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US11528949B2	Outdoor protective garment-like device A protective device for maintaining body temperature in a living being is provided. The inventive protective device comprises a first sheet member having a left portion and a right portion. The first sheet member has a left edge and a right edge. A first channel member defines structure defining a first channel. The first channel member defines structure which is secured to and overlies a first portion of the left portion of the first sheet member and overlies a first portion of the right portion of the first sheet member. A second channel defining structure defines a second channel, the second channel defining structure secured to and overlying a second portion of the left portion of the first sheet member and overlying a second portion of the right portion of the first sheet member. Each of the channels have a first side and an opposite side opposite the first side. A variable length member is disposed on and extends along the length of each of the channels. There is a connection structure positioned proximate the left edge; and a mating connection structure positioned proximate the right edge.
US11528936B2	Aerosol generating device An aerosol generating device includes at least one heater, a battery, and a controller, and generates aerosol by heating a cigarette. The aerosol generating device according to the present exemplary embodiment includes a main printed circuit board (PCB) and an auxiliary PCB formed out of a rigid material and a connecting PCB formed out of a flexible material, and the connecting PCB may electrically connect the main PCB to the auxiliary PCB. Also, the aerosol generating device according to the present exemplary embodiment may include a rigid-flexible PCB.
US11528919B2	Method of cleaning a high temperature food processing line in place and food sterilization line A high temperature food treatment method is disclosed wherein by alternatingly operating between a first final heater (13) and second final heater (23) arranged in parallel on a food processing line (30, 40, 50), it is possible to operate a continuous process, yet significantly reducing the overall downtime of the processing line (30, 40, 50), by performing a cleaning in place process on the final heater (13, 23), not currently being used in the high temperature food treatment process, thereby eliminating or significantly reducing the influence on the processing line (30, 40, 50) downtime by the process elements and/or processing equipment most easily contaminated.
US11528913B1	Automated food preparation apparatus An automated food preparation apparatus configured to provide a completed provision, such as a bagel, optionally toasted, and optionally with a spread. The automated food preparation system includes a food placement and pickup station, a cutting station assembly, a toasting station assembly and a spread applying station assembly. The provision is directed between the station assemblies through a grasping, locating and moving system. The system includes a plurality of food engaging forks that are configured to releasably grasp the food preparation, and, in turn, to locate and move the food preparation therethrough.
US11528911B2	Compositions and methods for controlling head blight disease Compositions comprising microbiological strains and cultures and methods of use thereof are provided herein. Certain strains, cultures, and compositions thereof are useful for the control of head blight disease, for example, of various crop plants. Biological control compositions, and methods of use thereof to prevent, inhibit or treat the development of plant pathogens or disease and for preserving plant yield, are also provided.
US11528910B2	Bacillus amyloliquefaciens FCC1256 compositions and methods of controlling plant pathogens Methods of controlling a plant pathogen, e.g. fungal and bacterial pathogens, on a plant, are described wherein an agricultural composition comprising Bacillus amyloliquefaciens FCC1256 deposited as ATCC No. PTA-122162, a carrier, a surface-active agent and optionally a buffer, and a corresponding concentrate is also described.
US11528899B2	Fishing platform A fishing platform, including a main body to float on a body of water, a stabilization plate movably connected to at least a portion of the main body to prevent the main body from movement in response to the stabilization plate touching a ground surface within the body of water, and a seat assembly rotatably disposed on at least a portion of the main body to rotate in at least one of a first rotational direction and a second rotational direction.
US11528895B2	Genetically modified T cell receptor mice The invention provides a genetically modified non-human animal that comprises in its genome unrearranged T cell receptor variable gene loci, as well as embryos, cells, and tissues comprising the same. Also provided are constructs for making said genetically modified non-human animal and methods of making the same. Various methods of using the genetically modified non-human animal are also provided.
US11528894B2	Depuration system The invention relates to a container assembly comprising a container for depuration of mollusks and a drain canal unit. The assembly provides a closed circulation of water via a circulation route that has an entry portion between the floor of the container and the drain canal unit, a circulation channel between the corner of the container and a drain canal unit, and a drain canal within the drain canal unit. Also provided is a drain canal unit for use in stackable containers that provides circulation of water within a container assembly.
US11528882B2	Air filtration and control system for an animal housing A base carrying a left-side panel and a right-side panel. A top panel is disposed on and extends between said side panels, wherein said base, said side panels and top panel define a pet receiving area. A blower unit disposed at a rear side of said pet receiving area drawing air in a direction from a front side to said rear side of the housing across the pet receiving area. An airflow control covering disposed on at least one of said left-side panel and said right-side panel providing a reduced airflow entering said pet receiving area through the side panel relative to a front side of the housing, wherein a negative air pressure is established within the housing while providing a primary airflow direction from said front side to said rear side of the housing to container pet hair, dander and debris within said housing.
US11528881B2	Tomato hybrid DRTC6031 The invention provides seeds and plants of tomato hybrid DRTC6031. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds, plant parts, and tissue cultures of tomato hybrid DRTC6031 and to methods for producing a tomato plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another plant, such as a tomato plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to plants, seeds, plant parts, and tissue cultures of tomato hybrid DRTC6031 comprising introduced beneficial or desirable traits.
US11528880B2	Petunia-calibrachoa variety SAKPXC032 A petunia-calibrachoa plant designated SAKPXC032 is disclosed. Embodiments include the seeds of petunia-calibrachoa SAKPXC032, the plants of petunia-calibrachoa SAKPXC032, to plant parts of petunia-calibrachoa SAKPXC032, and methods for producing a plant produced by crossing petunia-calibrachoa SAKPXC032 with itself or with another variety. Embodiments include methods for producing a plant containing in its genetic material one or more genes or transgenes and the transgenic plants and plant parts produced by those methods. Embodiments also relate to varieties, breeding varieties, plant parts, and cells derived from petunia-calibrachoa SAKPXC032, methods for producing other lines or plant parts derived from petunia-calibrachoa SAKPXC032, and the plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. Embodiments further include hybrid seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing petunia-calibrachoa SAKPXC032 with another variety.
US11528879B2	Soybean variety 01083659 The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01083659. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01083659. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01083659 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01083659 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
US11528877B1	Maize hybrid X05P332 A novel maize variety designated X05P332 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are produced by crossing inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant by crossing hybrid maize variety X05P332 with another maize plant are disclosed. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X05P332 through backcrossing or genetic transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby are described. Maize variety X05P332, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety X05P332 are provided. Methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety X05P332 and methods of using maize variety X05P332 are disclosed.
US11528867B1	Maize hybrid X08P405 A novel maize variety designated X08P405 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are produced by crossing inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant by crossing hybrid maize variety X08P405 with another maize plant are disclosed. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X08P405 through backcrossing or genetic transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby are described. Maize variety X08P405, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety X08P405 are provided. Methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety X08P405 and methods of using maize variety X08P405 are disclosed.
US11528863B1	Maize hybrid X90P472 A novel maize variety designated X90P472 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are produced by crossing inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant by crossing hybrid maize variety X90P472 with another maize plant are disclosed. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X90P472 through backcrossing or genetic transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby are described. Maize variety X90P472, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety X90P472 are provided. Methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety X90P472 and methods of using maize variety X90P472 are disclosed.
US11528857B2	Method for remedying sandy land by using simulated loam substrate spray-seeding technology A method for remedying sandy land by using a simulated loam substrate spray-seeding technology includes: first, carrying out a sand-fixing treatment to lay a metal mesh in sandy land, the metal mesh being fixed to the surface of the sandy land by a sand-fixing pile; second, spray-seeding a seed into the sandy land by simulated loam substrate spray-seeding; and finally, after spray-seeding, carrying out maintenance management, including adding a protective plate around the metal mesh, covering with a non-woven fabric, watering, fertilizing, reseeding, and post-monitoring. The present invention adopts a two-layer spray-seeding method, and rapidly simulates a loam substrate suitable for plant growth by bionics; the simulated loam substrate having good water retention capacity (conducive to a higher germination rate of seed), root development, microbial activity, nutrient transformation, and plant growth and development. With less investment and having a quick effect, large-scale sand control is provided.
US11528856B2	Grapple positioning system and method for a work vehicle A system and method of positioning a grapple of a skidder based on ground conditions and felled timber characteristics, or other material characteristics, such as conduit characteristics for pipe, being moved by the skidder. The vehicle includes a level sensor to determine slope of the vehicle based on ground slope and a traction device to determine a slip condition of the vehicle. Level sensors can include a gyroscope, an accelerometer, or a pitch/roll/yaw sensor. The grapple assembly is automatically positioned based on the vehicle slope, the slip condition, and the weight and/or the length of the felled timber being collected by the grapple.
US11528853B2	Device for delivering at least a layer of compost and casing oil to a shelving for growing mushrooms Device for delivering at least a layer of compost and casing soil to a shelving for growing mushrooms, comprising a first conveyor, on which in a downstream direction are arranged a first hopper with a receiving opening for receiving compost and a dispensing opening for delivering a compost layer on the first conveyor and a second hopper with a receiving opening for receiving casing soil and a dispensing opening for delivering casing soil on the compost layer wherein at least one separator for separating in a direction perpendicular to the downstream direction at least two fractions of the layer of compost with casing soil.
US11528852B2	Greenhouse sidewall ventilation system This disclosure describes a positive pressure greenhouse including one or more plants disposed on a plant table surface, wherein the plant table surface is disposed above ground level and has an area below the plant table surface and above the ground, one or more upper wall tubes including one or more upper wall tube fans disposed above the plant table surface, one or more lower sidewall tubes comprising one or more lower side wall tube fans disposed below the plant table surface which may be at or near ground level. The one or more lower sidewall tube fans may be configured to draw air from the area below the plant table surface, wherein air is further drawn down from above the plant surface table, e.g., the area of the upper wall tubes and upper wall tube fans, to ground level of the greenhouse. The one or more lower wall tube fans may also be configured to blow air into the area below the plant table surface wherein the blown air further rises above the plants and into the area of the upper wall tubes and upper wall tube fans.
US11528851B2	Indoor garden center with a moisture management system An indoor gardening appliance includes a liner defining a grow chamber and a grow module rotatably mounted within the grow chamber for receiving a plurality of plant pods. A moisture management system includes an evaporator plenum in fluid communication with the grow chamber and a fan assembly that recirculates air from the respective grow chambers and/or the ambient environment through an evaporator positioned within the evaporator plenum. In this manner, chamber humidity may be regulated while water is extracted from the air which may be used by a hydration system to hydrate plants.
US11528842B2	Robotic working tool and work area boundary sensing method The present disclosure related to a robotic working tool 100 comprising a controller 110 and at least a first and at least a second magnetic sensor arranged to sense a magnetic signal. The controller 110 is configured to detect a first magnetic signal; determine a signal strength of the detected first magnetic signal; determine if the signal strength of the detected magnetic signal is above or below a threshold value, and if the signal strength is above the threshold value, accept signal detection input for the first magnetic signal from a first set of sensors, and if the signal strength is below the threshold value, accept signal detection input for the first magnetic signal from a second set of sensors, wherein the second set of sensors is a subset of the first set. The disclosure also relates to a method for use in the robotic working tool and a computer readable medium for carrying computer instructions that when loaded into a controller of a robotic working tool, cause the robotic working tool to operate according to a method.
US11528835B2	Rail roller pin gang adjustment system A tillage machine includes a main frame, a gang rotatably coupled to the main frame, and an arcuately-shaped adjustment rail coupled to the main frame. At least a portion of the adjustment rail is spaced from the main frame. The adjustment rail includes a plurality of apertures each configured to receive a locking structure, and the adjustment rail defines an open space adjacent the main frame.
US11528834B2	Work vehicle suspension hitch A hitch assembly includes a vehicle connection interface and a rotary cutter connection interface. A mounting plate extends between the vehicle connection interface and the rotary cutter connection interface. A pivot plate is pivotally coupled to the mounting plate. A suspension element coupled between the pivot and mounting plates mitigates force transfer between the connection interfaces resulting from the relative movement of the connection interfaces.
US11533824B2	Power semiconductor module and a method for producing a power semiconductor module A method for producing a power semiconductor module arrangement includes: arranging a semiconductor substrate in a housing, the housing including a through hole extending through a component of the housing; inserting a pin or bolt into the through hole such that an upper end of the pin/bolt is not inserted into the through hole; arranging a printed circuit board on the housing; arranging the housing on a heat sink having a hole, the housing being arranged on the heat sink such that the through hole is aligned with the hole in the heat sink; and by way of a first pressing tool, exerting a force on a defined contact area of the printed circuit board and pressing the pin/bolt into the hole in the heat sink, wherein the defined contact area is arranged directly above the pin/bolt.
US11533817B2	Textured glass component for an electronic device enclosure The disclosure provides textured glass components as well as electronic device cover assemblies and enclosures which include the textured glass components. In some cases, a protruding portion of the glass component includes a textured region provided over a camera assembly of the electronic device. One or more openings may be provided in the textured region. The textured region may be configured to provide a translucent or hazy appearance to the electronic device while providing a desirable “feel” to the electronic device and level of cleanability.
US11533815B2	Antenna using horn structure and electronic device including the same An electronic device in provided, including an antenna using a horn structure capable of using at least a portion of a metal member as a signal waveguide structure of the antenna. The device includes a housing, a display, a printed circuit board, and at least one wireless communication circuit, where a waveguide hole is provided to connect at least a portion of a through hole and an electronic component and is used as an operating channel of the electronic component together with the waveguide hole.
US11533791B2	Domestic appliance A household appliance device includes a base unit, a planar unit, and a fixing unit configured to at least partially fix the planar unit to the base unit such that in an assembled state the fixing unit allows restricted movement at least of a part of the planar unit relative to the base unit in a direction of movement at least essentially parallel to a main plane of extension of the planar unit.
US11533786B2	Aerosol generating device comprising semiconductor heaters An aerosol-generating device includes an electrical power supply, a cavity structure configured to receive an aerosol-generating article, and a plurality of semiconductor heaters within the cavity structure. Each of the plurality of semiconductor heaters includes a substrate layer and a heating layer on the substrate layer. The heating layer is a continuous layer. The aerosol-generating device includes a controller configured to control a supply of electrical power from the electrical power supply to each of the plurality of semiconductor heaters.
US11533777B2	Cell site architecture that supports 5G and legacy protocols In modern networks, RRU and BBU equipment of an access point site typically handles traffic from a single sector. An RRU-BBU pair process that traffic (often limited to a single spectrum from a single sector) according to implemented capabilities and other equipment located further upstream perform functions that rely on information from multiple sectors. An integrated device (e.g., white box) can integrate the functionality of multiple RRU (or NR in 5G) and the functionality of multiple BBU (or DU/CU splits in 5G), which can reduce implementation footprint, costs, and can provide related services more efficiently without going upstream.
US11533766B2	Electronic device, remote control device and controlling method thereof An electronic device is disclosed. The electronic device comprises a first communication unit, a second communication unit, and a processor for performing control such that the second communication unit operates in a scan state in which an undirected advertising packet can be received when a preset IR signal is received from a remote control device through the first communication unit, acquiring identification information of a target device from the undirected advertising packet when the undirected advertising packet is received from the remote control device in the scan state, and providing a user interface (UI) for guiding a Bluetooth connection with remote control device when the acquired identification information of a target device matches identification information of the electronic device.
US11533765B2	Communications device and method for transmitting data in resources corresponding to a buffer status report A communications device acting as a rely device is configured to transmit a buffer status report message indicating that the buffer is storing data received from the infrastructure equipment for transmission to a remote communications device, when predetermined conditions are satisfied or a trigger event occurs so that the transmission of the data to the remote communications device can make more efficient use of communications resources to transmit the data or the remote communications device receives the data when the remote communications device is in a state in which it should receive the data, for example when not in a reduced power state.
US11533763B2	System information indication method and apparatus and communication system A system information indication method and apparatus and a communication system. In the embodiments of this disclosure, by indicating a correspondence between an area related ID or a system information related index and system information, and/or notifying information on a change of the area related ID or system information related index, a case may be avoided where a UE needs still to obtain system information from a network side when system information of a current cell is stored, thereby efficiently lowering power consumption of the UE in acquiring the system information.
US11533759B2	Random access method, terminal equipment and computer storage medium The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. The present application relates to the field of radio communication technology, and discloses a random access method, a terminal equipment, and a computer readable storage medium, wherein the random access method includes: receiving configuration information for random access from a base station; determining available first physical random access channel transmission occasions (ROs) according to at least one configured CSI-RS based on the configuration information; and performing random access according to the available first ROs. The method of the embodiment of the present application enables the UE to determine the time-frequency resources for random access by the configured CSI-RS indication.
US11533753B2	Adaptive time-varying frame pattern for frame based equipment (FBE) channel access Wireless communications systems and methods related to communications in a network are provided. A first wireless communication device may communicate to a second wireless communication device, a modification to a time parameter associated with at least one of a minimum idle period (MIP) of a frame period or a maximum channel occupancy time (MCOT) of the frame period. Additionally, the first wireless communication device may communicate with the second wireless communication device, a communication signal during the frame period based on the modification to the time parameter.
US11533746B2	Method for transmitting and receiving uplink control information and devices supporting the same Disclosed herein are a method for transmitting and receiving uplink control information between a terminal and a base station in a wireless communication system and devices supporting the same. Particularly, disclosed herein are a method for transmitting and receiving uplink control information between a terminal and a base station on a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) without data (e.g., UL-SCH) and operation of devices supporting the same.
US11533744B2	Resource scheduling method, terminal device, and network device A method for scheduling resources is disclosed herein. A terminal device receives a downlink control information (DCI) indication sent by a network device. The DCI is used to indicate a first resource, and the first resource is a time-frequency resource for a narrowband physical uplink shared channel (NPUSCH) format 2 transmission. The NPUSCH format 2 is used to bear downlink hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgment (HARQ-ACK) feedback information. The terminal device determines the first resource according to the DCI, and sends a scheduling request to the network device on the first resource.
US11533732B2	Apparatus and method for allocating resource for vehicle service 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 of the present invention provide apparatus and method for allocating resources to transmit and receive vehicle service information in a vehicle communication system. According to an embodiment of the present invention, a base station includes a control unit for allocating a resource for a terminal which provides a second service based on priorities of a used resource allocated for a first service and a requested resource for the second service among total preconfigured resource for a vehicle service, and a transmitter for transmitting the resource allocation information to the terminal.
US11533727B1	Maximum permissible exposure and grating lobes in ultra wide bandwidth operations Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Generally, a user equipment (UE) may indicate one or more uplink beams that the UE is capable of generating where grating and main lobes of the one or more uplink beams satisfy a permissible exposure constraint. The UE may operate in an intra-band or inter-band carrier aggregation (CA) mode, and the UE may indicate an uplink beam per band of the CA mode that the UE is capable of generating to satisfy the permissible exposure constraint. Frequency dependent beam training may be initiated by the base station to support intra-band CA modes and inter-band CA modes. The base station may indicate a frequency band and uplink beam to the UE, and the UE may indicate one or more parameter values that the UE may use to generate the uplink beam in the band that satisfies the permissible exposure constraints.
US11533714B2	User terminal and radio communication method Designed to control UL grant-free transmission properly, a user terminal according to one aspect of the present invention has a transmission section that performs UL grant-free transmission in which UL data is transmitted without a UL transmission indication from a radio base station, and a control section that controls change of parameters for use for the UL grant-free transmission, switching of UL grant-free transmission to UL grant-based transmission, and stopping of UL grant-free transmission, based on physical layer signaling.
US11533695B2	Synchronization for sidelink based on prioritization of synchronization signals Embodiments of a User Equipment (UE) and methods of communication are generally described herein. The UE may attempt to detect synchronization signals, including Long Term Evolution (LTE) synchronization signals from eNBs, New Radio (NR) synchronization signals from gNBs, and sidelink synchronization signals (SLSSs) from other UEs. The UE may prioritize an LTE synchronization signal over an SLSS, and may prioritize an NR synchronization signal over an SLSS. If the UE does not detect an LTE synchronization signal or an NR synchronization signal, the UE may select an SLSS. The UE may prioritize an SLSS from a UE that is directly synchronized to an eNB or a gNB over an SLSS from another UE that is indirectly synchronized to an eNB or a gNB.
US11533694B2	Relative timing drift correction for distributed multi-user transmissions This disclosure provides systems, methods, apparatus, and computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for relative timing drift correction for distributed multi-user transmissions. In one aspect, a first access point (AP) may receive a first signal from a second AP. The first signal may be associated with a channel sounding procedure to be performed substantially simultaneously by the second AP and the first AP. The first AP may then receive a second signal from the second AP, and prior to a substantially simultaneous transmission by the second AP and the first AP. The second signal may include timing information relative to the first signal. The first AP may determine a start time of the substantially simultaneous transmission at the first AP based on the timing information, and may initiate the substantially simultaneous transmission according to the determined start time.
US11533684B2	Relay device A relay device in a communication system receives a plurality of wakeup frames from one or more than one communication device connected to each bus of a plurality of buses via a corresponding port. The relay device obtains an aggregated wakeup pattern by aggregating information on an operating mode of each communication device included in the plurality of wakeup frames so as to include predetermined information to be transmitted and received and reduce the number of wakeup patterns. By using the aggregated wakeup pattern obtained by aggregating the information on the operating mode, a wakeup frame for transmission to each bus via the corresponding port is prepared.
US11533682B2	Method for coordinated sleep mode in RAN for energy savings A method and apparatus to receive from a plurality of network nodes, information of sleep mode plans; determine at least one pattern of the time periods that can be used to optimize the sleep modes to provide a highest power savings; and send information of the determined pattern of time periods to use to optimize the sleep modes. A method and apparatus to send towards a network device, information including sleep mode plans of at least one user equipment; negotiate with the aggregation node time periods for the sleep mode plans to determine at least one pattern of time periods that can be used to optimize the sleep mode plans of the at least one user equipment to provide a highest power savings to the at least one user equipment; and receive information of the at least one pattern of time periods to use to provide the highest power savings.
US11533677B1	System, method, and computer program for proactive 5G leg estimation As described herein, a system, method, and computer program are provided for proactive 5G leg estimation. During an initial access procedure by a user equipment on a 4G leg of a 4G-LTE network, an eNodeB of the 4G-LTE network computes a parameter for the user equipment. Further, the eNodeB of the 4G-LTE network conditionally allows an addition of a 5G leg to the 4G-LTE network for the user equipment, based on the parameter computed for the user equipment.
US11533664B2	Method and apparatus for WiFi handoff via coordination in wireless communication system Provided is a method and apparatus for performing a Wireless Fidelity (WiFi) handoff through coordination in a wireless communication system. A first access point (AP) device that transmits a first Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) advertising packet sets a transmission period identically for the first BLE advertising packet and a second BLE advertising packet, determines transmission timings of the first BLE advertising packet and the second BLE advertising packet, transmits a setting message comprising information about the set transmission period of the second BLE advertising packet and information about the determined transmission timing of the second BLE advertising packet to the second AP device, transmits the first BLE advertising packet to a terminal, and performs a WiFi connection with the terminal, based on a determination by the terminal.
US11533663B2	Paging area update technique for reducing power consumption of a wire device moving in air A wireless communication device is provided which allows proper management of location information for a terminal moving in the air to reduce the power consumption of the terminal and to prevent the terminal from affecting communication. A wireless communication device is provided which includes a determination unit that determines whether the device is a device moving on the ground or a device moving in the air, a neighboring cell determination unit that determines whether or not identification information of a paging area acquired through common information transmitted from a base station is the same as identification information of a paging area for which an update was performed last time when the determination unit determines that the device is moving in the air, and a control unit that determines presence or absence of need for a paging area update on the basis of a condition for initiating a paging area update when the determination unit determines that the device is moving in the air.
US11533662B2	Method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving signal in mobile communication system supporting a plurality of carriers A method for transmitting terminal capability information in a communication system supporting a plurality of carriers is provided. The method includes transmitting a control message including terminal capability information, wherein the terminal capability information includes at least one of an information element (IE) indicating whether to support a multi-bearer, an IE indicating whether to support a secondary cell group (SCG) bearer, or an IE indicating whether to support dual connectivity (DC).
US11533657B2	Acknowledgment packet transmission method and communications device This application provides an acknowledgment packet transmission method and a communications device. The method includes: receiving, by a first device, data sent by a second device; sending, by the first device, the acknowledgment packet to the second device, where the acknowledgment packet includes an acknowledgment field, the acknowledgment field carries data lengths of K groups of data packets, and the data lengths vary with a data amount included in each group of data packets received/lost by the first device.
US11533644B2	Wireless communication method, terminal device, and network device Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a wireless communication method, terminal device and network device, which may implement CLI measurement. The wireless communication method includes receiving, by a first terminal device, first configuration information sent by a first network device, the first configuration information being configured to configure a sounding reference signal (SRS) resource for cross link interference (CLI) measurement.
US11533643B2	Quality of service monitoring method and system, and device This application provides quality of service monitoring methods, systems, and devices for monitoring quality of service of communication links. One method comprises: obtaining an identifier of a service flow of a terminal device, a quality of service monitoring parameter of a communication link for transmitting the service flow, and correlation information associated with the communication link, the correlation information correlates the identifier of the service flow with an access type adopted by the communication link, wherein the access type is a 3rd generation partnership project (3GPP) access or a non-3GPP access; and monitoring the quality of service of the communication link for the access type based on the identifier of the service flow, the quality of service monitoring parameter, and the correlation information.
US11533638B2	Dynamically layered beamformed signals for fifth generation (5G) wireless communication systems or other next generation wireless communication systems The technologies described herein are generally directed to using dynamically layered beamformed control signals in a fifth generation (5G) network or other next generation networks. For example, a method described herein can include, identifying a group of different directions radiating from beamforming antenna equipment of base station equipment. The method can further include facilitating transmitting a first beamformed signal according to a first direction of the group of different directions. Further, the method can include facilitating transmitting a second beamformed signal according to a second direction of the group of different directions, with the second direction being selected based on a sequence of directions, and where transmitting beamformed signals to the group of different directions is based on the sequence of directions can facilitate establishment of wireless coverage for a corresponding geographic area.
US11533629B2	Scheduled amplifier wireless base station apparatus and methods Apparatus and methods for providing enhanced coverage in a quasi-licensed wireless system using a reduced-cost base station apparatus. In one embodiment, the base station is configured to utilize quasi-licensed 3.55-3.70 GHz CBRS (Citizens Broadband Radio Service) GAA and PAL spectrum, and employs a power amplifier sharing arrangement in its transmitter chain(s), along with multi-sector antenna elements. A scheduling algorithm operative on the base station generates sector-specific weights which are used to allocate the shared power amplifier(s) between the different sectors. Advantageously, design and production costs of the base station are reduced through sharing of comparatively expensive amplifier and transmitter chain components, thereby allowing for commoditization of the base station for mass distribution.
US11533622B2	Quarantining fake, counterfeit, jailbroke, or rooted mobile devices in the cloud Systems and methods include, in a cloud node executing a security service, causing a mobile device to perform a validation check to determine if the mobile device is any of fake, counterfeit, jailbroken, and rooted; responsive to successful validation, allowing traffic to and from the mobile device through the security service; and responsive to unsuccessful validation, preventing traffic to and from the mobile device through the security service. The systems and methods can further include, prior to the causing, requiring the mobile device to install and launch an application, wherein registration with the security service requires the application; and performing the validation check via the application and a fake check service.
US11533614B1	Systems and methods of multi-factor authentication utilizing a vehicle Embodiments disclosed herein describe vehicle-based authentication protocols. An illustrative authentication server may receive a request to authenticate a user connected from a mobile device. The authentication server may transmit a request to the mobile device to transmit geolocation data of the mobile device. In response, the mobile device may transmit a stream of its geolocation data. Based upon the received geolocation data stream, the authentication server may determine that the mobile device in a motion and select a vehicle-based authentication protocol to request geolocation data of a trusted vehicle. The authentication server may compare the mobile device geolocation data stream and the vehicle geolocation data stream to determine a similarity score. If the similarity score is above a threshold, the authentications server may authenticate the user. In some cases, the authentication server may authenticate the user if the mobile device is connected to the trusted vehicle.
US11533611B2	Method for remote subscription management of an eUICC, corresponding terminal Remote subscription management of an eUICC comprising a private key and a public certificate, the public certificate comprising information allowing a subscription manager server to decide if it can agree to manage the eUICC. The method includes: establishing a secure channel between the terminal and the subscription manager server by using the public certificate and dedicated cryptographic services of the eUICC; sending to the subscription manager server a subscription management request; verifying, based on the information in the public certificate in the subscription manager server, whether the eUICC is entitled to be managed by the subscription manager server and, if yes: performing a key establishment procedure between the subscription manager server and the eUICC by using the eUICC public certificate; establishing between the subscription manager server and the eUICC a secure channel with the established keys; and, executing by the subscription manager server the subscription management request on the eUICC.
US11533609B2	Message protection method and apparatus A message protection method and an apparatus are disclosed. The method includes: When a terminal prepares to hand over from a first-standard system to a second-standard system, the terminal may not have a security context of the second-standard system after handover. Therefore, in the method of the present disclosure, the terminal performs integrity protection on a registration request message and a location update request message by using an integrity key in a security context of the first-standard system before handover. Both the registration request message and the location update request message are messages for triggering handover. Therefore, in the method, security protection is implemented on the message for triggering handover, thereby helping improve communication security.
US11533604B2	Method and system for controlling ID identifier network mobility based on programmable switch The present invention relates to the technical field of network communication, in particular to a method and system for controlling ID identifier network mobility based on a programmable switch. The system includes mobile terminal nodes, mobile access points, programmable switching nodes and control nodes, wherein the control nodes include local control nodes and a global control node, the mobile terminal nodes are connected and communicated with the mobile access points through wireless data links, the mobile access points are connected and communicated with the programmable switching nodes through wired data links, and the programmable switching nodes, the local control nodes and the global control node are connected and communicated in order through control links.
US11533603B2	Power saving for pedestrian user equipments Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A first user equipment (UE), such as a pedestrian UE, may perform a discovery procedure with a second UE in a vehicle-to-everything (V2X) wireless communications environment that includes multiple other UEs in addition to the first UE and the second UE. The second UE may, for example, be a roadside UE configured to aggregate V2X messages for the first UE. The first UE may determine, based on performing the discovery procedure, a schedule for the first UE to use to receive bundled V2X messages from the second UE. The first UE may receive, from the second UE based on the determined schedule, a message indicating bundled information from multiple V2X messages received at the second UE from the multiple UEs.
US11533596B2	API publish method and apparatus An application programming interface (API) method includes determining, by a first common API core function (CCF) entity, a to-be-shared API, and sharing, by the first CCF entity, information about the to-be-shared API with a target CCF entity of the to-be-shared API.
US11533582B2	Tracking device operation in safety-classified zone Tracking devices can be associated with safe zones, smart zones, and high risk zones. Safe zones correspond to regions where a likelihood that a tracking device is lost within the safe zone is lower than outside the safe zone. High risk zones correspond to regions where a likelihood that a tracking device is lost within the high risk zone is higher than outside the high risk zone. Smart zones correspond to an expected tracking device, mobile device, or user behavior. Home areas are geographic regions in which a user resides, and travel areas are geographic regions in which a user does not reside. A tracking device can be configured to operate in a mode selected based on a presence of the tracking device within a safe zone, a smart zone, a high risk zone, a home area, or a travel area.
US11533581B2	Tracking device location identification In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, by a tracking system server, a data stream comprising events related to a set of devices. The set of devices include tracking devices and mobile devices. Each event contains a location update respectively associated with a tracking device of the set or a mobile device of the set. The method includes programmatically separating, by the tracking system server, the events from the data stream. The method includes batching, for processing by the tracking system server, the separated events into one or more batches. The method includes processing, by the tracking system server, a specific batch of events, of the one or more batches of events, that involves a specific tracking device to estimate a location of the specific tracking device using a location determination algorithm.
US11533575B2	Loudness adjustment for downmixed audio content Audio content coded for a reference speaker configuration is downmixed to downmix audio content coded for a specific speaker configuration. One or more gain adjustments are performed on individual portions of the downmix audio content coded for the specific speaker configuration. Loudness measurements are then performed on the individual portions of the downmix audio content. An audio signal that comprises the audio content coded for the reference speaker configuration and downmix loudness metadata is generated. The downmix loudness metadata is created based at least in part on the loudness measurements on the individual portions of the downmix audio content.
US11533574B2	Wear detection A method is used for detecting whether a device is being worn, when the device comprises a first transducer and a second transducer. It is determined when a signal detected by at least one of the first and second transducers represents speech. It is then determined when said speech contains speech of a first acoustic class and speech of a second acoustic class. A first correlation signal is generated, representing a correlation between signals generated by the first and second transducers during at least one period when said speech contains speech of the first acoustic class. A second correlation signal is generated, representing a correlation between signals generated by the first and second transducers during at least one period when said speech contains speech of the second acoustic class. It is then determined from the first correlation signal and the second correlation signal whether the device is being worn.
US11533566B2	Flexible vibration module and display apparatus including the same A flexible vibration module is disclosed. The flexible vibration module includes a piezoelectric composite layer, including: a plurality of piezoelectric portions each having a piezoelectric characteristic, where at least two of the plurality of piezoelectric portions have different sizes; and a flexible portion between the plurality of piezoelectric portions.
US11533563B2	Audio accessory storing a policy for generating audio output An audio accessory having a locally stored and executed policy. The policy includes a rule related to audio output generation. The audio accessory can be a peripheral audio accessory, and the policy can be stored on the peripheral audio accessory so that the policy can be applied to communications from any source.
US11533554B2	Hearing device comprising a noise reduction system A hearing device adapted for being located at or in an ear of a user, or for being fully or partially implanted in the head of a user comprises a) an input unit for providing at least one electric input signal representing sound in an environment of the user, said electric input signal comprising a target speech signal from a target sound source and additional signal components, termed noise signal components, from one or more other sound sources, b) a noise reduction system for providing an estimate of said target speech signal, wherein said noise signal components are at least partially attenuated, and c) an own voice detector for repeatedly estimating whether or not, or with what probability, said at least one electric input signal, or a signal derived therefrom, comprises speech originating from the voice of the user. The noise signal components are identified during time segments wherein the own voice detector indicates that the at least one electric input signal, or a signal derived therefrom, originates from the voice of the user, or originates from the voice of the user with a probability above an own voice presence probability (OVPP) threshold value. A method of operating a hearing device is further disclosed.
