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US11547309B2	Biological information detection device, biological information detection method and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for biological information detection A biological information detection device includes: a video capture unit, a blood flow analysis unit, a local pulse wave detection unit, a pulse wave propagation velocity calculation unit, and a blood pressure estimation unit. The video capture unit obtains video information on a face of a living body. The blood flow analysis unit analyzes video data of at least three skin areas in the video information, as blood flow information. The local pulse wave detection unit is provided for each skin area to calculate pulse information based on the blood flow information sequenced chronologically. The pulse wave propagation velocity calculation unit calculates a pulse wave propagation velocity based on a phase difference between pieces of the pulse information at each skin area calculated by the local pulse wave detection unit. The blood pressure estimation unit estimates blood pressure based on the pulse wave propagation velocity.
US11547295B2	Cloud based corneal surface difference mapping system and method A method to perform automatic corneal topography or tomography difference mapping includes receiving one or more corneal topography or tomography data files and/or a corneal image for an examined patient from a corneal topography or tomography system; receiving personal identification parameters from captured user personal data communicated from the corneal topography or tomography system; and comparing received patient identification parameters to existing patient identification parameters in a database to identify if there are existing topography or tomography data files for a same patient in the database. The method may further include retrieving a prior topography or tomography data file for the patient from the database; and performing difference mapping by comparing the received topography or tomography data files to the prior topography or tomography data file retrieved from the database to generate a topography or tomography difference map.
US11547292B2	Vaginal speculum A speculum includes a first blade member and a second blade member. Each of the first and second blade members extend from a proximal end to a distal end. A speculum control includes a control nut threadingly engaged with a threaded shaft. Internal threads of the control nut are oversized relative external threads of the threaded shaft such that the control nut freely spins upon the threaded shaft.
US11547290B2	Medical imaging device, method, and use A medical imaging device, comprising a illumination unit, can be configured to illuminate a tissue area with light from a first spectral range, comprising a range of visible wavelengths, and with light from a second spectral range, which is different from the first spectral range, an imaging unit, configured to detect light from the first spectral range and to generate a first image of the tissue area on the basis of the detected light from the first spectral range and furthermore configured to detect light from the second spectral range and to generate a second image of the tissue area on the basis of the detected light from the second spectral range, and a superposition unit, configured to generate a superimposed image on the basis of the first and second image in such a way that, in the superimposed image, on the basis of a visual highlighting, it is possible to identify whether and where the tissue area comprises highlight regions which are characterized by an increased emission of light from the second spectral range in comparison to other regions of the tissue area. The document furthermore relates to a method for image-based support for a medical intervention, and to a use of an imaging device in such a method.
US11547285B2	Support and positioner for an endoscope maneuvering system The present invention provides a device for supporting and positioning an endoscope maneuvering system, the device connectable to a fixed support, the device comprising: a. a support mechanism releasably connectable to said endoscope maneuvering system; b. at least one movable arm comprising at least one first jointed connection to said support mechanism, said at least one movable arm adapted to position and orient said endoscope maneuvering system; and c. a base connector comprising at least one second jointed connection to said at least one movable arm, said base connector fixedly connectable to said fixed support; wherein said device is adapted to maintain said endoscope maneuvering system in a state of quasi-static dynamic equilibrium.
US11547273B2	User interface for a dental measurement system Some of the embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to a dental measurement method comprising: measuring an orientation of a dental measurement device includes a user interface; and displaying information on said user interface based on said orientation.
US11547269B2	Household appliance A household appliance includes a housing, a door pivotably connected to the housing, a cable connected to the door, a roller in contact with the cable, and a motor configured to drive the roller to move the cable such as to effect a pivoting movement of the door.
US11547267B2	Condition warning system, control system and method for pot and pan washing machine A condition warning system for an apparatus such as a pot and pan washing machine, a control system and control methods for a pot and pan washing machine are provided. The condition warning system includes a control system that monitors operational, safety or compliance parameters of an apparatus, and a light that illuminates a location below (or above) an operator's direct line of sight, and which is outside of the operator's direct line of sight. The control system and control methods include a punitive wash action lockout, an extended wash cycle time, and a deep clean wash cycle.
US11547264B2	Adjustable parameters for autonomous cleaning robots A method of operating an autonomous cleaning robot includes presenting, on a display of a mobile device, a representation of each of multiple cleaning levels, each cleaning level corresponding to a respective rank overlap parameter for a wet cleaning mission of the autonomous cleaning robot. The method includes receiving, at the mobile device, an input indicative of a selection of one of the cleaning levels; and controlling the autonomous cleaning robot to execute a wet cleaning mission according to the rank overlap parameter corresponding to the selected one of the cleaning levels.
US11547253B2	Dispensing container Disclosed is a container assembly to enclose a volume. The container assembly includes a container, which may be substantially rigid, and an access portal. The access portal or aperture may be covered with a lid that is configurable in a sealed configuration, a closed configuration, and an open configuration.
US11547251B2	Adaptive towelette dispenser An adaptive towelette dispensing device is provided. The device is operable in conjunction with a container storing a plurality of dried, compressed, individually wrapped, preferably sealed towelettes. The adaptive towelette dispensing device is contemplated to include one or more reservoirs adapted to receive additives, one or more pumps configured to transfer additives through a conduit to be incorporated into a dispensed solution. The adaptive towelette dispensing device is further contemplated to include a towelette releasing mechanism, a towelette chute, a towelette dispensing mechanism, and a controller.
US11547239B2	System for detecting a possibility of boiling over and preventing said boiling over A system for detecting a possibility of boiling over and preventing said boiling over, the system comprising a vessel (101) having a lid (102), the lid (102) being characterised in that it is configured: to receive information on an initial level of a vessel content and a current level of the vessel content; and based on a difference between the initial level and the current level as well as the time of a creation of said difference: to instruct, by means of a controller (203), a height actuator (207) of the lid (102) to extend said lid (102) vertically, in order to extend the height of said vessel (101); and to instruct, by means of a controller (203), an aperture actuator (206) to create an aperture in a top of the lid (102) in order to facilitate exchange of heat.
US11547233B2	Quick loading curtain track for an aircraft cabin A curtain track for an aircraft cabin enables curtain sliders to be quickly loaded into the curtain track. The curtain track is constructed of an elongate channel with a first end fitting on a first end of the channel and a second end fitting on a second end of the channel. There is a unique cutout in the bottom surface of the first end fitting that forms a curved slot surface that enables curtain sliders to be loaded into the channel of the curtain track through the cutout to quickly load the curtain onto the curtain track without disassembling any of the parts of the curtain track or removing the curtain track from its attachment to the aircraft cabin.
US11547229B1	Cup holder The cup holder comprises a backing board, an upper cup arm, a lower cup arm, a phone holder, a front card holder, and a rear card holder. The cup holder may be adapted to hold a cup, a cell phone, cards, or combinations thereof. The upper cup arm and the lower cup arm may be moved between an open position and a closed position. The cup may be held by the upper cup arm and by the lower cup arm when the upper cup arm and the lower cup arm are moved to the open position. The cards may be held in the front card holder and/or the rear card holder. As non-limiting examples, the cards may comprise one or more of a credit card, a debit card, a business card, an ID card, a name tag, a driver license, or combinations thereof.
US11547227B2	Salad storage assembly A salad/produce storage assembly for storing and maintaining the quality of salad/produce. The assembly includes a bowl member having a bottom wall and an annular sidewall extending upwardly from the bottom wall and terminating at an upper edge portion. The assembly also includes an insert member having a bottom surface and a generally dome shaped, impervious upper surface that drains liquid received thereon downwardly and outwardly toward an annular peripheral portion of the insert. The insert member is insertable into the bowl member in overlying relationship with the bowl member bottom relationship with the bowl member annular sidewall. The bottom wall and a lower portion of the bowl member annular sidewall and the insert member bottom surface define a bowl liquid reservoir. Moisture draining from the dome shaped impervious upper surface of the insert member drains into the liquid reservoir where it remains separated from the salad/produce so it does not wick back into the salad/produce.
US11547226B2	Food protection apparatuses, assemblies, and methods of use The present disclosure is directed to improved food protection apparatuses, assemblies, and methods of use. The food protection apparatus includes a base portion; a removable covering coupled to the base portion, the removable covering including a top surface and one or more side walls, the top surface integrally connected to the one or more side walls; and a candle delivery apparatus coupled to the top surface of the removable covering, the candle delivery apparatus including one or more openings to receive one or more candles to position the candles external to the removable covering.
US11547214B2	Seat, particularly for video games, and hinge for use therein A seat, particularly for video games, includes a collapsible frame which carries a seat surface and a backrest. The frame includes a first part carrying the backrest and a second part configured to carry a console for a steering wheel or joystick for controlling a video game. These parts are connected pivotally to each other by a hinge. The hinge includes a first load-bearing body on which the first frame part is mounted, and a second load-bearing body on which the second frame part is mounted. The hinge has locking means for fixating the first and second frame parts in a desired position relative to each other. A hinge for application in such a seat.
US11547213B2	Seat cushion A seat cushion is provided. The seat cushion includes an upper pad, a lower pad, a support structure, a plurality of optical modules, and a processor. The upper pad includes a plurality of transparent areas. The lower pad is provided with a plurality of grooves to accommodate the optical modules. The support structure is connected between the upper pad and the lower pad. The optical modules are located below the upper pad and are disposed corresponding to the transparent areas. The optical modules respectively transmit sense signals and respectively receive feedback signals corresponding to the sense signals. The processor is coupled to the optical modules and is configured to collect optical signals.
US11547210B2	Retraction device and method for opening and closing a movable furniture part A retraction device for movable furniture parts has a driver movable along a first guide path, which is movable between a retracted position and a parked position and is directly or indirectly pretensioned into the retracted position by an energy storage device. The driver can be coupled to an activator in order to move the movable furniture part into a closed position. A method uses the driver for opening and closing the movable furniture part and tensioning and releasing a retraction device.
US11547195B2	Touchless, internet-connected beauty tester A universal beauty tester, that is intended for use by any one of a plurality of beauty product suppliers to allow a potential customer at a retail location to obtain a sample testing of one of the beauty products of these suppliers, includes: (a) a display housing configured to house advertising material for the beauty product in such a manner as to not allow unauthorized access to this advertising material, (b) a base, (c) a universal tester bladder that is configured to store any one of the beauty products that are being made available for testing, (d) a liquid dispensing mechanism (e) a non-contact sensing mechanism that is configured to: sense when a customer makes a motion to indicate a desire to receive a test sample of the beauty product, and dispense a test sample, and (f) a processor that controls the operation of the tester and compiles data regarding its use.
US11547192B2	Bag organizer systems and methods of assembly Various implementations include a bag organizer system that includes at least one pocket disposed within a bag cavity and is coupled to a fixed surface within the bag cavity. The pocket includes at least one pocket side wall having a first edge and a second edge opposite the first edge along a longitudinal axis of the pocket. The first and second edges of the pocket side wall at least partially define an opening to a pocket cavity defined by the pocket side wall and a closed end of the pocket cavity, respectively. The pocket is expandable and collapsible, and the pocket is coupled to the fixed surface by a single seam extending substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis of the pocket, and the closed end of the pocket is not coupled to the fixed surface such that the pocket is hingedly coupled to the fixed surface via the single seam.
US11547185B2	Locking ring A locking ring includes a first annular band portion and a second annular band portion. The locking ring includes a first and second cutout on at least one end of the respective first and second semi-annular band portions. The ring configuration is made by bringing the first and second semi-annular band portions together. A key member is to be inserted within the first and second cutout to thereby lock the first and second annular band portions into a ring configuration to be worn on a finger. The key member is to be released when the ring configuration is under a threshold pressure to thereby allow the first and second semi-annular band portions to be unlocked.
US11547179B2	Tactile feedback shoe sole A tactile feedback shoe sole for footwear comprising a main body that defines a toe portion, a middle portion and a heel portion. A first chamber filled with a fluid is disposed in one or more areas of the main body. A second chamber comprising a second chamber upper wall, a second chamber lower wall and projections is disposed in the arch region of the middle portion. Channels disposed between the first and the second chambers help in establishing fluidic communication between the first and second chambers. If the second chamber is compressed before the first chamber getting compressed, which is likely to happen when the feet of the user of the sole overpronate, the second chamber upper wall comes in contact with the second chamber lower wall and the projections are felt by the user in the arch region since the second chamber is not filled with the fluid.
US11547176B2	Direct bottomed article of footwear with an insert An article of footwear has an upper that is direct attached with the sole. The direct attach sole has an insert, such as an airbag, that forms a portion of a sidewall. The insert is externally visible and forms at least a portion of an external sidewall of the sole. The insert is formed into the direct attach sole by having the insert or a mask temporarily joined with the insert contact a sidewall molding surface of a mold used in the direct attach operation such that the insert results in forming a visible element of the direct attached sole.
US11547172B2	Size adjustable footwear A size adjustable footwear includes an upper, an insole, a midsole, an outer sole, and a size adjustment mechanism. The midsole includes a heel plate and a toe plate. The upper is perimetrically connected around the midsole. The insole is adjacently connected atop the midsole and internally positioned within the upper. The outer sole is perimetrically connected around the midsole as the midsole is positioned in between the insole and the outer sole. The heel plate and the toe plate are slidably engaged to the size adjustment mechanism. The size adjustment mechanism is operatively integrated in between the heel plate and the toe plate, wherein the size adjustment mechanism elastically expands and contracts the upper, the midsole, and the outer sole.
US11547169B2	Surgical apparel system A medical garment for use with a helmet, wherein the garment comprises a shell and a transparent face shield configured to define a barrier between the wearer and the environment. The transparent face shield may comprise a tab configured to be at least partially disposed within an alignment channel of the helmet when the medical garment is attached to the helmet to orient the shell relative to the helmet. The tab may also be separate from the transparent face shield and disposed on the shell of the medical garment. The transparent face shield may also comprise an attachment element configured to removably couple with a coupling member of the helmet, wherein the attachment element and coupling member comprise complementary coupling surfaces.
US11547166B1	Helmet A helmet to be worn on a head of a wearer includes a shell comprised of a hard impact resistant material. The shell has inner and outer surfaces and is adapted to surround at least a portion of the cranial part of wearer's head with the inner surface of the shell being spaced from the wearer's head at an initial pre-impact relative position when the helmet is worn. A subliner, at least a part of which is adapted to be in contact with the wearer's head when the helmet is worn prior to an impact and during an impact, includes at least one subliner element extending from the inner surface of the shell. The at least one subliner element is constructed of an energy absorbing viscoelastic foam material. The at least one subliner element is radially partitioned into individual and independent segments. The independent segments are nested with respect to each other with double-sided nano tape positioned therebetween such that the nested segments have side surfaces in direct contacting engagement with the nano tape.
US11547159B2	Face shield assembly and method A face shield and head covering combination is provided. The head covering comprises a body and an attachment element. The body defines a head opening configured to receive a user's head therethrough. The attachment element is coupled to the body and configured to couple to a face shield positionable on the user's face. The attachment element is configured to transition between a first position on the body and a second position on the body, wherein the second position is spaced from the first position.
US11547148B2	Aerosol generating device having a magnetic force generator for coupling a case with a cover An aerosol generating device includes a case, a cover having a metallic body and configured to be coupled to the case, a heater configured to heat an aerosol generating material, a magnetic force generator arranged in the case and configured to generate magnetic force acting on the metallic body according to a current applied thereto, and a controller configured to adjust coupling force between the cover and the case arising, which is generated by the magnetic force, by controlling the current applied to the magnetic force generator based on an operating state of the heater.
US11547143B2	Aerosol generation device An aerosol generation device includes a case into which a cigarette is to be inserted; a protrusion pipe of a hollow shape protruding from one end portion of the case and having an opening; a heater installed in the case such that an end portion thereof is positioned inside the protrusion pipe, and configured to generate heat when an electric signal is applied thereto; and a heater fixing portion installed inside the protrusion pipe to support the heater and comprising a round surface that extends from an inner side surface of the protrusion pipe.
US11547136B2	Methods and products to provide oral nutritional care to subjects with dementia The present invention provides food products, nutritional programs, and methods for meeting nutritional needs of subjects with dementia and related cognitive disorders. In one embodiment, the invention provides a food product comprising a reversibly sealed container and a soup, wherein the soup is in the container and comprises a total volume of 200-2000 mls, a vegetable or meat component, 300 to 2500 calories, a macronutrient caloric distribution comprising: 20-80% fat, 10-45% protein, and 10-65% carbohydrate, about 2% to about 40% medium chain triglycerides, omega 3 fatty acids in an amount of 100 to 2000 mg and less than 20 solid food particles having a volume greater than about 20 cm3. Such food products, when administered to affected subjects, can positively impact (i) nutritional status; (ii) quality of life; (iii) disease course; (v) the demand for assistance from a care giver; (vi) subject compliance with a nutritional plan using the food product, and (vii) ease of monitoring compliance by the caregiver for verification.
US11547133B2	Cooking apparatus for reducing a content of phytic acid and phytate contained in foodstuff An apparatus and a method for soaking foodstuff in a liquid under set acid pH conditions of the liquid is described. The foodstuff is soaked in the liquid so as to reduce a content of phytic acid and/or phytate contained in the foodstuff. The apparatus has a vessel for receiving the foodstuff and the liquid for soaking the foodstuff within the vessel. The apparatus further has an amount determining system which is configured to determine an amount of the liquid and/or an amount of the foodstuff to be used for the soaking within the vessel. Further, the apparatus has a pH adjusting system configured to perform an electrolysis of at least a portion of the liquid for adjusting a pH level of the liquid.
US11547129B2	Stable electrolyte material and solvent material containing same A composition of matter having the following chemical structure: ⌊ H x ⁢ O ( x - 1 ) 2 ⌋ ⁢ Z y wherein x is and odd integer ≥3; y is an integer between 1 and 20; and Z is one of a monoatomic ion from Groups 14 through 17 having a charge value between −1 and −3 or a polyatomic ion having a charge between −1 and −3.
US11547125B2	Pet food feeding system Compositions and methods are disclosed for providing a pet food feeding system or packaged product containing multiple formulations meeting a number of parameters in order to offer diversified ingredients and varied flavors to a pet with minimized digestive stress due to dietary changes.
US11547120B2	Holding apparatus for holding a gutted poultry carcass or a part thereof during processing in a device for processing gutted poultry carcasses or parts thereof A holding apparatus for holding a gutted poultry body/part during processing has a support body supporting the body/part, a fastening body for holding the support body and fastening the holding apparatus to a circulatingly driven transport unit, and a clamping device for securing the body/part to the support body. The clamping device has a hook for penetrating into soft parts and a clamping lever. The lever has a clamping jaw for clamping parts of the body/part against the hook lower side directed towards the support body. The hook lower side is spaced apart from the support body to form a free space for receiving the parts to be clamped. The clamping lever is movable, against a spring force, from a standby position into a clamping position, and back. The clamping lever also has a centring shoulder projecting into the free space when the clamping lever is in the standby position.
US11547118B1	Natural pesticides, substances and methods of fabrication thereof Methods of fabricating a natural substance may include obtaining a particulate silica including perlite, preparing a liquid formula having at least one essential oil and preparing the natural substance by applying the liquid formula to the particulate silica.
US11547110B2	Portable hunting blind chair or seat with simple, reliable, and quick setup and take-down Portable hunting blind including seat/chair for use in hunting or similar environment including side panels and hinge brackets having support arms mounted to side panels; seat mounted to side panels, the seat together with side panels and hinge brackets having support arms form a chair-like structure; skirt put around side panels to conceal hunter sitting on seat; and bonnets and blind top. Blind top conceals hunter while allowing hunter to see what is going on around him. To hunt or to come out of portable hunting blind, hunter stands up throwing back bonnets and hitting the skirt with his knee, thereby detaching skirt. Portable hunting blind is folded by folding side panels along with skirt with help of hinge brackets and by throwing back bonnets to retracted state for easy transport.
US11547092B2	Special search dog pack and process for faster dog aided search, dog only search and rescue, and other dog aided uses This device and process is a Special Search Dog Pack and Process for Faster Dog Aided Search, Dog Only Search and Rescue and other Dog Aided Uses for enabling Faster, Dog-Only Search. Particularly this process uses a search pack device that contains specific rescue contents used for and related to a faster search method. Here, the search dog has an attached pack with a tracking device and rescue contents that can be carried directly to a victim without the need of an attending person. Once found the victim can then communicate back to a search party and/or the search party can quickly and accurately locate the victim via the cell phone or GPS device for a precise and faster rescue.
US11547088B2	System and method for selecting and executing training protocols for autonomously training an animal One variation of a method for autonomously training an animal includes: loading an autonomous training protocol for the animal onto a training apparatus configured to dispense units of a primary reinforcer responsive to behaviors performed by the animal; during an autonomous training session for the animal, accessing a video feed of a working field near the training apparatus, detecting the animal in the video feed, and executing the first autonomous training protocol; calculating a training score for the autonomous training session based on behaviors performed by the animal during the autonomous training session; selecting a manual training protocol, from a set of manual training protocols, based on the training score; generating a prompt to execute the first manual training protocol with the animal during a first manual training session; and transmitting the prompt to a user associated with the animal.
US11547085B2	Pet food container A pet food container includes a hollow body including a top, a bottom, and an outer surface disposed between the top and the bottom. The top has a recessed portion defined by an inner longitudinal surface and recessed top surface. The recessed top surface includes an opening in communication with an interior of the hollow body and the inner longitudinal surface includes a latching mechanism configured to couple to a removable cap.
US11547081B2	Tomato hybrid DRTH5007 and parents thereof The invention provides seeds and plants of tomato hybrid DRTH5007. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds, plant parts, and tissue cultures of tomato hybrid DRTH5007 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 DRTH5007 comprising introduced beneficial or desirable traits.
US11547073B1	Wheat cultivar 01083019 The invention relates to the wheat cultivar designated 01083019. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the wheat cultivar 01083019. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the wheat cultivar 01083019 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing wheat plants by crossing the wheat cultivar 01083019 with itself or another wheat cultivar and plants produced by such methods.
US11547066B2	Mobile drip tube irrigation system having adjustable drip tube positioning A mobile drip irrigation system includes a plurality of drip tubes anchored at a first end to a water supply conduit. As the mobile irrigation system travels across a surface to be watered a second, free end of each drip tube is pulled along the surface to provide precise and uniform water distribution through the drip tubes. A cable extending across each section of the mobile irrigation system is attached to the plurality of drip tubes within that section, with the cable movable via a winch mechanism to shift the position of the drip tubes within that section to correspondingly shift the drag path of the tubes to a desired location. In exemplary embodiments, a lower manifold distributes water to the drip tubes, and in further embodiments a support restraint provides support to the lower manifold.
US11547050B1	Extractor fan assembly with clamshell hub An extractor fan assembly for an extractor of a sugarcane harvester comprises a motor, fan blades, and a clamshell hub. The motor comprises an output that rotates about an axis of rotation. The clamshell hub comprises a base and clamp jaws. The base is coupled to the output for rotation therewith about the axis of rotation. The clamp jaws are positioned angularly about the axis of rotation. Each clamp jaw is fastened to and cooperates with the base to clamp a respective fan blade of the fan blades therebetween to position the fan blades angularly about the axis of rotation.
US11547044B2	Front mower for mounting on a front three point linkage of a tractor A front mower for mounting on a front three point linkage of a tractor to be operated for cutting vegetation, such as grass, in front of the tractor, the mower comprising: (i) a headstock for mounting on the front three point linkage of the tractor; (ii) a mowing head comprising an array of cutting heads for cutting vegetation such as grass, mounted on and moveable relative to the headstock to follow the contours of the ground over which the mower is passing; (iii) a mounting mechanism mounting the mowing head to the headstock, wherein the mounting mechanism comprises a cutting angle adjustment mechanism comprising an arc shaped guide and a follower for the arc shaped guide, the follower being moveable back and forth along the arc shaped guide, so that the cutting angle adjustment mechanism allows the mowing head to move back and forth along an arc defined by the guide and relative to the headstock so as to vary the cutting angle of the cutting heads. This allows for free movement of the mowing head to follow the contours of the ground.
US11547036B2	Seed trench depth detection systems A seed trench depth sensor is adapted to mount to an agricultural implement. The trench depth sensor determining the difference between a distance measured to a bottom of the seed trench by a first sensor and a distance measured to a surface of the soil by a second sensor disposed rearward of the first sensor.
US11553628B2	Power conversion apparatus, and method of manufacturing power conversion apparatus A power conversion apparatus includes a case having a heat-dissipation property, and including a housing part formed to surround a predetermined space, a resin material having a thermal conductivity, the resin material being provided in the predetermined space, a coil disposed in the predetermined space, a coil case having a shape that fits with the housing part, the coil case being configured to house the coil, and a power semiconductor device disposed along a side wall of the coil case. The power semiconductor device is pressed and fixed between a side wall of the housing part and the side wall of the coil case in a state where a heat dissipation surface is in contact with the side wall of the housing part.
US11553607B2	Electronic device An electronic device includes: a circuit board having a wiring board on which wiring is formed, and an electronic component that is electrically and mechanically connected to the wiring via a first solder. A base is provided to accommodate the circuit board, and has a side wall that faces a side surface of the wiring board. A leaf spring arranged on the circuit board, and is configured to be contactable with the base. The leaf spring includes a fixing portion arranged on the circuit board and a pressing portion extending from and connected to the fixing portion and pressing the side wall, and the pressing portion in a biased state toward a housing establishes a contact thereto when the circuit board is put in and accommodated by the base.
US11553595B2	Printed circuit board comprising a plurality of power transistor switching cells in parallel A printed circuit board comprises N power switching cells operating in parallel and respectively comprising a transistor leg, at least one decoupling capacitor and a gate driver circuit. Each transistor leg comprises respective first and second transistors in series, a drain of the first transistor being connected to a positive DC line, a source of the second transistor being connected to a negative DC line, a source of the first transistor being connected to a drain of the second through a connection middle-point connected to an output terminal. Each gate driver circuit controls respective switching ON and OFF of the corresponding first and second transistors. The N transistor legs of the corresponding N power switching cells are positioned to substantially form a convex polygon having N edges of substantially the same length, each one of the N transistor legs being positioned along one of the edges of the convex polygon.
US11553590B2	Electronic device The present disclosure relates to an electronic device, and the electronic device may include a circuit board provided within a main body of the electronic device, on which a conductive layer made of a conductive material and a dielectric layer made of an insulating material are alternately laminated; at least one or more patch antennas disposed on the circuit board; a core layer located at a central portion inside the circuit board, and configured with any one of the dielectric layers; a ground layer disposed below the core layer; and an EBG structure located inside the circuit board in a symmetrical shape at the top and bottom with respect to the core layer, and the EBG structure restricts operating frequency signals radiated from the respective patch antennas from being interfered with each other.
US11553578B2	Light device and a lighting system A lighting device comprising a controller arranged to convey a cryptographic message to a load indicative of an instruction for said load to consume an amount of power during a selected time-interval; determine the power consumed during said selected time-interval and determine a condition indicative of an unauthorized load when said determined power is different from one which is expected.
US11553572B2	Power converter circuit for a lighting device A power converter circuit may include a control circuit configured to generate a drive signal for rendering a semiconductor switch conductive and non-conductive to generate a bus voltage across a bus capacitor. The control circuit may adjust a minimum operating period of the drive signal to a first value when an output power of the power converter circuit is greater than a first threshold and to a second value when the output power is less than a second threshold. The control circuit may comprise a comparator that generates the drive signal in response to a sense voltage and a threshold voltage. When operating in a standby mode, the control circuit may adjust a magnitude of the threshold voltage based on an instantaneous magnitude of an alternating-current line voltage received by the power converter circuit, such that an input current drawn by the power converter circuit is sinusoidal.
US11553570B1	Interface expander circuit for light emitting diode (LED) driver circuits An expander circuit may be configured to control a plurality of driver circuits for driving light emitting diodes (LEDs). The expander circuit may comprise a bus interface circuit configured to receive control signals from a processor over a communication bus, and a plurality of modulation signal generators configured to generate modulation signals based on the control signals. The expander circuit may be configured to provide the modulation signals to the plurality of driver circuits for driving the LEDs.
US11553565B2	Method of manufacturing semiconductor device, substrate processing apparatus, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium A substrate processing technology including: transferring a substrate to a process chamber and mounting the substrate on a substrate holder; heating the substrate with a heating device to perform predetermined substrate processing; determining the number of times of the predetermined substrate processing that has been performed that the predetermined substrate processing has been performed a preset number of times or more, determining whether it is necessary to adjust a mounting position at which the substrate is mounted on the substrate holder; and when it is determined that a mounting position adjustment is necessary, determining the mounting position by comparing the substrate temperature measured at the performing the predetermined substrate processing with a premeasured temperature of the substrate which corresponds to the mounting position and is stored in a memory.
US11553564B2	Method for a cooktop In a method for a cooktop, in particular for producing and/or operating the cooktop, which has at least one variable cooking surface, the cooking surface is partitioned in an operating mode along a partitioning direction into a plurality of heating zones to which at least one heating parameter is assigned in each case in a location-dependent manner in order to heat a cooking utensil that is deposited on the heating zone. In order to ensure flexible production and/or flexible operation of the cooktop, during partitioning of the cooking surface into the heating zones in at least one peripheral region of the cooking surface, at least one cooking utensil characteristic is taken into account.
US11553559B2	Session management function derived core network assisted radio access network parameters Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for session management function derived core network assisted radio access network parameters. One method includes receiving session management function derived core network assisted radio access network parameters from a session management function. The method includes storing the session management function derived core network assisted radio access network parameters in a protocol data unit session level context. The method includes using the session management function derived core network assisted radio access network parameters to determine an expected session activity behavior parameter set.
US11553556B2	Emergency services support for a device which does not have a valid subscription This disclosure is related to a procedure to provide emergency services support for a UE which does not have a valid subscription for the serving PLMN. This disclosure more specifically provides procedure to support IMS emergency call or eCall support for a UE which is in limited state on a E-UTRA cell is connected to both EPC and 5GCN.
US11553552B2	Communication terminal, control device, communication system, and communication method To provide a communication terminal that ensures the coincidence of Paging timing between a UE and a control device when an eDRX parameter is updated in a control device, a communication terminal (10) according to the present disclosure includes a receiving unit (11) for receiving a Tracking Area Registration Accept message or a Location Registration Accept message sent from a control device (30), and a sending unit (12) for sending a Tracking Area Registration Complete message or a Location Registration Complete message to the control device (30) when a first eDRX (Extended Idle Mode DRX) parameter is contained in the Tracking Area Registration Accept message or the Location Registration Accept message.
US11553548B2	Intelligent cellular channel management Various arrangements for performing intelligent cellular channel management are presented herein. A physical cellular communication channel may be established between a user equipment (UE) and a cellular network for sending a short message service (SMS) message in response to a cellular service request from the UE. One or more characteristics of the UE, the SMS message, or both may be analyzed. A duration of time for which the physical cellular communication channel is kept active may be based on the analyzed one or more characteristics. A channel maintenance instruction may be transmitted to keep the physical cellular communication channel active based on a cellular network messaging controller determining to adjust the duration of time for which the physical cellular communication channel is kept active.
US11553546B2	Methods and systems for radio access network aggregation and uniform control of multi-RAT networks Methods and systems for Radio Access Network (RAN) aggregation of multiple Radio Access Technologies (RATs). A method disclosed herein includes aggregating the RATs at a RAN level to provide at least one User Equipment (UE) with multi-connectivity. The method further includes enabling at least one Centralized unit (gNodeB-CU) within at least one RAN node to uniformly control Distributed Units (DUs) of different RATs (5G New Radio (NR) and Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) RATs). The method further includes enabling the at least one gNB-CU to control the at least one UE and allow the at least one UE to connect with an additional RAT irrespective of an initial RAT, the UE is connected to. The method further includes controlling WLAN Access Point (AP) as a 5G distributed unit (gNB-DU).
US11553539B2	Communication apparatus and communication method In a communication apparatus on a network where communication apparatuses perform direct communication with each other, a network management apparatus for managing the network based on message information transmitted and received on the network is determined. When the communication apparatus itself is determined as the network management apparatus, the apparatus collects information indicating device capabilities from other communication apparatuses. On the other hand, the communication apparatus receives information indicating device capabilities from another communication apparatus when the other communication apparatus is determined as the network management apparatus.
US11553537B1	Data indicator and redundancy version for invalid PxSCHs in multi-PxSCH grants Aspects of the present disclosure relate to wireless communications, and more particularly, to techniques for signaling a new data indicator (NDI) and/or redundancy version (RV) for physical uplink/downlink shared channel (PxSCH) transmissions scheduled by a multi-PxSCH downlink control information (DCI) grant. In some cases, these techniques may be used even when a scheduled PxSCH transmission is invalid. In some cases, a number of bits in an NDI field of the DCI corresponds to a number of PxSCHs scheduled by the multi-PxSCH DCI grant. In some cases, a number of bits in an RV field of the DCI corresponds the number of PxSCHs scheduled by the multi-PxSCH DCI grant.
US11553536B2	Channel coordination method and apparatus Provided are a channel coordination method and apparatus. The method may be used by a first access point (AP) that is currently serving a terminal. In response to determining that a channel needs to be configured for a real-time service initiated by the terminal, the first AP detects a second AP that requires channel coordination. The first AP sends channel coordination request signalling to the second AP, wherein the channel coordination request signalling comprises a designated channel that the first AP requests to coordinate. In response to receiving first channel coordination feedback signalling, which is used for indicating to agree to coordinate the designated channel, sent from the second AP, the first AP determines, according to the first channel coordination feedback signalling, that the second AP agrees to coordinate the designated channel.
US11553525B2	Trigger frames adapted to packet-based policies in an 802.11 network In 802.11ax networks with access points, a trigger frame offers scheduled and random resource units to nodes for data uplink communication to the access points. To make more effective the usage of the network, the access point may design the trigger frame to force the nodes to send some categories of data. Resource units may be defined in trigger frames to be dedicated to small packets or to some access category data. Adjusting the time length of the resource units helps restricting the type of data that can be conveyed by the resource units. Also, using various frequency widths for resource units in the same trigger frame helps reducing padding in the resource units when various traffic types coexist.
US11553521B2	Channel listening type indication method and apparatus Embodiments provide a channel listening type indication method and apparatus. In those embodiments, the method includes: determining, by a network device based on a relationship between a first sub-band set and a second sub-band set, a corresponding channel listening type for performing channel listening by a terminal device for the first sub-band set, where the first sub-band set includes at least one sub-band occupied when the network device schedules the terminal device to send uplink information, the second sub-band set includes at least one sub-band occupied by the network device to send downlink information, and the channel listening type includes a long listening type or a short listening type; and sending, by the network device, first indication information to the terminal device, where the first indication information is used to indicate the channel listening type.
