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US11559872B2	Device and method for the surface treatment of a material A device and a method for the surface treatment of a material by a pressurized jet of liquid nitrogen, supercritical cryogenic nitrogen or hypercritical cryogenic nitrogen that may be loaded with particles, use a device that includes a mixing chamber (10) closed by a downstream wall with an outlet orifice, and a diffusion focusing barrel (20) having an inlet and an outlet, the inlet being designed to be fastened to the mixing chamber (10) while being in fluid contact with the outlet orifice of the mixing chamber (10), the pressurized jet of nitrogen having to pass through the focusing barrel from the inlet to the outlet. The diffusion focusing barrel (20) includes a hollow tube having three successive portions placed one after the other, namely a convergent portion (21) located on the side of the inlet opening of the diffusion focusing barrel and whose inner face, considered in the direction of flow of the nitrogen jet, is convergent, a neck (22) whose inner face is cylindrical, and a divergent portion (23) ending in the outlet of the diffusion focusing barrel and whose inner face, considered in the direction of flow of the nitrogen jet, is divergent.
US11559871B2	Device for integrally processing housing of 3C product The invention relates to a device for integrally processing a housing of a Computing, Communication, and Consumer (3C) product. The device includes a loading frame and an upper frame, where a material receiving device is arranged in the loading frame, a width of the loading frame is greater than that of the housing, a grinding device is arranged below the upper frame, and the grinding device includes a grinding movement device; the grinding movement device is connected to a grinding installation block, an outer side of the grinding installation block is provided with grinding lifting balls, a grinding arc block is embedded in an inner side of an upper portion of the grinding installation block, and the upper frame is provided with a material pressing device. An outer side of the loading frame is provided with a feeding and discharging device.
US11559870B2	Handheld sanding device A handheld sanding device according to the present invention includes: a power generation unit configured to generate rotating force for sanding operation; a power transmission unit configured to be coupled to the power generation unit, and to transmit the rotating force generated by the power generation unit; a sanding unit configured to be rotated by the rotating force, transmitted through the power transmission unit, in order to sand a sanding target surface; and a shaft coupling unit configured to connect the power transmission unit and the sanding unit to each other so that the sanding unit is freely inclined based on the power transmission unit, thereby improving the close contact between the sanding target surface and the sanding unit while making it easy to carry and also preventing the sanding target surface from being eccentrically worn during sanding operation.
US11559868B2	Wheel machining equipment Wheel machining equipment is provided, including a first-stage turning system used for carrying out first-stage turning of a wheel, a high-precision connection system used for carrying out high-precision positioning conversion from first-stage turning to second-stage turning, and a second-stage turning system used for carrying out second-stage turning of the wheel. A wheel machining method is also provided.
US11559867B2	Motor control device and industrial machine for suppressing vibration A motor control device includes an acceleration detecting section configured to detect an acceleration of a control object, and an acceleration control section configured to control an acceleration of a motor driving the control object based on the detected acceleration, in which the acceleration control section includes a vibration component extraction filter configured to extract a vibration component generated between the motor and the control object, and the vibration component extraction filter changes a filter characteristic frequency according to at least one of a position and a mass of the control object.
US11559866B2	Minimum quantity lubrication system and method A minimum quantity lubrication (MQL) system includes a controller, a lubricant module coupled to a tool spindle of a machining apparatus, and a pneumatic module coupled to the spindle. The lubricant module is configured to supply lubricant at pressure to the tool, as controlled by the controller. Likewise, the pneumatic module is configured to supply pressurized air to the tool, as controlled by the controller. The controller is configured to direct the lubricant module to supply lubricant prior to the controller receiving a START signal from a machine tool controller. Optionally, the lubricant pressure level is predetermined based on known characteristics of the tool that is coupled to the spindle. Optionally, the START signal is anticipated by referring to a signature/profile of the operational steps of a machining process where a timeline or time table of lubrication request intervals are identified.
US11559861B2	Method for using sheet shaped member A method uses a sheet shaped member to separate two spaces from each other. The sheet shaped member includes a base having a first principal surface and a second principal surface, and a moisture permeable membrane provided on or close to the first principal surface of the base. The first principal surface of the base is arranged in one of the two spaces having a lower water vapor pressure when the two spaces separated from each other by the sheet-like member have different water vapor pressures.
US11559857B2	Laser cutting and machining method for plated steel plate, laser cut-and-machined product, thermal cutting and machining method, thermal cut-and-machined product, surface-treated steel plate, laser cutting method, and laser machining head A laser cut-and-machined product made from a plated steel plate. A cut face of the plated steel plate is coated with plating-layer-containing metal of a top surface of the plated steel plate that is melted and/or evaporated at the time of laser cutting and machining.
US11559856B2	Laser cutter adapted to cut rotating workpieces A desktop laser cutter configured to cut a cylindrical workpiece includes a laser, a cutting head that receives an electromagnetic beam from the laser and emits a cutting beam, and a gantry that supports the cutting head relative to a base plate of the laser cutter housing. The gantry can be actuated to move the cutting head within a plane that is parallel to the baseplate. The cutting head emits the cutting beam in a direction parallel to the plane. In use, the cutting head is disposed side-by-side with the workpiece and the cutting beam is applied to a side of the workpiece that faces a sidewall of the laser cutter housing. The workpiece is supported by the gantry to rotate an amount that is a function of movement of the cutting head in a direction parallel to the plane.
US11559851B2	Laser machining device and laser machining method A unit vector calculating unit of a laser machining device obtains a unit vector based on respective current rotational positions of an A-axis and a B-axis. A movement command calculating unit, a speed command calculating unit, or a torque command calculating unit generates a command signal for maintaining a gap amount at a constant value, based on the unit vector, and the gap amount between a machining nozzle and a workpiece. With a servo control unit, on the basis of the command signal, an X-axis motor, a Y-axis motor, and a Z-axis motor are controlled, whereby the machining nozzle is moved relatively in three-dimensional directions with respect to the workpiece.
US11559850B2	Method for manufacturing liquid-cooled jacket A jacket main body is formed of a first aluminum alloy. A seal body is formed of a second aluminum alloy. The first aluminum alloy is higher in hardness than the second aluminum alloy in material type. A method includes: a preparing step of forming on an peripheral wall part a step part having a step bottom surface and a step side surface obliquely rising; a mounting step of mounting the seal body on the jacket main body to form a first butt portion and putting the step bottom surface and a back surface of the seal body on each other to form a second butt portion; a main joining step of performing friction stir welding while only the stirring pin of the rotary tool rotating contacts with only the seal body.
US11559845B2	Method of repairing a region of a part including a threaded hole Methods of repairing a periphery of a threaded hole of a part are provided. An embodiment of the method includes adding material to a region of the part including on a periphery of the threaded hole. New threads are formed in the added material. The new threads are continuous with existing threads formed in the hole.
US11559836B2	Pull-type blind fastener with preload performance A blind pull type fastener includes a pin, a sleeve, a collar, and a bulb-forming portion. The pin includes a head. The pin is pulled so that the head applies force to the bulb-forming portion. The bulb-forming portion is deformed to form a bulb. The collar is deformed into a void of the sleeve. The pin includes locking rings. The collar is deformed to lock with the locking rings.
US11559826B2	Methods for providing flexible and/or elastic coatings on oilfield operational components Coating compositions for coating an oilfield operational component, and related methods, may include in some aspects a coating composition having a trifunctional silane, a silanol, and a filler. The coating composition may be applied to a surface of the oilfield operational component that is configured to be exposed to a fluid. The coating composition may be applied to at least partially cover or coat the surface. The coating composition may be configured to chemically bond with a cured primer composition that includes an epoxy.
US11559821B2	Method for using an assembly for dispensing a fluid product A method of using a fluid dispenser unit having a reservoir and a piston that slides in the reservoir. The unit includes an extractor head secured to the reservoir to suck fluid to be dispensed into the reservoir, and a spray head assembled on the extractor head to spray the fluid out from the reservoir. The method includes the steps of sucking a fluid to be dispensed into the reservoir through the extractor head; assembling the spray head on the extractor head; and spraying the fluid through the spray head. The step of sucking up a fluid to be dispensed includes a first step of extracting a fluid, such as a solvent, from an extraction reservoir, and a second step of mixing the fluid with a first substance, such as a powder or a lyophilisate, so as to form the fluid to be dispensed.
US11559820B1	Adhesive dispensing system and method A dispenser system for applying multi-component adhesives or like substances to work surfaces in carpeting, roofing and like applications as well as a method of dispensing and applying multi-component adhesives to work surfaces.
US11559816B2	System and a process to determine online the characteristics of expended balls and the stitches of the same, which have been expulsed from a semiautogen mineral grinding mill The invention relates to the field of operating, monitoring and controlling mills of the mining industry. It specifically relates to a system and a method for in-line determination of the characteristics of worn balls and pieces thereof, which have been ejected from a semi-autogenous mineral grinding (SAG) mill to the external classifiers.
US11559814B2	Double acting demolition device and utility machine for demolishing structures The application relates to a double acting demolition device according to one embodiment for demolishing structures. The device includes a first crushing jaw for crushing operation, a first cutting jaw for cutting operation, and a combination jaw. The first jaws are separate jaws. The combination jaw is attachable to the first cutting jaw for constructing a second crushing jaw and to the first crushing jaw for constructing a second cutting jaw. The second crushing jaw is used jointly with the first crushing jaw in crushing operation and the second cutting jaw is used jointly with the first cutting jaw in cutting operation. In crushing operation, the first crushing jaw rotates around a fulcrum other than that of the second cutting jaw in cutting operation.
US11559811B2	Cell culture system and method A bioprocess system and a method for incubating, growing and harvesting cell cultures is described. Also disclosed is a bioprocess container that can be used with the system. In one aspect of the present disclosure, the bioprocess system includes bioprocess tubes and cell culture tubes having particular dimensions and being made from specific materials that allow the tubes to be welded together while preventing open connections and/or ruptures. In this manner, bioprocess containers can be connected and disconnected from a cell culture apparatus without having to perform the manipulation within a closed environment and without associated monitoring.
US11559796B2	Methods for producing hierarchical mesoporous beta zeolite A method for producing a hierarchical mesoporous beta includes mixing a beta zeolite with an aqueous metal hydroxide solution and heating the beta zeolite and the aqueous metal hydroxide mixture to produce a desilicated beta zeolite, contacting the desilicated beta zeolite with an ammonium salt solution to produce an intermediate hierarchical mesoporous beta zeolite, and treating the intermediate hierarchical mesoporous beta zeolite with an acidic solution to produce the hierarchical mesoporous beta zeolite. The hierarchical mesoporous beta zeolite includes a molar ratio of silicon to aluminum of greater than 12.5, a total pore volume of greater than or equal to the total pore volume of the intermediate hierarchical mesoporous beta zeolite, and an average mesopore size of greater than or equal to the average mesopore size of the hierarchical mesoporous beta zeolite. The method may also include calcining the intermediate hierarchical mesoporous beta zeolite.
US11559795B2	Bimetallic catalysts supported on zeolites for selective conversion of n-butane to ethane A hydrogenolysis bimetallic supported catalyst comprising a first metal, a second metal, and a zeolitic support; wherein the first metal and the second metal are different; and wherein the first metal and the second metal can each independently be selected from the group consisting of iridium (Ir), platinum (Pt), rhodium (Rh), ruthenium (Ru), palladium (Pd), molybdenum (Mo), tungsten (W), nickel (Ni), and cobalt (Co).
US11559775B2	Equal flow scale catcher An equal flow scale catcher device, or EFSC, is designed based on a unique scale catching technology for a reactor. With multiple scale catching modules, the EFSC offers equal flows to a catalyst bed or distribution tray of the reactor, independent of each module's degree of saturation with particles of an incoming fluid during operation. Thus, the innovative EFSC system achieves substantial uniformity of fluid delivery across the distribution tray of the reactor and the static pressure field above the liquid level on the distribution tray. Further, the EFSC effectively captures solid particles in the incoming fluid to the reactor and solid particles that form at the top head of the reactor. The EFSC employs a modular structure that allows optimal configuration of the scale catching modules and scale catching units inside each scale catching module, thus efficiently facilitating simple and efficient installation, maintenance, and/or replacement of the EFSC.
US11559774B2	Methods and systems for operating a pump at an efficiency point Methods and systems of operating a pump at an efficiency point during an in-line blending operation. In an embodiment, such a method may include transporting a fluid from a tank to a pump through a first pipe. The method may include discharging, via the pump, the fluid at a specified flow rate through a second pipe. The method may include measuring a flow rate of the first portion of the fluid flowing from the main control valve through the mixing pipe. The method may include measuring a flow rate of the second portion of the fluid flowing through the spillback loop. The method may include determining a current pump efficiency point and operating the pump within a range of percentages of the best efficiency point.
US11559766B2	Alkali-based removal of chemical moieties from gas streams with chemical co-generation The present disclosure provides systems and methods useful in capture of one more moieties (e.g., carbon dioxide) from a gas stream (i.e., direct air capture). In various embodiments, the systems and methods can utilize at least a scrubbing unit, a regeneration unit, and an electrolysis unit whereby an alkali solution can be used to strip the moiety (e.g., carbon dioxide) from the gas stream, the removed moiety can be regenerated and optionally purified for capture or other use, and a formed salt can be subjected to electrolysis to recycle the alkali solution back to the scrubber for re-use with simultaneous production of one or more further chemicals.
US11559753B2	Isolating components from plants The invention relates to methods of separating or isolating a component from a plant using freeze separation. The invention includes products produced by said methods.
US11559749B2	Systems and methods for thrust-vectored practical fluid flow effects An amusement park attraction effects system includes a dynamic display for viewing by a user traveling through an attraction, a display monitor to provide status data indicative of a status of the dynamic display, a location identification system to determine a location of the user, a thrust-vectoring flow effect generator to generate and direct a fluid flow toward any particular target location of a range of target locations, and an automation controller communicatively coupled to the display monitor, the location identification system, and the thrust-vectoring flow effect generator. The automation controller is configured to receive the status data, receive the location of the user, set a target location based on the location of the user, instruct the thrust-vectoring flow effect generator to direct the fluid flow based on the target location, and instruct the thrust-vectoring flow effect generator to control the fluid flow based on the status data.
US11559748B2	Systems and methods for producing visual effects via transducer-actuated show action equipment A system for providing an actuated-wall visual effect in an amusement park environment, the system comprising a panel mounting frame and a panel coupled to the panel mounting frame via a damper. The system also comprises a transducer mounting frame and a transducer configured to convert an audio signal into mechanical energy. The transducer comprises a first portion coupled to the transducer frame and a second portion coupled to the panel such that the transducer is configured to oscillate the panel relative to the transducer mounting frame in response to receiving the audio signal.
US11559747B1	Service for securely playing video games with publicized players One or more interfaces may be provided that indicate a plurality of times at which a plurality of publicized players are scheduled to play in a plurality of video games for which a plurality of player slots are acquired based on satisfaction of at least one acquisition criterion. Player access to the plurality of video games may be limited to the publicized players and a plurality of users that acquire the plurality of player slots. A request may be received, via the one or more interfaces, for a first user to acquire a first player slot for playing in a first video game with a first publicized player. It may be verified that the at least one acquisition criterion has been satisfied in relation to the first user. Game access information may be provided, to the first user, that allows the first user to enter the first video game.
US11559746B1	Feedback oriented gameplay sessions in video games Systems and methods are described herein for monitoring a gameplay session for violations of a policy and creating a remediation gameplay session through which remediation can be provided to players or player accounts that violate gameplay policies. The systems and methods can create a remediation gameplay session based in part on the game state data of the gameplay session during which the violation occurs.
US11559738B2	Machine learned virtual gaming environment Virtual game worlds for computer games can be provided using machine learning. The use of machine learning enables the virtual game worlds to be generated at run time by standard consumer hardware devices. Machine learning agents are trained in advance to the characteristics of the particular game world. Then, these suitably trained machine learning agents can be used to generate a relevant portion of a virtual game world, such as a portion of the virtual game world that is proximate to a play's position. Advantageously, the virtual game world can be provided in high resolution and is able to cover a substantially larger region than conventional practical.
US11559735B2	System and method for compressing streaming interactive video A computer-implemented method is provided. The method includes executing a video game on a server unit and said server unit producing uncompressed interactive video. The method includes processing the uncompressed interactive video at a compression unit associated with the server unit. The compression unit outputting compressed interactive video, and the server unit and the compression unit being located at a data center. The method includes streaming the compressed interactive video over a packetized network from the data center to one or more client devices associated with one or more users. Each client device is located geographically remote to the data center, and the server is configured to receive input to drive gameplay of the video game by said one or more client devices. The compressed interactive video is configured for decompression and presentation at said one or more client devices. The method includes receiving, by the server, updates from said one or more clients devices regarding a quality of said uncompressed interactive video that is received from said streaming. The method includes adjusting automatically, by the compression unit, a rate of compression provided to one or more of said client devices based on said updates received regarding the quality of said uncompressed interactive video for the video game.
US11559731B2	Portable instructional baseball pitching apparatus An apparatus for teaching baseball pitching includes a substantially flat panel having a substantially rectangular shape with adjustable height and width dimensions. The apparatus further includes at least two support members for supporting the flat panel in an upright position. The length of the support members can be adjusted to obtain a desired distance between a bottom edge of the flat panel and the ground.
US11559727B2	Golf club head Disclosed herein is an iron-type golf club head that comprises a body, made of a first material having a first density. The iron-type golf club head also comprises a weight located within the internal cavity. The iron-type golf club head further comprises a filler material that has a density no less than 0.21 g/cc. The filler material has a mass no less than 2.5 grams and no more than 8 grams. The internal cavity has an internal cavity volume ranging between 5 cc to 20 cc. A ratio of the internal cavity volume to external club head volume ranges between 0.14 and 0.385. The internal cavity has a minimum front-to-back depth above a midplane of the golf club head of no less than 1.4 mm and a maximum front-to-back depth of the internal cavity above the midplane of the golf club head is no more than 13 mm.
US11559724B2	System to determine and dictate individual exercise thresholds to maximize desired neurological response A system to determine and dictate individual exercise thresholds to maximize desired neurological responses.
US11559722B2	Hand grip exercise apparatus and methods of using same A hand grip exercise apparatus, comprising: a first half configured with at least one vertical surface, at least one horizontal surface and at least one angled portion; a second half configured with at least one vertical surface, at least one horizontal surface and at least one angled portion; and, a hinge, connecting the first half to the second half at the angled portions of each half.
US11559721B2	Cycling device A cycling device used for exercise and/or rehabilitation includes a shaft for grasping by a user, a foot assembly coupled to the shaft and configured to be supported on a surface, and a pedal assembly coupled between the shaft and the foot assembly. The cycling device is intended to be used by a seated user.
US11559718B2	Barbell spotting apparatus Provided herein are embodiments of a barbell spotting apparatus having all the benefits of a free-floating, unconstrained barbell in both the horizontal and vertical axes with the safety of a dedicated spotting mechanism, while addressing safety, noise, and space concerns raised by typical barbell apparatus. The embodiments herein permit a loaded barbell to be positioned in line with the axis of motion of the lift to be performed at both the beginning and end of the lift.
US11559712B2	Hermetically sealed portable fire extinguisher with pressure indicator A portable fire extinguisher is disclosed which includes a cylinder for storing a pressurized fire extinguishing agent and has a neck portion defining an outlet, and a flexible hermetic seal supported across the outlet of the cylinder, wherein the flexible hermetic seal is adapted and configured to transition between: an unexpanded condition corresponding to an unpressurized cylinder; an expanded condition corresponding to a pressurized cylinder; and a bursted condition corresponding to an opened cylinder.
US11559710B2	Fire protection containment unit for intermediate bulk containers A fire protection containment unit for protection of an intermediate bulk container (IBC) having an internal flame and drain barrier disposed above a basin portion of the containment unit. The barrier includes pans having an impact surface that is angled to drain toward a central grid of the barrier to direct escaped liquid from the IBC into the basin portion of the containment unit. The basin portion includes a base surface on an incline to define a pooling region of the containment unit to collect escaped liquid from the IBC. The containment unit includes containment walls which define various configurations of the containment unit including an open configuration, partially open configuration, a completely contained configuration and a packaged configuration.
US11559707B2	Oxygen candle Provided is an oxygen candle starting device, comprising a pull line column (17) and a percussion cap (15), wherein a pull line hole (155) is provided in the pull line column in an axial direction of the pull line column, a percussion cap cavity (154) is provided inside one end of the pull line column, a fire-preventing cavity is provided inside the other end of the pull line column, and the pull line hole passes through the fire-preventing cavity and the percussion cap cavity; the percussion cap is mounted in the percussion cap cavity, and sand grains (16) are packaged in the fire-preventing cavity. Further provided is an oxygen candle comprising the oxygen candle starting device and an oxygen generator, wherein the oxygen generator comprises an agent loading housing, with a through hole being provided in the top of the agent loading housing, a gas outlet being provided in the bottom thereof, and a filter being mounted at the gas outlet; and the percussion cap of the oxygen candle starting device is in contact with an oxygen candle agent via the through hole, the oxygen generator is connected to the agent loading housing in a sealed manner, and the filter is connected to the gas outlet in a sealed manner. The oxygen candle employs a pull-type starting device, and the starting structure for an existing oxygen candle is simplified, thereby preventing a false start caused by the falling-off of a steel needle and improving the reliability.
US11559699B2	Treatment device using magnetic field The present invention relates to a treatment device using a magnetic field, which includes a coil generating a pulse magnetic field and a cooling unit. The treatment device using a magnetic field in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention includes: a magnetic field generating coil disposed below a contact surface that closely contacts a portion of a body; a cooling unit configured to supply a fluid that cools the magnetic field generating coil; and a duct configured to guide the fluid between the cooling unit and the magnetic field generating coil. Here, the cooling unit is disposed below the magnetic field generating coil and disposed so that an angle between a fluid supply direction from the cooling unit and a central axis of the magnetic field generating coil is equal to or less than the right angle.
US11559692B2	Electrode devices for neurostimulation An extravascular neural interface is disclosed containing electrodes for neurostimulation of the vessel. The devices are housed in flexible substrates, each substrate having a spinal portion for routing leads/conductors into the device for connection to the electrodes. Extending from opposite sides of the spinal portion is a self-sizing inner flap that supports and positions the electrodes to be inward facing, i.e., extravascular designs, and one more rigid outer flap. The electrodes may be flexible multifilar coil electrodes.
US11559689B2	Noise detection and modulation of closed-loop therapy action A medical device with closed-loop responsive stimulation may include techniques to mitigate the impact on the therapy output of noise coupled into the medical device. A medical device according to this disclosure may determine the presence of noise and alter the closed loop policy to provide the necessary therapy to the patient and avoid prolonged under stimulation caused by the noise. The medical device may continue therapy while testing for noise. When the device determines the noise level no longer affects the output therapy, the device may return the closed loop policy to a no-noise mode of operation. The medical device may also include techniques to mitigate the impact of manual adjustment while the medical device is subject to noise or is responding to changes in the patient's physiological signals.
US11559677B2	Tube connector for medical treatment Disclosed is a tube connector for medical treatment including a housing including an internal channel configured to allow an inflow pipe disposed at the front end thereof and an outflow pipe disposed at the rear end thereof to fluidly communicate with each other, an insertion hole formed from the outer surface of the rear end of the housing to the internal channel, and at least one branch pipe disposed so as to fluidly communicate with the internal channel, a push button having a through hole, the push button being disposed in the insertion hole so as to be movable upwards and downwards, and an elastically deformable dome-shaped balloon configured to surround the insertion hole of the housing, the lower part of the balloon being open, wherein the internal channel of the housing is opened and closed through the upward and downward movement of the push button.
US11559675B1	Tattoo machine rechargeable battery unit with voltage controller A compact battery and voltage supply controller apparatus for a tattoo machine is disclosed. The battery and controller are configured to connect the battery to the tattoo machine through replaceable internally received magnetic connection adapters. The toggle switch operated display screen provides easy-to-view status and health of the battery and incremental voltage adjustment using a voltage boost circuit and adjustment knob. The internal battery can be replaced and/or removed and recharged.
US11559673B2	Multi-balloon instrument for dilating eustachian tube via middle ear A dilation catheter includes a shaft, a distal tip sized and configured to pass through an isthmus of a Eustachian tube (ET), and an expandable element moveable along an exterior of the shaft between a proximal position and a distal position. The expandable element is operable to transition between an unexpanded state in which the expandable element is configured for insertion into the ET via the isthmus, and an expanded state in which the expandable element is configured to dilate the ET.
US11559662B2	Steerable drainage devices Steerable, elongated medical devices that are inserted into a patient's body are disclosed. The devices include first and second wires slidably extending longitudinally through a wall of a tube and attached adjacent a distal end of the tube. The devices also include a tension control member configured to selectively apply a tension force to the wires to bend the tube.
US11559658B2	Flexible tip catheter with extended fluid lumen A lumen extension member is provided for a catheter having a catheter body and an elongate electrode coupled to the catheter body. The elongate electrode defines an electrode lumen extending therethrough. The lumen extension member is positioned within the electrode lumen and is coupled to the catheter body. The lumen extension member includes a tubular member including a sidewall and at least one opening that extends through the sidewall.
US11559656B2	Methods and systems for reducing sound sensitivities and improving auditory processing, behavioral state regulation and social engagement behaviors Various embodiments are described herein to reduce sound sensitivities, improve state regulation, and/or reduce auditory processing and social engagement deficits in individuals with such deficiencies by recruiting the anti-masking functions of the middle ear muscles in order to optimize the transfer function of the middle ear for the processing of human speech. In certain embodiments, an individual may be subjected to a training protocol comprising one or more training sessions. During each training session, acoustic stimuli are provided to a subject for a period of time, with or without accompanying visual stimulation. A user response may be determined, for example, before beginning the protocol, during a session, after a session, and/or upon completion of the protocol. Such user response may be employed to adjust the acoustic stimulation, and the adjusted acoustic stimulation may be provided to the subject during a subsequent training session (or at a subsequent time within the same training session). The training protocol may end after a predetermined number of training sessions or upon achieving a desired user response. The training session may be characterized by a fixed protocol during which continuous stimulation is presented for a fixed period of time or by an interactive protocol during which the stimulation presentation is dependent on the reactions of the subject.
US11559652B2	Oxygen delivery apparatus using eyeglass frames An oxygen delivery apparatus wearable by user includes a frame including nose pads connected to a bridge portion, an oxygen inlet defined by one of the nose pads, an oxygen inlet defined by the frame, and a hollow channel contained by the frame. The oxygen inlet and oxygen outlet are in fluid communication via the hollow channel. The frame can be formed as a monolithic structure using additive manufacturing. A nasal prong can be connected to the oxygen outlet such that a prong outlet of the prong is in fluid communication with the hollow channel. The prong outlet is positioned within a nostril of the user during use of the apparatus. A method of fabricating the frame includes obtaining measurement information for at least one of a head feature or facial characteristic of the user and generating a digital model of the oxygen delivery apparatus using the measurement information.
US11559644B2	Process and adjusting device for adjusting a ventilation parameter as well as medical system A process adjusts a ventilation parameter (40) for a ventilation process (90) of a patient (110), which is carried out by a ventilator (20). Electrical impedance tomographic (EIT) data (70) of the lungs (111) of the patient (110), concerning the ventilation process (90), are collected by an EIT device (30). An adjusting device (1), adjusting a ventilation parameter (40) for the ventilation process (90), has an analysis unit (2) with a memory (3), a data input unit (5) data-communicatingly connected to the analysis unit (2) for receiving data and a data output unit (7) data-communicatingly connected to the analysis unit (2) for outputting data. A medical system (100), includes a ventilator (20), an EIT device (30) as well as the adjusting device (1) for adjusting a ventilation parameter (40) for the ventilation process (90) of a patient (100).
US11559642B2	Operating unit for a ventilator with a gas dispensing device for ventilation gases An operating unit (2) sets ventilation parameters of a control unit (11) of a ventilator (1) that includes a gas dispensing device (10) for ventilation gases. The operating unit includes a display unit and an ventilation parameters input element (23, 24). Two or more of the parameters are linked via a relation condition stored in a relation storage module (40). A relation monitor (3) includes a deviation detector (31) detecting a transgression of the relation condition during parameter setting, and outputs warning information via a warning unit (32). This avoids a need for an operator to note the sometimes complicated connections and dependencies expressed in the relations during the parameter setting. The warning may be sent before the new setting value is sent from the operating unit to the control unit. Operating safety is increased and a risk of setting errors is minimized.
US11559633B2	Syringe adapter with spinning connector A syringe adapter includes a housing having a first end and a second end and defining an interior space, a seal arrangement received within the interior space of the housing, a connector body positioned adjacent the first end of the housing and configured to be connected with a syringe barrel with the connector body secured to the housing and rotatable relative to the housing in first and second directions, and a cannula secured to the connector body. The connector body is axially fixed relative to the housing. The seal arrangement is configured to cooperate with the cannula to provide a sealed transfer of fluids through the cannula to a mating connector.
US11559603B2	High-strength collagen sponge To provide a collagen sponge excellent in mechanical strength and a production method for the collagen sponge. A collagen sponge including a porous construct having a pore structure, the collagen sponge having a tensile strength of 1 N or more and 5 N or less in every direction including a length direction and a width direction. The collagen sponge may be produced by a production method including the following steps: (1) a step of subjecting a collagen solution obtained by mixing collagen and a solvent to stirring and deaeration treatment; (2) a step of subjecting the collagen solution to freeze-dry treatment; and (3) a step of subjecting a dried collagen product after the freeze-dry treatment to insoluble treatment.
US11559597B2	Medical device inspection system A medical device inspection system may include a base, a medical device holder on the base, a fiber scope holder on the base, a moveable roller moveably attached to the base such that it is free to rotate around an axis and move from a first position to a second position along the base, and a feeder coupled with the base for feeding a flexible portion of the fiber scope into a lumen of the medical device. During use, the flexible portion of the fiber scope may extend from the handle, around the moveable roller, and through the feeder to enter an opening in the lumen of the medical device.
US11559586B2	Nanoparticles for treatment of choroidal neovascularization and other indications The present invention generally relates to particles such as nanoparticles and, in particular, to targeted nanoparticles. In some cases, the particles may have a targeting moiety that is inhibited from recognizing a target, for example, by being positioned within the particle at an internal location. The application of a stimulus, such as light, may allow the targeting moiety to interact externally of the particle. Accordingly, the particles may be targeted to specific locations using the application of a suitable stimulus. For instance, in one embodiment, particles containing cell-penetrating peptides attached via a first attachment and a second attachment containing a photocleavable entity may be administered to a subject, and light may be applied, e.g., to the eye, to cleave the photocleavable entity. However, despite the cleavage, the peptides remain associated with the particle via the first attachment, and thus, the particles may be able to penetrate cells within the eye due to peptides. Other aspects are generally directed to methods of making or using such particles, kits involving such particles, or the like.
US11559575B2	Multi-epitopic peptide compounds and vaccines against leishmaniasis The invention relates to multi-epitopic peptide compounds obtained from PSA, HwB and LmLRAB proteins of Leishmania as well as to pharmaceutical compositions and vaccines for use against one or more leishmaniases.
US11559563B2	Use of soluble pro(renin) receptor to treat metabolic disorders and related conditions Disclosed are methods of treating obesity or an obesity-related condition comprising administering an effective amount of soluble (pro)renin receptor (sPRR) to a subject that is obese or having an obesity-related condition. In some instances, obesity-related conditions can be, but are not limited to, steatosis, hyperglycemia, insulin resistance, chronic renal disease. Disclosed are methods of reducing body weight comprising administering an effective amount of sPRR to a subject in need thereof. Disclosed are methods of treating fatty liver in a subject comprising administering an effective amount of sPRR to a subject in need thereof. Disclosed are methods of treating a fluid and electrolyte disorder comprising administering an effective amount of sPRR to a subject diagnosed with a fluid and electrolyte disorder.
US11559562B2	Compositions and methods for treating cancer Use of a CXCR4 antagonistic peptide and an immune-check point regulator in the treatment of cancer is provided. Accordingly there is provided a method of treating cancer in a subject in need thereof, the method comprising administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of a peptide having an amino acid sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NO: 1 or an analog or derivative thereof; and a therapeutically effective amount of a PD1 antagonist, a PDL-1 antagonist, a CTLA-4 antagonist, a LAG-3 antagonist, a TIM-3 antagonist, a KIR antagonist, an MO antagonist, an OX40 agonist, a CD137 agonist, a CD27 agonist, a CD40 agonist, a GITR agonist, a CD28 agonist or an ICOS agonist, thereby treating the cancer in the subject. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions and articles of manufacture.
US11559560B2	Modified bacteriophage Provided is a modified bacteriophage capable of infecting a target bacterium, which bacteriophage includes an α/β small acid-soluble spore protein (SASP) gene encoding a SASP which is toxic to the target bacterium, wherein the SASP gene is under the control of a constitutive promoter which is foreign to the bacteriophage and the SASP gene.
US11559557B2	Medicament comprising ginger root CO2 extract The present invention belongs to the fields of pharmaceuticals and cosmetics, and concerns on the one hand a medicament for the inhibition of and refers also on the cosmetic, non-therapeutic use for the treatment of hyperpigmentation, particularly induced by sun light radiation, preferably induced by visible light radiation.
US11559556B2	Citrus fruit extract-mediated synthesis of tellurium nanomaterials having biomedical applications Methods disclosed herein provide for an environmentally-friendly approach that employ citric extracts from fruits as unique reducing and stabilizing agents for making a tellurium nanomaterial. A particular method of making a tellurium nanomaterial includes combining citrus fruit extract with a tellurium salt to form a mixture of citrus fruit extract and dissolved tellurium salt; and heating the mixture of citrus fruit extract and dissolved tellurium salt, thereby making the tellurium nanomaterial. The resulting nanoparticles exhibit enhanced and desirable biomedical properties toward treatment of both infectious diseases and cancer.
