representation is generated that simultaneously depicts the acoustic components comprising amplitude, rhythm, and pitch frequency of the reference acoustic input. A user spoken input may be received and similarly processed and displayed.
US11315584B2	Methods and apparatus for unified speech and audio decoding QMF based harmonic transposer improvements The present disclosure relates to an apparatus for decoding an encoded Unified Audio and Speech stream. The apparatus comprises a core decoder for decoding the encoded Unified Audio and Speech stream. The core decoder includes an eSBR unit for extending a bandwidth of an input signal, the eSBR unit including a QMF based harmonic transposer. The QMF based harmonic transposer is configured to process the input signal in the QMF domain, in each of a plurality of synthesis subbands, to extend the bandwidth of the input signal. The QMF based harmonic transposer is configured to operate at least in part based on pre-computed information. The present disclosure further relates to corresponding methods and storage media.
US11315583B2	Audio encoders, audio decoders, methods and computer programs adapting an encoding and decoding of least significant bits An audio decoder for providing a decoded audio information on the basis of an encoded audio information is configured to obtain decoded spectral values on the basis of an encoded information representing the spectral values. The audio decoder is configured to jointly decode two or more most significant bits per spectral value on the basis of respective symbol codes for a set of spectral values using an arithmetic decoding, wherein a respective symbol code represents two or more most significant bits per spectral value for one or more spectral values. The audio decoder is configured to decode one or more least significant bits associated with one or more of the spectral values in dependence on how much least significant bit information is available, such that one or more least significant bits associated with one or more of the spectral values are decoded.
US11315578B2	Methods, apparatus and systems for encoding and decoding of directional sound sources Some disclosed methods involve encoding or decoding directional audio data. Some encoding methods may involve receiving a mono audio signal corresponding to an audio object and a representation of a radiation pattern corresponding to the audio object. The radiation pattern may include sound levels corresponding to plurality of sample times, a plurality of frequency bands and a plurality of directions. The methods may involve encoding the mono audio signal and encoding the source radiation pattern to determine radiation pattern metadata. Encoding the radiation pattern may involve determining a spherical harmonic transform of the representation of the radiation pattern and compressing the spherical harmonic transform to obtain encoded radiation pattern metadata.
US11315572B2	Speech recognition device, speech recognition method, and recording medium A speech recognition device includes: an obtaining unit which obtains a speech uttered in a conversation between a first speaker and a second speaker; a storage which stores the speech obtained; an input unit which receives operation input; an utterance start detector which, when the input unit receives the operation input, detects a start position of the speech; and a speaker identification unit which identifies a speaker of the speech as the first speaker who has performed the operation input or the second speaker who has not performed the operation input, based on (i) first timing at which the input unit has received the operation input and (ii) second timing indicating the detected start position of the speech. The first and second timing are set for each speech of the first and second speakers. A speech recognizer performs speech recognition on the speech whose speaker has been identified.
US11315567B2	Electronic device and method for conducting dialog An electronic device and an method of the electronic device are provided, where the electronic device maintains a context that does not reflect a request for a secret conversation, in response to the request for the secret conversation being received from a first user, and generates a response signal to a voice signal of a second user based on the maintained context, in response to an end of the secret conversation with the first user.
US11315566B2	Content sharing using different applications In one aspect, a device may include at least one processor and storage accessible to the at least one processor. The storage may include instructions executable by the at least one processor to identify one or more commands to share content with first and second contacts. The instructions may also be executable to, based on the one or more commands to share the content, share the content with the first contact via a first application and share the content with the second contact via a second application that is different from the first application. The one or more commands to share the content may be received based on receipt of user input selecting respective selectors for the first and second contacts, where the respective selectors may be concurrently presented on a display and may each be associated with a different one of the first and second applications.
US11315561B2	Audio device and computer readable program [Problem] To provide an audio device having a voice operation receiving function with which the state of a voice recognition process can be notified in detail without affecting an audio playback environment, and which is inexpensive and has an excellent degree of freedom in design. [Solution] A wireless speaker 1 has a voice operation receiving function that receives an operation by a voice input into a microphone 11. The wireless speaker comprises: an LED 12; an LED control unit 18 that subjects the LED 12 to PWM control; and a lighting pattern storage unit 17 that stores a lighting pattern in which the brightness is changed on a time axis for each state of a voice recognition process. The LED control unit 18 subjects the LED 12 to PWM control in accordance with the lighting pattern stored in the lighting pattern storage unit 17 corresponding to the state of the voice recognition process performed on the voice input into the microphone 11.
US11315559B2	Directing a vehicle client device to use on-device functionality Implementations set forth herein relate to phasing-out of vehicle computing device versions while ensuring useful responsiveness of any vehicle computing device versions that are still in operation. Certain features of updated computing devices may not be available to prior versions of computing devices because of hardware limitations. The implementations set forth herein eliminate crashes and wasteful data transmissions caused by prior versions of computing devices that have not been, or cannot be, upgraded. A server device can be responsive to a particular intent request provided to a vehicle computing device, despite the intent request being associated with an action that a particular version of the vehicle computing device cannot execute. In response, the server device can elect to provide speech to text data, and/or natural language understanding data, in furtherance of allowing the vehicle computing device to continue leveraging resources at the server device.
US11315550B2	Speaker recognition device, speaker recognition method, and recording medium A speaker recognition device according to the present disclosure includes: an acoustic feature calculator that calculates, from utterance data indicating a voice of an obtained utterance, acoustic feature of the voice of the utterance; a statistic calculator that calculates an utterance data statistic from the calculated acoustic feature; a speaker feature extractor that extracts speaker feature of a speaker of the utterance data from the calculated utterance data statistic using a deep neural network (DNN); a similarity calculator that calculates a similarity between the extracted speaker feature and pre-stored speaker feature of at least one registered speaker; and a speaker recognizer that recognizes the speaker of the utterance data based on the calculated similarity.
US11315549B2	Intelligent electronic device and authentication method using message sent to intelligent electronic device Disclosed are an Intelligent electronic device and authentication method using message sent to intelligent electronic device. The method of authenticating using a message transmitted to the intelligent electronic device comprises the steps of: receiving a first message from a first external device; learning the received first message and extracting characteristics on a user of the first external device based on the learned first message; generating a template for the user of the first external device modeled based on the extracted characteristics on the user of the first external device; receiving a second message from a second external device; determining whether a unique identifier of the first external device is the same as a unique identifier of the second external device; and comparing the second message with the template to determine whether the user of the first external device is the same person as the user of the second external device, when the unique identifier of the first external device is the same as the unique identifier of the second external device. Accordingly, the fraud of impersonating another person can be prevented. The method of authenticating using a message transmitted to the intelligent electronic device of the present disclosure may be associated with an artificial intelligence module, a drone, a robot, an augmented reality device, a virtual reality device, a device related to a 5G service, and the like.
US11315546B2	Computerized system and method for formatted transcription of multimedia content Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in content searching, generating, hosting and/or providing systems supported by or configured with personal computing devices, servers and/or platforms. The systems interact to identify and retrieve data within or across platforms, which can be used to improve the quality of data used in processing interactions between or among processors in such systems. The disclosed systems and methods provide systems and methods for automatic creation of a formatted, readable transcript of multimedia content, which is derived, extracted, determined, or otherwise identified from the multimedia content. The formatted, readable transcript can be utilized to increase accuracy and efficiency in search engine optimization, as well as identification of relevant digital content available for communication to a user.
US11315543B2	Pole-zero blocking matrix for low-delay far-field beamforming A system performs pole-zero or IIR modeling and estimation of an inter-microphone transfer function between first and second microphones that output respective first and second microphone signals. The system includes a first adaptive FIR filter to which the first microphone signal is provided, a delay element that delays the second microphone signal by a predetermined delay amount, and a second adaptive FIR filter to which the delayed second microphone signal is provided. A first coefficient of the second adaptive FIR filter is constrained to a fixed non-zero value. The filters are jointly adapted to minimize an error signal that is a difference of the two filters outputs. The delay is small: approximately the acoustic propagation delay between the two microphones and is not determined by the environmental reverberation characteristics. The error signal may serve as a noise reference in a noise canceller, for implementing far-field beamforming with low delay.
US11315541B1	Adaptive ANC based on environmental triggers The disclosed computer-implemented method may include applying, via a sound reproduction system, sound cancellation that reduces an amplitude of various sound signals. The method further includes identifying, among the sound signals, an external sound whose amplitude is to be reduced by the sound cancellation. The method then includes analyzing the identified external sound to determine whether the identified external sound is to be made audible to a user and, upon determining that the external sound is to be made audible to the user, the method includes modifying the sound cancellation so that the identified external sound is made audible to the user. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US11315538B2	Anti-resonant panels Noise insulation may be provided by an anti-resonant panel that includes a base panel including a base panel core material and two base panel face sheets, where each of the two base panel face sheets is adjacent to an opposite side of the base panel core material. The anti-resonant panel further includes at least one stiffener-member positioned along the base panel in a defined area of the base panel, where the defined area is less than a full area of the base panel. The stiffener-member includes a stiffener-member core having a top surface, a bottom surface in contact with the base panel, a plurality of cells having walls that extend from the top surface to the bottom surface, and a stiffener-member face sheet that is seamlessly integrated with the walls of the plurality of cells along the top surface.
US11315519B2	Control method for improving network performance The invention provides a control method for improving network performance, comprising: each upstream device issues corresponding playing commands and performs filtering to the playing commands to obtain first available playing commands; a downstream device switches to a route where the first available playing commands is located, and then issues vendor command parameters; an implementation module receives the vendor command parameters, then enables a timer, and sets identification information; during the preset timer time period, the implementation module filters the first available playing commands to obtain second available playing commands; when the preset timer time period ends, the implementation module turns off the timer and resets the identification information; and the downstream device receives the second available playing commands and switches to a route where the second available playing commands is located. The present invention has the following advantageous effects: the network congestion and the transmission delay are reduced.
US11315512B2	GOA circuit and display panel thereof A gate driver on array (GOA) circuit is provided. The GOA circuit includes a plurality of cascading GOA units. One of the GOA unit includes: a scan control module, an anti-backfill module connected to a constant high-level signal and the scan control module, a cascading reset module, and a gate signal output module. Base on functions of prior art solution, the provided GOA circuit of the disclosure reduces two types of signal to simplify signal traces at the bezel to realize a narrow bezel design.
US11315510B2	Display panel and display device The present disclosure provides a display panel and a display device. The display panel is provided with a plurality of sub-pixels, the display panel including: a first substrate and a second substrate opposite to each other, and multistable liquid crystals between the first substrate and the second substrate; wherein, each of the sub-pixels is provided with a first electrode and a second electrode to generate an electric field for the multistable liquid crystals, and the multistable liquid crystals have different optical properties under different electric fields and after an electric field disappears, the multistable liquid crystals can maintain the same optical properties as the electric field exists. The present disclosure also provides a display device, including: the above mentioned display panel.
US11315509B2	Driving method for liquid crystal display device A driving method for a liquid crystal display device is provided. The liquid crystal display device has a wide viewing angle mode and a narrow viewing angle mode. The driving method includes: in the wide viewing angle mode, all the frames of the liquid crystal display device have the same display brightness; in the narrow viewing angle mode, the odd frames and the even frames of the liquid crystal display device have different display brightness. In the narrow viewing angle mode of the liquid crystal display device, by using an alternate driving method of bright frames and dark frames, the mura degree is significantly reduced, and the smoothness of dynamic picture display is improved, thereby improving the use experience of users.
US11315500B2	Display device system circuit and display device A display device system circuit and a display device are provided. The display device system circuit includes a power supply, a plurality of functional circuit modules and a plurality of ground wires corresponding to the plurality of functional circuit modules, respectively. Operating current input ends of the plurality of functional circuit modules are electrically connected to a positive electrode of the power supply, respectively. An operating current output end of each of the functional circuit modules is electrically connected to a negative electrode of the power supply via a corresponding ground wire. The functional circuit modules will not be interfered with each other, avoiding causing abnormal displaying by signal coupling between the functional circuit modules.
US11315499B1	Display device A display device comprises a first pattern disposed on a substrate and receiving a driving voltage, a second pattern disposed on the first pattern and receiving the driving voltage, an intermediate pattern disposed on the first pattern and receiving the driving voltage, a first source pattern disposed on the intermediate pattern and contacting the first pattern, the second pattern, and the intermediate pattern, a second source pattern disposed in the same layer as the first source pattern and contacting the intermediate pattern, and a third source pattern disposed on the second source pattern and contacting the second source pattern.
US11315495B2	Gate driving circuit and display device having the same A gate driving circuit including a controller for providing a first carry signal to a control node, a first pull-up portion for outputting a first clock signal as a first gate signal in accordance with a signal provided to the control node, and a second pull-up portion for outputting a second clock signal with a phase that is different from the first clock signal as a second gate signal in accordance with the signal provided to the control node.
US11315490B2	Pixel circuit having a voltage amplification circuit and driving method thereof, display panel A pixel circuit, a driving method thereof and a display panel are disclosed. The pixel circuit includes a data writing circuit, a light-emitting drive circuit, and a voltage amplification circuit; the data writing circuit is electrically connected with a first node and is configured to write a data signal to the first node under control of a scan signal; two ends of the voltage amplification circuit are electrically connected with the first node and a second node respectively, and the voltage amplification circuit are configured to obtain an amplified voltage signal based on the data signal and write the amplified voltage signal to the second node; and the light-emitting drive circuit is electrically connected with the second node and is configured to drive a light-emitting component to emit light under control of the amplified voltage signal.
US11315489B1	Light emitting device driving circuit and related method A pixel circuit includes a drive transistor configured to control an amount of current to a light emitting device during an emission phase depending upon a voltage applied to a control terminal of the drive transistor, the drive transistor having a first terminal and a second terminal. During a first phase, an anode of the light emitting device is set to a reference voltage and the first terminal of the drive transistor is set to a fixed data voltage such that the drive transistor is stressed with a fixed source-to-gate voltage to prevent a drift of a threshold voltage in the drive transistor thereby preventing a drift in screen brightness. During a second phase, the anode of the light emitting device is set to the reference voltage and the first terminal of the drive transistor is set to a voltage of the first power supply.
US11315480B2	Pixel driving circuit, driving method thereof, and display panel Provided are a pixel driving circuit, a driving method thereof, and display panel. The pixel driving circuit includes a current control circuit and a time control circuit, wherein the current control circuit is configured to receive a display data signal and control a magnitude of a driving current flowing through the current control circuit according to the display data signal; the time control circuit is configured to receive the driving current, and receive a time data signal, a first light-emitting control signal and a second light-emitting control signal, and control a flowing time period of the driving current according to the time data signal, the first light-emitting control signal and the second light-emitting control signal.
US11315477B2	Vehicle-mounted display control method, vehicle-mounted control device and vehicle-mounted display assembly A vehicle-mounted display control method includes: receiving, by a vehicle-mounted control device, a signal to be displayed transmitted by a signal source; converting, by the vehicle-mounted control device, the signal to be displayed into a relay data signal, and transmitting, by the vehicle-mounted control device, the relay data signal to a signal conversion circuit of a corresponding vehicle-mounted display assembly; and converting, by the signal conversion circuit, the relay data signal into a display drive signal, and outputting, by the signal conversion circuit, the display drive signal to at least one display screen of the vehicle-mounted display assembly, so as to drive the at least one display screen to display.
US11315473B2	Gate-on-array driving circuit A gate-on-array (GOA) driving circuit is provided, and the GOA driving circuit includes a plurality of cascading GOA driving units. Each of the GOA driving units further includes a first GOA driving sub-unit including a first signal source and a second GOA driving sub-unit including a second signal source. The first GOA driving sub-unit operates when the first signal source transmits a first signal with a high voltage, and the second GOA driving sub-unit transmitting a second signal operates when the first signal source transmits the first signal with a low voltage.
US11315472B2	Shift register unit, gate driving circuit and driving method thereof, display device A shift register unit, a gate driving circuit and a driving method thereof, a display device. The shift register unit includes: a first input circuit configured for outputting a voltage of a first voltage terminal to a pull-up node under a control of a first signal terminal; a second input circuit configured for outputting a voltage of a second voltage terminal to the pull-up node under a control of a second signal terminal; an output circuit configured for outputting a clock signal of a clock signal terminal to the signal output terminal under a control of the pull-up node; a pull-up node reset circuit configured for outputting a voltage of the third voltage terminal to the pull-up node under a control of the third signal terminal.
US11315471B2	Shift register unit, driving device, display device and driving method A shift register unit, a driving device, a display device and a driving method are provided. The shift register unit includes an input circuit, a first pull-up node reset circuit, an output circuit, an output reset circuit, a pull-down node control circuit and a power-on initialization circuit. The power-on initialization circuit is configured to reset the pull-up node in response to a power-on initialization signal.
US11315468B2	Pixel driving circuit including first thin film transistor, and display device including the same A pixel driving circuit and a display device are provided. The pixel driving circuit includes a data writing unit, a driving unit, a compensating unit, and a light emitting unit. A first capacitor is provided in the driving unit. A first thin film transistor is provided between the micro light emitting diode and the driving unit. Reduce a transmission efficiency of the driving unit in different gray scale by a capacitance coupling effect of the first capacitor to the driving unit. Enhance an ability of gray scale switching of the pixel driving circuit. Improve a display effect of a display device.
US11315465B2	Screen display method and electronic device supporting same Disclosed is an electronic device that includes a display that outputs display data, an antenna arranged on a display area of the display, at least one processor electrically connected to the display, and a memory electrically connected to the processor, where the memory stores instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to correct the display data based on characteristic information of the antenna when a display location of the display data overlaps an arranged location of the antenna when the instructions are executed. In addition, various embodiments that are understood through the present disclosure are possible.
US11315462B2	Dual source drivers, display devices having the same, and methods of operating the same TA dual source driver includes first and second gamma voltage generators configured to generate first and second gamma voltages, respectively, first and second latches configured to latch first and second data, respectively, a first driving cell configured to receive the first gamma voltage and the first data, and to transmit a first voltage corresponding to the first data and the first gamma voltage to a panel load based on a first switching operation, and a second driving cell configured to receive the second gamma voltage and the second data, and to transmit a second voltage corresponding to the second data and the second gamma voltage to the panel load based on a second switching operation. The first switching operation and the second switching operation may operate complementarily to each other.
US11315436B2	Method and system for automatically providing graphical user interfaces for computational algorithms described in printed publications A system and method for providing graphical user interfaces based on computational algorithms described in printed publications. The method includes indexing a first output generated by a container; caching the indexed output in a cache memory; analyzing the printed publication to determine algorithm-indicating information of the computational algorithm; identifying, in the algorithm-indicating information, at least one input and at least one second output; generating at least one GUI element, wherein generating the at least one GUI element includes identifying an association between the printed publication and the container, wherein generating the at least one GUI element further comprises retrieving the first output from the cache memory, wherein the at least one GUI element is generated based on the retrieved first output; and generating executable code, wherein the executable code includes instructions for causing a display of the GUI including the at least one GUI element.
US11315432B2	Landing an unmanned aerial vehicle in a contingency scenario An apparatus is provided for causing an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to perform a contingency landing procedure. The apparatus includes memory and processing circuitry configured to cause the apparatus to at least determine candidate safe landing zones (SLZs) within an estimated current range of the UAV. Trajectories are generated for landing the UAV in respective ones of the candidate SLZs. Risk values are calculated that quantify third-party risk associated with operation of the UAV along respective ones of the trajectories to the respective ones of the candidate SLZs. A flight termination risk value is calculated that quantifies third-party risk associated with immediately landing the UAV at the current position. The lowest of the risk values is compared with the flight termination risk value, and a sequence is executed to operate the UAV along the trajectory to the selected one of the candidate SLZs, or immediately land the UAV.
US11315417B2	Method, device and system for wrong-way driver detection A method for wrong-way driver detection, including a step of reading in position data via an interface, the position data representing a measured position of a vehicle, a step of reading in inaccuracy data representing an inaccuracy of the position data, a step of reading in map data mapping road segments negotiable by the vehicle, and a step of ascertaining at least one plausible road segment based on the position data, the inaccuracy data and the map data, using a particle filter, the plausible road segment representing a road segment to which an instantaneous position of the vehicle may be assigned.
US11315410B2	System and method for optimized appliance control In response to a detected presence of an intended target appliance within a logical topography of controllable appliances identity information associated with the intended target appliance is used to automatically add to a graphical user interface of a controlling device an icon representative of the intended target appliance and to create at a Universal Control Engine a listing of communication methods for use in controlling corresponding functional operations of the intended target appliance. When the icon is later activated, the controlling device is placed into an operating state appropriate for controlling functional operations of the intended target appliance while the Universal Control Engine uses at least one of the communication methods to transmit at least one command to place the intended target appliance into a predetermined operating state.
US11315405B2	Systems and methods for provisioning appliance devices Systems, methods, and software for allowing interaction between consumer appliance devices and security systems are provided herein. An exemplary method may include allowing various interactions of a user with a consumer appliance device to generate n signal, such as a panic signal, causing various forms of security systems to escalate the signal to obtain help. Another exemplary method involves allowing the device, when placing the panic signal, to involve back end systems related to the security system to provision access to an emergency service provider (i.e., 911 provider) “just in time,” eliminating the need for costly pre-provisioning. Another exemplary method involves various sensors of the security system to communicate with consumer appliance devices to improve the performance, usability, or efficiency of the consumer appliance device or related systems.
US11315403B2	Nanosatellite-based property monitoring Methods, systems, and apparatus for nanosatellite-based property monitoring are disclosed. A method includes receiving satellite data related to conditions of a property monitored by a monitoring system; determining, based on the satellite data, that the property is at risk from a threat; requesting, from a sensor of the monitoring system, sensor data related to the threat; receiving, from the sensor, the sensor data related to the threat; and based on analyzing the sensor data related to the threat, performing one or more monitoring system actions. The threat may include one of a weather hazard, a security hazard, or a property damage hazard. The monitoring system actions can include sending an instruction to adjust a sensor or component of the monitoring system and can include sending, to a user device, a notification that the property is at risk from the threat.
US11315399B2	Security camera with adaptable hood A security device comprising a body having a first end and a second end, the first end being threadable into a light socket and the second end having a rotatable mount disposed thereon. The body may also include a light source disposed on the body of the security device and a slide connected to the rotatable mount, wherein the slide is configured to extend away from the mount. A camera with a lens may be disposed on a distal portion of the slide. The security device may further include a hood surrounding the lens of the camera and extending beyond the lens of the camera.
US11315398B2	Gateway-based anti-theft security system and method Improved systems and techniques are disclosed for controlling the security states of anti-theft security systems such as product display assemblies using security fobs. The tasks relating to fob authentication are offloaded to a computer system, and these authentications can be based on identifiers for the different security fobs. The interactions between security fobs and product display assemblies can be consistent regardless of the population of authorized security fobs by using a security code that is shared by the security fobs. When attempting to use a security fob to change a security status for a product display assembly, the provision of the code to the subject product display assembly can be predicated on authorization of the subject security fob by the computer system. The computer system can maintain a list of identifiers for authorized security fobs that is easily updated when new security fobs are added to or existing security fobs are de-authorized from the system.
US11315397B2	Anti-tampering assembly and system It is disclosed an anti-tampering assembly for the transportation and storage of a package, the anti-tampering assembly being configured to be associated with the package. the anti-tampering assembly comprises: a tampering detection unit comprising a RFID passive tag and a tampering track of a conductive material configured to be connected to said RFID tag upon dispatching the package so as to inhibit the operation of the RFID tag, wherein the tampering track is configured to be interrupted in case of tampering of the package; an actuating unit configured to detect the interruption of the tampering track in case of tampering of the package and, upon detection, actuate an alarm unit; and the alarm unit comprising a radio module configured to, upon actuation, transmit an alarm message over a long range wireless communication network.
