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US11445640B1	Water cooled server A computer module includes a substrate having redistribution layers comprising conductors and dielectrics formed on both sides of the substrate. Selected thin film conductors have a half pitch of 2 μm or less. Semiconductor components selected from bare die, chiplets, stacked devices, and low-profile packaged devices are flip chip mounted on the substrate. After grinding and polishing operations, a polished planar surface extends across each side of the substrate, coincident with the back side of the semiconductor components. Copper sheets are bonded to the polished planar surfaces using die attach films. A water-cooled server comprises multiple computer modules disposed in a tank with cooling water circulating around the modules. It dissipates 6.3 MW at a water flow rate of 339 gallons per minute and has a power density of 1 kW/in3.
US11445634B2	Water pump for water cooler for electronic component A pushing action and a suction action are simultaneously performed on a working fluid passing through a heat transfer base, such that a heat exchange of cooling water can be efficiently performed, according to one embodiment of the present invention. To this end, a water pump for a water cooler for an electronic component, according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprises: a heat transfer base which is positioned at a lower portion and has an upper surface provided with a plurality of channels through which cooling water flows so as to exchange heat with the flowing cooling water; a base cover which is positioned at an upper portion of the heat transfer base so as to cover the top portions of the plurality of channels and has a first through hole and a second through hole vertically penetrating therethrough formed with a predetermined space from each other, wherein a first shaft fixing portion and a second shaft fixing portion are formed in the centers of the first and second through holes, respectively; an inlet impeller which rotates around a first shaft vertically installed on the first shaft fixing portion and pushes the cooling water to the upper surface of the heat transfer base; a discharge impeller which rotates about a second shaft vertically installed on the second shaft fixing portion and sucks the cooling water from the upper surface of the heat transfer base; a chamber portion, positioned at an upper portion of the heat transfer base, which has an inlet chamber and discharge chamber and has an inlet port communicating with the inlet chamber and a discharge port communicating with the discharge chamber formed on one side thereof, wherein the inlet chamber and the discharge chamber accommodate the inlet impeller and the discharge impeller thereinside, respectively; and a driving part including a first motor stator positioned above the inlet chamber and a second motor stator positioned above the discharge chamber.
US11445633B2	Telecommunication cabinet with hidden anti-theft heat dissipation module A telecommunication cabinet with anti-theft function includes a cabinet body, a cabinet door, a fan module, and a plurality of coupling parts. The cabinet body includes a cabinet and a telecommunication module. The cabinet door covers the cabinet body and is provided with a snap hole. A bottom side of the cabinet door is provided with an installation opening. The fan module includes multiple fans and an elastic clip, and the elastic clip is provided with a bump. When the fan module is placed into the cabinet door from the installation opening, the bump is positioned in the snap hole. The fan module is coupled to the bottom side of the cabinet door.
US11445627B2	Resin card medium and manufacturing method therefor A resin card medium which has a substrate having electronic components mounted thereon and has sophisticated flatness and smoothness realized without providing any layer having holes for absorbing thicknesses of the electronic components; and a method for manufacturing a resin card medium. A resin card medium laminated body before pressing is prepared by laminating, on a first plastic finishing sheet, a substrate having one electronic component or two or more electronic components installed on one side of the substrate, with the one side, on which the electronic component or electronic components are installed, facing upward, and laminating, on the substrate, mixed paper constituted of plastic fibers and plant fibers, and by subjecting the resin card medium laminated body to hot pressing at a temperature which is a softening point or more of the plastic fibers and less than a melting point of the plastic fibers.
US11445625B2	Method of preventing or reducing water ingress into a tire inflation system A method and system of preventing or reducing water ingress into a tire inflation system is provided.
US11445603B2	Component vertical mounting A circuit component arrangement includes a base and a plurality of circuit components mounted to the base. A bonding agent adheres the circuit components in intimate contact to the base. The bonding agent is disposed in a respective open channel defined in an outward facing surface of the base in contact with each of the circuit components. A method of assembling a circuit component arrangement includes temporarily fastening a plurality of circuit components to a base. A bonding agent is injected into a respective open channel defined in the base to adhere each of the plurality of circuit components to the base. The plurality of circuit components are unfastened from the base. Injecting a bonding agent can include ceasing injection of bonding agent upon appearance of bonding agent in a window opening in fluid communication with the open channel.
US11445600B2	Interlayer region having a signal via for coupling between planar signal lines, where a multi-mode signal propagates through the interlayer region A signal via has a via diameter that causes a high-frequency signal to be propagated through a high-frequency transmission line causing multi mode propagation (multi-mode interference propagation). At least one of the inter-via distance between the signal via and respective ground vias, the via diameter, and the thickness of the multilayer substrate is determined to introduce the high-frequency signal from the interlayer transmission line to the signal lines in the high-intensity region of the multi mode propagation.
US11445597B2	Electronic device including connection structure for electrically connecting printed circuit board and housing Disclosed is an electronic device that includes a first cover, a second cover opposite the first cover, a side housing disposed between the first cover and the second cover and including a plate disposed between the first cover and the second cover and a frame surrounding the plate and connected with the first cover and the second cover, a display disposed between the plate and the first cover, and a printed circuit board disposed between the plate and the second cover and including a first surface facing the plate, a second surface facing the second cover, and side surfaces provided between the first surface and the second surface, at least some of the side surfaces including plated areas. The plate includes a connection structure to which the printed circuit board is electrically connected, the connection structure includes a recess, the recess including a first sidewall, a second sidewall facing the first sidewall, a first conductive structure comprising a conductive material disposed on the first sidewall, and a second conductive structure comprising a conductive material disposed on the second sidewall, and at least part of the printed circuit board is disposed in the recess such that the plated areas contact the first conductive structure and the second conductive structure.
US11445592B2	Intelligent lighting control power measurement apparatuses, systems, and methods The present disclosure provides apparatuses and methods for measuring power for a lighting control system. The present disclosure provides apparatuses and methods for measuring power for a lighting control system. The includes a lighting control module configured to cause a transmission of a quantity of electrical power to a lighting circuit of a light fixture electrically connected to the lighting control module, a detector circuit positioned in the lighting control module, and a controller in electrical communication with the detector circuit. The controller is specially programmed to correlate a quantity of electrical power transmitted to the lighting circuit to the response of the lighting circuit. The controller is further programmed to determine a power correction factor based on the correlation between the quantity of electrical power transmitted and the response. The power correction factor is configured to alter the response of the lighting circuit to a predetermined value.
US11445591B2	Hybrid dimming controller with multi-class outputs A hybrid dimming controller for a lighting control system providing isolated class 1 and class 2 dimming outputs. The controller has two NEC class 1 outputs for providing independent low-voltage dimming-control signals for two lighting loads and two NEC class 2 outputs for providing the same two independent dimming control-signals for the lighting loads. Thus, the controller has both a class 1 and a class 2 outputs for delivering the same dimming-control signal for each of the two lighting loads while maintaining within the controller the isolation that is required between class 1 and class 2 circuits.
US11445589B2	Method and system for asset localization, performance assessment, and fault detection A method (400) for analyzing output of lighting units (10) in a lighting system (100) includes the steps of: (i) simulating (430), based on data from a photometric database (310), the output of a lighting unit; (ii) receiving and storing (420), from a database (330) of historical information, historical observed data about the output of the lighting unit; (iii) receiving (450) observed data (36) about the output of the lighting unit; (iv) generating (440) a model of the lighting system based at least in part on the simulated output of the lighting unit and the historical observed data about the output of the lighting unit, wherein the model comprises localization information for the lighting unit; and (v) comparing (470) the received observed data about the output of the lighting unit to the generated model, wherein a fault is detected if the observed data varies from the generated model by a predetermined amount.
US11445578B2	Induction heating device with improved function for distinguishing object An induction heating device includes a case, a working coil, a cover plate, a luminous element, a light guide disposed around the working coil, an input interface that is flush with an upper surface of the cover plate, a first controller configured to control driving of the working coil and the luminous element and to detect a position of one or more objects disposed on the upper surface and an arrangement sequence of the one or more objects placed on the upper surface, and a second controller configured to receive, from the first controller, information on the position and the arrangement sequence of the one or more objects, and control the input interface to display an image corresponding to a heating zone for the one or more objects based on the information on the position and the arrangement sequence of the one or more objects.
US11445576B2	Cartridge with a heater assembly for an aerosol-generating system An aerosol-generating system is provided, including: an aerosol-generating device including a power source; and a cartridge removably coupled to the aerosol-generating device, the cartridge including: a liquid storage portion including a housing having an open end and containing a liquid aerosol-forming substrate, a heater assembly at the open end of the housing and including a planar electrical heating element to heat the liquid aerosol-forming substrate to form an aerosol, and a capillary material in contact with the planar electrical heating element and being configured to convey the liquid aerosol-forming substrate to the planar electrical heating element, the liquid storage portion being at a first side of the heater assembly and an airflow channel being at a second side of the heater assembly, and the power source of the aerosol-generating device is to supply power to the heater assembly.
US11445573B2	Backhauling of traffic from 3GPP and non-3GPP based radio access technologies via new radio integrated access backhaul for 5G or other next generation network Various embodiments disclosed herein provide for the provisioning of backhaul links over a 5G N R (New Radio) integrated access and backhaul (IAB) network for access nodes using non-5G radio access technologies. In this way, the IAB network can service devices that are connected to the core network via older 3GPP technologies, or even non-3GPP technologies such as Wi-Fi. An IAB mobile terminal can be provided at the end point access node to make the access node an IAB node. Using an existing internet protocol (IP) routing in the IAB network, or providing for an IP tunnel between the endpoint access node and the core network can then facilitate providing backhaul services for the non-5G access node.
US11445572B2	IoT gateway for remote natural gas compression systems An Internet of Things (IoT) gateway integrated into a real-time monitoring system for skid-mounted natural gas compression systems. The IoT gateway enables remote monitoring, troubleshooting, and diagnosing of natural gas compression systems by providing access to cellular and satellite communication networks for communicating operational data to one or more remote servers. The IoT gateway can be configured to select a communication network based on an order of priority and other various criteria. The order of priority and the selection criteria may be updated over the air. The IoT gateway can be further configured to receive and relay software and other updates to one or more components of the natural gas compression system. The IoT gateway is configured to meet various regulatory compliance standards and is explosion proof.
US11445571B1	Tower mounted amplifier (TMA) control based on user equipment (UE) concentration A Radio Access Network (RAN) is configured to serve wireless User Equipment (UEs). The RAN comprises a Baseband Unit (BBU) and a Tower Mounted Amplifier (TMA). The BBU determines an amount of proximate wireless UEs that have transmit power levels that fall below a proximity threshold and when the amount of the proximate UEs exceeds a concentration threshold. When the proximate UEs exceeds the concentration threshold, the BBU schedules the proximate wireless UEs to use proximate UE Transmit Time Intervals (TTIs) and schedules other wireless UEs to use other TTIs. The BBU transfers control signals to deactivate TMA amplification during the proximate UE TTIs and to activate the TMA amplification during the other TTIs. The TMA receives UE signals, and in response to the control signals, deactivates TMA amplification on UE signals during the proximate UE TTIs and activates TMA amplification on UE signals during the other TTIs.
US11445567B2	Method and apparatus for RRC state transition A user equipment (UE) includes one or more non-transitory computer-readable media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon and at least one processor coupled to the one or more non-transitory computer-readable media. The at least one processor is configured to execute the computer-executable instructions to: receive, from a cell, a radio access network (RAN) notification area (RNA) configuration, when the UE is in an RRC_INACTIVE state; and discard the RNA configuration and transitioning to an RRC_IDLE state when the UE finds and camps on an acceptable cell.
US11445563B2	Secondary cell link recovery request transmission Embodiments are presented herein of apparatuses, systems, and methods for a user equipment device (UE) to transmit an indication of a link failure on a secondary cell. The indication may be transmitted on resources selected based on one or more conditions. One or more priority rules may be used to resolve collisions. The UE may further make an assumption of a beam or beams to use for communications with the secondary cell following the link failure and prior to receiving an indication from the network of a selected beam.
US11445559B2	Communication method and communications apparatus A communication method and a communications apparatus include sending, by a terminal device, a request message to a first core network element using a first access technology, where the request message requests to newly add or update a service flow, receiving, by the terminal device using the first access technology or a second access technology, a response message from the first core network element, and transmitting, by the terminal device, the service flow based on the response message using the second access technology or both the first access technology and the second access technology.
US11445557B2	Method and apparatus for serving quality of service (QOS) flow in a wireless communication system A method and apparatus are disclosed from the perspective of a network node. In one embodiment, the method includes the network node transmitting a first message with a DRB (Data Radio Bearer) configuration to a UE (User Equipment) for establishing a default DRB for a PDU (Packet Data Unit) session, wherein the DRB configuration includes a QFI (QoS Flow Id) configuration used to indicate whether a QFI field is present or not in uplink for the default DRB and the QFI configuration is always set to a value indicating the QFI field is present in uplink for the default DRB. The method further includes the network node establishing the default DRB with a presence of the QFI field in uplink. The method also includes the network node receiving a SDAP (Service Data Adaptation Protocol) PDU with the QFI field via the default DRB from the UE.
US11445551B2	Base station apparatus and user apparatus A base station apparatus that communicates with a user apparatus is provided. The base station apparatus includes: a setting unit configured to arrange in a radio frame one or more blocks and information, the one or more blocks including information used for initial access, the information specifying resources that are associated with the blocks and are used for transmitting preambles; a transmission unit configured to transmit the radio frame to the user apparatus; and a reception unit configured to receive the preambles from the user apparatus via the resources. The information specifying the resource is set based on locations of the blocks arranged in the radio frame.
US11445541B2	Methods and apparatus for managing uplink resource grants in wireless networks The present invention relates to methods and apparatus for managing uplink resource grants in wireless networks. An exemplary method embodiment includes the steps of: operating a first wireless base station in a first mode of operation, the first mode of operation including managing uplink resource grant schedules for a plurality of wireless devices connected to the wireless base station; receiving, by the first wireless base station operating in the first mode of operation, a transmission power down command from a resource management system; and determining in response to receiving the transmission power down command, by the first wireless base station, whether to switch from operating in the first mode of operation to operating in a second mode of operation, the operating in the second mode of operation including ceasing managing uplink resource grant schedules for the plurality of wireless devices connected to the wireless base station.
US11445540B2	Terminal apparatus for transmitting data using uplink grants To provide a base station apparatus, a terminal apparatus, and a communication method capable of ensuring high reliability and low latency of URLLC. There are included a receiver configured to detect first and second DCI formats and RRC information, and a transmitter capable of data transmission based on any of a first uplink grant to be available via activation by using a radio resource periodicity included in the RRC information and the first DCI format, a second uplink grant to be available via activation by using the radio resource periodicity included in the RRC information and the second DCI format, and a third uplink grant to be available after detection of the second DCI format, wherein multiple DCI formats are detected, the transmitter performs an override, in a case that the third uplink grant overlaps in a time domain with the second uplink grant, and performs an override, in a case that the first uplink grant overlaps in a time domain with the third uplink grant.
US11445539B2	Handling gaps in uplink transmission in new radio unlicensed Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive a set of one or more uplink grants scheduling at least a first uplink transmission and a second uplink transmission during a channel occupancy time of an unlicensed radio frequency spectrum band. The UE may identify a transmission gap between the first uplink transmission and the second uplink transmission of the plurality of uplink transmissions by the UE during the channel occupancy time, the transmission gap exceeding a threshold time. The UE may determine that the transmission gap corresponds to a lost uplink grant. The UE may modify the first uplink transmission or the second uplink transmission based at least in part on the determination that the transmission gap corresponds to the lost uplink grant.
US11445535B2	Method and device for performing LTE sidelink transmission on basis of timing offset in NR V2X According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a method for performing sidelink communication by a first device is provided. The method may comprise: transmitting, to a base station, UE capability information of the first device; receiving, from the base station, a radio resource control (RRC) parameter based on the UE capability information; and performing Long Term Evolution (LTE) sidelink transmission to a second device, based on first timing offset candidate values related to the LTE sidelink transmission to the second device which are configured based on the RRC parameter, wherein a first timing offset included in the UE capability information is one of the first timing offset candidate values.
US11445519B1	Dynamic control of uplink carrier aggregation in a wireless communication system based on UE operational circumstances A method and system for controlling wireless service of a user equipment device (UE) by an access node. The access node serves the UE with uplink carrier-aggregation over a connection encompassing multiple uplink channels including a primary uplink channel (uplink PCell) and a secondary uplink channel (uplink SCell). Further, the access node dynamically sets a channel-quality threshold applicable to control when to deconfigure the uplink SCell from service of the UE, with the dynamically setting of the channel-quality threshold including setting the channel-quality threshold to a value selected based on one or more operational circumstances of the UE, such as whether the UE is engaged in uplink heavy or rather uplink light communication. And the access node applies the dynamically set channel-quality threshold to control when to deconfigure the uplink SCell from service of the UE.
US11445518B2	Methods and apparatus for adaptive whitening Aspects are provided which allow a UE to apply a modified interference cleaning data to account for differences in interference between at least one pilot resource and at least one data resource, thereby improving data decoding performance of the UE. The UE receives at least one pilot resource and at least one data resources from a base station and identifies interference cleaning data based on the pilot resource. The UE then determines whether a first interference affecting the pilot resource is the same as a second interference affecting the data resource. When the first interference is the same as the second interference, the UE applies the interference cleaning data to the data resource. Otherwise, when the first interference is different than the second interference, the apparatus applies a modified interference cleaning data to the data resource.
US11445511B2	Method for information transmission adjustment, base station, and user equipment A method for information transmission adjustment includes: determining control resource adjustment information for a target UE, the control resource adjustment information being control resource adjustment information based on original scheduling that has been adjusted; sending the control resource adjustment information to the target UE, so that the target UE monitors downlink control information in the time-frequency range to which adjusted control resources belong; based on the control resource adjustment information and the time-frequency resource range of the original scheduling, allocating transmission resources for the target UE, the frequency range of transmission resources including: the frequency range of the adjusted control resources; then performing information transmission between the base station and target UE. The method for information transmission adjustment can therefore enhance scheduling adjustment efficiency and reduce transmission delays caused by scheduling adjustment.
US11445509B1	Downlink beam management using a configurable deflector Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Generally, the described techniques allow a channel engineering device (CED) to identify a suitable configuration for deflecting downlink transmissions from a base station to a user equipment (UE). The base station may transmit control signaling to the CED indicating multiple configurations for deflecting downlink reference signals from the base station. The base station may then transmit the downlink reference signals to the CED, and the CED may deflect the downlink reference signals using the indicated configurations. The UE may receive the downlink reference signals from the base station via the CED, and the UE may perform measurements on the downlink reference signals. The UE may then report the measurements to the base station, and the base station may indicate a configuration for the CED to use to deflect subsequent transmissions from the base station to the UE based on the measurements.
US11445493B2	Method and apparatus for transceiving wireless signal in wireless communication system The present invention relates to a wireless communication system, specifically to a method comprising the steps of: configuring a PCell of a licensed band and an SCell of an unlicensed band for a base station; receiving resource configuration information concerning the SCell by means of a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) of the PCell; configuring a subframe set within a temporary time duration on the SCell on the basis of the resource configuration information; and communicating with the base station by means of the subframe set temporarily configured on the SCell, and to an apparatus for the method.
US11445490B2	Control resource set determination for multiple transmission-reception point configurations The described techniques provide for efficiently monitoring for control information from a single transmission-reception point (TRP) after transitioning from a multi-TRP operation mode to a single-TRP operation mode. If a user equipment (UE) is communicating with a first TRP and a second TRP in a multi-TRP operation mode, and the UE is directed to transition to communicating with the first TRP in a single-TRP operation mode, the UE may limit the number of CORESETs monitored in the single-TRP operation mode to a maximum number of CORESETs configured for the single-TRP operation mode. That is, if the number of CORESETs monitored by the UE for control information from the first TRP in the multi-TRP mode exceeds the maximum number of CORESETs configured for the single-TRP operation mode, the UE may identify a subset of the CORESETs to monitor for control information from the first TRP in the single-TRP mode.
US11445489B2	Techniques for downlink control channel location indication in wireless communications Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described that provide for a location indicator transmission that may indicate a location of control channel resources that are to be monitored by a user equipment (UE) for control channel transmissions. A UE may receive the location indicator, and monitor the indicated control channel resources to receive downlink control information with an allocation of shared channel resources for the UE. The location indicator may include one or more parameters that allow a UE to receive the control channel transmissions according to a single decoding hypothesis. The location indicator may include one or more of a valid period of the location of the control channel transmissions, an interval at which control channel transmissions may be transmitted, an aggregation level used for the control channel transmissions, an index that identifies a first control channel element of the control channel transmissions, or combinations thereof.
US11445488B2	Control information transmission method and device This application provides a control information transmission method and a device, and relates to the wireless communications field, to improve data transmission efficiency. The method includes: determining, by a network device, first indication information, where the first indication information is used to indicate whether information transmission on a first time-frequency resource is affected; sending, by the network device, the first indication information through a physical downlink control channel; and receiving, by a terminal device, the first indication information, and determining, based on the first indication information, whether information transmission on a third time-frequency resource is affected, where the third time-frequency resource is a time-frequency resource that is used for downlink information transmission between the terminal device and the network device.
US11445486B2	Method for transmitting wireless signals and apparatus therefor The present invention relates to a wireless communication system and, more particularly, to a method and an apparatus therefor, the method comprising: a step of acquiring a periodically allocated PUSCH resource, wherein the periodically allocated PUSCH resource is used for a transmission of a first PUSCH; a step of performing a procedure for transmitting uplink control information if transmission of the uplink control information is required at the transmission timing of the first PUSCH; and a step of transmitting the uplink control information, wherein if an aperiodically allocated second PUSCH does not exist at the transmission timing of the first PUSCH, the uplink control information is transmitted via the first PUSCH, and if the aperiodically allocated second PUSCH exists at the transmission timing of the first PUSCH, the uplink control information is transmitted via the second PUSCH.
US11445476B2	Devices, systems, and methods for predicting communication channel conditions Devices, systems and methods track geographical locations of a wireless device and time associated with the wireless device. Embodiments access channel map data including a predicted channel condition value for each of multiple communication channels within each of a plurality of geographical locations during a plurality of time periods of day. Embodiments use the channel map data to select one of the multiple communication channels for communication in a second geographical location, based on a first geographical location of the wireless device and a time of day associated with the wireless device.
US11445473B2	Schemes for SSB to paging coreset mapping in NR The present invention relates to a user device, a base station, and data transmission and reception methods to be performed by a user device and a base station in a communications system. The user device comprises circuitry which, in operation, calculates the starting location of a paging region comprising resources in which user devices are paged, the paging region including paging information for paging said user device; and determines an offset with respect to the starting location of the paging region, the offset indicating the location of the paging information for paging said user device relative to the starting location of the paging region.
US11445466B2	Base station configured to provide distance filtering A base station may be configured to support distance filtering. When the distance filtering is on, a base station may, when it receives a service request from a device, determine from timing information in the service request at least a distance to the device, then determine a filtering sub-area for the device based on the distance; and to apply one or more filtering rules defined for the filtering sub-area to determine how to process the service request.
US11445465B2	UE-based positioning A method of determining a location of a user equipment includes: obtaining, at the user equipment, a position-determination model associated with a coarse location of the user equipment; determining one or more first positioning measurements at the user equipment; and determining, at the user equipment, the location of the user equipment based on the one or more first positioning measurements and the position-determination model.
US11445462B2	Method and apparatus for performing communication in wireless communication system A method for performing communication in a wireless communication system in includes establishing, by a network entity, a context of a user equipment (UE) in a network, receiving a message for registration request from the UE in a registered state, identifying that the UE is genuine by executing an authentication procedure with the UE, and in case that the UE is genuine, performing a deletion of the established context of the UE and a process of the registration request.
US11445445B2	Diplexed coupler for carrier aggregation A wireless device is disclosed that can support carrier aggregation uplink (“CAUL”) communication using a single wideband coupler. A single wideband coupler that can operate or support some or all of the communication bands of the wireless device can be used in conjunction with one or more diplexers and/or filters to measure the power of individual communication bands involved in the transmission process. Further, the use of a wideband coupler and switching network to measure the transmit power from the one or more transmit paths or main paths of a wireless device can reduce the size of a transceiver and reduce the insertion loss attributed to the power measurement components compared to systems that use separate measurement systems for each transmit path. The power measurement system may occur in a separate path in electrical connection with the wideband coupler, which may therefore be termed a coupler path.
US11445440B2	Bluetooth mesh network system and connection method having power management mechanism The present disclosure discloses a Bluetooth mesh network system having power management mechanism that includes low power nodes and a friend node. The friend node operates a part of the low power nodes under a first connection mode to establish a one-to-one connection with the friend node under a connection protocol. The friend node operates the other part of the low power nodes under a second connection mode to establish a many-to-one connection based on a broadcast protocol. The friend node sets a mode operation time threshold value and accumulates a mode connection time for each of the low power nodes. When the mode connection time of one of the low power nodes that operates under one of the first connection mode and the second connection mode reaches the corresponding mode operation time threshold value, the one of the low power nodes switches to operate under the other one of the first connection mode and the second connection mode.
US11445436B2	Cell selection and resource allocation thresholds Various communication systems may benefit from improved cell selection. For example, it may be helpful to improve cell selection in new radio systems based on individual synchronization signal blocks meeting specific thresholds. A method may include measuring at a user equipment a cell quality of one or more cells. The method may also include detecting at the user equipment synchronization signal blocks in the one or more cells. In addition, the method may include determining at the user equipment that the synchronization signal blocks do not meet a random access channel resource selection threshold. Further, the method may include selecting at the user equipment only random access channel resources that correspond to the synchronization signal blocks meeting a cell selection threshold.
US11445435B2	Managing network enrollment and redirection for internet-of-things and like devices The network registrations of Internet-of-Things and like devices may be managed through the exchange of subscriber identity module and public land mobile network information. An exposure function may receive information regarding a device that needs cellular on-boarding, and pass the information to an operator subscription manager, and monitor a registration attempt of the device. The exposure function may process a request to allow transfer of ownership of a device, and such a request may include an expiration time, and an action to be taken upon expiry. The exposure function may also dis-enroll (off-board) devices. A central Equipment Identity Register (EIR) may store information relating to the home networks of devices, along with eSIM operating profiles of the device. An operator subscription manager may retrieve device information from a manufacturer server, create an eSIM operating profile, assign an IMSI, and exchange such information with entities such as user equipment and EIR.
US11445434B2	Method, terminal device, and network side device for accessing network side device A communication method includes: receiving, by a terminal device, sub-network information of a RAN sent by a network side device, where the sub-network information is used to indicate at least one RAN sub-network included in the RAN; accessing, by the terminal device, a target RAN sub-network among the at least one RAN sub-network based on a service requirement of the terminal device; and communicating, by the terminal device, with the network side device by using the target RAN sub-network.
US11445432B2	Metropolitan area mesh network with adaptive load-balanced nodes Methods and apparatus for supporting wireless networks, e.g., mesh networks, which are well suited for use in metropolitan areas are described. In various embodiments, vehicle based communications systems are used to support a mesh network. A communications device, e.g., vehicle's WiFi communications system, scans for access points and selects between available access points based on, e.g., speed and/or direction of the vehicle in which the communications device is located and, when available, information about the speed, direction and/or route of the access point to which the communications device is considering attaching. Access points are prioritized based on the QOS they can support and/or the amount of time that they are likely to be in communications range. Traffic load can be split between multiple access points. Client devices can also act as access points with respect to other devices allowing for a dense mesh network to be formed.
US11445427B2	Communication device, communication system, connection destination control method, and transmission rate control method A communication device includes a wireless communication device, a location information acquisition device, a storage and a controller. The wireless communication device wirelessly communicates with a base station used as a connection destination. The location information acquisition device acquires location information on a location of the communication device. The storage stores historical communication information on past communication status. The controller determines a degree of risk of occurrence of reduction in an amount of available communication bandwidth beyond a tolerance limit based on the historical communication information and the location information. The controller further controls a transmission rate for communicating the data based on a result of determination of the degree of risk.
US11445420B2	User device, radio communication system, and radio communication method UE (50) includes a mapping information retaining unit (57) that retains association information in which a type of EPS bearer configured in 4G and a type of QoS flow that corresponds to the service quality and is configured in 5G are associated, and a handover executing unit (59) that acquires, by using the association information, association between the EPS bearer configured by the UE (50) and the QoS flow configured by the UE (50), and executes handover between the EPS bearer and the QoS flow associated with each other.
US11445404B2	Method and apparatus for wireless communication in wireless communication system An operation method of a transmitting apparatus in a wireless communication system is provided. The operation method includes receiving a service data adaptation protocol (SDAP) header configuration and a header compression configuration through higher layer signaling and when an SDAP entity receives first data from an upper layer, generating an SDAP header and transmitting second data obtained by adding the generated SDAP header to the first data to a packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) entity, the generating and the transmitting being performed by the SDAP entity, performing, by the PDCP entity, header compression on an upper layer header of the second data, excluding the SDAP header, performing, by the PDCP entity, ciphering on data of the second data, excluding the SDAP header and generating a PDCP header and transmitting third data obtained by adding the generated PDCP header to the ciphered data to a lower layer, the generating and the transmitting being performed by the PDCP entity.
US11445398B2	Methods, apparatus and systems for configuring minimization of drive test under a multi-connectivity architecture Methods, apparatus and systems for configuring minimization of drive test in a wireless network with a multi-connectivity architecture are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method performed by a first wireless communication node is disclosed. The method comprises: transmitting, to a second wireless communication node, configuration information for a minimization of drive test (MDT) measurement; and receiving, from the second wireless communication node, a feedback in response to the configuration information for the MDT measurement. The first wireless communication node and the second wireless communication node are both nodes in a wireless network.
US11445394B2	Configuring a candidate serving base station for a terminal A terminal access method includes: sending, by a network device, uplink signal configuration information for an idle terminal to a terminal; receiving, by the network device from a first base station, uplink signal measurement information and load of the first base station, wherein the uplink signal measurement information is obtained by measurement by the first base station upon receiving an uplink signal carrying a terminal identifier from the terminal based on the uplink signal configuration information; and configuring, by the network device, mobility for the terminal based on the terminal identifier, the uplink signal measurement information and the load of the first base station, wherein the configuring mobility is configuring a candidate serving base station for the terminal such that the terminal initiates a service request to enter an active state at the candidate serving base station.
US11445393B2	Method and device for adjusting at least one parameter of a communication system A method and to a device for adjusting at least one parameter of a communication system between two subscribers, wherein at least one parameter is changed based on an estimated future channel quality, wherein the device is configured so that at least one current position of a mobile subscriber at a point in time is detected or ascertained and a future position and environment is estimated based on the current position and an environment model, wherein the channel quality for a future point in time is estimated therefrom, wherein at least one parameter of the communication system is set based on the estimation, wherein the communication system performs an OFDM modulation, wherein the at least one parameter is a cyclic prefix of a transmit symbol.
US11445387B2	Downlink assignments for downlink control channels Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for downlink assignments for downlink control channels. One method includes, in response to an assignment group comprising a first assignment: determining a first data channel allocation comprising resources allocated to a first data channel; determining a first DMRS symbol location associated with the first data channel based on the first assignment, a first set of OFDM symbols, and a second set of OFDM symbols; and decoding the first data channel. The method includes, in response to the assignment group comprising a second assignment: determining a second data channel allocation comprising resources allocated to a second data channel; determining a second DMRS symbol location associated with the second data channel based on the second assignment, the first set of OFDM symbols, and the second set of OFDM; and decoding the second data channel.
US11445380B2	Methods and systems of automatic network deployment deviation detection In an embodiment, a method of network deployment involves at a cloud server, determining a planned network design for a network to be deployed at a customer site, at the cloud server, receiving network device information and location information of a network device after the network device is deployed at the customer site, and at the cloud server, automatically performing network deployment deviation detection for the network device based on the planned network design and the network device information and the location information of the network device.
US11445379B2	Facilitating heterogeneous network analysis and resource planning for advanced networks Facilitating analysis and resource planning for advanced heterogeneous networks (e.g., 5G, 6G, and beyond) is provided herein. A system is provided that includes a processor and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations. The operations can include determining that a resource is to be added to existing resources at a grid level of a heterogeneous network. Further, the operations can include selecting candidate locations for placement of the resource based on a coverage-driven objective and a capacity-driven objective defined for the heterogeneous network. The coverage-driven objective can be associated with a demand for services within the grid level of the heterogeneous network. The capacity-driven objective can be associated with demand growth within the grid level of the heterogeneous network. The resource can be a fifth generation millimeter wave node or a cloud radio access network node.
US11445378B2	System, method, and apparatus for providing dynamic, prioritized spectrum management and utilization Systems, methods, and apparatuses for providing dynamic, prioritized spectrum utilization management. The system includes at least one monitoring sensor, at least one data analysis engine, at least one application, a semantic engine, a programmable rules and policy editor, a tip and cue server, and/or a control panel. The tip and cue server is operable utilize the environmental awareness from the data processed by the at least one data analysis engine in combination with additional information to create actionable data.
US11445377B2	Communication system A communication system includes housing equipment, a relaying apparatus that communicates with the housing equipment, and a management device that communicates with the relaying apparatus via a communication network. The management device is configured to store user identification information sent from a communication terminal that communicates with the management device via the communication network, and association information associated with identification information of the relaying apparatus sent from the relaying apparatus, and permit first communication via the management device between the communication terminal and the relaying apparatus that have been associated with each other in the association information. After the first communication is permitted, if no communication is performed from the relaying apparatus or the communication terminal to the management device during a predetermined first period, the management device is configured to prohibit the first communication in and after the first period.
US11445369B2	System and method for credential generation for wireless infrastructure and security A method, system and computer-usable medium are disclosed for providing a travel network infrastructure. A dedicated Li-F connection is provided for each physical space such as a seat, expected to accommodate a passenger in a travel network such as an airline. A passenger is authenticated according to a physical space occupied by the passenger. If authentication is successful, a secure Li-Fi channel is established for the passenger. The access point of the Li-Fi channel is only leveraged by the passenger and no other passengers.
US11445359B2	Apparatus and method for providing voice call and data service simultaneously on plurality of SIM The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as long term evolution (LTE). Embodiments herein provide a method for providing voice call and data service simultaneously on plurality of SIM in EN-DC capable UE. The method includes registering a first SIM to a first network in a DCNR supported mode using a T1 and registering a second SIM to a second network in the DCNR not supported mode using a T2. The method also includes determining a 4G bearer is established on the T1 and a 5G bearer is established on the T2 by the first network using the first SIM. Further, the method also includes determining the voice call is being initiated on the second SIM when the data service is active on the first SIM through the T1 and the T2; and configuring the second SIM to provide the voice call over the T2 and the first SIM to provide the data services over the T1.
US11445356B2	Signaling to support mobile integrated access and backhaul Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a wireless communication device may receive mobility state information associated with an integrated access backhaul (IAB) node. The mobility state information may include information associated with at least one of: a level of mobility of the IAB node, or a change in mobility of the IAB node. The wireless communication device may perform an operation based at least in part on the mobility state information associated with the IAB node. In some aspects, a wireless communication device may determine that mobility state information associated with an IAB node is to be transmitted, and may transmit the mobility state information associated with the IAB node based at least in part on the determination. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11445355B2	RRC inactive state optimization A core network node for mobility management includes a means for transmitting information related to expected mobility of user equipment, UE, to an access network node.