US11559552B2	Methods and compositions for purification or isolation of microvesicles and exosomes The invention relates to the isolation or extraction of exosomes.
US11559550B2	Peptides and combination of peptides for use in immunotherapy against leukemias and other cancers The present invention relates to peptides, proteins, nucleic acids and cells for use in immunotherapeutic methods. In particular, the present invention relates to the immunotherapy of cancer. The present invention furthermore relates to tumor-associated T-cell peptide epitopes, alone or in combination with other tumor-associated peptides that can for example serve as active pharmaceutical ingredients of vaccine compositions that stimulate anti-tumor immune responses, or to stimulate T cells ex vivo and transfer into patients. Peptides bound to molecules of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), or peptides as such, can also be targets of antibodies, soluble T-cell receptors, and other binding molecules.
US11559549B2	PD1-specific chimeric antigen receptor as an immunotherapy Provided herein are methods and compositions useful for treating PDL1 and/or PDL2 positive cancers through adoptive cell transfer of T cells genetically engineered to express a PD1-specific chimeric antigen receptor. Co-stimulatory domains such as Dap 10 may be included to enhance efficacy.
US11559543B2	Immunostimulator, pharmaceutical composition, and food or beverage Provided is an immunostimulator containing: chitosan and/or a chitosan derivative each having a weight-average molecular weight of 10k to 1000k; and an anionic surfactant, the immunostimulator being in particulate form. Also provided are a pharmaceutical composition and an alimentary product, each containing the immunostimulator as an active ingredient.
US11559528B2	BACE1 inhibition for the treatment of cancer Provided herein are compositions, systems, kits, and methods for treating a subject with cancer by administering a BACE1 inhibitor, such as MK-8931. In particular embodiments, the subject is treated with radiation (e.g., low dose radiation) first, and then administered a BACE1 inhibitor within a certain time window (e.g., about 3 hours to 6 days after the radiation treatment).
US11559513B2	PTGDR-1 and/or PTGDR-2 antagonists for preventing and/or treating systemic lupus erythematosus The present invention concerns a PTGDR-1 antagonist, a PTGDR-2 antagonist, a dual PTGDR-1/PTGDR-1 antagonist, or a combination of PTGDR-1 antagonist and PTGDR-2 antagonist, and pharmaceutical compositions containing them, for use for preventing and/or treating SLE.
US11559507B2	Pharmaceutical composition A pharmaceutical composition is described. The composition comprises: (i) at least one formoterol compound selected from formoterol, pharmaceutically acceptable salts of formoterol, prodrugs of formoterol, solvates of formoterol, solvates of pharmaceutically acceptable salts of formoterol and solvates of prodrugs of formoterol; (ii) at least one corticosteroid; (iii) a surfactant component comprising at least one surfactant compound; and (iv) a propellant component comprising 1,1-difluoroethane (R-152a).
US11559506B2	Pharmaceutical composition A pharmaceutical composition is described. The composition comprises: (i) at least one formoterol compound selected from formoterol, pharmaceutically acceptable salts of formoterol, prodrugs of formoterol, solvates of formoterol, solvates of pharmaceutically acceptable salts of formoterol and solvates of prodrugs of formoterol; (ii) at least one corticosteroid; (iii) a surfactant component comprising at least one surfactant compound; and (iv) a propellant component comprising 1,1-difluoroethane (R-152a).
US11559501B2	Transdermal amphetamine compositions with low levels of carbamate Described are methods for reducing the formation of amphetamine carbamate and amphetacarbamate in transdermal amphetamine compositions, compositions with low levels of amphetacarbamate, and methods using such compositions for transdermal delivery of amphetamine.
US11559498B2	Compositions and methods for in vivo lung and blood SNO repletion A method of treating coronavirus infection, post-acute sequelae of coronavirus infection, and viral mediated respiratory distress in a subject in need thereof includes administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of agent that promotes, increases, and/or induces hemoglobin nitrosylation within red blood cells (RBCs) and GSNO levels in the lung or airways of the subject.
US11559496B2	Tissue thickness compensator configured to redistribute compressive forces A tissue thickness compensator may generally comprise a compressible core comprising a plurality of movable particles, and a wrap surrounding the compressible core. The plurality of movable particles may comprise at least one medicament. A tissue thickness compensator may generally comprise a compressible core comprising a plurality of crushable particles, and a wrap surrounding the compressible core. The plurality of crushable particles may comprise at least one medicament. The compressible core may comprise a material selected from a group consisting of a biocompatible material. The wrap may comprise a material selected from a group consisting of a biocompatible material. Articles of manufacture comprising the tissue thickness compensator and methods of making and using the tissue thickness compensator are also described.
US11559494B2	Compositions and methods for targeted delivery of therapeutic and/or diagnostic species In one aspect, compositions are described herein. A composition described herein comprises a nanoparticle, a therapeutic species, and a linker joining the nanoparticle to the therapeutic species. The linker joining the nanoparticle to the therapeutic species comprises a Diels-Alder cyclo-addition reaction product. Additionally, in some embodiments, the nanoparticle is a magnetic nanoparticle.
US11559489B2	Tuning of release kinetics in hydrogels The present disclosure is directed to methods for tuning the release profile of a biologic disposed in a hydrogel. Parameters that can be used for the tuning include a molar ratio of a nucleophilic group to an electrophilic group, the number of the nucleophilic groups in the first precursor, the number of the electrophilic groups in the second precursor, the molecular weight of the first precursor, the molecular weight of the second precursor, a weight ratio of the biologic and excipient to the hydrogel, a weight percentage of the biologic in a solid state formulation, and a ratio of surface area to volume of the hydrogel. The methods described herein allow the formation of hydrogel with different release profiles suitable for different therapeutic applications.
US11559488B2	Pharmaceutical compositions having high drug loadings of medium chain triglycerides and methods related thereto This invention relates to high drug load compositions of medium chain triglycerides (MCT), and to methods for treatment with such compositions at amounts effective to elevate ketone body concentrations so as to treat conditions associated with reduced neuronal metabolism, for example Alzheimer's disease.
US11559482B2	Biodegradable polyethylene glycol based water-insoluble hydrogels The present invention relates to biodegradable polyethylene glycol based water-insoluble hydrogels comprising backbone moieties which are interconnected by hydrolytically degradable bonds, the backbone moieties further comprising reactive functional groups, wherein the water-insoluble hydrogel is further characterized in that the ratio between the time period for the complete degradation of the hydrogel by hydrolysis of the degradable bonds into water-soluble degradation products comprising one or more backbone moieties and the time period for the release of the first 10 mol-% of water-soluble degradation products comprising one or more backbone moieties based on the total amount of backbone moieties in the hydrogel is greater than 1 and equal to or less than 2. The invention further relates to conjugates of such hydrogels with ligands or ligating groups, prodrugs and pharmaceutical compositions as well as their use in a medicament.
US11559476B2	Hydrogel and method for preparing the same The present application provides a method for preparing a hydrogel and the obtained hydrogel. The method including: forming a first part by mixing a first single-stranded nucleotide with a first liposome, and forming a second part by mixing a second single-stranded nucleotide with a second liposome, wherein the first single-stranded nucleotide and the second single-stranded nucleotide have complementary sticky ends; forming a hydrogel by mixing the first part and the second part.
US11559474B2	Hair lightening compositions and methods of use The present disclosure relates to hair care compositions such as hair treatment compositions and hair lightening compositions, methods for treating hair (e.g., lightening hair), and to kits comprising the compositions. The components of the hair treatment compositions may be included in hair lightening compositions and used to lighten and/or color hair. The hair treatment compositions typically include: (a) one or more polycarboxylic acids, and/or a salt thereof; (b) one or more amino acids, and/or a salt thereof; and optionally (c) one or more cationic conditioning agents. The hair lightening compositions further include (d) one or more bleaching agents.
US11559471B2	Dental composition containing ion sustained-release glass To provide a dental composition wherein the acid buffering capacity can be attained and the acid resistance of the tooth substance can be improved while maintaining very high foul breath inhibition capacity. A dental composition including: ion sustained-release glass; and a carrier for supporting the ion sustained-release glass, wherein the ion sustained-release glass is fluoroaluminoborosilicate glass having a composition range of: 15% to 35% by mass SiO2; 15% to 30% by mass Al2O3; 5% to 20% by mass B2O3; 20% to 45% by mass SrO; 5% to 15% by mass F; and 0% to 10% by mass Na2O.
US11559468B2	Syringe pump for automatic drug compounders Various aspects of the subject disclosure relate to a compounder system having a cartridge that includes controllable fluid pathways. The cartridge may include a syringe pump for moving fluid and/or gas, and one or more syringe valves or rotary valves for controlling which of the controllable fluid pathways is open for flow of the fluid and/or gas.
US11559465B2	Passive temperature controlled container The disclosed technology includes a passive temperature controlled container for passively maintaining a specified temperature range in a storage chamber of the container for a predetermined amount of time. The passive temperature controlled container may be configured to have an inner PCM layer and an outer PCM layer, with an air chamber layer between the two PCM layers to allow for the free movement of air around all six sides of the container.
US11559459B2	Rollator A rollator includes a collapsible frame supported on a plurality of wheels, a seat supported on the frame, a pair of handlebars, and a braking mechanism.
US11559441B2	Method for manufacturing a wound dressing and a wound dressing A method for manufacturing a wound dressing having a substrate, and a wound dressing manufactured by such a method are described. The method has a step of providing a sacrificial layer of material to be perforated by means of a hot pin perforator, in order to remove any molten residues on the heated pins of the hot pin perforator, before the same pins are used to make holes in the substrate. The presented method is cost effective, robust and reduces the risk of contaminating substances being embedded in the substrate during the hole making process.
US11559437B2	Multi-layered wound dressing and method of manufacture A multi-layered wound dressing including a fibrous absorbent layer for absorbing exudate from a wound site. The wound dressing also includes a support layer configured to reduce shrinkage of at least a portion of the wound dressing.
US11559434B2	Automatic centration of a surgical pattern on the apex of a curved patient interface An apparatus to treat a patient comprises a laser beam, a measurement module, a scanner and a curved patient interface lens. The curved patient interface is measured with a pattern so as to determine a plurality of distances of the curved surface at a plurality of measurement locations. The measurement pattern may comprise the plurality of measurement locations distributed about a central measurement axis corresponding to the laser treatment axis. The plurality of measurement locations of the curved surface may correspond to a portion of a planned treatment profile, such that the measured distances correspond to alignment of the planned treatment. The plurality of distances can be used to determine an apex of the curved surface of the patient interface and to align the laser treatment axis with the apex of the curved surface.
US11559431B2	Devices and methods useable for treatment of glaucoma and other surgical procedures A device and method for cutting or ablating tissue in a human or veterinary patient includes an elongate probe having a distal end, a tissue cutting or ablating apparatus located adjacent within the distal end, and a tissue protector extending from the distal end. The protector generally has a first side and a second side and the tissue cutting or ablating apparatus is located adjacent to the first side thereof. The distal end is structured to be advanceable into tissue or otherwise placed and positioned within the patient's body such that tissue adjacent to the first side of the protector is cut away or ablated by the tissue cutting or ablation apparatus while tissue that is adjacent to the second side of the protector is not substantially damaged by the tissue cutting or ablating apparatus.
US11559428B2	Apparatus and methods for ocular injection An apparatus includes a housing coupled to a medicament container, which is coupled to a needle. An injection assembly is disposed within the housing and includes an energy storage member and an actuation rod. A distal end portion of the actuation rod is disposed within the medicament container. The energy storage member can produce a force on a proximal end portion of the actuation rod sufficient to move the distal end portion of the actuation rod within the medicament container. This can convey at least a portion of a substance from the medicament container via the needle when a distal tip of the needle is disposed within a first region of a target location. The force is insufficient to move the distal end portion of the actuation rod within the medicament container when the distal tip of the needle is disposed within a second region of the target location.
US11559426B2	System including a skin-engageable element of a medical appliance A system for preserving functionality of a skin-engageable element for attachment to a skin portion of a user during storage including a skin-engageable element and a protective element having discrete portions projecting therefrom. The discrete portions are adapted to engage with through-going passages in an adhesive layer of the skin-engageable element, and ensure that the passages are open and passable when the protective element is removed before use of the skin-engageable element. A protective element attachable to a proximal adhesive side of a skin-engageable element for attachment to a skin portion of a user is also disclosed.
US11559422B2	Urine collection system for use on patient support apparatus A urine collection system is provided for use on a patient support apparatus. The urine collection system comprises a housing and a container for mounting to the housing in a releasable manner.
US11559415B2	Radially self-expanding stents Described herein are radially self-expanding stents. The disclosed stents can be used to widen arteries and/or veins of a patient to counteract or combat narrowing of the arteries and/or veins associated with certain congenital diseases, such as aortic coarctation. As an example, the disclosed stents are configured to be placed at or near a narrowed portion of the aorta where the stent produces a radial outward force on the aorta. The radial force produced by the stent widens the aorta and causes the stent to expand with the aorta. The disclosed stents can be crimped to relatively small sizes for placement in small patients (e.g., less than about 10 kg in size) and can be configured to expand to widen the aorta and to accommodate growth in the patient.
US11559407B2	Wrist implants The present invention provides a prosthetic wrist implant comprising: a radial implant component having an elongated radial stem extending proximally adapted for attachment to radius, a carpal implant component having a distal surface adapted for attachment to one or more carpal bones, and a interposed component between the radial implant component and the carpal implant component that is flexible and allows for changes in orientation between the radial component and the carpal components relative to each other component.
US11559404B2	Acetabular surgical implant for segmental pelvic defect and methods of use and manufacture A method of implanting a medical device including forming a tunnel at least partially through a patient's bone, placing the medical device on the bone so that a stress-diffusion element (i.e., a stem) extending from the medical device at least partially extends into the tunnel, and securing the medical device to the bone. The medical device includes a hemispherical cup having a bone-abutment exterior surface, an interior surface defining a cavity, a circumferential rim extending between the exterior surface and the interior surface, and at least one aperture extending between the exterior surface and the interior surface. The stress-diffusion element is formed to extend from and be oriented with respect to the cup based on whether the surgical implant is to be used on a left side or right side of the patient for reconstruction of the segmental acetabular defect.
US11559392B2	Intraocular lens The invention is directed to an intraocular lens having an optical body, two haptic elements and first and second sets of a plurality of ropes corresponding to respective ones of the first and second haptic elements. The ropes are secured to the optical body and to the haptic element and have a severing sequence. The haptic elements each have a compressed state, a partly compressed state and an uncompressed state. In the compressed state, the first rope of the severing sequence is configured to deform the haptic element in a direction toward the optical body as a result of which the first rope is under a tensile stress and the rest of the ropes are stress-free and, by the ropes being severed successively in the severing sequence, the haptic element can be brought firstly to the partly compressed state. All the ropes are severed in the uncompressed state.
US11559386B2	Endovascular graft systems and methods for deployment in main and branch arteries Endovascular systems for deployment at branched arteries include a main tubular graft body deployable within a main artery including a proximal end and an opposed distal end. The proximal and distal ends have a tubular graft wall therein between. A plurality of inflatable channels are disposed along the main tubular graft body, and at least one stent segment is disposed along the tubular graft wall of the main tubular graft body. The plurality of inflatable channels are configured to be inflatable with an inflation medium. The at least one stent segment is disposed between two or more adjacent inflatable channels of the plurality of inflatable channels.
US11559378B2	Scanning dental impressions Systems and methods are provided for scanning a dental impression to obtain a digital model of a patient's dentition as an input to computer aided design (CAD) and computer aided manufacturing (CAM) methods for producing dental prostheses.
US11559374B2	Release agent receptacle The present disclosure includes method, system, apparatus, and indicator embodiments. One apparatus includes an appliance for placement over one or more teeth and a release agent receptacle including an outer portion provided on appliance surface, an inner portion provided within the outer portion, and one or more apertures formed in the outer portion.
US11559365B2	Systems and methods for entering and exiting a teleoperational state A teleoperational medical system includes a teleoperational control system, a teleoperational manipulator, an operator controller. The control system includes a processing unit configured to: determine a position and orientation of a marker on an operator of the operator controller; determine whether a head portion of the operator is directed toward or away from a display region of a display; based on a determination that the head portion is directed toward the display region, initiate an operator following mode in which a movement of the operator controller provides a corresponding movement to the teleoperational manipulator; and based on a determination that the head portion is directed away, suspend the operator following mode. The determination that the head portion is directed away from the display region of the display device includes determining whether the head portion of the operator is directed away from the display region for a threshold time period.
US11559362B2	Systems and methods for autonomous cardiac mapping Methods and systems for autonomous cardiac mapping are disclosed. An example system for autonomous cardiac mapping of a heart chamber includes a processor being configured to acquire a representative geometric shell of the heart chamber, control a robotic device to autonomously navigate a mapping probe to a plurality of locations within the heart chamber based at least in part on the representative geometric shell, and generate a three-dimensional electroanatomical map of the heart chamber based on electrical data collected by the probe at the plurality of locations.
US11559360B2	Object removal through a percutaneous suction tube A method is described for using percutaneous access to a patient to remove an object from a cavity within the patient. The method includes inserting a suction tube into a port created by a percutaneous cut. An endoscope is also advanced into the cavity, however the endoscope passes through a patient lumen rather than through the port. Using a working channel within the endoscope, fluid is irrigated through the cavity. Additionally, a negative pressure is applied to the suction tube, such that the combination of fluid irrigation and negative pressure assist in removing the object from the cavity through the suction tube.
US11559345B2	Vapor ablation systems and methods A vapor delivery system and method is provided that is adapted for treating prostate tissue. The vapor delivery system includes a vapor delivery needle configured to deliver condensable vapor energy to tissue. In one method, the vapor delivery system is advanced transurethrally into the patient to access the prostate tissue. The vapor delivery system includes a generator unit and an inductive heating system to produce a high quality vapor for delivery to tissue. Methods of use are also provided.
US11559344B2	Closure top driver depth limiter An apparatus to limit a seating depth of a fastener can include a cylindrical housing, a pin, a driver, and a biasing element. The cylindrical housing can include a proximal portion couplable to a tool, a distal portion engageable with a workpiece, and a bore extending from an opening on the distal portion towards the proximal portion along a longitudinal axis of the housing. The pin can be secured to the housing and can extend radially inward into the bore. The driver can be translatable within the bore of the housing and can extend beyond the opening on the distal portion to engage the fastener. The driver can include a slot that can be engageable with the pin to receive a torque from the pin and can rotate with the housing to transfer the torque to a fastener when the pin engages the slot.
US11559343B2	Photodynamic articular joint implants and methods of use Photodynamic devices for replacement of an articular head of a bone are provided. In an embodiment, a photodynamic device includes a photodynamic support member and an articular member attachable, either fixedly or removably, to the photodynamic support member and having a bearing surface. In an embodiment, the articular member includes a recess designed to receive the photodynamic support member. In an embodiment, the photodynamic support member includes an opening into which a shaft of the articular member can be inserted to attach the articular member to the photodynamic support member.
US11559337B2	Expended tab reinforcement sleeve A sleeve can be adapted to reinforce a bone anchor, and can include a body, a lock, and an actuator. The body can include a first sleeve arm and a second sleeve arm, where each can extend longitudinally along opposing sides of a longitudinal bore open at a distal end of the sleeve. The lock can be coupled to the body and releasably securable to a channel of a head of the bone anchor to secure the sleeve to the anchor.
US11559331B2	Assembly for placement of a cardiac, aortic or arterial implant with stimulation assistance by a peripheral venous or arterial catheter An assembly for placement of a cardiac, aortic or arterial implant. The assembly includes an insertion sheath of an introducer or of a delivery catheter, which is of a size smaller than that of an introducer, intended to be introduced into an artery of a human body. The metal support of an electrode of the external cardiac stimulator being integrated into the insertion sheath of a peripheral venous or arterial accessory catheter, or a sleeve around the accessory catheter, which is introduced into the peripheral vein or artery of a patient. The sheath of the accessory catheter or the sleeve is therefore directly in contact with a peripheral vein or artery of the patient.
US11559328B2	Multi-shield spinal access system An access device for accessing an intervertebral disc having an outer shield comprising an access shield with a larger diameter (˜16-30 mm) that reaches from the skin down to the facet line, with an inner shield having a second smaller diameter (˜5-12 mm) extending past the access shield and reaches down to the disc level. This combines the benefits of the direct visual microsurgical/mini open approaches and the percutaneous, “ultra-MIS” techniques.
US11559324B2	Atherectomy system with supply line fitment An atherectomy system includes a handle having a handle housing and a drive motor that is disposed within the handle housing and is adapted to rotate a drive cable extending through the handle and operably coupled to an atherectomy burr. A supply line extends from the handle housing. A supply line fitment may be disposed relative to the handle housing and may be configured to releasably secure the supply line relative to the handle housing such that the supply line is directed away from the handle housing in a direction that is selected from two or more directions.
US11559309B2	Filamentary devices for treatment of vascular defects Devices and methods for treatment of a patient's vasculature are described. Embodiments may include a permeable implant having a radially constrained state configured for delivery within a catheter lumen, an expanded state, and a plurality of elongate filaments that are woven together. The permeable implant may include a stiffer proximal portion that is configured to sit at the neck of an aneurysm. The stiffer proximal portion may include coils, stiffening elements, or reinforcement elements disposed about or associated with the filaments or woven together with the filaments.
US11559308B2	Method for smart energy device infrastructure A method for characterizing a state of an end effector of an ultrasonic device is disclosed. The ultrasonic device including an electromechanical ultrasonic system defined by a predetermined resonant frequency. The electromechanical ultrasonic system further including an ultrasonic transducer coupled to an ultrasonic blade. The method including applying, by an energy source, a power level to the ultrasonic transducer; measuring, by a control circuit coupled to a memory, an impedance value of the ultrasonic transducer; comparing, by the control circuit, the impedance value to a reference impedance value stored in the memory; classifying, by the control circuit, the impedance value based on the comparison; characterizing, by the control circuit, the state of the electromechanical ultrasonic system based on the classification of the impedance value; and adjusting, by the control circuit, the power level applied to the ultrasonic transducer based on the characterization of the state of the end effector.
US11559306B2	Apparatus and method to detect full seating of buttress applicator in end effector of surgical stapler An apparatus includes: (a) at least one platform configured to be positioned between opposing first and second jaws of an end effector of a surgical stapler, wherein the at least one platform is configured to transition between a first state and a second state; (b) at least one adjunct element positioned on the at least one platform; (c) at least one detector configured to detect a predetermined portion of the end effector; and (d) a driver configured to selectively transition the at least one platform from the first state to the second state in a direction toward at least one of the first or second jaws when the at least one detector detects the predetermined portion of the end effector for placing the at least one adjunct element in contact with a corresponding surface of the at least one of the first or second jaws.
US11559302B2	Surgical instrument including a firing member movable at different speeds A surgical instrument including an end effector that has a selectively reciprocatable implement movably supported therein. The implement is selectively advanceable in a distal direction upon application of a rotary actuation motion thereto and retractable in a proximal direction upon application of a rotary retraction motion thereto. An elongate shaft assembly is coupled to the end effector and is configured to transmit the rotary actuation motion and rotary retraction motion to the reciprocatable implement from a robotic system that is configured to generate the rotary actuation motion and said rotary retraction motion.
US11559301B2	Surgical stapling device A surgical device is disclosed which includes a handle portion, a central body portion and a SULU. The SULU includes a proximal body portion, an intermediate pivot member and a tool assembly. The intermediate pivot member is pivotally secured to the proximal body portion about a first pivot axis and the tool assembly is pivotally secured to the intermediate pivot member about a second pivot axis which is orthogonal to the first pivot axis. The SULU includes a plurality of articulation links which are operably connected to the tool assembly by non-rigid links. The articulation links are adapted to releasably engage articulation links positioned in the central body portion. The body portion articulation links are connected to an articulation actuator which is supported for omni-directional movement to effect articulation of the tool assembly about the first and second axes. The handle portion includes a spindle and barrel assembly drive mechanism for advancing and retracting a drive member positioned in the tool assembly. In one embodiment, the tool assembly includes a cartridge assembly having a plurality of staples and an anvil assembly.
US11559297B2	Suturing device and methods of use thereof A suturing device includes a hollow needle. The hollow needle has a length extending between a proximal end and a distal end and defining a lumen having an inner diameter. The suturing device further includes a length of surgical suture having a leading end and a trailing end and an outer diameter smaller than the inner diameter of the lumen. At least a portion of the surgical suture is located within the lumen of the hollow needle. A surgical kit including the suturing device and methods of using the suturing device of the present invention are also disclosed.
US11559295B2	NIR/red light for lateral neuroprotection The use of red or near infrared light upon neurons of the lumbar plexus that are in distress due to retraction-induced ischemia. The surgeon may protect nerves made ischemic in the surgery by: a) making an incision in a patient, b) inserting an access device into the patient through the incision to at least partially create a path to a spine of the patient, and c) irradiating nervous tissue adjacent the path with an amount of NIR or red light effective to provide neuroprotection.
US11559292B2	Handle for a surgical tool A handle for a surgical tool including a shaft having a proximal end and a distal end with a gripping handle affixed to the proximal end of the shaft. A bushing is attached to the distal end of the shaft, the bushing including a plurality of flexible members circumferentially spaced apart. The handle further includes a sleeve circumscribing the shaft and the bushing. The sleeve is moveable between a first position substantially covering an entirety of the bushing and a second position spaced from a most distal end of the bushing.
US11559290B2	Navigable endobronchial tool to access tissue outside a bronchus Methods, systems, and devices for accessing tissue outside a bronchus and marking the location of a biopsy are provided. The method includes loading a navigation plan into a navigation system with the navigation plan including a CT volume generated from a plurality of CT images, inserting an extended working channel (EWC) including a location sensor into a patient's airways, registering a sensed location of the EWC with the CT volume of the navigation plan, and selecting a target in the navigation plan located outside the periphery of a patient's airways. The method further includes navigating the EWC and location sensor proximate the target, inserting a piercing catheter into the EWC, piercing through an airway wall to reach the target, storing a position of the location sensor in the navigation system as a biopsy location, and performing a biopsy at the stored biopsy location.
US11559288B2	Portable fluid sampling device, system for using same, and method of making and using same A system for collecting and retaining a sample from exhaled breath of a subject for analysis can include a two part housing, a two part trap section, and optionally a boat fitment. Disclosed is a portable fluid sampling device comprising: a housing including a first portion removably attachable to a second portion, the first and second portions being configured to combine to form a chamber therein, the chamber being configured to at least temporarily contain or hold a biological sample therein, at least one of the first portion and the second portion including an inlet, the other of the first portion and the second portion including an outlet, wherein the device further comprises at least one of the following: a) one of the first portion and the second portion including an end having a projection, the other of the first portion and the second portion including an end having a groove, the groove being configured to receive at least a portion of the projection therein; or b) tamper evident means for indicating that the first portion of the housing has previously been separated from the second portion of the housing.
US11559286B2	Ultrasound diagnostic apparatus and control program thereof for detecting the three dimensional size of a low echo region An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus and a control program for an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus. According to an embodiment, the ultrasound diagnostic apparatus includes an ultrasound probe that transmits and receives ultrasound waves to and from a subject in three dimensional space, a position sensor, and a processor. The processor is configured to determine whether or not a first region and a second region configure the same three dimensional region across a first scanning surface and a second scanning surface. The processor is configured to perform, based on the determining result, processing to obtain information representing the size of the three dimensional region in a direction intersecting the first scanning surface and the second scanning surface. The processor is configured to perform control for notifying the information.
US11559285B2	Reflection ultrasound tomographic imaging using full-waveform inversion A medical ultrasound (US) imaging system includes a US probe and a processor. The US probe includes an array of transducers arranged in a reflection geometry, the probe configured to emit US waves and to receive reflected ultrasound waves that are reflected from a body portion of a patient. The processor is configured to generate an image of the body portion of the patient by applying an inverse model to the emitted and reflected US waves.
US11559283B2	Ultrasound diagnosis apparatus and method of controlling ultrasound diagnosis apparatus An ultrasound diagnosis apparatus including: an ultrasound probe having a transducer array; and a processor configured to: perform transmission and reception of an ultrasonic beam from the transducer array toward a subject, into which contrast media including microbubbles is introduced; image a reception signal output from the transducer array to generate an ultrasound image of the subject; acquire trajectories of the microbubbles in a one cross section of the subject by tracking movement of the microbubbles based on the ultrasound image corresponding to the one cross section of the subject; detect, as a feature point, a trajectory, in which a distance between a start point and an end point in a prescribed time range is less than a prescribed value, among the trajectories of the microbubbles; and display the ultrasound image, the acquired trajectories and the detected feature point on the display unit.
US11559282B2	Medical information processing system and medical image processing apparatus A medical information processing system in an embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry acquires an ultrasound image including an observation target and having additional information, positional information indicating a position of an ultrasound probe in a subject at time of collection of the ultrasound image, and a reference image obtained by taking an image of a region including the observation target at a time point other than the time of collection. The processing circuitry generates, based on the positional information, correspondence information in which the ultrasound image and the reference image are associated with each other. The processing circuitry causes an output unit to output the generated correspondence information.
US11559277B2	Ultrasound 3D imaging system The present invention related to an ultrasound imaging system win which the scan head includes a beamformer circuit that performs far field subarray beamforming or includes a sparse array selecting circuit that actuates selected elements. When using a hierarchical two-stage or three-stage beamforming system, three dimensional ultrasound images can be generated in real-time. The invention further relates to flexible printed circuit boards in the probe head. The invention furthermore related to the use of coded or spread spectrum signaling in ultrasound imagining systems. Matched filters based on pulse compression using Golay code pairs improve the signal-to-noise ratio thus enabling third harmonic imaging with suppressed sidelobes. The system is suitable for 3D full volume cardiac imaging.
US11559268B2	Low-dose x-ray imaging system A back illuminated sensor is included as a collector component of a detector for use in intraoral and extraoral 2D and 3D dental radiography, digital tomosynthesis, photon-counting computed tomography, positron emission tomography (PET), and single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT). The disclosed imaging method includes one or more intraoral or extraoral emitters for emitting a low-dose gamma ray or x-ray beam through an examination area; and one or more intraoral or extraoral detectors for receiving the beam, each detector including a back illuminated sensor. Within the detector, the beam is converted into light and then focused and collected at a photocathode layer without passing through the wiring layer of the back illuminated sensor.
US11559267B2	Ultra-fast scanning x-ray imaging device Disclosed is a linear array ultra-fast scanning x-ray imaging device. The linear array x-ray imaging device is single photon sensitive, operating in frame output mode and including a pixel array Application Specific Integrated Circuit including the readout pixel array. The ASIC includes digital control logic and sufficient memory to accumulate digital output frames in various modes of operation prior to output from the ASIC, permitting advanced imaging functionalities directly on the ASIC, while maintaining a dynamic range of 16 bits and single photon sensitivity. The effective or secondary frames output from the pixel array ASIC can be tagged with user provided external triggers synchronizing the effective frames to the x-ray beam energy and/or to the movement of the x-ray source or imaged object. This enables dual energy imaging and ultra-fast scanning, without complex and costly conventional photon counting x-ray imaging sensors. The system architecture is simpler and higher performance.
US11559265B2	Systems and methods for adjusting medical device A method for adjusting a medical device is provided. The method includes obtaining an initial trajectory of a component of the medical device. The initial trajectory of the component includes a plurality of initial positions. For each of the plurality of initial positions, the method further includes determining whether a collision is likely to occur between a subject and the component according to the initial trajectory of the component. In response to the determination that the collision is likely to occur, the method further includes updating the initial trajectory of the component to determine an updated trajectory of the component.
US11559258B2	Stimulation lead with electrodes configured for sensing and stimulation over a partial circumference A lead body is operable to be implanted proximate a target nerve tissue of a patient. A sensing electrode is configured to sense biopotentials over a first partial circumference of the lead body. A stimulation electrode is configured to deliver stimulation energy over a second partial circumference of the lead body. A signal generator is electrically coupled to the stimulation electrode and a sensing circuit is coupled to the sensing electrode. A processor is operable to apply a stimulation signal to the stimulation electrode via the signal generator and, via the sensing circuit, sense an evoked response to the stimulation signal that propagates along a neural pathway.
US11559253B2	Wearable physical-activity measurement system for balancing physical-activity energy expenditure and basal metabolic rate to food energy intake by adjusting measured portions of food ingredients An energy balancing system scales portion sizes of user-selected meal recipes to control a digital scale to prompt the user to measure scaled quantities of meal ingredients to prepare scaled meals. Physical activity tracking devices provide data to generate physical activity energy expenditures for energy burned by physical activity. The physical activity energy is added to a basal metabolic rate of energy expenditure that is a function of sex, weight, height, and age. The total energy expended are scaled down for a weight-loss goal to obtain the total recommended energy. A recipe portion-size optimizer adjusts scaling factors for each recipe so that the total recommended energy is met by the scaled meals. Amounts of nutrients for the recipes can also be scaled by the scaling factors to match recommended nutrient amounts when the meal recipe optimizer generates the scaling factors using an over-determined linear system optimizer.
US11559249B2	Method for measuring hair movement characteristics A method of measuring changes in hair movement characteristics, predictive of consumer response includes: i) providing an apparatus for measuring hair movement characteristics of hair; ii) measuring the hair movement characteristics using the apparatus to obtain a first hair movement characteristic; iii) applying a treatment to the hair or an assault to the hair; iv) measuring the hair movement characteristics using the apparatus after step iii) to obtain a second hair movement characteristic; v) comparing the first hair movement characteristic and the second hair movement characteristic; and vi) assessing a change in movement occurring as a result of the application of the treatment or the assault.