US11533552B2	Information processing system and non-transitory computer readable medium storing program An information processing system includes a processor configured to detect biological information measured at a head and control a volume of an ambient sound output from a speaker provided in a device which is worn so as to cover an ear according to the detected biological information.
US11533546B2	Multipath policy decisions for encrypted video streams The invention relates to a method, for controlling at least one path in a multipath environment by a path control entity, wherein the at least one one path is used for transmitting an encrypted video stream comprising a sequence of video segments. The method comprises the following steps: estimating a resolution used in the video stream based on the video segments, and determining that the resolution used in the video stream has changed during the transmission. When it is determined that the resolution used in the video stream has changed, an adaptation of a number of the at least one path used for transmitting the video stream in the multipath configuration is initiated based on the determined change of the resolution.
US11533540B2	Method, apparatus and system for realizing dynamic scheduling for a cinema and controlling playing of a movie The present disclosure relates to a method, apparatus, and system for realizing dynamic scheduling for a cinema and controlling playing of a movie. In particular, embodiments of the present invention relate to dynamic scheduling of content presentation in a cinema by collecting user preferences of a plurality of users, wherein the user preference specifies at least a movie that a user desires to watch, a time for watching the movie, a cinema for watching the movie, and a number of people watching the movie; generating, based on the collected user preferences, a respective dynamic schedule for at least one cinema of a plurality of cinemas according to one of a plurality of scheduling schemes; and transmitting the generated respective dynamic schedule to at least one second electronic apparatus corresponding to the at least one cinema.
US11533534B2	Techniques for enabling ultra-high definition alliance specified reference mode (UHDA-SRM) Techniques for enabling the display of video content is a specified display mode, such as the Ultra-High Definition Alliance Specified Reference Mode (UHDA-SRM). A video source device receives video content as a bitstream in one format that includes a specification of a display mode for the video content. The video source also receives information from a display device or other video sink on the display modes that it supports. If the display device supports the specified display mode, the video provides the video content to the display in a second format, such as HDMI, as a series of frames the specification of the display mode embedded in a blanking interval in each of the frames.
US11533531B1	Streaming and synchronization of media Some aspects include a method for synchronizing at least two devices, including: connecting the at least two devices using an application executed on each of the at least two devices, wherein: a same media is executed in synchronization by the at least two devices using the application; and an input received by the application executed on a first device of the at least two devices actuates a same response on the at least two devices.
US11533530B2	System and method for reconfiguration of an entertainment system controlling device An entertainment device initiates a configuration process of a controlling device in response to a change in an audio visual entertainment system configuration in which at least one of a plurality devices is connected to the entertainment device as an audio and/or visual source and at least one of the plurality of devices is connected to the entertainment device as an audio and/or visual output destination for the entertainment device.
US11533511B2	Encoder, decoder, encoding method, and decoding method Provided is an encoder including: circuitry; and memory coupled to the circuitry. In operation, the circuitry: performs a mapping process of Luma Mapping with Chroma Scaling (LMCS) for transforming a first pixel value space applied to a luma display image signal into a second pixel value space applied to a luma encoding process signal, using line segments forming a transform curve, each of which corresponds to a different one of sections obtained by partitioning the first pixel value space; and encodes an image, and in the performing of the LMCS, the circuitry determines the transform curve so that among boundary values in the second pixel value space, a first value obtained by dividing a boundary value by a base width defined according to a bit depth of the image is not equal to a second value obtained by dividing another boundary value by the base width.
US11533502B2	Asymmetric coding unit size block dependent ratio A block of video data is split and coded using existing transform sizes through one of several embodiments. In one embodiment, the block is split in alternate dimensions, depending on the block size. In another embodiment, the video block can be coded after splitting the block into at least two rectangular sub-blocks using horizontal or vertical divisions. Successive divisions using asymmetric splitting are forbidden if an equivalent split can be attained using only symmetrical splitting, and only one succession of divisions is permitted when there are other successions of asymmetric splitting that result in the identical sub-blocks. In another embodiment, a video block is split using successive splits, but the second type of split is dependent on the first type of split. Methods, apparatus, and signal embodiments are provided for encoding and decoding.
US11533485B2	Entropy coding of motion vector differences An entropy decoder is configured to, for horizontal and vertical components of motion vector differences, derive a truncated unary code from the data stream using context-adaptive binary entropy decoding with exactly one context per bin position of the truncated unary code, which is common for horizontal and vertical components of the motion vector differences, and an Exp-Golomb code using a constant equi-probability bypass mode to obtain the binarizations of the motion vector differences. A desymbolizer is configured to debinarize the binarizations of the motion vector difference syntax elements to obtain integer values of the horizontal and vertical components of the motion vector differences. A reconstructor is configured to reconstruct a video based on the integer values of the horizontal and vertical components of the motion vector differences.
US11533470B2	Method and apparatus for encoding/decoding an image signal Disclosed are an image encoding/decoding method and apparatus. The image decoding method includes decoding coding mode information of a current coding block, dividing the current coding block into at least one prediction block, and generating prediction samples of the at least one prediction block on the basis of the decoded coding mode, in which the coding mode information is information indicating any one mode among intra mode, inter mode, and hybrid mode.
US11533467B2	System and method for creating, managing, and displaying 3D digital collectibles with overlay display elements and surrounding structure display elements A system and method for creating, managing, and displaying 3D digital collectibles comprising a virtual, three dimensional, n-sided shape, at least one overlay display element, surrounding structure display elements and visual indicators of an attribute relating to the digital collectible, and including a digital media file or set of digital media files representing an event rendered on a representation of at least a first surface of the n-sided 3D shape or overlay display element, content relating to the event rendered on at least a second surface of the n-sided 3D shape or overlay display element, and other content on one or more other surfaces of the n-sided 3D shape or overlay display elements, where the digital media file may be video clip of the event.
US11533466B2	Active stereo matching for depth applications A head-mounted device (HMD) is configured to perform depth detection with a stereo camera pair comprising a first camera and a second camera, both of which are configured to detect/capture visible light and IR light. The fields of view for both of the cameras overlap to form an overlapping field of view. The HMD also includes an IR dot-pattern illuminator that is mounted on the HMD with the cameras and that is configured to emit an IR dot-pattern illumination. The IR dot-pattern illuminator emits a dot-pattern illumination that spans at least a part of the overlapping field of view. The IR dot-pattern illumination adds texture to objects in the environment and enables the HMD to determine depth for those objects, even if they have textureless/smooth surfaces.
US11533460B2	High dynamic range and wide colour gamut comfort measurement and feedback Systems and methods for processing video content are disclosed. According to at least one embodiment, a method of processing video content includes: receiving the video content; identifying a portion of the video content based on one or more of a plurality of factors, the plurality of factors including colour, raster percentage, brightness, and temporal factors; and providing an indicator that facilitates visual recognition of the identified portion of the video content.
US11533457B2	Smart home and security system A security and smart home system, components thereof, and associated methods. The system can include a host-carried monitor configured to monitor data associated with the host, such as motion data, position data, temperature data, or humidity data. The system can include one or more security devices located at a premises to monitor security data at the premises, with the one or more security devices in communication with a remote server programmed to process security event signals from the one or more security devices and transmit action instructions to the one or more security devices. Security devices can include an electrical power switch, an electrical power plug, and a camera.
US11533456B2	Group display system A system for generating an image display comprising a digital camera for capturing digital images, a computer for automatically selecting a digital image template having a designated location for disposing one of the captured digital images, and the computer for selecting one of the captured digital images to be disposed therein, an electronic display for displaying the digital template with the captured digital image disposed in the designated location, and a transmission channel for transmitting to the electronic display the captured digital images.
US11533454B2	Vehicular control system with forward viewing camera and forward sensing sensor A vehicular control system includes a forward sensing sensor and a forward viewing camera disposed at a vehicle. The forward sensing sensor has an antenna array that emits a radio frequency (RF) beam at least forward of the vehicle. The antenna array include at least four antennas. An electronic control unit (ECU) includes an image processor operable to process image data captured by the forward viewing camera. The system, responsive at least in part to processing by the image processor of image data captured by the forward viewing camera, determines a weather condition at the vehicle. The system adjusts the RF beam emitted by the antenna array of the forward sensing sensor based at least in part on the determined weather condition. The system may adjust transmission power of the RF beam and/or beam pattern of the RF beam based at least in part on the determined weather condition.
US11533445B2	Solid-state image sensor and electronic device To control an excess bias to an appropriate value in a light detection device. A solid-state image sensor includes a photodiode, a resistor, and a control circuit. In this solid-state image sensor, the photodiode photoelectrically converts incident light and outputs a photocurrent. Furthermore, in the solid-state image sensor, the resistor is connected to a cathode of the photodiode. Furthermore, in the solid-state image sensor, the control circuit supplies a lower potential to an anode of the photodiode as a potential of the cathode of when the photocurrent flows through the resistor is higher.
US11533443B2	Display eyewear with adjustable camera direction Some embodiments provide display eyewear with adjustable camera direction. In general, one aspect disclosed features an electronic device, comprising: a structure configured to be worn on the head of a user; a camera movably coupled to the structure and arranged to capture images in a field of view of the user; and a display panel fixedly coupled to the structure and arranged to display, to the user, the images captured by the camera.
US11533440B2	Apparatus, method, and storage medium each relating to image composition An apparatus includes at least one memory configured to store instructions, and at least one processor in communication with the at least one memory and configured to execute the instructions to perform same area dividing on each of a plurality of images, and create a composite image from the plurality of images. A first area of the composite image is composited from corresponding areas in a first number of image among the plurality of images. A second area of the composite image is composited from corresponding areas in a second number of image among the plurality of images.
US11533433B2	Imaging device, control method, and program An imaging device including a control unit configured to: display a pre-capture screen for white balance data capture; display a confirmation screen displaying a captured value after capture subsequent to the pre-capture screen; and perform display control of transitioning to an adjustment screen for adjustment of the captured value, according to a user's operation on the confirmation screen.
US11533432B2	Imaging device and blurred-image correction method An imaging device includes an imaging optical system through which object light flux passes, an image sensor to form the object light flux that has passed through the imaging optical system as an object image, a shake detector to detect shake, a blurred-image correction unit including at least one of the image sensor and an optical element that makes up at least a part of the imaging optical system, a drive circuit to drive the blurred-image correction unit in a direction different from an optical axis of the imaging optical system to move a position on the image sensor at which the object image is formed, to correct a blurred image, and a drive controller to control, based on a current position and a control objective position of the blurred-image correction unit, operation of the blurred-image correction unit by the drive circuit at a constant control cycle.
US11533428B2	Electronic device and method for controlling electronic device An electronic device and a controlling method thereof are provided. The electronic device includes a memory, a first camera including a first image sensor and at least one processor, and the at least one processor obtains a plurality of image frames by photographing surroundings of the electronic device through the first camera, sets a region of interest (ROI) on the plurality of image frames, obtains a motion identification map corresponding to each of the plurality of image frames and select at least one image frame from among the plurality of image frames based on the obtained motion identification map, identifies whether there is a motion of an object on the ROI set on the selected at least one image frame, and performs a Super Slow Motion (SSM) function through the first camera based on a result of the identification.
US11533416B2	Camera module and array camera module based on integral packaging technology A camera module and an array camera module based on an integral packing process are disclosed. The camera module or each of the camera module units of the array camera module includes a circuit board, an integral base, a photosensitive element operatively connected to the circuit board, a lens, a light filter holder installed at the integral base and a light filter installed at the light filter holder. The light filter is not required to be directly installed to the integral base, so that the light filter is protected and the requiring area of the light filter is reduced.
US11533414B2	Imaging apparatuses and enclosures An enclosure having: a base face that is opaque or translucent to human eyes viewing from outside of the enclosure and transparent to infrared radiation; and at least two flat, orthogonal mounting faces configured to be overlaid respectively on at least two surfaces of walls and ceiling of a room. A thermal imaging apparatus configured to image based on infrared radiation and mounted within the enclosure with a predetermined orientation relative to the base face to have a designed imaging direction with respect to the room when the enclosure is mounted in the room to have the at least two orthogonal mounting faces overlaid respectively on the at least two surfaces.
US11533413B2	Enhanced color reproduction for upscaling Enhancing color reproduction of an image in an upscaling process, the method comprising: converting RGB-formatted data into luminance channel formatted data and color channel formatted data; converting RGB-predicted data into luminance channel predicted data and a color channel predicted data; computing a first loss between the RGB-formatted data and the RGB-predicted data; computing a second loss between the color channel formatted data and the color channel predicted data; and outputting a weighted average value of the first loss and the second loss to enhance the color reproduction of the image.
US11533409B2	Power consumption reduction based on state of cable connection An example image forming apparatus includes a communication device including a physical layer protocol chip for performing communication with a network by using a connector with a light emitting element for displaying a network connection state and a physical layer protocol, a print engine to perform a print job, and a processor to, based on print data being received through the communication device, control the print engine to print the received print data, determine whether a network cable is connected to the connector based on an operation state of the light emitting element, and, based on a determination that the network cable is not connected to the connector, control the physical layer protocol chip to be in a power-saving state.
US11533408B2	Sheet conveyance device and image forming apparatus To provide a sheet conveyance device capable of preventing degradation in quality of conveying a sheet and image quality even when a stiffness of the sheet is different between a sheet conveyance direction and a sheet width direction. A sheet conveyance device of an image forming apparatus includes an image forming part that conveys a sheet along a conveyance path; and a stiffness acquisition part that acquires a stiffness of the sheet in a first direction including a component in the sheet conveyance direction by bending the sheet in the first direction, and acquires a stiffness of the sheet in a second direction including a component in the sheet width direction orthogonal to the sheet conveyance direction by bending the sheet in the second direction.
US11533405B1	Reading device and image forming apparatus A reading device includes a base on which a read target object is placed, a reader that reads the read target object placed on the base, a first attachment frame to which the reader is attached such that the reader is disposed above the base, an operation unit that is to be operated by a user, a second attachment frame to which a rear surface of the operation unit is attached such that the operation unit is disposed in front of the first attachment frame in a direction toward a front surface of the reading device, and a first cover that covers the second attachment frame. The first cover includes left and right rear cover components that are separately arranged at left and right sides of the first attachment frame serving as a dividing line at the rear surface of the operation unit and that cover at least a portion of the second attachment frame.
US11533400B2	Method, device, and system for securing an access to at least one service In a method for securing access to a service, a device is set in a restricted operation mode that allows addressing only a first server and that is associated with a first identifier relating to a first connectivity gateway. The device accesses the first identifier and a subscription profile that is active during the restricted operation mode. The first server receives from the device a request for enrolling a device user and at least one feature relating to a user identity. The first server verifies whether the user identity feature is valid. If the user identity feature is valid, the first server sends to the device a command for deactivating the restricted operation mode. The device deactivates the restricted operation mode while storing, instead of the first identifier, a second identifier relating to a second connectivity gateway. The second identifier allows accessing a second server that manages the service.
US11533396B2	Validating telephone calls by verifying entity identities using blockchains Telephone calls can be validated using blockchains. In one example, a computing node can generate a distributed ledger indicating relationships between telephone numbers and unique identifiers assigned to the telephone numbers. The distributed ledger can be accessible to a telecommunication system for validating telephone calls.
US11533388B2	Method and device for analyzing service-oriented communication A device and a method for analyzing service-oriented communication in a communications network. A data packet includes a first header of an application layer for service-oriented communication, and a second header of a presentation layer, a session layer, a transport layer, a network layer, a data link layer, or a physical layer. The data packet is analyzed based on information concerning a sender and/or receiver of the data packet from the first header and as a function of information concerning a sender and/or receiver from the second header, for whether or not the data packet meets a criterion, the criterion defining a setpoint value for the sender and/or receiver in the first header as a function of the content of the second header, and/or the criterion defining a setpoint value for the sender and/or receiver in the second header as a function of the content of the first header.
US11533384B2	Predictive provisioning of cloud-stored files A computer system with access to remote files stored on a remote system can predict that a portion of a remote file is likely to be necessary. The computer system may download the portion of the remote file to a local file and update metadata of the local file to reflect the downloaded portion.
US11533382B2	Providing user subscription nomadicity in wireline broadband networks In general, techniques are described for providing user nomadicity in wireline broadband networks. A network device positioned in a wireline broadband network comprising a processor and an interface may be configured to perform the techniques. The processor may be configured to execute a first virtual customer premises equipment to provide, to a first subscriber, access to the wireline broadband network from a first subscription point in accordance with a first subscription. The processor may also be configured to provide, to a second subscriber, access to the wireline broadband network from the first subscription point in accordance with a second subscription. The interface may be configured to forward, in accordance with the first subscription, traffic received from the first subscription point and associated with the first subscriber, and forward, in accordance with the second subscription, traffic received from the first subscription point and associated with the second subscriber.
US11533375B2	Session establishment method and apparatus A session establishment method and an apparatus, such that an established packet data network (PDN) connection is transferred to a network slice in a fifth generation (5G) network during inter-system mobility of a terminal. The method includes receiving, by a terminal from a control plane function entity, corresponding network slice information used for transferring an established PDN connection to a 5G network, where the corresponding network slice information includes corresponding single network slice selection assistance information (S-NSSAI). The method further includes sending a packet data unit (PDU) session establishment request, where the PDU session establishment request includes corresponding S-NSSAI used for transferring a first PDN connection to the 5G network and a corresponding data network name (DNN) used for transferring the first PDN connection to the 5G network, and the first PDN connection is any one of one or more established PDN connections.
US11533360B2	Communication management systems and methods for local delivery service A local delivery service (LDS) operates in an enterprise computer network as a proxy for a communications server (CS) computer operating in a cloud computing environment. The LDS pulls a queue repository maintained by the CS and retrieves an output item flagged by the CS for local delivery. The output item has a document and associated configuration information specifying an application domain in the cloud computing environment and delivery settings specific to the application domain maintained by the CS. The LDS translates the delivery settings and routes the document to the connectors of communications channels of the enterprise computer network. In this way, documents produced by the CS in the cloud can be delivered locally to disparate destinations on the enterprise computer network without having to open individual ports in a firewall of the enterprise computer network to connect the CS with communications channels of the enterprise computer network.
US11533359B1	Systems and methods for locating microserver nodes in proximity to edge devices using georouting Systems and methods for locating microserver nodes in proximity to edge devices using georouting are disclosed. Microservers automatically form a global peer-to-peer network to serve edge functions and content to edge devices. Edge devices use HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) to execute serverless functions or otherwise retrieve data from edge nodes and/or microservers located in proximity to the HTTP client. The cloud platform locates the nearest edge node and/or microserver. Edge devices georoute HTTP requests to the nearest edge node and/or microserver. Serverless functions are implemented in secure, isolated environments using a blockchain.
US11533353B2	Processing messages based on key assignment data A method includes processing a plurality of incoming messages via a plurality of feed receiver modules based on key assignment data. Each feed receiver module in the plurality of feed receiver modules receives a proper subset of messages of the plurality of incoming messages with keys included in a corresponding subset of a plurality of possible keys assigned to the each feed receiver module in the key assignment data and maintains a queue that includes messages of the proper subset of messages that compare favorably to a time window. Each feed receiver module identifies owned ones of the proper subset of messages having keys included in an owned subset of keys in the corresponding subset, corresponding to keys in the corresponding subset to which the each feed receiver module is assigned as an owner in the key assignment data, and emits only the owned ones of the proper subset of messages.
US11533349B2	Perhipheral device sharing over peer-to-peer connection Disclosed is a computing system capable of performing a method that involves receiving, from a first device, a first indication that a peripheral device associated with the first device is available for sharing; sending, to a second device, a second indication that the peripheral device is available for sharing; receiving, from the second device, a request to access the peripheral device; and based at least in part on receipt of the request, causing a peer-to-peer connection to be established between the second device and the first device, the peer-to-peer connection enabling communication between the second device and the peripheral device. The peer-to-peer connection may, for example, enable direction of the peripheral device to the second device so that the peripheral device is a virtual device of the second device.
US11533348B2	Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program There are provided an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program. The information processing apparatus includes a generating unit configured to generate a content file including object selection information for selecting object audio data in accordance with a display state of an image, in which the generating unit stores the object selection information in a metadata file included in the content file.
US11533339B2	Creating security incident records using a remote network management platform An example embodiment performed by a scoped software application executable on a computing device of a computational instance of a remote network management platform may involve: requesting and receiving, from an application database associated with a third-party software application, alert rules that trigger alerts when associated events occur in a managed network; receiving data representing selection of a set of the alert rules and, based on the data, requesting and receiving, from the application database, a set of past alerts that have been triggered by the set of the alert rules; using mapping data to map fields of the set of the past alerts to fields of a sample security incident record; displaying a preview region including the sample security incident record; using the mapping data to create security incident records that map to the set of the past alerts; and writing, to a security incident database, the security incident records.
US11533336B2	Security verification method and apparatus for attacked smart home Internet of Things system A method and an apparatus for security verification of a smart home IoT system under attack. A finite state machine based on the device description information and IFTTT rules, and a formal specification based on a predefined specification template and input parameters, which uses a model verification tool to perform correctness verification regarding whether the finite state machine satisfies the formal specification, and verifies the output counterexample path by the model verification tool to identify the smart home devices and associated IFTTT rules that cause the system insecure. A state parameter of whether a smart home device is under attack is provided for each smart home device when constructing the finite state machine, and an attack intensity parameter is provided for the system when constructing the formal specification.
US11533325B2	Automatic categorization of IDPS signatures from multiple different IDPS systems Unknown and reference signatures are accessed. The unknown and reference signatures indicate patterns that correspond to known threats to resources (such as computer systems and/or computer networks) in a computer environment and comprise a multitude of descriptive elements having information describing different aspects of a corresponding signature. A set of similarity measures is created of the unknown and reference signatures from different perspectives, each perspective corresponding to a descriptive element. The set of similarity measures are integrated to generate an overall similarity metric. The overall similarity metric is used to find appropriate categories in the reference signatures into which the unknown signatures should be placed. The unknown signatures are placed into the appropriate categories to create a mapping from the unknown signatures to the reference signatures. The mapping is output for use by an IDPS for determining whether a threat has occurred to the resources in the computer environment.
US11533318B1	Systems and methods for location based authentication Various embodiments described herein relate to a call management system that aims to provide a more efficient, secure, and dynamic technique for authenticating a user based on a location of the user. A server of the call management system receives a phone call from a user device. The server transfers the phone call to an analyst device. When the analyst device accepts the phone call, the server starts an electronic communication session between the user device and the analyst device. The server then determines a current location of the user. The server further determines a question for authentication of the user based on the current location. The server transmits the question to the analyst device. The analyst device transmits the question to the user device via the server. In response to an answer received from the user device, the server authenticates the user.
US11533313B2	Multi-user devices in a connected home environment A device implementing a system for sharing a voice profile includes a processor configured to receive a request to share a first voice profile corresponding to a first user account associated with a first device, with a second device associated with a second user account, the second device being voice-enabled, the first voice profile being stored on a first data store associated with the first user account. The processor is further configured to update a second data store associated with the second user account to include a reference to the first voice profile stored on the first data store, and to send, to the second device, a notification that the second data store has been updated to include the reference to the first voice profile.
US11533311B2	Automatically deployed information technology (IT) system and method Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and apparatuses where a controller can automatically manage a physical infrastructure of a computer system based on a plurality of system rules, a system state for the computer system, and a plurality of templates. Techniques for automatically adding resources such as computer, storage, and/or networking resources to the computer system are described. Also described are techniques for automatically deploying applications and services on such resources. These techniques provide a scalable computer system that can serve as a turnkey scalable private cloud.
US11533309B2	Digital signature injection for user authentication across multiple independent systems A process running on client devices intercepts requests destined for an identity provider (“IdP”) system and injects a digital signature corresponding to a user associated with the request. In order to reduce or eliminate the burden on providers of the applications or other resources used by the users, the organization providing the IdP system may also provide components that run locally on the client devices of users and integrate with the users' applications. For example, in one embodiment code of the IdP system is run within a container of an application to handle communication with the IdP system. Additionally, code of the IdP system is run as a local process that handles request interception and digital signature injection. For client devices not supporting the use of the local process, a separate verifier application of the IdP can be run locally and allow interactively performing authentication via a user interface.
US11533304B2	Securing sensitive historian configuration information Systems and methods for securing configuration information for cloud-based services. A system comprises a data store and data sets including plant process information and configuration information. A memory device stores computer-executable instructions. When executed by a processor coupled to the cloud service, the instructions receive configuration information, store it in a data file, apply a generated certificate to the file, and deploy the resulting protected configuration data file to the cloud-based service. In addition, the protected configuration data file is made available by obtaining the file from the cloud-based service.
US11533272B1	Computer based education methods and apparatus A method for dynamically allocating server resources includes receiving a request from a client system, wherein the request comprises a request for a first set of streaming data, providing from the server to the client system a first portion of streaming data from the first set of streaming data, wherein the first portion is associated with a first quality of service level, receiving user activity data from the client system for the first portion of the streaming data, determining a second quality of service level for a second portion of the streaming data from the first set of streaming data, providing from the server to the client system the second portion of streaming data from the first set of streaming data, wherein the second portion provided with the second quality of service level, and wherein the first quality of service level is different from the second quality of service level.
US11533259B2	Building a platform to scale control and data plane for virtual network functions The present disclosure provides an approach for scaling the number of VNFs in a data center without scaling the number of control sessions between VNFs and a data center gateway. The approach includes opening a session between a VNF and a route server, rather than between the VNF and the gateway, when the VNF needs to send its connectivity information to the gateway. The VNF sends its connectivity information to the route server, and the route server forwards the connectivity information to the gateway. The gateway receives connectivity information of a plurality of VNFs in the data center from the route server rather than from each of the VNFs individually. The connectivity information is then used to send packets, by the gateway to a VNF, for processing. The packets are sent using three layers of networking: an underlay physical network, an overlay logical network, and a second overlay logical network.
US11533256B2	Static route configuration for logical router Some embodiments provide a method for implementing a logical router in a logical network. In some embodiments, the method receives a configuration of a static route for the logical router, which includes several routing components with separate routing tables. The method identifies which of the routing components require addition of a route to a corresponding routing table to implement the configuration of the static route. The method adds the routes to the corresponding separate routing tables of the identified routing components.
US11533254B2	Packet processing method, related device, and computer storage medium A system and network devices for packet processing, a network device including a processor and instructions for receiving a first packet sent by a second network node, the first packet including a format of a segment identifier of the second network node describing a length and a location of each field in the segment identifier, obtaining the format based on the first packet, the segment identifier having a first field, and including a determined value of the first field in the segment identifier in a second packet sent to the second network node, the value of the first field in the segment identifier being determined based on a segment routing policy and the format, and the determined value of the first field indicating to the second network node to process the second packet.
US11533247B2	Methods, systems, and computer readable media for autonomous network test case generation A method for autonomously generating network function test cases includes detecting a failure case in a network function of a core network of a telecommunications network. The method includes, in response to detecting the failure case, autonomously generating a network function test case based on the failure case. The network function test case includes one or more network status parameters detected when detecting the failure case. The method includes supplying the network function test case to a network testing system configured for executing the network function test case by repeating the one or more network status parameters and determining whether or not the network function repeats the failure case.
US11533244B1	Identifying a tethered device using TCP error transmissions Various embodiments comprise systems, methods, mechanisms, and apparatus by which a network operator such as a wireline internet service provider (ISP) may determine that an endpoint device has one or more other wireless devices tethered to it, such as a mobile handset providing dual-Wi-Fi ad-hoc tethering (i.e., connected to a high-speed Wi-Fi network while simultaneously providing Wi-Fi connections to wireless devices tethered to the mobile handset), by monitoring Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)/IP traffic flow associated with endpoint devices (i.e., to or through endpoint devices), characterizing these traffic flows in accordance with one or more error indicative criteria to establish thereby a baseline profile of error indicative criteria that is indicative of a TCP/IP traffic flow associated with an endpoint device that is not associated with tethering (e.g., a rate or number of duplicate ACKs), wherein deviations from the baseline profile of error indicative criteria beyond a threshold are indicative of a TCP/IP traffic flow associated with an endpoint device that is associated with tethering.
US11533237B2	Round-trip estimation A networking arrangement is comprises a first network device for transmitting a data stream to a second network device over a network, the method comprises: transmitting a series of first packets to the second network device, each of the first packets having an transmission time and comprising a unique identification value, receiving, from the second network device, a second packet, the second packet indicating receipt of a least one of the first packets by the second network device, determining a standard round-trip time and determining a current round-trip time in dependence on a transmission time of an oldest first packet for which no indication of receipt has been received, and a receipt time of a most recently received second packet, determining an unused network bandwidth between the first network device and the second network device in dependence on the current round-trip time and standard round-trip time.
US11533234B2	Autonomous distributed workload and infrastructure scheduling Provided is a process of autonomous distributed workload and infrastructure scheduling based on physical telemetry data of a plurality of different data centers executing a plurality of different workload distributed applications on behalf of a plurality of different tenants.
US11533233B2	Techniques for selecting spanning tree among candidate links within an ad hoc network Techniques are disclosed for developing spanning trees at devices that are interconnected in a rendering network. According to the techniques, a change in connectivity between two devices in the rendering network may be detected at a first one of the devices, information representing a cost of connectivity may be stored in a data record at the first device. A spanning tree may then be calculated from a candidate set of communication links that interconnect the devices of the rendering network according to cost information representing those communication links. A device may exchange information, such as information regarding the rendering network, to another device of the rendering network according to communication links identified for the spanning tree. The data record may be of a conflict-free replicated data type.
US11533223B2	Systems and methods for network management A method for managing nodes is disclosed. The method includes testing a management script on a management server for managing at least one node. The method also includes receiving administrator validation to distribute the management script. The method further includes sending the validated management script to one or more management servers on one or more networks.
US11533219B2	Prioritizing procedures for transmission of a beam failure recovery request via a secondary cell used for carrier aggregation Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may detect beam failure on a secondary cell (SCell), wherein the UE is configured with a primary cell (PCell) and the SCell for carrier aggregation with a base station; identify an order in which multiple procedures for transmitting a beam failure recovery request are to be attempted, wherein the multiple procedures include at least one of: a procedure for transmitting the beam failure recovery request via the PCell, a procedure for transmitting the beam failure recovery request via one or more SCells configured for the UE, or a combination thereof; and transmit the beam failure recovery request to the base station using a first procedure, of the multiple procedures, based at least in part on the order. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11533218B2	Communication method and control method in information processing apparatus A method for communicating between apparatuses, comprises: in a first apparatus, generating a second packet according to a second protocol, the second packet including a first packet according to a first protocol; in the first apparatus, sending the generated second packet to a second apparatus; in the second apparatus, receiving the second packet; in the second apparatus, determining whether a response to the first packet included in the second packet is possible; and in the second apparatus, in a case where it is determined that a response to the first packet is impossible, including status information corresponding to a cause for the impossibility of the response in a response packet corresponding to the second packet and sending the response packet to the first apparatus.
US11533213B2	Resynchronization signal design Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive a first synchronization signal for synchronizing with a cell, the first synchronization signal transmitted at a first periodicity by a base station serving the cell. The UE may then receive, subsequent to the synchronizing, a second synchronization signal for resynchronizing with the cell. In some cases, the second synchronization signal may be transmitted by the base station according to a second periodicity that is different from the first periodicity. In some cases, the second synchronization signal may include a plurality of repetitions of a first sequence that is based at least in part on a cell identifier of the cell. The UE may communicate over the cell with the base station based at least in part on the resynchronizing.
US11533210B2	Communication apparatus and transmission method for transmitting a demodulation reference signal A repetition unit (212) performs a repetition for mapping a data signal and a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) repeatedly at a symbol level over a plurality of subframes. A signal allocation unit (213) maps, in the a plurality of subframes, the repeated DMRS to symbols other than symbols corresponding to an SRS resource candidate, which is a candidate for a resource to which a sounding reference signal (SRS) to be used to measure an uplink received signal quality is to be mapped. A transmission unit (216) transmits an uplink signal (PUSCH) including the DMRS and the data signal over the a plurality of subframes.
US11533207B2	Matched filter bank A radio receiver comprises a matched filter bank and a decision unit. The matched filter bank has a plurality of filter modules for generating correlation-strength data from a sampled radio signal, each filter module being configured to cross-correlate the sampled signal with data representing a respective filter sequence. The decision unit is configured to use the correlation-strength data to generate a sequence of decoded symbols from the sampled signal. The matched filter bank and/or decision unit are configured to determine the value of each symbol in the sequence in part based on the value of a respective earlier decoded symbol from the sequence of decoded symbols.
US11533204B2	High speed digital data transmission A receiver circuit includes an analog front end and a non-linear equalizer. The analog front end including a super source follower (SSF) amplifier having a first input terminal adapted to couple to a transmission line to receive an input signal referenced to a first voltage level, a second input adapted to receive a reference voltage, and first and second output terminals adapted to provide an amplified signal referenced to a second voltage level. The non-linear equalizer coupled to receive an output signal of the analog front end and compensate for inter-symbol interference at a data rate of at least 14 Gbps. The SSF amplifier includes transistors having relative sizes selected to provide a frequency response of the SSF amplifier with a peak at a frequency approximately ⅔ of the data rate.
US11533203B2	Lattice reduction in wireless communication Methods, systems and devices for lattice reduction in decision feedback equalizers for orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) modulation are described. An exemplary wireless communication method, implementable by a wireless communication receiver apparatus, includes receiving a signal comprising information bits modulated using OTFS modulation scheme. Each delay-Doppler bin in the signal is modulated using a quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) mapping. The method also includes estimating the information bits based on an inverse of a single error covariance matrix of the signal, with the single error covariance matrix being representative of an estimation error for all delay-Doppler bins in the signal.
US11533197B2	Network layer performance and security provided by a distributed cloud computing network A GRE tunnel is configured between multiple computing devices of a distributed cloud computing network and a single origin router of the origin network. The GRE tunnel has a first GRE endpoint that has an IP address that is shared among the computing devices of the distribute cloud computing network and a second GRE endpoint that has a publicly routable IP address of the origin router. A first computing device receives an IP packet from a client that is destined to an origin server. The first computing device processes the received IP packet and encapsulates the IP packet inside an outer packet to generate a GRE encapsulated packet whose source address is the first GRE endpoint and the destination address is the second GRE endpoint. The GRE encapsulated packet is transmitted over the GRE tunnel to the single origin router.