US11553520B2	System and method for dynamically scheduling wireless transmissions without collision A system and method dynamically schedule wireless transmissions without collision. A master transmitter periodically transmits a time mark during a first predefined time slot of a plurality of consecutive time slots that form a transmission block. Multiple consecutive transmission blocks form a frame. An announcement transmission from a wireless transmitting device is received via at least one receiver during a second predefined time slot of the plurality of time slots. An allocator allocates, at least partly based upon the received announcement transmission, a third time slot of the plurality of time slots to the wireless transmitting device. A time slot reservation area of at least one subsequently transmitted time mark includes indication of the allocation of the third time slot to the wireless transmitting device. The wireless transmitting device receives the subsequently transmitted time mark and transmits only during the third time slot of subsequent frames.
US11553500B2	UE assisted TCI state signaling for interference coordination In a particular implementation, a method of wireless communication includes detecting, at a user equipment (UE) associated with a first base station, one or more interfering beams generated by a second base station. The second base station is a neighboring base station of the first base station. The method also includes transmitting, from the UE to the first base station, an interference identification message indicating the one or more interfering beams. The method further includes receiving, from the first base station, a scheduling message indicating a set of beams of the second base station that are scheduled for use in upcoming transmissions.
US11553495B2	Method and device for sending uplink channel, and method and device for receiving uplink channel Provided are a method and device for sending an uplink channel and a method and device for receiving an uplink channel. The method includes that a terminal device determines a first transmission resource on a first time unit on a first carrier. The first transmission resource is configured to transmit a first uplink channel. The first transmission resource is allocated with N frequency domain units on a frequency domain, where N is a positive integer, and N≥2. The method also includes that the terminal device transmits the first uplink channel by the first transmission resource. By means of the uplink channel transmission method in embodiments of the present disclosure, a terminal device can utilize a transmission power more efficiently.
US11553485B2	Method and apparatus for indicating slot format of an unlicensed cell in a wireless communication system A method and apparatus are disclosed from the perspective of a User Equipment (UE). In one embodiment, the method includes the UE performing transmission and/or reception in a serving cell, wherein the serving cell is in unlicensed spectrum. The method further includes the UE being configured to receive slot format indication (SFI) on periodic SFI monitoring occasion(s), wherein periodic SFI monitoring occasion(s) is (pre-)configured by a network. The method also includes the UE, in response to receiving and/or detecting a channel indicator, monitoring and/or detecting a first SFI-related signal on a first occasion, wherein the first occasion is not one of (pre-)configured periodic SFI monitoring occasion(s).
US11553483B2	Measuring a signal from a neighboring device A disclosure of the present specification provides a method for performing measurements. The method may performed by a user equipment (UE) comprise: performing, by the UE, measurements; based on that (i) the measurements are for measuring a cross link interference (CLI) and (ii) that the measurements are performed on a sounding reference signal (SRS) from a neighboring UE in a neighboring cell, adjusting a time error between a downlink reference timing in a serving cell and a SRS arrival timing from the neighboring UE. The adjustment is performed based on offset.
US11553480B2	Base station, terminal, and communication method In a base station, a signal allocating unit allocates downlink control signals (DCI) to a control channel region (CORESET) constituted by a plurality of control channel elements (CCEs), and a transmitting unit transmits the downlink control signals. In this case, the number of resource element groups (REGs) that constitute the CCE is a power of 2, and a bundling size indicating the number of REGs included in the REGs that constitute the CCE and arranged in adjacent resource blocks is a power of 2.
US11553474B2	Communicating repetitions of multiple transport blocks scheduled by single downlink control information Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Transport blocks may be scheduled using a single downlink control information (DCI) message. A wireless device may identify mapping pattern for mapping the transport blocks and repetitions of the transport blocks to communication resources. Mapping the transport blocks, or determining a mapping of the transport blocks, to communication resources may include partitioning the communication resources into subunits, where each subunit includes resources spread across each subband of a frequency hopping pattern and at least one instance of each of the scheduled transport blocks.
US11553469B2	Methods for physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) candidate determination A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) determines PDCCH candidates. For a slot, the WTRU determines a number of valid PDCCH candidates associated with at least one search space based on a number of designated search spaces associated with the WTRU in the slot, a type of the search space, a priority associated with the search space, a number of required CCE channel estimates associated with the search space, a maximum number of PDCCH candidates in a slot, and a number of control resource sets (CORESETs) associated with the slot. The WTRU may then attempt to decode CCEs in the at least one search space to recover a PDCCH associated with the WTRU. The WTRU may drop PDCCH candidates from the search space when the number of PDCCH exceeds a maximum value.
US11553461B2	User equipment autonomous resource selection Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for user equipment (UE) autonomous sidelink resource selection. A method that may be performed by a UE includes performing autonomous sidelink resource selection. The selection includes excluding resources, from a first resource set, associated with transmissions at a signal strength above a signal strength threshold to form a second resource set. The selection includes determining a resource amount in the second resource set is at or above a threshold percentage of a resource amount in the first resource set. The selection includes excluding, from the second resource set, resources associated with physical sidelink control channels (PSCCHs) without excluding resources associated with physical sidelink shared channels associated with the PSCCHs to form a third resource set. The selection includes randomly selecting resources for a PSCCH transmission from the third resource set. The method includes sending the PSCCH transmission using the randomly selected resources.
US11553455B2	Paging method, terminal device and network device Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a paging method, a terminal device and a network device, the method includes: determining, by a terminal device, at least one paging bandwidth for carrying a paging message of the terminal device, where each paging bandwidth in the at least one paging bandwidth is not greater than a bandwidth of a minimum bandwidth capacity of the terminal device; and receiving, by the terminal device, the paging message on the at least one paging bandwidth. The method, terminal device and network device of the embodiments of the present disclosure can avoid the problem that the terminal device being paged cannot perform reception due to that the paging bandwidth exceeds the capacity of the terminal device.
US11553450B2	Methods and apparatus for locating mobile devices using wireless signals in mixed mode Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed for locating mobile devices using wireless signals in mixed mode. A disclosed method includes generating an access point signal matrix based on signal strength values based on first signal data collected at a mobile device corresponding to first signals received from a plurality of access points for a first period of time, and based on second signal data collected at the plurality of access points corresponding to second signals received from the mobile device and the plurality of access points for a second period of time, determining a first group of contour perimeters corresponding to first ones of the signal strength values in the access point signal matrix that satisfy a first threshold, the first group of contour perimeters including an obstructed contour perimeter corresponding to second ones of the signal strength values in the access point signal matrix that do not satisfy the first threshold, determining a second group of contour perimeters by replacing the obstructed contour perimeter with a corrected contour perimeter, and determining a location of the mobile device based on the second group of contour perimeters including the corrected contour perimeter.
US11553449B1	Positioning system with multi-location beacons In various embodiments, techniques are provided for determining and associating multiple locations with beacons, and estimating a location of an electronic device based on beacons having multiple associated locations. To determine multiple locations of a beacon, observations are grouped into observation clusters, a probability is calculated that each observation cluster accurately describes the beacon, multiple observation clusters are selected as representative of the beacon based on the calculated probabilities, characteristics are derived for the beacon (including multiple locations) based on the selected multiple observation clusters, and at least the multiple locations for the beacon are stored in a reference database. To estimate a location of an electronic device, a list of detected beacons is created, one or more locations are accessed from a reference database for each of the beacons on the list of detected beacons with at least one of the beacons having multiple locations, the locations are grouped into location clusters, a probability each location cluster represents a location of the electronic device is calculated, an location cluster is selected to represent the location of the beacon based on the calculated probabilities, and a location of the electronic device is estimated based on the selected location cluster.
US11553446B2	Technologies for managing internal time synchronization Technologies for managing internal time synchronization include an internet-of-things (IoT) device configured to determine a transport delay value as a function of a transmit path delay corresponding to a first message transmitted from an I/O device of the IoT device to a central timer of the IoT device and a receive path delay corresponding to a second message transmitted from the central timer to the I/O device. The IoT device is further configured to update, in response to having received a broadcast message from the central timer subsequent to having determined the transport delay value, a timestamp value of the received broadcast message as a function of the transport delay value. Other embodiments are described herein.
US11553442B2	Hopping scheme for embedded wireless sensors A wireless communication method to alter RF regulatory channel hopping requirements (regulations) between a pair of transceivers is envisioned wherein an embedded transceiver embedded in an RF attenuating medium transmits signals at a lower hopping requirement than a paired open-air transceiver. The communication method adheres to these regulations, which define a threshold power for transmission above which require a high degree of frequency hopping. Because the attenuating medium attenuates the open-air RF signal from the embedded transceiver, channel hopping in the embedded transceiver is lowered however, the channel hopping in the open-air transceiver is not lowered. The two transceivers are essentially powered equally.
US11553435B2	Uplink information transmission method and apparatus This application provides an uplink information transmission method and apparatus. The method includes: determining a value of a power control parameter in a value set of the power control parameter, where any value set of the power control parameter includes at least two values; sending indication information to a terminal device, where the indication information is used to indicate the value of the power control parameter; and receiving uplink information, where the uplink information is from the terminal device at a transmit power adjusted based on the value of the power control parameter.
US11553434B2	Power supply method and electronic device therefor An electronic device may include, for example: a first battery; at least one second battery; a power management module configured to monitor capacity information of the first battery; and a processor electrically connected to the first battery, the at least one second battery, and the power management module. The processor may be configured to: monitor whether a designated event or a low-power state in which a voltage of the first battery drops below a reference value has occurred, while the electronic device is driven using the first battery; determine that the designated event has occurred or that the first battery corresponds to the low-power state; and parallel-connect the first battery and at least one of the at least one second battery, based on determining that the designated event has occurred, or that the first battery corresponds to the low-power state. Various other embodiments are possible.
US11553432B2	Method and device for communication device to sense or transmit WUS signal in wireless communication system The present invention discloses various embodiments of a method and a device by which a terminal senses a wake up signal (WUS) in a wireless communication system. Disclosed are a method and a device by which a terminal senses a WUS signal in a wireless communication system, the method including: a step for receiving, from a base station, WUS setting information related to a first WUS resource and a second WUS resource; a step for specifying the first WUS resource on the basis of the WUS setting information; and a step for sensing a WUS signal from the specified first WUS resource, wherein, when the WUS signal is a group WUS signal, the first WUS resource is specified to be continuous with the second WUS resource in a time domain.
US11553431B2	Time slotted scan receiver In one embodiment, an apparatus of a wireless communication device includes control circuitry to cause receiver circuitry of the wireless communication device to switch between an on-mode and an off-mode. The apparatus also includes synchronizing circuitry to: perform a correlation on signals of a packet received by the receiver circuitry when in the on-mode to detect a pattern in the received signals, and cause the control circuitry to hold the receiver circuitry in the on-mode based on detection of the pattern in the received signals. The apparatus further includes demodulation circuitry to process additional signals of the packet received by the receiver circuitry when held in the on-mode.
US11553425B2	Wakeup signal for new radio multicast communications Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A communication device, such as a user equipment (UE) may monitor a pre-wakeup window during an inactive duration of a multicast discontinuous reception (DRX) cycle that includes multiple active durations and multiple inactive durations. The UE may receive, in the pre-wakeup window, a wakeup signal that indicates a quantity of the active durations in the multicast DRX cycle that the UE is to monitor and the UE may monitor the indicated quantity of active durations for multicast signals for the UE.
US11553414B1	Modified synchronization signal block for network energy saving Aspects presented herein may enable a transmitting entity, such as a base station, to indicate to one or more receiving entities that SSBs of one or more cells (which may include the transmitting entity) are to be transmitted with modified configurations. The method may also enable the transmitting entity to transmit modified SSBs to enable network energy saving. In one aspect, a base station configures one or more cells of a plurality of cells with one or more modified SSBs associated with an ES mode. The base station transmits an indication of the one or more cells associated with a transmission of the one or more modified SSBs, the transmission of the one or more modified SSBs corresponding to an ES mode at the one or more cells, the one or more cells being associated with the base station or at least one other base station.
US11553413B2	User equipment controlled mobility in an evolved radio access network Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, a user equipment (UE) may enter into an E-UTRAN Routing Area Paging Channel state, and is configured with an E-UTRAN Routing Area and an Anchor identifier to identify an anchor evolved Node B (eNB) for the UE. The UE selects to a new cell without performing a handover procedure, and performs a cell update procedure. The UE also may enter into a Cell Update Connected state, and is configured with an Anchor identifier. The UE selects to a new cell, performs a cell update procedure, performs a buffer request procedure, and performs a cell update procedure to download buffered data and to perform data transmission with the new cell.
US11553411B2	End-to-end network slice selection and configuration A system and associated method for enabling end-to-end (E2E) network slicing in a 5G network are described. A (Radio) Access Network-Network Slice Selection Function ((R)AN-NSSF) can be configured to receive a (R)AN slice selection request and to select, from a pool of (R)AN slice instances, a (R)AN network slice instance including one or more (R)AN slice components. A Core Network-Network Slice Selection Function (CN-NSSF) can be configured to receive a CN slice selection request to select, from a pool of CN slice instances, a CN network slice instance including one or more CN slice components. A Network Slice Policy Control (NSPC) function can be configured to verify that the selected (R)AN slice instance and CN slice instance are consistent with operator policies.
US11553407B2	Methods and systems for signal interpretation via image analysis A signal interpretation system includes a communication device, a memory storing instructions, and one or more processors configured to execute the instructions to perform operations including: receiving scanned information including a shape of at least one article scanned with a scanning device to identify the at least one article and identifying a geographic location of the scanning device, when a scan of the at least one article was performed, based on a location signal received from the scanning device. The operations also include evaluating a signal indicative of interest in the identified at least one article and transmitting, via the communication device, a notification based on the evaluated signal, the notification being indicative of the identified at least one article and the identified geographic location, the notification being configured to cause an update in at least one graphical element presented by the scanning device or another device.
US11553391B2	Wireless communication handover responsive to uplink interference at a serving cell In a wireless User Equipment (UE), a serving radio wirelessly exchanges data with a serving cell over a serving radio band. The wireless UE wirelessly receives serving signaling that indicates serving uplink interference for the serving radio band at the serving cell. A neighbor radio in the UE wirelessly receives neighbor signaling. UE circuitry determines serving signal strength and the serving uplink interference for the serving cell. The UE circuitry determines neighbor signal strength for the neighbor cell. The UE circuitry compares the serving uplink interference and the serving signal strength to the neighbor signal strength, and in response, generates a handover request for the neighbor cell. The serving radio wirelessly transfers the handover request to the serving cell, and in response, the neighbor radio wirelessly exchanges additional data with the neighbor cell over the neighbor radio band.
US11553382B2	Key change procedure There is provided mechanisms for configuring use of keys for security protecting packets communicated between a wireless device and a network node. A method is performed by the wireless device. The method comprises exchanging key use information with the network node in conjunction with performing a key change procedure with the network node during which a first key is replaced with a second key. The key use information indicates which of the packets are security protected using which of the first key and the second key.
US11553381B2	Method and apparatus for multiple registrations A user device having a security context with a first network based on a first key may establish a security context with a second network. In a method, the user device may generate a key identifier based on the first key and a network identifier of the second network. The user device may forward the key identifier to the second network for forwarding to the first network by the second network to enable the first network to identify the first key at the first network. The user device may receive a key count from the second network. The key count may be associated with a second key forwarded to the second network from the first network. The user device may generate the second key based on the first key and the received key count thereby establishing a security context between the second network and the user device.
US11553373B2	Wireless terminal, wireless base station, and transmission method of buffer status report A wireless terminal for a wireless communication, the wireless terminal includes: a memory that includes a buffer configured to store uplink data, wherein the uplink data is configured to be transmitted; and a controller configured to transmit a buffer status report, the buffer status report including a first index, wherein the first index is one of a plurality of buffer status indices and corresponds to a buffer size indicating a size of the uplink data stored in the buffer, wherein the memory is configured to store a buffer status table in which a range from a minimum value of the buffer to a maximum value of the buffer is divided into a plurality of subranges, the plurality of subranges being associated with a part of the plurality of buffer status indices, and a rest of the plurality of buffer status indices are associated with one or more reserved fields.
US11553366B2	Method and device in node used for wireless communication The present disclosure provides a method and a device in node used for wireless communication. The communication node first performs X first-type measurement(s) in a target time-frequency resource pool, and the X first-type measurement(s) is (are respectively) used for acquiring X first-type measurement value(s); performs a target second-type measurement, the target second-type measurement being used for acquiring a second-type measurement value; and then transmits a first radio signal. Herein, the X first-type measurement value(s) is (are) used for the target second-type measurement, and the target time-frequency resource pool is one of Q alternative time-frequency resource pools related to a Subcarrier Spacing (SCS) of subcarriers occupied by the first radio signal; there exist two of the Q alternative time-frequency resource pools that comprise different time-frequency resources.
US11553365B2	Method for reporting measurement result by user equipment transceiving data by first radio access technology and second radio access technology, and device therefor The present disclosure relates to a communication technique for combining, with an IoT technology, a 5G communication system for supporting a data transmission rate higher than that of a 4G system, and to a system therefor. The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services (e.g., a smart home, a smart building, a smart city, a smart car or connected car, healthcare, digital education, retail business, security and safety-related service, etc.), based on a 5G communication technology and an IoT-related technology. A method for a user equipment in a first communication system according to the present invention comprises a user equipment in an inactive state: transmits a paging area update request message; checks whether a timer associated with a paging area update has expired; and transitions into an idle state if a response message for the paging area update request message has not been received until the timer expired.
US11553359B2	Common network resource allocation for matching data In some implementations, a radio access provider (RAP), e.g., of a wireless telecommunications network, can identifying matching data in two data flows associated with respective, different terminals. The RAP can determine a common wireless-resource allocation for the matching data, and respective allocation messages for the terminals. Each allocation message can indicate the common resource allocation. The RAP can transmit the allocation messages to the terminals. In some implementations, a wireless communications device can receive two allocation messages, one for a common and one for a terminal-specific resource allocation. The device can receive the common-allocation data before the terminal-specific data, and assemble a packet with at least some of the terminal-specific data before some of the common-allocation data. The device can decrypt the common-allocation data using a key associated with the common allocation.
US11553357B2	Efficient adaptable wireless network system with agile beamforming Beamforming for adapting wireless signaling beams in an adaptive and agile manner is contemplated. The beamforming may be characterized by adaptively constructing beam form parameters to provide wireless signaling in a manner that maximizes efficiency and bandwidth according to device positioning relative to a responding base station.
US11553356B2	Determining beam settings for beam management There is provided mechanisms for determining beam settings for beam management. A method is performed by a first radio transceiver device. The method comprises obtaining information about expected distribution of second radio transceiver devices in a network coverage region of the first radio transceiver device in which the beam management is to be performed. The method comprises determining beam settings for a first set of beams and a second set of beams. The first set of beams and the second set of beams are to be used for the beam management. There are fewer beams in the first set of beams than in the second set of beams. The beams in the first set of beams collectively cover all beams in the second set of beams. The beam settings for the beams in the first set of beams are determined according to the obtained information.
US11553351B2	Secure indoor positioning device, system and method A secure indoor positioning device, system and method. A mobile electronic device is detected entering into proximity of a stationary electronic device. In response, a plurality of secure session parameters is negotiated via two-way wireless communication between the stationary electronic device and the mobile electronic device. One or more of the negotiated plurality of secure session parameters is communicated to one or more other stationary electronic devices. At one or more of the plurality of stationary electronic devices, secure messages broadcasted by the mobile electronic device are received. These messages are decrypted or authenticated using one or more of the negotiated secure session parameters and are used to determine a position of the mobile electronic device.
US11553346B2	Misbehavior detection in autonomous driving communications A first roadway system receives a communication from a second roadway system over a wireless channel, where the communication includes a description of a physical object within a driving environment. Characteristics of the physical object are determined based on sensors of the first roadway system. The communication is determined to contain an anomaly based on a comparison of the description of the physical object with the characteristics determined based on the sensors of the first roadway system. Misbehavior data is generated to describe the anomaly. A remedial action is initiated based on the anomaly.
US11553345B2	Communication terminal, network device, communication method, and non-transitory computer readable medium A communication terminal (10) according to the present disclosure includes: a control unit (12) configured to, in a case of a movement from a communication area formed by the 5GS to a communication area formed by the EPS or a movement from a communication area formed by the EPS to a communication area formed by the 5GS, determine whether or not a communication system forming a communication area at a movement destination can satisfy requirements of services; and a communication unit (11) configured to, when it is determined that the communication system forming the communication area at the movement destination can satisfy the requirements of the services, send a connection request message to the communication system forming the communication area at the movement destination.
US11553343B2	Real-time soft combining, CRC validation, and MIC validation of decrypted packets The apparatus receives a first PDU and a first CRC that is based on the first PDU. The first PDU is encrypted based on a first nonce. The apparatus decrypts the first PDU to obtain a first payload and a first cipher stream. The apparatus soft combines the decrypted first payload with a decrypted set of payloads. The set of payloads have been encrypted based on at least one nonce different than the first nonce. The apparatus generates a second CRC based on the soft combined decrypted payloads and based on the first cipher stream. The apparatus determines whether the generated second CRC for the soft combined decrypted payloads passes a CRC check against the first CRC.
US11553334B1	User equipment (UE) identification in a wireless communication network In a wireless communication network, Unified Data Repositories (UDRs) determine initial User Equipment Identifiers (UE IDs). The UDRs successfully synchronize the initial UE IDs and serve the initial UE IDs to network elements that use the initial UE IDs to serve wireless data communications to UEs. The UDRs determine additional UE IDs. The UDRs unsuccessfully synchronize the additional UE IDs and serve the additional UE IDs to the network elements. In response to the unsuccessful synchronization of the additional UE IDs, a UDR recovery system reallocates the additional UE IDs. The UDR recovery system successfully synchronizes the reallocated-additional UE IDs. The network elements use the initial UE IDs and the reallocated-additional UE IDs to serve the wireless data communications.
US11553333B2	Method of reporting received signal strength on per frame basis in wi-fi network Aspects of the present disclosure are drawn to a client device for use with an access point device. The client device includes: a memory; and a processor configured to execute instructions stored on the memory to cause the client device to: obtain a value associated with a capability of the client device, create a response including a header and a payload, the header including a reserved field including a bit reporting that the payload of the response includes the value associated with the capability, and transmit the response to the APD.
US11553332B2	Method and device for controlling data transmission state in wireless communication system A method for controlling a data transmission state by a terminal in a wireless communication system may comprise: transmitting capability configuration information of the terminal to a node of a network; applying a triggered communication environment configuration on the basis of the capability configuration information from the node; transmitting, to the node, first connection configuration information related to a wireless local area network (WLAN) connection configuration; and applying a first communication environment reconfiguration triggered from the node on the basis of the first connection configuration information, wherein the capability configuration information includes LWA function permission information of the terminal.
US11553330B2	Radio capability change Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for modifying a radio capability. One apparatus includes a processor and a transceiver that communicates with a RAN node. The processor registers with a first communication system via the RAN node. The processor detects a trigger to perform radio capability change for at least one radio access technology (“RAT”) and transitions the apparatus to an idle state. The processor further sends a request to the first communication system to update one or more UE radio capabilities while in the idle state.
US11553328B2	Methods, devices, and computer programs for provisioning or controlling operator profiles in terminals Methods are disclosed for provisioning and/or controlling operator profiles in terminals, each having an integrated circuit card identified by an integrated circuit card identifier. According to one aspect, a discovery server is configured with an authorization table including associations of integrated circuit card identifier, service provider identifier, and operator identifier(s). The discovery server receives, from a data preparation node, an event registration request that includes a number of elements. The discovery server determines whether the event is authorized. If so, the event is registered. This enables a terminal to seek to retrieve the event, to contact the data preparation node, and to eventually perform the profile operation. Some embodiments enable the network-initiated provisioning and/or controlling of operator profiles in machine-to-machine devices.
US11553326B2	Communication device and communication method for transmitting notifications to communicate with first and second softwares and to cause second software to be on standby and to cancel being on standby An electronic clock which is a communication device includes: a transceiver configured to communicate with another communication device including first software and second software; and at least one processor. The processor: controls the transceiver to perform a certain communication with the first software; and causes, after the certain communication ends, the transceiver to transmit a notification for notifying the second software of the end of the certain communication.
US11553323B2	Computer-readable recording medium, information processing method, and information processing device Information for determining whether to evacuate or not is provided to a user by a computerized process. The process includes: acquiring a number of evacuees for each of a plurality of targets corresponding to a predetermined user; selecting a target of the plurality of targets based on the acquired numbers of evacuees for the plurality of targets and importance levels respectively set for the plurality of targets; and associating information on the selected target with information on the acquired number of evacuees for the selected target and outputting the information on the selected target and the information on the acquired number of evacuees for the selected target to the predetermined user.
US11553320B1	Detection and handling of home owner moving by a home monitoring system Techniques are described for determining that a property is vacant based on monitoring data collected by connected sensors and appliances near or within the property. In response to determining that a property is vacant, the condition of the vacant property can be monitored for various risks such as fire safety and security breaches. Monitoring techniques may also be used to determine when a new customer (e.g., a new tenant or property owner) has moved into the property. In response to detecting a move-in, one or more notifications may be transmitted to assist the new customer to customize a security system associated with the property. In this regard, techniques described herein may be used by service providers to improve the transition associated with move-in and move-out processes, which may also improve retention of monitoring services.
US11553318B2	Routing method for mobile sensor platforms A method for routing, through a geographic region over a time interval, a sensor platform mounted on a vehicle is described. The method includes receiving a precision level for at least one constituent of an environment measured by a sensor of the sensor platform. The precision level corresponds to a mean concentration of the constituent(s) over the time interval. A reference dataset corresponding to the geographic region and the time interval is selected. From the reference dataset and the precision level, at least one minimum number of distinct samples for a plurality of geographic segments of the geographic region is determined. The method also includes determining a number of passes for the geographic region over the time interval using the minimum number of distinct samples for each of the plurality of geographic segments. Each pass of the number of passes is part of a route for the vehicle.
US11553313B2	Clench activated switch system Systems and methods for operating a controlled device via an activation accessory that includes a vibration motor, a wearable module including a clench-detection sensor (e.g., a Hal effect sensor), and a communication element. The sensor is coupled to a controller, which has an output coupled to a control signal interface and another output coupled to the vibration motor. The controller is programmed to receive and evaluate input signals from the sensor to determine whether or not they represent a command for the controlled device by assessing the input signals for a signal pattern indicative of a plurality of volitional jaw clench actions of a wearer of the wearable module. If/when the processor determines that the input signals represent the command, then it decodes the command and transmits an associated control signal to the controlled device via the control signal interface as well as an activation signal to the vibration motor.
US11553294B2	Method for determining microphone position A method for determining microphone position is a method for determining positions of a plurality of microphones in a microphone array having the plurality of microphones arranged in a plurality of concentric circles. The method for determining microphone position includes a constraint condition acquiring step of acquiring constraint conditions including the maximum number of the plurality of microphones; and a selecting step of selecting, from among a plurality of combinations of (i) the number of microphones included in each of the plurality of concentric circles and (ii) the radius of each of the plurality of concentric circles, a combination indicating directional characteristics with the smallest difference from a target value of the directional characteristics of the microphone array, where the plurality of combinations satisfy the constraint conditions.
US11553292B2	In-the-ear hearing device An in-the-ear (ITE) hearing aid has a housing that is designed for insertion into an ear canal of a hearing aid wearer. The housing has a housing shell. The housing shell has an antenna, in particular a folded, capacitively charged dipole antenna. The antenna is mounted in particular on an outer surface of the housing shell.
US11553291B2	Hearing device with printed circuit board assembly and output transducer Disclosed is a hearing device configured to be worn in an ear of a user. The hearing device is configured to provide an audio signal to the user. The hearing device comprises a circuit assembly. The circuit assembly comprises a printed circuit board assembly. The printed circuit board assembly comprises: a first circuit board; a second circuit board; and a third circuit board interconnected with the first circuit board and the second circuit board. The circuit assembly comprises a battery, and an output transducer for providing the audio signal, wherein the printed circuit board assembly is folded about the battery and the output transducer.
US11553288B2	Hearing device with embedded integrated circuit chips A hearing device includes: a multi-chip assembly including a plurality of integrated circuit chips, the plurality of integrated circuit chips including one or a combination of a wireless communication chip, a power management chip, and a signal processing chip; wherein the multi-chip assembly comprises: a first layer having a surface, a spacer layer being configured to accommodate one or more of the plurality of integrated circuit chips as one or more embedded chips, and a ground layer below the first layer and the spacer layer, and a first shielding layer between the spacer layer and the first layer.
US11553285B2	Hearing device or system for evaluating and selecting an external audio source A hearing system comprises a hearing device worn on the head, or fully or partially implanted in the head, of a user, and external audio transmitters. The hearing system allows wireless communication to be established between the hearing device and the audio transmitters. The hearing device comprises microphones providing respective electric input signals; a beamformer filter providing a beamformed signal from the electric input signals; and an output unit. The hearing system further comprises a selector/mixer for selecting and possibly mixing one or more of the electric input signals or the beamformed signal and external electric signals from the audio transmitters, and providing a current input sound signal based thereon for presentation to the user. The selector/mixer is controlled by a source selection processor, which determines the source selection control signal based on a comparison of the beamformed signal and the external electric sound signals or processed versions thereof.
US11553283B2	Microphone assembly having a direct current bias circuit with deep trench isolation The disclosure describes devices and methods of providing a DC bias voltage in a microphone assembly. Particularly, one implementation of such a device may be implemented on an integrated circuit that includes a direct current (DC) bias circuit. The DC bias circuit may be coupled to a transducer and configured to supply a DC bias signal to the transducer. The DC bias circuit includes a multi-stage charge pump and a low pass filter (LUFF) circuit. The multi-stage charge pump includes transistors that are fabricated with deep trench isolation (DTI).
US11553282B2	Differential condenser microphone with double vibrating membranes A dual-diaphragm differential capacitive microphone includes: a back plate, a first diaphragm, and a second diaphragm. The first diaphragm is insulatively supported on a first surface of the back plate, where the back plate and the first diaphragm form a first variable capacitor. The second diaphragm is insulatively supported on a second surface of the back plate, where the back plate and the second diaphragm form a second variable capacitor. The back plate is provided with at least one connecting hole. The second diaphragm is provided with a recess portion recessed towards the back plate, where the recess portion passes through the connecting hole and is connected to the first diaphragm. The dual-diaphragm differential capacitive microphone achieves a higher signal-to-noise ratio.
US11553273B2	Passive diaphragm assembly A passive diaphragm assembly includes a counterweight member, a first diaphragm and a second diaphragm. The first diaphragm and the second diaphragm are spaced apart from each other, are connected respectively to opposite ends of the counterweight member, and cooperate with the counterweight member to define an air space thereamong.
US11553272B2	Loudspeaker with mechanical resonance mitigation A loudspeaker driver moving system including a bobbin, a diaphragm and an elastic damping ring interposed between and attached respectively to the bobbin and the diaphragm.
US11553259B2	Extending the optical spectrum of an optical network Systems and methods include, for operation on an optical fiber in an optical network with the optical fiber having extended optical spectrum that include a plurality of bands including at least the C-band and one or more additional bands, segmenting the plurality of bands by distance based on different transmission specifications for the plurality of bands based on fiber types and amplifiers used for corresponding bands; and placing one or more channels on the optical fiber in a corresponding band of the plurality of bands based on a distance between nodes associated with each of the one or more channels. The segmenting is based on a metric that is a function of fiber type of the optical fiber and amplifier performance for amplifiers used in the plurality of bands.
US11553256B2	Method and device for processing message in live broadcast room The present disclosure relates to methods, devices, and storage media for processing message in a live broadcast room, including in response to detecting that a target message interaction interface among pre-configured message interaction interfaces is called, obtaining a message configuration parameter corresponding to the target message interaction interface, obtaining a service type and a caller account incoming with the target message interaction interface, the message interaction interface being used for respective accounts in the live broadcast room for message interaction, determining a respective content to be sent according to the service type and the caller account, determining a respective target client according to an account type of the caller account, performing splicing processing on the content to be sent according to the message configuration parameter to obtain a target message, and sending the target message to the target client.
US11553255B2	Systems and methods for real time fact checking during stream viewing The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for fact-checking contemporary and/or live video streams. In one aspect, the disclosed systems and methods may provide fact-checked commentary and annotations to enhance the enjoyment and engagement with the streaming media. In one aspect, the systems and methods nay generate an overlay for the streaming media that includes fact-checked annotations and comments about statements or assertions made during the live streaming media.
US11553254B2	Methods, systems, and media for providing dynamic media sessions with audio stream expansion features Methods, systems, and media for providing dynamic media sessions with audio stream expansion features are provided. In some embodiments, the methods include: receiving an indication that audio content associated with a video content item is to be presented by a follower device synchronously with the audio content presented by the leader device; identifying candidate follower devices by determining whether devices connected to a local area network are capable of being designated as a follower device; causing a user interface to be presented that indicates each candidate follower device; receiving, via the user interface, a selection of one of the candidate follower devices; and transmitting, from the leader to the selected follower device, control instructions that cause the audio content associated with the video content item to be presented synchronously by the selected follower device with the video content item presented by the leader device.
US11553252B2	System and method for interactive television with messaging based payments Disclosed is a system and method for integrating email, SMS, and social media based transactions with interactive television or standard cable with Internet access to make payments. Disclosed is a method to tie together a vendor and a cable provider with an e-commerce system leveraging each entity's customer information to streamline the payment process. Also disclosed are multiple methods to allow customers to make messaging based payments via interactive cable television features. The messaging allows for payments based on various levels of convergence between Internet and cable television experiences.
US11553247B2	Methods and apparatus to determine an audience composition based on thermal imaging and facial recognition Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a thermal image detector to determine a heat blob count based on a frame of thermal image data captured in the media environment, an audience image detector to identify a face of an audience member based on a frame of audience image data captured in the media environment, the frame of audience image data corresponding to a field of view associated with at least one heat blob included in the heat blob count, and a people meter controller to cause a people meter, which is to emit a prompt for audience identification information, not to emit the prompt for at least a first time period after the audience member is identified.
US11553244B2	Downstream plant capacity An amplification system for amplifying a service of a cable television network that includes a first amplifier receiving the service and providing a first output signal having a first frequency band with a first maximum downstream frequency to a first customer and a second amplifier. The amplification system includes the second amplifier receiving the first output signal and providing a second output signal having a second frequency band with a second maximum downstream frequency to a second customer, wherein the second maximum downstream frequency is less than the first maximum downstream frequency.
US11553240B2	Method, device and apparatus for adding video special effects and storage medium Provided are a method, apparatus and device for adding a video special effect and a storage medium. The method includes: acquiring a source video sequence and at least one special effect video sequence; in the case where frame rates of the two or more than two special effect video sequences are same, inserting a frame into the source video sequence and superimposing the two or more than two special effect video sequences on the source video sequence at the same time; and in the case where frame rates of the two or more than two special effect video sequences are different, determining a target frame rate from the frame rates of the two or more than two special effect video sequences inserting frames into the source video sequence and then superimposing the two or more than two special effect video sequences on the source video sequence.