US11559240B2	Methods and tools to merge mapping data acquired from multiple catheters The present disclosure is directed to merging data acquired from differently configured catheters on a common map. In use, physical characteristics of catheters influence recorded electrical signals/responses such that differently configured catheters (e.g., different electrode sizes, shapes, materials, spacings, etc.) may record different responses to measurements taken at the same location in response to the same excitation signal. To allow merging of data from differently configured catheters in a common map, the present disclosure applies a corrective coefficient or transfer function to the recorded electrical signals of one or both catheters to counter-balance variable influences of catheter specific characteristics on recorded signals.
US11559239B2	Electronic device including electrically conductive connection member An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a housing, a printed circuit board disposed inside the housing and including a first face and a second face that faces away from the first face, a connection member disposed on the first face and electrically connected to the printed circuit board, a switch member disposed on the first face and at least partially overlaps the connection member when viewed from above the first face, and a button member including an electrically conductive member, and disposed to be capable of operating the switch member. The electrically conductive member is electrically connected to the connection member.
US11559236B2	Printed electrode catheter An elongate medical device may comprise an elongate tubular body, an electrode, and a trace. The elongate tubular body may comprise a distal end portion and a proximal end portion, the body defining a longitudinal axis. The electrode may comprise electrically-conductive ink extending circumferentially about a portion of the distal end portion. The trace may comprise electrically-conductive ink, electrically coupled with the electrode, extending proximally from the electrode.
US11559235B2	Pacing device with autonomous anti-tachycardia pacing In an example, an apparatus is described that includes an implantable housing, a heart signal sensing circuit configured to sense intrinsic electrical heart signals, a ventricular tachyarrhythmia (VT) detector circuit, operatively coupled to the heart signal sensing circuit, the detector circuit operable to detect a VT based on the sensed heart signals, a processor configured to control delivery of an anti-tachyarrhythmia pacing (ATP) therapy based on the detected VT, and an energy delivery circuit configured to deliver the ATP therapy in response to the detected VT, wherein the apparatus does not include a shock circuit capable of delivering a therapeutically-effective cardioverting or defibrillating shock.
US11559228B2	Augmented and virtual reality eyewear, systems, and methods for delivering polarized light and determining glucose levels Various embodiments of a user-wearable device can comprise a frame configured to mount on a user. The device can include a display attached to the frame and configured to direct virtual images to an eye of the user. The device can also include a light source configured to provide polarized light to the eye of the user and that the polarized light is configured to reflect from the eye of the user. The device can further include a light analyzer configured to determine a polarization angle rotation of the reflected light from the eye of the user such that a glucose level of the user can be determined based at least in part on the polarization angle rotation of the reflected light.
US11559227B2	Non-invasive physiological sensor cover A sensor cover according to embodiments of the disclosure is capable of being used with a non-invasive physiological sensor, such as a pulse oximetry sensor. Certain embodiments of the sensor cover reduce or eliminate false readings from the sensor when the sensor is not in use, for example, by blocking a light detecting component of a pulse oximeter sensor when the pulse oximeter sensor is active but not in use. Further, embodiments of the sensor cover can prevent damage to the sensor. Additionally, embodiments of the sensor cover prevent contamination of the sensor.
US11559223B2	Glucose measuring apparatus and method Disclosed is a glucose measuring apparatus including a pressure measurer having an elastic part or a pressure sensor, that measures a pressure applied to an object, a film that comprises a first optical waveguide configured to be close to the object, a near infrared ray (NIR) irradiator that irradiates an NIR to the first optical waveguide if the measured pressure is greater than or equal to a preset value, an NIR receiver that receives an attenuated total reflection NIR (ATR-NIR) from the first optical waveguide, and an analyzer that measures a blood glucose level based on the ATR-NIR, wherein the film is an independent module that can be combined with and separated from the glucose measuring apparatus.
US11559219B2	Bio-impedance analyzer Systems and methods relating to bio-impedance analysis. The system eliminates the need for hardware phase measurements by using the K-K transform to extract the phase from the magnitude detected. The system has a magnitude detection sub-system that includes a signal generation block, a DC cancellation block, and an amplitude control block. An A/D converter converts the detected magnitude into a digital signal and signal processing is performed to extract the phase of the signal from the magnitude detected.
US11559208B2	Imaging with scattering layer Laser light is emitted from a laser into a scattering layer. An ultrasound signal is emitted into a sample. A signal is generated with a light detector in response to a measurement beam of laser light exiting the light scattering layer into the light detector. At least a portion of the measurement beam formed between the laser and the light detector is wavelength-shifted by the ultrasound signal subsequent to the ultrasound signal propagating through the sample.
US11559205B2	Biological measuring device and head mounted display apparatus A biological measuring device includes a light source that emits first light illuminating an area on a living body, an imaging device that detects second light returned from the living body and acquires a first image including at least part of the living body, and a control circuit that controls the light source. If a specific part of the living body is not located in a predetermined coordinate range in the first image, the control circuit restricts emission of the first light from the light source. The predetermined coordinate range is set outside the area.
US11559202B2	System for integrally measuring clinical parameters of visual function System for integrally measuring clinical parameters of the visual function including a display unit (20) for representing a scene with a 3D object having variable characteristics such as virtual position and virtual volume of the 3D object within the scene; movement sensors (60) for detecting the user head position and distance from the display unit (20); tracking sensors (10) for detecting the user pupils position and pupillary distance; an interface (30) for the user interaction on the scene; processing means (42,44) for analysing the user response based on the data coming from sensors (60,10) and the interface (30), with the characteristics variations of the 3D object; and based on the estimation of a plurality of clinical parameters of the visual function related to binocularity, accommodation, ocular motility and visual perception.
US11559199B2	Visual contrast sensitivity cards for pediatric subjects A visual stimulus for a set of contrast cards is provided which comprises a hollow outer circle, opposing and identical first and second arc segment within the outer circle which are symmetrical about the vertical diameter of the outer circle, a first filled-in circle and a second filled-in circle being identical in diameter to the first filled-in circle, each residing on opposite ends of the horizontal diameter of the outer circle and each being equidistant from the center of the outer circle, a filled-in center element having a rotational center on the center of the outer circle, the center element being symmetrical about both the horizontal and vertical diameter of the outer circle.
US11559193B2	Medical control device and endoscope system A medical control device includes: a light source controller configured to modulate pulsed light by changing a crest value of a pulsed current and emit the pulsed light a plurality of times from the light source in one frame; an imaging controller configured to cause an image sensor to sequentially generate a pixel signal at a specific frame rate; and an image processor configured to use a pixel signal obtained by multiplying the pixel signal for specific one frame from each pixel of a specific horizontal line by a ratio of an amount of exposure of specific pulsed light made in the specific one frame to a total exposure amount obtained by adding each exposure amount of all of the pulsed lights exposing the specific horizontal line within the specific one frame including an illumination period of the specific pulsed light.
US11559180B2	Filter system and a vacuum cleaner incorporating a filter system A filter system for a vacuum cleaner is disclosed. The system comprises a housing reconfigurable relative to a bin between an operative configuration in which the housing is disposed upon the bin so that dirt separated from dirt-laden air can collect in the bin, and an idle configuration in which the housing is removed from the bin. The housing comprises an inlet for receiving dirt-laden air into the housing, an outlet via which cleaned air can exit the housing. The system further comprises first filtering means and second filtering means disposed within the housing, the first filtering means being positioned upstream of the second filtering means. The first and second filtering means comprises a filter medium configured to separate dirt from the dirt-laden air passing from the inlet to the outlet through the filter medium. The system further comprises filter cleaning means for removing dirt from the filter medium of the first filtering means when the housing is configured at least in the operative configuration.
US11559174B2	Dispenser for rolls of absorbent paper material A dispenser including two roll supports; and a housing, the dispenser configured such that the roll supports can assume the following positions relative to the housing: at least one dispensing position for a roll support of the two roll supports, and a storage position for a roll support of the two roll supports, the dispenser configured for allowing dispensing from a roll arranged on a roll support of the two roll supports which is in the dispensing position and for storage of a roll arranged on a roll support of the two roll supports which is in the storage position; the dispenser configured to provide a first state, wherein a first roll support of the roll supports is in the dispensing position and a second roll support of the roll supports is in the storage position, and a second state, wherein the second roll support is in a dispensing position.
US11559169B1	Single shell taco fry mold A single shell taco fry mold device to enable a user to deep fry a single taco shell. The single shell taco fry mold device includes an open end, a connected end, an outside layer, an inside layer, and a handle. A handle rest of the handle includes a twist or angled bend, thereby allowing the user to rest the handle on an edge of a pan or deep fryer within which it is placed. The outside layer includes at least one support rung to adjoin the outside layer to the inside layer to act as a stopping barrier on the connected end that prevents the tortilla from sliding through or out of the single shell taco fry mold device. The handle grip is made from rubberized plastics to retain the single shell taco fry mold device in a secure and comfortable manner.
US11559165B2	Apparatus for preparing a coffee beverage A coffee brewer contains a brewing unit in which coffee grounds having been poured in are compressed by a plunger driven by an actuator. Heated water flows through the compressed coffee grounds. A control device controls the actuator in accordance with signals of an angle of rotation sensor. The control device first moves the plunger against a stop in an ejection position to calibrate the sensor, then moves the plunger by a predetermined distance in a downwards direction into a pouring-in position. Afterwards the control device moves the plunger by a second distance into the brewing position, a length of the predetermined distance and the second distance corresponds to a number of pulses of the sensor which are stored in the memory. The control device subsequently moves the plunger by a third distance back into the ejection position in which the coffee grounds are removed from the plunger.
US11559161B1	Temperature regulated preparation and storage system A temperature-regulated apparatus for food and drink preparation and storage, particularly for refrigeration and sous vide cooking. The apparatus is preferably a consumer electronic device comprising a compartment, base, reservoir, tube network, heating and cooling element, and an air pump system. The apparatus is controlled electronically and wirelessly in connection with a hardware and software system.
US11559157B1	Biodegradable and safe drinking straws from date palm leaves as substitute for plastic straws Biodegradable drinking straws from date palm leaves as a substitute for plastic straws. The straws are made by washing the palm tree leaves with a solution of ascorbic acid, 99% ethanol and water, cleaning the palm tree leaves with abrasive sheets, soaking the palm tree leaves, drying the palm tree leaves, heating the palm tree leaves to a temperature selected from a range of 60° C. to 140° C., rolling the palm tree leaves, binding the rolled palm tree leaves using biodegradable food grade adhesive, drying the rolled palm tree leaves.
US11559148B2	Mirror display assembly and retail display system A retail display system is provided with a point-of-sale display unit sized to be received in a retail store aisle. A first and a second plurality of mirror panes are oriented within the display unit, which are formed from different material compositions. A mirror display assembly is provided with samples from the first and second pluralities of mirror panes to visually demonstrate the material composition difference between the first plurality of mirror panes and the second plurality of mirror panes. The mirror display assembly is provided with a support with a base. An image surface is mounted upon the base. A first sample mirror pane is mounted to the support and oriented at an angle relative to the image surface to reflect the image surface. A second sample mirror pane is mounted to the support and oriented at an angle relative to the image surface to reflect the image surface.
US11559146B2	Foldable playard having X-frame assemblies and canopy cover A foldable playard includes a frame defining an interior space when unfolded and soft goods partially disposed within the interior space to define a partially enclosed space for a child to play and/or sleep. The frame includes multiple leg support assemblies and multiple X-frame assemblies that couple adjacent leg support assemblies together. The X-frame assembly is positioned near the top of the frame when the playard is unfolded such that the X-frame assembly functions as a top rail to mechanically reinforce the playard. In this manner, the playard does not include a separate compliant or rigid top rail or a bottom support structure, thus reducing the number of parts for manufacture. Additionally, the playard includes a single latch mechanism to maintain the playard in the unfolded configuration. The playard may also include an optional canopy cover assembly mounted to the frame to provide shade for the child.
US11559142B2	Bedding securement system A bedding securement system includes a first bedding layer configured to be disposed over a mattress and a flexible base layer configured to be secured under the mattress. The first bedding layer includes a top end, a bottom end, and a plurality of first fasteners disposed along the bottom end. Likewise, the flexible base layer includes a top end, a bottom end, and a plurality of anchoring fasteners disposed along the bottom end. The plurality of anchoring fasteners of the flexible base layer are configured to couple to the plurality of first fasteners of the first bedding layer so as to limit movement of the first bedding layer with respect to the mattress.
US11559136B1	Fold-in-half table having planar cross brace A planar cross brace for stiffening a tabletop of a fold-in-half collapsible table includes an elongate rectangular planar portion having elongate opposing side edges and narrow opposing end edges that are perpendicular to the side edges. A pair of opposing tabs extend from the opposing end edges in a direction perpendicular to the rectangular planar portion. A pair of opposing ribs extend from the opposing side edges in a direction perpendicular to the rectangular planar portion, thereby forming an elongate channel having a U-shaped cross section. The planar cross brace stiffens the inner edge of the tabletop portion to which it is attached, and the stiffening is independent of any connection to the inner edge of the other tabletop portion. This eliminates any need for interlocking features on the inner edges of the tabletop portions, such as those required by prior art tables.
US11559134B2	Cleaner head, removing apparatus, and removing method According to one embodiment, a cleaner head includes a first rotor, a second rotor, and a contact surface. The first rotor can be rotationally driven in a state where an outer peripheral surface of the first rotor is in contact with a sheet that includes organic fiber and is formed on a base, and can remove a part of the sheet from the base. The second rotor is arranged next to the first rotor in a direction along a rotation axis of the first rotor, and is rotated together with the first rotor in a state where the second rotor is not in contact with the sheet. The contact surface is in contact with an outer peripheral surface of the second rotor at a position away from the sheet around the rotation axis.
US11559133B2	Multi-feature cleaning apparatus for a supporting or restraining member The present disclosure generally relates to a portable, daily-use cleaning product. More specifically, the present disclosure relates to an apparatus, device, or structural system that is adapted to clean or disinfect a restraining member, such as a seatbelt in a car or a restraining belt of an airplane seat or train, or a supporting member, such as a support bar in a subway car or metro bus, and other suitable examples.
US11559129B2	Oral device container and oral device container and bottle assembly An oral device container and bottle assembly may include a bottle having a bottle connector; and an oral device container. The oral device container may include a base portion having: a base outer wall having an opening; a base inner wall; and an oral device container connector configured to removably connect to the bottle connector. The oral device container may further include a cap portion configured to be mounted to the base portion and to rotate relative to the base portion. The cap portion may have a cap outer wall having an opening; and a cap inner wall that is received within the base inner wall.
US11559127B2	System for carrying out a treatment of the head of hair, to be connected to at least one water inlet A system for carrying out a treatment of the head of hair, especially a shampooing operation, to be connected to at least one water inlet, the system including at least one source of cosmetic product, an adjustment device making it possible to modify at least one usage characteristic of at least one product conveyed to the head of hair, a user interface, enabling the user: to select a setting, the system being configured to act on the adjustment device as a function of the selected setting, and to input at least one item of information relating to a treatment result obtained with the selected setting.
US11559125B2	Hands free blow dryer A hands-free hair dryer assembly that has a concave housing assembly with an open top portion, at least one side surface, and a bottom portion having a bottom exterior surface. At least one air inlet is disposed through the bottom surface or the at least one side surface. At least one electrical fan assembly heats and blows air drawn through the at least one air inlet. An airflow distribution plenum directs heated air out the open top portion. A plurality of removable, protruding duct members disposed within the concave housing assembly broadens the airflow distribution and changes the speed of the airflow. The housing portions may be divided into two parts so that the hands-free hair dryer can be at least partly extended or retracted to change the dimensions of the open top portion.
US11559120B2	Ring structure with adjustable size The disclosure relates to a ring structure with an adjustable size, which includes an outer ring, an inner ring, and a concave-convex structure. The outer ring has an inner wall. The inner ring is removably fitted inside the outer ring and has an outer wall abutting against the inner wall. The concave-convex structure includes a protrusion connected on either one of the inner wall of the outer ring and the outer wall of the inner ring and a slot disposed on another one of the inner wall of the outer ring and the outer wall of the inner ring. The protrusion is mortised in the slot. Therefore, the inner ring is removably fitted inside the outer ring to generate a ring with various sizes for different users. The ring structure of this disclosure may have the advantages of providing various sizes and saving costs.
US11559114B2	Molded surface fastener and manufacturing method of molded surface fastener Provided is a molded surface fastener capable of stably having high engaging strength with respect to a loop member. The molded surface fastener of the present invention includes a base portion and a plurality of engaging elements provided with a stem portion and an engaging portion, and is formed of synthetic resin containing lubricant at 0.15 wt % or more and 1.00 wt % or less. A top end surface of the engaging element is formed to be flat, and the engaging portion has a hanging portion which hangs down obliquely downward toward the base portion.
US11559113B2	Plug for buckle, and buckle A plug for a buckle includes an attachment portion configured to be attached to the predetermined members; a pair of leg portions protruding in the same direction away from the attachment portion; extending portions extending in a direction from tip end portions of the pair of leg portions toward base end portions of the leg portions; a coupling piece coupling the base end portions of the pair of leg portions; a first restricting portion that is located at an intermediate portion of the coupling piece and faces extending ends of the extending portions; and second restricting portions that protrude from two sides in a longitudinal direction of the coupling piece in a manner of sandwiching the first restricting portion, extend in a protruding direction of the leg portions, and face inner side surfaces of the leg portions.
US11559110B2	Apparatus for adjusting a shoe and methods for making and using the same An apparatus for adjusting a shoe and methods for making and using the same. A relative movement can be generated between a platform and a model foot wearing the shoe such that the platform contacts the shoe and the model foot adjusts the shoe via the relative movement. Advantageously, the model foot can be a surrogate to a human foot in adjusting the shape of the shoe. The model foot can stretch the shoe in the same manner as human walk. A person can experience great comfort when wearing the stretched shoe. The model foot can simulate the mechanical characteristics of the natural foot. The model foot can simulate gait of a natural foot and the stretching of the shoe can be further customized.
US11559108B2	Automated footwear lacing systems, devices, and techniques In an example, a lacing engine apparatus can include a housing and a drivetrain. The housing can be securable within a footwear article. The drivetrain can include a motor, a sun gear, a planet gear, a rotating ring gear, and a spool. The spool can be secured to the ring gear and can be rotatable therewith. The spool can be configured to control a lace of the footwear article and can be configured to wind the lace as the ring gear rotates in a first direction.
US11559103B2	Shoe-lifting device Disclosed is a shoe-lifting device to be worn on a foot or footwear of a person. The shoe-lifting device includes a base platform having at least two indentations on an upper surface of the base platform. The base platform is configured to support the person and make contact with the ground. The shoe-lifting device also includes at least two straps configured to be connected to the base platform and to secure the shoe-lifting device to the foot or the footwear. The shoe-lifting device further includes at least one height-increasing insert having at least two protrusions. The at least two protrusions are positioned corresponding to the at least two indentations and are configured to be coupled with the at least two indentations. The insert is configured to be positioned in and/or on the base platform and to contact the bottom of the foot or the footwear.
US11559102B2	Footwear having therapeutic light source An article of footwear is configured to be worn so as to at least partially cover a wearer's foot. The footwear includes at least one optical fiber on an internal surface of the footwear. The at least one optical fiber is configured to project radiation having a therapeutic wavelength through the at least one optical fiber and toward at least one of the wearer's foot, ankle or leg when the footwear is being worn so as to at least partially cover the wearer's foot.
US11559100B2	Helmet with external shock wave dampening panels A helmet including a shell, a plurality of panel buttons pivotally attached at their proximal face to the outer surface of the shell, and the panel buttons are made of a flexible or elastic material with a protective outer coating to protect the panel buttons from abrasion. In one embodiment, the panel buttons are pivotally attached to the outer surface of the shell with a living hinge that allows the panel buttons to swivel in multiple planes that are generally perpendicular to the outer surface of the shell.
US11559099B2	Protective helmet A protective helmet, particularly a motorbike protective helmet, comprising an outer shell (1) for the distribution of impact forces, the outer shell (1) comprising a chin shell region (2) for covering a chin part of the person wearing the protective helmet, wherein the outer shell (1) comprises a viewing opening (3) arranged above the chin shell region (2), for the person wearing the protective helmet to see through, and the protective helmet has a slot (4a) with a slot shape for interlockingly receiving an electronic module (5a) corresponding to the slot shape, said slot (4a) comprising a slot opening substantially bordering an edge of the viewing opening (3). The protective helmet comprises another slot (4b) having another slot opening substantially bordering the edge of the viewing opening (3) and having the slot shape for interlockingly receiving another electronic module (5b) corresponding to the slot shape.
US11559098B2	Generating digital files for garment production Methods and systems are provided to generate a base digital file for a garment and a custom digital file for the garment, which may be used in garment production. For example, a system may receive information providing various specifications for manufacturing a garment, generate a base digital file for the garment, receive a request to transform the garment from a first garment size to a second garment size, and then generate a custom digital file for the garment by applying custom user body measurements to the base digital file or by applying a grading scale.
US11559096B1	Weigh fed garment tabs A weighted garment tab in the form of a weighted disk that has a fabric-safe and reusable adhesive on the back surface. The adhesive generally includes a cover or release member that protects it before application to the garment. This tab has a smooth, hard finish that does not catch onto or snag onto the dress fabric and is smaller, flatter, and smoother compared to the prior art devices mentioned above, so that it is much less noticeable to the wearer during use. Also, a method of preventing upward movement of a garment in an air current by applying one or more tabs onto the hem or lower portion of the inside of the garment.
US11559087B2	Cycling garment with a seat pad A cycling garment comprising a seat pad, wherein the seat pad comprises a cover and at least one shaped pads respect to a median longitudinal axis of the seat pad, wherein the seat pad is attached to the cycling garment along at least part of the perimeter of said cover, and the seat pad is also attached to the garment with a crotch attachment located in the rear portion of the seat pad.
US11559084B2	Battery unit, flavor inhaler, method for controlling battery unit, and program A battery unit includes a power source; a detection part for detecting an output voltage of the power source; a connection part to which a load for atomizing an aerosol source or heating a flavor source and a charger for charging the power source are connectable; and a control part being able to execute a power supplying mode that allows supply of electric power from the power source to the load and a charging mode that allows charging of the power source by the charger, wherein if a decreased quantity of the output voltage per predetermined period in the charging mode is equal to or less than a threshold value that has been set based on a decreased quantity of the output voltage per the predetermined period in the power supplying mode, the control part determines that there is abnormality in the charging mode.
US11559081B2	Aerosol provision system having a base for supporting one or more receptacles An aerosol provision system includes one or more receptacles each forming a respective central space, a base adapted to support the or each receptacle, the or each receptacle being removable from the base and at least a first airflow generator, operable to draw air through at least a first aerosol generator, wherein the base includes one or more outlets through which, in operation, aerosolized payload is directed to flow from the base into the central space of a respective receptacle and the or each receptacle comprises a first opening through which the user can inhale the aerosolized payload.
US11559080B2	Compound horizontal filter assembly machine and process An apparatus and processes for producing compound cigarette filters by horizontally assembling multiple filter segments onto the horizontally oriented transverse flutes of a continuous belt. Spaced apart hoppers are serially arranged above the belt, and each hopper contains at least one of the multiple segments of the compound filter being assembled. A transfer structure between each hopper and the belt serially delivers the filter segments to the flutes on the belt, and after such assembly the various filter segments are removed as a group from each flute of the continuous belt. The filter segments are then combined as a group with wrapped tobacco rods to thereby produce filtered cigarettes.
US11559078B2	Filter manufacturing apparatus The invention relates to a filter manufacturing apparatus including: —a feed path adapted to continuously feed a filter material along a longitudinal transport direction; —a forming device connected to a terminating end of the feed path and adapted to form the filter material into a rod-shaped continuous filter body and deliver the formed continuous filter body, the forming device including: a tubular element adapted to allow the filter material to pass therethrough to form the filter material into the continuous filter body; a heat source adapted to heat the filter material passing in the tubular element; —a diameter measuring device positioned at the outlet of the forming device and adapted to measure a diameter of the continuous filter body.
US11559072B2	Methods for preparing a comestible meat product The substrates, systems, and methods described herein relate to textured substrates for preparing a comestible meat product. Substrates and methods are described herein for controlling one or more of growth, adhesion, retention, and/or release of cells (e.g., of a cell sheet) on or from the surface of the substrate. A method of preparing a comestible meat product may include applying a plurality of non-human cells to at least one patterned texture substrate, growing the cells on the patterned texture substrate to form the comestible meat product, and separating the comestible meat product from the patterned texture substrate. The patterned texture allows for improved growth, adhesion, retention, and/or release of cells as compared to another surface not comprising the patterned texture. In some embodiments, the cell culture substrate surfaces include a plurality of regions corresponding to a plurality of patterned textures.
US11559071B2	N-acyl-amino acid derivatives for improvement of the flavour profile of edible compositions The use of a compound according to formula (I) or the edible salts thereof in an edible composition to mask or modulate an undesired taste or off-taste contained in the edible composition wherein R1 is an alkyl residue containing 6 to 20 carbon atoms, or an alkene residue containing from 9 to 25 carbon atoms with 1 to 6 double bonds, R1 together with the carbonyl group to which it is attached is a residue of a carboxylic acid, and NR2R3, in which R3 is H or together with R2 and the N-atom to which they are attached, a 5-membered ring, is a residue of an amino acid, in particular a proteinogenic amino acid, ornithine, gamma-aminobutyric acid or beta alanine, or a 1-amino cycloalkyl carboxylic acid.
US11559068B2	Concentrated orange carrot permeates A concentrated orange carrot permeate, wherein a) the amount of fructose is 2.5 to 30.0 wt. % on a dry matter basis, b) the amount of glucose is 3.0 to 20.0 wt. % on a dry matter basis, c) the amount of sucrose is 0.5 to 60.0 wt. % on a dry matter basis, and d) the dry matter is 55 to 85 wt. %, wherein the amounts of fructose and glucose are determined according to ASU L 31.00-12, wherein the amount of sucrose is determined according to ASU L 31.00-13, and wherein the dry matter is determined according to ASU L 26.11.03-1a. A caramelized concentrated orange carrot permeate, a mix of the concentrated orange carrot permeate and the caramelized concentrated orange carrot permeate, to the use of said products in food applications and to food products containing concentrated orange carrot permeate and/or caramelized concentrated orange carrot permeate.
US11559063B2	Methods and systems for enhancing feed-conversion-ratio in animals using mobile enzyme sequestration platforms (MSEP) A method for enhancing the enzymatic efficiency of an enzyme added to poultry feed for a living subject, comprises adding a cellulose-degrading enzyme to a mobile enzyme sequestration platform (MESP) so as to form an enzyme-MESP complex; adding the enzyme-MESP complex to poultry feed for a living subject; the enzyme efficiency of the cellulose-degrading enzyme of the enzyme-MESP complex after being exposed to a first adverse environment for a first period of time is at least 50% higher than the enzyme efficacy of the cellulose-degrading enzyme independent of the MESP being exposed to the first adverse environment for the first period of time.
US11559055B2	Endovascular apparatus for perfusing organs in a body In one representative embodiment, a method of perfusing organs in a patient's body is provided. The method comprises isolating the visceral arteries and the visceral veins from blood circulating through the patient's heart and perfusing the visceral arteries, the visceral veins, and the abdominal organs with a perfusion fluid that is fluidly separated from the blood circulating through the patient's heart. While the visceral arteries and the visceral veins are isolated, and the visceral arteries, the visceral veins, and the abdominal organs are being perfused, the patient's blood is allowed to continue to circulate through the heart.
US11559036B2	Portable, collapsible, opened window mounted enclosure with redundant fall prevention An enclosure which can be mounted into a common opened window, having a redundant series of attachments and engagements which minimize the likelihood of the enclosure and the enclosure's contents from falling to the ground outdoors. In the event that one attachment or engagement fails; the other attachments and engagements function together to prevent the enclosure from falling to the ground outdoors. An enclosure which requires minimal assembly by the user. An enclosure which is collapsible, portable, and lightweight. An enclosure which can be constructed of strong and rigid materials which are inexpensive and some are renewable. An enclosure which can be easily manufactured. An enclosure which self-adjusts to the length of various window sashes. An enclosure which can prevent insects and rain from entering the home. An enclosure which is sheltered from precipitation and sun. An enclosure which can be configured differently, and repurposed by the user.
US11559034B2	Tomato hybrid SVTE9816 The invention provides seeds and plants of tomato hybrid SVTE9816. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds, plant parts, and tissue cultures of tomato hybrid SVTE9816 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 SVTE9816 comprising introduced beneficial or desirable traits.
US11559031B2	Tomato hybrid SVTM9013 The invention provides seeds and plants of tomato hybrid SVTM9013. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds, plant parts, and tissue cultures of tomato hybrid SVTM9013 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 SVTM9013 comprising introduced beneficial or desirable traits.
US11559028B1	Soybean cultivar 02310912 A soybean cultivar designated 02310912 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 02310912, to the plants of soybean cultivar 02310912, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 02310912, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 02310912. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 02310912. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 02310912, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar 02310912 with another soybean cultivar.
US11559025B1	Maize hybrid X80P536 A novel maize variety designated X80P536 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are produced by crossing inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant by crossing hybrid maize variety X80P536 with another maize plant are disclosed. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X80P536 through backcrossing or genetic transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby are described. Maize variety X80P536, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety X80P536 are provided. Methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety X80P536 and methods of using maize variety X80P536 are disclosed.
US11559023B1	Maize hybrid X03P569 A novel maize variety designated X03P569 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are produced by crossing inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant by crossing hybrid maize variety X03P569 with another maize plant are disclosed. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X03P569 through backcrossing or genetic transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby are described. Maize variety X03P569, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety X03P569 are provided. Methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety X03P569 and methods of using maize variety X03P569 are disclosed.
US11559021B1	Maize hybrid X08P396 A novel maize variety designated X08P396 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are produced by crossing inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant by crossing hybrid maize variety X08P396 with another maize plant are disclosed. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X08P396 through backcrossing or genetic transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby are described. Maize variety X08P396, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety X08P396 are provided. Methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety X08P396 and methods of using maize variety X08P396 are disclosed.
US11559019B1	Maize hybrid X00P577 A novel maize variety designated X00P577 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are produced by crossing inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant by crossing hybrid maize variety X00P577 with another maize plant are disclosed. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X00P577 through backcrossing or genetic transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby are described. Maize variety X00P577, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety X00P577 are provided. Methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety X00P577 and methods of using maize variety X00P577 are disclosed.
US11559014B2	Method and system for in row variable rate precision irrigation An irrigation management system which allows for modulation of the watering gradient along crop rows. The system may include dual drip lines which allow for selection of gradients based upon the time each of the dual lines is active. The system may utilize pressure sensitive valves which select drip lines based upon the inlet feed water pressure. The system may include drip emitters which modify flow rates based upon inlet feed water pressure.
US11559009B2	Thermal plant treatment and a machine to apply the treatment The invention relates to a method of impacting the fruit production of a plant or crop by applying short-duration thermal shock streams of hot air to the plant periodically to impact the flavonoid biosynthetic pathway mechanisms in a plant thereby improving its fruit. The method includes the steps of (1) passing by the plant in a row at a speed in an improved Thermal Plant Treatment (TPT) machine, (2) ejecting from the TPT machine at least one hot stream of air in the direction of the unit plant area, (3) optionally measuring the thermal shock profile that the plant is subjected with thermal sensors, and (4) repeating the thermal shock profile treatment steps (1) and (2) at pre-determined regular intervals over at least a fraction of the crop year.
US11559006B2	Disrupting the behavior and development cycle of wood-boring insects with vibration A method of disrupting the normal behavior and natural development cycle of wood-boring insects by applying mechanical vibrations and detecting wood-boring insects by monitoring their vibration patterns.
US11559005B2	Temporal, irradiance-controlled photoacclimation A lighting system for temporal, irradiance-controlled photoacclimation includes a photoacclimation controller configured to generate control signals based on a photoacclimation schedule, a user interface configured to receive user input to the photoacclimation controller, the photoacclimation schedule based on the user input, a plurality of luminaires configured to emit light suitable for photosynthesis in plants at a plurality of different selectable levels of light output, and a communications network via which the control signals are provided to the plurality of luminaires, the luminaires adjusting the light output in response to the control signals.
US11558998B2	Dual handle speed adjustment device and lawn mower using same A dual handle speed adjustment device includes left and right handles, a link and a slider. The left and right handles each have an actuating end, an operating end and a handle hinge as a pivot axis. The slider has a first connection end connected to the actuating ends of the left and right handles, a second connection end connected to a speed control device, and a part between the first and second connection ends hinged to one end of the link, which has the other end thereof provided with a link rotation axis. The left and right handles independently drive the slider to move when they are turned. The invention can realize the separate operation of two speed adjusting handles.
US11558997B2	Implements and application units having a fluid applicator with nozzles for placement of applications with respect to agricultural plants of agricultural fields Described herein are implements and applicators for placement of fluid applications with respect to agricultural plants of agricultural fields. In one embodiment, a fluid applicator includes at least one applicator arm, a first nozzle disposed to apply fluid to a rhizosphere of the plants, and a second nozzle disposed to apply fluid between the row of plants.
US11558988B2	Rotary ground engaging tool with double loop barbed links A rolling basket assembly for an agricultural tillage implement. The rolling basket assembly includes a bracket, a first disk and a second disk rotatably connected to the bracket, a plurality of chain assemblies. Each chain assembly includes a first end connected to the first disk and a second end connected to the second disk and a plurality of links looped around one another and collectively forming each chain assembly. Each link includes a first loop, a second loop that is looped around the first loop, and at least one projection extending outwardly from one of the first loop and the second loop.