US11445353B1	Message transmission assembly A message transmission assembly includes an unmanned aerial vehicle that has flight capabilities. A communication unit is integrated into the unmanned aerial vehicle and the communication unit receives a communication signal from an extrinsic communication network. The communication unit broadcasts an emergency signal when the communication unit receives the communication signal to alert emergency responders to an emergency. A location unit is integrated into the unmanned aerial vehicle and the location unit receives the physical location of the unmanned aerial vehicle from a global positioning system. Additionally, the location unit communicates the physical location of the unmanned aerial vehicle to the communication unit to communicate the physical location of the unmanned aerial vehicle to the emergency responders.
US11445351B2	System and method for keyword generation and distribution for use in accessing a communications device in emergency mode Techniques for keyword generation and distribution for use in accessing a communications device in emergency mode are provided. A communications device may determine an emergency mode has been entered. A keyword associated with a virtual assistant associated with the communications device may be generated. The keyword may be broadcast on a talkgroup associated with the communications device, wherein the keyword may be used by members of the talkgroup to access the virtual assistant associated with the communications device.
US11445332B2	Location-based interactive storytelling A storytelling system includes location-based content (LBC) servers and LBC effects databases for use in a real-world story venue, and a computing platform communicatively coupled to those LBC servers and databases. A processor of the computing platform executes software code to receive story selection data from a user device, obtain a story template including story arcs each associated with one or more LBC effect(s) that corresponds to the story selection data, and determine, using a location of the user device, one of the story arcs as an active story arc. The software code also identifies an LBC interaction zone for the LBC effect(s), designates one LBC server and one LBC effects database for supporting the active story arc, and distributes one or more of the LBC effect(s) to the designated database. The designated server enables instantiation of the one or more of the LBC effect(s) at the LBC interaction zone.
US11445324B2	Audio rendering method and apparatus This application provides an audio rendering method, including: obtaining a to-be-rendered BRIR signal, where an elevation angle corresponding to the to-be-rendered BRIR signal is 0 degrees; obtaining a direct sound signal based on the to-be-rendered BRIR signal; correcting, based on a target elevation angle, a frequency-domain signal corresponding to the direct sound signal, to obtain a frequency-domain signal corresponding to the target elevation angle; obtaining a time-domain signal based on the frequency-domain signal of the target elevation angle; and superposing the time-domain signal on a signal that is in the to-be-rendered BRIR signal and that is in a second time period after a first time period, to obtain a BRIR signal of the target elevation angle.
US11445320B1	Device for processing multi-channel audio signals, method for processing multi-channel audio signals, and computer-readable storage medium Embodiments of the invention provide for a device and method for processing multi-channel audio signals, the multi-channel audio signals comprising at least a left channel, a right channel, and a center channel. Embodiments of the invention also provide for a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon instructions that when executed on a computer cause the computer to perform the method.
US11445315B2	Privacy device for smart speakers Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for a privacy blocking device configured to prevent receipt, by a listening device, of video and/or audio data until a trigger occurs. A blocker may be configured to prevent receipt of video and/or audio data by one or more microphones and/or one or more cameras of a listening device. The blocker may use the one or more microphones, the one or more cameras, and/or one or more second microphones and/or one or more second cameras to monitor for a trigger. The blocker may process the data. Upon detecting the trigger, the blocker may transmit data to the listening device. For example, the blocker may transmit all or a part of a spoken phrase to the listening device.
US11445310B2	Electronic device that limits electromagnetic emissions from multiple batteries An electronic device, method, and computer program product enable limiting electromagnetic emissions from current between batteries. A first battery is positioned proximal to an earpiece speaker within the electronic device. At least one second battery is positioned at a different location within the electronic device that is not proximal to the earpiece speaker. A switch is coupled to a first battery proximal to the earpiece speaker among the plurality of batteries. The switch is selectively toggled to limit current drawn from the first battery while the earpiece speaker is operating, in order to reduce baseband electromagnetic emissions emanating from the first battery.
US11445309B2	Cable for a hearing device A cable for a hearing device is provided. The hearing device may have an in-the-canal part with a receiver and a behind-the-ear part with an electronic module. The cable may be adapted to connect the in-the-canal part and the behind-the-ear part. The cable may be a flexible printed circuit board having a plurality of conductor tracks. An end of the flexible printed circuit board is populated with at least one of a sensor, an LED and a push button.
US11445304B2	Ultrasonic sensor An ultrasonic sensor includes: an element storage case including a case-side diaphragm having a thickness direction along a directional axis; and an ultrasonic element accommodated in the element storage case and spaced apart from the case-side diaphragm. The ultrasonic element includes an element-side diaphragm having the thickness direction along the directional axis and provided by a thin part of a semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor substrate is arranged to provide a closed space between the case-side diaphragm and the element-side diaphragm. The semiconductor substrate is fixed and supported by the element-storage case.
US11445283B2	Systems and methods for automated configuration of telephone headset interface A system is provided for automated configuration of a connection interface between a headset device (e.g., a headset base) and a telephone (e.g., desktop phone). The system includes configuration circuitry designed to automatically perform a sequential analysis of multiple interface configuration options for the connection interface between the headset device and telephone. The analysis of each respective interface configuration option includes (a) accessing stored configuration information defining predefined switch positions for an array of controllable switches (e.g., optical switches) corresponding with the respective interface configuration option, (b) set the array of switches to the predefined switch positions specified by the accessed configuration information, and (c) performing a signal analysis to analyze electrical signals on the connection interface. The configuration circuitry may then select a best interface configuration option based on the signal analyses, and set the switches to the predefined switch positions corresponding with the selected best interface configuration option.
US11445281B2	Acoustic output apparatus The present disclosure relates to an acoustic output apparatus. The acoustic output apparatus comprising: at least one low-frequency acoustic driver that outputs sound from at least two first sound guiding holes; at least one high-frequency acoustic driver that outputs sound from at least two second sound guiding holes; and a controller configured to cause the low-frequency acoustic driver to output sound in a first frequency range, and cause the high-frequency acoustic driver to output sound in a second frequency range, wherein the second frequency range includes frequencies higher than the first frequency range.
US11445279B2	Air-pulse generating device and sound producing method thereof An air-pulse generating device includes a membrane structure, a valve structure, and a cover structure. A chamber is formed between the membrane structure, the valve structure and the cover structure. An air wave vibrating at an operating frequency is formed within the chamber. The valve structure is configured to be actuated to perform an open-and-close movement to form at least one opening. The at least one opening connects air inside the chamber with air outside the chamber. The open-and-close movement is synchronous with the operating frequency.
US11445273B1	System and method for creating a video summary based on video relevancy System and method for creating a video summary are disclosed. The system includes a registration module configured to register multiple users on a platform, a video input module configured to receive videos, a transcript input module configured to receive multimedia transcripts, a video analysis module configured to analyse the videos, a transcript analysis module configured to analyse the multimedia transcript, a video summary module configured to create the video summary of the videos integrating with the multimedia transcripts, a video storage module configured to store the video summary, a video review module configured to enable the users to create a review, a video editing module configured to edit the video summary to create a new video summary.
US11445271B2	Real-time ad tracking proxy A method provides for tracking client playback events when playing an asset specified in a manifest for streaming adaptive bit rate (ABR) content. The method includes generating, with a manifest manipulator, a manifest that includes an asset URL inserted at a marker denoting a placement opportunity in a content manifest requested by a client. The manifest also includes callback URLs for tracking playback events to be returned by the client. The manifest manipulator sends the manifest to the client. At least one of the callback URLs is received by a tracking proxy associated with the manifest manipulator, indicating that the event has been performed by the client. In response, a tracking URL is obtained by the tracking proxy. The tracking URL is sent to at least one asset decision system participating in an asset decision process that resulted in providing the asset URL to the manifest manipulator.
US11445268B2	Method for retransmitting packet on wireless fidelity link and apparatus A method for retransmitting a packet on a wireless fidelity link includes receiving a packet retransmission request sent by a user terminal and determining a packet that needs to be retransmitted, detecting a downlink quality indicator on a gateway side of a first wireless fidelity link and a downlink quality indicator on a gateway side of a second wireless fidelity link, determining a link for retransmitting the packet, based on the downlink quality indicator on the gateway side of the first wireless fidelity link and the downlink quality indicator on the gateway side of the second wireless fidelity link, and sending, to the user terminal on the determined link for retransmitting the packet, the determined packet that needs to be retransmitted.
US11445267B1	Low-latency captioning system A scene captioning system is provided. The scene captioning system includes an interface configured to acquire a stream of scene data signals including frames and sound data, a memory to store a computer-executable scene captioning model including a scene encoder, a timing decoder, a timing detector, and a caption decoder, wherein the audio-visual encoder is shared by the timing decoder and the timing detector and the caption decoder, and a processor, in connection with the memory. The processor is configured to perform steps of extracting scene features from the scene data signals by use of the audio-visual encoder, determining a timing of generating a caption by use of the timing detector, wherein the timing is arranged an early stage of the stream of scene data signals, and generating the caption based on the scene features by using the caption decoder according to the timing.
US11445259B1	Pull notification from separate application In some embodiments, a method receives a request for supplemental content to be displayed in a break of a video being played using a first instance of an application at a first client device. An account is associated with the first instance of the application. A plurality of contact options is retrieved for the account and ranked. The method outputs the plurality of pull notification options to the first client device based on the plurality of contact options where the plurality of pull notification options are displayed during the break. A pull notification option causes a pull notification to be sent to a second instance of the application running on a second client device and the pull notification is configured to be output by the second instance of the application on the second client device.
US11445253B2	Failover with redundant multicasts for switched digital video A method and system for delivering content is provided. In one example, responsive to a request by a client device identifying a video program, the system is configured to determine different first and second network paths for delivery of the video program from a content source; deliver the video program via the first network path to the client device; and responsive to a change in status of the video program being delivered via the first network path, deliver the video program via the second network path to the client device.
US11445250B2	Content distribution device A content distribution device includes a communication component and a controller. The communication component communicates with an access point device having a plurality of identifiers. The controller sets a distribution related condition related to a distribution of content for each of the identifiers.
US11445241B2	Information processing apparatus and information processing method While presenting on a display apparatus videos of high picture quality obtained from portable video processing apparatuses such as a camera and a cellular, it is possible to communicate with the Internet and/or a home network. A display apparatus includes a first radio communication unit capable of receiving video information by radio from an external video processing apparatus, a second radio communication unit capable of connecting by radio to a network, and a control unit for controlling assignment of connection by radio transmission for each of the first and second radio communication units. The control unit assigns connection of the first radio communication unit with higher priority and controls the assignment of the transmission rate such that the transmission rate between the first radio communication unit and the external video processing apparatus is more than that between the second radio communication unit and the network.
US11445239B2	Broadcast receiving apparatus A digital broadcast receiving apparatus capable of executing a function with a higher added value is provided. A broadcast receiving apparatus configured to receive contents includes: a receiving unit configured to receive the contents; an interface via which the contents received by the receiving unit is outputted; a control unit configured to control an output state of the contents from the interface. In this case, the control unit is configured to determine the output state of the contents from the interface in accordance with a combination of control information indicating a copy control state of the contents, control information for specifying necessity or not of protection when to output the contents, information indicating resolution of video of the contents, and information indicating transmission characteristics of video of the contents, which are received by the receiving unit together with the contents.
US11445222B1	Preprocessing image data Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for preprocessing, prior to encoding with an external encoder, image data using a preprocessing network comprising a set of inter-connected weights is provided. At the preprocessing network, image data from one or more images is received. The image data is processed using the preprocessing network to generate an output pixel representation for encoding with the external encoder. The weights of the preprocessing network are trained to optimize a combination of at least one quality score indicative of the quality of the output pixel representation and a rate score indicative of the bits required by the external encoder to encode the output pixel representation.
US11445219B2	System for handling multiple HDR video formats Because there are currently probably more than necessary different HDR video coding methods appearing, it is expected that practical communicated HDR videos may in several future scenarios consist of a complicated mix of differently encoded HDR video segments, which may be difficult to decode unless one has our presently presented video decoder (341) arranged to decode a high dynamic range video consisting of temporally successive images, in which the video is composed of successive time segments (S1, S2) consisting of a number of temporally successive images (I1, I2) which have pixel colors, which pixel colors in different time segments are defined by having lumas corresponding to pixel luminances according to different electro-optical transfer functions (EOTF), wherein the images in some of the segments are defined according to dynamically changeable electro-optical transfer functions which are transmitted as a separate function for each temporally successive image, and wherein the images in other segments have lumas defined by a fixed electro-optical transfer function, of which the information is co-communicated in data packages (DRAM) which are transmitted less frequently than the image repetition rate, and wherein at least one of said data packages (DRAM) characterizing the electro-optical transfer function of the image pixel lumas after a moment of change (t1) between a first and a second segment is transmitted prior to the moment of change (t1); and similarly a corresponding encoder which composes the segmented video stream assuring that at least one correct package (DRAM) describing the EOTF according to which the lumas of a later video segment is coded is received by receivers before the change to a different HDR encoding method segment.
US11445216B2	Image prediction method and apparatus for performing intra prediction An image decoding method according to the present document may comprise the steps of: deriving an intra prediction mode for a current block; deriving reference samples located around the current block; generating a prediction sample for the current block on the basis of the intra prediction mode and the reference samples; and generating residual samples for the current block on the basis of the prediction sample, wherein the step of generating the prediction sample for the current block may comprise the steps of: deriving an interpolation filter, which is to be applied to the reference sample, on the basis of the prediction mode of the current block or the size of the current block; and generating the prediction sample by applying the derived interpolation filter to the reference sample.
US11445215B2	Method and device for image encoding and decoding, and recording medium having bit stream stored therein Disclosed is a method of decoding an image and a method of encoding an image. The method of decoding an image includes: obtaining motion-constrained tile set information; determining, on the basis of the motion-constrained tile set information, a first boundary region of a collocated tile set within a reference picture, which corresponds to a motion-constrained tile set; padding a second boundary region corresponding to the first boundary region; and performing inter prediction on the motion-constrained tile set by using a collocated tile set that includes the padded second boundary region.
US11445211B1	Psychovisually optimized dithering for image and video encoding Techniques for psychovisually optimized dithering for image and video (e.g., frame) encoding are described. According to some embodiments, a computer-implemented method includes receiving a request to encode a video from a first depth of pixel values to a second, different depth of pixel values at a content delivery service, detecting a flat region without texturing and a non-flat region with texturing in a first frame of the video having the first depth of pixel values, dithering pixel values in the non-flat region and flattening pixel values in the flat region, encoding the dithered pixel values and the flattened pixel values of the frame into a first encoded frame having the second, different depth of pixel values by the content delivery service, and transmitting the first encoded frame from the content delivery service to a viewer device.
US11445201B2	Video encoding and decoding method, device, and system, and storage medium Provided are video encoding and decoding methods and apparatuses, a video encoding and decoding system, and a storage medium. The video encoding method includes: performing macroblock division on pixel data of a screen change area, classifying, according to pixel data in a divided macroblock, the divided macroblock as a text macroblock or an image macroblock; determining a compression type of the text macroblock according to color data in the text macroblock; and performing encoding and compression, according to the compression type of the text macroblock, on the text macroblock with a corresponding compression quality.
US11445199B2	Mode dependent motion vector difference precision set A method of processing a video bitstream includes determining a motion precision set based on coding information of a current block. A conversion between a video block and a coded representation of the video block is performed based on the motion precision set. The conversion corresponds to a reconstruction of the current block. In some example aspects, a motion vector difference (MVD) precision of a current block from a motion precision set is determined based on a selected motion precision set and a MVD precision index. A conversion between a video block and a coded representation of the video block using an MVD is performed based on the MVD precision. The MVD represents a difference between a predicted motion vector and an actual motion vector used during motion compensation processing.
US11445197B2	Video decoder with enhanced CABAC decoding A decoder receives a bitstream containing quantized coefficients representative of blocks of video representative of a plurality of pixels and decodes the bitstream using context adaptive binary arithmetic coding. The context adaptive binary arithmetic coding decodes the current syntax element using the first mode if the current syntax element is intra-coded and selecting between a first set of probable modes and a second set of probable modes, where the first set of probable modes are more likely than the second set of probable modes. The context adaptive binary arithmetic coding decodes the current syntax element using the second mode if the current syntax element is intra-coded and if selecting among one of the second set of probable modes.
US11445195B2	Method and apparatus for processing video signal A method for decoding a video according to the present invention may comprise: deriving a spatial merge candidate for a current block, generating a merge candidate list for the current block based on the spatial merge candidate, obtaining motion information for the current block based on the merge candidate list, and performing motion compensation for the current block based on the motion information. Herein, if the current block does not have a pre-defined shape or a size equal to or greater than a pre-defined size, the spatial merge candidate of the current block may be derived based on a block which have the pre-defined shape or a size equal to or greater than the pre-defined size, the block including the current block.
US11445190B2	Image encoding and decoding method and device for limiting partition condition of chroma block, and method for transmitting bitstream An image encoding/decoding method and apparatus are provided. An image decoding method performed by an image decoding apparatus includes determining a splitting type of a current block, splitting the current block into a plurality of lower-layer blocks based on the splitting type, and decoding the lower-layer blocks. In this case, the current block may be a chroma block, and the determining the splitting type of the current block may be performed by disallowing a predetermined splitting type having a width or height of the lower-layer blocks being a predetermined value, among a plurality of splitting types.
US11445186B2	Method and apparatus for processing video signal A method for decoding a video according to the present invention may comprise: decoding partition information indicating whether a current coding block is to be divided by a partitioning line in a vertical direction or a partitioning line in a horizontal direction, and dividing the coding block into at least one sub-block based on the partition information.
US11445181B2	Method and apparatus for predicting most probable intra-modes A method for constructing a Most Probable Mode (MPM) list includes classifying each intra prediction mode derived from a neighboring block either as a valid or invalid subject to the mode direction and the position of its source block. Valid and invalid modes are considered most and least probable modes, respectively.
US11445173B2	Method and apparatus for Intra prediction fusion in image and video coding A method and apparatus for video coding using Intra prediction are disclosed. In one method, a first prediction sample in an immediately right column of the current block and a second prediction sample in an immediately below row of the current block are derived using angular prediction. The first prediction sample and a left column reference sample in the same row as the first prediction sample are interpolated to generate a horizontal predictor. The second prediction sample and an above-row reference sample in the same column as the second prediction sample are interpolated to generate a vertical predictor. The vertical predictor and the horizontal predictor are linearly combined to generate an angular-planar prediction sample. In another method, a first predictor is generated using angular prediction and a second predictor is generated using planar prediction. The first predictor and the second predictor are linearly combined to generate a fused Intra predictor.
US11445165B1	Method, system and computer readable storage media for visualizing a magnified dental treatment site A method, system and computer readable storage media for visualizing to a patient a magnified dental treatment site. By obtaining raw data from a stereo camera recording a dental treatment site, an enlarged, well-lit and spatially displayed view of the dental treatment site may be visualized in real time in augmented reality and virtual reality systems for diagnoses and treatment planning.
US11445159B2	Context-sensitive white balancing for surgical microscopes A computer-implemented method and a corresponding system for context-sensitive white balancing for a stereomicroscope are presented. The method comprises recording a first digital image by way of a first camera in a first optical path of the stereomicroscope, and recording a second digital image by way of a second camera in a second optical path of the stereomicroscope. Furthermore, the method comprises determining, by means of a trained machine learning system, the context identified in the images, and determining, by means of the trained machine learning system, camera parameters suitable for controlling color channels of the first and second cameras for white balancing.
US11445153B2	Load control system having a visible light sensor A sensor for sensing environmental characteristics of a space may include a visible light sensing circuit for recording an image of the space and a control circuit responsive to the visible light sensing circuit. The control circuit may detect an occupancy or vacancy condition in the space in response to the visible light sensing circuit, and measure a light level in the space in response to the visible light sensing circuit. The control circuit may also include a low-energy occupancy sensing circuit for detecting an occupancy condition in the space. The control circuit may disable the visible light sensing circuit when the space is vacant. The control circuit may detect an occupancy condition in the space in response to the low-energy occupancy sensing circuit and subsequently enable the visible light sensing circuit. The visible light sensor may be configured in a way that protects the privacy of the occupants of the space.
US11445145B2	Method and device for controlling camera shooting, smart device and computer storage medium The present application relates to the technical field of communication, and provides a method and a device for controlling camera shooting, a smart device and a computer storage medium, including: collecting voice data of a sound source object; extracting a voice feature based on the voice data of the sound source object; determining a current voice scene according to the extracted voice feature and a voice feature corresponding to the preset voice scene; and acquiring a shooting mode corresponding to the current voice scene, and controlling movement of the camera according to the shooting mode corresponding to the current voice scene. With the method above, frequently shaking can be avoided, and shooting efficiency and user experience can be improved.
US11445140B2	Imaging systems with adjustable amplifier circuitry An image sensor may include an array of image pixels. The array of image pixel may be coupled to column readout circuitry. A given image pixel may generate a low light signal and a high light signal for a given exposure. A column line may couple the given image pixel to readout circuitry having amplifier circuitry. The column line may be coupled to an autozeroing transistor for reading out the high light signal and a source follower stage for readout out the low light signal. The amplifier circuitry may receive different common mode voltage depending on whether it is amplifying the low or high light signal. The gain and other operating parameters of the amplifier circuitry may be adjusted based on whether it is amplifying the low or high signal. If desired, separate amplifier circuitry may be implemented for the low and high light signals.
US11445137B2	Systems and methods for reference settling An imaging system may include an image sensor. The image sensor may have an array of image pixels arranged in rows and columns. Each column of image pixels may be coupled to column readout circuitry via a corresponding column line. The column readout circuitry may include analog-to-digital conversion circuitry. The analog-to-digital conversion circuitry may include split MSB and LSB capacitor banks. The MSB capacitor bank may include capacitors selectively coupled to a coarse reference voltage or a fine reference voltage. The LSB capacitor bank may include capacitors electively coupled to the coarse reference voltage.
US11445130B2	Radiation image capturing apparatus and radiation image capturing system A radiation image capturing apparatus includes, as a plurality of pixels two-dimensionally arranged in an image capturing area, a plurality of image pixels configured to output electric signals for acquiring a radiation image and a plurality of detection pixels configured to output electric signals for detecting information about irradiation of the image capturing area with the irradiation. The plurality of detection pixels is arranged as a line-shaped detection pixel group in the image capturing area, and a plurality of detection driving lines is connected to the line-shaped detection pixel group. A readout circuit reads out, at different timings, the electric signals group by group to each of which a different one of the plurality of detection driving lines is connected in the line-shaped detection pixel group.
US11445115B2	Image capturing and stabilization apparatus and method capable of performing image stabilization control by moving an image sensor An image stabilization apparatus comprising a calculation unit that calculates a driving amount for moving an image sensor so as to compensate for shake, an image stabilization control unit that controls image stabilization by moving the image sensor based on the calculated driving amount, a determination unit that determines whether a current state is a first state according to an image shooting state, and a control unit that controls a shift amount of a center position of image stabilization control so as to be smaller in a case where a center position of the image circle of a lens apparatus is moved from a first position to a second position and the first state is determined than in a case where the center position is moved from the first position to the second position and the first state is not determined.
US11445108B1	Turn direction guidance of an endoscopic device Method and system are provided for direction guidance of an endoscopic device in a tubular organ. The method receives a current image frame from a camera disposed on the endoscopic device, where the current image frame captures a visible lumen of the tubular organ. The method determines an area of the visible lumen in the current image frame and a ratio of the area of the visible lumen to a minimum enclosing circle of the visible lumen. If the ratio breaches a defined threshold, the method adjusts a target direction of the endoscopic device in a direction from a center of the visible lumen towards a center of the image frame and outputs a notification of the adjusted target direction to a controller of the endoscopic device.
US11445105B2	Control system and method for single-handed seamless camera control An image capture control apparatus is provided for single-handed seamless camera control of a camera during capture of video content. The apparatus includes a stick extending from a base and operating bi-directionally to adjust a setting of the camera. Moreover, first, second and third continuous control elements are disposed around the base to control respective parameters of the camera for image content capture. Each of the first continuous control element, the second continuous control element and the third continuous control element are configured to be physically manipulated simultaneously by a hand of an operator of the single-handed seamless camera.
US11445103B2	Imaging apparatus, focusing adjustment apparatus, and method for controlling focusing adjustment apparatus A method is provided for controlling an apparatus for performing control to, move, in a case where a detected defocus amount is within a range of a second in-focus management width, a focusing lens and then terminate a focusing adjustment operation without performing focus detection processing again, and move, in a case where the defocus amount is out of the range of the second in-focus management width, the focusing lens to perform the focus detection processing again. In a case where a subject to be subjected to the focus detection processing is a saturated subject, at least one of the range of the second in-focus management width and the focus detection operation is changed.
US11445100B2	Electric shaver with imaging capability System and method for improving the shaving experience by providing improved visibility of the skin shaving area. A digital camera is integrated with the electric shaver for close image capturing of shaving area, and displaying it on a display unit. The display unit can be integral part of the electric shaver casing, or housed in a separated device which receives the image via a communication channel. The communication channel can be wireless (using radio, audio or light) or wired, such as dedicated cabling or using powerline communication. A light source is used to better illuminate the shaving area. Video compression and digital image processing techniques are used for providing for improved shaving results. The wired communication medium can simultaneously be used also for carrying power from the electric shaver assembly to the display unit, or from the display unit to the electric shaver.
US11445097B2	Apparatus and method for providing illumination of camera in electronic device An electronic device and control method thereof capable of utilizing a display as illumination light for a camera that is being used to capture images is provided. The electronic device includes a foldable display; a camera; a processor; and a memory operatively connected to the processor, wherein the memory may store instructions that cause, when executed, the processor to detect a user input for activating the camera; identify a state of the foldable display based on the user input; display a live view of an object obtained by the camera through a designated region of the foldable display based on a first state of the foldable display; divide the foldable display into a first region for a live view and a second region for a lighting plate with respect to a folding site based on a second state of the foldable display; display a live view of an object obtained by the camera based on the first region; and output illumination light based on the second region.
US11445095B2	Image-sensor fixing structure An image-sensor fixing structure includes an imaging optical system; and an image sensor configured to receive light of an image formed by the imaging optical system. The image sensor has an imaging surface includes an effective region, in which light of an image formed by the imaging optical system is received, and a peripheral region outside the effective region. A body member holding the imaging optical system is fixed to the peripheral region.
US11445091B2	Image forming apparatus, information processing apparatus, and recording medium An image forming apparatus includes an image former configured to form a first image on a first recording medium; a feeder configured to feed the first recording medium to the image former; a reader configured to read the first image formed on the first recording medium; a process executor configured to execute a predetermined process based on a first read image that is obtained by the reader by reading the first image; and a corrector configured to correct the reader based on a second read image that is obtained by the reader by reading a second image formed on a second recording medium fed by the feeder, and a predetermined read reference image.
US11445090B2	Information processing apparatus, information processing system, and information processing method for executing applications on which use permission is granted An information processing apparatus, an information processing system, and an information processing method. The information processing apparatus executes at least one of a plurality of applications for which use permission is granted in units of package, and in response to an invalidation of the use permission, display on a display, a notification indicating the invalidation of the use permission.
US11445087B2	Skew compensation based on scale factor An example image scanning device includes an image sensor to scan a manuscript, a memory, and a processor to generate a scan image corresponding to the manuscript, perform rotation processing for the generated scan image using a scale factor, perform scaling processing for the rotated scan image, and store the scale-processed scan image in the memory.
US11445077B2	Information processing apparatus capable of displaying settings history button, method of controlling same, and storage medium An information processing apparatus that enables a user to easily grasp setting values associated with a settings history button. Execution of a function selected by a user is controlled using setting values set on a setting screen displayed with initial values of the setting values registered at factory shipment. An identification reference used for identifying a setting value used and different from a corresponding initial value is switched. An instruction for changing the initial values on the setting screen to other initial values than the initial values registered at factory shipment is received. Setting value information indicative of the identified setting value is displayed for a settings history button for calling setting values used for the function. If the initial values on the setting screen are changed to the other initial values, the identification reference is switched to the other initial values.
US11445074B2	Information processing device, touch panel display method, and recording medium An information processing device includes a standard layer configured to display an operation screen provided for use of a touch panel, a disable layer provided to overlap the standard layer, and an interrupt layer provided to overlap the standard layer and the disable layer. The information processing device further includes a processor, and a memory storing program instructions that cause the processor to disable a touch operation of the touch panel, display a touch operation disable screen on the disable layer to superimpose the touch operation disable screen on the operation screen, in a case where the touch operation is disabled, and display, when an interrupt event has occurred while the touch operation is disabled, a notification screen on the interrupt layer, the notification screen notifying the interrupt event.
US11445072B2	Systems and methods for generating and communicating enhanced portable document format files A method for converting a facsimile includes receiving the facsimile via the public-switched telephone network, generating an enhanced portable document format (EPDF) file that includes information in addition to image information and communicating the EPDF file to an e-mail server. The EPDF file can then be communicated as an attachment to an e-mail message addressed to the intended recipient of the facsimile. A facsimile processing system includes a public-switched telephone network interface, a packet-switched network interface, a mail transfer protocol server, an input agent, a job processor and a translator. The input agent identifies and forwards the incoming facsimile to the job processor. The job processor determines when an EPDF file is desired and communicates appropriate instructions to the translator. The translator generates the EPDF file in response to the instructions and the image information from the facsimile. The translator integrates signatures and repositionable notes in outbound facsimiles.
US11445070B2	Determining print quality based on information obtained from rendered image An example image forming apparatus includes an image forming apparatus, a processor, and a memory storing instructions executable by the processor. The processor of the image forming apparatus executes the instructions to render a print job, obtain information regarding a pattern for determining print quality from a rendered image of the print job, scan, through the image forming job unit, a document on which the rendered image is printed, and determine the print quality based on a scanned image of the document and the obtained information regarding the pattern.
US11445057B2	Private contact sharing A method and system for obscured contact sharing is provided. In an embodiment, the method includes receiving at a first user device a request from a second user device to provide an obscured contact, wherein the obscured contact includes a plurality of information elements. The first user device receives from the second user device the obscured contact and data about obscuring at least one of the information elements of the obscured contact. Based on the data, an operating system of the first user device obscures the at least one information element from presentation by the first user device to a user while at the same time being able to use the obscured information element for a predetermined time. The operating system of the first user device removes the at least one information element from contact information storage of the first user device in response to detection of a predetermined time indicated by the second user device or a delete command from the second user device.
US11445055B1	Holder for handheld communication device A holder for a handheld communication device includes a body having an absorbing unit at front side thereof; a backing unit installed at a back side of the body; and the backing unit including: a pivotal unit and a supporting sheet pivotally retained to a standing sheet of the pivotal unit; that is, the supporting sheet being rotatable around the another end of standing sheet of the pivotal unit; a position embedding the magnet of the supporting sheet being opposite to a position embedding a magnet of the plane sheet of the pivotal unit; and wherein when the supporting sheet is expanded to be parallel to the plane sheet of the pivotal unit, by the magnetic property, the supporting sheet is steadily retained to the pivotal unit without vibration.
US11445053B2	Mobile terminal and control method therefor A mobile terminal and a control method therefor are disclosed. The mobile terminal includes a body, a display coupled to the body to vary a display region viewed from a front of the body according to switching between an enlarged display mode and a reduced display mode, an input unit configured to sense user input, and a controller. The controller outputs a navigation bar on the display in the enlarged display mode, the navigation bar including at least one indicator, and controls a first application among at least one application which is being output in the enlarged display mode according to an input signal of selecting the indicator.
US11445050B2	Header modifications for supplementary services based on policies Handling supplementary services offered in association with Internet Protocol multimedia services based on particular policies is described. In an example, server(s) can receive, from a first user device, a policy associated with handling one or more communications directed to a particular identifier. The server(s) can subsequently receive a communication from a second user device, the communication being associated with a header identifying the particular identifier as the intended recipient of the communication. The server(s) can determine whether the policy is to be applied to the communication and, based at least partly on determining that the policy is to be applied to the communication, the server(s) can update the header based at least in part on the policy. The server(s) can transmit the communication based at least in part on the header, thereby transmitting the communication pursuant to the policy.
US11445039B2	Method and apparatus for providing edge computing services An example method, performed by an edge data network configuration server, of relocating at least one service, currently provided from a source edge data network to at least one terminal, to a plurality of edge data networks having a hierarchical structure includes obtaining a service relocation request from the at least one terminal, determining relocation candidate services by reflecting the service relocation request, determining priorities of the relocation candidate services, obtaining location information of the at least one terminal, determining a relocation target service and a target edge data network based on at least one of the priorities or the location information, and requesting the target edge data network to provide the relocation target service to the at least one terminal, wherein the source edge data network and the target edge data network are hierarchically included in different tiers.
US11445035B2	Graph knowledge base for modeling and processing stateful cloud-native applications Receive an order, the order indicating a network service model. Identify a context of the order based on metadata. Generate, using the network service model, a deployment plan, the deployment plan facilitating an instantiation of a contextually-motivated network service instance as a set of normalized lifecycle management (LCM) operations performed against at least one of a plurality of associated service entities. Deploy the deployment plan, wherein to deploy the deployment plan causes the system to bind each of the normalized LCM operations, based on the context of the order, to one or more respective micro-capabilities, each of the respective micro-capabilities having previously been onboarded to the system as one or more corresponding modeled objects capable of being declaratively composed, each of the corresponding modeled objects including a mapping of standard LCM operations to one or more existing micro-capabilities of the system, and manage execution of the one or more respective micro-capabilities and associated resources, associated storage, and associated network and service allocation and configuration, to instantiate the contextually-motivated network service instance, wherein to manage the execution of the one or more micro-capabilities causes the system to fulfill the order as a transaction providing guarantees, and applying any of compensations and rollback automatically. Trace the transaction based on the metadata, thereby simplifying test and debug operations and run-time observability.
US11445031B2	Data processing system with automated search and extraction based on verification tag A system and method for creating and curating of a mixed media project timeline—a digital storyline about the making of a specific product or work of authorship. The system involves registering an existing project by means of a web platform, and connecting to it via the project owner's credentials external web content sources, including the project owner's social media. The system involves activation of a project verification tag, here called amptag, consisting of the ampersand sign “&” followed by the title of the project. The amptag can be included by the project owner within any content they post on the connected web sources. The system recognizes the marked content, verifies it toward the registered project and the project owner's credentials, and catapults it into the project storyline next to other original content posted by the project.
US11445025B2	Applications for controlling optically switchable devices Software applications are used for controlling the optical state of one or more optically switchable windows or other optical products installed in a structure such as building. The applications permit users to send and/or receive data and/or commands for controlling the switchable optical products. In some embodiments, the applications provide an interface with a window network controller, which directly or indirectly controls windows in a structure. Relevant processing involving the application may include user authentication, commissioning, adaptive control, and decisions on whether to permit an action or change requested by a user. In some embodiments, the application allows users to directly control the tint state of one or more tintable windows. In some embodiments, the application allows users to change a rule or property associated with controlling a switchable optical product.
US11445022B2	System and method for service level agreement based data verification A system and method is provided for service level agreement (SLA) based data storage and verification. According to one exemplary aspect, a method includes receiving, from a client device, a request to perform data verification of data relating to a file stored on a remote storage computer; accessing, by a processor, at least one SLA to determine a fault tolerance for the file stored on the remote storage computer; sending, by the processor to the remote storage computer, a request to store k derivatives of the file in the remote storage computer; and transmitting, to the client device, an indication of a location of the k derivatives of the file in the remote storage computer.
US11445018B2	Technologies for synchronizing content items across content management systems Technologies for synchronizing content items across cloud systems are provided. An example method can include receiving, by a first content management system (CMS), authentication information associated with a second CMS; based on the authentication information, establishing a communication channel between the first CMS and second CMS; using the communication channel, providing a user interface identifying collections of content items stored on the second CMS; receiving, by the first CMS, a request to create a first collection of content items based on a second collection of content items selected by a user account from the user interface, the second collection being stored on the second CMS; creating, by the first CMS, the first collection in association with the user account; populating the first collection with placeholders corresponding to content items in the second collection; and upon detecting a change to the second collection, updating the first collection to reflect the change.