US11553232B2	Controller capable of detecting user's fingerprint A controller (e.g., a remote control) stores channel information preferred by the user or program information preferred by the user. The controller recognizes the user by detecting the user's fingerprint, and controls the display device or a set-top box that communicates with the display device such that a list corresponding to the recognized channel information preference or a list corresponding to program information is displayed on the display device.
US11553224B1	Method and device for adjusting bit rate during live streaming The present disclosure relates to a method and device for adjusting a bit rate during live streaming. In the method for adjusting the bit rate during live streaming includes: a parameter of a network used by an anchor terminal for transmitting live streaming data is acquired, an adjustment range of the bit rate for uploading the live streaming data is determined based on the parameter of the network used by the anchor terminal for transmitting the live streaming data, and the bit rate for uploading the live streaming data by the anchor terminal is adjusted based on a determined adjustment range.
US11553216B2	Systems and methods of facilitating live streaming of content on multiple social media platforms Disclosed herein is a method of facilitating live streaming of content on multiple social media platforms. The method comprises receiving, using a communication device, a plurality of digital content from a source user device. Further, the method comprises receiving, using the communication device, a plurality of target identifiers from the source user device. Further, the method comprises identifying, using a processing device, a plurality of social media servers associated with the plurality of target identifiers. Further, the method comprises processing, using the processing device, the plurality of digital content based on a plurality of platform characteristics corresponding to the plurality of social media servers. Further, the method comprises generating, using the processing device, a plurality of transformed digital content based on the processing. Further, the method comprises transmitting, using the communication device, the plurality of transformed digital content to the plurality of social media servers.
US11553207B2	Contour mode prediction A video decoder and method for supporting a prediction mode for predicting blocks of a video is configured to predict each of the blocks by extrapolating a neighborhood of the respective block into the block along a direction which varies across the respective block.
US11553198B2	Removal delay parameters for video coding A system for decoding a video bitstream includes receiving a bitstream and a plurality of enhancement bitstreams together with receiving a video parameter set and a video parameter set extension. The system also receives an output layer set change message including information indicating a change in at least one output layer set.
US11553190B2	Extensions of motion-constrained tile sets SEI message for interactivity An extension to the motion-constrained tile sets SEI message provides functionality to signal all tiles are independently decodable and to signal the ROIs that may have more than one tile per ROI. With this extension, the functionality to redefine any independently decodable region-of-interest in a CVS at a coding tree unit level based on user interactivity is enabled. The extension supports the interactivity utilized in various applications such as interactive Ultra High Definition Television (UHDTV), dynamic high-quality zoom-in application, interactive on-demand, e-learning, smart surveillance and many other applications. Additionally, the temporal MCTS SEI message is able to be used by an encoder for tiled streaming to signal explicitly to the decoder that the decoder need only to display the ROI.
US11553183B2	Method and device for encoding/decoding image A method and a device for encoding/decoding an image are disclosed. The method for decoding an image comprises the steps of: decoding information on a quantization matrix; and restoring the quantization matrix on the basis of the information on the quantization matrix, wherein the information on the quantization matrix includes information indicating a DC value of the quantization matrix and/or information indicating differential values of quantization matrix coefficients.
US11553171B2	Light field display device and method of processing image of the same A light field display device includes: a display module; an optical coupler emitting a third image obtained by combining a first image and a second image, and including a first surface, a second surface and an emission surface emitting the third image, wherein the first image is emitted from the display module and is incident on the first surface, wherein the second image is incident on the second surface; and a controller configured to generate image data based on 3D modeling data and provide the image data to the display module. The optical coupler includes: an optical waveguide including the first, second and emission surfaces, and a third surface; a beam splitter in the optical waveguide; and a concave mirror adjacent to the third surface of the optical waveguide, and wherein the controller moves the concave mirror in correspondence with depth information included in the 3D modeling data.
US11553167B2	Assigning new numbers to display elements of an autostereoscopic display A processor system and computer-implemented method are provided for assigning view numbers to display elements of an autostereoscopic display for use in interleaving image data of different viewpoints of a scene on the basis of said assigned view numbers. The assignment is performed in an efficient yet accurate manner and may be easily adapted to different optical designs of such autostereoscopic displays, for example, in terms of pitch and/or slant of the optical elements used in such autostereoscopic displays, or to different sub-pixel layouts of the display panel.
US11553161B2	Electronic patient sitter management system and method for implementing An electronic sitter management system coupled to patient surveillance network having a plurality of video cameras, each camera transmitting a stream of surveillance video of a respective patient room. The sitter management system includes at least one sitter management device and a plurality of sitter devices. Each device being assigned a plurality of patient rooms and capable of receiving a plurality of streams of surveillance video for the corresponding plurality of patient rooms and simultaneously displaying a plurality of video images of the corresponding plurality of patient rooms. Each device is also capable of transmitting sitter device availability information to the sitter management device. The sitter management device being capable of recognizing a sitter device being unavailable and reassigning the plurality of patient rooms previously assigned to the unavailable device to other of the plurality of sitter devices that are available.
US11553160B1	Systems and methods for imaging communication and control A telesurgical mentoring platform with a wheeled base, a lower rack mounted on the base, an upper rack extending vertically from the lower rack, a compactly foldable articulated arm that is configured to extend horizontally outward away from the upper rack and configured to connect to a connector piece holding an end effectuator at its distal end, a tablet personal computer; the console configured to be readily mobilized on the floor of an existing operating room and is capable of providing a connectivity point for communication, audiovisual, and data transfer services in an operating room.
US11553158B2	Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program There is provided an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program that make it possible to recognize a state of telecommunication among multiple points more easily. Information regarding telecommunication performed among telecommunication apparatuses is received, and an image that indicates a state of telecommunication between a first telecommunication apparatus and another communication apparatus and a state of telecommunication between a plurality of other telecommunication apparatuses is generated on the basis of the received information, and then the generated image is displayed. The present disclosure can be applied, for example, to an information processing apparatus, a telecommunication apparatus, electronic equipment, an information processing method, a program, or the like.
US11553157B2	Device and method of displaying images This application relates to an image display device and method. In one aspect, the image display device includes a communication interface, a user interface, a memory and a processor. The processor may receive, from a first terminal through the communication interface, a stream including a plurality of images captured by the first terminal. The processor may also determine whether the received stream includes a first image in which no face is detected among the plurality of images. The processor may further, in response to determining that the received stream includes the first image, perform image processing on the first image to generate a second image. The processor may further display, through the user interface, the plurality of images by replacing the first image with the second image.
US11553155B2	Communication controller and control method of communication controller Reduction of recorded noise is achieved at the time of imaging in an environment of generation of noticeable noise while securing user convenience. A communication controller includes a wireless communication unit that performs first wireless communication using a first wireless communication method, and second wireless communication using a second wireless communication method, and a control unit that detects a volume of a voice, and changes a wireless output of the first wireless communication on the basis of the detected volume.
US11553148B2	Solid-state imaging device To improve the image quality of image data in a solid-state imaging device that reads a signal according to a potential difference between respective floating diffusion regions of a pair of pixels. A pixel unit is provided with a plurality of rows each including a plurality of pixels. A readout row selection unit selects any of the plurality of rows as a readout row every time a predetermined period elapses, and causes each of the plurality of pixels in the readout row to generate a signal potential according to a received light amount. A reference row selection unit selects a row different from a previous row from among the plurality of rows as a current reference row every time the predetermined period elapses, and causes each of the plurality of pixels in the reference row to generate a predetermined reference potential. A readout circuit unit reads a voltage signal according to a difference between the signal potential and the reference potential.
US11553144B2	Imaging unit, imaging apparatus, and computer-readable medium having stored thereon a control program Provided is an imaging unit including an imaging section that includes a pixel capable of performing charge accumulation a plurality of times in response to an imaging instruction for generating one frame of image data; a storage section that stores a pixel signal based on output from the pixel; an updating section that updates the pixel signal already stored in the storage section by performing an integration process to integrate the pixel signal output from the pixel as a result of a new charge accumulation and the pixel signal already stored in the storage section; and a control section that controls whether the updating section performs the update, for each of a plurality of pixel groups that each include one or more pixels.
US11553142B2	Virtual three-dimensional objects in a live video A method for depicting a three-dimensional object in a real environment, depicted in a final video played back on a monitor, includes the steps of generating at least one object video by filming the object with a camera from different filming directions for generating an object video, wherein the angle of an optical axis of the camera in relation to a central axis of the object is in each case determined for the respective filming direction, so that an angle can be associated with each filming direction. The method also includes generating a live video with at least one live camera and simultaneously inserting the object video into the live video at a defined position in the environment for generating the final video, and changing the position of the live camera in the environment and simultaneously depicting the object in the final video in a desired perspective in the environment.
US11553136B2	Subject tracking device, subject tracking method, and storage medium In order to provide a subject tracking device capable of reducing erroneous tracking of a subject, the subject tracking device includes an image acquisition unit configured to sequentially acquire images, a tracking unit configured to track a subject which is detected from the images acquired by the image acquisition unit by comparison between images over a plurality of images which are sequentially acquired by the image acquisition unit, and a switching unit configured to switch a time for continuing tracking in the tracking unit in accordance with a type of the subject detected from the images.
US11553135B2	Display control apparatus including an eye approach detector and a sightline detector and a control method for starting image display A display control apparatus comprises a first display unit capable of being viewed via an eyepiece part, a second display unit capable of being viewed without the eyepiece part, an eye approach detection unit configured to detect an eye approaching to the eyepiece part, a sight line detection unit configured to detect a sight line of the eye that is viewing the first display unit via the eyepiece part, and a control unit configured to perform control to stop display of the first display unit if a sight line is not detected by the sight line detection unit within a first time period in a state where the eye approaching is being detected by the eye approach detection unit.
US11553120B2	Optical element, optical system, and image pickup apparatus An optical element includes a plurality of substrates, an adhesive configured to adhere the plurality of substrates to each other, and an antireflection film provided to at least one of an incident surface and an exit surface of the optical element. The antireflection film includes a first layer including alcohol having at least one of an ether bond and an ester bond in a branched structure with 4 to 7 carbon atoms. A content of the alcohol in the first layer is 0.5 mg/cm3 to 5.0 mg/cm3. The first layer has a refractive index of 1.1 to 1.3 for light with a wavelength of 550 nm.
US11553107B2	Information processing apparatus and non-transitory computer readable medium storing information processing program An information processing apparatus includes an acquiring unit that acquires first information satisfying a predetermined condition from first history information which is generated in an electronic device, a storage unit that stores the first information acquired by the acquiring unit in a storage device, and a control unit that performs a control of transmitting second information to an external apparatus, the second information being acquired by combining the first information stored in the storage device by the storage unit with second history information which is generated by execution of a function.
US11553103B2	Image capture device for generating time-lapse videos An image capture device continuously generates time-lapse video frames to be included within a time-lapse video using a time-lapse video frame rate, with the value of the time-lapse video frame rate changing based on activation of a trigger to change the time-lapse video frame rate.
US11553095B2	Information processing apparatus, control method of information processing apparatuses, scanner apparatus, control method of scanner apparatus, and recording medium A client terminal that executes an application that can transmit both push scanning and pull scanning instructions to an MFP provided with a scanner apparatus has an acquisition unit that acquires an image to be used for a preview from the MFP by providing an instruction for pull scanning to the MFP if the input of a setting for performing a push scanning is received and a preview setting is further received, a provision unit that provides a preview screen by using the acquired image to be used for a preview; and a transmission unit that transmits a push scanning instruction to the MFP.
US11553083B2	Dynamically providing safe phone numbers for responding to inbound communications A system and method for dynamically providing safe call back numbers to use to respond to an inbound communication, the method comprising parsing message records from a message server, analyzing the message records for untrustworthy phone numbers by comparing content of the message records to a reference data set that is retrieved from a database, the reference data set including genuine and fraud data wherein the genuine and fraud data includes entities and contact information corresponding to the entities, determining untrustworthy phone numbers in the message records from the analysis, and generating remedy actions based on the determination of the untrustworthy phone numbers.
US11553081B2	Providing audio content to a device The present disclosure describes receiving a trigger operation indication that content has been selected by a user device, and determining whether the content offers a recurring audio content data. The operation may also include retrieving a first audio content and transmitting the first audio content to the user device.
US11553073B2	Methods and systems for recalling second party interactions with mobile devices Systems and methods are presented for identifying individuals through facial recognition, voice recognition, or the like, recalling past recorded conversations with the identified individuals, and recording and inventorying conversations with the individuals with mobile devices. In some embodiments, a method is presented. The method may include identifying, at a device, an individual through facial recognition, voice recognition, or a unique RFID. The method may also include recording a conversation with the identified individual, and recalling past relevant recorded conversations based on the identification of the individual, and transmitting the recording of the conversation to a display system configured to display the recording of the event.
US11553072B2	Electronic apparatus and method of selectively applying security mode in mobile device A mobile device is configured to photograph an object and includes a user interface having a display panel to display an image and a touch panel to receive a user command, a network interface to wirelessly communicate with an external network, a memory to store a password and data for operations of the mobile device, and a control unit to control the user interface, the network interface, and the memory to perform a first process during a normal mode, and to perform a second operation during a power saving mode. The first process includes setting an area condition and a wireless communication condition. The second process includes unlocking the mobile device according to the area condition and the wireless communication condition.
US11553069B2	Electronic device including rotatable camera According to various embodiments, an electronic device may include a housing, a display, an opening, a slide portion configured to slide with respect to the housing, a camera module unit configured to rotate in association with an operation of the slide portion within the opening, and a sliding motion controller configured to implement a slide operation of the slide portion and a rotation operation of the camera module unit. The sliding motion controller includes a sliding plate coupled to the slide portion to slide together, a rack gear rail disposed in a sliding direction of the slide portion and configured to move together with the slide portion by a first length and having a gear formed at one end thereof, a locking hook protruded from the other end of the rack gear rail so as to intersect a sliding direction of the rack gear rail, and a locking guide formed to correspond to a position of the locking hook and coupled to the locking hook.
US11553067B2	Method and device for transmitting data Embodiments of the present application provide a method and a device for transmitting data, which are capable of achieving timely data transmission. The method includes: starting, by a receiving end, a timer of a first delivery mode when determining that data delivered and data to be delivered are not continuous, where the first delivery mode is used to indicate that the receiving end directly delivers data to an upper layer upon the receipt of the data; and delivering, the receiving end, the data to be delivered to the high level using the first delivery mode in a case where the timer of the first delivery mode does not expire.
US11553065B2	Packet formats for vehicular networks A first communication device is configured to process packets that conform to a first physical layer (PHY) protocol for wireless vehicular communications and packets that conform to a second PHY protocol for wireless vehicular communications. The first communication device determines that multiple frames are to be transmitted to a second communication device during a transmit opportunity period (TXOP), and determines that one or more third communication devices neighboring the first communication device are not capable of processing packets that conform to the second PHY protocol. In response, the first communication device transmits a first packet that conforms to the first PHY protocol and that includes duration information for the TXOP, and transmits a second packet that conforms to the second PHY protocol to the second communication device during the TXOP.
US11553064B2	Methods and nodes for facilitating a PDU session procedure in interworking networks A method at an Access and mobility Management Function (AMF) for facilitating a Protocol Data Unit (PDU) session procedure for a User Equipment (UE) in a 5th Generation System (5GS) network, wherein the 5GS network is interworking with an Evolved Packet System (EPS) network, and a Packet Data Network Gateway Control plane Function+Session Management Function (PGW-C+SMF) supporting the interworking is selected for managing the PDU session. The method comprises determining whether the PDU session supports interworking with the EPS network, based on at least one of a capability of the UE and a subscription data of the UE; and sending an indication which indicates whether the PDU session supports interworking with the EPS network to the PGW-C+SMF.
US11553056B2	Publishing and synchronization techniques Upon detection of a change in value to a data asset, customized rules are processed to publish the change and other information pertaining to the data asset with one or more services/devices. In an embodiment, the change and other information are dynamically pushed to a mobile device when the mobile device is in a predefined geographical area as defined by the customized rules.
US11553055B2	Automated communication-based intelligence engine A system that creates and automatically builds one or more entity models that are derived from communication-based information received over a network. Building the entity models uses machine learning, a user interface, a sentiment analyzer, a communication monitoring agent and an automated bot. Bots are created based on a bot template. New communication-based information is analyzed and processed to improve the entity model, to keep the bot up-to-date, and to update other services and products that the entity relies on. The system enables a business to cluster other entities together to assist in identifying competitors. The system provides analytical information about how users journey through an entity model. The system automatically maintains listings such as frequently asked questions. The system works in a networked environment, which may be a distributed network.
US11553054B2	Measurement of internet media consumption Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to measure media consumption. An apparatus includes a controller to trigger execution of a request to obtain media from an Internet site, and a reference signature generator to identify a set of domain names generated during the execution of the request, and generate a reference signature based on (a) the set of domain names and (b) one or more of a location of the request, a time of the request, or a characteristic of a device used to execute the request.
US11553052B2	Information processing apparatus, system, and in-vehicle device A controller is provided which performs extracting a post related to a vehicle washing machine from posts to a social networking service, and transmitting, to a terminal of a user using the social networking service, information on a position of the vehicle washing machine and a type of the vehicle washing machine specified based on the extracted post.
US11553046B1	Seamless scaling via proxy replay of session state A service provider network implements seamless scaling via proxy replay of session state. Upon a trigger, such as a determination to scale a server, a scaled server may be spun up and an identifier of the scaled server provided to a first (existing) server. The first server sends the identification of the second server, and session state information for each of the connections between the first server and the request router, to the request router. For each of the connections, the request router establishes a new connection between the request router and the second (scaled) server, and replays the session state information for the connection to the second server. The request router then routes traffic between each existing client connection (e.g., the same existing client connection which carried traffic delivered to the first server) and the corresponding new connection to the second server.
US11553042B2	Vehicle data distribution system and method Techniques for delivering data or information onto a vehicle and for delivering data off of a vehicle include a data distribution system having multiple interfaces that are fixedly connected to the vehicle, and that provide access to multiple types of data bearers connected to external networks. A bearer selector engine may select a particular data bearer for delivery of data based on a set of selection criteria, which may be indicated in a set of selection rules on-board the vehicle. The selection criteria may be based on bearer characteristics, data characteristics, vehicle operating state and/or other current conditions, priority, a feature or service, and/or user preference. Using one or more on-board networks, data may be generated by an on-board originating device and routed for external delivery, or external data may be delivered to an on-board destination device. Data delivery may occur while the vehicle is en route.
US11553034B2	Server computer management system for supporting highly available virtual desktops of multiple different tenants A server computer can be quickly allocated to and made ready for use by users of a tenant by adding and starting, on that server computer, copies of a process implementing the tenant's virtual machine, based on a gold image virtual machine for that tenant. The gold image virtual machine also has an associated gold image virtual disk. The virtual machines on the server computer are associated with virtual disks that are linked clones based on the gold image virtual disk, such as linked clones of a replica of the gold image virtual disk. Each virtual machine for a tenant on the new server computer also is added to the tenant computer network. Server computers for multiple tenants can be grouped into a cluster, and can use anti-affinity rules to limit instantiation of virtual machines of each tenant only on server computers dedicated to the tenant.
US11553032B2	System and method for toolchain integration in application availability monitoring Various methods, apparatuses/systems, and media for implementing a smart toolchain integration module are disclosed. A processor detects an issue in connection with performance and/or operation of an application and creates an event, in response to detecting the issue, with required parameters. The processor causes the event to be consumed with the required parameters in an event automation platform and triggers a corresponding microservice which stores a code to be utilized for replicating and interpreting the issue in response to consuming the event. The processor also replicates the issue by running a check through hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) POST request by the microservice to a corresponding application programming interface (API) based on the code; interprets the issue by sending a HTTP secure (HTTPS) GET request by the microservice to the corresponding API based on the code; and automatically remediates the issue based on the required parameters.
US11553028B1	Proactively determining and managing potential loss of connectivity in an electronic collaborative communication Non-limiting examples of the present disclosure describe proactive detection and notification of a potential loss of connectivity during an electronic collaborative communication. Subsequently, a state of the electronic collaborative communication is managed to improve, among other technical advantages, processing efficiency of associated computing devices and users involved in the electronic collaborative communication. A quality of a network feed for a participant in an electronic collaborative communication is identified and analyzed to generate a warning of potential loss of connectivity. A state of an electronic collaborative communication is managed relative to a continued quality evaluation of said network feed. For example, a network feed may be placed on hold and/or a communication suspended due to potential connectivity issues. A representation of a video feed may be updated and/or a communication resumed when a quality of that video feed is determined to satisfy a pre-selected quality threshold.
US11553024B2	Systems and methods for dynamic weighting of branched video paths Systems and methods for dynamically weighting media segments and paths in a structured media presentation are disclosed. The structured media presentation can be, for example, a video tree representing a branching video presentation and defining multiple branches, each defining a path of one or more video content segments. Different portions of the video tree are associated with weights, and during playback of the branching video presentation, a video content segment is automatically selected for presentation based on one or more of the associated weights.
US11553021B2	Media downlink transmission control method and related device A media downlink transmission control method and a related device, the method including receiving a remote media reception message sent by an authorized terminal, where the remote media reception message includes a target user identifier, determining a first target media stream based on the remote media reception message, and sending the first target media stream to a destination terminal corresponding to the target user identifier.
US11553020B2	Using camera on computer simulation controller A computer simulation controller includes a camera that can be used to image a display on which a computer simulation, controlled by the controller, can be presented. The camera images information on the display, such as display identification (ID), and sends the information to a server streaming the simulation. Based on the information, the server knows to which display to stream the simulation.
US11553016B2	Cross network sharing system A system includes a common display, a display computer to run collaboration software connected to the common display that drives the common display, the display computer being on a first network, a first mobile device to run a sharing application and a streaming application, the first mobile device being on a second network, separate from the first network, the streaming application to convert a display of the mobile device into stream data, a control channel between the mobile device and the display computer, and a stream channel between the display computer and the mobile device. The mobile device sends stream data directly to the display computer, wherein the display computer is to display the stream data on the common display. The stream channel may be directly between the mobile device and the display computer or may be over a relay server.
US11553009B2	Information processing device, information processing method, and computer program for switching between communications performed in real space and virtual space There is provided an information processing device, an information processing method, and a computer program that enable to switch communication between virtual space and real space smoothly. The information processing device includes a communication control unit that controls communication performed in virtual space in which a virtual image corresponding to a real image of a user present in real space is created, interactively between users through the virtual image of the user; a user-information acquiring unit that acquires position information regarding a position of the user in the real space and attribute information including at least information regarding intimacy between the users at predetermined timing; and a switching control unit that controls switching between communication performed in the real space and communication performed in the virtual space according to at least either one of the position information and the attribute information.
US11553007B2	Multiple level validation A method may include receiving a digital certificate through a secure connection from a network access server, the secure connection passing through a network address translation device, validating the digital certificate with a policy management system, and establishing a secure tunnel between the network access server and the policy management system when the digital certificate is validated. Also, receiving, through the secure tunnel and from the network access server, a remote authentication dial-in user service access request having a network access server internet protocol address, validating the network access server with the network access server internet protocol address by the policy management system, and allowing a remote authentication dial-in user service traffic when the internet protocol address of the network access server is validated and closing the secure tunnel when the validating the network access server fails.
US11553006B2	Distributed policy enforcement proxy with dynamic EPG sharding A distributed policy proxy system offloads network policy processing from an overloaded network element to policy proxy network elements. A network controller detects that policy resources are overloaded at a network element, and assigns a range of endpoints to each policy proxy network element. Each policy proxy network element is assigned to handle policy processing for traffic belonging to a corresponding assigned range of endpoints. The network controller provides instructions to the policy proxy network elements to enable each policy proxy network element to apply the network policy for its assigned range of endpoints. The network controller also provides instructions to the overloaded network element to redirect a packet from the first endpoint to a first policy proxy network element based on a destination of the packet.
US11552999B2	Apparatus and methods for provisioning in a download-enabled system Apparatus and methods for provisioning of customer premise equipment (CPE) equipped with a secure microprocessor to receive e.g., digital video content by entering unique identification of the CPE at one or more servers located at the headend or other location of a content-based network. In one embodiment, the CPE comprises a download-enabled (e.g., DCAS) host with embedded cable modem and embedded set-top box functionality, and the provisioning includes enabling DOCSIS functionality of the CPE, assigning an IP address to the CPE and providing the CPE with a client image for the conditional access system chosen by the network operator. In one variant, the network operator can deactivate a provisioned device while connected to the network, as well when disconnected from the network. The network operator can also add, delete or replace conditional access client image in a provisioned device.
US11552994B2	Methods and nodes for handling LLDP messages in a communication network Transmitting node (120) and receiving node (121) for handling LLDP messages in a communication network (100). The transmitting node (120) transmits a LLDP message to the receiving node (121), which LLDP message comprises security related information enabling to verify authenticity of the transmitting node (120). The receiving node (121) receives one or more LLDP messages, at least one comprising security related information enabling to verify authenticity of the transmitting node (120; 124) that transmitted the LLDP message.
US11552993B2	Automated collection of branded training data for security awareness training A method of collecting training data related to a branded phishing URL may comprise retrieving a phishing URL impersonating a brand; fetching a final webpage referenced thereby; determining the main language of the textual content thereof; rendering graphical representation(s) of the final webpage; extracting, from the source of URLs, information including the retrieved phishing URL, a brand, a type and a date associated therewith and storing the extracted information together with the final webpage and the rendered graphical representation(s). A message that contains a URL matching the phishing URL may then be retrieved. The main language of the textual content of the message may be determined and graphical representations thereof rendered. A record may be updated with the message, the main language and the rendered graphical representations, which may be made accessible as training data to train users to recognize phishing websites and messages.
US11552990B2	Message management platform for performing impersonation analysis and detection Aspects of the disclosure relate to detecting impersonation in email body content using machine learning. Based on email data received from user accounts, a computing platform may generate user identification models that are each specific to one of the user accounts. The computing platform may intercept a message from a first user account to a second user account and may apply a user identification model, specific to the first user account, to the message, so as to calculate feature vectors for the message. The computing platform then may apply impersonation algorithms to the feature vectors and may determine that the message is impersonated. Based on results of the impersonation algorithms, the computing platform may modify delivery of the message.
US11552982B2	Systems and methods for effective delivery of simulated phishing campaigns Systems and methods are described for verifying whether simulated phishing communications are allowed to pass by a security system of an email system to email account of users. One or more email accounts of the email system with the security system may be identified to use for a delivery verification campaign. Further, one or more types of simulated phishing communications may be selected from a plurality of types of simulated phishing communications. The delivery verification campaign may be configured to include the selection of the one or more types of simulated phishing communications from the plurality of types of simulated phishing communications. The selected one or more types of simulated phishing communications of the delivery verification campaign may be communicated to the one or more email accounts. Further, whether or not each of the one or more types of simulated phishing communications was allowed by the security system to be received unchanged at the one or more email accounts.
US11552978B2	Disaster security calculation method, and user terminal and non-transitory medium implementing same A disaster security resource calculation method includes obtaining disaster prevention data of a place to be evaluated and loss assessment data of the place in a disaster scenario, and determining disaster security resources required by the place to be evaluated in the disaster scenario using a preset calculation model according to the disaster prevention data and the loss assessment data. The disaster prevention data includes environmental information, item information, and personnel information.
US11552976B2	Systems and methods for social network analysis on dark web forums to predict enterprise cyber incidents Systems and methods for predicting enterprise cyber incidents using social network analysis on the darkweb hacker forums are disclosed.
US11552972B2	Trusted travel devices equipped with on-the-fly monitoring A method for enhancing travel security features associated with a mobile device is provided. The method may include operating a time clock on the mobile device to determine a start device confiscation time in the memory and to determine an end device confiscation time in the memory. The method may also include monitoring the operation of the mobile device between the start device confiscation time and the end device confiscation time to determine the existence of an anomalous device condition. The monitoring may include using a network traffic monitor device, a bandwidth usage monitor device, a battery performance monitor device, a website presentation monitor device, and/or central processing usage monitor device. The monitoring may record a device activity between the start time and the end time and flag the anomalous device condition that occurred between the start time and the end time.
US11552966B2	Generating and mutually maturing a knowledge corpus In an approach to mature a knowledge corpus using artificial intelligence (AI) and user collaboration, embodiments create, by an AI response system, a knowledge corpus based on retrieved data associated with a first user. Additionally, embodiments execute, by the AI response system, a search to locate one or more matching knowledge corpora based on a request of the first user, and identify, by an anonymous network, at least one cluster of one or more anonymous second users having respective search requests that substantially match the search request of the first user. Furthermore, embodiments execute an AI exchange between the identified one or more anonymous second users and the first user, and mature the knowledge corpus, via the AI response system, based on the AI exchange between the first user and the identified one or more anonymous second users.
US11552958B2	Geo-aware capture with reduced personal information disclosure Systems and methods for authenticating and executing a user request with increased security and efficiency are provided. A method may include receiving a selection from a user to restrict informational access of a selected administrator who is logged in to a system network, and locking access of the administrator to secure user information. The method may also include receiving, from the user, limited identifying information, and transmitting to the user, based on the limited identifying information, a uniform resource locator (URL) link and a one-time password (OTP). The method may also include achieving 2-factor authentication when the user accesses the URL link and submits the OTP, and receiving from the user the secure user information and a service request. In response to receiving the secure user information and the service request, the method may include executing a response to the service request via the system network.
US11552955B2	Data security across data residency restriction boundaries Data security across data residency restriction boundaries is provided by obtaining and profiling a dataset on which a desired analysis is to be performed, with some results of the desired analysis to be transferred from one location to another, the dataset subject to data residency restrictions that restrict transfer of the dataset across a boundary to the another location, and the profiling identifying a profile level for the dataset, then automatically generating a container image based on the profile level and the data residency restrictions that restrict the transfer of the dataset across the boundary, the container image configured for instantiation and execution to process the dataset into a reformatted dataset not restricted by the data residency restrictions for transfer across the boundary, and storing the container image to a container registry.
US11552952B1	Providing notifications to authorized users A method and system for initiating message listening and routing message content to authorized user devices is disclosed. For a second user device to receive notifications regarding records of a first user, the second user device provides information identifying the first user to a notification service. The notification service verifies the identifying information. The notification service initiates one or more listeners to listen for messages flowing over a messaging bus that are relating to the first user. Once a message is identified, at least a portion of the message is used to generate a notification that may be sent to the second user device.
US11552937B2	Distributed authentication and authorization for rapid scaling of containerized services The disclosed technology provides solutions for performing rapid authentication and authorization for distributed containerized microservices. In some aspects, a process of the technology can include steps for: associating a service type with a set of microservices or service pods, detecting deployment of a first microservice on a first host, and receiving an authentication and authorization state from a first virtual network edge (VNE) of the first host. In some aspects, the process can further include steps for distributing the authentication state to a second VNE on a second host, wherein the authentication state is configured to facilitate authentication of one or more subsequent microservices instantiated on the second host by the second VNE. Systems and machine readable media are also provided.
US11552933B2	Privacy preserving uni-directional communication device In an industrial system, a data capture apparatus can be configured to operate as a unidirectional communication connection between a private network and a public network. The data capture apparatus can be further configured to collect raw data from the private network. The raw data can define a data distribution. The data capture apparatus can be further configured, based on the data distribution of the raw data, to generate anonymized or synthetic data that represents the raw data. The anonymized data can be transmitted over the unidirectional communication connection to a receiver machine of the data capture apparatus. In some cases, the receiver machine can send the anonymized data to an analysis system within the public network, such that the raw data can be analyzed by the analysis system, based on the anonymized data that represents the raw data, without the analysis system obtaining the raw data.
US11552920B2	Privacy aligned and personalized social media content sharing recommendations Systems and methods are provided that facilitate selecting videos to share in a messaging session. A system is provided that includes an accessible data mining component configured to generate a first set of data associated with a messaging session between a user and one or more other user, the first set of data excluding data that is inaccessible to the user and comprising data that is accessible to the user, and an identification component configured to identify a set of media items based on the first set of data. An inaccessible data mining component is further configured to generate a second set of data comprising data that is inaccessible to the user but accessible to at least one of the one or more other users, and a recommendation component configured to recommend a subset of the set of media items to the user based on the second set of data.
US11552912B2	Process for optimizing the storage space on a messaging server and associated system A process for optimizing storage space of a messaging server that stores electronic messages. Sets of messages may be processed to identify redundant elements, such as common text clauses or attachments, that appear in multiple messages. These redundant elements may be stored and removed from the associated messages. When a message is read, the removed elements may be replaced in the message at their original positions to reconstruct the original message.
US11552911B2	Indication of communication across applications In a device including a processor and a computer-readable medium, the computer-readable medium includes executable instructions causing the processor to control the device to perform functions of (i) displaying, via a display, a GUI for a first communication application, the GUI including a first portion displaying content of a first communication session associated with the first communication application, wherein participants of the first communication session includes a user of the device, and a second portion including a plurality of graphical elements, each graphical element associated with one of a plurality of functionalities related to a second communication application different from the first communication application; (ii) detecting an activity related to a second communication session associated with the second communication application; and (iii) in response to detecting the activity, displaying, via the second portion of the GUI, an indication of the detected activity related to the second communication session.
US11552909B2	Generation of a chatbot A computer-implemented method, computer system, and computer program product for for generation of a chatbot. The method may include receiving data in a first format. The method may include generating one or more clusters from the received data. The method may include labeling the generated one or more clusters. The method may include exporting the one or more labeled clusters into a cluster database. The method may include generating the chatbot using the one or more labeled clusters exported from the cluster database. The method may include executing a validation script into the chatbot to generate a report. The method may include receiving a determination on an accuracy of the chatbot based on the generated report. In response to determining that the chatbot is not accurate, the method may include determining whether a manual adjustment directly on the chatbot is needed.
US11552904B2	Architecture for high performing data plane applications with smart network interface on compute servers A system for processing data, comprising a compute node having a first processor that is configured to receive a digital data message containing a request for computing services and to allocate processing resources on a network as a function of the request. A smart network interface controller (NIC) having a second processor that is configured to interface with the network and to send and receive data over the network associated with the computing services as a function of one or more policies. The smart NIC configured to receive policy update data and to implement the policy update data and to process the data that is sent and received over the network in accordance with the policy data.
US11552902B2	Managing connection retries due to access class barring In some implementations, a method includes receiving a connection request from a user application. A service request is sent to a radio resource control (RRC) module. An indication of failure of or a rejection to the service request due to access class barring is received from the RRC module. A retry of the user application connection request is prevented until expiration of an access-class-barring timer of the RRC module that resulted in the access class barring.
US11552899B2	Automatic scaling for consumer servers in a data processing system A system and method for automatically scaling consumer servers in a data processing system. To build an automatic scaling system, the present disclosure allows consumers to obtain additional information, e.g., the number of events that await to be read from an aggregator when receiving an event from the aggregator. This additionally obtained number provides a direct gauge for the data processing system to determine when the consumers are over-provisioned, i.e., when the number of events left to be read is close to zero, as well as when the consumers are under-provisioned, e.g., when the number of events left to be read continues to increase. As a result, the consumers can be automatically scaled to handle the dynamic data processing demand while providing optimal resource allocation.