US11533196B2	Regenerative power-over-ethernet (PoE) mid-span injector Systems and methods for power distribution by an ethernet controller are disclosed. A first input port receives a first power carried by a first ethernet cable and sourced by a first source PoE device. A second input port receives a second power carried by a second ethernet cable and sourced by a second source PoE device. The first input port is at a first voltage lower than a minimum voltage of a specified input voltage range and the second input port is at a second voltage lower than the minimum voltage of the specified input voltage range. A controller, coupled to the first and second input ports, substantially equalizes current flowing across a first output port and a second output port, coupled to the downstream PoE devices, such that a load, caused by the downstream PoE devices, between the first output port and the second output port is shared.
US11533193B2	Low frequency energy disaggregation techniques The present invention teaches methods of performing appliance itemization based on consumption data, including: receiving at a processor the data; determining if the data includes active signals and/or inactive signals; upon detection of an active signal: detecting and estimating active water heating consumption and lighting consumption; upon detection of an inactive signal: detecting and estimating passive water heating consumption, refrigerator consumption; and detecting vacation mode. Methods are disclosed of appliance itemization based whole house consumption data consumption from an advanced metering infrastructure device, the data being at 15, 30, or 60 minute intervals, including: applying disaggregation models to provide detection and estimation of any lighting, water heating, refrigeration, pool pumps, heating, or cooling appliances; applying rule-based models to provide detection and estimation of any cooking, laundry, entertainment, and/or miscellaneous appliances; wherein the disaggregation models and the rule-based models provide for a near complete appliance level itemization and estimation.
US11533191B2	Apparatus control system and apparatus control method A voice inputting device inputs a voice operation of a user, and transmits voice data based on the voice operation to a first cloud server. The first cloud server receives the voice data from the voice inputting device, analyzes the received voice data, and determines an operational skill level of the user and the details of the voice operation. A second cloud server generates a control command for an air conditioner based on the operational skill level and the details of the voice operation determined by the first cloud server, and transmits the generated control command to the air conditioner.
US11533188B2	Multi-PUF authentication from sensors and their calibration Several methods may be used to exploit the natural physical variations of sensors, to generate cryptographic physically unclonable functions (PUF) that may strengthen the cybersecurity of microelectronic systems. One method comprises extracting a stream of bits from the calibration table of each sensor to generate reference patterns, called PUF challenges, which can be stored in secure servers. The authentication of the sensor is positive when the data streams that are generated on demand, called PUF responses, match the challenges. To prevent a malicious party from generating responses, instructions may be added as part of the PUF challenges to define which parts of the calibration tables are to be used for response generation. Another method is based on differential sensors, one of them having the calibration module disconnected. The response to a physical or chemical signal of such a sensor may then be used to authenticate a specific pair of sensors.
US11533183B2	Secure provisioning of digital certificate A system, includes a device and a payload warehouse. The device receives a user request to initiate a feature of the device. In response to receiving the request, device information is provided to a payload warehouse. The payload warehouse stores an inventory which includes a digital payload. The digital payload includes data, such as a digital certificate, which may be used by the device to implement the user-requested feature. The payload warehouse receives the device information provided by the device and determines an encryption vector based at least in part on the received device information. Using the encryption vector, the digital payload is encrypted. The encrypted digital payload is provided to the device.
US11533182B2	Identity-based security platform and methods A method and system for securing instantiates. The method includes determining at least one signable file among a plurality of files of an instantiate, wherein determining the at least one signable file further comprises classifying each of the plurality of files with respect to whether the file is changed at runtime; signing each of the at least one signable file to create at least one first signature, wherein signing the plurality of files further comprises computing a cryptographic hash for each file, wherein each encrypted hash is signed using a private key; and verifying an identity of the instantiate using the at least one first signature, wherein verifying the identity of the instantiate further comprises comparing the at least one first signature to the at least one second signature, wherein each of the at least one second signature is a signature of one of the at least one signable file at runtime.
US11533179B2	Turn authentication using SIP channel discovery In one embodiment, an endpoint in a network sends a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) registration request to a device. The device generates a first key using information included in the SIP registration request. The device also writes the first key to a storage location accessible by a Traversal Using Relays around Network address translators (TURN) server. The endpoint generates a second key based on the information included in the SIP registration request. The endpoint sends an allocate request to the TURN server that includes the second key. The TURN server authenticates the endpoint based in part by comparing the second key to the first key. The endpoint receives an allocate response from the TURN server, after the TURN server authenticates the endpoint.
US11533174B2	Binding secure objects of a security module to a secure guest At least one secure object of a security module is bound to a secure guest. A trusted component determines whether metadata of the secure guest includes a confidential binding attribute for the security module. Based on determining that the metadata includes the confidential binding attribute, the trusted component configures the security module for the secure guest in a select mode. The select mode prevents certain operations from being intercepted by a hypervisor associated with the secure guest. The trusted component intercepts a security module communication and performs a cryptographic operation on one or more secure objects of the security module communication using the confidential binding attribute to provide a cryptographic result. An outcome of the security module communication, which includes the cryptographic result, is provided to a receiver.
US11533155B2	Triggering demodulation reference signal bundling Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may determine to bundle or not bundle demodulation reference signals (DMRS) of multiple downlink data transmissions using an indication from a base station. The indication may be transmitted via control signaling, such as downlink control information (DCI) from the base station to the UE. For example, a bit of the DCI may be used to dynamically indicate a current precoding in relation to a preceding precoding. For example, the bit may indicate if the current precoding is the same as a previous precoding (e.g., UE may bundle the DMRS), or the bit may indicate that the current precoding is different than the previous precoding (e.g., UE may not bundle DMRS).
US11533150B2	Feedback information transmission method and communication device This application provides a method to improve resource utilization efficiency of an uplink control channel that carries feedback information. A terminal device receives one or more downlink channels carried in one or more first time units, the first time units belonging to in a time unit set; determines a second time unit for carrying feedback information corresponding to the downlink channels according to a first association relationship between the time unit set and the second time unit; determines a first codebook; and sends uplink control information including the first codebook in the second time unit. When one of the downlink channels is received in first time units that belong to a subset of the time unit set, and there is a second association relationship between the subset of the time unit set and the second time unit, the first codebook includes only feedback information corresponding to the downlink channel carried in the first time units in the subset.
US11533148B2	Communication device and communication method A communication device (20) includes a processing unit (232) that performs a NOMA transmission process on a partial range of transmission data to be transmitted to another communication device (40), the NOMA transmission process being signal processing for non-orthogonal multiple access, and a transmitting unit (235) that transmits data obtained after the NOMA transmission process to the another communication device.
US11533139B2	Wireless communication method and device for supporting data transmission on unlicensed spectrum A method and a device in a User Equipment (UE) and a base station for wireless communications are disclosed by the present disclosure. A first node receives T first-type radio signals; performs T access detections respectively on T sub-bands and transmits T second-type radio signals respectively in T time-frequency resource blocks; and performs Q energy detection(s) respectively in Q time sub-pool(s) on a first sub-band, through which Q detection value(s) is (are) obtained. The T sub-bands each comprise at least one same frequency point, or the T sub-bands belong to a same carrier; at least one of the T sub-bands is different from the first sub-band; the selection of the reference time-frequency resource block is related to at least one between the first sub-band and the reference sub-band; the first node is a base station, or the first node is a UE.
US11533120B2	Grouping and use of short sequence signals New sequences have been proposed and/or adopted for short Physical Uplink Control Channel communications between base stations and UEs. In an exemplary embodiment, a UE communicates with a base station based on sequence groups that include the new sequences, where the new sequences are allocated to different sequence groups based, at least in part, on correlations with other existing sequences included in individual sequence groups.
US11533115B2	Systems and methods for wireless signal configuration by a neural network A wireless network can generate candidate signal configurations for physical transmissions to or from a user equipment (UE) in a radio environment. The generation of candidate signal configurations can be performed using a first neural network that is associated with the UE. These signal configurations can then be evaluated using a second neural network that is associated with the radio environment. The second neural network can be trained using measurements from previous physical transmissions in the radio environment. The trained second neural network generates a reward value that is associated with the candidate signal configurations. The first neural network is then trained using the reward values from the second neural network to produce improved candidate signal configurations. When a signal configuration that produces a suitable reward value is generated, this signal configuration can be used for the physical transmission in the radio environment.
US11533112B2	Beam synthesis method and apparatus for measuring array antenna The present disclosure provides a beam synthesis method for measuring an array antenna. The method includes: obtaining a phase, an amplitude, and related distance values of each antenna unit, where the related distance values include a first distance value and a second distance value; calculating a phase directivity pattern of each antenna unit, and compensating the phase directivity pattern of each antenna unit based on the phase and the first distance value of each antenna unit, to obtain a phase error value of each antenna unit; and synthesizing radio frequency signals of a plurality of antenna units based on the phase, the amplitude, the second distance value, and the phase error value of each antenna unit, to obtain an antenna beam.
US11533105B1	Systems and methods for determining reflection and transmission coefficients A method is provided for calibrating a terminal device connected to a transmission line containing an impairment. The method includes steps of obtaining a sequence of frequency domain samples for a digital signal transmitted to the terminal device, determining a reflection coefficient from the obtained frequency domain sequence and a reflection signal arising from the impairment, converting the sequence of frequency domain samples and the frequency domain reflection signal into the time domain to generate a complex time domain sample sequence having a real I time component and an imaginary Q time component, correcting the time domain sample sequence into a corrected time sequence having a phase value of the Q component corresponding to a phase value of the I component, calculating a correcting spin coefficient from the corrected time sequence, and calibrating the terminal device with the correcting spin coefficient to mitigate a rotation of the reflection coefficient.
US11533104B2	System and method for providing beam planning for interference-aware satellite beam pattern design A method and system for mitigating inter-satellite interference are provided. The method includes modifying a beam bore-sight of a satellite according to a hexagonal mapping, identifying beams of the satellite positioned outside of the hexagonal mapping, and reducing power of the beams positioned outside of the hexagonal mapping.
US11533103B2	Compensation for attenuation of carrier power by a transmission path A system and method for compensating for attenuation of carrier power by a transmission path. The method includes defining a path from a gateway to a measurement tap, where the path may include an output port of the gateway and path components used to reach the measurement tap; sweeping, in bands, an RF spectrum served by the RFT by sending a signal at a respective band and a band power from the output port over the path; measuring, at the measurement tap, a power metric for each of the bands; capturing, for each of the bands, power level (PL) data including a frequency start of the respective band, a frequency end of the respective band, the respective band power and the respective power metric at the measurement tap; and setting a carrier power level (CPL) of a carrier having a frequency start and a frequency end, where the CPL is based on the PL data associated with one more of the bands included in the frequency start and the frequency end, where the path components may include one or more connecting cables, one or more switches, and one or more equipment in the path.
US11533095B2	Data-driven beam tracking method and device for mobile millimeter wave communication system and storage medium Based on real-time measurement data, disclosed is a data-driven beam tracking solution for a mobile Millimeter Wave (mmWave) communication system. A disclosed data driving method is based on a dynamically linearized representation of a time-varying pseudo-gradient parameter estimation process. In the disclosure, an effective codebook design method is introduced, so that beam tracking may further be accelerated with a low overhead by beam rotation.
US11533075B1	Interface for a transceiver An apparatus includes a transformer including a first inductor, a second inductor, and a third inductor. The apparatus also includes a power amplifier having an output coupled to the first inductor, a low-noise amplifier having an input coupled to a first terminal of the third inductor, and a fourth inductor having a first terminal and a second terminal, wherein the second terminal of the fourth inductor is coupled to a second terminal of the third inductor. The apparatus also includes a switch coupled between the first terminal of the third inductor and the first terminal of the fourth inductor.
US11533074B2	Full-duplex transceiver apparatus A full-duplex transceiver apparatus includes a plurality of antennas, the plurality of antennas including a first antenna and a second antenna, a first transmit front-end for feeding the first antenna, a first receive front-end for receiving a remotely-generated signal via the second antenna, and a matching network between the plurality of antennas and the transmit and receive front-ends for feeding the first antenna from the first transmit front-end and for delivering the remotely-generated signal from the second antenna to the first receive front-end. The matching network is a lossless reciprocal network causes a cancellation of the self-interference at the second antenna. The lossless reciprocal network has a first antenna port connected to the first antenna, a second antenna port connected to the second antenna, a first front-end port connected to the first transmit front-end, and a second front-end port connected the first receive front-end.
US11533072B2	Transmission of body status information by a wearable computing device A method for wearable computing device, the method comprising acquiring, by the wearable computing device, a first body status information of a person from a first data acquisition unit, wherein the person is wearing the wearable computing device. Receiving, by the wearable computing device, external information from other wearable computing devices via a wireless communication interface. In response to a fulfillment of a predefined crowd detection criterion by the external information, automatically, by the wearable computing device, transmitting the first body status information by the wireless communications interface.
US11533066B2	Transmission method and reception device The present technology relates to a transmission method and a reception device for securing favorable communication quality in data transmission using an LDPC code. In group-wise interleaving, the LDPC code with a code length N of 17280 bits is interleaved in units of 360-bit bit groups 0 to 47. In group-wise deinterleaving, a sequence of the LDPC code after group-wise interleaving is returned to an original sequence. The present technology can be applied, for example, in a case of performing data transmission using an LDPC code, and the like.
US11533065B2	System and method for decoding encoded messages in a wireless communication system Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining a received channel-encoded data block having information bits, a transmitted error-check value, and redundant code bits. The redundant code bits correspond to a channel code applied to the received channel-encoded data block prior to transmission via a communication channel. A channel code type is identified and responsive to it being systematic, the information bits and the transmitted error-check value are obtained without decoding according to the channel code. The received channel-encoded data block is checked according to the transmitted error-check value to obtain a result. Responsive to the result not indicating an error, extracting the information bits without decoding the received channel-encoded data block according to the channel code. Responsive to the result indicating an error, decoding the received channel-encoded data block according to the channel code to obtain decoded information bits. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11533061B2	Circuitry including at least a delta-sigma modulator and a sample-and-hold element A circuitry for an incremental delta-sigma modulator includes at least an incremental delta-sigma modulator and a sample-and-hold element, the sample-and-hold element being arranged in front of the incremental delta-sigma modulator and providing an input voltage for the incremental delta-sigma modulator in the charged state, wherein the sample-and-hold element includes a capacitor for charging the input voltage for the incremental delta-sigma modulator, wherein a first switch is arranged in front of the capacitor, and a second switch is arranged behind the capacitor, wherein the first switch is open when the second switch is closed so as to provide, at the incremental delta-sigma modulator, an input voltage decreasing in amount, in particular a decaying input voltage, or wherein the second switch is open when the first switch is closed so as to charge the capacitor of the sample-and-hold element. In addition, a method of operating a circuitry for an incremental delta-sigma modulator is proposed.
US11533057B2	Dynamic multiphase injection-locked phase rotator for electro-optical transceiver Presented herein are methodologies for generating clock signals for transceivers that rely on frequency and phase error correction functions. The methodology includes generating a differential clock signal at a fundamental frequency, generating, based on the differential clock signal and using a multiphase generator, four quadrature signals at the fundamental frequency, supplying the four quadrature signals to an injection-locked phase rotator, and outputting, from the injection-locked phase rotator, a phase adjusted multiphase clock signal based on the four quadrature signals.
US11533046B2	System and method of generating quantum unitary noise using silicon based quantum dot arrays A novel and useful system and method of generating quantum unitary noise using silicon based quantum dot arrays. Unitary noise is derived from a probability of detecting a particle within a quantum dot array structure comprising position based charge qubits with two time independent basis states \|0> and \|1>. A two level electron tunneling device such as an interface device, qubit or other quantum structure is used to generate quantum noise. The electron tunneling device includes a reservoir of particles, a quantum dot, and a barrier that is used to control tunneling between the reservoir and the quantum dot. A detector circuit connected to the device outputs a digital stream corresponding to the probability of a particle of being detected. Controlling the bias applied to the barrier controls the probability of detection. Thus, the probability density function (PDF) of the output unitary noise can be controlled to correspond to a desired probability. The unitary noise can be used in stochastic rounding by controlling the bias applied to the barrier in accordance with a remainder of numbers to be rounded.
US11533045B1	Dynamic aging monitor and correction for critical path duty cycle and delay degradation In certain aspects, a duty-cycle monitor includes a first oscillator, and a flop having a signal input, a clock input, and an output, wherein the signal input is coupled to an input of the duty-cycle monitor, and the clock input is coupled to the first oscillator. The duty-cycle monitor also includes a first counter having a count input, an enable input, and a count output, wherein the count input of the first counter is coupled to the first oscillator, and the enable input of the first counter is coupled to the output of the flop. The duty-cycle monitor also includes a second counter having a count input, an enable input, and a count output, wherein the count input of the second counter is coupled to the first oscillator, and the enable input of the second counter is coupled to the output of the flop.
US11533037B2	High resolution attenuator or phase shifter with weighted bits Digital step attenuator (DSA) and digital phase shifter (DPS) multi-stage circuit architectures that provide for high resolution. Embodiments use a dithering approach to weight bit positions to provide a much finer resolution than the lowest-valued individual stage. Bit position weights for stages are determined so as to enable selection of combinations of n bit positions that provide a desired total attenuation or phase shift range while allowing utilization of the large number of states (2n) available to produce fractional intermediate steps of attenuation or phase shift. The fractional intermediate steps have a resolution finer than the lowest-valued stage. Bit position weights may be determined using a weighting function, including weightings determined from a linear series, a geometric series, a harmonic series, or alternating variants of such series. In some embodiments, at least one bit position has a fixed value that is not determined by the bit position weighting function.
US11533029B2	Power amplifier, power amplifier system and operating method thereof A power amplifier, a power amplifier system, and an operating method thereof are provided. The power amplifier system may include a power amplifier, a power amplifier controller, and a voltage generator. The power amplifier may include a plurality of power transistor cells each of which receives an RF signal through a control terminal thereof to amplify the RF signal. The power amplifier controller may control turn-on and turn-off operations of at least one power transistor cell among the plurality of power transistor cells based on a power mode. The voltage generator may generate a power supply voltage supplied to first terminals of the power transistor cells and may change the power supply voltage depending on the power mode.
US11533021B1	Down-conversion mixer A down-conversion mixer includes a converting-and-mixing circuit and a load circuit. The converting-and-mixing circuit performs voltage to current conversion and mixing with a differential oscillatory voltage signal pair upon a differential input voltage signal pair to generate a differential mixed current signal pair. The load circuit includes two transistors each having a transconductance that varies according to a control voltage, two resistors each decreasing a threshold voltage of a respective one of the transistors, and a resistor-inductor circuit cooperating with the transistors to convert the differential mixed current signal pair into a differential mixed voltage signal pair.
US11533018B2	Maintaining positions of panels with biasing members and cables An apparatus can include a central member comprising a first side, a second side, and a third side, a first interior panel rotatably attached to the first side, a second interior panel rotatably attached to the second side, a third interior panel rotatably attached to the third side, a first exterior panel rotatably attached to the first interior panel, a second exterior panel rotatably attached to the second interior panel, a third exterior panel rotatably attached to the third interior panel, a first interior biasing member attached to the central member and the first interior panel and biasing the first interior panel to extend away from the central member toward a plane parallel to the central member, and a first interior restraint cable attached to the central member and the first interior panel and restraining the first interior panel from extending along the plane parallel to the central member.
US11533017B2	Spring counter-balance assemblies and solar trackers incorporating spring counter-balance assemblies A solar tracker assembly is provided which includes a support column, a torque tube or torsion beam connected to the support column, a mounting mechanism attached to the torque tube or torsion beam, a drive system connected to the torque tube or torsion beam, and a spring counter-balance assembly connected to the torque tube or torsion beam. An exemplary spring counter-balance assembly comprises a bearing housing and a bushing disposed within the bearing housing and configured to be slideably mounted onto the torque tube or torsion beam, and one or more compressible cords made of a flexible material. The compressible cords are located between the bushing and the bearing housing and provide damping during rotational movement of the solar tracker assembly. An exemplary spring counter-balance assembly is provided including at least one top bracket and at least one bottom bracket, at least one spring, a damper, and a bracket. An exemplary spring counter-balance assembly comprises a bearing housing and a bushing disposed within the bearing housing and configured to be slideably mounted onto the torque tube or torsion beam. The spring counter-balance assembly may include at least one coil spring and a rotational stop. The bushing may be made of an elastomeric material and define one or more air spaces.
US11533012B2	High-density integrated power control assemblies having shared cooling system with a motor An integrated power control assembly mounted on an axial end of a three-phase motor includes a substrate, two input busbars each of positive and negative polarities alternatively spaced apart on the substrate, a plurality of sets of paired devices, and three output busbars corresponding to the three phases of the motor, wherein a set of paired devices includes a switching semiconductor and a diode. An inner input busbar has edges adjacent to an inner input busbar of opposite polarity and an outer input busbar of opposite polarity and configured to have at least twice as many devices as the outer input busbars. One or more sets of paired devices are disposed axially on outer input busbars and on inner input busbars along the edges. An individual output busbar is disposed over and electrically coupled to one or more sets of paired devices disposed on adjacent input busbars of opposite polarity.
US11533011B2	Actuator driver circuit with self-resonance tracking Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to methods and apparatus for driving haptic actuators. An example actuator driver circuit generally includes a driver and calibration circuitry. The driver has at least one output for coupling to at least one input of an actuator. The calibration circuitry is configured to: detect a phase of a voltage signal at the at least one output of the driver, detect a phase of a current signal at the at least one output of the driver, determine a phase difference between the phase of the voltage signal and the phase of the current signal, and adjust a frequency of an oscillating signal for the driver, based at least in part on the phase difference.
US11533009B2	Motor control device A motor control device includes a current acquisition unit that acquires a limit current allowed to flow from a battery to a brushless motor, a voltage acquisition unit that acquires a power supply voltage applied from the battery to the brushless motor, and a command current determination unit that determines a d-axis command current and a q-axis command current. The command current determination unit determines the d-axis command current and the q-axis command current based on a power limit circle which is a current characteristic on a d-axis and a q-axis based on an inner product of a voltage vector and a current vector and a voltage limit circle which is a current characteristic on the d-axis and the q-axis based on the power supply voltage and an angular velocity of the brushless motor.
US11533005B2	Electronic device with structure for harvesting energy An electronic device includes a housing structure including a first cover facing in a first direction and forming a first surface of the electronic device, and a second cover facing in a second direction opposite to the first direction and forming a second surface of the electronic device. The electronic device also includes a display positioned in a space formed by the housing structure and exposed through the first surface. The electronic device further includes an energy harvesting structure positioned in the space and configured to generate a current from a contact input to the first surface and a sound input generated inside and outside the electronic device. The electronic device additionally includes a battery positioned in the space. The electronic device also includes a charging circuit configured to charge the battery using the current received from the energy harvesting structure.
US11533002B2	Vibration type motor, optical apparatus, and driving apparatus using damper to suppress noise A vibration type motor relatively moves, in a first direction, a vibrator whose vibration is excited by an electromechanical energy conversion element and a contact member configured to contact the vibrator, and includes a vibrator holder configured to hold the vibrator, a holding mechanism configured to hold the vibrator holder so as to restrict a displacement of the vibrator holder in the first direction and to enable the vibrator holder to be displaced in a direction orthogonal to the first direction, a press mechanism configured to press the vibrator against the contact member in a second direction, and a damper configured to contact a plurality of components among the vibrator holder, components of the holding mechanism, and components of the press mechanism.
US11532995B2	Electronic module for an electric drive of a vehicle with current paths of equal length for a highside switch and a lowside switch The invention relates to an electronic module for an electric drive in a vehicle, comprising an input-side electrical connection for inputting an input current generated by an energy source; an intermediate circuit with a capacitor; a semiconductor bridge circuit, connected in parallel to the intermediate circuit, wherein the bridge circuit comprises a high-side switch, and a low-side switch connected in series to the high-side switch, wherein the high-side switch is connected to the input-side electrical connection via a first current path, wherein the low-side switch is connected to the input-side electrical connection via a second current path, wherein the first current path and the second current path are the same length; and an output-side electrical connection for outputting an output current generated by the bridge circuit from the input current.
US11532994B2	Electrical energy storage device and method for producing an electrical energy storage device Electrical energy storage device (1), including at least one electrical component (2) and a busbar (5) for electrical power distribution, where the electrical component (2) is arranged on the busbar (5), and at least a first contact side (11) and/or a second contact side (12) of the electrical component (2) is connected to the busbar (5) by a contact element (8), and wherein the contact element (8) is formed at least partially as a mesh (7). The electrical component (2) is preferably a capacitor.
US11532989B2	Using parasitic capacitance of a transformer as a tank element in a DC-DC converter Systems and methods for using parasitic capacitance of a transformer as an element in a resonant converter are provided. Aspects include determining a parasitic capacitance associated with a transformer, determining a resonant circuit configuration based at least in part on the parasitic capacitance associated with the transformer, and providing a resonant converter comprising the resonant circuit and the transformer.
US11532983B2	Systems and methods for reducing power loss of power converters Controller and method for a power converter. For example, a controller for a power converter includes: a first terminal configured to receive a first terminal voltage; a second terminal configured to receive a second terminal voltage; a comparator configured to receive a first threshold voltage and the second terminal voltage and to generate a comparison signal based at least in part on the first threshold voltage and the second terminal voltage; and a switch configured to receive the first terminal voltage and the comparison signal, the switch being further configured to be closed to allow a current to flow out of the second terminal through the switch if the comparison signal is at a first logic level; wherein the comparator is further configured to: receive a first reference voltage as the first threshold voltage if the first terminal voltage is smaller than a second threshold voltage.
US11532978B2	Power conversion module, vehicle-mounted charger, and electric vehicle A power conversion module, a vehicle-mounted charger, and an electric vehicle may be used in the field of new energy vehicles. The power conversion module includes a power factor correction PFC module and a first direct current-direct current DC-DC converter. A first primary circuit of the first DC-DC converter has a first bridge arm, a second bridge arm, a third bridge arm, and a fourth bridge arm. A first switch is disposed between the first bridge arm and an inductor at an interface of the PFC module, and a second switch is disposed between the third bridge arm and another interface of the PFC module. When the first switch and the second switch are turned on, a secondary circuit of the first DC-DC converter may implement a function of a primary circuit of a second DC-DC converter; the second bridge arm and the fourth bridge arm may implement a function of a secondary circuit of the second DC-DC converter; and the first bridge arm, the third bridge arm, the inductor of the PFC module, and a capacitor of the PFC module may form an inverter module, so as to implement an inverse discharging function.
US11532970B2	Energy conversion systems and methods Energy conversion systems and methods are disclosed. In one aspect, the system is for converting or redirecting energy received by an impact to an automobile in a proximal direction into another type of energy. The system includes a body having a first engagement structure and an impact member configured to be installed within an outer perimeter compartment of the automobile to receive an impulse. The impact member having a second engagement structure and a third engagement structure. The second engagement structure being configured to engage with the first engagement structure of the body to facilitate the impact member translating in the direction relative to the body. The system further includes a converter having a fourth engagement structure, the fourth engagement structure being configured to engage with the third engagement structure of the impact member and convert the energy received by the impact member into another type of energy. The system may change or redirect a direction of a force vector associated with the received impulse.
US11532963B2	Torque tunnel Halbach Array electric machine Disclosed are various embodiments for Torque Tunnel Halbach Array electric machines having a rotor comprising a plurality of rotor assemblies configured to form a magnetic torque tunnel having at least a first magnetic pole tunnel segment and a second magnetic pole tunnel segment, each of the rotor assemblies having a plurality of flux shaping Halbach Arrays configured to focus the Flux Density Distribution in the magnetic torque tunnel and a stator having a plurality of coils configured to form a coil winding assembly, the coil winding assembly positioned within the magnetic torque tunnel, such that at least one of the plurality of coils is surrounded by the first magnetic pole tunnel segment or the second magnetic pole tunnel segment, alternatively the rotor may be the coil winding assembly and the stator may be the magnetic torque tunnel.
US11532955B2	Charging module and wireless charging system A charging module includes a low-frequency resonant unit, a high-frequency resonant unit, a first capacitor, a rectifier unit and a voltage conversion unit. The low-frequency resonant unit comprises a low-frequency coil and a low-frequency compensation capacitor connected in series. The high-frequency resonant unit comprises a high-frequency coil and a high-frequency tuning capacitor connected in series. The high-frequency tuning capacitor is used to make the difference between the AC voltage between two terminals of the high-frequency resonant unit when receiving high-frequency wireless power signals and the induced electromotive force between two terminals of the low-frequency coil generated by the current flowing through the high-frequency resonant unit is within a preset interval.
US11532953B2	Wireless power transfer A wireless power transfer system comprises a power transmitter (101) wirelessly providing power to a power receiver (105) via an electromagnetic power transfer signal. The power transmitter (101) comprises a transmitter coil (103) generating the power transfer signal and a driver (201) generating a drive signal for the transmitter coil (103) to generate the power transfer signal. A foreign object detector (207) executes a foreign object detection operation arranged to detect a presence of a foreign object in response to a property of the drive signal. A communicator (205) receives a power operating point indication from the power receiver (105) which represents a load power for a load of the power receiver (105). An adapter (209) adapts the foreign object detection operation in response to the operating point indication being indicative of a change in the load power meeting a criterion.
US11532947B2	Combination wind/solar DC power system A direct current power system. The direct current power system includes a direct current bus system, a solar power system, an energy storage system and a wind power system. The solar power system is configured to supply a first direct current power. The energy storage system has an input electrically coupled to the solar power system and is configured to supply a second direct current power at 380 volts to the direct current bus system. The wind power system includes is electrically coupled to the energy storage system and is configured to supply a third direct current power.
US11532946B2	Power electronics charge coupler for vehicle-to-vehicle fast energy sharing A power electronics charge coupler (PECC) unit allows vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) energy transfer by forming a bidirectional buck/boost converter for supplying rapid energy transfer with wide input-output battery voltage and battery voltage levels. The PECC unit embeds DC-DC converter modules into the charging handles of the PECC unit. Each of the charging handles includes a half-bridge of the DC-DC converter and parasitic inductance of a cable between charging handles is utilized as a portion of the filter inductor for the converter. The PECC unit handles are each configured to connect to an electric vehicle and are dynamically configurable in one of four modes of operation based on the battery voltage of the electric vehicles to which the PECC unit is connected and based on which of the electric vehicles is designated as the receiver vehicle and which is designated as the supplier vehicle.
US11532944B2	Charging adjustment method, terminal and computer storage medium Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a charging adjustment method, a terminal and a computer storage medium. The method includes: detecting a real-time charging current when performing charging to a battery; determining whether to perform charging adjustment according to the real-time charging current and a preset cut-off current; obtaining a target voltage when determining to perform the charging adjustment; and performing charging to the battery according to the target voltage.
US11532937B2	Electrical system having two rotary electric machines coupled to two gas turbine spools Electrical systems for connecting rotary electric machines with gas turbine spools are provided. One such electrical system comprises: a first rotary electric machine mechanically coupled with a first gas turbine spool and a second rotary electric machine mechanically coupled with a second gas turbine spool, each said electric machine having an identical even number N≥4 of phases, each phase having a respective index n=(1, . . . , N), and each phase comprising an identical number P≥1 of coils wound in a P-plex configuration in which adjacent phases are radially separated by 2π/NP mechanical radians; a first set of N bidirectional converter circuits for conversion of alternating current (ac) to and from direct current (dc), each converter circuit having a respective index n and being connected with the P coils in the nth phase of the first rotary electric machine; and a second set of N bidirectional converter circuits for conversion of ac to and from dc, each converter circuit having a respective index n and being connected with the P coils in the nth phase of the second rotary electric machine. For all n, a dc side of the nth converter circuit in said first set is connected with a dc side of the nth converter circuit in said second set to facilitate dc power transfer between the first gas turbine spool and the second gas turbine spool.
US11532936B2	Electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection device Embodiments of an ESD protection device are described. In an embodiment, an ESD protection device includes a first voltage rail electrically connected to a first node, a second voltage rail electrically connected to a second node, and ESD cells connected between the first and second voltage rails and configured to shunt current in response to an ESD pulse received between the first and second nodes. Each of the ESD cells includes clamp circuits electrically connected to the second voltage rail, ballast resistors connected between the first voltage rail and the clamp circuits, where at least some of the ballast resistors are electrically connected to a third voltage rail, a driver circuit connected between the second and third voltage rails and configured to generate a driver signal, and an output stage configured to generate an output signal in response to the driver signal.
US11532934B2	Protection device Digital isolator devices, and many other devices, have a maximum device junction temperature, which, if exceeded, may cause device failure and the integrity of the isolation is no longer guaranteed. The use of an electronic fuse, eFuse, arranged in series with the digital isolator, provides a protection scheme for the digital isolator in which current is limited by the eFuse when it is determined that the supply current of the digital isolator exceeds a predetermined threshold that would the cause junction temperature to increase above an absolute maximum rating. As such, the integrity of the digital isolator is preserved in the event of a system fault.
US11532933B2	Current control and circuit protection for distributed energy resources According to one aspect of the present disclosure, an energy storage system includes one or more power sources, one or more energy storage components, and one or more solid state circuit breakers disposed between the one or more power sources and the one or more energy storage components such that electrical power is exchanged between the one or more power sources to the one or more energy storage components through the one or more solid state circuit breakers. The energy storage system also includes a controller configured to operate the one or more solid state circuit breakers to control current exchanged with the one or more energy storage components and protect the one or more energy storage components from the one or more power sources during a fault condition.
US11532924B2	Distributed feedback laser array A distributed feedback (DFB) laser array includes a substrate, a semiconductor stacked structure, a first electrode layer, and a second electrode layer. The semiconductor stacked structure is formed above a surface of the substrate and includes two light-emitting modules and a tunnel junction. Each light-emitting module of the two light-emitting modules includes an active layer, a first cladding layer, and a second cladding layer. The active layer is installed between the first cladding layer and the second cladding layer, and the active layer has multiple lasing spots along a first direction, wherein the multiple lasing spots are used for generating multiple lasers. The tunnel junction is installed between the two light-emitting modules. The first electrode layer is formed above the semiconductor stacked structure. The second electrode layer is formed above another surface of the substrate.
US11532922B2	III-nitride surface-emitting laser and method of fabrication A Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser (VCSEL) including a light emitting III-nitride active region including quantum wells (QWs), wherein each of the quantum wells have a thickness of more than 8 nm, a cavity length of at least 7 λ, or at least 20 λ, where lambda is a peak wavelength of the light emitted from the active region, layers with reduced surface roughness, a tunnel junction intracavity contact. The VCSEL is flip chip bonded using In—Au bonding. This is the first report of a VCSEL capable of continuous wave operation.