US11445005B2	Expedited sub-resource loading Systems, methods, apparatus, and software for pre-fetching and/or pre-loading sub-resources used in rendering HTML files, web pages and the like are provided herein. Implementations include expedited sub-resource loading in which a cache node or other content delivery network component receives a first end user device request seeking a primary resource (e.g., an HTML file). Using information in the first request, the content delivery network pre-fetches one or more identified sub-resources (e.g., JavaScript code) required for rendering of the HTML file. Pre-fetched sub-resources are held by the cache node. During parsing of the HTML file by the end user device, a web browser or other application requires the sub-resource(s) and the end user device thus sends a second request to the cache node asking for the required sub-resource(s). The cache node sends the requested, pre-fetched sub-resource(s).
US11444999B2	Iterative techniques for generating multiple encoded versions of a media title In various embodiments, an iterative encoding application generates shot encode points based on a first set of encoding points and a first shot sequence associated with a media title. The iterative encoding application performs convex hull operations across the shot encode points to generate a first convex hull. Subsequently, the iterative encoding application generates encoded media sequences based on the first convex hull and a second convex hull that is associated with both a second shot sequence associated with the media title and a second set of encoding points. The iterative encoding application determines a first optimized encoded media and a second optimized encoded media sequence from the encoded media sequences based on, respectively, a first target metric value and a second target metric value for a media metric. Portions of the optimized encoded media sequences are subsequently streamed to endpoint devices during playback of the media title.
US11444995B2	Delivering content in multiple formats Content may be received at an edge location in one format, but delivered to a terminal on an access network in another format. The received content may be transcoded at the edge location. The transcoded content may be stored, or immediately delivered. The transcoded content may be fragmented prior to storage. Multiple copies of the transcoded content may be maintained in multiple formats. These formats may be aligned with one another such that delivery of the content can include delivering portions of the content in one format and other portions of the content in another format.
US11444987B2	Systems and methods for user capability exchange across networks A session border manager (SBM) may receive a session initiation protocol (SIP) request for a session or a service involving a first user equipment (UE) that is subscribed to a first network and a second UE, that is subscribed to a second network, wherein the SIP request indicates a service type of the session or the service. The SBM may determine, based on the service type, a subnetwork of the second network that is to facilitate the session or the service, wherein the subnetwork is one subnetwork, of a plurality of subnetworks, of the second network that is designated to manage communications that are associated with the service type. The SBM may transmit the SIP request to the subnetwork to cause the subnetwork to initiate the session or the service with the second UE. The SBM may receive, from the subnetwork, a response to the SIP request.
US11444980B2	On-demand wireless device centric security for a 5G wireless network The disclosed embodiments include a method performed by a wireless network to mitigate a security risk arising from an application-layer transaction and contextual scenario of a wireless device (WD). A security resource can be maintained inactive by default and configured for on-demand activation in response to a security risk associated with the WD. The method can include monitoring the WD for application-layer transactions and contextual scenarios, and detecting a security risk relative to a particular type of a application-layer transaction and a contextual scenario of the WD. In response to detecting the security risk, the security resource is activated to support the application-layer transaction while safeguarding the entire wireless network. In response to detecting a change to the application-layer transaction or the particular contextual scenario, the security resource for the WD can be deactivated.
US11444978B1	Machine learning-based system for detecting phishing websites using the URLS, word encodings and images of content pages Disclosed is classifying a URL and a page accessed via the URL as phishing or not. URL embedder extracts characters in a predetermined set from the URL to produce a character string trained using ground truth classification of the URL, producing a URL embedding. HTML parser accesses content at the URL and extracts HTML tokens from the page. Further, HTML encoder, trained on HTML tokens extracted from pages at example URLs, each example URL accompanied by a ground truth image captured from the page accessed via the example URL, produces an HTML encoding of the extracted tokens. Also, phishing classifier layers, trained on the URL embedding and the HTML encoding of example URLs, processes a concatenated input of the URL embedding and the HTML encoding to produce a score of a phishing risk.
US11444976B2	Systems and methods for automatically blocking the use of tracking tools Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, apparatus, systems, computing devices, computing entities, and/or the like for permitting or blocking tracking tools used through webpages. In particular embodiments, the method involves: scanning a webpage to identify a tracking tool configured for processing personal data; determining a data destination location that is associated with the tracking tool; and generating program code configured to: determine a location associated with a user who is associated with a rendering of the webpage; determine a prohibited data destination location based on the location associated with the user; determine that the data destination location associated with the tracking tool is not the prohibited data destination location; and responsive to the data destination location associated with the tracking tool not being the prohibited data destination location, permit the tracking tool to execute.
US11444971B2	Method for assessing the quality of network-related indicators of compromise The present invention relates to a method for assessing the quality of network-related Indicators of Compromise comprising the phase of calculating, by a computerized data processing unit, a quality score for Indicators of Compromise of the IP Address type, the steps of assigning an autonomous system score of the IP Address according to a predefined range of values based on a database of autonomous system owners, assigning a subnet score of said IP Address according to a predefined range of values based on a database of subnet owners, assigning a services hosted score of the IP Address according to a predefined range of values based on known malicious services hosted by the IP Address before the phase of calculating the quality score, calculating the IP Address quality score as sum of the autonomous system score, subnet score and services hosted score and wherein the method comprises a phase of evaluating the calculated quality score comprises, for each of the Indicators of Compromise of the IP Address type, the step of assessing the Indicators of Compromise of the IP Address type as malicious when the IP Address quality score exceed a predefined IP Address quality threshold.
US11444963B1	Efficient threat context-aware packet filtering for network protection A threat intelligence gateway (TIG) may protect TCP/IP networks from network (e.g., Internet) threats by enforcing certain policies on in-transit packets that are crossing network boundaries. The policies may be composed of packet filtering rules with packet-matching criteria derived from cyber threat intelligence (CTI) associated with Internet threats. These CTI-derived packet-filtering rules may be created offline by policy creation and management servers, which may distribute the policies to subscribing TIGs that subsequently enforce the policies on in-transit packets. Each packet filtering rule may specify a disposition that may be applied to a matching in-transit packet, such as deny/block/drop the in-transit packet or pass/allow/forward the in-transit packet, and also may specify directives that may be applied to a matching in-transit packet, such as log, capture, spoof-tcp-rst, etc. Often, however, the selection of a rule's disposition and directives that best protect the associated network may not be optimally determined before a matching in-transit packet is observed by the associated TIG. In such cases, threat context information that may only be available (e.g., computable) at in-transit packet observation and/or filtering time, such as current time-of-day, current TIG/network location, current TIG/network administrator, the in-transit packet being determined to be part of an active attack on the network, etc., may be helpful to determine the disposition and directives that may best protect the network from the threat associated with the in-transit packet. The present disclosure describes examples of methods, systems, and apparatuses that may be used for efficiently determining (e.g., accessing and/or computing), in response to the in-transit packet, threat context information associated with an in-transit packet. The threat context information may be used to efficiently determine the disposition and/or one or more directives to apply to the in-transit packet. This may result in dispositions and/or directives being applied to in-transit packets that better protect the network as compared with solely using dispositions and directives that were predetermined prior to receiving the in-transit packet.
US11444958B2	Web server security A system (30) for protecting a server (20) from network attacks is provided. The system (30) comprises a data splitter (31) and a parameter extractor (33). The data splitter (31) is configured to receive network communications from a client (10); send network data comprising at least payload information included in the received network communications to the parameter extractor (33); and send network data comprising at least communication state information included in the received network communications to the server (20). The parameter extractor (33) is configured to apply predefined parameter extraction rules to network data received from the data splitter (31) in order to extract parameters, and to forward extracted parameters to the server (20). The system (30) is also configured to enforce unidirectional dataflow over at least part of the network connection path to the server (20) via the parameter extractor (33), such that dataflow to the server (20) over the network connection path is allowed, but dataflow in the opposite direction is not allowed for at least part of the network connection path. A server (20), data splitter (31) and parameter extractor (33) for use with the system (30) are also provided, and a corresponding method for protecting a server (20) from network attacks is provided.
US11444957B2	Automated feature extraction and artificial intelligence (AI) based detection and classification of malware Systems and methods for detection and classification of malware using an AI-based approach are provided. In one embodiment, a T-node maintains a sample library including benign and virus samples. A classification model is generated by training a classifier based on features extracted from the samples. The classification model is distributed to D-nodes for use as a local virus detection model. Responsive to detection of a virus by a D-node, the T-node receives a virus sample from the D-node. When the virus sample is not in the sample library, it is incorporated into the sample library. A feature depository is created/updated by the T-node by extracting features from the samples. Responsive to a retraining event: (i) an improved classification model is created by retraining the classifier based on the feature depository; and (ii) the D-nodes are upgraded by replacing their local virus detection models with the improved classification model.
US11444949B1	Systems and methods for secure selection of a user profile in a shared context Disclosed are systems and methods for secure selection of a user profile in a shared context. For example, a method may include: determining, by one or more processors, an association between a user device and a shared user profile; determining, by the one or more processors, that the user device is within a predetermined proximity of a multiuser device; determining, by the one or more processors, the shared user profile associated with the user device as a result of determining that the user device is within the predetermined proximity of the multiuser device; receiving, by the one or more processors, biometric verification from the first user; and activating, by the one or more processors, the first specific user profile associated with the first user on the multiuser device as a result of determining that the first user has successfully provided biometric verification.
US11444948B2	Systems and methods for enhanced network detection A system for detecting and profiling endpoints of a computer network is provided. The system includes a first computing device including at least one processor in communication with at least one memory device. The first computing device is in communication with a computer network. The at least one memory device stores a plurality of instructions, which when executed by the at least one processor cause the at least one processor to receive a plurality of packets transmitted to the computer network, determine an identity of a first end point device associated with the plurality of packets, determine a behavior pattern for the first end point device based on the plurality of packets, and generate a synthetic profile for the first end point device based on the identity and the behavior pattern.
US11444947B2	Identity testing machine A scalable configurable universal complete spectrum identity testing machine is provided which includes at least one computer that utilizes necessary resources for making identity test determinations as to whether or not one specific sensor-observed tested person is the same person as one specific known person. The at least one computer may be utilized for at least one additional purpose besides being utilized as an identity testing machine. The identity testing machine makes one-time, intermittently performed, or constantly performed determinations of identity regarding any one specific tested person and it is configurable for doing so at any attainable level of accuracy including 100% accuracy. The identity determining machine is configurable for: interacting with itself or utilized cyber resources to perform possible functions, utilizing data representing recognized characteristics for comparing or determining, utilizing observation data, derived data, useful information or outcomes from comparing for making identity determinations, and reporting on its operations.
US11444936B2	Managing security credentials Disclosed are various embodiments for managing security credentials. In one embodiment, knowledge-based questions are selected in response to failing to receive a valid master security credential in a request to authenticate a user account for access to account data. In response to receiving the request, the plurality of knowledge-based questions are provided to an application. Answers to the knowledge-based questions are received and scored. Access is granted to establish a new master security credential based at least in part on the score meeting or exceeding a predetermined threshold.
US11444932B2	Device verification of an installation of an email client Disclosed are various examples for single-sign on by way of managed mobile devices. For example, an identity provider service can receive a request for an identity assertion from an email client executed in a client device. The identity provider service can then detect a platform associated with the client device. The device and the user's identity can be authenticated so that an IT administrator can specify that only authorized devices can access email using the email client.
US11444924B2	Application-layer service traffic communication using datacenter network fabric as proxy A system for providing services for microservices applications is described herein. In an embodiment, a system comprises a plurality of container environments, each of which comprising a host node. A virtual fabric edge instance executes on each host node. The host nodes are interconnected through a plurality of switches. A fabric controller manages the plurality of switches and implements policies through the virtual fabric edge instances executing on each host node. The fabric controller additionally provides services for the application instances through the virtual fabric edge instances by routing traffic, data, queries from an application or proxy instance to another application or proxy instance in the container environment through the virtual fabric edge instances.
US11444919B2	Mission critical security zone The subject matter of this specification can be embodied in, among other things, a computer system that includes a first processor system configured to communicate with a network, a second processor system configured to control a process, and a third processor system configured to selectively operate in a first configuration and a second configuration, wherein the third processor system is configured to selectively block predetermined types of communications from the first processor system to the second processor system in the first configuration, and the third processor system is configured to permit the predetermined types of communications from the first processor system to the second processor system in the second configuration.
US11444912B2	Parameter value assignment using inputted requirements A parameter value assignment device comprises: a memory storing instructions; and processors configured to execute the instructions to: input constraint information indicating constraints and parameter value information indicating parameter value conditions, as requirements related to value assignment to target parameters; decompose target parameters into unit blocks based on the requirements; decompose the constraints into constraints between the unit blocks based on a result of decomposition of the target parameters, and reorganize the constraints between the unit blocks; decompose the parameter value conditions into parameter value conditions for the unit blocks based on the result of decomposition of the target parameters into the unit blocks; and assign a value to each of the target parameters based on the result of decomposition of the target parameters into the unit blocks, the constraints between the unit blocks, and the parameter value conditions for the unit blocks.
US11444894B2	Systems and methods for combining and summarizing emoji responses to generate a text reaction from the emoji responses Example embodiments of messaging systems and methods are provided. An example system includes a database containing a plurality of messages, a plurality of emoji responses, and a plurality of text reactions. The system further includes a predictive model trained using the plurality of messages and the plurality of emoji responses as inputs and the plurality of text reactions as outputs to determine a mapping relationship between the inputs and the outputs. The predictive model receives a message and one or more emoji responses to the message, combines and summarizes the one or more emoji responses to a text reaction to the message based on the mapping relationship, and transmits the text reaction to a user who initiates the message.
US11444892B2	Enhancing performance of message search and retrieval A message management service can enable a client to search and retrieve of messages from one or more messaging services. The message management service can stage delivery of results to the client to reduce response time for identification of messages satisfying a query. Initially, the message management service can send information descriptive of results, which the client can display. The message management service can send subsequent responses including supplemental information associated with a result and/or actual messages.
US11444888B2	Scaling network functions A method of determining trigger conditions for scaling a scalable unit of network function comprising identifying a primary set of metrics associated with usage of an instance of the unit of network function as a primary indicator of occurrence of a load state thereof, and determining usage points when the primary indicator indicates that the load state occurs. Deriving a secondary set of the metrics, different to the primary set, as a secondary indicator of occurrence of the load state of the instance at each of a group of one or more of the usage points when the primary indicator indicates that the load state occurs, and measured data corresponding to values of the metrics in the secondary set of metrics at each of the group of usage points. Storing a trigger condition for scaling the unit of network function based on the secondary set and the measured data.
US11444876B2	Method and apparatus for detecting abnormal traffic pattern An operating method of a computing device operated by at least one processor includes collecting traffic packets; extracting particular field data from the traffic packets, transforming the extracted particular field data to a vector with a reduced dimension for each traffic packet, and creating training data with the vector for each traffic packet; training a traffic prediction model with the training data, the traffic prediction model predicting from an input traffic packet a next input traffic packet and whether the next input traffic packet is abnormal; and predicting with the trained traffic prediction model a frequency of abnormal traffic packets to be input, and outputting an abnormal traffic warning by comparing the predicted frequency and a threshold.
US11444874B2	Packet transmission method, and communications apparatus and system Embodiments of this application provide a packet transmission method, and a communications apparatus and system. The method includes: generating a packet based on address information of forwarding nodes on a packet forwarding path, where the packet includes a first indication field, the first indication field is used to indicate a compressed first element and a compressed second element, the first element and the second element are address information of different forwarding nodes, and different address compression manners are used for the first element and the second element; and sending the packet.
US11444871B1	End-to-end path selection using dynamic software-defined cloud interconnect (SDCI) tunnels Techniques for utilizing a cloud service to compute an end-to-end SLA-aware path using dynamic software-defined cloud interconnect (SDCI) tunnels between a user device and an access point-of-presence (POP) node and inter-POP tunnels of the SDCI. The cloud service may include a performance aware path instantiation (PAPI) component including a POP database for storing performance metrics associated with the POPs of the SDCI, an enterprise policy database for storing user specific policies, and/or a path computation component. The path computation component may compute the path, based on the user specific policies, performance metrics associated with the POP nodes, and/or real-time contextual data associated with the user device and/or destination device. The path may include a first tunnel between the user device and the most optimal access POP node of the SDCI and a second tunnel between the access POP node, through the internal POP nodes, and to the destination device.
US11444867B2	Packet sending method and related device A packet sending method includes determining, that a multipath connection meets a first condition, where the first condition is used to disable a small packet sending control policy used for the multipath connection, the small packet sending control policy is used to control a time interval at which the sender sends small packets using the multipath connection, and a length of data included in the small packet is less than a maximum segment size (MSS), disabling, by the sender, the small packet sending control policy, and sending, by the sender, a plurality of small packets on a plurality of paths of the multipath connection in a redundant transmission mode after disabling the small packet sending control policy.
US11444848B1	BOM generation for computer networks A graphical user interface (GUI) provides data characterizing a location and expected operations of a facility for a computer network to a network bill of materials (BOM) server. The GUI can also receive map data characterizing a geographic location of the data from the network BOM server and generate, in response to the map data, a boundary selector that enables selection of a boundary for the facility in response to user input and provides facility boundary data to the network BOM server characterizing the boundary. The GUI can further receive, from the network BOM server, a network BOM that lists wireless access points (WAPs) and network switches needed for installation of the computer network and output data characterizing the network BOM.
US11444836B1	Multiple clusters managed by software-defined network (SDN) controller In general, the disclosure describes examples where a single software-defined network (SDN) controller is configured to receive an indication of a first cluster identifier for a first cluster of computing devices and receive an indication of a second cluster identifier for a second cluster of computing devices. In response to a determination that first configuration information indicates the first cluster identifier, the SDN controller is configured to configure a first set of virtual routers at the first cluster to connect the first group of workloads to a network using the first configuration information. In response to a determination that second configuration information indicates the second cluster identifier, the SDN controller is configured to configure a second set of virtual routers at the second cluster to connect the second group of workloads to a network using the second configuration information.
US11444828B2	Identifying border gateway protocol (BGP) anomalies at scale Systems and methods for enhancing the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) are provided. In one implementation, a computer-readable medium comprises instructions that, when executed, cause a network element to perform the steps of maintaining and tracking states of multiple Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) peers and routes while operating BGP within one or more Autonomous Systems. The instructions further cause the network element to detect one or more anomalies, based on the maintaining and tracking, as a number of the multiple BGP peers and/or routes scale in the one or more Autonomous Systems. Also, the instructions cause the network element to cause the processing of one or more remedial actions based on the one or more detected anomalies.
US11444803B2	In-vehicle network system An in-vehicle network system includes: an upper device; a first intermediate device that is connected to the upper device directly or via at least one device and is configured to communicate with the upper device using a first communication system; a second intermediate device that is connected to the upper device directly or via at least one device and is configured to communicate with the upper device using a second communication system; and a first lower device that is directly connected to the first intermediate device and is configured to communicate with the first intermediate device using the first communication system, and that is directly connected to the second intermediate device and is configured to communicate with the second intermediate device using the second communication system.
US11444802B2	Field bus system with a switchable slew rate A circuit has a driver circuit with a slew-rate controller, an output stage and a monitoring circuit. The output stage is connected to a first bus line and to a second bus line, and the driver circuit is designed to control the output stage on the basis of a first logic signal in such a manner that a corresponding bus voltage is produced between the first bus line and the second bus line. The slew-rate controller is coupled to the driver circuit and is designed to set a slew rate of the driver circuit on the basis of an input signal. The monitoring circuit is designed to generate the input signal for the slew-rate controller, wherein the input signal indicates a higher slew rate during an arbitration phase of a data frame contained in the first logic signal than during a data transmission phase of the data frame.
US11444801B2	Gateway device To provide a gateway device capable of continuing communication in the event of an abnormality without a redundant configuration as a system. A gateway device 100 includes a plurality of transceivers 110, 112, and 114 connected to a plurality of communication buses 1, 2, and 3 in a one-to-one manner, and a switch element 50 that connects the two communication buses 1 and 2 having different priorities among the plurality of communication buses.
US11444798B2	Methods and apparatus for configuring a flex ethernet node Methods and apparatus are provided for processing communications. In one aspect, a method of processing Flex Ethernet (FlexE) data comprises receiving a plurality of data blocks over at least one physical layer connection, each data block corresponding to one of at least one FlexE client flow, wherein data blocks corresponding to a first client flow of the at least one FlexE client flow have a destination over at least one further physical layer connection and contain Ethernet packets and Operation, Administration & Management (OAM) blocks, forming at least one further Ethernet packet containing at least one of the OAM blocks, the at least one further Ethernet packet specifying the destination, and providing the at least one further Ethernet packet to a switching node for forwarding to the destination.
US11444796B2	Workflow automation using near-field communication Disclosed are various approaches for initiating workflows with respect to physical resource devices on behalf of a user. A physical identifier can be affixed to a physical resource device. An identifier can be embedded within the physical identifier. A workflow application can initiate workflows upon detecting that a user has scanned or captured the identifier.
US11444791B2	Transmission of pulse power and data in a communications network In one embodiment, a method includes transmitting pulse power on two wire pairs, the pulse power comprising a plurality of high voltage pulses with the high voltage pulses on the wire pairs offset between the wire pairs to provide continuous power, performing low voltage fault detection on each of the wire pairs between the high voltage pulses, and transmitting data on at least one of the wire pairs during transmittal of the high voltage pulses. Data transmittal is suspended during the low voltage fault detection.
US11444789B2	Decrypted packet padding removal In order to improve the efficiency of transfer to outside devices while necessary buffer memory is suppressed, the present invention is an information processing apparatus for decoding a packet that is encrypted in accordance with Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocols and in which a padding portion has a variable length, the information processing apparatus including acquisition means for acquiring an encrypted packet on a unit data basis, decoding means for decoding the encrypted packet on the unit data basis, output means for outputting decoded data obtained through the decoding performed by the decoding means to an external device in accordance with an order in which the decoding is performed by the decoding means, and control means for restricting output to be performed by the output means in a case where a padding pattern is detected from the decoded data obtained through the decoding performed by the decoding means.
US11444777B2	Method and system for providing validated, auditable, and immutable inputs to a smart contract A method for posting of auditable, immutable data to a blockchain includes: receiving a blockchain including a plurality of blocks, each block including at least a block header and one or more transaction values, wherein each transaction value includes at least a transaction hash; receiving a data file associated with a specific transaction hash included in a block in the blockchain, wherein the data file includes one or more variables; modifying at least one of the one or more variables included in the data file; generating a new hash value via application of one or more hashing algorithms to the modified data file; generating a new transaction value based on at least the generated new hash value and the specific transaction hash; digitally signing the generated new transaction value; and electronically transmitting the signed new transaction value.
US11444776B2	Blockchain with daisy chained records, document corral, quarantine, message timestamping, and self-addressing Permissioned blockchains with off-chain storage establish integrity and no-later-than date-of-existence for documents, leveraging records containing hash values of documents. When a document's integrity or date is challenged, a new hash value is compared with a record in the blockchain. Proving date-of-existence (via hash value in a publication and/or SMS) for the block containing the record establishes no-later-than date-of-existence for the document. Permissioning monetizes operations, enforcing rules for submission rights and content, thereby precluding problematic material (privacy, obscenity, malicious logic, copyright violations) that threatens long-term viability. Compact records and off-chain storage in a document corral (with quarantine capability) preserve document confidentiality and ease storage burdens for distributed blockchain copies. Using multiple hash values for each document hardens against preimage attacks with quantum computing. Daisy chaining records establishes that relationships existed among documents at registration. Self-addressed blockchain registration (SABRe) permits documents to self-identify their blockchain record address (block ID, index).
US11444773B1	Biometric reference template record Systems and methods provide for secure and efficient token generation, management, transfer, and authentication services in a biometric data environment. Various embodiments relate to a method performed by a processor of an authentication computing system. An example method includes receiving an update biometric reference sample and a user identifier, retrieving a previous biometric reference template record in a storage location based on the user identifier. The previous biometric reference template record includes a template record identifier uniquely identifying the previous biometric reference template record and a previous biometric reference template generated using a previous biometric reference sample. The method further includes comparing the update biometric reference sample to the previous biometric reference template and, if a biometric data type of the update biometric reference sample is different than that of the previous biometric reference template, generating an update biometric reference template.
US11444768B2	Systems and methods for managing networked commitments of secure entities The invention relates to a method of managing commitments between entities forming the nodes of a network, each entity being housed in a computer processing unit, characterized in that it comprises the following steps: establishing commitments (ENij) between commitment provider entities (Ei) and commitment beneficiary entities (Ej), one and the same entity being able to be both a commitment provider in relation to one or more other commitment beneficiary entities and a commitment beneficiary in relation to other commitment provider entities, upon the default of an commitment on the part of a defaulting commitment provider entity, noted from a beneficiary entity benefiting from this same commitment, communicating to the provider entity from said beneficiary entity, and at least one other entity (upstream entity) whose defaulting provider entity is beneficiary, an indication of default of a commitment, and, in response to this communication, altering at least one commitment whose defaulting provider entity is beneficiary. The invention is also aimed at various systems and methods capable, in a secure manner, of implementing programs or commitments which are executable at the level of a set of nodes of a network, for various applications.
US11444766B2	Combined authorization process Some embodiments provide a method for a first device to join a group of related devices. The method receives input of a password for an account with a centralized entity and a code generated by a second device in the group. When the second device determines that the code input on the first device matches the generated code, the method receives an authentication code from the second device for authorizing the first device with the entity as a valid device for the account. The method uses the password and information regarding the first device to generate an application to the group. After sending the application to the second device, the method receives information from the second device that enables the first device to add itself to the group. The second device verifies the generated application, and the method uses the information received from the second device to join the group.
US11444764B2	Watchdog key system for data security in unmanned undersea vehicles An underwater vehicle system includes a data security system. The data security system includes a data pod including persistent storage. The persistent storage stores encrypted data. The security system includes a watchdog. The watchdog includes at least one processor. The security system includes a watchdog key. The watchdog key is stored in volatile storage. The watchdog key is configured to be used to decrypt the encrypted data. The data security system is configured to remove the watchdog key from the underwater vehicle system, thereby preventing access to the encrypted data on the data pod.
US11444758B2	Key generation device and method A key generation method includes modulating a first key to a first light source signal, to obtain a modulated optical signal, splitting the modulated optical signal, to obtain a first sub modulated optical signal and a second sub modulated optical signal, attenuating the first sub modulated optical signal such that a quantity of photons included in each period of the first sub modulated optical signal is less than a preset value, and sending an attenuated first sub modulated optical signal to a receive-end device, and obtaining a second key carried in the second sub modulated optical signal, and storing the second key.
US11444757B2	Quantum tokens Secure, semi-classical authentication schemes are presented. An authentication token is generated by applying a pre-determined measurement to a plurality of random quantum states to obtain a sequence of classical measurement outcomes. The token is validated by receiving the classical measurement outcomes and verifying whether the sequence corresponds to a statistically plausible result for the pre-determined measurement of the plurality of quantum states.
US11444756B2	Quantum key distribution network security survivability Quantum key distribution network security survivability can be provided by receiving, at a software defined networking controller operating in a control layer of a network, a recommendation from a global analytics service operating in an application layer of the network, the recommendation for replacing a failed communication link in a quantum key distribution layer of the network, the failed communication link being detected by a quantum edge computing device operating in the quantum key distribution layer. The software defined networking controller can generate a command to cause a quantum key distribution resource to perform an action to mitigate impact from the failed communication link. The command can be sent to the quantum key distribution resource and the quantum key distribution resource can perform the action to mitigate the impact from the failed communication link.
US11444751B2	System and method for sending and/or receiving entropy and entropy expansion A message is embedded within an entropy stream. The message is encrypted using a onetime pad (OTP) and thus looks like part of the entropy string since the OTP encrypted messages is, as long as the “pad” material and message content are known, itself random to the observer. The encrypted message contains information used to identify and/or point to relevant information in another part of the entropy stream. For example, the OTP-encrypted message may indicate the number of units of the message, and point to a position in another part of the stream where another message is located. The stream may be randomly and deterministically expanded. Other techniques encrypt a stream using standard encryption, the stream comprising messages that are deterministically OTP encrypted; expand said encryption using a byte vector/array of randomness including at least one random vector; periodically swap out at least one member from the vector; hide vector random bytes in messages and/or using the messages to direct which bytes to remove from the stream of randomness/entropy; and store a stash of randomness separately from the messages and/or pull off the random/entropy stream as directed by the messages. By using true random and determinism, we create a method of generate a known pool of randomness that, if intercepted, cannot be discovered through mathematical analysis.
US11444745B2	Coordination of duplex directions in NR TDD system A method performed in a system comprising a joint traffic direction scheduler configured to coordinate time-division-duplexing (TDD) transmissions for multiple cells comprises obtaining TDD operation information from each of the cells, determining, based on the obtained TDD operation information, a transmission direction to be used by each of the cells during one or more transmission time intervals (TTIs), and indicating to the cells the determined transmission direction.
US11444729B2	Transmitting feedback for data transmission through a sidelink The disclosure relates to a communication technique and system for converging a 5G communication system for supporting a higher data transfer rate beyond a 4G system with an IoT technology. The disclosure relates to a method performed by a terminal for feeding back a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) and to a terminal for performing the method, including: generating HARQ feedback information for data that is scheduled for the terminal in at least one slot; determining a transmission timing of the HARQ feedback information based on a minimum processing time for transmission of a physical sidelink feedback channel (PSFCH) of the terminal; and transmitting the HARQ feedback information based on the determined timing, wherein the minimum processing time for the PSFCH transmission is determined based on at least one of a subcarrier spacing, a configuration of a resource pool, and a time interval between a PSSCH and the PSFCH.
US11444713B2	Transmitting residence time information in a network A method of operation of a Multiprotocol Label Switching network involves, in an active node of the network, receiving a first data packet from a source node and forwarding the first data packet to a destination node. At the same time, the active node measures a residence time of the first data packet in the active node. The active node then sends a further data packet containing residence time information.
US11444712B2	Multiplexer and communication device A multiplexer includes: a common filter, a first filter connected to the common terminal and having a passband including a reception band of a first communication band; a second filter connected to the common terminal and having a passband including a transmission band of the first communication band; a third filter connected to the common terminal and having a passband including a transmission band of a second communication band; and a fourth filter connected to the common terminal and having a passband including a reception band of the second communication band. The transmission band of the first communication band and the transmission band of the second communication band are located between the reception band of the first communication band and the reception band of the second communication band, and at least one of the first communication band or the second communication band is a 5G-NR communication band.
US11444711B2	Vehicle-based media system with audio ad and navigation-related action synchronization feature In one aspect, an example method to be performed by a vehicle-based media system includes (a) receiving audio content; (b) causing one or more speakers to output the received audio content; (c) using a microphone of the vehicle-based media system to capture the output audio content; (d) identifying reference audio content that has at least a threshold extent of similarity with the captured audio content; (e) identifying a geographic location associated with the identified reference audio content; and (f) based at least on the identified geographic location associated with the identified reference audio content, outputting, via the user interface of the vehicle-based media system, a prompt to navigate to the identified geographic location.
US11444710B2	Method, apparatus, and system for processing and presenting life log based on a wireless signal Methods, apparatus and systems for wireless sensing are described. In one embodiment, a described presentation system comprises: a presentation device with a user-interface; a processor communicatively coupled to the presentation device; a memory communicatively coupled to the processor; and a set of instructions stored in the memory. The set of instructions, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to perform: determining a plurality of time series of analytics (TSA) associated with a lifelog of a living object, determining a common time axis for the plurality of TSA, and generating a presentation that presents the plurality of TSA synchronously and jointly in a hybrid manner based on the common time axis. The presentation is presented on the user-interface of the presentation device.
US11444707B2	Angle of arrival estimation in a radio communications network There is provided mechanisms for estimating angle of arrival of a radio signal in a radio communications network. A method is performed by a radio transceiver device. The radio transceiver device comprises an antenna array that, by means of analog beamforming, is configured to shift between at least two phase center locations. The method comprises obtaining measurements of the radio signal as received by the antenna array using two mutually different phase center locations. The method comprises estimating the angle of arrival of the radio signal using the measurements as obtained using the two mutually different phase center locations.
US11444706B2	Antenna module including communication module capable of determining abnormality of transmission or reception path Disclosed is an antenna module, which include a first antenna element, a second antenna element, and a communication module that includes a first transmit path and a first receive path connected with the first antenna element, a second transmit path and a second receive path connected with the second antenna element, and a detection circuit connected with at least a part of the second receive path. The communication module may output a specified signal by using the first transmit path and the first antenna element based at least on obtaining a request for identifying a state of the antenna module from an external device, may obtain the output specified signal by using the second receive path and the second antenna element, may identify an intensity of the obtained specified signal by using the detection circuit, and may determine whether the antenna module is abnormal, based at least on the intensity of the obtained specified signal. Moreover, various embodiment found through the present disclosure are possible.
US11444702B2	Transmitter identification based on machine learning Systems and methods for identifying a device are described. In an example, a processor can receive a first signal having a first waveform encoding data. The processor can extract the data from the first signal. The processor can determine a transformation being used to encode the data in the first waveform. The processor can generate a second signal using the determined transformation to encode the data in a second waveform. The processor can determine a difference between the first waveform and the second waveform. The processor can identify a device as a candidate device that sent the first signal, based on the determined difference.
US11444698B2	Optical transmitter operating burst mode and control method of optical transmitter operating burst mode The present invention provides an optical transmitter including a semiconductor laser and a control method thereof for preventing crosstalk between channels in an NG-PON2 with a 100 GHz channel spacing by reducing a wavelength drift of the semiconductor laser. The wavelength drift occurs between a few nanoseconds and a few hundreds of nanoseconds from the beginning of a burst when the semiconductor laser is operated in a burst-mode.
US11444695B2	Optical shuffle computation network Optical communication system communicates between an array of originating tiles and an array of terminating tiles. Each array is associated with a lenslet array, such as a two-layer array which has two layers of lenslets. Each originating tile has an array of transmitters and each terminating tile has an array of receivers. Each tile is associated with a common lenslet or lenslet pair. A beamlet from a representative transmitter passes through the lenslet pair adjacent to its tile to become a collimated beam whose angle is related to the location of the transmitter. The collimated beam passes through the receiver lenslet pair adjacent to the tile containing the receiver associated with the representative transmitter, and is focused onto that receiver by that lenslet pair. The system may operate in the reverse direction, wherein the transmitters are transmitter-receivers, the receivers are receiver-transmitters, and a beam from a receiver-transmitter is directed to its corresponding transmitter-receiver.
US11444693B2	Free space optical FSO space data transmission system in the infrared wavelength domain A free space optical FSO space data transmission system includes a first ground or aeronautical optical terminal, a second optical terminal housed on board a satellite, and a relay platform. The relay platform is configured so as to move at an altitude higher than that of clouds and atmospheric turbulence, so as to receive the data transmitted by the first terminal in the MWIR/LWIR domain of long wave infrared LWIR wavelengths and/or medium wave infrared MWIR wavelengths, and retransmit the received data to the second terminal in the domain of short wave infrared SWIR wavelengths, and/or receive the data transmitted by the second terminal in the domain of short wave infrared SWIR wavelengths, and retransmit the received data to the first terminal in the MWIR/LWIR domain of long wave infrared LWIR wavelengths and/or medium wave infrared MWIR wavelengths.
US11444692B2	Optical wireless communication system An optical wireless communication system comprises a signal providing apparatus configured to provide a data signal, a driver apparatus separate from the signal providing apparatus and coupled to the signal providing apparatus by a signal cable, wherein the driver apparatus is configured to receive the data signal via the signal cable and to process the data signal to produce a driving signal, and a luminaire comprising a modulateable light source, wherein the modulateable light source is configured to be driven by the driving signal, thereby to produce modulated light, wherein the driver apparatus is positioned adjacent to or within the luminaire.