US11552897B2	Remote control system and method Provided is a remote control system and a method enabling packets, related to a control signal and simultaneously transmitted from a controller to a plurality of controlled devices, to be received by the controlled devices without a difference in delay. Edge nodes that are packet transfer devices are provided on communication paths between a controller provided on a network and a plurality of controlled devices provided in a location. The edge nodes each include a transfer processing unit that transfers the packets from the controller to the controlled devices, and a timing control unit that controls transmission timing of the packets in the transfer processing unit to reduce a difference in arrival time of a plurality of packets simultaneously transmitted from the controller to the plurality of controlled devices, at the plurality of controlled devices.
US11552892B2	Dynamic control of latency tolerance reporting values An endpoint processing device is provided for dynamically controlling latency tolerance reporting (LTR) values. The endpoint processing device comprises memory configured to store data and a processor. The processor is configured to execute a program and send, to a root point processing device via a peripheral component interconnect express (PCIe) link, a plurality of messages each comprising a memory access request and a LTR value indicating an amount of time to service the memory access request. The processor is also configured to, for each of the plurality of messages, determine, during execution of the program, a LTR value setting and set the LTR value as the determined LTR value setting.
US11552891B1	Self-configuration of network devices without user settings A method includes obtaining, via a power system device, a source media access control (SMAC) address. The method includes generating, via the power system device, an Ethernet frame of power system data with a destination media access control (DMAC) address comprising at least a portion of the SMAC address. The method includes sending, via the power system device, the Ethernet frame to an intelligent electronic device (IED) of a power system.
US11552882B2	Efficient propagation of fault routing notifications A network element includes processing circuitry and multiple ports. The ports connect using links to a communication network. The processing circuitry is configured to receive packets via the ports and forward the received packets to respective destination addresses via the ports. The destination addresses are organized in address groups, each address group including multiple destination addresses of nodes connected to a common network element in the communication network. The processing circuitry is further configured to, in response to identifying that a given port connects to a faulty link, determine one or more address groups that became unreachable via the given port due to the faulty link, generate a notification reporting one or more of the determined address groups that are unreachable via any port other than the given port, and transmit the notification to one or more other network elements, via one or more ports other than the given port.
US11552877B2	Systems and methods for modeling and optimizing a telecommunications network Aspects of the present disclosure include systems, methods, computing devices, computer-implemented methods, and the like for modeling and/or simulating performance of a telecommunications network during one or more failure scenarios that reduces computational time and/or power over previous simulation techniques. Modeling and simulating the network may include generating an initial network model from network data information and applying one or more transformations to the initial network model to reduce the size of the model. Following transformation, simulation methods may be applied to the generated network model based on routing characteristics of the components of the network. To reduce the computations utilized to simulate such components and/or routing decisions in the network, one or more simulation algorithms may be applied to the transformed network model to reduce the number of routing decisions simulated.
US11552875B2	Communication support system and method From among a U-plane and a C-plane, the U-plane is installed in a first user site which has a base station, and the C-plane is installed in a C-plane site (any site that is not a user site). A system sets a U-plane inter-site path which is an inter-site communication path that connects a first user site with a second user site via a wide area network, and a C-plane inter-site path which is an inter-site communication path that connects a C-plane site with the first user site via the wide area network. In addition, the system sets an in-site communication path which is a communication path within the first user site and which connects to an inter-site communication path. A U-plane inter-site path is an inter-site communication path via which data is transmitted or received by a U-plane. A C-plane inter-site path is an inter-site communication path via which a signal is transmitted or received by a C-plane.
US11552872B2	Systems and methods for automated remote network performance monitoring In some implementations, a device may determine one or more parameters for filtering network traffic of a network that includes a plurality of virtual packet brokers provided for a plurality of cloud random access networks and a plurality of traffic aggregation points. The device may provide the one or more parameters to the plurality of virtual packet brokers, to cause the plurality of virtual packet brokers to filter the network traffic to obtain network visibility traffic. The device may receive, from one or more probes of a session aggregation point of the network, one or more metrics calculated based on the network visibility traffic by the plurality of virtual packet brokers. The device may determine one or more actions to be implemented based on the one or more metrics. The device may cause the one or more actions to be implemented in the network.
US11552863B2	Packet processing method, forwarding plane device and network device Embodiments of the present invention provide a packet processing method, a forwarding plane device and a network device, the method includes: receiving, by a forwarding plane device, a first packet transmitted by a user, where an identity of the user is comprised in the first packet, and a forwarding table is comprised in the forwarding plane device; determining, by the forwarding plane device, an identity of a service according to a corresponding relationship between the identity of the user and the identity of the service as well as the identity of the user in the first packet; generating, by the forwarding plane device, a second packet by encapsulating the first packet with the identity of the service; and transmitting the second packet to a network device, to enable the network device to manage the service according to the identity of the service in the second packet.
US11552862B2	Method for measuring operation performance of intelligent information system The present invention relates to a method for measuring an operation performance of an intelligent information system which is a platform to support automatic collection and analysis for measuring a performance of an operating information system. The method according to the present invention includes: a planning step of establishing a plan for evaluating an operation performance by registering basic evaluation information for evaluating the information system and setting an evaluation condition including a measurement criterion of a measurement time or a measurement schedule; an evaluation step of performing cost evaluation required for operating the information system, utilization evaluation of determining a utilization frequency and a utilization type, quality evaluation of evaluating the quality of the information system by calculating a measurement index related to a failure of the information system and collecting user satisfaction, and task performance evaluation of determining whether the number of users connected or registered into the information system increases and whether a performance goal is achieved; and an analysis and diagnosis step of converting the result value into a numerical value by analyzing the evaluation step, and classifying the information system into at least one management type according to the conversion criteria to diagnose an operation performance. The present invention has an advantage in that an information system operated through an automated platform can be smoothly analyzed and a method for operating the information system can be presented by collecting performance information and providing the performance information to a user continuously in the future even after analyzing the information system.
US11552861B2	Efficient way to perform location SLO validation A method, apparatus, and system for performing a Location SLO check based on a location scatter table is disclosed. A location scatter table is maintained, the location scatter table indicative of updated geographical location distribution of all backups of all assets. A Location Service Level Objective (SLO) associated with a first asset is determined, the Location SLO associated with the first asset specifying one or more allowed locations where backups of the first asset are permitted to be located. All locations where at least one backup of the first asset is located are determined. A Location SLO check for the first asset is performed, wherein the Location SLO check passes when all the locations where at least one backup of the first asset is located fall within the allowed locations specified by the Location SLO.
US11552855B2	Methods, systems and apparatus for dynamically extending a cloud management system by adding endpoint adapter types Methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture for dynamically extending a cloud management system by adding endpoint adapter types are disclosed. An example cloud management system includes: an interface to communicate with an external device; a host to manage requests and allocate resources through one or more virtual machines; and an endpoint registry to include an endpoint adapter and metadata defining the endpoint adapter, the endpoint adapter to specify communication between at least one of the host or the external device and an endpoint. In the example cloud management system, the host is to at least enable, via the interface, the external device to access the endpoint registry a) to register an endpoint adapter configuration with the endpoint registry and b) to retrieve the endpoint adapter configuration from the endpoint registry.
US11552854B2	Network management based on assessment of topological robustness and criticality of assets A system and method of managing a network that includes assets are described. The method includes modeling the network as a directed graph with each of the assets represented as a node and determining alternative paths to each node from each available corresponding source of the node. The method also includes computing upstream robustness of each node, computing upstream robustness of the network, and computing downstream criticality of each node. Managing the network and each asset of the network is based on the upstream robustness and the downstream criticality of each node.
US11552851B2	Configuration of device through microphone port In one aspect, a device includes at least one processor, a touch-enabled display accessible to the at least one processor, and storage accessible to the at least one processor. The storage includes instructions executable by the at least one processor to detect a hover of a body part of a user or other physical object above the touch-enabled display, where the hover does not include the physical object physically touching the touch-enabled display. The instructions are also executable to identify a graphical object underneath the hover and to cache data associated with the graphical object prior to the graphical object being selected based on the physical object physically touching the touch-enabled display.
US11552849B2	Hybrid software-defined networking and mobile ad-hoc networking routing in mesh networks A network controller is configured to cause a network to implement a primary network configuration of a network and a secondary network configuration as a backup to the primary network configuration. The network controller may be configured to receive information from a plurality of nodes of a network and information related to the client data to be transmitted through the network. Based on the node information, the network controller is configured to determine available nodes and possible links in the network and then determine a topology of the network. The primary network configuration is determined based on the topology. The network controller then sends instructions to the plurality of nodes of the network to implement the primary network configuration and to switch to a secondary network configuration where a failure of the primary network configuration occurs, wherein the secondary network configuration implements mobile ad-hoc networking in the determined topology.
US11552848B2	System and method for managing a network device In general, embodiments described herein relate to methods and systems for automating the configuration of network devices. More specifically, embodiments of the invention relate to using configuration commands that specify protocol-specified relationships in order to generate granular (or specific) filtering rules (also referred to as rules). The rules are subsequently programmed into the network device.
US11552847B1	Automatic derivation of repository access data based on symbolic configuration In an embodiment, a data processing method comprises detecting an approval of a change to an electronic configuration document that symbolically identifies one or more configurations of users, groups, and/or permissions relating to access to computer program artifacts that are stored in a first repository of a geographically distributed, replicated artifact repository system; the artifact repository system comprising one or more second repositories that are geographically remote with respect to the first repository and which replicate the first repository; in response to the detecting: obtaining the electronic configuration document and deriving, based on the electronic configuration document, a plurality of regional repository settings values for users, groups, and/or permissions relating to access to the computer program artifacts and for the one or more second repositories; transmitting the one or more settings values to the one or more second repositories and causing injection of the one or more settings values into one or more repository configuration settings of the second repositories.
US11552846B2	Adapting demodulation reference signal configuration in networks using massive MIMO Based on the receipt of a demodulation reference signal from a user equipment, a determination can be made by the network node that a demodulation reference signal configuration is not suitable for the condition of a transmission link between the network node and the user equipment. In response to this determination, the demodulation reference signal configuration can be modified.
US11552832B2	Data sampling circuit and data sampling device Embodiments provide a data sampling circuit and a data sampling device. The sampling circuit includes: a first sampling module configured to respond to a signal from a data signal terminal and a signal from a reference signal terminal and to act on a first node and a second node; a second sampling module configured to respond to a signal from the first node and a signal from the second node and to act on a third node and a fourth node; a latch module configured to input a high level signal to a first output terminal and input a low level signal to a second output terminal or input the low level signal to the first output terminal and input the high level signal to the second output terminal according to a signal from the third node and a signal from the fourth node; and a decision feedback equalization module.
US11552820B2	Prioritized serial communication An electric system for transmitting serial communication messages with different priorities over a communication link. The data to be transmitted is arranged in serial communication messages comprising a start of packet (SOP) symbol and data symbols. The ongoing transmission of a first message is interrupted if a SOP symbol of a second message is sent before the first message has been completed. Transmission of the first message is continued only after the second message has been sent.
US11552818B2	Relay device and multi-split air-conditioning control systems A relay device and a multi-split control system that achieve reliable communication between an outdoor air conditioning unit and multiple indoor units under the condition that the length of a communication bus is limited. The system expands the communication distance by a cascade path formed by a plurality of relay devices. The cascade path transmits control signals sent by a master control device/a specific slave control device (i.e. a slave control device communicating with the master control device or certain relay device) to corresponding slave control devices one by one, and the corresponding slave control devices transmit the signals to the master control device/specific slave control device according to a response signal fed back by the control signal, where the relay devices may respectively communicate with a source node device and a destination node device on the basis of the master-slave type communication mode.
US11552815B2	Method of and devices for supporting selective forwarding of messages in a network of communicatively coupled communication devices A gateway device and a configuration client for supporting selective forwarding of messages published to a group address or a virtual address in a wireless mesh network of communicatively coupled communication devices, such as a Bluetooth Mesh system. The configuration client maintains a mapping between unicast addresses of communication devices and group and virtual addresses in the network. The gateway device receives, from the configuration client, unicast addresses of those communication devices collectively identified by the group or virtual address in a received message. When the retrieved unicast addresses are all serviced by the gateway device, the message is transmitted by the gateway device on all interfaces corresponding to the communication devices addressed by the retrieved unicast addresses. When the retrieved unicast addresses are not all serviced by the gateway device, the message is transmitted by the gateway device on all except one of the interfaces.
US11552800B2	Apparatus, system and method for operating a software-defined network Various embodiments include an apparatus for operating a software-defined network having a number of network elements comprising: a memory unit storing an image of the software-defined network; a control unit programmed to use the stored image as a basis for controlling forwarding of data streams by the number of network elements; and a comparison unit programmed to compare the stored image against a network image published in a ledger of a blockchain.
US11552794B2	Deterministic random blinding Systems and methods include determination of a first value to be blinded, determination of a first key value, generation of a first composite value based on the first value and the first key value, performance of a hash operation on the first composite value to generate a first hash value, seeding of a pseudorandom generator with the first hash value to generate a first pseudorandom value, truncation of the first hash value based on the first pseudorandom value to generate a first truncated value, and generation of a blinded value associated with the first value based on a blinding function comprising the first value and the first truncated value.
US11552791B2	Access technology agnostic service network authentication Serving network authentication and validation by a UE includes encrypting an identifier associated with the UE using a first instance of a public key associated with a serving network to which the UE is attempting to gain access; transmitting the identifier to the serving network; receiving from the serving network an authentication vector containing a second instance of the public key, the second instance of the public key having been encrypted using a key shared by the UE and a home network associated with the UE; decrypting the second instance of the public key using the key shared by the UE and the home network; comparing the first instance of the public key to the second instance of the public key; and when the first instance and the second instance are the same, determining that the home network has authenticated the serving network.
US11552787B2	Key exchange schemes with addressable elements A computing device includes an array of addressable elements. Each addressable element is a hardware element that generates a substantially consistent response when interrogated. The device includes a processor coupled to the array of addressable elements and configured to communicate using a communication network. The processor receives a public key, and processes the public key to produce at least a set of addresses. Each address in the set of addresses identifies one or more hardware elements in the array of addressable elements. The processor generates a set of responses by interrogating the one or more hardware elements in the array of addressable elements identified by the set of addresses according to a set of reading instructions, appends the responses in the set of responses to generate a private key, receives an encrypted message and decrypts the encrypted message using the private key to generate an unencrypted message.
US11552780B2	Homomorphic one-time pad encryption A system for securing a data set include a computing device that provides access to portions of a data set to different users, and can encrypt the portions by generating encryption keys for each portion using a single mathematical function. The keys are generated by applying a starting point and length to a solution of the mathematical function. The process to generate the decryption keys are provided to the authorized users so that they can view and manipulate only the data set portions they are authorized to access.
US11552777B2	Time domains synchronization in a system on chip A method for synchronizing a first time domain with a second time domain of a system on chip includes a detection of at least one periodic trigger event generated in the first time domain, the second time domain or in a third time domain; acquisitions, made at the instants of the at least one trigger event, of the current timestamp values representative of the instantaneous states of the time domain(s) other than the trigger time domain; a comparison, made in the third time domain, between differential durations between current timestamp values which are respectively acquired successively; and a synchronization of the second time domain with the first time domain, on the basis of the comparison.
US11552773B2	Uplink channel resource indication method, uplink channel resource determination method, base station, terminal and medium An uplink channel resource indication method, an uplink channel resource determination method, a base station, a terminal and a medium are pr. The uplink channel resource indication method includes: indicating frequency domain resource information corresponding to N subbands contained in a current carrier to a UE through high-layer signaling, where N>1; and indicating one or more subbands for uplink data transmission to the UE through downlink control information, so that the UE uses a frequency domain resource corresponding to the one or more subbands for uplink data transmission to transmit uplink data based on frequency domain resource information corresponding to the one or more subbands for uplink data transmission. Resource utilization and performance of a NR network may be improved.
US11552765B2	Resource selection method and terminal A resource selection method includes monitoring, by a first terminal, a first subframe, where a quantity of the first subframes is less than or equal to a quantity of second subframes; receiving, by the first terminal, indication information in the first subframe; determining, by the first terminal, a first resource in the second subframe according to the indication information; and selecting, according to the first resource, a resource in the second subframe for the first terminal to send data. There may be one or more first subframes; the second subframe may be a candidate subframe, and there may be one or more candidate subframes. The indication information includes information that can indicate a resource reserved by a second terminal, that is, indication information that can indicate a resource excluded by the second terminal.
US11552762B2	Resource allocating method for demodulation reference signal and base station Disclosed are a resource allocation method for demodulation reference signals and a base station. The resource allocation method for demodulation reference signals executed by the base station includes: determining an allocation method for a resource required for transmitting a plurality of demodulation reference signals and a parameter for generating the plurality of demodulation reference signals, the plurality of demodulation reference signals respectively corresponding to a plurality of user equipments, the allocation method being capable of supporting transmission of the plurality of demodulation reference signals on the same time domain resource, and the parameter being capable of making the demodulation reference signals sent with the same time frequency resource distinguished from each other; and transmitting information indicating the allocation method and information indicating the parameter to the plurality of user equipments.
US11552759B2	Method of scrambling reference signals, device and user equipment using the method A Method of scrambling reference signals, device and user equipment using the method are provided. In the method, a plurality of layers of reference signals assigned on predetermined radio resource of a plurality of layers of resource blocks with the same time and frequency resources are scrambled, the method comprising: an orthogonalizing step of multiplying each layer of reference signal selectively by one of a plurality of orthogonal cover codes (OCCs) with the same length wherein the OCC multiplied to a first layer of reference signal can be configured as different from those multiplied to other layers of reference signals; and a scrambling step of multiplying all of symbols obtained from the OCC multiplied to each of the other layers of reference signals by a symbol-common scrambling sequence wherein the symbol-common scrambling sequences can be different from each other for reference signals multiplied by the same OCC.
US11552758B2	Resource allocation device and method in large-scale antenna system The present disclosure relates to a 5G or pre-5G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate beyond a 4G communication system such as LTE. To this end, a base station using a large-scale antenna transmits, to a terminal, reference signal resource configuration information including multiple pieces of reference signal configuration information and reference signal port information, for transmission of a reference signal, and transmits the reference signal to the terminal using some or all of channel measurement resources indicated by the multiple pieces of reference signal configuration information and the reference signal port information included in the reference signal resource configuration information. In this case, the channel measurement resources may correspond to antenna ports, the number of which is indicated by a combination of the multiple pieces of reference signal configuration information and the reference signal port information.
US11552756B2	Electronic device, method and apparatus for wireless communication system for channel estimation An electronic device and method for wireless communication system, and a storage medium. In the method, reference signal are carried merely on a part of communication sources for channel estimation, channel states on the communication resources carrying the reference signal are estimated, and conditions of channel paths from a transmitter to a receiver are estimated by using the estimated channel states of the communication resources. Thereby, channel states on other communication resources from the transmitter to the receiver can be obtained from the estimated channel path conditions.
US11552754B2	Method and apparatus for phase tracking reference signal in a wireless communication system 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). Described is a method for providing a Phase Tracking Reference Signal (PTRS) in a wireless communication system comprising at least a first base station and a second base station, and a mobile device. The first and second base stations cooperate to jointly support the mobile device. The method comprises identifying at least two mutually exclusive sets of frequency resources. The method further comprises mapping, by the first base station, at least a portion of PTRS information of the first base station to a first set of the frequency resources, mapping, by the first base station, a zero-power PTRS to a second set of the frequency resources, or leaving, by the first base station, the second set of frequency resources empty, and transmitting, by the first base station, a signal comprising the PTRS information of the first base station according to the frequency resource mapping. The method further comprises mapping, by the second base station, at least a portion of PTRS information of the second base station to the second set of the frequency resources, mapping, by the second base station, a zero-power PTRS to the first set of the frequency resources, or leaving, by the second base station, the first set of frequency resources empty, and transmitting, by the second base station, a signal comprising the PTRS information of the second base station according to the frequency resource mapping.
US11552753B2	Enablement of simultaneous beam update across component carriers Aspects relate to wireless communication on multiple component carriers. In some examples, a user equipment (UE) may selectively apply transmission configuration indicator (TCI) information and/or spatial relation information received via a medium access control—control element (MAC-CE) to component carriers. In some examples, a UE may apply the TCI information and/or spatial relation information included in a MAC-CE to multiple component carriers if the UE has been configured with a list that includes the component carriers (and, optionally, if a component carrier identified by the MAC-CE is a member of the list of component carriers). If the above condition is (or conditions are) not met, the UE applies the TCI information and/or spatial relation information included in the MAC-CE to the component carrier identified by the MAC-CE.
US11552746B2	Techniques for cross-carrier retransmission Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for cross-carrier retransmission. A method that may be performed by a user equipment (UE) includes monitoring for an initial transmission of data from a network on a first entity, generating a negative acknowledgement message indicating that decoding of the initial transmission of the data was unsuccessful, transmitting the negative acknowledgement message, and monitoring for a retransmission of the data on a second entity after the transmission of the negative acknowledgement message, the second entity being different than the first entity.
US11552742B2	User equipment and base station apparatus A user equipment includes a receiving unit configured to receive a first signal of inter-terminal direct communication transmitted from a first user equipment, and information indicating a first resource for transmitting a HARQ (Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request) response corresponding to the first signal of inter-terminal direct communication transmitted from either one of a base station apparatus or the first user equipment; a control unit configured to determine the HARQ response based on a reception result of the first signal of inter-terminal direct communication; and a transmitting snit configured to transmit the determined HARQ response to the base station apparatus or the first user equipment, by using the first resource for transmitting the HARQ response.
US11552739B2	Identification of hybrid ARQ (HARQ ID) and repetition window for autonomous repeated uplink transmissions Embodiments include methods for a user equipment (UE) to transmit control information in association with a plurality of data packet repetitions. Such methods include selecting, from a plurality of configured starting transmit positions, a starting transmit position for an initial repetition of the plurality. Such methods include selecting a sequence of cyclic shift (CS) values from a plurality of configured CS values. The plurality of configured CS values are less than the plurality of repetitions and/or the plurality of configured starting transmit positions. The sequence is selected based on the plurality of repetitions, and on an identifier associated with the data packet and/or the selected starting transmit position. Such methods include transmitting the data packet repetitions beginning at the starting transmit position, wherein at least a subset of the repetitions are transmitted in association with demodulation reference signals (DMRS) that are cyclic-shifted according to CS values of the selected sequence.
US11552737B1	Cooperative MIMO In a multiuser (MU) multiple antenna system (MAS), a central processing unit is communicatively coupled to multiple distributed wireless terminals (WTs) via a network. The central processing unit processes channel measurements indicative of channel conditions between the multiple distributed WTs and a plurality of user devices and selects a plurality of WTs from the multiple distributed WTs to enhance channel space diversity within the MU-MAS. The central processing unit calculates (Multiple Input, Multiple Output) MIMO weights from the channel measurements for precoding a plurality of data streams that are transmitted concurrently from the plurality of WTs to the plurality of users, wherein the MIMO weights provide for a plurality of independent MIMO channels.
US11552735B2	Puncturing unit for sounding reference signal (SRS) comb patterns with cyclic shifting Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a user equipment (UE) receives a sounding reference signal (SRS) resource configuration, the SRS resource configuration indicating at least a comb pattern for at least one SRS resource allocated to the UE and a puncturing unit for the comb pattern, wherein the comb pattern is divided into one or more puncturing units, wherein each puncturing unit comprises one or more time units of the comb pattern, and wherein each of the one or more time units comprises two or more symbols, and refrains from transmitting all SRS transmissions of the at least one SRS resource within a first puncturing unit of the one or more puncturing units based on a determination that one or more SRS transmissions of the at least one SRS resource within the first puncturing unit are to be dropped.
US11552729B2	Method and device in UE and base station used for wireless communication The present disclosure provides a method and a device in a User Equipment (UE) and a base station for wireless communications. A UE receives first information, the first information being used for indicating M DCI blind decoding(s); monitors a first-type radio signal respectively on each of S sub-band(s) in a first time-domain resource; and performs at most M1 DCI blind decoding(s) of the M DCI blind decoding(s) on the S sub-band(s) in the first time-domain resource. Herein, the first-type radio signal detected on the S sub-band(s) is used for determining the M1 DCI blind decoding(s) out of the M DCI blind decoding(s). The above method allows the base station to make dynamic adjustments to the UE's blind decoding on PDCCH resources according to LBT results, ensuring that sufficient PDCCH resources are available and not too many PDSCH resources are preempted, and that excessive blind decodings can be avoided.
US11552716B2	Antenna measurement system with disc-shaped reflection surface An antenna measurement system includes an array of antennas, an array of reflectors, and a measurement surface. The array of antennas includes a plurality of antenna elements arranged in a straight line; any two adjacent antenna elements in the above antenna elements are separated by a predetermined distance, and each of the antenna elements in the above antenna elements has a radiator and a feed point. The array of reflectors includes at least one reflector and is arranged in a width direction or a height direction, and the array of reflectors is configured to generate a reflection signal according to a signal sent by the array of antennas. An antenna to be measured is configured to perform a measurement operation on the reflection signal on the measurement surface.
US11552714B2	Signal separating apparatus and signal separating method A signal receiving apparatus includes at least one signal separating apparatus that separates a specific signal from a plurality of received signals. Each of the at least one signal separating apparatus includes a spatial filtering unit that separates at least one equalized signal and a decision signal outputting unit that generates a first decision signal by deciding the equalized signal and outputs the generated first decision signal. The spatial filtering unit separates the at least one equalized signal by multiplying at least the plurality of received signals among the plurality of received signals and either the first decision signal output from the decision signal outputting unit or a second decision signal output from another signal separating apparatus by predetermined weighting coefficients.
US11552710B2	Resistivity engineered substrate for RF common-mode suppression Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to a photonic integrated circuit (PIC) having a resistivity-engineered substrate to suppress radio-frequency (RF) common-mode signals. In some embodiments, a semiconductor substrate is provided that comprises two portions having different levels of resistivity to provide both suppression of common mode signals, and reduction of RF absorption loss for non-common mode RF signals. In such embodiments, a bottom portion of the semiconductor substrate has a low resistivity to suppress common mode via RF absorption, while a top portion of the semiconductor substrate that is adjacent to conductors in the IC has a high resistivity to reduce RF loss.
US11552709B2	Data transceiving electronic device and method for data transceiving thereof Data transceiving electronic device (100), configured to permit the establishment of at least a communication with at least an electronic device (301; 302) remotely positioned with respect to the data transceiving electronic device (100), said data transceiving electronic device (100) comprises a radio frequency module (105) configured to receive and transmit electronic data on a wireless channel according to at least a predefined first wireless communication standard, and an optical transceiver module (108) in turn comprising at least an optical transmitter (109) and an optical receiver (110); said data transceiving electronic device (100) being configured to select said optical transceiver module (108) as the preferential priority module for the establishment of said communication with said at least one electronic device (301; 302).
US11552708B2	Rotatable optical short-range transceiver An inventive rotatable optical short-range transceiver has: a support which is rotatable around a rotation axis, an optical receiver which is arranged at the support on the rotation axis to receive an optical reception signal from a first direction, an optical transmitter which is arranged at the support to be adjacent to the optical receiver to emit an optical transmission signal in a second direction, and an optical transmission/reception unit which is configured to allow interruption-free rotatable optical data communication, wherein the optical transmission/reception unit is arranged at the support above the optical receiver and extends over the optical receiver and the optical transmitter, and wherein the optical transmission/reception unit has a support structure for mounting at the support, which is implemented integrally with the optical transmission/reception unit.
US11552705B2	Interference-free scheduling for wireless optical networks with multiple coordinators In a wireless optical network with multiple coordinators or other access points, the coverage area of coordinators may overlap. Interference in the communication between coordinators and devices may occur in these overlapping coverage areas. Various embodiments propose an automatic allocation of reserved time slots to coordinators. These time slots support the coordinators to advertise their presence without interference and enable a device to detect the presence of a neighbour coordinator in a single MAC cycle. Cooperation of coordinators can be supervised by a global controller to determine non-interfering time schedules whereby the coordinators rely on interference reports from the devices in the overlapping coverage areas. Fast detection allows fast re-scheduling of time slots in the wireless optical network in order to prevent interference when a device that enters the overlapping coverage area of two coordinators.
US11552700B2	Uplink transmission timing for non-terrestrial networks Various examples and schemes pertaining to uplink (UL) transmission timing for non-terrestrial networking (NTN) are described. An apparatus receives, from a network, downlink control information (DCI) indicating an NTN offset for a scheduling delay. Accordingly, the apparatus performs one or more UL transmissions to a satellite with the scheduling delay which accounts for the NTN offset.
US11552692B2	Operating a lower layer split central unit A method of operating an LLS-CU includes providing downlink signals to be transmitted to a UE over a wireless radio interface, allocating the downlink signals to resource elements, REs, of a physical downlink channel, generating a data-associated control information, DACI, message including a section description associated with the downlink signals, the DACI message including a resource element mask that defines the location of one or more REs within a PRB of a downlink signal on the physical downlink channel, and an indication of beamforming weights to be applied by a radio unit, RU, when transmitting the downlink signals to the UE, wherein the beamforming weights are associated with resource elements according to the resource element mask, transmitting the DACI message to the RU, and transmitting the downlink signals to the RU for transmission to the UE.
US11552689B2	State-based beam switching Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Beam pair link (BPLs) may be associated with a state of a wireless device. For example, a first wireless device may communicate with a second wireless device using a set of BPLs, and the second wireless device may operate using a predetermined movement sequence, where different movements may correspond to the second wireless device using respective states. In some examples, a BPL may be selected for each state of the second wireless device and used to communicate with the first wireless device, where the BPL that corresponds to a particular state may be determined through beam training procedures. In some cases, BPLs associated with respective states may experience decreased link quality and the first wireless device may transmit a configuration that modifies the communications between the first and second wireless devices based on the affected BPLs.
US11552679B2	Measurement procedures for DRS with beamforming Systems and methods relating to transmission and use of Discovery Reference Signal (DRS) signals are disclosed in herein. In some embodiments, a method of operation of a Transmission Point (TP) in a cellular communications network comprises transmitting, from the TP, a same one or more DRS signals using at least two different transmit beams in at least two different time resources. Each transmit beam is characterized by a direction in which it is transmitted. In this manner, the TP is enabled to reuse DRS resources, which in turn enables transmission of DRS signals on a larger number of transmit beams and, correspondingly, adaptation of measurement procedures at wireless devices to obtain measurements on those transmit beams.
US11552678B2	Antenna selection method and terminal An antenna selection method and a terminal, where the terminal includes m primary antennas configured for a first application program and n secondary antennas, where m≥1, and n≥1. The method includes, when the terminal is in a WI-FI connected state and a landscape state, obtaining a key factor and a radio frequency indicator that are of each of m+n antenna combinations, determining a first antenna combination based on the key factor and the radio frequency indicator, where the first antenna combination is a first-priority antenna combination of the m+n antenna combinations, and the first antenna combination includes at least one of the secondary antennas, and using the first antenna combination to perform communication for a second application program.
US11552673B2	Node having an adaptive space-spectrum whitener and multi-user rake receiver for use in a cooperative broadcast multi-hop network that employs broadcast flood routing and multi-hop transmission with cooperative beamforming and adaptive space-spectrum whitening A method is provided for use in a cooperative broadcast multi-hop network that employs broadcast flood routing and multi-hop transmission using a direct-sequence spread-spectrum (DSSS) waveform. DSSS signals are received from other nodes on different channels. ASSW is performed to detect and remove interference signals received on the different channels. MDFT analysis banks each receive a beam in the spectral domain that can be channelized to generate a channelized beam that comprises multiple spectral channels. An adaptive interference mitigation space-frequency whitener module can then be applied to remove interference and generate interference-mitigated spatial-spectral domain channels. MDFT synthesis banks can each perform a MDFT synthesis operation on one of the spatial-spectral domain channels. A multi-user RAKE receiver can then combine the interference mitigated time-domain channelized signals to generate a subset (1 . . . F) of fingers that combine components of transmissions directly received from the other nodes and multipath components of those transmissions.
US11552672B2	Generating a composite signal with code division multiplexing (CDM) and time division multiplexing (TDM) pilots A user equipment (UE) may be configured to receive a signal in a time slot, wherein the signal includes a first reference signal, a second reference signal and data scrambled using a data scrambling sequence. Further, the first reference signal and the second reference signal are not scrambled using the data scrambling sequence. The second reference signal having a code sequence being a non-zero power of two in length and is time multiplexed with the data. The UE recovers the data of the received signal using the first or second reference signal.
US11552658B2	Self interference noise cancellation to support multiple frequency bands Examples described herein include systems and methods which include wireless devices and systems with examples of full duplex compensation with a self-interference noise calculator that compensates for the self-interference noise generated by power amplifiers at harmonic frequencies of a respective wireless receiver. The self-interference noise calculator may be coupled to antennas of a wireless device and configured to generate the adjusted signals that compensate self-interference. The self-interference noise calculator may include a network of processing elements configured to combine transmission signals into sets of intermediate results. Each set of intermediate results may be summed in the self-interference noise calculator to generate a corresponding adjusted signal. The adjusted signal is receivable by a corresponding wireless receiver to compensate for the self-interference noise generated by a wireless transmitter transmitting on the same or different frequency band as the wireless receiver is receiving.
US11552639B2	Low voltage differential signaling driver A low voltage differential driver includes a first driver, a second driver, and an output driver. The output driver is configured to provide an output between a first output node and a second output node, and includes a current source, a first branch, and a second branch. The current source is configured to provide a source current. The current source is connected with a parallel arrangement of the first branch and the second branch. The first switch and the second switch are respectively controlled by a first switch circuit and a second switch circuit which together comprise the first driver. The third switch and the fourth switch are respectively controlled by a third switch circuit and a fourth switch circuit which together comprise the second driver. Each of the first to fourth switch circuits is connected between the upper node and the lower node.
US11552638B2	Optical switch module and control method thereof An optical switch module including a light generation circuit, a light receiving circuit, and a control unit is provided. The light generation circuit includes a light generation unit and a control end, and generates light according to a control signal from the control end. The light receiving circuit includes a light receiving unit and a signal reading end, and is configured to receive light to generate a detection signal at the signal reading end. The control unit is configured to generate the control signal and receive the detection signal. The control unit further selectively configures the signal reading end in an input mode or an output mode. Before the control unit configures the signal reading end in the input mode to read the detection signal, the control unit configures the signal reading end in the output mode to pull up a potential of the light receiving unit.
US11552637B2	User interface and medical device The present application relates to an operating appliance for interacting with a user, including a transparent cover device, a support device with a sensor cutout, and a pressure switch, wherein the transparent cover device forms an operating area and a lower side lying opposite to the operating area and the support device is arranged on or at the lower side and the pressure switch is located and aligned within the sensor cutout in such a way that a user input by means of a finger of the user on the operating area is detectable by the pressure switch, wherein a finger indentation is provided on the operating area and arranged above the pressure switch.