US11315395B2	Dog bell alert device A pet-activated signaling device, a pet-activated signaling system, and a method of a pet signaling a human is provided. The pet-activated signaling device includes a belt, a transducer, and multiple bells. The transducer, which emits an electromagnetic signal, and bells, which emit an audible signal, are attached to the belt. The pet-activated signaling system includes the signaling device and a receiving device which emits an alert when a signal is received from the signaling device. The method of a pet signaling a human includes pawing at the pet-activated signaling device suspended from a door handle to activate the transducer and the bells. The invention is particularly useful for use on an exterior door, allowing a dog to use a familiar method of alerting a human to open the door even if the bells are not heard by the human.
US11315394B1	Integrated doorbell devices Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for implementing an integrated doorbell device are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of receiving doorbell data indicating activation of a doorbell of a property. The actions further include receiving device data from one or more devices associated with a monitoring system within the property. The actions further include determining a security status associated with the monitoring system. The actions further include based on the doorbell data indicating activation of the doorbell of the property, the device data from the one or more devices associated with the monitoring system, and the security status associated with the monitoring system, determining a response action for execution by the monitoring system. The actions further include performing, by the monitoring system, the response action.
US11315392B2	Methods and devices for automatic transaction machines for recognizing surroundings A method for enhancing automated transaction machine (ATM) security surveillance. The method consists of receiving a set of data from a financial device and generating a template for the financial device. The method generates an analysis by analyzing a portion of the received set of data. The method then determines a likelihood factor that the analyzed first portion is associated with a security threat, wherein if the likelihood factor is above a threshold then the method generates a second analysis by analyzing a second portion of the received first set of data and revises the likelihood factor based on the second analysis. The method generates a notice if the first likelihood factor exceeds a second threshold and then updates the template with the analysis and the likelihood factor and receives a second set of data from the monitoring device. The method updates the template with the second set of data.
US11315391B2	Automatic teller machine having a note storage unit with a door capable of being locked and unlocked An automatic teller machine includes a door having a locking part for opening and closing a medium storage space in which a medium is stored; a first slide member located at a locked position or an opened position by means of a locking or opening operation of the locking part; a second slide member for locking the door by means of engagement with the first slide member when the first slide member is in the locked position; a drive unit for moving the second slide member between a first position in which the door is locked and a second position in which the door is unlocked when the first slide member is in the locked position; and a control unit for controlling driving of the drive unit.
US11315388B2	Identifying a specially designated object to facilitate dynamic promotions related to use of the object In accordance with some embodiments, a physical game element such as a wagering chip or a playing card may be utilized to implement a promotion scheme on an electronic card table (e.g., using RFID or optical imaging technology). During a game it may be determined whether the element is associated with special functionality (e.g., entitles the player to a payout multiplier, special payout table, bonus prize or other benefit). The special functionality may have been previously associated with the element or associated with the element during the game (e.g., dynamically and/or randomly). In accordance with some embodiments a player is not able to readily discern the special functionality by a physical inspection of the physical game element and is only notified of the special functionality once the physical game element is used in a qualifying action (e.g., during a wager at an electronic card table).
US11315387B2	Fraud detection system in a casino A fraud detection system which detects fraud in a game of performing collection and redemption of chips in accordance with a win or lose result includes a camera which captures an image of chips contained in a chip tray of a dealer, an image analyzing apparatus which analyses the image captured by the camera to detect an amount of the chips contained in the chip tray, a card distribution device which determines a win or lose result of a game, and a control device which compares the win or lose result of the game and the amount of the chips contained in the chip tray before and after collection and redemption of the chips to detect fraud.
US11315382B2	Roulette wheel display device and related devices, systems, and methods A roulette wheel device, and related devices, systems, and methods, includes a base coupled to a table, the base having a circular ball track within a circular rim. The roulette wheel device further includes a circular wheelhead rotatably coupled to the base within the ball track. The wheelhead includes a circular ring having a plurality of pockets, wherein the circular ball track is sloped downwardly toward the circular ring to direct a roulette ball into one of the plurality of pockets. The wheelhead further includes a circular display subassembly including a display device to selectively display graphical elements corresponding to the plurality of pockets. The circular ball track, the circular ring, and the circular display subassembly are substantially concentric.
US11315372B2	Zone learning for enabling frictionless building interaction According to one embodiment, a method of conserving energy while seeking to wirelessly actuate an access control using a mobile device is provided. The method including: searching for a wireless signal at a first rate; detecting a wireless signal; generating a zone of interest; detecting positional data of a mobile device; and searching for a wireless signal at a second rate greater than the first rate when positional data of the mobile device indicates that the mobile device is within the zone of interest.
US11315367B2	Method and apparatus for controlling vehicle operations and computer device Provided are a method and an apparatus for controlling vehicle operations, and a computer device. The method includes: acquiring current running status information of an in-vehicle component and current user operating behavior information sent by a first vehicle; determining a current running status score of the first vehicle according to the current running status information of the in-vehicle component and the current user operating behavior information from the first vehicle; and generating an operation strategy for the first vehicle according to the current running status score of the first vehicle.
US11315359B2	Biological-information detecting device and biological-information detecting method A biological-information detection device includes a video input section accepting video signals including three wavelength components in an infrared region of reflected light from an object, a wavelength detecting section acquiring a wavelength and an intensity of the reflected light from the video signals, a face feature amount detecting section detecting a plurality of feature points of a face based on the video signals, a measurement target area identifying section identifying a measurement target area on a basis of the plurality of feature points of the face detected, a wavelength fluctuation detecting section detecting a difference between a wavelength of reflected light from the measurement target area at a certain point in time and a wavelength of reflected light at a point in time preceding the certain point in time, and a pulse wave detecting section detecting a change in the detected difference according to the point in time.
US11315356B2	Organic light emitting diode display panel module An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display panel module includes a cover plate, a first adhesive agent, a circular polarizer, an OLED display panel, and an ultrasonic fingerprint recognition module. The ultrasonic fingerprint recognition module is disposed at a lower surface of the OLED display panel. Both sides of the OLED display panel module are provided with a sound absorbing layer, both sides of the ultrasonic fingerprint recognition module are provided with the sound absorbing layer, and a portion of the lower surface of the OLED display panel not contacted the ultrasonic fingerprint recognition module is provided with the sound absorbing layer.
US11315353B1	Systems and methods for spatial-aware information extraction from electronic source documents Systems and methods for spatial-aware information extraction from electronic source documents are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: obtain an electronic source document in electronic format, including human-readable information; obtain extracted information that has been extracted from the electronic source document; generate a character-based representation of the electronic source document that uses a grid of character positions; and present a user interface to a user to search and/or select information in the electronic source document based on the character-based representation.
US11315340B2	Methods and systems for detecting and analyzing a region of interest from multiple points of view Disclosed are devices, systems, methods, techniques, and computer program products for estimating a Region Of Interest (ROI) corresponding to a plurality of content streams. A method may include receiving a plurality of sensor data associated with a plurality of mobile devices. The plurality of sensor data corresponds to a plurality of content streams captured by the plurality of mobile devices. Further, each of the plurality of mobile devices may include at least one recorder configured to capture a corresponding content stream. Further, a sensor data associated with a mobile device may include a location data and an orientation data of the mobile device during capturing of a content stream. The method may further include, analyzing, by the system, the plurality of sensor data and determining, by the system, a ROI based on at least the plurality of sensor data, thereby generating an estimation of the ROI.
US11315329B1	Scene reconstruction from sparse data In one embodiment, a method includes accessing a plurality of points, wherein each point (1) corresponds to a spatial location associated with an observed feature of a physical environment and (2) is associated with a patch representing the observed feature, determining a density associated with each of the plurality of points based on the spatial locations of the plurality of points, scaling the patch associated with each of the plurality of points based on the density associated with the point, and reconstructing a scene of the physical environment based on at least the scaled patches.
US11315321B2	View dependent 3D reconstruction mechanism An apparatus to facilitate encoding of point cloud data is disclosed. The apparatus includes one or more processors to receive point cloud data including a plurality of images and camera parameters, generate encoded point cloud data including a color texture image and a depth image having cropped regions for each of the plurality of images, and metadata to describe the camera parameters and a mapping of the cropped regions to a real coordinate space.
US11315312B2	Display cabinet and control method of the same The disclosure provides a display cabinet and a control method thereof. The display cabinet comprises a cabinet body which defines an exhibition space, the display cabinet further comprises: a rotatable tray arranged in the exhibition space, which is configured to place an exhibit; a first camera located in the exhibition space, which is configured to capture images of the exhibit at different angles to construct a 3D model of the exhibit; a transparent touch display constituting at least a portion of the cabinet body, which is configured to display the 3D model when the transparent touch display screen is in an awake state, and acquiring a touch operation and displaying a detailed information of the exhibit according to the touch operation.
US11315306B2	Systems and methods for processing volumetric data An illustrative volumetric processing system generates a plurality of point clouds each representing an object from a different vantage point. Based on the plurality of point clouds, the volumetric processing system consolidates point cloud data corresponding to a surface of the object. Based on the consolidated point cloud data for the object, the volumetric processing system generates a voxel grid representative of the object. Based on the voxel grid, the volumetric processing system generates a set of rendered patches each depicting at least a part of the surface of the object. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed.
US11315301B1	Rendering post-capture artificial-reality effects based on artificial-reality state information In one embodiment, a method includes retrieving a video stream that was recorded while a first artificial-reality effect was being displayed on the video stream, where each frame of the video stream comprises a real-world scene without the first artificial-reality effect, retrieving an artificial-reality state information stream corresponding to the video stream, where the artificial-reality state information stream comprises state information associated with the first artificial-reality effect, retrieving one or more contextual data streams corresponding to the video stream, where the first artificial-reality effect displayed on the video stream was rendered based on at least a portion of the one or more contextual data streams, rendering a second artificial-reality effect based on at least a portion of the artificial-reality state information stream and a portion of the one or more contextual data streams, and displaying the second artificial-reality effect on the video stream.
US11315299B1	Method for computation of local densities for virtual fibers An image generator generates images of a set of virtual fibers and effects thereon by processing representations of the set of fibers and computing representation of a virtual surface for a fiber clump in the set of virtual fibers from an artist parameter representing a desired artist effect, computing correlations of the vertices from a set of vertices based on associations of the vertices corresponding to the artist parameter, computing a set of relevant vertices using the correlations of the vertices, computing orthogonal gradients to produce a plurality of gradients using a selected vertex and the set of relevant vertices for the fiber clump, and computing the virtual surface of the fiber clump from the plurality of gradients.
US11315294B2	Information processing device, display method, and program storage medium for monitoring object movement To display with a display mode with which an analyst may easily ascertain actions (movements) of objects being monitored, provided is an information processing device, including a sensing unit and a display control unit. The sensing unit classifies, based on information relating to movements of objects being monitored, a plurality of objects into set movement paths. The display control unit controls a display such that the movements of the objects are displayed in a display screen of the display with an arrow in each set movement path. The axis of the arrow which is displayed in the display has a thickness according to the number of objects which are classified in the corresponding movement path, has a shape according to the trace of the objects which are classified in the corresponding movement path, and furthermore, the direction indicated by the arrow represents the direction of progress of the objects.
US11315293B2	Autonomous segmentation of contrast filled coronary artery vessels on computed tomography images A computer-implemented method for autonomous segmentation of contrast-filled coronary artery vessels includes receiving a CT scan volume representing a 3D volume of a region of anatomy that includes a pericardium; preprocessing the CT scan volume to output a preprocessed scan volume; converting the CT scan volume to three sets of two-dimensional slices; extracting a region of interest (ROI) by autonomous segmentation of the heart region as outlined by the pericardium, by means of three individually trained ROI extraction convolutional neural networks (CNN), each trained to process a particular one of the three sets of two-dimensional slices to output a mask denoting a heart region as delineated by the pericardium; combining the preprocessed scan volume with the mask to obtain a masked volume; converting the masked volume to three groups of sets of two-dimensional masked slices; and performing autonomous coronary vessel segmentation to output a mask denoting the coronary vessels.
US11315275B2	Edge handling methods for associated depth sensing camera devices, systems, and methods The present technology relates to the field of medical monitoring, and, in particular, to non-contact detecting and monitoring of patient breathing. Systems, methods, and computer readable media are described for calculating a change in depth of a region of interest (ROI) on a patient. In some embodiments, the systems, methods, and/or computer readable media can identify steep changes in depths. For example, the systems, methods, and/or computer readable media can identify large, inaccurate changes in depths that can occur at edge regions of a patient. In these and other embodiments, the systems, methods, and/or computer readable media can adjust the identified steep changes in depth before determining one or more patient respiratory parameters.
US11315274B2	Depth determination for images captured with a moving camera and representing moving features A method includes obtaining a reference image and a target image each representing an environment containing moving features and static features. The method also includes determining an object mask configured to mask out the moving features and preserves the static features in the target image. The method additionally includes determining, based on motion parallax between the reference image and the target image, a static depth image representing depth values of the static features in the target image. The method further includes generating, by way of a machine learning model, a dynamic depth image representing depth values of both the static features and the moving features in the target image. The model is trained to generate the dynamic depth image by determining depth values of at least the moving features based on the target image, the object mask, and the static depth image.
US11315264B2	Laser sensor-based map generation The present disclosure provides a laser sensor-based map generation method. In an embodiment, the method includes: obtaining image data, the image data being acquired by a visual sensor; determining first point cloud data belonging to glass-like region in laser data based on the image data; adjusting a weight of the laser data according to the first point cloud data; fusing the first point cloud data and second point cloud data belonging to non-glass-like region in the laser data based on the adjusted weight of the laser data, to generate a map.
US11315261B2	Image processing method and apparatus An image processing method includes acquiring an image frame; tracking a face region of a user based on first prior information obtained from at least one previous frame of the image frame; based on a determination that tracking of the face region based on the first prior information has failed, setting a scan region in the image frame based on second prior information obtained from the at least one previous frame; and detecting the face region in the image frame based on the scan region.
US11315258B1	Optical system for tracking the heading and position of an implement compared to the pulling tractor and other uses Methods, apparatus, and systems for sensing or tracking relative position between objects or locations. A digital camera or imager captures one or more fiducials in its field of view. By calibration and processing, the imaged fiducials can be identified and distinguished from other objects and background in camera space, and position of imaged fiducials in camera space relative to a reference can be translated to position of the actual fiducials in physical space. In one example, the fiducials are IR LEDs.
US11315256B2	Detecting motion in video using motion vectors Technology is disclosed herein for detecting motion in video using motion vectors. In an implementation, a frame of video is divided into regions and a vector score is identified for each of the regions. A selection is then made of a subset of the regions based on the identified vector scores, i.e. at least some of the regions may be excluded from further analysis based on their score. The selected subset is divided into or grouped in clusters. Motion may then be identified in response to at least one of the clusters appearing in at least one other frame of the video.
US11315252B2	Systems and methods for magnetic resonance image reconstruction A method may include acquiring MR signals by an MR scanner and generating image data in a k-space according to the MR signals. The method may also include classifying the image data into a plurality of phases. Each of the plurality of phases may have a first count of spokes. A spoke may be defined by a trajectory for filling the k-space. The method may also include classifying the plurality of phases of the image data into a plurality of groups and determining reference images based on the plurality of groups. Each of the reference images may correspond to the at least one of the phases of the image data. The method may further include reconstructing an image sequence based on the reference images and the plurality of phases of the image data.
US11315241B2	Method, computer device and storage medium of fundus oculi image analysis A method of fundus oculi image analysis includes acquiring a target fundus oculi image; analyzing the target fundus oculi image by a fundus oculi image analysis model determined by training to acquire an image analysis result of the target fundus oculi image; and the fundus oculi image analysis model includes at least one of an image overall grade prediction sub-model and an image quality factor sub-model. The method performs quality analysis on the target fundus oculi image by the fundus oculi image analysis model, and when the model includes the overall grade prediction sub-model, a prediction result of whether the target fundus oculi image as a whole is gradable can be acquired; when the model includes the image quality factor sub-model, the analysis result of the fundus oculi image quality factor can be acquired and the image analysis model is determined by extensive image training, and the reliability of the result of whether the image is gradable determined based on the above model is high.
US11315240B2	System and method of tumor classification At least one embodiment relates to an image analysis system for tumor classification. The system is configured for receiving at least one digital image of a tissue sample; analyzing the at least one received image for identifying immune cells and tumor cells in the at least one received image; for each of the identified tumor cells, determining the distance of the tumor cell to the nearest immune cell; computing a proximity measure as a function of the determined distances; in dependence on the proximity measure, classifying the identified tumor cells into tumor cells of an inflammatory tumor or as tumor cells of a non-inflammatory tumor; and storing the classification result on a storage medium and/or displaying the classification result on a display device.
US11315223B2	Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer-readable recording medium An image processing apparatus is disclosed. The present image processing apparatus comprises: a memory for storing a low dynamic range (LDR) image and a processor for adjusting the brightness of the LDR image by means of a pixel-specific brightness ratio identified using a first parameter, and acquiring a high dynamic range (HDR) image by adding or subtracting a pixel-specific correction value identified using a second parameter in the brightness-adjusted LDR image.
US11315207B1	Cargo optimization systems, devices and related methods A shipping container optimization and utilization system and method for identifying and utilizing otherwise unused, deadheading shipping containers. The systems and methods aggregate, compile, and index cargo capacity data into a searchable database so that users can identify and pair loads with unused shipping containers. The systems and methods improve efficiency in transportation and shipping routes.
US11315204B2	Updating sequence of online courses for new learners while maintaining previous sequences of online courses for previous learners A method can present a new sequence of online courses within a specialization for a group of new learners while maintaining a previous sequence of online courses within the specialization for a group of previous learners. The method can include maintaining a base class, associating a first learner with the base class, receiving a request to update a previous sequence of courses, generating a child class, associating a second learner with the child class, responding to a request for a sequence associated with the first learner, and responding to a request for a sequence associated with the second learner.
US11315202B2	Collecting and representing home attributes A facility for representing home attribute values for a plurality of homes and a plurality of home attributes is described. The facility incorporates a data structure comprising, for each of the plurality of homes, for each of the plurality of attribute value sources, the capacity to store values for any of the plurality of home attributes obtained from the attribute value source.
US11315198B2	Data analysis engine Systems and methods for performing data analysis include receiving data for performing analysis from a user. A value associated with a variable is extracted from a first file based on the data. The value associated with the variable is loaded into a second file, the second file including a formula referencing the variable. An output is generated based on the data by calculating the formula based on the value associated with the variable.
US11315195B1	Systems and methods for determining validation times Method and system for validating a plurality of policies. For example, a computer-implemented method includes receiving a plurality of policies, each policy of the plurality of policies associated with a policy lifecycle including one or more validation actions, each validation action of the one or more validation actions being associated with an action time; mapping the one or more validation actions associated with each policy of the plurality of policies on a common timeline of a shared clock; and determining the plurality of validation times based at least in part upon the action time associated with each validation action of the one or more validation actions by at least one of: minimizing the amount of validation times of the plurality of validation times; and maximizing the amount of validation actions contained within each validation time of the plurality of validation times on average across the plurality of validation threads.
US11315186B1	Automatic execution of subscription-based financial instrument trading strategies in real-time Methods and apparatuses are described for automatic execution of subscription-based financial instrument trading strategies in real-time. A server receives a request to deploy a trading strategy with trading strategy parameters. The server determines that a trading strategy has already been created for other users based upon the parameters. The server generates a subscription to the trading strategy, which comprises indicators needed to deploy the trading strategy. The server identifies at least one indicator that has already been calculated and calculates any of the indicators that have not already been calculated. The server deploys the trading strategy using the identified and calculated indicators.
US11315183B2	Electronic trading system and method based on point-to-point mesh architecture An electronic trading system and corresponding method are based on a point-to-point mesh architecture. The electronic trading system comprises a gateway, core compute node, and sequencer. The core compute node performs an electronic trading matching function. The gateway transmits a message to the core compute node via a first direct connection. The gateway transmits the message via a second direct connection to the sequencer which, in turn, transmits a sequence-marked message to the core compute node via a third direct connection. The core compute node determines relative ordering of the message among other messages in the electronic trading system based on the sequence-marked message to complete the electronic trading matching function, deterministically. The gateway, core compute node, sequencer, and respective direct connections form at least a portion of the point-to-point mesh architecture and enable the electronic trading system to perform high-speed, deterministic, electronic trading of financial instruments while exhibiting low latency, fairness, and fault tolerance, among other features.
US11315170B2	Methods and systems for order processing The present disclosure discloses an order allocation method. The method may include: receiving orders and extracting order information; extracting service provider information and obtaining features of service providers; determining whether the order information matches the features of the service providers, or determining whether the features of the service providers satisfy a preset condition to generate a determination result; ranking the service providers based on the determination result; generating orders to be allocated; and allocating the orders to be allocated to the service providers based on the ranking. The present disclosure also discloses an order allocation system that can perform the method above.
US11315157B1	Aggregator application app for a mobile electronic device A mobile electronic device is described that is configured to upload a commercial application to a centralized server. In an implementation, the mobile electronic device includes a memory, and a processor communicatively coupled to the memory. The mobile electronic device also includes an aggregator module stored in memory and executable by the processor. The module is also configured to instruct the processor to aggregates the product information with applicant information to generate a commercial application relating to the product, the commercial application comprising an application for services from at least one a lending entity, an insurance entity, or a third-party service entity. The module is also configured to instruct the processor to cause transmission of the commercial application to a central server. The commercial application is accessible to the at least one of the lending entity, the insurance entity, or the third-party service entity.
US11315150B2	Portfolio driven targeted advertising network, system, and method A system, method, device, and platform for generating targeted advertisements. Transaction information for a user is received. The transaction information associated with the user is verified. The information is reconciled with advertising data associated with the transaction information. Targeted advertisements are created based on the available advertising data. The targeted advertisements are communicated to the user.
US11315127B2	Standard system and method for assigning ratings to art materials and works of art based on the projected stability of the constituents Computer-powered system for determining a stability rating of an artwork piece, comprising a server, network, computer database(s) containing data regarding preservation-effecting factors and sub-factors and relating the factors and sub-factors to other pieces of artwork of various types, wherein data contained within the database forms a dynamic and searchable catalog of records of artwork pieces, at least one computing device having a software application stored therein that receives data from a user pertaining to queries about the artwork piece based on the examination of and research about the artwork and transmits the data to the network; the server applies algorithmic computations to the received data to convert it into representative grades for each factor and sub-factor and calculate a stability rating, wherein the stability rating represents the projected stability of the artwork and the resulting grades and stability rating are dependent upon the entire body of data within the database(s).
US11315122B2	Authentication method for e-wallet carrier The present disclosure provides an authentication method for e-wallet carrier, wherein the e-wallet carrier is stored with an authentication program, and the method comprises: an escrow institution constructs user information and a user database, and the user database has private and public key information; the escrow institution generates authentication information through the authentication program, and transmits the private key information as well as authentication program to the carrier to make the carrier in a restricted mode; when receiving verification information and confirming that its user information is correct, the escrow institution provides the authentication information to the user; after electronic receives the authentication information, the carrier is switched to be in a unlocked mode, thus to make transactions in currency. Through this, the information content of the private key information is in the custody of the escrow institution reduce the risk of man-caused loss in the private key information.
US11315116B2	Systems and methods for use in authenticating consumers in connection with payment account transactions Systems and methods are provided for use in authenticating consumers based on images of the consumers stored in payment cards. One exemplary method includes receiving, at a point-of-sale (POS) device, a transaction request by a consumer to purchase a product and soliciting, by the POS device, a payment device from the consumer for funding the transaction request. The method also includes retrieving, by the POS device, a reference image provisioned to the payment device, capturing, by the POS device, an image of the consumer presenting the payment device, and comparing, by the POS device, the captured image of the consumer to the reference image. The method then further includes submitting an authorization request, in response to the transaction request, when the captured image of the consumer matches the reference image, whereby the consumer is authenticated to the payment device.
US11315113B1	Systems and methods for authorizing a transaction conventionally incompatible with a technical protocol Disclosed herein are systems and method for transaction authorization. In one aspect, a method comprises receiving, at an authenticating device from a terminal device, a request to generate a dataset, the request comprising a plurality of data object values indicative of transaction information. The method comprises generating, based on the plurality of data object values, a transaction comprising a source identifier, a destination identifier, a transaction value, and authorization data in a form of a digital signature. The method comprises encapsulating and embedding either the at least one portion of the transaction or the symmetric encryption key in the discretionary data fields and transmitting the dataset to the terminal device that forwards the transaction to a processing service configured to reconstruct the transaction from the forwarded dataset and process the transaction in a target ledger.