US11444690B2	Timing measurement apparatus Methods, devices and systems for providing accurate measurements of timing errors using optical techniques are described. An example timing measurement device includes an optical hybrid that receives two optical pulse trains and produces two or more phase shifted optical outputs. The timing measurement device further includes two or more optical filters that receive the outputs of the optical hybrid to produce multiple pulse signals with distinctive frequency bands. The device also includes one or more photodetectors and analog-to-digital converters to receive to produce electrical signals in the digital domain corresponding to the optical outputs of the hybrid. A timing error associated with the optical pulse trains can be determined using the electrical signals in digital domain based on a computed phase difference between a first frequency band signal and a second frequency band signal and a computed frequency difference between the first frequency band signal and the second frequency band.
US11444686B2	Transmodulation for a multi-beam satellite communication system Various arrangements for performing transmodulation of a forward feeder link are presented. A first data stream and a second data stream can be modulated into a higher-order modulation forward feeder link having a higher-order digital modulation scheme. A satellite can receive the higher-order modulation forward feeder link. The satellite can demodulate the higher-order modulator forward feeder link into a bit stream. This bit stream may then be remodulated and retransmitted as multiple forward user links.
US11444670B1	Method and apparatus for distributed beamforming Transmitting a data signal by generating a first symbol in response to the data signal and a first synchronization sequence and a second symbol in response to the data signal and a second synchronization sequence, applying a distributed coding matrix to the first symbol and the second symbol to generate a first transmission signal and a second transmission signal, transmitting the first transmission signal and the second transmission signal to the far field, isolating the first transmission signal by applying the first synchronization sequence to the far field, isolating the second transmission signal by applying the second synchronization sequence to the far field, applying the distributed coding matrix to the first transmission signal to extract the first symbol, applying the distributed coding matrix to the second transmission signal to extract the second symbol and estimating the data signal in response to the first symbol and the second symbol.
US11444668B2	Methods and devices for wireless communications in device-to-device networks A wireless device includes a transceiver including an antenna arrangement with at least two antennas, a communication processor configured to control communications of the wireless device with at least one further wireless device included in a network of wireless devices based on data relating to mutual connections between wireless devices included in the network, a beamforming controller configured to control a configuration of the at least two antennas to steer at least one beam for transmission of data based on beamforming information.
US11444665B2	Information sending method, information receiving method, sending apparatus, and receiving apparatus Embodiments of this application provide example information receiving methods and receiving apparatuses. One example information receiving method includes receiving, by a receiving apparatus, an index from a sending apparatus, wherein the index indicates precoding information used for a single codeword. The receiving apparatus can then determine, based on the index, the precoding information used for the single codeword.
US11444654B2	System and method for index modulation based joint mode frequency hopping with vortex electromagnetic waves for anti-jamming A system and method of index modulation based joint mode frequency hopping with vortex electromagnetic waves for anti-jamming are provided. The system is additionally provided with a transmit signal carrier selector that provides diversified options, a receive signal carrier selector that is strictly synchronized with the transmit signal carrier selector, and a group of fast Fourier transformation modules to output a binary demodulation signal with jamming eliminated. The method includes: binary information division; index modulation and information modulation; information loading and hopping; information transmission, de-hopping, and jamming filtering; and calculation of the jamming probability and an average bit error rate. The present disclosure combines orbital angular momentum modes and subcarrier frequencies to form OAM mode-subcarrier frequency pair sets so as to diversify information transmission carriers, and performs simultaneously modulation and hopping to increase a spectrum efficiency and enhance the anti-jamming capability.
US11444647B2	Filter and transceiver comprising dielectric body resonators having frequency adjusting holes and a negative coupling hole Embodiments relate to the field of technologies of components of communications devices, and provide a dielectric filter, which resolves a problem that a solid dielectric filter has a difficulty in implementing capacitive coupling. The dielectric filter includes at least two dielectric resonators, where each of the dielectric resonators includes a body made of a solid dielectric material, and an adjusting hole located on a surface of the body. The adjusting hole is a blind hole, configured to adjust a resonance frequency of the dielectric resonator on which the blind hole is located. The bodies of all the dielectric resonators included by the dielectric filter form a body of the dielectric filter.
US11444637B2	Self-adaptive low-density parity check hard decoder Disclosed are methods, systems and devices for decoding data read from a memory device, including receiving noisy data from a first memory location included in a word line zone of the memory device, identifying the word line zone and a prior successful decoder parameter associated with the word line zone, decoding the noisy data using the prior successful decoder parameter used in a prior successful decoding with respect to a second memory location included in the same word line zone, determining whether the decoding based on the prior successful decoder parameter has succeeded, maintaining, upon a determination that the decoding has succeeded, the prior successful decoder parameter as a decoder parameter for the first memory location, and decoding, upon a determination that the decoding operation has failed, the noisy data read from the first memory location by using another decoder parameter selected from a set of predefined decoder parameters.
US11444635B2	Delta sigma modulator A delta-sigma modulator includes a first amplifier having an input, a feedback control input, and an output. The input is a first input of the delta-sigma modulator. The delta-sigma modulator further includes a first integrator and a first quantizer. The first integrator has an input and an output. The output of the first amplifier is coupled to the input of the first integrator. The first quantizer has an input and an output. The output of the first quantizer is coupled to the feedback control input of the first amplifier.
US11444634B2	Time-interleaved noise-shaping successive-approximation analog-to-digital converter A time-interleaved noise-shaping successive-approximation analog-to-digital converter (TI NS-SAR ADC) is shown. A first successive-approximation channel has a first set of successive-approximation registers, and a first coarse comparator operative to coarsely adjust the first set of successive-approximation registers. A second successive-approximation channel has a second set of successive-approximation registers, and a second coarse comparator operative to coarsely adjust the second set of successive-approximation registers. A fine comparator is provided to finely adjust the first set of successive-approximation registers and the second set of successive-approximation registers alternately. A noise-shaping circuit is provided to sample residues of the first and second successive-approximation channels for the fine comparator to finely adjust the first and second sets of successive-approximation registers.
US11444629B2	Method and apparatus for performing on-system phase-locked loop management in memory device A method and apparatus for performing on-system phase-locked loop (PLL) management in a memory device are provided. The method may include: utilizing a processing circuit within the memory controller to set multiple control parameters among multiple parameters stored in a register circuit of a transmission interface circuit within the memory controller, for controlling parameter adjustment of a PLL of the transmission interface circuit; utilizing a trimming control circuit to perform the parameter adjustment of the PLL according to the multiple control parameters, to adjust a set of voltage parameters among the multiple parameters, for optimizing a control voltage of a voltage controlled oscillator (VCO); and during the parameter adjustment of the PLL, utilizing the trimming control circuit to generate and store multiple processing results in the register circuit, for being sent back to the processing circuit, to complete the parameter adjustment of the PLL, thereby achieving the on-system PLL management.
US11444627B1	Synchronization of receiver and transmitter local oscillators for ranging applications A system and method for accurately determining a distance between two network devices using a Channel Sounding application is disclosed. The network devices each guarantee a fixed phase relationship between the transmit circuit and the receive circuit. In one embodiment, this is achieved by incorporating the divider within the phase locked loop. The divider may have a reset, such that it can be initialized to a predetermined state. Further, by utilizing a divider disposed within the phase locked loop with a reset, the quadrature signal generator is guaranteed to output clocks for the transmit circuit and the receive circuit that have a constant phase relationship.
US11444613B1	Actively tracking switching speed control and regulating switching speed of a power transistor during turn-on A gate driver system includes a gate driver circuit coupled to a gate terminal of a transistor and configured to generate an on-current during a plurality of turn-on switching events to turn on the transistor, wherein the gate driver circuit includes a first driver configured to source a first portion of the on-current to the gate terminal to charge a first portion of the gate voltage and a second driver configured to, during a first boost interval, source a second portion of the on-current to the gate terminal to charge a second portion of the gate voltage; a measurement circuit configured to measure a transistor parameter indicative of an oscillation of a load current for a turn-on switching event; and a controller configured to receive the measured transistor parameter and regulate a length of the first boost interval based on the measured transistor parameter.
US11444611B2	Chip having a receiver including a hysteresis circuit A hysteresis circuit to be produced within a receiver of a chip is shown. The hysteresis circuit is powered by an overdrive voltage (2VDD), and has a protection circuit, an inverter, and a latch. The input of the hysteresis circuit is coupled to the inverter through the protection circuit, to be transformed into an output, and the latch is coupled to the inverter for positive feedback control. The protection circuit has a first sub-circuit (coupling the input to the inverter to control the pull-up path of the inverter) biased by a first bias voltage that is lower than VDD, and a second sub-circuit (coupling the input to the inverter to control the pull-down path of the inverter) biased by a second bias voltage that is greater than VDD.
US11444607B2	Many-bit, groupable, reconfigurable, multi-valued, electronic operator and its construction method Disclosed is a many-bit, groupable, reconfigurable, multi-valued, electronic operator and its construction method. Each bit of the electronic operator is provided with n column calculators and one potential combiner. A data input line is connected to an input terminal of an A signal selector, and an output terminal of the A signal selector is connected to a work permitter. Another input terminal of the work permitter is connected to a reconfiguration latch, and an output terminal of the work permitter is further connected to an output validator. Another input terminal of the output validator is connected to a power supply Vcc, and an output terminal of the output validator is connected to an output generator. Another input terminal of the output generator is connected to a reconfiguration circuit, and an output terminal of the output generator is connected to the potential combiner.
US11444604B2	Phase tracking pulse generation circuit and power supply device Disclosed are a phase-tracked pulse generation circuit and a power supply device. The present application uses a driving pulse rising edge of a power supply as a reference, and uses a constant current circuit to charge a charging and discharging circuit at a constant current. When the reference driving pulse rising edge comes, the charging and discharging circuit is discharged; the peak voltage on the charging and discharging circuit is taken out and then divided for comparison with the voltage on the charging and discharging circuit; when the voltage on the charging and discharging circuit is equal to a divided voltage value of the peak voltage, the output of a comparison circuit turns high, and the output of a comparator is the phase-tracked pulse; the rising edge of the phase-tracked pulse can be used for synchronizing another power supply.
US11444596B2	Acoustic wave device An acoustic wave device includes a piezoelectric substrate, an IDT electrode and an electrode pad provided on a front surface of the piezoelectric substrate, a support layer provided on the front surface so as to surround the IDT electrode, a first cover layer and a second cover layer provided on the support layer such that the first cover layer, the second cover layer, the support layer, and the piezoelectric substrate seal the IDT electrode in a hollow space, a UBM portion joined to the electrode pad, and a bump joined to the UBM portion. A joint surface of the UBM portion at which the UBM portion is joined to the bump has a spherical shape or substantially spherical shape that is convex towards the bump side.
US11444595B2	Acoustic resonator device with controlled placement of functionalization material A micro-electrical-mechanical system (MEMS) resonator device includes at least one functionalization material arranged over at least a central portion, but less than an entirety, of a top side electrode. For an active region exhibiting greatest sensitivity at a center point and reduced sensitivity along its periphery, omitting functionalization material over at least one peripheral portion of a resonator active region prevents analyte binding in regions of lowest sensitivity. The at least one functionalization material extends a maximum length in a range of from about 20% to about 95% of an active area length and extends a maximum width in a range of from about 50% to 100% of an active area width. Methods for fabricating MEMS resonator devices are also provided.
US11444588B2	Copper wire bond solution for reducing thermal stress on an intermittently operable chipset controlling RF application for cooking Power amplifier electronics for controlling application of radio frequency (RF) energy generated using solid state electronic components may further be configured to control application of RF energy in cycles between high and low powers. The power amplifier electronics may include a semiconductor die on which one or more RF power transistors are fabricated, an output matching network configured to provide impedance matching between the semiconductor die and external components operably coupled to an output tab, and bonding wires bonded at terminal ends thereof to operably couple the one or more RF power transistors of the semiconductor die to the output matching network. The bonding wires may be copper bonding wires having a diameter of between about 10 microns and about 100 microns.
US11444586B2	RF amplifiers with input-side fractional harmonic resonator circuits A radio frequency amplifier includes a transistor, an input impedance matching circuit (e.g., a single-section T-match circuit or a multiple-section bandpass circuit), and a fractional harmonic resonator circuit. The input impedance matching circuit is coupled between an amplification path input and a transistor input terminal. An input of the fractional harmonic resonator circuit is coupled to the amplification path input, and an output of fractional harmonic resonator circuit is coupled to the transistor input terminal. The fractional harmonic resonator circuit is configured to resonate at a resonant frequency that is between a fundamental frequency of operation of the RF amplifier and a second harmonic of the fundamental frequency. According to a further embodiment, the fractional harmonic resonator circuit resonates at a fraction, x, of the fundamental frequency, wherein the fraction is between about 1.25 and about 1.9 (e.g., x≈1.5).
US11444569B2	Mounting apparatus for photovoltaic modules A system includes a plurality of photovoltaic modules, each having a mat with an edge and a spacer with an edge, the edge of the mat being attached to the edge of the spacer. The spacer includes a plurality of support members and a solar module mounted to the support members. Each of the support members includes a ledge. The solar module and the ledge form a space therebetween. The space is sized and shaped to receive an edge of a solar module of another of the photovoltaic modules. The spacer of one of the photovoltaic modules overlays the mat of another of the photovoltaic modules.
US11444564B2	Actuator control device An actuator control device having a plurality of controller units connected to actuators, supplies electrical power to the plurality of actuators via the plurality of controller units. A connection confirmation unit confirms a connection state of the plurality of controller units, and a determination unit determines, based on a confirmation result of the connection confirmation unit, whether or not the connection state is in an allowable connection state in which supply of electrical power to the plurality of controller units is allowable.
US11444563B2	Motor drive A motor drive comprises a rectifier arranged to receive an externally supplied AC voltage and to generate a DC bus voltage. An inverter is arranged to receive the DC bus voltage and to generate an AC output voltage for supply to an external load. A DC bus portion is connected between the rectifier and the inverter. The DC bus comprises first and second conductors, wherein an inductor is connected in series along the first conductor between the rectifier and the inverter. A DC link capacitor is connected in parallel between the conductors. A controller is arranged to supply a plurality of perturbation signals at a first node between the rectifier circuit portion and the DC bus portion, to measure a respective response signal at a second node between the DC bus and the inverter and is is arranged to generate a parameterised model of a transfer function of the DC.
US11444561B2	Generator control using transient condition resilient ripple blender Described is a system that includes a polyphase generator and a polyphase bridge rectifier electrically coupled to an output of the polyphase generator. The polyphase bridge rectifier may output a positive rectified ripple signal and a negative rectified ripple signal, and the positive rectified ripple signal and the negative rectified ripple signal may be summed to produce a total ripple signal. Further, the system may include a generator regulation feedback control loop that regulates the output of the polyphase generator with a field control signal. In an embodiment, the field control signal is based on summing the total ripple signal and a reference voltage.
US11444548B2	Single-phase device-multiplexing active power decoupling cascaded rectifier and control method thereof A single-phase device-multiplexing active power decoupling cascaded rectifier and control method thereof. The rectifier includes: n device-multiplexing active power decoupling H-bridge units that are cascaded, n≥2; each unit including: a bridge arm H1 and a bridge arm H2 connected in parallel, a decoupling capacitor branch formed by two capacitors connected in series, and a resistive load; a decoupling inductor being connected in series between a midpoint of the decoupling capacitor branch and a midpoint of bridge arm H2; and a bridge arm H1 of a first unit being sequentially connected in series to an inductor, resistor, and power supply, and then connected to a bridge arm H2 of a last unit. A power switch module of an H-bridge rectification unit is multiplexed, which not only realizes unit power factor rectification of the unit, but also provides a loop for secondary ripple power to achieve secondary ripple power decoupling control.
US11444538B2	Switching regulator based on load estimation and operating method thereof A switching regulator may be used to generate an output voltage from an input voltage. The switching regulator includes; an inductor including a first terminal and a second terminal that passes an inductor current from the first terminal to the second terminal, a first switch that applies the input voltage to the first terminal when turned ON, a second switch that applies a ground potential to the first terminal when turned ON, a feedback circuit configured to estimate a load receiving the output voltage, detect when the inductor current reaches an upper bound or a lower bound, and adjust the lower bound based on the estimated load, and a switch driver configured to control the first switch and the second switch, such that the inductor current is between the upper bound and the lower bound in response to at least one feedback signal provided by the feedback circuit.
US11444532B2	Non-linear clamp strength tuning method and apparatus A 3-level ripple quantization scheme provides power transistor (MOS) strength-tuning mechanism focused on the transient clamp period. The 3-level ripple quantization scheme solves the digital low dropout's (D-LDO's) tradeoff between silicon area (e.g., decoupling capacitor size), quiescent power consumption (e.g., speed of comparators), wide load range, and optimal output ripple. The 3-level ripple quantization scheme eliminates oscillation risk from either wide dynamic range or parasitic by exploiting asynchronous pulse patterns. As such, ripple magnitude for both fast di/dt loading events and various steady-state scenarios are shrunk effectively, resulting significant efficiency benefits.
US11444525B2	Inverter system and inverter system control method An inverter system includes a level skip prevention control section. The level skip prevention control section is configured to: in response to an upward shift of an output voltage level of a first one of phases, set a counter for inhibiting upward shifting of the output voltage level of the first phase during a predetermined duration, and set a counter for inhibiting downward shifting of an output voltage level of a second one of the phases other than the first phase during a predetermined duration; and in response to a downward shift of the output voltage level of the first phase, set a counter for inhibiting downward shifting of the output voltage level of the first phase during a predetermined duration, and set a counter for inhibiting upward shifting of the output voltage level of the second phase during a predetermined duration.
US11444514B2	Sensor module for mounting in a motor A sensor module for mounting in a motor includes a holder adapted to be mounted in a wet chamber of the motor, a temperature sensor adapted to be mounted in a dry chamber of the motor, a rotational position sensor mounted on the holder, a connector interface adapted to be plugged into a corresponding connector, and a sealing element arranged between the rotational position sensor and the temperature sensor. The temperature sensor is spaced apart from the holder. The rotational position sensor and the temperature sensor are connected via a plurality of signal lines to the connector interface. The sealing element is sealingly penetrated by the signal lines from one of the rotational position sensor and the temperature sensor.
US11444509B2	Air-cooling system for portable generator Devices, systems, and methods to air cool a portable generator are disclosed. The devices include various air ducts to direct airflow over heated components within a cabinet of the portable generator to cool the components by convection. A damping fan draws ambient temperature air into the cabinet and directs the air into channels of an outflow duct.
US11444506B2	Line bushing and terminal studs with increased ignition gaps The invention relates to a line bushing (1) in a housing (2) of an electrical machine (1) in explosive atmospheres, having a threaded bush (100) and a terminal stud (200), wherein the threaded bush (100) is an insulator and is located in, particularly screwed into, a recess in the housing (2), wherein the terminal stud (200) is made from an electrically conductive material and is provided, at least in sections, with a thread, wherein connection options (206) for lines and braids are provided at either end of the terminal stud (200), wherein the terminal stud (200) can be screwed into the threaded bush (100).
US11444503B2	Motor and method of manufacturing motor A motor includes a rotor including a shaft extending along a central axis, a stator including a coil and opposing the rotor in a radial direction with a gap, and a busbar positioned at one axial-directional side of the stator. The busbar includes a conducting wire-connecting portion connected to a conducting wire extending from the coil. A notch into which the conducting wire is inserted is provided in the conducting wire connecting portion. An inner circumferential surface of the notch includes a bottom surface opposing an opening side of the notch, a first opposed surface extending from the bottom surface towards the opening, and a second opposed surface extending from the bottom surface towards the opening and opposing the first opposed surface.
US11444497B2	Stator for electric machine with multi-part conductor assembly A stator for an electric machine is fabricated by assembling a core and first and second winding assemblies. The first winding assembly (FWA) is fabricated by a 3D printing process and includes a plurality of U-shaped conductors (hairpins) having respective end-turns arranged in mutually axially-nested relationship to each other to form a ring, and further having two uprights disposed in one of the slots of the core. End-turns connect respective pairs of the uprights and are disposed adjacent to an end surface of the core, distal ends of the uprights projecting axially beyond an opposite end surface of the core. The second winding assembly (SWA) includes a plurality of bridges forming a second ring Opposite ends of each bridge define terminals that mate with ends of the uprights. The SWA further includes an electrically non-conductive casing in which at least one of the bridges is embedded.
US11444496B1	Timing verification in precision power level control systems for wireless power transmission A power transmitter includes a control and communications unit, an inverter circuit, a coil, and a shielding. The control and communications unit is configured to provide power control signals to control a power level of a power signal configured for transmission to a power receiver, provide a power timing request to an external power supply, and determine if the timing of the external power supply is compliant if the power timing request is met within a timing interval. The coil is configured to transmit the power signal to a power receiver, the coil formed of wound Litz wire and including at least one layer, the coil defining, at least, a top face. The shielding comprises a ferrite core and defining a cavity, the cavity configured such that the ferrite core substantially surrounds all but the top face of the coil.
US11444489B2	Electronic apparatus, system and method According to one embodiment, an wireless power transmission apparatus includes a plurality of antennas, a power transmission circuit, a measuring circuit and a control circuit. The power transmission circuit is configured to transmit a beam of a first wireless signal from the plurality of antennas. The measuring circuit is configured to receive a second wireless signal with the plurality of antennas. The control circuit is configured to: detect an object in a direction of the beam based on the second wireless signal received at a plurality of timings; and change a shape of the beam by controlling at least either an amplitude or a phase of the first wireless signal provided to each antenna of the plurality of antennas.
US11444481B2	Wireless power transmitter, electronic device and controlling method thereof A wireless power transmitter includes an antenna and a processor configured to control the antenna to respectively transmit detection powers in a plurality of directions, the detection powers including a first detection power and a second detection power, the first detection power including a first direction information and identification information of the wireless power transmitter, the first detection power being transmitted in a first direction, the second detection power including a second direction information and the identification information of the wireless power transmitter, the second detection power being transmitted in a second direction different from the first direction; control to receive a communication signal including the first direction information and the identification information of the wireless power transmitter from an electronic device which received the first detection power; and based on receiving the communication signal, control the antenna to transmit power for charging in the first direction.
US11444468B2	Balanced charging device and charging system having integrated ports A balanced charging device and a charging system used to solve the technical problem of too long charging time of the balanced charging device. The balanced charging device comprises a plurality of charging modules, each of which independently charges a battery unit and is provided with a positive port and a negative port with independent functions; the positive port is connected with the positive port of the battery unit corresponding to the charging module, and the negative port is connected with the negative port of the battery unit corresponding to the charging module. The charging system includes the balanced charging device. The balanced charging device and charging system provided by the disclosure are used for charging a plurality of battery units in series.
US11444466B2	Charging system for diverse batteries A power system includes a plurality of storage battery facilities constructed to be interconnected to an electric power grid, and a multi-storage battery control apparatus configured to control the plurality of storage battery facilities, the plurality of storage battery facilities include a first storage battery facility including at least one first storage battery, and a second storage battery facility including at least one second storage battery, the first storage battery is different from the second storage battery in type, and the multi-storage battery control apparatus is constructed to selectively use the first storage battery facility or the second storage battery facility in accordance with a plurality of different types of application.
US11444461B2	System and method for dynamically estimating inverter-based resource reactive power capability A method for controlling a power system includes generating, via at least one inverter-based resource, one or more command signals via a regulator of at least one inverter-based resource of the power system. Further, the method includes dynamically estimating, via the at least one inverter-based resource, a reactive power capability of the at least one inverter-based resource based, at least in part, on the one or more command signals. Further, the method includes sending, via the at least one inverter-based resource, the reactive power capability to the system-level controller. Thus, the method includes controlling the power system based on the reactive power capability.
US11444460B1	Power quality compensation system and control method with bus voltage and current peak control A power quality compensation system has the functions of controlling the bus voltage and the current peak value. A first instruction current under control of a first peak current processing unit is lower than or equal to a first current threshold value. A second peak current processing unit outputs a second PWM driving signal according to a sampled current and a second current threshold value. A third peak current processing unit outputs a third PWM driving signal according to the sampled current and a third current threshold value. A conversion unit is operated according to the PWM driving signals. Moreover, the first current threshold value is adjusted in real time according to the comparing result of the sample current and the first current threshold value and the comparing result of the real DC bus voltage and the reference DC bus voltage.
US11444455B2	Integrated circuit protection In certain aspects of the disclosure, a protection circuit includes a first input/output (I/O) pin, a second I/O pad, a shunt clamp coupled to the first I/O pad, and a resistor coupled between the shunt clamp and the second I/O pad. The resistor has a first dynamic resistance at a voltage of 100 millivolts across the resistor, the resistor has a second dynamic resistance at a voltage of three volts across the resistor, and the second dynamic resistance is at least five times greater than the first dynamic resistance.
US11444447B2	Ground fault circuit breaker with remote testing capability A circuit interrupting device includes line and load terminals and an interrupter electrically coupled therebetween, the interrupter having open and closed conditions. The device also includes a fault detector configured to detect a fault in an electrical signal in the load circuit. When such a fault is detected, the fault detector causes actuation of the interrupter to the open condition. A communication interface is adapted to receive a remote test command signal, and a processor generates, in response to receipt of the remote test command signal, a simulated fault in the load circuit, such that the fault detector attempts to cause actuation of the interrupter to the open condition. The processor determines whether or not the fault detector successfully caused actuation of the interrupter to the open condition in response to receipt of the remote test command signal, and if not, generates an alarm signal indicative of a malfunction.
US11444441B2	Clickable cable trays Cable trays which can be pushed inside one another and can be clicked onto one another. Assemblies include cable trays, barbs for cable trays and related methods.
US11444432B2	Laser driver pulse shaping control Time-of-flight (ToF) systems which use pulsed laser diodes, are required to measure distances with high level of precision and control. The present disclosure provides a method and a corresponding system for controlling a temporal response of a laser diode, in particular pulsed laser diodes. In particular, the present disclosure provides a method and a related system for driving a laser diode so as to obtain predominantly a peak pulse response while minimising or completely avoiding the post-peak response in a temporal response of the laser diode.
US11444423B2	Method for manufacturing connector The present disclosure provides a method for manufacturing connector, comprising steps of: Obtaining a terminal module comprising a terminal body and a plurality of terminals, wherein the terminal body comprises an interface part, a hollow area, and an electrical connecting part, the hollow area is disposed between the interface part and the electrical connecting part, the plurality of terminals is disposed on the terminal body, each terminal passes through the interface part, the hollow area, and the electrical connecting part. Assembling a housing on the terminal module, wherein the hollow area passed by the plurality of the terminals is exposed from the housing. Inject-molding a waterproof block into the hollow area, wherein the waterproof block encases the plurality of the terminals disposed in the hollow area, the waterproof block is disposed between the interface part and the electrical connecting part.
US11444417B2	RF connector element and RF connector system A first RF connector element mating with a second RF connector element includes a first terminal having a first contact region, a second terminal having a second contact region, and a first electrical insulator element electrically insulating the first terminal and the second terminal. The first electrical insulator element has a first contact support part and a first compensation part. The first contact support part is integrally formed of a first dielectric material and has a first relative dielectric constant. The first compensation part is integrally formed with the first contact support part of a second dielectric material, the second dielectric material having a second relative dielectric constant greater than the first relative dielectric constant. The first compensation part is arranged at a front end region of the first electrical insulator element and at least partly encompasses the first contact region.
US11444414B2	Connector and connector device A connector includes a housing, an outer shield fixed to the housing and including a tubular portion, and a terminal held by the housing and surrounded by the tubular portion of the outer shield. The tubular portion has a first end and a second end opposite to each other. The first end and the second end of the tubular portion open. The tubular portion surrounds a hollow space. The connector is configured to be connected to a mating connector by moving toward the mating connector in a predetermined direction relatively with respect to the mating connector. The first end of the tubular portion of the outer shield is located in the predetermined direction in the tubular portion. The tubular portion of the outer shield has an inner circumferential surface facing the hollow space, an outer circumferential surface opposite to the inner circumferential surface, and a distal end surface provided at the first end. At least one of the distal end surface, the outer circumferential surface, and the inner circumferential surface is seamless over an entire circumference of the tubular portion surrounding the hollow space along a circumferential direction of the tubular portion.
US11444411B2	Weather protecting (WP) boot for coaxial cable connectors A weather protection system for a coaxial cable connector comprising: (i) an over-mold cap disposed over a prepared end of a coaxial cable, (ii) a compliant Weather Protecting (WP) boot circumscribing the over-mold cap, and a mating interface disposed between an outer surface of the over-mold cap and an inner surface of the compliant WP boot. The mating interface is configured to provide tactile feedback to an assembler/technician when assembling the WP boot in combination with the over-mold cap.
US11444399B2	High reliability sliding power connector An electronic assembly with a sliding power connector mounted on a first substrate. The connector has tracks and terminals with contact fingers. A bus bar may be aligned by the tracks such that contact surfaces on the contact fingers press against contact surfaces on the bus bar. The electronic system may be implemented as a rack, and the electronic assembly may be or include a printed circuit board on which the power connector terminals are mounted. The printed circuit board may slide in and out of the rack while power is supplied from the bus bar to components on the printed circuit board. High reliability may be provided by one or more tabs on the housing that increase mating force of the contact fingers and/or prevent damage to the contact fingers from overstress. The contact fingers may be positioned to increase the lifetime of the system.
US11444382B2	Antenna device and antenna module An antenna device includes an antenna element and a dummy antenna element. The antenna element is configured to construct a patch antennae. The dummy antenna is coupled to a ground layer by a conductive through portion which pass through a substrate in a thickness direction. A position of the conductive through portion with respect to the dummy antenna element is a first position on a straight line that divides an angle between a first straight line and a second straight line, or a second position in the neighborhood of the first position. The first straight pass through a first feed point and a center of dummy antenna element. The second straight passing through a second feed point and the center. The first feed point and the second feed point being feed points when the dummy antenna element generates circularly polarized waves.
US11444368B2	Systems of 5G-enabled integrated roofing accessories and mehtods of use thereof In some embodiments, systems and methods are configured to determine that a signal strength of a fifth generation cellular networking (5G) protocol communication is below a threshold strength value. The 5G protocol communication includes a millimeter wave (mmWave) frequency transmission between a computing device and a first integrated roofing accessory of a first roof. It is determined that a second integrated roofing accessory of a second roof would have an improved signal strength is indicative of a better line of sight to the computing device, and the first integrated roofing accessory and the second integrated roofing accessory are part of a 5G network. At least one of transferring the 5G protocol communication to the second integrated roofing accessory from the first integrated roofing accessory of the first roof, or including the second integrated roofing accessory into the 5G protocol communication with the computing device is performed.
US11444365B2	Radio-frequency (RF)-interface and modular plate A RAMP-radio frequency (RAMP-RF) assembly is provided and includes an RF panel including a microstrip interface, a plate including a stripline interface and a microstrip-to-stripline transition element operably connectable to the microstrip interface and to the stripline interface.
US11444350B2	Packaging material for power storage device, and power storage device A packaging material for a power storage device includes a base material layer as an outer layer, a heat fusible resin layer as an inner layer, and a metal foil layer arranged between both the layers. The base material layer and the metal foil layer are adhered via an outer adhesive layer. The outer adhesive layer is formed of a cured film of a two-part curing type urethane adhesive agent including a main agent containing a polyol and a multifunctional isocyanate mixture, wherein a content rate of the polyol is 50 mass % to 95 mass %. The multifunctional isocyanate mixture is composed of a mixture containing an aromatic multifunctional isocyanate and an aliphatic multifunctional isocyanate having an aromatic ring.
US11444343B2	Portable and modular energy storage for multiple applications A removable modular energy pack may include a first housing, and one or more energy cells. The modular energy pack may also include a processing system that aggregates power from the plurality of energy cells, and a first interface that communicates a status of the modular energy pack to a second housing. The modular energy pack may further include a second interface that transmits the aggregated power to the second housing, and a thermal material enclosed in the first housing. A thermal material may be arranged in the housing adjacent to the plurality of energy cells to transfer heat away from the plurality of energy cells and to transfer the heat to the second housing.
US11444337B2	Solid state switch driver circuit for a battery system In a solid state switch (SSS) driver circuit for controlling a solid state switch operated as high side switch between a battery cell stack and a load, the SSS driver circuit includes: a voltage generation circuit; a switch off circuit; and a switch controller connected to a first output node and to a second output node, wherein the switch controller is configured to: receive a ground voltage via a third ground node, and a fourth control signal; and connect the first output node and a gate node of the solid state switch according to the fourth control signal.
US11444336B2	Electronic device and battery module An electronic device includes a device housing having a first receiving cavity, a function module at least partially located in the first receiving cavity, and a battery module located in the first receiving cavity. The battery module includes a battery casing that forms a second receiving cavity, a battery component located in the second receiving cavity, and a charging component located in the second receiving cavity. The battery component is configured to store electrical energy or release the stored electrical energy. The charging component is connected to the battery component and configured to charge the battery component through transmission of a wireless signal with a power supply device.
US11444331B2	Battery cell and electronic device The present application relates to a battery cell and an electronic device. The battery cell according to an embodiment comprises: an electrode assembly, including an electrode plate; and a shell, receiving the electrode assembly and including a first edge seal, a second edge seal and a circular edge seal connecting the first edge seal and the second edge seal, wherein the circular edge seal defines a virtual circular arc region with a radius R and a radian angle Ø, wherein the electrode plate has a first edge, a second edge, and a third edge connecting the first edge and the second edge, and a virtual extension line of the first edge and a virtual extension line of the second edge intersect to form a virtual intersection point A; a point on the third edge has a minimum distance L relative to the virtual intersection point A; and the virtual extension lines of the first edge and the second edge form a corner at the virtual intersection point A toward the third edge, and an angle of the corner is greater than 0 degrees and less than 180 degrees. The battery cell and the electronic device provided by the present application have higher safety performance, a higher space utilization ratio and a higher energy density.
US11444325B2	Electrolytic solution and electrochemical device One aspect of the present invention provides an electrolytic solution comprising a compound represented by the following formula (1), wherein a content of the compound is 10% by mass or less based on the total amount of the electrolytic solution, wherein R1 to R3 each independently represent an alkyl group or a fluorine atom, R4 represents an alkylene group, and R5 represents an organic group containing a nitrogen atom.
US11444324B2	Electrolyte for secondary battery, secondary battery, battery pack, electric vehicle, electric power storage system, electric tool and electronic device A secondary battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and an electrolytic solution where (A) the electrolytic solution contains a solvent and an electrolyte salt, the solvent containing ethylene carbonate, (B) a content of the electrolyte salt is from 0.8 mol/kg to 2.0 mol/kg both inclusive, (C) a content of the ethylene carbonate in the solvent is from 10 wt % to 30 wt % both inclusive, (D) a ratio M2/M1 of a number M2 of moles of the ethylene carbonate to a number M1 of moles of the electrolyte salt is from 0.4 to 2.4 both inclusive, and (E) the electrolytic solution contains at least one of sulfone compounds.
US11444323B2	All-solid-state battery Provided is an all-solid-state battery configured to suppress the collapse of an end in the plane direction of an electrode laminate. Disclosed is an all-solid-state battery comprising an electrode laminate that comprises a cathode comprising a cathode layer, an anode comprising an anode layer, and a solid electrolyte layer disposed between the cathode layer and the anode layer, wherein a resin layer containing a polymer is disposed in at least a part of an end in a plane direction of the electrode laminate, the polymer having a self-healing function and a structure crosslinked via bonding between a host molecule and a guest molecule.