US11552629B1	Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof A semiconductor device includes a first transistor that flows a current to a load, a current generation circuit that outputs a current corresponding to a power consumption of the first transistor, a temperature sensor, a resistor-capacitor network coupled between the current generation circuit and the temperature sensor and an overheat detection circuit coupled to a connection point of the current generation circuit and the resistor-capacitor network, wherein the resistor-capacitor network comprises a resistor and a capacitor corresponding to a thermal resistance and a thermal capacitance between the first transistor and the temperature sensor.
US11552604B2	Balun device and differential phase shifter Balun device and differential phase shifter are provided. The balun device includes a first primary coil, a first secondary coil, a second primary coil and a second secondary coil, the first primary coil having a first terminal receiving a first differential signal, and a second terminal outputting a first in-phase component, the first secondary coil having a first terminal outputting a first component orthogonal to the first in-phase component, and a second terminal coupled to AC ground, the second primary coil having a first terminal receiving a second differential signal, and a second terminal outputting a second in-phase component; the second secondary coil having a first terminal outputting a second component orthogonal to the second in-phase component, and a second terminal coupled to AC ground; phase differences between the first and second differential signals, between the first and second in-phase components, between the first and second orthogonal component are 180°.
US11552602B2	Class-D amplifier with high dynamic range A class-D amplifier with good signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) performance is shown. The class-D amplifier includes a loop filter, a pulse-width modulation signal generator, a gate driver, a power driver, and a feedback circuit, which are configured to establish a closed amplification loop. The feedback circuit is configured to establish a feedback path. The class-D amplifier further includes a feedback breaker. The feedback breaker breaks the feedback path in response to conditions in which there no-signal information in the class-D amplifier.
US11552593B2	High concentrating solar device with passive cooling A method of passive cooling for a high concentrating photovoltaic, the high concentrating photovoltaic, includes a photovoltaic receiver, a parabolic dish reflector and a plurality of thermally conductive heat pipes having a direct thermal contact between the receiver and the reflector to transfer excessive heat. The method includes receiving sunlight by the parabolic dish reflector, reflecting the sunlight towards the photovoltaic receiver that converts the sunlight into electricity and heat, transferring the heat through the thermally conductive heat pipes and absorbing the heat by the reflector serving a dual purpose as a heat sink. A reduction in weight and cost is accomplished by incorporating the flat heat pipes.
US11552591B2	Solar panel racking system and devices for the same A solar panel racking system that can include end clamps, mid clamps, bottom clamps, L-foot adapter assemblies, rails, and L-foot assemblies. The solar panel racking system minimizes the use of tools by snapping many of the mounting components in place. The end clamps, mid clamps, and bottom clamps can snap over the rail sides and lock into upper detented portions of the rail sides. The upper detented portions are structured to prevent upward movement of the end clamps, mid clamps, and bottom clamps. The L-foot adapter body of the L-foot adapter assembly snaps over lower detented portions of rail sides and secures the rail to an L-foot assembly. The end clamps, mid clamps, bottom clamps, rails, and L-foot adapter assemblies are independent of the L-foot assembly, allowing a selection of L-foot assemblies to be used as appropriate with the solar panel racking system.
US11552581B2	Board and electronic apparatus including board A board includes a first motor driver control circuit, a first connector, and a second connector. The first motor driver control circuit includes a first H-bridge and a second H-bridge. The first connector includes at least the following: a first pin to which a first output of the first H-bridge is input, a second pin to which a second output of the first H-bridge is input, and a third pin. The second connector is disposed apart from the first connector and includes at least the following: a first pin to which a first output of the second H-bridge is input, a second pin to which a second output of the second H-bridge is input, and a third pin of the second connector.
US11552579B2	Vibrational energy harvester element A vibrational energy harvester element includes: a first electrode; a second electrode that moves in a predetermined direction with respect to the first electrode; a third electrode; a fourth electrode that moves in the predetermined direction with respect to the third electrode; and a support portion that supports the second electrode and the fourth electrode so that they are movable along the predetermined direction; and wherein: the first electrode and the third electrode are disposed along the predetermined direction; at least one of facing surfaces of the first electrode and the second electrode, and at least one of facing surfaces of the third electrode and the fourth electrode, are electrically charged; and the support portion supports the second electrode and the fourth electrode in a state in which electrostatic force between the first electrode and the second electrode, and electrostatic force between the third electrode and the fourth electrode are balanced along the predetermined direction.
US11552578B1	Symmetric hybrid converters Systems and methods for power conversion are described. Symmetric topologies and modulation schemes are described that may reduce common-mode noise. For example, a system may include a transformer including a first secondary winding and a second secondary winding; a rectifier, including a set of switches, that connects taps of the first secondary winding and the second secondary winding to a first terminal and a second terminal, wherein the rectifier is symmetric with respect to the first secondary winding and the second secondary winding; a battery connected between the first terminal and the second terminal; and a processing apparatus that is configured to control the set of switches to rectify a multilevel voltage signal on the transformer, including: selecting a modulation scheme from among two or more modulation schemes based on a measured voltage level of the battery.
US11552573B1	Cycle-by-cycle reverse current limiting in ACF converters In an embodiment, a method for operating an ACF converter includes: turning on a low-side transistor that is coupled between a primary winding of a transformer and a reference terminal to cause a forward current to enter the primary winding, turning off the low-side transistor; after turning off the low-side transistor, turning on a high-side transistor that is coupled between the primary winding and a clamp capacitor to cause a reverse current to flow through the primary winding; and after turning on the high-side transistor, when an overcurrent of the reverse current is not detected, keeping the high-side transistor on for a first period of time, and turning off the high-side transistor after the first period of time, and when the overcurrent of the reverse current is detected, turning off the high-side transistor without keeping the high-side transistor on for the first period of time.
US11552569B2	Randomization of current in a power converter A method of randomizing inductor current in at least one of a plurality of parallel coupled peak valley current-controlled power converters may include comparing the inductor current to a threshold to generate a comparison signal, delaying the comparison signal by a plurality of delay amounts to generate a plurality of delayed versions of the comparison signal, and randomly selecting one of the plurality of delayed versions of the comparison signal for controlling the inductor current during one or both of a charging state and a transfer state of the at least one of the plurality of parallel coupled peak/valley current-controlled power converters.
US11552566B2	Current sensing for valley current-controlled power converters To facilitate current sensing for valley current-controlled power converters, an example apparatus includes a comparator having a first terminal, a second terminal, and an output. A first transistor has a first drain coupled to the first terminal of the comparator. A second transistor has a second drain coupled to the first terminal of the comparator. A third transistor has a third drain coupled to the second terminal of the comparator.
US11552557B2	System and method for enhanced single-stage onboard charger with integrated rectifier In at least one embodiment, a vehicle battery charger is provided. At least one transformer includes a first winding and a second winding on a primary side of the transformer that are connected to one another to form a middle point. The middle point of the at least one transformer receives an input voltage signal from a mains supply. A half-bridge rectifier receives the input voltage signal from the mains supply to enable the middle point of the least one transformer to receive the input voltage signal from the mains supply. A first active bridge includes a first plurality of switching devices to receive a first input signal directly from the first winding and to receive a second input signal directly from the second winding. The first input signal and the second input signal are out of phase with one another to minimize electromagnetic interference within the vehicle battery charger.
US11552554B2	Electrical circuits for power factor correction by measurement and removal of overtones using a constant or slowly varying first frequency Provided are electrical circuits and methods for power factor correction. An example method includes receiving, by converter, an input voltage at a fundamental frequency and generating an output voltage; generating, based on the output voltage, a first measurement signal; subtracting a first reference signal from the first measurement signal to obtain a first error signal; generating an adaptive current sense signal, generating a reference voltage based on the input voltage, subtracting the reference voltage from the current sense signal thus generating a second measurement signal to control the current measurement; subtracting the second measurement signal from the input voltage to obtain a difference signal, wherein the difference signal is largely minimized by removing overtones of the fundamental frequency; generating, based on the difference signal, a second error signal; using a sum of the second error signal as a first order correction to the first error signal to regulate the converter.
US11552542B2	Vibrator generator having swing unit, frame and elastic member A vibrator includes a frame, a swing unit, and an elastic member. The swing unit is disposed within the frame and holds a magnet. The elastic member connects the swing unit and the frame. The swing unit is movable with respect to the frame while deforming the elastic member. The frame, the swing unit, and the elastic member are integrally molded with each other.
US11552540B2	Method of manufacturing magnet embedded core In a method of manufacturing a magnet embedded core (1), creation of unnecessary resin from the resin for fixedly securing the magnet is prevented. The method includes a resin charging step of charging resin material (33) in solid form into the magnet insertion hole; a melting step of melting the resin material (33) in the magnet insertion hole, and a pressurization step of pressurizing an interior of the magnet insertion hole (3). The melting step includes melting the resin material (33) at least partly by preheating and inserting the magnet (4) into the magnet insertion hole (3).
US11552531B2	Electrical machine and method for manufacturing same The invention relates to an electrical machine comprising a stator and a rotor that are disposed in a casing comprising a first face provided with ribs and intended to be in contact with a cooling fluid, the machine being provided with a closing structure which is fastened in a leaktight manner to the first face of the casing so as to delimit with the first face of the casing a space forming a circuit for the cooling fluid of the motor, the closing structure being fastened to the first face of the casing by welding and/or brazing and/or crimping and comprising at least one cover, characterized in that the closing structure is fastened to the casing by welding and/or brazing and/or crimping only at said ribs.
US11552530B1	Ordinary and compact charger device Disclosed is a system for dramatically increasing the capacity of onboard power source through internal electricity generation. The internal electricity generation is accomplished using a propulsion device connected to a shaft. A shaft contains wire winding on its opposite end that are embedded within a stator winding. Thus, the motion of the propulsion device create the rotation necessary to create current within the stator and enables an onboard power source to be recharged therefrom.
US11552522B2	Rotor with a bearing A rotor for an electric motor, comprising a rotor magnet and a bearing for the rotatable support on a fixed axle, the bearing comprising first and second bearing half-shells, wherein at least the first bearing half-shell is moveably arranged within the rotor body with respect to the second bearing half-shell, and wherein the first bearing half-shell is supported against the rotor body by a resilient element tangentially arranged with respect to the axle. The resilient element, at both its side surfaces facing in an axial direction of the axle, has at least one respective first protrusion extending in the axial direction, and the first bearing half-shell, on a side facing away from its bearing surface, includes at least two axially spaced second protrusions each extending in a radial direction and cooperating with the first protrusions for aligning the resilient element.
US11552517B2	Self-retaining compressional diaphragm spring A rotor assembly is disclosed herein that includes a diaphragm spring for retaining other components of the rotor assembly. The rotor assembly includes a rotor, a rotor carrier supporting the rotor, at least one spacer arranged on a radially inner side of the rotor, and the diaphragm spring. The diaphragm spring includes a first end formed on a radially outer end of the diaphragm spring that engages against the at least one spacer, and a second end formed on a radially inner end of the diaphragm spring that engages against the rotor carrier.
US11552516B2	Rotor of axial flux motor A rotor of an axial flux motor reduces a cogging torque and torque ripple, and is disposed facing a stator. The rotor includes: a rotation shaft; a rotor core having the rotation shaft connected thereto by passing through a center the rotor core; a plurality of seating grooves concavely formed on one surface of the rotor core facing the stator while being spaced apart from each other at equal intervals along a circumferential direction of the rotor core; and a plurality of protrusions formed on inner wall surface of each of the plurality of seating grooves such that the plurality protrusions face a center of each of the plurality of seating grooves; and a plurality of magnets pressed into and coupled to an associated one of the plurality of seating grooves while plastically deforming the plurality of protrusions of the rotor core.
US11552514B2	Motor A motor includes a stator having a winding, and a rotor. The rotor rotates by receiving a rotational magnetic field generated by drive current supplied to the winding. The winding includes a first winding and a second winding, the first and second windings both being excited at the same timing by the drive current. The first winding and the second winding are connected in series. The rotor includes a first pole section and a second pole section. The second pole section faces the second winding at the rotation position of the rotor at which the first pole section faces the first winding. The magnetic force exerted on the stator by the second pole section is weaker than that exerted by the first pole section.
US11552512B2	Air gap baffle train for a zone cooled turbine generator A generator air gap baffle train assembly includes linearly aligned baffle segments, linearly aligned wedge blocks, and a tensioning rod. Each baffle segment includes a radially outer portion having an outer surface to interface with the axial slot and a side surface angled with respect to the outer surface and an axially aligned first thru bore and a radially inner portion which projects into an air gap. A pair of wedge blocks are positioned on opposing sides of the radially outer portion, each wedge block including a side surface that interfaces with the side surface of the radially outer portion so that the interfacing surfaces are in abutting contact and an outer surface that interfaces with the axial slot and a second thru bore axially aligned with the first thru bore of each baffle segment. The tensioning rod is enclosed by a non-conducting hollow tube spanning between adjacent baffle segments.
US11552491B2	Charging management system and method for batteries A battery charging management system includes a plurality of sockets combinable with a plurality of devices onto which a plurality of battery packs are mounted; a binding controller configured to receive state information of the plurality of battery packs from the plurality of devices, determine a priority of the plurality of devices to be allocated to the plurality of sockets according to a charging strategy selected based on the state information, and allocate one of the plurality of sockets to one of the plurality of devices or releasing the allocating; a charging controller configured to control charging of the plurality of battery packs of the plurality of devices electrically connected to a charging circuit based on the state information received by the binding controller; and a distributor configured to switch an electrical connection between the charging circuit and the plurality of battery packs.
US11552484B2	Systems and methods for operating a solar charger system for providing battery and circuit protection Systems/methods for operating a solar charger system. The system comprises: preventing, by a first circuit, damage to the solar charger system when a reverse polarity connection exists between a solar panel and the solar charger system; preventing, by a second circuit, damage to the solar charger system when a reverse polarity connection exists between the battery and the solar charger system; preventing, by a third circuit, damage to the battery when a temperature of a surrounding environment exceeds a pre-defined value while the battery is being charged by the solar charger system; and preventing, by a fourth circuit, back-feed from the battery without any voltage drop or loss while the battery is being charged by the solar charger system.
US11552483B2	Electric storage system An electric storage system is provided including a switching unit which is arranged between an electric storage unit of an electric storage device which is configured to be connectable in parallel with another power supply device and wire which is configured to electrically connect the electric storage device and the another power supply device, wherein the switching unit is configured to switch the electrical connection relationship between the wire and the electric storage unit; and a restriction unit which is connected in parallel with the switching unit between the wire and the electric storage unit, has a higher resistance than the switching unit, and is configured to cause current to flow in a direction from the electric storage unit to the wire and suppress current flowing in a direction from the wire to the electric storage unit.
US11552478B2	Multi-level encoding for battery management system field A battery management system comprises a first battery cell controller; a second battery cell controller, the first battery cell controller and the second battery cell controller each monitoring a plurality of battery cells; and a galvanically isolated transmission line providing a point-to-point signal transmission path between the first battery cell controller and the second battery cell controller. At least one of the first battery cell controller or the second battery cell controller includes at least one encoding/decoding circuit for encoding data for transmission as a serial data stream along the signal transmission path in compliance with a multi-level encoding technique, including modulating the serial data stream over at least three discrete signal levels at a predetermined and fixed data pulse frequency, encoding a plurality of data nibbles of the serial data stream into a data packet, the data packet including a plurality of symbols constructed and arranged with at least four consecutive chips per symbol, wherein the at least four consecutive chips per symbol of the data packet includes a DC balanced line code in each of the symbols.
US11552476B1	System and method for converter control of an inverter-based resource A method for controlling an inverter-based resource (IBR) connected to an electrical grid includes receiving grid parameter(s) and applying a droop function to the grid parameter(s) to determine a power droop signal. Further, the method includes receiving a power reference signal. Moreover, the method includes determining a power command signal as a function of the power droop signal and the power reference signal to allow for a fast response in a power output of the IBR to the grid parameter(s). The method also includes applying power constraint(s) to the power command signal to limit how much the power output of the IBR can be changed due to the grid parameter(s). Further, the method includes determining one or more control commands for the IBR based, at least in part, on the power command signal. Thus, the method includes controlling the IBR based, at least in part, on the power command signal.
US11552472B2	Power distribution control with asset assimilation and optimization In a power control system a server maintains asset models that represent asset behaviour, each asset model being in real-time communication with its asset to dynamically inform the model of the status of the asset. A test is performed at the server by issuing a command to an asset requesting the asset to perform a function. Sensors at the asset measure physical parameters at the asset and report these to the server. The server determines whether the asset responded to the command and, if the asset responded, how it responded over time. The server establishes a model for the asset in terms of an energy capacitance and a time constant based on the measured response. An optimizer determines which assets are to participate in which service models. The server sends instructions to the selected assets to attempt to fulfill the services.
US11552471B2	Electric power supplying device An electric power supplying device including: a first sensing section that senses a first output current from a first DCDC converter provided between a high-voltage system and an auxiliary device system; a second sensing section that senses a second output current from a second DCDC converter provided between the high-voltage system and the auxiliary device system; a third sensing section that senses a third output current from an auxiliary device battery connected to the auxiliary device system; and a control section that controls output of the second DCDC converter on the basis of results of sensing of output currents by the first sensing section, the second sensing section and the third sensing section.
US11552468B2	Electrical device with power quality event protection and associated method An electrical device includes a first terminal structured to electrically connect to a power source; a second terminal structured to electrically connect to a load; a voltage sensor electrically connected to a point between the first and second terminals and being structured to sense a voltage at the point between the first and second terminals; a switch electrically connected between the first terminal and the second terminal; and a control unit structured to detect a power quality event in the power flowing between the first and second terminals based on the sensed voltage and to control a state of the switch based on the detected power quality event.
US11552465B2	Detecting electrical arcing in household electrical wiring Various embodiments disclosed herein provide techniques for detecting electrical arcing in an electrical system. A powerline communications (PLC) application executing on a network communications device acquires, via a PLC modem, first voltage readings associated with an electrical circuit. The PLC application performs one or more operations based on the first voltage readings to determine that an electrical arcing condition is present within the electrical circuit. The PLC application performs a remedial operation in response to determining that the electrical arcing condition is present.
US11552461B2	Device, system and related methods for pulling electrical cords through conduit An electrical wire pulling device is for pulling wire through a conduit and includes a T-shaped hollow body including a side inlet transversely intersecting a path between a top inlet and a bottom outlet, and a constrictor adjacent the side inlet. A pulling line source, including a supply of pulling line, is positioned adjacent the top inlet and configured to supply the pulling line into the top inlet and out the bottom outlet. A constrictor has a tapered section tapering towards the bottom inlet. The bottom outlet is positioned adjacent the first end of the conduit. The side inlet is coupled to a fluid source to supply a fluid into the hollow body to be pushed downward towards the bottom outlet and create a pressure differential that draws the pulling line towards the bottom outlet and into the conduit.
US11552458B2	Distribution panel for intelligently controlled solid-state circuit breakers An electrical distribution panel for controlling the distribution of electrical power to a plurality of loads includes a plurality of solid-state circuit breakers (SSCBs), each including a thermally conductive heatspreader and one or more power semiconductor devices that control whether electrical current is able to flow to an attached load; a distribution panel heatsink configured in thermal contact with the SSCB heatspreaders; one or more cooling fans that blow air onto the distribution panel heatsink; a stacked bus bar with quick-fit pin-mount receptacles for receiving mating/matching press-fit connection pins located on line-side terminals of the SSCBs; a communications and control (comm/control) bus communicatively coupled to the plurality of SSCBs; and a head-end interface and gateway to which an external computer can connect, to, among other things, set and alter trip settings of the plurality of SSCBs via the comm/control bus.
US11552457B2	Discharge device and method for manufacturing same A discharge device according to the present disclosure includes a discharge electrode and a voltage applicator that applies a voltage to the discharge electrode and thus causes discharge that is further developed from corona discharge at the discharge electrode. The discharge is discharge in which a discharge path is intermittently formed by dielectric breakdown so as to stretch from the discharge electrode to a surrounding. This discharge can be called leader discharge. This makes it possible to increase an amount of generated active component while keeping an increase of ozone small.
US11552450B2	VCSEL with double oxide apertures In one example, a vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) may include an active region to produce light at a wavelength, an emission surface to emit the light at the wavelength, a first oxide region spaced apart from the active region by a distance of at least a half-wavelength of the wavelength, a first oxide aperture in the first oxide region, a second oxide region between the first oxide region and the second oxide region, and a second oxide aperture in the second oxide region. The emitted light may have a divergence angle that is based on the respective positions and thicknesses of the first oxide region and the second oxide region.
US11552448B2	Semiconductor optical amplifier integrated laser A semiconductor optical amplifier integrated laser includes a semiconductor laser oscillator portion that oscillates laser light having a wavelength included in a gain band and a semiconductor optical amplifier portion that amplifies laser light output from the semiconductor laser oscillator portion. The semiconductor laser oscillator portion and the semiconductor optical amplifier portion have one common p-i-n structure, the common p-i-n structure includes an active layer, a cladding layer provided apart from the active layer, and a common functional layer formed in the cladding layer, and the common functional layer includes a first portion that reflects light having a wavelength within the gain band in the semiconductor laser oscillator portion and a second portion that transmits light having a wavelength within the gain band in the semiconductor optical amplifier portion.
US11552445B2	Top-emitting vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser with bottom-emitting structure A vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) may include a substrate layer, epitaxial layers on the substrate layer, and angled reflectors configured to receive an optical beam emitted toward a bottom surface of the VCSEL and redirect the optical beam through an exit window in a top surface of the VCSEL. In some implementations, the angled reflectors may be formed in the substrate layer. Additionally, or alternatively, the VCSEL may include molded optics, where the molded optics include the angled reflectors. In some implementations, the exit window may include an integrated lens.
US11552444B2	Infrared laser system Laser systems are provided with a semiconductor laser having an emission face, a drive circuit adapted to supply electric energy to the semiconductor laser to cause the semiconductor laser to emit a beam; a user input system adapted to sense a user input action; a controller adapted to control the drive circuit based upon the sensed user input action; a housing within which the laser is positioned and having an opening with a window through which the semiconductor laser can emit the beam. The semiconductor laser is positioned to emit the beam through the window and the emission face of the semiconductor laser is sized to cause a divergence in the beam to create a patterned emission with a predetermined shape without passing the beam through beam shaping optics.
US11552443B1	Managing optical power in a laser A gain medium is pumped by a source. An optical wave passes through a photonic integrated circuit (PIC) that comprises: a substrate comprising Silicon, a plurality of photonic structures, an input port coupling an optical wave into a waveguide formed in the PIC, and an output port coupling an optical wave out of a waveguide formed in the PIC. Propagation of an optical wave circulating around a closed path of a laser ring cavity is limited using an optical isolator such that, when the pump source exceeds a lasing threshold, the optical wave propagates in a single direction through the gain medium and the PIC. From output coupler, an output that is provided that comprises a fraction of the power of an optical wave that is incident upon the output coupler, and remaining power of the optical wave is redirected around the closed path of the laser ring cavity. The fraction can be greater than 0.5.
US11552438B2	Terahertz magnon generator comprising plurality of single terahertz magnon lasers An apparatus for generation of tunable terahertz radiation is provided. The apparatus comprises: a plurality of terahertz magnon laser generators, whereas at least one such terahertz magnon laser generator comprises a multilayer column, and a terahertz transparent medium separating at least two such terahertz magnon laser generators. At least one such multilayer column further comprises: a substrate, a bottom electrode coupled with the substrate, a bottom layer coupled with the bottom electrode, a tunnel junction coupled with the bottom layer, a top layer coupled with the tunnel junction, a pinning layer coupled with the spin injector, and a top electrode coupled with the pinning layer.
US11552431B2	Input/output terminal and electronic device comprising same Disclosed are an input/output terminal for connecting an electronic device to an external device and an electronic device comprising the input/output terminal, the input/output terminal comprising: a signal pin allowing signals to be transmitted/received between the electronic device and the external device; a ground pin connected to a ground part of the electronic device; and a resistant material disposed at the end part of the signal pin or the ground pin. Other various embodiments are possible.
US11552424B2	Electrical connector with double-layer shells and staggered soldering legs An electrical connector including an insulating body, a plurality of terminals disposed in the insulating body, a first shell sheathing the insulating body to form an insertion space for connecting to another electrical connector, and a second shell superposed on the first shell is provided. The first shell has at least one first soldering leg adjacent to the insertion space, and the second shell has at least one second soldering leg away from the insertion space.
US11552421B2	Electrical connector with floating contacts each with multiple impedances A connector (10) according to the present disclosure includes an insulator to be fitted to a connection object (60), and contacts (50) attached to the insulator. Each of the contacts (50) includes a contact portion (59), a first elastic portion (54A), a first adjustment portion (54B1), and a second adjustment portion (54B2). The contact portion (59) electrically contacts the connection object (60) when the insulator and the connection object (60) are fitted together. The first elastic portion (54A) is elastically deformable and extends from a first base (51) supported by the insulator. The first adjustment portion (54B1) is formed continuously with the first elastic portion (54A) and has an electric conductivity higher than that of the first elastic portion (54A). The second adjustment portion (54B2) is formed continuously with the first adjustment portion (54B1) and has an electric conductivity lower than that of the first adjustment portion (54B1).
US11552417B2	Irrigation controller with terminal connector blocks In some embodiments, an irrigation control device is provided that includes adjacent terminal connector rows having a ridge portion between the rows, where the ridge portion is configured to support and guide wires to electrical connection pads of one row, and to support these wires above wires retained in another row of electrical connection pads. In some embodiments, the ridge portion offsets the wires from the different rows in the horizontal plane.
US11552411B2	Cavity-backed antenna element and array antenna arrangement The present disclosure relates to an antenna element (1) comprising a lower conducting plane (2), an upper conducting plane (3) and an upper dielectric layer structure (4) that is positioned between the conducting planes (2, 3). The upper dielectric layer structure (4) comprises a plurality of conducting vias (5) that electrically connect the conducting planes (2, 3) to each other and circumvent an upper radiating patch (6) formed in, below or above the upper conducting plane (3). The conducting vias (5) circumvent at least one intermediate radiating patch (7, 8) that is formed in the upper dielectric layer structure (4), and a lowest intermediate radiating patch (7) that is closest to the lower conducting plane (2) is connected to a feed arrangement (9, 10) that comprises at least one feeding probe (9, 10) that extends via a corresponding aperture (13) in the lower conducting plane (2) and is electrically connected to the lowest intermediate radiating patch (7).
US11552398B2	Cloaked low band elements for multiband radiating arrays A multiband antenna, having a reflector, and a first array of first radiating elements having a first operational frequency band, the first radiating elements being a plurality of dipole arms, each dipole arm including a plurality of conductive segments coupled in series by a plurality of inductive elements; and a second array of second radiating elements having a second operational frequency band, wherein the plurality of conductive segments each have a length less than one-half wavelength at the second operational frequency band.
US11552395B2	ESA quadrant mechanical reconfiguration A system and method for ESA quadrant mechanical reconfiguration functions to shift some of the complexity from algorithmic manipulation of received radar data to mechanical transformation of a simple panel structure to achieve desired performance in a desired ESA boresight. The system receives a rotation trigger based on an external event such as altitude and mission and causes two or more simple ESA panels to rotate from a first azimuthal position to a second common azimuthal position without stopping at an intermediate azimuth. Once positioned, each individual rotational ESA panel is combined to function as a single aggregate ESA enabling desired performance in field of view, resolution, and range along a common boresight.
US11552391B2	Mobile device with multiple-antenna system Embodiments provide mobile device comprising a body frame; processing circuitry affixed to the body frame; a first antenna and a second antenna arranged adjacent to each other in the body frame, the first antenna and the second antenna electrically coupled to the processing circuitry to provide radiation, wherein the first antenna and the second antenna share a common ground defined by the body frame, wherein the first antenna is configured to provide radiation of a first polarization, and wherein the second antenna is configured to provide radiation of a second polarization substantially orthogonal to the first polarization to provide a signal isolation between the first antenna and the second antenna.
US11552388B1	Multi-resonant antenna A multi-resonant, electrically-small antenna having a first helical arm and a second helical arm. The first helical arm encircles a first central axis and includes a proximal end. A radius between the first helical arm and the first central axis decreases in a distal direction away from the proximal end of the first helical arm. The second helical arm is nested in the first helical arm and encircles a second central axis. The second helical arm also includes a proximal end. A radius between the second helical arm and the second central axis decreases in a distal direction away from the proximal end of the second helical arm.
US11552367B2	Battery holder structure A battery holder structure is disposed on an electric wrench which includes a battery unit, and the battery holder structure includes a back cover assembly. The back cover assembly is assembled on an end of the electric wrench, and the back cover assembly includes a cover, a supporting member, a first elastic member and a second elastic member. The cover has an accommodating space. The supporting member is disposed in the accommodating space. The first elastic member is assembled on an end of the supporting member, an end of the first elastic member contacts with the cover, and another end of the first elastic member contacts with the supporting member. The second elastic member is assembled on another end of the supporting member, an end of the second elastic member contacts with the supporting member, and another end of the second elastic member contacts with the battery unit.
US11552364B2	Power supply apparatus and branch connector apparatus A power supply apparatus includes a battery pack for a motor vehicle, and a power interface part that connects the battery pack and a plurality of electrical devices. The power interface part includes a battery-side connector, and a branch connector apparatus. The branch connector apparatus includes a joining part for connection lines, a fuse, a housing, and a connector. A guided part is provided on an outer side surface of the housing. The battery pack includes a slot part allowing the branch connector apparatus to be inserted and extracted. The battery-side connector is provided in the slot part. A guiding part extending along an insertion and extraction direction is provided on an inner side surface of the slot part. The guided part is guided along an extension direction of the guiding part by the guiding part.
US11552360B2	Cartridge and battery module comprising same A cartridge including a body having a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface, the first surface being configured to seat at least a portion of a first battery cell, and a first supporting pattern disposed in a first area along an edge of the first surface of the body and corresponding to a gas pocket of the first battery cell is provided. A battery module having a plurality of such cartridges is also provided.
US11552358B2	Top insulator for secondary battery and method for manufacturing the same To solve the above problem, a method for manufacturing a top insulator configured to be inserted into a case of a secondary battery, according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: preparing a top insulator fabric by applying a silicone rubber to at least one surface of a glass fiber fabric formed by crossing weft yarns and warp yarns of glass fiber raw yams; and punching the top insulator fabric.
US11552357B2	Secondary battery and manufacturing method therefor Various embodiments of the present invention relate to a secondary battery and a manufacturing method therefor, and the objective of the present invention is to provide a secondary battery having improved safety and a manufacturing method therefor, the secondary battery preventing an electrode assembly from moving inside a laminate exterior material during a drop shock and/or collision, thereby suppressing a voltage drop, a heating phenomenon, and/or ignition and the like caused by a small short between a cathode plate and an anode plate. To this end, disclosed in various embodiments of the present invention are a secondary battery and a manufacturing method therefor, the battery comprising: an electrode assembly including a first electrode plate, a second electrode plate, and a separator interposed between the first electrode plate and the second electrode plate; a pouch exterior case for encompassing the electrode assembly; and an adhesive dispensed in a dot array form on a surface of the pouch exterior case toward the electrode assembly.
US11552354B2	Secondary battery The present disclosure provides a secondary battery, which comprises an electrode assembly, a pouch, an electrode lead and an insulating tape. The electrode assembly is received in the pouch, the electrode lead is connected with the electrode assembly and extends to the outside of the pouch in a length direction. The electrode assembly comprises electrode plates and a separator, the separator separates the electrode plates. An outer surface of the electrode assembly comprises a first surface and a second surface, an area of the second surface is smaller than an area of the first surface. The first surface is provided as two in number, and the two first surfaces face each other in a thickness direction; the second surface is provided as two in number, and the two second surfaces face each other in a width direction, each second surface connects two first surfaces. At least a part of the insulating tape is provided on the second surface; in the length direction, at least one end of the insulating tape exceeds the electrode plate.
US11552352B2	Hybrid battery and electrolyser The invention provides a method of storing varying or intermittent electrical energy and one or more of hydrogen (H2) and oxygen (O2) with an energy apparatus, the method comprising: providing the first cell aqueous liquid, the second cell aqueous liquid, and electrical power from an external power source to the functional unit thereby providing an electrically charged functional battery unit and one or more of hydrogen (H2) and oxygen (O2) stored in said storage system, wherein during at least part of a charging time the functional unit is charged at a potential difference between the first cell electrode and the second cell electrode of more than 1.37 V.
US11552350B2	Vehicle battery pack A vehicle battery pack includes: a battery; a radiator; a passage via which the battery is connected to the radiator; a pump configured to circulate coolant between the battery and the radiator through the passage; and a case in which the battery, the radiator, the passage, and the pump are accommodated, the case having an intake opening and a discharge opening for external air.
US11552345B2	Power architecture design for thermal management of battery backup energy storage Thermal management of a backup battery unit for datacenter applications is described. In one embodiment, a backup battery unit includes one or more battery cells immersed in cooling liquid contained in an immersion tank. The immersion tank includes a temperature sensor. The battery unit also includes a first direct-current to-direct-current (DC/DC) converter electronically coupled to the battery cells and to an external power source for converting and controlling a charging voltage obtained from the external power source to charge the battery cells. The backup battery unit also includes a cooling-liquid pump for driving cooling liquid to the battery cells. The backup battery unit also includes a microcontroller coupled to the temperature sensor, the first DC/DC converter, and the cooling-liquid pump. The microcontroller is configured to control operations of the cooling-liquid pump based on temperature data obtained from the temperature sensor and an electrical current of the first DC/DC converter.
US11552344B2	Flex foil substrate connector for sensing battery voltage and temperature A sensing system for a battery includes a flex foil substrate including a first cover layer. A conductive layer defines a trace pattern including traces. A second cover layer defines a first opening. The conductive layer is sandwiched between the first cover layer and the second cover layer. The first opening exposes a first trace and a second trace of the trace pattern. A busbar is attached to the first cover layer of the flex foil substrate. A temperature sensor is connected to the first trace and the second trace of the trace pattern in the first opening of the first cover layer.
US11552337B2	Battery pack A battery pack including a plurality of battery cells; a first case accommodating the plurality of battery cells; a protection circuit module coupled to one side of the plurality of battery cells and electrically connecting the plurality of battery cells; a bus bar electrically connected to the protection circuit module and extending in one direction along the plurality of battery cells; and a second case coupled to the first case and accommodating the plurality of battery cells, the protection circuit module, and the bus bar, wherein the bus bar includes a diverged branch formed by cutting a region of the bus bar in the one direction.
US11552330B2	Electrode sheet for all-solid state secondary battery, all-solid state secondary battery, method of manufacturing electrode sheet for all-solid state secondary battery, and method of manufacturing all-solid state secondary battery Provided are an electrode sheet for an all-solid state secondary battery, an all-solid state secondary battery, a method of manufacturing an electrode sheet for an all-solid state secondary battery, and a method of manufacturing an all-solid state secondary battery. The electrode sheet for an all-solid state secondary battery includes a current collector, a primer layer, and an electrode active material layer in this order, in which the primer layer includes a binder (A), the electrode active material layer includes an inorganic solid electrolyte (B), an active material (C), and binder particles (D) having an average particle size of 1 nm to 10 μm and further includes the binder (A) on at least an adhesive interface side with the primer layer, and a crosslinked structure is not formed between the binder (A) and the inorganic solid electrolyte (B).