US11532917B2	Electrical connector, connector assembly and charging robot for a conductive charging system An electrical connector configured to be mated with a mating connector along a mating direction includes a plurality of contact elements each having a contact surface at least partially inclined with respect to the mating direction. The contact elements are spaced apart from each other along a circumferential direction with respect to the mating direction.
US11532916B2	High speed RJ45 connector A Rj45 plug (34) comprising: a housing (42,50) with an opening; a sled assembly (60,100,152,180) contained within the housing wherein the sled assembly (10,100,152,180) has a plurality of contacts (68,158,184) accessible via the opening; and a plug interface contact (PIC) cover (62,112,158,182) at least partially surrounding a first contact of the plurality of contacts wherein the PIC cover (62,112,158,182) is electrically insulated from the first plug interface contact of the plurality of contacts and electrically connected to a second plug interface contact of the plurality of contacts.
US11532913B2	Cable assembly with improved high frequency signal integrity and increase quality with high frequency signal transmission A cable assembly includes a plurality of wires and a plurality of electrical contacts. The electrical contacts include contact sections and wire connecting sections, and the wire connecting sections of the electrical contacts are respectively connected to the wires. Two adjacent electrical contacts for transmitting signals have a first edge distance and an expanded edge distance. The first edge distance is adjacent to the contact sections, and the expanded edge distance is between the first edge distance and the wire connecting sections. In addition, the first edge distance is smaller than the expanded edge distance to improve signal integrity.
US11532908B1	Power receptacle with protective cover The present invention provides a power receptacle with protective functions, which includes a base assembly, a grounding assembly coupled to the base assembly, a first faceplate coupled to a top of the base assembly, and a cover assembly. The first faceplate includes at least one USB (Universal Serial Bus) interface slot electrically coupled to the base assembly. The cover assembly is removably coupled to the first faceplate and configured to cover the USB interface slot. The power receptacle can prevent dust and other objects from entering the slots, thereby ensuring the safety of the receptacle and prolong its life.
US11532907B2	Connector assembly having a terminal position assurance mechanism A connector assembly includes: a housing having a plurality of accommodating grooves into which a plurality of terminals are insertable, respectively, and having an insertion space recessed in a direction intersecting a direction in which the accommodating grooves extend, the plurality of accommodating grooves being formed in one surface of the housing; a terminal position assurance (TPA) mechanism inserted into the insertion space of the housing in the direction intersecting the direction in which the accommodating grooves extend, and preventing the plurality of terminals inserted into the accommodating grooves from being separated; and a connection device fixed to the housing or the TPA mechanism and forming a circuit electrically connected to the plurality of terminals inserted into the accommodating grooves.
US11532893B2	Monohedral tiled antenna arrays An antenna array includes one or more antenna tiles which are arranged on an antenna plane. Each of the one or more antenna tiles includes one or more antenna units that are arranged together to form the respective antenna tile having a hexagonal shape and each antenna unit comprises an antenna circuit chip. In some embodiments, each antenna unit has a pentagonal shape and the antenna tile has a hexagonal shape formed by tessellating the one or more antenna units with one another.
US11532889B2	Antenna device An antenna device includes an antenna surface on which an antenna conductor is provided, a ground surface which is opposed to the antenna surface and on which a ground conductor is provided, and a stub configured by connecting, in series, a plurality of transmission lines in which a line width of at least a part of at least one transmission line is different from line widths of other two or more transmission lines. The at least one transmission line has straight portions and a bent portion.
US11532888B2	Frequency reconfigurable monopolar wire-plate antenna A monopole wire-plate antenna that is reconfigurable in a frequency range of operation, comprising: a ground plane (1); a capacitive roof (2); a probe feed (3), which is electrically insulated from the ground plane (1), and which extends between the ground plane (1) and the capacitive roof (2) so as to electrically feed the capacitive roof (2); at least one shorting wire (4), which is arranged to electrically connect the capacitive roof (2) to the ground plane (1), and which is coated in a magneto-dielectric material (5) having a complex magnetic permeability, which varies as a function of a static magnetic field applied to the magneto-dielectric material (5).
US11532881B2	Photonic integrated circuit-based optical phased array phasing technique A method includes capturing measurements of optical signals transmitted from an optical phased array that includes (i) multiple array elements each having an antenna element and a phase modulator and (ii) an additional antenna element spaced apart from the array elements. The method also includes performing digital holography using the measurements to identify relative phases of the array elements with respect to a phase of the additional antenna element. In addition, the method includes modifying phases provided by at least some of the phase modulators of at least some of the array elements to bring the array elements more closely into phase with one another.
US11532878B2	Electronic device and wearable device The present disclosure provides an electronic device. The electronic device includes a display module having a grounding element disposed under the display module and an antenna pattern. The grounding element is configured to function as a reference ground of the antenna pattern. A wearable device is also provided.
US11532875B2	Antenna module An antenna module includes a first dielectric layer, an antenna layer, a grounding layer and a conductive layer. The first dielectric layer has a first dielectric surface and a second dielectric surface opposite to the first dielectric surface and a first dielectric lateral surface extending between the first dielectric surface and the second dielectric surface. The antenna layer is formed on the first dielectric surface. The grounding layer is formed below the second dielectric surface. The conductive layer is formed on the first dielectric lateral surface of first dielectric layer, wherein the conductive layer electrically connects to the grounding layer and extends from the grounding layer toward the antenna layer but not contacts the first dielectric surface.
US11532867B2	Heterogeneous antenna in fan-out package A method includes bonding an antenna substrate to a redistribution structure. The antenna substrate has a first part of a first antenna, and the redistribution structure has a second part of the first antenna. The method further includes encapsulating the antenna substrate in an encapsulant, and bonding a package component to the redistribution structure. The redistribution structure includes a third part of a second antenna, and the package component includes a fourth part of the second antenna.
US11532859B2	Rechargeable battery The present disclosure relates to a rechargeable battery including an electrode assembly that includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and a separator disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, a first electrode tab that is electrically connected with the first electrode, and includes at least one first bent portion, a second electrode tab that is electrically connected with the second electrode, and includes at least one second bent portion, and exterior member that receives the electrode assembly, and a reinforcement member that is disposed in the first exterior member, while being disposed adjacent to at least one of the first electrode tab and the second electrode tab.
US11532845B2	Battery cell A battery cell in the form of a round cell, having: at least one electrode element having an inner side and an outer side and at least one temperature control element, wherein the inner side of the at least one electrode element is spaced apart, at least in sections, from the outer side of the at least one electrode element by means of the temperature control element.
US11532841B2	Storage battery control device A current of a storage battery is appropriately controlled depending on the situation. In a battery controller, a battery information acquiring unit acquires information on the storage battery. A first allowable current calculating unit calculates a first allowable current of a battery module in accordance with a rated value of a component through which a current flows by charging or discharging of the battery module. A second allowable current calculating unit calculates a second allowable current of the battery module in accordance with an SOC of the battery module on the basis of the information acquired by the battery information acquiring unit. A third allowable current calculating unit calculates a third allowable current of the battery module in accordance with an SOH of the battery module on the basis of the information acquired by the battery information acquiring unit.
US11532838B2	Nonaqueous electrolyte solution and nonaqueous electrolyte battery Disclosed is a nonaqueous electrolyte solution containing a lithium electrolyte, methyl 3,3,3-trifluoropropionate, and a phosphazene compound. Preferably, the phosphazene compound is a cyclic phosphazene compound represented by the disclosed general formula (I).
US11532837B2	Sulfide solid electrolyte particles and all-solid-state battery Provided are sulfide solid electrolyte particles which have sufficient ion conductivity and which are, when used in an all-solid-state battery, configured to suppress a resistance increase rate after charge-discharge cycles, and an all-solid-state battery comprising the sulfide solid electrolyte particles. The sulfide solid electrolyte particles may be sulfide solid electrolyte particles comprising a sulfide solid electrolyte that comprises Li, P, S and a halogen as constituent elements, wherein an oxygen/sulfur element ratio of a particle surface measured by XPS, is 0.79 or more and 1.25 or 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 0.58 or less.
US11532835B2	Solid electrolyte and all-solid lithium-ion secondary battery This solid electrolyte is a zirconium phosphate-based solid electrolyte in which a part of phosphorous or zirconium that is contained in the solid electrolyte is substituted with an element with a variable valence.
US11532827B2	Fuel cell bipolar plate alloys Fuel cell alloy bipolar plates. The alloys may be used as a coating or bulk material. The alloys and metallic glasses may be particularly suitable for proton-exchange membrane fuel cells because of they may exhibit reduced weights and/or better corrosion resistance. The alloys may include any of the following AlxCuyTiz, AlxFeyNiz, AlxMnyNiz, AlxNiyTiz, CuxFeyTiz, CuxNiyTiz, AlxFeySiz, AlxMnySiz, AlxNiySiz, NixSiyTiz, and CxFeySiz. The alloys or metallic glass may be doped with various dopants to improve glass forming ability, mechanical strength, ductility, electrical or thermal conductivities, hydrophobicity, and/or corrosion resistance.
US11532817B2	Binder composition for nonaqueous secondary batteries and slurry composition for nonaqueous secondary batteries A binder composition for a non-aqueous secondary battery including: a water-insoluble polymer and a water-soluble polymer, wherein the water-insoluble polymer contains 70% by weight or more and 100% by weight or less of an aliphatic conjugated diene monomer unit, and the water-soluble polymer has a carboxy group and a hydroxy group. The water-soluble polymer preferably contains a carboxy group-containing monomer unit and a hydroxy group-containing monomer unit. Also provided are a slurry composition for a non-aqueous secondary battery, including the binder composition, an electrode, a separator, a secondary battery and methods for producing the same.
US11532811B2	Composite material, electrode, electrode device, power storage device and method of manufacturing composite material A composite material includes vanadium lithium phosphate, and a conductive carbon. an amount of the conductive carbon is 2.5 mass % or more and 7.5 mass % or less.
US11532804B2	Method of manufacturing flexible OLED module A method of manufacturing a flexible OLED module includes: forming a polymer layer on one surface of a base substrate; forming a thin glass sheet on one surface of the polymer layer; forming multiple OLED elements on one surface of the thin glass sheet; forming a protective layer on one surface of the thin glass sheet to cover the OLED elements; separating the base substrate and the polymer layer from each other through separation of the sacrificial layer by laser lift-off (LLO); and cutting the thin glass sheet and the protective layer to provide multiple unit OLED modules each including the OLED element.
US11532802B2	Display panel and manufacturing method thereof, display device Disclosed are a display panel, a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device. The display panel includes a base substrate and sub-pixels thereon. At least one sub-pixel includes: a light emitting element including a first electrode, a luminous functional layer and a second electrode sequentially stacked, the first electrode being closer to the base substrate than the second electrode; a metal reflective layer, between the base substrate and the first electrode; a silicon nitride layer, between the first electrode and the metal reflective layer, and including a first via hole through which the first electrode is connected with the metal reflective layer; a driving circuit including a driving transistor and a storage capacitor between the base substrate and the metal reflective layer, the driving transistor including a gate electrode connected with the storage capacitor, and source and drain electrodes, one of which is connected with the metal reflective layer.
US11532796B2	Display device including flexible substrate, polarizing plate, and warpage suppressing member A display device includes a flexible substrate, a display device layer, a polarizing plate, and a warpage suppressing member. The flexible substrate has a front surface on a front surface side and a back surface on a back surface side. The display device layer is provided on the front surface side of the flexible substrate and includes a self-luminescent element. The polarizing plate is opposed to the flexible substrate across the display device layer and has a predetermined dimensional change characteristic corresponding to environmental change. The warpage suppressing member is provided on the back surface side of the flexible substrate and has a dimensional change characteristic of the same tendency as the dimensional change characteristic of the polarizing plate. The warpage suppressing member is configured to cancel at least a portion of warping stress of the polarizing plate to be applied to the flexible substrate.
US11532791B2	Light emitting device and display device including the same A light emitting device including a first electrode and a second electrode facing each other, an emission layer disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, wherein the emission layer includes a plurality of quantum dots and metal carboxylate having at least one hydrocarbon group of at least one carbon atoms, and the plurality of quantum dots includes a first organic ligand, and does not include cadmium and lead, and a method of manufacturing the same.
US11532783B2	Magnetic recording array, neuromorphic device, and method of controlling magnetic recording array A magnetic recording array according to the present embodiment includes a plurality of spin elements, a first reference cell, and a second reference cell, wherein the plurality of spin elements, the first reference cell, and the second reference cell each have a wiring and a stacked body including a first ferromagnetic layer stacked on the wiring, wherein the electrical resistance of the wiring of the first reference cell is higher than the electrical resistance of the wiring of each spin element, and wherein the electrical resistance of the wiring of the second reference cell is lower than the electrical resistance of the wiring of each spin element.
US11532782B2	Semiconductor devices including spin-orbit torque line and contact plug A semiconductor device includes first and second contact plugs in an insulating layer that is on a substrate, the first and second contact plugs spaced apart from each other. A spin-orbit torque (SOT) line on the insulating layer and overlapping the first and second contact plug is provided. A magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) is on the SOT line. An upper electrode is on the MTJ. Each of the first and second contact plugs includes a recess region adjacent the SOT line. A sidewall of the recess region is substantially coplanar with a side surface of the SOT line and a side surface of the MTJ.
US11532775B2	Display panel and manufacturing method thereof A display panel including an array substrate, a first sub-pixel, a second sub-pixel, and a first light-emitting diode is provided. The array substrate includes a first connection pad and a second connection pad. The first sub-pixel includes a first driving unit electrically connected to the first connection pad. The second sub-pixel includes a second driving unit electrically connected to the second connection pad. The first light-emitting diode completely overlaps and is physically isolated from the second connection pad. The first light-emitting diode is not completely overlapped and is electrically connected to the first connection pad. A manufacturing method of a display panel is also provided.
US11532769B2	Light-emitting diode and method for manufacturing the same Disclosed is a light-emitting diode which includes a light-emitting epitaxial layered unit, an insulation layer, a transparent conductive layer, a protective layer, a first electrode, and a second electrode. The light-emitting epitaxial layered unit includes a first semiconductor layer, a second semiconductor layer, and a light-emitting layer sandwiched between the first and second semiconductor layers, and has a first electrode region which includes a pad area and an extension area. The insulation layer is disposed on the first semiconductor layer and at the extension area of the first electrode region. Also disclosed is a method for manufacturing the light-emitting diode.
US11532765B2	Solar cell and solar cell panel including the same A solar cell panel is disclosed. The disclosed solar cell panel includes a semiconductor substrate, a conductive region disposed in or on the semiconductor substrate, an electrode connected to the conductive region, a lead electrically connected to the electrode. The electrode includes finger lines, and a bus bar line extending across the finger lines, and electrically connected to the lead. First and second end edge areas are arranged at opposite ends of the bus bar line disposed adjacent to opposite edges of the semiconductor substrate, respectively. The bus bar line includes electrode portions respectively disposed at the first end second end edge areas. Each electrode portion includes an opening formed through the each electrode portion, and an outermost end disposed at a position flush with corresponding ones of the outermost ones of the finger lines or a position outwards of the corresponding outermost finger lines.
US11532763B2	Method for depositing a conductive coating on a surface A method for depositing a conductive coating on a surface is provided, the method including treating the surface by depositing fullerene on the surface to produce a treated surface and depositing the conductive coating on the treated surface. The conductive coating generally includes magnesium. A product and an organic optoelectronic device produced according to the method are also provided.
US11532761B2	Composite masking between solar cells Composite making regions are provided. These masking regions can include layers or other areas of different transparency where a first region has a first transparency and a second region has a different transparency. Masking regions can be positioned between adjacent photovoltaic cells of photovoltaic arrays.
US11532749B2	Semiconductor structure with blocking layer A semiconductor structure is provided. The semiconductor structure includes a gate structure, a first source/drain structure, and a contact structure. The gate structure has a gate dielectric layer over a first fin structure. The first source/drain structure is positioned in the first fin structure and adjacent to the gate structure. The first source/drain structure includes a first epitaxial layer in contact with the top surface of the first fin structure and a second epitaxial layer over the first epitaxial layer and extending above a bottom surface of the gate dielectric layer. The contact structure extends into the first source/drain structure. The top surface of the first fin structure is between a top surface and a bottom surface of the first source/drain structure.
US11532735B2	Self-aligned epitaxy layer Semiconductor structures including active fin structures, dummy fin structures, epitaxy layers, a Ge containing oxide layer and methods of manufacture thereof are described. By implementing the Ge containing oxide layer on the surface of the epitaxy layers formed on the source/drain regions of some of the FinFET devices, a self-aligned epitaxy process is enabled. By implementing dummy fin structures and a self-aligned etch, both the epitaxy layers and metal gate structures from adjacent FinFET devices are isolated in a self-aligned manner.
US11532724B2	Selective gate spacers for semiconductor devices Techniques related to forming selective gate spacers for semiconductor devices and transistor structures and devices formed using such techniques are discussed. Such techniques include forming a blocking material on a semiconductor fin, disposing a gate having a different surface chemistry than the blocking material on a portion of the blocking material, forming a selective conformal layer on the gate but not on a portion of the blocking material, and removing exposed portions of the blocking material.
US11532721B2	Semiconductor device, method of manufacturing semiconductor device, inverter circuit, drive device, vehicle, and elevator According to an embodiment, provided is a semiconductor device including: a first electrode; a second electrode; and a silicon carbide layer disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, the silicon carbide layer including: a first silicon carbide region of an n-type; and a second silicon carbide region disposed between the first silicon carbide region and the first electrode, the second silicon carbide being in contact with the first electrode, and the second silicon carbide containing one oxygen atom bonding with four silicon atoms.
US11532720B2	Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor layer, a gate structure, a source/drain epitaxial structure, a backside dielectric cap, and an inner spacer. The gate structure wraps around the semiconductor layer. The source/drain epitaxial structure is adjacent the gate structure and electrically connected to the semiconductor layer. The backside dielectric cap is disposed under and in direct contact with the gate structure. The inner spacer is in direct contact with the gate structure and the backside dielectric cap.
US11532715B2	Source/drain contacts for semiconductor devices and methods of forming A semiconductor device includes a first source/drain region and a second source/drain region disposed on opposite sides of a plurality of conductive layers. A dielectric layer overlies the first source/drain region, the second source/drain region, and the plurality of conductive layers. An electrical contact extends through the dielectric layer and the first source/drain region, where a first surface of the electrical contact is a surface of the electrical contact that is closest to the substrate, a first surface of the plurality of conductive layers is a surface of the plurality of conductive layers that is closest to the substrate, and the first surface of the electrical contact is closer to the substrate than the first surface of the plurality of conductive layers.
US11532712B2	Interconnect structures for semiconductor devices and methods of manufacturing the same A method for making a semiconductor device includes forming a first patterned structure over an interlayer dielectric. The interlayer dielectric overlays a first source/drain structure and a second source/drain structure. The first patterned structure extends along a first lateral direction and a vertical projection of the first patterned structure is located between the first and second source/drain structures along a second lateral direction perpendicular to the first lateral direction. The method includes reducing a width of the first patterned structure that extends along the second lateral direction. The method includes forming, based on the first patterned structure having the reduced width, contact holes that expose the first source/drain structure and the second source/drain structure, respectively.
US11532695B2	Stress reduction structure for metal-insulator-metal capacitors A method and semiconductor device including a substrate having one or more semiconductor devices. In some embodiments, the device further includes a first passivation layer disposed over the one or more semiconductor devices. The device may further include a metal-insulator-metal (MIM) capacitor structure formed over the first passivation layer. In addition, the device may further include a second passivation layer disposed over the MIM capacitor structure. In various examples, a stress-reduction feature is embedded within the second passivation layer. In some embodiments, the stress-reduction feature includes a first nitrogen-containing layer, an oxygen-containing layer disposed over the first nitrogen-containing layer, and a second nitrogen-containing layer disposed over the oxygen containing layer.
US11532694B2	Semiconductor device having capacitor and manufacturing method thereof A semiconductor device and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The semiconductor device has a substrate having an isolation structure therein and a capacitor structure located on an upper top surface of the isolation structure. The capacitor structure comprises a first semiconductor structure and a second semiconductor structure respectively disposed on the upper surface of the isolation structure and separated by an insulator pattern.
US11532680B2	Light emitting element and display device including light emitting element A light emitting element 10 includes a base body 26, a first electrode 31 formed on the base body 26, an organic layer 33 formed on the first electrode 31 and having at least a light emitting layer, and a second electrode 32 formed on the organic layer 33. The second electrode 32 has at least two edge portions 32A and 32B opposed to each other, and each of the edge portions 32A and 32B of the second electrode 32 protrudes from an end face 33′ of the organic layer 33.
US11532675B2	Optical filter and display apparatus including the same An optical filter including a plurality of color areas and a surrounding area includes a substrate, a first optical layer on the substrate and including a first to third color filter respectively in a first to third color area, a second optical layer including a first color conversion portion, a second color conversion portion and a light transmission portion respectively overlapping the first color filter, the second color filter and the third color filter, and a light blocking layer, where the light blocking layer includes a body portion in the surrounding area including a light blocking material, and the body portion surrounds both a first and a second opening. The first and second color area are adjacent to each other and an area between the first and the second color area correspond to the first opening, and the third color area corresponds to the second opening.
US11532668B2	Increasing selector surface area in crossbar array circuits Technologies relating to increasing the surface area of selectors in crossbar array circuits are provided. An example apparatus includes: a substrate; a first line electrode formed on the substrate; an RRAM stack formed on the first line electrode, wherein the RRAM stack; an isolation layer formed beside the RRAM stack, wherein the isolation layer includes an upper surface and a sidewall, and a height from the upper surface to the first line electrode is 100 nanometers to 10 micrometers; a selector stack formed on the RRAM stack, the sidewall, and the upper surface; and a second line electrode formed on the selector stack.
US11532667B2	Magnetic laminated film, magnetic memory element, and magnetic memory Provided are a magnetic stacked film that is capable of improving a write efficiency, and a magnetic memory element and a magnetic memory using the magnetic stacked film. A magnetic stacked film 1 is a stacked film for a magnetic memory element 100, and includes: a heavy metal layer 2 that contains β phase W1-xTax (0.00
US11532666B2	Magnetoresistive random access memory A semiconductor device includes a substrate having a magnetic tunneling junction (MTJ) region and a logic region, a magnetic tunneling junction (MTJ) on the MTJ region, and a first metal interconnection on the MTJ. Preferably, a top view of the MTJ includes a circle, a top view of the first metal interconnection includes a flat oval overlapping the circle, and the MTJ includes a bottom electrode, a fixed layer, a free layer, a capping layer, and a top electrode.
US11532665B2	Manufacturing method and manufacturing machine for reducing non-radiative recombination of micro LED The present disclosure is a manufacturing method for reducing non-radiative recombination of micro LED. At least one etched LED epitaxial wafer includes a plurality of etching grooves and mesas, an etched sidewall of the mesa includes a stack of a first type semiconductor layer, an active layer and a second type semiconductor layer. Two stages of ALD are performed on the etched LED epitaxial wafer with different temperature ranges. The first ALD can be used to repair dangling bonds and defects on the etched side walls of the mesa, and the second ALD can be used to form a passivation layer on the etched side walls of the mesa. By the manufacturing method of the present disclosure, non-radiative recombination of the micro LED can be reduced, and the luminous brightness and luminous efficiency of the micro LED can be improved.
US11532661B2	3DIC seal ring structure and methods of forming same A semiconductor device includes a first semiconductor chip including a first substrate, a plurality of first dielectric layers and a plurality of conductive lines formed in the first dielectric layers over the first substrate. The semiconductor device further includes a second semiconductor chip having a surface bonded to a first surface of the first semiconductor chip, the second semiconductor chip including a second substrate, a plurality of second dielectric layers and a plurality of second conductive lines formed in the second dielectric layers over the second substrate. The semiconductor device further includes a first conductive feature extending from the first semiconductor chip to one of the plurality of second conductive lines, and a first seal ring structure extending from the first semiconductor chip to the second semiconductor chip.
US11532659B2	Solid-state imaging device, manufacturing method thereof, and electronic device The present technology relates to a solid-state imaging device, a manufacturing method, and an electronic device, which can improve sensitivity while improving color mixing. The solid-state imaging device includes a first wall provided between a pixel and a pixel arranged two-dimensionally to isolate the pixels, in which the first wall includes at least two layers including a light shielding film of a lowermost layer and a low refractive index film of which refractive index is lower than the light shielding film. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a solid-state imaging device, an electronic device having an imaging function, and the like.
US11532655B2	Image sensing device and image-sensing system An image-sensing device is provided. The image-sensing device includes a substrate, a light-sensing element, a first dielectric layer, a light-guiding structure, and a patterned conductive layer. The light-sensing element is disposed in the substrate. The first dielectric layer is disposed on the first side of the substrate. The light-guiding structure is disposed in the first dielectric layer. The patterned conductive layer is disposed between the light-sensing element and the light-guiding structure. In addition, the patterned conductive layer includes a subwavelength structure. An image-sensing system including the above image-sensing device is also provided.
US11532654B2	Image sensor An image sensor includes a pixel array including first pixels and second pixels, each of the first and second pixels including photodiodes, a sampling circuit detecting a reset voltage and a pixel voltage from the first and second pixels and generating an analog signal, an analog-to-digital converter image data from the analog signal, and a signal processing circuit generating an image using the image data. Each of the first pixels includes a first conductivity-type well separating the photodiodes and having impurities of a first conductivity-type. The photodiodes have impurities of a second conductivity-type different from the first conductivity-type. Each of the second pixels includes a second conductivity-type well separating the photodiodes and having impurities of the second conductivity-type different from the first conductivity-type. A potential level of the second conductivity-type well is higher than a potential level of the first conductivity-type well.
US11532653B2	Imaging device An imaging device, including a photoelectric converter that generates a signal charge by photoelectric conversion of light; and a semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor substrate includes: a charge accumulation region that is an impurity region of a first conductivity type, and configured to accumulate the signal charge; a first impurity region of the first conductivity type, the first impurity region being one of a source or a drain of a first transistor and adjacent to the charge accumulation region; and a blocking structure located between the charge accumulation region and the first impurity region. The blocking structure includes a second impurity region of a second conductivity type different from the first conductivity type, a part of the second impurity region located on a surface of the semiconductor substrate, and the second impurity region is not in contact with the first impurity region on the surface of the semiconductor substrate.
US11532645B2	Array substrate and method of manufacturing the same, and display apparatus An array substrate includes a base, a plurality of thin film transistors, a passivation layer, at least one reflective electrode, and at least one first connecting electrode. The array substrate has a display area. The thin film transistors are disposed in the display area on the base. The passivation layer covers the thin film transistors, and has at least one first via hole in the display area. The reflective electrode is disposed on a surface of the passivation layer facing away from the base, and is disposed in the display area and uncovers the first via hole. The first connecting electrode is disposed on a side of the reflective electrode away from the base. Each first connecting electrode is connected to a corresponding reflective electrode, and is connected to a source or a drain of a corresponding thin film transistor through a corresponding first via hole.
US11532636B2	Three-dimensional memory devices having through array contacts and methods for forming the same Embodiments of three-dimensional (3D) memory devices having through array contacts (TACs) and methods for forming the same are disclosed. In an example, a method for forming a 3D memory device is disclosed. A dielectric stack including interleaved a plurality of dielectric layers and a plurality of sacrificial layers is formed above a substrate. A channel structure extending vertically through the dielectric stack is formed. A first opening extending vertically through the dielectric stack is formed. A spacer is formed in a plurality of shallow recesses and on a sidewall of the first opening. The plurality of shallow recesses abut the sidewall of the first opening. A TAC extending vertically through the dielectric stack is formed by depositing a conductor layer in contact with the spacer in the first opening. A slit extending vertically through the dielectric stack is formed.
US11532634B2	Vertical memory device including substrate control circuit and memory system including the same A nonvolatile memory device comprises a first semiconductor layer including, an upper substrate, and a memory cell array in which a plurality of word lines on the upper substrate extend in a first direction and a plurality of bit lines extend in a second direction. The nonvolatile memory device comprises a second semiconductor layer under the first semiconductor layer in a third direction perpendicular to the first and second directions, the second semiconductor layer including, a lower substrate, and a substrate control circuit on the lower substrate and configured to output a bias voltage to the upper substrate. The second semiconductor layer is divided into first through fourth regions, each of the first through fourth regions having an identical area, and the substrate control circuit overlaps at least a portion of the first through fourth regions in the third direction.
US11532632B2	Method for fabricating semiconductor device A semiconductor device includes a base substrate including an NMOS region and a PMOS region. The PMOS region includes a first P-type region and a second P-type region. The semiconductor device also includes an interlayer dielectric layer, a gate structure formed through the interlayer dielectric layer and including an N-type region gate structure formed in the NMOS region, a first gate structure formed in the first P-type region and connected to the N-type region gate structure, and a second gate structure formed in the second P-type region and connected to the first gate structure. The direction from the N-type region gate structure to the second gate structure is an extending direction of the N-type region opening, and along a direction perpendicular to the extending direction of the N-type region opening, the width of the first gate structure is larger than the width of the second gate structure.
US11532623B2	Semiconductor structure having gate-all-around devices An integrated circuit includes gate-all-around (GAA) nanowire transistors and GAA nanosheet transistors on the same substrate. An array of cells including GAA nanowire transistors and cells including nanosheet transistors are provided. The cells including GAA nanowire transistors can be adjacent cells including GAA nanosheet transistors with isolation structures interposing the cells.
US11532598B2	Package structure with protective structure and method of fabricating the same Provided is a semiconductor package structure including a first die having a first bonding structure thereon, a second die having a second bonding structure thereon, a metal circuit structure, and a first protective structure. The second die is bonded to the first die such that a first bonding dielectric layer of the first bonding structure contacts a second bonding dielectric layer of the second bonding structure. The metal circuit structure is disposed over a top surface of the second die. The first protective structure is disposed within the top surface of the second die, and sandwiched between the metal circuit structure and the second die.
US11532587B2	Method for manufacturing semiconductor package with connection structures including via groups A method includes placing a package component over a carrier, encapsulating the package component in an encapsulant, and forming a connection structure over and electrically coupling to the package component. The formation of the connection structure includes forming a first via group over and electrically coupling to the package component, forming a first conductive trace over and contacting the first via group, forming a second via group overlying and contacting the first conductive trace, wherein each of the first via group and the second via group comprises a plurality of vias, forming a second conductive trace over and contacting the second via group, forming a top via overlying and contacting the second conductive trace, and forming an Under-Bump-Metallurgy (UBM) over and contacting the top via.
US11532586B2	Connecting techniques for stacked substrates The present disclosure, in some embodiments, relates to a method of forming an integrated chip. The method may be performed by forming a first device tier including a first semiconductor substrate having a first plurality of devices. A second semiconductor substrate is formed over the first device tier. A first conductive layer is formed within the second semiconductor substrate, and a second conductive layer is formed within the second semiconductor substrate and over the first conductive layer. The first conductive layer and the second conductive layer have different patterns as viewed from a top-view. A second plurality of devices are formed on the second semiconductor substrate. The first and second conductive layers are configured to electrically couple the first plurality of devices and the second plurality of devices.
US11532585B2	Package containing device dies and interconnect die and redistribution lines A method includes bonding a first device die and a second device die to an interconnect die. The interconnect die includes a first portion over and bonded to the first device die, and a second portion over and bonded to the second device die. The interconnect die electrically connects the first device die to the second device die. The method further includes encapsulating the interconnect die in an encapsulating material, and forming a plurality of redistribution lines over the interconnect die.
US11532581B2	Semiconductor devices having bonding structures with bonding pads and metal patterns A semiconductor device includes a first structure including a first bonding structure, and a second structure on the first structure and including a second bonding structure connected to the first bonding structure. The first bonding structure includes a first insulating layer, a first bonding insulating layer on the first insulating layer, first bonding pads penetrating at least a portion of the first insulating layer and the first bonding insulating layer, and first metal patterns in the first insulating layer and in contact with the first bonding insulating layer, and having an upper surface at a lower level than upper surfaces of the first bonding pads. The second bonding structure includes a second bonding insulating layer bonded to the first bonding insulating layer, a second insulating layer on the second bonding insulating layer, and second bonding pads penetrating the second bonding insulating layer and connected to the first bonding pads.
US11532578B2	3DI solder cup A substrate or semiconductor device, semiconductor device assembly, and method of forming a semiconductor device assembly that includes a barrier on a solder cup. The semiconductor device assembly includes a substrate disposed over another substrate. At least one solder cup extends from one substrate towards an under bump metal (UBM) on the other substrate. The barrier on the exterior of the solder cup may be a standoff to control a bond line between the substrates. The barrier may reduce solder bridging during the formation of a semiconductor device assembly. The barrier may help to align the solder cup with a UBM when forming a semiconductor device assembly and may reduce misalignment due to lateral movement of substrates and/or semiconductor devices.
US11532573B2	Method for forming semiconductor device A semiconductor device is disclosed. The semiconductor device includes a first die on a first substrate, a second die on a second substrate separate from the first substrate, a transmission line in a redistribution layer on a wafer, and a magnetic structure surrounds the transmission line. The first transmission line electrically connects the first die and the second die. The magnetic structure is configured to increase the characteristic impedance of the transmission line, which can save the current and power consumption of a current mirror and amplifier in a 3D IC chip-on-wafer-on-substrate (CoWoS) semiconductor package.
US11532570B2	Three-dimensional memory device containing bridges for enhanced structural support and methods of forming the same A three-dimensional memory device includes a first word-line region including a first alternating stack of first word lines and continuous insulating layers, first memory stack structures vertically extending through the first alternating stack, a second word-line region comprising a second alternating stack of second word lines and the continuous insulating layers, second memory stack structures vertically extending through the second alternating stack, plural dielectric separator structures located between the first word-line region and the second word-line region, and at least one bridge region located between the plural dielectric separator structures and between the between the first word-line region and the second word-line region. The continuous insulating layers extend through the at least one bridge region between the first alternating stack in the first word-line region and the second alternating stack in the second word-line region.
US11532564B2	Package structure Package structures and methods for forming the same are provided. The package structure includes an integrated circuit die and a package layer surrounding the integrated circuit die. The package structure also includes a redistribution structure over the package layer and electrically connected to the integrated circuit die. The redistribution structure includes a passivation layer and a conductive layer formed in the passivation layer. The integrated circuit die further includes a connector formed over the conductive layer and covered a top surface of the passivation layer. In addition, a bottom surface of the connector and a top surface of the connector are both wider than a neck portion of the connector.