US11444320B2	Sulfide solid electrolyte particles, method for producing the same, and all-solid-state battery Provided are sulfide solid electrolyte particles which have sufficient ion conductivity and which are configured to suppress hydrogen sulfide generation, and an all-solid-state battery comprising the sulfide solid electrolyte particles. Disclosed are sulfide solid electrolyte particles comprising Li, P, S and a halogen as constituent elements and having a Li/P molar ratio of more than 3, wherein an oxygen/sulfur element ratio of a particle surface measured by XPS is 0.29 or more and 0.81 and less, and an oxygen/sulfur element ratio at a depth of 30 nm (in terms of a SiO2 sputter rate) from the particle surface measured by XPS, is 0.29 or less.
US11444317B2	Sulfide solid electrolyte Provided is a sulfide solid electrolyte containing lithium, phosphorus, sulfur and chlorine, in which a molar ratio of the chlorine to the phosphorus, c (Cl/P), is greater than 1.0 and 1.9 or less, the sulfide solid electrolyte includes an argyrodite-type crystal structure, and a lattice constant of the argyrodite-type crystal structure is 9.820 Å or less.
US11444313B2	Battery module, in particular for a motor vehicle, having at least one battery cell subjected to force and at least one deformable interlayer A battery module, in particular for a motor vehicle, encompassing at least one battery cell that is received, in a manner impinged upon by compressive force along a spacing axis, between two pressure surfaces arranged with a spacing from one another along the spacing axis and clamped toward one another; at least one interlayer additionally being provided along the spacing axis between the pressure surfaces; the interlayer, constituting an LWRT interlayer, encompasses a porous LWRT material having a thermoplastically bonded fiber tangle.
US11444312B2	Layered energy storage devices and methods of forming the layered energy storage devices Layered energy storage devices and methods of forming the layered energy storage devices are disclosed herein. The layered energy storage devices include a first device layer, a second device layer, an intermediate layer, and an interlock structure. The first device layer defines a first electrode, and the second device layer defines a second electrode. The intermediate layer extends between, and electrically separates, the first electrode and the second electrode. The intermediate layer includes an electrolyte material configured to facilitate ion transport between the first electrode and the second electrode. The interlock structure is at least partially defined by the first device layer and also by the second device layer. The interlock structure is configured to operatively interlock the first device layer, the second device layer, and the intermediate layer to one another. The methods include methods of forming the layered energy storage devices.
US11444298B2	Electrolyte shunt migration management in a fuel cell stack An illustrative example fuel cell assembly includes a plurality of fuel cells arranged in a stack including a first end fuel cell near a first end of the stack and a second end fuel cell near a second end of the stack. Each of the fuel cells includes a matrix containing an electrolyte, an anode and a cathode on opposite sides of the matrix, and respective flow fields adjacent the anode and the cathode. An electrolyte supply associated with the anode flow field of the first end fuel cell includes a porous material containing electrolyte. An electrolyte collector associated with the cathode flow field of the second end fuel cell includes a porous material configured to collect electrolyte from at least the cathode of the second end fuel cell.
US11444297B2	Manufacturing method for gas diffusion sheet In a manufacturing method for a gas diffusion sheet, when a first film is joined to a front end portion of a base material in a conveyance direction, a first joining material is made to penetrate a first overlapping portion where the first film and the base material are superimposed on each other, and the first film and the base material are thus joined to each other physically through the first joining material. When a second film is joined to a rear end portion of the base material in the conveyance direction, a second joining material is made to penetrate a second overlapping portion where the base material and the second film are superimposed on each other, and the base material and the second film are thus physically joined to each other through the second joining material.
US11444292B2	Anticorrosive and conductive material An anticorrosive and conductive substrate includes a bulk portion and a surface portion including a magnesium titanium material having a formula (I) TixMg1-xOy (I), where x is a number from 0 to ≤1 and y is a number from 1 to ≤2, and wherein at least about 50% of the magnesium titanium material has a cubic crystal structure, and wherein the magnesium titanium material is configured to impart anticorrosive and conductive properties to the substrate.
US11444286B2	Flow batteries having an electrode with differing hydrophilicity on opposing faces and methods for production and use thereof Electrochemical cells, such as those present within flow batteries, can include at least one electrode with one face being more hydrophilic than is the other. Such electrodes can lessen the incidence of parasitic reactions by directing convective electrolyte circulation toward a separator in the electrochemical cell. Flow batteries containing the electrochemical cells can include: a first half-cell containing a first electrode with a first face and a second face that are directionally opposite one another, a second half-cell containing a second electrode with a first face and a second face that are directionally opposite one another, and a separator disposed between the first half-cell and the second half-cell. The first face of both the first and second electrodes is disposed adjacent to the separator. The first face of at least one of the first electrode and the second electrode is more hydrophilic than is the second face.
US11444275B2	Method for manufacturing positive active material, and positive active material and lithium secondary battery using same A method for preparing a positive electrode active material, a positive electrode active material prepared using the same, and a lithium secondary battery, and in particular, to a method for preparing a positive electrode active material comprising the steps of (a) preparing a coating composition including a precursor of metal-phosphorous-oxynitride; (b) forming a precursor layer on a positive electrode active material with the coating composition of (a) using a solution process; and (c) forming a metal-phosphorous-oxynitride protective layer on the positive electrode active material by heat treating the positive electrode active material having the precursor layer formed thereon. The method for preparing a positive electrode active material uses a solution process, which is advantageous in terms of simplifying the whole process and reducing costs, and high capacity, high stabilization and long lifetime are obtained as well by the formed protective layer having excellent properties.
US11444273B2	Method for manufacturing lithium electrode A method for preparing a lithium electrode, and in particular, a lithium electrode having a thin and uniform thickness may be prepared by forming a protective layer capable of protecting lithium metal on a substrate first, depositing lithium metal on the protective layer, and then transferring the deposited lithium metal layer on a current collector, for instance a Cu current collector, when preparing a lithium electrode, and a lithium secondary battery using the lithium electrode prepared as above may have enhanced energy density.
US11444270B2	Treating sulfide glass surfaces and making solid state laminate electrode assemblies Methods for making solid-state laminate electrode assemblies include methods of forming a solid electrolyte interphase (SEI) by ion implanting nitrogen and/or phosphorous into the glass surface by ion implantation.
US11444268B2	Electronic devices with flexible display cover layers An electronic device may have a hinge that allows the device to be flexed about a bend axis. A display may span the bend axis. To facilitate bending about the bend axis without damage, the display may include a display cover layer with a flexible portion. The flexible portion of the display cover layer may be interposed between first and second rigid portions of the display cover layer. The display cover layer may also include a layer with self-healing properties. The layer of self-healing material may be formed across the entire display cover layer or may be formed only in the flexible region of the display cover layer. The display cover layer may include a layer of elastomer in the flexible region of the display cover layer for increased flexibility. Self-healing may be initiated or expedited by externally applied heat, light, electric current, or other type of external stimulus.
US11444263B2	Flexible display panel, and display device having thin film packaging layer with protrusions A flexible display panel. The flexible display panel includes: a flexible substrate; a display element arranged on the flexible substrate; and a packaging layer covering the display element, the packaging layer including an inorganic thin film and an organic thin film that are stacked alternately, in which two protrusion structures that are engaged with each other are arranged between at least two adjacent thin films of the packaging layer.
US11444260B2	Foldable electronic device including bezel sag preventing structure An electronic device is disclosed. An electronic device may include: a foldable housing including a hinge, a first housing connected to the hinge and including a first surface oriented in a first direction and a second surface oriented in a second direction opposite the first direction, a second housing connected to the hinge and including a third surface oriented in a third direction and a fourth surface oriented in a fourth direction opposite the third direction, wherein the second housing is configured to be folded on the first housing about the hinge, and side surfaces surrounding at least a part of a space between the first surface and the second surface and at least a part of a space between the third surface and the fourth surface; and a display having ductility and extending from the first surface to the third surface to configure the first surface and the third surface, wherein the foldable housing is disposed along an edge of the display and includes bezels extending from respective side surfaces to an active area of the display, and wherein the bezels include, in an area configuring the first surface and the third surface of the foldable housing, extensions spaced apart from edge portions of the display, and support portions disposed between the edge of the display and the extensions to be in contact with the edge portions of the display.
US11444255B2	Method of manufacturing display device, display device, display module, and electronic device A flexible display device is manufactured with high yield. A display device having high resistance to repeated bending is provided. The display device is manufactured by forming a separation layer over a support substrate; forming, over the separation layer, an inorganic insulating layer including a first portion and a second portion; forming a display element over the inorganic insulating layer to be overlapped with the first portion; forming a connection electrode over the inorganic insulating layer to be overlapped with the second portion; sealing the display element; separating the support substrate and the inorganic insulating layer using the separation layer; attaching a substrate to the inorganic insulating layer to be overlapped with the first portion; and etching the second portion using the substrate as a mask to expose the connection electrode.
US11444252B2	Nitrogen-containing compound, organic electroluminescent device and electronic apparatus The present disclosure relates to the technical field of organic materials, and provided therein is a nitrogen-containing compound, comprising at least three directly or indirectly linked fused ring systems. A first fused ring system is a fluorenyl group spiro-linked by adamantane, and adamantyl can greatly increase the electron cloud density of a conjugated structure of the first fused ring system by means of a hyperconjugation effect, which can increase hole mobility. The three fused ring systems enable the nitrogen-containing compound of the present disclosure to have a high first triplet energy level so that the nitrogen-containing compound of the present disclosure is suitable as the host material of an organic light-emitting layer in an organic electroluminescent device. Further provided in the present disclosure are an organic electroluminescent device comprising the described nitrogen-containing compound and an electronic apparatus, and the described nitrogen-containing compound can improve the performance of the organic electroluminescent device.
US11444250B2	Composition of matter for use in organic light-emitting diodes The present disclosure relates to compounds of Formula (I) as compounds capable of emitting delayed fluorescence, and uses of the compounds in organic light-emitting diodes.
US11444244B2	Mask plate and fabrication method thereof The present disclosure provides a mask plate and fabrication method thereof. The mask plate includes a substrate, having a first surface and a second surface, and containing a plurality of openings. The mask plate also includes a mask pattern layer, formed on the first surface of the substrate and including a plurality of pattern regions and a shield region surrounding the plurality of pattern regions. Each pattern region includes at least one through hole, and each opening formed in the substrate exposes a pattern region and the at least one through hole in the pattern region. The mask plate further includes a top substrate layer, formed on the mask pattern layer. The top substrate layer contains a plurality of grooves passing through the top substrate layer, and each groove exposes a pattern region in the mask pattern layer and exposes the at least one through hole in the pattern region.
US11444243B2	Electronic devices comprising metal oxide materials and related methods and systems An electronic device comprising a stack structure comprising one or more stacks of materials and a metal oxide material adjacent to the stacks of materials. The materials of the stacks comprise one or more chalcogenide materials. The metal oxide material comprises aluminum oxide, aluminum silicate, hafnium oxide, hafnium silicate, zirconium oxide, zirconium silicate, or a combination thereof and the metal oxide material extends continuously from an upper portion of the one or more stacks of materials to a lower portion of the one or more stacks of materials. Additional electronic devices are disclosed, as are related systems and methods of forming an electronic device.
US11444239B1	Magnetoresistive element having an adjacent-bias layer and a toggle writing scheme A magnetoresistive element using combined spin-transfer-torque controlled magnetic bias and VCMA effects comprising a free layer and an adjacent-bias layer separated by a nonmagnetic spacing layer, wherein the free layer has an interfacial perpendicular magnetic anisotropy and a variable magnetization direction substantially perpendicular to a film surface, the adjacent-bias layer has a perpendicular magnetic anisotropy and a variable magnetization direction substantially perpendicular to a film surface, and the perpendicular anisotropy of the free layer is sufficiently higher than that of the adjacent-bias layer such that the critical switching current to reverse the free layer magnetization direction is at least 3 times as high as the critical switching current to reverse the adjacent-bias layer magnetization direction. Further, there is provided a toggle writing method of the perpendicular magnetoresistive element comprises: applying a first write pulse having a first voltage magnitude and a first pulse width to reverse the adjacent-bias layer magnetization direction to be anti-parallel to the free layer magnetization direction by spin-transfer-torque effect, and applying a second write pulse having a second voltage magnitude and a second pulse width to reverse the free layer magnetization direction to be parallel to the adjacent-bias layer magnetization direction by voltage-controlled magnetic anisotropy effect under the magnetic dipole bias field from the adjacent-bias layer.
US11444234B2	Method for creating high-resolution micro- to nano-scale structures on flexible substrates A method includes providing a film of a high-temperature superconductor compound on a flexible substrate, where a portion of the film has a first oxygen state, and exposing a portion of the film to a focused ion beam to create a structure within the film. The structure may result from the portion of the film being partially or completely removed. The structure may be a trench along the length or width of the film. The method may include annealing the exposed portion of the film to a second oxygen state. The oxygen content of the second oxygen state may be greater or less than the oxygen content of the first oxygen state.
US11444233B1	Josephson magnetic memory cell with ferrimagnetic layers having orthogonal magnetic polarity A hysteretic magnetic Josephson junction (HMJJ) device is provided that comprises a non-magnetic spacer disposed between a first ferromagnetic layer and a second ferromagnetic layer, a first ferrimagnetic layer having a first side disposed on a side of the first ferromagnetic layer opposite the non-magnetic spacer, and a second ferrimagnetic layer having a first side disposed on a side of the second ferromagnetic layer opposite the non-magnetic spacer. The first ferrimagnetic layer and the second ferrimagnetic layer are formed from a composition that provides orthogonally magnetic responses relative to the magnetic responses of the first ferromagnetic layer and the second ferromagnetic layer. The HMJJ further comprises a first superconducting material layer having a first side disposed on a second side of the first ferromagnetic layer and a second superconducting material layer having a first side disposed on a second side of the second ferromagnetic layer.
US11444223B2	Light emitting device A light emitting device including at least one first light emitting unit including an ultraviolet or violet light emitting diode chip and a first wavelength converter, at least one second light emitting unit including an ultraviolet or violet light emitting diode chip and a second wavelength converter, and at least one third light emitting unit including an ultraviolet or violet light emitting diode chip and a third wavelength converter, in which color coordinates of the first light emitting unit, the second light emitting unit, and the third light emitting unit define a triangular region in a CIE-1931 coordinate system, the triangular region including at least a portion of the Plankian locus, and a maximum color temperature of the Plankian locus included in the triangular region is 5000K or higher, and a minimum color temperature of the Plankian locus included in the triangular region is 3000K or lower.
US11444221B2	Layer transfer of films utilizing controlled shear region A film of material may be formed by providing a semiconductor substrate having a surface region and a cleave region located at a predetermined depth beneath the surface region. During a process of cleaving the film from the substrate, shear in the cleave region is carefully controlled. According to certain embodiments, an in-plane shear component (KII) is maintained near zero, sandwiched between a tensile region and a compressive region. In one embodiment, cleaving can be accomplished using a plate positioned over the substrate surface. The plate serves to constrain movement of the film during cleaving, and together with a localized thermal treatment reduces shear developed during the cleaving process. According to other embodiments, the KII component is purposefully maintained at a high level and serves to guide and drive fracture propagation through the cleave sequence.
US11444220B2	Light detection device and method for manufacturing light detection device A method for producing a light detection device includes preparing a back-illuminated light receiving element that includes a plurality of light receiving sections and a trench which is open to a first main surface so as to isolate the adjacent light receiving sections from each other; disposing the light receiving element on a wiring substrate such that the first main surface of the light receiving element faces the wiring substrate; forming a resin mold, which reaches at least a position that is further away from the wiring substrate than an end portion on a second main surface side of the trench in a thickness direction of the wiring substrate, on the wiring substrate so as to surround an entire side surface of the light receiving element; polishing the light receiving element and the resin mold from the second main surface side of the light receiving element.
US11444219B2	Sensor package array, method of manufacturing the same, and sensor package structure A sensor package array, a method of manufacturing the same, and a sensor package structure are provided. The method of manufacturing a sensor package array including: disposing a plurality of sensors on a substrate sequentially in an array; electrically connecting the plurality of sensors to the substrate; disposing a plastic shield on the substrate, so as to form a plurality of channels and a plurality of accommodating grooves among the plastic shield, the substrate, and the plurality of sensors; and filling a sealing material in the plurality of accommodating grooves, through the plurality of channels.
US11444217B2	Method for producing a thin-film solar module A method for producing a thin-film solar module with serially connected solar cells and related device. A back electrode layer is deposited on one side of a flat substrate and subdivided by first patterning trenches. An absorber layer is deposited over the back electrode layer and subdivided by second patterning trenches. A front electrode layer is deposited over the absorber layer. At least the front electrode layer is subdivided by third patterning trenches. A direct succession of a first patterning trench, a second patterning trench, and two adjacent third patterning trenches forms a patterning zone. The third patterning trenches are produced by laser ablation through a pulsed laser beam, where one third patterning trench is produced with laser pulses of higher energy and the other third patterning trench of the patterning zone is produced with laser pulses of lower energy.
US11444188B2	Quantum dot devices Disclosed herein are quantum dot devices, as well as related computing devices and methods. For example, in some embodiments, a quantum dot device may include: a base; a fin extending away from the base, wherein the fin includes a quantum well layer; an insulating material at least partially above the fin, wherein the insulating material includes a trench above the fin; and a gate metal on the insulating material and extending into the trench.
US11444186B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, first and second trench electrodes formed on the semiconductor substrate, a floating layer of a first conductivity type formed around the first and second trench electrodes, a floating separation layer of a second conductivity type formed between the first and second trench electrodes and contacted with the floating layer of the first conductivity type and a floating layer control gate disposed on the floating separation layer of the second conductivity type.
US11444185B2	III-V lateral bipolar junction transistor on local facetted buried oxide layer A bipolar junction transistor (LBJT) device that includes a base region of a first III-V semiconductor material having A first band gap; and emitter and collector regions present on opposing sides of the base region, wherein the emitter and collector regions are comprised of a second III-V semiconductor material having a wider band gap than the first III-V semiconductor material. A dielectric region is present underlying the base region, emitter region and the collect region. The dielectric region has an inverted apex geometry. The sidewalls of dielectric region that extend to the apex of the inverted apex geometry are present on facets of a supporting substrate III-V semiconductor material having a {110} crystalline orientation.
US11444182B2	Fin semiconductor device and method for making the same A manufacturing method of a fin semiconductor device is disclosed. The method includes: providing a substrate; etching the substrate the first time to form a fin channel structure which protrudes from the substrate; forming a protective oxide layer on two sidewalls and the top surface of the fin channel structure; etching a the second time to form the base part of the fin channel structure, wherein the base part is not covered by the protective layer; oxidizing the base part of the fin channel, when the upper part of the fin channel is blocked from oxidation by the protective layer; removing both the protective layer and the oxidized base part of the fin channel structure, so that the upper part of the fin channel structure is suspended over the substrate.
US11444178B2	Inner spacer liner The present disclosure provides a semiconductor device and a method of forming the same. A semiconductor device according to the present disclosure includes a first source/drain feature and a second source/drain feature over a substrate, a plurality of channel members extending between the first source/drain feature and the second source/drain feature, a plurality of inner spacer features interleaving the plurality of channel members, a gate structure wrapping around each of the plurality of channel members, and a semiconductor liner sandwiched between the gate structure and each of the plurality of inner spacer features.
US11444173B2	Semiconductor device structure with salicide layer and method for forming the same Structures and formation methods of a semiconductor device structure are provided. The method includes forming a fin structure over a substrate. The method also includes forming a gate structure over the fin structure. The method further includes forming fin spacers over sidewalls of the fin structure and gate spacers over sidewalls of the gate structure. In addition, the method includes forming a source/drain structure over the fin structure and depositing a dummy material layer to cover the source/drain structure. The dummy material layer is removed faster than the gate spacers during the removal of the dummy material layer. The method further includes forming a salicide layer over the source/drain structure and the fin spacers, and forming a contact over the salicide layer. The dummy material layer includes Ge, amorphous silicon or spin-on carbon.
US11444166B2	Backside source/drain replacement for semiconductor devices with metallization on both sides Techniques are disclosed for backside source/drain (S/D) replacement for semiconductor devices with metallization on both sides (MOBS). The techniques described herein provide methods to recover or otherwise facilitate low contact resistance, thereby reducing or eliminating parasitic external resistance that degrades transistor performance. In some cases, the techniques include forming sacrificial S/D material and a seed layer during frontside processing of a device layer including one or more transistor devices. The device layer can then be inverted and bonded to a host wafer. A backside reveal of the device layer can then be performed via grinding, etching, and/or CMP processes. The sacrificial S/D material can then be removed through backside S/D contact trenches using the seed layer as an etch stop, followed by the formation of relatively highly doped final S/D material grown from the seed layer, to provide enhanced ohmic contact properties. Other embodiments may be described and/or disclosed.
US11444164B2	Shielded gate trench MOSFET having improved specific on-resistance structures A SGT MOSFET having two stepped oxide (TSO) structure in gate trench is disclosed, wherein the TSO has thinner oxide thickness along upper sidewalls of the gate trench than along lower sidewalls of the gate trench. The BV can be enhanced as result of the electric filed reduction near channel region, on-resistance is thus reduced. The present invention further comprises a super junction region below the oxide charge balance region, making vertical electrical field more uniform, the BV is further enhanced and on-resistance is further reduced.
US11444162B2	Backside contact with air spacer A method includes performing a first etching process on a backside of a substrate to expose a dummy contact structure, performing a first deposition process to deposit a first dielectric layer around the dummy contract structure, performing a second deposition process to deposit an oxide layer on the first dielectric layer, removing the dummy contract structure to form a trench, depositing a sacrificial layer on sidewalls of the trench, depositing a second dielectric layer on the sacrificial layer, filling the trench with a conductive material, and removing the sacrificial layer to form an air spacer between the first dielectric layer and the second dielectric layer.
US11444158B2	Semiconductor device including an anode contact region having a varied doping concentration A semiconductor device is proposed. The semiconductor device includes an IGBT in an IGBT portion of a semiconductor body and a diode in a diode portion of the semiconductor body. The diode includes an anode region of a first conductivity type and confined by diode trenches along a first lateral direction. Each of the diode trenches includes a diode trench electrode and a diode trench dielectric. A first contact groove extends into the anode region along a vertical direction from the first surface of the semiconductor body. An anode contact region of the first conductivity type adjoins a bottom side of the first contact groove. A cathode contact region of a second conductivity type adjoins a second surface of the semiconductor body opposite to the first surface. Methods of manufacturing the semiconductor device are also proposed.
US11444156B2	Semiconductor device Provided is a technique capable of improving performance of a semiconductor device. A semiconductor device includes a first semiconductor region of a first conductivity type, a second semiconductor region of a second conductivity type located on the first semiconductor region, third and fourth semiconductor regions of the second conductivity type, a fifth semiconductor region of the first conductivity type, and an electrode. The third semiconductor region is located on the second semiconductor region, and has a higher impurity concentration than the second semiconductor region. The fourth semiconductor region has a higher impurity concentration than the second semiconductor region, is located separately from the third semiconductor region in a planar view, and has contact with the second semiconductor region. The fifth semiconductor region is located on the second semiconductor region, and is located between the third and fourth semiconductor regions in a planar view. The electrode does not have contact with the fourth and fifth semiconductor regions but has contact with the third semiconductor region.
US11444155B2	Silicon carbide semiconductor device A silicon carbide semiconductor device includes a first load electrode disposed on a first surface of a silicon carbide semiconductor body, a first doped region disposed in the silicon carbide semiconductor body and electrically connected to the first load electrode, and an insulated gate field effect transistor electrically connected in series with the first doped region, the insulated gate field effect transistor including a source region and a body region, the body region being electrically connected to the first load electrode, wherein a geometry and dopant concentration of the first doped region is such that a resistance of the first doped region increases by at least a factor of two as load current in the insulated gate field effect transistor rises.
US11444152B2	Inversion channel devices on multiple crystal orientations An embodiment relates to a device comprising a first section and a second section. The first section comprises a first metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) interface comprising a first portion and a second portion. The first portion comprises a first contact with a horizontal surface of a semiconductor substrate and the second portion comprises a second contact with a trench sidewall of a trench region of the semiconductor substrate. The second section comprises one of a second metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) interface and a metal region. The second MOS interface comprises a third contact with the trench sidewall of the trench region. The metal region comprises a fourth contact with a first conductivity type drift layer. The first section and the second section are located contiguously within the device along a lateral direction.
US11444147B2	Display device A display device includes a light emitting diode electrically connected between a driving voltage line and a common voltage line; a driving transistor electrically connected between the driving voltage line and the light emitting diode; a second transistor electrically connected between a first electrode of the driving transistor electrically connected to the driving voltage line and a data line; a first scan line electrically connected to a gate electrode of the second transistor; a third transistor electrically connected between a second electrode of the driving transistor electrically connected to the light emitting diode and a gate electrode of the driving transistor; and a connection electrode that connects the gate electrode of the driving transistor and the third transistor, wherein at least a part of a contact portion where the connection electrode contacts the third transistor does not overlap the first scan line.
US11444146B2	Display device and method for manufacturing the same A display device includes: a display panel including a pixel array, a side terminal including a side surface which is exposed to outside the display panel, and a transfer wiring electrically connecting the side terminal and the pixel array to each other; and a side pad which is conductive and through which an electrical signal is provided to the side terminal from outside the display panel, the side pad contacting the display panel at the side surface of the side terminal which is exposed to outside the display panel. An end of the transfer wiring is spaced apart from the side surface of the side terminal which is exposed to outside the display panel.
US11444144B2	Display device A display device includes first and second signal lines, first and second signal pads, and a pad insulating layer overlapping with the first and second signal lines. The first signal pad includes an intermediate conductive pattern overlapping with and connected to an end portion of the first signal line, and an upper conductive pattern on the intermediate conductive pattern, the upper conductive pattern being exposed through the pad insulating layer. The intermediate conductive pattern includes a first portion overlapping with the end portion of the first signal line, and a second portion between the end portion of the first signal line and an end portion of the second signal line and extending from the first portion. The upper conductive pattern is connected to the second portion of the intermediate conductive pattern.
US11444142B2	Display panel and preparation method, detection method and display device thereof The present application discloses embodiments of a display panel, a preparation method thereof, a detection method thereof, and a display device for improving an accuracy of detecting electrical properties of transistors. In one embodiment, a display panel may include a display area including a plurality of pixels and a non-display area surrounding the display area, wherein each of the plurality of pixels may include a display pixel circuit, and the non-display area may include one or more test pixel circuits, each of the one or more test pixel circuits having an equivalent circuit structure to the display pixel circuit, where the one or more test pixel circuits may include a plurality of transistors, and electrodes of at least one of the plurality of transistors may be respectively conductively coupled to different test pads.
US11444138B2	Display panel, fabrication method therefor, and display device A display panel, a manufacturing method thereof and a display device are provided. The display panel includes a base substrate, a pixel definition layer, a light emitting layer and a spacer. The pixel definition layer is configured to define each of subpixels in the display panel and includes a groove structure which is disposed between adjacent subpixels, the spacer is disposed in the groove structure, the light emitting layer is disposed on a side of the pixel definition layer and the spacer away from the base substrate, and a thermal expansion efficient of the spacer is greater than a thermal expansion efficient of the light emitting layer.
US11444131B2	Display apparatus A display apparatus includes a display area extending in a first direction and a second direction, first to fourth sub-pixels, and a spacer. The first sub-pixel emits a first color light, and includes first and second sides extending in a third direction inclined at a predetermined angle with the first direction, and third and fourth sides extending in a fourth direction perpendicular to the third direction. The second sub-pixel emits a second color light, and is disposed adjacent to the second side of the first sub-pixel in the fourth direction. The third sub-pixel emits a third color light, and is disposed adjacent to the fourth side of the first sub-pixel in the third direction. The fourth sub-pixel emits the first color light, and is disposed adjacent to the second and third sub-pixels. The spacer is disposed between the first and second sub-pixels and between the third and fourth sub-pixels.
US11444127B2	Memory devices A memory device including a first conductive line on a substrate and extending in a first horizontal direction; a second conductive line on the first conductive line and extending in a second horizontal direction that is perpendicular to the first horizontal direction; and a memory cell between the first conductive line and the second conductive line, the memory cell including a variable resistance memory layer, a buffer resistance layer, and a switch material pattern, extending in a vertical direction that is perpendicular to the first horizontal direction and the second horizontal direction, and having a tapered shape with a decreasing horizontal width along the vertical direction, wherein at least a part of the variable resistance memory layer and at least a part of the buffer resistance layer of the memory cell are at a same vertical level.
US11444122B2	Semiconductor memory device and semiconductor memory manufacturing apparatus A first memory device includes a first magnetoresistive cell having a plurality of deposition layers. A second memory device includes a second magnetoresistive cell having a plurality of deposition layers. Each of the plurality of deposition layers of the second magnetoresistive cell corresponds to one of the plurality of deposition layers of the first magnetoresistive cell. One of the plurality of deposition layers of the second magnetoresistive cell is thinner than a corresponding deposition layer of the plurality of deposition layers of the first magnetoresistive cell.
US11444118B2	Method of manufacturing an optoelectronic device comprising a plurality of diodes A method of manufacturing an optoelectronic device, including: a) transferring, onto a connection surface of a control circuit, an active diode stack including at least first and second semiconductor layers of opposite conductivity types, so that the second semiconductor layer in the stack faces the connection surface of the control circuit and is separated from the connection surface of the control circuit by at least one insulating layer; b) forming in the active stack trenches delimiting a plurality of diodes, the trenches extending through the insulating layer and emerging onto the connection surface of the control circuit; and c) forming in the trenches metallizations connecting the second semiconductor layer to the connection surface of the control circuit.
US11444106B2	Semiconductor device, display device, and electronic appliance In case the size of the transistor is enlarged, power consumption of the transistor is increased. Thus, the present invention provides a display device capable of preventing a current from flowing to a display element in signal writing operation without varying potentials of power source lines for supplying a current to the display element per row. In setting a gate-source voltage of a transistor by applying a predetermined current to the transistor, a potential of a gate terminal of the transistor is adjusted so as to prevent a current from flowing to a load connected to a source terminal of the transistor. Therefore, a potential of a wire connected to the gate terminal of the transistor is differentiated from a potential of a wire connected to a drain terminal of the transistor.
US11444091B2	Method of making memory cells, high voltage devices and logic devices on a substrate A method of forming a semiconductor device by recessing the upper surface of a semiconductor substrate in first and second areas but not a third area, forming a first conductive layer in the first and second areas, forming a second conductive layer in all three areas, removing the first and second conductive layers from the second area and portions thereof from the first area resulting in pairs of stack structures each with a control gate over a floating gate, forming a third conductive layer in the first and second areas, forming a protective layer in the first and second areas and then removing the second conductive layer from the third area, then forming blocks of conductive material in the third area, then etching in the first and second areas to form select and HV gates, and replacing the blocks of conductive material with blocks of metal material.
US11444089B2	Gate-all-around field effect transistors in integrated circuits An integrated circuit (IC) that includes a memory cell having a first p-type active region, a first n-type active region, a second n-type active region, and a second p-type active region. Each of the first and the second p-type active regions includes a first group of vertically stacked channel layers having a width W1, and each of the first and the second n-type active regions includes a second group of vertically stacked channel layers having a width W2, where W2 is less than W1. The IC structure further includes a standard logic cell having a third n-type fin and a third p-type fin. The third n-type fin includes a third group of vertically stacked channel layers having a width W3, and the third p-type fin includes a fourth group of vertically stacked channel layers having a width W4, where W3 is greater than or equal to W4.
US11444088B2	Methods of forming integrated assemblies having conductive material along sidewall surfaces of semiconductor pillars Some embodiments include a method of forming an integrated assembly. A structure is provided to have conductive lines, and to have rails over the conductive lines and extending in a direction which crosses the conductive lines. Each of the rails includes pillars of semiconductor material. The rails have sidewall surfaces along spaces between the rails. The pillars have upper segments, middle segments and lower segments. First-material liners are formed along the sidewall surfaces of the rails. A second material is formed over the liners. First sections of the liners are removed to form gaps between the second material and the sidewall surfaces of the rails. Second sections of the liners remain under the gaps. Conductive material is formed within the gaps. The conductive material is configured as conductive lines which are along the middle segments of the pillars.
US11444085B2	Multi-layer thyristor random access memory with silicon-germanium bases A semiconductor structure for a DRAM is described having multiple layers of arrays of thyristor memory cells with silicon-germanium base regions. Memory cells in a vertical string extending through the layers have an electrical connection to one terminal of the memory cells in that string. Word lines couple the strings together. Each layer of the array also includes bit line connections to memory cells on that layer. Select transistors enable the use of folded bit lines. Methods of fabricating the array are described.
US11444072B2	Dual-port SRAM structure The static random access memory (SRAM) cell of the present disclosure includes a first pull-down device, a second pull-down device, a first pass-gate device, and a second pass-gate device in a first p-well on a substrate; a third pull-down device, a fourth pull-down device, a third pass-gate device, and a fourth pass-gate device in a second p-well on the substrate; a first pull-up device and a second pull-up device in an n-well between the first p-well and the second p-well; and a first landing pad between the second pull-down device and the first pull-up device. The first landing pad is electrically coupled to a gate structure of the second pass-gate device by way of a first gate via.
US11444071B2	Multi-bit structure An integrated circuit disclosed here includes several cell rows extending in a first direction and a multi-bit cell having several bit cells included in the cell rows. The bit cells include M bit cells, and an output signal of a N-th bit cell of the M bit cells is an input signal of a (N+1)-th bit cell of the M bit cells, N and M being positive integers. A first bit cell of the bit cells and a M-th bit cell of the bit cells are arranged diagonally in different cell rows in the multi-bit cell, and the N-th bit cell and the (N+1)-th bit cell are arranged diagonally in different cell rows in the multi-bit cell.
US11444063B2	Semiconductor package including vertical interconnector A semiconductor package may include: at least one semiconductor chip disposed such that an active surface on which a plurality of chip pads are disposed faces a redistribution conductive layer; a plurality of vertical interconnectors, each with one end connected to a respective chip pad, extending in a vertical direction toward the redistribution conductive layer; a molding layer covering the semiconductor chip and the vertical interconnectors while exposing an other end of each of the vertical interconnectors that is not connected to the chip pad; a plurality of landing pads disposed over the molding layer, and each connected to the other end of each of the vertical interconnectors; a redistribution insulating layer covering the molding layer with an opening that collectively exposes the landing pads; and the redistribution conductive layer that extends over the molding layer and the redistribution insulating layer while being connected to each of the landing pads.
US11444056B2	Sandwich assembly scheme for thin film electrode array and integrated circuits on both sides of printed circuit board (PCB) and method of manufacture Disclosed is a sandwich assembly containing a thin film electrode array for use with high density electrodes. To minimize the volume required by the associated electronics, the electrode array and integrated circuits are sandwiched over a Printed Circuit Board (PCB), which may have other integrated circuits on an opposite side. Among other things, the disclosed apparatus, system, and method improve over previous systems by providing holes and vias that facilitate communication between a custom chip above the PCB and a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) below. The thin film electrode array can be fastened by bucking a pillar of stacked gold or other metal balls to rivet the thin film flex circuit. The system can include a thin film array having embedded wire traces and holes, a PCB having vias aligned with the holes, chips including an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) sandwiching the thin film, and solder connections from the chips through the holes to the vias.
US11444045B2	Bonding structures of semiconductor devices A semiconductor device is provided that includes a bond pad, an insulating layer, and a bonding structure. The bond pad is in a dielectric layer and the insulating layer is over the bond pad; the insulating layer having an opening over the bond pad formed therein. The bonding structure electrically couples the bond pad in the opening. The bonding structure has a height that at least extends to an upper surface of the insulating layer.