US11552322B2	Branched anodes for microbial fuel cells Disclosed are anode electrode structures for microbial fuel cell (MFC) devices, systems and methods for treating wastewater and generating electrical energy through a bioelectrochemical waste-to-energy conversion process. In some aspects, an anode electrode includes a conductive core and a plurality of sheets of conductive textile material wound around the conductive core. In some aspects, the anode electrode is produced by cutting sheets of a conductive textile material to form a stem and a plurality of branches connected to the stem. The conductive textile material is pretreated to enhance the surface area, hydrophilicity, microbial attachment, and/or electrochemical activity of the conductive textile material. The sheets are stacked together and wound around a conductive core to produce the anode electrode. In implementations, the anode electrode can be used to transfer electrons removed from wastewater surrounding the branched electrode via an oxidation reaction on the electrode surface within the an MFC device.
US11552321B2	Anode recirculation system with ejector for solid oxide fuel cell The present disclosure relates to the technical field of fuel cells, in particular to an anode recirculation system with an ejector for a solid oxide fuel cell. The heat exchanger is adopted in the anode recirculation system for the solid oxide fuel cell, the temperature of the fuel gas can be increased through heat exchange between the fuel gas as the primary flow medium and the cell exhaust as the secondary flow medium. The fuel at room temperature stored in the fuel tank is used as the cooling medium of the valve core needle to cool the valve core needle, so that it is ensured that a temperature of the stepping motor does not exceed a failure temperature.
US11552315B2	Control system and method of fuel cell stacks A control system and a control method of fuel cell stacks are provided. The control system includes a set of fuel cell stacks, a secondary battery, a monitoring device, and a control device. Each fuel cell stack has a power output that can be independently started up or shut down. The secondary battery is connected to power output terminals of the fuel cell stacks via a power transmission path. The monitoring device is configured to monitor an electrical parameter of the power transmission path. The control device receives an electrical parameter signal from the monitoring device, and outputs a control signal to shut down or start up the power output of at least one of the fuel cell stacks if the electrical parameter's value is higher than a predetermined upper limit or lower than a predetermined lower limit.
US11552313B2	Fuel cell system without high pressure line of hydrogen supplying system and control method thereof a fuel cell system without a high pressure line of a hydrogen supplying system, including a gas charging line formed between a gas charging station and a high pressure vessel charged with gas by the gas charging station, and a gas supplying line formed between the high pressure vessel and a stack, includes: a regulator provided in the gas supplying line; a solenoid valve provided in the gas supplying line between the regulator and the high pressure vessel; and a check valve provided in a bypass line connecting one point of the gas supplying line between the regulator and the solenoid valve and one point of the gas charging line.
US11552310B2	Cooling system for fuel cell stacks The invention relates to a cooling system (10) for fuel cell stacks (22, 26), comprising a first cooling module (14) and a second cooling module (18). The first cooling module (14) comprises a fuel cell stack (22, 26), a supply line connection (30, 34) for connecting a supply line (38, 42) for supplying coolant to the fuel cell stack (22, 26), a discharge line connection (46, 50) for connecting a discharge line (54, 58) for discharging coolant from the fuel cell stack (22, 26), and a venting line connection (94, 98) for connecting a venting line (102, 106).
US11552301B2	Negative electrode for metal-air battery In a metal negative electrode, a current collector includes a through-hole or a recess provided to extend from a front surface of a planar plate toward a back surface of the planar plate. A distance from a midpoint of a joining boundary to a point on a surface of the current collector is designated as a region dividing distance, the point defining a distance less than a maximum distance between the midpoint and a side or a surface of the current collector. In the current collector, a first region is a region defined by distances from the midpoint, the distances being a distance equal to the region dividing distance and distances greater than the region dividing distance, and, in the current collector, a second region is a region defined by distances from the midpoint that are less than the region dividing distance. A volume reduction ratio of the first region is greater than a volume reduction ratio of the second region, the volume reduction ratio of the first region being a ratio with respect to a volume of the first region determined assuming that the through-hole or the recess is not present, the volume reduction ratio of the second region being a ratio with respect to a volume of the second region determined assuming that the through-hole or the recess is not present.
US11552298B2	Electrode for lithium-ion secondary battery An object of the present invention is to provide a lithium-ion secondary battery having a large charge and discharge capacity and excellent cycle characteristics irrespective of kind and shape of a current collector. The lithium-ion secondary battery comprises an electrode comprising a primer layer for protecting a current collector and a crosslinking agent layer comprising a compound being capable of crosslinking an aqueous binder contained in the primer layer, the both layers being disposed between a current collector and an active material layer comprising a sulfur-based active material.
US11552284B2	Battery electrode having network of interconnected high porosity regions and method of manufacturing the same A battery electrode includes an electrically conductive sheet and two or more coating layers of an ion transport medium stacked thereon. Each coating layer has a respective two-dimensional array of low porosity regions formed therein, with a remainder of each coating layer that is not the two-dimensional array of low porosity regions defining a respective network of interconnected high porosity regions. Each of the high porosity regions has a feature size D, and an intralayer pitch P is defined between adjacent ones of the high porosity regions of each coating layer, with each pair of adjacent two-dimensional arrays having a respective alignment error E therebetween. A respective first electrically conductive path is formed thereacross via the networks of high porosity regions when D≤E≤P, with a second electrically conductive path being formed across all of the coating layers via the networks of high porosity regions.
US11552282B2	Roll press apparatus comprising stepped revision member and method for pressing using the same According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, a roll press apparatus is provided. The roll press apparatus presses electrode sheets, each including a both-side coated portion where an electrode mixture is applied to both sides of a current collector and a one-side coated portion where the electrode mixture is applied to one side of a current collector, by passing the electrode sheet through a separated space between a pair of press rolls.
US11552277B2	Light-emitting device including a light-transmitting interconnect located over a substrate A substrate (100) is a light-transmitting substrate. A light-transmitting first electrode (110) is formed over the substrate (100). An insulating layer (150) is formed over the substrate (100) and the first electrode (110) and includes an opening (152) overlapping the first electrode (110). An organic layer (120) is located within at least the opening (152). A light-transmitting second electrode (130) is formed over the organic layer (120). An intermediate layer (200) is formed in at least a portion of a region of a lateral side of the first electrode (110) overlapping the first electrode (110). A refractive index of the intermediate layer (200) is between a refractive index of the substrate (100) and a refractive index of the first electrode (110).
US11552273B2	Display device with refractive layers A display device may include a pixel electrode, a pixel defining layer on the pixel electrode and having a pixel opening that exposes at least a portion of the pixel electrode, an emission layer on the pixel electrode in the pixel opening, an opposite electrode on the emission layer, a first refractive layer on the opposite electrode and having a refractive opening, the first refractive layer having a first refractive index, and a second refractive layer on the first refractive layer and having a second refractive index greater than the first refractive index. A maximum inclination angle of a sidewall of the first refractive layer exposed by the refractive opening with respect to a lower surface of the first refractive layer may be between about 65 degrees and about 90 degrees.
US11552265B2	Resistance-switching polymer films and methods of manufacture Devices comprising a resistance-switching polymer film are described. Also described are methods of making the devices comprising the resistance-switching polymer film.
US11552264B2	Electronic apparatus An electronic apparatus includes an electronic panel, a first support plate below the electronic panel, a second support plate below the first support plate, and a first input sensor between the first support plate and the second support plate. The electronic panel includes light emitting parts arranged in an active area. The active area includes a folding area and a first non-folding area and a second non-folding area adjacent to the folding area and spaced apart from each other. The first support plate includes a folding part overlapping the folding area, and a first support part and a second support part spaced apart from each other, the folding part being disposed between the first support part and the second support part. An edge of the second support plate protrudes further in the second direction than an edge of the first support plate protrudes.
US11552260B2	Condensed cyclic compound and organic light-emitting device including the same Provided are a condensed cyclic compound having the following structure: wherein ring D1 and ring D2 are each independently a C6-C20 aromatic ring, and an organic light-emitting device including the same.
US11552259B1	Organic electroluminescent element and electronic device An organic electroluminescence device includes two or more emitting units disposed between an anode and a cathode, and an intermediate layer, in which the intermediate layer contains a phenanthroline compound, the laminated emitting unit includes a first emitting layer containing a first host material and a second emitting layer containing a second host material, and a triplet energy T1(H1) of the first host material and a triplet energy T1(H2) of the second host material satisfy a relationship of a numerical formula (Numerical Formula 3), T1(H1)>T1(H2) (Numerical Formula 3).
US11552257B2	Plurality of host materials and organic electroluminescent device comprising the same The present disclosure relates to a plurality of host materials comprising a first host material having a compound represented by formula 1, and a second host material having a compound represented by formula 2, and an organic electroluminescent device comprising the same. By comprising a specific combination of compounds of the present disclosure as host materials, it is possible to provide an organic electroluminescent device having long lifetime properties while having an equivalent or improved level of power efficiency compared to conventional organic electroluminescent devices.
US11552251B2	Organic electroluminescent element and electronic device The compound represented by formula (1): wherein A, B, R1, and R2 are as defined in the description, provides organic electroluminescence (EL) devices having a high emission efficiency when operated at low voltage and a long lifetime and electronic devices including such organic EL devices.
US11552247B2	Organic vapor jet nozzle with shutter An organic vapor deposition device comprises a print head, comprising a source channel, in fluid communication with a flow of carrier gas and a quantity of organic source material configured to mix with the carrier gas, a nozzle having a deposition outlet, in fluid communication with the source channel, and a shutter configured at least to open and close the deposition outlet, wherein the print heat is configured to allow the flow of carrier gas and the organic source material exit the deposition outlet when the shutter is in an open position, and to prevent the flow of carrier gas and the organic source material from exiting the deposition outlet when the shutter is in a closed position. A method of manufacturing a device comprising an organic feature on a substrate is also described.
US11552243B2	MRAM structure with ternary weight storage A memory device is provided that includes at least one MTJ pillar which can have a ternary program state as compared to a binary program state in a conventional device. The MTJ pillar contains a lower MTJ structure that includes at least a first magnetic reference material, a first tunnel barrier and a first magnetic free layer material, and an upper MTJ structure that includes at least a second magnetic reference material, a second tunnel barrier and a second magnetic free layer material; the upper MTJ structure is stacked atop the lower MTJ structure. The first and second magnetic free layer materials have different designs and/or compositions resulting in different switching voltages.
US11552239B2	Superconducting qubit and resonator system based on the Josephson ring modulator A superconducting quantum mechanical device includes first, second, third and fourth Josephson junctions connected in a bridge circuit having first, second and third resonance eigenmodes. The device also includes first and second capacitor pads. The first and second capacitor pads and the bridge circuit form a superconducting qubit having a resonance frequency corresponding to the first resonance eigenmode. The device further includes first and second resonator sections. The first and second resonator sections and the bridge circuit form a resonator having a resonance frequency corresponding to the second resonance eigenmode. The device also includes a source of magnetic flux arranged proximate the bridge circuit. The source of magnetic flux is configured to provide, during operation, a magnetic flux through the bridge circuit to cause coupling between the first, second and third resonance eigenmodes when the third resonance eigenmode is excited.
US11552238B2	Systems and methods for qubit fabrication A method of fabricating a superconducting-semiconducting stack includes cleaning a surface of a substrate, the substrate comprising a group IV element; depositing an insulating buffer layer onto the substrate, the insulating buffer layer comprising the group IV element; depositing a p-doped layer onto the insulating buffer layer; depositing a diffusion barrier onto the p-doped layer; and processing the superconducting-semiconducting stack through dopant activation.
US11552235B2	Thermal lensing electrode in thermoelectric generators for improved performance Exemplary thermoelectric devices and methods are disclosed herein. Thermoelectric generator performance is increased by the shaping isothermal fields within the bulk of a thermoelectric pellet, resulting in an increase in power output of a thermoelectric generator module. In one embodiment, a thermoelectric device includes a pellet comprising a semiconductor material, a first metal layer surrounding a first portion of the pellet, and a second metal layer surrounding a second portion of the pellet. The first and second metal layers are configured proximate to one another about a perimeter of the pellet. The pellet is exposed at the perimeter. And the perimeter is configured at a sidewall height about the pellet to provide a non-linear effect on a power output of the thermoelectric device by modifying an isotherm surface curvature within the pellet. The device also includes a metal container thermally and electrically bonded to the pellet.
US11552226B2	Method for producing an optoelectronic device An optoelectronic device and a method for producing an optoelectronic device are disclosed. In an embodiment a method includes arranging an optoelectronic semiconductor chip with its top side towards a surface of a carrier, forming a recess at the surface of the carrier such that the recess surrounds the optoelectronic semiconductor chip, arranging a mold compound in the recess and above the surface of the carrier such that the optoelectronic semiconductor chip is embedded into the mold compound, wherein a bottom side of the optoelectronic semiconductor chip remains at least partially not covered by the mold compound, removing the carrier and arranging a wavelength-converting material above the surface of the carrier before arranging the optoelectronic semiconductor chip, wherein the wavelength-converting material is perforated while forming the recess.
US11552225B2	Phosphor layer for micro-LED applications Embodiments include a device having a micro-LED that includes at least two, individually addressable light emitting diodes on a same substrate; a phosphor converter layer disposed on the micro-LED, the phosphor converter layer including phosphor particles having a D50 of greater than 1 μm and less than 10 μm.
US11552219B2	LED display screen module An LED display screen module includes a module substrate and a plurality of LED package structures. The LED package structures are disposed on the module substrate and arranged into an array. Each of the LED package structures includes a plurality of pixels and a packaging layer. The pixels are spaced apart from each other. The packaging layer includes a plurality of packaging portions and a plurality of connecting portions. The packaging portions respectively cover the pixels, and each of the connecting portions is connected between the adjacent two packaging portions. Each of the packaging portions has an upper light emitting surface and a lateral light emitting surface. The upper light emitting surface is a flat surface and is connected to the lateral light emitting surface via a transitional curved surface.
US11552218B2	Aluminum nitride laminate member and light-emitting device There is provided an aluminum nitride laminate member including: a sapphire substrate having a base surface on which bumps are distributed periodically, each bump having a height of smaller than or equal to 500 nm; and an aluminum nitride layer grown on the base surface and having a flat surface, there being substantially no voids in the aluminum nitride layer.
US11552216B2	Light emitting apparatus and projector A light emitting apparatus includes an electrode and a laminated structure. The laminated structure includes an n-type first semiconductor layer, a light emitting layer, a p-type second semiconductor layer, a tunnel junction layer, and an n-type third semiconductor layer. The electrode is electrically connected to the first semiconductor layer. The first semiconductor layer, the light emitting layer, the second semiconductor layer, the tunnel junction layer, and the third semiconductor layer are arranged in a presented order. The light emitting layer and the first semiconductor layer form a columnar section.
US11552211B2	Moldable photovoltaic solar cell module A moldable photovoltaic module is provided. The module includes a flexible polymeric flex-circuit substrate having an electrically conductive printed wiring pattern and solder pads defined on it. Small photovoltaic cells are affixed to the flex-circuit substrate by back-surface contacts in electrical contact with the solder pads. At least one thermoformable polymeric film is joined to the flex-circuit substrate. Each said solder pad comprises a solder composition that, after an initial melt, has a melting point that lies above at least a portion of the temperature range for thermoforming the polymeric film.
US11552209B2	Cover plate and photovoltaic module Provided is a cover plate and a photovoltaic module. The cover plate is configured to form a photovoltaic module together with a solar cell string, and the cover plate includes: at least one through hole provided in the cover plate and penetrating through the cover plate, a reinforced region surrounding the at least one through hole, and a flat region adjacent to the reinforced region; wherein a thickness of the cover plate in the reinforced region is greater than a thickness of the cover plate in the flat region. The cover plate and the photovoltaic module according to the embodiments of the present disclosure may solve the problem of poor load resistance capability of the cover plate.
US11552205B2	Optical sensing device having inclined reflective surface Disclosed are devices for optical sensing and manufacturing method thereof. In one embodiment, a device for optical sensing includes a substrate, a photodetector and a reflector. The photodetector is disposed in the substrate. The reflector is disposed in the substrate and spaced apart from the photodetector, wherein the reflector has a reflective surface inclined relative to the photodetector that reflects light transmitted thereto to the photodetector.
US11552175B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate of a first conductivity type, a first semiconductor layer of the first conductivity type formed on the semiconductor substrate and having a first conductivity type impurity concentration higher than that of the semiconductor substrate, a second semiconductor layer of a second conductivity type formed above the first semiconductor layer, a first device region formed in the second semiconductor layer and configured to operate based on a first reference voltage, a second device region formed in the second semiconductor layer and configured to operate based on a second reference voltage, the second device region being spaced apart from the first device region, and a region isolation structure interposed between the first and second device regions and formed in a region extending from a front surface of the second semiconductor layer to the first semiconductor layer so as to electrically isolate the first and second device regions from each other.
US11552172B2	Silicon carbide device with compensation layer and method of manufacturing First dopants are implanted through a larger opening of a first process mask into a silicon carbide body, wherein the larger opening exposes a first surface section of the silicon carbide body. A trench is formed in the silicon carbide body in a second surface section exposed by a smaller opening in a second process mask. The second surface section is a sub-section of the first surface section. The larger opening and the smaller opening are formed self-aligned to each other. At least part of the implanted first dopants form at least one compensation layer portion extending parallel to a trench sidewall.
US11552166B2	Semiconductor device comprising resurf isolation structure surrounding an outer periphery of a high side circuit region and isolating the high side circuit region from a low side circuit region A high withstand voltage isolation region has a first diffusion layer of a second conductivity type formed on a principal surface of a semiconductor substrate. The high withstand voltage MOS has a second diffusion layer of the second conductivity type formed on the principal surface of the semiconductor substrate. A low side circuit region has a third diffusion layer of a first conductivity type formed on the principal surface of the semiconductor substrate. A fourth diffusion layer of the first conductivity type having a higher impurity concentration than the semiconductor substrate is formed on the principal surface of the semiconductor substrate exposed between the first diffusion layer and the second diffusion layer. The fourth diffusion layer extends from the high side circuit region to the low side circuit region and does not contact the third diffusion layer.
US11552154B2	Display device with reduced area of dead space at periphery of a light transmissive area disposed in a display area A display device includes a substrate including a display area including pixels, and a light transmissive area including a portion in the display area, and signal lines disposed in the display area and electrically connected with the pixels, where the signal lines include a first signal line on a first side, a second signal line on a second side and arranged with the first signal line in a first direction, and a third signal line on a third side, and the third signal line is arranged with the first signal line and the second signal line in a second direction, the first and second signal lines are insulated from each other in the display area, and a length of the first signal line is longer than a length of the second signal line in the first direction.
US11552151B2	Display device and method for manufacturing display device A display device includes: a substrate; signal lines including a gate line, a data line, and a driving voltage line that collectively define an outer boundary of a pixel area; a transistor connected to the signal line; a first electrode extending across the pixel area and formed on the signal line and the transistor, and connected to the transistor, the first electrode having a first portion overlying only the signal line and the transistor, and a second portion including all of the first electrode not included in the first portion; a pixel defining layer formed on only the first portion of the first electrode; an organic emission layer formed on substantially the entire second portion but not on the first portion; and a second electrode formed on the pixel defining layer and the organic emission layer.
US11552145B2	Display device, electronic apparatus, and method of fabricating the display device It is an object of the invention to provide a technique to manufacture a display device with high image quality and high reliability at low cost with high yield. The invention has spacers over a pixel electrode layer in a pixel region and over an insulating layer functioning as a partition which covers the periphery of the pixel electrode layer. When forming a light emitting material over a pixel electrode layer, a mask for selective formation is supported by the spacers, thereby preventing the mask from contacting the pixel electrode layer due to a twist and deflection thereof. Accordingly, such damage as a crack by the mask does not occur in the pixel electrode layer. Thus, the pixel electrode layer does not have a defect in shapes, thereby a display device which performs a high resolution display with high reliability can be manufactured.
US11552144B2	Light emitting diode display device A light emitting diode display device including: an organic light emitting diode including an anode electrode; a first transistor for providing a current to the anode electrode of the organic light emitting diode; a second transistor for transmitting a voltage to a gate electrode of the first transistor; a first capacitor for storing the voltage transmitted to the gate electrode of the first transistor; and a second capacitor disposed between a first electrode of the second transistor and a data line, wherein the first electrode of the second transistor is directly connected to the anode electrode of the organic light emitting diode.
US11552141B2	Organic light emitting display device including curve-shaped third dam structure Disclosed is an organic light emitting display device including a dam structure disposed in a non-display area of a substrate and an alignment mark disposed outside the dam structure. The alignment mark is not covered by, and does not overlap with, the dam structure, because the alignment mark is disposed outside the dame structure. Thus, a scribing process may be performed smoothly.
US11552138B2	Display device including component areas with corresponding transmission areas A display device includes a substrate including a display area, a first component area including a first pixel group and a first transmission area, and a second component area including a second pixel group and a second transmission area, main sub-pixels disposed in the display area, and auxiliary sub-pixels disposed in the first pixel group, wherein a first distance between adjacent ones of the auxiliary sub-pixels is different from a second distance between adjacent ones of the main sub-pixels.
US11552136B2	Electronic apparatus An electronic apparatus includes: an electronic panel comprising a display unit comprising a plurality of pixels and a sensing unit comprising a plurality of sensing electrodes; and an electronic module overlapping with the electronic panel when viewed in a plan view, the sensing unit comprising: a base substrate comprising a hole area overlapping with the electronic module, an active area overlapping with the sensing electrodes, and a peripheral area adjacent to the active area; a connection line in the hole area and connected to a portion of the sensing electrodes; and a conductive light blocking pattern in the hole area and spaced apart from the connection line and the sensing electrodes.
US11552127B2	Top emission microLED display and bottom emission microLED display and a method of forming the same A microLED display includes a first main substrate, microLEDs disposed above the first main substrate, a first light blocking layer disposed above the first main substrate to define emission areas, a light guiding layer disposed in the emission areas, and a plurality of connecting structures disposed in the emission areas respectively and electrically connected with the microLEDs.
US11552121B2	Semiconductor apparatus and equipment A semiconductor apparatus includes a stack of a first chip having a plurality of pixel circuits arranged in a matrix form and a second chip having a plurality of electric circuit arranged in a matrix form. A wiring path between a semiconductor element configuring the pixel circuit and a semiconductor element configuring the electric circuit or a positional relationship between a semiconductor element configuring the pixel circuit and a semiconductor element configuring the electric circuit is differentiated among the electric circuits.
US11552115B2	Imaging device including photoelectric converters and capacitive element An imaging device having a semiconductor substrate that includes a first photoelectric converter, and a second photoelectric converter adjacent to the first photoelectric converter. The imaging device further includes a capacitive element one end of which is coupled to the first photoelectric converter, where the first capacitive element at least partly overlaps, in a plan view, with the second photoelectric converter.
US11552112B2	Display apparatus The present disclosure provides a display device comprising: a first thin film transistor including a first semiconductor pattern disposed on a substrate and comprising poly-silicon, and a first gate electrode; a middle layer on the first gate electrode; a second thin film transistor including a second semiconductor pattern disposed on the middle layer and comprising an oxide semiconductor, and a second gate electrode; and a storage capacitor including first to fourth storage electrodes overlapping with each other.
US11552108B2	Transistor display panel having an auxiliary layer overlapping portions of source and gate electrodes A transistor display panel including a substrate, a gate line disposed on the substrate and extending in a first direction, a gate electrode protruding from the gate line, a gate insulating layer disposed on the gate line and the gate electrode, a semiconductor layer and an auxiliary layer disposed on the gate insulating layer and spaced apart from each other, a data line disposed on the gate insulating layer and extending in a second direction which is a direction crossing the gate line, a drain electrode disposed on the gate insulating layer and the semiconductor layer and spaced apart from the data line, and a pixel electrode connected to the drain electrode, in which the auxiliary layer overlaps an edge of the gate electrode in a plan view.
US11552105B2	Pixel structure, array substrate, and display device The invention provides a pixel structure, an array substrate, and a display device. The pixel structure includes: scanning lines and data lines; at least one pixel electrode configured in each of pixel areas; at least one shading electrode line connecting to a common voltage, the shading electrode line being configured to be above the data line to shade the data line; a first TFT being configured between the scanning line and the pixel electrode, and the first TFT connecting to the pixel electrode; at least one shading electrode connection line extending along a direction of the scanning line, and the shading electrode connection line electrically connecting to two adjacent shading electrode lines; and the shading electrode connection line being wound to form a mesh pattern, and a semiconductor layer of the first TFT is configured to be opposite to a hollow area of the mesh pattern.
US11552104B2	Stacked transistors with dielectric between channels of different device strata Disclosed herein are stacked transistors with dielectric between channel materials, as well as related methods and devices. In some embodiments, an integrated circuit structure may include stacked strata of transistors, wherein a dielectric material is between channel materials of adjacent strata, and the dielectric material is surrounded by a gate dielectric.
US11552095B2	Semiconductor memory having first and second memory cell regions separated by a third region along a bit line direction A semiconductor memory includes a memory cell region that includes multiple memory cells stacked above a semiconductor substrate, first and second dummy regions on opposite sides of the memory cell region, each dummy region including multiple dummy cells stacked above the semiconductor substrate, and a wiring that electrically connects dummy cells of the first and second dummy regions that are at a same level above the semiconductor substrate.
US11552094B2	Three-dimensional memory device having on-pitch drain select gate electrodes and method of making the same A three-dimensional memory device includes an alternating stack of insulating layers and electrically conductive layers located over a substrate, and an array of memory opening fill structures extending through the alternating stack, an array of drain-select-level assemblies overlying the alternating stack and having a same two-dimensional periodicity as the array of memory opening fill structures, a first strip electrode portion laterally surrounding a first set of multiple rows of drain-select-level assemblies within the array of drain-select-level assemblies, and a drain-select-level isolation strip including an isolation dielectric that contacts the first strip electrode portion and laterally spaced from the drain-select-level assemblies and extending between the first strip electrode portion and a second strip electrode portion.
US11552093B2	3D NAND flash memory device A 3D NAND flash memory device includes a substrate, a source line on the substrate, a stacked structure on the source line, a bit line on the stacked structure, and a columnar channel portion. The stacked structure includes a first select transistor, memory cells, and a second select transistor, wherein the first select transistor includes a first select gate, the memory cells include control gates, and the second select transistor includes a second select gate. The columnar channel portion is extended axially from the source line and penetrates the stacked structure to be coupled to the bit line. The first select transistor includes a modified Schottky barrier (MSB) transistor to generate direct tunneling of majority carriers to the columnar channel portion to perform a program operation or an erase operation.
US11552090B2	Integrated circuitry comprising a memory array comprising strings of memory cells and methods used in forming a memory array comprising strings of memory cells A method used in forming a memory array comprising strings of memory cells comprises forming an upper stack directly above a lower stack. The lower stack comprises vertically-alternating lower-first-tiers and lower-second-tiers. The upper stack comprises vertically-alternating upper-first-tiers and upper-second-tiers. Lower channel openings extend through the lower-first-tiers and the lower-second-tiers. The lower channel openings have sacrificial material therein. An upper of the lower-second-tiers or a lower of the upper-second-tiers comprises non-stoichiometric silicon dioxide that has a silicon-to-oxygen atomic ratio greater than 0.5. A higher of the upper-second-tiers that is above said lower upper-second-tier comprises silicon dioxide that has a silicon-to-oxygen atomic ratio less than or equal to 0.5. Upper channel openings are etched through the upper-first-tiers and the upper-second-tiers to stop on said upper lower-second-tier or said lower upper-second-tier. After the stop, the sacrificial material is removed from the lower channel openings and channel-material strings are formed in the upper and lower channel openings. Other embodiments, including structure independent of method, are disclosed.
US11552079B2	Self restoring logic structures A SEU tolerant structure has two logic sections that generate two output signals that are complementary such that a fault which affects one section cannot affect the other section. Adjacent NMOS regions or adjacent PMOS regions contain no logic inversions in the combinational logic or if logic inversions in the combinational logic are present where all gates following the inversion are SEU hard by design. The circuits can be realized using one of a Complex CMOS gate, pass transistor logic, Multiplexor logic, AND-OR logic or OR-AND logic. A SRL latch is formed of three NMOS and PMOS structures having a first latch with a first NMOS structure adjacent a first PMOS structure, a second latch with a second NMOS structure adjacent a second PMOS structure wherein the first and second NMOS structures are adjacent one another, and a third latch with a third NMOS structure adjacent a third PMOS structure wherein the second and third PMOS structures are adjacent one another, wherein the latch is adapted to have alternating logic with a state assignment of 010 and 101. A Single Event Upset Triple Modular Redundancy (TMR) tolerant circuit generates complementary output values 010 and 101 with layouts that are adjacent.
US11552078B2	Silicon carbide MOSFET with source ballasting A method for making an integrated device that includes a plurality of planar MOSFETs, includes forming a plurality of doped body regions in an upper portion of a silicon carbide substrate composition and a plurality of doped source regions. A first contact region is formed in a first source region and a second contact region is formed in a second source region. The first and second contact regions are separated by a JFET region that is longer in one planar dimension than the other. The first and second contact regions are separated by the longer planar dimension. The JFET region is bounded on at least one side corresponding to the longer planar dimension by a source region and a body region in conductive contact with at least one contact region.
US11552070B2	Electrostatic protection circuit, array substrate and display device Disclosed is an electrostatic protection circuit, an array substrate and a display device. The electrostatic protection circuit includes a first electrostatic discharge end, a second electrostatic discharge end and a signal line connecting end; a first discharge sub-circuit coupled between the first electrostatic discharge end and the signal line connecting end; and a second discharge sub-circuit coupled between the second electrostatic discharge end and the signal line connecting end. Each of the first discharge sub-circuit and the second discharge sub-circuit comprises at least one MOSFET, and gates of all MOSFETs comprised in the first discharge sub-circuit and the second discharge sub-circuit are not coupled with any one of the first electrostatic discharge end, the second electrostatic discharge end and the signal line connecting end.
US11552066B2	Protective wafer grooving structure for wafer thinning and methods of using the same A bonded assembly of a first wafer including a first semiconductor substrate and a second wafer including a second semiconductor substrate may be formed. The second semiconductor substrate may be thinned to a first thickness, and an inter-wafer moat trench may be formed at a periphery of the bonded assembly. A protective material layer may be formed in the inter-wafer moat trench and over the backside surface of the second semiconductor substrate. A peripheral portion of the second semiconductor substrate located outside the inter-wafer moat trench may be removed, and a cylindrical portion of the protective material layer laterally surrounds a remaining portion of the bonded assembly. The second semiconductor substrate may be thinned to a second thickness by performing at least one thinning process while the cylindrical portion of the protective material layer protects the remaining portion of the bonded assembly.
US11552062B2	Package-on-package (PoP) semiconductor package and electronic system including the same A package-on-package (PoP) semiconductor package includes an upper package and a lower package. The lower package includes a first semiconductor device in a first area, a second semiconductor device in a second area, and a command-and-address vertical interconnection, a data input-output vertical interconnection, and a memory management vertical interconnection adjacent to the first area.
US11552060B2	Stacked light emitting diode (LED) display Embodiments of the present disclosure include apparatuses and method for a stacked light emitting diode (LED) display. A stacked LED display can include a first array of LEDs that are configured to emit red light, a second array of LEDs that are configured to emit green light, and a third array of LEDs that are configured to emit blue light. The stacked LED hologram display can include a number of actuators configured to adjust a position of a first array of LEDs in a first direction and a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, adjust a position of a second array of LEDs in the first direction and the second direction, and adjust a position of a third array of LEDs in the first direction and the second direction to control the packing scheme of the LEDs.
US11552049B2	Embedded power device module, processor substrate and electronic system A processor substrate includes: an electrically insulating material having a first main side and a second main side opposite the first main side; a plurality of electrically conductive structures embedded in the electrically insulating material and configured to provide an electrical interface at the first main side of the electrically insulating material and to provide electrical connections from the electrical interface to the second main side of the electrically insulating material; and a power device module embedded in the electrically insulating material and configured to convert a voltage provided at the second main side of the electrically insulating material and which exceeds a voltage limit of the processor substrate to a voltage that is below the voltage limit of the processor substrate. An electronic system that includes the processor substrate is also described.
US11552041B2	Chemical mechanical polishing for hybrid bonding Representative implementations of techniques and methods include chemical mechanical polishing for hybrid bonding. The disclosed methods include depositing and patterning a dielectric layer on a substrate to form openings in the dielectric layer, depositing a barrier layer over the dielectric layer and within a first portion of the openings, and depositing a conductive structure over the barrier layer and within a second portion of the openings not occupied by the barrier layer, at least a portion of the conductive structure in the second portion of the openings coupled or contacting electrical circuitry within the substrate. Additionally, the conductive structure is polished to reveal portions of the barrier layer deposited over the dielectric layer and not in the second portion of the openings. Further, the barrier layer is polished with a selective polish to reveal a bonding surface on or at the dielectric layer.
US11552039B2	Embedded packaging module and manufacturing method for the same The present disclosure relates to an embedded packaging module comprising a first semiconductor device, a first packaging layer and a first wiring layer, the first semiconductor device having a first and a second face, at least two positioning bulges and at least one bonding pad being provided on the first face of the first semiconductor device; the first packaging layer being formed on both the first face and a surface adjacent to the first face, the positioning bulges being positioned in the first packaging layer, at least one first via hole being provided in the first packaging layer, the bottom of the first via hole being positioned in the bonding pad and contacting with the bonding pad; the first wiring layer being positioned on the side of the first packaging layer away from the first semiconductor device and being electrically connected with the bonding pad through the first via hole.
US11552037B2	Semiconductor package Disclosed is a semiconductor package comprising a redistribution substrate, a semiconductor chip on the redistribution substrate and including a chip pad electrically connected to the redistribution substrate, and a conductive terminal on the redistribution substrate. The redistribution substrate includes a first dielectric layer, a first redistribution pattern, a second dielectric layer, a second redistribution pattern, and a first insulative pattern. The first redistribution pattern electrically connects the chip pad and the second redistribution pattern. The first insulative pattern has a first surface in contact with the first redistribution pattern and a second surface in contact with the second redistribution pattern. The second surface is opposite to the first surface. A width at the first surface of the first insulative pattern is the same as or greater than a width at the second surface of the first insulative pattern.
US11552026B2	Semiconductor packages and methods of manufacturing the same A semiconductor package includes a substrate, a preformed feeding element, a preformed shielding element, and an encapsulant. The preformed feeding element is disposed on the substrate and the preformed feeding element is disposed on the substrate and adjacent to the preformed feeding element. The encapsulant encapsulates the preformed feeding element and the preformed shielding element.