US11532560B2	Method of fabricating a tungsten plug in a semiconductor device In a semiconductor process, a seamless tungsten plug is formed in an inter-layer dielectric by forming the inter-layer dielectric from multiple oxide layers having different wet etch rates, from lowest wet-etch rate for the lowest layer to highest wet-etch rate for the highest layer, forming a hole or trench in the inter-layer dielectric using a dry etch process, reconfiguring the hole or trench to have sloped side walls by performing a wet etch step, and filling the hole or trench with tungsten and etching back the tungsten to form a seamless tungsten plug.
US11532558B2	Metallization barrier structures for bonded integrated circuit interfaces Composite integrated circuit (IC) device structures that include two components coupled through a hybrid bonded composite interconnect structure. The two components may be two different monolithic IC structures (e.g., chips) that are bonded over substantially planar dielectric and metallization interfaces. Composite interconnect metallization features formed at a bond interface may be doped with a metal or chalcogenide dopant. The dopant may migrate to a periphery of the composite interconnect structure and form a barrier material that will then limit outdiffusion of a metal, such as copper, into adjacent dielectric material.
US11532557B2	Planar power module with spatially interleaved structure Provided is a planar power module with a spatially interleaved structure, including a top power substrate, a bottom power substrate arranged opposite to the top power substrate, and a plurality of interleaved switch units configured between the top power substrate and the bottom power substrate; wherein adjacent interleaved switch units are electrically connected through a current commutator so that the interleaved switch units form spatial position interleaving. Problems of uneven parallel currents and uneven heat dissipation in the power module are solved.
US11532553B2	Middle-end-of-line strap for standard cell A semiconductor structure is disclosed that includes a first conductive line, a first conductive segment, a second conductive segment, and a gate. The first conductive segment is electrically coupled to the first conductive line through a conductive via. The second conductive segment is configured to electrically couple the first conductive segment with a third conductive segment disposed over an active area. The gate is disposed under the second conductive segment and disposed between first conductive segment and the third conductive segment. The first conductive line and the second conductive segment are disposed at two sides of the conductive via respectively. A length of the first conductive segment is greater than a length of the third conductive segment.
US11532550B2	Semiconductor device structure having a multi-layer conductive feature and method making the same The present disclosure provides a method of forming a semiconductor device structure. The method includes forming a trench in a dielectric layer on a semiconductor substrate; forming a bottom metal feature of a first metal in a lower portion of the trench by a selective deposition; depositing a barrier layer in an upper portion of the trench, the barrier layer directly contacting both a top surface of the bottom metal feature and sidewalls of the dielectric layer; and forming a top metal feature of a second metal on the barrier layer, filling in the upper portion of the trench, wherein the second metal is different from the first metal in composition.
US11532547B2	Interconnect structures with low-aspect-ratio contact vias Interconnect structures and methods of forming the same are provided. An interconnect structure according to the present disclosure includes a first conductive feature in a first dielectric layer, a second conductive feature aligned with and over the first conductive feature, a first insulation layer over the first dielectric layer and the second conductive feature, a second dielectric layer over the first insulating layer, and a contact via through the first insulation layer and the second dielectric layer.
US11532540B2	Planarizing RDLS in RDL-first processes through CMP process A method includes forming a buffer dielectric layer over a carrier, and forming a first dielectric layer and a first redistribution line over the buffer dielectric layer. The first redistribution line is in the first dielectric layer. The method further includes performing a planarization on the first dielectric layer to level a top surface of the first dielectric layer, forming a metal post over and electrically coupling to the first redistribution line, and encapsulating the metal post in an encapsulating material. The encapsulating material contacts a top surface of the planarized top surface of the first dielectric layer.
US11532534B2	Semiconductor module A semiconductor module includes a power element, a signal wiring, and a heat sink. The signal wiring is connected to a signal pad of the power element. The heat sink cools the power element. The power element has an active area provided by a portion where the signal pad is formed. The signal pad is thermally connected to the heat sink via the signal wiring.
US11532531B2	Semiconductor package A semiconductor package including a semiconductor die, an encapsulant, an electrical connector, a conductive pad and an inter-dielectric layer is provided. The encapsulant encapsulates the semiconductor die. The electrical connector is disposed over the semiconductor die. The conductive pad contacts the electrical connector and is disposed between the semiconductor die and the electrical connector. The inter-dielectric layer is disposed over the semiconductor die, wherein the inter-dielectric layer comprises an opening, and a portion of the opening is occupied by the conductive pad and the electrical connector.
US11532526B2	Double-sided hermetic multichip module A packaged electronic module for downhole applications, in particular in a petrochemical well or similar environment. The electronic module includes one or more electronic components located on each side of a substrate, where the one or more electronic components are attached to the substrate by means of glue.
US11532525B2	Controlling concentration profiles for deposited films using machine learning Methods and systems for controlling concentration profiles of deposited films using machine learning are provided. Data associated with a target concentration profile for a film to be deposited on a surface of a substrate during a deposition process for the substrate is provided as input to a trained machine learning model. One or more outputs of the trained machine learning model are obtained. Process recipe data identifying one or more sets of deposition process settings is determined from the one or more outputs. For each set of deposition process setting, an indication of a level of confidence that a respective set of deposition process settings corresponds to the target concentration profile for the film to be deposited on the substrate is also determined. In response to an identification of the respective set of deposition process settings with a level of confidence that satisfies a level of confidence criterion, one or more operations of the deposition process are performed in accordance with the respective set of deposition process settings.
US11532522B2	Source/drain EPI structure for improving contact quality A semiconductor structure includes an n-type epitaxial source/drain feature (NEPI) and a p-type epitaxial source/drain feature (PEPI) over a substrate, wherein a top surface of the NEPI is lower than a top surface of the PEPI. The semiconductor structure further includes a metal compound feature disposed on the top surface of the NEPI and the top surface of the PEPI; a contact feature disposed on the metal compound feature and over both the NEPI and the PEPI; and a via structure disposed over the contact feature and over the NEPI, wherein the via structure is partially in the contact feature.
US11532520B2	Semiconductor device and method An embodiment device includes: first fins protruding from an isolation region; second fins protruding from the isolation region; a first fin spacer on a first sidewall of one of the first fins, the first fin spacer disposed on the isolation region, the first fin spacer having a first spacer height; a second fin spacer on a second sidewall of one of the second fins, the second fin spacer disposed on the isolation region, the second fin spacer having a second spacer height, the first spacer height greater than the second spacer height; a first epitaxial source/drain region on the first fin spacer and in the first fins, the first epitaxial source/drain region having a first width; and a second epitaxial source/drain region on the second fin spacer and in the second fins, the second epitaxial source/drain region having a second width, the first width greater than the second width.
US11532516B2	Melting laser anneal of epitaxy regions A method includes forming a gate stack over a first semiconductor region, removing a second portion of the first semiconductor region on a side of the gate stack to form a recess, growing a second semiconductor region starting from the recess, implanting the second semiconductor region with an impurity, and performing a melting laser anneal on the second semiconductor region. A first portion of the second semiconductor region is molten during the melting laser anneal, and a second and a third portion of the second semiconductor region on opposite sides of the first portion are un-molten.
US11532508B2	Semiconductor device having contact layers and manufacturing method An embodiment relates to a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device. The method includes providing a semiconductor body including a first semiconductor region of a first conductivity type and a second semiconductor region of a second conductivity type interposed between the first semiconductor region and a first surface of the semiconductor body. The method further includes forming a first contact layer over the first surface of the semiconductor body. The first contact layer forms a direct electrical contact to the second semiconductor region. The method further includes forming a contact trench extending into the semiconductor body by removing at least a portion of the second semiconductor region. The method further includes forming a second contact layer in the contact trench. The second contact layer is directly electrically connected to the semiconductor body at a bottom side of the contact trench.
US11532500B2	FinFET structure with different fin heights and method for forming the same A method for forming FinFETs comprises forming a plurality of first fins and a plurality of second fins over a substrate and embedded in isolation regions, depositing a first photoresist layer over the substrate, removing the first photoresist layer over an n-type region, applying a first ion implantation process to the first isolation regions, wherein dopants with a first polarity type are implanted in the first isolation regions, depositing a second photoresist layer over the substrate, removing the second photoresist layer over a p-type region, applying a second ion implantation process to the second isolation regions, wherein dopants with a second polarity type are implanted in the second isolation regions, applying an annealing process to the isolation regions and recessing the first isolation regions and the second isolation regions through an etching process.
US11532492B2	Substrate processing apparatus and substrate processing method A substrate processing apparatus includes a liquid processing module, including a carry-out/in port of a substrate, in which a first liquid processing device and a second liquid processing device provided at a position farther from the carry-out/in port than the first liquid processing device is are provided; and a transfer device configured to carry the substrate out from and into the liquid processing module. The first liquid processing device performs a first liquid processing on the substrate. The second liquid processing device performs a second liquid processing on the substrate before or after the first liquid processing. The transfer device includes a substrate holder configured to be moved back and forth in a first horizontal direction, and carries the non-processed substrate into the first liquid processing device through the carry-out/in port and carries the processed substrate out from the first liquid processing device through the carry-out/in port.
US11532475B2	Deposition process for forming semiconductor device and system A method includes placing a semiconductor substrate in a deposition chamber, wherein the semiconductor substrate includes a trench, and performing an atomic layer deposition (ALD) process to deposit a dielectric material within the trench, including flowing a first precursor of the dielectric material into the deposition chamber as a gas phase; flowing a second precursor of the dielectric material into the deposition chamber as a gas phase; and controlling the pressure and temperature within the deposition chamber such that the second precursor condenses on surfaces within the trench as a liquid phase of the second precursor, wherein the liquid phase of the second precursor has capillarity.
US11532471B2	Instrument for separating ions including an interface for transporting generated ions thereto An instrument for separating ions may include an ion source in a first pressure environment at a first pressure and configured to generate ions from a sample, an ion separation instrument, controlled to an instrument pressure that is less than the first pressure, and configured to separate ions as a function of at least one molecular characteristic and an interface, controlled to a second pressure less than the first pressure and greater than the instrument pressure, for transporting the generated ions from the first pressure environment into the ion separation instrument operating at the instrument pressure. The interface may include a sealed ion funnel defining an axial passageway therethrough, and an ion carpet sealed to the first ion funnel. A portion of the axial passageway tapers from a first cross-sectional area to a reduced cross-sectional area such that the tapered axial passageway defining a virtual jet disrupter therein.
US11532468B2	Sputtering target Objects of the present invention consist in achievement of both of elongation of life of a sputtering target as well as uniformity of a thickness of a resulting thin coating layer formed on a substrate during the period. The present invention provides a sputtering target comprising a target material, which is characterized in that the target material has a sputtering surface having a first area placed at the center, which is circular and flat; and a second area placed outside of the first area and concentrically with the first area, which has a ring shape, wherein the first area is positioned at a location lower than that of the second area by 15% of thickness of the second area at most, and the first area has a diameter which is ranging from 60% to 80% of a circumferential diameter of the sputtering surface.
US11532463B2	Semiconductor processing chamber and methods for cleaning the same A processing chamber may include a gas distribution member, a metal ring member below the gas distribution member, and an isolating assembly coupled with the metal ring member and isolating the metal ring member from the gas distribution member. The isolating assembly may include an outer isolating member coupled with the metal ring member. The outer isolating member may at least in part define a chamber wall. The isolating assembly may further include an inner isolating member coupled with the outer isolating member. The inner isolating member may be disposed radially inward from the metal ring member about an central axis of the processing chamber. The inner isolating member may define a plurality of openings configured to provide fluid access into a radial gap between the metal ring member and the inner isolating member.
US11532458B2	Active gas generation apparatus In the present invention, a high-voltage side electrode component further includes a conductive film disposed on an upper surface of a dielectric electrode independently of a metal electrode. The conductive film is disposed between at least one gas ejection port and the metal electrode in plan view, and the conductive film is set to ground potential.
US11532450B2	Contactor for an electric vehicle Contactor for an electric vehicle, with at least one fixed contact element and a movable contact element which, in a disconnection position, is spaced from the at least one fixed contact element in order to interrupt an electrical connection of the two contact elements, and which, in a closed position, is in electrically conductive contact with the at least one fixed contact element in order to create an electrical connection of the two contact elements, and with a switch actuator, associated with the movable contact element, which is designed to move the movable contact element into the disconnection position or into the closed position.
US11532448B2	Laser remote control switching system A laser remote control switching system comprises a laser source and a control circuit. The control circuit comprises a power, an electronic device, a first electrode, a second electrode, and a photosensitive element electrically connected in sequence to form a loop. Each of the two nanofiber actuators comprises a composite structure and a vanadium dioxide layer. The composite structure comprises a carbon nanotube wire and an aluminum oxide layer. The aluminum oxide layer is coated on a surface of the carbon nanotube wire, and the aluminum oxide layer and the carbon nanotube wire are located coaxially with each other. The vanadium dioxide layer is coated on a surface of the composite structure, and the vanadium dioxide layer and the composite structure are located non-coaxially with each other.
US11532442B2	Electronic device with case having sheath-piercing tapered sections An electronic device (10) includes: a power supply (11); a first switch (12) that is connected at least to one pole of the power supply (11) and interrupts power supplied from the power supply (11) to a load (13); a second switch (14) that is positioned on a load (13) side with reference to the first switch (12) and interrupts power supplied from the power supply (11) to the load (13); a first power line (L11) that is connected to one end portion of an electric contact of the second switch (14), the one end portion being located on a first-switch (12) side; a second power line (L12) that is connected to another end portion of the electric contact of the second switch (14); a third power line (L13) that is connected to another pole of the power supply (11); and an electric element (resistor 15) that is connected between the first and second power lines (L11, L12) in parallel to the electric contact or connected between the first and third power lines (L11, L13), such that the electric contact of the second switch (14) is not charged when the first and second switches (12, 14) interrupt power.
US11532439B2	Ultra-dense ferroelectric memory with self-aligned patterning Described is an ultra-dense ferroelectric memory. The memory is fabricated using a patterning method by that applies atomic layer deposition with selective dry and/or wet etch to increase memory density at a given via opening. A ferroelectric capacitor in one example comprises: a first structure (e.g., first electrode) comprising metal; a second structure (e.g., a second electrode) comprising metal; and a third structure comprising ferroelectric material, wherein the third structure is between and adjacent to the first and second structures, wherein a portion of the third structure is interdigitated with the first and second structures to increase surface area of the third structure. The increased surface area allows for higher memory density.
US11532433B2	Method of manufacturing electroplated cobalt-platinum films on substrates Various embodiments to mitigate the contamination of electroplated cobalt-platinum films on substrates are described. In one embodiment, a method of manufacture of a device includes depositing a diffusion barrier over a substrate, depositing a seed layer upon the diffusion barrier, and depositing a cobalt-platinum magnetic layer upon the seed layer. In a second embodiment, a method of manufacture of a device may include depositing a diffusion barrier over a substrate and depositing a cobalt-platinum magnetic layer upon the diffusion barrier. In a third embodiment, a method of manufacture of a device may include depositing an adhesion layer over a substrate, depositing a seed layer upon the adhesion layer, and depositing a cobalt-platinum magnetic layer over the seed layer. Based in part on these methods of manufacture, improvements in the interfaces between the layers can be achieved after annealing with substantial improvements in the magnetic properties of the cobalt-platinum magnetic layer.
US11532428B2	Power conversion system and magnetic component thereof A power conversion system and a magnetic component thereof are provided. The magnetic component includes a magnetic core assembly, two windings and an air gap. The magnetic core assembly includes two substrates, four winding pillars and an auxiliary pillar unit. The four winding pillars and the auxiliary pillar unit are located between the two substrates. A connecting line of centers of the winding pillars forms a quadrangle which has a first diagonal line and a second diagonal line. One winding is wound around two winding pillars on the first diagonal line, and magnetic fluxes on these two winding pillars have the same direction and amount. The other winding is wound around the other two winding pillars located on the second diagonal line, and magnetic fluxes on these two winding pillars have the same direction and amount. The directions of the magnetic fluxes on the two neighboring winding pillars are opposite.
US11532425B2	Hexagonal semiconductor package structure Coil structures and methods of forming are provided. The coil structure includes a substrate. A plurality of coils is disposed over the substrate, each coil comprising a conductive element that forms a continuous spiral having a hexagonal shape in a plan view of the coil structure. The plurality of coils is arranged in a honeycomb pattern, and each conductive element is electrically connected to an external electrical circuit.
US11532422B2	Coil core in the form of a ferromagnetic rivet for spiral inductors on printed circuit boards An assembly includes an electromagnetic coil with a conductor, and a substrate on which the conductor is arranged. The coil has a core and the conductor extends around the core. The core is formed by a ferromagnetic rivet that is fastened to the substrate.
US11532418B2	RF choke for gas delivery to an RF driven electrode in a plasma processing apparatus In large area plasma processing systems, process gases may be introduced to the chamber via the showerhead assembly which may be driven as an RF electrode. The gas feed tube, which is grounded, is electrically isolated from the showerhead. The gas feed tube may provide not only process gases, but also cleaning gases from a remote plasma source to the process chamber. The inside of the gas feed tube may remain at either a low RF field or a zero RF field to avoid premature gas breakdown within the gas feed tube that may lead to parasitic plasma formation between the gas source and the showerhead. By feeding the gas through an RF choke, the RF field and the processing gas may be introduced to the processing chamber through a common location and thus simplify the chamber design.
US11532416B1	Magnetic levitation device A magnetic levitation device as a toy or a bearing is provided. The magnetic levitation device has an inner component and an outer component. Multiple magnet rings are mounted on the inner component and multiple magnet rings are mounted on the outer component. The magnet rings on the inner component attract the magnet rings on the outer component. Multiple pulley assemblies are mounted on the outer component. An elastic component is connected with a center pulley. The two ropes are wrapped on the center pulley. One end of each one of the ropes is mounted on one of the fixing points that is connected to one of the magnet rings mounted on the outer component and another one end of the rope is mounted on a reactive pulley. With such structure, the outer component may levitate from the inner component and the pulley assemblies can balance the entire device.
US11532413B2	Ferrite sintered magnet and rotary electrical machine comprising the same A ferrite sintered magnet 100 comprises M-type ferrite crystal grains 4 having a hexagonal structure, two-crystal grain boundaries 6a formed between two of the M-type ferrite crystal grains 4, and multiple-crystal grain boundaries 6b surrounded by three or more of the M-type ferrite crystal grains 4. This ferrite sintered magnet 100 contains at least Fe, Ca, B, and Si, and contains B in an amount of 0.005 to 0.9 mass % in terms of B2O3, the two-crystal grain boundaries 6a and the multiple-crystal grain boundaries 6b contain Si and Ca, and in a cross-section parallel to a c-axis of the ferrite sintered magnet, when the number of multiple-crystal grain boundaries 6b having a maximum length of 0.49 to 5 μm per cross-sectional area of 76 μm2 is N, N is 7 or less.
US11532408B2	Protective member for wire harness, and branching structure of wire harness A protective member for a wire harness, having a branching point between a trunk harness and a branch harness, includes a protective sheet portion to be wound around an outer circumference of at least the trunk harness near the branching point; a pair of band-shaped fixing strip portions extending from the protective sheet portion and to be wound around on the trunk harness at a pair of spots. The branching point is between the pair of the spots. The protective member is formed from a resin. The fixing strip portions are smaller in thickness than the protective sheet portion.
US11532403B2	Microcontroller for IoT GaN power devices and mesh network comprising one or more microcontroller controlled IoT GaN devices A microcontroller configured to monitor the input voltage and load conditions, and continuously adjust the switching frequencies in order to optimize the efficiency and longevity of the power supply incorporated in a device. The microcontroller utilizes a combination of GaN switching elements with their efficient high frequency switching capabilities, together with the continuous monitoring of the load conditions, allowing the intelligent microcontroller to vary the switching frequency of the power conversion blocks as needed in order to maintain the highest efficiency of conversion. The microcontroller can be utilized to control a luminaire or other device into which the controller is preferably integrated. The microcontroller can utilize one or more environmental sensors configured for sensing internal environmental conditions and/or external environmental conditions. Preferably the microcontroller utilizes an energy storage device configured to power the microcontroller and associated sensors to allow the mesh network controls to continue functioning in the event of a power outage.
US11532402B2	Methods and systems for providing an episode of care Systems and methods for determining a care plan for a patient are disclosed. Data from a one or more databases are received or retrieved and used to determine a preferred care plan used to perform a surgical procedure or otherwise treat a patient. The data may include data pertaining to a patient, a healthcare professional, a healthcare facility, an implant, economic data, simulation data, imaging data, and/or the like. The data may be used to determine a plan that provides a positive outcome and patient satisfaction. The data may be updated over time or in real time to improve or refine the determination of care plans for the current patient or other patients.
US11532397B2	Mobile supplementation, extraction, and analysis of health records A system, method, and mobile device application are configured to capture, with a mobile device, a document such as a next generation sequencing (NGS) report that includes NGS medical information about a genetically sequenced patient. The method includes receiving, from a mobile device, an image of a medical document comprising NGS medical information of the patient, extracting a first region from the image, extracting NGS medical information of the patient from the first region into a structured dataset, the extracted NGS medical information including at least one RNA expression, correlating a portion of the extracted NGS medical information that includes the at least one RNA expression with summarized medical information from a cohort of patients similar to the patient, and generating, for display on the mobile device, a clinical decision support report comprising the summarized medical information.
US11532395B2	Optimizing catheterization laboratory throughput using machine learning Systems and methods for determining one or more measures of interest for optimizing throughput of a catheterization laboratory are provided. A priori medical procedure data relating to a medical procedure to be performed on a patient in a catheterization laboratory is received. One or more measures of interest are predicted based on the received a priori medical procedure data using a trained machine learning model. The one or more measures of interest include an overall time for performing the medical procedure on the patient in the catheterization laboratory. The one or more predicted measures of interest are output.
US11532394B2	Systems approach to disease state and health assessment Methods, systems, and apparatus for assessing a state of an epilepsy disease or a comorbidity thereof are provided. The methods comprise receiving at least one autonomic index, neurologic index, stress marker index, psychiatric index, endocrine index, adverse effect of therapy index, physical fitness index, or quality of life index of a patient; comparing the at least one index to at least one reference value; and assessing a state of an epilepsy disease or a body system of the patient based on the comparison. A computer readable program storage device encoded with instructions that, when executed by a computer, perform the method described above is also provided. A medical device system capable of implementing the method described above is also provided.
US11532391B2	System and a method for improving reliability of medical imaging devices Systems and methods are disclosed for generating device test cases for medical imaging devices, which are not only reflective of current actual field usage of the device but also provide outlook on future usage. A probabilistic model of usage patterns is generated from historic data present in the device field logs by mining the current usage patterns. A Deep Long Short Term Memory Neural Network model of the usage patterns is constructed to predict the future usage patterns. Additionally, to capture the changing trends of device usage patterns in the field, predictive models are continuously updated in real time, and the test cases generated log files by the models are integrated into an automated testing system.
US11532388B2	Analysis and dispensing system A device for dispensing a medicament and/or dietary supplement to a user comprises a housing; a sample inlet unit; a sample analysis unit; a data processing unit; and a dispensing assembly including a cartridge holder and a dispensing mechanism comprising means for dispensing a metered dose of said medicament or dietary supplement. The device may be used in a method for the customised provision of medicaments and/or dietary supplements to a user.
US11532385B2	System and method for healthcare security and interoperability Embodiments facilitate interoperability and secure patient selection for clinical trials and drug/device deployments. An entity may obtain a first set of health parameters and collective demographic information associated with one or more population segments and receive Electronic Health Record (EHR) sub-blocks with patient profile information and corresponding patient medical histories for patients. The entity may determine a subset of eligible candidate patients for a treatment based on information in the EHR sub-blocks and eligibility criteria for the treatment, which may be based the first set of health parameters, and/or the collective demographic information. The entity may transmit sub-blocks comprising eligible candidate patient profiles and medical information associated with the at least one treatment, and, in response to a received transaction block with a transaction confirmation, the entity may augment a multi-dimensional blockchain by linking: the transaction block, with a drug device information block and an EHR block.
US11532383B2	Dynamically inferring variable dimensions in user-added equations A processor executable method, system, and computer-readable media expedite the process of entering equations for use in developing simulations of chemical processes. The process of entering equations is expedited by dynamically inferring the dimensions of variables. The process infers the dimensions of all variables in user-added equations, and infers the dimensions of each variable in a user-added equation sequentially. The process automatically creates variables with unassigned dimensions in response to indications, such as inputs from a user, to declare new equations. The process assigns dimensions to variables based on relations between variables, such as logical relations between the dimensions of variables.
US11532381B2	Distinguishing protein aggregation mechanisms Method, device, and system for identifying a model-based time dependent light scattering signature that includes receiving an experimental time dependent light scattering signature comprising experimental data descriptive of an average molecular weight of protein components in a solution over time. The method further includes identifying an Ansatz for evaluating the experimental time dependent light scattering signature, the Ansatz being an initial model-based time dependent light scattering signature, the initial model-based time dependent light scattering signature identifying at least one key variable. The method also includes adjusting the at least one key variable in the initial model-based time dependent light scattering signature until a final model-based time dependent light scattering signature is identified. In some instances, the final model-based time dependent light scattering signature identifies at least one protein aggregation mechanism.
US11532379B2	Methods and systems of tracking disease carrying arthropods The present invention comprises the capture and display of arthropod, human and arthropod-based metadata, which is capable of tracking and displaying the metadata, which is time and location-based, in order to show migration paths of arthropods and/or the diseases they have the potential to carry. This real-time view can help predict future arthropod and disease based on various scenarios such as, but not limited to: increased exposure based on the following: a user's geo-location, date and/or time of year, carrier type, etc. These variables can then assist with the education, awareness and potential prevention of disease.
US11532367B2	Managing programming convergence associated with memory cells of a memory sub-system A first programming pulse is caused to be applied to a wordline associated with a memory cell of the memory sub-system. In response to first programming pulse, causing a program verify operation to be performed to determine a measured threshold voltage associated with the memory cell. The measured threshold voltage associated with the memory cell is stored in a sensing node. A determination is made that the measured threshold voltage of the memory cell satisfies a condition and the measured threshold voltage stored in the sensing node is identified. A bitline voltage matching the measured threshold voltage is caused to be applied to a bitline associated with the memory cell.
US11532355B2	Non-volatile multi-level cell memory using a ferroelectric superlattice and related systems An N-bit non-volatile multi-level memory cell (MLC) can include a lower electrode and an upper electrode spaced above the lower electrode. N ferroelectric material layers can be vertically spaced apart from one another between the lower electrode and the upper electrode, wherein N is at least 2 and at least one dielectric material layer having a thickness of less than 20 nm can be located between the N ferroelectric material layers.
US11532348B2	Power management across multiple packages of memory dies A variety of applications can include multiple memory die packages configured to engage in peak power management (PPM) across the multiple packages of memory dies. A communication line coupled to each memory die in the multiple memory die packages can be used to facilitate the PPM. A global management die can start a communication sequence among the multiple memory die packages to share a current budget across the multiple memory die packages by driving a signal on the communication line. Local management dies can use the received signal having clock pulses driven by the global management die on the communication line to engage in the PPM. To engage in global PPM, each memory die can be structured, to be selected as the global management die or a local management die, with one or more controllers to interface with the multiple memory die packages and to handle current budget limits.
US11532343B2	Memory array including dummy regions 3D memory arrays including dummy conductive lines and methods of forming the same are disclosed. In an embodiment, a memory array includes a ferroelectric (FE) material over a semiconductor substrate, the FE material including vertical sidewalls in contact with a word line; an oxide semiconductor (OS) layer over the FE material, the OS layer contacting a source line and a bit line, the FE material being between the OS layer and the word line; a transistor including a portion of the FE material, a portion of the word line, a portion of the OS layer, a portion of the source line, and a portion of the bit line; and a first dummy word line between the transistor and the semiconductor substrate, the FE material further including first tapered sidewalls in contact with the first dummy word line.
US11532335B2	Memory device and power management method using the same A memory device that is operable at a first voltage domain and a second voltage domain includes a memory array, a power saving mode pin and a word line level shifter circuit. The memory array operates at the first voltage domain. The power saving mode pin is configured to receive a power saving mode enable signal that is at the second voltage domain. The power saving mode enable signal is configured to enable a power saving mode of the memory device. The word line level shifter circuit is coupled to the memory array and the power saving mode pin, and is configured to clamp a word line of the memory array to a predetermined voltage level that corresponds to a first logic state during the power saving mode of the memory device.
US11532334B2	Forensic video recording with presence detection At a high level, embodiments of the invention relate to augmenting video data with presence data derived from one or more proximity tags. More specifically, embodiments of the invention generate forensically authenticated recordings linking video imagery to the presence of specific objects in or near the recording. One embodiment of the invention includes video recording system comprising a camera, a wireless proximity tag reader, a storage memory and control circuitry operable to receive image data from the camera receive a proximity tag identifier identifying a proximity tag from the proximity tag reader, and store an encoded frame containing the image data and the proximity tag identity in the storage memory.
US11532331B2	Magnetic disk device and voltage application method of magnetic disk device According to one embodiment, a magnetic disk device includes a magnetic disk, a magnetic head, a heater a control section. When making the magnetic head carry out the seek operation from the first position to the second position, the control section starts application of a first voltage to the heater while the seek operation is carried out and, after application of the first voltage, makes the voltage to be applied to the heater a second voltage greater than the first voltage before the magnetic head is positioned to the second position and write of data is started by the magnetic head.
US11532326B1	Data storage device self-servo writing by compensating for corrupted spiral track crossing signal A data storage device is disclosed comprising a head actuated over a disk. A spiral track is written on the disk, and a disk locked clock (DLC) is synchronized to the spiral track. The spiral track is read to generate a spiral track crossing signal, and the spiral track crossing signal is processed to generate a position error signal (PES) representing a position of the head over the disk. When the DLC indicates a first part of the spiral track crossing signal is corrupt, the corruption is compensated in order to generate a compensated PES. While servoing the head over the disk based on the PES, a plurality of concentric servo sectors are written on the disk based on the DLC.
US11532324B2	Vertical junction to provide optimal transverse bias for dual free layer read heads The present disclosure generally relates to a read head assembly having a dual free layer (DFL) structure disposed between a first shield and a second shield at a media facing surface. The read head assembly further comprises a rear hard bias (RHB) structure disposed adjacent to the DFL structure recessed from the media facing surface, where an insulation layer separates the RHB structure from the DFL structure. The insulation layer is disposed perpendicularly between the first shield and the second shield. The DFL structure comprises a first free layer and a second free layer having equal stripe heights from the media facing surface to the insulation layer. The RHB structure comprises a seed layer, a bulk layer, and a capping layer. The capping layer and the insulation layer prevent the bulk layer from contacting the second shield.
US11532320B1	Tape drive configured to enable magnetic media to fly above an upstream or a downstream head assembly The present disclosure generally relates to a tape head and a tape drive including a tape head. The tape head comprises a first same gap verify (SGV) head assembly comprising a first media facing surface (MFS) and a plurality of first write transducer and first read transducer pairs, and a second SGV head assembly comprising a second MFS and a plurality of second write transducer and second read transducer pairs. During operation, when a tape or magnetic media moves in a first direction over the tape head, the tape contacts the second MFS and is spaced from the first MFS, and when the tape moves in a second direction opposite the first direction over the tape head, the tape contacts the first MFS and is spaced from the second MFS. As such, the tape contacts only one edge of either the first or second MFS during operation.
US11532318B2	Neural modeler of audio systems A neural network is trained to digitally model a reference audio system. Training is carried out by repeatedly performing a set of operations. The set of operations includes predicting by the neural network, a model output based upon an input, where the output approximates an expected output of the reference audio system, and the prediction is carried out in the time domain. The set of operations also includes applying a perceptual loss function to the neural network based upon a determined psychoacoustic property, wherein the perceptual loss function is applied in the frequency domain. Moreover, the set of operations includes adjusting the neural network responsive to the output of the perceptual loss function. A neural model file is output that can be loaded to generate a virtualization of the reference audio system.
US11532314B2	Amplitude-independent window sizes in audio encoding A computer-implemented method can include receiving a first signal corresponding to a first flow of acoustic energy, applying a transform to the received first signal using at least a first amplitude-independent window size at a first frequency and a second amplitude-independent window size at a second frequency, the second amplitude-independent window size improving a temporal response at the second frequency, wherein the second frequency is subject to amplitude reduction due to a resonance phenomenon associated with the first frequency, and storing a first encoded signal, the first encoded signal based on applying the transform to the received first signal.
US11532309B2	Techniques for converting natural speech to programming code Described herein are a system and techniques for generating programming code from unstructured text (e.g., natural speech). To do this, upon receiving a request for programming code, the system parses unstructured text using natural language processing to identify an entity. The system then identifies a template associated with that entity. The template may also be associated with a particular programming language. Once a template has been selected, a number of parameters associated with the template are identified. The parameters are then matched to data values included in the unstructured text. Once data values have been identified for each of the parameters, the requested programming code is generated using the template and data values.
US11532306B2	Detecting a trigger of a digital assistant Systems and processes for operating an intelligent automated assistant are provided. In accordance with one example, a method includes, at an electronic device with one or more processors, memory, and a plurality of microphones, sampling, at each of the plurality of microphones of the electronic device, an audio signal to obtain a plurality of audio signals; processing the plurality of audio signals to obtain a plurality of audio streams; and determining, based on the plurality of audio streams, whether any of the plurality of audio signals corresponds to a spoken trigger. The method further includes, in accordance with a determination that the plurality of audio signals corresponds to the spoken trigger, initiating a session of the digital assistant; and in accordance with a determination that the plurality of audio signals does not correspond to the spoken trigger, foregoing initiating a session of the digital assistant.
US11532298B2	Noninvasive neural stimulation through audio First data comprising a first range of audio frequencies is received. The first range of audio frequencies corresponds to a predetermined cochlear region of a listener. Second data comprising a second range of audio frequencies is also received. Third data comprising a first modulated range of audio frequencies is acquired. The third data is acquired by modulating the first range of audio frequencies according to a stimulation protocol that is configured to provide neural stimulation of a brain of the listener. The second data and the third data are arranged to generate an audio composition from the second data and the third data.