US11444034B2	Redistribution structure for integrated circuit package and method of forming same A redistribution structure for a semiconductor device and a method of forming the same are provided. The semiconductor device includes a die encapsulated by an encapsulant, the die including a pad, and a connector electrically connected to the pad. The semiconductor device further includes a first via in physical contact with the connector. The first via is laterally offset from the connector by a first non-zero distance in a first direction. The first via has a tapered sidewall.
US11444032B2	Semiconductor package device and method for manufacturing the same A semiconductor package device and a method of manufacturing a semiconductor package device are provided. The semiconductor package device includes a substrate, a first electronic component, a first dielectric layer, and a first hole. The substrate has a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The first electronic component is disposed on the first surface. The first dielectric layer is disposed on the second surface and has a third surface away from the substrate. The first hole extends from the first dielectric layer and the substrate. The first hole is substantially aligned with the first electronic component.
US11444022B2	Semiconductor memory device A semiconductor memory device includes a semiconductor substrate, a memory cell array, and first and second wirings. The semiconductor substrate includes first region to third region and fourth region to sixth region. The memory cell array includes first conducting layers extending in a second direction from the first region to the third region and laminated in a first direction, first and second semiconductor layers disposed in the first and third regions, extending in the first direction, and opposed to the first conducting layers, first and second contacts disposed in the fourth and sixth regions and extending in the first direction, and a third semiconductor layer disposed in the fifth region and extending in the first direction. The first wiring is connected to the first semiconductor layer and the second contact. The second wiring is connected to the second semiconductor layer and the third contact.
US11444016B2	Non-volatile memory with capacitors using metal under signal line or above a device capacitor A non-volatile storage apparatus comprises a non-volatile memory structure and a plurality of I/O pads in communication with the non-volatile memory structure. The I/O pads include a power I/O pad, a ground I/O pad and data/control I/O pads. The non-volatile storage apparatus further comprises one or more capacitors connected to the power I/O pad and the ground I/O pad. The one or more capacitors are positioned in one or more metal interconnect layers below the signal lines and/or above device capacitors on the top surface of the substrate.
US11444015B2	Electronic device with stud bumps An electronic device with stud bumps is disclosed. In an embodiment an electronic device includes a carrier board having an upper surface and an electronic chip mounted on the upper surface, the electronic chip having a mounting side facing the upper surface of the carrier board, a top side facing away from the upper surface, and sidewalls connecting the mounting side to the top side, wherein the electronic chip has equal to or less than 5 stud bumps per square millimeter of a base area of the mounting side, wherein the carrier board has at least one recess in the upper surface, and wherein at least one of the stud bumps reaches into the recess.
US11444014B2	Semiconductor packages including an insulating layer including a recessed surface and methods of manufacturing the same There are provided semiconductor packages including a redistribution substrate and a semiconductor chip mounted on the redistribution substrate. The redistribution substrate may include a lower protective layer, a first conductive pattern disposed on the lower protective layer, a first insulating layer surrounding the first conductive pattern and disposed on the lower protective layer, and a second insulating layer disposed on the first insulating layer. The first insulating layer may include a first upper surface that includes a first flat portion extending parallel to an upper surface of the lower protective layer, and a first recess facing the lower protective layer and in contact with the first conductive pattern. The first recess may be directly connected to the first conductive pattern.
US11444013B2	Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof An electronic device and a method of manufacturing an electronic device. As non-limiting examples, various aspects of this disclosure provide various methods of manufacturing electronic devices, and electronic devices manufactured thereby, that comprise utilizing metal studs to further set a semiconductor die into the encapsulant.
US11444007B2	Semiconductor device with galvanically isolated semiconductor chips A semiconductor device includes a chip carrier, a first semiconductor chip arranged on the chip carrier, the first semiconductor chip being located in a first electrical potential domain when the semiconductor device is operated, a second semiconductor chip arranged on the chip carrier, the second semiconductor chip being located in a second electrical potential domain different from the first electrical potential domain when the semiconductor device is operated, and an electrically insulating structure arranged between the first semiconductor chip and the second semiconductor chip, which is designed to galvanically isolate the first semiconductor chip and the second semiconductor chip from each other.
US11444003B2	Integrated heat spreader with multiple channels for multichip packages An integrated heat spreader includes channel structures assembled in a frame. Each channel structure is independent of the other, and can be used to dissipate heat from integrated circuitry at a specific location within a package, and without allowing heat from that particular location to propagate to integrated circuitry at other locations within the package. Each channel structure can be implemented with metal having a high thermal conductivity (e.g., copper). The channel structures can be used in conjunction with liquid-based cooling or air-based cooling. The frame can be implemented with low thermal conductivity molding compound or plastic so the heat transfer from one channel structure to another is inhibited. The channel structures can have different configurations (e.g., straight, pillars, and/or pin fins) to provide different rates of flow, mixing, and/or cooling. The flow direction of air or liquid for the channel structures can be the same (parallel) or different (counter).
US11443998B2	Electronic assembly including optical modules An electronic assembly includes an electronic package including a package substrate and an integrated circuit component mounted to an upper surface. The electronic package includes upper package contacts electrically connected to the integrated circuit component. The electronic assembly includes an interposer assembly including an array of compressible interposer contacts each having upper and lower mating interfaces. The interposer assembly defining a separable interface. The electronic assembly includes optical modules coupled to the separable interface of the interposer assembly and having an optical module substrate having module contacts and an optical engine mounted to the optical module substrate electrically connected to the module contacts. The optical module is mounted to the interposer assembly such that the module contacts are electrically connected to the upper mating interfaces of the interposer contacts. Each optical module includes at least one optical fiber terminated to the optical engine.
US11443995B2	Integrated circuit package and method A device package includes a first die directly bonded to a second die at an interface, wherein the interface comprises a conductor-to-conductor bond. The device package further includes an encapsulant surrounding the first die and the second die and a plurality of through vias extending through the encapsulant. The plurality of through vias are disposed adjacent the first die and the second die. The device package further includes a plurality of thermal vias extending through the encapsulant and a redistribution structure electrically connected to the first die, the second die, and the plurality of through vias. The plurality of thermal vias is disposed on a surface of the second die and adjacent the first die.
US11443990B2	Prognostic health management for power devices In some examples, a device includes a power structure and a sensing structure that is electrically isolated from the power structure. The device also includes processing circuitry configured to determine whether the sensing structure includes a prognostic health indicator, wherein the prognostic health indicator is indicative of a health of the power structure.
US11443986B2	Method for making semiconductor device by adopting stress memorization technique The application discloses a method of applying the stress memorization technique in making the semiconductor device which includes: step 1: forming a front gate structure on a silicon wafer having front and back surfaces; step 2: forming sidewalls including a first silicon nitride sidewall, a first silicon nitride layer corresponding to the first silicon nitride sidewall covering a first polysilicon layer on the wafer's back surface; step 3: growing a second silicon nitride layer on the wafer's front surface; step 4: etching the silicon nitride after stress transfer is completed, including: step 41: performing front single-wafer wet etching; step 42: performing batch wet etching to completely remove the second silicon nitride layer and reduces the thickness of the first silicon nitride layer on the back surface; step 5: completing the subsequent process. The application can improve the wafer flatness for improved photolithography for back-end-of-line processes and thereby increasing product yield.
US11443980B2	Method of fabricating semiconductor device with metal pad extending into top metal layer A method of fabricating a semiconductor device includes at least the following steps is provided. A first metal layer is formed on a substrate. A first dielectric layer is formed on the substrate. The first dielectric layer is patterned, thereby forming a first opening exposing the first metal layer. A second metal layer is formed on the first dielectric layer and filling into the first opening. The second metal layer is patterned, thereby forming a metal pad. A second dielectric layer is formed on the first dielectric layer and the metal pad. The second dielectric layer is patterned, thereby forming a second opening exposing the metal pad. A first annealing process is performed in an atmosphere of a gas including 50 vol % to 100 vol % of hydrogen.
US11443976B2	Trench isolation process One or more semiconductor processing tools may form a deep trench within a silicon wafer. The one or more semiconductor processing tools may deposit a first insulating material within the deep trench. The one or more semiconductor processing tools may form, after forming the deep trench with the silicon wafer, a shallow trench above the deep trench. The one or more semiconductor processing tools may deposit a second insulating material within the shallow trench.
US11443967B2	Wafer storage container The present invention relates to a wafer storage container capable of removing fumes on a wafer or removing moisture therefrom by supplying purge gas to the wafer stored in a storage chamber. More particularly, the present invention relates to a wafer storage container, in which uniform purge gas injection is achieved and thus formation of dead regions is minimized, formation of turbulence in a storage chamber is prevented and thus wafer purging efficiency is improved, and a size reduction of an injection member injecting purge gas into the storage chamber is achieved and thus a size reduction of the entire wafer storage container is achieved.
US11443965B2	Wafer to wafer bonding apparatuses A wafer bonding apparatus includes lower and upper stages, lower and upper push rods, a position detection sensor, and processing circuitry. The stages may vacuum suction respective wafers on respective surfaces of the stages based on a vacuum pressure being supplied to respective suction holes in the respective surfaces from a vacuum pump. The push rods are movable through respective center holes in the stages to apply pressure to respective middle regions of the respective wafers. The position detection sensor may generate information indicating a bonding propagation position of the wafers based on detecting at least one wafer through a detection hole in at least one stage. The processing circuitry may process the information to detect the bonding propagation position and cause a change of at least one of a ratio of protruding lengths of the push rods, or a ratio of suction areas of the stages.
US11443964B2	Substrate processing apparatus and substrate processing system A substrate processing apparatus includes a placing table configured to hold a substrate having a processing target film, which is decomposed by irradiating an ultraviolet ray thereto under an oxygen-containing atmosphere; a processing chamber, configured to accommodate therein the substrate placed on the placing table, having therein the oxygen-containing atmosphere; and an ultraviolet ray irradiation device configured to irradiate the ultraviolet ray to the substrate within the processing chamber. Further, the placing table is provided with a surrounding member configured to surround the substrate placed on the placing table and restrict a gas introduction amount from an outside of the substrate toward above the substrate.
US11443962B2	Integrated handling system for semiconductor articles Methods and apparatuses for integrated cleaning of objects comprising a sequence of wet cleaning and vacuum drying in a same process chamber. The present integrated cleaning process can eliminate moving parts, improving the system reliability. Vacuum decontamination can be included for degassing and decontaminating the cleaned objects. In an embodiment, a cleaner system combines various movements into an integrated movement to be handled by a robot, for example, to improve the throughput. For example, an integrated robot movement comprising picking up a closed container from the input load port, moving both the lid and body together, and then depositing the body and lid separately into the appropriate positions in the cleaner to be cleaned.
US11443948B2	Doping techniques A method of selectively and conformally doping semiconductor materials is disclosed. Some embodiments utilize a conformal dopant film deposited selectively on semiconductor materials by thermal decomposition. Some embodiments relate to doping non-line of sight surfaces. Some embodiments relate to methods for forming a highly doped crystalline semiconductor layer.
US11443947B2	Method for forming etching mask and method for manufacturing semiconductor device A method for forming an etching mask includes forming a mask layer containing an organic material on a layer to be patterned using the etching mask in a subsequent etching process, processing the mask layer to form a pattern including an opening, forming a filling layer in the opening, impregnating the mask layer with a metal material, and removing the filling layer. The organic material in the mask layer includes reaction sites that react with the metal material, and the filling layer has fewer the reaction sites per the unit volume than the mask layer.
US11443938B2	Substrate processing apparatus and substrate processing method A substrate processing apparatus and a substrate processing method are provided. The substrate processing apparatus includes a chamber having a first housing and a second housing that are combined with each other to form a processing space inside, and a housing actuator that moves the first housing to open or close the processing space. The housing actuator includes a plurality of cylinder units coupled to the first housing, a fluid supplier that supplies a fluid for operating the plurality of cylinder units, and a deviation corrector that corrects an operation deviation between the plurality of cylinder units. The deviation corrector corrects the operation deviation between the plurality of cylinder units coupled to the chamber, thereby minimizing particles that are generated when the chamber is opened/closed.
US11443933B1	Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) with ion trapping An inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) system includes an ion trap, in which ions are trapped and subsequent ejected by mass-selective ejection (MSE). The system may have a linear quadrupole configuration, in which the ion trap is a linear ion trap (LIT) that is preceded by a pre-LIT linear quadrupole device and/or a post-LIT quadrupole device. The pre-LIT and/or post-LIT quadrupole device may be configured or operated as an RF-only ion guide or as a mass filter or mass analyzer, with or without mass scanning. The system may be utilized in particular for multi-element analysis of fast transient signals produced from ion pulses, where the sample under analysis is a single particle, single biological cell, or a cloud or aerosol produced for example by single-shot laser ablation.
US11443927B2	Plasma treatment device A plasma treatment device includes: a chamber body including a chamber defined therein; a gas supply part that supplies a processing gas into the chamber; a stage disposed within the chamber; an upper electrode having a circular surface that faces the stage; a conductor connected to the upper electrode; a high-frequency power supply that generates a first high-frequency wave; a bias power supply that applies a second high-frequency wave or a direct current bias voltage to the upper electrode; an annular insulating ring extending along an outer edge of the circular surface; a waveguide through which electromagnetic waves generated around the conductor based on the first high-frequency wave propagate, the waveguide being connected to the annular insulating ring outside the upper electrode; and a controller that controls the second high-frequency wave or the direct current bias voltage to be applied to the upper electrode.
US11443924B2	Upper electrode and plasma processing apparatus An upper electrode for a plasma processing apparatus, includes an electrode having a gas discharge hole, a gas plate having a gas flow path formed at a position facing the gas discharge hole to supply a processing gas to the gas discharge hole, an electrostatic attraction part interposed between the electrode and the gas plate and having a contact surface that is in contact with a lower surface of the gas plate and an attraction surface that attracts an upper surface of the electrode, and a shield that shields radicals or gas moving from the gas discharge hole to a gap between the electrode and the gas plate.
US11443916B2	Thin pellicle material for protection of solid-state electron detectors An electron beam system and method are provided. The system includes a detector having a detector face configured to detect back-scattered electrons reflected off of a sample. The system further includes an annular cap disposed on the detector face, and a protective pellicle disposed on the annular cap, covering the detector face. The protective pellicle is transparent to back-scattered electrons and provides a physical barrier to particles directed at the detector face.
US11443901B2	Electrolytic capacitor comprising an electrolytic solution containing a first base component, a first acid component, and a second acid component An electrolytic capacitor includes an anode body having a dielectric layer disposed on a surface of the anode body, a solid electrolyte layer that is in contact with the dielectric layer, and an electrolytic solution. The solid electrolyte layer includes a conductive polymer. The electrolytic solution contains a first base component, a first acid component, and a second acid component. The first base component includes an amidine compound. The first acid component includes a composite compound of an inorganic acid and an organic acid. The second acid component includes at least one selected from a group consisting of boric acid, phosphoric acid, phosphorous acid, hypophosphorous acid, and phosphonic acid.
US11443897B2	Electronic component An electronic component includes an element body, an external electrode, and a metal terminal. In the metal terminal, a base includes a first surface and a second surface opposing each other, and a pair of third surfaces coupling the first surface and the second surface. A first metal layer is disposed on the first surface and connected to solder with which the external electrode and the metal terminal are connected together. A second metal layer is disposed on the second surface. A coating layer is disposed on each of the third surfaces. The first metal layer and the second metal layer each include an outermost layer containing Sn. Each of the coating layer includes an outermost layer lower in solder wettability than the respective outermost layers of the first metal layer and the second metal layer.
US11443896B2	Electronic component An electronic component includes an element body, a pair of external electrodes respectively disposed at both ends of the element body in a first direction, and a pair of metal terminals respectively connected to the pair of external electrodes with solder. Each metal terminal includes a connection opposing the corresponding external electrode in the first direction and formed with a plurality of grooves and includes a leg extending from the connection. The connection includes a pair of end edges separated from each other in a third direction intersecting with a second direction where the leg extends from the connection. The grooves extend in a direction different from the second direction and intersecting with the third direction so that the grooves are separated from one of the pair of end edges. A surface included in the connection and defining each of the grooves is in contact with the solder.
US11443881B1	Integration of enclosure and core for improved structural integrity of an impedance injection unit Sheet metal construction is described for achieving high strength at low weight for a power reactor and for an impedance injection module incorporating the power reactor. Clamping plates are used to retain the core and the windings of the reactor. Integrated features of a specialized frame of the impedance injection module include flanges for structural rigidity, a convenient yoke plate for lifting by crane, feet for mounting insulators, and sufficient strength to maintain mechanical integrity during normal operation and also during fault conditions. The specialized frame provides a light weight assembly suitable for mounting on power transmission lines as well as on ground assemblies. The specialized frame can reduce the cost of the total enclosure to around 25% of the cost and 50% of the weight of an equivalent conventional enclosure. An insulation topology is also described.
US11443877B2	Strain sensor resistor A strain sensor resistor includes: a resistive element (thin-film strain-resistive layer) formed nearly at the center of an upper surface of an insulation substrate to be a base; and front surface electrodes layered and formed on either end part of the resistive element and electrically connected to the resistive element. The entire upper part of the resistive element and a part of the front surface electrodes are covered by a protective film (protective coating). Moreover, back surface electrodes electrically connected to the front surface electrodes are formed on either lower end part of the insulation substrate, and end surface electrodes are formed on either longitudinal end surface of the insulation substrate. The strain sensor resistor has a tip shape solder mountable on a circuit board etc. using the back surface electrodes.
US11443842B2	Automatic determination of radiation beam configurations for patient-specific radiation therapy planning Systems and methods for efficient and automatic determination of radiation beam configurations for patient-specific radiation therapy planning are disclosed. According to an aspect, a method includes receiving data based on patient information and geometric characterization of one or more organs at risk proximate to a target volume of a patient. The method includes determining automatically one or more radiation treatment beam configuration sets. Further, the method includes presenting the determined one or more radiation beam configuration sets via a user interface.
US11443837B2	Generation of test data for a data platform Test data may be generated by classifying a plurality of medical records of patients into a plurality of groups, based on at least an execution characteristic of a processing program that processes the medical records, and generating test data including at least a part of the plurality of medical records based on proportions of the number of the medical records classified into the plurality of groups.
US11443831B2	Assessment of cellular signaling pathway activity using probabilistic modeling of target gene expression The present application mainly relates to specific methods for inferring activity of one or more cellular signaling pathway(s) in tissue of a medical subject based at least on the expression level(s) of one or more target gene(s) of the cellular signaling pathway(s) measured in an extracted sample of the tissue of the medical subject, an apparatus comprising a digital compressor configured to perform such methods and a non-transitory storage medium storing instructions that are executable by a digital processing device to perform such methods.
US11443828B1	Read threshold adjustment techniques for memory Methods, systems, and devices for read threshold adjustment techniques for memory are described. A memory device may read a codeword from a memory array of the memory device using a read threshold having a first value. The memory device may increment one or more counters of the memory device based on reading the codeword. The counter may indicate a quantity of bits of the codeword that correspond to a first logic value. The memory device may detect an error, such as an uncorrectable error, in the codeword based on reading the codeword. The memory device may adjust the read threshold from the first value to the second value based on the quantity of bits indicated by the counter. The memory device may read the codeword using the read threshold having the second value.
US11443825B2	Failure mode analysis method for memory device Provided is a failure mode analysis method for a memory device including the following steps. A wafer is scanned by a test system to generate a failure pattern of the wafer, and a failure count of a single-bit in the wafer is obtained by a test program. A single-bit grouping table is defined according to a word-line layout, a bit-line layout, and an active area layout. A core group and a gap group are formed through grouping in at least one process in a self-aligned double patterning process. Failure counts of single-bits in the core group and the gap group are respectively counted to generate core failure data and gap failure data.
US11443819B2	Memory device, integrated circuit device and method A memory device includes at least one bit line, at least one source line, at least one program word line, at least one read word line, and at least one memory cell including a program transistor and a read transistor. The program transistor includes a gate terminal coupled to the at least one program word line, a first terminal coupled to the at least one source line, and a second terminal. The read transistor includes a gate terminal coupled to at least one read word line, a first terminal coupled to the at least one bit line, and a second terminal coupled to the second terminal of the program transistor.
US11443811B2	Data erase operations for a memory system A data erase operation is performed on the memory system. The directed data erase operation performed on the memory system erases blocks of the memory device including blocks that are indicated as not including user data. In some embodiments, a data erase operation may be performed on a memory system to erase those groups of memory cells (e.g., blocks) indicated as not including user data. In some embodiments, a data erase operation may be performed on a memory system to erase those groups of memory cells (e.g., blocks) indicated as valid without erasing those groups of memory cells (e.g., blocks) indicated as invalid. In some embodiments, a data erase operation that can be performed on a memory system may obtain information associated with failing scenes of groups of memory cells (e.g., blocks) prior to obtaining the information, and erase the blocks (e.g., invalid blocks) subsequently.
US11443807B2	Memory device using comb-like routing structure for reduced metal line loading Embodiments of three-dimensional memory device architectures and fabrication methods therefor are disclosed. In an example, the memory device includes a substrate and one or more peripheral devices on the substrate. The memory device also includes one or more interconnect layers and a semiconductor layer disposed over the one or more interconnect layers. A layer stack having alternating conductor and insulator layers is disposed above the semiconductor layer. A plurality of structures extend vertically through the layer stack. A first set of conductive lines are electrically coupled with a first set of the plurality of structures and a second set of conductive lines are electrically coupled with a second set of the plurality of structures different from the first set. The first and second sets of conductive lines are vertically distanced from opposite ends of the plurality of structures.
US11443806B2	Nonvolatile memory and method of operating nonvolatile memory A nonvolatile memory device includes: a memory cell array in which a plurality of memory cells are arranged at intersections between a plurality of word-lines and a plurality of bit-lines; and a word-line select circuit configured to, in response to a first global word-line select signal, start reading a target memory cell connected to a target word-line and provide a reading result of the target memory cell to a sensing line through at least one adjacent word-line that is adjacent to and coupled to the target word-line.
US11443804B2	Sensing techniques for resistive memory Various implementations described herein are related to a device having a sense amplifier that provides output data based on sensing a difference between input signals. The device may have a tracking circuit that tracks a resistive state of a bitcell and provides an input signal to the sense amplifier based on the tracked resistive state of the bitcell. The device may have a bitcell circuit that senses a data value associated with the resistive state of the bitcell and provides another input signal to the sense amplifier based on the sensed data value of the bitcell.
US11443801B2	Semiconductor memory apparatus for preventing disturbance A semiconductor memory apparatus includes an access line control circuit. The access line control circuit applies a selected bias voltage to a selected access line coupled with a target memory cell and applies a first unselected bias voltage to an unselected access line adjacent to the selected access line. A second unselected bias voltage is applied to an unselected access line not adjacent to the selected access line.
US11443793B2	Battery life based on inhibited memory refreshes Disclosed herein are mechanisms and methods for reducing power consumed by various DRAM technologies (e.g., high-capacity DRAM and/or 3D DRAM) which may impact battery life of the platform. These mechanisms and methods may opportunistically reduce the power consumed by DRAM by inhibiting periodic refresh commands to memory ranks that are not in-use. Since these mechanisms and methods may be based on enhancements to memory controllers, they may accordingly be operating system (OS) agnostic.
US11443788B1	Reference-voltage-generators within integrated assemblies Some embodiments include an integrated assembly having a memory region with memory cells and sense/access lines configured for addressing the memory cells, and having a reference-voltage-generator proximate to the memory region. The reference-voltage-generator includes resistive units configured substantially identically to the sense/access lines. Some embodiments include an integrated assembly having a memory region with memory cells, digit lines and wordlines. Each of the memory cells is uniquely addressed with one of the wordlines in combination with one of the digit lines. The wordlines are coupled with driver circuitry and the digit lines are coupled with sensing circuitry. A reference-voltage-generator is proximate to the memory region. The reference-voltage-generator includes resistive units configured substantially identically to the wordlines and/or includes resistive units configured substantially identically to the digit lines.
US11443782B2	Electronic device to perform read operation and mode register read operation An electronic device may include: a column control circuit configured to generate a column control pulse and a mode register enable signal, each with a pulse that is generated based on logic levels of a chip selection signal and a command address; and a control circuit configured to generate a read control signal to perform a read operation and a mode register read operation by delaying the column control pulse based on a logic level of the mode register enable signal and configured to generate a mode register control signal to perform the mode register read operation by delaying the column control pulse based on a logic level of the mode register enable signal.
US11443781B2	Semiconductor system and method of operating the same A semiconductor system may include a first semiconductor device and a second semiconductor device. The first semiconductor device compares a received signal with an original signal to generate a driving force control signal. The first semiconductor device also drives the original signal using a driving force in accordance with the driving force control signal to output an external transmission signal. The second semiconductor device receives the external transmission signal to generate a positive signal and a negative signal. The second semiconductor device also generates a restoration signal in response to the positive signal and the negative signal. The second semiconductor device additionally outputs the restoration signal as the external transmission signal to the first semiconductor device.
US11443777B2	Backside power rail architecture Various implementations described herein refer to a device having backside power rails including first backside power rails that supply a core voltage to memory logic and second backside power rails that supply a periphery voltage to control logic. In some implementations, at least one first backside power rail may have a rail break that interrupts continuity so as to allow at least one second backside power rail to supply the periphery voltage to the control logic.
US11443775B1	Hard disc drive with internal access door An issue facing shared read/write player hard disc drives (HDDs) is when a head-media contact event occurs, any resulting plume of debris caused by the contact event not only affects the magnetic disc currently being read or written, but other magnetic discs within the HDD enclosure. The presently disclosed technology is directed as mitigating the potential consequences of such a head-media contact event. By providing one or more internal access doors within the HDD, a magnetic disc currently being read from or written to may be physically isolated from other magnetic discs within the HDD. As a result, in the event of a head-media contact event, any resulting plume of debris caused by the contact event only affects the magnetic disc currently being read or written. The remaining magnetic discs within the HDD are isolated from the plume of debris.
US11443769B2	Enhancing audio using multiple recording devices In general, the subject matter described in this disclosure can be embodied in methods, systems, and program products for identifying that a first audio stream includes first, second, and third sources of audio. A computing system identifies that a second audio stream includes the first, second, and third sources of audio. The computing system determines that the first and second sources of audio are part of a first conversation. The computing system generates a third audio stream that combines the first source of audio from the first audio stream, the first source of audio from the second audio stream, the second source of audio from the first audio stream, and the second source of audio from the second audio stream, and diminishes the third source of audio from the first audio stream, and the third source of audio from the second audio stream.
US11443744B2	Electronic device and voice recognition control method of electronic device According to one embodiment of the present invention, a server comprises at least one communication interface, at least one processor operatively connected to the communication interface, and at least one memory operatively connected to the processor, wherein the memory store instructions configured to, when executed, cause the processor: receives, from a first electronic device, first input voice data including a first request for conducting a first task by using a second electronic device by user's utterance; determines or receives a state of the first electronic device; and provides a first external electronic device with a first response related to control of the state of the first electronic device. Various other embodiments are possible.
US11443733B2	Contextual text-to-speech processing A text-to-speech (TTS) system that is capable of considering characteristics of various portions of text data in order to create continuity between segments of synthesized speech. The system can analyze text portions of a work and create feature vectors including data corresponding to characteristics of the individual portions and/or the overall work. A TTS processing component can then consider feature vector(s) from other portions when performing TTS processing on text of a first portion, thus giving the TTS component some intelligence regarding other portions of the work, which can then result in more continuity between synthesized speech segments.
US11443731B2	Systems and methods for generating synthesized speech responses to voice inputs by training a neural network model based on the voice input prosodic metrics and training voice inputs The system provides a synthesized speech response to a voice input, based on the prosodic character of the voice input. The system receives the voice input and calculates at least one prosodic metric of the voice input. The at least one prosodic metric can be associated with a word, phrase, grouping thereof, or the entire voice input. The system also determines a response to the voice input, which may include the sequence of words that form the response. The system generates the synthesized speech response, by determining prosodic characteristics based on the response, and on the prosodic character of the voice input. The system outputs the synthesized speech response, which includes a more natural, relevant, or both answer to the call of the voice input. The prosodic character of the voice input and/or response may include pitch, note, duration, prominence, timbre, rate, and rhythm, for example.
US11443712B2	Display device and method of controlling a display mode of the display device to selectively display a selection screen and an image screen A projector selects an image of a home screen as an image to be displayed by a display section even when input of an image signal to the interface section is detected when the home screen has been displayed on the grounds that an operation has been received by a remote controller or an operation panel, and changes the image to be displayed by the display section from the image of the home screen to the image based on the image signal the input of which has been detected when the input of the image signal to the interface section is detected when the home screen has been displayed on the grounds that no input of the image signal to the interface section has been detected.
US11443709B2	Display panel with reduced border area improving charging and discharging capacities of gate driving circuit A display panel is provided. The display panel includes a plurality of scan lines and a gate driving circuit. The scan lines are disposed on the display panel along a first direction, and respectively provide a plurality of gate driving signals. The gate driving circuit is disposed on a first side of the display panel along a second direction. The second direction intersects the first direction. The gate driving circuit includes a plurality of bias generators and a plurality of signal output circuits. The signal output circuits are divided into a plurality of groups. The bias generators respectively correspond to the groups. The bias generators generate a plurality of first bias voltages. The groups generate the gate driving signals respectively according to the first bias voltages.
US11443705B2	Image display device for displaying moving images Provided is a device that displays a moving image with high dynamic range. A control unit controls drive of at least one of a light source unit, a phase modulation unit, or an intensity modulation unit in accordance with an image signal. The light source unit applies first illumination light to a phase modulation panel of the phase modulation unit, which modulates a phase of the first illumination light applied from the light source unit, divides second illumination light for each predetermined phase modulation pixel group of the phase modulation panel, and applies the second illumination light to the intensity modulation panel for each predetermined intensity modulation pixel group of the intensity modulation panel, and the intensity modulation panel modulates an intensity of the second illumination light applied from the phase modulation panel.
US11443701B2	Screen state control method, device, and mobile terminal A screen state control method, device, and a mobile terminal are provided. The method includes: in a bright environment, a ratio of a characteristic curve of a proximity sensor to an ideal curve of the proximity sensor in each of a number of intervals is determined; a first intensity value of a receiving end signal is obtained, a second intensity value of a receiving end signal is turned off is obtained, the first intensity value and the second intensity value respectively according to the ratios are compensated; and a corrected proximity value of the proximity sensor according to a compensated first intensity value and a compensated second intensity value is determined, and the screen, according to a comparison result between the corrected proximity value and a preset threshold, is controlled to be selectively in a screen on state or a screen off state.
US11443695B2	Display apparatus A display apparatus includes a substrate having a display area and a peripheral area, the peripheral area being outside the display area, a display unit on the display area of the substrate, the display unit including a pixel circuit and a display device electrically connected to the pixel circuit, a driver in the peripheral area of the substrate and configured to provide a signal to the display device, and an output wiring configured to transmit the signal from the driver to the display device, at least a part of the output wiring overlapping the driver.
US11443692B2	Pixel structure having repairing light emitting diode die and extending conductor, manufacturing method of pixel structure, and display having pixel structure A pixel structure includes an original light emitting diode die and a repairing light emitting diode die emitting light of a same color, and an extending conductor. The original light emitting diode die includes a first epitaxial layer, and a first electrode and a second electrode disposed at opposite sides of the first epitaxial layer. The repairing light emitting diode die includes a second epitaxial layer, and a third electrode and a fourth electrode disposed at a same side of the second epitaxial layer. The extending conductor includes a first portion, a second portion and a cut-off region. The first portion is electrically connected to the second electrode of the original light emitting diode die. The second portion is electrically connected to the third electrode of the repairing light emitting diode die. The cut-off region is located in the first portion or between the first portion and the second portion.
US11443691B2	Electroluminescent display device and method for driving the same Disclosed is an electroluminescent display device including a display panel, a power supply unit, and a data driver. The display panel includes a subpixel for displaying an image. The power supply unit supplies a positive voltage and a negative voltage to the display panel. The data driver supplies a first initialization voltage and a second initialization voltage to the display panel, as well as a data voltage, and at least one of the first initialization voltage and the second initialization voltage is varied.
US11443689B1	Light-emitting element control circuit, display panel and display device Provided is a light-emitting element control circuit, a display panel and a display device. The light-emitting element control circuit includes a current source and at least one light-emitting unit, and the at least one light-emitting unit is connected in series to the current source. The at least one light-emitting unit each includes a first branch and a second branch which are connected in parallel. The first branch includes a first gating unit and a light-emitting element which are connected in series, and the second branch includes a second gating unit. The light-emitting element control circuit provided by the present application enables the current provided by the current source to pass through one of the first branch and the second branch in an active-selection mode, and meanwhile generation of photo-generated carriers in the light-emitting element can be avoided, thereby improving the display effect.
US11443683B2	Display device A display device: a substrate including a first display area and a second display area; a signal line which overlaps the first display area and the second display area; and a common electrode which overlaps the first display area and the second display area, where the first display area includes a first pixel area, the second display area includes a second pixel area and a transmitting area, the transmitting area includes a first transmitting area and a second transmitting area, which have different transmittances from each other, the common electrode overlaps the first pixel area, the second pixel area and the second transmitting area, and in the second transmitting area, at least a part of the signal line and the common electrode overlap each other.
US11443680B1	Frame rate-convertible active matrix display The present invention provides a dithering and directional modulation-based frame rate conversion apparatus comprising: a directional delta modulation generator configured to receive a plurality of input color data representing a plurality of input color components of an input pixel color and generate a plurality of modulated data for the plurality of input color data respectively; and a plurality of dithering modules configured to perform K-bit dithering conversion on the plurality of input color data respectively to generate a plurality of output color data for representing a plurality of output color components of an output pixel color with a color depth of K bits per component, where K is an integer equal to or great than 1. The present invention can allow display to support frame rates higher than its standard configuration without observable color depth degradation.
US11443671B2	Device and method for scaling pixel brightness based on location of a target pixel A display driver includes control circuitry and image processing circuitry. The control circuitry is configured to store a default gamma curve and determine a scaling factor based on a location of a target pixel in a display panel. The control circuitry is further configured to determine a modified gamma curve by scaling the default gamma curve with the scaling factor. The image processing circuitry configured to apply a gamma transformation based on the modified gamma curve to image data defined for the target pixel to generate output voltage data for the target pixel.
US11443652B2	Terminal and system for learning artist's style A system for learning an artist's style includes an artist database unit, a pupil gallery unit, an artist image providing unit to display an artist's content selected from the artist database unit, a pupil learning unit in which at least one smart layer and at least one user layer are overlaid and displayed, the at least one smart layer generated based on the elements of art that make up the selected artist's content and the at least one user layer providing an interface for recognizing a user input and supporting the writing or drawing, and a storage unit to store some or all of the at least one user layer as a pupil artwork in a portfolio.
US11443649B2	Neurophysiological monitoring training simulator A training simulator for intraoperative neuromonitoring (IONM) systems includes channels where at least one of the channels is identified as an active stimulation channel and a subset of the rest of the channels is identified as reference or pick up sites. Channels of the subset having signal data that exceed a predefined threshold are retained for further processing, while channels with signal data that do not exceed the threshold are eliminated from further reporting. Response data for the remaining channels are generated in advance of a future time when the response would occur. The generated data is time stamped and stored for display at a time window when requested by the system.
US11443645B2	Education reward system and method A reward learning system includes a user interface configured to receive modes of user information related to a state of the user. A cognitive computing system includes a reward system. The reward system includes a dynamically upgraded profile model of the user which is updated in accordance with the user information related to the state. The reward system is updated by machine learning employing feedback from user responses measured by the user interface and searched information by the cognitive computing system. The reward system includes an increasing reward protocol based on learned user preferences and responses and rewarded in accordance with user achievements.