US11315111B2	Methods and devices for testing signature verification for blockchain system Disclosed herein are methods, devices, and apparatuses, including computer programs stored on computer-readable media, for testing signature verification for a blockchain system. One of the methods includes: obtaining a testing configuration from a configuration file, wherein the testing configuration specifies a cryptography algorithm used in the blockchain system, a group of one or more private keys corresponding to the cryptography algorithm, and a predetermined execution result based on the cryptography algorithm and the group of one or more private keys; signing a transaction, by encrypting data representing the transaction based on the cryptography algorithm and the group of one or more private keys, to generate one or more signed transactions; sending the one or more signed transactions to the blockchain system and receiving an execution result from the blockchain system; and determining whether the predetermined execution result is satisfied based on the execution result.
US11315109B2	Transaction processing method and apparatus During operation, a first node coupled to the blockchain sends a transaction confirmation request for a target transaction to a second node, the transaction confirmation request comprising transaction data associated with the target transaction. The first node receives a transaction confirmation response from the second node, the transaction confirmation response comprising a first data block comprising at least an identifier of the second node, first encoded transaction data generated based on a predetermined encoding scheme, and a first confirmation result. The first node generates a second data block comprising at least an identifier of the first node, second encoded transaction data generated based on the predetermined encoding scheme, and a second confirmation result; and in response to determining that each of the first confirmation result and the second confirmation result indicates that the target transaction is confirmed, stores the first data block and the second data block in the blockchain.
US11315108B2	Profile generation and association with multiple transaction cards contemporaneously A payment service generates multiple user profiles, each profile associated with a different user. Each user profile may be linked to multiple transaction cards and multiple numerical balances. Multiple transaction cards can be linked to a same numerical balance—even if the cards are from different user profiles. Restrictions, such as transaction type blacklists and whitelists or parent/guardian permission relationships, can be placed on particular numerical balances, or on access to particular numerical balances by particular cards. Numerical balances and transactions using particular cards may be tracked using user profiles with access to those cards and numerical balances.
US11315104B2	Account identifier digitization abstraction Described herein are various technologies pertaining to integrating account identifier (e.g., card provider(s)) into a digitization system, for example, without requiring changes to a client application on a user device (e.g., smart phone). An extensible account identifier abstraction system is provided that stores data according to a unified data model and is accessible to the user device via unified interface(s). The extensible abstraction system includes one or more plugin modules/provider relay plugin(s) that convert call(s) to the unified interface(s) and data stored according to the unified data model into provider-specific call(s) with data formatted according to a provider-specific schema.
US11315102B2	Methods and systems for contactless transmission of transactional information Embodiments described herein disclose a mobile device system for displaying contactless payment options to a user of a mobile device. A location of the device may be detected. The location may be transmitted to a payment services provider, and information indicating that the location corresponds to a merchant having contactless payment options may be received. In response, graphical depictions of payment options associated with a plurality of payment sources are displayed on a touch-sensitive display of the mobile device. A selection of one of the graphical depictions is received, and in response, one or more transceivers of the mobile device, such as one or more NFC transceivers, may be activated. The activation may cause the transceivers to transmit a personal account number to a point-of-sale terminal. Thus, the user is presented with contactless payment options based on a geographical location, and may be presented with a suggested payment source.
US11315093B2	Systems and methods for recycling consumer electronic devices Systems and associated methods for recycling and performing other processes with consumer electronic devices are described herein. In various embodiments, the present technology includes systems and methods for identifying and evaluating a used or pre-owned consumer electronic device, such as a mobile phone, laptop, etc. to facilitate purchasing the device. In some embodiments, the present technology includes a counter-top evaluation terminal that evaluates a device and facilitates purchase and recycling of the device. Various other aspects of the present technology are described herein.
US11315090B1	System and method for automated optimization of financial assets A financial management network is disclosed for optimizing interest return and/or deposit insurance coverage among a plurality of online accounts that may include one or more savings accounts and a checking account, by automatically allocating and transferring funds among the accounts without intervention of the account holder, in accordance with constraints that may be set by the financial management network, account holder, the account holder's financial advisor, and/or imposed by the associate financial institutions holding the accounts.
US11315083B2	Asset management method for substation An asset management method for a substation includes deriving an optimal management plan by each element of the substation depending on integrity of the each element of the substation and deriving an optimal unique reliability model for each element of the substation through a process of compensating a reference reliability model of each substation type and an apparatus executing the method.
US11315081B2	Resource reservation system, terminal setting method, and information processing apparatus A resource reservation system includes an information processing apparatus configured to manage reservation information of one or more resources, and an information processing terminal configured to acquire the reservation information from the information processing apparatus. The information processing apparatus includes first circuitry configured to provide information necessary for transmitting the reservation information to the information processing terminal. The information processing terminal includes second circuitry configured to receive the information provided by the first circuitry. The information processing terminal can acquire the reservation information from the information processing apparatus by using the information received by the second circuitry.
US11315077B2	Manufacturing materiel supply chain disruption management system A manufacturing materiel management system. The system comprises a manufacturing assembly line to manufacture an object comprising a plurality of parts. The system also comprises a computer to monitor an input device for input that indicates a disruption event defined as an event in which manufacture of the object is disrupted as a result of loss of a resource or the part, or a shortage of human resources. Responsive to receiving the input, the computer system calculates another project which may continue, calculates remaining resources which may be allocated to the other projects, and generate a resource re-allocation plan which defines how remaining resources are to be re-allocated to the other project. A communication system in communication with the computer is configured to communicate the re-allocation plan to a manager of the manufacturing assembly line.
US11315076B2	Systems and methods for initial inventory template generation for accounting platforms Systems and methods that may be used to automatically generate inventory templates for use with an accounting platform. The automatically generated templates may be for a first user within a particular industry and may be based on established inventory trees of other system users within the same industry that have similar demographics of the first user.
US11315074B2	Smart shelf system The present invention describes a shelf system for monitoring items coupled with support utilities. The system is configured to detect item change caused by customer actions and optimize the camera system and computing resources of a remote server. The system also is configured to sense certain visual indicators with customer actions.
US11315071B1	Speech-based storage tracking Systems and methods for tracking inventory are provided herein. In some embodiments, a method for tracking inventory includes receiving weight sensor data representing a weight of a physical item in the storage unit, adding the weight of the physical item to a profile corresponding to the physical item, determining that the weight of the physical item is less than a predetermined threshold weight associated with the physical item, generating notification information associated with the physical item, and sending the notification information. In some embodiments, a method for tracking inventory includes receiving sensor data representing a location of a physical item, adding the location of the physical item to a profile corresponding to the physical item, receiving audio data representing a request for the location of the physical item, retrieving the location of the physical item from the profile, generating responsive data representing the of the physical item, and sending the responsive data.
US11315070B2	Method and apparatus for storing information A method and apparatus for storing information. The method comprises: generating a traceability code of an article, and associating the traceability code of the article with the article (201); collecting circulation information of the article (202); determining a form data item corresponding to the circulation information of the article (203); and according to the traceability code of the article, and a correlation between the form data item corresponding to the circulation information of the article and the circulation information of the article, storing the traceability code of the article, the form data item corresponding to the circulation information of the article and the circulation information of the article (204).
US11315062B2	System and method for autonomous service operation validation The present approach relates to an automated approach for verifying sufficiency of and/or quality of a service operation performed on an asset by a field engineer. In one implementation the approach employs autonomous tests and/or compares performance of the serviced asset with that of comparable peers operating in similar or co-local environments.
US11315058B2	Issue tracking systems and methods Described herein is a computer-implemented method. The method comprises receiving an operation notification in respect of a gated operation from a change requesting system, determining an issue type associated with the gated operation, and creating an issue of the determined issue type. The method further comprises determining that the issue has transitioned state from a pending workflow state to a particular operation resolution workflow state and, in response, generating an operation resolution message which is communicated to the change requesting system.
US11315057B2	Power storage device management system, storage device, server device, power storage device management method, program, and storage medium A power storage device management system includes a storage device configured to store power storage devices that are removably mounted on an electric power device using electric power and a server device communicatively connected to the storage device. The server device includes a first storage unit storing identification information of a power storage device shared by a plurality of users among the power storage devices as storage identification information. The storage device includes a second storage unit storing the storage identification information received from the server device and a determiner configured to determine whether or not reception of the power storage device is possible on the basis of the storage identification information stored in the second storage unit when the power storage device has been received from a user.
US11315052B2	System and method for tracking agricultural commodities, e.g. crop inventories A system and a method for tracking agricultural commodities, such as crop inventories, is based on measuring a flow of crop through an equipment unit during a period of time, and determining the flow of crop through the unit to be a transfer event. More particularly, there is measured a quantity of crop in a first equipment unit; followed by a detection of a presence of one or more additional equipment units proximate the first equipment unit; and by a determination of at least one crop transfer event between the first equipment and at least one of the additional equipment units based on a change in the quantity of crop in the first equipment unit and the detection of presence.
US11315046B1	Machine learning-based disaster modeling and high-impact weather event forecasting Machine learning-based disaster modeling and high-impact weather event forecasting are provided herein. Embodiments herein provide a flexible machine-learning platform for providing skillful forecast of severe weather (tornadoes, damaging wind gusts, and hail), tropical cyclone activity, and precipitation, with skill potentially extending to 13 months or more.
US11315041B1	Machine learning with data sharing for clinical research data across multiple studies and trials Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer-readable media, for machine learning in a multi-tenant data sharing platform. In some implementations, a server system provides a multi-tenant data sharing platform configured to selectively use stored data collected for different tenant organizations according to policy data for the respective tenant organizations. A request from one organization is received to perform a machine learning task involving a data set of a different tenant organization. The server system uses stored policy data to determine an applicable data policy, and based on the determination, the server system performs the machine learning task and provides the results of the machine learning task.
US11315037B2	Systems and methods for generating and applying a secure statistical classifier There is provided a system for computing a secure statistical classifier, comprising: at least one hardware processor executing a code for: accessing code instructions of an untrained statistical classifier, accessing a training dataset, accessing a plurality of cryptographic keys, creating a plurality of instances of the untrained statistical classifier, creating a plurality of trained sub-classifiers by training each of the plurality of instances of the untrained statistical classifier by iteratively adjusting adjustable classification parameters of the respective instance of the untrained statistical classifier according to a portion of the training data serving as input and a corresponding ground truth label, and at least one unique cryptographic key of the plurality of cryptographic keys, wherein the adjustable classification parameters of each trained sub-classifier have unique values computed according to corresponding at least one unique cryptographic key, and providing the statistical classifier, wherein the statistical classifier includes the plurality of trained sub-classifiers.
US11315036B2	Prediction for time series data using a space partitioning data structure Techniques are disclosed for a computer system to predict a next sample for a data stream that specifies data values of one or more variables. A current subset of data values and previous subsets of data values is determined, and polyline simplification techniques may then be used on the subset to produce a reduced-sample current subset of data values that are converted to an angular coordinate system. A space partitioning data structure such as a k-dimensional tree that stores converted reduced-sample previous subsets of the data stream may then be traversed to determine one or more nearest neighbors to the current subset. The predicted next sample for the data stream may be generated from the nearest neighbors. The space partitioning data structure may be updated to include the current subset, and the process may be repeated with a new current subset.
US11315015B2	Continuous learning of simulation trained deep neural network model The present invention provides a system and method of side-stepping the need to retrain neural network model after initially trained using a simulator by comparing real-world data to data predicted by the simulator for the same inputs, and developing a mapping correlation that adjusts real world data toward the simulation data. Thus, the decision logic developed in the simulation-trained model is preserved and continues to operate in an altered reality. A threshold metric of similarity can be initially provided into the mapping algorithm, which automatically adjusts real world data to adjusted data corresponding to the simulation data for operating the neural network model when the metric of similarity between the real world data and the simulation data exceeds the threshold metric. Updated learning can continue as desired, working in the background as conditions are monitored.
US11315012B2	Neural network training using generated random unit vector Systems and techniques for neural network training are described herein, a training set may be received for a neural network. Here, the neural network may comprise a set of nodes arranged in layers and a set of inter-node weights between nodes in the set of nodes. The neural network may then be iteratively trained to create a trained neural network. An iteration of the training may include generating a random unit vector and creating an update vector by calculating a magnitude for the random unit vector based on a degree that the random unit vector matches a gradient—where the gradient is represented by a dual number. The iteration may continue by updating a parameter vector for an inter-node weight by subtracting the update vector from a previous parameter vector of the inter-node weight. The trained neural network may then be used to classify data.
US11315011B2	Using generative adversarial networks in compression The compression system trains a machine-learned encoder and decoder through an autoencoder architecture. The encoder can be deployed by a sender system to encode content for transmission to a receiver system, and the decoder can be deployed by the receiver system to decode the encoded content and reconstruct the original content. The encoder is coupled to receive content and output a tensor as a compact representation of the content. The content may be, for example, images, videos, or text. The decoder is coupled to receive a tensor representing content and output a reconstructed version of the content. The compression system trains the autoencoder with a discriminator to reduce compression artifacts in the reconstructed content. The discriminator is coupled to receive one or more input content, and output a discrimination prediction that discriminates whether the input content is the original or reconstructed version of the content.
US11314999B2	Data carrier and a method for producing such data carrier The present invention relates generally a method to authenticate a data carrier, such as passports, licenses, identification card . . . by hiding at least two optically encoded image within a data carrier so that the data carrier is authenticated through at least two factor authentication process. In the methods of the present invention, at least two reliable, readable optically encoded image are hidden within the data carrier wherein each of the encoded image is visible through a same decoder device but under different specific lighting conditions without the former having influence on the quality of the latter. The authentication methodology of the present invention provides an improved security, being even more difficult to reproduce by infringers, even more difficult to remove, replace or exchange and easy to check.
US11314997B1	Barcode tag, and method and system employing same, for tracking electronic equipment A barcode tag includes a base layer having a front side and a back side, an attachment surface disposed on at least a portion of the front side or the back side, and a barcode symbol comprising plural perforations formed entirely through the base layer. Methods and systems for tracking equipment items in an equipment rack using barcode tags are also disclosed.
US11314995B2	Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium An image processing comprising: an obtaining unit configured to obtain image data of a rectangle unit of input image; a compression unit configured to perform the compression processing for compressing the image data on a per rectangle unit basis from the rectangle unit at the front edge to the rectangle unit at the rear edge of the rectangle line in a case where the input image is rotated by a predetermined angle in a first direction; wherein, in a case where the input image is rotated by the predetermined angle in a direction opposite to the first direction, the compression unit compresses the image data on a per rectangle unit basis from the rectangle unit at the rear edge to the rectangle unit at the front edge of the rectangle line.
US11314993B2	Action recognition system for action recognition in unlabeled videos with domain adversarial learning and knowledge distillation An action recognition system is provided that includes a device configured to capture a video sequence formed from a set of unlabeled testing video frames. The system further includes a processor configured to pre-train a recognition engine formed from a reference set of CNNs on a still image domain that includes labeled training still image frames. The processor adapts the recognition engine to a video domain to form an adapted engine, by applying non-reference CNNs to domains that include the still image and video domains and a degraded image domain that includes labeled synthetically degraded versions of the frames in the still image domain. The video domain includes random unlabeled training video frames. The processor recognizes, using the adapted engine, an action performed by at least one object in the sequence, and controls a device to perform a response action in response to an action type of the action.
US11314991B2	Information display method, information display system, and storage medium An information display method includes converting P (P≥2) high-dimensional data respectively obtained from P images each tagged with a label representing a result of classification into one of a plurality of classes to respectively acquire P low-dimensional data, generating a plot diagram including P plot points obtained by visualizing the P low-dimensional data each depending on the classification result, generating auxiliary information corresponding to a base point set as one of the plot points included in the plot diagram and N (1≤N
US11314986B2	Learning device, classification device, learning method, classification method, learning program, and classification program For each of a plurality of images, a learning device acquires first training data including an image, a class of each of one or more objects shown in the image, and the number of objects, from a storage. The learning device trains a feature extraction part, a class estimation part, and an object number estimation part using the first training data. For each of images of which the number is smaller than the plurality of images, the learning device acquires second training data including an image and coordinates of each of one or more objects in the image, from the storage. The learning device causes the trained feature extraction part to output a feature map of the image included in the second training data, and trains a coordinate estimation part using the feature map and the coordinates included in the second training data.
US11314981B2	Information processing system, information processing method, and program for displaying assistance information for assisting in creation of a marker There is provided an information processing system capable of appropriately assisting in creation of a marker, an information processing method, and a program. The information processing system includes an acquisition part configured to acquire a recognition result of a marker that a user is making, and a display control part configured to cause a display face to display assistance information for assisting in creation of the marker depending on the recognition result in association with the marker in process of creation.
US11314978B2	Calibration method for fingerprint sensor and display device using the same Provided herein are a calibration method for a fingerprint sensor and a display device using the calibration method, where, in the calibration method for a fingerprint sensor, the fingerprint sensor includes a substrate, a light-blocking layer located on a first surface of the substrate and having openings formed in a light-blocking mask, a light-emitting element layer located on the light-blocking layer and having a plurality of light-emitting elements, and a sensor layer located on a second surface of the substrate and having a plurality of photosensors; and the calibration method includes generating calibration data through white calibration and dark calibration, and applying offsets to the plurality of photosensors using the calibration data.
US11314961B2	Texture image acquisition method, texture image acquisition circuit and display panel A texture image acquisition method, a texture image acquisition circuit and a display panel are provided. The texture image acquisition circuit includes a photosensitive circuit, the texture image acquisition method includes: allowing the photosensitive circuit to receive light from a texture, and obtaining a first curve based on a signal amount accumulated by the photosensitive circuit within a first integral time period, the first curve being a time-varying curve of a residual signal amount which is a signal amount remaining after a signal amount, left over by the photosensitive circuit before the first integral time period, is released over time; obtaining a first acquisition value based on a signal amount accumulated by the photosensitive circuit within a second integral time period which is after the first integral time period; obtaining a first photosensitive signal of an image of the texture; based on the first curve and the first acquisition value.
US11314953B2	Tagging of materials and objects and analysis for authentication thereof This disclosure relates to tagging of materials and objects and analysis for authentication thereof. An example method includes analyzing separately a number of locations distributed across a given surface of a solid object according to one or more analysis technologies to determine feature data for each of the locations. The feature data are indicative of a respective chemical property and/or mechanical property of the solid object at each of the locations, corresponding to a feature tag, and the feature data depend on the one or more analysis technologies. The method also includes determining a tag signature for the solid object based on the feature data determined for each of the locations.
US11314952B2	Sensor enabled location awareness system Systems and methods of identifying wearable tags or other items within a facility. The location of the identifiable item can be calculated by the system and used to improve the efficiency of the facility or to dispatch emergency help or maintenance to the location of the badge.
US11314936B2	System and method for assembling a recorded composition A system and method for assembling segments of recorded music or video from among various versions or variations of a recording, into a new version or composition, such that a first segment of a first version of a recorded work is attached to a segment of a second segment of a second version of the recorded work, to create a new version of the recorded work.
US11314933B2	Customized user prompts for autofilling applications An example method includes determining a subset of content displayed by an application on a user interface (UI) of a user device, wherein the subset excludes user-specific information. The method further includes transmitting a request to a remote provider for at least one template for use with the application, wherein the request comprises the subset of content displayed on the UI. The method also includes receiving a response to the request from the remote provider, wherein the response comprises the at least one template indicating how to process user input data in one or more text input fields displayed by the application on the UI, and generating a prompt to authorize transmission of the one or more user input values to the remote provider for future use in autofill, wherein the prompt is customized by processing the one or more user input values using the at least one template.
US11314927B1	Management of tracked changes objects for cloud document editing An online document system maintains a document comprising document content. Users can edit document of the online document system by in the form of operations (which represent desired changes to document content). Instead of directly applying the received operations to the document content, the online document system consolidates operations into a tracked change object based on a common intent of the operations. To render the document content (with tracked change object) the online document system applies the set of operations to the document content and generates a tracked change indication to highlight content changed by the set of operations.
US11314926B2	Selectively replacing displayed content items based on user interaction Systems, methods performed by data processing apparatus and computer storage media encoded with computer programs for receiving feedback from a client device at which a presentation page of content items is displayed, the received feedback relating to an affirmative act performed by the user, determining, based at least in part on the received feedback, whether the user is likely to perform a predetermined action relative to one or more of the content items, based on a result of the determining, selectively identifying one or more replacement content items and transmitting the one or more identified replacement content items to the client device for display in the presentation page in place of one or more of the plurality of content items.
US11314923B2	Method and device for presenting information related to a display object on a display page This specification discloses an information presentation method and device. The method includes: determining at least one display object on a display page; obtaining information related to the at least one display object; and presenting the information related to the display object. At least part of a presentation area of the information overlaps with a display area of the related display object.
US11314919B2	Semiconductor device and method of fabricating the same Disclosed are a semiconductor device and a method of fabricating the same. The semiconductor device includes an area-oriented region and a performance-oriented region, standard cells disposed on each of the area-oriented region and the performance-oriented region, and a routing metal layer on the standard cells. The routing metal layer includes first routing lines on the area-oriented region and second routing lines on the performance-oriented region. The smallest line width of the first routing lines is a first width, the smallest line width of the second routing lines is a second width greater than the first width, a pitch between the first routing lines is a first pitch, and a pitch between the second routing lines is a second pitch greater than the first pitch.
US11314913B2	Information processing apparatus, program, and simulation method An information processing apparatus includes a conversion unit configured to convert circuit configuration data representing a configuration of an electric circuit including an input terminal group and an output terminal group into circuit calculation data including an equation group that generates an output signal group corresponding to an argument group given to a variable group and an input signal group given to the input terminal group, wherein the argument group includes a constant representing a characteristic of a circuit element that forms the electric circuit.
US11314912B2	IC design data base generating method, IC design method, and electronic device using the methods An IC design data base generating method, including: receiving a condition parameter, which comprises a process parameter and an operating parameter range comprising at least one operating parameter; and testing at least one cell according to the process parameter and the operating parameter range to generate a delay value data base. The delay value data base comprises a plurality of delay values, wherein the plurality of delay values for an identical cell correspond to the operating parameter range with an identical type but different value. An IC design method using the delay value data base is also disclosed.
US11314908B2	Providing reusable quantum circuit components as a curated service A repository is configured in a hybrid data processing environment comprising a classical computing system and a quantum computing system, to hold a plurality of quantum circuit components (QCC(s)). A degree of difficulty in simulating the received QCC in the classical computing system is transformed into a classical hardness score. A degree of difficulty in implementing the received QCC in the quantum computing system is transformed into a quantum hardness score. A first parameter in a metadata data structure associated with the received QCC is populated with the classical hardness score. A second parameter in the metadata data structure associated with the received QCC is populated with the quantum hardness score. The received QCC is transformed into a library element by at least augmenting the received QCC with the metadata data structure. The library element is added to the repository.
US11314899B2	Method and system for detection of tampering in executable code A method for detection of tampering in an executable code including one or more code blocks. The method includes monitoring execution of the executable code with a call stack data structure associated therewith, the execution involving accessing one or more address spaces; receiving information about the one or more address spaces, as accessed; comparing the received information about one or more accessed address spaces with information about one or more allowed address spaces defined in the call stack data structure of the executable code; raising a flag upon detection that the one or more accessed address spaces are different from the one or more allowed address spaces, based on the comparison; and executing an action based on the raised flag.
US11314892B2	Mitigating governance impact on machine learning A method, a computerized apparatus and a computer program product for mitigating governance and regulation implications on machine learning. A governance impact assessment is generated for a partial data set generated by applying a data governance enforcement on a data set of instances comprising valuations of a feature vector. The partial data set comprises partial instances each comprising partial feature vectors. The governance impact assessment comprises information about data excluded from the data set. A machine learning model trained based on the partial data set and configured to provide an estimated prediction for a partial instance is obtained. A set of core features is determined. A bias introduced by the data governance is identified based on a core feature being affected by the data governance. In response to identifying a bias, an anti-bias procedure is applied on the machine learning model, whereby mitigating the bias introduced by the data governance.