US11532290B2	Method for assembling keyboard instrument A method for assembling a keyboard instrument includes installing a keyboard unit on a lower case such that an insertion hole of a key-connecting part of the keyboard unit is positioned corresponding to a lower side installation part of the lower case; thereafter, placing a upper case on the keyboard unit such that an upper side installation part of the upper case is positioned inside the insertion hole of the key-connecting part of the keyboard unit and mates with the lower side installation part of the lower case; and while the upper side installation part of the upper case is positioned inside the insertion hole of the key-connecting part of the keyboard unit and mates with the lower side installation part, inserting a fastening member into the upper side installation part and the lower side installation part to fix the upper case to the lower case via the fastening member.
US11532288B2	Source driver and display apparatus A source driver includes a latch unit sequentially retrieving a video data signal for each data row corresponding to each of a first to n th horizontal scanning lines of the display panel, an overdrive arithmetic circuit calculating an overdrive value of the drive voltage applied to the pixel portions on an N th line based on a comparison result of comparing the data row corresponding to the N th line among the first to n th horizontal scanning lines and the data row corresponding to an (N−1) th line and a distance to the N th line from the source driver, and a voltage output unit generating the drive voltage applied to the pixel portions on the N th line based on the data row corresponding to the N th line and the overdrive value to output to the source line.
US11532261B1	System and method for a multi-primary wide gamut color system The present invention includes systems and methods for a multi-primary color system for display. A multi-primary color system increases the number of primary colors available in a color system and color system equipment. Increasing the number of primary colors reduces metameric errors from viewer to viewer. One embodiment of the multi-primary color system includes Red, Green, Blue, Cyan, Yellow, and Magenta primaries. The systems of the present invention maintain compatibility with existing color systems and equipment and provide systems for backwards compatibility with older color systems.
US11532260B2	Display panel and display device Disclosed are display panel and display device. The display panel includes plurality of pixel repetitive units arranged in array. Each pixel repetitive unit includes two first sub-pixels, two second sub-pixels and four third sub-pixels, and light emitting colors of two first sub-pixels, two second sub-pixels and four third sub-pixels are different. For each pixel repetitive unit, centers of four third sub-pixels constitute first virtual square, one first sub-pixel located inside the first virtual square, and center of the first virtual square doesn't overlap center of one first sub-pixel located inside the first virtual square; and centers of two first sub-pixels and centers of two second sub-pixels constitute first virtual parallelogram, and one third sub-pixel located inside the first virtual parallelogram. The arrangement of the third sub-pixels can reduce display serrated sense of vertical line array and improve display effect of vertical line, thereby improving display effect of display panel.
US11532254B2	Apparatus for driving stretchable display An apparatus for driving a stretchable display includes a first pixel driving signal generating module to generate a first pixel driving signal including data to be displayed on a stretchable display, a first pixel driving circuit to receive the first pixel driving signal to drive a first pixel, a second pixel driving circuit to drive a second pixel, wherein the driving of the second pixel is determined depending on whether the stretchable display is stretched, and a second pixel driving signal generating module to receive the first pixel driving signal and a power signal and to generate a second pixel driving signal to be applied to the second pixel driving circuit by using one of the first pixel driving signal and the power signal, based on a stretching state signal generated depending on whether the stretchable display is stretched.
US11532251B2	Display system, display device, and display method A display system includes a plurality of display devices each of which includes circuitry. The circuitry of each of the plurality of display devices synchronizes a reproduction time with other of the plurality of display devices. The reproduction time is a time to reproduce content including an image and audio. The circuitry further starts displaying the image at a predetermined time and starts outputting the audio at the predetermined time. In response to detection of one of a failure and a probability of failure to output the audio at the predetermined time, the circuitry further stops outputting the audio.
US11532248B2	Display device A display device is disclosed. The display device includes a flexible display panel, a panel roller, wherein the flexible display panel is wound around or unwound from the panel roller, a main frame extending in a longitudinal direction of the panel roller, wherein the panel roller is coupled to the main frame, a rod extending in the longitudinal direction of the panel roller, wherein the rod is spaced apart from the panel roller and the main frame, a sub frame coupling the rod with the main frame, wherein the sub frame is coupled to the main frame, and a bracket coupled to the sub frame.
US11532245B2	Technical solutions for customized tours An apparatus and method for configuring a customized tour includes providing a list of tour subject indicators with a relevance value for locations to be toured, receiving user selection data regarding the subject indicators, and configuring a tour route based on an aggregate relevance score calculated for the tour subject indicators and locations indicated by one or more users. The method and apparatus may further include defining at least one tour route record comprising an ordered list of locations that satisfies at least a minimum aggregate relevance score constraint and a maximum tour duration constraint and saving information defining the at least one tour route record in a computer memory for use in delivering a corresponding tour.
US11532228B2	Method and system for traffic light signal detection and usage A method comprising a data processing device predicting a time for a future state change of a first traffic light; a method comprising a data processing device generating a map of traffic lights, wherein the map of traffic lights comprises a location of at least one localization traffic light, and methods combining these methods, and to corresponding systems.
US11532227B2	Discovery of and connection to remote devices A method includes obtaining a location and a device type for one or more remote devices, and identifying one or more visible devices in one or more images, the one or more visible devices having a location and a device type. The method also includes matching a first visible device from the one or more visible devices with a first remote device from the one or more remote devices based on a location and a device type of the first visible device matching a location and a device type of the first remote device, obtaining a user input, and controlling a function of the first remote device based on the user input.
US11532224B2	Systems, methods and apparatus for providing enhanced situational awareness in incidents Embodiments of systems, apparatus, and/or methods are described for enhanced situational awareness of parties associated with responding to an incident, such as an emergency situation, by assigning response resources to a scene of the incident. The disclosed system provides an electronic platform for collaboration or partnership involving two or more parties. In some partnership embodiments, the disclosed system provides a ranked list of potentially available resources that can be assigned to respond to the incident. For example, the potential candidates can be mobile emergency units belonging to a first responder and/or its partner(s). Various beneficial aspects of partnerships and their technical implementations are discussed in detailed herein.
US11532221B1	System and method for vehicle security monitoring A monitoring system for a vehicle includes surveillance sensors configured to capture sensor data proximate to the vehicle. A position sensor is configured to detect a location of the vehicle. A controller is in communication with the surveillance sensors and the position sensor. The controller calculates a security score in response to security data based on the location of the vehicle and selects an active mode for the surveillance sensors in response to the security score. The active mode is selected from a plurality of surveillance modes that vary an active operation of the plurality of surveillance sensors. The controller may change or escalate the active mode and a corresponding monitoring operation (e.g., from a first mode to a second mode) in response to a security detection.
US11532219B2	Parcel theft deterrence for A/V recording and communication devices Parcel theft deterrence for audio/video (A/V) recording and communication devices, such as video doorbells and security cameras. When an A/V recording and communication device captures image data that includes a parcel, a parcel boundary may be created for monitoring the parcel within. In various embodiments, when the parcel is removed from the parcel boundary, a user alert may be generated to notify a user of a client device associated with the A/V recording and communication device that the parcel has been removed.
US11532207B2	Method to detect and counteract suspicious activity in an application environment Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, comparing an input received from a peripheral device associated with an execution of a gaming application with a threshold value, wherein the threshold value is based on a first identification of a first user, a second identification of the peripheral device, and a third identification of stimuli presented as part of the execution of the gaming application. Responsive to the comparing, a determination may be made that the input exceeds the threshold value. Responsive to the determination, a validation request may be transmitted to a user device of the first user. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11532202B2	Gaming signage including one or more movable display monitors A gaming signage system may include one or more movable displays. One or more movable displays may present first visual effects while the one or more movable displays are in a first configuration in which at least one game feature presentation device is not viewable. In response to a trigger event indication (which may correspond to a base game event), the movable display(s) may move to a second configuration and reveal the game feature presentation device. The game feature presentation device may be used to present a bonus feature and/or to present a different aspect of the base game. Alternatively, at least a portion of a movable display may be hidden when in a first configuration. At least the portion of the movable display(s) may present a bonus feature and/or a different aspect of the base game when in the second configuration.
US11532197B2	Product dispensing system A dispensing unit for personal care products and personal protective equipment includes one or more dispensing assemblies contained within a single housing. The dispensing unit may contain dispensing assemblies that independently dispense two different types of products. Each dispensing assembly includes an actuator that mechanically injects a time delay between dispensings. Products are bundled together with support structures that are removed when the bundles are placed into a dispensing assembly.
US11532196B2	Medium processing apparatus The present disclosure provides a medium processing apparatus, including: a housing provided with a surface facing a customer operating the medium processing apparatus; and a rolled coin device housed in the housing and configured to process rolled coins formed by bundling a plurality of loose coins. The surface of the housing includes a designated area located in a height range conforming to Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) standard with respect to a height direction of the medium processing apparatus, and a rolled coin dispensing port of the rolled coin device for dispensing the rolled coins is arranged in the designated area.
US11532182B2	Authentication of RGB video based on infrared and depth sensing In one aspect, a device may include at least one processor and storage accessible to the at least one processor. The storage may include instructions executable by the at least one processor to access a first frame of RGB video content corresponding to a first time, access a first frame of IR video content corresponding to the first time, and access data from a depth sensor corresponding to the first time. The instructions may also be executable to determine whether at least a portion of the first frame of the RGB video content correlates to at least a portion of the first frame of the IR video content and/or the data from the depth sensor. Responsive to a determination that it does, the instructions may be executable to authenticate the RGB video content and indicate the RGB video content as being authenticated via a graphical user interface.
US11532181B2	Provision of targeted advertisements based on user intent, emotion and context An electronic device and method are disclosed herein. The electronic device includes a microphone, a camera, an output device, a memory, and a processor. The processor implements the method, including receiving a voice input and/or capturing an image, and analyze the first voice input or the image to determine at least one of a user's intent, emotion, and situation based on predefined keywords and expressions, identifying a category based on the input, selecting first information based on the category, selecting and outputting a first query prompting confirmation of output of the first information, detect a first responsive input to the first query, and when a condition to output the first information is satisfied, output a second query, detecting a second input responsive to the second query, and selectively outputting the first information based on the second input.
US11532178B2	Biometric identification and verification In real biometric systems, false match rates and false non-match rates of 0% do not exist. There is always some probability that a purported match is false, and that a genuine match is not identified. The performance of biometric systems is often expressed in part in terms of their false match rate and false non-match rate, with the equal error rate being when the two are equal. There is a tradeoff between the FMR and FNMR in biometric systems which can be adjusted by changing a matching threshold. This matching threshold can be automatically, dynamically and/or user adjusted so that a biometric system of interest can achieve a desired FMR and FNMR.
US11532173B2	Transformation of hand-drawn sketches to digital images Techniques are disclosed for generating a vector image from a raster image, where the raster image is, for instance, a photographed or scanned version of a hand-drawn sketch. While drawing a sketch, an artist may perform multiple strokes to draw a line, and the resultant raster image may have adjacent or partially overlapping salient and non-salient lines, where the salient lines are representative of the artist's intent, and the non-salient (or auxiliary) lines are formed due to the redundant strokes or otherwise as artefacts of the creation process. The raster image may also include other auxiliary features, such as blemishes, non-white background (e.g., reflecting the canvas on which the hand-sketch was made), and/or uneven lighting. In an example, the vector image is generated to include the salient lines, but not the non-salient lines or other auxiliary features. Thus, the generated vector image is a cleaner version of the raster image.
US11532166B2	Obstacle positioning method, device and terminal An obstacle positioning method, device and terminal are provided. The method includes determining installation positions of at least two detectors on a vehicle, and respective detection areas of the detectors, determining an overlapping area of the detection areas of the detectors, and if determining that an obstacle is located in the overlapping area, determining a position of the obstacle according to the installation positions of the detectors forming the overlapping area. By changing the number and positions of detectors installed on an unmanned vehicle, a plurality of overlapping areas of the detection areas of the detectors are obtained, the distribution of obstacles around the vehicle are optimally identified, so that the unmanned vehicle makes reasonable driving plans based on an accurate surrounding obstacle environment.
US11532165B2	Natural surround view In various embodiments, methods and systems are provided for processing camera data from a camera system associated with a vehicle. In one embodiment, a method includes: storing a plurality of photorealistic scenes of an environment; training, by a processor, a machine learning model to produce a surround view approximating a ground truth surround view using the plurality of photorealistic scenes as training data; and processing, by a processor, the camera data from the camera system associated with the vehicle based on the trained machine learning model to produce a surround view of an environment of the vehicle.
US11532163B2	Arrival detection for battery-powered optical sensors A method including, accessing an occupancy of the workspace. The method also includes, in response to the occupancy status indicating vacancy: at a first time, recording a first image and a second image of the workspace, the first image and the second image characterized by a first resolution; and executing an arrival detection model based on the first and second image. The method further includes, in response to detecting arrival at the workspace: at a third time, recording a third image of the workspace, the third image characterized by a second resolution greater than the first resolution; and executing an occupancy detection model based on the third image. The method additionally includes, in response to detecting occupancy of the workspace: updating the occupancy status to indicate occupancy; and transmitting the occupancy status to a remote scheduling system.
US11532143B2	Vision sensor, image processing device including the vision sensor, and operating method of the vision sensor A vision sensor includes a pixel array comprising pixels arranged in a matrix, an event detection circuit, an event rate controller, and an interface circuit. Each pixel is configured to generate an electrical signal in response to detecting a change in incident light intensity. The event detection circuit detects whether a change in incident light intensity has occurred at any pixels, based on processing electrical signals received from one or more pixels, and generates one or more event signals corresponding to one or more pixels at which a change in intensity of incident light is determined to have occurred. The event rate controller selects a selection of one or more event signals corresponding to a region of interest on the pixel array as one or more output event signals. The interface circuit communicates with an external processor to transmit the one or more output event signals to the external processor.
US11532139B1	Method and device for improved pathfinding In some implementations, a method of improved pathfinding is performed at a virtual agent operating system including non-transitory memory and one or more processors coupled with the non-transitory memory. The method includes: determining an initial path for a virtual agent to a target destination based at least in part on a navigation mesh of an XR environment; actuating locomotive elements of the virtual agent in order to move the virtual agent according to the initial path; while moving according to the initial path, detecting a node of a navigation graph; in response to detecting the node of the navigation graph: obtaining navigation information from the node of the navigation graph; and determining an updated path from the node to the target destination based at least in part on the navigation mesh and the navigation information; and actuating the locomotive elements of the virtual agent according to the updated path.
US11532136B2	Registration between actual mobile device position and environmental model A user interface enables a user to calibrate the position of a three dimensional model with a real-world environment represented by that model. Using a device's sensor, the device's location and orientation is determined. A video image of the device's environment is displayed on the device's display. The device overlays a representation of an object from a virtual reality model on the video image. The position of the overlaid representation is determined based on the device's location and orientation. In response to user input, the device adjusts a position of the overlaid representation relative to the video image.
US11532135B2	Dual mode augmented reality surgical system and method A dual mode augmented reality surgical system configured to operate in both a tracking and a non-tracking mode includes a head mounted display configured to provide an optical view of a patient and to inject received data content over top of the optical view to form an augmented reality view of the patient, and comprising internal tracking means configured to determine a surgeon's position as well as angle and direction of view relative to the patient. The system further includes an augmented reality computing system comprising one or more processors, one or more computer-readable tangible storage devices, and program instructions stored on at least one of the one or more storage devices for execution by at least one of the one or more processors.
US11532128B2	Advanced signaling of regions of interest in omnidirectional visual media In various implementations, modifications and/or additions to the ISOBMFF can indicate that a file that has been formatted according to the ISOBMFF, or a format derived from the ISOBMFF, includes virtual reality content. The file can include a restricted scheme information box, written into a track box in the file. The restricted scheme information box can indicate a virtual reality scheme for the contents of the track. For example, a signaling mechanism may indicate a most-viewed viewport associated with the virtual reality data.
US11532126B2	System and method for determining alpha values for alpha shapes Some embodiments provide a non-transitory machine-readable medium that stores a program. The program receives, from a client device, a percentage value for a set of points. The program further determines a triangulation based on the set of points. The program also determines an alpha value based on the triangulation and the percentage value. The program further determines an alpha shape based on the alpha value. The program also provides the client device the alpha shape.
US11532124B2	Cross reality system with WIFI/GPS based map merge A cross reality system receives tracking information in a tracking map and first location metadata associated with at least a portion of the tracking map. A sub-portion of a canonical map is determined based at least in part on a correspondence between the first location metadata associated with the at least the portion of the tracking map and second location metadata associated with the sub-portion of the canonical map. The sub-portion of the canonical map may be merged with the at least the portion of the tracking map into a merged map. The cross reality system may further generate the tracking map by using at least the pose information from one or more images and localize the tracking map to the canonical may at least by using a persistent coordinate frame in the canonical map and the location metadata associated with the location represented in the tracking map.
US11532123B2	Method for visualizing large-scale point cloud based on normal A method for visualizing a large-scale point cloud based on normal, including: (S1) according to a spatial structure of a point cloud data, constructing a balanced octree structure of a node point cloud; (S2) according to the balanced octree structure and normal information of a point cloud, constructing an octree structure with the normal information; and constructing a normal level-of-detail (LOD) visualization node through downsampling; and (S3) determining a node scheduling strategy according to a relationship between a viewpoint, a viewing frustum and a normal of a render node; and respectively calling a reading thread and a rendering thread to simultaneously perform reading and rendering according to the node scheduling strategy.
US11532118B2	Display systems and methods for clipping content to increase viewing comfort Augmented and virtual reality display systems increase viewer comfort by reducing viewer exposure to virtual content that causes undesirable accommodation-vergence mismatches (AVM). The display systems limit displaying content that exceeds an accommodation-vergence mismatch threshold, which may define a volume around the viewer. The volume may be subdivided into two or more zones, including an innermost loss-of-fusion zone (LoF) in which no content is displayed, and one or more outer AVM zones in which the displaying of content may be stopped, or clipped, under certain conditions. For example, content may be clipped if the viewer is verging within an AVM zone and if the content is displayed within the AVM zone for more than a threshold duration. A further possible condition for clipping content is that the user is verging on that content. In addition, the boundaries of the AVM zone and/or the acceptable amount of time that the content is displayed may vary depending upon the type of content being displayed, e.g., whether the content is user-locked content or in-world content.
US11532109B2	Property based image modulation for formation visualization A graphical representation of an image of a subterranean formation along with log properties of the formation provided in a single graphical representation. Logged formation property values are coded into graphic representations of images of the formation in order to provide a graphical representation which allows the user to visually perceive the formation images and the logged formation properties simultaneously. A method may include receiving an image of a formation, the image including image values based on the formation, and also receiving a log property of the formation, the log property including log property values based on the formation. The log property values of the formation are correlated to corresponding locations in the image. A transfer function with the image values and the correlated log property values as inputs is determined. Based on the transfer function, a joint graphical representation of the image and the log property is rendered.
US11532104B2	Method and data processing system for lossy image or video encoding, transmission and decoding A method for lossy image or video encoding, transmission and decoding, the method comprising the steps of: receiving an input image at a first computer system; encoding the input image using a first trained neural network to produce a latent representation; identifying one or more regions of the input image associated with high visual sensitivity; encoding the one or more regions of the input image associated with high visual sensitivity using a second trained neural network to produce one or more region latent representations; performing a quantization process on the latent representation and the one or more region latent representations; transmitting the result of the quantization process to a second computer system; decoding the result of the quantization process to produce an output image, wherein the output image is an approximation of the input image.
US11532100B2	Method for environmental acquisition, data processing unit A method for environmental acquisition for acquiring the surrounding environment of a vehicle. Using a plurality of cameras and/or sensor devices, from at least two positions, images of the surrounding environment are produced, and on the basis of the images a free surface, as well as a contour bounding the free surface, are ascertained. Separately for each image and the contour determined on the basis of this image, for a multiplicity of points along the contour, feature vectors are calculated and entered into a one-dimensional array. Through matching of the one-dimensional arrays, correspondences are sought for which the three-dimensional position is subsequently ascertained by triangulation. A computing unit for carrying out at least individual method steps of the method is also described.
US11532098B2	Determining multi-degree-of-freedom pose to navigate a vehicle An imaging system and method of providing localization data to a vehicle using the imaging system is disclosed. The method may comprise: capturing, from an electronic depth camera, one or more images, wherein the one or more images include at least a portion of the vehicle; and using a deep neural network and the one or more images, determining a multi-degree of freedom (MDF) pose of the vehicle, wherein an optical axis of the electronic depth camera is oriented along a Z-axis according to a Cartesian coordinate system (comprising an X-axis, a Y-axis, and the Z-axis), wherein the Z-axis is plumb with respect to Earth.
US11532095B2	Apparatus, method, and medium for merging pattern detection results There is provided with an information processing apparatus. An acquisition unit acquires a plurality of pattern discrimination results each indicating a location of a pattern that is present in an image. A selection unit selects a predetermined number of pattern discrimination results from the plurality of pattern discrimination results. A determination unit determines whether or not the selected predetermined number of pattern discrimination results are to be merged, based on a similarity of the locations indicated by the predetermined number of pattern discrimination results. A merging unit merges the predetermined number of pattern discrimination results for which it was determined by the determination unit that merging is to be performed. A control unit controls the selection unit, the determination unit, and the merging unit to repeatedly perform respective processes.
US11532089B2	Optical flow computing method and computing device The present disclosure provides an optical flow calculation method for a computing device, including: acquiring an event data flow with a predetermined duration from a DVS, the event data flow including a coordinate position and a timestamp of a triggered event; generating a timestamp matrix in accordance with the coordinate position and the timestamp of the triggered event; scanning elements in the timestamp matrix in a predetermined scanning direction, so as to determine at least one intermediate point in each element in accordance with a value and a gradient of the element in the predetermined scanning direction; and calculating a distance between adjacent intermediate points and a gradient direction, and generating an optical flow matrix in accordance with a calculation result. The present disclosure further provides the computing device.
US11532082B2	Real-time correction of anatomical maps A system includes an input device and a processor. The processor is configured to add, to a point cloud representing an anatomical volume, multiple points corresponding to respective locations of a probe within the anatomical volume, to remove a subset of the points from the point cloud in response to an input received via the input device, subsequently to adding the points, and to add, to the point cloud, other points corresponding to respective subsequent locations of the probe within the anatomical volume, subsequently to removing the subset. Other embodiments are also described.
US11532075B2	Display apparatus for restoring high-frequency component of input image and image processing method thereof A display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus includes an input interface, a first storage, a display, and a processor. Pixel values corresponding to a predetermined number of lines in an image input through the input interface are stored in the first storage. The processor acquires a first patch of a predetermined size by sampling a number of pixel values located in an outer region of a matrix centering about a specific pixel value from among the pixel values stored in the first storage, acquires a high-frequency component for the specific pixel value based on the acquired first patch, and processes the input image based on the high-frequency component. The display displays the processed image.
US11532073B2	Temporal techniques of denoising Monte Carlo renderings using neural networks A modular architecture is provided for denoising Monte Carlo renderings using neural networks. The temporal approach extracts and combines feature representations from neighboring frames rather than building a temporal context using recurrent connections. A multiscale architecture includes separate single-frame or temporal denoising modules for individual scales, and one or more scale compositor neural networks configured to adaptively blend individual scales. An error-predicting module is configured to produce adaptive sampling maps for a renderer to achieve more uniform residual noise distribution. An asymmetric loss function may be used for training the neural networks, which can provide control over the variance-bias trade-off during denoising.
US11532066B2	Reduced bandwidth tessellation factors A graphics pipeline reduces the number of tessellation factors written to and read from a graphics memory. A hull shader stage of the graphics pipeline detects whether at least a threshold percentage of the tessellation factors for a thread group of patches are the same and, in some embodiments, whether at least the threshold percentage of the tessellation factors for a thread group of patches have a same value that either indicates that the plurality of patches are to be culled or that the plurality of patches are to be passed to a tessellator stage of the graphics pipeline. In response to detecting that at least the threshold percentage of the tessellation factors for the thread group are the same (or, additionally, that at least the threshold percentage of the tessellation factors have a value that either indicates that the plurality of patches are to be culled or that the plurality of patches are to be passed to a tessellator stage of the graphics pipeline), the hull shader stage bypasses writing at least a subset of the tessellation factors for the thread group of patches to the graphics memory, thus reducing bandwidth and increasing efficiency of the graphics pipeline.
US11532063B2	Systems and methods for online to offline service The present disclosure relates to a system and method for operating an online to offline service platform. The system may perform the methods to: receive a service order from a first terminal associated with a passenger, the service order including a first identifier corresponding to the passenger and a pick-up location designated by the passenger; determine a second identifier corresponding to a driver accepting the service order; obtain first status corresponding to the first identifier; generate, based on the first status, a first instruction; and send the first instruction to a second terminal associated with the second identifier.
US11532061B2	Distributed ridesharing vehicle management Managing ridesharing vehicles by receiving passenger data comprising pick-up and drop-off location data of passengers, recording the passenger data in one or more queues corresponding to one or more pick-up locations of the pick-up location data, and sending information associated with a first pick-up location to a first vehicle. In response to the first vehicle arriving at the first pick-up location, extracting data of passengers exiting the first vehicle at the first pick-up location, retrieving passenger data from a first queue corresponding to the first pick-up location according to a capacity of the first vehicle, and updating a passenger ledger of the first vehicle according to the data of the passengers exiting the first vehicle at the first pick-up location and the passenger data retrieved from the first queue.
US11532053B1	Method and system for detecting use of vehicle safety systems A system and method for automatically detecting if a vehicle safety system is being used by a driver is disclosed. The system and method use data gathered from one or more sensors in the vehicle. The data is analyzed to determine if the safety system is being used or disabled. The system can send reminders to a driver to use the safety system. The system and method can also automatically update a policy holder's insurance policy to reflect whether or not a safety system is being used.
US11532052B2	Using simulated consumer profiles to form calibration data for models Provided is a process of using simulated consumer profiles to construction calibration data from a pricing analytics application having a relatively high dimensional input parameter space.
US11532041B2	Systems and methods for debt management with spending recommendation A method may include receiving financial information regarding a user; categorizing transaction information of the user based on the financial information; causing display of the categorized transaction information; receiving information regarding at least one financial preference and transaction preference of the user; determining using a trained machine learning model activities available to the user; calculating, for each of the one or more activities available to the user, an estimated influence on the at least one financial preference, causing display of the estimated influence on the at least one financial preference based on a user selected one of the one or more activities available to the user; filtering the one or more activities available to the user with a positive estimated influence to the at least one financial preference; and causing display of a recommendation of action relating to the one of the one or more activities available to the user.
US11532028B2	Voice-based in-store digital checkout system Methods and systems for providing a digital cart management system for use by customers within a retail location. In use, a customer shops within a retail location and adds items to a digital cart as the customer is adding the items to a physical cart, e.g., at least in part by voice input. When the customer is finished shopping, the customer can checkout via a digital process, thereby bypassing point of sale devices at the retail location.
US11532027B1	Flexible and integrated electronic processing of different invoice categories An electronic invoicing system includes an integrated method of searching both purchase order based electronic invoices and electronic invoices not associated with a purchase order or transaction receipt. A portal is provided. The portal has respective views for a supplier submitting purchase order based electronic invoices and electronic invoices not associated with a purchase order or transaction receipt, and a user of an enterprise submitting and/or reviewing electronic invoices. The supplier can search for both purchase order based and non-purchase order based invoices in a single criteria screen and interface in the portal.
US11532023B2	System and method for streamlining a checkout process of e-commerce websites System and method to streamline the checkout process of e-commerce websites is disclosed. The processing subsystem includes a web crawler to browse the e-commerce websites, a website analysis module to analyze checkout data entry forms and web UI of the corresponding e-commerce websites browsed by the web crawler. The processing subsystem includes a classification module to classify the checkout data entry forms into fields based on a form data model. The classification module maps user information with classified fields using a natural language mapping technique to obtain a mapped model. The processing subsystem includes a fingerprinting module to fingerprint configurations and checkout pages of the corresponding e-commerce websites to obtain fingerprinting data. The processing subsystem includes a checkout processing module to generate a one-click checkout flow for an e-commerce website selected from the e-commerce websites. The one-click checkout flow is generated based on the fingerprinting data and the mapped model.
US11532022B2	Systems methods circuits and associated computer executable code for digital catalog augmentation Disclosed are methods, circuits, devices, systems and functionally associated computer executable code for digital catalog augmentation. A digital catalog interface module reads from a digital catalog data storage, directly or indirectly, one or more catalog data records constituting an offer listing within a digital catalog, wherein the offer listing may include a description of a specific product or service offering and/or links to execute a transaction relating to the offering. The system includes a Review Criteria and Sentiment Extractor (RCSE) to identify and convert one or more reviews posted on a review forum into one or more data records used to augment the offer listing within the digital catalog.
US11532015B2	Systems and methods for optimizing message notification timing based on electronic content consumption associated with a geographic location Systems and methods are provided for timing message notifications to be provided to mobile device users based on their geographic locations with respect to geographic areas associated with a threshold level of content consumption. The timing of message notifications may be controlled in order to optimize the chances of delivering targeted content to a mobile device user based on the current geographic location of the user's device relative to a threshold level of content consumption area. As mobile device users may be more likely to launch a client application in a place where other users are currently consuming content, a general message notification sent to the user's device located in a geographic area associated with a threshold level of content consumption, may increase the likelihood that the user will launch the client application and thereby, allow targeted content to be delivered to the user's mobile device.
US11532006B1	Determining and initiating insurance claim events The present disclosure relates generally to a system that includes a storage component that stores data and a processor. The processor may install an application using a portion of the storage component, partition the portion of the storage component from a remaining portion of the storage component, and execute the application via the portion of the storage component.
US11532003B2	System, method and computer program for varying affiliate position displayed by intermediary Endogenous and exogenous variables associated with an item for sale by an affiliate may be displayed to a user of an affiliate decision-making tool. In response to the user selecting one of the endogenous variables, the affiliate decision-making tool may compute a number of introductions, a number of leads, and a number of sales for each of a plurality of possible values of the endogenous variable. The computation may be done utilizing a display position algorithm. A visualization of effects of setting the endogenous variable at different levels may be presented. The user may interact with the display position algorithm to vary one or more of the plurality of possible values of the endogenous variable such that the affiliate is eligible or disqualified to be displayed by an intermediary in response to a search for the item by a visitor of a network site owned and operated by the intermediary.
US11532002B1	Systems and methods for a non-fungible token having on chain content generation A blockchain platform is provided for creating original non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and prints of the original NFTs. The platform creates a market for purchasing and selling prints of the original NFTs. The purchase price and the sale price for a print is determined based on a bonding curve and a total supply of the prints of the original NFT. The platform may also generate content (e.g., artwork and/or music) associated with the original NFTs. The content may be generated from logic that is stored on the blockchain.
US11531999B2	Opinion aggregation system Described is an opinion aggregation system. The system includes a server having a memory storing user information, a first user computing device and other user computing devices coupled to the server. The server is programmed to receive and store an opinion request from the first user computing device and automatically process the opinion request and generate an opinion request to send to the other user computing devices for display and for entering an opinion. The server may be programmed to deliver the opinion request to the other user computing devices and then receive and store the opinions entered by the other user computing devices. These responses may be delivered to the first user computing device for viewing. The user may either filter the opinions received or filter the opinion request by selection of one or more filters, wherein the server only sends the opinion request to users matching the one or more filters.
US11531995B2	Consent management system with consent request process A method may include receiving a consent-processing request at a consent management platform from a content-presentation device, and using an identifier string in the request to establish a secure interactive session configured for user selection of consent options associated with a particular consent package of the platform, where the package may include identifiers of consent features of a media distribution system that require user consent in order to be activated for the device. The platform may then receive, via the interactive session, user consent data including a respective consent choice for each of one or more consent options, where each respective consent choice indicates acceptance or rejection of consent to activating an associated consent feature identified with the particular consent package. The received respective consent choices may be stored in a database of the consent management platform. Corresponding data may be stored in a whitelist on the content-presentation device.
US11531989B2	Fraud as a service A fraud detection as a service system is provided that can be implemented via one or more microservices that can be instantiated on an operation support system and/or business support systems. Each fraud detection microservice instantiated can have one or more fraud detection models and sets of rules for a particular type of incoming data stream or transaction and/or interaction data. In this way, there can be more than one fraud detection microservice operating on the OSS/BSS allowing each fraud detection microservice to be dynamically updated in real time, provide continuous integration and continuous delivery of services, and work with a particular data flow, providing for an optimal fraud detection process.
US11531988B1	Fraud prevention tool Various examples are directed to systems and methods for detecting fraud. A financial institution system may receive, from a transaction device, a transaction authorization request describing a transaction to be drawn on an account of a user. The financial institution system may also receive, from the user computing device, environmental data describing an environment of the user and determine that the environmental data indicates an anomalous condition. Based at least in part on the determining, the financial institution system may decline the transaction.
US11531985B2	Multi-approval system using M of N keys to generate a sweeping transaction at a customer device A computing system that includes at least one processor and at least one memory communicatively coupled to the at least one processor is disclosed. The computing system also includes at least one network interface communicatively coupled to the at least one processor and configured to communicate with at least one vault system, each of the at least one vault system storing a respective one of N private keys or key components associated with a customer. The at least one processor is configured to generate, at the customer device, a sweeping transaction that transfers all funds from at least one input transaction address in a customer wallet to a new transaction address. The at least one processor is also configured to sign the sweeping transaction using at least M of N private keys or key components.
US11531976B2	Systems and methods for facilitating card present transactions This disclosure describes systems and methods related to facilitating card present transaction. In one embodiment, a service provider system may receive a request from a merchant to initiate a card present transaction associated with a consumer. The service provider system may determine an identifier associated with a mobile device associated with the consumer. The service provider system may communicate to the mobile device, based at least in part on the identifier, a message that facilitates invocation of a transaction module associated with the mobile device. The service provider system may facilitate the car present transaction based at least in part on an interaction with the transaction module.
US11531970B2	Imaging modality maintenance care package systems and methods Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to provide an image modality maintenance care package are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a solution predictor to predict a solution for servicing an imaging device based on the at least one of an error code or an identified issue and information related to previous solutions corresponding to the at least one of the error code or the identified issue. The apparatus further includes a care package generator to generate a customized data structure corresponding to the solution, the customized data structure including automated solutions to service the imaging device. The apparatus further includes an interface to transmit, using a wireless communication, the customized data structure to at least one of the imaging device or a repair device connected to the imaging device and in response to the execution of the automated solutions by the imaging device, obtaining a response corresponding to the servicing of the imaging device using the repair device. The apparatus further includes an information updater to update at least one of the accessed information, the predicted solution, the relevant information, or a digital twin of the imaging device to update subsequent customized care package generation based on the response.