US11443643B2	Control system for controlling unmanned aircraft systems The present disclosure provides a control system for controlling unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). The control system comprises of an application user system 102 to operate the UAS, an operating system 103, a virtual road system (VRS) 109 and a virtual packet 501. The virtual packet 501 created as a boundary around the UAS defined by application user system 102 or VRS 109. The operating system 103 includes a machine learning processing unit (MLPU) 104 configured for positioning the UAS, detecting collision within path of the virtual packet 901. The VRS 109 configured to generate a virtual roadway 902 using architecture similar to Internet service provider architecture and modules for routing the UAS. The routing and controlling of UAS by the VRS 109 is based on request received from the MLPU 104, application zone packet parameters and actual position co-ordinates received from the MLPU 104.
US11443637B2	Proximity sensing system and method for a marine vessel A proximity sensor system on a marine vessel includes one or more proximity sensors, each at a sensor location on the marine vessel and configured to measure proximity of objects and generate proximity measurements. A processor is configured to store a two-dimensional vessel outline of the marine vessel with respect to a point of navigation for the marine vessel, receive the proximity measurements measured by one or more proximity sensors on the marine vessel, and identify four linearly-closest proximity measurements to the two-dimensional vessel outline, including one closest proximity measurement in each of a positive X direction, a negative X direction, a positive Y direction, and a negative Y direction. The processor then generates a most important object (MIO) dataset identifying the four linearly-closest proximity measurements.
US11443635B2	Method for transforming between a long vehicle combination and a platoon on the move The invention relates to a method for transforming between a long vehicle combination (10) and a platoon (12) on the move. The present invention also relates to vehicles (14a-b; 14b-c) for such a method.
US11443631B2	Enhanced onboard equipment Among other things, an equipment for use on board a first ground transportation entity has (a) a receiver for information generated by a sensor of the environment of the first ground transportation entity, (b) a processor, and (c) a memory storing instructions executable by the processor to generate and send safety message information to a second ground transportation entity based on the information generated by the sensor.
US11443630B2	Accommodation area management device A parking lot management device which manages a parking lot for accommodating a vehicle and stops the vehicle at a predetermined accommodation position in the parking lot, includes a priority assigning unit which assigns a priority to each of a plurality of moving bodies traveling in the parking lot according to an order in which each vehicle is traveled. The priority assigning unit assigns the priority to each vehicle according to a moving destination of each vehicle in the parking lot.
US11443619B2	Vehicle recognition apparatus and vehicle recognition method A vehicle recognition apparatus according to an embodiment includes one or more hardware processors to: acquire a photographed image obtained by photographing vehicles forming a column of vehicles from an obliquely rearward direction with respect to the column of vehicles; generate a parallax image based on the photographed image; estimate a vanishing point in the parallax image; generate strip regions by dividing a region below the vanishing point in the parallax image in a horizontal direction; calculate a representative parallax for each strip region; extract strip regions efficient in recognizing a vehicle from among the strip regions based on the representative parallax; couple strip regions adjacent to each other among the extract strip regions to generate a coupled strip region based on a distance distribution model of a back surface and a side surface of a vehicle; and recognize a vehicle based on the coupled strip region.
US11443617B2	Method for defining intersections using machine learning Disclosed are systems and methods relating to determining geographic locations of vehicle ways which are employed by vehicles for movement and/or parking. A classifier may be defined for identifying portions of the vehicle ways via machine learning techniques and processing of historical telematic data.
US11443615B2	Electronic apparatus and method of controlling the same Disclosed is an electronic apparatus configured to identify a location of an object. The electronic apparatus includes: a sound output unit comprising sound output circuitry; and a processor configured to: obtain first sound information from an external apparatus that receives a first sound output from the sound output unit, obtain second sound information from the external apparatus that receives a second sound output from an object, and identify locations of the electronic apparatus and the object with respect to the external apparatus based on a first signal characteristic and a second signal characteristic respectively detected using the obtained first sound information and second sound information.
US11443612B2	Rescue system A rescue system includes a receiver, an emergency medical staff arrival time estimation unit, an acquisition unit, a user arrival time estimation unit, and a transmitter. The receiver receives a request for rescue of a rescued person and rescued person location information. The emergency medical staff arrival time estimation unit estimates an emergency medical staff arrival time at which an emergency medical staff arrives at the rescued person based on the rescued person location information. The acquisition unit acquires user location information of a registered user that is a candidate for a rescuer. The user arrival time estimation unit estimates the user arrival time when the registered user arrives at the rescued person based on the user location information. The transmitter transmits the request for rescue to the registered user that is able to arrive earlier than the emergency medical staff.
US11443609B2	Security system An electronic device including: a processor, a SIM card, one or more sensors, and a memory. The processor may: analyze words or phrases spoken by one or more trusted user(s) using voice recognition; determine if the one or more trusted user(s) has spoken a wake word, activate the one or more sensors to collect data when it has been determined the wake word has been spoken; determine location and temporal data for the electronic device from the SIM card; continue to analyze words or phrases spoken by one or more trusted user(s) using voice recognition; determine if one or more trigger words has been spoken; and activate the one or more response measure(s) if it is determined that a trigger word has been spoken. Also described is a security system and a method for carrying out a predetermined response as a result of spoken wake and trigger words.
US11443608B2	Wearable devices A geofencing system (100) comprises at least one physical, moveable marker (102), the or each marker being arranged to define at least part of a geofence (106) based on the position of the moveable marker (102) such that changing the position of the or each moveable marker (102) changes the geofence (106). The or each marker (102) is arranged to provide a visible and/or audible indication of geofence (106). The system (100) also comprises at least one wearable device (104) arranged to receive data concerning the position of the geofence (106). The wearable device (104) is arranged to store up-to-date geofence information and to provide an alert in response to the wearable device (104) crossing the geofence (106).
US11443606B2	Firearm regulation system and related methods Implementations of firearm regulation systems may include a firearm safety system (FSS) configured to physically couple to a firearm. The FSS may include a locking mechanism configured to prevent the firearm from firing and a sensor configured to detect an environmental parameter. The firearm regulation system may also include a management system communicatively coupled to the FSS and a site safety system (SSS) communicatively coupled to the management system. The SSS may include one or more lockdown mechanisms.
US11443605B2	Monitoring apparatus, vehicle, monitoring method and information processing apparatus A monitoring apparatus, a vehicle, a monitoring method and an information processing apparatus. The monitoring apparatus is used for a vehicle and includes an image acquisition device, a processor and an alarm device. The image acquisition device is configured to acquire image information inside the vehicle. The processor, connected to the image acquisition device and the alarm device, is configured to control the alarm device to perform an alarm in a case where the image information meets preset violation conditions. The monitoring apparatus acquires the image information inside the vehicle through the image acquisition device, and after analysis and comparison by the processor, in a case where the image information meets the preset violation conditions is determined, the monitoring apparatus controls the alarm device to perform an alarm, which is conductive to discovering potential dangers of driving and improving the driving safety.
US11443599B1	Systems and methods to provide a portable alert device Systems and methods to provide a portable alert device are disclosed herein. The system may include a key component that includes a connector extending from a first side and a base component. The key component is shaped with a first indent and a second indent on opposite sides. The base component includes: a back piece shaped with a first ledge and a second ledge opposite the first ledge that extend out of an interior of the back piece; a front piece that joins with the back piece to enclose a portion of the key component so that the first ledge is positioned within the first indent and the second ledge is positioned with the second indent, the first ledge within the first indent and the second ledge within the second indent prevent the key component from entirely disengaging with the base component; a transceiver; and alert components.
US11443595B2	Systems and methods for cross-game progressive jackpot determination based upon wager amount An electronic gaming system includes a processor configured to execute instructions, which when executed, cause the processor to at least receive a wager amount and a bingo card parameter from an electronic gaming machine (EGM) that is communicatively coupled to the electronic gaming system. The instructions may also cause the processor to determine, based upon the wager amount, a subset of a plurality of bingo card parameters and compare the received bingo card parameter to the subset of the plurality of bingo card parameters to determine whether the received bingo card parameter matches any bingo card parameter of the subset of the plurality of bingo card parameters, where each bingo card parameter of the plurality of bingo card parameters is associated with a progressive jackpot. In addition, the instructions may cause the processor to award the progressive jackpot to a player of the EGM in response to determining that the received bingo card parameter matches a bingo card parameter of the subset of the plurality of bingo card parameters.
US11443592B1	Electronic gaming device with improved redemption options An gaming apparatus, systems and methods with a remote redemption option including a payment acceptance device for accepting payment from a player; at least one display screen that displays symbols, a player's balance and game status information; at least one electronic game module for storing gaming information, operating a game and/or determining a redemption amount to a player; a control electronics in communication with the at least one electronic game module for processing the redemption amount to the player; and a payout dispenser for dispensing a redemption voucher to the player. The disclosure also includes an exchange center having an exchange point of sale within a universal redemption system.
US11443588B1	Algorithmic relational odds nexus system Embodiment method and associated apparatus relate to altering the expected value of a system modeled by a random process simplified to produce a binary outcome. Various embodiments modify a genetic algorithm to optimize such settings as population size, number of iterations to convergence, mutation chance, and sample space. Some embodiment ARON implementations correctly predict game outcome relative to the spread, based on transforming unrelated raw data, applying the transformed raw data to a modified genetic algorithm, generating multiple expected outcomes determined by the modified genetic algorithm as a function of the transformed raw data, and filtering the outcomes as a function of predefined metrics to produce a single end result that can be utilized effectively by an evolutionary-style algorithm. Various embodiment implementations use modified genetic algorithms with embedded neural network architecture to model and predict for a user a discrete forecast of a game-like scenario using selectively processed historical data.
US11443583B2	Automatic vending machine An automatic vending machine includes: a product housing rack including product housing shelves each including a product housing path, and a product discharger; a first stopper configured to be movable between a protrusion position and a retract position, and to tilt such that a free end side of a holding portion is positioned at a product discharge port; a second stopper configured to be movable between a retract position and a protrusion position, and to press a vending product when protruding; a link configured to move each of the first and the second stopper to the protrusion and the retract position; and a driver configured to drive the link, wherein the second stopper includes ribs formed on a surface facing the product housing path, the ribs being configured to extend from a base end part toward a holding portion of the second stopper.
US11443577B2	Wireless device enabled locking system An encrypted security system and associated methods for controlling physical access. The system includes a security server configured to receive a request for authentication from a mobile device, the request having information identifying the mobile device and a physical access control device. The security server forwards an encryption message having a plurality of unique identifiers to the physical access control device via the mobile device. The physical access control device is configured to authenticate the plurality of unique identifiers in the encryption message and operate an access control mechanism.
US11443573B2	Locking and unlocking control system and locking and unlocking control method A locking and unlocking control system includes: a first information acquisition part configured to acquire presence information as to whether a parcel associated with a first user is present in a predetermined region defined in a vehicle or a facility, the predetermined region having a door configured to be locked and unlocked through a locking and unlocking process performed by a locking and unlocking control device; and a locking and unlocking control part configured to execute a predetermined process so as not to permit unlocking of the door by a second user when the locking and unlocking control part determines based on the presence information that the parcel is present in the predetermined region and when the door is locked.
US11443569B1	Systems and methods for battery management for a vehicle A system for battery management for a vehicle that includes at least a battery coupled to the vehicle, at least a sensor coupled to the battery, the sensor configured to detect an internal state datum of the battery, and transmit the internal state datum to a computing device, a computing device, the computing device configured to receive the internal state datum from the at least a sensor, generate an alert datum as a function of the internal state datum and an alert threshold, transmit the alert datum to a remote device, and a remote device communicatively connected to the vehicle, the remote device is configured to, receive the alert datum from the computing device, and display the alert datum.
US11443568B1	Presentation of messages by an in-vehicle head unit A head unit configured for use in a motor vehicle. The head unit comprises a processor, a cellular radio transceiver, a memory, and a notification application stored in the memory. When executed by the processor the notification application receives a recall notification message via the cellular radio transceiver, wherein the recall notification message comprises a definition of text to display on a screen communicatively coupled with the head unit, a definition of buttons to present on the screen, and a definition of action to take when a button is activated, stores the recall notification message in the memory, determines that rules for safe presentation of the notification are satisfied, presents the text defined in the message, receives a control input from one of the buttons defined by the message, and performs the action to be taken when the button is activated defined in the message.
US11443567B2	Methods and systems for providing a vehicle repair tip A method performed by a first computing system includes receiving, from a second computing system, a message identifying a symptom of a first vehicle; and sending a repair tip to the second computing system. The repair tip includes a first phrase describing a first procedure performed on a second vehicle that exhibited the symptom, wherein the first procedure performed on the second vehicle yielded a result insufficient to determine that a component of the second vehicle associated with the symptom is defective. The repair tip also includes a second phrase describing a second procedure performed on a given vehicle, wherein the given vehicle is either (i) the second vehicle or (ii) a third vehicle that also exhibited the symptom, wherein the second procedure performed on the given vehicle yielded a result sufficient to determine that a component of the given vehicle associated with the symptom is defective.
US11443565B2	Watercraft, watercraft information system, and information communication method of watercraft A watercraft includes an information acquirer and a controller. The controller starts data transmission when a communication start condition based on at least one of a reception strength of a radio wave received by a communication terminal from a base station, a rotation speed of an engine, a traveling speed of a hull, and a state of a shift device is satisfied, and does not start the data transmission when the communication start condition is not satisfied.
US11443562B2	Bluetooth communication timing device for speed cube The present invention provides a magic cube timing device based on Bluetooth communication, including a timer main body and a non-slip mat. The timer main body is fastened to the non-slip mat. The timer main body includes a main body housing, a main control PCB board, a display apparatus, and two magnetic surface stickers. Two through holes are disposed in the main body housing. One end of the magnetic surface sticker penetrates through the through hole to connect to the main control PCB board. According to the magic cube timing device based on Bluetooth communication in the present invention, each use result in the magic cube timing device is transmitted to an external terminal by using a Bluetooth module, to effectively collect statistics on and store timing data.
US11443558B2	Hand-eye, body part motion recognition and chronologically aligned display of recognized body parts Provided is a motion recognition apparatus capable of individually recognizing motions performed using each body part. A motion recognition apparatus (10) includes: an acquisition unit (11) configured to acquire time series information regarding motions of an operator; a motion recognition unit (12) configured to recognize, on the basis of motion information that defines individual motions and the time series information, a motion of the operator corresponding to any one of the individual motions for each body part of the operator and generate a motion recognition result including a start time and an end time of the one of the individual motions corresponding to the recognized motion of the operator for each body part of the operator; and a display unit (13) configured to display the motion recognition result of each body part in a chronologically aligned manner on the basis of the generated motion recognition result.
US11443553B1	Scalable training data preparation pipeline and efficient distributed trainer for deep neural networks in facial recognition This disclosure provides a highly scalable training data preparation pipeline for data cleaning and augmentation with the aim of extracting the most meaningful information while keeping the noise level low, as well as a highly efficient distributed trainer for the deep neural networks suitable for facial recognition. The goal is to train deeper and larger neural networks with larger and higher quality facial image datasets iteratively and frequently without incurring prohibitive costs and drastic delays.
US11443551B2	Facial recognitions based on contextual information In example implementations, a method is provided. The method may be executed by a processor. The method includes receiving an image. The image is analyzed to obtain facial features. Contextual information is obtained and a vector including a facial feature class of the facial features and contextual feature classes of the contextual information is generated. A facial recognition is then performed based on the vector.
US11443550B2	Face recognition monitoring system based on spectrum and multi-band fusion and recognition method using same A face recognition monitoring system based on spectrum and multi-band fusion, including a spectrum camera, a first module for acquiring a face spectral image, a second module for preprocessing data of the face spectral image, a face spectral image database and a third module for recognizing the face spectral image. The spectrum camera includes an optical lens and a silicon-based detector. The silicon-based detector includes a photoelectric conversion substrate and a filter film arranged thereon. The filter film includes N units each including a visible spectrum sensing area, a near-infrared spectral image sensing area and a RGGB image acquisition area. The N units cover all pixels on the photoelectric conversion substrate. A recognition method using the above system is also provided.
US11443548B2	Fake-finger determination device, fake-finger determination method and fake-finger determination program A fake finger in which a transparent thin film is attached to a finger surface is discriminated. A fake-finger determination device includes: an imaging unit 10 that captures an authentication object as a fingerprint authentication object; a classifying unit 31 that classifies an image captured by the imaging unit 10 into a plurality of regions including at least a skin region and a background region using colors of pixels included in the image; and a determining unit 32 that determines whether or not a foreign substance is present in the periphery of a finger based on a feature of a region classified as neither the skin region nor the background region out of the regions classified by the classifying unit 31.
US11443547B2	Waveguide device incorporating beam direction selective light absorber A contact image sensor having an illumination source; a first SBG array device; a transmission grating; a second SBG array device; a waveguiding layer including a multiplicity of waveguide cores separated by cladding material; an upper clad layer; and a platen. The sensor further includes: an input element for coupling light from the illumination source into the first SBG array; a coupling element for coupling light out of the cores into output optical paths coupled to a detector having at least one photosensitive element.
US11443546B1	Fingerprint sensing signal correction method and device thereof A fingerprint sensing signal correction method for a fingerprint sensing signal correction device including a plurality of fingerprint sensors integrated inside of a display panel of an electronic device is disclosed. The method includes obtaining a plurality of environmental voltages of the display panel during a pre-scanning mode; generating a plurality of correction voltages associated with the plurality of environmental voltages during a signal processing mode; and canceling the plurality of environmental voltages from a plurality of amplified sensing voltages to generate a plurality of corrected sensing voltages during a normal mode.
US11443545B2	Sensor pixel circuit and sensor device comprising the same A sensor pixel circuit may include: a photodiode to which a current flows according to incident light; a storage capacitor connected in parallel to the photodiode; a first transistor for connecting a bias voltage and the photodiode by a contact of a recognition object; and a second transistor for transmitting charges stored in the storage capacitor to a data line.
US11443530B2	Method for lane and roadway detection A method for lane and roadway detection uses a multitask DNN architecture including an encoder, a first decoder and a second decoder. The method includes the following steps: providing an input image by an optical detection device, filtering the input image by the encoder, generating a first representation of the lane and/or roadway by the encoder, processing the first representation in the first and second decoders, outputting two different representations from the first and second decoders, combining the two different representations, and outputting identified lanes, lane markings and the roadway.
US11443522B2	Processing sensor information for object detection Methods of processing vehicle sensor information for object detection may include capturing generating a feature map based on captured sensor information, associating with each pixel of the feature map a prior box having a set of two or more width priors and a set of two or more height priors, determining a confidence value of each height prior and each width prior, outputting an indication of a detected object based on a highest confidence height prior and a highest confidence width prior, and performing a vehicle operation based on the output indication of a detected object. Embodiments may include determining for each pixel of the feature map one or more prior boxes having a center value, a size value, and a set of orientation priors, determining a confidence value for each orientation prior, and outputting an indication of the orientation of a detected object based on the highest confidence orientation.
US11443519B2	Method and system for determining the digital fingerprint of vehicles in transit A method for determining the digital fingerprint of vehicles in transit for automatic charge of tolls, fees and/or other possible treatments, comprises the steps of: providing at least one portal along a road with at least one pair of cameras respectively facing upstream and downstream of the portal and with at least one antenna configured to interrogate vehicle on-board devices to receive an identification code therefrom; processing images and signals from the cameras and the antenna to assign each vehicle a series of data which together define a digital fingerprint of each vehicle, in particular by tracking each vehicle shot by the cameras along a track and obtaining from the images acquired along the track data which are used by a classification algorithm for classifying the vehicles.
US11443518B2	Uncrewed aerial vehicle shared environment privacy and security A processing system including at least one processor may capture at least one image via at least one imaging sensor of an uncrewed aerial vehicle in a shared environment, detect a window within the at least one image, determine a location of the window in the shared environment, based upon a position of the uncrewed aerial vehicle and a distance between the uncrewed aerial vehicle and at least a portion of the window that is calculated from the at least one image, and record the location of the window in a map of the shared environment as a prohibited imaging zone.
US11443517B1	Video-based parking garage monitoring Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a storage device, are disclosed. A system includes one or more processors and one or more computer storage media storing instructions that are operable, when executed by the one or more processors, to cause the one or more processors to perform operations. The operations include: obtaining an image from a camera coupled to a garage; determining that a garage door has opened; in response to determining that the garage door has opened, determining that a vehicle position satisfies an alert criteria based on the image from the camera; and in response to determining that the vehicle position satisfies the alert criteria based on the image from the camera, providing a visual alert for a driver of the vehicle on a signaling device coupled to the garage.
US11443516B1	Locally and globally locating actors by digital cameras and machine learning Motion of actors within a scene may be detected based on imaging data, using machine learning tools operating on cameras that captured the imaging data. The machine learning tools process images to perform a number of tasks, including detecting heads of actors, and sets of pixels corresponding to the actors, before constructing line segments from the heads of the actors to floor surfaces on which the actors stand or walk. The line segments are aligned along lines extending from locations of heads within an image to a vanishing point of a camera that captured the image. Trajectories of actors and visual data are transferred from the cameras to a central server, which links trajectories captured by multiple cameras and locates detected actors throughout the scene, even when the actors are not detected within a field of view of at least one camera.
US11443515B2	Systems and methods for machine learning enhanced intelligent building access endpoint security monitoring and management Systems and methods for correlating access-system primitives generated by an access control system and semantic primitives generated by a sensor data comprehension system.
US11443511B2	Systems and methods for presenting supplemental content in augmented reality Systems and methods provided for presenting supplemental content in an augmented reality environment where an object within a field of view of an augmented reality device of a user is identified and processed to detect a reference related to a participant in an event. A user profile or user social network is searched to identify a message from the user about the participant. The message may be combined with the object in the augmented reality field of view.
US11443510B2	Method, system and computer program product that provides virtual assistance in facilitating visual comparison A method, system and computer program product that provides virtual assistance in facilitating visual comparison is disclosed. A method in accordance with example embodiments includes determining (by comparison of first metadata of an at least one user-provided image to second metadata of an at least one reference image) difference information as between an unknown object and a known object shown in the at least one user-provided image to the at least one reference image respectively.
US11443508B1	Methods for an autonomous robotic device to identify locations captured in an image Provided are operations including: receiving, with one or more processors of a robot, an image of an environment from an imaging device separate from the robot; obtaining, with the one or more processors, raw pixel intensity values of the image; extracting, with the one or more processors, objects and features in the image by grouping pixels with similar raw pixel intensity values, and by identifying areas in the image with greatest change in raw pixel intensity values; determining, with the one or more processors, an area within a map of the environment corresponding with the image by comparing the objects and features of the image with objects and features of the map; and, inferring, with the one or more processors, one or more locations captured in the image based on the location of the area of the map corresponding with the image.
US11443506B2	Biometric information sensor device A biometric information sensor device includes a control unit that issues a notification for failure to read biometric information of a detection target when reading of the biometric information fails after a contact of the detection target with a reading surface is detected.
US11443505B2	Methods and systems for analyzing images in convolutional neural networks A method for analyzing images to generate a plurality of output features includes receiving input features of the image and performing Fourier transforms on each input feature. Kernels having coefficients of a plurality of trained features are received and on-the-fly Fourier transforms (OTF-FTs) are performed on the coefficients in the kernels. The output of each Fourier transform and each OTF-FT are multiplied together to generate a plurality of products and each of the products are added to produce one sum for each output feature. Two-dimensional inverse Fourier transforms are performed on each sum.
US11443503B2	Product analysis system, product analysis method, and product analysis program A product analysis system 800 includes a detection means 810, a classification means 820, and a specification means 830. The detection means 810 detects an area of change in a product shelf from a video of the product shelf. The classification means 820 classifies the change in the product shelf in the detected area of change. The specification means 830 specifies the frequency at which a customer was interested in but did not purchase a product on the basis of the classification of the change.
US11443483B2	Validating and updating building models with path data Systems, methods and instructions for creating building models of physical structures is disclosed. The building model may be a collection of floors defined by outlines containing regions that may be offset relative to a main region, and a collection of connectors. Connectors may have connection points for tracking, routing and sizing. Connectors may indicate elevation changes through georeferenced structural features. Signal elements may also be features that provide corrections when tracking. Feature descriptors are data that describes the structural configuration and signal elements enabling them to be matched to previously collected data in a database. User interface elements assist a user of a tracking device in collecting floor information, structural features and signal features and validating certain collected information based on previously known information. The height of floors may also be inferred based on sensor data from the tracking device.
US11443482B1	Systems and methods for editing, animating, and processing point clouds using bounding volume hierarchies Disclosed is a system that receives a point cloud, and that generates a Bounding Volume Hierarchy (“BVH”) based on the point cloud data points. The BVH includes leaf nodes and parent nodes at one or more levels above the leaf nodes. The leaf nodes correspond to the point cloud data points. The system may receive input for adjusting a first set of elements of data points that are identified based on values specified for a second set of elements, and may locate those data points by traversing the BVH to arrive at a particular parent node that encompasses the values specified for the second set of elements. The system may then modify, based on the input, the first set of elements of a set of data points that correspond to a set of leaf nodes from the BVH that are directly or indirectly linked to the particular parent node.
US11443475B2	Techniques for ray cone tracing and texture filtering One embodiment of a method for computing a texture color includes tracing a ray cone through a graphics scene, determining a curvature of a first surface within the graphics scene at a point where the ray cone hits the first surface based on differential barycentric coordinates associated with the point, determining, based on the curvature of the first surface, a width of the ray cone at a subsequent point where the ray cone hits a second surface within the graphics scene, and computing a texture color based on the width of the ray cone.
US11443472B2	Time-dependent client inactivity indicia in a multi-user animation environment A method for managing a multi-user animation platform is disclosed. A three-dimensional space within a computer memory is modeled. An avatar of a client is located within the three-dimensional space, the avatar being graphically represented by a three-dimensional figure within the three-dimensional space. The avatar is responsive to client input commands, and the three-dimensional figure includes a graphical representation of client activity. The client input commands are monitored to determine client activity. The graphical representation of client activity is then altered according to an inactivity scheme when client input commands are not detected. Following a predetermined period of client inactivity, the inactivity scheme varies non-repetitively with time.
US11443464B2	Method of volumetric imaging of a sample The present disclosure provides a method of volumetric imaging of a sample. The method comprises providing a plurality of depth images of a region of interest of the sample using a volumetric imaging system. The region of interest is below a surface area of interest of the sample. Each depth image is associated with a layer or slice of the region of interest and the plurality of depth images together forming a volumetric image of the region of interest. The method further comprises providing a surface image of the surface area of interest of the sample and identifying a surface image property of a surface feature of the surface area of interest. The method also comprises processing the plurality of depth images of the region of interest using the surface image property of the surface feature to improve a property of the depth images of the region of interest.
US11443460B2	Dynamic mask application In one embodiment, a method includes identifying a first user in an input image, accessing social data of the first user in the input image, where social data comprises information from a social graph of an online social network, selecting, based on social data of the first user in the input image, a mask from a set of masks, where the mask specifies one or more mask effects, and for each of the input images, applying the mask to the input image. The set of masks may comprise masks previously selected by friends of the first user within the online social network. The selected mask may be selected from a lookup table that maps the social data to the selected mask.
US11443456B2	Data compression method and device In a data compression method of compressing data including at least one of a character and a number, the data is converted into character string data composed of 0s and 1s. Each of the 0s and 1s included in the character string data is treated as 1-bit data, and the 1-bit data is arranged in a data region having a two-dimensional array. Lossless compression of the data arranged in the data region is performed by using an image processing method.
US11443455B2	Prior informed pose and scale estimation A scale and pose estimation method for a camera system is disclosed. Camera data for a scene acquired by the camera system is received. A rotation prior parameter characterizing a gravity direction is received. A scale prior parameter characterizing scale of the camera system is received. A cost of a cost function is calculated for a similarity transformation that is configured to encode a scale and pose of the camera system. The cost of the cost function is influenced by the rotation prior parameter and the scale prior parameter. A solved similarity transformation is determined upon calculating a cost for the cost function that is less than a threshold cost. An estimated scale and pose of the camera system is output based on the solved similarity transformation.
US11443448B2	Incoherent digital holography based depth camera A method includes capturing light reflected off one or more objects and splitting the captured light into a plurality of light fields with a plurality of phase curvatures. The method further includes generating, for the one or more objects, a plurality of holograms based on the plurality of light fields and determining, for each of the plurality of holograms, an intensity and a phase-shift of the hologram. The method thus includes generating a depth map comprising depth information for the one or more objects based at least in part on a function determined by the respective phase-shifts of the plurality of holograms.
US11443441B2	Deep inspiration breath-hold setup using x-ray imaging A computer-implemented medical data processing method for determining a difference in position of an imaged anatomical body part of a patient, the method comprising executing, on at least one processor of at least one computer, steps of: acquiring, at the at least one processor, first patient image data describing a digital image of a first anatomical body part during a first phase of inspiration and the position of the first anatomical body part during the first phase of inspiration in a first reference system associated with the first image data; acquiring, at the at least one processor, second patient image data different from the first patient image data and describing a digital image of the first anatomical body part during a second phase of inspiration and the position of the first anatomical body part during the second phase of inspiration in a second reference system associated with the second image data; acquiring, at the at least one processor, position transformation data describing a transformation between the first reference system and the second reference system; and determining, by the at least one processor and based on the first patient image data and the second patient image data and the position transformation data, position difference data describing a relative position between the position of the first anatomical body part during the first phase of inspiration and the position of the first anatomical body part during the second phase of inspiration.
US11443438B2	Network module and distribution method and apparatus, electronic device, and storage medium A distribution method includes: distributing, when multiple feature maps exist in an image processing model, to each feature map a neuron through which the feature map passes; filtrating, according to importance of neurons of multiple convolution layers in an image processing model, the neurons to obtain a first result; collecting, according to a position attribute of the each neuron in the first result, statistics on a scale of the feature map corresponding to each neuron to obtain a distribution relationship; the distribution relationship indicates a correspondence between the each feature map and the neuron through which the feature map passes; and distributing, according to the distribution relationship, to the each feature map the neuron through which the feature map passes.
US11443436B2	Interactive image matting method, computer readable memory medium, and computer device The present disclosure provides an interactive image matting method, a computer readable memory medium, and a computer device. The interactive image matting method includes steps: obtaining an original image; collecting foreground sample points on a hair edge foreground region of the original image and collecting background sample points on a hair edge background region of the original image by a human-computer interaction method to correspondingly obtain a foreground sample space and a background sample space; receiving a marking operation instruction input by a user, and smearing a hair region of the original image according to the marking operation instruction to mark unknown regions; traversing the unknown regions to obtain a pixel of each unknown region, traversing all the sample pairs to select a sample pair with a minimum overall cost function value for the pixel of each unknown region.
US11443434B2	Image processing apparatus and non-transitory computer readable medium storing program An image processing apparatus includes an input unit that inputs an image, and a processor configured to read out a program stored in a memory, and executes the program. The processor is configured to detect an intended subject from the input image by a first detection method, set an intended subject region for the detected intended subject, detect the intended subject from the input image by a second detection method different from the first detection method, and update the set intended subject region by using a detection result of the second detection method.
US11443429B2	Atlas registration for resting state network mapping in patients with brain tumors A method for mapping brain function of a subject includes generating a lesion mask using a search light algorithm based on a plurality of anatomical images of the subject. The plurality of anatomical images are registered with atlas images by nonlinear atlas registration using the generated lesion mask to generate a warping map. A plurality of functional images of the subject are resampled using the warping map to generate a functional map, functional connectivity is computed using the functional map and a multi-layer perceptron.
US11443421B2	Method and system for detecting infestation in agricultural products System and method of detecting infestation in agricultural products is disclosed. In one embodiment, an infestation detection system captures hyperspectral imaging data and depth imaging data for a plurality of points on an agricultural product upon directing a light source at the agricultural product. The system analyses the captured imaging data to derive morphological details as well as spectral signatures for complete 360° view of the plurality of points on the agricultural product. In an embodiment, the spectral signatures may be corrected for one or more pixels associated with the plurality of points in the agricultural product by integrating the hyperspectral imaging data with the depth imaging data. The system further classifies one or more regions of the agricultural product based on matching of spectral signatures for the one or more pixels with pre-defined spectral signatures stored for a plurality of agricultural products, and accordingly detect infestation.
US11443420B2	Generating a metrology recipe usable for examination of a semiconductor specimen There is provided a system and method of generating a metrology recipe usable for examining a semiconductor specimen, comprising: obtaining a first image set comprising a plurality of first images captured by an examination tool, obtaining a second image set comprising a plurality of second images, wherein each second image is simulated based on at least one first image, wherein each second image is associated with ground truth data; performing a first test on the first image set and a second test on the second image set in accordance with a metrology recipe configured with a first parameter set, and determining, in response to a predetermined criterion not being met, to select a second parameter set, configure the metrology recipe with the second parameter set, and repeat the first test and the second test in accordance with the metrology recipe configured with the second parameter set.
US11443419B2	Reference image generation method and pattern inspection method To include reading design data of a plurality of patterns formed on a sample and characteristic information indicating characteristics of each of the patterns from a storage device, the characteristic information being additionally written in the design data, dividing a pattern formed region of the sample on which the patterns are formed, into a plurality of regions where the characteristics are different from each other on a basis of the characteristic information, calculating parameter information according to the characteristics with respect to each of the regions, where the parameter information is provided for generating a reference image from the design data to be used in an inspection of the patterns, and generating the reference image from the design data on a basis of the calculated parameter information.
US11443416B2	Techniques for image content extraction Various embodiments are generally directed to techniques for image content extraction. Some embodiments include extracting contextually structured data from document images, such as by automatically identifying document layout, document data, document metadata, and/or correlations therebetween in a document image, for instance. Several embodiments include extracting contextually structured data from table images, such as gridded and non-gridded tables. For example, the contents of cells may be extracted from a table image along with structural context including the corresponding row and column information. Many embodiments are directed to generating and utilizing a document template database for automatically extracting document image contents into a contextually structured format. Several embodiments are directed to automatically identifying and associating document metadata with corresponding document data in a document image to generate a machine-facilitated annotation of the document image. In some embodiments, the machine-facilitated annotation may be used to generate a template for the template database.
US11443406B2	High-speed resume for GPU applications Described herein are devices, systems and methods to utilize non-volatile memory to save and retrieve data that is used to accelerate the load and resume of GPU accelerated applications. Non-volatile memory and GPU logic are configured to enable the GPU to directly access the non-volatile memory to enable data to be read without requiring the data to traverse the CPU and CPU memory. This data access path creates a faster method for loading data into GPU local memory.
US11443405B2	Mechanism to accelerate graphics workloads in a multi-core computing architecture A processing apparatus is described. The apparatus includes a plurality of processing cores, including a first processing core and a second processing core a first field programmable gate array (FPGA) coupled to the first processing core to accelerate execution of graphics workloads processed at the first processing core and a second FPGA coupled to the second processing core to accelerate execution of workloads processed at the second processing core.
US11443404B1	Viewability testing in a computer-generated environment A system configured to determine an extent to which an object in a computer-generated scene is visible from a virtual camera, including a rendering engine comprising a depth buffer and arranged to render the computer-generated scene, and a viewability testing module. The viewability testing module is configured to: generate a plurality of points distributed across a surface of the object; determine a depth map value for each point within a field of view of the virtual camera; determine whether each such point is visible from the perspective of the virtual camera based on a comparison between the determined depth map value for the point and a corresponding one or more of the depth map values stored in the depth buffer; and determine the extent to which the object is visible in dependence on which of the plurality of points are determined to be visible.