US11564334B2	Installing a server board A server tray assembly includes a server tray support configured to receive a server board that includes a working fluid conduit fluidly coupled to a server board connector disposed on a back plane of the server board, a back wall of the server tray support includes a fluid connector configured to form an unbiased fluid connection with the server board connector; and a locking assembly secured to at least one of a server rack or the server tray support, the locking assembly disposed opposite the fluid connector is configured to engage a portion of the server board to bias the server board toward the fluid connector to fluidly seal the unbiased fluid connection between the server board connector and the fluid connector of the server tray support.
US11564327B2	Connectors for a networking device with orthogonal switch bars Connectors for a networking device may be provided. A networking device may comprise a first plurality of switch bars each comprising a first switch type arranged parallel to one another, a second plurality of switch bars each comprising a second switch type arranged parallel to one another, and a third plurality of switch bars each comprising a third switch type arranged parallel to one another. The first plurality of switch bars, the second plurality of switch bars, and the third plurality of switch bars may be arranged orthogonally. A first one of the first plurality of switch bars may be connected to a first one of the second plurality of switch bars via a retractable mechanical connector mechanism.
US11564326B2	Air mover direction keying for dual airflow direction information handling system An air mover assembly may include an air mover comprising a body and a cable extending from the body and one or more air mover holders mechanically coupled to the body. The one or more air mover holders may comprise a plurality of cable maintenance features and a keying feature. The plurality of cable maintenance features may include a first cable maintenance feature configured to maintain the cable in a first configuration of the air mover in a first airflow direction and a second cable maintenance feature configured to maintain the cable in a second configuration of the air mover in a second airflow direction. The keying feature may be configured to mechanically interface with an interfering feature of a chassis when an attempt is made to improperly insert the air mover into the chassis in accordance with a proper airflow direction configuration of the chassis, in order to prevent improper insertion of the air mover into the chassis in accordance with the proper airflow direction configuration of the chassis.
US11564324B2	Input/output system An I/O system having redundant removable and/or replaceable components. Each of the removable/replaceable components can be removed by displacement parallel to a common axis. An I/O device having an I/O base with a lock-out toggle to prevent installation of one or more I/O modules to the I/O base unless a ground screw has been secured to supporting structure.
US11564311B2	Rigid-flexible printed circuit board and electronic device including same The disclosure relates to a rigid-flexible printed circuit board and an electronic device including same. The electronic device may include: a housing; a first module disposed in one region of the housing; a second module disposed in an other region of the housing and spaced apart from the first module; and a rigid-flexible printed circuit board electrically connecting the first module and the second module, wherein the rigid-flexible printed circuit board includes: a rigid region; a flexible region coupled to the rigid region, wherein a part of the flexible region overlaps the rigid region; and a protective layer laminated on at least one of an upper end or a lower end of the flexible region to cover at least a part of a coupling portion of the rigid region and the flexible region by a designated numerical value, the coupling portion having a tensile strength equal to or greater than a designated strength based on the flexible region being bent. Various other embodiments are possible.
US11564310B2	Vibration-damped circuit arrangement, converter, and aircraft having such an arrangement The invention relates to a circuit arrangement, comprising at least one wiring carrier plate (1), characterized by at least one separating element (2) formed in the wiring carrier plate (1), which separating element divides the wiring carrier plate (1) into sections separated by the separating element (2), wherein the transfer of vibrations from one section to another section is at least partially decoupled and/or damped by the separating element (2). The invention further relates to a converter having such a circuit arrangement, and to an aircraft having a converter. The converter can comprise capacitor stacks (3) arranged on the wiring carrier plate (1), and power semiconductors (6).
US11564304B2	Dimmer system control A dimmer comprising a controller and a wireless adapter coupled to the controller. The dimmer is connected to a LED lamp through a switched AC line. The controller is configured to send to the lamp user control information, and provisioning information for allowing the lamp to distinguish the control information transmitted by the dimmer from control information transmitted by other dimmers in the vicinity of the lamp. For performing the provisioning, the controller is configured, after turning-ON the lamp, to wirelessly transmit thereto, at a provisioning frequency F0, provisioning information comprising an identification of an RF frequency Fn that is preselected as the dimmer-specific frequency for controlling the lamp, and to vary the wireless transmit frequency from F0 to Fn for henceforth sending thereat the control information to the lamp.
US11564296B2	Stochastic frequency pulse modulation for light-emitting diode drivers Systems and methods that enable LED drivers to generate drive signals by implementing a modulation technique referred to herein as “stochastic frequency pulse modulation” (SFPM) are disclosed. The SFPM is based on randomly increasing or decreasing, during every cycle of a drive signal, the amount of time the drive signal is high or low, tracking the deviation of the total amount of time (i.e., for multiple cycles) that the drive signal is high or low from what it should be to provide to a LED a target average power dictated by a target dimming level, and using the tracking to set limits of ranges from which the durations of the time periods when the drive signal is high or low may be randomly selected.
US11564285B2	Electronic device for transmitting, to cover device, data acquired from external electronic device, on basis of identification information of cover device, and control method An electronic device for transmitting, to a cover device, data acquired from an external electronic device, on the basis of identification information of the cover device, and a control method are disclosed. An electronic device according to various embodiments of the present document comprises: a housing; a first antenna and a second antenna which are accommodated in the housing; a first wireless communication circuit set to provide first wireless communication by using the first antenna; a second wireless communication circuit set to provide second wireless communication by using the second antenna; and a control circuit accommodated in the housing and operably connected to the first wireless communication circuit and the second wireless communication circuit, wherein the control circuit detects coupling between a cover device, which can be coupled to one side of the electronic device, and the electronic device, and the cover device includes a third antenna and a third wireless communication circuit set to provide the first wireless communication by using the third antenna, and can be set to: acquire, through the first wireless communication circuit, identification information related to the cover device from the cover device at least on the basis of the detection; acquire, through the second wireless communication circuit, data corresponding to the identification information from an external electronic device; and transmit, through the first wireless communication circuit, the acquired data to the third wireless communication circuit included in the cover device.
US11564282B2	Discontinuous reception parameter indication method, relevant device and system A DRX parameter indication method, a relevant device and a system are provided. The DRX parameter indication method includes: generating a signal or a payload, the signal or the payload being used to indicate a DRX parameter; and transmitting the signal to a UE, or transmitting the payload to the UE on a channel.
US11564280B2	User equipment to network relay Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a remote user equipment (UE) may communicate with a network entity via a relay UE using one or more radio resource control (RRC) messages that are encapsulated in a dedicated sidelink signaling message directed to the relay UE. The UE may receive, from the network entity via the one or more RRC messages, an access stratum configuration for a sidelink unicast link between the remote UE and the relay UE. The UE may configure the sidelink unicast link based at least in part on the received access stratum configuration. Numerous other aspects are described.
US11564278B2	Method and system for managing communication between external and implantable devices Systems and methods for managing bi-directional communication between an external device (ED) and an implantable medical device (IMD) are provided. The method comprises receiving an active ED configuration and a request for communications parameters to be used with the active ED configuration. The method further comprises identifying a pre-existing configuration, from a collection of pre-existing configurations that match the active ED configuration, the collection of pre-existing configurations having an associated collection of predefined parameter sets. The method further determines a resultant parameter set from the collection of predefined parameter sets based on the pre-existing configuration identified and returns the resultant parameter set in connection with the request, the resultant parameter set to be utilized by the ED for bi-directional communication with the IMD.
US11564272B2	Considerations for multi-link aggregation Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Generally, the described techniques provide for improved handling of adjacent channel interference in multi-link aggregation scenarios. In accordance with the described techniques, a device may establish a set of wireless links for communication with a second device, the set of wireless links supporting parallel transmission during at least a first duration of a multi-link session, the set of wireless links including at least a first wireless link and a second wireless link. The device may modify a transmission parameter for the first wireless link or a clear channel assessment (CCA) parameter for the second wireless link, or a combination thereof. The device may then perform the CCA procedure on the second wireless link and transmit at least a first portion of the message on the first wireless link based on the modified transmission parameter or modified CCA parameter.
US11564271B2	User equipment category signaling in an LTE-5G configuration Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for user equipment category signaling. In some example embodiments, there may be provided a method that includes receiving, by a user equipment in dual connectivity with a master base station providing an Evolved UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access Network and with a secondary base station providing a next generation radio access network, a request for capability information; generating, by the user equipment, category information, the category information indicating, to the master base station and the secondary base station, an achievable data rate for the user equipment over the dual connectivity, the category information being common to both the Evolved UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access Network and the next generation radio access network; and providing, by the user equipment, capability information to the master base station, the capability information including the generated category information. Related systems, methods, and articles of manufacture are also described.
US11564269B2	Virtualization of cellular connection as wireless local area network connection A user equipment includes a radio frequency (RF) modem configured to wirelessly communicate with at least one mobile network operator and a wireless local area network (WLAN) modem configured to wirelessly communicate with at least one WLAN access point. The user equipment further includes a processor coupled to the RF modem and the WLAN modem and at least one memory storing executable instructions. The executable instructions are configured to manipulate at least one of the processor and the RF modem to establish a first cellular connection with a first mobile network operator based on a first subscription represented by a first subscriber identity, and virtualize the first cellular connection as a wireless local area network (WLAN) connection for use by one or more processes executed by the processor for a second subscription represented by a second subscriber identity.
US11564267B2	Radio access technology capability signaling A method, an apparatus, and/or a computer program product for wireless communication are provided. Radio capability signaling (RACS) optimization for the radio access technology (RAT) may be deployed for some user equipments (UEs) in a network to reduce a signaling overhead associated with identifying UE radio capabilities. The UEs may be configured with a set of UE radio capability identifiers, such as a UE radio capability identifier for a narrowband (NB) RAT, a UE radio capability identifier for a non-NB RAT, and/or the like. A UE may provide a single UE radio capability identifier corresponding to a type of RAT to which the UE is to connect. The BS may determine that the UE supports RACS optimization for the RAT. If the UE does not provide the UE radio capability identifier, the BS may infer that the UE does not support RACS optimization.
US11564258B2	Methods providing UL grants including time domain configuration and related wireless terminals and network nodes A method of operating a wireless terminal may include transmitting a random access preamble of a random access procedure from the wireless terminal to a node of a radio access network. After transmitting the random access preamble, a random access response of the random access procedure may be received from the node of the radio access network, with the random access response including an Uplink grant for a Message 3 uplink communication of the random access procedure. The UL grant may include a time domain configuration associated with the Message 3 uplink communication. The time domain configuration may include a repetition factor that defines a number of repetitions across subframes for the Message 3 uplink communication, and/or Transmission Time Interval information for the Message 3 uplink communication. Related wireless terminals and base stations are also discussed.
US11564250B2	Physical layer preamble and signaling for wireless communication This disclosure provides methods, devices and systems for wireless communication, and particularly, methods, devices and systems for including signaling regarding enhanced features of new wireless communication protocols. The signaling may be included in various portions of a physical layer preamble of a wireless transmission. In some implementations, the physical layer preamble may be used to indicate puncturing of subbands or content channels that may carry further signaling in accordance with preamble signaling designs of this disclosure. The physical layer preamble signaling be parallelized for different subchannels of a wireless channel that consists of multiple subchannels. Some implementations of the physical layer preambles may be used to multiplex different types of wireless local area network communications into different subsets of the plurality of subchannels of the wireless channel.
US11564244B2	Multiple link communication constraint Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may receive, when operating in a multiple link communication system, one or more downlink control information (DCI) messages scheduling one or more downlink communications. The user equipment may determine, based at least in part on the one or more DCI messages, whether a communication constraint is satisfied for the one or more downlink communications. The user equipment may determine a communication configuration for the one or more downlink communications based at least in part on whether the communication constraint is satisfied. The user equipment may receive, in the multiple link communication system, the one or more downlink communications based at least in part on the communication configuration. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11564242B2	Low-latency scheduling request configuration Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may receive downlink data that is associated with triggering a feedback message; transmit, before receiving the feedback message for the downlink data at a component of the user equipment, a scheduling request to request an allocation of a set of resources for transmitting the feedback message; and transmit the feedback message in connection with the set of resources. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11564240B2	Cell dormancy techniques for traffic Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) and a base station may identify a burst periodicity for communication bursts over one or more cells, such as secondary cells (SCells) in accordance with a multi-carrier communication scheme. The UE and the base station may determine a cell dormancy pattern for switching the SCells between an active state and a dormant state based on the burst periodicity. The base station and the UE may use one or more bandwidth parts (BWPs) for communications and may configure the UE to perform BWP switching over the SCell during the dormancy state switching operation. The base station and the UE may communicate the bursts while the SCells are in the active state and may switch the SCells between the active state and the dormant state based on the cell dormancy pattern.
US11564238B2	Network node, a wireless device and respective method performed thereby for communicating therebetween A network node and a wireless device as well as respective method performed thereby for communication with each other are provided. The method performed by the network node comprises receiving, from the wireless device, a measurement report indicating a channel quality of the channel between the network node and the wireless device; and determining whether the channel quality is acceptable or unacceptable. The method further comprises transmitting, to the wireless device, an indication of which RBG(s) to report channel quality measurements for, when the channel quality is unacceptable.
US11564232B2	Autonomous beamforming configuration change Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for autonomous beamforming configuration change. A method that may be performed by a wireless node includes determining a communication mode to be used for communication by the wireless node, wherein the determining of the communication mode includes determining whether the communication is associated with multiple simultaneous communications with one or multiple other wireless nodes. The method may also include determining a beamforming configuration to be used for the communication based on the communication mode, and communicating in accordance with the communication mode using the beamforming configuration.
US11564229B2	Methods and apparatus for related to a transmission and reception point A communication method and a system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT) are provided. The disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. The disclosure discloses a method and apparatus for supporting transmission and reception to a plurality of TRPs, and a method and apparatus for updating PDSCH beam information of several serving cells together in a CA situation.
US11564226B2	Resource indication method and apparatus and computer storage medium A resource indication method and apparatus and a computer storage medium are provided. The method includes that: a terminal device receives first indication information from a network device, the first indication information indicating an active transmission resource and/or an inactive transmission resource; and based on the first indication information, the terminal device detects a downlink control channel on the active transmission resource and/or does not detect a downlink control channel on the inactive transmission resource.
US11564223B2	Method and apparatus for uplink communication in unlicensed band An operation method of a terminal may comprise receiving information on one CG configuration for uplink transmission from a base station; obtaining common time domain resource allocation information for combinations of RB sets based on the information on the one CG configuration; obtaining frequency domain resource allocation information for each of the combinations of the RB sets based on the information on the one CG configuration; determining a number of PRBs to which an uplink channel is mapped based on the frequency domain resource allocation information corresponding to one combination of the combinations; determining a TBS based on the common time domain resource allocation information and the number of PRBs; and transmitting a TB having the TBS to the base station within the one combination through the uplink channel according to the common time domain resource allocation information and the frequency domain resource allocation information.
US11564211B2	User terminal and radio communication method To improve utilization efficiency of radio resources in a case that uplink control channels of a plurality of user terminals having different durations and/or starting symbols are multiplexed in the same slot. A user terminal of the present invention includes a transmitting section that transmits uplink control information (UCI) by using an uplink control channel, and a control section that controls a hopping timing of a frequency resource to which the uplink control channel is mapped, based on whether an index of a starting symbol of the uplink control channel is an even number or an odd number and a duration of the uplink control channel.
US11564209B2	Resource selection in an anchor-client network Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a first wireless communication device may transmit an anchor status notification associated with a first future communication between the first wireless communication device and a second wireless communication device. The first wireless communication device may receive, using at least one set of dedicated resources, at least one announcement from at least one additional wireless communication device, wherein the at least one announcement indicates at least one second future communication associated with the at least one additional wireless communication device. Numerous other aspects are described.
US11564206B2	Sidelink resource pool distribution Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A first UE may transmit a sidelink request to a second UE. The sidelink request may indicate a set or a segment of the data resources. A second UE may transmit a positive sidelink response indicating that the set or the segment of resources is available for reservation, or may refrain from transmitting a positive sidelink response if the set or the segment of the data resources is unavailable for reservation. A third UE may transmit a negative sidelink response indicating that the set or the segment of the data resources is unavailable for reservation, or may refrain from transmitting a negative sidelink response if the set or the segment of the data resources is available for reservation. If the requested data resources are available, then the first UE may transmit a sidelink confirmation reserving the requested data resources.
US11564192B2	Base station, communication system, communication method, and program A base station that includes a memory for storing computer readable code and a processor operatively coupled to the memory is provided herein. The processor is configured to transmit, to a terminal apparatus, information associated with communication delays predicted for communication between the base station and the terminal apparatus. The terminal apparatus acquires the information associated with the communication delays from the base station.
US11564190B2	Gateway signaling method for frequency/timing offset, and device therefor Disclosed herein are a gateway-signaling method for frequency/timing offsets and an apparatus for the same. An apparatus for transmitting a broadcast signal according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a frequency/timing decision unit for determining a center frequency to which a frequency offset is applied using a carrier offset, which is identified using a timing and a management packet transmitted through a Studio-to-Transmitter Link (STL); and an RF signal generation unit for generating an RF signal to be transmitted, which corresponds to the center frequency.
US11564185B2	Precise time synchronization for 4G automatic link establishment (ALE) stations A control station for a fourth-generation (4G) automatic link establishment (ALE) network is disclosed. In embodiments, the control station is GPS-enabled or has a comparable precise timing source for generating timing information including the minute, second, and millisecond a protocol data unit (PDU) is to begin. The control station has a transceiver assembly for encoding the millisecond data and embedding the encoded millisecond data (as well as the minute and second data) within a Time-of-Day (TOD) Response or comparable time broadcast PDU. The PDU is transmitted to unsynchronized nodes of the 4G ALE network allowing for more precise time synchronization to the control station.
US11564184B2	Timing method and apparatus A first node device includes a transmitter, a receiver, a processor, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program to be executed by the processor. The program includes instructions to cause the transmitter to send, to a second node device, an offset of a first uplink sending timing of the second node device and a first amount of timing adjustment of the second node device, cause the transmitter to send indication information to the second node device, where the indication information indicates whether the second node device sends uplink data by using the first uplink sending timing of the second node device, and receive, through the receiver, data sent by the second node device, where the first node device is a parent node device of the second node device.
US11564179B2	Systems and methods of determining a reporting configuration associated with a coverage level of a wireless device Systems and methods of determining a reporting configuration associated with a coverage level of a wireless device are provided. In one exemplary embodiment, a method performed by a wireless device (105, 200, 300, 400, 1000) in a wireless communication system (100) includes obtaining (503) information indicating a coverage level (113a-d) of the wireless device. Further, the method includes determining (507), from amongst different reporting configurations (115a-d) respectively associated with different coverage levels of the wireless device, the reporting configuration associated with the coverage level indicated by the obtained information. Also, the method includes reporting (511) a measurement result using the determined reporting configuration.
US11564169B2	Wake-up-radio link adaptation An interface circuit in a device, e.g., an access point, may perform link adaptation. During operation, the interface circuit may provide a wake-up frame, e.g., a LP-WUR packet, associated with a channel in a band of frequencies, where the wake-up frame is intended for a wake-up radio in a recipient device. Then, the interface circuit may receive, from the recipient device, feedback information associated with a second channel in a second band of frequencies, where the feedback information is associated with a main radio in the recipient device. Based at least in part on the feedback information, the interface circuit may estimate one or more communication metrics associated with the channel in the band of frequencies. Moreover, based at least in part on the one or more communication metrics, the interface circuit may determine a data rate for use in communication via the channel in the band of frequencies.
US11564168B2	Apparatus and method for performing beam failure recovery in a wireless communication system Apparatus and method for performing beam failure recovery in a wireless communication system are provided. The method performed by a User Equipment (UE) includes receiving, from a base station, a first bandwidth part (BWP) configuration corresponding to a first BWP, a second BWP configuration corresponding to a second BWP, and a BWP inactivity timer; determining whether a BFR procedure is triggered; when determining that the BFR procedure is triggered: stopping the BWP inactivity timer and performing BWP switching from the first BWP to the second BWP.
US11564167B2	Configurable power saving signal with multiple functionalities in 5G NR Apparatuses, systems, and methods for a wireless device to perform methods for configuring a power savings signal in fifth generation (5G) new radio (NR) networks. The wireless device may transmit, to a base station within a network, power savings requirements and receiving, from the base station, a configuration of a power saving signal, where the configuration indicates one or more functionalities of the power saving signal. The wireless device may periodically receive, from the base station, the power saving signal and interpret the power saving signal based on the configuration. The configuration of the power saving signal may be received via radio resource control signaling.
US11564163B2	Power saving and cell dormancy operation A wireless device receives one or more indications including: a wake-up indication indicating downlink control channel monitoring during a discontinuous reception (DRX) on duration of a DRX cycle; and a dormancy indication indicating a switching to a dormant bandwidth part of a cell. Based on the dormancy indication and the wake-up indication, during the DRX on duration, the wireless device: monitors a downlink control channel on the cell is stopped, while maintaining the cell activated; and transmits a channel state information report for the dormant bandwidth part.
US11564160B2	Service relationship in a wireless communication system This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-readable media, for a service-based cell reselection by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system. The UE may have a service relationship with a particular service. A wireless communication system may provide different types of services via different radio frequencies. The UE may determine which cells to measure for cell reselection to include those that correspond to a service of interest to the UE. In addition to power savings, the UE may experience faster cell reselection for a service. The techniques of this disclosure also may enable a priority-based cell reselection so that the UE can camp on a cell that supports a higher priority service compared to other services supported by the UE.
US11564152B2	Determination of SSB/RMSI periodicity for IAB node An IAB node performs a method for determining a periodicity of a SSB and/or a RMSI for use in an IAB backhaul link. The method may comprise one or more of: using a predetermined periodicity value; determining a periodicity value based on at least one different parameter; receiving a signaling message indicating a periodicity value and using the indicated periodicity value for the IAB backhaul link; and selecting a periodicity value from a plurality of permitted periodicity values.
US11564151B2	Apparatus and method to support ultra-wide bandwidth in fifth generation (5G) new radio A method of a communication technique in which a fifth generation (5G) communication system for supporting more high data transmission rate after a fourth generation (4G) system converges with an internet of things (IoT) technology, and a system is provided. The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services (e.g., a smart home, a smart building, a smart city, a smart car or a connected car, healthcare, digital education, a retail business, security and safety-related services, or the like) based on a 5G communication technology and an IoT-related technology. A terminal receives, from a base station, a first message including configuration information of at least one band, receive, from the base station, a second message for activating a band among the at least one band, and activate the band according to the second message, the configuration information including indication of the at least one band, and each band of the at least one band being part of a bandwidth.
US11564142B2	Relay handover determination Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication that over come problems associated with conventional approaches including load balancing and handover efficiency issues. In one aspect a wireless communication technique takes into account the load of a donor gNB before a relay decides to reselect from one donor gNB to another. In another aspect, a wireless communication technique ensures that relays are handed over to base stations that will be able to serve the relay as the mobile relay continues to follow its expected path (e.g. streets or tracks).
US11564140B2	Device, system, and process for changing networks for wireless devices A process for changing networks for a plurality of wireless devices includes storing in a database current wireless network distribution information for the plurality of wireless devices and storing in the database charge rates for the current wireless network distribution information for the plurality of wireless devices. The process further includes analyzing with the processor the current wireless network distribution information for the plurality of wireless devices and the charge rates for the current wireless network distribution information for the plurality of wireless devices to determine a change in distribution of wireless networks for one or more of the plurality of wireless devices and sending with the processor a command to modify wireless network settings for the one or more of the plurality of wireless devices. A system is disclosed as well.
US11564139B1	Limiting mobility between networks based on cellID Restricting mobility between networks by identifying and rejecting incoming mobility events (e.g. handovers) from unknown cell sites based on a cellID included in a handover request. Core network nodes e.g. MME, AMF, SMF, can detect and reject the incoming mobility events by comparing Cell ID with a white list or referring to a database. This improves over current 3GPP specifications and network vendor implementations that support restriction policies on the source but not on the target.
US11564135B2	Method of sending cell information, cell camping method, network device and terminal A method of sending cell information, a cell camping method, a network device and a terminal are provided. The method of sending cell information includes: sending system information of a first cell to a terminal. The cell camping method includes: receiving system information of a first cell sent by the first cell, where the system information includes at least two camping thresholds of the first cell, or one camping threshold and at least two threshold offsets of the first cell; the at least two camping thresholds respectively correspond to terminals with different uplink resource access capabilities, and the at least two threshold offsets respectively correspond to terminals with different uplink resource access capabilities.
US11564133B2	Second base station addition request for vehicle-to-everything (V2X) A first base station receives a second base station addition request. The second base station addition request indicates for each packet flow of packet flows of a wireless device: whether each packet flow is for at least one vehicle-to-everything (V2X) service; and a quality-of-service indicator of each packet flow. An indication of an acceptance or rejection of each packet flow, of the packet flows, is sent based on whether each packet flow is for the at least one V2X service.
US11564132B2	Method and apparatus for providing access traffic steering function in wireless communication system The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. The disclosure proposes, when a UE is registered in an AMF which does not support ATSSS (registration procedure), a method by which, an old AMF identifies the registration and releases an MA PDU session and a method by which the UE identifies the registration and releases the MA PDU session in a wireless communication system according to an embodiment.
US11564129B2	Context identifier for packet compression Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a transmitter device may determine whether a packet, to be transmitted by the transmitter device, is compressed; generate a header for transmission of the packet based at least in part on the determination, wherein the header includes a context identifier indicating whether the packet is compressed; and transmit the packet and the header. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11564113B2	Machine learning-based approach to network planning using observed patterns In one embodiment, a network assurance service that monitors a wireless network identifies a set of wireless network anomalies detected in the wireless network that are associated with a set of one or more network measurements. The network assurance service classifies the set of wireless anomalies as radio-related or backend-related. The network assurance service, when the set of wireless anomalies are classified as radio-related, determines that the wireless anomalies are recurring for a particular wireless access point in the network. The network assurance service initiates a change to the wireless network in part to move clients in the wireless network from the particular wireless access point to another wireless access point in the network.
US11564101B2	Method and system for handling network intrusion In one example, a method comprises: receiving, at a gateway of a Controller Area Network (CAN) bus on a vehicle and via at least one of a wireless interface or a wired interface of the vehicle, a plurality of messages targeted at electronic control units (ECU) on the CAN bus; generating one or more input vectors based on the plurality of messages; generating, using one or more machine learning models, an output vector based on each of the one or more input vectors, each input vector having the same number of elements as the corresponding output vector; generating one or more comparison results between each of the one or more input vectors and the corresponding output vector; and based on the one or more comparison results, performing one of: allowing the plurality of messages to enter the CAN bus or preventing the plurality of messages from entering the CAN bus.
US11564100B2	Security protection method and apparatus A security protection method and an apparatus to implement security protection for a plurality of non-access stratum (NAS) connection links. The method includes determining, by a terminal, a first parameter, where the first parameter is used to indicate an access technology used to transmit a non-access stratum NAS message. The terminal can support at least two access technologies, and can separately maintain a corresponding NAS COUNT for each of the at least two access technologies. The method further includes performing, by the terminal, security protection on the NAS message based on the first parameter, a NAS key, and a NAS COUNT corresponding to an access technology used to transmit the NAS message. This application is applicable to a process of performing security protection on a NAS message.
US11564098B2	Method and apparatus for activating security and changing PDCP version Provided is a method for changing, by a user equipment (UE), packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) version. The method may include: receiving a security mode command message, which includes a first security algorithm configuration for a PDCP of a first system and a second security algorithm configuration for a PDCP of a second system, from a base station (BS); deriving a first security key for the PDCP of the first system, based on the first security algorithm configuration; when the security mode command message passes an integrity protection check based on the first security key, changing the PDCP version from the PDCP of the first system to the PDCP of the second system; deriving a second security key for the PDCP of the second system, based on the second security algorithm configuration; and transmitting a security mode complete message, based on the second security key, to the BS.
US11564089B2	Apparatus for IoT registration and method for authentication and association using the apparatus An apparatus for Internet of Things (IoT) registration includes a beacon frame transmitting unit for transmitting a beacon frame to a plurality of stations, an authentication unit that receives an authentication request frame from the plurality of stations in a first method, and an association unit that transmits an authentication response frame or an association response frame to the plurality of stations in a second method.
US11564082B2	Nomination of a primary cell phone from a pool of cell phones A first mobile device is provided. The first mobile device includes at least one hardware processor and a first mobile device application, executed by the at least one hardware processor. The first mobile device application is configured to detect that the first mobile device is in physical contact with, or within a predetermined distance of, a second mobile device. The first mobile device is also configured to, in response to the detection, send a switch request to make a mobile phone line inactive for the first mobile device and active for the second mobile device.
US11564077B2	Multi-carrier radio point for a centralized radio access network One embodiment is directed to a multi-carrier radio point for use in a centralized radio access network (C-RAN). The multi-carrier radio point is configured so that the processing and hardware resources provided by the radio point can be associated with controllers of the C-RAN in a flexible manner. A single multi-carrier radio point can be used with multiple controllers to serve multiple cells, where the processing and hardware resources used for the multiple controllers need not be configured and used in the same way.
US11564075B2	Warning system in private network Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for public warning messages. In some example embodiment, there may be provided a method including receiving, at a user equipment, an indication, wherein the indication indicates whether a radio access network provides support for public warning system warning messages and/or indicates whether the radio access network allows the public warning system warning messages to be received by non-allowed user equipment; and deciding, by the user equipment, whether to select or reselect the radio access network based on the received indication. Related systems, methods, and articles of manufacture are also disclosed.
US11564073B2	System and method for emotion detection and inter-vehicle communication A computer-implemented method for emotion detection and communication includes receiving host passenger data for a host passenger of a host vehicle and determining an emotion of the host vehicle based on the host passenger data. The method includes communicating the emotion of the host vehicle to one or more remote vehicles and an emotion of the one or more remote vehicles to the host vehicle. Further, the method includes generating an output based on the emotion of the host vehicle and the emotion of the one or more remote vehicles. The output is an interactive user interface providing an indication of the emotion of the host vehicle and an indication of the emotion of the one or more remote vehicle. The method includes rendering the output to a human machine interface device.
US11564066B2	Coordinating information across multiple devices to facilitate end-of-day dismissal at a school A system that is configured to coordinate student dismissal at end of day. The system may use a central server to maintain information across multiple different devices, each for different functions in the dismissal process.
US11564063B2	Intelligent dynamic communication handoff for mobile applications Microservices are predictively deployed on edge devices in a network. An application is run on a client device, the application comprising a set of microservices runnable on any edge device in a set of two or more edge devices. A state of the client device at a first time is determined, the state including one or more microservices currently being run for the client device, and for each microservice currently being run, an edge device running the microservice. One or more microservices that are likely to be run at a second time subsequent to the first time and a location of the client device at the second time are predicted. Based on the predicted location, a next edge device in the set of edge devices is determined for running the one or more microservices predicted to be run at the second time.
US11564062B2	Portable terminal device, and search system The present application includes a search route processor that calculates a plurality of search routes between locations of a plurality of searchers belonging to a predetermined area and a search target based on position information of the search target acquired from a position information terminal held by the search target, and a plurality of portable terminals that is held by the plurality of searchers and displays the plurality of search routes calculated by the search route processor and personal information that identifies the search target.
US11564058B2	Tracking device search party management In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, by a tracking server from a first computing device, a request to establish a search party to locate a tracking device associated with the tracking server. The method includes, until a threshold number of computing devices have been added to the search party: identifying one or more candidate second computing devices for addition to the search party, each candidate second computing device satisfying criteria for inclusion in the search party; adding one or more of the candidate second computing devices to the search party in response to receiving an acceptance of a request sent to the candidate second computing devices to join the search party; determining that a number of second computing devices added to the search party fails to satisfy the threshold number of computing devices; and modifying the criteria for inclusion in the search party.
US11564055B2	Systems and methods for geofence security Systems and methods for geofence information delivery are disclosed. A multiplicity of devices constructed and configured in network communication in a region of interest via a peer-to-peer network. The multiplicity of devices store cached geofence information for the region of interest. The multiplicity of devices on the peer-to-peer network are operable to convert between an IP address and a geographic location. Each of the multiplicity of devices is operable to query peer devices on the peer-to-peer network for geofences associated with an IP address or a geographic location. At least one peer device is operable to deliver one or more geofences associated with the IP address to the querying device via zero-configuration networking or web service.
US11564042B2	Apparatus for manipulation of ear devices Disclosed herein are apparatuses for manipulation of an ear device within the ear canal of a subject. Also disclosed herein are methods of using said apparatuses for the insertion, removal, or other manipulations of the ear device. Also disclosed herein are methods of making the apparatuses, and kits containing the apparatus with instructions for use.
US11564040B2	Speaker module The present disclosure discloses a speaker module, comprising a module housing and a speaker unit disposed in the module housing, wherein the speaker unit divides a cavity enclosed by the module housing into a front acoustic cavity and a rear acoustic cavity, the module housing is further provided with an air-permeable insulation assembly which divides the rear acoustic cavity into a first chamber and a second chamber, and the second chamber is filled with a sound-absorbing material, and wherein the air-permeable insulation assembly comprises a support frame and a mesh cloth adhered and fixed to the support frame by means of a back adhesive. The present disclosure can be used to prevent the problems of mesh breakage and mesh deviation that are likely to occur when the mesh cloth is being installed at the air-permeable insulation assembly, thereby improving the production yield of the air-permeable insulation assembly.
US11564028B2	Earphone system and communication method between charging box and earphone Disclosed is an earphone system. The earphone system includes a charging box and an earphone, which is detachably assembled in the charging box. The charging box includes a processing module provided with a first identification time period, a power outputting module and a first switch module. During the first identification time period when the earphone is connected to the charging box, the earphone system is in a test mode, and the first switch module is switched for the charging box to transmit power to the earphone through the power outputting module and the first switch module. After the earphone is connected to the charging box for more than the first identification time period, the earphone system is in a communication mode, and the first switch module is switched for the charging box to transmit a data signal to the earphone through the processing module and the first switch module.