US11552025B2	Marking pattern in forming staircase structure of three-dimensional memory device Embodiments of a marking pattern in forming the staircase structure of a three-dimensional (3D) memory device are provided. In an example, a semiconductor device includes a stack structure having insulating layers and conductor layers arranged alternatingly over a substrate along a vertical direction; and a marking pattern having interleaved layers over the substrate and neighboring the stack structure. The marking pattern includes a central marking structure located in a marking area. The central marking structure consists of interleaved layers and divides the marking area into a first marking sub-area and a second marking sub-area. A first pattern density of the first marking sub-area is higher than or equal to a second pattern density of the second marking sub-area.
US11552017B2	Trench gate transistors with low-resistance shield and gate interconnects In a general aspect, a transistor can include a trench disposed in a semiconductor region and a gate electrode disposed in an upper portion of the trench. The gate electrode can include a first and second gate electrode segments. The transistor can also include a shield electrode having a first shield electrode portion disposed in a lower portion of the trench, and a second shield electrode portion orthogonally extending from the first shield electrode portion in the lower portion of the trench to the upper portion of the trench. The first shield electrode portion can be disposed below the first and second gate electrode segments, and the second shield electrode portion can being disposed between the first and second gate electrode segments. The transistor can also include a patterned buried conductor layer. The first and second gate electrode segments can be electrically coupled via the patterned buried conductor layer.
US11552009B2	Printed circuit board A printed circuit board includes: a first insulating layer; a first wiring layer disposed on one surface of the first insulating layer; and a bump at least partially disposed in the first insulating layer and connected to the first wiring layer. The bump at least partially protrudes from the other surface of the first insulating layer, opposite to the one surface of the first insulating layer.
US11552001B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device includes a substrate, an isolation structure, a first gate structure, a second gate structure, a first slot contact structure, a first gate contact structure, and a second gate contact structure. The substrate includes a first active region and a second active region elongated in a first direction respectively. The first gate structure, the second gate structure, and the first slot contact structure are continuously elongated in a second direction respectively. The first gate contact structure and the second gate contact structure are disposed at two opposite sides of the first slot contact structure in the first direction respectively.
US11551995B2	Substrate with embedded active thermoelectric cooler The present disclosure relates to a substrate that includes a substrate body and a thermoelectric cooler embedded in the substrate body. The thermoelectric cooler includes a top-side plate with an element-contact pad and a bottom-side plate. The element-contact pad is on a top surface of the top-side plate, which faces a same direction as a top surface of the substrate body and is exposed to the external space of the substrate body. The bottom-side plate is below the top-side plate and close to a bottom surface of the top-side plate. Herein, the element-contact pad is configured to accommodate attachment of a heat-generating electrical element. The top-side plate is configured to change temperature of the heat-generating electrical element, and the bottom-side plate is configured to transfer heat to or absorb heat from the bottom surface of the substrate body.
US11551990B2	Method and apparatus for providing thermal wear leveling Exemplary embodiments provide thermal wear spreading among a plurality of thermal die regions in an integrated circuit or among dies by using die region wear-out data that represents a cumulative amount of time each of a number of thermal die regions in one or more dies has spent at a particular temperature level. In one example, die region wear-out data is stored in persistent memory and is accrued over a life of each respective thermal region so that a long term monitoring of temperature levels in the various die regions is used to spread thermal wear among the thermal die regions. In one example, spreading thermal wear is done by controlling task execution such as thread execution among one or more processing cores, dies and/or data access operations for a memory.
US11551988B2	Electronic component or precursor thereof, and method for manufacturing same An electronic component, or a precursor thereof, that comprises a curable organopolysiloxane composition or a cured product thereof is disclosed. The curable organopolysiloxane composition is generally curable through a hydrosilylation reaction and can be applied to at least one area by a microdroplet application device. The curable organopolysiloxane composition has a viscosity of no more than 2.0 Pa·s at a strain rate of 1,000 (1/s), and a viscosity at a strain rate of 0.1 (1/s) being a value no less than 50.0 times the viscosity at a strain rate of 1,000 (1/s). In particular, the area of application generally is a substantially circular area that fits within a frame no more than 1000 μm in diameter, a linear area no more than 1000 μm in line width, or a pattern configured from a combination of these areas.
US11551984B2	Package A package has a package body formed by stacked insulating layers and having a front surface including a mounting area, a back surface and a side surface; a plurality of hollow portions arranged so as to be adjacent to each other on the front surface of the package body; a plurality of electrode pads individually placed on respective bottom surfaces of the hollow portions; and a partition wall formed by at least one insulating layer that forms the package body and having protruding banks at its both edge sides. Surfaces of the electrode pads are located at a lower position with respect to the front surface of the package body. The hollow portions are arranged at opposite sides of the partition wall. The electrode pads are electrically connected to respective conductor layers that are formed on the back surface and/or the side surface of the package body.
US11551981B2	Method and apparatus for producing at least one modification in a solid body A method and apparatus are provided. In an example, a volume portion of the solid body is exposed to light waves of different wavelengths, wherein the light waves are partly reflected at surfaces of the solid body. Light parameters of the reflected light waves are at least partly acquired using a sensor device. Distance information and/or intensity information are/is ascertained from at least a portion of the acquired light parameters. A thickness and/or a transmittance of the solid body in the volume portion are/is determined based upon the distance information and/or the intensity information. Laser radiation is introduced into the volume portion to produce a modification in the interior of the solid body, wherein at least one laser parameter of the laser radiation is set at least depending on the thickness and/or the transmittance such that the modification is at a predefined distance from a surface of the solid body.
US11551968B2	Inter-wire cavity for low capacitance Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards an integrated circuit (IC) in which cavities separate wires of an interconnect structure. For example, a conductive feature overlies a substrate, and an intermetal dielectric (IMD) layer overlies the conductive feature. A first wire and a second wire neighbor in the IMD layer and respectively have a first sidewall and a second sidewall that face each other while being separated from each other by the IMD layer. Further, the first wire overlies and borders the conductive feature. A first cavity and a second cavity further separate the first and second sidewalls from each other. The first cavity separates the first sidewall from the IMD layer, and the second cavity separates the second sidewall from the IMD layer. The cavities reduce parasitic capacitance between the first and second wires and hence resistance-capacitance (RC) delay that degrades IC performance.
US11551964B2	Semiconductor wafer transfer arm A semiconductor wafer transfer arm includes, in one embodiment, a mechanical arm and a contact pad including contact points. The contact points are configured to secure a semiconductor wafer at a non-active area of the semiconductor wafer and offset the contact pad from an active area of the semiconductor wafer by a predetermined distance. The transfer arm prevents foreign material from contacting the wafer and thus reduces instances of die cracking caused by foreign material during a semiconductor wafer transfer process.
US11551945B2	Substrate processing apparatus including periphery cover body A substrate processing apparatus includes a rotation driving device configured to rotate a rotary table holding a substrate; a processing liquid nozzle configured to supply a processing liquid onto a top surface of the substrate; an electric heater provided at a top plate and configured to heat the substrate through the top plate; an electronic component configured to perform a power feed to the electric heater and transmission/reception of a control signal for the electric heater; and a periphery cover body connected to a peripheral portion of the top plate to be rotated along with the top plate. An accommodation space in which the electronic component is accommodated is formed under the top plate. The accommodation space is surrounded by a surrounding structure including the top plate and the periphery cover body. A gap between the peripheral portion of the top plate and the periphery cover body is sealed.
US11551941B2	Substrate cleaning method A substrate cleaning apparatus includes a first processing unit configured to supply a first processing liquid for removing a residue adhering to a substrate onto the substrate on which a metal film is exposed at a recess of a pattern; a second processing unit configured to supply, onto the substrate, a second processing liquid for forming a protective film insoluble to the first processing liquid; a third processing unit configured to supply, onto the substrate, a third processing liquid for dissolving the protective film; and a control unit. The control unit performs forming the protective film on the metal film in a state that an upper portion of the pattern is exposed from the protective film; removing the residue adhering to the upper portion of the pattern after the forming of the protective film; and removing the protective film from the substrate after the removing of the residue.
US11551940B2	Roller for cleaning wafer and cleaning apparatus having the same The present disclosure provides a roller for cleaning a backside of a wafer. The backside of the wafer has a central region and a periphery region surrounding the central region. The roller includes an upper element, a bottom element, and an axis element for connecting the upper element and the bottom element. The upper element of the roller is configured to contact with a frontside of the wafer. The bottom element is configured to contact with the backside of the wafer and remove particles from the periphery region of the backside of the wafer. The bottom element is made of materials selected from a group comprising abrasive pads, sand papers, and asbestos.
US11551937B2	Etching method An etching method in accordance with the present disclosure includes providing a substrate, which includes a silicon-containing film, in a chamber; and etching the silicon-containing film with a chemical species in plasma generated from a process gas supplied in the chamber. The process gas includes a phosphorus gas component and a fluorine gas component.
US11551936B2	Self-healing polishing pad Provided herein are polishing pads in which microcapsules that include a polymer material and are dispersed, as well as methods of making and using the same. Such microcapsules are configured to break open (e.g., when the polishing pad is damaged during the dressing process), which releases the polymer material. When contacted with ultraviolet light the polymer material at least partially cures, healing the damage to the polishing pad. Such polishing pads have a longer lifetime and a more stable remove rate when compared to standard polishing pads.
US11551925B2	Method for manufacturing a semiconductor device A substrate processing method with an improved etch selectivity includes: a first operation for forming a film on a stepped structure having a top surface, a bottom surface, and a side surface connecting the top surface and the bottom surface, wherein a first atmosphere is set to reduce a mean free path of plasma ions and to cause the plasma ions to have no directionality; and a second operation for changing a bonding structure of a portion of the film, wherein a second atmosphere is set to cause the plasma ions to have directionality, wherein the first operation is repeated a plurality of times, the second operation is performed for a predetermined time period, the first operation and the second operation form a group cycle, and the group cycle is repeated by a plurality of times.
US11551916B2	Sheath and temperature control of a process kit in a substrate processing chamber Embodiments of substrate supports are provided herein. In some embodiments, a substrate support for use in a substrate processing chamber includes a ceramic plate having a first side configured to support a substrate and a second side opposite the first side, wherein the ceramic plate includes an electrode embedded in the ceramic plate; a ceramic ring disposed about the ceramic plate and having a first side and a second side opposite the first side, wherein the ceramic ring includes a chucking electrode and a heating element embedded in the ceramic ring; and a cooling plate coupled to the second side of the ceramic plate and the second side of the ceramic ring, wherein the cooling plate includes a radially inner portion, a radially outer portion, and a thermal break disposed therebetween.
US11551913B2	Substrate processing apparatus The present inventive concept relates to a substrate treatment apparatus comprising: a support part for supporting a substrate; a first electrode part disposed above the support part; a second electrode part disposed above the first electrode part; a generation hole formed to extend through the first electrode part; and a protruding electrode coupled to the second electrode part while protruding downward from the second electrode part at a position corresponding to the generation hole, wherein the protruding electrode is formed to have a shorter length than the first electrode part in the vertical direction.
US11551911B2	Grounding cap module, gas injection device and etching apparatus A grounding cap module includes a main body, a frame portion, and a cap portion. The main body includes a first opening penetrating the main body and a grounding portion disposed on a periphery of the main body and configured to be electrically grounded. The frame portion is disposed on the main body and includes a second opening aligned with the first opening. The cap portion is disposed on the frame portion and covers the second opening, wherein the first opening, the second opening and the cap portion define a receiving cavity. A gas injection device and an etching apparatus using the same are also provided.
US11551905B2	Resonant process monitor Embodiments described herein include a resonant process monitor and methods of forming such a resonant process monitor. In an embodiment, the resonant process monitor includes a frame that has a first opening and a second opening. In an embodiment, a resonant body seals the first opening of the frame. In an embodiment, a first electrode on a first surface of the resonant body contacts the frame and a second electrode is on a second surface of the resonant body. Embodiments also include a back plate that seals the second opening of the frame. In an embodiment the back plate is mechanically coupled to the frame, and the resonant body, the back plate, and interior surfaces of the frame define a cavity.
US11551904B2	System and technique for profile modulation using high tilt angles A system and method that allows higher energy implants to be performed, wherein the peak concentration depth is shallower than would otherwise occur is disclosed. The system comprises an ion source, an accelerator, a platen and a platen orientation motor that allows large tilt angles. The system may be capable of performing implants of hydrogen ions at an implant energy of up to 5 MeV. By tilting the workpiece during an implant, the system can be used to perform implants that are typically performed at implant energies that are less than the minimum implant energy allowed by the system. Additionally, the resistivity profile of the workpiece after thermal treatment is similar to that achieved using a lower energy implant. In certain embodiments, the peak concentration depth may be reduced by 3 μm or more using larger tilt angles.
US11551903B2	Devices and methods for dissipating heat from an anode of an x-ray tube assembly An X-ray tube with an anode assembly and specially designed heat transfer element is described. The anode assembly includes an X-ray producing target and a substantially cylindrical electrode that stops or inhibits electrons that may back-scatter from the target. At least one heat transfer element is positioned proximate the anode assembly and in the region between a conducting enclosure and a non-conducting hollow housing or tube. The heat transfer element is positioned to thermally couple the hot anode assembly to an air-cooled conducting enclosure while maintaining an electric isolation.
US11551898B2	Switching device A switching device is disclosed. In an embodiment a switching device includes at least one stationary contact and a movable contact in a switching chamber configured to contain a gas containing H2, wherein the movable contact is movable by a magnetic armature with a shaft, wherein the shaft projects through an opening in a yoke which is part of a magnetic circuit, and wherein a liner composed of a plastic is arranged in the opening of the yoke, the liner configured to guide the shaft.
US11551895B2	Breaker, safety circuit and secondary battery pack The breaker is provided with a fixed contact, a movable piece having an elastic portion and a movable contact, a thermally-actuated element deforming with a change in the temperature so as to shift the movable piece from a conduction state to a cut-off state, a case main body housing the movable piece and the thermally-actuated element, a lid member attached to the case main body, and a plate-shaped cover piece embedded in the lid member. The case main body is provided with a first fixing surface fixed to the lid member, and the lid member is provided with a second fixing surface fixed to the case main body. The second fixing surface is provided with a protruding portion protruding toward the first fixing surface, and the protruding portion and the cover piece are overlapped with each other in the plan view as viewed in the thickness direction of the cover piece.
US11551887B2	Key structure and keyboard A key structure including a base, a light sensing module, a carrier, a magnetic member, a cap, and a scissor structure are provided. The light sensing module is disposed at the base. The carrier is located above the base. The magnetic member is disposed on the carrier. The cap is adapted to be assembled to the carrier via a magnetic attracting force of the magnetic member or adapted to be detached from the carrier via overcoming the magnetic attracting force of the magnetic member. The scissor structure is connected between the base and the carrier. The carrier and the cap disposed thereon move up and down relative to the base via the scissor structure. An orthogonal projection of the magnetic member on the base is not overlapped with an orthogonal projection of the light sensing module on the base. A keyboard is also provided.
US11551885B2	Flexible circuit breaker A flexible circuit breaker includes at least two semiconductor switches, at least one input and at least two outputs. Each of the at least two semiconductor switches can carry a defined current, and each of the at least two semiconductor switches is monitored individually in relation to the current flowing therethrough, the first output is assigned to a first semiconductor switch, where by a selection using a selection device on the flexible circuit breaker, one can select whether the current flowing through a second semiconductor switch is assigned to the second output or the first output.
US11551873B2	Method of producing a multi-layer ceramic electronic component A method of producing a multi-layer ceramic electronic component includes: producing a multi-layer unit including ceramic layers that are laminated in a first direction, internal electrodes that are disposed between the ceramic layers, and a side surface that faces in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, the internal electrodes being exposed on the side surface; sintering the multi-layer unit; and forming a side margin on the side surface of the sintered multi-layer unit.
US11551867B2	Dielectric composition, dielectric thin film, dielectric element, and electronic circuit board The present invention provides a dielectric composition having high relative permittivity and insulation resistance at high temperature. The dielectric composition includes a main component expressed by a compositional formula (Sr1-x, Cax)m(Ti1-yHfy)O3-δNδ, in which 0
US11551866B2	Multilayer ceramic capacitor and method of manufacturing the same A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes: a ceramic body including dielectric layers and having first and second surfaces opposing each other; a plurality of internal electrodes disposed in the ceramic body; and first and second side margin portions disposed on end portions of the internal electrodes exposed to the first and second surfaces, wherein the ceramic body includes an active portion, and cover portions disposed on upper and lower surfaces of the active portion, each of the first and second side margin portions is divided into a first region and a second region, each of the cover portions is divided into a first region and a second region, and contents of magnesium (Mg) contained in the second regions of the cover portions and the first and second side margin portions are larger than those of magnesium (Mg) contained in the first regions thereof, respectively.
US11551864B2	Capacitor and capacitor module According to one embodiment, a capacitor includes a conductive substrate, a conductive layer, a dielectric layer, and first and second external electrodes. The conductive substrate has a first main surface provided with recess(s), a second main surface, and an end face extending between edges of the first and second main surfaces. The conductive layer covers the first main surface and side walls and bottom surfaces of the recess(s). The dielectric layer is interposed between the conductive substrate and the conductive layer. The first external electrode includes a first electrode portion facing the end face and is electrically connected to the conductive layer. The second external electrode includes a second electrode portion facing the end face and is electrically connected to the conductive substrate.
US11551858B2	Distribution transformer system and methods thereof This disclosure relates to monitoring operational parameters of a distribution transformer and an associated surge arrester, and methods of retrofitting the distribution transformer with a transformer parameter monitoring (TPM) system. The TPM system can include a plurality of sensors. A subset of the plurality of sensors can be configured to monitor one or more physical properties of a distribution transformer, and another subset of the plurality of sensors can be configured to monitor a surge arrester associated with the distribution transformer. The TPM system can further include a controller that can be configured to receive captured sensor data from the plurality of sensors, and a communications interface that can be configured to communicate the captured sensor data to a remote system for evaluation thereof to determine one or more operational parameters of the distribution transformer and an amount of deterioration of the surge arrester.
US11551857B2	Shielded magnetic device and the method to make the same At least one shielding layer made of conductive material is formed on a body of a magnetic device to prevent magnetic fields from leaking to the outside of the magnetic device so as to reduce EMI and the size of the magnetic device.
US11551854B2	Method for manufacturing a three-phase AC reactor having external connection position change unit A three-phase AC reactor according to an embodiment of the present invention includes three-phase coils that are not arranged in parallel, an input and output terminal block having an input and output unit having a parallel arrangement, and an external connection position change unit disposed between a coil end of each of the three-phase coils and the input and output terminal block to connect the coil end to the input and output terminal block.
US11551852B2	Coil component A multilayer coil component including an element assembly that includes an insulator portion and a coil embedded in the insulator portion and composed of a plurality of coil conductors electrically connected to each other, an extension portion disposed at each end portion of the coil, and an outer electrode disposed on the surface of the insulator portion and electrically connected to the extension portion. The thickness of the coil conductor in the extension portion of the coil is about 1.05 times or more and 2.0 times or less (i.e., from about 1.05 times to 2.0 times) the thickness of the coil conductor in a winding portion of the coil.
US11551846B2	Multilayer coil component A coil is disposed in an element body such that a gap between the coil and a first principal surface is larger than a gap between the coil and a second principal surface, and has a coil axis along a direction intersecting with a direction in which the first principal surface and the second principal surface oppose each other. A terminal electrode is disposed on the element body such that at least a part of the first principal surface and a part of the second principal surface are exposed. The coil includes a plurality of coil conductors separated from each other in a direction along the coil axis and a through-hole conductor connecting the coil conductors adjacent to each other in the direction along the coil axis. The through-hole conductor does not overlap the plurality of terminal electrodes when viewed from the direction along the coil axis.
US11551845B2	Multilayer coil component A multilayer coil component includes a multilayer body formed by stacking a plurality of insulating layers and including a coil built therein, and first and second outer electrodes electrically connected to the coil. The coil is formed by electrically connecting a plurality of coil conductors stacked together with the insulating layers. The multilayer coil component further includes, inside the multilayer body, first and second connecting conductors. The first connecting conductor connects between a portion of the first outer electrode covering the first end face, and a coil conductor facing the portion. The second connecting conductor connects between a portion of the second outer electrode covering the second end face, and a coil conductor facing the portion. Concerning the length direction, the first and second connecting conductors each have a length from about 2.5% to about 7.5% of the length of the multilayer body.
US11551838B2	Grain-oriented electrical steel sheet A grain-oriented electrical steel sheet according to the present invention has a steel sheet surface provided with grooves. An average protrusion height of the surface protrusion extending along a longitudinal direction of the groove is more than 5 μm and not more than 10 μm. When the surface protrusion is viewed in a cross section including the longitudinal direction of the groove and a normal direction of the steel sheet surface, the surface protrusion includes specific portions each having a height of 50% or more with respect to a height of each peak point appearing on a profile line of the surface protrusion. In the longitudinal direction of the groove, the total length of the specific portions is a length of 30% or more with respect to an overall length of the surface protrusion.
US11551832B2	Superconductor wire based on MgB2 core with AI based sheath and method of its production The sheath (3) is a material, which includes an aluminium (Al) matrix, in which nanometric aluminium oxide particles (Al2O3) are homogenously dispersed, the content of Al2O3 is 0.25 to 5 vol. % and the balance is Al. It is preferred that Al2O3 originates from the surface layer present on Al powder used as feedstock material for consolidation. The superconductor based on magnesium diboride (MgB2) core (1) is fabricated by powder-in-tube or internal magnesium diffusion to boron technology, while the tube is the Al+Al2O3 composite, which is a product of powder metallurgy. A loose Al powder is pressed by cold isostatic pressing, and then the powder billet is degassed at elevated temperature and under vacuum, and then is hot extruded into a tube. A thin diffusion barrier (2) tube filled up with a mixture of Mg and B powders or Mg wire surrounded with B powder is placed into the Al+Al2O3 composite tube under inert gas or vacuum. Such composite unit is cold worked into a thin wire and then annealed at 625-655° C. for 8-90 min, what results in a formation superconducting MgB2 in a wire's core (1).
US11551829B2	Electronic device The disclosure provides an electronic device. The electronic device includes a stretchable substrate, a plurality of electronic elements, and at least one connection element. The electronic elements and the connection element are disposed on the stretchable substrate. The connection element is disposed between two adjacent electronic elements, and the two adjacent electronic elements are electrically connected to each other via the connection element. Each electronic element may include at least one functional unit and an electrode, wherein the electrode is in direct contact with the functional unit. The connecting element includes at least one stretchable conductive unit and at least one buffer conductive unit, wherein the buffer conductive unit contacts the electrode, and the stretchable conductive unit is electrically connected to the electrode through the buffer conductive unit. The yield strain of the stretchable conductive unit is greater than the yield strain of the buffer conductive unit.
US11551827B2	Perfluorinated 1-alkoxypropenes in dielectric fluids and electrical devices A dielectric fluid (i.e., dielectric composition) that includes a perfluorinated 1-alkoxypropene compound represented by the following general Formula (I): RfO—CF═CFCF3 wherein Rf is CF3— or CF3CF2—. Such dielectric fluids may be useful in various electrical devices.
US11551822B2	Grain boundary enhanced UN and U3Si2 pellets with improved oxidation resistance A method of forming a water resistant boundary on a fissile material for use in a water cooled nuclear reactor is described. The method comprises mixing a powdered fissile material selected from the group consisting of UN and U3Si2 with an additive selected from oxidation resistant materials having a melting or softening point lower than the sintering temperature of the fissile material, pressing the mixed fissile and additive materials into a pellet, sintering the pellet to a temperature greater than the melting point of the additive. Alternatively, if the melting point of the oxidation resistant particles is greater than the sintering temperature of UN or U3Si2, then the oxidation resistant particles can have a particle size distribution less than that of the UN or U3Si2.
US11551821B2	Target irradiation systems for the production of radioisotopes A target irradiation system for irradiating a radioisotope target in a vessel penetration of a fission reactor, includes a target delivery assembly with a body defining a central bore, a basket that is slidably receivable within the central bore of the body, and a winch that is connected to the basket by a cable. The target delivery assembly is affixed to the vessel penetration of the reactor; and a target passage is in fluid communication with the target delivery assembly. The basket is configured to receive a radioisotope target therein via the target passage and be lowered into the vessel penetration of the reactor when irradiating the radioisotope target. The target delivery system forms a portion of the pressure boundary of the reactor when in fluid communication with the reactor.
US11551817B2	Assessing unreliability of clinical risk prediction Aspects of the invention include includes identifying a respective estimated clinical risk score for each of a first group of patients and a second group of patients. An alternative probability estimate is generated using a same set of inputs used to determine each respective estimated clinical risk score. An unreliability of a patient's clinical risk score is determined based at least in part on a feature of the patient and on a difference between the alternative probability estimate and the determined respective estimated clinical risk score.
US11551806B2	Systems and methods for integrating communications in a healthcare network An electronic healthcare system for delivering medical services is described. The electronic healthcare systems can includes modules for accessing patient electronic medical records and ordering medical services, which involve HL7 communications between disparate healthcare organizations. The communications can involve custom communication interfaces which are used to parse and translate HL7 messages. Methods and apparatus are described for generating the custom communications interfaces. In one embodiment, the custom communication interfaces can be generated using machine learning algorithms trained to recognize various data types in message segments contained in HL7 messages.
US11551795B2	AI-based multi-label heat map generating system and methods for use therewith A multi-label heat map generating system is operable to receive a plurality of medical scans and a corresponding plurality of global labels that each correspond to one of a set of abnormality classes. A computer vision model is generated by training on the medical scans and the global labels. Probability matrix data, which includes a set of image patch probability values that each indicate a probability that a corresponding one of the set of abnormality classes is present in each of a set of image patches, is generated by performing an inference function that utilizes the computer vision model on a new medical scan. Heat map visualization data can be generated for transmission to a client device based on the probability matrix data that indicates, for each of the set of abnormality classes, a color value for each pixel of the new medical scan.
US11551794B1	Systems and methods for analyzing longitudinal health information and generating a dynamically structured electronic file A method for generating an electronic file associated with health care professionals (HCPs). The method includes receiving health information from a covered entity computing system and a file generation request from a user computing device. The method further includes matching HCP information with the health information and determining one or more statistical values based on at least one of the matched HCP information or the matched health information. The method further includes generating the electronic file including the one or more statistical values and at least a portion of the matched HCP information and providing the file to the destination address of the file generation request. The electronic file is generated as the file type identified by the file generation request, and is structured based on at least one of the file generation request or the file destination.
US11551793B2	Systems and methods for optimizing management of patients with medical devices and monitoring compliance Systems and methods for determining monitoring compliance are provided. Each element in a plurality of data elements is obtained from a medical device connected to a corresponding subject in a first plurality of subjects and interrogated to determine a condition of the device or subject. A medical code and timestamp for evaluation of the device or subject is recorded in the subject's medical record. A determination is made for each epoch in a plurality of epochs, for each subject in a second plurality of subjects, whether the medical code is recorded in the subject's medical record for the epoch by evaluating the time stamps and codes in the medical records. A compliance counter is advanced when a medical record includes the code for a respective epoch and otherwise a noncompliance counter is advanced. Responsive to a compliance request, compliance information or suggested treatment options are provided based on the counters.
US11551788B2	Information processing system, information processing method, and program An information processing system includes: a sample data acquisition unit that acquires, for each sample, sample data in which a first cluster and a second cluster are associated with each other, the first cluster including a plurality of sets of a biological element detected from the sample and a biological element quantity indicating a quantity of the biological element, the second cluster including a plurality of sets of a morpheme regarding text describing an environment in which the sample is present and an appearance frequency of the morpheme; and a generation unit that analyzes a plurality of pieces of the sample data with the biological element quantity and the appearance frequency as parameters and generates information indicating a relationship between the environment and the first cluster.
US11551776B2	Memory device and memory system including the same A memory device includes a memory cell array including memory cells arranged in a plurality of rows; an ECC engine configured to detect an error in first data that is read from the memory cell array in response to a read command and a read address, to output a first error occurrence signal, and to correct the error in the first data; a row fail detector configured to output a fail row address, which indicates a fail row among the plurality of rows; and a flag generator configured to receive the read address, the first error occurrence signal, and the fail row address, and to generate a decoding state flag, which indicates whether an error is detected and whether an error is corrected, and a fail row flag, which indicates that a read row address included in the read address is the fail row address.
US11551772B2	Performing a decoding operation to simulate switching a bit of an identified set of bits of a data block A set of bits of a segment of a memory device that is associated with an unsuccessful first decoding operation can be identified. A discrepancy value for at least one bit of the set of bits can be calculated. It can be determined whether the discrepancy value calculated for the at least one bit of the set of bits corresponds to a correction capability of the failed decoding operation. In response to determining that the discrepancy value calculated for the at least one bit corresponds to the correction capability of the failed decoding operation, the at least one bit of the set of bits can be corrected by switching a value of the at least one bit.
US11551769B2	Integrated circuits and methods for dynamic allocation of one-time programmable memory A one-time programmable (OTP) memory has a plurality of pages. A predefined section of each page is configured to store error policy bits. When an indicator in a first predefined location has a first value, the page is configured to store data with error correction code (ECC) bits, and when the indicator has a second value, at least a portion of the page is configured to store data with redundancy. Address translation circuitry is configured to, in response to receiving an access address, use a second predefined location of an accessed page of the plurality of pages accessed by the access address to determine a physical address in the accessed page which corresponds to the access address.
US11551763B2	Semiconductor memory device and method of operating the same A semiconductor memory device includes a precharge block, a select block, a peripheral circuit, and control logic. The precharge block is connected to bit lines and includes memory cells in an erase state. The select block shares the bit lines with the precharge block and includes memory cells in a program state. The peripheral circuit performs erase operation on the select block. The control logic controls the peripheral circuit to turn on a first circuit connected to the precharge block and apply first voltage to global lines connected to the first circuit when erase voltage is applied to a source line commonly connected to the precharge block and the select block. The memory cells of the precharge block are turned on by the first voltage applied from the global lines, and the erase voltage applied to the source line is transferred to the bit lines through the precharge block.
US11551762B2	Memory device and method of operating the same Provided herein may be a memory device capable of completing a foggy-fine program operation in one ready/busy period. The memory device may include a plurality of memory cells configured to form a plurality of pages, a peripheral circuit configured to perform a first program operation on a page adjacent to a selected page among the plurality of pages, and perform a second program operation on the selected page and control logic configured to control the peripheral circuit, during the first program operation, to successively receive least significant bit (LSB) page data, center significant bit (CSB) page data, and most significant bit (MSB) page data from a memory controller, and program the LSB page data to the page adjacent to the selected page and during the second program operation, to program the LSB page data programmed to the page adjacent to the selected page, the CSB page data and the MSB page data to the selected page.
US11551761B1	Non-volatile memory with program skip for edge word line In a non-volatile memory, a block of NAND strings is divided into sub-blocks by etching the select gate layers between sub-blocks. This results in a subset of NAND strings (e.g., at the border of the sub-blocks) having select gates that are partially etched such that the partially etched select gates are partially shaped as compared to the select gates of NAND strings that have not been etched. Host data is programmed to non-volatile memory cells that are connected to an edge word line and are on NAND strings having a complete shaped select gate. Host data is also programmed to non-volatile memory cells that are connected to non-edge word lines. However, host data is not programmed to non-volatile memory cells that are connected to the edge word line and are on NAND strings having a partial shaped select gate.
US11551752B2	Nonvolatile memory apparatus for performing a read operation and a method of operating the same A nonvolatile memory apparatus performs a plurality of read operations by using a plurality of read voltages. A first read operation is performed by applying a first read voltage to a memory cell. A second read operation is selectively performed based on whether a snap-back of the memory cell occurs during the first read operation. The second read operation is performed by applying a second read voltage having a higher voltage level than the first read voltage to the memory cell.
US11551746B2	Apparatuses including memory regions having different access speeds and methods for using the same Apparatuses, systems, and methods for faster memory access regions. A memory array may have a first bank which has a greater access speed than a second bank. For example the first bank may have a reduced read latency compared to the second bank. The first bank may have structural differences, such as reduced word line and/or reduced global input output (GIO) line length. In some embodiments, the first and second bank may have separate bank pad data buses, and data terminals. In some embodiments, they may share the bank pads data bus, and data terminals. In some embodiments, when an access command is received for the first (faster) bank while an access command to the second (slower) bank is still processing, the access to the faster bank may interrupt the access to the slower bank.
US11551745B2	Computation in-memory architecture for analog-to-digital conversion A device includes a comparator to provide an indication of a difference between Vp on a first terminal coupled to a top plate of each of a first group of differential capacitors, and Vn on a second terminal coupled to a top plate of each of a second group of differential capacitors. The device includes a control circuit coupled to the comparator. The control circuit is to receive a first indication of a difference between Vp and Vn; responsive to the first indication, cause a first driver to provide a reference voltage to bottom plates of one of the first and second groups, and cause a second driver to provide a ground voltage to bottom plates of the other of the first and second groups; receive a second indication of a difference between Vp and Vn; and provide a digital value responsive to the first indication and the second indication.
US11551739B2	Dual-precision analog memory cell and array Dual-precision analog memory cells and arrays are provided. In some embodiments, a memory cell, comprises a non-volatile memory element having an input terminal and at least one output terminal; and a volatile memory element having a plurality of input terminals and an output terminal, wherein the output terminal of the volatile memory element is coupled to the input terminal of the non-volatile memory element, and wherein the volatile memory element comprises: a first transistor coupled between a first supply and a common node, and a second transistor coupled between a second supply and the common node; wherein the common node is coupled to the output terminal of the volatile memory element; and wherein gates of the first and second transistors are coupled to respective ones of the plurality of input terminals of the volatile memory element.
US11551729B2	Memory device and an operating method thereof A memory device includes: a first circuit; a second circuit; and an adaptive body bias generator configured to receive frequency detection information or temperature detection information, to apply a first forward body bias or a first reverse body bias to the first circuit in response to the frequency detection information or the temperature detection information, and to apply a second forward body bias or a second reverse body bias to the second circuit in response to the frequency detection information or the temperature detection information.
US11551724B2	System and method for performance-based instant assembling of video clips A system for instant assembly of video clips through user's interactive performance, comprising a device operated by a user, wherein the device comprises: user interface means configured for input and output interaction with the user; a processing unit and a memory configured for the creation of a new video assembled appending a plurality of video clip segments extracted from a plurality of video clips; and an I/O unit configured for access to the plurality of video clips; the user interface means are configured to detect a sequence of manual assembling commands, and to display the plurality of video clip segments, the display order of the video segments being defined by the sequence of manual concatenation commands; the processing unit and the memory are configured to record the appending process of the video segments extracted from a plurality of video clips.
US11551713B2	Base for magnetic recording medium, magnetic recording medium, and magnetic storage apparatus A base for a magnetic recording medium, includes an aluminum alloy substrate, and a nickel alloy film provided on at least one principal surface of the aluminum alloy substrate. The nickel alloy film includes Mo in a range of 0.5 wt % to 3 wt %, P in a range of 11 wt % to 15 wt %, and Fe in a range of 0.0001 wt % to 0.001 wt %.