US11443402B2	Synchronized data chaining using on-chip cache Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for generating, by an image sensor of a computing device, frame data comprising sub-frames of image pixel data. A first resource of the system-on-chip provides the frame data to a second resource of the system-on-chip. The frame data is provided to the second resource using a first data path included in the system-on-chip. The first resource provides a token to the second resource using a second data path included in the system-on-chip. A processor of the system-on-chip, uses the token to synchronize production of sub-frames of image pixel data provided by the first resource to the second resource and to synchronize consumption of the sub-frames of image pixel data received by the second resource from the elastic memory buffer.
US11443401B2	Digital watermarking In one example, a method for inserting a digital watermark in a signal includes obtaining the signal comprising a plurality of frames, inserting a first digital watermark in a first frame of the plurality of frames, inserting a second digital watermark in a second frame of the plurality of frames, wherein the second digital watermark differs from the first digital watermark in at least one way selected from a group of: a location within a respective frame, a number of bits, a pattern of bits, and a number of bits of a noise, and outputting a watermarked signal including the first digital watermark in the first frame and the second digital watermark in the second frame.
US11443400B2	Methods and arrangements for configuring industrial inspection systems In computer vision systems that need to decode machine-readable indicia from captured imagery, it is critical to select imaging parameters (e.g., exposure interval, exposure aperture, camera gain, intensity and duration of supplemental illumination) that best allow detection of subtle features from imagery. In illustrative embodiments, a Shannon entropy metric or a KL divergence metric is used to guide selection of an optimal set of imaging parameters. In accordance with other aspects of the technology, different strategies identify which spatial locations within captured imagery should be successively examined for machine readable indicia, in order to have a greatest likelihood of success, within a smallest interval of time. A great variety of other features and arrangements are also detailed.
US11443396B2	Systems and methods for prioritizing trailers at receiving facility A system for prioritizing trailers delivering retail goods for an available receiving facility comprises a control unit that assigning a trailer from the plurality of trailers to be received by an available loading dock in response to data received by the control unit regarding a determined event requiring the retail goods in the trailer; and a plurality of sensors that receive and process information regarding the event and output the information as the data to the control unit. The control unit includes an allocation engine that identifies a match between the trailer and the available loading dock and prioritizes the trailer over other trailers of the plurality of trailers for receipt by the available loading dock according to the determined event.
US11443392B1	Methods and apparatus for constructing machine learning models to process user data and provide advance access to payments Devices, systems, and methods herein relate to generating a machine learning model for providing access to earned income. In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a memory and a processor. The processor may be configured to receive calibration datasets including (1) historical time data indicating time worked by a set of users and (2) historical earnings data indicating earnings made by the set of users. The processor may be configured to construct, based on the calibration datasets, a model for identifying anomalous data. The processor may be configured to receive, from a compute device associated with an entity, raw data for a current time period. The processor may be configured to process the raw data by removing anomalous data to produce processed data. The processor may be configured to determine an available balance for each user from the set of users based on the processed data.
US11443391B2	Automated employee self-service and payroll processing for charitable contributions An automated system and method of payroll processing for charitable contributions. A self-service user interface prompts an operator to identify preferences for charitable projects. A charitable giving profile for the operator is generated from the preferences for charitable projects identified by the operator. Suggested charitable projects for the operator are identified using the charitable giving profile for the operator. Project information for the suggested charitable projects is displayed on the self-service user interface. Pay for the operator, including a donation of funds from the pay for the operator to the suggested charitable projects, is automatically processed. Funds from the pay for the operator are automatically distributed to the suggested charitable projects.
US11443387B2	Automated identification of duplicate information objects Systems and methods are configured to determine whether a particular information object is a duplicate of an object found in separate information objects. In various embodiments, the particular information object and each separate information object includes a set of data fields for storing data values that allows identical values to be stored in different fields for the objects. The data values for the particular information object are combined to form a data structure that includes a data element for each value. A determination as to whether the particular information object is an exact or partial match of a separate information object is made by performing a function on the data structure for the particular information object and a data structure for the separate information object to identify an intersection that includes data values for the particular information object that have an identical match with values for the separate information object.
US11443368B2	Resource transfer and capital transfer method and apparatus A blockchain-based resource transfer method, includes: when a resource transfer condition is satisfied, determining a first amount of a to-be-transferred first resource; determining a second amount of a to-be-transferred second resource according to the first amount of the first resource, wherein a type of the first resource is different from a type of the second resource; initiating, by a resource transferor, a transaction request to a blockchain, to transfer the to-be-transferred second resource to a resource transferee, wherein the transaction request comprises first encrypted amount information obtained by encrypting the second amount of the second resource based on a first encrypting function, wherein inputs of the first encrypting function include the second amount of the second resource and a public key of the resource transferee; and after the blockchain verifies the transaction request, executing the transaction request, transferring the to-be-transferred second resource to the resource transferee, and recording an execution result of the transfer on the blockchain. Therefore, privacy information of both a resource transferor and transferee can be protected during resource transfer.
US11443367B2	Method and system enabling crowdsourced peer to peer product rental A system and method for online peer-to-peer rental of things using crowdsourcing and selected groups of potential lenders. Individuals desiring to borrow a particular thing may search a listing of things offered for rental by lenders that have chosen to list for rental some of the things that they own. If a thing desired by one wishing to rent is not available among the things currently listed for rental, the borrower may request that potential lenders be contacted. Potential lenders may be identified using a collection of personal information for a population of consumers based on consumer purchase history information and consumer rental history information collected by the entity operating the peer-to-peer rental system.
US11443366B2	Systems and methods for real time online to offline (O2O) shopping in and messaging to physical retail stores A system, method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium provide a platform for shoppers to remotely search for products in physical stores and to communicate with store sales people. Shoppers and stores perform an onboarding process in which they enter personal, business and payment information, respectively, to enable use of the system. The platform allows shoppers to search for a particular product via a device application on a mobile communication device of the shopper by inputting a selected amount of search criteria such as a segment, a category, a sub category and associated brand, size, color and price range. Further, the platform allows shoppers to efficiently inquire about particular products and to purchase products in a single chat session with a store sales person remotely.
US11443364B2	Real-time management of inventory transfers and related user interfaces A computer-implemented is disclosed. The method includes: receiving a selection of a product; determining that there is insufficient available inventory of the product at a pick-up location; in response to the determining: selecting, based on inventory tracking data for the product, a first inventory location having available inventory of the product; determining, based on the first inventory location, the at least one possible pick-up location, and inventory transfer data, an inventory transfer time from the first inventory location to the pick-up location; and determining an earliest time of availability of a first quantity of the product at the pick-up location based on the inventory transfer time, and transmitting, to a customer device, the earliest time of availability of the first quantity of the product at the pick-up location for presenting, by the customer device, as available inventory at the pick-up location for pick up after the earliest time of availability.
US11443361B1	Item ordering from an embedded ordering device Described are systems, methods and arrangements for enabling fulfillment of items from printed materials. When printed material is generated it includes an embedded ordering device (“EOD”) that can be activated by a user that is viewing the printed material. Upon activation, the EOD connects to a wireless network and sends a unique identifier data to a fulfillment service. The fulfillment service, upon receiving the unique identifier data determines an item associated with the unique identifier data and a delivery destination (e.g., the address to which the printed material was delivered) and fulfills the item to the delivery destination.
US11443359B2	System, method, and computer program product for segmenting users in a region based on predicted activity A method of segmenting a plurality of users in a first region based on predicted activity external to the first region. A system and computer program product are also provided.
US11443357B2	Matching user provided representations of items with sellers of those items This disclosure describes systems and methods for matching user provided images that include representations of items with sellers of those items. A management service, as described herein, may provide a web site where users can post images, view images, share images, correspond with other users, etc. The management service may identify items represented in the images and determine one or more sellers that offer those items for sale. When another user requests to view the user provided image, the image, seller information identifying the seller determined to sell the item represented in the image, and/or a purchase control that may be selected by a user to initiate a purchase with the seller is presented.
US11443353B1	System and method of interfacing multiple platforms to generate a customized graphical user interface A system is disclosed that comprises a presentation system configured to receive a request from a wireless communication service customer and initiate an application programming interface call to an action tool. The system also comprises the action tool that accesses and analyzes customer analytics data and determines and sends potential actions based on the analysis to a rules engine. The system additionally comprises the rules engine that applies rules to select and send an action to the presentation system. The presentation system is further configured to generate and provide a customized GUI comprising a selectable button corresponding to the action to a display of an electronic device associated with the customer. The system further comprises a provisioning system configured to provision the customer with a different wireless communication service plan in response to the electronic device receiving an input to the customized GUI indicating selection of the selectable button.
US11443343B2	Removal of irrelevant electronic messages A processor-implemented method, system, and/or computer program product blocks irrelevant message targeted to mobile electronic device. One or more processors identify a contextual history and a cognitive state of a person while in a physical venue. The processor(s) block the electronic message targeted to a mobile electronic device in use by the person based on the contextual history of the person and the cognitive state of the person while in the physical venue, such that the electronic message is deemed to be an irrelevant message.
US11443342B2	System for resource service provider In one embodiment, a system, is provided to take not just a person's time and location into consideration, but also has knowledge of and takes into account their availability, their preferences, their schedule, their purpose for being at their current location, and/or their next goal or stop. One embodiment is able to take into account a real-time view of supplier inventory and deduce and make available much better-adapted offerings and support for that person's travels and endeavors. In one embodiment, having an understanding of a rate of conversion and its relation to traffic and weather patterns allows service providers to make more accurate predictions about various items, including but not limited to, conversion rates, offer types, offer upgrades, traffic etc. In yet another aspect of the invention, the information collected from many travelers, and also information collected from airlines and weather observers, etc., can be used to forecast inventory requirements, such as obtaining and preparing fresh food and pulling from storage chilled or frozen food, as well as man power or staffing level requirements, to meet projected demands.
US11443337B2	Method, medium, and system for planning image sensor deployment A method for planning deployment of image sensors may include determining a location of a store shelf within a retail store and obtaining a first coverage parameter corresponding to a first product type and a second coverage parameter corresponding to a second product type. The method may also include accessing a database to determine a first height of products of the first product type and a second height of products of the second product type, and determining a position for placing a camera configured to capture images of at least a portion of the store shelf by analyzing the location of the store shelf, the first coverage parameter, the second coverage parameter, the first height, and the second height. The method may further include providing, to a user interface of a user device, information relating to the determined position of the camera.
US11443327B2	Method and apparatus for implementing a block chain node device Various methods, apparatuses/systems, and media for implementing a block chain node device are disclosed. A processor allows hosting a received smart contract on a block chain ledger. The smart contract includes a digital model of a contract that describes base policy between an organization and a client. A receiver receives a side car contract from an external database. The side car contract includes a digital addendum to the smart contract and one or more modifications to one or more terms of the contract according to one or more regulatory provisions. The processor attaches the side car contract to the smart contract, and causes a graphical user interface (GUI) to report the one or more terms of the contract according to the one or more modifications in the side car contract in response to one or more received requests to thereby facilitate compliance with the regulatory provisions.
US11443323B2	System and method for secure transactions with a trusted execution environment (TEE) A mobile communications device includes a near field communications (NFC) port and processor. The processor executes a trusted application within a trusted execution environment (TEE) for processing sensitive data. Additionally, the processor executes a NFC driver within the TEE for providing a secure channel between the trusted application and the NFC port such that sensitive data being exchanged across the secure channel are inaccessible to other processes being executed by the processor.
US11443322B2	Remote pay messaging system and methods thereof A computer operable method of processing a current transaction between a merchant device and a customer device, including: receiving a command for remote payment from a computer application program on a computer system in a merchant network; receiving said transaction data from the computer application program; said transaction data containing phone number or unique identifiable data element for the customer; generating a message which contains a clickable link; sending a short messaging service (SMS) or multimedia messaging service (MMS) based on the message that is generated; displaying a web page with payment options when link is clicked; directing data transmission to different payment gateways from the payment options displayed on the web page; receiving data from different payment gateways based on the payment option selected; and transmitting said received data from a payment gateway to the originating merchant device.
US11443321B2	Payment service authentication for a transaction using a generated dynamic verification value Methods and systems for dynamically generating a verification value for a transaction and for utilizing such value to verify the authenticity of the payment service application. The dynamically created verification value may be generated on a payment device, such as an integrated circuit credit card or smart card, embedded into the payment data, and transmitted to a point of sale terminal. Alternatively, payment data is sent by a payment device to a point of sale terminal, which generates a verification value and embeds it into the payment data. The embedded verification value is used by a service provider to verify the authenticity of the transaction. The methods and systems may be used in a contactless (wireless) environment or a non-wireless environment.
US11443317B2	Tracing flow of tagged funds on a blockchain A system for “tagging” funds identified on a blockchain and associating a weight value therewith. The tagging profile is developed into a propagation profile wherein weight values are inherited from the tagging profile s. Propagation profile funds may be diluted by combining with non-tagged funds, similar to how ink dilutes through water. A spending history of funds of interest is developed based on replaying the funds of interest against the global transaction history of the blockchain. It is determined whether the spending history intersects with the propagation profile, thus determining how closely the two sources of funds are economically to one another. Intersection triggers actions including alert notifications or transfer of funds on the blockchain.
US11443314B2	Data security system using mobile communications device Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods to unlock an account associated with a user for a limited period of time to enable the user conduct a transaction using funds from that account. In one embodiment of the invention, the user may select options relating to the transaction using a payment menu provided at a mobile communications device associated with the user. A notification message is received at the mobile communications device informing the user that the account is unlocked for a certain period of time and for a certain amount. After the transaction is complete, the user is notified and the account is locked again.
US11443310B2	Encryption based shared architecture for content classification Encryption operations using private and public cryptographic signature keys may be used to facilitate secure and uniquely identifiable audit records relating to website content classification. Blockchain may be used to facilitate collection, storage, and sharing of encrypted audit records. Based on shared encrypted information (e.g. from the blockchain or elsewhere) a content evaluation consensus may be formed. Collections of encrypted audit records may be processed and results of the processing may also be shared via the blockchain. Subsequent operations can include sharing of the processing results.
US11443308B2	In-line verification of transactions A transaction system can include a computing device with a communication port, a processor device, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage memory. The communication port can communicate data with other computing devices. The non-transitory computer-readable storage memory includes code that is executable by the processor device to perform operations. The operations include receiving parameters of a transfer, verifying the transfer using a multi-factor authentication process, in response to verifying the transfer, using a private key to countersign the transfer and return, via the communications port, a signed transfer package for execution of the transfer, and providing, via the communications port, the parameters of the transfer and countersign data to an immutable ledger.
US11443301B1	Sending secure proxy elements with mobile wallets Various examples are directed to systems and methods for securely sending and using proxy element in a mobile wallet system. Through a user interface associated with a proxy originator wallet, user input may be received that defines the parameters of the proxy element. The parameters may include one or more of a spending limit, a time duration, a use number condition, and a transfer condition, and a product condition. A request may be sent from the proxy originator wallet to a proxy approver system to create the proxy element. The originator wallet may receive a proxy grant acknowledgement from the proxy approver system. The grant acknowledgement may instructions for obtaining credentials for the proxy element. The proxy element including the parameters and the instructions for obtaining credentials may be sent to a mobile wallet of a recipient. The recipient mobile wallet may use the proxy element for payment or non-payment transactions.
US11443299B2	Gift card use notification A system and method for gift card use notification is disclosed. The method receives at a gift card use notification system, an indication that a specific gift card was used for a purchase. The information from the notice is used to identify the customer that had given the specific gift card. Contact information for the customer that had given the specific gift card is determined. The gift card use notification system provides to the customer, via the contact information, a use notification indicating that the specific gift card had been used.
US11443288B2	Automatic assessment of damage and repair costs in vehicles A system and method are provided for automatically estimating a repair cost for a vehicle. A method includes: receiving, at a server computing device over an electronic network, one or more images of a damaged vehicle from a client computing device; performing image processing operations on each of the one or more images to detect external damage to a first set of parts of the vehicle; inferring internal damage to a second set of parts of the vehicle based on the detected external damage; and, calculating an estimated repair cost for the vehicle based on the detected external damage and inferred internal damage based on accessing a parts database that includes repair and labor costs for each part in the first and second sets of parts.
US11443284B2	System and method for synchronizing notary meeting interactions between multiple software clients Embodiments included herein are directed towards a method for synchronizing notary meeting interactions between multiple software clients. Embodiments may include allowing a signer to join, via a graphical user interface associated with a first software client, a remote notary meeting. Embodiments may also include permitting a remote notary agent to control the remote notary meeting using a second software client. Embodiments may further include synchronizing one or more behaviors associated with the first software client and the second software client using an application programming interface (API).
US11443281B2	Collaboration tool A method for enabling collaboration between individuals to design, construct and maintain a building. The method comprises providing a network based computer system including at least one server and multiple clients. The multiple clients allow respective individuals to interact with the server. The server includes a machine-readable storage, which is encoded with software for execution by a CPU for allowing individuals at the respective clients to create, execute and manage projects associated with at least one of a design phase, construction phase and maintenance phase of the building. Each project comprises one or more events that are related to time. The method also comprises storing in the machine-readable storage events as they occur during execution of each project to create a building project database spanning at least the design phase and the construction phase and optionally the maintenance phase of the building.
US11443271B2	Logistical management system Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for managing a user request for a transport of good. An embodiment operates by receiving a user request for the transport of the good from a pickup location to a destination location. After receiving the user request, a pickup and destination node is identified from a pre-generated graph of nodes. Subsequently, a transit cost for the pickup location or the destination location is determined. Based on the lowest transit cost, a preferred route among possible routes from the pickup location is generated. Thereafter, a transporter arrival time related to the pickup location and/or an intermediate location is determined based on the preferred route, and a transporter to pick up the good from the pickup location or the intermediate location is assigned and tracked during the transporting of the good.
US11443268B2	System and method for intermodal materials delivery Systems and methods for the intermodal delivery of materials within an at least substantially autonomous carrier traveling along a delivery path. The carrier may dock with a transit vehicle or engage directly with a railway to travel along a transit line while making a delivery. The carrier may also be suitable for securably storing materials therein, such as where a plurality of carriers stop at a storage hub located substantially near and/or along the delivery path. The storage hub may include a charging station for the carriers, and serve as a portable warehouse for both materials and carriers. When adequately charged, the carrier may deliver materials to their final destinations. Or, the materials may be transferred to a load transporter to facilitate first- and/or last-mile delivery.
US11443266B2	Machine learning method and machine learning apparatus performing learning relating to work process A machine learning apparatus totals up all of the unit work operations included in the plurality of different work processes and judges if the plurality of unit work operations of the same type are similar to each other. The machine learning apparatus defines a similar first unit work operation and second unit work operation as a set of similar work operations, uses a common machine learning algorithm so as to generate a similar work learning model, and performs learning relating to a first work process including the first unit work operation and a second work process including the second unit work operation based on the similar work learning model.
US11443263B2	Organizational risk management subscription service An organizational risk management service includes a risk assessment and mitigation platform for evaluating organizational risk. The service includes interfaces for managing connections with organizational and external systems for intake of messaging that provides information which is analyzed to define risks faced by an organization. This risk is defined by analyzing this messaging and its metadata with a system manager, a rules engine, and a message manager. The service and platform models responses to address the risks faced by the organization, and generates event relays that comprise communications, alerts, notifications, instructions, and other information for registered users, and external systems that enable actions for addressing and mitigating the risk and compliance with organizational policies and procedures.
US11443261B2	Automated solar collector installation design including version management Embodiments may include systems and methods to create and edit a representation of a worksite, to create various data objects, to classify such objects as various types of predefined “features” with attendant properties and layout constraints. As part of or in addition to classification, an embodiment may include systems and methods to create, associate, and edit intrinsic and extrinsic properties to these objects. A design engine may apply of design rules to the features described above to generate one or more solar collectors installation design alternatives, including generation of on-screen and/or paper representations of the physical layout or arrangement of the one or more design alternatives. Some embodiments may provide viewing, creating, and manipulating of multiple versions of a solar collector layout design for a particular installation worksite. The use of versions may allow analysis of alternative layouts, alternative feature classifications, and cost and performance data corresponding to alternative design choices. Version summary information providing a representative comparison between versions across a number of dimensions may be provided.
US11443258B2	Real-time order delivery coordination between multiple merchants A computer-implemented is disclosed. The method includes: obtaining current delivery schedules of a plurality of delivery entities, the current delivery schedules including delivery data for pending deliveries of product orders associated with a plurality of merchants; receiving, from a computing device, a first order for a product associated with a first merchant; determining order data for the first order, the order data indicating, at least, an inventory location having available inventory of the product and a delivery destination for the first order; identifying a first set of the pending deliveries, the identifying including comparing delivery routes associated with said pending deliveries with order data for the first order; generating messages for causing delivery entities associated with the first set of pending deliveries to include the first order in their respective delivery schedules; and sending the generated messages to the respective delivery entities.
US11443257B2	System and method for scheduling vehicles A system may include a computer-readable storage medium configured to store a first set of instructions for determining one or more candidate driver terminals to accept a service request; and a processor in communication with the computer-readable storage medium, wherein when executing the first set of instructions, the processor is directed to: establish a communication with a passenger terminal; obtain a service request including a position of the passenger terminal from the passenger terminal: determine a wireless fidelity (WiFi) station based on the position of the passenger terminal; determine one or more driver terminals that access the WiFi station; determine an access instance of each of the one or more driver terminals; and determine one or more candidate driver terminals among the one or more driver terminals based on the one or more access instances of the one or more driver terminals.
US11443244B2	Parallel ensemble of machine learning algorithms An aspect of the invention includes receiving machine learning (ML) training data that includes a plurality of features for a plurality of observations. The ML training data is broken into a plurality of non-overlapping subsets of features and observations. A first ML algorithm is trained based on a first subset of the features and observations, and a second ML algorithm is trained based on a second subset of the features and observations. The training of the first ML algorithm overlaps in time with the training of the second ML algorithm. The first and second ML algorithms are tested. Either the first or second ML algorithm is selected based at least in part on results of the testing. The selected ML algorithm is retained as a trained ML algorithm for predicting one or more of the plurality of features based on one or more others of the plurality of features.
US11443237B1	Centralized platform for enhanced automated machine learning using disparate datasets Systems and techniques are disclosed for a centralized platform for enhanced automated machine learning using disparate datasets. An example method includes receiving user specification of one or more data sources to be integrated with the system, the data sources storing datasets to be utilized to train one or more machine learning models by the system, and the datasets reflecting user interaction data. A dataset is imported from the data source, and machine learning models are automatically trained based a particular machine learning model recipe of a plurality of machine learning model recipes. A first trained machine learning model is implemented, with the system being configured to respond to queries based on the implemented machine learning model, and with the responses including personalized recommendations.
US11443236B2	Enhancing fairness in transfer learning for machine learning models with missing protected attributes in source or target domains A method of utilizing a computing device to correct source data used in machine learning includes receiving, by the computing device, first data. The computing device corrects the source data via an application of a covariate shift to the source data based upon the first data where the covariate shift re-weighs the source data.
US11443231B2	Automated software selection using a vector-trained deep learning model A processing device can establish a vector-trained, deep learning model to produce software dependency recommendations. The processing device can build a list of software dependencies and corresponding metatags for each of the software dependencies, and generate a probability distribution from the list. The processing device can sample the probability distribution to produce a latent vector space that includes representative vectors for the software dependencies. The processing device can train a hybrid deep learning model to produce software dependency recommendations using the latent vector space as well as collaborative data for the software dependencies.
US11443220B2	Multiple choice decision engine for an electronic personal assistant To simplify assisting a user in their day-to-day activities, a communication for performing an action may be sent to a user in the form of a query, where the query includes the most likely set of choices for the action arranged in a group of dichotomous (e.g., yes/no) or multiple choice answers. In this manner, a user may respond to the query by simply selecting one of the dichotomous or multiple choice answers. Historical logs of past actions, responses, queries, and so forth, may be used to predict future user actions or needs, and to formulate future queries for sending to the user. These techniques may be implemented, for example, through a remote coordination server or directly through a user's personal electronics device.
US11443217B2	Information processing apparatus and information processing method It is possible to perform a stochastic process based on a metropolis algorithm while reducing a physical quantity of a circuit. Provided is an information processing apparatus including one or a plurality of array circuits. In this apparatus, each of the array circuits includes a plurality of units, and each of the plurality of units includes a first memory that stores a value indicating a state of one node of a coupling model, a second memory that stores a coupling coefficient indicating coupling from a node of another unit connected to an unit of the second memory, and a logic circuit that determines a value indicating a subsequent state of the one node based on a value indicating a state of the node of the other unit and the coupling coefficient. Further, the logic circuit sets a first random variable in accordance with an exponential distribution of a parameter θ as an input.
US11443212B2	Learning policy explanations Various embodiments are provided for learning policy explanations in a computing environment by a processor. One or more explanations may be provided that justify validity or invalidity of a claim based on one or more rules extracted from one or more segments of text data of a policy data source using a machine learning operation.
US11443209B2	Method and system for unlabeled data selection using failed case analysis A method, system, and a computer program product automatically select training data for updating a model by applying human-annotated training data to a model to generate results that are evaluated to identify correct case results and false case results that are categorized into error type categories for use in building error models corresponding to the error type categories, where each error model is built from at least failed case results belonging to a corresponding error type, and where unlabeled data samples are applied to each error model to compute an error likelihood for each unlabeled data sample with respect to each error type category, thereby enabling the selection and display of unlabeled data samples for annotation by a subject matter expert based on a computed error likelihood for the one or more unlabeled data samples in a specified error type category meeting or exceeding an error threshold requirement.
US11443193B2	Domain adaptation for machine learning models Adapting a machine learning model to process data that differs from training data used to configure the model for a specified objective is described. A domain adaptation system trains the model to process new domain data that differs from a training data domain by using the model to generate a feature representation for the new domain data, which describes different content types included in the new domain data. The domain adaptation system then generates a probability distribution for each discrete region of the new domain data, which describes a likelihood of the region including different content described by the feature representation. The probability distribution is compared to ground truth information for the new domain data to determine a loss function, which is used to refine model parameters. After determining that model outputs achieve a threshold similarity to the ground truth information, the model is output as a domain-agnostic model.
US11443189B2	Hypernetwork training method and device, electronic device and storage medium A hypernetwork training method includes: acquiring a multipath neural subnetwork based on a preconstructed initial hypernetwork; training the multipath neural subnetwork to update a weight parameter of each substructure in the multipath neural subnetwork; synchronizing the weight parameter of each substructure in the multipath neural subnetwork to the preconstructed initial hypernetwork; and determining whether the preconstructed initial hypernetwork converges, and if it is determined that the preconstructed initial hypernetwork does not converge, re-executing the acquiring, the training, the synchronizing, and the determining, to obtain a target hypernetwork.
US11443187B2	Method and system for improving classifications performed by an artificial neural network (ANN) model This disclosure relates to method and system for improving classifications performed by artificial neural network (ANN) model. The method may include identifying, for a classification performed by the ANN model for an input, activated neurons in each neural layer of the ANN model; and analyzing the activated neurons in each neural layer with respect to Characteristic Feature Directive (CFDs) for corresponding neural layer and for a correct class of the input. The CFDs for each neural layer may be generated after a training phase of the ANN model and based on neurons in corresponding neural layer that may be activated for a training input of the correct class. The method may further include determining differentiating neurons in each neural layer that are not activated as per the CFDs for the correct class of the input based on the analysis; and providing missing features based on the differentiating neurons.
US11443186B2	Method and system for executing processes in operating systems A method and system for executing processes in an operating system is disclosed. The method may include assigning a tag Identifier (ID) and a first tree ID to each of a plurality of processes based on associated at least one attribute. The method may further include determining content patterns associated with each of the plurality of processes using a deep learning network. The method may include assigning a second tree ID to each of at least one process from the plurality of processes based on the identified content pattern. The method may further include generating a set of clusters for the plurality of processes based on the second tree ID assigned to each of the at least one process. The method may include executing each process within a cluster from the set of clusters based on execution of a single process within the cluster.
US11443184B2	Methods and systems for predicting a trajectory of a road agent based on an intermediate space An embodiment takes the form of a prediction system that obtains a respective indicated similarity of trajectories in each of a plurality of combinations of observed vehicle trajectories. The prediction system, for each of the combinations, calculates a distance between respective intermediate representations, generated by a neural network, of the trajectories in the combination, and performs a training of the neural network based on a calculated loss between the distance and the indicated similarity of the trajectories in the combination. The respective calculated losses converge after performing respective trainings for the combinations. The prediction system creates an intermediate space of respective intermediate representations, generated by the neural network, of observed vehicle trajectories, and predicts a trajectory of a road agent based on a distance between a given intermediate representation in the intermediate space and an intermediate representation of an observed trajectory of the road agent generated by the neural network.
US11443180B1	Mapping content to an item repository Various embodiments of systems and methods for mapping review articles to locations in a marketplace catalog. Various embodiments include training a system using product reviews and images from the marketplace as training data. Product reviews and images can be provided to autoencoders to generate respective short codes. The product review short codes can be combined with the product image short codes to generate review short codes. These review short codes can be provided as training data for an attribute assignment network while associated attributes (e.g., attributes associated with related products) can be target outputs for the attribute assignment network. After the system is sufficiently trained, a review article can be obtained from the publishing platform. This review article can be provided to the trained system to receive predicted attribute assignments. These predicted attribute assignments can be effective to map the review article to locations in a marketplace catalog.
US11443175B2	Compensation for reference transistors and memory cells in analog neuro memory in deep learning artificial neural network Numerous embodiments are disclosed for compensating for differences in the slope of the current-voltage characteristic curve among reference transistors, reference memory cells, and flash memory cells during a read operation in an analog neural memory in a deep learning artificial neural network. The embodiments are able to compensate for slope differences during both sub-threshold and linear operation of reference transistors.
US11443173B2	Hardware-software co-design for accelerating deep learning inference Embodiments disclose an artificial intelligence chip and a convolutional neural network applied to the artificial intelligence chip comprising a processor, at least one parallel computing unit, and a pooling computation unit. The method comprises: dividing a convolution task into convolution subtasks and corresponding pooling subtasks; executing convolution subtasks at different parallel computing units, and performing convolution, batch normalization, and non-linear computing operation in a same parallel computing unit; sending an execution result of each parallel computing unit from executing the convolution subtask to the pooling computation unit for executing the corresponding pooling subtask; merging executing results of the pooling computation unit from performing pooling operations on the executing results outputted by respective convolution subtasks to obtain an execution result of the convolution task. This can reduce data transport, such that operations of the convolutional neural network may be accomplished with lower power consumption and less time in an edge device.
US11443159B2	Biodegradable payment card with embedded plant seeds Aspects described herein may allow for a payment card assembly including a payment card having a first surface and an opposed second surface, and being formed of a biodegradable plastic. A Europay, Mastercard, and Visa (EMV) chip may be removably secured to the payment card. One or more plant seeds may be embedded in the payment card.
US11443150B2	Automotive sensor integration module An automotive sensor integration module including a plurality of sensors which differ in at least one of a sensing period or an output data format, and a signal processing unit, which simultaneously outputs, as sensing data, pieces of detection data respectively output from the plurality of sensors on the basis of the sensing period of any one of the plurality of sensors, determines whether each region of an outer cover corresponding to a location of each of the plurality of sensors is contaminated on the basis of the pieces of detection data, and outputs a determination result as contamination data.
US11443149B2	Cuttings imaging for determining geological properties Apparatus and methods for ascribing one of multiple predetermined sub-classes to multiple pixels of an image of an unknown rock sample retrieved from a geological formation. The ascription utilizes a deep learning model trained with an annotated training dataset. The annotated training dataset includes multi-pixel images of known rock samples and, for each known rock sample image, which sub-class corresponds to at least a subset of pixels of that image. For each pixel of the unknown rock sample image having an ascribed sub-class, which one of predetermined meta-classes is associated with that pixel is derived based on the sub-class ascribed to that pixel. The meta-classes represent different predetermined rock types. At least one property of the formation is predicted utilizing the ascription-derived meta-classes, including which rock type(s) are present in the formation.
US11443148B2	Multiple stage image based object detection and recognition Systems, methods, tangible non-transitory computer-readable media, and devices for autonomous vehicle operation are provided. For example, a computing system can receive object data that includes portions of sensor data. The computing system can determine, in a first stage of a multiple stage classification using hardware components, one or more first stage characteristics of the portions of sensor data based on a first machine-learned model. In a second stage of the multiple stage classification, the computing system can determine second stage characteristics of the portions of sensor data based on a second machine-learned model. The computing system can generate an object output based on the first stage characteristics and the second stage characteristics. The object output can include indications associated with detection of objects in the portions of sensor data.
US11443145B2	Data analyzing device and data analyzing method To enable effectively narrowing down features to be generated, thereby generating effective features at a high speed, in obtaining the features from a large volume of data. A fixed rule and an additional rule are stored in advance. The fixed rule specifies a rule of a calculation operation for generating a new feature. The additional rule specifies whether to perform a calculation operation for generating the new feature on a basis of meta-information, not depending on whether the fixed rule is applicable. An objective variable is predicted from plurality of features on the basis of the fixed rule and the additional rule.
US11443143B2	Unattended object detection using machine learning Techniques for unattended object detection using machine learning are disclosed. A machine learning policy, for use in identifying unattended objects in a captured image depicting one or more objects, is generated. The generating includes determining a level of occlusion in the captured image relating to the objects, and determining the machine learning policy based on the determined level of occlusion. A machine learning model is selected, from among a plurality of pre-defined machine learning models, based on the generated machine learning policy. An unattended object is detected in the captured image using the selected machine learning model.
US11443138B2	Systems and methods for virtual camera configuration A virtual camera configuration system includes any number of cameras disposed about an area, such as an event venue. The system also includes at least one processor and at least one non-transitory, computer-readable medium communicatively coupled to the at least one processor. In certain embodiments, the at least one non-transitory, computer-readable medium is configured to store instructions which, when executed, cause the processor to perform operations including receiving a set of game data, receiving a set of audiovisual data, and receiving a set of camera presets. The operations also include generating a set of training data and training a model based on the set of training data. The operations also include generating, using the model on a second set of game data and a second set of audiovisual data, a second set of camera presets associated with the set of virtual cameras.
US11443136B2	System and method for signal pre-processing based on data driven models and data dependent model transformation This disclosure relates generally to method for signal pre-processing based on a plurality of data driven models and a data dependent model transformation. The method includes (a) receiving, a raw signal as an input; (b) learning, a set of representational basis from the received raw signal, wherein the set of representational basis comprises a plurality of orthonormal vectors; (c) selecting, at least one orthonormal vector from the plurality of orthonormal vectors, (d) determining, a structure of the plurality of dictionary atoms, wherein structure of the plurality of dictionary atoms corresponds to a graph structure represented as a Laplacian matrix (L); (e) integrating, the graph structure as a structure of the set of representational basis to obtain a reconfigured data model; and (f) reconstructing, using the reconfigured data model to obtain a denoised signal, wherein at least one of constraints on a optimization problem corresponds to desired spectral and topological structure.
US11443135B2	Method for monitoring object and electronic device for supporting the same An electronic device according to certain embodiments may include a camera, a memory, and at least one processor, wherein the at least one processor is configured to: obtain an image through the camera; obtain an image of at least one object from the obtained image; determine whether the image of the at least one object corresponds to an image of an object stored in the memory; output about a request for information about the at least one object, based at least in part on the determination; and obtain the information about the at least one object, based at least in part on information received from an external source.
US11443132B2	Continuously improve recognition or prediction accuracy using a machine learning model to train and manage an edge application Distributing machine learning models to electronic devices is provided. A number of machine learning models are built and stored on a server, wherein each model is customized to different device and user requirements. A request for a machine learning model is received from an electronic device, wherein the request includes a device profile comprising device attributes and user characteristics. The server determines which machine learning model from among the number of models is best suited for the device profile according to a set of model policies. The machine learning model best suited for the device profile is selected and downloaded to the device.

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