US11564017B2	Interactive application server on a second screen device A server version of an interactive application executed by a processing device of a first mobile device communicatively connected to a main video rendering device collects first data generated by a first client version of the interactive application executed by the processing device. The server version of the interactive application generates first displayable content relating to the first client version of the interactive application based on the first data, wherein the first displayable content is rendered on a display of the first mobile device. The server version of the interactive application generates second displayable content based in part on the first data and additional data relating to the server version of the interactive application, wherein the first displayable content is different from the second displayable content. The server version of the interactive application, transmits the second displayable content to the main video rendering device to be rendered on a main video display.
US11564015B2	Targeted television advertisements based on online behavior In a method for delivering targeted television advertisements based on online behavior, IP addresses indicating online access devices and IP addresses indicating television set-top boxes are electronically associated for a multitude of users. Using user profile information derived from online activity from one of the online access IP addresses, a television advertisement is selected, such as by using behavioral targeting or demographic information, and automatically directed to the set-top box indicated by the set-top IP address associated with that online access IP address. Preferably neither the user profile information nor the electronic association of online access and set-top box IP addresses includes personally identifiable information.
US11564010B2	Systems and methods for applying behavioral-based parental controls for media assets Systems and methods are disclosed herein for applying behavioral-based parental controls for media assets. The disclosed techniques herein discuss determining a media asset viewed by a user and character actions of a character within the media asset. Behavioral user data is received which includes a user action. A determination is made whether the user action matches one of the character actions. If a match is found, a parental control restriction setting for the media asset is applied and this parental control restriction is stored in memory.
US11564003B1	Systems, apparatus, and methods to improve watermark detection in acoustic environments Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture to improve watermark detection in acoustic environments are disclosed. An example apparatus includes at least one memory, instructions in the apparatus, and processor circuitry to execute and/or instantiate the instructions to encode a first symbol in a media file at a first symbol position on a first encoding layer of a multilayered watermark, and encode a second symbol in the media file at a second symbol position on a second encoding layer of the multilayered watermark, the first encoding layer and the second encoding layer including a plurality of symbol positions, one or more of the plurality of the symbol positions on at least one of the first encoding layer or the second encoding layer to be empty.
US11564002B2	Automated replacement of video program content Advertisements in broadcast television programming are digitally replaced with different ads prior to viewing. Replacement can occur in time and/or place shifted content, and can be used to promote a particular advertisement that the viewer has not yet seen, thereby improving the reach of the ad without oversaturation. Data reporting by the playback devices is collected in a database of viewed ads. The information in the database can be used to refresh previously-viewed ads, to increase saturation of particular ads, to replace previously-broadcast but no longer relevant ads, or for other purposes as desired.
US11563999B2	Systems and methods for identifying and storing a portion of a media asset Systems and methods are described herein for a media guidance application that can cause a specific portion of a media asset to be stored based on a user command. For example, if the user requests the closing scene from a given movie, the media guidance application may detect the command, determine that it comprises an instruction to store a portion of a media asset, identify a source of the portion of the media asset, and cause the portion of the media asset to be stored. The media guidance application may also cause the entirety of the media asset to be stored and initiate playback at the start of the requested portion. This may allow users to store and watch portions of particular interest without requiring that the users seek through the entire media asset on their own.
US11563990B2	Method and apparatus for automatic HLS bitrate adaptation A media player system is provided for receiving and processing a media program that uses a time interval interval tD required to decode ND frames of the media program segment. The media system receives the requested media program segment, processes the segment and determines if the throughput of the media program differs from the desired presentation throughput by a tolerance amount. Both decoding and rendering performance are determined and used to determine presentation throughput, and to determine if heavier or lighter variants of the media program should be requested for subsequent media program segments.
US11563986B1	Machine learning techniques for component-based image preprocessing In various embodiments, a training application trains a machine learning model to preprocess images. In operation, the training application computes a chroma sampling factor based on a downscaling factor and a chroma subsampling ratio. The training application executes a machine learning model that is associated with the chroma sampling factor on data that corresponds to both an image and a first chroma component to generate preprocessed data corresponding to the first chroma component. Based on the preprocessed data, the training application updates at least one parameter of the machine learning model to generate a trained machine learning model that is associated with the first chroma component.
US11563985B2	Signal-processing apparatus including a second processor that, after receiving an instruction from a first processor, independantly controls a second data processing unit without further instruction from the first processor A signal-processing apparatus includes an instruction-parallel processor, a first data-parallel processor, a second data-parallel processor, and a motion detection unit, a de-blocking filtering unit and a variable-length coding/decoding unit which are dedicated hardware. With this structure, during signal processing of an image compression and decompression algorithm needing a large amount of processing, the load is distributed between software and hardware, so that the signal-processing apparatus can realize high processing capability and flexibility.
US11563983B2	Association of operation point info properties to VVC image items Systems, methods and apparatus for processing image data are described. One example method includes performing a conversion between a visual media file and a bitstream. The visual media file comprises image items each comprising a sequence of one or more pictures according to a media file format, and the bitstream includes access units each consisting of one or more pictures each belonging to a layer according to a video coding format. The media file format specifies that image items comprising pictures originated from the bitstream are allowed to be associated with different instances of a property descriptor that indicates high-level characteristics of the bitstream.
US11563982B2	Multiple secondary transform matrices for video processing A video processing method is provided to comprise: performing a conversion between a current video block of a video and a coded representation of the current video block, wherein the coded representation conforms to a format rule specifying that a syntax element corresponding to side information of a secondary transform tool for the current video block is signaled in the coded representation before transform related information, wherein the secondary transform tool includes applying, during encoding, a forward secondary transform to an output of a forward primary transform applied to a residual of a video block prior to quantization, or applying, during decoding, an inverse secondary transform to an output of dequantization of the video block before applying an inverse primary transform.
US11563981B2	Method and apparatus for video coding A method of video decoding can include receiving a bit stream including coded bits of bins of syntax elements. The syntax elements are of various types that correspond to transform coefficients of a transform block in a coded picture. Context modeling is performed to determine a context model for each bin of the syntax elements. In a given frequency region of the transform block, for one type of the syntax elements, a group of the transform coefficients having different template magnitudes within a predetermined range share a same context model, or one of the transform coefficients uses the same context model for possible different template magnitudes of the one of the transform coefficients. The possible different template magnitudes are within the predetermined range. The coded bits are decoded based on the context models determined for each bin of the syntax elements to determine the bins of the syntax elements.
US11563980B2	General constraint information syntax in video coding A method of processing video data comprises performing a bitstream conformance process that determines whether a bitstream that comprises an encoded representation of the video data conforms to a video coding standard, wherein the bitstream conformance process determines that the bitstream does not conform to the video coding standard when at least one of: a chroma-related constraint flag is equal to 0 and when there are no chroma components for pictures in the bitstream, or an inter prediction-related constraint flag is equal to 0 when all slices of the bitstream are I slices.
US11563979B2	Image coding method on basis of transform, and apparatus therefor An image decoding method according to the present document comprises a step for deriving a modified transform coefficient, wherein the step for deriving the modified transform coefficient comprises a step for determining whether or not to parse an LFNST index on the basis of whether or not the width and height of a current block satisfy a condition about whether the LFNST can be applied, and whether or not the condition about whether the LFNST can be applied is satisfied is determined on the basis of a tree type and a color format of the current block and whether or not an ISP is applied to the current block.
US11563970B2	Method and apparatus for generalized OBMC A block of video data that is split into sub-blocks forms a prediction for that sub-block using predictions from neighboring sub-blocks such that a current prediction for the sub-block is combined with weighted versions of the neighboring predictions. The neighboring sub-blocks motion vectors are checked to determine whether they are different than the motion vector of the sub-block being predicted. If so, than that corresponding neighboring sub-block is used to generate the prediction of the current sub-block. In an embodiment, two lines or two columns of pixels within a sub-block are used in forming the prediction for the current sub-block when the size of the block containing the sub-block is under a particular size.
US11563964B2	Method and apparatus for video coding Aspects of the disclosure include methods, apparatuses, and non-transitory computer-readable storage mediums for video encoding/decoding. An apparatus includes processing circuitry that determines reconstructed samples of a first color component in a filter support region of a current picture that is a part of a coded video sequence. The processing circuitry performs a filter process on the reconstructed samples of the first color component in the filter support region. A quantization step size of the filter process is separately set per one of a coding block, a video frame, and a video sequence. The processing circuitry reconstructs samples of a second color component in the filter support region based on an output value of the filter process. The second color component is different from the first color component.
US11563958B2	Encoder, decoder, encoding method, and decoding method An encoder includes circuitry and memory connected to the circuitry. In operation, the circuitry: derives a correction parameter using only a neighboring reconstructed image that neighbors a processing unit which has a determined size and is located at an upper left of a current block to be processed in an image, among neighboring reconstructed images that neighbor the current block, and performs correction processing of the current block based on the correction parameter derived, when the current block has a size larger than the determined size.
US11563952B2	Video decoding method and device therefor, and video encoding method and device therefor Provided is a video decoding method including: obtaining a first motion vector indicating a first reference block of a current block in a first reference picture and a second motion vector indicating a second reference block of the current block in a second reference picture; obtaining a parameter related to pixel group unit motion compensation of the current block, based on at least one of information of the parameter related to the pixel group unit motion compensation and a parameter related to an image including the current picture; generating a prediction block by performing, with respect to the current block, block unit motion compensation based on the first motion vector and the second motion vector and performing the pixel group unit motion compensation based on the parameter related to the pixel group unit motion compensation; and reconstructing the current block. Here, a pixel group may include at least one pixel.
US11563933B2	Reference picture resampling with switchable filters Techniques are described for video encoding and decoding using reference picture resampling with switchable filters. One example involves obtaining a current picture and a reference picture, identifying filter index information for a current block of the current picture, and determining that a first picture size value of the current picture and a second picture size value of the reference picture are different. Based on the determining that the first picture size value of the current picture and the second picture size value of the reference picture are different, performing a resampling process using a default filter index in place of a current filter index identified by the filter index information. Additional examples can use the current filter index identified by the filter index information in subsequent blocks. In various examples, the current filter index can be derived or signaled.
US11563930B2	Laser projection component, detection method thereof, and electronic device The present disclosure provides a laser projection component and a detection method thereof, and an electronic device. The laser projection component is applicable to the depth camera component and is configured to project a laser pattern. The detection method includes: obtaining the laser pattern; determining whether a preset identifier exists in the laser pattern; and determining that the depth camera component is abnormal when the preset identifier does not exist in the laser pattern.
US11563922B2	Method for monitoring occupancy in a work area One variation of a method for monitoring occupancy in a work area includes, at a sensor block: transitioning from an inactive state into an active state when an output of a motion sensor indicates motion in a work area; during a scan cycle in the active state, recording an image through an optical sensor at a time, detecting a set of humans in the image, detecting a second set of human effects in the image, predicting a second set of humans occupying but absent the work area based on the second set of human effects, and estimating a total occupancy in the work area at the time based on the set of humans and the second set of humans; and transmitting the total occupancy to a remote computer system for update of a scheduler for the work area.
US11563921B2	Image processing apparatus, endoscope system, and image processing method An image processing apparatus according to a first aspect of the present invention acquires a first image and a second image in a first image acquisition mode, or a second image acquisition mode in which a second image acquisition ratio is higher than in the first image acquisition mode, on the basis of a detection result of a specific target (whether or not a specific target has been detected, what type of specific target). For example, in accordance with whether or not a specific target has been detected and the type of specific target, the first image and the second image can be acquired in the first image acquisition mode in a case where the necessity for acquiring the second image is low, whereas the first image and the second image can be acquired in the second image acquisition mode, in which the second image acquisition ratio is high, in a case where the necessity for acquiring the second image is high.
US11563908B2	Image acquisition techniques with reduced noise using single photon avalanche diodes A system for image acquisition with reduced noise using SPADs is configured to perform a plurality of sequential exposure and readout operations. Each exposure and readout operation includes (i) applying a set of shutter operations to configure each SPAD pixel of the SPAD array to enable photon detection, and (ii) for each SPAD pixel of the SPAD array, reading out a number of photons detected during the set of shutter operations. The system is also configured to generate an image based on the number of photons detected for each SPAD pixel during each of the plurality of sequential exposure and readout operations.
US11563905B2	Information processing device, information processing method, and program A motion detecting section detects a change in relative position relation between a subject and an image capturing section performing a rolling shutter operation. A thinning-out setting section sets a thinning-out amount of a line thinning-out operation of the image capturing section according to the detection result obtained by the motion detecting section. A recognition processing section performs subject recognition in an image obtained by the image capturing section, by using a recognizer corresponding to the thinning-out amount set by the thinning-out setting section. The change in relative position relation is detected based on motion of a moving body on which the image capturing section is mounted, an image capturing scene, an image obtained by the image capturing section, and the like. Line thinning-out is performed during the rolling shutter operation, and the thinning-out amount is set according to the detection result obtained by the motion detecting section.
US11563898B2	Apparatus and methods for generating high dynamic range media, based on multi-stage compensation of motion Apparatus and methods for generating High Dynamic Range (HDR) media, based on multi-stage compensation of motion in a captured scene is disclosed in the embodiments herein. Embodiments herein relates to the field of image processing devices suitable for processing two or more images of different exposures and more particularly to apparatus and methods for generating a High Dynamic Range (HDR) media, based on a multi-stage compensation of motion in a captured scene. The apparatus is configured to correct exposure alignment error and media registration error from a registered plurality of media frames comprising a plurality of exposure levels corresponding to the captured scene. The apparatus is configured to remove a plurality of false ghost artefacts in the plurality of media frames. The apparatus is configured to generate the HDR media, based on a generated ghost map.
US11563890B2	Photographing system and photographing system control method Provided is an image sensor including a pixel array formed by arranging pixels, which generate an electrical signal in response to light; a memory for storing a register value of the image sensor; and a sensor controller for configuring the register value, wherein the register value includes information for defining a region to be processed in the pixel array, and when a change request for changing at least one of a position and a size of the region to be processed is received, the sensor controller provides a register modification command for adjusting the register value so as to correspond to the change request to the image sensor or the memory.
US11563888B2	Image obtaining and processing apparatus including beacon sensor Provided is a monitoring system including an image obtaining apparatus and an image processing apparatus. The image obtaining apparatus includes: a camera; a beacon sensor; a processor configured to match beacon information obtained by detecting, by the beacon sensor, a beacon attached to an object existing in a monitoring region, to an image of the monitoring region captured by the camera; and a memory storing the image matched with the beacon information.
US11563885B2	Adaptive system for autonomous machine learning and control in wearable augmented reality and virtual reality visual aids Adaptive control systems using augmented and virtual reality systems chimerically integrated with Artificial Intelligence and the like Homunculi fix vision issues with data based and user tuned solutions in real time.
US11563879B2	Image shooting apparatus and mobile terminal This disclosure provides an image shooting apparatus and a mobile terminal. The image shooting apparatus includes: a support base, an image shooting circuit board, a first image shooting assembly, and a second image shooting assembly. The support base is provided with an accommodating chamber. The image shooting circuit board is disposed in the accommodating chamber, and divides the accommodating chamber into a first accommodating chamber and a second accommodating chamber. The first image shooting assembly is disposed in the first accommodating chamber, and the second image shooting assembly is disposed in the second accommodating chamber. The first image shooting assembly includes a first lens and a first image sensor. The second image shooting assembly includes a second lens and a second image sensor.
US11563874B2	Camera module and imaging apparatus including the same A camera module is provided. The camera module includes a substrate; a first camera disposed on the substrate and configured to generate a first image based on a first optical signal; a second camera disposed on the substrate and configured to generate a second image based on a second optical signal; a power management integrated circuit disposed on the substrate and configured to generate a plurality of voltages based on an external power voltage received from an external power supply and provide the plurality of voltages to the first camera and the second camera; a metal fixing member coupled to the first camera and the second camera; and a thermal interface material disposed between the power management integrated circuit and the metal fixing member along a direction perpendicular to an upper surface of the substrate.
US11563847B2	Routing rule definition for an integrated voice and video platform Voice and video features of a software platform are integrated to enable customization of software services of the software platform on a customer-basis. Routing rules are defined to route calls to certain phone numbers or extensions to certain software services. Thereafter, when a call is received via a telephony system associated with the software platform, a routing rule customized for the software platform is identified based on information signaled with the call, such as a phone number or extension dialed to place the call. A software service is determined based on the routing rule, and the phone is connected with the software system that provides the software service.
US11563845B2	Third party monitoring of activity within a monitoring platform The present disclosure describes a monitoring environment that monitors an activity for activity that may be indicative of being prohibited by the local, the state, and/or the national governing authorities, namely suspicious activity, or activity that is prohibited by the local, the state, and/or the national governing authorities, namely prohibited activity. The monitoring environment verifies the activity is actually being monitored within the monitoring environment. The verification can require one or more monitoring persons monitoring the activity to perform one or more tasks to verify their attentiveness in monitoring the activity. The one or more tasks can be as simple as activating a checkbox or providing a code or an electronic signature to provide some examples, although more complicated tasks, such as a biometric verification such as a retinal, a facial, and/or a voice verification to provide some examples, are possible as will be recognized by those skilled in the relevant art(s) without departing from the spirit and scope of the present disclosure.
US11563843B2	Tracking functionality standby mode for third party electronic devices An electronic device with a primary functionality and a tracking functionality can be used in a centralized tracking system. A controller configures the electronic device to operate in one of a set of: an “on” mode, an “off” mode, a first standby mode, and a tracking standby mode. While configured to operate in the “on” mode, the primary and tracking functionality of the electronic device are enabled, and while configured to operate in the “off” mode, both are disabled. While configured to operate in the first standby mode, the tracking functionality is enabled and the primary functionality is limited. While configured to operate in the tracking standby mode, the primary functionality is disabled but the tracking functionality is enabled, enabling the electronic device to be located while the primary functionality is disabled and saving power relative to the first standby mode and the “on” mode.
US11563829B2	Simple ethernet header compression Various examples and schemes pertaining to simple Ethernet header compression are described. A first network node transmits a first packet with a full header to a second network node. The first network node determines whether a header compression context for the full header has been established by the second network node. In response to determining that the header compression context for the full header has been established by the second network node, the first network node transmits a second packet with a compressed header to the second network node. In response to determining that the header compression context for the full header has not been established by the second network node, the first network node transmits the second packet or a third packet with the full header to the second network node.
US11563824B2	Storage efficient content revalidation for multimedia assets Techniques relating to caching a content object are disclosed. A first server receives a revalidation request, relating to a content object, from a requestor. It is determined that metadata, relating to the content object, is stored in a cache associated with the first server. In response, the first server determines not to retrieve the content object from a second server. The content object is not stored in the cache. A response to the revalidation request, indicating that the content object is not modified, is transmitted from the first server to the requestor, based on analyzing the metadata.
US11563812B2	Management of multiple devices within an analyte monitoring environment Systems, devices, and methods are provided for the management of multiple sensor control devices and/or multiple reader devices in an in vivo analyte monitoring environment, and also for resolving conflicts when merging data collected by different reader devices.
US11563794B1	Full reference video quality measurements of video conferencing over the congested networks Various embodiments comprise systems, methods, and apparatus for processing a received video stream according to an embodiment comprises: identifying a number of repeated video frames within a sequence of N video frames within the video stream; determining, using a video frame quality assessment mechanism adapted to use repeated frames information, a motion adapted video quality metric (VQM) of the sequence of N video frames; and generating an alarm in response to the motion adapted VQM being less than a threshold level.
US11563789B2	Executing streaming data writes without duplication or loss Implementations are provided herein for executive streaming data writes without duplication or loss. A client application and a pravega node can work to track where write data is, how much data has been written, and what specific data has been acknowledged by the pravega node as successfully written. In the event of an error or connection disruption, the client application can reconnect and determine how much data has been written and resend what data still needs to be written. The data can be written exactly once, and once written and acknowledged, will no longer be subject to data loss.
US11563786B2	Selectively storing identifiers based on media type indicator A server stores an association between a unique identifier and a first media work in a database, and stores an association between a media type indicator and the unique identifier. The media type indicator has a first value when the first media work is a first type of media work, and a second value when the first media work is a second type of media work. A message including information identifying a broadcast media work is received from a broadcast station. Based on information included in the message, the server determines whether the broadcast media work is an instance of the first media work. If so, the server determines that the broadcast media work is associated with the unique identifier, and further determines, based on the media type indicator, what type of media work the broadcast media work is. The unique identifier is stored in a data structure based on the type of media work.
US11563781B2	Setting timers based on processing of group communications using natural language processing Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for setting timers based on processing of communications using natural language processing. A communication is detected from a communicating participant transmitted within a group communication session implemented in a computer network in which the communicating participant is communicating with an additional participant through the group communication session. A natural language processor (NLP) module processes the detected communication to determine words comprising an expressed temporal commitment of the communicating participant. The expressed temporal commitment does not express a computer implemented command verb to perform an operation related to setting a time variable. A timer is set, in a computer user interface of the additional participant, to a time value based on the expressed temporal commitment in the detected communication.
US11563780B2	Switch controller for separating multiple portions of call Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for collecting call data, feeding call data to applications, and providing advanced call features.
US11563776B2	Compliance monitoring Systems, methods, and related technologies for device compliance monitoring are described. In certain aspects, one or more compliance rules associated with a device classification are used to determine a compliance level of a device. The one or more compliance rules may be based on a standard. An action can be initiated based on the compliance level.
US11563772B2	Detection and mitigation DDoS attacks performed over QUIC communication protocol A method and system for protecting against quick UDP Internet connection (QUIC) based denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. The system comprises extracting traffic features from at least traffic directed to a protected entity, wherein the traffic features demonstrate behavior of QUIC user datagram protocol (UDP) traffic directed to the protected entity, wherein the extract traffic features include at least one rate-base feature and at least one rate-invariant feature, and wherein the at least traffic includes QUIC packets; computing at least one baseline for each of the at least one rate-base feature and the at least one rate-invariant feature; and analyzing real-time samples of traffic directed to the protected entity to detect a deviation from each of the at least one computed baseline, wherein the deviation is indicative of a detected QUIC DDoS attack; and causing execution of at least one mitigation action when an indication of the detected QUIC DDoS attack is determined.
US11563760B2	Network embeddings model for personal identifiable information protection Systems and methods for providing remote network security using a network embeddings model are provided. A method consistent with the present disclosure includes retrieving a corpus of network activity data associated with a first network. The network activity data may be generated from users within the first network submitting network requests for network assets to service the network requests. The method also includes creating a crafted encoded corpus by selecting a subset of the corpus of network activity data and creating a network embeddings model based on the crafted encoded corpus. Lastly, the method includes generating an alert in an event that the network security system identifies an anomaly associated with the crafted encoded corpus of network activity data.
US11563756B2	Distributed digital security system A distributed security system can include instances of a compute engine that can execute either locally in security agents on client devices or as cloud instances in a security network. Event data can be processed by elements of the distributed security system according to centrally-defined ontological definitions and/or configurations. Bounding managers of local security agents can control how much event data is sent to the security network. A storage engine in the security network can store event data received from client devices, can route event data to other elements of the security network, including cloud instances of the compute engine. An experimentation engine of the security network can also at least temporarily adjust other elements of the distributed security system during experiments or tests.
US11563745B2	Method for data protection in a data processing cluster with policy-based partition Systems and methods are disclosed for data protection in a cluster of data processing accelerators (DPAs) using a policy that partitions the DPAs into one or more group of DPAs in the cluster. A host device instructs the DPAs to organize themselves into non-overlapping groups according to a policy for each DPA in the cluster. The policy indicates, for each DPA, one or more other DPAs the DPA is to establish a communication link with, to implement the grouping. Once grouped, the host device and a DPA can access all resources of the DPA. DPAs in the same group as a first DPA can access non-secure resources, but not secure resources, of the first DPA. DPAs in a different group from the first DPA cannot access any resources of the first DPA. A scheduler in the host device can allocate processing tasks to any group in the cluster.
US11563739B2	Authenticating a user device via a monitoring device A server device receives, from a user device, a session initiation request and information identifying a location of the user device, and receives, from a monitoring device that is separate from the user device, an authentication request and information identifying a location of the monitoring device. The server device processes the session initiation request and the authentication request to authenticate a user of the user device, and determines, based on the location of the user device and the location of the monitoring device, that the user device and the monitoring device are collocated. The server device creates, after authenticating the user of the user device and determining that user device and the monitoring device are collocated, a session token, and sends the session token to the user device to enable the user device to access at least one resource of the server device.
US11563714B2	Systems and methods for providing DNS services A system for providing a Domain Name System (DNS) service may include providing an agent for installation on a subscriber device. The subscriber device may be connected to the DNS service via an entry point device. The system includes receiving, from the agent, agent data indicative of a subscriber identifier and a unique identifier associated with the entry point device. The system may then determine, based on the agent data, a current Internet Protocol (IP) address associated with the entry point device and associate the unique identifier with the subscriber identifier. The system may then dynamically map the subscriber identifier to the current IP address and provide DNS service to the subscriber device based on the current IP address.
US11563706B2	Generating context-aware rendering of media contents for assistant systems In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a media content for delivery to a first user, wherein the media content is associated with a priority level, accessing context information associated with the first user, wherein the context information is determined based on one or more multimodal signals from a client device associated with the first user, determining a delivery level for the media content based on the priority level of the media content and the context information, and instructing the client device to present a notification associated with the media content to the first user, wherein the notification is rendered in one or more modalities determined based on the delivery level for the media content.
US11563702B2	Personalized avatar notification An avatar notification system is disclosed, which performs operations that include: causing display of a notification at a client device associated with a first user account, the notification including an identification of a second user account; receiving an input that selects the notification from the client device; presenting a composition interface at the client device in response to the input that selects the notification, the composition interface including a display of a media element that comprises a first identifier associated with the first user account and a second identifier associated with the second user account; receiving a selection of the media element from the client device; and generating a message that includes the media element in response to the selection.
US11563698B2	Packet value based packet processing Embodiments of the invention include methods for handling packets in a communications network. In one embodiment, a method is implemented in an electronic device. The method includes at a first end of a queue in the electronic device, determining admission of a first packet to the first end of the queue based on a length of the first packet, where when the admission of the first packet would cause the queue to become full, the admission is further based on a packet value of the first packet and a data structure tracking packet value distribution of packets in the queue. The method further includes at a second end of the queue, dropping a second packet from the second end of the queue when the second packet's corresponding packet value is marked as to be dropped in the data structure upon admitting packets to the first end of the queue.
US11563692B2	Communication methods, apparatuses and system for sharing network resources A communications method enables a path computation element (PCE) to notify path computation clients (PCCs) about the shared resources of independent label switch paths by allowing a PCE to send an association object with a new association type to PCC. A PCE Communication Protocol extension that associates label-switched paths (LSPs) whose ingress, or egress, or both ingress and egress are different for resource sharing to avoid path computation failures or duplicate allocation of resources during common links for new LSPs created during an update of end-to-end (E2E) LSP. The PCC employs Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP) for LSP signalling, PCC forwards path message information along with association object to the RSVP for LSP signalling. The RSVP uses the association object in its reservation message for LSP setup.
US11563688B2	Communication system and method for integrating a data distribution service into a time sensitive network A method in a communication network includes determining a transmission schedule for a plurality of data sources. The transmission schedule is configured to meet communication requirements of both time-sensitive traffic and non-time-sensitive traffic of the plurality of data sources. The method may also include transmitting data according to the determined schedule by shaping the time-sensitive traffic and the non-time-sensitive traffic at the plurality of data sources according to the determined schedule and receiving a communication change command. The method may further include determining a new transmission schedule for the plurality of data sources, the new transmission schedule being configured to meet the communication requirements of both the time-sensitive traffic and the non-time-sensitive traffic in the changed communication network. The method may further include transmitting data according to the new transmission schedule.
US11563686B2	Dynamic deterministic adjustment of bandwidth across multiple hubs with adaptive per-tunnel quality of service (QoS) According to certain embodiments, a system comprises one or more processors and one or more computer-readable non-transitory storage media comprising instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause one or more components of the system to perform operations. The operations comprise sending data from a hub to a spoke and receiving feedback from the spoke at the hub. The feedback is based on at least one of bandwidth utilization or occurrence of a congestion state detected by the spoke. The operations further comprise adjusting a shaper rate of an adaptive Quality of Service (QoS) shaper based at least in part on the feedback received from the spoke.
US11563684B2	Systems, apparatuses and methods for network packet management Methods and systems are provided for latency-oriented router. An incoming packet is received on a first interface. The type of the incoming packet is determined. Upon the detection that the incoming packet belongs to latency-critical traffic, the incoming packet is duplicated into one or more copies. Subsequently, the duplicated copies are sent to a second interface in a delayed fashion where the duplicated copies are spread over a time period. The duplicated copies are received and processed at the second interface.
US11563670B2	Methods, devices and systems for determining a target path Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, embodiments and a method. The method includes iteratively providing messages to each Node Processor. Each Node Processor represents a node of a group of nodes. The iteratively providing of the messages comprises providing first messages. Each first message includes a cost associated with a path of nodes visited by each first message. A selected path is obtained from each node having a lowest cost of a group of common endpoint costs for paths having common endpoints. A next group of messages includes the selected path. The iteratively providing of the messages results in selected paths. Also, the method include determining a target path from a remaining path. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11563656B2	State monitoring device, state monitoring system, and state monitoring method The present invention provides a state monitoring device which make it possible to certainly deliver, to the maintenance staff side, state monitoring information of an apparatus to be monitored which is disposed in a distant place with a bad communication environment. A state monitoring device 300 is provided with a communication unit 301 which performs communication using a first communication line for transmitting operating information of an apparatus to be monitored to a server device, and a second communication line for transmitting the operating information to the server device via wireless communication provided by a mobile object if the first communication line is not communicable.
US11563650B2	Determining optimum software update transmission parameters Optimum software update transmission parameters are determined and used for transmitting a software update from a host to servers of a computer network. The software update is transmitted while the servers are live and required to meet certain quality of service requirements for tenants of the computer network. Transmission parameters for transmitting the software update are adjusted and updated based on service performance data. Based on iterative adjustments, optimum transmission parameters may be determined. Additionally or alternatively, machine learning is used to generate a model that determines predicted optimum transmission parameters. The predicted optimum transmission parameters may be initially used for transmitting a software update, while the transmission parameters continue to be adjusted throughout transmission.
US11563645B2	Shim layer for extracting and prioritizing underlying rules for modeling network intents Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for receiving one or more models of network intents, comprising a plurality of contracts between providers and consumers, each contract containing entries with priority values. Each contract is flattened into a listing of rules and a new priority value is calculated. The listing of rules encodes the implementation of the contract between the providers and the consumers. Each entry is iterated over and added to a listing of entries if it is not already present. For each rule, the one or more entries associated with the contract from which the rule was flattened are identified, and for each given entry a flat rule comprising the combination of the rule and the entry is generated, wherein a flattened priority is calculated based at least in part on the priority value of the given one of given entry and the priority value of the rule.
US11563642B2	Smart point of presence (SPOP) aircraft-based high availability edge network architecture A high availability aircraft network architecture incorporating smart points of presence (SPoP) is disclosed. In embodiments, the network architecture divides the aircraft into districts, or physical subdivisions. Each district includes one or more mission systems (MS) smart network access point (SNAP) devices for connecting MS components and devices located within its district to the MS network. Similarly, each district includes one or more air vehicle systems (AVS) SNAP devices for connecting AVS components and devices within the district to the AVS network. The AVS network may remain in a star or hub-and-spoke topology, while the MS network may be configured in a ring or mesh topology. Selected MS and AVS SNAP devices may be connected to each other via guarded network bridges to securely interconnect the MS and AVS networks.
US11563635B2	Model-driven service rollback mechanism for data integrity Systems and methods for rollback of model-based provisioned network device configuration including a memory capable of storing a model-based provisioned data template that includes a data template sequence. Data associated with a request to transmit a target object request message are received and transmitted following a retrieval message that determines pre-configuration data of the target device. The pre-configuration data is stored and the target object request message is sent specifying CRUD semantics. A notification is received indicating an outcome of the execution and, if the execution outcome is unsuccessful, a rollback stack is retrieved that specifies CRUD semantics and the pre-configuration parameters are retrieved to restore the target device to a pre-request state. If the execution outcome is successful, a second target object request message is retrieved from a list of target devices.
US11563633B2	Virtual network function descriptor generator Techniques are described for generating a virtualized network function (VNF) descriptor (VNFD) indicative of resources for managing VNF components (VNFCs) across a plurality of virtualized infrastructure managers (VIMs) implemented in a virtualized computing environment configured in a user-specific configuration. A VNFD generator receives a solution description file (SDF) encoding user input pertaining to the user-specific configuration, and a VNFC descriptor encoding VNFC specific information. The SDF and VNFC descriptor are validated and translated to generate an abstracted VNFD that is independent of renderers implemented at the virtualized computing environment. The abstracted VNFD is translated to a VNFD that is specific to the renderers and VIM and VNFD-specific information at the virtualized computing environment.
US11563624B2	Fault detection and isolation system for vehicles A method includes determining vehicle driving parameters associated with a driving behavior of a vehicle while in an autonomous driving mode. A plurality of electronic control units (ECUs) is interconnected to a vehicle bus for communicating instructions from electromechanical contacts to actuators to control the driving behavior. The computing unit may receive a control signal from one of the ECUs. The computing unit lacks knowledge of whether the control signal a valid. The method further includes analyzing vehicle driving parameters associated with the driving behavior to determine whether the vehicle driving parameters satisfy a driving behavior criteria. Subsequent to determining that the vehicle driving parameters fails to satisfy the driving behavior criteria, the method includes generating a signal that causes the electromechanical contacts to disconnect from the vehicle bus and disable communication of instructions between the ECUs and the vehicle bus.