US11314891B2	Method and system for managing access to personal data by means of a smart contract A method/a system for accessing personal data using an access token server, a data server and a blockchain. The access token server generates the access rights of different users in the form of access tokens. The access token server stores an access token by transmitting it via a first transaction, to a first smart contract of the blockchain. A user can request an access authorization by transmitting a second transaction to a second smart contract that can access the token by presenting cryptographic elements to authenticate the user. A granted authorization is recorded by the second contract in the blockchain. A user may access the personal data by transmitting an access request to the data server. This interrogates the second smart contract to verify the authorization and to obtain the access token. The data server next transmits the stored personal data to a URL specified in the token.
US11314885B2	Cryptographic data entry blockchain data structure A method for securely storing and transmitting data using a blockchain structure. The blockchain structure is operated on the local node and through SSH transmission with an arbiter server and cloud infrastructure. The local application coordinates the order of appended blocks, where each block is a flat file that uses a respective filename to indicate block order. Data entry and retrieval is performed where plaintext data is available only in local memory as decrypted through an authorized client. Data written to disk only as encrypted.
US11314883B2	Systems and methods of providing access to secure data The disclosed technology includes techniques for secure access to data associated with an organization and includes providing a user device access to a user interface that is configurable by a user of the user device to execute function requests. Upon receipt of a function request, a router can randomly select an available computer from a computer cluster to execute the function. The computer can access a predetermined portion of the organization's data, generate an output by executing the requested function based on the predetermined portion of the organization's data, and transmit the output to the user device.
US11314882B2	System of enclaves Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for instantiating and managing systems that utilize hierarchal enclaves in a cloud environment.
US11314878B2	Secure link sharing Disclosed are various approaches for sharing uniform resource locators (URLs) and enforcing browser restrictions along with a shared URL. Browser restrictions can be identified by appending commands to the shared URL that instruct the receiving browser to activate certain browser restrictions. Browser restrictions can also be enforced using a URL restriction validator, which is a server process that can facilitate enforcement of browser restrictions along with a shared URL.
US11314872B2	Systems and methods for automated threat modeling when deploying infrastructure as a code Systems and methods of generating a threat model from a code file are defined. The system includes one or more data stores communicatively coupled with a processor, and storing information on a plurality of properties to be configured for one or more resources included in the code file and a plurality of security threats associated with one or more values of the plurality of properties. The system analyzes the code file to identify one or more properties associated with the one or more resources included in the code file. For each property, a value for the property defined in the code file is identified, one or more security threats are determined based on the identified value for the property, using the information stored in the data stores. The system generates a threat model for the one or more resources based on the determined one or more security threats.
US11314868B2	Rapidly establishing a chain of trust in a computing system A system root of trust device of a computing system authenticates boot images associated with data processing units of the computing system. The device includes at least one processor configured to determine whether a first set of boot code associated with a first processor of the computing system is authentic, in response to determining that the first set of boot code is authentic, reset the first processor to allow the first processor to boot and authenticate first executable code to be executed by the first processor, after resetting the first processor, determine whether a second set of boot code associated with a second processor of the computing system is authentic, and in response to determining that the second set of boot code is authentic, reset the second processor to allow the second processor to boot and to authenticate second executable code to be executed by the second processor.
US11314865B2	Pluggable trust architecture A pluggable trust architecture addresses the problem of establishing trust in hardware. The architecture has low impact on system performance and comprises a simple, user-supplied, and pluggable hardware element. The hardware element physically separates the untrusted components of a system from peripheral components that communicate with the external world. The invention only allows results of correct execution of software to be communicated externally.
US11314860B2	Anti-impersonation techniques using device-context information and user behavior information Anti-impersonation techniques using device-context information and user behavior information from a session. The session can include a time period where a user of the client computer is performing an activity on the client computer (e.g., the session includes the user logging into an account online). The behavior information can include information on ways the user uses user input devices during the session. The device-context information can include HTTP session information. The techniques can include generating feature vector(s) for the received information, and comparing the feature vector(s) against model(s) of related historical information. The comparisons can provide level(s) of deviation of the feature vector(s) from the model(s). Also, the techniques can include determining whether the session is anomalous or normal according to the level(s) of deviation, and performing a security action in response to determining the session is anomalous.
US11314846B1	Surgical communication and computerization infrastructure Various embodiments are described herein that relate to visual tools for specifying the setups and data models preferred by a medical professional (e.g., a surgeon) within an operating room. These visual tools can be incorporated into a system which provides various technical benefits, such as ensuring that users are given access to time sensitive information even when their computer(s) is/are offline. In this way, the disclosed technology can address specific technical issues which arise in the context of surgery, including that many operating rooms have little or no network connectivity which could allow potentially vital information specified using visual tools to be accessed.
US11314844B1	Incremental singular value decomposition in support of machine learning A singular value decomposition (SVD) is computed of a first matrix to define a left matrix, a diagonal matrix, and a right matrix. The left matrix, the diagonal matrix, and the right matrix are updated using an arrowhead matrix structure defined from the diagonal matrix and by adding a next observation vector to a last row of the first matrix. The updated left matrix, the updated diagonal matrix, and the updated right matrix are updated using a diagonal-plus-rank-one (DPR1) matrix structure defined from the updated diagonal matrix and by removing an observation vector from a first row of the first matrix. Eigenpairs of the DPR1 matrix are computed based on whether a value computed from the updated left matrix is positive or negative. The left matrix updated in (C), the diagonal matrix updated in (C), and the right matrix updated in (C) are output.
US11314841B1	Web browser communication validation extension A computing device comprising a secure browser extension for a web browser monitors for satisfaction of one or more operating conditions to identify whether one or more unauthorized applications are installed on the computing device. Based on satisfaction of at least one operating condition, the secure browser extension of the computing device sends an HTTP request to a known service via the web browser. The secure browser extension receives a response to the HTTP request via the web browser. The secure browser extension determines whether the received response is an HTTP response (e.g., from an unauthorized application) or a non-HTTP response (e.g., from the known service). Based on determining the received response is an HTTP response, the secure browser extension terminates the web browser session and generates a notification for display at the computing device that indicates web browser communications are compromised.
US11314836B1	Assigning variants of content to users while maintaining a stable experimental population A variation testing system environment for performing variation testing of web pages and applications is disclosed. The variation testing system applies a weighted consistent hash function to user attributes of users to assign the users to a variant of a web page that is undergoing experimentation. The usage of the weighted consistent hash function allows for a stable experimental population.
US11314832B1	Electronic product information manager A system including a GUI displayed on a display device is disclosed. The GUI includes a website that, when loaded onto a user device, permits the user device to communicate with at least one server to send to the at least one server item information to electronically manage one or more items in a product information database, to receive from the at least one server item information from the product information database, and to cause display of the item information received. The at least one server is remote from the user device on which the website is loaded and that is able to communicate with the user device. The at least one server is configured to receive the item information about the one or more items from the product information database, update the item information in the product information database, and send the item information to the website.
US11314831B2	Allocating communication resources via information technology infrastructure Systems and methods to reduce latency in a graphical environment are described. The systems receives location information of a computing device and identifies content items that satisfy a boundary condition formed from the location information. The system selects content items from categories using a load balancing technique. The system selects, responsive to a request having no keywords, a content item object using values generate with an offline process. The system provides the content item object to the computing device to cause the computing device to render the content item object in the graphical environment.
US11314827B2	Description set based searching A description-based search system can generate descriptions from item properties (e.g., item attribute) combinations. A user search request can be matched to one or more closest matching descriptions. The matching descriptions can be submitted as a query to a datastore, which returns results for display to the user. Additionally, the description based search system can link selected descriptions to pre-linked one or more pre-linked results.
US11314823B2	Method and apparatus for expanding query The present disclosure discloses a method and apparatus for expanding a query. The method comprises: calculating an image click characteristic vector of a target query based on an image click log associated with the target query; finding a similar query of the target query based on the image click characteristic vector, to obtain a candidate expansion query set of the target query; matching the target query and each candidate expansion query in the candidate expansion query set with a knowledge graph, to extract an entity word and a qualifier of the target query and an entity word and a qualifier of the each candidate expansion query; expanding the entity words and the qualifiers of the target query and the each candidate expansion query in combination with the knowledge graph; and matching using expansion results of the entity words and the qualifiers, to determine an expanded query of the target query.
US11314802B2	Automatic image selection for visual consistency An image selector selects images for visual similarity in some aspects and visual distinction in other aspects. A user submits a query to a search engine. Images identified by the search engine as relevant to the query are clustered into clusters having at least one similar attribute. Selection mechanisms organize images selected from each cluster based on a similarity metric into image rows. A selection metric is calculated for each image row and a row to be displayed is selected based on the selection metric. In some embodiments, images representative of a subset of image rows are displayed to a user and responsive to selection of a representative image, the corresponding image row is displayed.
US11314793B2	Query processing A method includes associating an identifier with a plurality of business listings, receiving a first query, generating a second query based at least in part on the first query, the second query including at least one word included in the first query, and selecting a subset of business listings based at least in part on the second query. The method also includes providing the subset of business listings such that the subset of business listings is configured to be displayed in a ranked order. In such methods, the ranked order is based at least in part on respective levels of relatedness between the second query and listings included in the subset of business listings.
US11314792B2	Digital assistant query intent recommendation generation Systems and methods are provided for digital assistant configuration and functionality. For example, systems and methods provide for receiving a query from a user via a computing device, processing language in the query to identify a plurality of elements associated with the query, and analyzing the plurality of elements associated with the query to determine an intent of the query by mapping the plurality of elements associated with the query to a list of predetermined intents by comparing the plurality of elements associated with the query to each intent in the list of predetermined intents to generate a score for each intent in the list of predetermined intents. Systems and methods further provide for determining a subset of the predetermined intents based on the score for each intent in the list of predetermined intents, and providing recommendations related to the query based on the subset of predetermined intents.
US11314791B2	Smart match autocomplete system Aspects of the present disclosure include a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program and computer-implemented methods for providing suggestions of additional input to users entering user input into a data input field. In some embodiments, the method includes receiving initial user input entered via a data input field of a user interface rendered on a client device, and identifying a dominant category corresponding to the initial user input. The method further includes identifying a set of aspects corresponding to the dominant category, and selecting, from the set of aspects, a set of aspect suggestions based on a ranking of each aspect in the set of aspects. The method further includes causing display of a suggestion box presented in conjunction with the data input field. The suggestion box comprises a presentation of the set of aspect suggestions.
US11314789B2	System and method for improved anomaly detection using relationship graphs An anomaly-detection system that gathers information relating to the relationships between entities and represents these relationships in a graph that interconnects each pair of related entities. The graph may represent a computer network, in which each node corresponds to a respective device in the network and each edge between two nodes indicates that the devices represented by the nodes exchanged communication with one another in the past. the system monitors each of the entities in the graph, by continually computing a single-entity anomaly score (SEAS) for the entity. If the SEAS exceeds a first threshold the system generates an alert. Otherwise, the system checks whether the SEAS exceeds a second, lower threshold. If so, the system computes a subgraph anomaly score (SAS) for the entity's subgraph. If the SAS exceeds a SAS threshold, an alert is generated. By computing the SAS in this manner resources are conserved.
US11314787B2	Temporal resolution of an entity A system, method, and computer-readable medium for resolving an identity of an entity, comprising parsing entity identifier information associated with the entity to provide an entity identifier element, the entity identifier information comprising temporal information; classifying the entity identifier element to provide a classified entity identifier element; normalizing the classified entity identifier element to provide a classified and normalized entity identifier element; and, associating the classified and normalized entity identifier element and the temporal information with the entity to resolve the identity of the entity at a particular point in time.
US11314776B2	Location sharing using friend list versions Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system and a method for performing operations comprising: storing, on a distributed storage system, a plurality of real-time graph (RTG) instances that include a plurality of device objects, the plurality of device objects comprising a first device object associated with a given user; receiving, by the first device object, a friends list of the given user having a first version identifier; receiving, by the first device object, an update from a client device associated with the given user, the update comprising a friends list version identifier; determining that the first version identifier of the friends list in the first device object mismatches the friends list version identifier in the update; and synchronizing the friends list in the first device object prior to sending one or more messages that include the update to other device objects of the plurality of device objects.
US11314773B2	Data permissioning through data replication A data querying system is disclosed that provides improved computer functionality that enables efficient permissioning and querying of specific portions of a data table, such that users (e.g., based on user roles or user attributes) are only allowed access to specific portions (e.g., particular data items/rows, and particular data items attributes/columns) of the data. The system advantageously provides efficient and improved querying and permissioning of specific portions of a data table through replication of the data table, or portions of the data table, and does not require permissioning of each individual cell of the data table. Further, the data table replication, querying, and permissioning techniques of the present disclosure, according to various implementations, advantageously integrate with a wide variety of data table query or search services to provide improved functionality, efficiency, and data permissioning.
US11314771B2	Splitting and merging of storages An example operation may include one or more of receiving, by an orderer, a split transaction that contains configuration transactions for new channels, generating, by the orderer, a split block that includes a split transaction payload and a block header, and sending, by the orderer, the split block to participant nodes to form new channels based on a content of the split block.
US11314769B2	Generation and graphical display of data transform provenance metadata Techniques for propagation of deletion operations among a plurality of related datasets are described herein. In an embodiment, a data processing method comprises, using a distributed database system that is programmed to manage a plurality of different raw datasets and a plurality of derived datasets that have been derived from the raw datasets based on a plurality of derivation relationships that link the raw datasets to the derived datasets: from a first dataset that is stored in the distributed database system, determining a subset of records that are candidates for propagated deletion of specified data values; determining one or more particular raw datasets that contain the subset of records; deleting the specified data values from the particular raw datasets; based on the plurality of derivation relationships and the particular raw datasets, identifying one or more particular derived datasets that have been derived from the particular raw datasets; generating and executing a build of the one or more particular derived datasets to result in creating and storing the one or more particular derived datasets without the specified data values that were deleted from the particular raw datasets; repeating the generating and executing for all derived datasets that have derivation relationships to the particular raw datasets; wherein the method is performed using one or more processors.
US11314766B2	Method and/or system for manipulating tree expressions Embodiments of methods and/or systems of manipulating tree expressions are disclosed.
US11314765B2	Multistage data sniffer for data extraction A multistage data sniffer instance can include a first stage that scans a given file for a set of data fields based on a configuration file for a selected format of the given file. The multistage data sniffer instance can also include a second stage that evaluates a value in each data filed in the set of data fields for the selected format to determine a validity of values in the set of data fields. The multistage data sniffer instance can further include a third stage that extracts data within the plurality of fields of the given file, aggregates the data based on a predetermined set of rules defined in the configuration file and outputs a data to a data mart database characterizing the aggregated data.
US11314761B1	Method and system for centralized multi-instance deployment consolidation A computerized method is disclosed including operations of establishing a first communicative coupling with a first data intake and query system instance and a second communicative coupling with a second data intake and query system instance, automating performance of a search query on each of the first data intake and query system instance and the second data intake and query system instance, automating retrieval of search results from each of the first data intake and query system instance and the second data intake and query system instance, and generating instructions that, upon execution by one or more processors, cause rendering of a graphical user interface that displays the search results from each of the first data intake and query system instance and the second data intake and query system instance in a consolidated view. Additionally, performance of the search query occurs at a predetermined interval.
US11314747B2	Universal parsing framework systems and methods An applicant can instantiate a parsing framework, provide an input stream, attach observers, and initiate parsing, which inverts control to the parsing framework. The parsing framework can have an observer manager, a parser controller, and parsers. The observer manager manages observer design patterns from which the observers are instantiated. The parser controller determines which parser would be appropriate for parsing the input stream and instantiate the appropriate parser(s). The parser controller gets the callbacks from the parsers and communicates outcomes to the observer manager. The observer manager determines which of the observers is to be notified, generates parsing notifications accordingly, and dispatches the parsing notifications directly to the observers. The application can be any application that needs parsing in an electronic information exchange platform. The input stream can be created by the application opening a document received from a backend system communicatively connected to the electronic information exchange platform.
US11314740B1	Responsive plan stability The subject technology receives a first query plan corresponding to a first query, the first query plan comprising a new query plan different than a previous query plan for the first query. The subject technology determines a value indicating an estimated improvement in execution time of the first query plan in comparison to a previous execution time of the previous query plan. The subject technology determines that the value is greater than a threshold value. The subject technology, in response to the value being greater than the threshold value, executes the first query using the first query plan.
US11314736B2	Group-by efficiency though functional dependencies and non-blocking aggregation functions Techniques described herein proposes a Dependent Grouping Column Rewrite that simplifies a grouping operation by excluding dependent grouping columns from a group by clause. A non-blocking aggregation function is applied to dependent grouping columns in at least select clauses. Such a simplified grouping operation reduces memory pressure, speeds up grouping operations, and saves compute time, as grouping columns that have no additional effect on the grouping operation are excluded from processing (e.g., hashing and key matching).
US11314735B2	Generation of query stacks from object relationships System and methods are described for generating query stacks from object relationships. In one implementation, a method comprises receiving user input specifying an initial object and a target object; identifying a plurality of directionality relationships associated with the initial object, the target object, and one or more junction objects that link the initial object to the target object; generating, based on the plurality of directionality relationships, a query stack comprising a plurality of queries linking the initial object to the target object; and executing the query stack to retrieve data stored in the target object.
US11314733B2	Identification of relevant data events by use of clustering A processing device performs a preliminary grouping of data items in a dataset to define one or more clusters and for each cluster, identifies a set of search terms for a search query that would retrieve data items in the cluster upon execution of the search query against the dataset.
US11314729B2	Multi-candidate data structure for transaction validation An example operation may include one or more of reading first and second output values of an entity from first and second memory addresses, respectively, storing the first and second output values in a blockchain data structure, executing the blockchain data structure, where the executing comprises selecting one of the first and second output values based on an operation to perform with a third output value, and modifying the selected output value based on the third output value, and storing the modified selected output value at an output memory address.
US11314723B1	Anomaly detection Analyzing log data, such as security log data and machine data, is disclosed. A baseline is built for a set of machine data. The baseline is built at least in part by determining a plurality of signature profiles for a plurality of respective time slices. An occurrence of an anomaly associated with the source of the machine data is determined. The occurrence is determined at least in part by determining that received machine data does not conform to the baseline within a threshold.
US11314722B2	Systems and methods for blockchain rule synchronization The disclosed embodiments relate to implementation of a syntax for altering one or more rules by which a blockchain may be modified wherein the software implementing each client of a blockchain network are programmed to be responsive to requests or directives to alter one or more rules by which blocks may be added to a blockchain responsive to transactions received for storage therein, the requests/directives being processed by the client as a transaction and added to the block in accordance with the current state of the operating rules, thereby adding a new rule or modifying an existing rule for subsequent operation of the client.
US11314721B1	User-interactive defect analysis for root cause Systems are provided for managing defect data objects. A system stores a plurality of defect data objects that have been input to the system, and generates an issue item including one or more defect data objects that are selected from the stored defect data objects based on user input. The system determines similarity between the one or more defect data objects in the issue item and one or more of the stored defect data objects that are out of the issue item, based on comparison of one or more parameter values. The system determines one or more candidate defect data objects to be included in the issue item from the one or more of the stored defect data objects that are out of the issue item based on the similarity, and includes one or more of the determined candidate defect data objects in the issue item based on user input.
US11314712B2	Method and apparatus for providing serial number, electronic device and readable storage medium The present invention provides a method, an apparatus, an electronic device and a readable storage medium for providing a serial number, capable of configuring different serial number generating methods according to different business scenarios, solving a problem of completely depending on one serial number generating method, enabling to generate a serial number that satisfies a business scenario in time, and finally improving the stability of a logistics distribution system. The method for providing a serial number according to the present invention comprises: storing various serial number generating methods; determining, according to a business scenario of a requester side and from the serial number generating methods, serial number generating methods for the scenario, and then obtaining a list of available methods for the scenario according to the determined serial number generating methods; generating, using a method in the list of available methods, a serial number for the scenario so as to provide the serial number to the requester side.
US11314711B2	Network switch with network analysis data producer-consumer shared memory A network switch may include a database, a network analysis data producer having a first application program interface, a network analysis data consumer having a second application program interface and a shared memory accessible by the first application program interface and the second application program interface. The network analysis data producer is to store network analysis data on a region of the shared memory and store an index to the region in the database for retrieval by the network analysis data consumer.
US11314710B2	System and method for database sharding using dynamic IDs Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems, methods, devices, and the like for database sharding. In one embodiment, a system and method are introduced which enable the use of dynamic IDs for use with database sharding. The dynamic ID enables the use of a hierarchical structure such that original and trailing transactional data are identically labeled. To enable the use and labeling two or more unsharded tables may be used.
US11314709B2	Method and/or system for tagging trees Embodiments of methods and/or systems for tagging trees are disclosed.
US11314683B2	Circuitry applied to electronic device having USB type-c connector and associated electronic device A circuitry applied to an electronic device having a Universal Serial Bus (USB) type-C connector is provided. The circuitry includes a transceiver circuit, a physical layer circuit and a processing circuit. In operations of the circuitry, the transceiver circuit is coupled to the USB type-C connector. The physical layer circuit is configured to directly utilize a plurality of first signals from the USB type-C connector as at least one portion of Ethernet signals, and process the first signals to generate a plurality of processed first signals. The processing circuit is configured to process the processed first signals to generate an output signal.
US11314681B2	Memory system with independently adjustable core and interface data rates An integrated circuit device is disclosed including core circuitry and interface circuitry. The core circuitry outputs in parallel a set of data bits, while the interface circuitry couples to the core circuitry. The interface circuitry receives in parallel a first number of data bits among the set of data bits from the core circuitry and outputs in parallel a second number of data bits. The ratio of the first number to the second number is a non-power-of-2 value.
US11314672B2	Configurable input / output connector in a camera A method and system for configuring a USB3 input/output port in a camera are disclosed. The method comprises responsive to an indication that a peripheral device is a non-USB3 device, remapping pins of the USB3 input/output port to a first predefined port configuration associated with an I2C protocol by remapping a RX1− pin to communicate a first I2C signal and remapping a RX1+ pin to communicate a second I2C signal, and responsive to successful authentication between the camera and the peripheral device via the I2C protocol, enabling communication with the peripheral device and remapping the pins of the USB3 input/output port to a second predefined port configuration compatible with operation of the authenticated peripheral device by remapping a TX2+ pin to communicate a first general purpose input/output signal and remapping a TX2− pin to communicate a second general purpose input/output signal.
US11314670B2	Method, apparatus, and device for transmitting file based on BMC, and medium A method, an apparatus, and a device for transmitting a file based on a BMC, and a medium are provided. The method includes: sending, by using a first BMC, a preset command to a second BMC, before the first BMC transmits a data file to the second BMC; controlling the second BMC to stop an IPMI process running based on an I2C bus in response to the preset command; and controlling the first BMC to transmit the data file to the second BMC by using a communication function of the I2C bus. With the method, when the data file is transmitted between the BMCs, the IPMI process running on the BMC receiving the data file is stopped, such that the data file is not intercepted and verified by the command processing function of the IPMI process, and the IPMI process is prevented from being blocked and crashing.
US11314668B2	Method, apparatus and system for device transparent grouping of devices on a bus In one embodiment, a host controller includes: a first input/output (I/O) buffer to couple to a first communication line of an interconnect; a second I/O buffer to couple to a second communication line of the interconnect; and a device group selection circuit to dynamically cause the first communication line to communicate a clock signal to a first device group including one or more first devices to couple to the interconnect and dynamically cause the second communication line to communicate a data signal to the first device group when a communication is to be addressed to at least one of the one or more first devices of the first device group, such that the communication is transparent to at least another device group to couple to the interconnect. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US11314666B2	Systems and methods for optimizing clock distribution in NVMe storage enclosures A non-volatile memory express (NVMe) based storage system may include a processor; an input/output (I/O) port operatively coupled to a data network; a drive interface board (DIB), including: a PCIe switch communicatively coupled to the processor to receive signals from the processor to a plurality of NVMe storage devices; and a source clock communicatively coupled to the PCIe switch; a connector communicatively coupling the DIB to relay clock signals to a plurality of NVMe drives at a drive mid-plane baseboard; the drive mid-plane baseboard communicatively coupled to the source clock, the drive mid-plane baseboard including: a clock distribution module to receive a source clock signal from the source clock, the clock distribution modules placed at the drive baseboard to distribute the clock signals to the plurality of NVMe storage devices.