US11551709B2	End of query detection Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for detecting an end of a query are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of receiving audio data that corresponds to an utterance spoken by a user. The actions further include applying, to the audio data, an end of query model. The actions further include determining the confidence score that reflects a likelihood that the utterance is a complete utterance. The actions further include comparing the confidence score that reflects the likelihood that the utterance is a complete utterance to a confidence score threshold. The actions further include determining whether the utterance is likely complete or likely incomplete. The actions further include providing, for output, an instruction to (i) maintain a microphone that is receiving the utterance in an active state or (ii) deactivate the microphone that is receiving the utterance.
US11551699B2	Voice input authentication device and method Provided are a method of authenticating a voice input provided from a user and a method of detecting a voice input having a strong attack tendency. The voice input authentication method includes: receiving the voice input; obtaining, from the voice input, signal characteristic data representing signal characteristics of the voice input; and authenticating the voice input by applying the obtained signal characteristic data to a first learning model configured to determine an attribute of the voice input, wherein the first learning model is trained to determine the attribute of the voice input based on a voice uttered by a person and a voice output by an apparatus.
US11551689B2	Voice command execution Embodiments of the present invention provide a computer system a computer program product, and a method that comprises analyzing a received voice command by identifying a plurality of contextual factors associated with at least one user in a plurality of users using a natural language processing algorithm; dynamically identifying the at least one user in the plurality of users based on an analysis of the identified contextual factors associated with the received voice command; transmitting the received voice command to another computing device within a plurality of computing devices associated with another user in the plurality of users; and generating a line of communication between the plurality of computing devices based on a correlation between a summation of a plurality of security factors and a predetermined threshold of risk associated with authenticating an identity of each user within the plurality of users.
US11551688B1	Wearable speech input-based vision to audio interpreter An eyewear device with camera-based compensation that improves the user experience for user's having partial blindness or complete blindness. The camera-based compensation determines features, such as objects, and then converts the determined objects to audio that is indicative of the objects and that is perceptible to the eyewear user. The camera-based compensation may use a region-based convolutional neural network (RCNN) to generate a feature map including text that is indicative of objects in images captured by a camera. The feature map is then processed through a speech to audio algorithm featuring a natural language processor to generate audio indicative of the objects in the processed images.
US11551682B2	Method of performing function of electronic device and electronic device using same An electronic device includes: a camera; a microphone; a display; a memory; and a processor configured to receive an input for activating an intelligent agent service from a user while at least one application is executed, identify context information of the electronic device, control to acquire image information of the user through the camera, based on the identified context information, detect movement of a user's lips included in the acquired image information to recognize a speech of the user, and perform a function corresponding to the recognized speech.
US11551681B1	Natural language processing routing Devices and techniques are generally described for a speech processing routing architecture. In various examples, first data comprising a first feature definition is received. The first feature definition may include a first indication of first source data and first instructions for generating feature data using the first source data. In various examples, the feature data may be generated according to the first feature definition. In some examples, a speech processing system may receive a first request to process a first utterance. The feature data may be retrieved from a non-transitory computer-readable memory. The speech processing system may determine a first skill for processing the first utterance based at least in part on the feature data.
US11551679B2	Multimodal dialog in a motor vehicle A method for carrying out a multimodal dialog in a vehicle, in particular a motor vehicle, via which method the interaction between the vehicle and a vehicle user is improved with regard to the provision of a dialog that is as natural as possible. For this purpose, the following acts are performed: sensing an input of a vehicle user for activating a voice dialog and activating gesture recognition.
US11551676B2	Techniques for dialog processing using contextual data Techniques are described for using data stored for a user in association with context levels to improve the efficiency and accuracy of dialog processing tasks. A dialog system stores historical dialog data in association with a plurality of configured context levels. The dialog system receives an utterance and identifies a term for disambiguation from the utterance. Based on a determined context level, the dialog system identifies relevant historical data stored to a database. The historical data may be used to perform tasks such as resolving an ambiguity based on user preferences, disambiguating named entities based on a prior dialog, and identifying previously generated answers to queries. Based on the context level, the dialog system can efficiently identify the relevant information and use the identified information to provide a response.
US11551669B2	Locally distributed keyword detection In one aspect, a playback device includes a command-keyword engine having a local natural language unit (NLU). The playback device detects, via the command-keyword engine, a first command keyword in voice input of sound detected by one or more microphones of the playback device. The playback device determines whether the sound input data includes a keyword from a first predetermined library of keywords via a local natural language unit (NLU). The playback device transmits the input sound data to a second playback device over a local area network, the second playback device employing a second local NLU with a second predetermined library of keywords. The playback device receives a response from the second playback device and performs an action based on an intent determined by at least one of the first NLU or the second NLU according to the keywords in the voice input.
US11551668B1	Generating representations of speech signals using self-supervised learning In one embodiment, a method includes generating audio segments from a speech signal, generating latent representations that respectively correspond to the audio segments, the latent representations comprising a first subset and a second subset, generating quantized representations that respectively correspond to the latent representations, masking the second subset of the latent representations, using a machine-learning model to process the first subset of the latent representations and the masked second subset of the latent representations to generate contextualized representations that respectively correspond to the latent representations, pre-training the machine-learning model based on comparisons between (1) a subset of the contextualized representations that respectively correspond to the masked second subset of the latent representations and (2) a subset of the quantized representations that respectively correspond to the masked second subset of the latent representations, and training the pre-trained machine-learning model to perform a speech analysis task.
US11551667B2	Learning device and method for updating a parameter of a speech recognition model A learning device (10) includes a feature extracting unit (11) that extracts features of speech from speech data for training, a probability calculating unit (12) that, on the basis of the features of speech, performs prefix searching using a speech recognition model of which a neural network is representative, and calculates a posterior probability of a recognition character string to obtain a plurality of hypothetical character strings, an error calculating unit (13) that calculates an error by word error rates of the plurality of hypothetical character strings and a correct character string for training, and obtains a parameter for the entire model that minimizes an expected value of summation of loss in the word error rates, and an updating unit (14) that updates a parameter of the model in accordance with the parameter obtained by the error calculating unit (13).
US11551660B1	Management of background noise within a passenger cabin of a vehicle Techniques are described in which sensor data is used to determine one or more of background noise or occupancy associated with a passenger cabin of a vehicle. The sensor data, in turn, is used to determine an operating state for one or more components of the vehicle (e.g., pumps, compressors, fans, blowers, etc.) such that an amount of background noise within the passenger cabin is reduced (e.g., when a passenger/occupant is present). In various examples, the operating state of the component may operate in a different, though louder, state (e.g., higher efficiency, greater power, etc.) when an occupant is not present or proximate the component.
US11551642B2	Display driving circuit and operating method of the same A display driving circuit according to an example embodiment of the inventive concept is disclosed. A display driving circuit may include an interface configured to receive a synchronization packet and image data from the outside; a memory configured to receive the image data from the interface in the command mode; a synchronization controller configured to receive the synchronization packet and generate a flag control signal and an internal synchronization signal; a flag generator configured to generate a first flag signal and a second flag signal; and an image controller configured to receive the image data from the memory in the command mode, receive the image data from the interface in the video mode, wherein the synchronization controller is configured to calculate a delay time between a generation time of the first flag signal and a reception time of the synchronization packet, and is configured to adjust a generation time of the second flag signal.
US11551641B2	Display apparatus and display method A display apparatus includes a luminance controller that controls a luminance of a displayed video, a gamma controller that applies a gamma curve to a video signal, and a display that displays a video represented by the video signal that the gamma controller has applied the gamma curve to. If the luminance controller causes the display to display the video at a luminance value lower than a predetermined luminance value, the gamma controller applies to the video signal a gamma curve with a lower gradation region raised more than a gamma curve represented by a predetermined constant gamma coefficient.
US11551634B1	Life extension for pixels associated with a camera under display A processor-based device with a display unit, such as a smart phone, identifies pixels associated with a camera under the display screen. The device also identifies a condition in which the pixels associated with the camera under the display screen can be dimmed or turned off. The device then dims or turns off the pixels associated with the camera under display based on the condition.
US11551633B2	Directional display method and apparatus for audio device and audio device The present disclosure discloses a method and apparatus for directional display of an audio device, and an audio device. The audio device according to the present disclosure includes a display screen whose position is adjustable, and the method according to the present disclosure includes, by using a spherical camera array, determining a spatial position of a user; according to a relation among the spatial position of the user, a center position of the audio device and a center position of the display screen, determining a horizontal compensation angle and a vertical compensation angle of a display direction of the display screen relative to the spatial position of the user; and adjusting the display direction of the display screen, to cause the horizontal compensation angle and the vertical compensation angle to be zero.
US11551629B2	Active matrix substrate, liquid crystal display device, and organic EL display device According to an embodiment of the present invention, an active matrix substrate (100) includes a display region (DR) defined by a plurality of pixel regions (P) arranged in a matrix and a peripheral region (FR) located around the display region. The active matrix substrate includes a substrate (1), a first TFT (10), and a second TFT (20). The first TFT is supported by the substrate and disposed in the peripheral region. The second TFT is supported by the substrate and disposed in the display region. The first TFT includes a crystalline silicon semiconductor layer (11), which is an active layer. The second TFT includes an oxide semiconductor layer (21), which is an active layer. The first TFT and the second TFT each have a top-gate structure.
US11551626B2	Electronic paper display device and operation method thereof An electronic paper display device and an operation method thereof are provided. The electronic paper display device includes an electronic paper display panel and a timing controller. The timing controller includes a first image buffer memory, a second image buffer memory, and an update buffer memory. The timing controller receives a touch track data. The first image buffer memory and the second image buffer memory are a ping-pong buffer architecture, and receive a video stream in staggered timing. The second image buffer memory receives the touch track data and simultaneously updates a current display screen data stored in the update buffer memory when the first image buffer memory receives the video stream to update the current display screen data into the update buffer memory. The timing controller drives the electronic paper display panel according to the current display screen data.
US11551625B1	Reflective, transmissive, and transflective static programmable exhibits and methods for using same According to one embodiment, a color changing display includes a housing, a cover cooperatively coupled to the housing, a light panel, and a color display panel. The light panel and the color display panel are positioned between the housing and the cover. The light panel and the colored display panel are each selectively activated to operate in at least one of: a reflective mode, a transmissive mode, and a transflective mode.
US11551620B2	Gate driver circuit and display device including the same A gate driver circuit can include a plurality of stage circuits, in which each of the plurality of stage circuits supplies a gate signal to gate lines arranged in a display panel, and includes an M node, a Q1 node, a Q2 node, a QB node, a line selector, a Q1 node controller, a Q1 node stabilizer, an inverter, a QB node stabilizer, a carry signal output circuit portion, and a gate signal output circuit portion, in which a first low-potential voltage level, a third low-potential voltage level, and a fourth low-potential voltage level for operating the gate driver circuit are set to different values, and the gate driver circuit can have a reduced size and better prevent leakage current while also providing more stable gate signals.
US11551617B2	Display device, electronic device, and driving method of display device Provided is a display device including a driving transistor, a switching unit, and a control unit. The driving transistor includes a control terminal, a first terminal, and a second terminal, and controls supply of current to a light emitting element, which is connected to the first terminal and emits light in accordance with the current amount, in accordance with a signal voltage applied to the control terminal. The switching unit can switch a conduction and non-conduction state, and, by being brought in the conduction state, forms a path that bypasses the light emitting element so that the current is not supplied to the light emitting element. The control unit performs control so that the switching unit is brought in the non-conduction state after the signal voltage is written into the control terminal, and controls a potential of the control terminal in synchronization with the control of the switching unit.
US11551611B2	Pixel circuit and organic light emitting display device including i he same A pixel circuit includes an organic light emitting element, a switching transistor configured to be turned on or off in response to a scan signal, a storage capacitor configured to store a data signal applied through a data line when the switching transistor is turned on, a driving transistor configured to allow a driving current corresponding to the data signal stored in the storage capacitor to flow into the organic light emitting element, and an emission control transistor implemented by an oxide thin film transistor, connected in series to the organic light emitting element and the driving transistor between a high power voltage and a low power voltage, and configured to be turned on or off in response to an emission control signal. The pixel circuit performs a back-biasing operation that compensates for a change in a threshold voltage of the emission control transistor by applying a back-biasing voltage to the emission control transistor.
US11551609B2	Array substrate and display device The present disclosure provides an array substrate and a display device. The array substrate includes: a base substrate, a plurality of sub-pixels, a plurality of data lines, a plurality of first power lines, a plurality of data line leads; and the array substrate further includes: a plurality of selector switches; a plurality of data signal input lines, at a side of the plurality of selector switches away from the display region, each of at least a part of the plurality of selector switches being connected to one data signal input line; a first power bus, at a side of the plurality of selector switches away from the display region; and a plurality of connecting portions, connected to the first power bus and the plurality of first power lines, the plurality of connecting portions extending towards the display region along regions between the plurality of selector switches.
US11551608B2	Driver circuit, light-emitting panel and preparation method thereof, and display device Provided are a driver circuit, a light-emitting panel and a preparation method thereof, and a display device. The driver circuit includes a terminal connection module, a drive module, and a short-circuit protection module. The terminal connection module, the drive module, and the short-circuit protection module are connected in series between a first power supply terminal and a second power supply terminal, and the short-circuit protection module is connected in series between the terminal connection module and the second power supply terminal. The terminal connection module is connected to an original light-emitting unit so that the original light-emitting unit is connected in series between the first power supply terminal and the second power supply terminal. The short-circuit protection module is configured to be disconnected in a case where the original light-emitting unit is short-circuited.
US11551594B2	Display panel and display device having reinforcing layer under protective layer corresponding to non-display area A display panel and a display device are provided. The display panel includes a module layer and a protective layer, a stiffness of the protective layer corresponding to a non-display area of the display panel is greater than a stiffness of the protective layer corresponding to a display area, and the display panel is further provided with a reinforcing layer in the non-display area at a same time. The present disclosure can effectively support the protective layer in the non-display area and prevent dents of the display panel by the reinforcing layer, thereby improving reliability and quality of the display panel.
US11551584B2	Polyester film and flexible display apparatus comprising same In the polyester film according to an embodiment, the strain with respect to tensile load and the crystallinity are adjusted to specific ranges, whereby it is possible to achieve the flexibility that does not cause deformation even when a certain load is sustained for a long period of time and the resistant characteristics to the impact of external pressing. Accordingly, the polyester film can be applied to a cover of a flexible display device, in particular, a foldable display device to exhibit excellent characteristics.
US11551581B2	Automatic injection training device The present invention relates to an automatic injection training device comprising an elongated housing having a distal end and an opposite proximal end and extending along a longitudinally axis (L); a tubular demo container axially and rotationally fixed relative to the elongated housing and having a tubular wall extending along the longitudinally axis (L); a reloadable plunger assembly comprising a plunger rod which is movable in the demo container between a first and a second position and a first energy accumulating element configured to move the plunger rod from the first to the second position; an actuation assembly configured to hold the plunger rod in the first position and to release the plunger rod from the first position. The invention is characterized in that the device further comprises a first signal generating element releasably connected to the plunger rod and a second signal generating element fixedly connected to the plunger rod, and wherein each signal generating element is configured to interact independently from each other for generating audible feedback signals.
US11551576B2	Braille reference card for remote control A braille reference card for a remote control is provided. The braille reference card includes a base that includes a plurality of regions. Each region of the plurality of regions includes at least one of a surface projection or at least one braille embossed character set of a plurality of braille embossed character sets. A position of the surface projection corresponds to a position of a button on the remote control. The at least one braille embossed character set is one of adjacent to the surface projection or on the surface projection. The at least one braille embossed character set indicates a functionality of the button that corresponds to the position of the surface projection. A surface area of the base is larger than a surface area of the button layout of the remote control. The at least one region corresponds to a multi-function button on the remote control.
US11551575B1	Intelligent cooking process flow Techniques related to promoting consistent cooking event outcomes are disclosed. Natural language processing (NLP) is used to promote the consistent cooking event outcomes. Data is acquired from a sensor that is monitoring a cooking preparation area. Based on the data, an event is identified. The event is modeled using NLP, which then predicts a subsequent event that will likely occur in the cooking preparation area. NLP is also used to select a recipe. A list of instructions included in the selected recipe are displayed in a user interface.
US11551573B2	Smart booklet with integrated behavior incentivization and tracking features A method of configuring a smart booklet to encourage adherence to a treatment and/or educational program is disclosed, wherein the smart booklet is “off the grid” (e.g., not connected to an electrical or networking grid) and includes an integrated behavior incentivization feature. Based on an activation of a detection feature of the smart booklet, it is detected whether a state of one or more pages of the smart booklet has changed. Based on the determination that the state of the one or more pages has changed, a set of data items pertaining to the adherence to the treatment and/or educational program is created or updated. Based on an identification that the set of data items is indicative of a failure or a success with respect to the adherence to the treatment program, a message pertaining to the failure or the success is communicated via an output component of the smart booklet (e.g., to encourage the adherence to the treatment and/or educational program).
US11551571B2	System and method for managing innovation challenges A system for managing innovation challenges includes a computing apparatus having a processor and a memory with computer readable program code, wherein the processor under control of the computer readable program code is configured to implement, a content management system that operates to automatically generate an innovation challenge for students based on a common template that includes student eligibility requirements, a user management system that operates to collect user information, obtains parental or guardian consent, and determines individual student eligibility for specific innovation challenges, a submission management system that operates to automate ingestion, display, storage, and judging of challenge entry submissions, and a dashboard display that operates to manage innovation challenge participation.
US11551570B2	Systems and methods for assessing and improving student competencies A skills learning method for a student gathers objective data relating to the student in response to various stimuli, and produces a predicted feedback units as a function of the objective data using a machine learning-base classifier. The method can include training a neural network using objective data of student interactions and associated subjective assessments of a skill of each objective data. The method includes receiving a new dataset with objective data of a new student and an associated subjective assessment of a skill of the first student represented by the new objective data. A predicted assessment of the skill of the new objective data is calculated by inputting the new objective data into the neural network. The method can include updating the neural network by combining the initial dataset and the new dataset and recompiling the neural network to fit the model dataset based on a learning algorithm.
US11551568B2	System and method for dual mode presentation of content in a target language to improve listening fluency in the target language Embodiments of a language learning system and method for implementing or assisting in self-study for improving listening fluency in a target language are disclosed. Such embodiments may simultaneously present the same piece of content in an auditory presentation and a corresponding visual presentation of a transcript of the auditory presentation, where the two presentations are adapted to work in tandem to increase the effectiveness of language learning for users.
US11551566B2	Positional synchronization of taxiing aircraft with ground support systems Apparatus and associated methods relate to synchronization of a ground support vehicle with a taxiing aircraft, so as to provide ground support services during taxi operation. After landing, a taxiing aircraft obtains a parking destination from a ground traffic controller. A first navigational route from a first location of the taxiing aircraft to the parking destination is determined. The taxiing aircraft transmits a signal indicative of the first navigational route to the ground support vehicle. A second navigational route of the ground support vehicle is determined so as to intercept the taxiing aircraft. The ground support vehicle navigates according to the determined second navigational route, and couples to the taxiing aircraft at a coupling location common to both the first and the second navigational routes. The ground support vehicle provides ground support service during continued navigation according to a coupled portion of the first navigational route.
US11551557B2	Vehicle multi-communication message type communication system A vehicle communication system including a communication management unit (CMU) and a data gateway is provided. The CMU is at least in part configured to route first type messages using a first type message communication. The data gateway is configured to communicate second type messages to a remote location. The CMU is configured to route at least some of the first type messages to the data gateway. The data gateway is configured to communicate a pseudo acknowledgment for each message block of each first type message routed to the data gateway back to the CMU indicating the message block was received by a designated remote location. The data gateway is further configured to interface each received first type message into the second type message and communicate each second type message to the designated remote location using a second type of message communication.
US11551554B2	Systems and methods for coordinating movement of assets within a transfer hub In one example embodiment, a computer-implemented method for coordinating the movement of assets at transfer hubs includes determining one or more assets to move from a first location associated with a transfer hub. The method also includes assigning a jockey to move the one or more assets to a second location associated with the transfer hub based at least in part on an availability of the jockey. The method further includes directing the jockey to move the one or more assets from the first location to the second location.
US11551547B2	Lane detection and tracking techniques for imaging systems A method for tracking a lane on a road is presented. The method comprises receiving, by one or more processors from an imaging system, a set of pixels associated with lane markings. The method further includes generating, by the one or more processors, a predicted spline comprising (i) a first spline and (ii) a predicted extension of the first spline in a direction in which the imaging system is moving. The first spline describes a boundary of a lane and is generated based on the set of pixels. The predicted extension of the first spline is generated based at least in part on a curvature of at least a portion of the first spline.
US11551546B2	Graphical user interface for programming universal remote control devices A universal remote control (URC) is programmed to control a particular type and make of electronic consumer device using a graphical user interface. A plurality of images is displayed on the user-interface. Each image of the plurality of images is a digital photograph of an electronic consumer device or a remote control device usable to control the corresponding electronic consumer device. A user selects the digital photograph of the particular type and make of electronic consumer device or its corresponding remote control device. Codeset information associated with the selected device is transmitted to the URC such that the URC is programmed to control the selected device. If the codeset information is a codeset identifier, then it is displayed on the user interface. The user enters the codeset identifier into the URC such that the URC is programmed to control the selected device.
US11551538B2	Waste receptacle A waste cart includes a base housing; a center upright having a proximal end and a distal end, wherein the proximal end is secured to the base housing; a top housing secured to the distal end of the center upright, wherein the top housing has two or more disposal openings for two or more separate disposal portions including, a first waste portion which has a first metal detector and an indicator for providing a notification when a metal item passes through the opening; and a second waste portion which includes a second metal detector and an indicator for providing a notification when a metal item passes through the opening; an electronics module which operates each metal detector independently; and an alarm indicator operationally associated with the electronics module which is activated when the electronics module detects the passage of a metal item through an opening into a waste portion.
US11551535B1	Operating a scanning smoke detector Apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media for operating a scanning smoke detector are described herein. One apparatus a laser emitter configured to emit a beam of light, a rotational component configured to rotate the emitter such that the beam periodically scans across an area, and a light receiver configured to receive a reflected portion of the beam of light and determine a presence of smoke particles in the area based on the reflected portion. The smoke detection apparatus can be configured to operate at a first power level, decrease the beam to a second power level responsive to a determination that an object in the area is in a path of the beam, and increase the beam to the first power level responsive to a determination that the object is no longer in the path of the beam.
US11551511B2	Method of gaming, a gaming system and a game controller An electronic gaming machine comprising a video display and a game controller arranged to select a plurality of symbols from a symbol set for display on the video display, evaluate the symbols displayed on the display to determine whether to initiate a symbol lock event, and upon initiating a symbol lock event, identify symbols which contribute to an award configuration, control the display to lock identified symbols, and updating remaining symbols in the display.
US11551509B2	System and method for a hold and spin game with build a bonus Some implementations may involve presenting a feature game round that includes a hold and spin stage and a free game stage. The free game stage may be presented after the hold and spin stage. In some examples, the number of free game instances may correspond to the number of configurable symbols accumulated by the conclusion of the hold and spin stage. In some instances, at least one of the configurable symbols accumulated by the conclusion of the hold and spin stage may indicate a modifier for the free game stage. The modifier may correspond with a modification of one or more reels that are used during a free game instance. In some examples, at least one of the configurable symbols accumulated during the hold and spin stage may indicate a multiplier for an award that is determined during a first free game instance.
US11551506B2	Sensory indications for future game events for multiple players of a wagering game A computer-implemented method includes providing a real-time environmental model of a shared virtual environment (SVE) that includes a plurality of virtual players. Display data corresponding to the SVE is transmitted to each player device. The data includes user display data that causes a display in the player device to render a portion of the SVE based on a virtual orientation of the player device and a virtual location of the virtual player in the SVE. Sensory feedback data is then transmitted to the plurality of VR devices that causes each VR device to provide a sensory indication associated with the SVE to the respective player. The sensory indication is indicative of a benefit that will be provided to a subset of the plurality of players at a predetermined future time. At the predetermined future time, the benefit is then provided to the subset of the plurality of players.
US11551504B2	Selecting and dispensing blended beverages from a post-mix beverage dispenser A system and method for creating a mixed consumable item may include displaying a first set of selectable indicia on a touchscreen, where the indicia may be (i) indicative of respective consumable ingredients and (ii) distinctly positioned relative to one another. A swype gesture may be received from a user via the touchscreen that forms a path extending between a first position and a second position that touches or passes close to multiple selectable indicia. From the first set of consumable ingredients, a plurality of combinations of consumable ingredients most likely to have been intended to be selected by the user based on the path of the swype gesture may be predicted. Selectable predicted combinations of consumable ingredients may be displayed on the touchscreen to enable one of the selectable combinations of consumable ingredients to be selected by the user for mixing by a dispenser of consumable items.
US11551502B2	System and method providing enhanced security ballot image records The system and method providing enhanced security ballot image records of the present invention includes an enhanced security ballot image tabulator and an enhanced security ballot image audit station. The tabulator processes each ballot of a plurality of ballots to be tabulated to provide an enhanced security ballot image record having diachronically and synchronically coordinated enhanced security ballot image files, each for another ballot of the plurality of ballots to be tabulated. The enhanced security ballot image record may be broadcast upon completion of tabulation and/or simulcast real time during tabulation or otherwise provided such as on a secure media upon completion of tabulation to the public or other parties interested in the tabulation of cast votes. The enhanced security audit station receives the enhanced security ballot image record and analyzes it to selectively identify out-of-bounds diachronic and/or synchronic security parameters. Any identified ballots may then be reviewed by election officials or other interested parties for validity and authentication purposes. The tabulator may be used to also produce images of the voter sign-in sheets, for the purpose of analytic correlation with the enhanced security files of the enhanced security ballot image record and their tabulation.
US11551501B2	Access control system having radio and facial recognition An access control system receives a device-specific identifier of a mobile electronic device and an electronic reference template for facial parameters of a user. The reception takes place when the mobile device is located in a public zone, from which the user can request access to an access-restricted zone. A memory unit stores the identifier of the mobile device and the reference template, which are received by a transmitting and receiving unit, as belonging to the user present in a public zone. An image processing unit generates a real-time template for facial features of the user based on an image of the user when the user requests access to the access-restricted zone. It determines if the real-time template matches a reference template stored in the memory unit to a defined degree, wherein the user is recognized as an access-requesting user in the event of a match.
US11551496B1	Access control systems, devices, and methods therefor An access control system includes a verification computing system that stores access rights information and credential proxies received from user devices, receives from a local access control subsystem an input credential and input credential proxy derived therefrom and received from a present user, identifies the access rights information associated with the user according to the input credential proxy and the stored credential proxy, requests and receives a stored credential from the user device of the present user, and compares the stored credential to the input credential to authorize the present user. The access rights information is for each of the users to access spaces with the local access control subsystems. The stored credential proxies are derived from stored credential received by the user devices using an algorithm. The input credential proxies are derived from the input credentials using the algorithm.
US11551483B2	Systems and methods for early detection of pneumatic transport element leaks A system for detecting a leak in a duct is disclosed, including a sheath covering a duct section, a fluid concentrating device and a sensor. The sheath is attached to a boundary portion of the duct section and forms an inner space between an outer surface of the duct section and the sheath. The fluid concentrating device has an opening through the sheath connecting the inner space to an external space outside the sheath. The inner space is sealed except for the opening through the sheath. The sensor is stationed outside the opening of the fluid concentrating device and is configured to detect fluid flow from the inner space through the opening at a level corresponding to a duct leak in a pre-burst condition.
US11551479B2	Motion behavior pattern classification method, system and device A motion behavior pattern classification method, system and device relating to the human motion recognition field. The method includes: S1, determining a candidate motion behavior pattern which includes a motion behavior pattern to be classified; S2, acquiring time series of behavior data of the candidate motion behavior pattern through a motion control sensor; S3, establishing an LSTM motion behavior pattern classification model through the time series; S4, predicting the motion behavior pattern to be classified through the LSTM motion pattern classification model, comparing the prediction result obtained using the sequence within the T time with the prediction result obtained using the sequence within the T+Δt time using the iterative process to obtain the final prediction result, wherein T1≤T≤T2, T1>0, T2>T1, and the incremental step is set to be Δt, Δt>0. The technical solution of the present invention may improve accuracy while reducing the latency of the motion behavior pattern classification.
US11551476B2	Facial verification method and apparatus A facial verification method includes separating a query face image into color channel images of different color channels, obtaining a multi-color channel target face image with a reduced shading of the query face image based on a smoothed image and a gradient image of each of the color channel images, extracting a face feature from the multi-color channel target face image, and determining whether face verification is successful based on the extracted face feature.
US11551470B2	Sensing device and fingerprint identification system A sensing device includes a light-field image sensor and a sensing circuit. The light-field image sensor includes a plurality of subarrays. One of the subarrays corresponds to sensing pixels. The sensing pixels are to capture images of an object on or in proximity to a display panel by sensing lights from different directions. The sensing circuit is to generate a plurality of sub-images of the object according to sensing signals of the sensing pixels and shift each of the sub-images of the object by an off-set to generate an image data.
US11551468B2	Input sensing device and calibration method of input sensing device An input sensing device includes a display panel, a sensor pixel, and a fingerprint detector. The display panel displays a fingerprint detection pattern corresponding to a target object. The sensor pixel generates a sensing signal by detecting light reflected from the fingerprint detection pattern by the target object. The fingerprint detector detects a fingerprint for the target object based on the sensing signal, and changes an exposure time of the sensor pixel based on a size of the fingerprint detection pattern.
US11551466B2	Control circuit and related method for controlling display panel A control circuit configured to control a display panel includes a display driver circuit, a touch sensing circuit and a fingerprint sensing circuit. The touch sensing circuit, coupled to the display driver circuit and the fingerprint sensing circuit, is configured to detect a finger touch on the display panel, determine a position of the display panel on which the finger touch is detected, and send information associated with the position to the fingerprint sensing circuit. The fingerprint sensing circuit is configured to perform fingerprint sensing on at least one zone corresponding to the position and receive fingerprint image signals from the at least one zone correspondingly.
US11551464B2	Line based matching of documents Provided is a system and method for matching documents by line item. In one example, the method may include receiving a target document from a target system and a source document from a source system which are linked, identifying a set of lines in the target document and a set of lines in the source document which cannot be matched based on initial conditions, determining, via a machine learning model, a target line from the identified set of lines in the target document matches a source line from the identified set of lines in the source document based on descriptions included in the target line and the source line, and updating the source system to indicate that the target line from the target document and the source line from the source document are a match.
US11551454B2	Homography error correction using marker locations An object tracking system that includes a sensor that is configured to capture frames of at least a portion of a global plane for a space. The system is configured to receive a first frame from the sensor and to identify a first pixel location and a second pixel location within the first frame. The system is further configured to determine (x,y) coordinates by applying a homography to the first pixel location and the second pixel location. The system is further configured to determine an estimated distance between the (x,y) coordinates, to determine an actual distance, and to determine a distance difference between the estimated distance and the actual distance. The system is further configured to compare the distance difference to a difference threshold level and to recompute the homography in response to determining that the distance difference exceeds the difference threshold level.
US11551445B2	Heatmap visualization of object detections An electronic apparatus and method for heatmap visualization of object detections is provided. The electronic apparatus inputs an image frame including an object of interest to Deep Neural Network (DNN) model and extracts an object detection result associated with the object of interest as output of the DNN model for the input image frame. The object detection result includes bounding box coordinates for the object of interest. The electronic apparatus segments the input image frame into a plurality of image portions based on the bounding box coordinates and determines, for each of the plurality of image portions, a weight value indicative of a likelihood that a corresponding image portion belongs to the object of interest. The electronic apparatus generates, based on the determined weight value, a visualization frame which includes heatmap visualization of a region that is included in the image frame and is bounded by the bounding box coordinates.
US11551443B2	Augmented reality and wearable technology for vehicle service An environment association system (“EAS”) comprising: a processor and a memory; an object recognition process configured to identify objects within images, the objects including one or more of a vehicle, a vehicle lift, a vehicle repair tool, and an alignment fixture; and an EAS interface configured to communicate with a user device, the user device comprising a camera and a display; wherein the processor is configured to: determine, for at least one object in the set of objects, create a virtual overlay for the image based on the position of the at least one object within the image and a virtual marking associated with the at least one object; and provide the virtual overlay to the user device, wherein the virtual overlay is configured to cause the user device to simultaneously display the image and the virtual overlay via the display. The system provides information about the alignment of lifting points of the object with lifting members.
US11551440B1	Continuous machine learning for extracting description of visual content Aspects of the present disclosure relate to machine learning techniques for continuous implementation and training of a machine learning system for identifying the natural language meaning of visual content. A computer vision model or other suitable machine learning model can predict whether a given descriptor is associated with the visual content. A set of such models can be used to determine whether particular ones of a set of descriptors are associated with the visual content, with the determined descriptors representing a meaning of the visual content. This meaning can be refined based on a multi-armed bandit tracking and analyzing interactions between the visual content and users associated with certain personas related to the determined descriptors.
US11551438B2	Image analysis method and related device An image analysis method and a related device are provided. The method includes: obtaining an input matrix of a network layer A, the input matrix of the network layer A obtained based on a target type image; obtaining a target convolution kernel and a target convolution step length corresponding to the network layer A, different network layers corresponding to different convolution step lengths; performing convolution calculation on the input matrix and the target convolution kernel according to the target convolution step length to obtain an output matrix of the network layer A, the output matrix used for representing a plurality of features included in the target type image; determining a target preset operation corresponding to the target type image according to a pre-stored mapping relationship between a type image and a preset operation; and performing the target preset operation according to the plurality of features comprised included in the target type image.
US11551428B2	Methods and apparatus to generate photo-realistic three-dimensional models of a photographed environment Methods and apparatus to generate photo-realistic three-dimensional models of a photographed environment are disclosed. An apparatus includes an object position calculator to determine a three-dimensional (3D) position of an object detected within a first image of an environment and within a second image of the environment. The apparatus further includes a 3D model generator to generate a 3D model of the environment based on the first image and the second image. The apparatus also includes a model integrity analyzer to detect a difference between the 3D position of the object and the 3D model. The 3D model generator automatically modifies the 3D model based on the difference in response to the difference satisfying a confidence threshold.
US11551426B2	System for implementing steganography-based augmented reality platform Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for implementing steganography based augmented reality platform. The present invention is configured to provide an augmented reality application for installation on a computing device of a user; receive, via the augmented reality application, a real-time visual feed, wherein the real-time visual feed comprises an image, wherein the image comprises a message that is steganographically embedded therein; determine that the computing device of the user is authorized to access the message embedded in the image in the visual feed; and generate an acknowledgement that the computing device of the user is authorized to access the message embedded in the image in the visual feed; and transmit control signals configured to cause the computing device of the user to overlay, via the augmented reality application, the acknowledgement in a vicinity of the image in the real-time visual feed.

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