US11563623B2	Home network health metrics reporting An electronic device for use with a network device, includes: a memory, having stored therein, a first and second set of threshold weighted metric values and a remediation suggestion; and a processor configured to execute instructions stored on the memory to cause the electronic device to: obtain a first of metric values associated with a first set of metrics, respectively, within a first metric category of the network device; provide a first set of weighting factors for the first set of metric values, respectively; determine a first set of weighted metric values associated with the first set of metric values, respectively, and being based on the first set of metric values and the first set of weighting factors; and perform a remediation operation associated with the remediation suggestion when the first metric category score is lower than a first metric category score threshold.
US11563620B2	Single carrier multi-level coding amplitude phase shift keying waveform Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described that support a single carrier multi-level coding (MLC) amplitude phase shift keying (APSK) modulated waveform. For example, a user equipment (UE) capable to communicate using MLC APSK modulated waveforms may transmit a channel state information (CSI) report, including a recommendation for a waveform configuration, to a base station. The base station may receive the CSI report and may transmit a configuration message to the UE, which may configure the UE with a set of waveform parameters associated with MLC APSK modulation. The UE may receive the configuration message and may communicate with the base station using MLC APSK modulated waveforms and based on the set of waveform parameters, which may reduce phase noise and provide lower peak average power ratio (PAPR) signaling.
US11563618B2	Methods, apparatuses and systems directed to unique word discrete Fourier transform spread and shaped orthogonal frequency division multiplexing based transmissions Methods, apparatuses, systems, devices, and computer program products directed to unique word (UW) discrete Fourier transform (DFT) spread and shaped orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) (“UW DFT-S-S-OFDM”) based communications are provided. Among new methodologies and/or technologies provided is a method implemented in transmitter and includes any of: transforming a set of data symbols and a UW sequence into a frequency domain (“fDOM”) signal using a DFT; replicating the fDOM signal so as to form a plurality of fDOM signal instances, wherein the plurality of fDOM signal instances is inclusive of the fDOM signal; shaping one or more of the plurality of fDOM signal instances; combining the plurality of fDOM signal instances to form a combined fDOM signal; transforming the combined fDOM signal into a block-based signal using an inverse DFT (IDFT); and outputting the block-based signal.
US11563617B2	Systems and methods for shaped single carrier orthogonal frequency division multiplexing with low peak to average power ratio System and methods for shaped single carrier orthogonal frequency division multiplexing with low peak to average power ratio are provided. The system receives an input signal and modulates the input signal to form Dirichlet kernels in a time domain to generate an offset Dirichlet kernel output time array where each Dirichlet kernel has a main lobe and a plurality of side lobes. Modulating the input signal suppresses a peak to average power ratio of the offset Dirichlet kernel output time array by reducing the plurality of side lobes of each Dirichlet kernel and respective amplitudes of the side lobes.
US11563615B2	Iterative reference signal symbol reconstruction and channel estimation Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A transmitting device (e.g., a user equipment (UE) or base station) may reduce a peak to average power ratio (PAPR) by clipping signals transmitted to a receiving device according to a clipping level. The receiving device may receive, from the transmitting device, an indication of the clipping level associated with a reference signal. The receiving device may receive the reference signal and identify distortions based on the clipping level. The receiving device may iteratively reconstruct peaks of the clipped reference signal until the receiving device is able to obtain accurate pilot symbols for use in channel estimation. The techniques described herein may enable receiving devices to improve efficiency and reliability of communications by improving channel estimation, which may increase the probability of successfully decoding transmitted information.
US11563599B2	Control system and control method This control system is provided with a controller, a controller which is a loopback communication device, a first communication route, and a second communication route. The controller generates and transmits control frames to slave devices. The controller performs loopback communication of the control frames. In the first communication route, multiple slave devices are connected between the controller and the controller using communication cables. In the second communication route, the first controller and the second controller are connected over a communication cable.
US11563591B1	Social media profile identification connected to cryptographic token Disclosed herein is a social media platform profile identification and social discovery feature. Disclosed social media networks enable introduction of users that may not otherwise know one another based on commonality between those users. Social media profiles are identified by digital objects instead of or in addition to more traditional indexing methods such as real names or screen names. Social discovery on a social network is performed via matching to similar behavior profiles in activity monitored by a block explorer. Machine learning models categorize behavior patterns observed by the block explorer into a machine recognized glossary. Social networks further recommend actions by users based on the monitored online behaviors of social connections.
US11563584B2	System, method, and computer program product for implementing zero round trip secure communications based on noisy secrets with a polynomial secret sharing scheme Zero round trip secure communications are implemented based on noisy secrets with a polynomial secret sharing scheme. A sender identifies two negotiated noisy secrets associated with an encrypted message to send to a receiver system. The sender utilizes a first negotiated noisy secret for sub-key selection, and generates a secret polynomial using Shamir's polynomial-based secret sharing scheme with N positive integer points and a message key as a secret. The sender divides the first negotiated noisy secret into a plurality of sub-keys, and divides a second negotiated noisy secret into test blocks of a length equivalent to a length of a sub-key. The sender utilizes each of the plurality sub-keys for encrypting a corresponding test block along with one unique point of the secret polynomial. Moreover, the sender sends all encrypted test blocks and corresponding encrypted points of the secret polynomial to the receiver with the encrypted message.
US11563582B2	Method and apparatus for optical encryption communication using a multitude of hardware configurations A security platform architecture is described herein. The security platform architecture includes multiple layers and utilizes a combination of encryption and other security features to generate a secure environment.
US11563581B2	Shared registration system Systems and methods for updating a Domain Name System (DNS) registry are disclosed. Embodiments perform operations including maintaining a domain name record of a DNS registrant recorded in a database of the DNS registry by a primary DNS interface. The operations also include receiving a request to update the domain name record of the DNS registrant via a secondary DNS interface. The operations further include modifying the domain name record of the DNS registrant in the DNS database in accordance with the request.
US11563577B2	Calculation device for encryption using public key and encryption method thereof Disclosed are a calculation device for encryption using a public key and an encryption method thereof. The present method comprises: a step for setting a secret key, and generating a public key using the secret key and an error extracted from a discrete Gaussian distribution or a distribution that is within a short statistical distance thereto; and a step for applying the public key to a message, and then performing a rounding process to encrypt the message. Accordingly, encryption efficiency can be enhanced.
US11563576B2	Distributed anonymous scoring technique In some examples, a system for implementing a protocol for data transmission can include a processor to transmit a public key or an encrypted name to a ledger of a source computing device and receive a scoring code, training data, and data definitions from the source computing device. The processor can also transmit predicted labels encrypted with the public key to the source computing device, the predicted labels based on the training data and the data definitions, and receive labeled test data from the source computing device. The processor can also transmit decrypted predicted labels to the source computing device, receive a list of evaluation results from a set of remote computing devices, transmit scoring results based on the list of evaluation results to the set of remote computing devices, and execute an instruction based on a techniques corresponding to a highest score from the scoring results.
US11563571B1	Methods and systems for generating, subscribing to and processing action plans using a blockchain A method and system and computer program product for subscribing to action plans including a processing device for receiving an action plan transaction message having one or more data fields from an analyst node in a blockchain network and generating an action plan transaction in a blockchain including the one or more data fields of the action plan transaction message and a newly generated plan identification. The processing device may transmit an action plan notice to the blockchain network alerting the nodes of the blockchain network of the action plan transaction. The processing device may receive one or more client bids for the action plan transaction, determine a winning client bid of the one or more client bids, generate a winning bid transaction in the blockchain and transmit a winning bid notification to the client node of the winning client bid.
US11563568B2	Scalable content restriction Groups of devices may be prevented from accessing content by encrypting the content. A plurality of secrets associated with a decryption key may be generated using a secret sharing algorithm. The plurality of secrets may be sent to one or more groups of devices to derive the decryption key. A non-restricted subset of the groups of devices may receive one or more secrets. Devices within the non-restricted subset of the groups may be able to use one or more secrets to determine the decryption key for the content. Groups that do not receive one or more secrets may be unable to determine the decryption key for the content.
US11563559B2	Parallel processing of blockchain procedures A client computer may split a process into sub-processes, send each sub-processes to a different group of peers in a blockchain network, wherein each group has at least one peer from each essential organization in the blockchain network, receive processed sub-transactions from the peers in the blockchain network, validate each sub-transaction, and validate the transaction based on the validation of all sub-transactions, wherein all sub-transaction must be valid for the transaction to be valid.
US11563554B2	Method for measuring and correcting multi-wire skew Generating, during a first and second signaling interval, an aggregated data signal by forming a linear combination of wire signals received in parallel from wires of a multi-wire bus, wherein at least some of the wire signals undergo a signal level transition during the first and second signaling interval; measuring a signal skew characteristic of the aggregated data signal; and, generating wire-specific skew offset metrics, each wire-specific skew offset metric based on the signal skew characteristic.
US11563545B2	HARQ-ACK transmission and retransmission in wireless communication systems An apparatus of user equipment (UE) includes processing circuitry coupled to a memory, where to configure the UE for HARQ-ACK transmission in an NR network, the processing circuitry is to decode DCI received via a PDSCH. The DCI includes resource assignments, a set index, and a reset indicator for a set of PDSCHs. Downlink data associated with the set index and received via the set of PDSCHs using the resource assignments is decoded. A PUCCH is encoded for transmission to a base station to include a HARQ-ACK of the decoded downlink data associated with the set index. The PUCCH is encoded to further include a second HARQ-ACK for a prior PDSCH reception, when the prior PDSCH reception includes PDSCHs associated with the set index and the reset indicator matches a reset indicator of the prior PDSCH reception.
US11563541B2	Resource mapping for broadcasted system information Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A wireless device, such as a user equipment (UE), may receive a message that includes downlink control information (DCI) pertaining to system information that is scheduled to be received from a base station. The UE may determine, based at least in part on the message, whether the system information that is scheduled is remaining minimum system information (RMSI) or is other system information (OSI), and searching a downlink bandwidth part for the scheduled RMSI or OSI determined from the message. The described techniques may serve to resolve ambiguity between RMSI and OSI, for instance, when scheduled in the same control region and having overlapping search spaces.
US11563538B2	Signal structure for terrestrial timing and positioning system Embodiments herein provide for a Low-Frequency (LF) broadcast system that improves on the LORAN-C system to help optimize the use of available spectrum while modernizing the signal structure of broadcast signals. In particular, embodiments can utilize an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) signal structure to broadcast timing and data signals in successive symbols of an OFDM resource block. Signals can include, for example, comb-1, comb-2, or comb-3 signal structures. Other signal aspects such as muting schemes, modulation, frequency offsets, and the like may vary, depending on desired functionality.
US11563536B2	Method and apparatus for enabling concurrent transport via control plane A method includes generating a payload container information element comprising two or more payload entries at user equipment in a communication system, and sending the payload container information element from the user equipment to at least one network element in the communication system. Another method includes receiving a payload container information element comprising two or more payload entries at a network function in a communication system from user equipment in the communication system, and decoding the two or more payload entries of the payload container information element into two or more individual payloads at the network function.
US11563528B2	Method and device for providing HARQ feedback in wireless communication system The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The method includes a method performed by a first terminal in a wireless communication system, comprising obtaining resource pool information associated with a side link, transmitting sidelink control information (SCI) associated with sidelink data on a physical sidelink control channel (PSSCH), and transmitting the sidelink data on a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) based on the SCI. Feedback information associated with the sidelink data is received from a second terminal based on a distance between the first terminal and the second terminal, in case that a zone identity (ID) of the first terminal and information on a range requirement are included in the SCI.
US11563527B2	Method and device for efficient HARQ operation The present disclosure is research (No. GK17N0100, Millimeter-wave 5G Mobile Communication System Development) having been performed with support from “The Cross-Ministry Giga KOREA Project” funded by the government (Ministry of Science and ICT) in 2017. Disclosed are: a communication technique for merging, with IoT technology, a 5G communication system for intelligent services (for example, smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car or connected car, healthcare, digital education, retail, security, and safety related services, and the like) on the basis of 5G communication technology and IoT-related technology. According to the present invention, a method by which a transmitter transmits data comprises a step of transmitting a data packet to a receiver, receiving hybrid ARQ (HARQ) feedback information based on a decoded result of the data packet, generating a data packet to be re-transmitted on the basis of the HARQ feedback information, and transmitting, to the receiver, the data packet to be re-transmitted, wherein the HARQ feedback information can include acknowledgment (ACK) or negative-acknowledgment (NACK) and information including a HARQ status of the data packet.
US11563517B2	Managing broadcast channels based on bandwidth Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive signaling that configures a downlink bandwidth for a broadcast channel transmission (e.g., a physical downlink control channel transmission). The UE may determine a bandwidth of the capability is less than the downlink bandwidth, and monitor search space occasions in a period to receive samples of the broadcast channel. The period and the search space occasions may be associated with a control resource set and a search space set. The UE may receive the samples in non-overlapping subbands of the bandwidth according to the bandwidth capability, and detect the broadcast channel based on the samples. The UE may additionally monitor repeated transmission occasions in the period based on detecting the broadcast channel to detect a second broadcast channel (e.g., a physical downlink shared channel).
US11563514B2	Dynamic switching between different multi-transmission/reception point schemes Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some systems, a network may schedule a user equipment (UE) for multiple transmission/reception point (TRP) communication. The network may transmit a single downlink control information (DCI) message to the UE to dynamically configure multiple transmission configuration indicator (TCI) states for the multiple TRPs. In a first example, the DCI message may include a bit field indicating a set of antenna ports and the multi-TRP scheme for transmission. In a second example, the DCI message may include a separate field indicating the multi-TRP scheme (e.g., based on UE capabilities). In a third example, the DCI may indicate redundancy versions (RVs) for different TRPs in an RV field or across multiple fields. In a fourth example, the DCI may include an indication of a precoding resource block group (PRG) size that may be interpreted differently based on the indicated multi-TRP scheme.
US11563506B2	Electro-optical interface module and associated methods A TORminator module is disposed with a switch linecard of a rack. The TORminator module receives downlink electrical data signals from a rack switch. The TORminator module translates the downlink electrical data signals into downlink optical data signals. The TORminator module transmits multiple subsets of the downlink optical data signals through optical fibers to respective SmartDistributor modules disposed in respective racks. Each SmartDistributor module receives multiple downlink optical data signals through a single optical fiber from the TORminator module. The SmartDistributor module demultiplexes the multiple downlink optical data signals and distributes them to respective servers. The SmartDistributor module receives multiple uplink optical data signals from multiple servers and multiplexes them onto a single optical fiber for transmission to the TORminator module. The TORminator module coverts the multiple uplink optical data signals to multiple uplink electrical data signals, and transmits the multiple uplink electrical data signals to the rack switch.
US11563493B2	Remote radio unit and central unit for multiple-input multiple-output system A MIMO system comprises a remote radio unit (RRU) and central unit. The RRU comprises: a binary phase shift keying (BPSK) modulator, configured to modulate a BPSK waveform by a local oscillator (LO) signal to generate a stimulus signal, wherein the LO signal is derived from a downlink optical signal received via downlink radio over fiber (DL-ROF) from a central unit (CU); and an optical signal generator, in particular a laser, configured to generate an uplink optical signal based on the stimulus signal for transmission via uplink radio over fiber (UL-ROF) to the CU.
US11563480B2	Beam forming using an antenna arrangement There are provided mechanisms for beam forming using an antenna array comprising dual polarized elements. A method comprises generating one or two beam ports. The one or two beam ports are defined by combining at least two non-overlapping subarrays. Each subarray has two subarray ports. The two subarray ports have identical power patterns and mutually orthogonal polarizations. The at least two non-overlapping subarrays are combined via expansion weights. The expansion weights and map the one or two beam ports to subarray ports such that the one or two beam ports have the same power pattern as the subarrays. At least some of the expansion weights have identical non-zero magnitude and are related in phase to form a transmission lobe. The method comprises transmitting signals using said one or two beam ports.
US11563450B1	System and method for high reliability fast RAID decoding for NAND flash memories A flash memory system may include a flash memory and a circuit for decoding a result of a read operation on the flash memory using a first codeword. The circuit may be configured to generate an estimated codeword based on a result of hard decoding the first codeword and a result of hard decoding a second codeword. The circuit may be further configured to generate soft information based on the hard decoding result of the first codeword and the estimated codeword. The circuit may be further configured to decode the result of the read operation on the flash memory using the soft information.
US11563442B2	Calibration of continuous-time residue generation systems for analog-to-digital converters Calibration of continuous-time (CT) residue generation systems can account and compensate for mismatches in magnitude and phase that may be caused by fabrication processes, temperature, and voltage variations. In particular, calibration may be performed by providing one or more known test signals as an input to a CT residue generation system, analyzing the output of the system corresponding to the known input, and then adjusting one or more parameters of a forward and/or a feedforward path of the system so that the difference in transfer functions of these paths may be reduced/minimized. Calibrating CT residue generation systems using test signals may help decrease the magnitude of the residue signals generated by such systems, and, consequently, advantageously increase an error correction range of such systems or of further stages that may use the residue signals as input.
US11563435B2	Programmable device having hardened circuits for predetermined digital signal processing functionality An example programmable device includes a configuration memory configured to store configuration data; a programmable logic having a configurable functionality based on the configuration data in the configuration memory; a signal conversion circuit; a digital processing circuit; an endpoint circuit coupled to the signal conversion circuit through the digital processing circuit; wherein the digital processing circuit includes a first one or more digital processing functions implemented as hardened circuits each having a predetermined functionality, and a second one or more processing functions implemented by the configurable functionality of the programmable logic.
US11563430B2	Transistor diagnostic circuit A transistor diagnostic circuit includes a protection transistor output terminal, a fault terminal, and circuitry coupled to the protection transistor output terminal and the fault terminal. The protection transistor output terminal is adapted to be coupled to a current terminal of a protection transistor. The transistor diagnostic circuit is configured to, at start-up, load the protection transistor output terminal to test the protection transistor, and to generate a fault signal at the fault terminal responsive to a voltage on the protection transistor output terminal exceeding a threshold.
US11563423B2	Filter including acoustic wave resonator in parallel with circuit element Aspects of this disclosure relate to an acoustic wave filter that includes acoustic wave resonators arranged to filter a radio frequency signal. The acoustic wave resonators include a first acoustic wave resonator. The acoustic wave filter includes a circuit element in parallel with the first acoustic wave resonator in a stage of the acoustic wave filter. The circuit element and the first acoustic wave resonator have different resonant frequencies. The circuit element can reduce an impact of bulk mode of the first acoustic wave resonator on insertion loss of the acoustic wave filter. The first acoustic wave resonator can be a surface acoustic wave resonator in certain embodiments. The circuit element can be a second acoustic wave resonator or a capacitor, for example.
US11563419B1	Piezoelectric resonator with multiple electrode sections A resonator includes a piezoelectric layer comprising a piezoelectric material, the piezoelectric layer having a first surface and a second surface; an inner electrode disposed on the first surface of the piezoelectric layer, the inner electrode connected to a circuit; and an outer electrode surrounding the inner electrode on the first surface of the piezoelectric layer, the outer electrode left floating or connected to ground. The inner electrode and the outer electrode are separated by at least one gap smaller than an acoustic wavelength. One single piece electrode or multiple piece electrodes may be disposed on the second surface of the piezoelectric layer. The outer electrodes are configured for optimal modal confinement of an acoustic resonance while the inner electrodes are configured to produce a higher motional resistance than the interconnect resistance for maintaining high Q.
US11563416B2	Common mode choke coil A common mode choke coil is configured in which end portions of first and second wires are connected to first and second terminal electrodes, end portions of third and fourth wires are connected to third and fourth terminal electrodes, and at least a part of each of the first, third, fourth and second wires is wound around a winding core portion to form first, second, third and fourth layers. Also, a common mode choke coil is configured in which end portions of first and second wires are connected to first and second terminal electrodes, end portions of a third wire are connected to third and fourth terminal electrodes, and at least a part of each of the first, third, and second wires is wound around a winding core portion to form first, second, and third layers.
US11563415B2	Common mode filter Disclosed herein is a common mode filter that includes a winding core part and first and second wires wound in a same direction around the winding core part. The first and second wires constitute a first winding block on one endmost side in an axial direction of the winding core part, a second winding block on other endmost side in the axial direction of the winding core part, and a third winding block positioned between the first and second winding blocks. The second winding block is a winding block at an odd-numbered position counted from the first winding block. The first and second wires cross each other in an area between the first and third winding blocks and in an area between the second and third winding blocks.
US11563413B2	Tuning fork-type vibrating reed, tuning fork-type vibrator and manufacturing method therefor When a thick frequency adjustment metal film of a tuning fork-type vibration piece is irradiated with a beam on a wafer for frequency coarse adjustment, projections are possibly formed on a roughened end of the frequency adjustment metal film. Such projections are pressurized and pushed down not to chip off under any impact, so that the risk of frequency fluctuations is suppressed.
US11563411B2	Metadata for loudness and dynamic range control An audio normalization gain value is applied to an audio signal to produce a normalized signal. The normalized signal is processed to compute dynamic range control (DRC) gain values in accordance with a selected one of several pre-defined DRC characteristics. The audio signal is encoded, and the DRC gain values are provided as metadata associated with the encoded audio signal. Several other embodiments are also described and claimed.
US11563406B2	Quartz crystal resonator, quartz crystal unit, and quartz crystal oscillator A quartz crystal unit comprising a quartz crystal resonator having a base portion, and first and second tuning fork arms connected to the base portion, the base portion having a length less than 0.5 mm and greater than a spaced-apart distance between the first and second tuning fork arms, each of the first and second tuning fork arms having a width less than 0.1 mm and a length less than 1.56 mm, and a plurality of different widths including a first width and a second width greater than the first width, at least one groove being formed in at least one of opposite main surfaces of each of the first and second tuning fork arms so that a length of the at least one groove is within a range of 0.3 mm to 0.79 mm, the quartz crystal resonator being housed in a case, and a lid being connected to the case.
US11563397B2	Motor controller A motor controller comprises a switch circuit and a driving circuit. The switch circuit is coupled to a three-phase motor for driving the three-phase motor. The driving circuit generates a plurality of control signals to control the switch circuit. The motor controller utilizes a first pulse width modulation waveform and a second pulse width modulation waveform for driving the three-phase motor, where the first pulse width modulation waveform and the second pulse width modulation waveform have different frequencies from each other. The motor controller utilizes the second pulse width modulation waveform to detect a phase switching time point, where the frequency of the first pulse width modulation waveform is greater than the frequency of the second pulse width modulation waveform.
US11563391B2	Motor control method and device Provided are a motor control method and a device, applicable in the technical field of motor control, and particularly applicable to a controller in a motor control system. The system comprises one controller and at least two motors, and each of the motors drives one drive entity. The method comprises: acquiring a control instruction at a current time, a positional relationship of drive entities, and a system state after a previous program cycle has ended; on the basis of the acquired information, and in combination with a pre-established mapping of transition relationships and transition conditions between all system states, determining, from the control instruction at the current time, a target system state corresponding to the system state after the previous program cycle has ended, determining, according to the target system state, a target control instruction, and controlling actions of all of the motors.
US11563387B2	Air ionizer for air purification A Static Electrostatic Generator (SEG) is disclosed which produces static charges at high voltage and low current. The SEG is capable of generating positive or negative charges on a metal sphere by reversing the polarity of a DC source. The conversion efficiency of the system is about 47% and its design is simple, lightweight, and easy to manufacture. The SEG is a static device and no mechanical movement is required to produce charges. Also, the design is easily scalable.
US11563385B2	DC chopper for MMC cell with integrated chopper resistor This disclosure proposes a topology that integrates a DC chopper into the Modular Multilevel Converter (MMC) cells of a power converter. The integrated DC chopper may include chopper resistors that may also be advantageously integrated into a heat sink for a power module including at least the power transistors of the MMC cell. Embodiments herein also describe a method for using an MMC cell's IGBTs and chopper resistors for providing a safe discharge of both cell capacitors and DC-link capacitors in different operating conditions.
US11563378B2	Seamless DCM-PFM transition for single pulse operation in DC-DC converters A converter operable to convert an input voltage at an input node to an output voltage at an output node coupled to a load by switching on and off a transistor at a switching frequency, the converter comprising: an error amplifier circuit having a first input coupled to a reference voltage, a second input coupled to the output node through a resistive divider, a first output operable to output a control current and a second output operable to output a current equivalent to the control current; a peak current comparator circuit having a first input coupled to the second output of the error amplifier circuit, a second input and an output, the second input is coupled to the input node through an inductor; an off-time timer circuit having an input coupled to the first output of the error amplifier circuit and an output, the off-time timer circuit operable to set the switching frequency based on the control current; and a control circuit having a first input coupled to the output of the peak current comparator circuit, a second input coupled to the output of the off-time timer circuit and an output coupled to a control terminal of the transistor.
US11563374B2	Switching mode power supply preventing false triggering of a switch A switching mode power supply preventing a first switch from being falsely triggered. The switching mode power supply detects a peak of an input signal and starts timing a period of time since the arrival of the peak of the input signal is detected. The first switch starts performing the on and off switching operations when the period of time expires.
US11563370B2	Protection scheme for power converters utilizing cascaded bipolar and unipolar power semiconductor devices A protection circuit for a power converter with cascaded bipolar and/or unipolar semiconductors is provided. The protection circuit includes at least one comparator circuit which is adapted to monitor a voltage characteristic on a collector-emitter path of at least one semiconductor which is arranged in a polarity selection stage of the power converter and/or to monitor a voltage characteristic on at least one capacitor, which is arranged in the power converter. The at least one comparator circuit is further adapted to output an electrical signal, representing the voltage characteristic of the semiconductor and/or the at least one capacitor to at least one evaluation unit. The at least one evaluation unit is further adapted to evaluate the result from the at least one comparator circuit and to deactivate the semiconductors in case that the voltage characteristic of the semiconductors and/or the capacitors deviate from a predetermined threshold.
US11563369B2	Transmitting power stage parameters from a voltage regulator to power stages According to an aspect, a power supply system includes a plurality of power stages including a first power stage and a second power stage. The power supply system includes a voltage regulator connected to the first power stage and the second power stage. The voltage regulator is configured to detect an analog temperature signal from at least one of the first power stage and the second power stage via a communication line. The analog temperature signal is detected within a first voltage range. The voltage regulator is configured to transmit a digital bit stream to the first power stage and the second power stage via the communication line. The digital bit stream includes one or more programmable power stage parameters. The digital bit stream has digital levels within a second voltage range.
US11563359B2	Lubricant supported electric motor with a movable raceway and an optimized method of operating same A lubricant supported electric motor includes a stator presenting an outer raceway and a rotor extending along an axis and rotatably disposed within the stator. The rotor presents an inner raceway disposed in spaced relationship with the outer raceway to define a gap therebetween, and a lubricant is disposed in the gap for supporting the rotor within the stator. At least one of the outer raceway or the inner raceway is movable radially towards or away from the other to adjust the gap and optimize operation of the lubricant supported electric motor.
US11563349B2	Motor Various embodiments relate to a motor in which a structure of an insulator is improved. The motor includes an insulator module coupled to a top face of a stator core. The insulator module includes: each power terminal unit connected to each of 3-phases power lead wires; a neutral terminal unit connected to a neutral point of a coil; and an insulator body for achieving insulations between the power and neutral terminal units and the stator core, and between the power and neutral terminal units, wherein the power terminal unit and the neutral terminal unit are positioned at different vertical levels.
US11563340B2	Power supply device, server, and power supply device management system A power supply device which is used as a backup power supply, including a power supply side acquisition unit that acquires information related to a position of the power supply device.
US11563338B1	Systems and methods for electric vehicle charging and power management Systems and methods for charging electric vehicles and for quantitative and qualitative load balancing of electrical demand are provided.
US11563333B2	System for facilitating the charging of a wheeled battery-operated apparatus The combination of: a) a wheeled operating unit having a drive powered by a rechargeable power supply and at least one connector; and b) a charging station having at least one connector. The at least one connector on the wheeled operating unit and the at least one connector on the charging station cooperate with each other to establish an operative connection between the charging station and the wheeled operating unit, whereupon the charging station is operable to effect charging of the rechargeable power supply. The operative connection can be established with the wheeled operating unit moved selectively from first and second different starting positions, each spaced fully from the charging station, respectively in first and second different path portions up to the charging station and into at least one charging position.
US11563329B2	Delivery of electrical power A tethered aircraft or balloon carrying a communications base station for rapid deployment in emergency situations. Electrical power is delivered from a generator on the ground using a pulsed electrical supply system in which each power pulse is delivered over a cable and acknowledged, and pulses only continue to be delivered whilst such acknowledgements are received by the ground station. This reduces the risks associated with delivering electrical power over an aerial tether, and avoids the need for an earth (ground) connection, reducing the risk from lightning.
US11563326B2	Synchronization of parallel gensets with source arbitration A method of synchronization comprises receiving, at a first generator set, data indicating a characteristic for a component of a voltage for a source, and receiving, at a second generator set, the data indicating the characteristic for the component of the voltage for the source. The method also includes calculating, by each of the first and second generator sets, a speed offset parameter and a voltage offset parameter based on the received data. The first and second generator sets are configured to receive the same data indicating the component and independently calculate the same speed offset parameter and voltage offset parameter. The method further includes controlling operation of the first and second generator sets based on the calculated speed offset and voltage offset parameters.
US11563323B2	Islanding detection method in DC microgrids based on MPPT trapezoidal voltage disturbance The invention discloses an islanding detection method in DC microgrids based on MPPT trapezoidal voltage disturbance. The steps are as follows: start the MPPT strategy; set the starting signal threshold of disturbance; measure the output current of PVA at the maximum power; calculate the same environmental factor of PVA with different capacities under the same light intensity and temperature in real time; when the environmental factor is greater than the starting signal threshold of the disturbance, periodic trapezoidal disturbance is carried out to the PVA port voltage reference; if the PCC voltage Upcc exceeds the threshold set by the passive method, it is judged as islanding; otherwise, it is judged whether the change rule of Upcc is consistent with the change rule of the calculated PCC voltage Upccp under the trapezoidal disturbance; If it is consistent, it is judged as islanding; otherwise, it is pseudo islanding.
US11563319B1	Stand-alone safety isolated area with integrated protection for supply and signal lines Disclosed herein is a single integrated circuit chip with a main logic that operates a vehicle component such as a valve driver. Isolated from the main logic within the chip is a safety area that operates to verify proper operation of the main logic. The safety area is internally powered by an internal regulated voltage generated by an internal voltage regulator that generates the internal regulated voltage from an external voltage while protecting against shorts of the external line delivering the external voltage. The safety area includes protection circuits that level shift external analog signals downward in voltage for monitoring within the safety area, the protection circuits serving to protect against shorts of the external line delivering the external analog signals.
US11563316B2	System including management apparatus and electronic device connected to cord reel The system includes an electronic device connected to a cord that can be unreeled and reeled in by a cord reel, and a management apparatus that can communicate with the electronic device. In the system, the cord-reel-use detector is disposed in the electronic device, and detects use of the cord reel. The memory is disposed in the electronic device and/or the management apparatus, and stores an amount of use of the cord reel. The controller is disposed in the electronic device and/or the management apparatus, and determines the use of the cord reel on the basis of the detection made by the cord-reel-use detector. The controller changes the amount of use of the cord reel in response to the electronic device having been replaced with another electronic device or in response to the cord reel having been replaced with another cord reel.
US11563300B2	Suppressing signal noise on an optical fiber An optical system for suppressing signal noise on an optical fiber, including an input power signal; a pump laser configured to receive the input power signal; a phase modulator coupled to the pump laser configured to modulate, in response to the input power signal, a phase of the pump laser to increase a stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) threshold of the pump laser, wherein the pump laser is further configured to: increase a power at the pump laser to be greater than the SBS threshold; generate a back scattering power based on the power of the pump laser being greater than the increased SBS threshold; and limit an output power signal of the pump laser based on the generated back scattering power.
US11563297B2	Pogo block within the intermediate connection member of an inspection system A pogo block includes: a conductor having a first terminal connected to a terminal of a board of an inspection part, a second terminal connected to a terminal of a probe card, and an elastically expandable and contractible connection portion connecting the first terminal and the second terminal, and configured to be expandable and contractible in a direction connecting the first terminal and the second terminal; and a housing having a first holder configured to hold the first terminal, a second holder configured to hold the second terminal, and a guider into which the elastically expandable and contractible connection portion is inserted and configured to guide movements of the first holder and the second holder in the direction connecting the first terminal and the second terminal.
US11563296B2	Track busway power distribution unit A track busway power distribution unit including a housing, a power input coupled with the housing and connectable to an electrical busway, a securement mechanism moveably coupled to the housing and structured to secure the power distribution unit to the electrical busway, and at least one outlet module located at least partially within the housing. The outlet module can include at least one outlet core having a core outer surface configured to mate within a first connector type. The outlet core can include a plurality of electrical terminals each coupled to the power input and configured to connect with mating terminals corresponding to both the first connector type and a second connector type that is different than the first connector type. A removable shroud can be positioned around the outlet core, wherein the shroud includes a shroud inner surface configured to receive the first connector type.
US11563294B2	Spring-loaded interconnects having pre-configured flexible cable A spring-loaded interconnect includes a forward interconnect subassembly and a rearward interconnect subassembly with a flexible cable extending between each subassembly. The flexible cable includes a plurality of curved sections, and a plurality of substantially straight sections integral with the plurality of curved sections. The plurality of curved sections and the plurality of substantially straight sections are pre-configured within the spring-loaded interconnect such that the flexible cable and a spring compress, relax, and axially travel a predetermined distance when at least one external load is applied to at least one end of the spring-loaded interconnect.
US11563282B2	Terminal block housing intended to receive at least one multi-strand cable The invention relates to a housing comprising a terminal block intended to receive at least one end of a multi-strand cable and therefore comprising at least one recess (6a, 6b, 6c, 6d) for receiving the end of the cable, the recess being provided with a wall (8) in which an opening (7a, 7b, 7c, 7d) is arranged and through which the end of the cable extends during use, and a flank (10a, 10b, 10c, 10d) arranged opposite the wall with the opening, at least one surface of the flank facing the inside of the recess being rough in order to limit the risk of at least one strand detached from the end of the cable sliding through a space between the flank and the rest of the housing.