US11314659B2	Using real segments and alternate segments in non-volatile storage Provided are techniques for using real segments and alternate segments in Non-Volatile Storage (NVS). One or more write requests for a track are executed by alternating between storing data in one or more sectors of real segments and one or more sectors of alternate segments for each of the write requests, while setting indicators in a real sector structure and an alternate sector structure. In response to determining that the one or more write requests for the track have completed, the data stored in the one or more sectors of the real segments and in the one or more sectors of the alternate segments are merged to form newly written data. In response to determining that a hardened, previously written data of a track does exist in Non-Volatile Storage (NVS), the newly written data is merged with the hardened, previously written data in the NVS. The merged data is committed.
US11314655B2	Storage device configurable mapping granularity system where data is written without performing read-modify-write operations A storage device includes a storage subsystem and a logical/physical storage location mapping database that maps LAAs to PAAs that identify physical locations in the storage subsystem. A storage controller receives a storage device mapping granularity configuration command from a host that identifies a number of LBAs to associate with a plurality of LAAs and, in response, associates each of the plurality of LAAs with the number of LBAs identified in the command. The storage controller then writes data to a PAA that includes a data size that is equal to a combined LBA size of the number of LBAs that were identified in the command and associated with each of the plurality of LAAs and maps, in the logical/physical storage location mapping database, the PAA to one of the plurality of LLAs that is associated the number of LBAs identified in the command.
US11314649B2	Using a machine learning module to perform destages of tracks with holes in a storage system In response to an end of track access for a track in a cache, a determination is made as to whether the track has modified data and whether the track has one or more holes. In response to determining that the track has modified data and the track has one or more holes, an input on a plurality of attributes of a computing environment in which the track is processed is provided to a machine learning module to produce an output value. A determination is made as to whether the output value indicates whether one or more holes are to be filled in the track. In response to determining that the output value indicates that one or more holes are to be filled in the track, the track is staged to the cache from a storage drive.
US11314644B2	Cache size change A method includes determining, by a level one (L1) controller, to change a size of a L1 main cache; servicing, by the L1 controller, pending read requests and pending write requests from a central processing unit (CPU) core; stalling, by the L1 controller, new read requests and new write requests from the CPU core; writing back and invalidating, by the L1 controller, the L1 main cache. The method also includes receiving, by a level two (L2) controller, an indication that the L1 main cache has been invalidated and, in response, flushing a pipeline of the L2 controller; in response to the pipeline being flushed, stalling, by the L2 controller, requests received from any master; reinitializing, by the L2 controller, a shadow L1 main cache. Reinitializing includes clearing previous contents of the shadow L1 main cache and changing the size of the shadow L1 main cache.
US11314638B2	Data storage device, operating method thereof and storage system using the same A data storage device includes a nonvolatile memory device including a plurality of memory groups, each of which includes a plurality of memory regions in interleaving units and a controller configured to determine and manage interleaving-aware dirty (IAD) of a write-requested logical address whenever write-requested data is written in the nonvolatile memory device, and select a victim memory group among the plurality of memory groups using the interleaving-aware dirty.
US11314627B2	Test automation system for distributed heterogenous environments Automated testing is performed in a distributed environment having computer systems executing software based on heterogenous application stacks. The computer systems are connected via the network to a service platform. A method provides for executing a function directed to a target system of the computer systems, the function resulting in network requests being sent from the service platform to the target system. The method further includes recording, at the service platform, the network requests produced by the executed function. The method further includes generating a service corresponding to the function based on the recorded network requests. The method further includes executing a test scenario which uses the generated service corresponding to the function to produce test requests.
US11314621B2	Software application validation A method and system for validating a software application is provided. The method includes monitoring user interaction patterns of a user with respect to software being executed by an electronic device. Content of the software is scanned, and usage attributes of the software are analyzed. Virtual entry points executed via the user interaction patterns with respect to accessing the software application are validated and associated metadata is generated. In response an error condition associated with the user interaction patterns is detected and an automated corrective action associated with correcting the error condition is executed.
US11314608B1	Creating and distributing spare capacity of a disk array A subset of drives with protection groups that have D data members and P parity members is created with (W+1) drives each having W partitions where W=(D+P). A single partition protection group is created in the lowest numbered partition of the W lowest numbered drives. Spares are created at drive X partition Y that satisfy X+Y=W+2. Members of additional protection groups with W members are symmetrically distributed on remaining partitions such that the protection group member at drive X partition index Y belongs to protection group N: if (X+Y)<(W+2), then N=(X+Y−2); and if (X+Y)>(W+2), then N=(X+Y−W−2). The spares are used to rebuild partitions in the event of drive failure. When a new drive is added the first W protection group members in the lowest numbered unrotated partition are rotated onto the new drive. The single partition protection group is excluded from rotation. Partitions vacated by rotated protection group members and a rotated spare are used to create a new protection group. The drive subset is split after enough new drives have been added.
US11314601B1	Automated capture and recovery of applications in a function-as-a-service environment An apparatus in one embodiment comprises at least one processing platform including a plurality of processing devices. The processing platform is configured to receive a request to execute an application in a function-as-a-service (“FaaS”) environment, to initiate execution of the application responsive to the request, and to invoke a plurality of application functions with each such application function interacting with one or more backend services in executing the application. The processing platform is further configured to automatically generate an application manifest characterizing relationships between the application functions and the backend services utilized in executing the application, to capture state of the application for a particular point in time based at least in part on the application manifest, and to perform operational recovery of the application for the particular point in time utilizing the captured state. The application manifest illustratively comprises a graph having a plurality of nodes corresponding to respective ones of the application functions and the backend services.
US11314598B2	Method for approximating similarity between objects Systems and methods for determining similarity between sets of objects are disclosed. A set of hashes are generated for a set of objects. A similarity vector is generated for the set of hashes. The similarity vector is a compact representation of the set of hashes and of the corresponding set of objects. The similarity of the set of objects is determined by comparing the similarity vector of the set of objects with other similarity vectors. In a data protection system, the set of objects can be placed with the node or system that stores objects that are most similar to the set of objects being placed.
US11314597B2	System and method for maintaining a distributed and fault-tolerant state over an information centric network A replica management system facilitates maintaining a distributed and fault-tolerant state for a variable over an Information Centric Network (ICN) by replicating the variable across a set of ICN nodes. During operation, a variable-hosting ICN node can receive an Interest that includes a value-updating command for a replica instance of the variable, current values for a set of replicas of the variable, and a new value for the variable. The ICN node can determine, based on the current values for the set of replica variables, whether the current value for the local replica variable is an authoritative value. If so, the ICN node updates the local replica variable to the new value. However, if the current local value is not the authoritative value, the ICN node rolls back a state of the local replica variable to a previous state, and updates the local replica variable to the new value.
US11314591B2	Apparatuses and methods for error correction coding and data bus inversion for semiconductor memories Apparatuses and methods for error correction coding and data bus inversion for semiconductor memories are described. An example apparatus includes an I/O circuit configured to receive first data and first ECC data associated with the first data, a memory array, and a control circuit. The control circuit is coupled between the/O circuit and the memory array. The control circuit is configured to execute first ECC-decoding to produce corrected first data and corrected first ECC data responsive, at least in part, to the first data and the first ECC data. The control circuit is further configured to store both the corrected first data and the corrected first ECC data into the memory array.
US11314571B2	Multi-processor system with distributed mailbox architecture and communication method thereof A multi-processor system with a distributed mailbox architecture and a communication method thereof are provided. The multi-processor system comprises a plurality of processors, each of the processors is correspondingly configured with an exclusive mailbox and an exclusive channel, and the communication method comprises the following steps. When a first processor of the processors needs to communicate with a second processor, the first processor writes data into the exclusive mailbox of the second processor through a public bus; and when the writing of the data has completed, the exclusive mailbox of the second processor sends an interrupt signal to the second processor, after receiving the interrupt signal, the second processor reads the data in the exclusive mailbox through the corresponding exclusive channel.
US11314568B2	Message processing method and apparatus, storage medium, and computer device This application relates to a message processing method and apparatus, a storage medium, and a computer device. The method includes: receiving a session message associated with an interactive session of a social application; while rendering the session message in a session interface corresponding to the interactive session of the social application: identifying a child application identifier in the session message; invoking plug-in code corresponding to the child application identifier in the social application; obtaining, from the social application, shared data corresponding to the child application identifier using the plug-in code; and dynamically presenting the shared data in the session message.
US11314565B2	Method and system for application virtualization that includes resource access control A method for executing a virtualized application on a computing system that includes a user-space and a kernel-space is disclosed. The method includes executing an application in the user-space, executing a user-level virtualization layer in the user-space, the user-level virtualization layer including a set of rules, performing, via the user-level virtualization layer, user-level hooking of events that are generated by the executing application according to the set of rules to identify events of interest, and determining whether to allow or block a function corresponding to an event that is identified as an event of interest based on the set of rules in the user-level virtualization layer.
US11314564B2	Blockchain event processing method and apparatus The present specification provides a blockchain event processing method and apparatus, applied to a control component of distributed event processing centers connected to a node device of a blockchain network. The distributed event processing centers obtain respective blockchain event streams from the node device, and deliver the obtained respective blockchain event streams to respective triggers included in the distributed event processing centers, so that when a blockchain event included in the blockchain event streams meets a corresponding trigger condition, a trigger of the triggers pushes the blockchain event to a service system connected to the trigger. The method includes: obtaining push speeds of a plurality of triggers included in an event processing center of the distributed event processing centers; and if a difference among the push speeds of the plurality of triggers is greater than a predetermined first threshold, establishing a new event processing center between the event processing center and a child event processing center of the event processing center, and moving the plurality of triggers to the new event processing center.
US11314561B2	Bottleneck detection for processes Systems and methods for analyzing an event log for a plurality of instances of execution of a process to identify a bottleneck are provided. An event log for a plurality of instances of execution of a process is received and segments executed during one or more of the plurality of instances of execution are identified from the event log. The segments represent a pair of activities of the process. For each particular segment of the identified segments, a measure of performance is calculated for each of the one or more instances of execution of the particular segment based on the event log, each of the one or more instances of execution of the particular segment is classified based on the calculated measures of performance, and one or more metrics are computed for the particular segment based on the classified one or more instances of execution of the particular segment. The identified segments are compared with each other based on the one or more metrics to identify one of the identified segments that is most likely to have a bottleneck.
US11314560B1	System and method for hierarchical interception with isolated environments An operation comprising one or more of loading one or more primary applications and including said one or more primary applications in a synchronization point, halting execution of said one or more primary applications upon arriving at said synchronization point, triggering a migration of said one or more primary applications to one or more backup applications, wherein said migration starts when the execution of said one or more primary applications are halted at said synchronization point.
US11314555B2	Synchronous re-execution of a data transformation operation to obtain further details regarding an exception A processor requests that a data transformation operation be performed using another processor, in which the data transformation operation is performed asynchronously. A determination is made that the data transformation operation performed using the other processor has completed unsatisfactorily, and based on the unsatisfactory completion, status relating to performance of the data transformation operation is incomplete. The data transformation operation is then re-executed synchronously using the one processor, and the re-executing provides status information unavailable in performing the data transformation operation asynchronously.
US11314551B2	Resource allocation and scheduling for batch jobs A scheduler of a batch job management service determines that a set of resources a client is insufficient to execute one or more jobs. The scheduler prepares a multi-dimensional statistical representation of resource requirements of the jobs, and transmits it to a resource controller. The resource controller uses the multi-dimensional representation and resource usage state information to make resource allocation change decisions.
US11314548B2	Electronic device and server for processing data received from electronic device A server may include a communication circuit, at least one processor electrically connected to the communication circuit, and at least one memory electrically connected to the at least one processor. The at least one memory stores instructions for receiving, from a first external device, first data related to a user input that requests performance of a task, receiving, second data associated with a plurality of application programs, determining a domain related to the task based on at least some of the first data and at least some of the second data, determining a likely intention of a user providing the user input, based on at least some of the first data, and determining a sequence of states of the first external device based on the domain and the likely intention, providing the sequence of states to the first external device.
US11314543B2	Architecture for implementing a virtualization environment and appliance An improved architecture is provided which enables significant convergence of the components of a system to implement virtualization. The infrastructure is VM-aware, and permits scaled out converged storage provisioning to allow storage on a per-VM basis, while identifying I/O coming from each VM. The current approach can scale out from a few nodes to a large number of nodes. In addition, the inventive approach has ground-up integration with all types of storage, including solid-state drives. The architecture of the invention provides high availability against any type of failure, including disk or node failures. In addition, the invention provides high performance by making I/O access local, leveraging solid-state drives and employing a series of patent-pending performance optimizations.
US11314540B2	Combined network and physical security appliance The present disclosure describes a combined network and physical security appliance. The appliance may be wired to or communicate with automation systems, IoT devices, physical sensors, computing devices and servers on an internal or local network, and other computing devices on an external network. By combining network security and physical security into a single device, a combination security appliance may correlate physical sensor signals with packet inspection results, providing enhanced protection against network threats to physical security systems, and physical protection against network threats.
US11314538B2	Interrupt signaling for directed interrupt virtualization An interrupt signal is provided to a target processor. An interrupt signal is received with an interrupt target ID identifying a processor as a target processor for handling the interrupt signal. The interrupt signal is forwarded to the target processor for handling. A translation of the interrupt target ID to a logical processor ID of the target processor is used to address the target processor directly. The bus attachment device updates a directed interrupt signal indicator of a directed interrupt signal vector assigned to the target processor in order to indicate that there is an interrupt signal addressed to the respective interrupt target ID to be handled.
US11314533B2	Virtual desktop management method and system A virtual desktop management which includes establishing a log-on session and loading a first user's desktop on a computer of the first user, capturing a virtual workspace by taking a snapshot of the state of the first user's desktop, saving the captured virtual workspace of the first user for automated retrieval of the captured virtual workspace by any one of the first user and a second user during the log-on session or during a subsequent log-on session.
US11314528B2	State chart execution device A relevance calculation unit calculates relevance between pieces of data constituting a state chart. An individual data binarization unit binarizes the pieces of data constituting the state chart. An optimal array calculation unit calculates an array of the pieces of data constituting the state chart on the basis of the relevance calculated by the relevance calculation unit. An offset setting unit sets an offset indicating a position of each of the pieces of data binarized by the individual data binarization unit in a case where the binarized pieces of data are arranged in the array calculated by the optimal array calculation unit. A binary data integration unit integrates the pieces of data each of which has been binarized by the individual data binarization unit and for each of which the corresponding offset has been set by the offset setting unit in the array calculated by the optimal array calculation unit to obtain binary data. A state chart execution unit executes processing of the state chart on the basis of the binary data.
US11314521B2	System and method for managing component updates An asset includes physical computing resources and a physical computing resources manager. The physical computing resources manager obtains a power management update for a physical computing resource of the physical computing resources of the asset; in response to obtaining the power management update: obtains, using an out-of-band manager, a power management descriptor for the asset; updates the power management descriptor based on the power management update; stages the power management descriptor at a location; and performs a low resource consumption reboot using the location to implement the power management update.
US11314513B2	Circuit for verifying the content of registers In accordance with an embodiment, a method verifies contents of a plurality of registers having two first registers, where each of the plurality of registers is configured to store a data word and a verification bit. The method includes determining whether a value of the verification bit of each respective register of the plurality of registers corresponds to the data word of its respective register. The data words stored in the two first registers are selected so that the bits of a same rank of the two first registers include two complementary bits, each bit of a common binary word is associated with a respective register of the plurality of registers, and the value of the verification bit of each respective register depends on the data word of the respective register and the bit of the common binary word associated with the respective register.
US11314510B2	Tracking load and store instructions and addresses in an out-of-order processor A computer system, processor, and/or load-store unit has a data cache for storing data, the data cache having a plurality of entries to store the data, each data cache entry addressed by a row and a Way, each data cache row having a plurality of the data cache Ways; a first Address Directory organized and arranged the same as the data cache where each first Address Directory entry is addressed by a row and a Way where each row has a plurality of Ways; a store reorder queue for tracking the store instructions; and a load reorder queue for tracking load instruction. Each of the load and store reorder queues having a Way bit field, preferably less than six bits, for identifying the data cache Way and/or a first Address Directory Way where the Way bit field acts as a proxy for a larger address, e.g. a real page number.
US11314504B2	Multiplier-accumulator processing pipelines and processing component, and methods of operating same An integrated circuit including a plurality of processing components, including first and second processing components, wherein each processing component includes first memory to store image data and a plurality of multiplier-accumulator execution pipelines, wherein each multiplier-accumulator execution pipeline includes a plurality of multiplier-accumulator circuits to, in operation, perform multiply and accumulate operations using data from the first memory and filter weights. The first processing component is configured to process all of the data associated with all of stages of a first image frame via the plurality of multiplier-accumulator execution pipelines of the first processing component. The second processing component is configured to process all of the data associated with all of stages of a second image frame via the plurality of multiplier-accumulator execution pipelines of the second processing component, wherein the first image frame and the second image frame are successive image frames.
US11314497B2	Deployment and customization of applications at the widget level This disclosure relates to customizing deployment of an application to a user interface of a client device. An exemplary method generally includes training a model based on historical context information of a plurality of users by identifying correlations between the historical context information and a plurality of widgets and storing the correlations in the model. The method further includes receiving context information from the client device. The method further includes determining a user intent based on the context information using the model. The method further includes selecting one or more widgets to include in a custom user interface definition based, at least in part, on the user intent. The method further includes transmitting, to the user interface of the client device, the custom user interface definition.
US11314488B2	Methods and systems for automated screen display generation and configuration In one aspect, a computerized method for implementing automated screen display generation and configuration including the step of obtaining a set of content that is displayed on a computer screen. The method includes the step of determining a number of screens to display the set of content. The method includes the step of determining an optimized location for each content in the number of screens that display the set of content using one or more machine learning methods to determine optimized location for each content in the number of screens.
US11314483B2	Bit-serial computation with dynamic frequency modulation for error resiliency in neural network A system is provided for error resiliency in a bit serial computation. A delay monitor enforces an overall processing duration threshold for bit-serial processing all iterations for the bit serial computation, while determining a threshold for processing each iteration. At least some iterations correspond to a respective bit in an input bit sequence. A clock generator generates a clock signal for controlling a performance of the iterations. Each of iteration units perform a particular iteration, starting with a Most Significant Bit (MSB) of the input bit sequence and continuing in descending bit significant order, and by selectively increasing the threshold for at least one iteration while skipping from processing at least one subsequent iteration whose iteration-level processing duration exceeds a remaining amount of an overall processing duration for all iterations, responsive to the at least one iteration requiring more time to complete than a current value of the threshold.
US11314482B2	Low latency floating-point division operations Methods and systems for division operation are described. A processor can initialize an estimated quotient between the dividend and the divisor separately from a floating-point unit (FPU) pipeline. The processor can implement the FPU pipeline to execute a refinement process that can include at least a first iteration of operations and a second iteration of operations. The refinement process can include, in the first iteration of operations, generating a first unnormalized floating-point value using the initialized estimated quotient. The refinement process can include, in the second iteration of operations, generating a second unnormalized floating-point value using the first unnormalized floating-point value. The processor can determine a final quotient based on the second unnormalized floating-point value.
US11314480B2	Control button assembly for media playback device A system is provided for streaming media content in a vehicle. The system includes a personal media streaming appliance system configured to connect to a media delivery system and receive media content from the media delivery system at least via a cellular network. The personal media streaming appliance system operates to transmit a media signal representative to the received media content to a vehicle media playback system so that the vehicle media playback system operates to play the media content in the vehicle.
US11314479B2	Predefined multi-channel listening environment An example method includes, based on an adjustment to a first displayed volume control, instructing the first playback device to adjust playback volume level; based on an adjustment to a second displayed volume control, instructing the second playback device to adjust playback volume level; after sending the commands, instructing the first and/or second playback device to process an audio stream into a first and/or second channel and to reproduce a respective one of the first and second channel, wherein the grouped first and second playback devices provide multi-channel sound; and based on an adjustment to a third displayed volume control, instructing the first and/or second playback device to adjust a group volume level for both the first and second playback devices.
US11314473B2	Method and apparatus for displaying digital object identifier A method for displaying a digital object identifier (DOI) is provided. The method includes receiving, by a server, a display instruction sent by a first device, wherein the display instruction is sent to the server after the first device receives a scan instruction to scan the DOI; determining a second device associated with the first device; and sending the display instruction to the second device, wherein the second device displays the DOI after receiving the display instruction.
US11314471B2	Preventing print data from being transmitted when printer is in a busy state A printing controller apparatus includes a transmitting unit, a receiving unit, and a controller. The transmitting unit performs transmission of first printing information to a printer. The receiving unit receives state information indicating a state of the printer. The controller performs control of the transmitting unit to prohibit the transmission of the first printing information to the printer if the state information indicates a state in which second printing information different from the first printing information is currently being printed or a state in which the second printing information is to be printed.
US11314468B2	Information processing apparatus and image forming apparatus An information processing apparatus includes a processor and memory. The memory stores information on multiple image forming apparatuses capable of making an image forming request. The processor is configured to: install license-managed software; select an image forming apparatus serving as a license management server of the software from the multiple image forming apparatuses; and set the selected image forming apparatus as a license management server.
US11314464B2	Information processing apparatus with print control feature, print server, printing system, and recording medium An information processing apparatus includes a processor that performs: after a user starts to configure settings for printing, making a first judgment on whether or not a printing apparatus specified for printing is a printer model supported by print setting software installed on the information processing apparatus; making a second judgment on whether or not switching to a machine-independent print control method is necessary, with reference to the first judgment; and if switching to a machine-independent print control method is necessary, performing: switching to the machine-independent print control method; generating a print job by the machine-independent print control method; and transmitting the print job to the specified printing apparatus.
US11314463B2	Firmware activation in a RAID storage environment Methods, systems, and computer programs encoded on computer storage medium, for performing firmware activation, including obtaining input/output (I/O) metrics of the disks; determining an index value for the disk based on a disk weighted index (DWI); determining a DWI value for the array of disks based on the index value for each disk of the array of disks; comparing the DWI value for the array of disks to a DWI threshold; determining that the DWI value for a first array of disks is greater than the DWI threshold, and in response: aggregating the I/O metrics for each disk of the first array of disks; comparing the aggregated I/O metrics for the first array of disks to an activation threshold; determining that the aggregated I/O metrics for the first array of disks is less than the activation threshold, and in response triggering firmware activation for the first array of disks.
US11314460B2	Solid state drive supporting both byte addressable protocol and block addressable protocol A solid state drive (SSD) enabled to process and store block addressable and byte addressable data, includes a first storage region for storing byte addressable data, a second storage region for storing block addressable data, and an SSD controller coupled to the first storage region and the second storage region by a bus. The SSD controller includes a processor and an interface for receiving data packets from a host. The SSD controller receives a data packet from the host at the interface, determines whether the data packet includes byte addressable data or block addressable data at the processor, selects either the first storage region or the second storage region based on the determination, and stores the data associated with the data packet in the selected storage region.
US11314459B2	Distributed metadata management in a distributed storage system In various embodiments, methods and systems for implementing a distributed metadata management system in distributed storage systems are provided. A distributed storage system operates based on data storage resources (e.g., extents and streams). The distributed metadata management system is implemented for extent and stream metadata to facilitate the scalability of metadata processing. The distributed storage system implements extent managers and stream managers that independently manage extent and stream metadata, respectively. The extent managers are associated with an extent table that stores extent metadata. The stream managers are associated with streams that store associations with extents. The distributed metadata management system can also utilize a bootstrap layer that leverages components of a legacy distributed storage system to facilitate distributed management of extent and stream metadata. The bootstrap layer is used to store the extent table as a system table and to persist the state of the stream manager as system streams.