US11531969B1	Location-based user dataset management The system and methods described herein provide for managing user datasets by facilitating interactions between users and their advisors following location-based notification of certain triggering events in the user dataset. The geolocation of the user is used to identify nearby advisors who can provide consultation as required by the user. Some embodiments facilitate introductions to a potential user of a set of advisors matched to the user's profile and in response to certain triggering events in the user's dataset.
US11531964B1	Systems and methods for maintaining transferability of title via blockchain The present embodiments relate to systems and methods for using a blockchain to record information related to the lifecycle of a vehicle associated with a Vehicle Identification Number (VIN), or other vehicle identifier. For example, the VIN lifecycle process may be used to ensure the transferability of title, including when information relevant to transferability is not easily determinable, such as after a collision occurs. The systems and methods may include the reception of a mileage report corresponding to a vehicle and updating a blockchain to associate the vehicle with mileage information. The systems and methods described herein may allow for using a blockchain which gives the option for private information, and permissioned participants in the blockchain. In particular, the systems and methods allow for a distributed consensus amongst businesses, consumers, and authorities, as to the validity of information and transactions stored on the blockchain.
US11531962B2	Inventory management system An inventory management system includes one or more radio frequency identification (RFID) readers each configured to detect RFID labels attached to inventory items within a certain radius of the RFID reader. The one or more RFID readers are configured to automatically determine a directional movement of RFID labels and attached inventory items. A first computer server is configured to communicate, via a network connection, with one or more client devices, and also configured to receive data gathered by the one or more RFID readers. The first computer server is configured to maintain a real-time inventory status of the inventory items. The real-time inventory status includes a location of the one or more RFID labels, and further includes a current usage state of the attached inventory items. The first computer server is configured to transmit the real-time inventory status to a display of the client device.
US11531960B2	Information processing apparatus, information processing system, control method, and program An information processing apparatus (2000) acquires a shelf rack image (12) in which a product shelf rack on which a product is displayed is imaged. The information processing apparatus (2000) performs image analysis on the shelf rack image (12), and generates information (actual display information) relevant to a display situation of the product on a product shelf rack (20). The information processing apparatus (2000) acquires reference display information representing a reference for display of the product on the product shelf rack (20). The information processing apparatus (2000) compares the actual display information generated by performing the image analysis on the shelf rack image (12) with the acquired reference display information, and generates comparison information representing a result.
US11531953B2	Systems and methods for sortation of products using a conveyor assembly In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to the sortation of products using a conveyor assembly. In some embodiments, there is provided a system for receiving and sorting products shipped to a shopping facility including: a delivery location at a shopping facility configured to receive a shipment of products; a conveyor assembly comprising: a product identification module configured to read identification data from an identification label disposed on a product; a plurality of sortation modules configured to move the product to one of a predetermined plurality of sortation destination areas; a control circuit operatively coupled to the product identification module and to each of the sortation modules, the control circuit configured to: receive the identification data from the product identification module; determine the sortation destination area for the product based at least on one of shopping facility data and shipping data regarding the product as sortation criteria; and cooperate with the plurality of sortation modules to move the product to the determined sortation destination area.
US11531952B1	Secure and anonymized digital transactions Described herein are methods and systems for anonymizing and securing digital transactions. These methods and systems describe a server that monitors web applications executing on a user device. Responsive to the web application displaying an input element requesting personally identifiable information of a user, the server inputs encoded user data corresponding to the input element, whereby a web application server hosting the web application does not receive the personally identifiable information of the user. The server then generate an optical code representing the personally identifiable information. Responsive to receiving a request for the personally identifiable information from a shipping entity computing device that scanned the optical code, the server first verifies the shipping entity computing device and then presents the personally identifiable information for display on the shipping entity computing device.
US11531940B2	Implicit status tracking of tasks and management of task reminders based on device signals Computing device state or activity based task reminders and automatic tracking of statuses of task-related activities are provided. Users are enabled to create reminders that are triggered based on a device state of the user's device or activity signals from the operating system, an application, or a user file. The status of a task item can be inferred from signals collected from one or more sources. The signals provide information associated with tasks that the user performs in various life events. Machine learning, statistical analysis, behavioral analytics, and data mining techniques are applied to the signals, and the user's activities are mapped to task items that the user has created. An inferred status of a task activity can be shared with other systems, or can be used for a variety of functions (e.g., to automatically update the user's task list, or to remind the user of an uncompleted task item).
US11531938B2	Information processing device and mobile object An information processing device that controls a mobile object including lodging equipment with a plurality of compartments performs: creating an operation schedule including a first period in which movement for allowing a plurality of users to ride in or alight from the mobile object is a main purpose and a second period in which riding and alighting of the users are not required based on lodging requests acquired from the plurality of users; and generating an operation instruction for executing different controls on the mobile object in the first period and the second period and transmitting the operation instruction to the corresponding mobile object.
US11531934B2	Machine learning (ML) modeling by DNA computing Methods, computer program products, and systems are presented. The methods include, for instance: identifying a training data set and defining a window for an initial beta value representing bias tolerated in formulating expectation conditional to each feature vector from the training data set. The conditional expectations are parallelly regularized by use of DNA computer. Amongst numerous combinations of candidate models, a best fit ensemble is produced as the machine learning model for predicting targeted outcomes based on inputs other than the training data set.
US11531918B2	Interactive live event outcome selection and prediction A method for providing an interactive interface for live event outcome selection and prediction may include generating a set of cells for an event. The set of cells may be provided to a client device to present in a user interface. A selection of a cell may be received from the client device. The selected cell may be assigned to a user account. The method may generate a coordinate for each cell in the set, wherein each cell coordinate includes a plurality of dimensions, each dimension corresponding to a different entity of the event, and wherein each cell coordinate is unique for the set of cells. The method may comprise calculating, prior to the start of the event, a probability that an event result represented by a cell coordinate will occur; and presenting the probability in association with the cell on the user interface. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US11531914B2	Artificial intelligence (AI) based automatic rule generation An AI-based rule generation system generates an ontology from user-provided information and further enables generating rules that govern processes via drag-and-drop operations by automatically generating code in the backend. The rule generation system after generating the ontology, provides access to the entities of the ontology via a drag-and-drop GUI which also includes operators required to generate the rules. The user can drag-and-drop the entity elements and the operator elements as needed onto a whitespace in addition to providing the requisite values in order to generate a rule flow. The rule flow is validated and published to an execution server for use by downstream processes. The rule generation system further includes custom functions in addition to enabling distributed knowledge base processes for generating the rules.
US11531908B2	Enhancement of machine learning-based anomaly detection using knowledge graphs Technologies are disclosed herein for enhancing machine learning (“ML”)-based anomaly detection systems using knowledge graphs. The disclosed technologies generate a connected graph that defines a topology of infrastructure components along with associated alarms generated by a ML component. The ML component generates the alarms by applying ML techniques to real-time data metrics generated by the infrastructure components. Scores are computed for the infrastructure components based upon the connected graph. A root cause of an anomaly affecting infrastructure components can then be identified based upon the scores, and remedial action can be taken to address the root cause of the anomaly. A user interface is also provided for visualizing aspects of the connected graph.
US11531895B2	Systems and methods for processing audiovisual data using latent codes from generative networks and models Systems and methods for viewing, storing, transmitting, searching, and editing application-specific audiovisual content (or other unstructured data) are disclosed in which edge devices generate content on the fly from a partial set of instructions rather than merely accessing the content in its final or near-final form. An image processing architecture may include a generative model that may be a deep learning model. The generative model may include a latent space comprising a plurality of latent codes and a trained generator mapping. The trained generator mapping may convert points in the latent space to uncompressed data points, which in the case of audiovisual content may be generated image frames. The generative model may be capable of closely approximating (up to noise or perceptual error) most or all potential data points in the relevant compression application, which in the case of audiovisual content may be source images.
US11531861B2	Neural architecture search with factorized hierarchical search space The present disclosure is directed to an automated neural architecture search approach for designing new neural network architectures such as, for example, resource-constrained mobile CNN models. In particular, the present disclosure provides systems and methods to perform neural architecture search using a novel factorized hierarchical search space that permits layer diversity throughout the network, thereby striking the right balance between flexibility and search space size. The resulting neural architectures are able to be run relatively faster and using relatively fewer computing resources (e.g., less processing power, less memory usage, less power consumption, etc.), all while remaining competitive with or even exceeding the performance (e.g., accuracy) of current state-of-the-art mobile-optimized models.
US11531855B2	Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium It is made possible to perform appropriate color matching between devices irrespective of whether a printed material is print-output in color or monochrome from a destination device. The color characteristic of the destination device is obtained by printing a chart in which a predetermined density pattern is formed in the destination device and reading the color of the chart. Next, whether the chart output from the destination device is color or monochrome is determined. Then, color conversion parameters for reproducing the color characteristic of the destination device in an adjustment device are determined by printing the color chart in a case where the printed material is determined that formed in color or printing the monochrome chart in a case where the printed material is determined that formed in monochrome in the adjustment device.
US11531848B2	Data processing apparatus, data processing method and semiconductor manufacturing apparatus A data processing apparatus in which a trade-off between over-learning prevention and calculation load prevention is eliminated when creating a model formula is provided. The data processing apparatus includes: a recording unit that records electronic data; and a computing unit that performs computing using the electronic data, in which the computing unit includes a feature amount selection unit used for computing, and the feature amount selection unit performs feature amount selection including: a first step (S101) of ranking feature amounts and rearranging the feature amounts from top; a second step (S103) of creating a plurality of data groups using only a part of the feature amounts according to the order; a third step (S104) of calculating a value that is an index for evaluating prediction performance of a regression or classification problem using each of the data groups using only a part of the feature amounts; a fourth step (S105) of deleting feature amounts based on the calculated prediction performance index; and a fifth step (S106) of updating the order of the feature amounts, which are feature amounts other than the deleted feature amount, using the prediction performance index, in which the second step to the fifth steps are iterated (S102) until an optimal value of the prediction performance index calculated in the third step is no longer updated.
US11531846B1	Extending sensitive data tagging without reannotating training data Techniques for extending sensitive data tagging without reannotating training data are described. A method for extending sensitive data tagging without reannotating training data may include hosting a plurality of models at a model endpoint in a machine learning service, each model trained to identify a different sensitive data type in a transcript of content, adding a new model to the model endpoint, the new model trained to identify a new sensitive data entity in the transcript of content, identifying sensitive entities in the transcript by each of the plurality of models and the new model, merging inference responses generated by each of the plurality of models and the new model using at least one inference policy, and returning a merged inference response identifying a plurality of sensitive entities in the transcript.
US11531841B2	Machine learning model training method and apparatus, server, and storage medium A machine learning model training method includes: training a machine learning model using features of each sample in a training set based on an initial first weight and an initial second weight. In one iteration, the method includes determining a first sample set in which a target variable is incorrectly predicted, and a second sample set in which a target variable is correctly predicted, based on a predicted loss of each sample; and determining overall predicted loss of the first sample set based on a predicted loss and a first weight of each sample in the first sample set. The method also includes updating the first weight and a second weight of each sample in the first sample set based on the overall predicted loss; and inputting the updated second weight, the features, and the target variable of each sample to the machine learning model, and initiating a next iteration.
US11531835B2	Electronic device for controlling predefined function based on response time of external electronic device on user input, and method thereof Various embodiments of the disclosure relate to an electronic device for controlling a predefined function based on a response time of an external electronic device on a user input, and a method thereof. The electronic device includes: a memory configured to store one or more applications; a communication module comprising communication circuitry configured to communicate with an external electronic device; and a processor, wherein the processor is configured to control the electronic device to: receive an input; generate first control data for controlling at least one application among the one or more applications using a first recognition method based at least on the input; transmit at least part of the input to the external electronic device through the communication module, wherein the external electronic device is configured to generate second control data for controlling the at least one application using a second recognition method based at least on the input; identify a time that passes until the second control data is received after the at least part of the input is transmitted to the external electronic device; control the at least one application using the first control data based on the passing time satisfying a first predefined condition; and control the at least one application using the second control data based on the passing time satisfying a second predefined condition.
US11531828B2	Scene descriptor generation system and method The present invention relates to a scene descriptor generation system, including an image sensor including a plurality of pixels, successively supplying S binary image planes, each including a single binary value per pixel; and a processing circuit configured to, for each binary image plane supplied by the sensor (100), to implement the successive steps of: a) calculating N convolutions of the binary image plane with respectively N distinct convolution kernels, to provide N convolved images; b) generating at least one meta-image from the N convolved images supplied at step a); and c) for each of the N convolved images supplied at step a), generating a binary descriptor from said convolved image and from said at least one meta-image.
US11531825B2	Indicia reader for size-limited applications An indicia-reading module is capable of integration into the smallest face of thin-profile smart device. The module employs chip-on-board packaging and a customized sensor enclosure to eliminate the stack-up height found in conventional packaging. The module also employs a customized frame to reduce volume by integrating circuit subassembly circuit boards into a unique architecture and by serving as the lenses for the illuminator and the aimer, thereby eliminating the need for any extra lenses or holders.
US11531815B2	Information processing apparatus and non-transitory computer readable medium storing program An information processing apparatus includes a reception unit that receives information from a user in an interactive form and a selection unit that selects a first service for analyzing contents of natural language as a transmission destination of the information in a case where information from the user is input in natural language and selects a second service as an analysis destination of the received information in a case where information from the user is input as an image or a sound.
US11531814B2	Method and device for generating modified statement A method and a device for generating a modified statement are provided. An embodiment thereof includes obtaining a target statement, and separating words in the target statement to obtain a word collection to be modified; determining whether a target storage portion comprises a predetermined word collection to be confirmed corresponding to a word to be modified in the word collection to be modified; in response to determine to include the predetermined word collection, based on the error probabilities and the usage probabilities of the words to be confirmed, determining modification probabilities of the words to be confirmed; according to a numerical sequence of the modification probabilities, selecting predetermined numbered words to be confirmed from the word collection to be confirmed as a word sub-collection to be confirmed; and based on the word sub-collection to be confirmed, generating the modified statement. The embodiment improves the accuracy to modify the statement.
US11531813B2	Method, electronic device and readable storage medium for creating a label marking model A method, an electronic device and a readable storage medium for creating a label marking model are disclosed. The method for creating the label marking model includes: obtaining text data and determining a word or phrase to be marked in the text data; according to the word or phrase to be marked, constructing a first training sample of the text data corresponding to a word or phrase replacing task and a second training sample corresponding to a label marking task; training a neural network model with a plurality of the first training samples and a plurality of the second training samples, respectively, until a loss function of the word or phrase replacing task and a loss function of the label marking task satisfy a preset condition, to obtain the label marking model.
US11531801B2	Information processing device, information processing method, and program The present disclosure relates to an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program for enabling more accurate prediction of a crack to be made. A model acquisition unit acquires a structure model MD from a model generation unit, an external device (not illustrated), or the like. Amplitude load energy A in an element E0 having no cracks is set on the basis of a relationship between an equivalent stress σ and an equivalent elastic strain ε experimentally obtained according to a material constituting the element E0. Since the equivalent elastic strain ε depends on a crack variable φ, the amplitude load energy A is expressed as a function of the crack variable φ. A crack prediction unit predicts a crack to be generated in a structure D by calculating a differential equation having a term proportional to the amplitude energy. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, a crack prediction device that predicts a crack.
US11531795B2	Apparatus for optimizing flow analysis and method therefor A flow analysis apparatus is provided. The flow analysis apparatus includes a flow analyzer configured to derive a plurality of output signals by performing flow analysis for a plurality of cells by using a flow analytic model for simulating numerical analysis by Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) with respect to a plurality of cells that divide a space around a component, and an analysis optimizer configured to perform optimization for the plurality of output signals.
US11531790B2	Tool string design using machine learning A method for designing a tool string for use in a wellbore includes receiving a merit function, and determining, with a computing system and based on the merit function, a tool string design for a tool string. The merit function comprises one or more defined objectives for performing a process in a wellbore. The tool string design comprises an indication of one or more tools used to form a tool string for performing the process in the wellbore, and the tool string design satisfies the merit function.
US11531785B2	PUF-based data integrity A system includes a memory device configured to store data at addressable locations in the memory device, a physically unclonable function (PUF) device including an array of PUF elements, and a memory interface coupled to the memory device and the PUF device. The memory interface is configured to receive a request to store first data in the memory device, store the first data in the memory device at a first location of the memory device, and transmit the first data and the first location to the PUF device. The PUF device is configured to create a first challenge value using the first data and the first location, generate a first response value using the first challenge value, and store the first response value as a first data integrity tag in the memory device, wherein the first data integrity tag is associated with the first data.
US11531782B1	Systems and methods for finding a value in a combined list of private values A system and method are disclosed for each party of a group of m parties to be able to learn an Nth smallest value in a combined list of the values in which each party has separate lists of values. A method includes creating, by each party of a group of m parties, m lists of additive shares associated with each party's respective list of data, distributing, from each party to each other party in the group of m parties, m−1 of the lists of additive shares to yield a respective combined list of additive shares Wi obtained by each party of the m parties, receiving from a trusted party a list of additive shares Vi associated with a hot-code vector V, computing, in a shared space by each party, a respective Ri value using a secure multiplication protocol and comparing, in the shared space, by each party and using secure multi-party comparison protocol, the respective Ri to all elements in the respective combined list of additive shares Wi to yield a total number Pi of values in Wi that are smaller than Ri. The value Pi is used to either end the method or loop back for further processing with new values of Wi and in some cases a new value of N.
US11531779B2	Systems and methods for identifying personal identifiers in content Provided herein are systems and methods for identifying personal identifiers in content. An entity engine may receive content to identify candidate personal identifiers. The entity engine may determine that a text string in the content matches to a data format specified in entity definitions corresponding to types of personal identifiers and a rule for finding a geographic or linguistic term in the content correlated to the specific type of personal identifier. Each entity definition may specify a data format for finding a specific type of personal identifier in content. The data format corresponds to a type of personal identifier. The entity engine may identify, according to a rule of the first entity definition, a geographic or linguistic term in the content correlated to the type of personal identifier. The entity engine may classify the text string as the type of personal identifier, for preventing data breach or exfiltration.
US11531778B2	Privacy data reporting method and apparatus, and storage medium Embodiments disclose a privacy data reporting method and apparatus, and a storage medium. The method includes: A terminal device obtains to-be-reported data, divides the to-be-reported data into front string data and rear string data based on a preset step, separately scrambles the front string data and the rear string data, and sends the generated privacy data to a server. The server receives privacy data sent by a plurality of terminal devices, determines N pieces of first front string data, then obtains M pieces of to-be-reported data based on a plurality of pieces of privacy data, and finally determines to-be-reported data whose reporting rate is greater than a first preset value as target to-be-reported data. In an exemplary embodiment, the terminal device divides the to-be-reported data into two parts, and separately scrambles the two parts to generate the privacy data.
US11531775B2	Database security A method includes automatically determining a component of a security label for each first record in a first table of a database having multiple tables, including: identifying a second record related to the first record according to a foreign key relationship; identifying a component of the security label for the second record; and assigning a value for the component of the security label for the first record based on the identified component of the security label for the second record. The method includes storing the determined security label in the record.
US11531771B2	Methods of decrypting disk images, and decryption-enabling devices A decryption-enabling device for decrypting a disk image of a computer device, comprising a processor, memory and a hardware connector for connecting to the hardware interface connection of the computer device. The decryption-enabling device is arranged to create using the processor a copy of the random-access memory of the computer device, analyse using the processor the copy of the random-access memory to extract one or more potential decryption keys, and store the one or more potential decryption keys in the memory.
US11531763B1	Automated code generation using analysis of design diagrams Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for automated code generation using analysis of design diagrams are disclosed. A diagram-to-code system determines one or more security properties of a plurality of components associated with a software product. Relationships between the components are indicated in a software design diagram. At least some of the security properties are determined using input to a user interface. The diagram-to-code system generates one or more secure code packages based (at least in part) on the software design diagram and the one or more security properties. The secure code package(s) implement one or more security controls associated with the software product. The secure code package(s) are provided to a developer. The secure code package(s) and additional program code from the developer are compiled into a compiled software product. Execution of the compiled software product mitigates security vulnerabilities using the one or more security controls.
US11531758B2	Provision of domains in secure enclave to support multiple users Embodiments described herein provide for a system, method, and apparatus to provision domains in a secure enclave processor to support multiple users. One embodiment provides for an apparatus comprising a first processor to receive a set of credentials associated with one of multiple user accounts on the apparatus and a second processor including a secure circuit to provide a secure enclave, the secure enclave to receive a request from the first processor to authenticate the set of credentials, the request including supplied credentials and an authentication type, where the secure enclave is to block the request from the first processor in response to a determination that the user account has exceeded a threshold number of successive failed authentication attempts for the authentication type.
US11531757B2	Ransomware detection and mitigation There is disclosed in one example a computing apparatus, including: a hardware platform including a processor and a memory; a system profile store; and a ransomware detection engine including instructions encoded within the memory to instruct the processor to: detect an operation, by a process, that results in an operation on a file, wherein the operation includes newly creating the file including a file type identifier, or where the file is an existing file, changing a file type identifier for the file; querying the system profile store with a combination of the file type identifier and metadata about the file; based at least in part on the querying, determining that the process is a suspected ransomware attack; and taking a remedial action.
US11531753B2	Preventing ransomware from encrypting files on a target machine Techniques for preventing ransomware from encrypting files on a target machine are disclosed. In some embodiments, a system/process/computer program product for preventing ransomware from encrypting files on a target machine includes monitoring file system activities on a computing device; detecting an unauthorized activity associated with a honeypot file or honeypot folder; and performing an action based on a policy in response to the unauthorized activity associated with the honeypot file or honeypot folder.
US11531746B2	Method for electronic signing of a document by a plurality of signatories A method for electronic signing of a document by a plurality of signatories comprises a step of acquiring a photograph of at least one of the signatories and identifying the signatory using the photograph, and a step of associating the document in a digital form with the identified signatory, wherein the method comprises: a prior step of calculating a matrix code by a cryptographic processing TC applied to the document, the step of acquiring a photograph consisting of acquiring a photograph of at least one signatory bearing a physical medium representing the matrix code, a step of validating: the identity of the signatory on the photograph and, the conformity of the matrix code calculated by the cryptographic processing TC applied to the document held by a signatory, with the matrix code on the photograph.
US11531744B1	Secure unlock of a device A control panel may prevent access to one or more aspects of the control panel based at least in part on one or more security parameters. The security parameters may include a default locked status and a takeover locked status. The default locked status may prevent a user or other personnel from accessing the software, code, or other intellectual property on the control panel while still allowing the user to interface with the security and/or automation system. The takeover locked status may prevent any access or use of the control panel. To protect the automation system and the automation system provider, it may be desired to use a unique identifier to unlock at least one or more aspects of the control panel. The unique identifier may be loaded onto an external storage device which the control panel may automatically recognize.
US11531743B2	Systems and methods for enhancing biometric matching accuracy A system of enhancing biometric analysis matching utilizes an image sensor, such as a digital camera, to capture an image of a face of a person. The system may perform image enhancement, such as edge and contrast enhancement, prior to performing face matching. The enhancement may be localized to a given image region based on determined region illumination. The system may perform image processing and analysis comprising face detection, alignment, feature extraction, and recognition. A biometric recognition confidence indicator may be generated using the results of the image enhancement and analysis. At least partly in response to the biometric recognition confidence indicator falling below a threshold enhancing recognition confidence using an image of visual indicia captured using the image sensor.
US11531716B2	Resource distribution based upon search signals Embodiments of the disclosure are related to distribution of content in response to search signals in an enterprise environment. Embodiments of the disclosure obtain search signals from a client device associated with a user. In response to obtaining such a search signal, content stored on a resource repository can be located. Such a resource repository can be a private repository associated with an enterprise. In response to located content, a notification can be sent to the client device of the user.
US11531710B2	System and method of graph feature extraction based on adjacency matrix A method and system of graph feature extraction and graph classification based on adjacency matrix is provided. The invention first concentrates the connection information elements in the adjacency matrix into a specific diagonal region of the adjacency matrix which reduces the non-connection information elements in advance. Then the subgraph structure of the graph is further extracted along the diagonal direction using the filter matrix. Further, it uses a stacked convolutional neural network to extract a larger subgraph structure. On one hand, it greatly reduces the amount of computation and complexity, getting rid of the limitations caused by computational complexity and window size. On the other hand, it can capture large subgraph structure through a small window, as well as deep features from the implicit correlation structures at both vertex and edge level, which improves speed and accuracy of graph classification.
US11531708B2	System and method for question answering with derived glossary clusters A method, system, and computer-usable medium are disclosed for answering general background questions on a topic from documents with glossary sections, A set of documents with glossaries is received from which a set of terms and associated glossary entries are extracted, where each term has a corresponding glossary entry. Association is performed of related glossary entries. The associations is based on a similarity algorithm to form glossary clusters where each glossary cluster refers to one or more glossary entries. A query with query terms tailored to general information is received. The glossary clusters are ranked relevance to the query terms to form a ranked set. A set of glossary clusters meeting a high ranked threshold is selected and provided.
US11531706B2	Graph search using index vertices Systems, methods, and software described herein provide graph searching via index vertices. In one implementation, a graph management system may receive a request to identify vertices of a first vertex type in a graph, wherein the request defines one or more attributes associated with the vertices. In response to the request, the graph management system may identify one or more index vertices associated with the one or more attributes, wherein the one or more index vertices is associated with one or more second vertex types. The graph management system may further identify the vertices in the graph with edges that couple to the one or more index vertices.
US11531702B2	Electronic device for generating video comprising character and method thereof An electronic device and method are disclosed. The electronic device includes a display, a processor and memory. The processor may implement the method, including analyzing, by a processor, a first video to identify any characters included in the first video, displaying one or more icons representing one or more characters identified in the first video via a display, receiving, by input circuitry, a first user input selecting a first icon representing a first character from among the one or more icons, based on the first user input, selecting image frames of the first video that include the first character from among image frames included in the first video, and generating, by the processor, a second video including the selected image frames. A second embodiment includes automatically selecting images from a gallery including one or more characters for generation of a video.
US11531692B2	Title rating and improvement process and system In accordance with one embodiment, a method can be implemented that comprises receiving as an input a title of a video from a video sharing web site; parsing the title of the video into one or more n-grams; computing with a computer a title-searchability-score by utilizing the one or more n-grams.
US11531690B1	Geospatial visualization and query tool A geospatial query and navigation process generates a first filtered result comprising assets that satisfy a user generated query, where each asset includes a geospatial location and an exposure rank that estimates a risk associated with the asset based at least in part, upon a policy limit of a policy associated with the asset. The process also generates a current view of a geographical map, and positions indicia on the current view of the geographical map representing assets within the first filtered result according to their geospatial location that are also located within the current view of the geographical map and that also satisfy a predefined exposure rank requirement. The process modifies the current view of the geographical map to alter displayed geographical boundaries responsive to a user entered selection, whereupon the displayed indicia representing assets is updated according to the modified view of the geographical map.
US11531689B2	Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and non-transitory computer readable medium An information processing apparatus includes an extraction unit and a generation unit. The extraction unit extracts a common topic from profiles of plural users. The generation unit generates a community including users who are associated with the topic extracted by the extraction unit.
US11531679B1	Incident review interface for a service monitoring system A computing machine performs a correlation search against KPI data for one or more services using a selection criteria and a triggering condition. When the triggering condition is satisfied a notable event or incident is created and information about the notable event is presented using a user interface that may have interactive elements.
US11531678B2	Recommendations from comments on online social networks In one embodiment, a method includes, by a client system of a user of an online social network, sending, to one or more computing devices of the online social network, a text post inputted by the user. The text post is associated with a query. The method includes receiving, from the one or more computing devices in response to the text post, an initial recommendation list. The initial recommendation list includes references to one or more objects referenced in comments associated with one or more prior posts associated with the query. The method includes sending, to the one or more computing devices, a request for updates to the initial recommendation list. Moreover, the method includes receiving, from the one or more computing devices in response to the request, an updated recommendation list comprising references to one or more objects referenced in comments associated with the text post.
US11531676B2	Method and system for anomaly detection based on statistical closed-form isolation forest analysis Certain embodiments of the present disclosure provide techniques for detecting anomalous activity in a computing system. The method generally includes receiving a request to perform an action in a computing system. The request is added to a historical time-series data set. A portion of the historical time-series data set is selected for use in determining whether the received request is an anomalous request, and a set of previously identified outliers are removed from the selected portion of the historical time-series data set. An anomaly score is calculated based on a statistical analysis of the received request and the selected portion of the historical time-series data set, wherein the anomaly score comprises a predicted number of operations executed to isolate the received request from the selected portion of the historical time-series data set. One or more actions are taken to process the received request based on the calculated anomaly score.
US11531675B1	Techniques for linking data to provide improved searching capabilities A machine-learning model may be previously trained with a supervised learning algorithm to identify whether a pair of labels provided as input are similar. A locality sensitive hashing forest (LSH) may be generated for the set of candidate labels. When a user later identifies an input label (e.g., by search query, by interface selection, etc.) the input label may be used to query the LSH forest to identify a subset of the candidate labels. This subset may be used to generate respective pairs comprising the input label, one of the subset candidate labels, and a corresponding feature set generated for the pair. This data may be provided to the model to identify a degree to which the pair of labels are similar. The user may be provided one or more recommendations including similar terms identified from the model's output.
US11531674B2	System and method for supporting rollback of changes made to target systems via an integration platform Systems and methods for supporting rollback of changes made to target systems via an integration platform. Systems and methods can support reverting changes made to target applications via an integration platform (e.g., integration platform as a service (iPaaS)) with the help of a rollback activity. In order to aid the development and design of integration orchestrations, the integration platform can provide suggested rollback actions. In case of a failure in integration runtime, this rollback activity will revert changes made to the target applications prior to the point of fault. This helps ensure that systems remain in consistent state.
US11531672B1	Computerized system and method for electronically synchronizing work station sessions over a network Disclosed are systems and methods for improving file and application management supported by or configured with an installed application program or platform running the client's device or on the cloud (or on a server). The present disclosure describes computer systems and methods for an application that provides a single-touch/input, session management function that allows a user to store all desired information related to open files and programs. The desired information also includes status information related to the open files and programs, whereby a user can “pause” working on the files/programs by closing the files/programs, and when executing the disclosed application, the previous status of the files/programs can be reloaded, enabling the user to continue working seamlessly.
US11531670B2	Methods and systems for capturing data of a database record related to an event Embodiments are directed to methods and systems for capturing data of a database record related to an event. Each record can comprise a record of a service provided to a consumer by a service provider of a plurality of service providers and a records management and processing system can comprise an intermediary between systems of the plurality of service providers and systems of a plurality of responsible entities. The records management and processing system can predict possible missing data in one or more records of the plurality of records in the database, select at least one record of the one or more records of the plurality of records predicted to have possible missing data, and initiate, for each selected record, a workflow for further processing of each selected record. The further processing can be directed to collecting the missing data.
US11531665B2	Automated database index management A database index management system uses one or more machine learning models to analyze a query log in relation to a database. A machine learning model may identify a query pattern and/or a change in the query pattern from the query log, identify a column associated with the query pattern, and identify an addition, removal, or modification of an index related to the identified column. The database index management system may perform one or more additions, removals or modifications of indices of the database based on query patterns identified in the query log. The database index management system continuously improves database performance in response to changing database usage patterns over time.
US11531664B2	Stand in tables A method for pre-utilizing tables before refresh includes selecting a query for execution in a data analytics application and identifying a table specified by the query, for instance a materialized table. Another operation includes computing an encoding, such as a hash value, for at least one portion of the identified table. Another operation includes comparing the computed encoding to a pre-stored encoding for the at least one portion of the identified table. On the condition that the computed encoding is identical to the pre-stored encoding, the operations include utilizing the identified table in executing the query in lieu of re-materializing the identified table. Otherwise, on the condition that the computed encoding differs from the pre-stored encoding, the operations include re-materializing the identified table before returning the results of the query.
US11531658B2	Criterion-based retention of data object versions A method and apparatus for criterion-based retention of data object versions are disclosed. In the method and apparatus, a plurality of keys are sorted in accordance with an ordering scheme, whereby a key of the plurality of keys has an associated version of a data object and a timestamp. The key is inspected in accordance with the ordering scheme to determine based at least in part on the timestamp whether a criterion for performing an action on the associated version of the data object is satisfied. If the criterion is satisfied, a marker key is added to the plurality of keys, whereby the marker key precedes the inspected key according to the ordering scheme and indicates that the criterion is satisfied.
US11531657B1	Autonomous workload management in an analytic platform A data store system may include at least one storage device to store a plurality of data and at least one processor with access to the storage device. The at least one processor may receive a plurality of features associated with an environment. The at least one processor may further generate a state representation of the environment based on the plurality of features. The at least one processor may further generate a plurality of predicted future states of the environment based on the state representation. The at least one processor may further generate at least one action to be performed by the environment based on the plurality of predicted future states. The at least one processor may provide the at least one action to the environment to be performed. A method and computer-readable medium are also disclosed.
US11531655B2	Automatically improving data quality Methods, systems, and computer readable medium include receiving, from a user device, a request for a digital component, determining an attribute of the user based information provided by the user or information contained in the request, identifying a behavioral model corresponding to the attribute, dynamically altering a presentation of an item depicted by the digital component based on the identified behavioral model, determining that the user corresponds to an underrepresented segment of a user population in a database containing information about the item, and in response, generating a digital component that includes the dynamically altered presentation of the item, solicits feedback from the user regarding the item, and includes a feedback mechanism, updating the database to include the feedback obtained, and modifying presentation of the item when distributed to other users having the attribute of the user based, at least in part, on the feedback obtained.
US11531651B1	Dynamic data schema service A dynamic schema service (DSS) stores and vends data schema for use by one or more client services. Each schema includes one or more data fields that describe related entities. The DSS also stores meta-schema, which defines limits for field definitions in the schema and other constraints. Using the DSS, a service owner defines fields and constraints unique to its business application and can revise those fields and constraints over time. When the client service requires a schema, the client service sends a request to the DSS, and the DSS responds with the current version of the schema for use by the client service. Service owners are able to edit their schemas in DSS, and the changes are immediately implemented in the corresponding services by virtue of the schema request to DSS. In some embodiments, the DSS employs a hierarchical graph structure to determine the requested schema.