US11563277B1	FPGA hardware implementation of a novel and computationally efficient DOA estimation method for coherent signals A communications device includes a uniform linear array of M antennas and a field programmable gate array (FPGA) having pipelined stages in which execution of overlapping instructions estimate a direction of arrival of RF signals from multiple sources. A preprocessing stage of the FPGA includes at least one configurable logic block configured to apply forward/backward averaging spatial smoothing to a signal space matrix extracted from a covariance matrix in the preprocessing stage. The FPGA further includes at least one configurable logic block configured to compute the direction of arrival angle for the RF signals using a least squares method.
US11563273B2	Antenna Antenna having a housing (3), a core (1) and a coil (2), which is wound around the core (1), the core (1) with the coil (2) in a potting compound (5) being mounted in the housing (3), the potting compound (5) being softer than 40 Shore A.
US11563267B2	Methods for electromagnetic shielding using an outer cobalt layer A method for providing electromagnetic shielding of a semiconductor die includes attaching a semiconductor die to a package substrate of a packaged radio frequency module, where the package substrate includes one or more radio frequency circuits fabricated therein. The method also includes encapsulating the semiconductor die with a molding compound. The method also includes at least partially covering the molding compound with an electromagnetic shielding structure having an outer layer including cobalt. A phone board assembly can include the packaged radio frequency module attached to a printed circuit board. The packaged radio frequency module can be incorporated into a mobile device.
US11563262B2	Integrated heatsink and antenna structure An integrated heatsink and antenna structure that is suitable for inclusion in small and midsized computing devices. The integrated heatsink and antenna structure may include heatsink portions and radio frequency antenna portions. The heatsink portions may provide a path for dissipating thermal energy or heat generated by the components in the device (e.g., printed circuit boards, processors, voltage amplifiers, etc.), and the radio frequency (RF) antenna portions may allow the device to send and receive wireless communications. The integrated heatsink and antenna structure may be formed so that radio frequency antenna portions operate to improve the thermal performance of the heatsink portions and/or so that the heatsink portions operate to improve the antenna properties (e.g., radiation patterns, radiation efficiency, bandwidth, input impedance, polarization, directivity, gain, beam-width, voltage standing wave ratio, etc.) of the radio frequency antenna portions.
US11563258B2	ICB assembly, battery module comprising the same and method for fabricating the battery module An interconnect board (ICB) assembly suitable for a battery module of horizontal stack structure including unidirectional battery cells stacked with cell leads facing each other includes an ICB frame in which cell leads of unidirectional battery cells are configured to be received such that the unidirectional battery cells having the cell leads at one end are configured to be placed facing each other with the cell leads facing each other, and busbars formed in the ICB frame and configured to be electrically connected to the cell leads, wherein the ICB frame is configured to be connected to another ICB frame with a hinge structure in a lengthwise direction of the ICB frame. A battery module including the ICB assembly and a method for fabricating the battery module are also provided.
US11563239B2	Battery pack and method of manufacture A battery pack comprises a set of battery cells, a battery cell holder holding the battery cells, at least one battery strap having a first end connected to a terminal of one of the battery cells and a second end extending from the battery cell holder, a printed circuit board having a first side and a second side, components mounted on the second side of the printed circuit board, a trace on the second side of the printed circuit board extending from one components to a contact connected to the trace and mated with the second end of the at least one battery strap. Multiple vias extend from the first side to the second side, and the contact comprises a first portion having a through hole and a leg integrally formed with and approximately perpendicular to the first portion, the leg extending from the first side of the PCB to the second side of the PCB through a first via, the trace extending from the first via, the leg soldered to the second side of the PCB and the via and the through hole aligned with a second via adjacent to the first via, the through hole sized and configured to receive a PCB end of the strap, the PCB end of the strap soldered to the contact.
US11563233B1	Curved battery-pack devices and accessories A wearable battery-pack accessory may include (1) one or more curved batteries, (2) charging circuitry that charges the one or more curved batteries, (3) supplying circuitry that supplies power to a connected external computing device, and (4) an outer housing including a curved surface shaped to conform to a portion of a wearer's body. A head-mounted display system may include (1) a head-mounted display, (2) a strap that is coupled to the head-mounted display and wraps around the back of a user's head when the user is wearing the head-mounted display, and (3) a battery-pack accessory detachably coupled to the strap. Various other apparatus, systems, and methods are also disclosed.
US11563231B2	Lithium-ion storage battery and electronic device To provide a storage battery including a carbon-based material. To provide a graphene compound film having desired ion conductivity and mechanical strength while preventing direct contact between electrodes in a storage battery. To achieve long-term reliability. A lithium-ion storage battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, an exterior body, and a separator between the positive electrode and the negative electrode. In the lithium-ion storage battery, one of the positive electrode and the negative electrode is wrapped in a first film, and the positive electrode, the negative electrode, and the separator are stored in the exterior body. The first film may include a first region in which the first film includes a first functional group. The first film may further include a second region in which the first film includes a second functional group different from the first functional group. The first film may be a graphene compound film.
US11563226B2	Membrane-electrode assembly and polymer electrolyte fuel cell A membrane-electrode assembly including a polymer electrolyte membrane, and electrocatalyst layers disposed on both surfaces of the polymer electrolyte membrane, with a total light transmittance measured after delamination of both the electrocatalyst layers by using an adhesive member is 40% or less. The total light transmittance is at an electrocatalyst layer located part, when a total light transmittance at an electrocatalyst layer non-located part is taken to be 100%. The viscous member has an adhesive force of 3 N/10 mm or more when measured by pulling the viscous member adhered to a stainless steel in a 180°angle direction relative to the stainless steel, for delamination from the stainless steel.
US11563225B2	System and method of controlling air compressor motor for fuel cell vehicle and system and method of controlling operation of fuel cell vehicle using same A method of controlling an air compressor motor for a fuel cell vehicle is provide. The method includes calculating a counter electromotive force constant of the air compressor motor based on a voltage and a current of the air compressor motor for the fuel cell vehicle supplying air to a fuel cell stack and a rotation speed of the air compressor motor. The method additionally includes determining whether a permanent magnet of the air compressor motor is demagnetized based on a result of comparison between the calculated counter electromotive force constant value and a pre-set counter electromotive force constant design value.
US11563222B1	Systems and methods for passively controlling pressure within a cryogenic storage tank An all mechanically controlled, non-venting pressure control system for liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen cryogenic tanks that requires no electrical control while managing disparate, non-stoichiometric reactant boil-off rates is provided. The pressure control system allows for the passive and repeatable stoichiometric consumption of hydrogen and oxygen boil-off from cryogenic tanks to form liquid water, while preventing the liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen cryogenic tanks from overpressurizing and venting to the external environment. More particularly, in response to an overpressure condition in a first reactant reservoir, a backpressure regulator is opened, providing the overpressure first reactant to a fuel cell or other consumer, and providing a pilot signal to open a supply line from a second reactant reservoir to the consumer. Whether the second reactant is supplied from the second reactant reservoir as gas or a liquid is determined based on the pressure within the second reactant reservoir.
US11563220B2	Connecting material for solid oxide fuel cell, manufacturing method thereof, and solid oxide fuel cell comprising same The present specification relates to a connecting material for a solid oxide fuel cell, comprising a conductive substrate; and a ceramic protective film provided on one surface of the conductive substrate, in which the ceramic protective film comprises an oxide represented by Formula 1, a manufacturing method thereof, and a solid oxide fuel cell comprising the same.
US11563213B2	Method of preparing positive electrode active material for lithium secondary battery, positive electrode active material prepared thereby, and positive electrode for lithium secondary battery and lithium secondary battery which include the positive electrode active material In one embodiment, the present disclosure relates to a method of preparing a positive electrode active material, which includes mixing a nickel cobalt manganese hydroxide precursor containing nickel in an amount of 60 mol % or more based on a total number of moles of transition metals in the precursor, a lithium-containing raw material, and a doping raw material represented by Formula 2 (set forth herein), and sintering the mixture to prepare a positive electrode active material represented by Formula 1 (set forth herein).
US11563205B2	Multilayer electrode and method of manufacturing same The present disclosure relates to a multilayer electrode and a method of manufacturing the same, and more specifically to a multilayer electrode comprising an electrode collector; and two or more electrode active material layers which are sequentially coated on one surface or both surfaces of the electrode current collector, wherein the electrode active material layers each include a carbon-based material, a binder, and a silicon-based material, wherein in the mutually adjacent electrode active material layers based on the direction of formation of the electrode active material layers, the content of the carbon-based material and the content of the binder in the electrode active material layer located relatively close to the electrode collector are larger than the content of the carbon-based material and the content of the binder in the electrode active material layers located relatively far away from the electrode current collector.
US11563200B2	Display device A display device includes a first semiconductor pattern on a substrate, a first insulating layer on the first semiconductor pattern, a first gate electrode on the first insulating layer, a second insulating layer on the first gate electrode, a second semiconductor pattern on the second insulating layer, a material of the second semiconductor pattern being different from that of the first semiconductor pattern, a third insulating layer on the second semiconductor pattern, a second gate electrode on the third insulating layer, a first planarization layer overlapping the second gate electrode, a second planarization layer on the first planarization layer and including a light blocking portion, and a pixel definition layer on the second planarization layer, wherein at least a portion of the pixel definition layer directly contacts the light blocking portion of the second planarization layer.
US11563198B2	Display unit with organic layer disposed on metal layer and insulation layer A display unit includes a plurality of pixels, a reflector layer, and an auxiliary electrode. Each of the plurality of pixels has a first electrode, an organic layer, and a second electrode in this order. The organic layer and the second electrode are provided on the first electrode. The organic layer includes a light-emitting layer. The reflector layer has a light-reflecting surface around each of the pixels. The auxiliary electrode is provided on the reflector layer and is projected from an upper end of the light-reflecting surface. The auxiliary electrode has a portion which is exposed from the organic layer, and the exposed portion is covered with the second electrode.
US11563193B2	Display device and package method thereof The present invention provides a display device, including a display panel and an encapsulation cover disposed on the display panel. Two circles of border sealant are sequentially disposed at intervals between the bonding area of the encapsulation cover and the display panel from periphery to the inside. The invention provides a display device, which adopts a novel encapsulation structure so that it can effectively prevent external water and oxygen from invading into the internal display panel, and therefore improve its own stability.
US11563191B2	Light-emitting element with light-emitting layer including first and second organic compounds, display device, electronic device, and lighting device A light-emitting element having high emission efficiency which includes a fluorescent material as a light-emitting substance is provided. A light-emitting element includes a pair of electrodes and an EL layer between the pair of electrodes. The EL layer includes a light-emitting layer. The light-emitting layer includes a host material and a guest material. The host material has a difference of more than 0 eV and less than or equal to 0.2 eV between a singlet excitation energy level and a triplet excitation energy level. The guest material is capable of emitting fluorescence. The triplet excitation energy level of the host material is higher than a triplet excitation energy level of the guest material.
US11563180B2	Spirobifluorene compound and perovskite solar cell comprising same A spirobifluorene compound and a perovskite solar cell including the spirobifluorene compound are disclosed. More particularly, a spirobifluorene compound which can be used as a hole transport material of a perovskite solar cell is disclosed. A perovskite solar cell including the spirobifluorene compound as a hole transport material is further disclosed.
US11563177B2	Benzo[a]anthracene compound, light-emitting element, display device, electronic device, and lighting device Provided is a light-emitting element with high emission efficiency including a fluorescent material as a light-emitting substance. In a light-emitting element including a pair of electrodes and an EL layer between the pair of electrodes, a delayed fluorescence component due to triplet-triplet annihilation accounts for 20% or more of light emitted from the EL layer, and the light has at least one emission spectrum peak in the blue wavelength range. The EL layer includes an organic compound in which an energy difference between the lowest singlet excited energy level and the lowest triplet excited energy level is 0.5 eV or more. The EL layer includes a benzo[a]anthracene compound.
US11563170B2	Fully compensated synthetic ferromagnet for spintronics applications A laminated seed layer stack with a smooth top surface having a peak to peak roughness of 0.5 nm is formed by sequentially sputter depositing a first seed layer, a first amorphous layer, a second seed layer, and a second amorphous layer where each seed layer may be Mg and has a resputtering rate 2 to 30X that of the amorphous layers that are TaN, SiN, or a CoFeM alloy. A template layer that is NiCr or NiFeCr is formed on the second amorphous layer. As a result, perpendicular magnetic anisotropy in an overlying magnetic layer that is a reference layer, free layer, or dipole layer is substantially maintained during high temperature processing up to 400° C. and is advantageous for magnetic tunnel junctions in embedded MRAMs, spintronic devices, or in read head sensors. The laminated seed layer stack may include a bottommost Ta or TaN buffer layer.
US11563166B2	Piezoelectric poling of a wafer with temporary and permanent electrodes An array of piezoelectric micromachined ultrasound transducers (PMUTs) has a layer of piezoelectric material that requires poling during fabrication in order to properly align the piezoelectric dipoles to create a desired ultrasonic signal. The PMUT may have an interconnected set of lower electrodes that are fabricated between a processing layer of the PMUT and the piezoelectric layer. An upper electrode is fabricated overlaying the piezoelectric layer, and a poling voltage is applied between the upper electrode and the interconnected set of lower electrodes. After poling is complete, portions of the interconnected set of lower electrodes are removed to permanently isolate permanent lower electrodes from each other.
US11563164B2	High-resolution sensing of piezo-electric transducers In a driver for a piezo-electric transducer, when a converter circuit and a sensing circuit are the same circuit, many limitations exist on the accuracy of the sensing, due to multiple parasitic effects arising from the interconnection of the power devices. These limitations may limit viability of the sensing for many applications, in particular an accurate determination of when the force on the piezo-electric transducer is fully removed. Providing an additional switch in the sensing circuit configured to repeatedly zero the sensed voltage across the piezo-electric transducer each time the sensed voltage reaches a threshold voltage generates a plurality of voltage segments between zero and the threshold voltage. Accordingly, a controller may then be configured to generate a digital reconstruction of the sensed voltage across the piezo-electric transducer by adding the plurality of voltage segments.
US11563151B2	Electronic device An electronic device is provided by the present disclosure. The electronic device includes a substrate, a light emitting diode and an optical sensor. The light emitting diode is disposed on the substrate and emits a light. The optical sensor is disposed on the substrate and is configured to receive the light, and the optical sensor receives the light to generate a first electrical signal for fingerprint authentication, and receives the light to generate a second electrical signal for luminance calibration of the light.
US11563148B2	Light-emitting device with configurable spatial distribution of emission intensity A semiconductor light-emitting device includes a junction between doped semiconductor layers, a first set of multiple independent contacts connected to a first doped layer and a second set of one or more contacts connected to the second doped layer. Multiple conductive vias connect the independent contacts to the first doped layer, enabling differing corresponding via currents to be applied to the first doped layer through the vias independent of one another. A spatial distribution of via currents among the multiple vias can be selected to yield a corresponding spatial distribution of emission intensity. Alteration of the via current distribution results in corresponding alteration of the emission intensity distribution; such alterations can be implemented dynamically. Multiple devices can be arranged as a light-emitting array.
US11563139B2	Method of manufacturing deep ultraviolet light emitting device A deep ultraviolet light emitting device includes: an electron block layer of a p-type AlGaN-based semiconductor material or a p-type AlN-based semiconductor material provided on a support substrate; an active layer of an AlGaN-based semiconductor material provided on the electron block layer; an n-type clad layer of an n-type AlGaN-based semiconductor material provided on the active layer; an n-type contact layer provided on a partial region of the n-type clad layer and made of an n-type semiconductor material containing gallium nitride (GaN); and an n-side electrode formed on the n-type contact layer. The n-type contact layer has a band gap smaller than that of the n-type clad layer.
US11563131B2	Illuminance sensor, electronic machine and 2D image sensor In an illuminance sensor, a slow axis of a first quarter-wave plate has a relation of +45° or −45° in regard to a polarization direction of a first linear polarization plate; a relation of a slow axis of a first portion of a second quarter-wave plate in regard to a polarization direction of a second linear polarization plate is the same with relation of the slow axis of the first quarter-wave plate in regard to the polarization direction of the first linear polarization plate, that is, +45° or −45°; and a relation of a slow axis of a second portion of the second quarter plate in regard to the polarization direction of the second linear polarization plate is −45° or +45° that is opposite in sign to the relation of the slow axis of the first quarter-plate in regard to the polarization direction of the first linear polarization plate.
US11563116B2	Vertical type transistor, inverter including the same, and vertical type semiconductor device including the same A vertical type transistor includes: a substrate; a first source/drain electrode layer provided on the substrate; a second source/drain electrode layer provided above the first source/drain electrode layer; a first gate electrode layer provided between the first and second source/drain electrode layers; a first gate insulating film passing through the first gate electrode layer; a hole passing through the second source/drain electrode layer, the first gate insulating film, and the first source/drain electrode layer; and a first channel layer provided on a lateral side of the hole, wherein the first channel layer may include a 2D semiconductor.
US11563109B2	Semiconductor device structure and method for forming the same A semiconductor device structure is provided. The semiconductor device structure includes a fin structure formed over a substrate, and a gate structure formed over the fin structure. The gate structure includes a first layer, and a fill layer over the first layer. The gate structure includes a protection layer formed over the fill layer of the gate structure, and the protection layer is separated from the first layer by the fill layer.
US11563108B2	Semiconductor devices A semiconductor device including: a first structure including: a first semiconductor pattern protruding from a substrate, the first semiconductor pattern being a channel; a first conductive pattern surrounding the first semiconductor pattern, the first conductive pattern being a gate electrode; a first impurity region under the first semiconductor pattern, the first impurity region contacting the first semiconductor pattern, the first impurity region being a source or drain region; and a second impurity region contacting the first semiconductor pattern, the second impurity region being the other of the source or drain region; and a second structure including: second semiconductor patterns spaced apart from each other, each of the second semiconductor patterns protruding from the substrate; second conductive patterns surrounding the second semiconductor patterns, respectively; and first contact plugs connected to the second conductive patterns, wherein the first structure is a vfet, and the second structure includes a resistor or a capacitor.
US11563102B2	Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof In a method of manufacturing a negative capacitance structure, a dielectric layer is formed over a substrate. A first metallic layer is formed over the dielectric layer. After the first metallic layer is formed, an annealing operation is performed, followed by a cooling operation. A second metallic layer is formed. After the cooling operation, the dielectric layer becomes a ferroelectric dielectric layer including an orthorhombic crystal phase. The first metallic film includes a oriented crystalline layer.
US11563101B2	Power semiconductor devices having multilayer gate dielectric layers that include an etch stop/field control layer and methods of forming such devices A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor layer structure that comprises silicon carbide, a gate dielectric layer on the semiconductor layer structure, the gate dielectric layer including a base gate dielectric layer that is on the semiconductor layer structure and a capping gate dielectric layer on the base gate dielectric layer opposite the semiconductor layer structure, and a gate electrode on the gate dielectric layer opposite the semiconductor layer structure. A dielectric constant of the capping gate dielectric layer is higher than a dielectric constant of the base gate dielectric layer.
US11563098B2	Transistor gate shape structuring approaches A transistor is disclosed. The transistor includes a first part of a gate above a substrate that has a first width and a second part of the gate above the first part of the gate that is centered with respect to the first part of the gate and that has a second width that is greater than the first width. The first part of the gate and the second part of the gate form a single monolithic T-gate structure.
US11563097B2	High electron mobility transistor and fabrication method thereof The present disclosure relates to a high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) and a fabrication method thereof. The HEMT may include a substrate; a channel layer disposed on the substrate; a barrier layer disposed on the channel layer; a semiconductor gate disposed on the barrier layer; a metal gate disposed on the semiconductor gate, the metal gate having a trapezoidal cross-sectional shape; and a passivation layer directly contacting the metal gate. A first surface of the metal gate contacts a first surface of the semiconductor gate, and an edge of the first surface of the metal gate is located inside an edge of the first surface of the semiconductor gate.
US11563079B2	Metal insulator metal (MIM) structure and manufacturing method thereof A MIM structure and manufacturing method thereof are provided. The MIM structure includes a substrate having a first surface and a metallization structure over the substrate. The metallization structure includes a bottom electrode layer, a dielectric layer on the bottom electrode layer, a ferroelectric layer on the dielectric layer, a top electrode layer on the ferroelectric layer, a first contact electrically coupled to the top electrode layer, and a second contact penetrating the dielectric layer and the ferroelectric layer, electrically coupled to the bottom electrode layer.
US11563076B2	Display panel and preparation method thereof and display apparatus Disclosed in embodiments of the present disclosure are a display panel, a preparation method thereof and a display apparatus. The display panel includes: a first blocking dam located in the blocking area and surrounding the hole area, a second blocking dam located on one side of the first blocking dam close to the hole area and surrounding the hole area, a heightening layer located between the first blocking dam and the second blocking dam, a crack detect wire located on one side of the second blocking dam close to the hole area, at least two connection leading wires leading the crack detect wire out to the display area through the blocking area; in a direction perpendicular to a plane where the display panel is located, an orthographic projection of an area between the connection leading wires has an overlap area with an orthographic projection of the heightening layer.
US11563074B2	Display apparatus including power supply wire that contacts second electrode and method of manufacturing the same A display apparatus includes: a base substrate; a thin film transistor and a power supply wire on the base substrate; a first electrode on the base substrate, and electrically connected to the thin film transistor; a light emitting layer and a common layer on the first electrode; and a second electrode on the common layer. The power supply wire includes: a first conductive layer; a second conductive layer on the first conductive layer; and a third conductive layer on the second conductive layer. The third conductive layer protrudes more than the second conductive layer on a side surface of the power supply wire, and the second electrode contacts a side surface of the second conductive layer.
US11563066B2	Organic light emitting display device including a grooved planarazation layer An organic light emitting display (OLED) device includes a substrate, a semiconductor element on the substrate, a planarization layer on the semiconductor, and a light emitting structure on the planarization layer. The planarization layer includes a contact hole exposing a portion of the semiconductor and a plurality of grooves surrounding the contact hole. The light emitting structure is electrically connected to the semiconductor element via the contact hole.
US11563056B2	Semiconductor memory device including phase change material layers and method for manufacturing thereof A semiconductor memory device disposed over a substrate includes a common electrode, a selector material layer surrounding the common electrode, and a plurality of phase change material layers in contact with the selector material layer.
US11563045B2	Electromagnetic wave processing device The present technology relates to an electromagnetic wave processing device that enables reduction of color mixture. Provided are a photoelectric conversion element formed in a silicon substrate, a narrow band filter stacked on a light incident surface side of the photoelectric conversion element and configured to transmit an electromagnetic wave having a desired wavelength, and interlayer films respectively formed above and below the narrow band filter, and the photoelectric conversion element is formed at a depth from an interface of the silicon substrate, the depth where a transmission wavelength of the narrow band filter is most absorbed. The depth of the photoelectric conversion element from the silicon substrate becomes deeper as the transmission wavelength of the narrow band filter is longer. The present technology can be applied to an imaging element or a sensor using a plasmon filter or a Fabry-Perot interferometer.
US11563038B2	Display panel, manufacturing method and repair method thereof A display panel, a manufacturing method and a repair method thereof are provided. The display panel includes a flexible substrate and a plurality of bent traces. The flexible substrate includes a display portion, a bent portion, and a bezel portion being arranged in order. The bezel portion and the display portion are stacked through a bending in the bent portion. The bent portion is provided with the plurality of bent traces. Material of the bent traces includes a first material, and the first material is a conductive material having a melting point lower than 250° C. By adding the first material with the low melting point to the bent traces, when the bent traces are broken, the first material can be melted to flow by heating, thereby repairing the broken traces among the bent traces, whereby realizing the self-repair of the bent traces, increasing the process yield and reducing the production loss.
US11563031B2	Integrated assemblies having vertically-spaced channel material segments, and methods of forming integrated assemblies Some embodiments include a NAND memory array having a vertical stack of alternating insulative levels and conductive levels. The conductive levels include control gate regions and distal regions proximate the control gate regions. The control gate regions have front surfaces, top surfaces and bottom surfaces. The top and bottoms surfaces extend back from the front surfaces. High-k dielectric material is along the control gate regions. The high-k dielectric material has first regions along the top and bottom surfaces, and has second regions along the front surfaces. The first regions are thicker than the second regions. Charge-blocking material is adjacent to the second regions of the high-k dielectric material. Charge-storage material is adjacent to the charge-blocking material. Gate-dielectric material is adjacent to the charge-storage material. Channel material is adjacent to the gate-dielectric material. Some embodiments include integrated assemblies. Some embodiments include methods of forming integrated assemblies.
US11563029B2	3D NAND memory device and method of forming the same A 3D-NAND memory includes a transistor formed in a first side of a periphery circuit substrate, a memory cell stack formed over a first side of a cell array substrate, and a first connection structure formed over an opposing second side of the cell array substrate. The memory cell stack includes a doped region formed in the first side of the cell array substrate and coupled to the first connection structure through a first VIA, a common source structure that extends from the doped region toward the first side of the periphery circuit substrate, and a second connection structure that is positioned over and coupled to the common source structure. The first side of the cell array substrate and the first side of the periphery circuit substrate are aligned facing each other so that the transistor is coupled to the second connection structure.
US11563023B2	Semiconductor device with reduced vertical height A semiconductor device includes a channel structure arranged on a substrate and extending in a first direction perpendicular to a top surface of the substrate, the channel structure including a channel layer and a gate insulating layer; a plurality of insulating layers arranged on the substrate and surrounding the channel structure, the plurality of insulating layers spaced apart from each other in the first direction; a plurality of first gate electrodes surrounding the channel structure; and a plurality of second gate electrodes surrounding the channel structure. Between adjacent insulating layers from among the plurality of insulating layers are arranged a first gate electrode from among the plurality of first gate electrodes spaced apart along the first direction from a second gate electrode from among the plurality of second gate electrodes.
US11563013B2	Memory device and method for forming the same A memory device includes a substrate, first semiconductor fin, second semiconductor fin, first gate structure, second gate structure, first gate spacer, and a second gate spacer. The first gate structure crosses the first semiconductor fin. The second gate structure crosses the second semiconductor fin, the first gate structure extending continuously from the second gate structure, in which in a top view of the memory device, a width of the first gate structure is greater than a width of the second gate structure. The first gate spacer is on a sidewall of the first gate structure. The second gate spacer extends continuously from the first gate spacer and on a sidewall of the second gate structure, in which in the top view of the memory device, a width of the first gate spacer is less than a width of the second gate spacer.
US11563010B2	Integrated assemblies, and methods of forming integrated assemblies Some embodiments include an integrated assembly having an active region which contains semiconductor material. The active region includes first, second and third source/drain regions within the semiconductor material, includes a first channel region within the semiconductor material and between the first and second source/drain regions, and includes a second channel region within the semiconductor material and between the second and third source/drain regions. The semiconductor material includes at least one element selected from Group 13 of the periodic table. A digit line is electrically coupled with the second source/drain region. A first transistor gate is operatively proximate the first channel region. A second transistor gate is operatively proximate the second channel region. A first storage-element is electrically coupled with the first source/drain region. A second storage-element is electrically coupled with the third source/drain region. Some embodiments include methods of forming integrated assemblies.
US11563009B2	Semiconductor memory device A semiconductor memory device includes a transistor having a gate, a source and a drain and a metal-insulator-semiconductor (MIS) structure. The transistor and the MIS structure are disposed on a common substrate. The MIS structure includes a dielectric layer disposed on a semiconductor region, and an electrode electrically disposed on the dielectric layer and coupled to the drain of the transistor. The electrode includes a bulk portion and a high-resistance portion, both disposed on the dielectric layer. The high-resistance portion has a resistance value in a range from 1.0×10−4 Ωcm to 1.0×104 Ωcm or a sheet resistance in a range from 1.0×102Ω/□ to 1.0×1010Ω/□.
US11563006B2	Semiconductor structure and method for manufacturing thereof A semiconductor structure is provided. The semiconductor structure includes a substrate, a front end of line (FEOL) structure, and a metallization structure. The FEOL structure is disposed over the substrate. The metallization structure is over the FEOL structure. The metallization structure includes a transistor structure, an isolation structure, and a capacitor. The transistor structure has a source region and a drain region connected by a channel structure. The isolation structure is over the transistor structure and exposing a portion of the source region, and a side of the isolation structure has at least a lateral recess vertically overlaps the channel structure. The capacitor is in contact with the source region and disposed conformal to the lateral recess. A method for manufacturing a semiconductor structure is also provided.
US11563005B2	Three-dimensional semiconductor device with a bit line perpendicular to a substrate A three-dimensional semiconductor device includes a first channel pattern on and spaced apart from a substrate, the first channel pattern having a first end and a second end that are spaced apart from each other in a first direction parallel to a top surface of the substrate, and a first sidewall and a second sidewall connecting between the first end and the second end, the first and second sidewalls being spaced apart from each other in a second direction parallel to the top surface of the substrate, the second direction intersecting the first direction, a bit line in contact with the first end of the first channel pattern, the bit line extending in a third direction perpendicular to the top surface of the substrate, and a first gate electrode adjacent to the first sidewall of the first channel pattern.
US11563000B2	Gate endcap architectures having relatively short vertical stack Gate endcap architectures having relatively short vertical stack, and methods of fabricating gate endcap architectures having relatively short vertical stack, are described. In an example, an integrated circuit structure includes a first semiconductor fin along a first direction. A second semiconductor fin is along the first direction. A trench isolation material is between the first semiconductor fin and the second semiconductor fin. The trench isolation material has an uppermost surface below a top of the first and second semiconductor fins. A gate endcap isolation structure is between the first semiconductor fin and the second semiconductor fin and is along the first direction. The gate endcap isolation structure is on the uppermost surface of the trench isolation material.
US11562997B2	Electrostatic protection circuit, array substrate and display apparatus There are provided an electrostatic protection circuit, an array substrate, and a display apparatus. The electrostatic protection circuit includes: at least one first transistor and at least one second transistor. Each of the first transistors has a gate and a second electrode both connected to an electrostatic protection line, and a first electrode connected to a signal line; and each of the second transistors has a gate and a second electrode both connected to the signal line, and a first electrode connected to the electrostatic protection line. One resistor is connected in series between a gate and a second electrode of at least one transistor in the electrostatic protection circuit.
US11562987B2	Semiconductor devices with multiple substrates and die stacks Semiconductor devices having multiple substrates and die stacks, and associated systems and methods, are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a semiconductor device includes a package substrate, and a first die stack mounted on the package substrate and including a plurality of first memory dies. The device can include a substrate mounted on the first die stack, the substrate including a plurality of routing elements. The device can also include a second die stack mounted on the substrate, the second die stack including a plurality of second memory dies. The device can further include a controller die mounted on the substrate. The controller die can be configured to communicate with the second die stack via the routing elements of the substrate. The device can include a mold material encapsulating the first die stack, the second die stack, the substrate, and the controller die.
US11562984B1	Integrated mechanical aids for high accuracy alignable-electrical contacts A method and apparatus for laterally urging two semiconductor chips, dies or wafers into an improved state of registration with each other, the method and apparatus employing microstructures comprising: a first microstructure disposed on a first major surface of a first one of said two semiconductor chips, dies or wafers, wherein the first microstructure includes a sidewall which is tapered thereby disposing it at an acute angle compared to a perpendicular of said first major surface, and a second microstructure disposed on a first surface of a second one of said two semiconductor chips, dies or wafers, wherein the shape of the second microstructure is complementary to, and mates with or contacts, in use, the first microstructure, the second microstructure including a surface which contacts said sidewall when the first and second microstructures are mated or being mated, the sidewall of the first microstructure and the surface of the second microstructure imparting a lateral force for urging the two semiconductor chips, dies or wafers into said improved state of registration.
US11562963B2	Stacked semiconductor package and method of forming the same According to various examples, a stacked semiconductor package is described. The stacked semiconductor package may include a package substrate. The stacked semiconductor package may also include a base die disposed on and electrically coupled to the package substrate. The stacked semiconductor package may further include a mold portion disposed on the package substrate at a periphery of the base die, the mold portion may include a through-mold interconnect electrically coupled to the package substrate. The stacked semiconductor package may further include a semiconductor device having a first section disposed on the base die and a second section disposed on the mold portion, wherein the second section of the semiconductor device may be electrically coupled to the package substrate through the through-mold interconnect.
US11562959B2	Embedded dual-sided interconnect bridges for integrated-circuit packages A dual-sided embedded multi-die interconnect bridge provides power and source conduits from the bridge bottom at a silicon portion, in short paths to dice on a die side of an integrated-circuit package substrate. Signal traces are in a metallization on the silicon portion of the dual-sided EMIB. Power, ground and signal vias all emanate from the dual-sided embedded multi-die interconnect bridge, with power and ground entering the bridge from central regions of the silicon portion.
US11562955B2	High density multiple die structure Apparatus and methods are provided for integrated circuit packages having a low z-height. In an example, a method can include mounting a first integrated circuit sub-package to a first package substrate wherein the sub-package substrate spans an opening of the first package substrate, mounting a second integrated circuit package to a second package substrate, and mounting the first package substrate with the second package substrate wherein the mounting includes locating a portion of the second integrated circuit package within the opening of the first package substrate.
US11562952B2	Chip scale package The present disclosure relates to a chip scale package (CSP) comprising: a first set of CSP contact balls or bumps; a second set of CSP contact balls or bumps; and a channel routing region, the channel routing region being devoid of any CSP contact balls or bumps.