US11314450B2	Method of operating storage device, storage device performing the same and method of operating storage system using the same A method of operating a storage device includes receiving, at the storage device, a meta information transfer command based on a data read request. The meta information transfer command is received from a host device. The method further includes receiving, at the storage device, a data read command corresponding to the data read request and the meta information transfer command. The data read command is received from the host device. The method further includes receiving, at the storage device, a plurality of meta data corresponding to the data read request and the meta information transfer command. The plurality of meta data is received from the host device. The method further includes performing a data read operation, at the storage device, based on the data read command and the plurality of meta data.
US11314415B2	Storage system, storage device, and method of controlling storage system A storage device is used in a storage system including a host computer and storage devices in which host data used by the host computer are distributed and stored. The storage device includes a host data memory section, a communication controller, and a controller. The host data memory section stores, data in a range notified by the host computer. The communication controller receives a write request to a multicast address corresponding to the range of the data stored in the host data memory section. The controller stores write data specified by the write request, in the host data memory section.
US11314404B2	Apparatus and method for providing screen setting data of plurality of devices Provided are an apparatus and a method for providing screen setting data of a plurality of devices. The apparatus includes at least: a communication unit that transmits and receives data; a storage unit that stores the data; and a controller operatively connected to the communication unit and the storage unit. The controller receives screen configuration data determined by a manufacturer in association with a specific device selected by the manufacturer of a first user device from the first user device, stores screen setting data based on the received screen configuration data and screen characteristic data for a predetermined standard screen of the specific device in the storage unit, receives a screen setting request for the specific device from a second user device, and transmits screen setting data stored so as to correspond to the specific device in accordance with the screen setting request to the specific device.
US11314403B2	Detection of pointing object and activity object Various implementations for object detection include a method includes capturing a video stream that includes an activity object and a pointing object, identifying the activity object, displaying a graphical user interface embodying a virtual scene based on the identified activity object, determining a location of the pointing object relative to the activity object, determining a routine based on the location of the pointing object relative to the activity object, and executing the routine within the virtual scene.
US11314399B2	Adaptive graphic user interfacing system A system and method for an adaptive graphic user interface (AGUI) (501) that can identify the characteristics of one or more users and display candidates and dynamically select display content and generate an interface (502-506 . . . ) customized to one or more users and display candidates and dynamically arrange, modify, map and adapt an AGUI display to any object (350,730), device, clothing, equipment, furniture, appliance, room, building, vehicle, person, or other passive or active display surface, screen, space or other display candidate and embodiments of an AGUI apparatus (500) that can network, coordinate and/or operate with the AGUI platform (1302) to identify one or more users and display candidates and enabling one or more users to interface with a single AGUI display across multiple display candidates.
US11314393B2	Method for performing operation to select entries on touchscreen and terminal A method for performing an operation on a touchscreen and a terminal that relates to the terminal field can implement a batch operation on multiple entries of displayed entries. A method for performing an operation on a touchscreen includes receiving a touch operation when content currently displayed on the touchscreen is a displayed entry, where the displayed entry corresponds to a data entry stored in a terminal, and performing, when a track of the touch operation of the user is a sliding track on a preset area, a preset operation on each entry that the track of the touch operation passes through, where the preset area is a part of a current operation interface.
US11314390B2	Jukebox with customizable avatar A digital downloading jukebox system including a mechanism for delivering custom services to a recognized user is provided. For example, information specific to a recognized user may be stored and optionally may include a recognized user avatar representative of the recognized user. The user avatar may be an image, video, and/or animation, which may be displayed on and/or played through the jukebox. The user avatar may be associated with transactions associated with the user. For example, an avatar may be displayed when a playlist of the recognized user is played, when a message is sent, etc. In other examples, the avatar may introduce instances of media by playing an audio and/or video message, and the avatar may sing, dance, etc. while an instance of media is playing.
US11314387B1	System and method for analysis and visualization of incident data Apparatus and method for investigating an analyzable incident for a period of time has a database to receive and store data sets, coupled to a data processing computer system that operates upon the data sets, and a display module comprising a graphical user interface (“GUI”). Each data set comprises a series of events comprising a timestamp, a source, and a content about the analyzable incident. The GUI comprises an event map, a control panel, and an annotation panel viewable in an event list view or a swim lane view. The event list view has a tabular list of the timestamp, source, and the content of each event. The swim lane view comprises a graphical representation of the timestamp and the source of each event, and a user selectable icon associated with the content of each event.
US11314386B2	Human-computer interaction method of user terminal, apparatus, and user terminal Embodiments of the present invention disclose a human-computer interaction method of a user terminal, an apparatus, and a user terminal. The method includes: collecting entered fingerprint information; if target fingerprint information that matches the fingerprint information exists in stored preset fingerprint information, determining an application bound to the target fingerprint information; and displaying at least one application option included in the application. In the embodiments of the present invention, application option search efficiency can be improved.
US11314385B1	Media buy loader, graphical user interface, and method of correlating media buys to customer intakes A method includes recording data about an advertising campaign; converting the data about advertising campaigns into ad time slot data including a time range in which a broadcast program runs and average number of times the advertisements run during the time range; and selectively generating an output visually indicating cost of advertisements versus time of day, number of intakes versus time of day, and cost of the advertisements versus time of day. Other systems and methods are provided.
US11314375B2	Multichannel pressure control system with user friendly interface Disclosed herein are pressure control systems, comprising: a touch screen electrically connected to industrial computer or embedded operating system; a pressure output channel connected to the touch screen and/or the industrial computer or embedded operating system; and pressure control unit for communicating with the pressure output channel, wherein the pressure control unit can be controlled with the touch screen, and wherein the industrial computer or embedded operating system comprises preinstalled software with User Interface (UI) for pressure control setup and running the system.
US11314360B2	Touch panel and touch display device Embodiments of this disclosure disclose a touch panel and a touch display device. The touch panel includes: an underlying substrate; and a plurality of touch electrodes arranged on the underlying substrate, and insulated from each other. At least one of the plurality of touch electrodes includes a plurality of annular touch electrode sections arranged at an interval. Every two adjacent touch electrode sections in the same touch electrode are electrically connected through a plurality of connection sections. The capability of the electrodes to withstand bending can be improved to thereby prevent the touch panel from being broken while being bent.
US11314357B2	Touch sensing device for fitting drawing line and touch sensing method using same A touch sensing device includes a touch coordinate calculation unit configured to calculate touch coordinates for touch inputs that occurred on a touch screen panel, a reference coordinate setting unit configured to set one reference coordinate for each predetermined sample section on the basis of positions at which the touch coordinates are generated, and a touch coordinate correction unit configured to generate touch output-coordinates for the touch coordinates by smoothing each of touch coordinates positioned in a corresponding sample section on the basis of the reference coordinate set for the corresponding sample section.
US11314355B2	Capacitive sensor patterns Methods and devices for providing fast multi-touch sensors are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method is provided for design and manufacture of touch sensors for touch-sensitive devices. At least one behavioral quality is identified for the touch-sensitive devices. At least one parameter is selected, the parameter being associated with the composition or geometry of a stack of row conductors and column conductors on each of the touch sensors associated with the devices, the selection being based on the identified at least one behavioral quality. Multi-touch sensors are then manufactured by arranging a plurality of row conductors and a plurality of column conductors in a stack such that the stack or a component thereof has a geometry or composition that meets the at least one parameter. An orthogonal signal transmitter is provided for simultaneously transmitting each of a plurality of orthogonal row signals on a respective one of at least some of the plurality of row conductors. A detector is provided for detecting an amount of each of the plurality of orthogonal row signals present on each of the plurality of column conductors. Specific multi-touch sensors are also disclosed for hover applications, large screen applications, and others.
US11314351B2	Touch display device A touch display device for preventing damage to test patterns is configured such that a test cover layer, which is formed of the same material as at least one of a plurality of insulating films disposed between a light-emitting element and a touch electrode, is disposed on a test pattern formed on a peripheral portion of a substrate, thereby preventing damage to the test pattern during the process of manufacturing a touch sensor.
US11314344B2	Haptic ecosystem A method, a computer readable medium, and an apparatus for providing haptic feedback through a plurality of haptic devices are provided. The apparatus may receive a multi-channel audio stream. The apparatus may split the multi-channel audio stream into a plurality of audio channels. For each haptic signal of a plurality of haptic signals, the apparatus may generate the haptic signal based on one or more audio channels of the plurality of audio channels. For each haptic signal of the plurality of haptic signals, the apparatus may transmit the haptic signal to a corresponding haptic device of the plurality of haptic devices to produce the haptic feedback.
US11314343B2	Touch pad structure A touch pad structure includes a touch module, a first bracket, a second bracket, and a plurality of linkage rods. The first bracket has a plurality of first pivoting portions, and the touch module is disposed on the first bracket. The second bracket has a plurality of second pivoting portions. Each of the linkage rods is pivotally connected between the first pivoting portion and the second pivoting portion, so that the touch module is moved together with the first bracket when the touch module is pressed. One portion of each of the linkage rods is pivotally rotated at the first pivoting portion, and another portion of each of the linkage rods is pivotally rotated and moved at the second pivoting portion, so that the touch module and the first bracket are moved toward a plane where the second bracket is located.
US11314338B2	Locally connected system for remote technical support Provided is a service system and method that allows a remote user to plug-into an external device (e.g., a server, a laptop, a desktop, etc.) and control a local keyboard input of the troubled device, remotely. In one example, the method may include receiving, via a first adapter connected to a mobile device, keyboard commands from the mobile device, converting the received keyboard commands into corresponding keyboard emulation signals of an external computing system, and transmitting, via a second adapter connected to the external computing system, the keyboard emulation signals to control a local keyboard input of the external computing system.
US11314337B1	Key press detection Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to object detection. In some aspects, a device may include a housing; an input device adjoined to the housing, the input device configured to receive an input associated with a press of a key of a plurality of keys; one or more transmitters disposed in the housing, the one or more transmitters configured to transmit one or more signals toward the plurality of keys; one or more receivers disposed in the housing, the one or more receivers configured to receive one or more return signals corresponding to the one or more signals; and a processor configured to determine a location of the key based at least in part on the one or more return signals.
US11314327B2	Head mounted display and control method thereof A head mounted display and a control method thereof are provided. The control method includes the following. An eye-tracking operation is activated to obtain a gazing direction of a user. At least one setting position is set on a display frame, and the at least one setting position serves to set at least one static object. Whether to display or hide the static object is determined according to the setting position and the gazing direction.
US11314317B2	Supervisory control of power management A supervisory control system provides power management in an electronic device by providing timeout periods for a hardware component to lower levels of the operating system such as a power management arbitrator and/or a hardware interface controller. The power management arbitrator and/or hardware interface controller transition at least a portion of a hardware component to a lower-power state based on monitored activity information of the hardware component. The supervisory control system may further provide wakeup periods to the power management arbitrator and/or a hardware interface controller to determine whether the hardware component should be transitioned to a higher-power state at the end of the wakeup period if the hardware component satisfies a transition condition.
US11314309B2	Electronic device control method and apparatus, and electronic device An electronic device control method, apparatus, and an electronic device, where the electronic device control method includes determining a running mode of a current running application in an electronic device, and controlling, based on the running mode, a component in the electronic device to execute an operation corresponding to the running mode, where the component includes a component employed for running the current running application.
US11314304B2	Datacenter power management using variable power sources Embodiments provide techniques for datacenter power management using variable power sources. Power from the variable power sources is stored in a power cache. An optimization engine receives input criteria such as power availability from non-variable and variable power sources, as well as one or more power management goals. The optimization engine implements a dispatch strategy that dispatches stored energy from the power cache and feeds it to the datacenter, resulting in a mixture of non-variable and variable power sources used to achieve the power management goals, such as reduced power cost, increased power availability, and lowered carbon footprint for the datacenter.
US11314300B2	Voltage transition control for USB power delivery sources A circuit includes a controller to communicate with a sink device and communicate a plurality of power sources that are available to the sink device. A plurality of switch devices switch power from one of the plurality of power sources to the sink device in response to a control signal from the controller. A policy engine in the controller defines policies for the operation of the controller during different communications phases between the controller and the sink device.
US11314295B2	Pressurized infusion device and liquid cooling system A pressurized infusion device and a liquid cooling system are disclosed. The pressurized infusion device includes a liquid storage tank and a pump. The liquid storage tank has a first end and a second end opposite to the first end. The first end has a first connecting structure, and the second end has a second connecting structure. The pump is connected with the first end of the liquid storage tank and has a third connecting structure, a first connecting port, a second connecting port, a third connecting port and a fourth connecting port. The third connecting structure corresponds to the first connecting structure. A pump flow channel from the first connecting port to the second connecting port is formed inside the pump, and a bypass flow channel from the third connecting port to the fourth connecting port is also formed inside the pump.
US11314291B2	Display device A display device according to an embodiment of the present invention may comprise: a display panel; a module cover covering the display panel from behind the display panel; a glass cover comprising a cover portion positioned at the rear of the module cover and a decoration portion positioned below the cover portion and not overlapping the module cover in the forward and backward direction; an electronic mounting plate disposed on the rear surface of the cover portion; a back cover covering the electronic mounting plate from behind the electronic mounting plate; and a stand fixed to the back cover and positioned behind the glass cover.
US11314279B2	Display panel, hole forming method, and electronic equipment A display panel is provided which comprises a substrate, a backboard, and an electroluminescent device layer, which are stacked in sequence, the electroluminescent device layer having a hole at a display region of the display panel, a laser protection layer is provided on a periphery of the hole of the electroluminescent device layer.
US11314275B2	Adaptable educational device An educational device for counting and mathematics. The educational device includes a frame that includes a first end, a second end, and a releasable connection point configured to attach to an additional frame. The educational device further includes a first group adjacent to the first end and including a bead. The educational device further includes a second group adjacent to the second end and including a second bead. The educational device can further include a divider located between the first and the second end. The divider can separate the first group from the second group.
US11314272B2	Systems and methods for managing energy-related stress in an electrical system A method for reducing and/or managing energy-related stress in an electrical system includes processing electrical measurement data from or derived from energy-related signals captured by at least one intelligent electronic device (IED) in the electrical system to identify and track at least one energy-related transient in the electrical system. An impact of the at least one energy-related transient on equipment in the electrical system is quantified, and one or more transient-related alarms are generated in response to the impact of the at least one energy-related transient being near, within or above a predetermined range of the stress tolerance of the equipment. The transient-related alarms are prioritized based in part on at least one of the stress tolerance of the equipment, the stress associated with one or more transient events, and accumulated energy-related stress on the equipment. One or more actions are taken in the electrical system in response to the transient-related alarms to reduce energy-related stress on the equipment in the electrical system.
US11314260B2	Systems and methods for configurable operation of a robot based on area classification A method of operating a mobile robot includes generating a segmentation map defining respective regions of a surface based on occupancy data that is collected by a mobile robot responsive to navigation of the surface, identifying sub-regions of at least one of the respective regions as non-clutter and clutter areas, and computing a coverage pattern based on identification of the sub-regions. The coverage pattern indicates a sequence for navigation of the non-clutter and clutter areas, and is provided to the mobile robot. Responsive to the coverage pattern, the mobile robot sequentially navigates the non-clutter and clutter areas of the at least one of the respective regions of the surface in the sequence indicated by the coverage pattern. Related methods, computing devices, and computer program products are also discussed.
US11314257B2	Autonomous vehicle collision avoidance system with unattached load detection A control apparatus for an automatic-driving vehicle includes a load state detecting unit and a collision preventing unit. The load state detecting unit detects a load state of the other vehicle that is present in a periphery of the automatic-driving vehicle. The collision preventing unit performs a collision prevention process based on the load state detected by the load state detecting unit. The collision prevention process is a process for preventing, in advance, collision of an automatic-driving vehicle with a load that may fall onto a road from the other vehicle.
US11314246B2	Command toolbox for autonomous vehicles The present disclosure is directed to a system for generating customized command toolboxes for remote operators in a service system that includes autonomous vehicles. The system receives a request for remote assistance from an autonomous vehicle. The system determines, from a local storage location, vehicle data associated with the autonomous vehicle. The system selects a subset of remote assistance actions from a predetermined set of remote assistance actions. The system displays, in a remote assistance user interface, one or more user interface elements indicative of the subset of remote assistance actions. The system determines one or more remote assistance actions from the subset of remote assistance actions based at least in part on a user input associated with the one or more user interface elements. The system transmits one or more control signals associated with the one or more remote assistance actions.
US11314244B2	Systems and methods for determining abnormal information associated with a vehicle The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for determining abnormal information associated with a vehicle. The systems may perform the methods to obtain real-time information associated with a bicycle and obtain reference information associated with the bicycle. The systems may also perform the methods to determine, based on the real-time information and the reference information, abnormal information associated with the bicycle, and transmit the abnormal information to a server or a terminal device associated with the bicycle according to a Narrow Band Internet of Things (NB-IoT) technique or a Long Range (LoRa) technique.
US11314242B2	Methods and systems for fault detection and identification An example method can comprise creating a non-linear neural network based model of a system based on historical operational data of the system and receiving first sensor data from a plurality of sensors associated with the system. Predicted next sensor data can be determined based on the received first sensor data and the non-linear network model. Second sensor data can be received from the plurality of sensors, and a measure of deviation between the predicted next sensor data and the received second sensor data is calculated. In response to the measured deviation exceeding a predefined threshold; it can be determined that a fault has occurred.
US11314241B2	Abnormality diagnosis apparatus and abnormality diagnosis method An abnormality diagnosis apparatus includes: a model acceleration calculation unit to calculate model acceleration that is a predicted value of motor acceleration; a motor acceleration calculation unit to calculate the motor acceleration from one of position information and speed information on a motor; and an abnormality determination unit to diagnose whether a power transmission mechanism is abnormal on the basis of the result of comparison between the motor acceleration and the model acceleration.
US11314236B2	Plant equipment monitoring control system and plant equipment monitoring control method An objective of the present invention is to achieve optimal operating guidance on day-to-day operations in a plant while also achieving, for example, soundness and reduced operating costs for a plant equipment piece without increasing the load on the central operation room, by determining the optimal configuration value for the operating value of the plant equipment piece. To this end, there is provided an equipment state monitoring device 331 for analyzing an operating state of a first plant equipment piece 303 during a prescribed period. The equipment state monitoring device 331 analyzes the operating state of the first plant equipment piece 303, and depending on a result of the analysis, carries out determination of an optimal operating value.
US11314232B2	Frequency response diagnostics for characterizing servo controlled mechanisms A server includes a processor to supply a torque command to an amplifier that controls a motor that drives a linkage; include, in the torque command, an alternating signal wave that is to test a frequency response of the motor and the linkage; receive, from the amplifier, an instantaneous torque value of the motor and an instantaneous mechanical parameter value of the linkage at each time step according to a sampling rate and over a period of time; store an aggregate of both these values; determine, for a first frequency of the alternating signal wave, a magnitude and phase shift between the aggregate of the instantaneous mechanical parameter values and the aggregate of the instantaneous torque values; and generate, using an aggregate of magnitude and phase shift data for multiple frequencies of the alternating signal wave, a fingerprint to be used in performing diagnostics of motor and linkage.
US11314225B2	Systems and methods for evaluating assessments Systems and methods evaluate assessments on time-series data. An expression including temporal operators may be created for an assessment. The expression may be arranged in the form of an expression tree having nodes representing input data to the assessment and intermediate results of the expression. An assessment may be evaluated by performing a bottom-up traversal of the expression tree. One or more plots may be generated including a plot of the outcome of the assessment, e.g., pass, fail, or untested, plots of intermediate results of the expression and plots of input data as a function of time. Graphical affordance may be presented on the plots that mark the regions that may have contributed to a specific pass or fail result of the assessment, and points within the regions that resulted in the assessment passing or failing.
US11314223B2	Work tool data system and method thereof A data system for tracking use of a work tool attachment that may be interchangeably attached to a machine includes a data transmission device located on the work tool attachment and an electronic machine controller that may be located on the machine. When an event occurs with respect to the work tool attachment, the data system collects a first tool data set from the data transmission device and a first set of machine data associated with the machine. When another event occurs with respect to the work tool attachment, the data system collects a second tool data set from the data transmission device and a second set of machine data. The first and second tool data sets and the first and second sets of machine data may be entered in one or more data logs for analytics.
US11314222B2	Servo amplifier selection device, servo amplifier selection method and non-transitory computer readable medium recording a servo amplifier selection program An object is to realize a technology in which a more appropriate power failure operation can be performed when the configuration of a servo system is selected. A selection device 20 includes: a servo system selection unit 21b which selects a servo amplifier corresponding to the specification of a motor and a drive condition of the motor in a servo system; a UI display control unit 21a which receives the setting of a condition on a power failure operation in the servo amplifier selected by the servo amplifier selection unit; and a power failure operation determination unit 21d which determines, based on the condition on the power failure operation received in the power failure operation condition setting unit, a method for the power failure operation in the selected servo amplifier, and the UI display control unit 21a outputs the method for the power failure operation which is determined by the power failure operation determination unit.
US11314213B1	Autonomous crop drying, conditioning and storage management A post-harvest crop management platform is provided for regulating conditions of an agricultural crop being dried and/or stored. The platform utilizes data collected from sensors positioned proximate to, or embedded within, an agricultural crop, and analyzes selected crop characteristics affecting the stored crop in multiple sections thereof. The platform identifies parameters relative to achieving a desired crop characteristic level in the agricultural crop, generates a profile of the selected crop characteristic across the multiple sections of the stored crop, and models an application of a fluid flow pattern to achieve the desired crop characteristic level in each section. The crop storage monitoring and management platform also actuates a multi-stack assembly, configured within the stored crop, to automatically apply the fluid flow pattern in one or more cycles that are adjustable to changing conditions within the stored crop in real time. The crop storage monitoring and management platform further integrates with, and connects to and communicates with, other systems within an autonomous field activity ecosystem.
US11314205B2	Digital holography microscope (DHM), and inspection method and semiconductor manufacturing method using the DHM A low-cost digital holography microscope (DHM) that is capable of performing inspection at high speed while accurately inspecting an inspection object at high resolution, an inspection method using the DHM, and a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device by using the DHM are provided. The DHM includes: a light source configured to generate and output light; a beam splitter configured to cause the light to be incident on an inspection object and output reflected light from the inspection object; and a detector configured to detect the reflected light, wherein, when the reflected light includes interference light, the detector generates a hologram of the interference light, and wherein no lens is present in a path from the light source to the detector.
US11314203B2	Technique for cooling heating element provided in image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus obtains an evaluation value correlating to an internal temperature, decreases the internal temperature by temporarily stopping an image forming unit based on the evaluation value, continuously runs the image forming unit based on the evaluation value, and controls the image forming unit such that the image forming unit intermittently forms an image on a sheet by repeatedly starting and stopping the image forming unit in a temperature rising suppression period.
US11314201B2	Process cartridge and image forming apparatus A process cartridge includes a photosensitive drum; a developing roller; a developer supplying roller, provided in contact with the developing roller; a driving force receiving portion provided at a shaft end of the supplying roller; a first driving force transmitting portion; a second driving force transmitting portion; flexible sheets provided adjacent to an engaging portion between the first portion and the second portion to intermittently contact the second portion with rotation of the second portion, wherein a rotational direction of the roller is opposite to that of the roller, and a peripheral speed of the roller is larger than that of the roller.
US11314200B2	Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus, including a process cartridge and a main body with an opening and a cartridge supporter is provided. The process cartridge includes a drum cartridge; a toner cartridge attachable to the drum cartridge; and a switching member switchable states in the process cartridge between a first state, wherein detachment of the toner cartridge is restricted, and a second state, wherein the toner cartridge is released from the restriction. The cartridge supporter is movable between a first position, wherein the cartridge supporter supports the process cartridge to be placed entirely in an inner space in the main body on an inner side of the opening, and a second position, wherein the cartridge supporter supports the process cartridge to be at least partly placed outside the inner space. When the cartridge supporter is in the second position, the switching member is at least partly placed outside the inner space.