US11531646B2	Facilitating generation and utilization of group folders Methods, computer systems, computer-storage media, and graphical user interfaces are provided for facilitating generation and utilization of group folders, according to embodiments of the present technology. In embodiments, an indication to merge a first folder associated with a first entity with a second folder associated with a second entity is received. Based on the indication to merge, a group folder associated with the first entity and the second entity is generated. A representation of the group folder is provided for presentation via a navigation pane of the messaging application. A selection of the representation of the group folder can cause execution of a search query in association with an index of messages to obtain messages associated with the first entity and/or the second entity.
US11531645B2	Method, apparatus and computer program product for improving data indexing in a group-based communication platform Methods, apparatus and computer program product for improving data indexing in a group-based communication platform are described herein. The group-based communication platform having a computed collection and one or more live collections. The computer-implemented method includes generating a new collection, the new collection being generated at a snapshot time point; associating a collection manager with the new collection; retrieving a plurality of electronic messages from the computed collection and the one or more live collections; writing the plurality of electronic messages to the new collection, the writing being completed at a cut-over time point; synchronizing the new collection with the one or more live collections based on the plurality of electronic messages; and redirecting the read alias and the write alias from the computed collection to the new collection.
US11531643B2	Computer system and method of evaluating changes to data in a prediction model Provided is a computer system to present information useful for achieving purposes related to an object by utilizing AI prediction. The computer system manages a prediction model for predicting an object event based on evaluation data and feature profiling database that defines a change rule of each of the plurality of feature values included in the evaluation data, generates change policy data by changing the plurality of feature values included in the evaluation data based on the feature profiling database, calculates an evaluation value indicating effectiveness of the change policy data, and generates display data for presenting the change policy data and the evaluation value as information useful for achieving purposes related to the object.
US11531640B1	Systems and methods for intelligent digital item discovery and machine learning-informed handling of digital items and digital item governance Systems and methods of computing classifications for and migrating digital content that includes accessing a digital content corpus within a source data storage system; in response to accessing the digital content corpus, for each distinct item of digital content of the plurality of distinct items of digital content: computing, via one or more digital content machine learning classification models, a content classification inference; identifying automated digital content handling tasks of a plurality of distinct digital content handling tasks based on the content classification inference; executing the automated content handling tasks identified for each distinct item of digital content, wherein executing the automated content handling tasks includes: designating a storage location within a target data storage system based on the in-migration content classification inference; and migrating a respective item of digital content from the source data storage system to the designated storage location within the target data storage system.
US11531637B2	Embedding rings on a toroid computer network A computer comprising a plurality of interconnected processing nodes arranged in a toroid configuration in which multiple layers of interconnected nodes are arranged along an axis; each layer comprising a plurality of processing nodes connected in a ring in a non-axial plane by at least an intralayer respective set of links between each pair of neighbouring processing nodes, the links in each set adapted to operate simultaneously; wherein each of the processing nodes in each layer is connected to a respective corresponding node in each adjacent layer by an interlayer link to form respective rings along the axis; the computer programmed to provide a plurality of embedded one-dimensional logical paths and to transmit data around each of the embedded one-dimensional paths in such a manner that the plurality of embedded one-dimensional logical paths operate simultaneously, each logical path using all processing nodes of the computer in a sequence.
US11531636B2	Storage system, method, and apparatus for fast IO on PCIE devices Embodiments of systems and methods for fast input/output (IO) on PCIE devices are described. Such methods include receiving an IO request from a user or application, the IO request comprising instructions for communicating data with a host system, the host system comprising a processing device and a memory device, analyzing information from the IO request in an IO block analyzer to select one of a plurality of communication paths for communicating the data with the host system, defining a routing instruction in a transfer routing information transmitter in response to the selected communication path, communicating the routing instruction in a Transaction Layer Packet (TLP) to an integrated IO (IIO) module of the host system routing the data from the peripheral device to either the processing device or the memory device according to the routing instruction with a data transfer router.
US11531635B2	Technologies for establishing communication channel between accelerator device kernels Technologies for providing I/O channel abstraction for accelerator device kernels include an accelerator device comprising circuitry to obtain availability data indicative of an availability of one or more accelerator device kernels in a system, including one or more physical communication paths to each accelerator device kernel. The circuitry is also configured to determine whether to establish a logical communication path between a kernel of the present accelerator device and another accelerator device kernel and establish, in response to a determination to establish the logical communication path as a function of the obtained availability data, the logical communication path between the kernel of the present accelerator device and the other accelerator device kernel.
US11531634B2	System and method for supporting multi-path and/or multi-mode NMVe over fabrics devices A system includes a fabric switch including a motherboard, a baseboard management controller (BMC), a network switch configured to transport network signals, and a PCIe switch configured to transport PCIe signals; a midplane; and a plurality of device ports. Each of the plurality of device ports is configured to connect a storage device to the motherboard of the fabric switch over the midplane and carry the network signals and the PCIe signals over the midplane. The storage device is configurable in multiple modes based a protocol established over a fabric connection between the system and the storage device.
US11531631B2	Storage device and control method for storage device The number of QoS group execution IO with respect to a logical device is retained in both of an inter-controller shared memory and an in-controller shared memory. Then, a processor of a storage device compares the number of in-controller execution IO with an update interval threshold value set by the following expression. Update Interval Threshold Value=(“QoS Group IOUpper Limit Value”−(“Number of QoS Group Execution IO” in In-Controller Shared Memory+“Number of In-Controller Execution IO”))×“Margin Ratio Coefficient”÷“Number of Controllers in System” Then, the processor adds the number of in-controller execution IO to the number of QoS group execution IO of the inter-controller shared memory when the number of in-controller execution IO is greater than or equal to the update interval threshold value, and performs rewriting in the inter-controller shared memory.
US11531630B2	Memory controller, memory system and operating method of the memory system for scheduling data access across channels of memory chips within the memory system An operating method of a memory system including a memory device including a plurality of memory chips is provided. The operating method includes setting a parameter indicating a number of the memory chips allowed to operate in parallel for each of a plurality of operation statuses, based on information about power consumption of each of the plurality of operation statuses of a memory chip among the memory chips; obtaining information about an operation status of each of the plurality of memory chips; and scheduling data access across a plurality of channels respectively corresponding to the plurality of memory chips, based on the parameter and the information about the operation status of each of the plurality of memory chips.
US11531626B2	System and method to protect digital content on external storage An example authentication device disclosed herein is to access a message received via a wireless interface from an adapter, the message to indicate that a host device has connected to the adapter, the host device different from the authentication device. The disclosed example authentication device is also to determine whether to allow the host device to access a storage device. The disclosed example authentication device is further to transmit authentication data to the adapter via the wireless interface, the authentication data to specify whether the host device is allowed to access the storage device.
US11531624B2	Address translation in a data processing apparatus Apparatus for data processing and a method of data processing are provided. Address translation storage stores address translations between first set addresses and second set addresses, and responds to a request comprising a first set address to return a response comprising a second set address if the required address translation is currently stored therein. If it is not the request is forwarded towards memory in a memory hierarchy. A pending request storage stores entries for received requests and in response to reception of the request, if a stored entry for a previous request indicates that the previous request has been forwarded towards the memory and an expected response to the previous request will provide the address translation, intercepts the request to delay its reception by the address translation storage. Bandwidth pressure on the address translation storage is thus relieved.
US11531623B2	Memory sharing via a unified memory architecture A method and system for sharing memory between a central processing unit (CPU) and a graphics processing unit (GPU) of a computing device are disclosed herein. The method includes allocating a surface within a physical memory and mapping the surface to a plurality of virtual memory addresses within a CPU page table. The method also includes mapping the surface to a plurality of graphics virtual memory addresses within an I/O device page table.
US11531619B2	High bandwidth memory system with crossbar switch for dynamically programmable distribution scheme A system comprises a processor coupled to a plurality of memory units. Each of the plurality of memory units includes a request processing unit and a plurality of memory banks. Each request processing unit includes a plurality of decomposition units and a crossbar switch, the crossbar switch communicatively connecting each of the plurality of decomposition units to each of the plurality of memory banks. The processor includes a plurality of processing elements and a communication network communicatively connecting the plurality of processing elements to the plurality of memory units. At least a first processing element of the plurality of processing elements includes a control logic unit and a matrix compute engine. The control logic unit is configured to access the plurality of memory units using a dynamically programmable distribution scheme.
US11531618B2	Memory modules and methods of operating same A memory module includes a first memory device, a second memory device, and a processing buffer circuit that is connected to the first memory device and the second memory device (independently of each other) and a host. A processing buffer circuit is provided, which includes a processing circuit and a buffer. The processing circuit processes at least one of data received from the host, data stored in the first memory device, or data stored in the second memory device based on a processing command received from the host. The buffer is configured to store data processed by the processing circuit. The processing buffer circuit is configured to communicate with the host in compliance with a DDR SDRAM standard.
US11531615B2	Controller and memory system for performing garbage collection operation, and operating method thereof A controller controls an operation of a semiconductor memory device. The controller includes a request analyzer, a storage, and a garbage collection controller. The request analyzer generates invalid data information, based on an erase request received from a host. The storage stores a garbage collection reference table representing memory blocks excluded from selection as a victim block on which a garbage collection operation is to be performed, based on the invalid data information. The garbage collection controller controls the garbage collection operation on the semiconductor memory device, based on exclusion block information generated according to the garbage collection reference table.
US11531610B2	Time cost estimation for activity feed notifications Disclosed is a method involving identifying a first activity a user is to complete using a computing resource; causing a client device operated by the user to output a first notification concerning the first activity, the first notification including at least one first user interface element with which the user can interact to begin the first activity; determining an estimated time for the user to complete the first activity; and causing the client device to output an indication of the estimated time in association with the first notification.
US11531609B2	Power consumption estimation method, power consumption suppression method, environmental contribution estimation method and power consumption control apparatus A power consumption estimation method is provided, which is performed by a power consumption control device including a correlation database that stores data indicating a correlation between an operation state and power consumption of at least one household information communication device. The power consumption estimation method includes an operation state information acquisition step of acquiring operation state information from each household information communication device, a power consumption acquisition step of acquiring power consumption of each household information communication device by referring to the correlation database by using the operation state information, and a presenting step of presenting power consumption information by function for the at least one household information communication device, based on the power consumption of each household information communication device.
US11531608B2	Error signaling windows for phase-differential protocols Systems, methods, and apparatus for error signaling on a serial bus are described. An apparatus includes a bus interface configured to couple the apparatus to a serial bus, a phase-differential decoder configured to decode data from transitions between pairs of symbols in a sequence of symbols received from the serial bus, each symbol being representative of signaling state of the serial bus, and a processor configured to detect an indicator of an error signaling window in signaling state of two wires of the serial bus, the indicator of the error signaling window corresponding to a prohibited combination of symbols or a delay in control signaling, signaling an error through the bus interface during the error signaling window when an error is detected in the sequence of symbols or in timing of the indicator of the error signaling window.
US11531603B2	Byzantine agreement in open networks Systems and techniques are provided for Byzantine agreement in open networks. An indication to change a validation network for an open network from a current validation network to a next validation network may be broadcast. An agreement to change to the validation network to the next validation network may be. An instance of external validity multi-valued Byzantine agreement may be run to determine a continuing sequence number to be used by the next validation network based on the sequence numbers of amendments applied to decentralized database copies stored node computing devices of the open network. The next validation network may be switched to as the validation network for the open network after the continuing sequence number is determined. An amendment validated by the next validation network may be applied to a decentralized database copy. The amendment may include a sequence number that is higher than the continuing sequence number.
US11531582B2	Data storage device dynamically relocating data sectors based on map-out value A data storage device is disclosed comprising a non-volatile storage medium (NVSM) having a plurality of data sectors and a plurality of reserve sectors. A map-out value is generated for each of a first plurality of the data sectors based on a read latency of each of the first plurality of data sectors, and when the map-out value of a first data sector in the first plurality of data sectors exceeds a threshold, a first logical block address (LBA) is mapped from the first data sector to a first reserve sector. When the map-out value of a second data sector in the first plurality of data sectors exceeds the map-out value of the first data sector, the first LBA is mapped from the first reserve sector back to the first data sector, and a second LBA is mapped from the second data sector to the first reserve sector.
US11531574B2	System and method for creating and managing an interactive network of applications A method of creating an interactive application network includes displaying, by a processor, a workspace and a toolbox on a display screen, instantiating, by the processor, a first interaction container to display a first output in response to a first user input, instantiating, by the processor, a second interaction container to display a second output based on the first output, in response to a second user input, the second user input being a user interaction with the first interactive container, and linking, by the processor, the first interactive container with the second interactive container via an interactive link to form the interactive application network.
US11531573B2	Asynchronous C#-JS data binding bridge A method and system provides for asynchronous two-way binding between a user interface and a data model which are implemented on different frameworks. The system includes data, data model, and bridge controllers. The data controller provides a front-end binding framework that interacts with a user interface of a user device to manage a bindable property or method for a view on the user device. The data model controller provides a back-end binding framework that manages a data model, the front-end binding framework and the back-end binding framework being different types of frameworks. The bridge controller implements asynchronous two-way binding for the bindable property or method between the front-end binding framework and the back-end binding framework to update the bindable property or method in the data model when data changes at the user interface and to update the view on the user device when data changes at the data model.
US11531555B2	Selective pruning of a system configuration model for system reconfigurations An embodiment of the invention may include a method, computer program product, and computer system for reconfiguration of a computing environment from an as-is input/output (I/O) configuration to a to-be I/O configuration. An embodiment may include normalizing respective hierarchical models of the as-is and the to-be I/O configurations. The hierarchical models each comprise a hierarchical structure of leaf and non-leaf nodes. Normalizing comprises the application of syntactical transformation rules to the hierarchical models such that their respective I/O configurations are defined in a syntactically consistent manner. An embodiment may include creating respective hash tree representations of the first hierarchical model and the second hierarchical model. Nodes of the hash tree representations are checksum values. Nodes of the hash tree representations reflect the hierarchical structure of their respective hierarchical models. An embodiment may include pruning one or more nodes of the hash tree representations.
US11531552B2	Executing multiple programs simultaneously on a processor core Systems and methods are disclosed for allocating resources to contexts in block-based processor architectures. In one example of the disclosed technology, a processor is configured to spatially allocate resources between multiple contexts being executed by the processor, including caches, functional units, and register files. In a second example of the disclosed technology, a processor is configured to temporally allocate resources between multiple contexts, for example, on a clock cycle basis, including caches, register files, and branch predictors. Each context is guaranteed access to its allocated resources to avoid starvation from contexts competing for resources of the processor. A results buffer can be used for folding larger instruction blocks into portions that can be mapped to smaller-sized instruction windows. The results buffer stores operand results that can be passed to subsequent portions of an instruction block.
US11531550B2	Program thread selection between a plurality of execution pipelines Techniques are disclosed relating to an apparatus that includes a plurality of execution pipelines including first and second execution pipelines, a shared circuit that is shared by the first and second execution pipelines, and a decode circuit. The first and second execution pipelines are configured to concurrently perform operations for respective instructions. The decode circuit is configured to assign a first program thread to the first execution pipeline and a second program thread to the second execution pipeline. In response to determining that respective instructions from the first and second program threads that utilize the shared circuit are concurrently available for dispatch, the decode circuit is further configured to select between the first program thread and the second program thread.
US11531544B1	Method and system for selective early release of physical registers based on a release field value in a scheduler The system creates, in a scheduler data structure, a first entry for a consumer instruction associated with a logical register ID. The first entry includes: a scheduler entry ID; a physical register ID allocated for the logical register ID; a checkpoint ID; one or more scheduler entry IDs for one or more prior producer instructions; and a release field which indicates whether to early release a physical register. The system updates a register alias table entry to include the scheduler entry ID and the checkpoint ID of the consumer instruction. The system receives the scheduler entry ID and a checkpoint ID for a respective prior producer instruction. Responsive to determining that the received checkpoint ID does not match the checkpoint ID associated with the consumer instruction, the system sets a release field to indicate that a physical register is to remain allocated.
US11531535B2	Firmware upgrade method and apparatus, and terminal Embodiments disclose a firmware upgrade method and apparatus, and a terminal. The method includes: sequentially obtaining first upgrade data and operation instructions in all data blocks in a block differential upgrade package; converting first data into a second upgrade data in an image of an old firmware version according to the operation instruction; and controlling the first upgrade data and the second upgrade data to overwrite a to-be-upgraded data area in the image of the old firmware version. An operation of upgrading to an image of a new firmware version is completed in the image of the old firmware version based on the first upgrade data and the second upgrade data. In addition, in comparison with a conventional differential upgrade package, in the block differential upgrade package, a part or all of data in the conventional differential upgrade package is replaced with an operation instruction.
US11531532B2	Remote deployment of provisioned packages Disclosed are various approaches for remotely deploying provisioned packages. An installer for an application is stored in a cache location of the client device. A hash of the installer is then written to a registry of the client device. The installer is then executed to install the application on the client device. Then, the client device is registered with a management service. Subsequently, a registration confirmation is received from the management service. The hash of the installer is then confirmed and the installed application is identified to the management service as a managed application installed on the client device.
US11531528B2	Systems and methods for non-disruptive continuous software delivery A configurator interface engine generates a graphical interface (i) presenting continuous delivery segments, (ii) receiving a first user input selecting a first segment of the continuous delivery segments, and (iii) receiving a second user input selecting a second segment of the continuous delivery segments. A configurator engine (i) configures tools based on toolchain rules without requiring input from a user, (ii) generates a toolchain comprising the tools after the configuration, (iii) determines a segment dependency between the first and second segments, and (iv) generates a continuous delivery pipeline model based on the inputs, dependency, and continuous delivery pipeline model. An orchestrator engine executes an instance of the continuous delivery pipeline model. A non-disruptive toolchain engine triggers at least a portion of the toolchain to perform a continuous delivery action associated with the continuous delivery pipeline model in response to the execution, and permits a non-disruptive adjustment of the toolchain.
US11531506B2	Image processing apparatus having log generation, control method, and storage medium An image processing apparatus detects a change in job information which is information related to an execution of the job, and generates a log related to the processing of the job. In a condition that the job includes a plurality of pages, in a case where the change in the job information is not detected, one log is generated with the job as a unit, and in a case where the change in the job information is detected, a log is generated even during the job based on job information before the change. In a case where the change in the job information is detected at a first point in time, a log is generated as of the first point in time, and in a case where the change from the first point in time in the job information is detected at a second point in time which is a point later than the first point in time, a log from the first point in time to the second point in time is generated.
US11531504B2	Information processing apparatus, method, and storage medium An information processing apparatus stores first software for generating print data according to a predetermined specification and sends the generated print data to a printer according to Internet Printing Protocol. The information processing apparatus includes a controller that can search for printers, receive a user instruction for selecting a first printer from the detected printers, wherein the first printer notifies the information processing apparatus the first printer complies with the predetermined specification, set the information processing apparatus to generate print data to be sent to the selected first printer with the first software, and receive another user instruction for selecting a second printer from the detected printers. If the second printer does not notify the information processing apparatus of information indicating that the second printer complies with the predetermined specification, second software is downloaded for generating print data to be sent to the selected second printer.
US11531499B2	Data storage that controls decode performance by changing program PLC A data storage device includes a memory device and a controller coupled to the memory device. When a program operation occurs, the controller is configured to determine a decode time for the data prior to programming the data to the memory device. The decode time determined by decoding the encoded data. A number of program loop cycles is determined using the decode time. The data is programmed to the memory device with the number of program loop cycles determined.
US11531494B2	Storage device and method of operating the same Provided herein may be a storage device configured to check a status of a memory device based on data read without output of a status check command, and determine a subsequent command to be generated. The storage device may include a memory device and a memory controller configured to control the memory device. The memory device may include a read data generator configured to generate new read data including both read data corresponding to a read command received from the memory controller and information indicating a status of the memory device. The memory controller may include: a status information determiner configured to determine the status of the memory device based on the new read data received from the read data generator and generate status information and a command generator configured to generate a command to be output to the memory device based on the status information.
US11531493B2	Request throttling in distributed storage systems The disclosed technology includes an example system that has a request throttling manager that is configured to receive a first file data request, queue the first file data request in a first request queue, and process the first file data request based on the first token bucket. The first token bucket includes a sufficient first quantity of first tokens to process the first file data request. The system further includes a storage manager configured to access one or more storage nodes of a plurality of storage nodes of a distributed storage system in response to the first file data request.
US11531490B2	Data transfer in port switch memory The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods related to data transfer in memory. An example apparatus can include a first number of memory devices coupled to a host via a first number of ports and a second number of memory devices coupled to the first number of memory device via a second number of ports, wherein a first number of commands are executed to transfer data between the first number of memory devices and the host via the first number of ports and a second number of commands are executed to transfer data between the first number of memory device and the second number of memory device via the second number of ports.
US11531489B2	Integrated circuit device, system-on-chip including the same, and packet processing method A system-on-chip includes a first intellectual property (IP) generating a plurality of request packets; and a second IP generating a plurality of response packets based on the plurality of request packets, wherein the second IP includes a plurality of processing elements processing the plurality of request packets and generating the plurality of response packets; a distributer, when the plurality of request packets are input from the first IP, determining a scheduling policy based on a packet type of the plurality of request packets and distributing the plurality of request packets to the plurality of processing elements according to the determined scheduling policy; and an aggregator, when the plurality of response packets are received from each of the plurality of processing elements, aggregating the plurality of response packets according to the determined scheduling policy.
US11531486B2	Migrating data from a large extent pool to a small extent pool A computer-implemented method according to one embodiment includes identifying a request to migrate data associated with a volume from a source storage pool having a first rank extent size to a destination storage pool having a second rank extent size smaller than the first rank extent size, creating a correspondence between logical volume extents of the volume and physical offset locations within rank extents of the source storage pool, and migrating data from one or more ranks of the source storage pool to one or more ranks of the destination storage pool, utilizing the correspondence between the logical volume extents of the volume and the physical offset locations within the rank extents of the source storage pool.
US11531480B2	Storage device that secures a block for a stream or namespace and system having the storage device A storage device includes a nonvolatile semiconductor memory device including a plurality of physical blocks and a memory controller. The memory controller is configured to associate one or more physical blocks to each of a plurality of stream IDs, execute a first command containing a first stream ID received from a host, by storing write data included in the write IO in the one or more physical blocks associated with the first stream ID, and execute a second command containing a second stream ID received from the host, by selecting a first physical block that includes valid data and invalid data, transfer the valid data stored in the first physical block to a second physical block, and associate the first physical block from which the valid data has been transferred, with the second stream ID.
US11531476B2	Memory system and memory system discard method Disclosed is a memory system including a controller configured to authenticate a user who inputs a request for discarding the memory system, to verify whether the request is valid when the user is authenticated as a legitimate user, to register discard activation of the memory system when the request is valid, and to transmit the request to a memory device; and the memory device configured to determine whether the transmitted request is valid, and to register the discard activation of the memory system when the request is valid.
US11531473B1	Selective HMB backup in NVM for low power mode A data storage device includes a memory device and a controller coupled to the memory device. The controller is configured to store XOR parity data in a host memory buffer (HMB) of a host device, monitor a health of the memory device, determine that a threshold corresponding to the health of one or more blocks of the memory device has been reached or exceeded, and copy the XOR parity data from the HMB to the memory device. The controller is further configured to receive a low power mode indication from the host device and enter the low power mode after copying the XOR parity data from the HMB to the memory device. The controller is further configured to correct read failures using the XOR parity data retrieved from the HMB.
US11531472B2	Scalable memory system protocol supporting programmable number of levels of indirection A memory device includes a memory component that stores data and a processor. The processor may receive requests from a requesting component to perform a plurality of data operations, generate a plurality of packets associated with the plurality of data operations, and continuously transmit each of the plurality of packets until each of the plurality of packets are transmitted. Each of the plurality of packets after the first packet of the plurality of packets is transmitted on a subsequent clock cycle immediately after a previous packet is transmitted.
US11531468B2	System and method for managing storage space Disclosed herein is a technique for managing storage space in a user device. Users are provided with options to manage storage space usage in an organized and efficient manner. The options can include recommendations to the user regarding automatically and/or manually purging data from the user device to free up a particular amount of storage space that is needed to carry out a particular task.
US11531462B2	Pseudo force sense generation apparatus For efficient presentation of pseudo force sense, a pseudo force sense generation apparatus includes: a base mechanism; and a contact mechanism that performs periodical asymmetric motion relative to the base mechanism and gives force based on the asymmetric motion to skin or mucous membrane with which the contact mechanism is in direct or indirect contact. A mass of the contact mechanism is smaller than a mass of the base mechanism, or the mass of the contact mechanism is smaller than a sum of the mass of the base mechanism and a mass of a mechanism that is attached to the base mechanism.
US11531452B2	Digital processing systems and methods for group-based document edit tracking in collaborative work systems Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for enabling simultaneous group editing of electronically stored documents are disclosed. The systems and methods may involve accessing a collaborative electronic document; linking a first entity and a second entity to form a first collaborative group; linking a third entity and a fourth entity to form a second collaborative group; receiving a first alteration to the collaborative electronic document; tagging the first alteration with a first collaborative group indicator; receiving a second alteration to the collaborative electronic document; tagging the second alteration with the first collaborative group indicator; receiving a third alteration to the collaborative electronic document; tagging the third alteration with a second collaborative group indicator; receiving a fourth alteration to the collaborative electronic document; tagging the fourth alteration with the second collaborative group indicator; and rendering a display of the collaborative electronic document.
US11531449B2	Information processing device, information processing method, program and storage medium for efficiently managing a browsing time of a window on a browser by another window An information processing device generates web page data of a first window including a program causing a terminal device to execute an elapsed time determination process for obtaining first time information at a timing of a transition from the first window to a second window, obtaining second time information at a timing during which a process in the first window is executable in a state after the transition to the second window, calculating an elapsed time from a difference between the first time information and the second time information, and executing a predetermined process according to a comparison between the elapsed time and a threshold time. The information processing device executes a process for transmitting the web page data to the terminal device and causing the terminal device to present the web page data.
US11531446B1	Business, jobs and religious apps framework (BJRAF) The invention provides a technology for electronic job processing which includes hiring, rating and paying short term workers. The method of architecting database schemas in conjunction with algorithms provides modules that dynamically automate processes including invoices on a mobile phone app. After authenticating a user on a mobile phone or computer, the algorithms display departmental user menus that provide functions based on user type. The rating mechanism which utilizes a numerical method to assign percentage values to a graphical rating input and stores it numerically in a database or file from where it is modified by a positive or negative value enables worker selection based on competence. The invention provides a window for displaying ads in the mobile apps in form of text, video or audio.
US11531442B2	User interface providing supplemental and social information Systems and methods are provided which implement techniques for providing supplemental and social information along with primary information. In one implementation, a user interface is provided with various sections. One section plays back a main item of content, while a second section displays supplemental information. A third section provides interactive tools for a user to communicate or share information with other users. For example, while playing a movie in the first portion, the social networking section may provide a chat interface in the third portion along with social network service controls to post or share user input, or to view posts from friends about the item of content.
US11531440B2	Pressure sensing display module and panel having the same A pressure sensing display module has a display area and a wiring area surrounding a periphery of the display area. The pressure sensing display module includes a force sensitive unit provided in the wiring area; and a display unit provided corresponding to the display area. Information generated by the display unit is displayed on the display area.
US11531438B2	Differential drive and sense for touch sensor panel Touch sensor panels (or touch screens) can improve signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) using touch electrode patterns for differential drive and/or differential sense techniques. In some examples, a touch sensor panel can include a two-dimensional array of touch nodes formed from a plurality of touch electrodes. Each column (or row) of touch nodes can be driven with a plurality of drive signals. For example, a first column (or row) of touch nodes can be driven by a first drive signal applied to one or more first touch nodes in the first column (or row) and a second drive signal applied to a one or more second touch nodes of the first column (or row). In some examples, the first drive signal and the second drive signal can be complimentary drive signals. In some examples, each row (or column) of touch electrodes can be sensed by differential sense circuitry.
US11531433B2	Manufacturing method of touch display device A touch display device includes a flexible substrate, a light emitting structure layer, and a flexible touch sensing layer. The flexible substrate has a first surface and a second surface opposite to each other. The light emitting structure layer is disposed on the first surface of the flexible substrate. The flexible touch sensing layer is disposed on the second surface of the flexible substrate.
US11531430B2	Fingerprint detection apparatus and electronic device A fingerprint detection apparatus and an electronic device are provided. The fingerprint detection apparatus is applied under a display screen, the fingerprint detection apparatus includes a plurality of fingerprint detecting units distributed in an array or arranged in a staggered manner, and the fingerprint detecting unit includes: a plurality of optical sensing pixels; at least one micro lens disposed above the plurality of optical sensing pixels; and at least one light shielding layer disposed between the at least one micro lens and the plurality of optical sensing pixels, each of the at least one light shielding layer being provided with an opening corresponding to the plurality of optical sensing pixels; where oblique light signals in multiple directions are respectively transmitted to the plurality of optical sensing pixels through an opening provided in the at least one light shielding layer after being converged by the at least one micro lens.
US11531428B2	Method for driving touch-and-display device, driving circuit, and touch-and-display device The disclosure provides a method for driving an OLED touch-and-display device, a driving circuit, and an OLED touch-and-display device. The method includes: generating gate driving signals that are sequentially shifted based on the first clock signal (GCK); sequentially applying the gate driving signals that are sequentially shifted to the plurality of GLs; writing display data in a display driving period for each row of pixels, to the row of pixels, wherein a time length of the display driving period depends on a corresponding gate driving signal and is smaller than the clock cycle; and for a display driving period for each of at least one row of pixels, setting a touch detection period corresponding to the display driving period or corresponding to the display driving period for previous row of pixels at least partially overlapping with the display driving period in time.
US11531425B1	Inter-band harmonics interference mitigation for multi-frequency-region parallel scan A method for operating an input device, the method involving obtaining a number of non-sinusoidal transmitter signals with unique base frequencies, and selecting a sampling frequency of an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) such that a number of aliasing artifacts associated with higher harmonics of the non-sinusoidal transmitter signals is located at frequencies different from the base frequencies.
US11531422B2	Touch display panel, method for driving touch display panel, and display device Disclosed are touch display panel, method for driving touch display panel, and display device. The touch display panel includes display region including plurality of touch driver electrodes and plurality of touch sensing electrodes both arranged in array, and non-display region surrounding display region and including touch auxiliary circuit and touch driver circuit. When refresh frequency is first frequency, touch driver circuit configured to provide touch drive signal for each touch driver electrode in touch stage, and receive touch sensing signal returned by each touch sensing electrode to determine touch position according to touch sensing signal. When refresh frequency is the first frequency, touch auxiliary circuit configured to provide first voltage signal for each touch driver electrode in touch stage; and voltage of first voltage signal greater than voltage of touch drive signal. The present disclosure can increase report rate, and satisfy touch and display requirements for high refresh frequency.
US11531421B2	Thin film transistor array substrate and touch display panel having varying number of touch traces per touch electrode The present application provides a thin film transistor array substrate and a touch display panel including a plurality of touch electrodes, and the touch electrodes including a first touch electrode, a second touch electrode, and a third touch electrode arranged in a first direction. A number of touch trace electrically connected to the second touch electrode and the driver chip is greater than or equal to a number of touch trace electrically connected to the first touch electrode and the driver chip, and is less than a number of touch trace electrically connected to the third touch electrode and the driver chip.
US11531416B2	Display device with touch detection function, and electronic unit A display device with a touch detection function including: a plurality of elements performing display operation; a plurality of touch detection electrodes arranged side by side to extend in one direction, and each outputting a detection signal based on a change in an electrostatic capacitance caused by an external proximity object; a conductive film insulated from or connected with high resistance to the touch detection electrodes, and disposed to cover the touch detection electrodes; and a touch detection circuit detecting the external proximity object by sampling the detection signal. The conductive film has a sheet resistance equal to or smaller than a predetermined resistance value, and has a time constant larger than a predetermined minimum time constant defined by sampling timings in the touch detection circuit.
US11531402B1	Bimanual gestures for controlling virtual and graphical elements Example systems, devices, media, and methods are described for controlling the presentation of one or more virtual or graphical elements on a display in response to bimanual hand gestures detected by an eyewear device that is capturing frames of video data with its camera system. An image processing system detects a first hand and defines an input plane relative to a surface of the detected first hand. The image processing system also detects a series of bimanual hand shapes, including the detected first hand and at least one fingertip of a second hand. In response, the system presents a first movable element on the display at a location that is correlated with the current fingertip location. In addition, the image processing system determines whether the detected series of bimanual hand shapes matches a predefined hand gesture. In response to a matching gesture, the system executes a selecting action of an element nearest the current fingertip location.
US11531396B2	Display device projecting an aerial image According to one embodiment, a display device includes a display which emits display light, a retroreflective element which retroreflects incident light, an optical element including a lower surface opposing the display and the retroreflective element and an upper surface on an opposite side to the lower surface, which reflects part of the display light toward the retroreflective element and transmits reflection light retroreflected by the retroreflective element and a first blower mechanism which blows air to a side of the upper surface.
US11531389B1	Systems and methods for electric discharge-based sensing via wearables donned by users of artificial reality systems A system may include a wearable dimensioned to be donned by a user of an artificial reality system. The system may also include an energy measuring device incorporated into the wearable. The energy measuring device may measure an electrical energy differential between a body of the user and a surface. The system may further include at least one processing device communicatively coupled to the energy measuring device. The processing device may detect, based at least in part on the electrical energy differential measured by the energy measuring device, an interaction between the user and the surface. In response to this detection, the processing device may generate an input command for the artificial reality system based at least in part on the interaction detected between the user and the surface. Various other systems and methods are also disclosed.
US11531376B2	Display device A display device including a flexible module including a display panel; an adhesive film disposed on one surface of the flexible module; support plates disposed on the adhesive film; a first anti-adhesive film pattern disposed between each of the support plates and the adhesive film; and a second anti-adhesive film pattern disposed between each of the support plates and the adhesive film and spaced apart from the first anti-adhesive film pattern. Each of the first anti-adhesive film pattern and the second anti-adhesive film pattern includes a metal material, and each of the first anti-adhesive film pattern and the second anti-adhesive film pattern has a thickness in a range of 100 nm to 1000 nm.
US11531368B2	Information processing device Provided is a printer, which serves as an information processing device and which includes: a housing; a cover including a first surface, in which an opening is formed, the cover being configured to pivot about an axis of a first rotating shaft parallel to the first surface; and a touch panel, which is to be located in the opening when the cover is in a closed state in which the cover covers the housing. The cover includes a frame between an edge of the first surface and the opening.

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