US11562944B2	Power conversion device and manufacturing method thereof A power conversion device includes a plurality of semiconductor modules, a plurality of coolers, and a frame. The frame pressurizes and holds a stacked body in which the semiconductor modules and the coolers are alternately stacked. The frame includes a first frame and a second frame that sandwich the stacked body therebetween. The first frame is a plate material bent to surround the stacked body from three directions, and includes a pair of side walls extending in the stacking direction of the stacked body, and an abutting wall extending between the side walls and abutting the stacked body. The abutting wall is bent outward from the frame. Each of the side walls is bent inward from the frame.
US11562931B2	3D stackable bidirectional access device for memory array A method of manufacturing a vertical metal-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MESFET) device is provided. The method includes forming a first oxide layer, forming a first electrode in the oxide layer, forming a crystallized silicon layer on the first electrode, forming a second electrode on the first oxide layer and on sidewalls of the crystalized silicon layer, forming a second oxide layer on upper surfaces of the second electrode. The method also includes forming a third electrode on an upper surface of the crystallized silicon layer.
US11562924B2	Planarization apparatus, planarization process, and method of manufacturing an article A superstrate for planarizing a substrate. The superstrate includes a body having a first side having a contact surface and a second side having a central portion and a peripheral portion surrounding the central portion. The peripheral portion includes a recessed region.
US11562923B2	Semiconductor arrangement including a first electrical insulator layer and a second electrical insulator layer and method of making A semiconductor arrangement includes an isolation structure having a first electrical insulator layer in a trench in a semiconductor substrate and a second electrical insulator layer in the trench and over the first electrical insulator layer.
US11562913B2	Multi-zone azimuthal heater A heater assembly and method of controlling the heater assembly is provided. The heater assembly includes a resistive heater and a substrate, and the resistive heater comprises a plurality of heating zones disposed along a perimeter of the substrate. Each of the plurality of heating zones are independently controllable such that azimuthal temperature control of the heater assembly is provided. The plurality of resistive heating elements may be connected in series and have a common ground electrical lead. In the alternative, the plurality of resistive heating elements may each have a ground electrical lead and be isolated from each other.
US11562911B2	Power semiconductor module and method of forming the same One embodiment provides a method of providing a power semiconductor module with a cooler. A power semiconductor module includes a substrate having a first substrate side for carrying at least one electric circuit and having a second substrate side being located opposite to the first substrate side. The second substrate side is connected to a first baseplate side and the baseplate also includes a second baseplate side being located opposite to its first baseplate side and being adapted for coming in contact with the cooler. The cooler includes a first casing component and a second casing component. The baseplate side is equipped with a cooling area that is surrounded by a connecting area.
US11562909B2	Directional selective junction clean with field polymer protections Described is a process to clean up junction interfaces for fabricating semiconductor devices involving forming low-resistance electrical connections between vertically separated regions. An etch can be performed to remove silicon oxide on silicon surface at the bottom of a recessed feature. Described are methods and apparatus for etching up the bottom oxide of a hole or trench while minimizing the effects to the underlying epitaxial layer and to the dielectric layers on the field and the corners of metal gate structures. The method for etching features involves a reaction chamber equipped with a combination of capacitively coupled plasma and inductive coupled plasma. CHxFy gases and plasma are used to form protection layer, which enables the selectively etching of bottom silicon dioxide by NH3—NF3 plasma. Ideally, silicon oxide on EPI is removed to ensure low-resistance electric contact while the epitaxial layer and field/corner dielectric layers are—etched only minimally or not at all.
US11562899B2	Method for transferring thin layers A method for transferring a thin layer onto a destination substrate having a face with an adhesive layer includes formation of a polymer material interface layer on a second face of a thin layer, opposite a first face on which an adhesive is present. The method also includes assembly by gluing the interface layer and the adhesive layer and separation of the thin layer relative to a temporary support.
US11562893B2	Method and apparatus for improved electrospray emitter lifetime A method for cleaning a first electrospray emitter of a mass spectrometer comprises: changing an operating mode of the first electrospray emitter from a stable jet mode of operation to a dripping or pulsating mode of operation by lowering a magnitude of a voltage applied between a counter electrode and the first electrospray emitter, \|V1\|; moving the first electrospray emitter from a first emitter position from which electrospray ions are delivered to a mass spectrometer inlet to a second emitter position and, simultaneously, moving a second electrospray emitter from a third emitter position to a fourth emitter position; causing a cleaning solvent to flow through the first electrospray emitter at least until a droplet of the cleaning solvent forms on an exterior surface of the first electrospray emitter while operating the electrospray emitter in the dripping mode of operation; and causing the droplet to dislodge from the emitter exterior.
US11562892B2	Dielectric member, structure, and substrate processing apparatus A dielectric member that is attached to a lower surface of a stage is provided. The stage includes a base provided with a base channel through which a heat exchange medium passes. The dielectric member includes at least one first component including a passage that is connected to the base channel, and a second component surrounding the first component.
US11562890B2	Corrosion resistant ground shield of processing chamber A substrate support assembly includes a ground shield and a heater that is surrounded by the ground shield. The ground shield includes a plate. In one embodiment, the ground shield is composed of a ceramic body and includes an electrically conductive layer, a first protective layer on the upper surface of the plate. In another embodiment, the ground shield is composed of an electrically conductive body and a first protective layer on the upper surface of the plate.
US11562875B2	Hybrid air and liquid X-ray cooling system comprising a hybrid heat-transfer device including a plurality of fin elements, a liquid channel including a cooling liquid, and a circulation pump A cooling system used in an X-ray generator having a cathode and anode that includes a target having a focal spot, wherein heat is generated in the anode and focal spot during operation of the X-ray generator. The system includes a heat transfer element attached to the anode wherein the heat transfer element includes a plurality of fin elements that transfer heat from the anode to surrounding air to cool the anode. The system also includes a liquid channel formed in the anode, wherein the liquid channel includes a cooling liquid. The liquid channel is located adjacent the target wherein heat from the focal spot is transferred to the cooling liquid to cool the focal spot wherein the heat transfer element, liquid channel and anode are unistructurally formed. Further, the cooling system includes a circulation pump that moves the cooling liquid in the liquid channel.
US11562874B2	Electron photoinjector A photoinjector system containing modularly-structured waveguide-mode launcher, which is reversibly connected to the RF gun (containing a tubular construction formed with disattachably-affixed to one another structurally-complementary halves); and a solenoid magnet in operation enclosing such tubular structure in a central hollow. The resulting quality, power, and frequency rate of operation as well as cost of manufacturing and operation of the system are superior as compared with those of a related art system.
US11562867B2	Movable contact mechanism of double-breakpoint circuit breaker A movable contact mechanism of a double-breakpoint circuit breaker comprises a front static contact having a first contact point at the rear end, a rear contact assembly having a connecting plate with a rear static contact at the front end, and a movable contact which are placed in the horizontal direction, wherein an insertion slot is formed in the front end of the rear static contact the front contact end of the movable static is equipped with a second contact point matched with the first contact point, and the rear insertion end of the movable contact is inserted into or separated from the insertion slot and the opening or closing stroke of the first contact point and the second contact point is greater than the stroke that the rear insertion end of the movable contact is inserted into or separated from the insertion slot.
US11562857B2	Relaxor-ferroelectric material and method of synthesizing the same and device including relaxor-ferroelectric material A relaxor-ferroelectric material, a method of synthesizing the same and a device including the relaxor-ferroelectric material are provided. The relaxor-ferroelectric material includes a ferroelectric material having a first polarization characteristic. The ferroelectric material having the first polarization characteristics includes a plurality of regions having a second polarization characteristic and spaced apart from each other, and the first polarization characteristic and the second polarization characteristic are different from each other. The ferroelectric material having the first polarization characteristics and the plurality of regions have different response characteristics with respect to alternating current (AC) sweeping. The plurality of regions may include a solid solution.
US11562852B2	Coil component A coil component includes a body having one surface and the other surface and a plurality of wall surfaces, first and second insulating substrates spaced apart from each other, first and second recesses disposed in both end surfaces of the body and extending to one surface of the body, first and second coil portions disposed on the first and second insulating substrates, one ends and the other ends of the first and second coil portions being exposed to the first and second recesses, first and second external electrodes disposed along an inner surface of the first recess and one surface of the body and connected to one ends of the first and second coil portions, and third and fourth external electrodes disposed along an inner surface of the second recess and one surface of the body and connected to the other ends of the first and second coil portions.
US11562847B2	Coil component A coil component includes a body; a support substrate embedded in the body; a coil portion disposed on the support substrate, and having an end portion exposed to a surface of the body; and an external electrode disposed on the surface of the body, and in contact with and connected to the end portion of the coil portion. An interface between the end portion of the coil portion and the external electrode, and an interface between the surface of the body and the external electrode are located on levels different from each other.
US11562834B2	Lead alloy barrier tape splice for downhole power cable A technique facilitates splicing of a power cable including splicing of a protective lead barrier. According to the technique, the power cable comprises conductors which form individual phases of a multi-phase conductor assembly. The conductors may be individually spliced for each phase of the multi-phase conductor assembly. Subsequently, splicing of the protective lead barrier may be performed by utilizing a lead based tape which is wrapped, e.g. helically wrapped, around the conductors. The wrapping technique provides a gas seal with respect to each individual insulated conductor within the multi-phase conductor assembly. Depending on the specifics of a given application and environment, additional layers may be added to ensure formation of a desirable splice.
US11562832B2	Conductor arrangement for an electrical energy and/or data transmission connection A conductor arrangement for an electrical connection includes a flexible multi-core internal conductor, an electromagnetic shield surrounding the flexible multi-core internal conductor, a thermoplastic hard plastic sheath surrounding a first portion of the flexible multi-core internal conductor, and a flexible corrugated tube surrounding a second portion the flexible multi-core internal conductor. A first portion of the thermoplastic hard plastic sheath includes an elongated flattened shape. A second portion of the thermoplastic hard plastic sheath includes an essentially round shape. The second portion of the thermoplastic hard plastic sheath is adjacent the first portion of the thermoplastic hard plastic sheath.
US11562827B2	Negative inferences in machine learning treatment selection Method and apparatus for performing feature engineering using negative inferences are provided. One example method generally includes identifying a plurality of concepts and analyzing a corpus of documents to determine a first co-occurrence rate for a first concept and a second concept in the plurality of concepts. The method further includes analyzing the corpus of documents to determine a second co-occurrence rate for the second concept and at least a third concept of a set of concepts related to the first concept and determining an inverse relationship between the second concept and the third concept. The method further includes generating test data for training a machine learning model including a negative inference between the second concept and the third concept and training the machine learning model using the test data.
US11562820B2	Computer classification of biological tissue A biological tissue is classified using a computing system. Image data comprising a plurality of images of an examination area of a biological tissue is received at the computing system. Each of the plurality of images is captured at different times during a period in which topical application of a pathology differentiating agent to the examination area of the tissue causes transient optical effects. The received image data is provided as an input to a machine learning algorithm operative on the computing system. The machine learning algorithm is configured to allocate one of a plurality of classifications to each of a plurality of segments of the tissue.
US11562818B2	System for extended reality visual contributions Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving information about a task to be completed by a user, receiving information about the user and receiving information about a physical environment of the user. The subject disclosure may further include creating one or more immersion objects based on the information about the task, the information about the user and the information about the physical environment, creating an immersive environment including the one or more immersive objects and at least a portion of the physical environment of the user, and communicating to an extended reality (XR) device of the user information about the immersive environment to create an immersive experience for completion of the task by the user. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11562812B2	Computer implemented method for secure management of data generated in an EHR during an episode of care and a system therefor There is provided a computer implemented method for secure management of data generated in an Electronic Health Record (EHR) during an episode of care, for a user, wherein the EHR is being maintained in a medical database (140) comprised within a Healthcare Service Provider (HSP) server (130), the computer implemented method comprising the steps of sending an identification hash corresponding to the user to an Application Program Interface (API) server (150) from a first client device (110a); extracting the data from the HSP server (130) and de-identifying the data to obtain de-identified data at the API server (150); generating a record hash at the API server (150); transmitting the identification hash, the record hash and the de-identified data from the API server (150) to a core server (160); receiving the identification hash, the record hash and the de-identified data at the core server (160) and transmitting the identification hash, the record hash and the de-identified data from the core server (160) to a repository database (170) to generate a record identification; transmitting the de-identified data, the record hash and the record identification from the repository database (170) to the first client device (110a), via the core server (160); generating a data hash by hashing the de-identified data and a plurality of attributes corresponding to the de-identified data; generating at the core server (160) a register package based on the data hash, the identification hash and the record hash; storing the register package, from the core server (160), on to a blockchain (180) to generate a transaction identification; transmitting the data hash and the transaction identification from the core server (160) to the repository database (170); and transmitting the transaction identification and the data hash from the repository database (170) to the first client device (110a), via the core server (160).
US11562811B2	Electronic data document for use in clinical trial verification system and method The present invention provides an electronic data document (EDD) and related system and method for use in a computerized clinical trial verification system. In an exemplary embodiment, the EDD is authenticated by the creator and validated by the receiver, and comprises an image of a source document (SD) that comprises a masked record of at least one interaction between a clinical trial investigator and a patient enrolled in a clinical trial, at least one revealed portion of the SD that includes evidence relevant to at least one question in a clinical trial questionnaire, and at least one annotation connecting the revealed portion to the at least one question. The present invention provides a computerized system and method for allowing a clinical trial investigator to answer questions from a clinical trial questionnaire pertinent to a clinical trial of a medical treatment using encrypted and partially masked electronic documents comprising images of original patient records. The process of creating and viewing the partially masked electronic documents preferably does not create local copies that can be recalled later.
US11562810B2	Electronic data document for use in clinical trial verification system and method The present invention provides an electronic data document (EDD) and related system and method for use in a computerized clinical trial verification system. In an exemplary embodiment, the EDD is authenticated by the creator and validated by the receiver, and comprises an image of a source document (SD) that comprises a masked record of at least one interaction between a clinical trial investigator and a patient enrolled in a clinical trial, at least one revealed portion of the SD that includes evidence relevant to at least one question in a clinical trial questionnaire, and at least one annotation connecting the revealed portion to the at least one question. The present invention provides a computerized system and method for allowing a clinical trial investigator to answer questions from a clinical trial questionnaire pertinent to a clinical trial of a medical treatment using encrypted and partially masked electronic documents comprising images of original patient records. The process of creating and viewing the partially masked electronic documents preferably does not create local copies that can be recalled later.
US11562798B2	Programming techniques for memory devices having partial drain-side select gates The programming techniques include the step of providing a memory device that includes a plurality of memory cells that are divided into at least two groups including a first group and a second group. The first group includes memory cells that are coupled to full select gate drains (SGDs), and the second group includes memory cells that are coupled to partial SGDs. The method continues with the step of applying a programming voltage to a selected word line that includes at least one memory cell of the first group and at least one memory cell of the second group. Simultaneous to the application of the programming voltage, the method continues with applying voltages to bit lines coupled to memory cells. The voltages being determined based on if the memory cells are of the first group or are of the second group.
US11562797B2	Non-linear temperature compensation for wider range operation temperature products A method for operating non-volatile storage disclosed herein. The method comprises performing an operation on a set of non-volatile storage elements. The operation on the set of non-volatile storage elements includes providing temperature compensation based on an operation temperature of the set of non-volatile storage elements. The providing temperature compensation includes determining if the operation temperature is outside a temperature range where constant compensation is valid and applying the temperature compensation based on the determination.
US11562791B1	Memory devices with four data line bias levels Memory devices might include a first latch to store a first data bit; a second latch to store a second data bit; a data line selectively connected to the first latch, the second latch, and a string of series-connected memory cells; and a controller configured to bias the data line during a programing operation of a selected memory cell. The controller may with the first data bit equal to 0 and the second data bit equal to 0, bias the data line to a first voltage level; with the first data bit equal to 1 and the second data bit equal to 0, bias the data line to a second voltage level; with the first data bit equal to 0 and the second data bit equal to 1, bias the data line to a third voltage level; and with the first data bit equal to 1 and the second data bit equal to 1, bias the data line to a fourth voltage level.
US11562784B2	Apparatuses, systems, and methods for voltage based random number generation Apparatuses, systems, and methods for voltage based random number generation. A memory may include a number of different voltages, which may be used to power various operations of the memory. During access operations to the memory, the voltage may vary, for example as word lines of the memory are accessed. The variability of the voltage may represent a source of randomness and unpredictability in the memory. A random number generator may provide a random number based on the voltage. For example, an analog to binary converter (ADC) may generate a binary number based on the voltage, and the random number may be based on the binary number.
US11562781B1	Memory devices with low pin count interfaces, and corresponding methods and systems A method can include, in an integrated circuit device: at a unidirectional command-address (CA) bus having no more than four parallel inputs, receiving a sequence of no less than three command value portions; latching each command value portion in synchronism with rising edges of a timing clock; determining an input command from the sequence of no less than three command value portions; executing the input command in the integrated circuit device; and on a bi-directional data bus having no more than six data input/outputs (IOs), outputting and inputting sequences of data values in synchronism with rising and falling edges of the timing clock. Corresponding devices and systems are also disclosed.
US11562780B2	Memory device and memory system including the same A memory device includes a memory cell array configured to store data; and a data output circuit configured to transmit status data to an external device through at least one data line in a latency period in response to a read enable signal received from the external device and transmit the data read from the memory cell array to the external device through the at least one data line in a period subsequent to the latency period.
US11562775B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device including a FIFO circuit in which a data capacity can be increased while minimizing an increase in a circuit scale is provided. The semiconductor device includes a single-port type storage unit (11) which stores data, a flip-flop (12) which temporarily stores write data (FIFO input) or read data (FIFO output) of the storage unit (11), and a control unit (14, 40) which controls a write timing of a data signal, which is stored in the flip-flop (12), to the storage unit (11) or a read timing of the data signal from the storage unit to avoid an overlap between a write operation and a read operation in the storage unit (11).
US11562765B2	Mask estimation apparatus, model learning apparatus, sound source separation apparatus, mask estimation method, model learning method, sound source separation method, and program A mask estimation apparatus for estimating mask information for specifying a mask used to extract a signal of a specific sound source from an input audio signal includes a converter which converts the input audio signal into embedded vectors of a predetermined dimension using a trained neural network model and a mask calculator which calculates the mask information by fitting the embedded vectors to a mixed Gaussian model.
US11562753B2	Systems and methods to improve timestamp transition resolution Example apparatus to improve timestamp transition resolution of watermarks are disclosed. A disclosed example apparatus is to decode timestamps in respective ones of detected watermarks, estimate a first transition window indicative of a transition between a first time period to a second time period based on a first one of the timestamps and a second one of the timestamps, and when the first transition window does not satisfy a threshold, estimate a second transition window indicative of a transition between the second time period and a third time period based on the second one of the timestamps and a third one of the timestamps. The disclosed example apparatus is also to determine a first mapped transition window based on an intersection of the first transition window and the second transition window, and set the first mapped transition window as a reference time transition window for subsequent time periods.
US11562750B2	Enhancement of spatial audio signals by modulated decorrelation Some methods involve receiving an input audio signal that includes N input audio channels, the input audio signal representing a first soundfield format having a first soundfield format resolution, N being an integer ≥2. A first decorrelation process may be applied to two or more of the input audio channels to produce a first set of decorrelated channels, the first decorrelation process maintaining an inter-channel correlation of the set of input audio channels. A first modulation process may be applied to the first set of decorrelated channels to produce a first set of decorrelated and modulated output channels. The first set of decorrelated and modulated output channels may be combined with two or more undecorrelated output channels to produce an output audio signal that includes O output audio channels representing a second and relatively higher-resolution soundfield format than the first soundfield format, O being an integer ≥3.
US11562742B2	Generating and transmitting invocation request to appropriate third-party agent Some implementations are directed to selective invocation of a particular third-party (3P) agent by an automated assistant to achieve an intended action determined by the automated assistant during a dynamic dialog between the automated assistant and a user. In some of those implementations, the particular 3P agent is invoked with value(s) for parameter(s) that are determined during the dynamic dialog; and/or the particular 3P agent is selected, from a plurality of candidate 3P agents, for invocation based on the determined value(s) for the parameter(s) and/or based on other criteria. In some of those implementations, the automated assistant invokes the particular 3P agent by transmitting, to the particular 3P agent, a 3P invocation request that includes the determined value(s) for the parameter(s).
US11562737B2	Generating topic-specific language models Speech recognition may be improved by generating and using a topic specific language model. A topic specific language model may be created by performing an initial pass on an audio signal using a generic or basis language model. A speech recognition device may then determine topics relating to the audio signal based on the words identified in the initial pass and retrieve a corpus of text relating to those topics. Using the retrieved corpus of text, the speech recognition device may create a topic specific language model. In one example, the speech recognition device may adapt or otherwise modify the generic language model based on the retrieved corpus of text.
US11562734B2	Systems and methods for automatic speech recognition based on graphics processing units The present disclosure relates to an automatic speech recognition system and a method thereof. The system includes a conformer encoder and a pair of ping-pong buffers. The encoder includes a plurality of encoder layers sequentially executed by one or more graphic processing units. At least one encoder layer includes a first feed forward module, a multi-head self-attention module, a convolution module, and a second feed forward module. The convolution module and the multi-head self-attention module are sandwiched between the first feedforward module and the second feed forward module. The four modules respectively include a plurality of encoder sublayers fused into one or more encoder kernels. The one or more encoder kernels respectively read from one of the pair of ping-pong buffers and write into the other of the pair of ping-pong buffers.
US11562731B2	Word replacement in transcriptions A method may include obtaining first audio data of a communication session between a first device and a second device and obtaining, during the communication session, a first text string that is a transcription of the first audio data. The method may further include directing the first text string to the first device for presentation of the first text string during the communication session and obtaining, during the communication session, a second text string that is a transcription of the first audio data. The method may further include comparing a first accuracy score of the first word to a second accuracy score of the second word and in response to a difference between the first accuracy score and the second accuracy score satisfying a threshold, directing the second word to the first device to replace the first word in the first location as displayed by the first device.
US11562724B2	Wind noise mitigation systems and methods A system and method can provide nose, such as wind noise, mitigation and/or microphone blending. Some methods may include sampling a sound signal from a plurality of microphones to generate a frame comprising a plurality of time-frequency tiles of the sound signal, each time-frequency tile including respective values of at least one feature from the plurality of microphones, comparing the respective values of the at least one feature to determine whether each time-frequency tile satisfies a similarity threshold, and flagging each time-frequency tile as noise if it fails to satisfy the similarity threshold, grouping the plurality of time-frequency tiles into sets of frequency-adjacent time-frequency tiles, and for each set of frequency-adjacent time-frequency tiles in the frame: counting a number of flagged time-frequency tiles, and attenuating all of the time-frequency tiles in the each set if the number exceeds a noise bin count threshold to thereby reduce noise in the sound signal.
US11562720B2	Electromechanical device and system to automatically tune a drum assembly without having to strike either the top or bottom surface of the drum The present invention is a system and methods for automating the tuning process for drums. The invention automatically applies tension across the batter heads of a drum. The invention consists of a plurality of electrical stepper motors each of which is connected to a gear reduction assembly and a rotating tension rod. The invention acts to exert a tensioning force on each attachment point around the circumference of the hoop(s) securing the batter head to the drum shell. An algorithm drives a microprocessor that monitors the current being used by each stepper motor assembly which is translated to torque. When the torque for each stepper motor assembly reaches a predetermined level, the tension holding the batter head and to the shell of the drum will be in tune.
US11562716B2	Heads-up user interface and voice activated controls for display of traffic targets A voice-activated system for interactive heads-up display (HUD) and control of traffic targets is disclosed. In embodiments, the HUD receives and decodes traffic information from onboard surveillance systems to identify proximate aircraft within a threshold range and the positions of each aircraft. The HUD arranges proximate aircraft into an ordered sequence based on distance from ownship or other priority criteria. When the HUD is active, interactive symbols are displayed at the positions of the proximate aircraft. A heads-up controller includes a microphone and switch operable by the pilot to signal incoming spoken instructions. The pilot can use voice commands to activate or deactivate the traffic overlay system or set parameters. Voice commands allow the pilot to highlight, select, and designate traffic targets for visual separation or other traffic applications based on the locations of traffic targets or by verbally identifying specific traffic targets.
US11562715B2	Graphics processing systems When a graphics processor is processing data for an application on a host processor, the graphics processor generates in advance of their being required for display by the application a plurality of frame sequences corresponding to a plurality of different possible “future states” for the application. The graphics processing system, when producing a frame in a sequence of frames corresponding to a given future state for the application, determines one or more region(s) of the frame that are to be produced at a first, higher quality, and producing the determined region(s) of the frame at a first, higher quality, whereas other regions of the frame are produced at a second, lower quality.
US11562711B2	Heads-up display using electrochromic elements Some embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a heads-up display (HUD) system. The HUD system may include a transparent support structure, an electrochromic element, and a HUD controller. The electrochromic element may be affixed to a surface of a transparent material. The HUD controller may be electrically coupled to the electrochromic element and configured to control translucence of the electrochromic element via control signals.
US11562708B2	Display apparatus A performance of a display apparatus is improved. A display apparatus has a display region, a transparent region and a frame region. The display apparatus includes a plurality of scan signal lines extending in an X direction in the display region and a plurality of image signal lines extending in a Y direction in the display region. The plurality of image signal lines include a first wiring (image signal line) and a second wiring (image signal line). The first wiring includes a first bypass wiring portion arranged in the frame region and a first extension wiring portion connected to an end of the first bypass wiring portion and extending in the Y direction. The second wiring includes a second bypass wiring portion arranged in the frame region and a second extension wiring portion connected to an end of the second bypass wiring portion and extending in the Y direction. In a plan view, the first wiring and the second wiring intersect with each other at the frame region.
US11562701B2	Data processing systems In a data processing system that includes a field sequential colour display, when displaying a frame that is to be transformed based on a predicted view orientation on the field sequential colour display, each colour field to be displayed on the display for the frame is transformed based on a predicted view orientation for that particular colour field, such that each colour field will be subjected to a different view orientation transformation to the other colour fields for the frame. The so-transformed colour fields are then displayed sequentially on the display to display the frame.
US11562698B2	Display panel, driving method thereof and display apparatus A display panel includes multiple pixel units that are arranged regularly. A pixel circuit is connected with a scanning signal line and a data signal line. The pixel circuit receives a data voltage transmitted by the data signal line and outputs a corresponding current to a light emitting device under a control of the scanning signal line. When a first light emitting unit is in a black state, the data signal line provides a reference black state voltage to a pixel circuit of the first light emitting unit. The driving method of the display panel includes: providing, by the data signal line, a first black state voltage to a pixel circuit of a second light emitting unit when the first light emitting unit emits light and the second light emitting unit is in the black state. The first black state voltage is less than the reference black state voltage.
US11562697B2	Shift register unit, scanning driving circuit, display substrate and display device A shift register unit, a scanning driving circuit, a display substrate and a display device. The shift register unit includes an output terminal, an output circuit and an output node control circuit. The output circuit is electrically coupled to a first output node, a second output node, a first voltage line, a second voltage line and the output terminal, respectively. The output node control circuit is electrically coupled to the first output node, the second output node, a third voltage line, a fourth voltage line, a fifth voltage line, a first clock signal line, a second clock signal line and an input terminal, respectively. At least one of a third voltage signal, a fourth voltage signal and a fifth voltage signal is different from a first voltage signal and ae second voltage signal.
US11562676B2	Display panel and display device A display panel and a display device are provided. The display panel includes a driving circuit. The driving circuit includes N-level shift registers cascaded with each other, where N is greater than or equal to two. A shift register includes: a first control unit configured to receive an input signal and control a signal of a first node; a second control unit configured to receive a first voltage signal and control a signal of a second node; a third control unit configured to receive the first voltage signal and generate an output signal, or receive a second voltage signal and generate an output signal in response to a signal of a third node connected to the first node; and a fourth control unit configured to receive the second voltage signal and control the signal of the first node. The first and second voltage signals are high-level and low-level signals, respectively.
US11562671B2	Electroluminescent display device and method for driving ihe same An electroluminescent display device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels, a first compensation value calculator for calculating a first compensation value based on prediction according to an accumulation result of video data to be written in the pixels, a second compensation value calculator for calculating a second compensation value based on sensing according to an electrical sensing value with respect to driving characteristics of the pixels, and a data corrector for correcting the video data based on the first compensation value and the second compensation value.
US11562659B2	Systems and methods for instrumentation of education processes Systems and methods for education instrumentation can include one or more servers configured generate a plurality of models for modeling various aspects of an education process using training data related to academic performance of students. The one or more servers can collect data from client devices associated with various education institutions or stakeholders throughout a life cycle of the education process. The one or more servers can use the generated models and the collected data to assess the addressing of education standards and predict or estimate performance metrics associated with the education process. The one or more servers can provide computed metrics or assessments of how well education standards are addressed to one or more client devices for display.
US11562642B2	Systems and methods for monitoring on-route transportations The present disclosure relates to a method and system for monitoring on route transportations. The method includes obtaining a driving route of a target vehicle; obtaining a reference position on the driving route away from a first current position of the target vehicle; determining a second current position of the target vehicle after a reference time; determining a distance between the second current position and the reference position is greater than a preset distance; and sending a signal to a target terminal indicating that the target vehicle is off-route.
US11562635B2	Work vehicle periphery monitoring system and work vehicle periphery monitoring method A work vehicle periphery monitoring system includes: an alarm range storage unit that stores an alarm range, in which an alarm output is required when an object is present, in a detection range of an object detection device that detects an object present in a periphery of a work vehicle; a work mode determination unit that determines a work mode of the work vehicle; an alarm range changing unit that changes the alarm range in the detection range when it is determined that the work mode is a specific work mode; and an alarm control unit that causes an alarm device to output an alarm when an object is present in the alarm range.
US11562633B1	Slim type tactile feedback device A slim type tactile feedback device is disclosed, including: a substrate, at least an overlapping plate, a support frame, a plurality of cushions and a vibration source; the overlapping plate being fixed to the substrate in a cantilever manner; the support frame including a frame, a void area, and at least a protruding support, the protruding support being a partial segment of the frame; the cushions being fixed between the substrate and the frame; the vibration source including a magnet set and a coil set, the magnet set and the coil set being fixed between the protruding support and the overlapping plate and located at outer side the substrate; the coil set and the magnet set being positioned correspondingly to each other and separated by a gap, the gap increasing when the substrate being pressed by finger, and the substrate moving back-and-forth through linkage motion of the vibration source.
US11562632B2	Packaging detection for self checkout The present disclosure provides improved packaging detection at self-checkout kiosks by identifying a given bag type for a bag selected at a self-checkout kiosk out of a plurality of bag types available from a bag dispenser associated with the self-checkout kiosk; identifying a weight range for the given bag type; in response to determining that the bag has been moved to a packing area of the self-checkout kiosk, comparing a first weight in the packing area from before the bag was moved to the packing area with a second weight in the packing area that includes the bag; and in response to a difference between the first weight and the second weight falling outside of the weight range, generating a loss prevention alert and pausing a transaction at the self-checkout kiosk.
US11562630B2	Gaming system and method for providing a cascading symbol game with multiple symbol display position elements A gaming system including a cascading symbol or tumbling reel game which utilizes zero, one or more multiple symbol display position elements. Each multiple symbol display position element is configured to occupy or span a plurality of symbol display positions of a symbol display position matrix. For a generated multiple symbol display position element to be removed from the symbol display matrix, each of the individual symbols of the multiple symbol display position element must individually qualify to be removed from the symbol display matrix.
US11562629B2	Point and/or money based fantasy gaming Some examples may include a poker indexing service. For example, a multi dimensional vector of player performance and/or other data may be determined based on gaming related activity that is input or otherwise captured. Such a vector may be used in various forms to generate a metric or to facilitate wagering and/or other gaming activity. Other methods and apparatus are described.
US11562628B2	Products and processes for processing information related to weather and other events According to an embodiment, a method includes receiving a plurality of bets, in which each bet defines a respective amounted wagered, a respective area, and a respective weather-related event. Data that represents the plurality of bets is displayed. An outcome of a weather-related event is determined and at least one winner is determined based on the bets and the outcome.
US11562626B2	Guild-dependent variation of player capabilities in a computer-implemented game A system and method provide automated guild-dependent variation of in-game capabilities available to player in an computer-implemented game. An in-game capability is made available to the player in inter-guild competitive gameplay, for example comprising an object-specific ability associated with the game object, such as a collectible card. A value for a variable attribute of the in-game capability is dynamically adjusted based at least in part on one or more guild metrics for an associated guild of which the player is a member. The one or more guild metrics may include guild size and activity levels of guild members.
US11562624B2	Method of gaming, a gaming system and a game controller having moveable symbols at increasing display positions with different appearances The present invention relates to a gaming machine, methods of gaming and gaming systems. The gaming system comprises: a first video display; a second video display; and a game controller. The game controller is arranged to: select a plurality of symbols from a symbol set for display on the first video display and the second video display; and evaluate a symbol subset comprising one or more of the plurality of symbols to determine whether to make an award. The number of symbols of the symbol subset is higher than a number of symbols in the symbol subset evaluated by the game controller in a previous game instance.
US11562622B2	Gaming system player identification device The present disclosure relates generally to gaming systems and methods which utilize a player identification device to provide to electronic gaming machines certain gaming system functionality and features otherwise not associated with or available in association with the electronic gaming machines existing gaming establishment management systems.
US11562620B2	Bonus bet system and method Disclosed is a bonus bet system for use with a roulette game or other games as it relates to a player placing a bonus bet on an outcome of the roulette game or the other games. The bonus bet system may include a first outcome determination device, such as a wheel, and a second outcome determination device, such as a second wheel. The first outcome determination device includes a first plurality of outcomes displayed thereon, and the second outcome determination device has a second plurality of outcomes displayed thereon. The first and second pluralities of outcomes may be the same, or the second plurality of outcomes may be a subset of the first plurality of outcomes. When the outcome of the second outcome determination device corresponds to the outcome of the first outcome determination device, a bonus may be applied to successful wagers on the first outcome.

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