US11314198B2	Photosensitive member cartridge and process cartridge A photosensitive member cartridge detachably mountable to a main assembly of an image forming apparatus for forming an image, includes a frame; a photosensitive drum on which and which is provided in the frame; a transfer member for transferring an image formed on the drum onto the sheet; a mounting portion for detachably mounting a developing cartridge including a developer carrying member onto the drum and a memory for storing information; a first electrical contact provided on the frame and electrically connectable with a main assembly electrical contact provided in the main assembly when the cartridge is mounted to the main assembly; and a second electrical contact provided on the frame for electrically connecting the memory and the first electrical contact portion with each other when the developing cartridge is mounted to the mounting portion.
US11314188B2	Image heating device and heater for use in image heating device In an image heating device having a plurality of heating blocks which are controllable independently in a longitudinal direction of a heater, an increase of the size of the heater can be suppressed, and temperatures of a plurality of heating block can be detected. A heater has a first temperature sensor corresponding to a first heating block, a second temperature sensor corresponding to a second heating block, a first electric conductor electrically coupled to the first temperature sensor, a second electric conductor electrically coupled to the second temperature sensor, and a common electric conductor electrically coupled to the first and second temperature sensors.
US11314185B2	Toner container having protrusions projecting from opposite sides of the toner container A system with a container including a protrusion, and a receiver to receive the container. The receiver includes a slide block that is movable relative to a body of the receiver, the slide block including two surfaces, a first surface, initially contacted by the protrusion of the container during insertion of the container into the receiver, having a first slope to resist movement of the container towards the receiver, and a second surface, subsequently contacted by the protrusion of the container during the insertion of the container into the receiver, having a second slope to interact with the protrusion of the container to assist movement of the container towards the receiver. This construction provides the user with a changing insertion force to indicate proper mounting of the container.
US11314182B2	Compensation for scanning line curvature by using imaging lens An optical scanning device includes an optical source portion to emit an optical beam; an optical deflector to deflect the optical beam in a main scanning direction; and an imaging lens to image the deflected optical beam onto a light-exposed object. A scanning line curvature caused by a refractive index deviation of the imaging lens is determined, and a curvature of the imaging lens in a sub-scanning direction is determined based on the determined scanning line curvature.
US11314181B2	Image forming device An image forming device includes a first control circuit, a second control circuit, a high-voltage substrate, and a polygon motor. The high-voltage substrate applies a voltage with a frequency of an application signal to a toner image forming member. The first control circuit generates a first clock signal, counts the number of the first clock signal, and generates a motor drive signal. The first control circuit counts the first clock signal and generates an adjustment signal. The second control circuit counts the number of actual measurements which is a count value of the second clock signal during one cycle of the adjustment signal. The second control circuit counts the second clock signal by a set value. A setting circuit in the second control circuit sets the set value in accordance with the difference between the number of actual measurements and a theoretical number of times.
US11314180B2	Charging roller Provided are a charging roller excellent in charging characteristics (charging property/charge imparting property), elasticity/flexibility, durability, and filming resistance, and an image forming apparatus using the charging roller. The charging roller includes a shaft, and at least a base layer and a surface layer on an outer peripheral portion of the shaft in a radial direction, where the surface layer contains large-particle size particles and small-particle size particles having different average particle sizes and further contains hydrophilic particles; the water contact angle of the hydrophilic particles measured with a sessile drop technique is preferably more than 0 degree and 90 degrees or less and more preferably 50 degrees or more and 90 degrees or less; the large-particle size particles are large-particle size acrylic resin particles; the small-particle size particles are small-particle size acrylic resin particles; and the hydrophilic particles are hydrophilic silica particles.
US11314176B2	Apparatus for containing a substrate and method of manufacturing the apparatus An apparatus for containing a substrate and a method of manufacturing the apparatus are provided. The apparatus for containing a substrate includes: a base having a periphery and an upward-facing top horizontal planar surface with a plurality of contact elements, the contact elements being used for engaging the substrate to hold the substrate upon the upward-facing top horizontal planar surface, an upward-facing frame-like support surface extending from the upward-facing top horizontal planar surface and surrounding the contact elements at a position proximate to the periphery of the base; and a cover having a downward-facing frame-like support surface being in large-area contact with the upward-facing frame-like support surface to define a cavity for containing the substrate between the base and the cover. The downward-facing and upward-facing frame-like support surfaces in contact with each other are not at the same level as the upward-facing top horizontal planar surface.
US11314164B2	Structure and method of reticle pod having inspection window The structure and methods of a reticle pod are provided. A reticle pod includes a base configured to support a reticle and a cover detachably coupled to the base. The cover includes a window that allows radiation at a wavelength between about 400 nm and about 700 nm to pass through with a transmittance of greater than 70%.
US11314160B2	X-ray film packaging bag printer A X-ray film packaging bag printer is disclosed. A positioning detection device is arranged above a conveyor belt, positioning holes in an X-ray film packaging bag strip are detected by the positioning detection device, and positioning can be performed by only using adjacent two positioning holes. According to the X-ray film packaging bag printer, the accuracy of the positioning detection device can be improved, the parameter conflict with a set length of a machine can be avoided, that is, the problem of shutdown or hop printing caused by a detection error are effectively avoided; the printing stability and reliability of the X-ray film packaging bag printer are improved; the structure is simple; a printing process is integrated; the automation efficiency is high; the manual operation is reduced; the production efficiency is greatly improved; the production cost is low; the user experience is improved.
US11314158B2	Microelectromechanical apparatus and projection apparatus A microelectromechanical apparatus includes a substrate, a light diffuser device, a plurality of actuator devices, and a controller. The light diffuser device is disposed on the substrate. The actuator devices surround the substrate and are coupled to the substrate. The controller is coupled to the actuator devices. The controller applies a voltage to at least one of the actuator devices to drive the substrate and to control the light diffuser device to actuate according to a reference axis perpendicular to the light diffuser device. A projection apparatus is also provided. In the disclosure, a motion pattern and motion complexity of the light diffuser device may be enhanced. Enhancement of the movement pattern and movement complexity may lead to a significant increase in a speckle pattern contrast ratio, such that the projection apparatus may provide favorable image quality.
US11314150B2	Phase detection autofocus (PDAF) optical system Apparatus for an optical system optimized for PDAF depth sensing are disclosed herein. An example apparatus includes a phase detection auto focus (PDAF) sensor including a plurality of focus pixels and a plurality of micro lenses. The example apparatus also includes an optical system located above the PDAF sensor and configured to direct light to the micro lenses of the PDAF sensor. In some examples, the optical system includes a lens and an opaque element configured to block light through the lens except for at least one circular asymmetric subsection of the lens.
US11314128B2	Diffusion sheet and a backlight unit including the diffusion sheet A diffusion sheet includes a first base film, a second base film, and a shielding layer placed between the first base film and the second base film. In this case, the shielding layer includes an air gap and a pattern.
US11314127B2	Backlight module and connecting unit The present invention provides a backlight module and a connecting unit thereof. The connecting unit includes a base, a plurality of fixing pins and a plurality of connecting pins. The fixing pins protrude from the base and extend towards a first direction such that the fixing pins form an accommodating space. Each fixing pin includes a fixing portion arranged on an inner wall surface thereof. The connecting pins protrude from the base and extend towards the first direction. Each of the connecting pins has an end portion away from the base and bent away from the accommodating space. Each of the connecting pins has an abutting portion arranged on an outer wall thereof. The fixing portions are more deeply extended into the accommodating space than the inner wall surfaces of the connecting pins, and the abutting portions are more outwardly protruded than the outer wall surfaces of the fixing pins.
US11314120B2	Method of coating display device side surface A coating device includes an upper stage, a lower stage and a spraying part. The upper stage masks an upper surface of a display panel. The lower stage masks a lower surface of the display panel. The spraying part sprays ink to a side surface of the display panel. The side surface of the display panel is exposed between the upper stage and the lower stage. The coating device includes the upper stage and the lower stage, so that the coating device may form a coating layer of uniform thickness by precisely spraying ink. In addition, a cross-section of the coating layer may be precisely formed having specific shape such as an L or C shape. A display apparatus having high light usage efficiency and reduced light leakage may be provided by using the coating device.
US11314114B2	Display device A display device with a display element having a display surface and a cover glass sheet, having a first textured surface, such that the first textured surface is facing the display element. The first textured surface has a surface roughness defined by a first arithmetic amplitude value, Ra1, being equal to or greater than 0.12 μm (Ra1≥0.12 μm) and a first spacing value, Rsm1, being equal to or greater than 45 μm (Rsm1≥45 μm) both measured on an evaluation length of 12 mm and with a Gaussian filter of which the cut-off wavelength is 0.8 mm. The first textured surface is in direct contact with the display surface over at least a portion of a contact area of the first textured surface.
US11314105B2	Lens for eyewear and other headworn supports having improved optics A lens is provided that has an improved optical configuration in order to provide enhanced off-axis optical performance by tending to reduce, eliminate, or minimize first order optical distortion. Embodiments may be used in non-corrective or corrective unitary or dual lens eyewear, for example in combination with a frame to support the lens in a path of a straight ahead line of sight forming a center axis of an eye of a typical wearer. The lens may comprise a lens body. The lens body may comprise a surface having a spheric, toric, cylindrical or freeform geometry and another surface having a freeform geometry. A lens thickness is defined between the surfaces. A prismatic power of the lens is improved, particularly for off-axis viewing angles.
US11314103B2	Autostereoscopic display device An autostereoscopic display device uses an electroluminescent display. A set of pixels is provided beneath view forming elements (such as lenses), with a plurality of pixels across the view forming element width direction. The pixels are arranged with at least two different angular orientations with respect to the substrate. The out-coupling performance is improved by arranging for the light emission direction to be substantially perpendicular to the desired emitting surface of the view forming elements.
US11314090B2	Covert target acquisition with coded short-wave infrared glasses Infrared vision systems, headpieces, and methods include an eyepiece and a body module. The eyepiece is configured to be worn over a user's eyes. The eyepiece includes an infrared sensor, configured to detect external infrared information. For example, the infrared sensor may include a plurality of short-wave infrared (SWIR) sensors. The eyepiece includes a display, configured to visually provide external infrared information to the user. For example, the display may include a see-through color display. The body module is in wired or wireless communication with the eyepiece. The eyepiece may include an adjustable strap, coupled to the eyepiece. The adjustable strap is configured to wrap around the user's head.
US11314087B2	Projection image-displaying member, windshield glass, and head-up display system There are provided a projection image-displaying member, a windshield glass, and a head-up display system in which both high visible light transmittance and good tint of a screen image displayed are achieved. The projection image-displaying member has a selectively reflecting layer that wavelength-selectively reflects light. The selectively reflecting layer has a maximum reflectivity in a wavelength range of 700 to 850 nm at an incidence angle of 5° and has a peak with a reflectivity of 15% or more in a wavelength range of 470 to 540 nm. The selectively reflecting layer further has two or more peaks of reflectivity in a wavelength range of 540 to 700 nm.
US11314086B2	Panoramic, multiplane, and transparent collimated display system A display system for creating a multiplane display. The display system includes a viewing space for viewers. The display system includes a convex screen and a mirror element spaced apart from the convex screen to provide a collimated display. The mirror element is both reflective and transmissive of light, and a fraction of light from the convex screen that strikes a front concave surface of the mirror element is reflected into the viewing space. The convex screen and the front concave surface of the mirror element are each shaped to have an optical prescription defined for a collimated display whereby light reflected into the viewing space is collimated to provide variable depth imagery. The display system includes a background space behind the mirror element, and light from the background space from projection screens and illuminated objects is transmitted through the mirror element to viewers in the viewing space.
US11314044B2	Camera optical lens The present disclosure relates to an optical lens, in particular to a camera optical lens. The camera optical lens includes, from an object side to an image side in sequence: a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens and a sixth lens, the second lens has a positive refractive power, and the third lens has a negative refractive power, and the camera optical lens satisfies the following conditions: −5.00≤f1/f3≤−1.00, and 5.00≤R5/R6≤7.00, where f1 denotes a focal length of the first lens, f3 denotes a focal length of the third lens, R5 denotes a curvature radius of an object-side surface of the third lens, R6 denotes a curvature radius of an image-side surface of the third lens. The camera optical lens can obtain high imaging performance and a low TTL.
US11314038B2	Optical module An optical module is provided, including a movable portion, a fixed portion and a driving assembly. The movable portion is used to hold an optical element having an optical axis. The movable portion is movably connected to the fixed portion. The driving assembly disposed in the fixed portion to drive the movable portion to move along the optical axis relative to the fixed portion. The driving assembly includes a first magnetic element and a second magnetic element. The first magnetic element and the second magnetic element are aligned along the optical axis. The size of the first magnetic element and the size of the second magnetic element along the optical axis are different.
US11314037B2	Optical member driving mechanism An optical element driving mechanism is provided. The optical element driving mechanism includes a fixed portion, a movable portion, a driving assembly, a first circuit assembly, and a second circuit assembly. The fixed portion includes a housing, a frame, and a base. The frame is affixed to the housing. The base is fixedly connected to the housing. The movable portion is movably connected to the fixed portion, and carries an optical element, wherein the optical element has an optical axis. The driving assembly drives the movable portion to move relative to the fixed portion. The first circuit assembly is disposed in the frame, and electrically connected to the driving assembly. The second circuit assembly is disposed on the base.
US11314033B2	Optical element driving mechanism An optical element driving mechanism is provided. The optical element driving mechanism includes a fixed portion, a movable portion, a driving assembly, and a circuit unit. The movable portion is movably connected to the fixed portion, and holds an optical element. The driving assembly drives the movable portion to move relative to the fixed portion. The circuit unit includes a base, a plate-connecting portion, and a layer-connecting portion. The plate-connecting portion is partially embedded in the base. The layer-connecting portion is disposed on the base. The driving assembly is electrically connected to the layer-connecting portion. The thickness of the plate-connecting portion is different from the thickness of the layer-connecting portion.
US11314032B2	Optical element driving module An optical element driving mechanism is provided, including a base, a holder movably coupled to the base for holding an optical element, a casing, a frame, a driving assembly, and an adhering member. The casing has a top wall and a plurality of side walls extending from the edge of the top wall along an optical axis of the optical element, and the top wall is closer to a light-incident end than the base. The frame is disposed on the top wall and has a frame protrusion extending toward the base. The driving assembly is configured to drive the holder to move relative to the base, and an accommodating space is formed between the base, the frame and the casing. The adhering member is disposed in the accommodating space and configured to directly adhere to the base, the frame, the casing, and the driving assembly.
US11314023B2	Optical connector and module thereof The present invention provides an optical connector electrically coupled to an optical receptacle. The optical connector comprises a connector body, and a sliding member. The connector body inserted into the optical receptacle comprises a housing and a boot structure detachably arranged in the housing. The sliding member is slidably coupled to the housing wherein the boot structure is restrained inside the housing or is removed from the housing according to a sliding position of the sliding member.
US11314020B2	Method for manufacturing lensed optical fiber and cutting device A cutting device that cuts, with a predetermined length, an elongated GRIN lens fused with an optical fiber with tips thereof abutting each other, the cutting device including: a fiber holder placing unit on which a fiber holder for holding the optical fiber is placed; a lens holder placing unit on which a lens holder for holding the GRIN lens is placed; and a cutting unit arranged between the fiber holder placing unit and the lens holder placing unit, wherein the fiber holder placing unit includes a positioning unit for positioning the fiber holder placed thereon, and the lens holder placing unit includes a positioning unit for positioning the lens holder placed thereon.
US11314014B2	Glass light-emitting tile A glass light-emitting tile may include a light-transmissive glass plate, a glass substrate and a light guide plate. The light guide plate may be arranged between the light-transmissive glass plate and the glass substrate. A light-emitting diode (LED) lamp may be provided on a side of the light guide plate. The light-transmissive glass plate and the glass substrate may be glued together using a sealant. The glass light-emitting tile may having a tile and/or a stone-textured coating that may be low cost, may provide a high production efficiency, and may provide flexible customization. The tile may be used indoors and/or outdoors.
US11314010B2	Display device A liquid crystal display device includes a LCD panel having a first polarizer, a first substrate, a second substrate and a second polarizer are sequentially provided from a front surface side, a frame which surrounds the LCD panel and has a first opening having first to fourth sides, a planar light source disposed on the rear surface side of the LCD panel in the first opening, a plurality of optical sheet groups which are disposed between the planar light source and the LCD panel, and an adhesive layer which has a second opening formed along the first to fourth sides of the frame. A front surface side of the adhesive layer is adhered to the LCD panel along at least the first side, and a rear surface side of the adhesive layer is adhered to the plurality of optical sheet groups and the frame along at least the first side.
US11314005B2	Electronic device with infrared transparent one-way mirror An electronic device or other equipment may include an infrared-transparent one-way mirror. The infrared-transparent one-way mirror may be formed by a layer of material that is supported by a head-mounted support structure or other support structure. The support structure may support the layer of material so that the layer of material separates an exterior region from an interior region. Optical components in the interior region may be overlapped by the layer of material. The optical components may include visible light components such as a visible light camera and infrared components such as an infrared light-emitting device and an infrared light sensor. The optical components may operate through the layer of material while being hidden from view by the reflective appearance of the one way mirror from the exterior region.
US11313999B2	Optical system having integrated primary mirror baffle and shutter mechanism An optical system is disclosed that can include a focal plane. The optical system can also include a primary mirror located in front of the focal plane and having a hole operable to allow light to pass through the primary mirror. The optical system can further include a secondary mirror located in front of the primary mirror and operable to direct light through the hole to the focal plane. The optical system can still further include an intermediate field baffle located at least partially in front of the focal plane. In addition, the optical system can include a shutter mechanism located in front of the baffle. An integrated baffle and shutter device is also disclosed that can include a shutter mechanism having a paddle and an actuator operable to selectively move the paddle between an open position that allows light past the shutter mechanism and a closed position that blocks light. The integrated baffle and shutter device can also include a primary mirror baffle coupled to the shutter mechanism on a front side of the shutter mechanism. The primary mirror baffle can form a housing about the paddle.
US11313989B2	Detecting device The present disclosure is related to a detecting device which includes a fixing component, a sensing component, and a terminal. The fixing component is fixed to an object under test and generates a first magnetic field. The sensing component includes a driving module and a reference module. The driving module generates a second magnetic field, and the driving module further generates a sensing signal according to an electromagnetic induction produced by the first magnetic field and the second magnetic field. The reference module is spaced from the driving module by a distance, such that the reference module is outside of the second magnetic field and generates a reference signal. The terminal produces detection information according to the sensing signal and the reference signal.
US11313988B2	Identifying geologic features in a subterranean formation using seismic diffraction imaging A system for seismic imaging of a subterranean geological formation uses a two-way imaging condition. A seismic signal is emitted into a subterranean formation and recorded at receiver(s). Source and receiver wavefields are decomposed into respective right-down/left-up and left-down/right-up propagating waves. The right-down/left-up and left-down/right-up direction can be defined along the direction emitted from the source or receiver to corresponding direction in two dimensional (2D) case. An imaging condition for generating both a positive-dip structure image and a negative-dip structure image is the inner product of the wavefields. Applying the sample-by-sample multiplication imaging condition to the opposite dip images, the diffraction energy is retained while the reflection energy is significantly attenuated. The diffraction image can be used to detect faults and fractures in subsurface regions.
US11313985B2	Sensor node attachment mechanism and cable retrieval system An attachment system for releasably attaching a sensor node to a cable when in a coupled state includes a clamp base and a clamp grip. The clamp base is fixed to a surface of the sensor node. The clamp base further includes a latch that is biased in a latched position when the attachment system is in both the coupled state and an uncoupled state. The clamp grip is pivotably attached the clamp base and biased in an open position when the attachment system is in the uncoupled state. The clamp grip is secured to the clamp base by the latch when the attachment system is in the coupled state.
US11313982B2	Digital X-ray detector and method for driving the same A digital X-ray detector comprises a pixel array including a plurality of pixel regions; and a data line; and a read-out driver connected to the data line, wherein each pixel region includes a photo-sensing element and a pixel switch disposed between the photo-sensing element and the data line, wherein the read-out driver includes: an amplification unit connected to each data line; a first association signal detector connected to an output of the amplification unit and detecting a first association signal corresponding to an offset of the amplification unit; a second association signal detector connected to the output of the amplification unit and detecting a second association signal including an output signal of the photo-sensing element; and a third association signal detector connected to the output of the amplification unit and detecting a third association signal corresponding to an offset of the pixel region.
US11313968B2	Interference signal rejection in LIDAR systems In described examples, a LIDAR system includes a laser transmitter, a receiver, and first and second light directing elements. The laser transmitter is configured to scan a field of view with a laser beam. The receiver is configured to receive light from the field of view, and to focus a first portion of the received light, corresponding to a region of interest, on a first light directing element. The receiver is also configured to focus a second portion of the received light, corresponding to the field of view except for the region of interest, on multiple second light directing elements. The first light directing element is configured to direct the first portion of the received light towards a first photon detector, and the second light directing elements are configured to direct the second portion of the received light towards a second photon detector.
US11313967B2	Self-testing measuring system A self-testing measuring system includes at least three modes: an operating mode and at least two test modes. In a third test mode, a digital signal generating unit stimulates the digital input circuit directly by means of test signals. In a second test mode, the digital signal generating unit stimulates the analogue signal string and the digital input circuit by means of test signals. In a first test mode, the digital signal generating unit stimulates the analogue signal string, the measuring unit (typically an ultrasound transducer) and the digital input circuit by means of test signals, thereby allowing this signal string to be tested. In the operating mode, the digital signal generating unit stimulates the analogue signal string, the measuring unit (typically an ultrasound transducer) and the digital input circuit by means of output signals, thereby allowing the signal string to be monitored for parameter compliance.
US11313965B2	Sensor installation structure A sensor installation structure includes: a sensor that has a sensing portion that senses periphery information of a vehicle; an exterior member having an opening portion that exposes the sensing portion, the opening portion being configured so as to allow changes in an angle of the sensing portion; and a cover member that is provided at an outer edge portion of the sensing portion, the cover member covering a gap between the outer edge portion of the sensing portion and a peripheral edge portion of the opening portion such that the gap cannot be seen from an exterior.
US11313954B2	Optoelectronic sensor and method for detecting three-dimensional image data An optoelectronic sensor for detecting three-dimensional image data from a monitored zone is provided that has an illumination unit for illuminating the monitored zone with modulated transmitted light, a light receiver for a simultaneous light reception of the transmitted light remitted by objects in the monitored zone at at least two locations at a mutual distance corresponding to a first resolution pattern, and a control and illumination unit that is configured to determine times of flight from properties of the modulated and remitted transmitted light and to detect three-dimensional data in a second resolution pattern finer than the first resolution pattern by at least one measurement repetition with a light reception from at least two other locations shifted with respect to the first resolution pattern.
US11313952B2	Sensor housing with particle blocking feature This technology relates to a system for preventing particle buildup on a sensor housing. The system may include a sensor housing including a first surface, a motor, and a spoiler edge. The motor may be configured to rotate the sensor housing around an axis. The spoiler edge may be positioned adjacent to the first surface and extended away from the first surface perpendicular to the axis of rotation of the sensor housing.
US11313951B2	Ground detection method, electronic device, and vehicle Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a ground detection method and apparatus, an electronic device, a vehicle, and a storage medium. The method includes: projecting a laser point cloud obtained to a high resolution mesh and a low resolution mesh respectively; filtering out candidate ground points in the high resolution mesh; and performing ground fitting based on the candidate ground points in the low resolution mesh.
US11313942B2	Method and apparatus for identifying location information of signal source by using unmanned aerial vehicle Disclosed is a method of identifying location information of a signal source, the method including: identifying, at a first position, first position information and first posture information of an UAV equipped with a linear array antenna; identifying, after identifying a first measured azimuth between the signal source and the antenna at the first position, a first corrected azimuth; identifying, at at least one second position, at least one piece of second position information and at least one of second posture information of the UAV; identifying, after identifying at least one second measured azimuth between the signal source and the antenna at the at least one second position, at least one second corrected azimuth; and estimating the location information of the signal source by using the first position information, the first posture information, the first corrected azimuth, the second position information, the second posture information, and the second corrected azimuth.
US11313940B2	Advertising ambient pressure information A method, performed by at least a first apparatus, is disclosed, comprising: automatically and repeatedly obtaining, at said first apparatus, information representative of an ambient pressure at said first apparatus; and automatically and repeatedly sending or triggering sending, by said first apparatus, at least a part of said obtained information representative of an ambient pressure at said first apparatus. A method, performed by at least a second apparatus, is disclosed, comprising: obtaining information representative of an ambient pressure at a first apparatus sent by said first apparatus and received at a device; and estimating an ambient pressure at said device at least based on said information representative of an ambient pressure at said first apparatus.
US11313925B2	Quantum sensor based on rare-earth-ion doped optical crystal and use thereof Provided is a quantum sensor based on a rare-earth-ion doped optical crystal, having: a rare-earth-ion doped optical crystal; a low temperature providing unit, which provides a low temperature operating environment to the rare-earth-ion doped optical crystal; a constant magnetic field generation unit, which applies a constant magnetic field to the rare-earth-ion doped optical crystal; a light field generation unit, which provides a light field performing optical pumping on the rare-earth-ion doped optical crystal to prepare the rare-earth-ions in an initial spin state, and a light field for exciting Raman scattering of the rare-earth-ion doped optical crystal; a pulsed magnetic field generation unit, which applies a pulsed magnetic field perpendicular to the constant magnetic field to the rare-earth-ion doped optical crystal to make the rare-earth-ion doped optical crystal generate a spin echo; and a heterodyne Raman scattering light field detection and analysis unit, which detects and analyzes a Raman scattering light field radiated from the rare-earth-ion doped optical crystal. Further provided are uses of this quantum sensor for magnetic field sensing and electric field sensing as well as a sensing method.
US11313915B2	Methods and system for a battery Various embodiments of the present technology may provide methods and system for a battery. The system may provide a fuel gauge circuit connected to a battery, a sense resistor, and a bypass circuit to direct a discharge current away from a sense resistor. The fuel gauge circuit may control operation of the bypass circuit.
US11313903B2	Pin driver and test equipment calibration A force-sense system can provide signals to, or receive signals from, a device under test (DUT) at a first DUT node. The system can include output buffer circuitry configured to provide a DUT signal to the DUT in response to a force control signal at a buffer control node, and controller circuitry configured to provide the force control signal at the buffer control node. The system can include bypass circuitry configured to selectively bypass the controller circuitry and provide an auxiliary control signal at the buffer control node. The auxiliary control signal can be used for system calibration. In an example, an external calibration circuit can provide the auxiliary control signal in response to information received from the DUT.
US11313900B2	Methods and devices for measuring leakage current An on chip leakage-current detection device including a first inverter where the magnitude of delay of the output signal of the first inverter is determined by a leakage current of a target device. The leakage-current detection device further includes: a capacitor that is charged by the output signal of the first inverter; a second inverter coupled to capacitor that switches states when the capacitor is charged to a switching level; an odd number of additional inverters coupled in a sequence with a second-inverter output. The output of the leakage-current detection device has a frequency proportional to the leakage of the target device.
US11313896B1	Diagnosis with double gate Circuitry to control and monitor solid state power switches. The circuitry may be configured to measure the signal at a control terminal for the power switch to ensure the power switch is in the desired state, e.g., switched ON and conducting current or switched OFF and blocking current. In some examples the circuitry may also be configured to avoid a floating control terminal. The circuit of this disclosure may have at least two connections to the control terminal, e.g., to a gate terminal for a metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor (MOSFET) or insulated gate bipolar junction transistor (IGBT). In this manner the circuit of this disclosure may ensure the entire signal chain to the control terminal is functioning properly.
US11313889B2	Methods and systems for evaluating and improving distribution-grid observability This document describes systems and techniques for evaluating and improving distribution-grid observability. These systems and techniques allow engineers to quantify the observability of a distribution grid, which represents an ability to combine actual measurements and various types of computations (e.g., analytics, estimators, forecasters), from a system model. Distribution engineers can also identify islands of observability where operating parameters, including voltages, currents, and power flows, can be determined from available sensor readings. By exclusion, distribution engineers can similarly identify areas of the distribution grid with observability deficiencies that may require additional instrumentation to maintain proper operation. Distribution engineers, using an iterative or automated process, can determine the observability of the system model with new or relocated sensors to generate a sensor allocation plan. The sensor allocation plan can indicate the number and location of sensors to either maximize observability for a fixed sensor cost or minimize sensor cost for predetermined observability.
US11313887B2	Systems and methods for determining load direction under adverse environmental conditions Systems and methods for calculating load direction even under adverse environmental conditions are provided. A system may include sensing circuitry and processing circuitry. The sensing circuitry may sense a first parameter and a second parameter of the electrical waveform on the transmission line of the electric power distribution system. The processing circuitry may determine a present load direction of an electrical waveform using a first method based at least in part on the first parameter in response to detecting that the sensing circuitry is experiencing a first environmental condition. The processing circuitry may determine the present load direction of the electrical waveform using a second method based at least in part on the second parameter and not the first parameter in response to detecting that the sensing circuitry is experiencing a second environmental condition.
US11313886B2	Voltage detection circuit measurement apparatus for use in assembled battery system A voltage detection circuit measures a plurality of cell voltages of an assembled battery configured by connecting a plurality of cells in series. The voltage detection circuit includes a plurality of input terminals connected to respective electrodes of the plurality of cells through a plurality of voltage detection lines; a multiplexer that periodically selects and outputs voltages of a plurality of cells in a group, a plurality of series cells configured as the group; an analog-to-digital (AD) converter that AD-converts an output voltage from the multiplexer and outputs digital data of the output voltage; and a control circuit that controls a timing for the selection by the multiplexer and a timing for the AD conversion. The control circuit switches over a time interval for which the multiplexer selects each of the cells to change a period of the AD conversion.
US11313885B2	Integrated current-measuring apparatus An integrated current-measuring apparatus including a printed circuit board, a shunt resistor including a resistive element having a preset resistance and terminals extending from both sides of the resistive element, the shunt resistor being attached to a bottom surface of the printed circuit board, and a Hall sensor mounted on a top surface of the printed circuit board to face the shunt resistor with the printed circuit board being interposed between the Hall sensor and the shunt resistor.
US11313879B2	Device for analyzing impact and puncture resistance A device for analyzing a physical characteristic of a film sample is described herein. The device includes a clamping system configured to hold the film sample. The device further includes a dart probe system configured to test a physical characteristic of the film sample. The dart probe system has a dart probe, a propulsion system configured to move the dart probe relative to the clamping system, and a force sensor configured to measure a force that the dart probe is subjected to during a movement of the dart probe. The force sensor is configured to measure a force imparted to the film sample when the dart probe comes in contact with the film sample.
US11313875B1	Compact dual beam vector sensor A pair of vector sensors are provided and mounted orthogonally to each other. Each vector sensor includes a central structural member having a first end and a second end. The central structural member has four symmetric arms oriented at 90° to each other. A crystalline plate is attached perpendicular to a distal end of each arm of the central structural member. The first end of each vector sensor is embedded in a socket of a proof mass. The second end of each vector sensor is embedded in an aperture of a cubic base.
US11313874B2	Rotational speed sensor and production method therefor A rotation speed sensor, configured to detect a rotation speed of a rotating body, is composed of a cable composed of an electric wire including a conductor wire, and a sheath provided over the electric wire, a circuit substrate mounted with an integrated circuit thereon and connected to the conductor wire being exposed from the cable, and a housing including a first housing, which is configured to hold the circuit substrate therein, and a second housing, which is configured to hold the cable therein, with the first housing being welded to the second housing, and with the second housing being welded to a surface of the sheath of the cable.
US11313873B1	Velocity measuring device Disclosed herein is a velocity measuring device to be used in a moving frame to determine the velocity of the moving frame. At least one beam of light is emitted from a site in the moving frame and travels to a mirror disposed in the moving frame and back to the site at which the emission occurred, after which the beam is detected by a detector. By measuring the round trip time of the light beam from emission to detection, a factor gamma can be determined from which the velocity of the moving frame can be computed.
US11313860B2	Screening kit for detection of grades of cervical cancer and process for the preparation thereof The capabilities of using gold nanoparticle as surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) substrate to obtain cervical smear harvested cells biochemical information for non-invasive cervical precancerous detection were presented in this patent document. A SERS reagent and a platform has been developed and optimized for the generation of a differential spectral fingerprinting for cervical cancer detection. SERS measurements were performed on three group's cervical exfoliated cell samples: one group from patients (n=36) with pathologically confirmed cervical cancer and another group with high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion (HSIL) (n=41) and the last group from healthy volunteers (control subjects, n=47). Tentative assignments of the Raman bands in the measured SERS spectra suggested interesting cancer specific biomolecular changes, including an increase in the relative amounts of amino acids, nucleic acid, carotenoid contents in the cell samples of cervical cancer patients as compared to that of healthy subjects. The results from this study demonstrated that gold nanoparticle based SERS substrate harvested exfoliated cervical smear cell analysis has tremendous potential for the non-invasive detection of cervical precancerous lesions.
US11313854B2	Patterned membrane structure The present invention relates to a patterned membrane structure comprising a microporous membrane layer, wherein the microporous membrane layer includes a plurality of flow lanes, the flow lanes are separated by hydrophobic separation channels, and the flow lanes and hydrophobic separation channels form a repetitive pattern; and a method for manufacture of the patterned membrane structure. The patterned membrane structure according to the present invention represents an industrial scale precursor of membranes such as a multiparameter lateral flow membrane comprising separated flow lanes.
US11313846B1	Underwater ship hull cleaning tool test device Exemplary inventive practice replicatively tests the effects of cleaning processes applied to marine hulls coated with biofouling-control substances. A sample (e.g., antifouling-coated panel) is coupled with a trolley that is linearly moveable via trolley wheels upon two parallel tracks provided along the length of an open rectangular box-shaped tank, partially filled with natural or artificial seawater. The cleaning element (e.g., brush bristles) points vertically upward in a stationary position atop a motorized cleaning unit installed proximate the bottom of the tank. In accordance with the trolley's horizontal movement, and while the sample and cleaning element are immersed in seawater, the sample traverses the cleaning element in a contactual manner that mimics underwater cleaning dynamics for a hull surface. Using sensory data, seawater portions are evaluated to relate the cleaning instrumentation and operation to the nature and degree of biocides and chemicals that, concomitant the cleaning, are released into the seawater.
US11313843B2	Hydrogel sensors for detection of metal ions A method for using hydrogels to detect metal ions, including transition metal ions, comprises contacting the hydrogel in any order, with a sample potentially containing metal ions, and a solution comprising a fluorescent dye, nanoparticle, colorimetric tag, or combination thereof. The presence of metal ions in the sample may be detected by one or more suitable techniques, such as determining the color, conductivity, Raman, infrared spectrum, and/or size and/or mass change of the hydrogel. The method may be useful for detecting corrosion and/or failure of protective coating of metal structures including outdoor sculptures, building, bridges, ships, and the like.
US11313842B2	Separation method using an ion exchanger and a draw solution comprising adsorber particles A method for separating ionic species from an analyte solution to form a fractionated sample, the method comprising contacting the analyte solution with an ion-exchanger that is selectively permeable to ionic species of either a positive or negative charge, contacting an opposing side of the ion-exchanger with a draw solution, wherein the draw solution comprises adsorber particles dispersed in a liquid carrier, establishing a concentration gradient across the ion-exchanger to allow at least some ionic species from the analyte solution to permeate through the ion-exchanger to the draw solution, adsorbing ionic species that permeate from the analyte solution onto the adsorber particles, separating adsorber particles having the ionic species adsorbed thereto from at least part of the draw solution, and eluting the ionic species from the separated adsorber particles to form a fractionated analyte sample comprising eluted ionic species.
US11313841B2	Open port sampling interface A system for sampling a sample material includes a probe which can have an outer probe housing with an open end. A liquid supply conduit within the housing has an outlet positioned to deliver liquid to the open end of the housing. The liquid supply conduit can be connectable to a liquid supply for delivering liquid at a first volumetric flow rate to the open end of the housing. A liquid exhaust conduit within the housing is provided for removing liquid from the open end of the housing. A liquid exhaust system can be provided for removing liquid from the liquid exhaust conduit at a second volumetric flow rate. A droplet dispenser can dispense drops of a sample or a sample-containing solvent into the open end of the housing. A sensor and a processor can be provided to monitor and maintain a liquid dome present at the open end.
US11313840B2	Method for separating diastereomers of pristane A method for separating diastereomers of pristane. A pristane sample is prepared, and then injected into a chromatographic instrument equipped with a chiral chromatographic column, where a stationary phase of the chiral chromatographic column has a preset pore size. The pristane diastereomers in the pristane sample are separated by the chiral chromatographic column, and the components produced by the separation of the pristane diastereomers sequentially enter a mass spectrometer for detection and analysis.
US11313830B2	Electrophoretic separation of biomolecules An electrophoretic separation device includes an anode and a cathode, a porous scaffold material, and a liquid separation medium, wherein the separation medium is located inside the porous scaffold material, is in contact with the cathode and the anode, and has been applied to the porous scaffold material in form of a custom-made geometrical shape defining a migration path for a biomolecule-containing sample, wherein the sample is enclosed by the separation medium. A method for electrophoretic separation of biomolecules includes the electrophoretic separation device, a biomolecule-containing sample, wherein the sample is applied to the porous scaffold material prior to the application of the separation medium, or the sample is applied to the separation medium located inside the porous scaffold material, resulting in enclosure of the sample by the separation medium, and applying a voltage to the separation medium by means of the anode and the cathode leading to the migration of the biomolecules inside the separation medium.
US11313829B2	Rapid blotting device and applications thereof Provided herein is a wet protein blotting system comprising (a) a dry assembly module; (b) a protein blotting chamber; (c) a liquid transfer buffer handling system; and (d) a control panel and power supply. The wet protein blotting systems provided herein reduces the blotting time of a traditional wet blotting process while maintaining the ability for high sensitivity in the transfer of proteins from a polyacrylamide gel to a membrane. Also provided are dry assembly modules and liquid transfer buffer handling systems that enable a fully automatic buffer manipulation system by one or more than one transfer buffers could be pumped into the protein blotting chamber to enhance the transfer efficiency. Also provided is a protein blotting chamber capable of controlling the temperature of the wet protein blotting system.
US11313822B2	Nondestructive method for measuring active area of active material The present invention relates to a method for measuring the active area of an active material in an electrode, comprising: manufacturing three types of electrodes including a first electrode coated with an electrode mixture including both an electrode active material and a conductive material, a second electrode coated with an electrode mixture which includes the electrode active material as a main ingredient and does not include the conductive material, and a third electrode coated with an electrode mixture which does not include the active material and includes the conductive material as a main ingredient; a cell manufacturing step of manufacturing three types of monocells by using the same types of electrodes; a capacitance measuring step of measuring, from the monocells, capacitance of each electrode used in the monocells; and an active area calculating step of calculating the active area of the electrode active material from the capacitance.
US11313812B2	Radiation detector A radiation detector includes an image generator and a case. The image generator generates a radiograph according to received radiation. The case stores the image generator and includes a first component and a second component screwed to the first component. The second component is movable with respect to the first component in a direction along a seat surface of a screw by a screw hole of the second component being formed such that a diameter is larger than a diameter of a shaft of the screw but smaller than a diameter of a head of the screw. A loosening torque that acts, in a direction to loosen the screw, on the screw when the seat surface receives a frictional force from the second component is smaller than a loosening start torque that is the loosening torque of when the screw starts to loosen.
US11313811B2	Dynamic determination of irrigation-related data using machine learning techniques Methods, systems, and computer program products for dynamic determination of irrigation-related data using machine learning techniques are provided herein. A computer-implemented method includes obtaining irrigation-related data pertaining to a region of interest; determining temporal values corresponding to irrigation activity at the region of interest by performing spatiotemporal analysis of the irrigation-related data; determining amounts of water utilized in connection with the irrigation activity corresponding to the temporal values by applying machine learning techniques to the irrigation-related data; determining types of irrigation activity attributed to the irrigation activity by applying machine learning techniques to the irrigation-related data and determined amounts of water; determining irrigation-related variables pertaining to the region of interest by executing a physical model using, as inputs, the determined temporal values, amounts of water, and types of irrigation activity, wherein the irrigation-related variables include an extent of irrigation activity; and outputting the determined irrigation-related variables to a user.
US11313803B2	OH radical measurement device and method using an OH radical detection probe An OH radical detection probe (102) includes an aromatic carboxylic acid, a polar aprotic organic solvent, and a polar protic organic solvent.
US11313799B2	Calibration of a sensor There is provided a method of calibrating a sensor comprising a luminescent compound having a luminescence that depends on the concentration of an analyte, and a detector configured to detect light emitted by the luminescent compound, the method comprising providing a component comprising the luminescent compound in a package that maintains exposure of the luminescent compound to the analyte at a known first concentration, assembling the component into the sensor and measuring a first value of a characteristic of the luminescence of the luminescent compound while exposed to the analyte at the first concentration, measuring a second value of the characteristic of the luminescence of the luminescent compound while exposed to the analyte at a known second concentration different from the first concentration, and determining parameters representing the dependence of the characteristic of the luminescence on concentration of the analyte using the first value and the second value.
US11313794B2	Hybrid 3D inspection system An optical inspection apparatus includes an interferometer module, which is configured to direct a beam of coherent light toward an area under inspection and to produce a first image of interference fringes of the area. The apparatus also includes a triangulation module configured to project a pattern of structured light onto the area, and at least one image sensor configured to capture the first image of interference fringes and a second image of the pattern that is reflected from the area. Beam combiner optics are configured to direct the beam of coherent light and the projected pattern to impinge on the same location on the area. A processor is configured to process the first and second images in order to generate a 3D map of the area.
US11313792B2	Method for observing a sample in the infrared range A method is provided for observing a biological sample between a light source and a pixelated image sensor, the light emitting an incident light beam, which propagates to the sample along a propagation axis and at an emission wavelength, the method including: illuminating the sample with the source; and acquiring an image of the sample with the sensor, no image-forming optic being placed between the sample and the sensor, the sample absorbing some of the beam, such that the acquired image is representative of an absorption of the beam by the sample at the emission wavelength, the source illuminates an area of the sample larger than 1 mm2, the image acquired of the sample by the sensor corresponds to an area of sample larger than 1 mm2, and pixels of the sensor define a detection plane, the sample being placed at a distance from the plane smaller than 1 mm.
US11313786B2	Testing system for detectors useful on vehicles A detector testing system includes an environmental chamber configured to provide at least one selected environmental condition within the chamber. The environmental chamber includes an opening. A cover over the opening has at least one surface that is at least partially transparent to radiation that the detector is configured to receive. The cover is configured to maintain the at least one selected environmental condition within the environmental chamber. A detector support is configured to support a plurality of detectors exposed to the at least one selected environmental condition in a location within a space defined by the cover where the cover provides a detector field of view through the at least one surface. The detector field of view for each of the detectors has a horizontal range of at least 180°.
US11313785B2	System and method for the automated analysis of cellular assays and tissues A method for providing an image of a biological sample is disclosed. The method includes: obtaining an image of at least one biological sample; positioning the image of the at least one biological sample; assessing the image of the at least one biological sample; automatically segmenting the image of the at least one biological sample; while simultaneously determining a region of interest of the at least one biological sample; responsive to obtaining the image of the at least one biological sample and a control parameter of the at least one biological sample; and receiving the region of interest and providing an indication of a location of the region of interest.
US11313783B2	Nanometer cutting depth high-speed single-point scratch test device and test method thereof A nanometer cutting depth high-speed single-point scratch test device includes a workbench, an air-bearing turntable, a test piece fixture, a test piece, a Z-direction feeding device, a nano positioning stage, a force sensor and a scratch tool. A micro convex structure with controllable length and height is machined in a position of the test piece to be scratched.
US11313780B2	Devices and methods for analyzing and filtering light scattering data from a sample potentially containing a non-target compound Methods of analyzing and filtering light scattering data from a sample potentially containing a non-target compound, for example a contaminant. The presence of contaminants result in outliers in the scattering intensity data that increase both symmetry and width of photon counts obtained via analysis. After identification, various outliers are discarded to account for the non-target compounds and thereafter the remaining light scattering data is analyzed. Preferably, analyzing the light scattering data or photon counts involves determining a level to discard an outlier. In particular, the method includes the steps of identifying and quantifying the mode of photon count distribution and using the peak of the mode of distribution to eliminate outliers.
US11313776B2	Method for evaluating brittle crack arrestability of steel plate Provided is a method for evaluating brittle crack arrestability of a steel plate by using a large test piece, in which a notch is disposed on one edge in a central portion, in which an embrittled region having a predetermined length L is formed at a tip of the notch or formed so as to include the tip, and in which a fusion zone spaced from the embrittled region is disposed. The fusion zone is formed on one side or both sides of the embrittled region at a distance d from the embrittled region, where d is determined in relation to a thickness t of the steel plate, and a length of the fusion zone is determined by adding ΔL1 (0.3L to −0.3L) to a length L of the embrittled region and by subtracting ΔL2 (0 to 0.4L) from the length L.
US11313772B2	Fixatives and methods of use Disclosed herein are compositions for fixing tissue for cytologic, histomorphologic, and/or molecular analysis (e.g., DNA, RNA, and/or protein analysis). In some embodiments, the fixatives are aldehyde-free fixatives, for example, formaldehyde- or formalin-free fixatives. Particular disclosed compositions include buffered ethanol. The buffer is a phosphate buffer or phosphate buffered saline (PBS) in some examples. In further embodiments, the fixative includes additional components, such as glycerol and/or acetic acid.
US11313753B2	Contamination test rig System and methods are provided for a contamination test rig that includes a particle injection chamber including a pressure chamber, wherein a hopper, scale, and feeder are inside of the particle injection chamber, and wherein the test valve is disposed in a valve line that runs parallel to a by-pass line. A by-pass valve permits at least a portion of a mixture of air and contaminate particles to flow through the by-pass line instead of through the valve line when the by-pass valve is open, and prevents the mixture of air and contaminate particles from flowing through the by-pass line when closed.
US11313752B2	Leak detection module and method of checking the seal of an object to be tested using a tracer gas A leak detection module for checking a seal of an object to be tested using a tracer gas is provided, including: a leak detector; a manipulatable probe; and a human-machine interface including a voice recognition device configured to recognize a voice command controlling the leak detection module. A method for checking the seal of an object to be tested using a tracer gas is also provided.
US11313749B2	Pressure sensor device and method for forming a pressure sensor device In an embodiment a pressure sensor device includes a substrate body, a pressure sensor having a membrane and a cap body having at least one opening, wherein the pressure sensor is arranged between the substrate body and the cap body in a vertical direction which is perpendicular to a main plane of extension of the substrate body, and wherein the mass of the substrate body amounts to at least 80% of the mass of the cap body and at most 120% of the mass of the cap body.
US11313748B2	Pressure monitor housing with cap-engaging projection Example aspects of an outer housing for a pressure monitoring system and a pressure monitoring system for a wet barrel hydrant are disclosed. The outer housing for a pressure monitoring system can comprise a sidewall shell defining an axis extending centrally therethrough and comprising an annular inner sidewall projection extending from a top end thereof; and a cap mounted to the sidewall shell, the cap defining an annular cap recess, wherein the annular inner sidewall projection is configured to engage the annular cap recess.
US11313741B2	Packaging technologies for temperature sensing in health care products Temperature sensor packages and methods of fabrication are described. The temperature sensor packages in accordance with embodiments may be rigid or flexible. In some embodiments the temperature sensor packages are configured for touch sensing, and include an electrically conductive sensor pattern such as a thermocouple or resistance temperature detector (RTD) pattern. In some embodiments, the temperature sensor packages are configured for non-contact sensing an include an embedded transducer.

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